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Home screen reboots after returning to it or pressing home button

Lately everytime I pressed the home button or returned to the home screen the home screen reboots with a "Loading..." box and no inputs are accepted except dragging down the notification bar. Any ideas? Memory issues?
I've tried uninstalling a few apps to free up some memory, but nothing seems to really work. Also checked if my task killer was "killing" the home screen in some way but didn't see anything wrong there.
Currently running LeeDroid 2.2f Desire GSM
Any help would be appreciated!

Ideas anyone??

Boot in safe mode and see if it happens again.
If it doesn't it's a third party process that is causing it.
If it does, you'll probably need to reflash, but first you may try to erase cache and data of the "htc sense" system process.

3722 said:
Boot in safe mode and see if it happens again.
If it doesn't it's a third party process that is causing it.
If it does, you'll probably need to reflash, but first you may try to erase cache and data of the "htc sense" system process.
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By "safe mode" do you mean recovery or bootloader or what is safe mode?
Tried clearing data on HTC Sense process but all it did was erase my home screens, still has to reload the sense UI everytime I exit a full screen app.
I guess I'll try to reflash sometime, maybe I'll give cyanogen a try.

To enter safe mode you need to power on your device while holding the menu button till the home screen shows up.

Are you rooted? Try clearing cache and dalvik cache? I used to have that problem and clearing the caches helped (I have sense moved on to other roms though)

Tried safe mode and cleared both caches no apparent difference.
Will try updating to Cyanogen and see if the problem is persistent. Will update with how this goes!

Let me know how this goes, I recently flashed LeeDroid 2.2f and started to experience the exact same problem.
Flashed to 2.3b yesterday, so far no homescreen problems but we'll see how it goes.

Just flashed most recent Cyanogen, S-OFF, custom MTD partition, Firerat's a2sd, with launcher pro plus and quickdesk.
No more homescreen reloads!
But I must say this is the best configuration I've used thus far! Love the Cyanogen features compared to the more simple LeeDroid feature list and I can configure launcher pro to work the same as Sense but better. also have a lot more space for apps as well.
For those who dont know what quickdesk is TRY IT. IT IS AWESOME. Works swimmingly with any homescreen launcher.

Hmm, might give it a try then!
Is that Cyanogen or DeFroST?#
Cheers.

b0ng0 said:
Hmm, might give it a try then!
Is that Cyanogen or DeFroST?#
Cheers.
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Cyanogen. I don't see anything in the features list in DeFroST that Cyanogen doesn't already have.

Jelly Bean Freeze Issue

I updated to Jelly Bean 4.1.1 using Eftrant's method and did a complete wipe, re-installed and setup every application/game from the market but I've noticed that when I access places like Apps under Settings menu, using programs like Quick App Manager, the phone freezes or hangs. This problem was pretty bad in 4.1 but 4.1.1 seems to have improved it just a bit (not freezing/restarting as much). I thought that this was an application specific problem but doesn't look like it. Anybody having the same issue and have a solution/workaround?
Just to be clear, when I was running ICS the phone did not have a single instance of Freeze or Restart, I've been using this phone since January, so, it is not a problem with my phone either, just with the Jelly Bean update and the issue doesn't happen all the time only sometimes.

Have you tried doing a factory reset and running it without very many apps to see if it helps?

I have the same problem with Stock 4.1.1. Nothing helps (Full Wipe, No own Apps installed, Wipe cache, etc.). It randomly occurs in Settings/Apps. The Phone freezes and needs 1 Minute - Then "Settings isn't responding. Do you want to close it?"
To reproduce the problem: Slide in Settings/Apps from "DOWNLOADED" to "RUNNING" to "ALL" and back - a few times. Sometime the phone freezes.

