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[Q] Sense 2.1/3.0 Rom common issues

So I've tried out MikG 2.2, Synergy nightlies and 6/27 RC1, Kingdom Revolution and Synergy-Kingdom and I seem to have the same two prevalent issues I could use some help with.
1.) I use the desk clock feature of my EVO in night mode. Problem is all these roms share a common problem, that being that for some reason the World Clock service will crash and take it out of night mode. Also not sure why but with standard EVO sense roms it immediately goes to the clock whereas with the sense 2.1/3.0 roms the screen dims but doesn't go to the night clock for somewhere around 10 minutes like on an aosp rom.
2.) I use google nav heavily. I make about 10-15 stops a day for work and need it always running. Problem is with sense 2.1/3.0 roms that for some reason I haven't been able to identify, the screen will dim randomly and ultimately shut off during navigation sessions. I have tried setting the screen to always on while charging, messed around with spare parts and set the brightness to manual and auto, disabled power saving features on the phone, all to no avail. The phone is constantly plugged in and mounted on my dash, so its always charging.
I keep no personal info on my phone, so when I wipe it for a rom, EVERYTHING is wiped. SDCard, Rotation and battery stats, data, cache, system, boot, everything. I do that once over, then mount it, format the sdcard with my computer, then copy vr_superwipe and flash that to wipe it all again, then remount, format again on computer, unmount and go through the wipe list again, then remount and copy over whatever rom I am installing and start the flashing process. I use AmonRa 2.3 as I have had issues in the past with clockwork not wiping properly. I never punch in my google account until I can disable restore features. I have tried the desktop clock and google nav on a freshly installed version of each of those roms with touching nothing else and also with full profile and all that, they still do what they do.
So my question is to the community, am I overlooking something or does anyone have any ideas for me? I wanted to hit up this forum first before going to the respective dev forums. Thanks.

I use the desktop clock every night too, on my night stand.
You know, the button next to the "night" button takes it right to the clock screen.
As for Nav, I rarely use it, living in a small town, so I haven't had that problem

Watcher07 said:
So I've tried out MikG 2.2, Synergy nightlies and 6/27 RC1, Kingdom Revolution and Synergy-Kingdom and I seem to have the same two prevalent issues I could use some help with.
1.) I use the desk clock feature of my EVO in night mode. Problem is all these roms share a common problem, that being that for some reason the World Clock service will crash and take it out of night mode. Also not sure why but with standard EVO sense roms it immediately goes to the clock whereas with the sense 2.1/3.0 roms the screen dims but doesn't go to the night clock for somewhere around 10 minutes like on an aosp rom.
2.) I use google nav heavily. I make about 10-15 stops a day for work and need it always running. Problem is with sense 2.1/3.0 roms that for some reason I haven't been able to identify, the screen will dim randomly and ultimately shut off during navigation sessions. I have tried setting the screen to always on while charging, messed around with spare parts and set the brightness to manual and auto, disabled power saving features on the phone, all to no avail. The phone is constantly plugged in and mounted on my dash, so its always charging.
I keep no personal info on my phone, so when I wipe it for a rom, EVERYTHING is wiped. SDCard, Rotation and battery stats, data, cache, system, boot, everything. I do that once over, then mount it, format the sdcard with my computer, then copy vr_superwipe and flash that to wipe it all again, then remount, format again on computer, unmount and go through the wipe list again, then remount and copy over whatever rom I am installing and start the flashing process. I use AmonRa 2.3 as I have had issues in the past with clockwork not wiping properly. I never punch in my google account until I can disable restore features. I have tried the desktop clock and google nav on a freshly installed version of each of those roms with touching nothing else and also with full profile and all that, they still do what they do.
So my question is to the community, am I overlooking something or does anyone have any ideas for me? I wanted to hit up this forum first before going to the respective dev forums. Thanks.
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I haven't noticed any of those problems in regard to the navigation app and I use both Google & the Sprint TelNav app often. My device's display stays lit when I'm using the apps. I haven't noticed the thing in regard to the clock either, but I'll experiment with it later and sew what I CA cone up with. Finally, your method of wiping is suffice. You really don't need a superwipe or format-all zip when yo have RA v2.3 and you wipe EVERYTHING in the wipe menu except the card. If you have the time, flash Warm 2.2 RLS-5 and see if you still experience the things you referenced above.
posting & replying from my EVO 4G

HipKat said:
I use the desktop clock every night too, on my night stand.
You know, the button next to the "night" button takes it right to the clock screen.
As for Nav, I rarely use it, living in a small town, so I haven't had that problem
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Not so much worried about the screen not dimming, more dealing with the entire app crashing. Might be worth mentioning I'm on a hw0004 evo as well. I've also used Calkulins latest radios combo pack to make sure I'm at the latest of all radios.

