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double animation problem

so it seems that after I moved to an AOSP rom (and then came back) I have a lot of problems. One that is confusing is the fact that I have 2 animations (even after flashing factory ODIN stock rom).
I am getting the samsung swirly graphic animation followed by the sprint 4g lte animation. The funny thing is that the sprint music plays over the samsung animation and then the sprint animation is without sound. Why does the ODIN not clear that old animation?
Anyone else run into this? I cannot seem to clear it even after several factory resets.
P.S.... dont install an AOSP rom unless you want a lot of issues.

I'm not exactly sure what you're describing about the Samsung boot animation. Which aosp ruin did you install? We need to know so that we can have a reference and an idea on how to help, cause not all roms are created equal.
Secondly, the factory reset in recovery mode only clears user data. It doesn't reset your phone to out-of-the-box conditions. So factory testing a million times wouldn't change the boot animation (or the Rom, for that matter).
If you want to try to manually change the boot animation, there's a thread over in the themes and apps section of the Sprint s3 forums, or you can download Rom toolbox pro and they have the option in there.
Finally, most aosp roms are fairly stable. I've been running them exclusively for the past 5 months and they've gotten much more stable over that time. Yes, there are some inherit things that are less stable than on tw roms, but all-in-all, they're fairly stable. The good thing about nandroid backups is that we can flash any number of roms and always go back to something we love. That is, assuming you made a nandroid backup.
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edufur said:
so it seems that after I moved to an AOSP rom (and then came back) I have a lot of problems. One that is confusing is the fact that I have 2 animations (even after flashing factory ODIN stock rom).
I am getting the samsung swirly graphic animation followed by the sprint 4g lte animation. The funny thing is that the sprint music plays over the samsung animation and then the sprint animation is without sound. Why does the ODIN not clear that old animation?
Anyone else run into this? I cannot seem to clear it even after several factory resets.
P.S.... dont install an AOSP rom unless you want a lot of issues.
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I would suggest doing a FULL Wipe before Flashing when switching from AOSP, to TW. Or vis versa. It sounds like you have a bad flash.
What I do is :
DALVIK CACHE
CACHE PARTITION
FORMAT SYSTEM
FORMAT SD:EXT
FORMAT DATA
FORMAT CACHE
THEN WIPE ALL USER DATA/FACTORY RESET

I guess I should have been clear. I did a full wipe both ways... full wipe before installing AOSP (CM10 Stable), and a full wipe when I came back... and factory restore after odin. Even cleared internal storage. Nothing restores the original boot animation. Is there a way to make this thing fully stock out of the box?
Even since the CM10 flash (stable build), my battery now drains faster and GPS locks slower and drifts... it used to not drift.

You can flash freeza's Stock Rooted Rom. The link is below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910947
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

prboy1969 said:
You can flash freeza's Stock Rooted Rom. The link is below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2586
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Could you explain to me how a stock rooted rom is closer to out of the box than the shipped rom which has been factory reset?
Does his stock rooted ROM guarantee to remove the double animation and return the ROM to the original single sprint animation?
And will his rom somehow fix the anomalies that started after I flashed CM10? If so, how does it accomplish what the shipped ROM wont?