Does it freeze at all with no apps installed? Can you pinpoint the freezes to a certain type of thing you're doing?

martonikaj said:
Does it freeze at all with no apps installed? Can you pinpoint the freezes to a certain type of thing you're doing?
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No, unfortunately not. With absolutely no apps installed the problem occurs less times but it is not gone. I think there is a bug.
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Can anyone try to reproduce the issue? It seems to occur only after a full wipe and some apps installed.
Slide in Settings/Apps from "DOWNLOADED" to "RUNNING" to "ALL" and back - a few times. Sometime the phone freezes.

It also happens when you try to clear data/clear cache of a certain application like Browser, Gmail, Gallery, or any of the stock apps. A mentioned earlier the frequency of the phone freezing reduces if there are no applications installed. This definitely seems to be a bug that occurs when a lot of data about all the applications is being pulled at once. You can replicate the issue if you install an app like Quick App Manager which scans all apps when the app is started.

wessonster said:
It also happens when you try to clear data/clear cache of a certain application like Browser, Gmail, Gallery, or any of the stock apps. A mentioned earlier the frequency of the phone freezing reduces if there are no applications installed. This definitely seems to be a bug that occurs when a lot of data about all the applications is being pulled at once. You can replicate the issue if you install an app like Quick App Manager which scans all apps when the app is started.
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Thank you for the Info!

It was happening on my GN too. But now it's fine.
I used to flash 4.0.4 factory image and OTA to 4.1.1 many times(more than 6). It was fine without any app installed from google play. After about 60 apps, freeze in setting-apps. Jump in an app detail, back, in another, freeze.
Now it' OK. But unfortunately, I don't know which setting fixed it. I try a lot.
Do you use flipboard? Or any large number of fragment files in sdcard/android/ ? Try to clean. Set flipboard to use internal storage.
If freeze again, er.....the last method. wipe cache, factory reset, flash 4.0.4, install apps and then OTA 4.1.1. Instead of OTA 4.1.1 and then install apps.
hope you can understand my English, and this can help you.

bynature said:
It was happening on my GN too. But now it's fine.
I used to flash 4.0.4 factory image and OTA to 4.1.1 many times(more than 6). It was fine without any app installed from google play. After about 60 apps, freeze in setting-apps. Jump in an app detail, back, in another, freeze.
Now it' OK. But unfortunately, I don't know which setting fixed it. I try a lot.
Do you use flipboard? Or any large number of fragment files in sdcard/android/ ? Try to clean. Set flipboard to use internal storage.
If freeze again, er.....the last method. wipe cache, factory reset, flash 4.0.4, install apps and then OTA 4.1.1. Instead of OTA 4.1.1 and then install apps.
hope you can understand my English, and this can help you.
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"install apps and then OTA 4.1.1. Instead of OTA 4.1.1 and then install apps" fix the problem but i want to use a Custom ROM....
The Issue is listed on: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35101

It's weird. Such an easy freeze and so few reports about it.

bynature said:
It's weird. Such an easy freeze and so few reports about it.
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Well I have the same problem. It generally happens to me after I delete apps via settings...apps.

enough to make me quit cell phones
Happens on my nexus constantly. Verizon has sent me two replacements, which I sent back because they did the same thing, with or without any apps installed. All have had 4.1.1. This problem does not occur on 4.0.4, which I have flashed to the devices after upgrading to 4.1.1 just to run some tests. There is clearly a bug in the vzw 4.1.1 update. It is very, very frustrating and happens regardless of the apps we try to force close, clear cache, etc. They do not have to be google apps as someone has posted. I can easily duplicate the issue and it has been witnessed by two different corporate locations across four reps. I hope we can get a flashable 4.1.2 update soon, I've tried a 4.1.2 rom briefly and have not had the phone freeze at all.

Happens to me. I re flashed the rom and all went wrll
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Franco Kernel

Logcat/dmesg or it didnt happen.
Sent from my i9250

bk201doesntexist said:
Logcat/dmesg or it didnt happen.
Sent from my i9250
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Funny.
Though it seems that logcat doesn't even log the problem, the phone is frozen solid for a couple minutes when it does freeze. I'll pull a logcat.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA Premium via Verizon Wireless

del

And dmesg?
You people think its easy to troubleshoot these "freezes", and come in here without anything other than "i've tried a few roms and it still happens"
Sent from my i9250

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Widgets disappearing after reboot. HELP PLEASE!

