Constant "android.phone" Force Closes and NO Service!! - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What's going on here?
I rebooted the phone last night and I wake up to no service and the phone app crashing every 1.5 seconds.
I tried to gain some insight to the problem and found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1260715
..Tried it but no luck, still the same problems.
Also tried formatting the cache and dalvik in recovery.
Any ideas before I go do a full wipe? (which I read might not even work...)
Thanks guys

I'm not sure there is anything you could do without a full wipe & flash besides maybe a reflash of the rom.
Also, you posted a dead link.

Thanks, link fixed.

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[Q] Synergy ROM issues

Posting here since I cannot yet post to the actual ROM forum.
I'm running the Synergy ROM, RC1 and have a couple of issues. First though, thanks to the DEVs for all of their time and efforts, this looks to be a very good ROM!
I've been through most of the 200+ pages on the ROM's thread and did not see any information that may help (except turning off auto rotate of the home screen), but it's possible I missed.
The main issues I have are slow response issues. They are:
Slow response when I pull down the navigation bar.
Slow response when hitting one of the soft buttons (i.e., the + button to launch the app specified by the settings in Rosie).
Very slow response when I come out of a game that was in landscape mode. It takes a couple of seconds for the screen to switch from landscape back to portrait (after flipping the phone to portrait) and then another few seconds for it to put all the icons back on the home screen (home screen is blank when I come out of the game). I did turn auto rotate off and that has helped, but was wondering why there was such slow response without it.
Google apps such as Maps and Calendar that are started by another application, but do not shut down the starting app exists. This, of course, drains the battery and was not an issue on the stock rom.
When I flashed the rom, I did do a factory reset and erased all other caches. My apps and app data (not system data) were restored via TB.
I have also frozen the following apps via TB:
Flash
All live wall paper apps
Stocks
Flickr
FM Radio
News
Stocks
Smoke & Visualization Wallpapers
Voice Dialer
Voice Search
Thanks!
Mike
When you flash a new rom, only restore Apps using titanium backup, restoring data too will cause problems.
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ithrewitontheground said:
When you flash a new rom, only restore Apps using titanium backup, restoring data too will cause problems.
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Absolutely correct. On top of this, the other reason you may be seeing slow response would be the fact that this is a very large rom, and takes up more space in your usable memory than most roms. What I have done to *somewhat* alleviate this issue when I'm running the synergy rom is to move all of the apps that I can (except for those that I use widgets from) to the SD card.
Just my recommendation
ithrewitontheground said:
When you flash a new rom, only restore Apps using titanium backup, restoring data too will cause problems.
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My thought was that when restoring an app, such as WSOP Texas Hold'em, I also wanted to restore the data so it restored games won, amount of money, etc.
Is that data what you are saying I should lose when flashing new roms?
Thanks,
Mike
0soPolar said:
Absolutely correct. On top of this, the other reason you may be seeing slow response would be the fact that this is a very large rom, and takes up more space in your usable memory than most roms. What I have done to *somewhat* alleviate this issue when I'm running the synergy rom is to move all of the apps that I can (except for those that I use widgets from) to the SD card.
Just my recommendation
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Quite a few of my apps are on the SD card. I have 313MB free on the internal storage. Should that be enough to reduce some of the lag.
Thanks!
HELP!!! I flashed synergy rom last night and today, it goes to the boot animation screen and freezes. It just shows the synergy rom bouncing around and wont go anywhere from there. I tried doing a recovery through bootloader, but it wont let me move down from fastboot. Did I just brick my phone or is there any other way to get past this screen? can i plug my sdcard into the computer and delete this boot animation and if so, where would I find it? Please help, it would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
Give the phone a minute. It will let you move it. I just keep hitting volume down. It will work.
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dysfunkshun said:
HELP!!! I flashed synergy rom last night and today, it goes to the boot animation screen and freezes. It just shows the synergy rom bouncing around and wont go anywhere from there. I tried doing a recovery through bootloader, but it wont let me move down from fastboot. Did I just brick my phone or is there any other way to get past this screen? can i plug my sdcard into the computer and delete this boot animation and if so, where would I find it? Please help, it would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
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If you can boot into recovery, you did not brick your phone.
I've had this problem before and I don't even use Titanium. I also had plenty of free space on internal. Ram never seems to free up though. It's the strangest thing.
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Does anyone else have issues with anything that requires data syncing (Facebook, Twitter, SMS, etc) stopping unexpectedly? It seems to happen at around 30% battery and the only way I've consistantly stopped the problem is to wipe and reflash Synergy Rom.
Any ideas?
Yea Idk what's going on with it after about an hour I would get android.process has stopped and needs to force close. I can't even use any app as that constantly pops up. Great ROM but unusable at this point.
Did you do a complete wipe before you installed it. Most of the issues I have seen arise because a complete wipe has not been performed. If you like the rom, do a complete wipe (factory, partition and dalvik) and reflash it.
jlokos said:
Did you do a complete wipe before you installed it. Most of the issues I have seen arise because a complete wipe has not been performed. If you like the rom, do a complete wipe (factory, partition and dalvik) and reflash it.
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This is after a full wipe, twice. Once the battery gets to a certain point, everything starts crashing and never recovers no matter what I do. Battery pull, full charge, cold restart. Nothing works.
Edit: I've also noticed that the GPS is locked on and I cannot shut it off.
Chindogg said:
This is after a full wipe, twice. Once the battery gets to a certain point, everything starts crashing and never recovers no matter what I do. Battery pull, full charge, cold restart. Nothing works.
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Yea I also did a full wipe two different times. I didn't notice it happening once the battery gets to a point I just know that after an hour or so of use it was unusable.
1. If you use DualRomX2 would that possibly speed it up? Because doesnt it install Roms on EMMC?
2. Im also really frustrated by the slow response on alot of things like right rosie button and notification pulldown.
3. Video recording for me is just awful. Im not sure about actual quality but the framerate for sure is horrible. I compared a video i shot on stock and with Synergy and there is a HUGE difference. Synergy video being much worse.
Great Rom just plenty of little annoyances.
Synergy ROM loading issue
Flashed Synergy ROM last week and was very impressed. However, saw where 3.0 Sense items were missing and realized after reading several other posts that the carousel +widgets.zip should have been loaded with the ROM. So I reloaded the ROM and widgets through AMON-RA Recovery (Followed all of the original instructions I had followed the first time I loaded the ROM). Everything looked fine until I rebooted the system. Now Synergy ROM start-up screen loops over and over. At this rate the fill battery I started with will run out, and I'm not sure what will happen at that point.
Anyone have any suggestions for this issue? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Options:
a) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, & flash a different rom.
b) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, flash Synergy again, reboot.
c) Pull your battery then turn on your phone like normal.
d) Pull your battery then boot into recovery, wipe cache/wipe dalvik cache, then boot into rom.
Edit: I don't use Amon_Ra, when I refer to "recovery" I was referring to CWM. Hopefully someone with experience comments in regards to Amon_Ra recovery.
Yeah I don't have too many issues with it... last night it got kinda squirrely so I fixed permissions in recovery and re-flashed the Warm Theme without wiping any data, it's been all good ever since.
The ROM is my daily driver... I really do think that these issues are app-related. There is something that certain apps do that this ROM is not built for, I'm just not sure what it is. It's been real good to me overall though, battery life and all.
SlimSnoopOS said:
Options:
a) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, & flash a different rom.
b) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, flash Synergy again, reboot.
c) Pull your battery then turn on your phone like normal.
d) Pull your battery then boot into recovery, wipe cache/wipe dalvik cache, then boot into rom.
Edit: I don't use Amon_Ra, when I refer to "recovery" I was referring to CWM. Hopefully someone with experience comments in regards to Amon_Ra recovery.
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SlimSnoopOS, as it turned out I pulled the battery and rebooted into Recovery after a few hours, but thanks for the direction. These were the exact things I did. The reason I used AMON-RA instead of CWM is that Synergy says in a number of places that it only loads with AMON-Ra (and I'm a coward!),
Awesome, glad everything is functional again!

