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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.

nobody...... anyone plz, it is cripling my evo

thorpe24 said:
k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
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get used to it if you intend to use sense, the screen you speak of is sort of like the htc sense/rosie intro. If you dont like it you can go vanilla and use another launcher, like adw froyo,launcherpro, or even the extra launcher thats included....

Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?

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Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Or just do a factory reset.

also, you are experiencing some isolated problems which leads me to beleive the issue is software related rather than hardware.I have experienced NOT ONE of the issues you speak of. Make sure you update prl. I can vouch for that one. My data was 90% broken till i did. Also try and wipe data, that would prolly fix everything as well.....FYI, i cannot gurantee the problem lies with your hardware OR software. Thats just my diagnosis. Good luck

Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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thorpe24 said:
Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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Heh...I did that once on my hero. I know the feeling.

some versions of spare parts come with a launcher. the problem is that when you press the home button now, it's trying to goof with /system, which is forcing the reboot. even though you may be rooted, you don't have rw privileges in /system while messing with android.
you may be able to get away with accessing /system and erasing your goofy installed spare parts app. you'll have to do that through adb shell, and the custom recovery. do a search for 'remove apps', you should find it easily enough. i think the thread was moved from dev to general, or q and a.
anything that will call a write to /system (i.e. a rooted app that needs access to it to work right) has the potential to cause the phone to reboot. when i installed adfree, it had the same effect. trying to install hosts (which write to /system/etc) caused a reboot. i had to install hosts through recovery with a push after remount.
hope that helps

Hmm I installed autokiller and it appears to work doesn't mess with anything that is
I really dunno a way of testing that its actually working though if you where looking for a way to manage memory

I was using a task killer but read up on stuff and turned it off just keeping it in case I need it for something that wont close and the phone is running great and battery life keeps getting better and better.
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autokiller
People you need to be careful with autokillers!
Make sure that you are not closing down sense items.
Put anything that says htc or sense on ignore.
If not you are shutting down parts of sense. Then sense has to reboot. Witch is why you see the white screen with the htc logo in the middle.

[Q] Any know is a restart app?

I'm looking for an app that allows me to schedule a restart for my fone... anyone know of one?

That's a good idea. I was thinking just yesterday that my wife would benefit from this. I checked her Hero the other day, and it was on 620 hours of up-time.

holy crap, the last phone I had that would stay on for that long and be stable was my Excalibur

my blackberry was never powered off or restarted unless i flashed an update.

Actually, I left my last phone (ZN5) on for weeks (maybe months) without restarting. Never needed to.

mcrumps said:
I'm looking for an app that allows me to schedule a restart for my fone... anyone know of one?
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CT Scheduler.
It's in the Android Market. Some are reporting that the reboot and shutdown functions do not work. I think their reports were premature. I got it to work, but you have to let it fail a couple of times until it asks for Superuser Permissions (therefore, root is required for this function). Once you select 'Allow', it works fine. Strange, but it works. It's a well designed scheduler. Very straight-forward and easy to use.
Edit: You will also need to have the Superuser Permissions app installed as well in order for the restart and shutdown functions to work.

[Q] HOX Loosing the plot?

Hi all, heres the story:
At first, I thought I was loosing my mind, I kept checking my phone and the WiFi was always off, which is weird for me.
Anyway I turn it back on and go about my day, check half an hour later its off.
I was like "im sure I turned that back on" anyway same again half an hour later.
So I was watching it this dinner, and low and behold I watch both my WiFi and my network connections restart themselves like someone was switching them on and off, but the WiFi didn't re-connect and stayed off, wereas data re-connected ok.
It goes on ! I then realised that my phone was calling people by itself, which is also weird as theres no buttons to accidently press to call people? (ITS TOUCHSCREEN!!!)
Anyway, today I recieved a text off someone asking me why the heck I'd just sent them map co-ordinates.
So someone or my phone is sending people map co-ordinates....
The ONLY thing I can think of is Cerberus, could Cerberus be causing this?
Is this the phone telling me its on its way out?
Any solutions?
THANKS ALL !

You have kind of answered your own question. Just uninstall Cerberus and see if it fixes it.

dr9722 said:
You have kind of answered your own question. Just uninstall Cerberus and see if it fixes it.
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Yay yet another completely useless response thanks but I said could it be Cerberus?
Does any1 else have a suggestion I could gain something from?
As stated before, I will try removing Cerberus but would like any information or suggestions please.