I was previously running ff18 but when I updated to fi27 after I reboot my phone any new widgets I add disappear. I cant figure out what's wrong.
I've tried to go back to ff18 and the problem there doesn't exist. when I go back to fi27 any widgets added when I was on ff18 are there, but if I try to add widgets they'll disappear after I reboot.
Also whenever I reboot my phone I get the android is upgrading starting applications. It happens on every reboot.
I am rooted if that matters. I used the method from qbking77's video.
Someone please help me figure out how to fix this.

I use the preserve data option when updating to rooted fi27 btw

bryyyan said:
I was previously running ff18 but when I updated to fi27 after I reboot my phone any new widgets I add disappear. I cant figure out what's wrong.
I've tried to go back to ff18 and the problem there doesn't exist. when I go back to fi27 any widgets added when I was on ff18 are there, but if I try to add widgets they'll disappear after I reboot.
Also whenever I reboot my phone I get the android is upgrading starting applications. It happens on every reboot.
I am rooted if that matters. I used the method from qbking77's video.
Someone please help me figure out how to fix this.
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Sounds like you need a full wipe between builds.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app

I haven't tried to do that yet cause I'm scared of messing it up more or possibly bricking my device. Its an inconvenience to have to back up everything I need to.
If I do decide to wipe my phone, could I just use the restore option instead of the preserve data to wipe my phone?

I still haven't found a solution for this yet.
I did however flashed back to ff18 (where my widgets didn't disappear). I did a restore with odin. Then odin-ed to a fresh fi-27. I no longer get the android is updating on every boot, but my widgets are still disappearing!
I saw a post where someone said to make a backup with titanium backup and uninstall and reinstall using titanium backup. That didnt help.
any other recommendations?

I am having the same issue. I didn't notice it until after I finally stopped using Go Launcher & went to the stock Launcher ( NOT the TWLauncher by the way but the regular Launcher). If I go back to Go Launcher EX it keeps my widgets after reboot fine, but I like the stock launcher and want to use it instead of the laggy Go Launcher. Yours is the first post I'd found in my many Google searches that matched my issue & I'm relieved that I'm not the only one having this issue. I however do not have a rooted phone nor am I interested in doing any of that with this phone (I was really into that with my last phone but I just have no desire anymore for all that. I'm completely happy with the stock ICS experience if I can just get this Widget thing working). If anyone has any suggestions or fixes I'm all ears.
Thanks

xtraspecialj said:
I am having the same issue. I didn't notice it until after I finally stopped using Go Launcher & went to the stock Launcher ( NOT the TWLauncher by the way but the regular Launcher). If I go back to Go Launcher EX it keeps my widgets after reboot fine, but I like the stock launcher and want to use it instead of the laggy Go Launcher. Yours is the first post I'd found in my many Google searches that matched my issue & I'm relieved that I'm not the only one having this issue. I however do not have a rooted phone nor am I interested in doing any of that with this phone (I was really into that with my last phone but I just have no desire anymore for all that. I'm completely happy with the stock ICS experience if I can just get this Widget thing working). If anyone has any suggestions or fixes I'm all ears.
Thanks
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I am having the same issue as well. Going to try reinstalling FI27 with a full data wipe and see if that helps the situation. Its really annoying that I'm losing my widgets after every reboot. I have the external battery pack so i am litterally rebooting everytime i switch to my new charged battery. I will let you guys know if the full data wipe of FI27 helps me if not we might be screwed until jelly bean gets here... but im not holding my breath
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depechemodegurl said:
I am having the same issue as well. Going to try reinstalling FI27 with a full data wipe and see if that helps the situation. Its really annoying that I'm losing my widgets after every reboot. I have the external battery pack so i am litterally rebooting everytime i switch to my new charged battery. I will let you guys know if the full data wipe of FI27 helps me if not we might be screwed until jelly bean gets here... but im not holding my breath
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Ok, this worked for me. I went into recovery, wiped data/reset to factory defaults, also cleared delvik cache twice. I have to reinstall everything but i tested to make sure my widgets stayed and they do. Now I'll just be restoring from titanium backup. For the other user who is having the problem but isnt rooted i would suggest going into your setting and resetting your phone back to factory and see if that clears up the issue for you.