Inconsistant UIDs? Unstable?

I was using WiFi tethering and the phone got real hot. I tried everything to keep it cool, then the battery went real low. While trying to text someone before turning off the phone to rest, it went completely dead. Now when I try to turn it back on, it won't load. Keep rebooting over and over constantly. Something about Inconsistent UIDs and being unstable. What can I do to fix it? I've tried everything within CWM (purple), but no luck.
ThunderOKC said:
I was using WiFi tethering and the phone got real hot. I tried everything to keep it cool, then the battery went real low. While trying to text someone before turning off the phone to rest, it went completely dead. Now when I try to turn it back on, it won't load. Keep rebooting over and over constantly. Something about Inconsistent UIDs and being unstable. What can I do to fix it? I've tried everything within CWM (purple), but no luck.
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You got corrupt data...
Ways to Fix:
1.Restore an old or recent nandroid backup that u may have..
2. Wipe Data/Factory Reset In Clockwork 3 time then reflash the rom
3. Odin to something then reflash rom
I recommended either 1 or 2.
David is correct. You can try just reflashing the ROM first but will probably end up clearing data to get rid of the error.
davidrules7778 said:
You got corrupt data...
Ways to Fix:
1.Restore an old or recent nandroid backup that u may have..
2. Wipe Data/Factory Reset In Clockwork 3 time then reflash the rom
3. Odin to something then reflash rom
I recommended either 1 or 2.
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I had the same problem and nothing worked so I just ended up odining and it seem OK now
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[Q] ROM/Theme/Mod Flashing Issues

