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Just asking cause I flashed the starburst rom and it boot looped my phone. I got into the main screen once but, the task bar kept force closing and it kept boot looping... Any help would be great.
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Yes this is the Sprint Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch section.
Did you make a nandroid backup 1st? (If Yes, restore your backup) Did you go into "mounts and storage" and format "/system" before you wiped data/cache/dalvik cache?
Odin another rom.
Search for and download odin v1.85. Then download a .tar file. Where ever you find these items, you'll also find good instructions.
Then try flashing starburst again.
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Just asking cause I flashed the starburst rom and it boot looped my phone. I got into the main screen once but, the task bar kept force closing and it kept boot looping... Any help would be great.
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Yes, I did make a nand and got back to it, the starburst rom section told me to flash through cwm. But, it didn't work. I odined a tar last night, I'm fine now, but, how should I go about flashing again? Yes, I did wipe.
I'm running the oc'd zedomax or however thats spelled.
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veladem said:
Yes, I did make a nand and got back to it, the starburst rom section told me to flash through cwm. But, it didn't work. I odined a tar last night, I'm fine now, but, how should I go about flashing again? Yes, I did wipe.
I'm running the oc'd zedomax or however thats spelled.
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Did you format /system prior to flashing Starburst? That'll cause bootloops if you failed to do so.
Yup, did that, what cwm do I need?
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Yup, did that, what cwm do I need?
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I would suggest 5.0.2.3, or 5.0.2.6 Also...make sure you format cache/dalvik/data/system at least 3X each. If that doesn't work, then try redownloading the ROM. Might've gotten a borked download.
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Yup, did that, what cwm do I need?
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Use this: LoStkernel or this: CWM
But I'm willing to bet that you either didn't format system in the mounts and storage menu or it didn't take when you tried. I would retry StarBurst again first, making sure to Format System Under Mounts and Storage and making sure it succeeds. Then you won't have to worry about any of the other stuff.
Yeah, CWM can be quirky
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I would suggest 5.0.2.3, or 5.0.2.6 Also...make sure you format cache/dalvik/data/system at least 3X each. If that doesn't work, then try redownloading the ROM. Might've gotten a borked download.
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I wiped cache and dalvik, but I didn't format them. I also didn't even bother to wipe and it worked just fine.
It's just not working... Idk why, this is the only problem with a phone I've ever had in cwm...
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Got it! It's pretty sick to. What roms do you guys suggest though?
For some reason I had to go back to stock? Doesn't matter, works now.
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Just flashed starburst v 1.8 10/22 over 10/19. Went perfectly, no wiping anything. But, what should I try next. I love flashing roms...
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Just flashed starburst v 1.8 10/22 over 10/19. Went perfectly, no wiping anything. But, what should I try next. I love flashing roms...
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I'm running viperROM v2 and it's pretty sweet. It's a really tough choice between this and starburst.
Hm... I keep getting sms like this after a flash...
//LL:1563:1319692697855:MZC:C:gDMa4uO2LcH60QAxcWBcCA==:BPEAXC0OZLE8VPAUKXDGLY8HQDAUBR0T
Any ideas?
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help help help please
my lil brother thought it wud b great if he tried to root my phone...i apologize if in the wrong spot ive been searching forums googling for like 6 hours with no luck. my phone is stuck in the galaxy loading logo screen the one with the yellow triangle i can not get it out using odin kies or notta please help me thanks
This is Dial A Prayer ...
veladem said:
Just asking cause I flashed the starburst rom and it boot looped my phone. I got into the main screen once but, the task bar kept force closing and it kept boot looping... Any help would be great.
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The place to post ANYTHING about using a Starburst ROM on Epic 4 G Touch is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1276320
hi everyone. ok here's my problem, yesterday i installed acs ics 5.5 rom, then i nandroid restored the ei22 deodexed stock just to test the nandroid restore, just to see if it worked for me. i then again flashed back to the ics 5.5 rom, and this morning i nandroid back to ei22 again, because i wasn't happy of the non - 4g function.
anyways, later on today i decided to go into "my files" and delete 3 of the 4 nandroid backups that i had. because i believe the 3 that i deleted were bad. well after i did that, i started getting apps force closes, and now i can't open gtalk or my text message app.
if i do a factory reset, should that fix the problem? before i turn to odin and perform the whole process all over again?