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For the other user who is having the problem but isnt rooted i would suggest going into your setting and resetting your phone back to factory and see if that clears up the issue for you.
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Before you go and reset to factory, please read sticky posts on the emmc data corruption bug.
I am completely stock and I lose my clock widget on stock launcher too after reboot.

I have the same problem. With stock fimware, without root...
after rebooting , the widgets dislocates, or disappearing..
This was the last I bought chinese "flagship killer...hahhhaa"
The gestures always works except when I need it..
This phone is a real disappointment to me...

Pulling the battery out for the Nth time after 4.2 upgrade

I flashed my Galaxy Nexus last night to rooted 4.2 rom found here: http://goo.im/devs/bigxie/maguro/bigxie_maguro_OTA_JOP40C_odexed-signed.zip
The upgrade went smoothly. Not hiccups whatsoever. In less than 15 minutes I'm on 4.2 and rooted. I installed TitanumBackup, restored my apps/settings from my previous setup. That's when things started to go wonky:
First, HD widget doesn't work. It stuck in "loading...". I removed the widget, thinking that it might require an update from the devs.
Then, things started to become sluggish. I was on Nova Prime launcher. Very often it stops responding, and after a while, it shows the "Not responding...close/report/wait" dialog. I chose 'close' and the screen would go blank. I cannot wake it up using the power button or anything. I had to pull the battery out.
I thought it was the problem with the Nova launcher. After the restart, I switched to the stock launcher. It was noticeably faster, but when I launcher apps, even the App store, it would not respond again.
Does anyone have a similar experience?

kevinjqiu said:
I flashed my Galaxy Nexus last night to rooted 4.2 rom found here: http://goo.im/devs/bigxie/maguro/bigxie_maguro_OTA_JOP40C_odexed-signed.zip
The upgrade went smoothly. Not hiccups whatsoever. In less than 15 minutes I'm on 4.2 and rooted. I installed TitanumBackup, restored my apps/settings from my previous setup. That's when things started to go wonky:
First, HD widget doesn't work. It stuck in "loading...". I removed the widget, thinking that it might require an update from the devs.
Then, things started to become sluggish. I was on Nova Prime launcher. Very often it stops responding, and after a while, it shows the "Not responding...close/report/wait" dialog. I chose 'close' and the screen would go blank. I cannot wake it up using the power button or anything. I had to pull the battery out.
I thought it was the problem with the Nova launcher. After the restart, I switched to the stock launcher. It was noticeably faster, but when I launcher apps, even the App store, it would not respond again.
Does anyone have a similar experience?
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Ahh that sucks man. I am not really a heavy user, but i am sure you are not the only with problems :fingers-crossed:

Especially from updated OS versions, only restore apps from TiBu. No data or system stuff. That's when problems start. Just restore apps no data, re-log in and see if problems persist.