Something new about the nav issue, the screen doesn't shut off fully, I let it go today to see what would happen and the screen stayed dim until the voice needed to prompt me for a turn in which the screen returned to normal brightness. So it would appear that for some reason the screen will dim after a couple minutes if you're on a straight leg of a trip but will bring the screen back up to normal brightness when it needs to communicate to turn or whatnot. Not sure what to make of that but I was able to confirm it multiple times.
**UPDATE**
Well, apprently a few other people have been seeing this issue from the google maps 5.7 update, so it looks like it might not be ROM related.

[Q] Nils' Business Gingersense 3.0 V2.3

I've been running Nils' V2.2 ROM for several days now, and here's my observations (I'd have made these in the dev thread, but I'm still < 10 posts):
Initially, lots of force closes, but this settled down after a day or so. Occasional hot reboots hung on for another day, but stopped when I installed Tiny's kernel, enabled smartass, and enabled fast-boot. Now, I get an occasional FC on "System App", particularly when I'm playing with configurations, but other than the popup, I see no other side effects. Applications on the SD card are easily lost, and pretty difficult to get back to the SD. When I reinstall and try to move it to the SD again, I get failures once or twice, then it moves. Other than this, I find it a little more laggy than is really ideal. I did eventually overclock the high end, but this only improved the lag a little.
Other mods I installed are the black lock ring, the Rosie 5X4 app drawer, and WildStang83s Bunker Buster DTR.
So, that said, it's a really sexy ROM, and I can't wait to see what comes with V2.3.
First question, will flashing V2.3 wipe out the DTR mod? I'm assuming it will.
Next, if the DTR is wiped, can I flash the same one, or will V2.3 have changed enough that a new DTR is needed?
Thanks a bunch!
Lou

I have run a variant of the GingerSense ROM's for a month, haven't had any of the issues you raised.
Are you restoring anything to the ROM? Particularly system data along with an app?
Assume the appropriate HBOOT, cwm, and minimum radio are in place as well as ample room on the sd card?
Also assume complete wipes of data, caches, system, factory reset, boot, etc?
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smtom gave you your answer. If you are getting FC's or any other strange behavior because something like the wrong hboot or residue from the prior ROM is still there.
Follow the instructions in my first post to clean the system out and reflash.

Thank you both for the suggestions.
When I flashed 2.3 over 2.2, I did clear the cache and Dalvik *before* taking the backup, just to be safe, and it does seem a fair bit snappier now. Still not quite the interface speed I was seeing with stock Sense 1.0, but pretty close, and it really is so much cooler ...
As far as restoring system data, the first time I tried V2.2 (the day it was released), I did make the mistake of restoring some of the system stuff - like Mail accounts - I might even have inadvertently restored the old Mail app itself, which was clearly a dumb thing to do. It was my first non-stock ROM, so I suppose it can be chalked up to Newbie mistakes. Anyway, that resulted in a lot of ugliness that was obviously not your ROM, and I knew it. I was a lot more careful not to do anything so dumb the next time around, but I did get some instability anyway. Maybe something got left behind, I don't know.
Now, I limit restores to user apps and only restore data for some of the more annoying apps to set up - 1Password, DropBox, SugarSync, Facebook, things like that - not GMail, Mail, or contacts. I manually re-enter all the mail accounts and sync contacts from Google.
Wouldn't it be nice if Google gave you the option to track your app installs (free apps too, not just the paid ones) and gave you a batch re-install button?
I probably pushed my luck a little by flashing the DTR before rebooting from the ROM flash, but so far no problems at all.
When I do see a small lag in the homescreens, it seems to hang on for a second or two, then the phone seems to get itself in gear and the home screens flip like nobody's business. I still haven't put Tiny's kernel back on though. I'll stick with the stock version for awhile at least.
I do have SetCPU installed, set to on-demand from 245MHz to 998MHz. I haven't set up any profiles though. I know they are a bad idea with Tiny's kernel, and probably no problem with the stock Gingersense kernel, but I wanted to see how it works with the default configuration for awhile.
I am also using the 2.15.00.07.28 radio. I tried the leaked 2.15.10.07.07 version, but didn't find any improvement, so I went back.
My HBoot is 0.92.
I still haven't put the Rosie 5X4 app drawer back in. I was wondering if there's a way to disable the "paging" scrolling behavior and enable the smooth scrolling that Sense 1.0 used?
Thank you both again.
Nils, this seems like mostly minor updates, but whatever happened, it's a lot more snappy and stable for me now.
Cheers!
Lou

