What is SOD and why do unofficial JB roms randomly freeze phone? - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

I've tried looking for the definition of "SOD" but couldn't find it. what does it mean? (sorry if it's a noob question)
also, i've been running unofficial JB roms from Cyanogen and AOKP, but both of them randomly freeze up and restart my phone. and when they try to restart, they dont do anything after the initial samsung logo pops up. any possible explanations for that? i figured it couldn't be a bad download when it happens with two different roms...but i could be wrong. should i flash different kernels? and any way i could expand my battery life on ROMs? my battery sucks on most ICS/JB roms...

Sod is sleep of death.
Did you try darkside cache wipe? That could fix boot loops
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angellsl said:
Sod is sleep of death.
Did you try darkside cache wipe? That could fix boot loops
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what is sleep of death?
i did, but im talking about the ROM actually working and in the middle of an application or something, it'll freeze up and try to restart. and i have to take the battery out and put it back in for it to completely boot up again.

AFAIK what you describe is sod. Freeze and have to take out the battery to reboot. RR=random reboots, where it reboots ant not freeze
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diqsa said:
what is sleep of death?
i did, but im talking about the ROM actually working and in the middle of an application or something, it'll freeze up and try to restart. and i have to take the battery out and put it back in for it to completely boot up again.
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Actually, SOD is the behavior in which the phone goes into "sleep" mode... typically screen off, and then won't wake up with power button.
From what i've read... SOD happens when you do really aggressive clocking to save battery life. There seems to be two states of CPU, when the screen is on, and off. Depending on how / what state / governor is used... you could get SOD. I forgot all the various threads I've read this on... but search for it and you should find a ton.
The behavior you're having is more of an RR than a SOD. Granted you're freezing up. The better question is... are you following all of the ROM OP's instructions? Have you been RESTORING apps from backup? Bottom line is... DON'T.
DON'T install zip's/mod's that aren't included and validated by the OP. This includes kernels. The JB CyanogenMod and AOKP threads I believe say don't flash any other kernels yet.
DON'T restore from backup. At least don't do it until you know you're stable with just the ROM itself.
That'd be a start...

No need for battery pull. Just hold down power button till you feel phone vibrate. Between 10-20 seconds.

sylikc said:
Actually, SOD is the behavior in which the phone goes into "sleep" mode... typically screen off, and then won't wake up with power button.
From what i've read... SOD happens when you do really aggressive clocking to save battery life. There seems to be two states of CPU, when the screen is on, and off. Depending on how / what state / governor is used... you could get SOD. I forgot all the various threads I've read this on... but search for it and you should find a ton.
The behavior you're having is more of an RR than a SOD. Granted you're freezing up. The better question is... are you following all of the ROM OP's instructions? Have you been RESTORING apps from backup? Bottom line is... DON'T.
DON'T install zip's/mod's that aren't included and validated by the OP. This includes kernels. The JB CyanogenMod and AOKP threads I believe say don't flash any other kernels yet.
DON'T restore from backup. At least don't do it until you know you're stable with just the ROM itself.
That'd be a start...
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ahh i see. well that's annoying lol. ironically, the battery life is still not that great on my ROMs haha. but yeah i did follow up instructions from the OP. now when you say restoring apps...does that include things like messaging? i don't restore things like facebook/group me/flipboard or anything like that. usually just messaging and call storage data that i restore via Titanium Backup. does that count? and no i also havent tried to install any mods or kernels of my own. i usually just use the ones that the ROM comes with.

sylikc said:
The behavior you're having is more of an RR than a SOD. Granted you're freezing up. The better question is... are you following all of the ROM OP's instructions? Have you been RESTORING apps from backup? Bottom line is... DON'T.
DON'T install zip's/mod's that aren't included and validated by the OP. This includes kernels. The JB CyanogenMod and AOKP threads I believe say don't flash any other kernels yet.
DON'T restore from backup. At least don't do it until you know you're stable with just the ROM itself.
That'd be a start...
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Thing is, I've been running the latest builds of CM10 with little to no SOD or RR issues and I've been restoring data from backups of the previously nightlys builds using TWRP. Granted, each phone is different... But each phone is different lol. Precautionary advice is good I suppose, but to me it would create a hassle if I had to start with fresh data on my apps whenever I updated. Of course, I don't report bugs, but I'm sure a lot of users don't regardless.
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Laazyboy said:
Thing is, I've been running the latest builds of CM10 with little to no SOD or RR issues and I've been restoring data from backups of the previously nightlys builds using TWRP. Granted, each phone is different... But each phone is different lol. Precautionary advice is good I suppose, but to me it would create a hassle if I had to start with fresh data on my apps whenever I updated. Of course, I don't report bugs, but I'm sure a lot of users don't regardless.
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i was thinking about it, and i've heard pretty much nothing but great things about TWRP. i used CWM non touch ever since i rooted my S2, but i have a feeling that it's getting outdated fast lol. you think flashing with TWRP has anything to do with your phone's performance?