Malware? Maybe you installed an app that's malicious.
Hickory, Dickory, Dox...Snowflake approves of my HOX....

try and remember what apps you installed around the time this started to happen and work your way backwards

zuadao said:
try and remember what apps you installed around the time this started to happen and work your way backwards
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Thanks for all your reponses, thats the thing I'm really picky over apps, and havent really installed an app for months on my HOX, as I generally do everything on my N7 now.
UPDATE:
I un-installed Cerberus, cleared cache and tried to find any left behind data(wasnt any?)
Also deleted my device off the Cerberus app website
LOW AND BEHOLD THIS MORNING CONNECTIONS TURN OFF AND ON?!?!?!
What can be doing this? I only have apps from trusted Vendors such as Natwest, Vodaphone, couple of games, Tasker etc :/
Any ideas?

Can it be Tasker? It's supposed to automate tasks. Maybe there are some causing all this. Try freezing it.

eyosen said:
Can it be Tasker? It's supposed to automate tasks. Maybe there are some causing all this. Try freezing it.
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I also thought it could be tasker, but Tasker has been setup for months and months, and not changed for atleast 2/3 months+
I checked tasker, and theres only 3 profiles, which have nothing to do with any connections.
They're profiles such as, plug headphones in and music player appears.
PS - Cannot freeze, stock and un-rooted.

My mate had similar issues with his SGS2. Upon examining the phone I discovered an app called Blackmart Alpha, I discovered it was a program which downloads cracked/patched apps. Did a hard reset of the phone and all was fixed, well not all, he was very pi$$ed with me for losing a heap of apps.

maxilick said:
My mate had similar issues with his SGS2. Upon examining the phone I discovered an app called Blackmart Alpha, I discovered it was a program which downloads cracked/patched apps. Did a hard reset of the phone and all was fixed, well not all, he was very pi$$ed with me for losing a heap of apps.
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I know where your coming from mate, but this is not me.
I enjoy supporting the developers that make apps, and if that means buying a paid version of an app then so be it.
I don't download any dodgey things, all my downloads are through the play store.
Bah this is pickling me
Latest thing I downloaded was quadrant benchmark (week ago?)

Wilks3y said:
I know where your coming from mate, but this is not me.
I enjoy supporting the developers that make apps, and if that means buying a paid version of an app then so be it.
I don't download any dodgey things, all my downloads are through the play store.
Bah this is pickling me
Latest thing I downloaded was quadrant benchmark (week ago?)
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Try hard reset then load your apps one at a time you will soon discover the culprit.

maxilick said:
Try hard reset then load your apps one at a time you will soon discover the culprit.
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Yeah I was considering, but would rather this be a last resort as I cba re setup all my blooming apps

Nobody, not even myself, likes rebuilding systems from scratch. There are however benefits like having a clean system with no paranoia to name a few.

maxilick said:
Nobody, not even myself, likes rebuilding systems from scratch. There are however benefits like having a clean system with no paranoia to name a few.
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Decided I'm gonna Factory Reset, as that's what HTC would tell me anyway, so may aswell.
Also its nice to do sometimes, like having your room painted isn't it, feel all fresh and happy haha.
(Blagging myself to do it here)
So yeah, Ima get it done
(Tempted to finally, after 3 years of Android, to download a launcher and use something other than sense )

Wilks3y said:
Decided I'm gonna Factory Reset, as that's what HTC would tell me anyway, so may aswell.
Also its nice to do sometimes, like having your room painted isn't it, feel all fresh and happy haha.
(Blagging myself to do it here)
So yeah, Ima get it done
(Tempted to finally, after 3 years of Android, to download a launcher and use something other than sense )
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Let us know what transpired. Thanks

Galaxy Note 2 lagging after a few days of use??

I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?

teco2010 said:
I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?
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You must not be actually closing apps just hitting home I assume but if not then idk the problem
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Yes I did close them... I even tried force closing all. Not sure why the phone was struggling a little.

you didn't enable power saving mode by any chance?
also, android should be fairly good at managing your memory. i believe google doesn't really recommend task killers because whenever you kill tasks that the OS needs, it'll just reload it, which itself consumes resources (maybe more resource than letting the process simply idle). so just leave those processes alone.

Are you running SetCPU? Make sure it didn't accidentally severely under clock you. That happened to me once and SETCPU was running me at 200 mhz for some reason.
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teco2010 said:
I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?
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I would double check on all the apps you've previously installed. I'm still on stock JB unrooted as well since released day (Oct 25), not once I've experience any lag that yours producing. Heck I've loaded a bunch of games and apps now my main storage is down to a gig, even then I haven't noticed any slow down. This phone is a beast thats all I can say.

teco2010 said:
I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?
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Yeah, thats unfortunate because if anything the phone should speed up after a few days of use. Why don't you just keep it to the 1 thread you started in the GT 7100 forum? You already got 4 pages of responses there. And post a video of what you're talking about because the phone should not lag at all with power savings off.

theoner1 said:
I would double check on all the apps you've previously installed. I'm still on stock JB unrooted as well since released day (Oct 25), not once I've experience any lag that yours producing. Heck I've loaded a bunch of games and apps now my main storage is down to a gig, even then I haven't noticed any slow down. This phone is a beast thats all I can say.
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I agree, i'm leaning towards user error in his case. This phone is on constant steroids.

