Phone app crashes - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When ending a call help?
Stock ec05
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churro7 said:
When ending a call help?
Stock ec05
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You know we're gonna need more info than that...
Texted while driving

like what?

You've been here for a while, I'm surprised you wouldn't know by now...
ROM, Kernel, etc.

lets see i can make calls and receive but as soon as the call ends. well when i end it with the end button it vibes once then few seconds later vibes trice and phone apps FC's. Plus it seems to reset the radio as well. i odined to stock ec05 since SRF hates my phone above 1.02. it may be a problem with something I removed?
rooted stock ec05 stock kernel

A bad ODIN? Sounds like your radio specifically. I would reODIN all of EC05 if not at least the modem to see if that fixes it. You're on stock? No custom ROM? What did you remove?
churro7 said:
lets see i can make calls and receive but as soon as the call ends. well when i end it with the end button it vibes once then few seconds later vibes trice and phone apps FC's. Plus it seems to reset the radio as well. i odined to stock ec05 since SRF hates my phone above 1.02. it may be a problem with something I removed?
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Get this. One time, during a call, the phone app force closed. But the call still kept going, and the controls still worked. Idk how that happened, but I was glad my call didn't end abruptly.
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i removed too much to remember haha but stock odin didnt work
i just odind to di18 then ota to ec05
no it is only stock

Its funny battery life and sensor usage usage much better than srf
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[Q] SMS problem, message stuck on "sending"

About once a day while texting, a message gets stuck "sending" and I have to reboot the phone for the message to send. I am running stock DK28 with the ACS-dk28-signed ROM. I have seen some people having this issue on Quantum ROM too. Is anyone else having this issue and on which ROMs. Has anyone had it and found a fix? I have done the wipes and resinstalls so thinking it is some cache clearing problem. Will a different Mms.apk fix it?
Thanks.
I had that poblem with viperrom. since going with Nebula, I have not had that issue, however, I hav onl had it on my phone for four days
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I had Nebula for a minute this weekend but had trouble getting Sprint Nav back on and needed it Saturday morning for a job so had a massive wipefest and odin'd back to DK28 and put ACS back on so hope that cleared it up. Will see today. Still looking for a ROM with a Sprint and Samsung package included to save the hunt for all the apps.
It's a DK28 feature. I never found any pattern to what caused it, at worst I got it every 20-30 texts (or every 3-4 days for me).
Tried multiple roms and stock DK28, all do it eventually, it is just a matter of time. For some reason early Bonsai roms *seemed* to go longer before the problem appeared (weeks).
DI18 and back don't have the issue, so it is likely the modem... never tried DG27 long enough to see if it was affected.
J had that too and use update prl e everywhere I go it seems when change location its getting stock. Now it went away for now fingers cross.
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Hmm, i'm not having this issue! Interesting.
unique2me said:
Hmm, i'm not having this issue! Interesting.
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What ROM are you running? Anything special on your install? Wipes? Odin?
Update: After a major wipefest, 3X each and 1X Dalvik, Odin to DK28, then wipefest, then flash ACS-signed-DK28 I am going on day 3 without this issue....keeping fingers crossed. (oops hard to txt that way)
I had this issue even on my stock phone. It seems to happen less since I flashed to sfr, but it is still annoying as hell and extremely hard on my battery life.
Anyone know of any solutions?
LunaticWolf said:
I had this issue even on my stock phone. It seems to happen less since I flashed to sfr, but it is still annoying as hell and extremely hard on my battery life.
Anyone know of any solutions?
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I found out that clearing level 2 RaM was causing it. Stopped using Program Monitor widget.
Do you BONSAI?
kennyglass123 said:
I found out that clearing level 2 RaM was causing it. Stopped using Program Monitor widget.
Do you BONSAI?
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I have been clearing at level 2.
Ill switch to just level 1. Thanks