diqsa said:
i was thinking about it, and i've heard pretty much nothing but great things about TWRP. i used CWM non touch ever since i rooted my S2, but i have a feeling that it's getting outdated fast lol. you think flashing with TWRP has anything to do with your phone's performance?
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Absolutely not.
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[Q] advice? seems like my phone is getting more unstable

What's up everyone! just needed some advice if you don't mind. lately my phone's been freezing randomly, and it seems like my battery life has been getting crappier..
was wondering if I should just Odin back to stock and re-flash everything, do you think that would cure my ills?
I started with my first ROM -- srf1.1.0 and loved it... tried the vision kernel 1.1, tried genocide 1.0... LOVED vision 1.2 but went back to 1.1 because ppl started getting bricks..
i don't know if it's data corruption (have journalling off), or if it's like artifacts from vision kernel 1.2 (it didn't give me any problems, honestly my fav kernel with insane battery life it seemed)
yesterday i restored a back up that was pre-ext4.. and it when that rebooted i had the "android" flashing over the original sprint bootup animation, so i rebooted and got thrown into a boot loop. pulled battery, booted into cwm and restored into a more recent backup that was post-ext4 and things seem to be fine.. except i've gotten maybe two random freezes since.
so yea, do you think Odin to stock and reflashing srf will bring me back to bliss, or.. am i screwed, or somewhere in between? i've read as much as i could but i know i'm a newb, so i'm grateful for any wisdom y'all can throw my way. THANKS!
cache83 said:
so yea, do you think Odin to stock and reflashing srf will bring me back to bliss,
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Yes, it will. You did a number on your data, so it's little wonder things weren't working well for you. If you get freezes, use VisionKernel 1.1 or Genocide.
k0nane said:
Yes, it will. You did a number on your data, so it's little wonder things weren't working well for you. If you get freezes, use VisionKernel 1.1 or Genocide.
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thanks k0nane.. just finished doing all that -- phew, just leveled up my experience... now i can add "knows how to use odin" to the resume lol
I recommend trying Twilight Zone kernel 1.0.4... Thats the one I have had the best luck with,nothing against the other 2 kOnane mentioned,just my opinion.
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Use genocide
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Most important while figuring out which is best, enable file system journaling by doing a cwm backup and restore right after the clean build. This will help the more unstable phenon from recurring in the future.
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update: so last night i ODIN'd back to EB13, ODIN'd the EC05 modem, and reflashed SRF1.1.0 and things were great... until i flashed fugutweaks (it seemed like that was the culprit).. then i started getting lots of FCs for gmail mail calendar and google framework...
wiped data/cache/dalvik x3 in cwm and reflashed SRF1.1.0 and things have been good.
can someone confirm this point? --> i think i've learned not to do more than one thing in cwm at a time. like if i fix permissions, then i should reboot before flashing the impaled keyboard tweak, etc.. is that correct? i think i do remember getting lazy before and doing two things in cwm before rebooting, or something like that.
i also think i learned that i can't just replace bootanimation.zip in the SRF1.1.0 .zip file with a different one -- is that because the zip is "signed"?
all in all... i thank all of you guys here -- i'm learning lots and i'm grateful that i have knowledgeable peeps to turn to when i've done something i wasn't smart enough to realize was dumb =)
k0nane said:
Yes, it will. You did a number on your data, so it's little wonder things weren't working well for you. If you get freezes, use VisionKernel 1.1 or Genocide.
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k0nane -- was there something in specific that you're referring to that I did, which "did a number on my data"? just curious -- i'd like not to repeat that again (although, i'd like also to not have to turn journaling on, lol)
THANK YOU GUYS AGAIN!
cache83 said:
k0nane -- was there something in specific that you're referring to that I did, which "did a number on my data"? just curious -- i'd like not to repeat that again (although, i'd like also to not have to turn journaling on,
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Just out of currrorisoty...why anti journal. I mean imho....the performance hit is negligable and it helps to saf3guard you against the types of failure you hqve qalready exppierance
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Journaling shortens the life of your phone. More writes = faster nand corruption.
by as much as ext4 vs rfs... which would equate to a few days shorter life over the lifespan of your phone.. all the backup restores, and odin flashes more than make up for the journal writes anyway...
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Journaling shortens the life of your phone. More writes = faster nand corruption.
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I know I had an ssd on a netbook and thought the same. If you are talking the difference of 30 years on the storage v s 100 years...I personally don't care about that as nobody will ev en recal the epic on that time. I think the life shortening thin is negligable due to the use expectancy of the phone.
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Does anyone else find this phone to be a mess or do i just have a bad one?

