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[Q] Nonstop rebooting, even after full wipe/reinstall - last_kmsg inside

Hey everyone.
I know there's a couple other threads with this problem, but none of them included their last_kmsg files. It took a bunch of tries before I could stay booted up long enough to grab it, but I have one.
I'm getting a significant number of reboots on my EVO. Like almost unusable at times. It seems fairly random, although there's a slight suspicion is has something to do with the GPS. Maps has been a crash-cause before and the most recent bout last night was brought on by foursquare. (the annoying part is I had just used 4sq fine 30 minutes prior with no issues. Then, booted it up, refreshed locations and my phone was unusable for hours.)
I've done all the standard things. Fix permissions, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe data/system, reinstall the latest CM7 build (update-cm-7.0.2.1-Supersonic-signed.zip), wipe cache, wipe dalvik. I entered my google account info but told it not to sync anything. It is now rebooting less than a minute after it starts up. I haven't installed any apps at all since this most recent wipe/reload of CM7. It reboots with and without the sd card installed.
I'm at a loss here and getting incredibly frustrated. Many replies say it's as easy to fix as wipe everything and re-do it. Obviously something abnormal is screwed up on my phone and I can't figure it out.
Here's the pastebin from this morning: pastebin.com/Ki7H8bH3 (Crap, I don't post here enough to be allowed to post links. Just add the http part to that.)
And then when I got awake enough, I did another complete wipe/reload. The rebooting is even worse now, it's taken me almost an hour to get to a point I can install es explorer to try and pull another file. And when I did, it was blank.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

1. Go to the link below and download the PC36IMG.zip file for amon RA v2.3 and place it on the root of your SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
2. Shutdown your device.
3. Simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. There will be a short pause and then a few lines of text will scroll across the screen. Afterwards, the bootloader will automatically detect the PC36IMG.zip file and prompt you to install it. Follow the easy prompts to install. Installation will take less than 10 seconds to complete. Afterwards, reboot into your new recovery. Go to the backup/restore menu and make a nandroid backup of your current setup.
4. Now go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card.
5. Go to the flash menu and flash the rom you desire to flash.
On many occasions, reflashing the recovery solved rebooting issues and hopefully, it will solve yours.
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Hi dougjamal,
Thanks for the reply.
I've made some progress. Last night I had done a majority of what you suggested, with installing amon RA. I've also just formatted my entire sd card just to be sure.
I haven't tried wiping things other than cache and dalvik, so I'll try that.
My progress I mentioned is that I had CM7 up and running until I flashed a new kernel and gapps in there. So I guess I'll just stick with the stock CM7 kernel, try your extra wiping and see how that works.
Thanks!

grifta67 said:
Hi dougjamal,
Thanks for the reply.
I've made some progress. Last night I had done a majority of what you suggested, with installing amon RA. I've also just formatted my entire sd card just to be sure.
I haven't tried wiping things other than cache and dalvik, so I'll try that.
My progress I mentioned is that I had CM7 up and running until I flashed a new kernel and gapps in there. So I guess I'll just stick with the stock CM7 kernel, try your extra wiping and see how that works.
Thanks!
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You're very welcome. Sorry for the delayed response. I was having a late lunch and then drove home. Anyway, keep us informed of your progress and enjoy the rest of your day.
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No worried on any delay, just glad to have someone that took a read and time to reply!
Ugh, it's the randomness of this that has me so frustrated. I thought I had a good install again, I left it sit on the "touch the android" screen for a few minutes and it stayed on. Made it through the setup process ok. I allowed the setup to "auto-download" a handful of the google apps it asks if you want. Once they got to about 38%... boom, restart.
So I did another toooootal wipe and I'll manually install those apps one by one. We'll see...

dougjamal said:
1. Go to the link below and download the PC36IMG.zip file for amon RA v2.3 and place it on the root of your SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
2. Shutdown your device.
3. Simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. There will be a short pause and then a few lines of text will scroll across the screen. Afterwards, the bootloader will automatically detect the PC36IMG.zip file and prompt you to install it. Follow the easy prompts to install. Installation will take less than 10 seconds to complete. Afterwards, reboot into your new recovery. Go to the backup/restore menu and make a nandroid backup of your current setup.
4. Now go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card.
5. Go to the flash menu and flash the rom you desire to flash.
On many occasions, reflashing the recovery solved rebooting issues and hopefully, it will solve yours.
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Seems like this gets posted quite often, huh??? lol

