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I followed one-click root method carefully on my epic 2.1u1 4-times now, and after approx. 1-2 days, my epic goes into a 30sec continuous reboot. Its almost not a full reboot, the screen goes blank for approx. 5sec and then the startup apps and radio connects....
The last incident occurred ONLY 2hrs after I rooted...
In order to resolve this, I have been going into recovery mode and performing a wipe/factory reset each time. Then re-root for a titaniumbackup restore.
I have been stock for 2 days now and without incident...
Anyone experiencing this or have any insight??
guruleenyc said:
I followed one-click root method carefully on my epic 2.1u1 4-times now, and after approx. 1-2 days, my epic goes into a 30sec continuous reboot. Its almost not a full reboot, the screen goes blank for approx. 5sec and then the startup apps and radio connects....
The last incident occurred ONLY 2hrs after I rooted...
In order to resolve this, I have been going into recovery mode and performing a wipe/factory reset each time. Then re-root for a titaniumbackup restore.
I have been stock for 2 days now and without incident...
Anyone experiencing this or have any insight??
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Titanium backup is most likely the cause. But try using the latest root kernel method by noobl. 1.2.2
guruleenyc said:
I followed one-click root method carefully on my epic 2.1u1 4-times now, and after approx. 1-2 days, my epic goes into a 30sec continuous reboot. Its almost not a full reboot, the screen goes blank for approx. 5sec and then the startup apps and radio connects....
The last incident occurred ONLY 2hrs after I rooted...
In order to resolve this, I have been going into recovery mode and performing a wipe/factory reset each time. Then re-root for a titaniumbackup restore.
I have been stock for 2 days now and without incident...
Anyone experiencing this or have any insight??
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Can't say I'm experiencing the same problems because my root went fine. My suggestion to you is to do what I did follow the instructions on the forum to flash your epic back to stock using odin. (It's on the first page.) But, this time after you flash the stock back immediately let it boot back up for the first time and without installing apps or anything else simply run the root script. Then use titanium backup to restore your apps (or App Brain).
This is what I did and I have yet to experience any problems with it.
Hope this helps.
THANKS FOR THE FAST REPLIES!!!
Even though I did a recovery wipe/factory restore, you still think I should re-flash a stock ROM?
guruleenyc said:
THANKS FOR THE FAST REPLIES!!!
Even though I did a recovery wipe/factory restore, you still think I should re-flash a stock ROM?
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Well...that's what I did.
I was running for 2 days fine after a recovery wipe/factory reset on my epic.
So I proceeded to perform the sdx manual permanent root method after doing the one-click 4 times:
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/epic-development/adb-root-exploit-test/
It was fine since yesterday evening and approx. 24hrs later, after turning on wifi, its now rebooting continuously again...
Do I need to send my phone back to Sprint, OR should I flash a stock ROM this time before I root?
Please help!
where do I find odin to reflash stock ROM to my epic...?
New developments: After several self reboots 1 min apart, I turned off wifi and it seemed to become a little more stable. However, I started to play pandora and check email....then it happened again about 1 min intervals.
Now its been up for a few hours...
I am loosing my mind!!!
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guruleenyc said:
where do I find odin to reflash stock ROM to my epic...?
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what have you been using to reflash back to stock if you dont have it already???
I haven't been. Just doing recovery wipe/factory reset.
Do I need to flash?
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Flash back to stock and see if it happens. Mine would reboot + hardlock on standby even on stock, so I had to take it back to Sprint store.
Flash to stock and DON'T restore any apps with ti backup. Don't even root it. Just run it for a day or two to see if you have a problem with stock sw.
It's stable for 2 days after performing wipe/restore from recovery mode.
However the reboot issue surfaces after rooting and restoring with titanium.........
What you peeps think?
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Also, the reboot or reset issue is not happening as frequent and just so I am clear, its like a 10 sec event where screen hours off and comes back on and radios reconnect and media card rescans.
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Don't use titanium backup. It seems to cause weird problems.
