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[Q] Very, very frustrating odd happenings...cause?

I have tried everything I know to do so I'm here asking for help....
I run Calks ROM and recently tried updating without wiping (normally never do). After a couple days of a buggy phone, I decided to wipe data, format, format, format, wipe data, etc and flashed it again. Start using it and it starts acting up again. Did my wipe/format deal and flashed stock...and left it stock. Within the first day it locked up and reset itself multiple times.
I don't know what to do...is there anyway to start any "cleaner" than formatting everything multiple times? I would really like a working phone again...

Are you restoring your information with titanium backup? If you are that's your problem.
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gqstatus0685 said:
Are you restoring your information with titanium backup? If you are that's your problem.
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+1. You can restore apps only, but don't restore apps + data.

Is this the only rom that's causing it?

I never, ever, ever use any "backup" anything. All apps get reloaded one by one and settings get modified one by one...
This is happening with every rom I try. I format EVERYTHING (except SD card, which is my next attempt at fixing...). This is why it's so frustrating. I can't blame anything. I try running the ROMs stock (no not-included apps) and the phone is still running like crap.

Tried deleting the ".android_secure" folder from the sd card?
If it's happening on every rom, and you completely wipe every thing correctly, the only thing they have in common is the sd card contents. Right?
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xNotta said:
Tried deleting the ".android_secure" folder from the sd card?
If it's happening on every rom, and you completely wipe every thing correctly, the only thing they have in common is the sd card contents. Right?
My Evo made me Swype this from the XDA App.
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Android secure is supposed to be deleted during the fActory reset. I will try getting the SD formatted tonight and start FRESH, FRESH....

perhaps it's the kernel?

SpaceMonky said:
perhaps it's the kernel?
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I've tried many kernels (stock, stock tweaked, ziggy, kingxklack)

awenthol said:
Android secure is supposed to be deleted during the fActory reset. I will try getting the SD formatted tonight and start FRESH, FRESH....
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Mines never been deleted from stock factory reset or reset with amon.
It started to cause problems with app downloads from me switching roms and reinstalling all my apps and moving them.
Just remember, if you have apps on your sd card (Not on a separate partition) move them to the phone before deleting it if you want to keep them.
Any luck fixing it yet?

What bout nand restore? Did you ever make a nand backup? It has always fixed any issues I've ever had.

I've been traveling for work and haven't had a chance to sit down and mess with it since the night I initially posted. Hopefully it is as simple as androidsecure not getting deleted...thanks for the heads up.

I just did a FULL FULL FULL wipe of the phone. "Factory reset," "format; SD, SD ext, system, boot, data, etc"....
I then flashed zip, rebooted and let it sit for 10 min before turning it on...upon unlocking, it locked up.
THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS!!! Is it possible the phone is just effed???

squick said:
What bout nand restore? Did you ever make a nand backup? It has always fixed any issues I've ever had.
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No good either...the last "good" backup comes up with "checksum error."
I'm not big on nand backups, since I usually do full wipes and restart from scratch. I don't really care if I can restore an old setup.

If you can't find a software reason for its acting up, it's a hardware problem. Full wipes take care of pretty much any software problem.
I would suggest unrooting and taking it by a Sprint store. If none of the suggestions you've tried so far have done any good, that's about your only option.
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TheMagicalSock said:
If you can't find a software reason for its acting up, it's a hardware problem. Full wipes take care of pretty much any software problem.
I would suggest unrooting and taking it by a Sprint store. If none of the suggestions you've tried so far have done any good, that's about your only option.
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That's not an option either...as I bought it outright off ebay.
Guess I'll just go to the Epic...

[Q] [Help] Insert coin 1.0.8 and RCMix

I'm having real trouble with installing these roms.(insertcoin 1.0.8 and rcmixS V2.0)
What I've done so far.
Rooted with unrevoked.
Created ext3 partition using gParted.
Successfully installed rom to working.
To get it working, I have to revert to my stock backup and then copy over the top of the data etc.
Problems once working:
1) Mail app refuses to connect to active sync server and pull down mail, I've reverted to my stock backup and copied the settings to the letter and it still refuses to connect and get the mail
2) Contacts, HTCContacts will not display my contacts or let me access their cards, however shows their details in call log including FB picture.
I want to wipe everything and do it from scratch, however I get stuck on the wallpaper and notification bar and it won't load the rest of sense so it's completely unusable.
I know my ext3 partition works correctly as I've installed loads of apps etc when i got it working and quick system info registered my partition of 1gb ext3.