Don't rule out a corrupt download. If you have the time, download both Salvage-Mod 1.2.1 and the gapps zip from http://www.salvage-mod.com/node/4. If you like CM7, you may like Salvage-Mod. It is pure gingerbread. If you decide to flash it, see whether or not you get bootloops with it.
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HipKat said:
Seems like this gets posted quite often, huh??? lol
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Indeed, my friend...lol...but it works.
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HipKat said:
Seems like this gets posted quite often, huh??? lol
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It does and it wish it was that easy. It's frustrating to read that others seem to have no issues at all yet when I follow those directions, which are everywhere, nothing seems to work.

dougjamal said:
Don't rule out a corrupt download. If you have the time, download both Salvage-Mod 1.2.1 and the gapps zip from http://www.salvage-mod.com/node/4. If you like CM7, you may like Salvage-Mod. It is pure gingerbread. If you decide to flash it, see whether or not you get bootloops with it.
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I re-downloaded CM7 this morning thinking that might be the issue, but it hasn't seemed to help. I'll give a different rom a try probably, maybe there's something other than CM7 I'd be content with.

Whelp, I downloaded SalvageMod and their gapps. Wiped everything, installed salvage, installed gapps, rebooted.
I got through set-up, was ok for a couple minutes, then as I was going into my contacts to see if they had sync'd yet... reboot.
This makes me think this can't be a ROM issue.
Any other ideas?

Does the same thing happen when you run a stock (or close-to-stock) rom? Main reason I ask is that this might actually be some sort of hardware problem, but one of the best ways to test for that is to be running on stock software. I wouldn't necessarily suggest flashing an RUU to get to the latest official release, but there are stock rooted roms out there that you could try.
You probably went with CM specifically to get away from Sense and the default HTC stuff (that's most people's reasons anyway), but if you flash a stock rom and it's still rebooting like that then I'd say chances are REALLY good that it's hardware and that you'd have grounds for getting a replacement phone (just remember to unroot first.)
And if it stops randomly rebooting on you then you'll have at least narrowed things down a bit.

jesuspgt said:
Does the same thing happen when you run a stock (or close-to-stock) rom? Main reason I ask is that this might actually be some sort of hardware problem, but one of the best ways to test for that is to be running on stock software. I wouldn't necessarily suggest flashing an RUU to get to the latest official release, but there are stock rooted roms out there that you could try.
You probably went with CM specifically to get away from Sense and the default HTC stuff (that's most people's reasons anyway), but if you flash a stock rom and it's still rebooting like that then I'd say chances are REALLY good that it's hardware and that you'd have grounds for getting a replacement phone (just remember to unroot first.)
And if it stops randomly rebooting on you then you'll have at least narrowed things down a bit.
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Hey jesuspgt,
I haven't tried that yet. I'll look around for a rooted stock ROM later and give that a shot.
My current status is back to uncertainty. At the moment, my evo has been sitting here fine, not rebooting, for the past hour or two. It's still the Salvage ROM I first installed (i.e. I haven't reinstalled it since it rebooted). Now I haven't really used it any, so it might go to hell as soon as I do that, but for now, it's on and only had that one (maybe two, I can't keep track...) initial reboot.
That's what makes it tricky to diagnose. I know using any custom ROM runs the risk of loosing stability and all ROMs probably produce a reboot here and there. Tough to tell if it's just a "comes with the territory" type of reboot or an actual problem.
Even though I'm sure there's some CM features I'll miss, maybe Salvage is my answer.
Thanks!

*sigh* Well I decided to try using some apps and guess what... reboot.
All I was doing was trying to play a game of Androminion, which is about as basic and not-tasking as possible, so I can't imagine that's what crashed things.

The only thing I can think of that you *may* need to do is reflash your hboot and/or your baseband, PRI & NV from within recovery. You can download it from the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
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dougjamal said:
The only thing I can think of that you *may* need to do is reflash your hboot and/or your baseband, PRI & NV from within recovery. You can download it from the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
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Excellent, I'm going to try that. My hboot is still 0.93!

Hey dougjamal,
Just wanted to drop an update. I know how annoying it is to help someone out and never hear how things ended up!
Who knows what combo helped, but I'm fairly stable now. After updating my hboot, I flashed to Sprint Lovers, did the ##GPSCLRX# trick and then flashed to the latest nightly of CM7 (63 I believe). Only one or two crashes and one bootloop since then.
Of course, as luck would have it, a new problem showed up in the form of a dead spot on my touch screen. Right about where the "Clear" button is for notifications, that entire strip across the phone won't respond to touch. I was hoping it was a nightly issue, but I switched to a different rom and the issue was still there. Looks like it's going in for a warranty claim after-all!
Thanks for all your help
-grifta67