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Don't use titanium backup. It seems to cause weird problems.
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Titanium backup is fine so long as you don't restore a bunch of your old system settings en mass
If you simply restore your user apps and such or selectively restore some system items you are fine.
I have done batch restores for all apps plus data several times, I guess this included system apps too...?
Is this the problem and is titanium stable or not on the epic?
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Oddly enough, the sudden reboots seem to have reduced to 1-3/day. BUT, upon opening titanium backup now....it warns me I don't have root anymore!
I performed the sdx perm root method on thur of last week....
I think flashing back to stock or a custom rom may be my best option at this point.
Please advise?
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Seriously dood, I would flash back to stock following all instructions. If it runs right for a few days then just root it. DONT USE TIT BACKUP.
The common thing I saw in reading your posts is that have been restoring whatever is busted with titanium.
Update: although I had lost my root as per titanium, after re-rooting I have been stable for 2 days without going back to stock rom. But resumed KIK Messenger usage resurfaced my reboot issue.
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I finally flashed back to stock using Odin. Everything stable so far...
Alright, so since I rooted my phone about a week after the EVO came out I hadn't really had any problems.
Just today, I decided to go into recovery and see if the "fix uid mismatches" does anything, and it did. Though nothing good, now when my phone is on, I get the androud.process.acore or whatever unexpectedly closing. I press force close, and it just pops back up. So mad rad now.
I guess this wasn't really a question, and sorry for that, not trying to be a forum noob. This happen to anyone else though?
Restoring an old nand backup I made after installing Fresh 3.2 right now.
Fc's acore are like dingleberrys...you gotta wipe.
My phone had no problems up until I just did that uid mismatch fix. Why would that mess everything up? It's got the word FIX in it, ahhh!!
Now I have to wait for the nand restore to boot up, it's taking foreeevvverrrr.
I had that two days ago.. happened out of nowhere when I took battery out with it on and put a newly charge one in. Had to wipe and restore.
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I had that two days ago.. happened out of nowhere when I took battery out with it on and put a newly charge one in. Had to wipe and restore.
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Tried to restore without wiping, just got me stuck on white boot screen. So I wiped and restored, phone works now. But when I try to "Update All" apps in the Market, I get a process.vending error of some sort. But it works now, so I'll work with it.
Ok... here's the deal. I just decided to switch roms finally to see what is new out there. I had been running an old version of Uber Kingdom. Here is the problem I am having. It is boot looping. Relatively simple problem to fix usually. But wait, there's more! It is boot looping in every single rom I install. Sometimes it won't boot to clockwork properly either and I have to pull the battery. Is there someway I can fix this? Or is this a hardware problem (which I kind of doubt)? I just don't understand what the heck is going on. I have been flashing different roms left and right for the past few hours trying to get this thing to stabilize. Sometimes it will boot up into the rom, I will get mostly through the google accounts setup, and then it will restart, and then loop. Other times it won't even get past the white incredible screen, and then sometimes it will make it into the rom splash screen. I have attempted to install CM7 nightly, Uber kingdom, and Synergy so far. I can flash the new rom, I can mount the SD card in clockwork, but then it begins to loop again as soon as I leave clockwork.
Let me know if you need any other information.
Is there a way to just completely redo EVERYTHING, clockwork, rom, everything, just to make sure I have a nice clean slate?
Thanks a ton for reading through this novel. I am extremely frustrated.
~Will
PS, I may not get back to this thread until morning. I have to get to sleep for work. Sorry if I don't respond right away to information requests. Thanks again!
If you can mount the SD card, download the stock RUU from www.dougpiston.com, put it on the root of the SD card named exactly PB31IMG.zip, and boot into hboot to install it. Your phone should be restored to stock, a clean slate.
Tried a different SD?
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How are you downloading and flashing the ROM? I had this problem when trying to do everything through Rom Manager. Even trying to flash in recovery with a ROM downloaded through ROM Manager would loop.