Yee haw! Appbrain will track and batch reinstall applications, fwiw.
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Can't set my contact card image
It seems every time I try to reflash, some other minor thing comes up. Up to now, I was always getting the image I had set for my profile on Google with my contact card, and in my Handcent conversations.
Now, not only is my image not there, but I can't set it. Seems I can't set *any* of the contact images. At least before, I could modify my Google contact in the Google web interface, but now I'm not sure that would work.
I've tried fixing permissions through CWM (5.0.2.0), and even tried manually changing permissions on /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts.files/* to 666 as detailed here for a similar issue.
Any ideas what could cause this, or how I could fix it?
Thanks (again) in advance
Lou

Phone freezes while making or receiving calls

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I am having issues since the past few days with making and receiving calls. The phone FREEZES while on a call, (there is no set time as to when this happens) and I have no choice but to take out the battery and put it back to restart the phone. It is becoming a quite a nuisance and was wondering if this was due to some application or something else I'm unaware of. I had a phone protector and I've taken it off since the past few days but it still freezes while on a call. FYI...I use the GO Dialer EX for the calls, have avast mobile security installed as a virus protection. I have *TheCollective* AoCP - CP5.3 installed with AOSP JELLYBEAN 4.2 Linux 3.0 Ktoonsez kernel.
Any help would be appreciated. This freezing is driving me insane...

harryrasul said:
Hello,
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I am having issues since the past few days with making and receiving calls. The phone FREEZES while on a call, (there is no set time as to when this happens) and I have no choice but to take out the battery and put it back to restart the phone. It is becoming a quite a nuisance and was wondering if this was due to some application or something else I'm unaware of. I had a phone protector and I've taken it off since the past few days but it still freezes while on a call. FYI...I use the GO Dialer EX for the calls, have avast mobile security installed as a virus protection. I have *TheCollective* AoCP - CP5.3 installed with AOSP JELLYBEAN 4.2 Linux 3.0 Ktoonsez kernel.
Any help would be appreciated. This freezing is driving me insane...
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Such problems can be something hardware. I had a similar issue with my old cell phone, freeze for 10-15 seconds maybe, and then reboot. There was an error in the Sd-card. My suggest is to use some app for check/scan your sd cards for errors. If your sd card is corrupted for some reason, or has some files corrupted, read or write from it can produce unpredictable results, like a freeze.

Yeah, could be any number of things, including a corrupted file on your SD. You can check for errors on your SD by following these steps:
http://www.ehow.com/how_8748172_check-integrity-android-sd-card.html#page=0
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I thinks it probably your under clock or overclock try messing with your CPU speeds
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Thanks folks for your suggestions. I have used the avast internet security app to scan the apps as well as the SD card and it hasn't found anything wrong. I did a fresh install of a new ROM today (AOKP) and it did the same thing today. While making calls it was freezing up at random times. I did try one though, which is use the PHONE icon as opposed to using the GO Dialer EX and it didn't hang but I may have to try that several times to come to come to any conclusion.
Would formatting everything and doing a fresh install fix it?

harryrasul said:
Thanks folks for your suggestions. I have used the avast internet security app to scan the apps as well as the SD card and it hasn't found anything wrong. I did a fresh install of a new ROM today (AOKP) and it did the same thing today. While making calls it was freezing up at random times. I did try one though, which is use the PHONE icon as opposed to using the GO Dialer EX and it didn't hang but I may have to try that several times to come to come to any conclusion.
Would formatting everything and doing a fresh install fix it?
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so you're saying that when you use the included android dialer you have no issues? so we can conclude that go dialer is the culprit?
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and formatting everything might fix things. if you're going to make the effort, i'd wipe data, cache, dalvik, format /system, flash rom/gapps, wipe data and cache again.
its also common to have issues when not coming from stock when you flash an aosp-based rom

I am having the same issue. Phone freezes sometimes during calls. I can finish the call, but then the phone is frozen, I have to take the battery out or wait for phone to restart after a while...Also, sometimes looks like proximity sensor doesn't work, as it doesnt turn on screen in call when I remove phone from ear.
Alcatel X'Pop, Stock Android 4.1.1, exdialler installed(not go dialler)

Same issue here on a GS4 with latest CM11 nightly and no custom dialer. Been having the issue for a couple of months. I've tried different ROMs including back to stock with the same issue. I though perhaps it was a defective proximity sensor but several appss show the sensor working correctly. Open to any ideas!