NOTE - everytime i did the restores and flashes, i did do a pre-rom wipe with acs recovery.
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hi everyone. ok here's my problem, yesterday i installed acs ics 5.5 rom, then i nandroid restored the ei22 deodexed stock just to test the nandroid restore, just to see if it worked for me. i then again flashed back to the ics 5.5 rom, and this morning i nandroid back to ei22 again, because i wasn't happy of the non - 4g function.
anyways, later on today i decided to go into "my files" and delete 3 of the 4 nandroid backups that i had. because i believe the 3 that i deleted were bad. well after i did that, i started getting apps force closes, and now i can't open gtalk or my text message app.
if i do a factory reset, should that fix the problem? before i turn to odin and perform the whole process all over again?
NOTE - everytime i did the restores and flashes, i did do a pre-rom wipe with acs recovery.
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Someeone just posted a similiar issue they associated with the8ir sd card.
They said after nand bkp they had fc's and no apps on sd showed. Wiping cache and dalvik would be pre factory default wipe imho.
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Yes, a Factory data reset will clear the FCs. But you will lose 3rd party apps and anything you have set up will have to be set up again. If you have a nandroid you can trust you can do an advanced restore data to get those things back.
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so does that mean that i have to go into recovery and repartition the sd card?
update - heres what it says on bootup - UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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update - heres what it says on bootup - UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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No idea but sounds like you need to do a factory reste
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No idea but sounds like you need to do a factory reste
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None of that will touch your sd card. And you don't need to. The errors are in phone memory.
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None of that will touch your sd card. And you don't need to. The errors are in phone memory.
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ok, here is the update to what's happened. last night i odin back to ec05 and redid the process again for updating and rooting, and now everything works ok.
i don't know what happened, but it was so bad, that i couldn't even use my phones dialer to make a call. but the problem is fixed. THANKYOU EVERYONE, for your help, i really appreciate it.
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ok, here is the update to what's happened. last night i odin back to ec05 and redid the process again for updating and rooting, and now everything works ok.
i don't know what happened, but it was so bad, that i couldn't even use my phones dialer to make a call. but the problem is fixed. THANKYOU EVERYONE, for your help, i really appreciate it.
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Awesome good work. Just out of curriosity...did you try the reccomendations here? What were the results?
Glad u got it up and thanks for the update.
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yes i did. i did a factory reset and wiped the cache partition and dalvik cache, and still nothing. somehow after i deleted the 3 nandroid backups, things got messed up. i kept getting errors of framework and gapps process issues. i don't know what could have caused it, but it wasn't pretty. at least i was able to get it fixed with odin.
question regarding this type of issue though, if i would have checked marked re-partion along with the reboot, what would happen? cuz i was really tempted to do so, but i didn't, given the fact that i didn't know exactly what would happen.
If you check repartition you need to include the PIT file which is the map of the partition for our phone. That will put your phones partition back to what it was when new.
ok, and where can i find the pit file? sorry again for the dumb question, but this is the part that is very new to me.
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ok, and where can i find the pit file? sorry again for the dumb question, but this is the part that is very new to me.
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No problem, we are here to help. The PIT file should be packaged with Odin so when you unpacked it into a directory it should be there. Victoryxxxxx.PIT
ohh yea, i have that file. so that's what that file is for. ever since i got odin and started using it, i've bee wondering what that file was for. ok, so, in what type of circumstances can i use that file? like what happened to my phone yesterday? or what?
just so i have an idea of when i should use it.
When in doubt you can always use the PIT and repartition. F.reset resets all the clocks in the phone so there is no need to fear if you accidentally leave that checked.