[Q] Caller Can't Hear Me

This has been happening on my Epic 4G for awhile now and it's really frustrating. I'm pretty sure this hasn't been happening the whole time I've owned the phone, but at this point it's hard to really remmber.
Basically, when I make or receive a call, within a couple\few minutes of the phone call the caller suddenly can't hear me - this happens whether it's using the phone normally, in speakerphone mode, or even a headset. As soon as it happens and the other caller starts the "Hello? Are you still there?" I can fix it by toggling the speaker on and off (or off and on) and it fixes it - but it can suddenly start again at anytime...couple of minutes later, five minutes later, etc.
Right now I'm slowly removing apps from my phone after every call this happens on - my goal is to determine if a particualr app is confusing my phone. I don't think it's the ROM or modem I'm using (Frozen 1.2, EC05) as I did a stock flash and flashed to those just recently and others aren't having the same problem. I DID restore some data so if I can't narrow down an app that's causing it, not restoring any data is my next option (but even more time consuming to figure out specifically which data is causing issues).
I'm pretty sure the phone hasn't always done this so I don't want to exchange the phone considering I don't have any other issues and I think this is software, not hardware related. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
Have you tried switching Roms, I have this same problem on EC05 when I moved to gingerbread it stopped happening.......
Do you voodoo installed?
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I was having the same problem with EF02 and the EF02/EF10 modems. I switched back to the EC05 modem and haven't had the problem since (knocking on wood)...
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Try ee03 modem..
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masaidjet said:
Have you tried switching Roms, I have this same problem on EC05 when I moved to gingerbread it stopped happening.......
Do you voodoo installed?
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I do have Voodoo installed (since it comes with Frozen 1.2). I haven't tried switching ROMs yet but I have started looking again (I was pretty content with Frozen but if no one had a similar issue and changing the modem doesn't work then a ROM switch is my next try).
Thanks to others who suggested changing modems - I'm going to do that now and see if EE03 fixes this....*crosses fingers*
evancg said:
I do have Voodoo installed (since it comes with Frozen 1.2). I haven't tried switching ROMs yet but I have started looking again (I was pretty content with Frozen but if no one had a similar issue and changing the modem doesn't work then a ROM switch is my next try).
Thanks to others who suggested changing modems - I'm going to do that now and see if EE03 fixes this....*crosses fingers*
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Go into you Voodoo sound settings and change recording setting to Original. Shoul fix your issue.
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Sure you are not hitting the mute button by accident? Sounds dumb but I've done that before.
Blankrubber said:
Go into you Voodoo sound settings and change recording setting to Original. Shoul fix your issue.
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I have the SAME EXACT PROBLEM and just like the OP it hasn't always been like that, did this work for you?
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I was having the same issues so I just applied this. People couldn't hear me on speakerphone at all...seriously. hopefully this helps. Thanks for the tip
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evancg said:
Basically, when I make or receive a call, within a couple\few minutes of the phone call the caller suddenly can't hear me - this happens whether it's using the phone normally, in speakerphone mode, or even a headset. As soon as it happens and the other caller starts the "Hello? Are you still there?" I can fix it by toggling the speaker on and off (or off and on) and it fixes it - but it can suddenly start again at anytime...couple of minutes later, five minutes later, etc.
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Yes! Mine started doing this a couple months ago, and I resolve it exactly the same way (though I have to hit the volume button once, either up or down, then toggle speaker on then off). It's definitely not the ROM because I've had it with both Froyo and GB ROMs. Unfortunately, I haven't found any other solution, yet. I'm hoping it will go away with official GB, but I have no real reason to think it will work. I'm going to play around with the Voodoo sound.
edonnelly said:
Yes! Mine started doing this a couple months ago, and I resolve it exactly the same way (though I have to hit the volume button once, either up or down, then toggle speaker on then off). It's definitely not the ROM because I've had it with both Froyo and GB ROMs. Unfortunately, I haven't found any other solution, yet. I'm hoping it will go away with official GB, but I have no real reason to think it will work. I'm going to play around with the Voodoo sound.
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you guys shouldn't be having this problem make a backup then odin to ec05 stock and check if you still have the issue if you do just take it to sprint and show the tech your problem they should fix it or get you a replacement phone.
I have the same issue. I am completely stock. It usually happens 10 to 15 minutes into a phone call. I've already called sprint, taken it to a store but only reflashed the os, and I just recently spoke to someone on chat, who said the problem has been solved. If it happens again should I get a replacement phone?
Blankrubbers fix actually worked for me
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steviee7 said:
you guys shouldn't be having this problem make a backup then odin to ec05 stock and check if you still have the issue if you do just take it to sprint and show the tech your problem they should fix it or get you a replacement phone.
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I had this problem as well. I odinned stock and problem solved. Now I'm back on bonsai with no problems.
Edit: I just noticed that I don't have voodoo sound installed, I know that I used to, maybe deleting that solved my problem and not odinning back to stock.
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evancg said:
This has been happening on my Epic 4G for awhile now and it's really frustrating. I'm pretty sure this hasn't been happening the whole time I've owned the phone, but at this point it's hard to really remmber.
Basically, when I make or receive a call, within a couple\few minutes of the phone call the caller suddenly can't hear me - this happens whether it's using the phone normally, in speakerphone mode, or even a headset. As soon as it happens and the other caller starts the "Hello? Are you still there?" I can fix it by toggling the speaker on and off (or off and on) and it fixes it - but it can suddenly start again at anytime...couple of minutes later, five minutes later, etc.
Right now I'm slowly removing apps from my phone after every call this happens on - my goal is to determine if a particualr app is confusing my phone. I don't think it's the ROM or modem I'm using (Frozen 1.2, EC05) as I did a stock flash and flashed to those just recently and others aren't having the same problem. I DID restore some data so if I can't narrow down an app that's causing it, not restoring any data is my next option (but even more time consuming to figure out specifically which data is causing issues).
I'm pretty sure the phone hasn't always done this so I don't want to exchange the phone considering I don't have any other issues and I think this is software, not hardware related. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
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speak up i can't hear you
Sadly even after changing modems and making the adjustment in Voodoo Control I still have the same problem. Going to uninstall Voodoo all together and see if that resolves anything.
I just discovered that I'm having the same problem after I Odin'd back to stock EC05 for a different reason. So, EC05 and EC05 modem, and I'm having a problem that I didn't think I was having before I tried EF02.
Could something have been changed that going back to EC05/EC05 modem didn't resolve?
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evancg said:
Sadly even after changing modems and making the adjustment in Voodoo Control I still have the same problem. Going to uninstall Voodoo all together and see if that resolves anything.
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This problem is not generated by Voodoo. I have a stock Epic (rooted) and have never had Voodoo installed on my device and I have intermittently had this problem in the past (haven't seen it for a while, though). My friend has an Epic (never rooted) and also has this problem.
About the only thing I've heard that people have said fixes this is to wipe cache and dalvik and then flash something using Odin. Stock or custom I don't think matters.
As others have noted, uninstalling Voodoo didn't fix it for me. I think what must be causing this is everytime I wipe and install a clean ROM I restore some data through TiBackup and SOMETHING I'm restoring is causing this. Guess I'll just have to wipe and be very careful about what I'm restoring.
This might be completely random, but by chance did other people that experience this problem happen to install NZBAir?