[Q] HTC Desire HD Very Laggy After RCX HD Kingdom Rom with sense 3.0

Hi
I have updated my HTC desire HD to RCX HD Kingdom Rom with Sense 3.0 and After that the phone is very laggy. I know i can use set CPU which may help but i have no idead how to use Setcpu or of there any other solution.
can some one help me with this? I am starting new thread as i cant post in to any thread due to new user policy and i have to have 5 to 10 post to be able to reply to other post.
please let me know, if anyone has solution.
thanks

You can try re flashing again or go back to another ROM

Try reinstall the rom, the phone would be laggy st the first boot or once you restart the phone, but believe me, you would be satisfied
With sense 3
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I'm using that ROM right now, and have to say that I am pleasantly surprised at the general speed of the ROM. You may things going on in the background that's causing your experience to be laggy. Wait until all apps re-install and see if it speed up. If all else fails, full wipe and re-install ROM.

hi,experts
i also have one question that after flashing this rom, my DHD get into the loop of rebooting itself.
the steps to flash are as following,
1.copy the ROM to SD card.
2. switch to recovery system.
3. wipe all
4. install for sd card
5. reboot the system.
but after all of the steps, it cant get the OS up.
could you give me some hints to fix the problem?
i heard that it's need to formate SD card for ext4 file system, is it really needed?
thanks in advance.

I've also flashed MDJ's v11 kernel, and using setcpu it's as smooooth as silk

Running Smartass profile on setcpu with MDJv11. Very smooth

anthscorner said:
Running Smartass profile on setcpu with MDJv11. Very smooth
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Thanks for your information. I've tried MDJv11 kernel, it seems good too

I'm running Kingdom and I have to say its snappy no lags at all u will have to do a full wipe in order to work properly as its totally new base.I have Mdj v11 kernel flashed and OC and its perfect.)
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I didn't have to format my SD card. Did you do a wipe using full wipe 1.3?
Could also be a corrupt download, in that case, re-download on pc, then use clockwork mod to mount the SD card and transfer it to your phone again & then try to flash again
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I was also very suprised by the quickness of the RCMix Kingdom ROM. Runs soo smooth even tho it has few bugs, but soon everything will be solved and we wil be able to enjoy the ROM to its fullest potential

sorry,may be i cant help you

want to use ,but no well

I have also downloaded and tried this ROM. To original poster: I had the same problem until a reboot and then everything ran smoothly.
Anyway, I would love to report this bug or ask questions in the original thread, but I am not allowed to until I have ten posts. Kind of odd to add incentive to post ten useless replies in another forum. Heh.
Well, I was loving this rom until I realized I had NO cell phone signal. After going to Settings -> Wireless & Networks, the option for Mobilenetwork is grayed out and cannot be clicked on (i.e. nothing happens when clicking.) This is AFTER I choose my carrier (AT&T) and went through the set up choosing an option along the way that says "Wifi and Mobile Network."
So I re-flashed the rom, formatting the system, clearing the cache, clearing the davchek (sorry, forgot the word) cache. Then suddenly everything worked!
So I used the phone the rest of the evening and this morning with no problems when suddenly, I completely lost all cell phone service again (WIFI only works.) Tried restarting, pulling out the sim card, pulling out the battery, switching airplane mode on/off, but it will not work.
Why would my phone suddenly completely lose service for hours and hours?
Also I already sent a PM to the creator of the rom about this, but has anyone tried using the Chinese input with this? I can't get any of the input methods to work. After you type the pinyin, or strokes, etc, a box should pop up giving you choices of characters. The box won't pop up, so you can't pick a character, and the end result is that you can't type Chinese.
Other than that and the complete loss of service, I was loving this rom. Any help/idea would be appreciated. Thanks.

i had the same issue as the previous person & did exactly the same so far not had it happen again. I'll monitor though. Generally the rom does seem a little slow. But its far from a final release so i'm more then happy with this rom.

aidan257 said:
i had the same issue as the previous person & did exactly the same so far not had it happen again. I'll monitor though. Generally the rom does seem a little slow. But its far from a final release so i'm more then happy with this rom.
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Same problem as me?
I just re-flashed. It connected to ATT, but the next time I restarted the phone, all service is gone. No way to get it back. Flashing back to an old rom. Hope someone can figure this problem out.

I'm using this ROM now, I really very satisfy this one even found some bugs, but it can acceptable

BootManager

Although not officially supported for the Droid Incredible 2 (not even on the list), it seems to work! Messing around with it now, but I was able to boot OMGB without any issues. Still some things that I need to figure out though, particularly with the GAPPS..

