Alrighty....seems as if I have some MAJOR problems here.
Background, I have a DInc 1, rooted using Unrevoked, and the only ROM I put on it was Cyanogen Mod 7. S-off is all set up, and there is the Superuser features have worked fine 75% of the time. Everything was up and running quite well for some time. Then this weekend, I installed a few different DWLauncher themes, and things still seemed to be ok. Sunday night, I installed Words with Friends, and that is when all hell broke lose.
Now, I really can't run anything. Apps are force closing all over the place, Google framework stuff is force closing and when I even try to report a problem, even that force closes. So, I uninstalled the Words with Friends App, and changed themes, thinking those were the culprits, but seems like the damage has been done. Nothing really works and everything is force closing.
Went into the ROM Manager (premium) and did a fix permissions and it gave me the "error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands" error. I ran it a handful of times, and it worked once last night. I thought it would have cleared a bunch of stuff up, but it didn't really help at all. Kept the phone off all night, and when I got to work this morning, I started working on it. Fine, time to ditch everything and start from scratch. So, downloaded a different ROM (Cyanogen MOD nightly), and also tried a few others, which it let me download, but when I click to install, no matter what options I click from wiping cache, wiping Dalvik, backing up or anything, it always gave me the same error. So, back to ROM manager, trying to boot in recovery, error, boot into CM recovery, error.
Edit, as I finished typing this, I tried to install the nightly one more time, but did not click wipe Dalvik, and it is installing things. As soon as everything installed, it was more of the same, apps crashing all over the place. I was able to go into ROM manager and boot into CM recovery, which is now allowing me to fix problems. So, it seems as if was working properly, for the first couple of hours, but around 10 pm, roughly 12 hours after the install, app crash-o-rama again. Also, from ROM Manager, when I try to flash ClockworkMod Recovery, it force closes.
So, I am kinda stuck. No matter what ROM I download, it gives me the same error. At this point, I don't care what ROM is on there (I do have preferences), but I just want the phone working again. Is there anyway to force a wipe and install?
Thanks in advance
You can, instead of installing the ROM through ROM Manager, just download the ROM zip file, put it on your SD card, do the full wipe/factory reset/dalvik in Recovery, then flash the ROM zip from there.
I've had issues trying to install a ROM that's downloaded from ROM Manager.
Here's what I do before flashing the ROM zip file:
Wipe user data/factory reset
Wipe dalvik (under the Advanced menu in Recovery)
Wipe /boot, /system, /data, /cache (under Mounts and Storage in Recovery)
THEN flash the ROM zip file.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the reply. It has been a long day of working on this phone. I have to pull my battery so many times, almost as many times as my blackberry.
I have installed about 4 different ROM versions until it would allow me to clean everything up, Dalvik and system cache, but as of now, everything is back up and running.....for now. Let's hope it stays that way.
If it doesn't, it seem like I will go the way of skipping the ROM Manager and just boot straight into recovery and do it all that way.
Thanks again
ROM manager isn't exactly reliable software. Most devs recommend a clockwork flash rather than ROM manager. Don't know why there are so many issues with it, but its pretty much not worth using to flash ROMs. It's fix permission feature is exactly the same routine that clockwork uses though. Updating the superuser might be something to try too.
ROM manager only wipes once and cwm3 doesn't wipe properly.... I've always read that you should wipe data cache and dalvik 3 times each before installing a new ROM wich is why you should use cwm.
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Re: multiple wipes
http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-05/time_to_wipe_data/cache
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Re: multiple wipes
http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-05/time_to_wipe_data/cache
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Awesome link!
That you all for the info. I tried a few things, installed a few ROMS, wiped them each time, and back to the CM7 nightlies and it all seems to be working fine now. Let's hope it stays that way.
Next time I have problems, I will have to do everything out side of ROM Manager and see if it has a better result..
Thanks again
Actually this has happened to me, usually happens when installing or Uninstalling certain hardware.