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Well, I was just getting ready to flash the original RUU when I tried one last time to restore my old Uber rom setup and it worked (whereas the last 3 times of doing exactly the same process didn't). It stopped looping at least, even though I am still running the same rom I was before. I think tonight I am still going to attempt to flash the RUU anyway and start over anew.
To answer the questions before, No, I did not try a different SD. I didn't know it could make that much difference. Still on the original one that came with the phone.
As the downloading and flashing process goes, I was downloading direct from the XDA forums on my laptop, then transferring the files via USB. I have never really liked using the Rom Manager. It cuts me out of the XDA loop and I don't get to see all the bleeding edge discussions, etc...
So I will try to flash everything new tonight, and then post my results for anyone who is curious. Thanks for the help guys!
I rooted my Evo for the first time today using the Revolutionary method. Everything went smoothly following the instructions. I downloaded and flashed the latest Evo Classic ROM and I was loving it. It seems to be an awesome ROM. I have 200 MB free space instead of 46MB with all of my apps installed. Everything was great until I went to go to bed. I put the phone on the stock HTC charger and climbed in bed. Less than a minute later it rebooted. The phone has always done that at random times so I didn't think anything of it. Shortly after it booted it rebooted again. It just keeps rebooting over and over as long as it's on the charger! Now it even reboots when it's not charging but the interval is as long as 10 minutes instead of 1.
Has anyone else had this issue? I spent HOURS getting everything just right and customizing settings after flashing this ROM and I really don't want to have to do it all over again. I followed the instructions for flashing the ROM. I cleared the cache and wiped all data. I backed up my apps with Titanium Backup and restored a select number of them. My phone is my alarm clock. Now I can't trust it to wake me up in the morning to go to work!
EDIT: I just restored from my stock NAND backup and it is working fine for tonight. I'm guessing I need to just start from scratch and reflash Evo Classic? I can't seem to find anyone else that had this problem so I assume it was something with my flash or an app I had installed?
I flashed a fresh Evo Classic ROM and started over. Everything was great. I got it all setup and restore my apps. No rebooting problems. Put it on the charger. Worked fine. As a troubleshooting step I opened Sleep, my alarm clock app, and within 30 seconds it rebooted. Obviously something with that app triggered it. I uninstalled it. About a minute later it started a reboot loop in one minute intervals.
Apparently no one has any ideas or I am invisible. I can't post in the Evo Classic thread because I don't have enough posts to earn me the privilege.
Did you wipe dalvik? And what recovery are you using?
I am using Revolutionary recovery (I think?). It is the one that was installed when I rooted following the directions.
I only see two options:
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Clear Cache Partition
I have done both of these each time I flashed. I just flashed again and installed only the Sleep As An Droid app fresh from the market. I opened it and within one minute it rebooted. Obviously this app doesn't agree with this ROM or something isn't going right during the wipe and/or flash.
Any other suggestions for a stable ROM that has the new Sense notification bar with quick settings?
EDIT: I found the Dalvik Cache wipe option under advanced. Doing it now and will reflash and try again.
EDIT 2: Well that failed. I wiped data, cache partition, and dalvik and flashed the ROM. I logged into my Google account, downloaded the app from the market, put the phone on the charger, opened the app, and it rebooted.
Is it rebooting if you don't use that particular app at all?
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I am using Revolutionary recovery (I think?). It is the one that was installed when I rooted following the directions..
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That recovery is called clockwork. You might think about changing your recovery to amon ra since some people have issues with clockwork because it doesn't properly wipe cache and dalvik
Hey there! Sorry about your issues. I don't always check the q&a, so you are usually better off posting on my thread or pm. I just happened to peep on here today
First. Use this. It's the second step on my instructions to flash Classic. Not necessary, but recommended. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
Second, don't use titanium backup. Instead, use mybackup root (free in market and included with my Rom). Not to bash tb, but mybackuproot has never given me issues while I've heard stories about tb.