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what is boot manager?
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ExNight said:
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what is boot manager?
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Not a stupid question at all! Basically, allows for dualbooting your phone. Right now, I'm currently running RMK's GingerSense on the phone, and working on dual booting (well, up to 4 other ROM's) OMGB and OMFGB. Playing around though, since they don't officially support it...nor unofficially for that matter.
Not for the feint of heart at the moment though. To get back to the phone ROM, you have to use recovery to flash the backup of boot.img. Read what to do in the market app description.

is this a phone app or computer app...i wanna try it on the blown out dinc2 i gotta send bak
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Pay for play phone app. Works well so far too.. Root is required though.

Been bouncing back and forth between GingerSense (on the phone) and OMGB (SD) all night.. Surprisingly fast even on stock microSD. As far as I can tell, everything seems to be working properly, but that isn't to say there isn't any underlying bugs. Very nice though being able to dual boot like that. My only concern though is how fast the microSD could die because of all the reads/writes.

This is very interesting. I would love to hear more reports for those who have tried this. Gingersense is my daily driver, but I would like to keep a CM7 build up to date simultaneously.
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Damn! I was looking forward to this when I had my rooted Inc2, but now I'm stuck with it's replacement that's GB If anyone has a friend or knows someone that has an XTC Clip near Pasadena/Burbank/or San Bernadino County PM me!

Seems to work well so far. They are having issues with Sense-based ROMs running off the SD card though. I tried installing rmk's GingerSense a few times, was never able to get it to boot. AOSP ROM's seem to work just fine though.

sk0t said:
Seems to work well so far. They are having issues with Sense-based ROMs running off the SD card though. I tried installing rmk's GingerSense a few times, was never able to get it to boot. AOSP ROM's seem to work just fine though.
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I was using it on my Inc and Sense 2.x roms ran okay, it was just the Sense 3.0 roms that had trouble. MIUI also ran very well. it is a great tool.

caleris said:
I was using it on my Inc and Sense 2.x roms ran okay, it was just the Sense 3.0 roms that had trouble. MIUI also ran very well. it is a great tool.
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I only tried one Sense ROM, but it would freeze. Talked to one of the devs, and they were also having issues with other HTC devices and Sense. Sounds like they may have it fixed though for the next release, but I won't say that with any certainty.

Tried 1.3 which officially supports Inc 2, but couldn't pass the boot.img installation. Hmmmm

xHoLyx said:
Tried 1.3 which officially supports Inc 2, but couldn't pass the boot.img installation. Hmmmm
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Same here. Idk what's up either.
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Bootmanager
Guys if it's failing to make the boot.img first make sure your using the market version....others have released cracked versions of our app which they broke...if your using the actual market version just send me a pm or email [email protected] and send your log.txt from BootManager folder on sdcard and we'll get it straightened out. Thanks.

Damn! Wanted to buy it but I only have 2.50 on my debit card :/ Anychance of a sale sometime soon?

Definitely make sure you guys are getting in touch with their devs.. They've been real responsive for me.

I am using bootmanager v1.3 on an htc incredible 2 & I am having problems installing the google addons
After loading cryanogenMod 7.1 into slot 1 & booting into that just fine, I open ROM manager & dl the google addon for cm 7.1 then boot into recovery to load the addons, I can find the addons in the download folder & i select it but it never flashes & I dont have the market to authenticate bootmanager or put my apps on the cm rom & have to load the original phone image back on
Do I need to put google addons zip on the root of the SD card & flash it from there?
Thanks

Don't flash GAPPS from within Recovery.. Flash it from within BootManager itself. I do it right after installing the ROM I'm putting into whatever slot I'm putting it in. If you flash from Recovery, it flashes it to the ROM on the phone itself.

Thanks sk0t,
The bootmanager support emailed me back within 10 minutes, I emailed them then posted here.
Everything is working great now.
Here is what the developer wrote "You need to flash google add on's or any other ad on's from with in the
bootmanager app. Recovery will only affect your phones rom. The
bootmanager app is the "recovery" for all sd rom's. When flashing
something like gapps you flash it just like you flashed the rom only DO
NOT select any of the wipe checkboxes."
On my way to the market now to give app a review, 5 stars, ultra fast support, would have developers back in a bar fight!!!
Thanks again

[Solved] MiuiV4 CDMA will not boot

All right this problem has now been solved! Thank goes to khamsakamal48 for posting the solution for the problem. The problem is solved by replacing the updater-script with the one that is used in the GSM version the of Rom. Then Using the latest 4ext recovery, wipe everything and install. Thank you to everyone that have participated in trying to get this solved. This might also work with other recoveries, but has not yet been confirmed.
Updater-Script: http://db.tt/sUfk5p8E
Latest 4ext recovery: http://db.tt/sP5o7HhJ

only thing i could think of is try a different recovery .I haven't had any trouble at all booting miui an i use cwm touch version.