After reinstalling my roms to get it to work right when it did it few hours later to infuriate me. The only thing that did work was booting into Recovery and install my rom again but with what the guy said.
Wipe all data, everything, factory reset.
Then install your rom, then make sure you don't install or Uninstall certain hardware.
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I installed 4.0.2 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394051
And since I did, the Market keeps Force Closing. I can open the market, browse, search etc, but as soon as I try to open an app/book/film to see the details, I get a Force Close - "Unfortunately, Market has stopped". I tried clearing data, clearing cache, also tried clearing dalvik, fix permissions and cache partition in CWM, but still no joy.
I then installed several other 4.0.2 ROMs - the MCR, bigxie's 4.0.2, and a stock deodexed one and all are giving the same problem. I don't really want to go back to 4.0.1.
Can anybody suggest anything?
AMoosa said:
I installed 4.0.2 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394051
And since I did, the Market keeps Force Closing. I can open the market, browse, search etc, but as soon as I try to open an app/book/film to see the details, I get a Force Close - "Unfortunately, Market has stopped". I tried clearing data, clearing cache, also tried clearing dalvik, fix permissions and cache partition in CWM, but still no joy.
I then installed several other 4.0.2 ROMs - the MCR, bigxie's 4.0.2, and a stock deodexed one and all are giving the same problem. I don't really want to go back to 4.0.1.
Can anybody suggest anything?
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Clear cache, dalvik cache, and format system in recovery if dose not work do all agn reinstall rom u want if still doing it ur gunna have to do all that agn and factory restore, back up with titanium back cause u going to loose everything.Only thing that worked for me .
Ouch. Been running various ROMs and various kernels. Had a ROM installed with imosyons exp2 kernel and touch recovery. Was trying out 1.42GHz. All of a sudden phone spontaneously rebooted. Hung repeatedly on Google screen. OK, no problem. Will wipe cache and dalvik cache and reinstall kernel. Hung on the dalvik cache wipe. OK, will skip the wipe and just load kernel. Opps, hung looking for .zip files. Opps, will reload recovery. Still hanging everywhere.
Used Galaxy Toolkit to reload stock images. It did do 1 bootloop, but then acted normally.
Reloaded everything. Left 1.42 alone! Worked all day and then I installed ROM Manager to make a nandroid backup. It wanted to install CWR so I let it. Upon a reboot it went into bootloops. Now I cannot do a factory restore (all my data is there upon a reboot). Tried the ODIN solution but it's still not clearing data. Apparently no PIT available to reparition? Shoot, what do I do!
I flashed this over stock rooted EL29 with safe recovery El26 then i flashed google apps 10.1 on it then rebooted
Then the keyboard was force closing so i removed that and then rebooted then got other force closes when i tried to log into my google account when it first sets up.
SO i rebooted into recovery wiped data, dalvik, and cache then i reflashed cm10 along with google apps 10.1 and it was even worse...
So what am i doing wwrong? am i flashing the wrong google apps?
I always flashed these gapps on jelly bean and never had any problems
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip
Do a clean install and flash those gapps if you still have problems it might be a bad download.
I just switched ROMs to LiquidSmooth 4.2.2 after using a 4.1.2 for a while. I wiped dalvik, cache, data, and system, did a clean install of the ROM, and booted it up just fine and was able to set it up with my account, do titanium backup for some apps, etc.
After doing all of this, I went back into recovery to flash a different kernel (AOSP uber kernel for 4.2.2) and after the phone did its "optimizing apps" thing during boot, right when the lockscreen appeared my phone crashed and said "unfortunately com.android.phone" has stopped and proceeded to boot cycle.
I decided to wipe the same 4 partitions again and reinstall the ROM once again to start over. This time, I set it up the same way, went into recovery to flash the latest 4.2.2 gapps, and the same com.android.phone crashing bootloop thing started up again after rebooting my phone.
What gives?