Third, once you get amon ra installed, boot into recovery and wipe everything but your sdcard.
Fourth, download a fresh copy of classic from a reliable network, like home computer. Downloading from a phone is bad news (just a tip since you're newly rooted )
Fifth, flash and enjoy!
Please let me know how it goes for you.
Truly,
Tommy
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Thank you very much for the reply! I will try your suggestions some time this weekend. I need my phone to work 100% as I am traveling so maybe Sunday I will try again.
I followed all of your suggestions and redownloaded the ROM, installed RA Recovery, cleared all data, cache, and dalvik several times, and reflashed the ROM.
I restored my apps and data using MyBackup Root and it took over 2 hours! I opened my alarm app and... reboot. Back to the same old reboot over and over.
I think I'll just go back to the stock ROM and remove the bloatware and call it good.
Theirs one obvious thing nobody mentioned. Google how to check a md5 sum do that with every rom you download and if it does not say its right don't flash, redownload and check again. Also restore as little as possible through mybackup and if you are restoring things like your alarms or any system settings don't.
As for good roms with quick settings like r2r going green lightning fast, or unleashed r6.
Ps I would suggest useing r2r superwipe before whatever you may flash n wipe both caches a few times first it might help
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Also id recommend copying all contents of SD card to computer and wipe SD card then reload everything back onto SD card. I know sometimes the SD card can become corrupt and cause bootloops and random reboots
I checked the Md5 sums of everything I downloaded. I only restored my apps, text messages, and Bluetooth pairings. I even ended up buying a new, larger SD card yesterday and I formated and used it when I flashed.
This afternoon I flashed my latest backup of my stock ROM and used Titanium Backup to removed all of the Sprint bloatware. My phone is running very fast now with over 110 MB of internal memory available so I can't complain.
Maybe next weekend I will try another ROM but for now I need me phone to be working since I do not have a land line and I rely on my phone for work.
You said this happened before you ever rooted? Maybe its a factory defect if u got a.warrenty I would suggest unrooting and sending to them.
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I got my original Evo on launch day and it had the random reboot problem from the first month. It was very infrequent at first but after a few months it got worse and worse. Finally, one day it started rebooting in a loop while I was at work. I took it directly to a Sprint store where they ordered me a replacement. The replacement has been great. It reboots on it's own once in a great while (maybe once every two months).
This seems to be very common. The reboots I got when I flashed the Evo Classic ROM were as bad as my original phone was just before it got replaced. The difference is that is definitely software based because flashing the stock ROM fixes it. The reboots I had on my original phone happened when the phone heated up randomly and were not fixed by a factory reset.
Its not normal they keep giveing you defects... I have never heard of.this problem anyway... I would take it bac
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Evo450 said:
I got my original Evo on launch day and it had the random reboot problem from the first month. It was very infrequent at first but after a few months it got worse and worse. Finally, one day it started rebooting in a loop while I was at work. I took it directly to a Sprint store where they ordered me a replacement. The replacement has been great. It reboots on it's own once in a great while (maybe once every two months).
This seems to be very common. The reboots I got when I flashed the Evo Classic ROM were as bad as my original phone was just before it got replaced. The difference is that is definitely software based because flashing the stock ROM fixes it. The reboots I had on my original phone happened when the phone heated up randomly and were not fixed by a factory reset.
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My girlfriend had the same issue with her second evo. She had the Black Evo at first than a friend of hers swapped her to the white Evo. She had the issue only on the white evo. She ended up having to replace the phone with another one. That one did the same thing for awhile so we thought it was an issue with an app she was running. I have the black evo and made a exact copy of her phone. I never once had the issue.
Sprint ended up replacing it agian with a line that something was different in the white Evo from the black one that was causing the issue. Ever since that day she hasn't had a problem with her phone. I just rooted and did her rom last night.
My question would be does the phone get hot? Or feel hot? The reason I ask is that the phones processor may restart the phone (in effort to cool it down) randomly. That is something to consider.