Try to clear storage from hboot, and flash the latest radio the last thing worked for me

You mate, are a blooming genious, I've been pulling my hair out wiping it from clockworkmod and it was such a simple fix, thank-you so much.
I can start enjoying my phone again instead of getting frustrated with it to the point i wanted to throw it against a wall

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You mate, are a blooming genious, I've been pulling my hair out wiping it from clockworkmod and it was such a simple fix, thank-you so much.
I can start enjoying my phone again instead of getting frustrated with it to the point i wanted to throw it against a wall
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Which fix worked? Clearing storage or new radio?

Kryten2k35 said:
Which fix worked? Clearing storage or new radio?
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I think the second one, clearing storage doesn't help maybe in 1 out of 100 cases
latest radio is very important with InsertCoin
But do it before you flash a radio
Atleast i did

amraving said:
You mate, are a blooming genious, I've been pulling my hair out wiping it from clockworkmod and it was such a simple fix, thank-you so much.
I can start enjoying my phone again instead of getting frustrated with it to the point i wanted to throw it against a wall
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I'm happy for you that you managed to do it, it looks like a simple fix, but it's one of the things that can brick your device easily so be careful when you flash radio's, always charge you battery full if you'll ever have to do it again(not that it will use up all of it just for safety)

Fyi, I used clear storage. I'm still on stock radio and hboot.
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That might explain why I could never get Insertcoin working properly!
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Fc 99% of the time

For the past 5 months I have been using cm7 with no problems. But in the last month or so problems have been slowly coming up. It started with phone freezes then it slowed down greatly, then I got fc on EVERY APP! So then I switched to synergy hoping to fix the problems but there still there. I need help quick because I can't even make calls with out it freezing.
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monkey10120 said:
For the past 5 months I have been using cm7 with no problems. But in the last month or so problems have been slowly coming up. It started with phone freezes then it slowed down greatly, then I got fc on EVERY APP! So then I switched to synergy hoping to fix the problems but there still there. I need help quick because I can't even make calls with out it freezing.
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have you wiped everything (data, cache, dalvik) in recovery BEFORE flashing?

I just went through the same thing with the stock rom (rooted without the verizon crapware).. Had it since Day 1 of availability.. then a few days ago.. force closing all the time..
Even when switching roms. Even when NOT restoring with titanium.. Did everything fresh (ugh.. you have no idea how many hours).... and photos were disappearing from it
My first thoughts were "frak... I really screwed up something" (my niece dropped in on the floor a few days earlier.)
Then the IT in me decided to fall back on my experience. K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid).....
If even changing roms didn't fix it.. what did everything have in common? The SD Card.
So I formatted the card making sure to take everything off I needed. Put it back in.. and put a fresh rom on.
No problems since. I'm guessing the file system of the SD card went a little wonky after a year of putting files on.. taking off.. putting on.. etc

Yep I cleared everything, data, cache
D cache and batt stats. Im going to try the SD card thing right now
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Just gonna throw this out there. Try also formatting /system in the "mounts and storage" menu.

So far so good. The SD trick worked. But I want to put my titanium backup folder back on my SD card to get my apps back but I am not sure if that was the problem.
Also about the format /system l, I was thinking about that too. But if I can't get things working in the end I will format the system, data and cache.
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monkey10120 said:
So far so good. The SD trick worked. But I want to put my titanium backup folder back on my SD card to get my apps back but I am not sure if that was the problem.
Also about the format /system l, I was thinking about that too. But if I can't get things working in the end I will format the system, data and cache.
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Glad it worked.. after 3 very frustrating days for me and trying multiple roms and losing a few pics... glad I was able to at least past the info on to someone else

I am having this problem now with apps that are not installed on my SD card (which I just upgraded to larger size). All the Google apps are fc and some other ones here and there.
Were the fc apps all installed on SD?
I was thinking about a fresh gapps flash but may try the SD card first.
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Glad I found this thread! I've been having same problem and couldn't figure out if it was a rogue app or not. It seemed like right after I flashed a new rom it would run great but after a few days I would start having trouble and eventually I'd have to flash another new one or try same one again.
I have a question though....I know most things on sd card are ok to delete since any app will put new folder on there if it needs to (obviously keeps pics, titanium backups, rom backups etc.)
But I don't have a way of formatting the sdcard OUTside of the phone. I don't have a card reader on my computer. Would it be ok to do this while the phone is plugged in? (something tells me no but...)
My only other option would be to put the sdcard in my old HTC ozone and try it that way...