I'm having the same issues here. Once I flash a rom, after a week or two I get this FCs but I notice this usually happens when I swap batteries or restart my phone. Once I flash a new rom or same rom everything works just fine until I have to swap or restart my phone.
What's causing this? Mine friend epic is having the same issue and he is getting tired of the phone to the point of putting it for sale. Is there a way to fix this?
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I'm having the same issues here. Once I flash a rom, after a week or two I get this FCs but I notice this usually happens when I swap batteries or restart my phone. Once I flash a new rom or same rom everything works just fine until I have to swap or restart my phone.
What's causing this? Mine friend epic is having the same issue and he is getting tired of the phone to the point of putting it for sale. Is there a way to fix this?
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You are not shutting down correctly causing bad data writes to your phone. Turn power off, after the vibration make sure keyboard lights are off before you pull battery. Also make sure you have journaling enabled.
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I have used marcusant and sleeper rom at the moment, and they usually shut downs completely with the screen, but yes I make sure the light on the kb are shut. I don't know much about journaling, I guess I have to read about it.
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I have used marcusant and sleeper rom at the moment, and they usually shut downs completely with the screen, but yes I make sure the light on the kb are shut. I don't know much about journaling, I guess I have to read about it.
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Then it is strange that swapping batteries would cause any kind of data corruption. I believe those ROMs have journaling on by default. FCs are usually easy to fix. Most times it is a Google Services Framework error. This can be fixed using Titanium Backup and scrolling to Google Framework Services, select it and choose wipe data. Do that for any other app that FCs as well.
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Having trouble with today's freshly produced update. I'm on factory ROM, so there shouldn't be any trouble, but everytime i hit restart phone it goes into CM manager, I hit reboot and it just reboots with the update still uninstalled =\
I think you need stock recovery to get the update to install. I may be mistaken though.
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how do i go to stock recovery? this update thing pops up every hour, it drives me nuts! (even after i hit 1-day).
Download Bloat Freezer from the market and use it to freeze Device Manager....... The notifications will stop.
Or go back to stock.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18811273
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ty for your help joemm! I only need to go back to stock recovery, not stock rom, my rom is literally as it was from the factory lol, I'll definitely give that 2nd link a try
I was running stock rooted G.B. 2.3.6 and just to see what would happen (I kinda knew already) I did the official upgrade to the ICS 4.0.3. Of course it went from UVKL1 to UVLE1 and I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup and also with Rom Manager. I lost root, because I did a factory reset because it wouldn't install the first 2 times. Oh, I was doing it through Kies. I wanted to do it by the book sort of.So after the install I tried to get root again but when I got into CWM recovery I had no functions working except reboot. No update.zip from sd, or anything else. I could scroll up and down and stop on the different options but when I pushed the button to make the choice it jumped back to reboot and that is all I can get. I rebooted and retried 4 or 5 times and same thing. So, now what ? I like the 4.0.3 but hate the massive amount of bloat and the ads and f**ked up notification popup/ads. I want my root back. I would be willing to start fresh again with a good, fast, everything works, custom ICS but don't know which to choose. that is one of the reasons why I tried this "official" upgrade. Again, as always, Thanks in advance for everyone who helps anyone here on XDA. K.K.-Out
Have you tried reflashing cwm?
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I was running stock rooted G.B. 2.3.6 and just to see what would happen (I kinda knew already) I did the official upgrade to the ICS 4.0.3. Of course it went from UVKL1 to UVLE1 and I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup and also with Rom Manager. I lost root, because I did a factory reset because it wouldn't install the first 2 times. Oh, I was doing it through Kies. I wanted to do it by the book sort of.So after the install I tried to get root again but when I got into CWM recovery I had no functions working except reboot. No update.zip from sd, or anything else. I could scroll up and down and stop on the different options but when I pushed the button to make the choice it jumped back to reboot and that is all I can get. I rebooted and retried 4 or 5 times and same thing. So, now what ? I like the 4.0.3 but hate the massive amount of bloat and the ads and f**ked up notification popup/ads. I want my root back. I would be willing to start fresh again with a good, fast, everything works, custom ICS but don't know which to choose. that is one of the reasons why I tried this "official" upgrade. Again, as always, Thanks in advance for everyone who helps anyone here on XDA. K.K.-Out[/QUOT
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3649
Vibrant- Kankwich CM9
Galaxy S2 Hercules- An amazing machine on any rom. Believe me!!
