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Help, constant crashes & reboots

Sorry about double posting, but I am getting desperate (posted on Q&A).
Can't find an answer to this on google or xda. Didn't know if I should post this in General or Q&A.
I have been using my Incredible since it came out. I quickly learned about rooting, roms, s-off... with no problems. I have been running Skyraider almost from the beginning.
Here is the problem: A few days ago, I noticed on the SR thread that there were updates for the radio and hboot. So, I went ahead and flashed them. Almost immediately I started noticing the screen becoming unresponsive. After a minute or two I did a battery pull, rebooted, and again after a little while, freeze and reboot. I also noticed that even when the phone is awake but screen off, it would wake itself up. The rebooting and freezing makes it impossible to use my phone.
I tried everything I could think of:
Nandroid restore (obviously didn't work since this doesn't effect hboot or radio).
Reinstalled fresh SR Rom wiping everything, including dalvik, and did factory reset.
Finally, I downgraded back to the hboot and radio versions I had before, still no effect. (Baseband version 2.15.00.07.28, hboot .79 ).
I tried installing another ROM (Uncommon sense) to make sure it wasn't a ROM issue, ..same problem.
Please, any help would be much appreciated. I don't know what my next step should be.
PS, I am not overclocking, just using stock kernel.
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try downgrading to completely stock 2.1 then see if it keeps doing it...otherwise I'd say that maybe you did something wrong installing a file and it's bricked...that's what it sounds like anyways
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pete_kowalski83 said:
try downgrading to completely stock 2.1 then see if it keeps doing it...otherwise I'd say that maybe you did something wrong installing a file and it's bricked...that's what it sounds like anyways
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Today it's running a bit better. I'll keep testing it, if it continues to crash, I will take your suggestion and go back to 2.1 and start over.

Just a thought: are you restoring your stuff via Titanium? If so, you may be restoring a bad / incompatible system instruction. You might try this: Do a master reset and restore your important apps (not data) one at a time to check performance. Install data later (also individually) as needed.
HTH!

rfarrah said:
Just a thought: are you restoring your stuff via Titanium? If so, you may be restoring a bad / incompatible system instruction. You might try this: Do a master reset and restore your important apps (not data) one at a time to check performance. Install data later (also individually) as needed.
HTH!
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I did use Titanium (apps & data, but not system). I am currently testing Uncommon Sense Rom. Been running fine last 2 days. Idk why.
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[Q] freezing problem

Hi everyone!
first, happy new year!
I have a problem with my desire...it freezes in a way that the pulling the battery out is the only thing that helps...it doesn't respond to any button, the screen os off and I can't wake it up
it's rooted with unrevoked, clockwork recovery
tried different roms, the best for me is baadnwz dhd port...
been on that for a while and didn't have the freezing problem, then I flashed the miui..
went back to baadnwz and it started to freeze...a few times a day
then I reflashed it, uninstalled the font changer and that helped...for two days(thought that was the problem) but tonight(~36h from the clean install of the rom) it froze again...
so, I don't think it's the rom, obviously it is not the font changer...
why is this happening, has anyone encounter this before, is there a solution?
please advise, what should I do?
thank you

For what it's worth...
If you can get it back to stock ROM, then do so. Then take it back to the place you bought it and demand a brand new replacement. I would even go so far as to note/print a few pages of some the forums as evidence of the widespread problem.
If my (and many other people's experiences) on here are anything to go by, then your problem will only get worse...and let's face it, whoever has heard of a electronic non-software related problem getting better on it's own? Having read just about every available post on the subject I've concluded that no amount of flashing/reflashing/fiddling is going to fix it.
Sorry to be negative about it, but them is just the facts as I see them.

hmm...so it's like that huh?
what do you mean "if" I can go to the stock rom?
can't I flash the original rom, or ruu or something?(I don't know, never tried something like that)
but then again, I'm not sure that it isn't a software problem...I'm just lurking around to see if anyone has encountered this before and solved it....
if all else fails, I'll flash a clean rom without restorin my apps and see how it goes from there...