My phone is always shutting itself off or randomly rebooting. The most it has ever gone without a reboot is 3 days and lately thats a stretch. I am running phantom hackers blazer rom. Is this just something that you go through when rooted? I love this phone but i hate goin to use it and see that its off. Sometimes i consider getting rid of this thing and goin with an iphone because of how stable they are. My bro has an iphone and it is pure rock solid!
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I can go Weeks without a reboot. Running try the ROM in my sig. Make sure you do a clean install, using the flash all script. Don't use TB until you are stable. After that you will be golden.
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So you think its the rom and not my phone? I will say it never rebooted before i rooted it. I do LOVE this phone and would hate to get rid of it i just get soo mad when it reboots. Not something you should expect from a 500+ dollar device..
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Yes, I think it is software related. Only time I ever get a random reboot is from something software related being off. Could be ROM, kernel, theme, just about any thing. That's why you want to start fresh. Caulks ROM is dead solid stable.
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rbtrucking -- are you undervolted? The only time I've had any stability/reboot problems with this phone were when I was a little too aggressive with the undervolt (or overclocked to 1.7ghz ). I'm on calk's 2.8.1 with steadyhawkin's gunslinger kernel btw.
Phones the most reliable I've ever had now that the los is gone. I undervolt mine considerably. I have 3 other friends with thus phone 2 of them not rooted. The stocks have more issues then rooted ones I swear with reboot hot reboots freezing..getting sticky on transitions . Each phone just handles each Rom a lily different....YMMV
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rbtrucking -- are you undervolted? The only time I've had any stability/reboot problems with this phone were when I was a little too aggressive with the undervolt (or overclocked to 1.7ghz ). I'm on calk's 2.8.1 with steadyhawkin's gunslinger kernel btw.
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Nope I am not undervolting or overclocking at all. I leave the cpu settings alone as I find the phone to be plenty fast and overclocking can drastically decrease the life of a cpu especially without proper cooling. I have heard nothing but amazing things about calkulins roms though maybe I will give it a try. Anyone else having any issues like mine on Phantom Hackers Blazer rom?
If you flash back to stock and it still does it its ur sd card.
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srgwidowmaker said:
If you flash back to stock and it still does it its ur sd card.
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Ya I actually already had an sd card go bad on me and had to remove it because my phone would literally reboot every 10 minutes and sometimes I would have to pull the battery out for a little while to get it to go back on. The sd card was really really old though, came with my original evo. Since removing the sd card the reboots are allot less frequent but they still do occur but usually no more than once a day sometimes every couple days.
In 3 months I had one reboot...
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Well all I can say is I flashed calkulins rom with the pure honey theme and this **** is HOT!! I really never knew using titanium backup that you dont lose ANYTHING! For some reason I always thought it just backs up apps! Had I known this I would have been flashing new roms allot more frequently though I love this one soo much I will definitely be sticking with it for some time. Lets just hope it runs stable on my phone! So far no complaints but it has only been about 10 minutes! Thank you for recommending this rom!
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rbtrucking said:
Well all I can say is I flashed calkulins rom with the pure honey theme and this **** is HOT!! I really never knew using titanium backup that you dont lose ANYTHING! For some reason I always thought it just backs up apps! Had I known this I would have been flashing new roms allot more frequently though I love this one soo much I will definitely be sticking with it for some time. Lets just hope it runs stable on my phone! So far no complaints but it has only been about 10 minutes! Thank you for recommending this rom!
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And if you feel like flashing something else....BLEND rom is a very stable build also
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Just to double check and make sure everything else is ok do you think I should update my kernal or modem? I dont want any conflicts. I am going to upload a screenshot of my about phone page. Thank you all for the support by the way!
rbtrucking said:
Just to double check and make sure everything else is ok do you think I should update my kernal or modem? I dont want any conflicts. I am going to upload a screenshot of my about phone page. Thank you all for the support by the way!
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All looks good.....flash the hitman kernel if you want OC with the new touch recovery
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Danial723 said:
All looks good.....flash the hitman kernel if you want OC with the new touch recovery
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Damn touch recovery huh? That sounds awesome! Do you by any chance know how to change lockscreens with calkulins rom? Right now I am using the draw pattern to unlock but I might want to switch to the stock epic 4g touch lockscreen.
rbtrucking said:
Damn touch recovery huh? That sounds awesome! Do you by any chance know how to change lockscreens with calkulins rom? Right now I am using the draw pattern to unlock but I might want to switch to the stock epic 4g touch lockscreen.
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No...i havent ran calks rom forever....im on the blend rom with the tsm mod.....has alot of lock screens
Oh....go to location and security and turn off your lock pattern....that should bring you back to the stock lock screen
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Danial723 said:
No...i havent ran calks rom forever....im on the blend rom with the tsm mod.....has alot of lock screens
Oh....go to location and security and turn off your lock pattern....that should bring you back to the stock lock screen
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Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for!
Since day one my phone reboots on average 2 times a day and overheats and/or shuts off at least once a wk. For me, it's not software related as I have tried every rom.
Today it just started a new thing where it will boot up (go through the animation) and then the screen will go dark to where I can't do anything. Right before it goes dark, the animation will freeze. I am able to get into the recovery though, and have wiped the cache and dalvik.
adima said:
Since day one my phone reboots on average 2 times a day and overheats and/or shuts off at least once a wk. For me, it's not software related as I have tried every rom.
Today it just started a new thing where it will boot up (go through the animation) and then the screen will go dark to where I can't do anything. Right before it goes dark, the animation will freeze. I am able to get into the recovery though, and have wiped the cache and dalvik.
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Change your sd card....see if that helps
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Danial723 said:
Change your sd card....see if that helps
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Yes this person is right I had a fault sd card in my phone and it caused behavior very much like you are describing. Reboots at least once a day sometimes about 10 times a day and all kinds of bad behaviors!