Lg G3 ART caused settings app to crash

After rooting, and uninstalling a massive amount of lg bloatware, I decided to switch to the android runtime (ART) before I installed all my apps. Once it rebooted and compiled all the apps, the settings would no longer function. My guess is it compiled wrong. Perhaps due to the missing lg crap that it linked to.
With the settings not functioning, I could not use the phone really. Could not even get it to connect to my computer. So my only option was to try a factory reset. This just made things worse. The settings app would still not work, but now I can't even get past the error, because it has to load as part of the setup. It was functionally bust. I had to bring it back to verizon and they replaced it.
I want to use ART, so my question is this; Do the missing apps that settings refers to affect it's ability to compile? should I switch to ART before deleting bloatware? Has anyone used ART successfully, and if so, did you delete lg's crap first?

voldrix said:
After rooting, and uninstalling a massive amount of lg bloatware, I decided to switch to the android runtime (ART) before I installed all my apps. Once it rebooted and compiled all the apps, the settings would no longer function. My guess is it compiled wrong. Perhaps due to the missing lg crap that it linked to.
With the settings not functioning, I could not use the phone really. Could not even get it to connect to my computer. So my only option was to try a factory reset. This just made things worse. The settings app would still not work, but now I can't even get past the error, because it has to load as part of the setup. It was functionally bust. I had to bring it back to verizon and they replaced it.
I want to use ART, so my question is this; Do the missing apps that settings refers to affect it's ability to compile? should I switch to ART before deleting bloatware? Has anyone used ART successfully, and if so, did you delete lg's crap first?
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I used art for a while, but I stopped because in using xposed. I uninstalled a lot of apps and I had no issues. What model are you using?
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Tried Again
Verizon model: VS985 4G
So I went at it again with my new phone. Seems to have worked this time. Everything running smoothly on ART.
The play store wouldn't download anything, but I realized that was a dependency issue. It needs download manager. Reinstalled that, and everything seems fine. Not sure what went wrong last time.
I am getting random shutdowns though. Frozen shutdowns, where power wont restore until the battery has been pulled. I don't know if the issue is related.

I had a bunch of freezes when I was running art. All requires a battery pull. I am back to dalvik and getting significantly better battery life and no more freezing.

tehpud said:
I had a bunch of freezes when I was running art. All requires a battery pull. I am back to dalvik and getting significantly better battery life and no more freezing.
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I'm currently running ART on my VS985. Also getting the random freezes. Battery life hit appears to be tied, at least for me, with the Phone.apk. The dialer barely ever works, and my battery graph shows its frozen butt to be a hog. Actually have to voice dial through Google Now to call anyone :silly:

Sparty73 said:
I'm currently running ART on my VS985. Also getting the random freezes. Battery life hit appears to be tied, at least for me, with the Phone.apk. The dialer barely ever works, and my battery graph shows its frozen butt to be a hog. Actually have to voice dial through Google Now to call anyone :silly:
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http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-lg-g3-has-problems-art-think-twice-switching-runtimes

Sparty73 said:
I'm currently running ART on my VS985. Also getting the random freezes. Battery life hit appears to be tied, at least for me, with the Phone.apk. The dialer barely ever works, and my battery graph shows its frozen butt to be a hog. Actually have to voice dial through Google Now to call anyone :silly:
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Something tells me that ART is not worth the problems you are having and should just go back to Dalvik?

Problems not just in ART
So I did a factory reflash of my original firmware. This time I stuck with Dalvek to try to avoid problems. But Apps were downloading very slowly from the play store, so I went to settings, app manager, and cleared the data for the play store. Apps downloaded better. But after a reboot, the settings app wont work, crashes every time something tries to load it. And with that the case, I cannot even get it connected to my computer.
the last time this happened - not only to me - not even a factory reset fixed it.
at least it isn't shutting down randomly anymore... I guess.
This is by far the most buggy phone I've ever had. And the model I have, the VS985, is one that has yet to have the bootloader unlocked.
Anyone been able to fix a broken settings app without reflashing the whole rom?

S10 plus keeps self-clicking on things like someone's in my phone.