Alright I'll have to give it a try. Was trying to avoid that but oh well. Thanks!
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so I tried 4ext and clockwork recovery. Both have caused my phone to just boot right back into recovery. Wiped data and all.

kylesag21 said:
so I tried 4ext and clockwork recovery. Both have caused my phone to just boot right back into recovery. Wiped data and all.
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Can you give us a little more background on your phone setup? Have you flashed roms successfully before or is this a first time? Are you s-off?

Sorry bout that. I am S-off and I am able to flash all of the other roms available. But when it comes to this one it just won't flash.
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I have been having this same problem. I am going to try to go through everything I have done to see if I can get more info.
I had MIUI V4 (2.9.29 CDMA) running shortly after rooting this phone (maybe 1 week ago). I installed it from the latest TWRP, so that isn't our problem. I loved it and everything was great. I am unsure what radio I was on at the time, and I think that may be where my problems came in.
I successfully installed ViperINC 1.0.0 after doing a factory reset, wiping cache, dalvik from my WORKING MIUI V4. It booted and I played with it for a few hours, but wanted to go back to MIUI. At this point I was on the firmware from nitsuj17's thread. When I tried to factory reset and install MIUI clean again I started having the same trouble as OP. Since then I have tried every radio I could get my hands on, and may have even been a bit sloppy about what firmware I flashed (the only one I'm unsure of is CondemnedSoul's Return to stock as I am unsure what all it included other than radio and stock rom). After a lot of different attempts, I used CondemnedSoul's PG32IMG and went back to stock where I had everything working fine (for stock). I got an OTA update, but wasn't satisfied so I kept trying different radios from the pinned post on the Development thread (really only .0312 and .0320 as well as the first leaked firmware I linked from nitsuj17). So far nothing has worked to get me any further than the OP unless I just use a different rom. Had this rom never worked I would just talk to the developer, but as I had it working before and no idea what changed I'm at a loss.
I don't have enough posts to get something on the Development forum, but if anyone here can help, I'd really appreciate it.

I've been scouring these forums looking for someone who has made progress on this issue. I'm going to make a list here of posts by people having similar problems, if not the exact same. I have yet to see anyone successfully address them.
One of a few people on the MIUI V4 thread who have had the same issue. I had this rom running at one point, though, so I'm not sure what change caused it to stop. I definitely get further with the TWRP recovery (freezes on "android" splash screen) than the 4ext recovery (reboots to recovery).
I don't believe the JB issues are directly related, but similar problems.
Similar to the Jellybean issue above. More similar to my own situation since I also only started having trouble after flashing ViperINC, but I have formatted, wiped and reverted (even to S-ON and unroot Froyo) so much that I can't see how it would have changed anything that I have not removed. This thread has 3+ people with the same sort of issues. Last report one of them installed ViperINC with all defaults and let it run for a few minutes then wiped and re-installed CM10 with success. I may try this, only with MIUI. I have no idea what settings would be slipping through.

And the cdma miui is one of the only roms that boots for me. Running it now. I think Zelmo is right, there's something sticking around with that Aroma script. I've flashed aosp roms over sense roms and vice versa without even wiping and never had issues like these. I've basically wiped this thing with steel wool and always the same thing. It's gone atleast 15 mins with it's bootloop/freezing max cpu process. It ain't gonna boot! I was up until 2am last night ****ing with it. I'm done.

I'm nearly there. Had I never been able to run MIUI, I would probably have dumped it by now, but it's like an itch I can't reach at this point. There is just something there that I can't see or imagine that is hanging in through every wipe I can find. I just formatted my SD card and did a bunch of wipes (I know that has been tried) and I'm going to try VenomINC with all defaults like Zelmo88 had some success with. If I don't have any luck getting to MIUI from there I'll probably go back to my dinc or buy a new phone soon. This one was really an experiment anyway.
Will follow up if I can figure out anything else.

khamsakamal48 posted pretty detailed instructions here. I have confirmed that my install is going pretty fast, so I am betting that could be our issue. I am not sure what causes this or how to prevent it. I'm going to try and flash it a bunch of times here to see if I can get it to complete.
Edit: I tried 3-4 times with CDMA file and had no success making it take longer than 1-2 minutes. I then flashed the GSM file which I had been having the same trouble with and it succeeded! I am going to check my MD5s again on the CDMA file and give it another go.
Edit: I have tried now around 10 times with the file found here linked from khamsakamal48's thread on the development forum. MD5 matches, but I cannot find any method of flashing>wiping>reflashing>rewiping>crying>flashing>snoring which will make it take more than about a minute with the "install". I'm going to type out my log from 4ext so that I have something to do.
>format all partitions (except sdcard)
>wipe dalvik cache ;multiply the repetetive redundancy
>install from sdcard
>MIUI.us_vivow_v4_2.9.29.zip ;MD5 9f36b433635e50e0daf23768280c050f
;begin log
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Formatting system...
do not formate system ;???
Installing system files... ;this bit may take 1minute
Creating system links...
Set permission...
Update Boot image...
Install from sdcard complete. ;and done in less than 2 minutes every time.
If someone could post a link to this on the Dev forum or something I would appreciate it. I don't feel like spamming 4 more posts just so I have that privilege.