[Q] Epic freeze & crash

So my Epic is doing someting strange. Whenever I leave my house and any other place where I connect to wifi, my Epic partially crashes. I get the "buzz...buzz, buzz, buzz" which indicates an FC, but my screen goes black and I hear the startup sound and my phone will reset to the home screen within a few seconds. It will continue to do this while I'm out of wifi range, unless I turn off the wifi radio. I can turn the wifi radio back on right after I turn it off and not have a problem. Its like the phone crashes because I move outside wifi coverage. The steps I have taken to solve the issue include:
flashing from EC05 (which I was on) to EF02 - no effect
re-flashing to EC05 - no effect
wiping the phone through CWM and flashing EF02 Plus - no effect
flashing the radio from EC05 to EF02 (no effect), then to EF10 no effect
Currently I am on EF02 stock with the EC05 radio. I've had this Epic for 8 days as my last one I dropped to the ground and that killed it so Sprint gave me this new one, and I do mean NEW ONE because the repair center was out of the refurbished replacements they give for phone repair exchanges. Any advice, tricks, omens, or portents are welcome as I am tired of my Epic crashing.
radugb out
When you say you flashed to EC05, do you mean you Odin'd in a stock EC05 and ran that for awhile? And you still had this issue? Try this thread to get back to stock and see if you still have the issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
If anything your phone would just be roaming all the time if it was searching for that and not finding it. I know nothing about tower boosters or how they work sorry.
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I've had his replacement Epic for 7 days now. The first evening I brought it back from the Sprint store, no problems. When I left the house the next day I had only driven about 2 blocks from my house before I started getting the Forced Close vibrations/crashes & partial restarts. That was with EC05 stock, no modifications. Since then I have flashed EC05 Plus, EF02, and EF02 Plus, trying each version with each of the EC05, EF02, and EF10 modems. Each time I flashed I went into CWM and wiped the cache 3 times, as well as the cache partition and dalvik cache. There were no problems or errors when flashing (at least none that Odin reported) so I can only assume its a new conflict with something the ROM's don't change/update or this new phone's hardware is faulty.
If it did this right out of the box when you brought it home, it is a bad phone.
Muchas garcias. I figured it was probably a bad phone, just needed confirmation. So if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
radugb said:
Muchas garcias. I figured it was probably a bad phone, just needed confirmation. So if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
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Wait, did you root and put a custom ROM on your phone? You said the night you got it the issues happened. I was wondering your setup at the time because I have had random issues similar to yours.
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No, this problem started with stock EC05. I rooted and flashed custom ROM (EC05+, EF02) in hopes it would correct the problem. But it has not. The night I recieved this replacement the phone did not act up. It was the next day when I drove away from my house that it started to behave weird. The phone was still on EC05 ROM at that time with no rooting.
radugb said:
No, this problem started with stock EC05. I rooted and flashed custom ROM (EC05+, EF02) in hopes it would correct the problem. But it has not. The night I recieved this replacement the phone did not act up. It was the next day when I drove away from my house that it started to behave weird. The phone was still on EC05 ROM at that time with no rooting.
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Ok, then that does sound like a bad phone. If the phone is doing the multiple vibrate thing, something is wrong. Especially if it does that on stock setup
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So then my final question: if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
radugb said:
So then my final question: if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
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Yes. You will be good to go. Shouldn't even be a question since you just got it.