Do a full wipe and try a different ROM. Or try that same ROM before restoring your apps and data. I haven't had any freezes or force closes since I flashed 4.2

kevinjqiu said:
I flashed my Galaxy Nexus last night to rooted 4.2 rom found here: http://goo.im/devs/bigxie/maguro/bigxie_maguro_OTA_JOP40C_odexed-signed.zip
The upgrade went smoothly. Not hiccups whatsoever. In less than 15 minutes I'm on 4.2 and rooted. I installed TitanumBackup, restored my apps/settings from my previous setup. That's when things started to go wonky:
First, HD widget doesn't work. It stuck in "loading...". I removed the widget, thinking that it might require an update from the devs.
Then, things started to become sluggish. I was on Nova Prime launcher. Very often it stops responding, and after a while, it shows the "Not responding...close/report/wait" dialog. I chose 'close' and the screen would go blank. I cannot wake it up using the power button or anything. I had to pull the battery out.
I thought it was the problem with the Nova launcher. After the restart, I switched to the stock launcher. It was noticeably faster, but when I launcher apps, even the App store, it would not respond again.
Does anyone have a similar experience?
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If you did a Titanium Backup restore with Data you're going to need to do a complete wipe and re-flash. You can restore apps between different ROMs usually, but restoring data from one ROM to another different one is almost always going to give you trouble. Just do a clean install and restore app only, you should be good to go.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Before I flashed 4.2, I did both clean dalvik cache and clean data partition. I'm going to reflash this and only restore apps. Will it restore my settings if I chose not to restore data? I guess I'll find out.

No, unfortunately it isn't going to do any settings. Not sure how complex your setup is but I can usually have everything back to the way I like it in 20-30 minutes after a clean flash.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

kevinjqiu said:
I flashed my Galaxy Nexus last night to rooted 4.2 rom found here: http://goo.im/devs/bigxie/maguro/bigxie_maguro_OTA_JOP40C_odexed-signed.zip
The upgrade went smoothly. Not hiccups whatsoever. In less than 15 minutes I'm on 4.2 and rooted. I installed TitanumBackup, restored my apps/settings from my previous setup. That's when things started to go wonky:
First, HD widget doesn't work. It stuck in "loading...". I removed the widget, thinking that it might require an update from the devs.
Then, things started to become sluggish. I was on Nova Prime launcher. Very often it stops responding, and after a while, it shows the "Not responding...close/report/wait" dialog. I chose 'close' and the screen would go blank. I cannot wake it up using the power button or anything. I had to pull the battery out.
I thought it was the problem with the Nova launcher. After the restart, I switched to the stock launcher. It was noticeably faster, but when I launcher apps, even the App store, it would not respond again.
Does anyone have a similar experience?
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You shouldn't have used Titanium Backup going from one OS release to another...

akira02rex said:
You shouldn't have used Titanium Backup going from one OS release to another...
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I thought that's the point of Titanium Backup. Maybe from 4.1.1 to 4.2 is too big a jump?
I did notice that on 4.2, the media partition is moved from /data/media to /data/sdcard/0. There are extra /data/sdcard/legacy and /data/sdcard/obb directories now. Not sure if it's related.

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I thought that's the point of Titanium Backup. Maybe from 4.1.1 to 4.2 is too big a jump?
I did notice that on 4.2, the media partition is moved from /data/media to /data/sdcard/0. There are extra /data/sdcard/legacy and /data/sdcard/obb directories now. Not sure if it's related.
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You can move or copy your /android/data and /data folders from sdcard/0 to your /sdcard folder and the apps should pick up their data again.

Definitely the problem has to do with titanium backup, I used to have those kind of issues before when I had my s2, I would recommend a fresh install of jelly bean 4.2 (factory image) and reinstall all the apps from your preferred markets.
You could try to fix permissions also, just to see if the forced closes stop
Sent from my Nexus Prime JB 4.2

Well i wiped dalvik etc flashed the restored some apps and data with titanium and evthing been flawless so far, so it could be something else, did u wipe cache etc before you flashed. NB also came from 4.1

fallensoldier said:
Well i wiped dalvik etc flashed the restored some apps and data with titanium and evthing been flawless so far, so it could be something else, did u wipe cache etc before you flashed. NB also came from 4.1
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I did wipe out the dalvik cache. I ended up reflashed the ROM and only restore the app data one by one, skipping over the ones I suspect might be a problem. It's all running smoothly now.
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Camera unresponsive