stoicwood said:
khamsakamal48 posted pretty detailed instructions here. I have confirmed that my install is going pretty fast, so I am betting that could be our issue. I am not sure what causes this or how to prevent it. I'm going to try and flash it a bunch of times here to see if I can get it to complete.
Edit: I tried 3-4 times with CDMA file and had no success making it take longer than 1-2 minutes. I then flashed the GSM file which I had been having the same trouble with and it succeeded! I am going to check my MD5s again on the CDMA file and give it another go.
Edit: I have tried now around 10 times with the file found here linked from khamsakamal48's thread on the development forum. MD5 matches, but I cannot find any method of flashing>wiping>reflashing>rewiping>crying>flashing>snoring which will make it take more than about a minute with the "install". I'm going to type out my log from 4ext so that I have something to do.
>format all partitions (except sdcard)
>wipe dalvik cache ;multiply the repetetive redundancy
>install from sdcard
>MIUI.us_vivow_v4_2.9.29.zip ;MD5 9f36b433635e50e0daf23768280c050f
;begin log
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Formatting system...
do not formate system ;???
Installing system files... ;this bit may take 1minute
Creating system links...
Set permission...
Update Boot image...
Install from sdcard complete. ;and done in less than 2 minutes every time.
If someone could post a link to this on the Dev forum or something I would appreciate it. I don't feel like spamming 4 more posts just so I have that privilege.
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Your post is an exact match to what I've done. Even tried reverting to ext3 ( no luck, obviously). Well I've got the bug so now I'm not stopping until I figure this out. I'm running viper 1.0.1 so there might be a common element.

grunt9800 said:
Your post is an exact match to what I've done. Even tried reverting to ext3 ( no luck, obviously). Well I've got the bug so now I'm not stopping until I figure this out. I'm running viper 1.0.1 so there might be a common element.
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I think most of us first noticed these problems around the time we flashed Viper, but I have nuked this thing so hard from so many different directions since the last time I ran Viper that I can't imagine anything surviving. Still, a little too coincidental.
Running the GSM version didn't last long, either. I played around with trying to get it to use my sim, but as soon as I changed some of my network settings it went into a bootloop tailspin and somewhere along the way corrupted my /system. That took a little work to get around, so now I'm back to aeroevan's CM10 which runs OK... other than what doesn't.

Try replacing the updater-script under meta-inf with one from my GSM version!!
Hope that helps!!
Edit: Replace the updater-script with this one- http://db.tt/sUfk5p8E & use this recovery which I downloaded just now- http://db.tt/sP5o7HhJ
All the best!!
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khamsakamal48 said:
Try replacing the updater-script under meta-inf with one from my GSM version!!
Hope that helps!!
Edit: Replace the updater-script with this one- http://db.tt/sUfk5p8E & use this recovery which I downloaded just now- http://db.tt/sP5o7HhJ
All the best!!
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Worked perfectly first try! Now running CDMA version without problem. I don't know why it works, but it works. Everyone thank khamsakamal48!

I'm not seeing a meta-inf folder. Is there another place it could be?
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I believe it is in meta-inf>com>google>android
Updater-script should be located there.
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Nope, no meta-inf. Back to Google
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Are you using 7zip to open up the zip file?
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I'm too embarrassed to tell you what I was trying got it now, thanks again
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Storage issues help

I'm suddenly having storage issues with every ROM that I flash after running a ROM with some script that isn't widely used.
First I'll give you a brief idea of my problem. I"m running out of storage and get notifications from the market saying as much after I download and reasonable amount of apps. The thing is... It show's I have used 738MB of ext4 out of 1.5 so that isn't the issue. The problem is internal memory. My phone won't move dalvik cache for some reason. When I run any ROM with a2sd or m2sd they both say that there is a problem and leave the dalvik cache where it is.
I think my internal folders are jacked up from 40ad2sdx or a zip that was used to clear memory before the ROM. There was a ext4 superwipe cleaner to load before the ROM. I did that without researching first. When I did go looking for the thread about it, it plainly said that it was for one phone only, and it wasn't my phone. I believe it was the Galaxy S3, but I can't be certain. It was a week ago. It was advised not to use it on any other phone because part of what it did was reset the internal folders. Does this mean I can now flash a ROM for the galaxy s3? Lol Just kidding.... Seriously, the second part is all my speculation and I have been wrong many times concerning android. Will somebody help me get my phone back in oem condition please?