[Q] Best custom/mod kernel for Stock UCLJ3 Rom (root)

Just wondering what the best kernel is to flash to the stock UCLJ3 rom?
I'm suffering crazy battery drain since updating. I've done a ton of things including a full wipe and reflash, and it's still happening.
Only thing I havent tried, or done before is flash a kernel...
Any recommendations?
melvatron said:
Just wondering what the best kernel is to flash to the stock UCLJ3 rom?
I'm suffering crazy battery drain since updating. I've done a ton of things including a full wipe and reflash, and it's still happening.
Only thing I havent tried, or done before is flash a kernel...
Any recommendations?
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Haven't had any trouble with the battery drain using IcePop rom! but of course flashing any new rom, you have to let it settle for 1 to 2 days / charge cycles for the os to stabilize!
I've been running it since day of release.... Using battery apps all reports that the Android OS using a heavy % and/or the phone isnt always going into deep sleep.
And its happening even before I put a google account on or install any apps.
I suppose I could go back to G9 or the H2 release... might do it as a test, to see if it really is the J3 release thats causing me problems.
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I've been running it since day of release.... Using battery apps all reports that the Android OS using a heavy % and/or the phone isnt always going into deep sleep.
And its happening even before I put a google account on or install any apps.
I suppose I could go back to G9 or the H2 release... might do it as a test, to see if it really is the J3 release thats causing me problems.
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Which kernel are your running? Also check to see what your cpu governor is set to! Use system tuner from the market
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Just the default I think... I dont believe I've done anything more than flash an entire ROM, and mostly rooted stocks.
Gonna give that app a try though, thanks for the tip.
melvatron said:
Just the default I think... I dont believe I've done anything more than flash an entire ROM, and mostly rooted stocks.
Gonna give that app a try though, thanks for the tip.
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I'm hoping to release a new an updated version if not tonight maybe by Monday! battery life should be good.
keep in mind that a deodexed rom will use a little more power!
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[Q] Ridiclously slow!