My camera for my Galaxy Nexus has been broke for the last several weeks.
When opened, a black screen opens before shortly thereafter giving the message "gallery is unresponsive" and force closes.
I restored to AOKP build 3, updated the ROM to build 4 and flashed that (after corresponding factory reset, wipe data/cache/dalvik).
Now the camera opens, shows the "take picture" etc buttons but still has a black screen and force closes.
I assume while flashing different ROMs I had restored using Titanium backup a system setting/app that caused this problem.
I understand this question has been asked, but I have to find a solution to my problem (I have done battery pull etc.)
Any help will be appreciated.

I should mention that I have had a couple messages over the previous couple weeks where it says "SIM card invalid" and phone restarts.
I have not had this message is several days.

have you tried a different ROM?
use RootBox 4.2.2
ive been using it no problems and amazing battery life, not to mention the smoothness and pure awesomeness of the ROM

Jack Jake said:
have you tried a different ROM?
use RootBox 4.2.2
ive been using it no problems and amazing battery life, not to mention the smoothness and pure awesomeness of the ROM
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Yes. Originally this problem happened shortly after flashing codename. With this ROM, a black screen would show and then "gallery is unresponsive."
I reverted to AOKP and flashed updated version. Now camera app opens, shows the take picture etc. buttons on bottom but where the actual picture should be stays black and gallery goes unresponsive.
Have also tried deleting camera apk and re-flashing a downloading camera zip file. Same problem.

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Yes. Originally this problem happened shortly after flashing codename. With this ROM, a black screen would show and then "gallery is unresponsive."
I reverted to AOKP and flashed updated version. Now camera app opens, shows the take picture etc. buttons on bottom but where the actual picture should be stays black and gallery goes unresponsive.
Have also tried deleting camera apk and re-flashing a downloading camera zip file. Same problem.
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have you tried clearing data and cache for the gallery app? try that

Jack Jake said:
have you tried clearing data and cache for the gallery app? try that
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Cleared data and cache for the app. Same issue.
Very frustrating issue.

Fast boot flash back to stock. If camera is still acting up then its more than likely hardware issues
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do you get any messages after boy saying something like: com.xxx.xxx has unexpectedly stopped. this has happened to me to. you have to format your sd card. try that
remember to backup all your important file from the sd card to your computer EXCEPT the DCIM (where a'll your pictures and stuff are. anything related to the gallery don't backup)

Why not try a complete wipe.
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase system
In that order
then fastboot back to stock as mentioned by namtombout.
If that doesn't work it is indeed a hardware issue.

Jack Jake said:
do you get any messages after boy saying something like: com.xxx.xxx has unexpectedly stopped. this has happened to me to. you have to format your sd card. try that
remember to backup all your important file from the sd card to your computer EXCEPT the DCIM (where a'll your pictures and stuff are. anything related to the gallery don't backup)
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I don't think I've got any of these messages..
I will attempt the complete wipe per instructions in this thread (simply working up to the time that I actually will go through with it). I'm thinking I must have restored some system settings/camera settings from titanium backup during one of my recent ROM changes.
My battery life has been awfully poor lately as well....wondering if the restore of some system setting screwed with that as well...
Hopefully the complete wipe will get things back in order.

biggie3201 said:
I don't think I've got any of these messages..
I will attempt the complete wipe per instructions in this thread (simply working up to the time that I actually will go through with it). I'm thinking I must have restored some system settings/camera settings from titanium backup during one of my recent ROM changes.
Hopefully the complete wipe will get things back in order.
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after you complete the wipe, DO NOT use titanium backup to restore your apps (even user apps). try fresh ones from the play store and see if that helps. if not im afraid you will have to go back to stock and then root again, flash a new ROM again, and then download your apps from the play store.
this problem has happened to me with my old phone (Samsung Captivate) but the formatting of the SD card fixed that for a while, when it started again i did the steps above and the phone worked better than ever.