Okay, I'm not even sure what you did here, because not knowing the script, anything could have happened.
Try wiping everything and flashing stock rooted here, then go from there with other roms after that.
If that doesn't work. Here's what I would do. It might be a major pain, but it is almost a surefire fix.
Unroot and return to stock, then root again.
[UNROOT]
[ROOT]
For future reference, NEVER flash anything that is meant for another device. (Obviously, if it's a port then you're ok.)
ALSO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Backup your SD card, and wipe that puppy clean!! Only partition using Amon-RA recovery, otherwise it will screw you up quite often. I repeat, if you do not have the partition done correctly, then odds are that A2SD or equivalent won't work.

nate234 said:
Okay, I'm not even sure what you did here, because not knowing the script, anything could have happened.
Try wiping everything and flashing stock rooted here, then go from there with other roms after that.
If that doesn't work. Here's what I would do. It might be a major pain, but it is almost a surefire fix.
Unroot and return to stock, then root again.
[UNROOT]
[ROOT]
For future reference, NEVER flash anything that is meant for another device. (Obviously, if it's a port then you're ok.)
ALSO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Backup your SD card, and wipe that puppy clean!! Only partition using Amon-RA recovery, otherwise it will screw you up quite often. I repeat, if you do not have the partition done correctly, then odds are that A2SD or equivalent won't work.
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I did the wipe and flash to stock earlier today, then flashed the Pac man ROM but the issue is still there. I had looked at unrooting my phone earlier today also. I'm glad to read this because it lets me know that I do have some idea of what to do. Thanks for the reply. I'll post here again with the results. Check back soon.
EDIT----> Man, my phone is okay. I loaded up a fairly recent ROM by Tronit, and it worked fine. It was the ROMs. Just to be sure, I went back to the last two ROMs just to see, and they did the same thing again. Now I'm on the AOKP Unnoffical and it's working just fine. The a2sd is working perfectly like it should, and my dalvik cache is moving to ext4. It was just coincidental that the last three ROM's I loaded all have issue with the a2sd. It's funny how nobody else see's problems but me. I looked in the bin file of one of them and it's missing part of the a2sd file. The other two have weird init.d files that I don't know anything about. I'm assuming the a2sd problem is related to that. It's funny how I see lots of problems, and report them, but I get blown off by some people as a noob who is making mistakes. I am a noob, and I do make mistakes, but I know some of my theories about problems are correct...... I gotta get me some respect by compiling my own ROMs.

Status update..... My phone is jacked up for sure. It does work with the AOKP Unofficial by Tronit, but this morning when I cleared my cache with Smelkus Recovery, it had major problems with almost every app. Clearing the cache in recovery is something I've done with every ROM and this has never happened. I uninstalled all the apps and reinstalled them. Got them working again. Everything seemed to be okay. However, when I cleared my cache with Android Tuner, again it ruined every app. I've used android tuner every day for two months to clear the cache and never had problems like this. Something is very wrong.
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Long story short, I flashed something made for another phone. I can't explain why I did this without taking up lots of pages, and it doesn't even matter really. Lets just focus on the solution. Here is the link. I flashed both of the zips in the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
So I think my permissions for the files on my phone are out of whack. Is that what I"m reading is the possible outcome of flashing these if your phone is not the one listed? Please post your thoughts. I need them.

Try backing up your SD card on a computer and format you SD card and repartion it
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g2435 said:
Try backing up your SD card on a computer and format you SD card and repartion it
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I did that. Both with Smelkus, and Mini partition wizard. Same problems. I just tried to fix permissions with smelkus 4.3 on the AOKP Unofficial ROM and it took a minute for it to do it's thing. The line of dots was two full rows. So when It loaded back up, I suddenly see the same disk Icon in my notification bar, and now this ROM says it it out of memory. Man, it was working fine. I had twenty more apps on it too and I uninstalled them. It was working fine then, so with twenty less apps, it shouldn't suddenly say "Running out of Storage space."

I have told you this already: Please do not flash things meant for other phones, it could mess up. If it's meant for another device, it might screw yours up. To stay on the safe side: If it's not generic (works for every Android phone) or phone specific (exclusive to the Evo 4G) then don't flash it.