You can just plug your phone into your PC, mount your SD card and reformat it that way. It works for me.

jackbtha1 said:
You can just plug your phone into your PC, mount your SD card and reformat it that way. It works for me.
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This ^^
OR
Random thought
You can try to repair the SD card before you format( if the repair doesn't work). Mount SD card to the computer via usb. Right click, properties, tools tab. Run error check. Just like a computer files get corrupted.
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Nandroid complications?

For the record, running amon ra 3.0.7...(I forget exact version, it's blue and uses capacitive back button) and I wiped everything 3 times before flashing the following ROMs.
Ok so the other night I went ahead and tried Deck's ICS ROM alpha 5. For the most part, a very beautiful port and can't wait till it stabilizes a little more. I can tell It's going to be a beast. But prior to flashing, I did a full nandroid like I always do, and TB backup. Flashed said ROM, tried to restore apps, few complications; couldn't restore games, certain apps such as zedge, or maps. Had to install from market because it would hang, but still restored data upon install. Figured this was due to the ROM having bugs....
Albeit beautiful, couldn't live without calendar, and certain apps wouldn't work. So I restored my decks 1.3d nandroid and instantly got hit with problems. Half my apps showed as properly installed, half of those actually worked without FC'ing. Downloaded maps cuz again couldn't restore, and instantly FC. So I reboot, and get constant FC's from random apps. So I wipe again, this time everything beside sd 4 times, still same problems. So since I wasn't on wifi to pull the ROM I uploaded to Dropbox, I simply did factory reset. TB now restored fine besides games which still puzzles me, but maps went fine.
I've had similar problems with Nandroid in the past. The only use I seem to get is just maintaining the ROM, everything else is fubar.
What is causing this? Is there a fix? Is it simply a pebkac? (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
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I use that version and flash a lot. I've never had anything like that happen. Are you wiping everything except bat stats and SD? Did you try and fix permisissions? Do u run an ext3 or ext4 partition? Could there possibly be a problem with your SD card. Perhaps back everything on it up reformat and partition and restore your stuff to it. Maybe you could run a disk diagnosis program on your computer to see if there are physical errors?
Just a few suggestions

fitz420 said:
I use that version and flash a lot. I've never had anything like that happen. Are you wiping everything except bat stats and SD? Did you try and fix permisissions? Do u run an ext3 or ext4 partition? Could there possibly be a problem with your SD card. Perhaps back everything on it up reformat and partition and restore your stuff to it. Maybe you could run a disk diagnosis program on your computer to see if there are physical errors?
Just a few suggestions
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Haven't tried fixed permissions as I just factory reset from in the ROM itself and restored apps as if a fresh ROM, but I will next time issue arises. I have no partition, but have considered doing so but keep putting it off. Been wanting to format my card and one by one out things back on it, but yeah, I wipe everything but bat, unless full, and sd. But I have noticed this issue usually only arises when I have already done a full wipe of everything and try to flash back. If I were to just flash over my current ROM, then restore back, everything works fine....kinda confused...
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[Q] a2sd reverted back on reboot, can i restore it back to sd-ext

my phone rebooted automatically today and i ended up seeing my phone was more or less factory reset. It is not exactly factory reset as i was still logged in to my google account. pretty much all my apps are gone. i only see the system apps. I suspect that the problem is that a2sd reverted back somehow and my phone is again using the /data of the internal memory. i have not checked if the sd-ext partition is still intact and usable..
i do still see a couple of downloaded apps which i cannot explain because these should have ideally been on the sd-ext too!
is there an easy way to revert back without disturbing what is already on the sd-ext. i guess i cant do a2sd, that will mess things?
any advice will be appreciated.

I had the same thing with one of the Evervolv nightlies couple of weeks ago. For me other bad thing was that my home button had stopped working. Hope you have a backup because I think only a fresh instalation with full wipe wiil help you. This happened only with the nightlies, now I am on CM10.1 and I dont have that problem.
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ivan_dekov said:
I had the same thing with one of the Evervolv nightlies couple of weeks ago. For me other bad thing was that my home button had stopped working. Hope you have a backup because I think only a fresh instalation with full wipe wiil help you. This happened only with the nightlies, now I am on CM10.1 and I dont have that problem.
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no such luck, did not have a backup. Did a factory reset and moved on Planning to move and ditch my Desire, i dont want to live with these kinds of issues because of lack of internal memory shortage...