edufur said:
Could you explain to me how a stock rooted rom is closer to out of the box than the shipped rom which has been factory reset?
Does his stock rooted ROM guarantee to remove the double animation and return the ROM to the original single sprint animation?
And will his rom somehow fix the anomalies that started after I flashed CM10? If so, how does it accomplish what the shipped ROM wont?
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What exactly do you mean by "shipped rom" from out of the box? What Android version was it? I know our phones originally shipped with Android 4.0.4, so if you're flashing a "true" out-of-the-box Rom, it'd be 4.0.4. Please help me understand what you've done so that I can help you fix it.
Was the "out-of-the-box" Rom a TAR file that you flashed via Odin? Where did you get it from? I'm getting a little confused when you say you did a "full wipe" (which is typically done in Recovery), but then flashed a Rom through Odin. Typically, people only use one or the other. It's making it more difficult to understand exactly what you did, and therefore it's making it difficult for me (and others) to help you.
As far as your most recent questions: I can't guarantee anything. I'm just a guy who has done a lot of work on his phone who is trying to help you out here. At the end of the day, I have about a 90% passing rate when I give people help (and they actually follow it). And when my directions don't work, I typically stick around and keep helping until they do get their phone working (or until someone else, like Ed or CNexus, picks up the case).
I can say that Freeza's stock rooted rom works exactly like a stock phone (with all updates), but just with Root. It should give you back the stock boot animation and reset everything to stock. The file you want is:
DeOdex:
Sprint Touchwiz Jelly Bean 4.1.2 L710VPBMD4
MD5: 77262D9D6CF1A6AF30A8981A95A75D57
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You might as well flash the latest baseband/modem. That file is:
MD4 Firmware:
MD4 Firmware/modem/baseband update
MD5: EEEAFDBE59CF9C5B492B1A591EC92D02
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Well then I appreciate your attempt to help, but that doesn't resolve my problem. I'm sure it can resolve other people's problems (if their problem isnt a double animation problem).
To answer you questions, there are 2 stock roms available that are considered "shipped" ROMS... as in... what the ROM was shipped with. Those ROMS can be flashed via odin and are featured in many of the threads here. When a person flashes these ROMs with odin, it covers everything... recovery, radio, kernel, etc. It removes custom recovery and root. After flashing, one would do a factory reset, either in the rom after it boots, or from the stock recovery. This brings you as close to "out-of-the-box" as you can get... "out-of-the-box" means the way it was when you bought it and opened the box. The problem I am having... is that even after this process, I still have a double boot animation. The samsung with a swirl, and the sprint 4g with flying wires.... and the sprint music plays out of sequence with the sprint part of the animation.
I hope this clears things up for you.
I dont need a new rooted or custom rom... what I do need is to get back 100% to out-of-the-box state. I am close, but the animation is obviously not covered when flashing a shipped rom.

edufur said:
Well then I appreciate your attempt to help, but that doesn't resolve my problem. I'm sure it can resolve other people's problems (if their problem isnt a double animation problem).
To answer you questions, there are 2 stock roms available that are considered "shipped" ROMS... as in... what the ROM was shipped with. Those ROMS can be flashed via odin and are featured in many of the threads here. When a person flashes these ROMs with odin, it covers everything... recovery, radio, kernel, etc. It removes custom recovery and root. After flashing, one would do a factory reset, either in the rom after it boots, or from the stock recovery. This brings you as close to "out-of-the-box" as you can get... "out-of-the-box" means the way it was when you bought it and opened the box. The problem I am having... is that even after this process, I still have a double boot animation. The samsung with a swirl, and the sprint 4g with flying wires.... and the sprint music plays out of sequence with the sprint part of the animation.
I hope this clears things up for you.
I dont need a new rooted or custom rom... what I do need is to get back 100% to out-of-the-box state. I am close, but the animation is obviously not covered when flashing a shipped rom.
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When Flash, or ODIN the Stock Rom it should include the Stock bootanimation. But since the issue still persists. You can go to THIS thread and get the Stock bootanimation. Also you can use a File Explorer to navigate to system / media to make sure that the permissions are set, and that you only have one file in there.

prboy1969 said:
When Flash, or ODIN the Stock Rom it should include the Stock bootanimation. But since the issue still persists. You can go to THIS thread and get the Stock bootanimation. Also you can use a File Explorer to navigate to system / media to make sure that the permissions are set, and that you only have one file in there.
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That's the animation that is currently on my phone and is followed by the sprint (Original) animation. The animation you link is not the one that is supposed to be on the phone... only the sprint one should be. The is the problem I am having... I have both on there. I need to figure out how to remove the other one.

edufur said:
That's the animation that is currently on my phone and is followed by the sprint (Original) animation. The animation you link is not the one that is supposed to be on the phone... only the sprint one should be. The is the problem I am having... I have both on there. I need to figure out how to remove the other one.
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Using a File explorer navigate to system / media. Then delete the one you do not want, and reboot. It should be back to normal.
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MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Issue with booting on 4.3