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blackangst said:
Have you tried reflashing cwm?
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I haven't tried anything yet. I haven't had time. I will try as you suggest. it was on my list of things to try. Thanks, Blackangst.
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I haven't tried anything yet. I haven't had time. I will try as you suggest. it was on my list of things to try. Thanks, Blackangst.
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I hope it works for you. Check the md5 to make sure you don't have a corrupt download too (of cwm)
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Thanks ToledoG28, I tried that link and it wasn't a good page. I appreciate the effort. Maybe you could double check it and let me know.
OP: Here's CWM 5.0.2.6. After flashing and once youre back into your phone, you can install ROM manager and upgrade to whatever you want. Push this via Odin.
This happened to me. I had just had to wipe the cache in recovery and it booted. I would try that first
You have to use darkside wipe and darkside cache wipe. The regular recovery wipe isn't working properly.
You just need to Odin ics.
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Guys he can't get into recovery. How can he flash super wipe etc if he can't? And how will odining ics fix that? He needs to odin the recovery i posted.
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I got it solved you guys. Thanks to all of you. I did another factory reset, and then found the actual T989 Hercules .tar file (the one I used was from a post for ICS from November or December and was actually an Infuse tar file.) and reinstalled it. I was able to after I got cwm recovery old style not touch. Touch was what was giving me problems. So I Odin the new Hercules.tar and then rereinstalled Superuser zip and everything went smooth. The only thing I am seeing as a problem is the phone won't sleep. If I have the phone plugged in, I can't shut it off. It wants to immediately turn itself back on. I like to have it shut down and charge at night sometimes. But it won't let me. Any ideas? Thanks again everybody.
plz help me asap!!!!! phone is just on "android" screen after rebooting naming samsungani to samsunganiOLD then renaming bootanimation to samsungani... guy on xda told me to do that and try..... now phone stuck on android screen.......... I AM BEGGING SOMEONE TO HELP ME OUT
Power off phone completely and let it charge for a little bit.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Read the entire post a few times.
[Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed]
Download the "FF18 full restore One-Click self-extractor"
extract and launch it.
Now
Power on the phone and..
hold Power button + Volume down
Then volume up to enter download mode
Connect the phone via USB to the computer and it should show up on a COM port.
Then click start and hopefully you'll be back to stock rooted.
Then be careful and read a whole lot more.
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Power off phone completely and let it charge for a little bit.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Read the entire post a few times.
[Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed]
Download the "FF18 full restore One-Click self-extractor"
extract and launch it.
Now
Power on the phone and..
hold Power button + Volume down
Then volume up to enter download mode
Connect the phone via USB to the computer and it should show up on a COM port.
Then click start and hopefully you'll be back to stock rooted.
Then be careful and read a whole lot more.
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trying to do the same thing if i figure out out how with el29 kernal..... but will my page plus apn, prl, aaa keys, and ha keys b erased to? cuz it was such a pain to try to get them to go thru again and again and again so i cud get my data and mms working
It is a factory reset, so all settings will be cleared
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trying to do the same thing if i figure out out how with el29 kernal..... but will my page plus apn, prl, aaa keys, and ha keys b erased to? cuz it was such a pain to try to get them to go thru again and again and again so i cud get my data and mms working
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Not sure what you're trying. I just posted how to completely set you phone to stock FF18. It WILL wipe your data but your phone shoud be good to go with all services.
If you want to use sfhub's EL29 one click the method is the same. But why not get the latest released build.
You may have to to System Settings>System Updates then Update the PRL wait and then update the Profile wait.