[Q] EG22 random reboot

So as the title states, my Epic has been plagued by random reboots since installing EG22. The unit was a new replacement, not a refurbished replacement that tech support normally gives. I've had it all of four weeks now. It ran EF02 pretty perfectly. I have tried reloading EC05 (with ODIN) then loading EG22, and no dice. Before I flash EG22 I wipe the phone, cache, and dalvik 3 times. I've also redownloaded and hash checked the EG22 update I use (using the stock/deodexed EG22 update.zip from the development forum). Still no improvement, the phone will randomly reboot every 1-2 hours. Any advice on what I could try next is appreciated.
radugb out
UPDATE: also I cannot get into the "SYSTEM UPDATES" menu in the Settings/About Phone menu. Each time I try I get a forced close then a system reboot. Could the phone just not like EG22?
I have experienced reboots on both EE03 and EF02. I haven't tried EG22 as of yet. I hae never had it happen on EC05. I figure I'll just wait until the release because my phone just doesn't like the beta/leaked stuff.
Any test software has a chance that it will not work 100%
All Gingerbread leaks crash and reboot in low signal areas. I am assuming this is one of the reasons official hasn't been released yet.
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Ok, but one I have an airave about 12 ft away from my phone so I get a great signal. And two, I'm still getting FC's when I try to enter the system updates menu. So I still think it could be something wrong with my phone.
radugb said:
Ok, but one I have an airave about 12 ft away from my phone so I get a great signal. And two, I'm still getting FC's when I try to enter the system updates menu. So I still think it could be something wrong with my phone.
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How did you install EG22? If you did it through CWM it could have just been a bad flash. For the system menu problem. The crashes occur for me too, like above post low signal areas are not a gb leaks friend.
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I have been flashing zip versions thru CMW. I'll look up an ODIN-able EG22 tar or md5 and try it that way. But I will ODIN back to EC05 (with repartition to wipe the phone) then update to EG22. I'll let you all know.
As far a signal goes though, I'm getting full bars right now because my Airrave is so close to me.
radugb said:
I have been flashing zip versions thru CMW. I'll look up an ODIN-able EG22 tar or md5 and try it that way. But I will ODIN back to EC05 (with repartition to wipe the phone) then update to EG22. I'll let you all know.
As far a signal goes though, I'm getting full bars right now because my Airrave is so close to me.
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You are right, that shouldn't happen with an Airave. A reflash may fix the issues you are having. Also don't use any CPU managers like SetCPU or Voltage Control on GB until source code and custom kernels show up.
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Yup. That was it. Bad flash. This time I d/l'ed a .tar version of EG22 to flash with ODIN. Much better than before. No more FC's from the system menu and its been running 8 hours straight with no reboots. Muchas garcias.
radugb out
Glad to help.
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Spoke too soon. I've had two random reboots, one yesterday, one today. So it definitely fits with what all y'all said that leaked GB ROMs tend to crash. Still not as bad as before, and I no longer get the FC's from the system updates menu.
I had one last night and one tonight at my house which I get a crap signal at in what Sprint describes as an "excellent coverage area" No other problems anywhere else.
I've had my first random reboot. Phone was WIFI connected, and forced roaming (Sprint has a tower down in my area, going on 7 days now). It was in the middle of a content update for an application I run, so I'm wondering if there is a memory leak for the network user or kernel space.
Does anyone know of an application that will keep a log of memory usage to track if a process is not releasing its resources?
Yup, same here. About once every two days I get a reboot. I haven't been able to connect anything I'm doing to the reboots, and it usually does it while the phone is just sitting.
Trouble is, Gingerbread is soooo much better than Froyo I don't want to go back
I really think it is the modem crashing.
You may want to try another modem.
also, i realised that on my wife's epic with eg22, it rebooted about 5 times a day, most of the time, it was right after using the slide out keyboard.
i deleted the keyboard counter slide apk thingy, since then, 1 reboot a day.
not great, but definitely better than 5.
x130844 said:
I really think it is the modem crashing.
You may want to try another modem.
also, i realised that on my wife's epic with eg22, it rebooted about 5 times a day, most of the time, it was right after using the slide out keyboard.
i deleted the keyboard counter slide apk thingy, since then, 1 reboot a day.
not great, but definitely better than 5.
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Are you sure it is not a loose battery connection? My phone would do that with the extended battery and case. Had to put a little piece of thick paper in there to hold it tighter.
Definitely was the modem. I flashed the EE02 modem & now no random reboots. Signal(s) & battery life have gotten better too. I would have flashed the EF02/EF10 modem but that downgrade notice is oh so damn annoying!
Me and my friend have the same issue on our Epics OP, Its annoying but Im dealing with it cause these roms are so much better than pre eg22.
I dont have any random reboots but I get a random double vibrate. I have no idea where that is coming from
I've had two random boots since I've odin'd from EC05.. though I feel it was memory leak,and the phone just shutdown without sufficcient ram.
SchizioPunk's Epic Experience 2.1 Eclair -> Odin to EC05 Froyo. Rooted. Bloatware Removed. Voodoo Sound V9 Module Loaded. TouchWiz4. Enjoying my Customized Stock Experience.
Yeah well I tried the EH06 modem and it broke the 4G (amongst other things). So I got ol' reliable EE03 to fall back on.

In-call volume doesn't work?

I'm on calkulin's ROM and when i'm on the phone and I need to change the volume, I can't do it unless I pull the phone away from my face and the screen comes on. Only then does the volume change.
Is there a fix for this? It's extremely annoying.
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I'm on calkulin's ROM and when i'm on the phone and I need to change the volume, I can't do it unless I pull the phone away from my face and the screen comes on. Only then does the volume change.
Is there a fix for this? It's extremely annoying.
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I too have this "issue" Maybe we should post it on Calks thread?
Experiencing the same issue on UnNamed 2.0.1
Yeah I don't think this is a ROM related issue, as I recall this even when I was totally stock. If you notice the screen does go to sleep when you are on a call, then when you pull it away from your ear the screen is awaken. I think it has something to do with that.
I've been having this issue on all the EL ROMs but I don't remember it doing this in EK02.
I'm pretty sure it still did this on my stock EK02.
Nope it doesn't do that on stock EK02. That's what I'm running rooted and I can change my call volume while in a call and the screen is sleep..
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Same issue on Blazer 3.9. Can't seem to work the "long press to skip track" feature either, coincidentally..
I get the same thing with the Blazer ROM 3.7. I think it is an EL29 error. :/
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I get the same thing with the Blazer ROM 3.7. I think it is an EL29 error. :/
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It is not. Its already been established in another thread that this is only in custom roms. Something about a music mod is the cause of it. I can change my volume in call with any stock build.
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