Hi,
My GN was fine when I purchased it a month ago, brand new, but its so sluggish that its almost unusable. Phone dialer, Messaging and almost all apps load with a 3-5 second delay, even the keyboard opens after a few seconds.
I'm on stock 4.2.1 (deodexed) and even flashed fugumod kernel just today hoping it would fix things, I even factory reset it but no joy.
Could it be a hardware issue? is there any way I could run some quick tests to see whats wrong?
A similar thing happened to me when I decided to try a new kernel I've never used before, and it did not agree with my phone. Try a different kernel like lean kernel or Franco kernel and see if it still happens. If so, go back to stock.
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I was on stock, then tried FuguMod, but it still lags, not as much as before but pretty slow.
Do you have lag spikes? Like many little freezes?
calinoii said:
Do you have lag spikes? Like many little freezes?
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Exactly, many little freezes
I have thr same problem...from like 30 to 30 seconds I have those many little freezes...i tried many roms/kernels but no succes,even flashed the stock images and it's the same...I think something is messing our CPU cuz i had this issue even on stock rom/krrnel
check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2029246
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check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2029246
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Not for me...
What are your kernel settings?
why dont you flash to 100% stock and see if the problems still persist?
Franco's kernel always good. I gave my gf my gnex never had a problem with sluggish she loves it.try going back to stock and redo everything start fresh and see if it still persisting
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I personaly did flash a complete stock image of 4.2.1,worked well for a day and after that the issue reappeared...using franco and lean...both have the same probl like the stock one...the only one that works kind of OK is faux's...
calinoii said:
I personaly did flash a complete stock image of 4.2.1,worked well for a day and after that the issue reappeared...using franco and lean...both have the same probl like the stock one...the only one that works kind of OK is faux's...
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I'll ask again. What are your kernel settings?
063_XOBX said:
I'll ask again. What are your kernel settings?
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Just stock...should i change anything on the gov settings? Or the voltages? It seems that my device won't support some kernels. If you could tell me something to change for making it better,that would be great.
Have you used up almost of your memory in the sd card? I don't know if GN's are affected by eMMC bug brick. I've asked this before but they said GN is not affected. It has something to do with a bad chip.
Here's the link
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39154
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I don't have that chip type

[Q] Is something wrong with my battery or configuration?

Wel, I was having pretty good battery life with the L710's stock MA6 ROM with KT747's kernel but I decided to flash a new ROM.
Here is what battery life looks like and I'm worried that its not the ROM but a problem with my battery, since people have been reporting exceptional battery life with this ROM.
Some specs.
ROM: LIQUID-JB-2.1-STABLE
Kernel: KT747-Kernel-AOSP-JB-MR1-SPR-03-14-2013
Governor: ondemand
Scheduler: cfq
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Attached is the battery screenshot.
It won't even charge when connected with light use. Thoughts?
Before anyone asks this is my third time installing the ROM and I'm pretty sure I don't have the Google services wake lock.
dan_h1n474 said:
Before anyone asks this is my third time installing the ROM and I'm pretty sure I don't have the Google services wake lock.
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O the three times u installed did u do a full wipe (wipe data factory reset ) also are you over clocked and did u restore old kernal settings.
livis n fur said:
O the three times u installed did u do a full wipe (wipe data factory reset ) also are you over clocked and did u restore old kernal settings.
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I try to never dirty flash and usually just restore apps from TitaniumBackup. All three times were full wipes formatting any partition I could other than extSdcard. No old kernel settings were restored and I'm not over or undeclocked but I did under volt by 50 and the phone seems stable but no improvement.
As a matter of fact during the latter of the installs I restored nothing. I've also disconnected my sdCard in hopes that it was a bad card (some hopes) but to no avail.
I am redownloading the rooms even do the md5 sum was the exact and downloading the gapp from a different source.
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Try running LiquidSmooth's stock kernel. I'm getting pretty good battery life with that. KT747 may not agree with your phone combined with this rom. I had good results when I ran KT with a TW rom, but not so much with AOSP. Every phone can behave differently.
Good luck.
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kjjm said:
Try running LiquidSmooth's stock kernel. I'm getting pretty good battery life with that. KT747 may not agree with your phone combined with this rom. I had good results when I ran KT with a TW rom, but not so much with AOSP. Every phone can behave differently.
Good luck.
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I ran my phone with the kernel that LiquidSmooth has as stock, and it was extremely buggy for me, maybe it just did not behave well with my phone but it looks like the kernel has a few known issues as is. One bug I had is that audio playback was extremely erratic, and I haven't come across a commenter stating anything similar. I'd really hate migrating from LiquidSmooth, especially with the notion that I just "gave up", and not on just any release but on a stable release.
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Update:
On this new install from a new download and gapps from a different source, I do not seem to be having the audio issue, which seems strange as both prior downloads had an exact md5 sum.
*Currently hopeful with fingers crossed*
I'm really enjoying LiquidSmooth, too, so I know what you mean. I hope it works for you this time.
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