I was wondering if anyone could help me out please. I've tried searching the forums, but I haven't been able to find my exact issue. Basically, I feel as if my phone seems to have increasing issues with flashing through Clockwork Recovery; here's the details:
I originally rooted my phone using the Odin flash method. I flashed the Juggernaut available at the time, wiping data/factory, cache, dalvik, and battery stats through clockwork first, and letting it chill for 15 minutes with the first boot. I follow the same steps each time I flash another rom ( I've read that I should also wipe /system, but Juggernaut seems to do that itself, so I haven't ). A month and a half ago, I wanted to add a few things, so I wiped, then flashed the latest Juggernaut, rebooted, let it settle,and then flashed the ICS Ultimate Theme, no wipe, then after another settle, flashed the Pdroid zip ( no wipe ) I made with the v1.27 auto-patcher. Everything seemed to work flawlessly for a month or so, then I started having issues that just kept getting worse: phone freezing while installing market apps then unfreezing, camera lagging, random freeze & reboots, etc. I tried fix permissions, and no luck. I wiped and tried reflashing everything the way I had, and the phone kept freezing after the faux kernel loading screen. Installing Juggernaut or another rom by itself, or a nandroid restore, is the only thing that got it past boot. Not even themes flashed over roms that they're made for get past boot. I restored my phone to stock using this method, wiped both SD cards, and re-rooted then flashed Juggernaut again, but this time I used clockwork's wipes and darkside's super wipe before flashing, but I still can't flash anything but the rom itself without a boot loop, even with fix permissions. I had a similar issue on my old mytouch Espresso; consecutive flashes seemed to almost eat away at my phone and make things worse, but that phone also had hardware issues. I'm using a new MicroSD since then. Also, if it means anything, I tried flashing the new clockwork touch from the zip on these forums after these issues started, and it never took, however, flashing through Rom Manager's after I purchased it worked fine.
Sorry about the long post, but I wanted to detail everything I've tried that I could think of before bothering anyone here. Does anyone know what could be the issue? I would really appreciate some help, because this issue is really frustrating, and I have no idea what's causing it.
Could someone help me with this please? I can try and get a log cat if needed. I'm just really hoping to get to the bottom of these issues.
I will be glad to help you out!
One big problem I see is that your not using Darkside Superwipe before flashing new roms.
So I would highly recommend you flash Darkside Superwipe first (clears all cache, partitions, ect very very thorughly) Better option than manually clearing cache and all that in clockwork mod.
Try Darkside Superwipe install the rom and see if you get any problems.
Here's how to use it if you dont know how to:
techfanatic9 said:
I will be glad to help you out!
One big problem I see is that your not using Darkside Superwipe before flashing new roms.
So I would highly recommend you flash Darkside Superwipe first (clears all cache, partitions, ect very very thorughly) Better option than manually clearing cache and all that in clockwork mod.
Try Darkside Superwipe install the rom and see if you get any problems.
Here's how to use it if you dont know how to:
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I'd like to point out that he does in fact use tdjs super wipe.
OP: have you tried other ROMs or kernels. In my past experiences, faux kernel did not meet my expectations so I moved along to another one. Give my configuration a go (refer to my signature) and let me know of the problem persists
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Thanks for the replies!
techfanatic9 - I originally just wiped through clockwork ( before darkside superwipe was standard ), but now I use that too, and I'm still having those issues. I watched through the entire video just in case, and I'm doing it just like they say to.
iLeopard - I have tried Digital Warfare, but I still have the same issue when flashing things over it ( ICS Theme and/or PDroid ), even if it's supposed to be compatible, though I haven't tried kernels yet. I'll give your sig's setup a try and report back.
Meanwhile, could anything else be the issue? As you can probably tell, I've tried almost every mistake I could think of, and since my last phone had the same issue, a similar hardware issue seems unlikely.
All right, I've been running that ROM and kernel combo for a few days now. I don't seem to have any issues when I just flash the ROM and kernel, but I get stuck at the boot screen if I try to flash something else on top of it. Also, when I try to restore my text message backups through Gosms ( around 9800 texts that I want to keep ), the phone freezes halfway through the restore, and from that point on, the phone will freeze 5-10 minutes after rebooting, unless I reflash. I make sure I don't have the phone running and I leave it alone while restoring, and it doesn't help. I've only had this gosms issue since my flashing issue, and sometimes it restores fine.
Does anyone know what could be causing that?