Alright, so I am having this weird issue. I thought I found the fix for it several times, however, NO dice.
I've researched for a few hours now, I just don't know if I have over looked it or what. If it has been answered, I apologize.
I looked at the modified recoveries thread for newer s3 devices, but it doesn't seem to fit my area of error.
The Details:
I've been really curious to try some 4.3 roms. Of course, they are for D2SPR. I get them to flash correctly, after a full wipe. The issue happens right after I set everything up in the phone, and reboot. When I reboot I get hung at the splash screen. I have tried to reflash the rom muliple times only to fall flat on the splash screen again. Now, I don't have an SD Card in the phone, except, I left a TW rom in a folder. I use twrp, forgot to mention that. I rewiped the phone and installed that touchwiz rom, and still it wouldn't allow me to get past splash into that tw rom.
So the only way that I could think of to get out of this hole was to flash the rooted LJ7 tar file I have through ODIN. After getting the S3 into download mode, Odin successfully push LJ7 into my phone. Now again, I had an issue getting it to boot. I read somewhere that when this happens, I need to check the Erase NAND option in Odin. So I tried that out and forced LJ7 back on. After successfully flashing, it boots but gets stuck on the boot animation; the fix to that is booting into stock recovery and wiping once more. Then you are able to get into the OS.
I let the phone sit and take the OTAs till I get from LJ7 to MD4 so I re-root the phone using Odin and Chain Fire's root method. Now I am able to flash the recovery (TWRP) using OpenScript through Goo Manager.
I've only tried flashing Illusion and Carbon's 4.3 rom. The second time I used Carbon's rom. Same results. So I have no Idea what the heck is going on. Can anyone explain this to me better or point me into the direction that I need to go?
Thanks much!

your not the only one that has this problem i have the same thing have tried everything and most of the 4.3 roms same thing. no one on xda seems to know at least i havent gotten any help or responses i have just given u on 4.3. good luck finding any ideas.

Set it up I'm sure you restored some apps and data which may no longer be compatible. Or data which is corrupting the 4.3 rom. Try just flashing the rom setting up your Google account and don't add any apps. See if it does it.
Either way this seems to be a common issue across different devices and 4.3 seems it's part of using roms built on leaks and ports. None are bug free. Very similar to all gb leaks back in the day that would go into bootlooping.
Have a great day!

bbrita said:
your not the only one that has this problem i have the same thing have tried everything and most of the 4.3 roms same thing. no one on xda seems to know at least i havent gotten any help or responses i have just given u on 4.3. good luck finding any ideas.
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Well, it's good to know that I'm not the only one, however, it's horrible that it's happening to others. I appreciate you spreading the info!
edfunkycold said:
Set it up I'm sure you restored some apps and data which may no longer be compatible. Or data which is corrupting the 4.3 rom. Try just flashing the rom setting up your Google account and don't add any apps. See if it does it.
Either way this seems to be a common issue across different devices and 4.3 seems it's part of using roms built on leaks and ports. None are bug free. Very similar to all gb leaks back in the day that would go into bootlooping.
Have a great day!
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When I go to set up, I just install about 15 apps, I don't restore. I just download them fresh. I had a habit of doing that and it just stuck. I don't restore anything with Titanium or and root backup/restore app. Could one of those apps not be updated then that causes the partitions to get locked up, or just corrupt /data in general? If that's whats happening.
I just find it extremely odd that I (maybe others), can't wipe, and then re flash another rom; actually I can, it just gets stuck at the splash and never goes forward, that is what had me confused most. If I had an sd card, and formatted data itself, would that fly?

thanks Ed i have tried this after the first 2 tries . i dont have any problems installing 4.3 its just after rebooting it gets stuck. Like you said there are always bugs Im fine with using other roms for now. Hopefully when an official 4.3 drops problems will go away

Camera issues

I was running liquid smooth, which was running nice and smooth.. but then the back camera just stopped working. it was always black and would just crash. So i wiped app data.. still didnt work. I factory wipe / wiped cache and everything, still it didn't work. I flashed a ton of new 4.3 roms like the new aokp, slim bean 4.3 , PA 3.99 , and still the camera didnt work..I dont know what else to do. I'm not super experienced so bear with me, please help me out.