S10 plus keeps self-clicking on things like someone's in my phone.
this time I swiped down to click on the weather notification in my drop down menu, then it locked up, couldn't do anything, the menu closed and my google calendar widget got tapped to 2032, that's how fast it was it went through all the months for every year up to 2032. a lot of times if I do something whatever app I'm using turns into a small box and can't get rid of it except for hitting home button then a floating icon which I have floating icons disabled have to grab it and drag it down to a x remove box.
a ton of bizarre things have been happening as well just random **** like Facebook app actually got pressed then it tried bidding on some marketplace I had to keep on hitting home button and reboot the phone.
the screen is clean this is just really bothering me.

Find the cause today or factory reset.
Suspected malware should be promptly removed.
Clear system cache from the boot menu.
Try in safe mode, if it persists in safe mode, factory reset. If it's not happening in safe mode a 3rd party app is likely the cause, find and uninstall it!
Be careful what you install and download henceforth. Keep social media apps off the phone.
You need to keep your phone in check...

blackhawk said:
Find the cause today or factory reset.
Suspected malware should be promptly removed.
Clear system cache from the boot menu.
Try in safe mode, if it persists in safe mode, factory reset. If it's not happening in safe mode a 3rd party app is likely the cause, find and uninstall it!
Be careful what you install and download henceforth. Keep social media apps off the phone.
You need to keep your phone in check.i recall
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i recall clearing delvik or what ever n cache, in fastboot, files recache or what ever. when I do it on this S10 plus with one UI 3.1 it doesn't show optimizing apps when I clear dalvik and cash.
even Google speech is stupid

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i recall clearing delvik or what ever n cache, in fastboot, files recache or what ever. when I do it on this S10 plus with one UI 3.1 it doesn't show optimizing apps when I clear dalvik and cash.
even Google speech is stupid
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Optimizing apps? Turn that junk off!
Clear the system cache.
I don't know what you did but you need to sort this out. That's very abnormal behavior for a stock Samsung.
If you did any recent major OTA upgrades, factory reset. Do not use SmartSwitch, clean load.

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Optimizing apps? Turn that junk off!
Clear the system cache.
I don't know what you did but you need to sort this out. That's very abnormal behavior for a stock Samsung.
If you did any recent major OTA upgrades, factory reset. Do not use SmartSwitch, clean load.
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like i said wiping cache partition doesnt bring optimizing apps like the old days.
but thanks, could be verizon ****, samsung ****, google ****, everyone has its finger in the ass if this phone

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like i said wiping cache partition doesnt bring optimizing apps like the old days.
but thanks, could be verizon ****, samsung ****, google ****, everyone has its finger in the ass if this phone
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It could be a rootkit... I've never seen that type of behavior.
Could be firmware corruption, a SEU.

blackhawk said:
It could be a rootkit... I've never seen that type of behavior.
Could be firmware corruption, a SEU.
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samsung is a rootkit.
i did a few things we'll see, i'll report back. I even try using screen recorder to capture all this **** but when I get back control of my phone and record for 10 minutes nothing happens it's out of the blue like. grinds my gears about to go linux pc n a flip phone

i got rid of a few things, and cleared cache partition from recovery which apps use to get optimized, number apps on the phone, i haven't seen it since oneui 2.5 i think. seems like facebook app or another app i found out that google play removed was the culprit.
i also adb uninstalled some samsung apps.
i miss root, do what u want and if u fck up restore an image with twrp. and having a fcking sd card slot keep you images on.

Hitti2 said:
i got rid of a few things, and cleared cache partition from recovery which apps use to get optimized, number apps on the phone, i haven't seen it since oneui 2.5 i think. seems like facebook app or another app i found out that google play removed was the culprit.
i also adb uninstalled some samsung apps.
i miss root, do what u want and if u fck up restore an image with twrp. and having a fcking sd card slot keep you images on.
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Normally stock Samsung's like this are very stable, but they need to be optimized.
This N10+'s load is 2 yo now, still fast and stable.
You are what you install and download. Keep trashware and all social media apps off the phone.
Using Package Disabler makes troubleshooting easier as you can use it in real time.

blackhawk said:
Normally stock Samsung's like this are very stable, but they need to be optimized.
This N10+'s load is 2 yo now, still fast and stable.
You are what you install and download. Keep trashware and all social media apps off the phone.
Using Package Disabler makes troubleshooting easier as you can use it in real time.
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isn't Google Play trustworthy

Hitti2 said:
isn't Google Play trustworthy
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I keep it disabled unless needed. Resource hog.