[Q] Help needed- Bootlooping

HI,
I am facing a peculiar kind of a problem. I recently rooted my Desire Z following the cyanogen wiki to the letter. I have tried many ROMS but whichever ROM I install, I am facing this problem. For the first few days of Install, my phone works perfectly. But after a few days if I reboot, my phone gets stuck is a bootloop( i dont know if thts the right word, coz it boots and it starts the android but before the launcher is started it restarts again.
First I was using Flinny's CM10.1 test builds, and then I changed it cause I thought that was the problem. Now I am using Andromadus' Mimicry 1.5 which is also giving me same problem.
Everytime this happens I have to use the PCIMG10 file to restore it and then root it again and then install the ROM..
Is there any way to solve this problem.. I'll provide logs if u require... I am desperate..
yes a log cat would help much maybe a cat /proc/last_kmsg or have adb running during the bootloop and post here.
seems a strange issue and may just be an evil app installed or something else entirely but without more info i would just be guessing. and do actually have to reroot? i mean what would happen if you were just to wipe clean and install a new rom via recovery? also it may help so could you provide all that is on your bootloader screen
also see HERE for some more help, feel free to post in there as well (trying to reduce the clutter in these forums)
demkantor said:
yes a log cat would help much maybe a cat /proc/last_kmsg or have adb running during the bootloop and post here.
seems a strange issue and may just be an evil app installed or something else entirely but without more info i would just be guessing. and do actually have to reroot? i mean what would happen if you were just to wipe clean and install a new rom via recovery? also it may help so could you provide all that is on your bootloader screen
also see HERE for some more help, feel free to post in there as well (trying to reduce the clutter in these forums)
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I have a logcat from when I was running Flinny's CM10.1 test builds.. I faced this many times with that ROM and so I took a log last time it happened.
BootLoopLog_CM10.1
The latest time since I was in a hurry to get my phone back to working condition couldnt get a log. But soon after, it happened again. I installed only "Explorer" and "What'sapp" when this happened again. I have captured the logs and here it is.
BootLoopLog_Mimicry1.5
And ya I did try and restore a previous backup, and I also tried wiping and installing the ROM, but in both the cases the Phone will hang at the boot animation screen or restart again. Here attached is a log of the phone restarting after a clean wipe and fresh install of the ROM.
BootLoopLog_Mimicry1.5-after reinstall
Code:
Bootloader screen info
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC1011000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.18_M3
eMMC-boot
Sep 8 2010,15:56:30
Please help me out... this is kind of frustrating.
P.S- I did see that thread.. but since my phone was not bricked, I didnt post it over there..
are you sure you did a full wipe? there was definitely more than just a couple user apps installed, could be some leftovers from last rom. there isnt anything im seeing too specifically in the logcats to show your issue, all of them seem to bootloop in slightly different times but while running some java system frameworks
anyhow, if you were to start completely fresh, unroot, reroot, flash rom, etc - all works fine? lets say you just signed into gmail, then reboot phone, would it loop? or do you need to run the os for some time then turn it off and then it happens?
for now how about this, flash THE DZ ONE through bootloader as described in the thread,
then flash SUPERWIPE through recovery
then when all is done flash rom of choice, for fun lets do mimicry, let it boot, sign into google, let phone sit like 10min, choose reboot and see what happens
demkantor said:
are you sure you did a full wipe? there was definitely more than just a couple user apps installed, could be some leftovers from last rom. there isnt anything im seeing too specifically in the logcats to show your issue, all of them seem to bootloop in slightly different times but while running some java system frameworks
anyhow, if you were to start completely fresh, unroot, reroot, flash rom, etc - all works fine? lets say you just signed into gmail, then reboot phone, would it loop? or do you need to run the os for some time then turn it off and then it happens?
for now how about this, flash THE DZ ONE through bootloader as described in the thread,
then flash SUPERWIPE through recovery
then when all is done flash rom of choice, for fun lets do mimicry, let it boot, sign into google, let phone sit like 10min, choose reboot and see what happens
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What I mean by full wipe is.. First I would do the factory reset from recovery, then proceed to wipe the "cache partition" , dalvik cache, battery stats, and then in the mounts and storage menu, again do a format of cache, data and system... Is there anything else I should do to do a clean wipe?
And If i start fresh, nothin happens immediately.. u need to let the OS run for a day or two and then this happens..
Anyways.. i'll try what you suggested and get back to you.... thanks for all the help..
manujosephv said:
What I mean by full wipe is.. First I would do the factory reset from recovery, then proceed to wipe the "cache partition" , dalvik cache, battery stats, and then in the mounts and storage menu, again do a format of cache, data and system... Is there anything else I should do to do a clean wipe?
And If i start fresh, nothin happens immediately.. u need to let the OS run for a day or two and then this happens..
Anyways.. i'll try what you suggested and get back to you.... thanks for all the help..
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I did what you suggested.. and the phone is not rebooting as of now... I'll run the OS for a couple of days..and see what happens.. i'll keep you posted..
manujosephv said:
I did what you suggested.. and the phone is not rebooting as of now... I'll run the OS for a couple of days..and see what happens.. i'll keep you posted..
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Guess what... That worked... My phones been running without bootloop till now.. :good:
Everytime I reboot, my heartbeat increases.. but it comes through smoothly at the end.. thanks a lot..
P.S - Completely off the topic.. Mimicry ROM is giving me insane battery life.. Running the phone more than 1 day without charging.. :laugh:

[Q] HELP! my note 2 wont boot past samsung logo!

hey, new user here, don't know if this has come up before but i did a search and haven't found anything that has the same particulars as i do.
recently my phone hasn't been responding to power button or home button wake up, intermittently. freezes up sometimes and some apps force close more than usual. then the other day, my phone died on me (full battery discharge) and when i finally got around to charging it, it charged fully but it wouldn't turn on past the Samsung boot logo, and gets real hot while doing so.
Also, the samsung boot logo appears before the AT&T splash screen tone starts.
im running stock Rooted 4.1.2 with the latest perseus kernel version.
any suggestions? i havent made a nandroid in a couple weeks, so my preferred route would be without a data wipe.
i can still access CWM recovery, btw.
well damn wheres the help?
I would download the stock rom and flash it again. If that doesnt work, custom rom time. I honestly cant see this problem getting fixed without a data wipe though good luck and keep me posted.
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With the non-response issues you describe, and the fact that you are seeing multiple force closes on the device....start with a wipe of the cache and dalvik cache in recovery.
It sounds as if the device is having cache file management issues, and trouble within the file structure.
While I dont think you have any hardware issues, it does sound like the software is suffering for one reason or another, and a base cleaning of the caches may help.
If no improvement is seen after cache cleaning, then we move to the data next.
I realize you want to keep your data intact, but if corruption has occured, you will have no choice but to factory restore the device and test again.
Try the cache cleaning first, then boot and test....
Beyond that...as the above poster states...a fresh install may be needed....g
Before a data wipe try reinstalling the kernel, and also try dirty flashing the Rom.
Not sure I would recommend a dirty flash to him. Plenty of times the result for users has been bad. Though as stated above yours, It does appear to be a file system error. He is probably right and I should have thought about wiping the dalvic cache first.
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i was afraid this would happen....
tried wiping both caches with no new results.
ive read that dirty flash has had mixed results. if i can at least get the OS booted so that i could backup what i need to, that would be a good thing.
im thinking its a kernel issue, since the phone gets real hot while stuck on the samsung screen. could i be right?
thanks guys:good:
i also tried reinstalling the kernel through cwm recovery, nothing new
FIXED
did a data/factory reset from recovery. it kept everything! thank god for cloud backups. Google is the JOINT!! i even kept my kernel and root, and at&t backed up my texts and calls....thanks everybody for the help, i really appreciate it!
its still kinna hot though...turned it off to let it cool down and see what happens when i start it back up....will keep posted if anything
Great. Know I didnt help too much but glad you got it worked out. :thumbup:
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DroidOblivion said:
did a data/factory reset from recovery.
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Great news ....
Data corruption is so very easy to get.
As we mix and match pieces of code, those issues do arise.
Sadly, the causes are often elusive.
But the plan "B" wipe generally does the trick, as is the case here.
Happy flashing....g

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