just my experience
trikpa said:
hmm...so it's like that huh?
what do you mean "if" I can go to the stock rom?
can't I flash the original rom, or ruu or something?(I don't know, never tried something like that)
but then again, I'm not sure that it isn't a software problem...I'm just lurking around to see if anyone has encountered this before and solved it....
if all else fails, I'll flash a clean rom without restorin my apps and see how it goes from there...
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In all honesty, you may be able to reflash back to stock ROM. It may well depend on what firmware you have on your phone and whether your phone is branded (mine is T-Mobile UK). I know when I originally got mine and rooted it, it was hboot 0.83. It went wrong (external speaker stopped working). I was able to flash it back to stock ROM and I sent it back to HTC. When I finally got it back after 8 weeks (long story involving HTC incompetence and bad luck/incompetence with UPS), it was on hboot 0.93.0001. I rooted it with Unrevoked and installed LeeDroid 2.2f ROM. Shortly afterwards, it started to freeze/reboot. However, everything I've read so far leads me to believe LeeDroid wasn't the cause of the freeze/reboot fault. The problem is far too widespread (just Google 'HTC Desire reboot freeze problem') for it to be caused by a particular custom ROM.
Anyway, the upshot for me is that no matter what I've tried, I haven't been able to get it back to stock ROM and therefore, can't send it back for repair/replacement.
I sincerely hope you have better luck than me.

well, I'll see how it goes..
thank you for your answers

is there a way that I can make a log or something to see whether an application is doing this or something else?

well, I think I solved my problem, and for further reference here's a post that I did in another thread where this was disccused..
trikpa said:
just to let you guys know, I don't have any more freezes
some say it's because of the sense rom, some it's the dhd rom, others told me it's the radio or the ril files....
tried all of that plus few more things and nothing...
well, it turned out to be my backup(or an app in it..)
I always backed my apps and data with my backup pro, very nice app that restores everything....but the last rom flash I did, I didn't restored my apps&data and started fresh installs...and no freezing
I don't know what exactly caused problems, but one more thing that may be responsible...I flashed "font changer" and changed system fonts on my phone...and then backed my apps...maybe that's he deal...dunno...
anyways, I'm back with a killer phone with the best rom out there - baadnewz's
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hope that will help someone
cheers

Do you still have any issues with the phone freezing sometimes when charging from A/C?
Mine doesn't freeze as much as it used to since updating the RIL files but being left charging seems to upset it

w0mbat said:
Do you still have any issues with the phone freezing sometimes when charging from A/C?
Mine doesn't freeze as much as it used to since updating the RIL files but being left charging seems to upset it
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no freezes whatsoever

trikpa said:
no freezes whatsoever
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OK, that sounds good. I only usually recover a few items using Titanium backup but next time that I flash a ROM update. I'll start it all from scratch and hope to get the same result as you.

I don't know, maybe it was a specific app but I don't have the time nor the will to test each one of them

I've got the same problem. Now that I read your post it makes sense.
Restored my apps trough titanium backup and 5 hours later my phones freezes.
Can u make list off apps that you have ?
mine (those that I restored)
vandaag 24
teamviewer
circel widget battery
dropspace
handcent
sdwatch
adfree
advanced task killer
fotmob
gridcalendar
applanet
astro
barcode scanner
cardio trainer
compass 2.1
gouden gids
gowalla
shazam

flitz said:
I've got the same problem. Now that I read your post it makes sense.
Restored my apps trough titanium backup and 5 hours later my phones freezes.
Can u make list off apps that you have ?
mine (those that I restored)
vandaag 24
teamviewer
circel widget battery
dropspace
handcent
sdwatch
adfree
advanced task killer
fotmob
gridcalendar
applanet
astro
barcode scanner
cardio trainer
compass 2.1
gouden gids
gowalla
shazam
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well, it's been a while since then and I don't know what apps I used back then...but I can tell you what apps I used that you use
from your list I used
handcent
adfree
applanet
astro
barcode scanner
and maybe the compass
hope it helps, but my advice, do a fresh install

tnx, Ill keep ya posted

flitz said:
tnx, Ill keep ya posted
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any news?
my phone started to freeze again
and I didn't restore backup, did a full fresh install...
don't know what to do

Yes, I've solved my problem by buying a new SD card.
This time from Kinsgstond instead of Sandisk.
Hope it solves your problem too.