It may suck having to re-enter some data but I would think it would suck more to have a phone that didn't work.
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trying to do the same thing if i figure out out how with el29 kernal..... but will my page plus apn, prl, aaa keys, and ha keys b erased to? cuz it was such a pain to try to get them to go thru again and again and again so i cud get my data and mms working
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It won't reset your prl, aaa, ha keys which are contained in NVRAM.
If you are running CWM, I would boot into recovery, then start adb shell, then mount /system (if necessary) and undo your boot animation change. It is very likely everything is intact, just the boot is prevented from completing due to that change you made.
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It won't reset your prl, aaa, ha keys which are contained in NVRAM.
If you are running CWM, I would boot into recovery, then start adb shell, then mount /system (if necessary) and undo your boot animation change. It is very likely everything is intact, just the boot is prevented from completing due to that change you made.
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thank you! its doing its recovery thing now.... i have a cwm folder in sdcard section of phone... idk how to put cwm on the device though.... new to samsung, used to moto locked down bootloaders and stuff
Brnd just reflash it.
Phone- Samsung Galaxy Y
Rom- U.S.S.R. V4
One click root method did the trick
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Power off phone completely and let it charge for a little bit.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Read the entire post a few times.
[Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed]
Download the "FF18 full restore One-Click self-extractor"
extract and launch it.
Now
Power on the phone and..
hold Power button + Volume down
Then volume up to enter download mode
Connect the phone via USB to the computer and it should show up on a COM port.
Then click start and hopefully you'll be back to stock rooted.
Then be careful and read a whole lot more.
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100% safe to flash ff18? Really wanna try out some ics.... And hopefully soon jb.
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sfhub said:
It won't reset your prl, aaa, ha keys which are contained in NVRAM.
If you are running CWM, I would boot into recovery, then start adb shell, then mount /system (if necessary) and undo your boot animation change. It is very likely everything is intact, just the boot is prevented from completing due to that change you made.
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If I flash shadow gods universe ROM (an ics ROM)will I have to renter ha, aa keys after using caulkins first all zip and stuff required fir this ROM to work?
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leaderbuilder said:
Power off phone completely and let it charge for a little bit.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Read the entire post a few times.
[Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed]
Download the "FF18 full restore One-Click self-extractor"
extract and launch it.
Now
Power on the phone and..
hold Power button + Volume down
Then volume up to enter download mode
Connect the phone via USB to the computer and it should show up on a COM port.
Then click start and hopefully you'll be back to stock rooted.
Then be careful and read a whole lot more.
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How much wise is ics ff18 over GB el29?
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How much wise is ics ff18 over GB el29?
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What the what? Neither are very wise per say IMHO as they are not capable of independent thought...
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cp320703 said:
What the what? Neither are very wise per say IMHO as they are not capable of independent thought...
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Holy crap. Swype u force fed me another failcake! I meant how much worse is battery on ff18 than el29
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Ics uses like 10% more on average is the number I've seen thrown around, I get like 18 hours with 3 or 4 hours of screen time on average with 20% left.... you see tons of posts from people complaining about ics battery, ignore these... most of these folks can't be bothered to set up syncs right, kill background tasks that are unnecessary, read the forums, let roms properly settle, recalibrate, etc...
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Alright, if install ff18, will I lose my flash to page plus with working mms and 3g data?.... Well I still can't send mms but can recieve
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you should not, flash doesn't affect the partition that has that data
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you should not, flash doesn't affect the partition that has that data
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I seen that earlier post, but with ics ive seen where you have to wrote everything sometimes to make it work right
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I'm assuming you mean wipe? Yes but it still would not affect your provisioning/network information... it does not get wiped by that... for example I have heavily edited 4g settings (higher entry RX, etc...) and those have been preserved across god knows how many flashes and wipes... lastly is not just ics you need to do a full wipe for, you can try no data flashes but might experance bugs, the reccomended route for every rom I know of is to do a full data wipe when switching from one from to another
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Alright
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