Glad I got the black
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I got my original Evo on launch day and it had the random reboot problem from the first month. It was very infrequent at first but after a few months it got worse and worse. Finally, one day it started rebooting in a loop while I was at work. I took it directly to a Sprint store where they ordered me a replacement. The replacement has been great. It reboots on it's own once in a great while (maybe once every two months).
This seems to be very common. The reboots I got when I flashed the Evo Classic ROM were as bad as my original phone was just before it got replaced. The difference is that is definitely software based because flashing the stock ROM fixes it. The reboots I had on my original phone happened when the phone heated up randomly and were not fixed by a factory reset.
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I kept getting the same thing when i flashed classic. I went back to shooter port which runs butter smooth and is fantastic looking with sense 3.0.
DO THIS TO TRY TO GET EVERYTHING WORKING (no more soft reboot)
-connect your sd card to your computer
-copy contents to your computer for a backup
-copy PC36IMG.zip to your sd card make sure it is on root of sd card(attached to message)
-disconnect usb cable then pull battery
-enter bootloader (vol down + power)
-when it asks if you want to install the new update select yes
-after thats done pull the battery again
-enter bootloader then select recovery ( you should now have amonRa 2.3 )
-flash zip from sd card (vrsuperwipe.zip *thanks to virus*)
-go back and go into wipe menu, wipe dalvik-cache, wipe sdext, battery stats, and rotate settings.
-go to partition sd card and partition for a gingersense rom if you have not done so already. (0 swap, 1024 or 2048 ext2, remaining FAT)
ABOVE PROCESS COULD TAKE SOME TIME, MAKE SURE YOUR SD CARD IS MOSTLY EMPTY BEFORE YOU DO THIS (ONLY HAVE PC36IMG.ZIP ON IT)
-select usb mass toggle and connect to computer
-copy over your choice of rom, i suggest the shooter e3d port by team nocturnal.
-flash rom
-go to flash zip from sd card again this time select TeamNocturnal folder and pick a kernel to flash (try all of them if you would like, some phones run better with different kernels. mine runs well with HDMwIn kernel.
-wipe dalvik-cache one more time and you are ready to reboot with no more random restarts hopefully.
good luck - and please hit the thanks button if any of this works for you
Hey guys. I just updated to Wicked Sensations 1.2 from 1.1. I used 1.1 for a few weeks and loved it, naturally I wanted 1.2 when it came out and I read the changelog. So I downloaded it, put it on the ext SD card. Booted to Clockwork Mod Recovery. I did a Nandroid backup. Then I wiped data 3 times, wiped Dalvik cache 3 times, and then installed from zip file. The install went great. I rebooted after it was done and the rom launched fine. I went through the initial setup and restored my Nova Home Screen settings. Then I went to try out the included Wifi Tether app. I launched it, it asked for root access, I granted it. Something didn't work as it was initializing, so I closed it and rebooted the phone, just to make sure all of it's processes were killed and my normal wifi would work normally. On reboot, the phone decided it needed to "Upgrade Apps". So I waited about an hour and it never left that screen. It didn't show me any sort of progress like it had before either when it optimized apps for Jellybean coming from ICS. So I popped the battery out. Now I'm doomed. Stuck on the boot screen with the "SAMSUNG" text with the animated glow effect. I also can't seem to get it into recovery mode to restore any of my backups.
Any thoughts? I'm fairly new to this so don't rule out dumb mistakes. Also, I noticed in the Wicked Sensations 1.2 instructions that I could have upgraded without doing a full data wipe, but it said to do a full wipe and clean install if you had any trouble with the upgrade, so I don't think that is the cause of my problems. Do I need to turn to Odin?
You have a soft brick since you can get up the boot logo screen....time to bust out Odin to save the day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941546
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Thanks a bunch. I wasn't sweating too bad since I could turn it off and on and see a spark of life in it. Thanks for the link too. I'll confirm success or failure later tonight after a good few hours drive back home.
That fixed it for me. Thanks again.