My phone freeze after charfing while its off. I noticed that it freezes when it says "preparing SD card". This happened twice so far
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flitz said:
Yes, I've solved my problem by buying a new SD card.
This time from Kinsgstond instead of Sandisk.
Hope it solves your problem too.
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well, I did buy a new 8GB card, but it never occured to me that it could be the problem....I think it didn't freeze right after I switched cards...
for now I flashed a newer version of the rom I'm using and will see how it goes...if not, I'll switch cards again
thanks for your answer
Yann2011 said:
My phone freeze after charfing while its off. I noticed that it freezes when it says "preparing SD card". This happened twice so far
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well, sd card could be the problem in your case too, try another one...and post here with results

I'm curious

Well so far I have reflash the phone after a factory reset + wipe with no app restored via backup. It is performing ok so far. Last freeze was 2 days ago. I will wear down the battery to get a chance to charge it up this afternoon. I will see if it freezes again.

Do you have a Possessed EVO ?

For some of you out there with a possessed HTC EVO there is a FIX!! it is not a touch sensor problem but a software problem (no it can't be fixed by wiping everything in recovery) it seems that even though we wipe our phones and flash new roms. Data from previous roms seems to be stored in NAND(yes I tried superwipe). I dealt with this annoying screen problem for months and I tried everything and even went to a Sprint repair center. If you have this problem and can't resolve it (I solved it this way) download the latest RUU and flash it .
LATEST EVO RUU(DOWNLOAD LINK):
http://www.filefactory.com/file/cd5....15.00.0808_NV_2.15_release_209995_signed.exe

MY wifes EVO seems to be posessed. I actually rooted it yesterday and put on a new ROM and the problem didnt go away. The phone is only like 1 month old and it keeps not necessarily freezing, but the touch buttons at the bottom of the screen rarely work and when they do they dont do what they are supposed to. Where do I get the latest RUU and does this sound like something that the new RUU would help?

Yes it will help a lot.
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ok thats perfect, where can I find it?

The link has been posted above
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checked your thank you button. This safe to do with my root? Wife will kill me if she has to backup and restore all her apps again lol!

No it will remove root but root can be so easily obtained once again .as for the apps backs them all up through Titanium Backup.
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Decepticaons said:
checked your thank you button. This safe to do with my root? Wife will kill me if she has to backup and restore all her apps again lol!
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Back up your apps and data with Titanium Backup, texts with SMS Backup and Restore. After running the RUU, you can simply reflash recovery via PC36IMG.zip through hboot and flash a new rom.
Whether or not this will actually work for you or not, I don't know. I would think wiping system & boot would get whatever issues that wiping data doesn't, but I have never experienced the issue.
Make a nandroid backup first, and if the RUU doesn't fix the problem just flash your recovery and restore the backup. If it does work, don't restore the backup, start fresh. Good luck!
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!

I would have returned the phone back to sprint before rooting since it could be a hw issue.
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Apparently its a pretty common issue. Her first EVO kept going wierd crap too. At this point she cant wait till her contract is up so she can switch to Tmobile like me and get the Hercules. Right now the only advantage her phone has is higher MP Camera and FFC. My phone is faster, better screen, better service, and smaller and lighter and i have a rooted and ROMd vibrant. Ive heard a lot of good about the EVO but at this point my Vibrant buries it. It seems to me like if this were a software issue then rooting it and putting on a new rom after the wipe would have solved it. Ill have to see if I can convince the wife to let me redo everything again even tho a lot of what I have read says that this new software version doesnt fix this issue. But I do see that it inscreases speed and battery life and that would be nice! Thanks for all the help!