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I have told you this already: Please do not flash things meant for other phones, it could mess up. If it's meant for another device, it might screw yours up. To stay on the safe side: If it's not generic (works for every Android phone) or phone specific (exclusive to the Evo 4G) then don't flash it.
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I flashed this about a eek ago, when I was looking for the ext4 wipe. I thought it was the same thing as another zip despite what it said. Stupid... I know. I think this may be the cause of my problems, but I can't be sure. I don't know at all really. Just speculations. I reflashed the CWM touch and used to flash a stock ROM. Gonna try that again. I ran the test on CWM touch and it said that the
/sys/class/android_usb/android0 was missing and unable to perform the test. Can this be the cause of my problems?

Don't beat yourself up man, it was an honest mistake, just learn from it and you'll be alright.
Now the optimal recovery for this device would be the Amon-RA recovery, and I recommend redoing what I said in my first post once you have Amon-RA installed. Amon-RA is an awesome recovery, and it's super easy to install. Check out this easy-to-follow video on how to install by clicking here.
Do that, then do what I said in the previous posts. Let me know what happens, because I'm almost certain this should work.

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Don't beat yourself up man, it was an honest mistake, just learn from it and you'll be alright.
Now the optimal recovery for this device would be the Amon-RA recovery, and I recommend redoing what I said in my first post once you have Amon-RA installed. Amon-RA is an awesome recovery, and it's super easy to install. Check out this easy-to-follow video on how to install by clicking here.
Do that, then do what I said in the previous posts. Let me know what happens, because I'm almost certain this should work.
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I tried loading the Pacman ROM again with CWM and it wouldn't even load. It gets stuck in a bootloop. After that I flashed smelkus and went back to the Stock Rom.
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As I stated in my pm give me a day or so till I get back home and I will check into a fix for you. Only don't expect any one on one help. If the fix works cool if not I will dig further. TNN strives to help with any issue no matter who is at fault. I will look at the wipe script you flashed and see if it can be undone. Just be prepared of the possibility that your phone may never work correctly again.
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I was finally able to get my phone straightened out. I loaded up a stock ROM then decided to use my SD Maid to look around. I found a file with completely different dates on it, but it wouldn't let me remove it. I ended up copying everything else in the subfolder and then deleted the parent folder. Then added everything else back. Wah lah.... magic. I don't know what that file was or where it came from but it was killing my internal memory. I'm wondering how it stayed from ROM to ROM. I dunno, but it's gone, and the Pacman ROM is lovely now. BOOM!!!!

jlmancuso said:
As I stated in my pm give me a day or so till I get back home and I will check into a fix for you. Only don't expect any one on one help. If the fix works cool if not I will dig further. TNN strives to help with any issue no matter who is at fault. I will look at the wipe script you flashed and see if it can be undone. Just be prepared of the possibility that your phone may never work correctly again.
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Whatever I did only fixed part of the issue. I'm left with in a situation where every time I go into recovery my downloaded apps stop working. It is cutting part of them off whether I clear cache or not. All I have to do is power off into recovery, and when I reboot, all of my downloaded apps begin giving messages that "Unfortuately such ans such has stopped." My phone becomes inoperable. The only way I can keep it working is to send a new launcher to my phone from the market, let it install, then open it up and uninstall all the downloaded apps. I'm pretty sure this is an easy fix for someone like you Mancuso. I have a logcat and it show LOTS of errors that I have never seen before on any of my other logcats. What are my options? Tell me what to do to get my phone back to absolute OEM and then I'll reroot. UNLESS you know of some fix.
I've supplied a logcat from Catlog if you or anybody else wants to have a look. I'd really appreciate some help here. I love my Evo and I love learning this stuff. If somebody can help me positively identify the problem, I can most likely figure it out from there. Please give me your suggestions here. I'm nothing without some guidance on this. It's way out of my scope.
I've included a link to the ext4 script wipe that I used. How I got to this page, I do not know. However, I ran it because this page said it COULD POSSIBLY work on other phones despite the fact that it was made for another phone.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/darkside-super-wipe-easily-wipe-partitions-when-flashing-roms/
And I flashed both zips from the thread that the story links users to. Here is the link for the two zips.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
I'm not sure this is the problem. I'll try to find the Vold.fstat thread that I tried on my own before you came up with the 40ad2sdx solution for the MIUI ROM.
This is the memory fix I tried as mentioned above.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246909
Please note that you see before and after pics of sd storage. You can see that my pics clearly resemble the after pics shown in this thread. I believe this is my problem. How can I undo this?
This post reflects the only things I did outside of normal flashing. My problem is here somewhere...

The fix you used is for samsung devices. That could have caused your problems.