boodies said:
Yeah, thats unfortunate because if anything the phone should speed up after a few days of use. Why don't you just keep it to the 1 thread you started in the GT 7100 forum? You already got 4 pages of responses there. And post a video of what you're talking about because the phone should not lag at all with power savings off.
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I didn't strat a thread there... just replied to one and it was a different are of problem anyway..
Guys.. I didn't install any task killer, I just force off using that long pressing home button and going into running apps, the phone, no power saving mode on, still unrooted and very few apps. I use Android for 3 years and I looked all the places to make sure settings would not be causing this and it was not.
Really weird problem... it's fine now I just hope it keeps running this way by tomorrow.. I'll let you all know, if anything I'll make a video if I can reproduce.

teco2010 said:
I didn't strat a thread there... just replied to one and it was a different are of problem anyway..
Guys.. I didn't install any task killer, I just force off using that long pressing home button and going into running apps, the phone, no power saving mode on, still unrooted and very few apps. I use Android for 3 years and I looked all the places to make sure settings would not be causing this and it was not.
Really weird problem... it's fine now I just hope it keeps running this way by tomorrow.. I'll let you all know, if anything I'll make a video if I can reproduce.
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Don't close the apps down just back out of them because you'll lag more when your phone sits there trying to open them all up again and cache them. But I agree its a strange problem, if this occurs againit might be something very specific.
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teco2010 said:
I didn't strat a thread there... just replied to one and it was a different are of problem anyway..
Guys.. I didn't install any task killer, I just force off using that long pressing home button and going into running apps, the phone, no power saving mode on, still unrooted and very few apps. I use Android for 3 years and I looked all the places to make sure settings would not be causing this and it was not.
Really weird problem... it's fine now I just hope it keeps running this way by tomorrow.. I'll let you all know, if anything I'll make a video if I can reproduce.
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That's strange. Yeah I would pay close attention to the problem and if it do come back, then maybe you probably have a bad note II. You never know, not everything are created equal. In that case I would take it in for a repair person to check it out.

Is there a way to know if all cores are running on stock Android?
I've also seen some sick battery life in this phone, but not on mine. Yesterday I got 12 hours with about 3 1/2 of screen, with few and short phone calls. What I used the most on this phone was the internet and the browser..
Not sure if these are related.
EDIT.... I installed CPU usage Monitoring and the 4th core stays off most of the time.. when I opened videos and messed with more apps it started working so I'm answering myself on that. Also, I played a video with the pop up function and the cpu only gets to about 30% and not even on all cores... wow.. the processing power here is really impressive.

teco2010 said:
Is there a way to know if all cores are running on stock Android?
I've also seen some sick battery life in this phone, but not on mine. Yesterday I got 12 hours with about 3 1/2 of screen, with few and short phone calls. What I used the most on this phone was the internet and the browser..
Not sure if these are related.
EDIT.... I installed CPU usage Monitoring and the 4th core stays off most of the time.. when I opened videos and messed with more apps it started working so I'm answering myself on that. Also, I played a video with the pop up function and the cpu only gets to about 30% and not even on all cores... wow.. the processing power here is really impressive.
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Check this video this guy posted.
Ashton_Durkhun said:
That's nothing, take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nh2NSLgaII&feature=player_embedded
The note 2 is AMAZINGLY powerful!
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ac16313 said:
Check this video this guy posted.
Sent from my SPH-L900
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Even though I would never use a phone like that, still very impressive...

[Q] Flashing "rescue.zip" failed (Pimpmyrom)

I just installed pimpmyrom and was doing a little bit of tweeK, then i notice my phone starts to get real hot and the battery start to drop like water running off a roof, anways i decide to flash the "rescue.zip" but it fails every time.
Any reason why it is failing?
PS. Im using twrp in rom manager to do this.
Cheers!

geminixx said:
I just installed pimpmyrom and was doing a little bit of tweeK, then i notice my phone starts to get real hot and the battery start to drop like water running off a roof, anways i decide to flash the "rescue.zip" but it fails every time.
Any reason why it is failing?
PS. Im using twrp in rom manager to do this.
Cheers!
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I'm sure there is a reason. But you didn't give us enough information to determine what that reason could be.

Aerowinder said:
I'm sure there is a reason. But you didn't give us enough information to determine what that reason could be.
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I actually enable most of those too "good to be true" misc tweaks, and the streaming settigs and some more but i deactivate them. what i just realise is the thePimp my CPU tweak was way up (i didnt touch it but im wondering if my swiping action could have caused it to go up) , should that be? and i had SD Booster installed. Can they both run together? Can that cause it? Especially the cpu tweak being so high?