What the heck is a ruu? In need of a super-developer!
Noob here (obviously from my title). I have the possessed evo issue (HTC Evo 4G Design) but don't understand the language on how to fix ('flash the ruu'). Anyone up for making this process idiot-proof? I use my phone for business so it would be a disaster if I screwed it up and had to wait for a new phone. It's only about 14 months old. : (

[Q] GNx bricked? Screen not unlockable, constant softreboots

Hi all,
this is the 3rd time this is happening to me with different ROMs. The problem is:
The phone boots up normal, I can swipe to unlock, enter my PIN, but after pressing OK it won't unlock the SIM. If I lock the screen it won't come back on. It stays black whatever I do. After some time the phone reboots (soft reboot) and everything starts from the beginning.
The first time this happened I was using Modacos Ir9. I had the phone switched off over night and switched it on. Only thing that seemed to help was completely unrooting the phone and rerooting it again.
The second time I was using codeworkx CM9 Builds and tried to update. I restored my nandroid, but it kept happening. Flashing the XXKK1 Radio did the trick here.
Now it is happening again. This time I installed dropbox and the phone froze on the setup wizard...
I don't want to unroot the phone, it takes forever to restore the SD card.
Any advice on this one?
Update:
- Flashed the following radio images without any success: XXKL1, KRKL1, UGKL1 and XXKK1
- Used my older nandroids from CM9 and Modaco Ir10. NOT WORKING
- Wiped every nandroid. NOT WORKING AT ALL
- Reflashed CM9 and Ir10. Still NOT WORKING
I'm so lost I'm going to revert to stock and unroot... and try how far I can throw an 1 month old GNx from the fourth story.

I don't know much on the development part so I don't know why its doing that I can only suggest using odin and going back to stock.
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I had similar problems with mine once. Only thing that helped me out wasn't unrooting though. A complete factory reset was enough to make me go on again.
I posted a thread here then to ask people if anyone experianced the same but got no reaction what so ever zo I guess "we" are a dark minority.
I don't know what it caused it or what the solution might be but a Factory reset did it for me.
Good Luck!

C-4Nati said:
I don't know much on the development part so I don't know why its doing that I can only suggest using odin and going back to stock.
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Last time it was working again after reverting to stock. But I bought it to use Custom Roms

I would say go back to stock w/ odin, Wipe everything and start again.

Diger36 said:
I had similar problems with mine once. Only thing that helped me out wasn't unrooting though. A complete factory reset was enough to make me go on again.
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Factory Reset wasn't helping unfortunatly.
Flashed the original factory image through fastboot. Now everything is working again. I'm restoring my SD backup now and will try to get CM9 working again.
If it would keep failing in stock I could return the phone. Now I'm left with "hopefully it isn't happening a fourth time" and "My phone doesn't work I need 4 hours to get ich working"

the_alien said:
Factory Reset wasn't helping unfortunatly.
Flashed the original factory image through fastboot. Now everything is working again. I'm restoring my SD backup now and will try to get CM9 working again.
If it would keep failing in stock I could return the phone. Now I'm left with "hopefully it isn't happening a fourth time" and "My phone doesn't work I need 4 hours to get ich working"
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Fastboot flash stock google images. And your phone isn't bricked. Stop using the term wrong. It's most likely a software issue or you're doing the rom flash procedure incorrectly.
A bricked phone is a phone that is unaw to go into bootloader and recovery mode and cannot start android.
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zephiK said:
Fastboot flash stock google images. And your phone isn't bricked. Stop using the term wrong. It's most likely a software issue or you're doing the rom flash procedure incorrectly.
A bricked phone is a phone that is unaw to go into bootloader and recovery mode and cannot start android.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Sorry for using the term wrong, I thought it just referes to broken phones.
The ROM flash is correct and it runs for some time and the problem occours after a few days... the only thing that helped was reverting to factory images and after that restore the nandroid from the "broken" Rom.
So the Rom works... than keeps crashing, I do a nandroid backup and only a factory image stops the crashes. But the Rom keeps working after I restore it.
I can't see why this could be a hardware issue. And I can't see how I should explain it to the store "Yes, it is working but not with custom roms, and I bought the Nexus because of custom roms..."

the_alien said:
Sorry for using the term wrong, I thought it just referes to broken phones.
The ROM flash is correct and it runs for some time and the problem occours after a few days... the only thing that helped was reverting to factory images and after that restore the nandroid from the "broken" Rom.
So the Rom works... than keeps crashing, I do a nandroid backup and only a factory image stops the crashes. But the Rom keeps working after I restore it.
I can't see why this could be a hardware issue. And I can't see how I should explain it to the store "Yes, it is working but not with custom roms, and I bought the Nexus because of custom roms..."
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I'm willing to bet an app is causing it.
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One of my colleagues had this issue with an early CM9 build on his Nexus S - turned out it was an app that is incompatible with ICS. Every time it tried to launch a notification, poof. So I would have to side with Josh in the post above mine.
A way for you to verify / discredit this theory would be : When you say it works with the stock ROM, are you re-installing everything you have when you are on stock? My understanding from what you've written above is that you're only getting your full suite of apps back when you restore your (presumably custom ROM) nandroid backup...

Potterified said:
One of my colleagues had this issue with an early CM9 build on his Nexus S - turned out it was an app that is incompatible with ICS. Every time it tried to launch a notification, poof. So I would have to side with Josh in the post above mine.
A way for you to verify / discredit this theory would be : When you say it works with the stock ROM, are you re-installing everything you have when you are on stock? My understanding from what you've written above is that you're only getting your full suite of apps back when you restore your (presumably custom ROM) nandroid backup...
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It can't be any app or ROM because IF it happens, it happens on all ROMs, regardless of wipe or not.
It just happened again and i wiped everything and tried using AOKP MS 3. Wasn't working... So I tried using the phone without the SIM card, because the hell only breaks loose after entering my PIN. And it worked. I could use the phone...
I put it back in and it worked...
I'm restoring my CM9 nandroid right now. I'm hoping it works...
edit: Nope, ripping out the SIM doesn't work. I'm reverting to stock and wait what happens. If it crashes again I'm trying to return it.

Camera wont open?

Just got my 10 today. Rooted and S-Off right out of the box. I'm now in the process of setting it all up and noticed the camera app opens for a second but shows no picture and then closes. I installed Google Camera and upon opening it just hangs. I uninstalled a bunch of stock stuff so something may have broken it, although I didn't touch anything camera related.
Any ideas?

I can't get any camera app to work actually.

thenags said:
I can't get any camera app to work actually.
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Did you install a custom kernel?
If you are on the latest ROM 180.xxx and using a custom kernel that could be the problem.

fokus said:
Did you install a custom kernel?
If you are on the latest ROM 180.xxx and using a custom kernel that could be the problem.
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I didn't install a custom kernel, no. I'm using the stock ROM just rooted.

No idea why this worked but I restored my original original backup before making a single change. When it booted it was still booting into the system I had fully setup but with the addition of everything I had deleted. I went through in titanium and deleted all the exact same things again. 1000% the same. And now the camera and everything is functioning as it should.
Now I just gotta wait for an AOSP ROM.
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I just got a replacement US unlocked version, my camera is blurry at a distance, and won't focus at all. Only rooted and S-Off.

Same problem
thenags said:
No idea why this worked but I restored my original original backup before making a single change. When it booted it was still booting into the system I had fully setup but with the addition of everything I had deleted. I went through in titanium and deleted all the exact same things again. 1000% the same. And now the camera and everything is functioning as it should.
Now I just gotta wait for an AOSP ROM.
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I've got a new HTC 10 (64GB) Taiwanese stock and received two OTA's after setting it up. It brought the software to 1.80.709.1 but broke the camera in the process! I'm experiencing the same thing as you are. Click on the camera and it shuts in a second without displaying anything in the viewfinder. Try to access the camera from another app, no luck, just black screen.
I bought the device online and have been trying to organise a replacement but it's taking forever. I've done everything relating to the camera (clearing cache/data to updates, downgrades) and even a factory reset but couldn't solve the issue. I'm pretty darn sure it's not a hardware issue because the camera was working fine before I did the two software updates and I did not drop or impact the phone. So I think if I can reflash 1.80.709.1 or go back to my original ROM and re-do the OTAs I might be ok. But how can I do that without rooting... (want to avoid root if I can).
I've been trying to find the stock RUU for the 1.80.709.1 without any luck (closest I got was the TWRP zip but don't want to deal with that if I can avoid). I've got the RUU for 1.80.617.1 from the HTC US site (Int Unlocked/Dev) but I'm not sure if I flash this would something else break. Particularly around LTE reception / Bands.
Any advice?