try restoring your stock back up or flash the stock Rom and root again

chiefsfan645 said:
I was running liquid smooth, which was running nice and smooth.. but then the back camera just stopped working. it was always black and would just crash. So i wiped app data.. still didnt work. I factory wipe / wiped cache and everything, still it didn't work. I flashed a ton of new 4.3 roms like the new aokp, slim bean 4.3 , PA 3.99 , and still the camera didnt work..I dont know what else to do. I'm not super experienced so bear with me, please help me out.
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Restore a completely 100% stock ROM. If it works, then there's a problem with the ROMs your trying to flash. If it does not work then you have a hardware issue.

I'm trying, but when it asks me to enter the S / N into kies it keeps saying that its incorrect even though im reading it right off the darn sticker..

cheifsfan645: Ive never learned about flashing with kies but try searching for "flashing stock rom with odin" This is the method I use and there is no serial numbers or any info needed. Make sure you use the correct image, it has to be for your carrier and phone or you could end up with troubles, even in some cases, bricking your phone. An even more foolproof method is to use "Samsung Toolbox" because it comes with detailed instructions and is a mostly automated process. I hope I may have pointed you in a helpfull direction, Im still new to this stuff.
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chiefsfan645 said:
I'm trying, but when it asks me to enter the S / N into kies it keeps saying that its incorrect even though im reading it right off the darn sticker..
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Whoa, I've never heard of that one. I'm assuming you flashed a stock odin image? Maybe try to download the stock image from another source and see if that helps. I've never had that happen to me before.

What recovery are you using? If its TWRP make sure you have the latest. If its not then make sure you update to the latest. I got a replacement device. Rooted it and Rom'd it and my camera broke just like you are describing. I want back to full stock and camera worked. I then rooted it and camera worked. I then talked with friend and he advised me to flash the newest TWRP. I did and my camera came back.
Download TWRP from here http://techerrata.com/get/twrp2/d2att/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-d2att.tar
Download odin from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189539
Install odin and run it. Reboot the phone to download mode make sure you have usb debugging checked in settings. Then check the PDA box and browse to that tar file and load it and then hit start it will flash your phone will reboot and the camera should be working.

[Q] --My cwm screwed over.

Hello,
I have a Samsung galaxy s2 T-Mobile edition.
I had Dirt Unicorns 4.3 installed on it.
I wanted to try something different so I was going to try liquid smooth 4.4.2
so I did the usual way:
-Boot into recovery Cwm 6.0.4.3
-made backup
-Factory reset / erase data
-wipe cache
-Wipe dalvik
-then ran Dark side super wipe ( I searched the internet and concluded that this is were I went wrong)
-Installed gapps
-installed ROM
It was all going fine but when the ROM booted up it was really terrifying. The ROM keep freezing and didn't let me do anything. Didn't even have the soft keys on.
So then I said oh well the rom blows(it probably doesnt just with me) so then I felt a little better because of course I had a backup of DU.
So I turned off my phone booted into cwm. This time it said something about it couldn't load the last_log.
Then I went to restore and tried to restore my backup.
All didn't go as planned, it moved system then data but when it went to .android_secure it immediately went to mounting sdcard0 and froze there.
so I let it stay there for a good 10min and nothing. So I held down my power button and it shut off. Turned it on it would go to a boot loop then just stay in the endless boot screen.
So after I felt really sad and down I tried to look up some stuff on my kindle about the problem.
Some people said it was cuz cwm 6.0 doesn't like darkside. It will do bad things so I was screwed.
then I read that it is a cache problem. So since the backups do the system and data I tried to do an advanced restore of just the cache. Long and behold it stayed frozen for a good 20m.
So then I tried a bunch of things trying to factory reset it can't format cache I tried to just for format the cache. nope. I tried to restore the backup a couple of times. I had another backup from awhile back of DU but some result. Then alittle bit of glory.
I had a backup of a while back. It was the jedi mind trick x4 ics. I restored that and oh man i was happy. It booted up fine and dandy and i have a decent "working" phone. It still has problems like when you lock the screen it doesnt turn off, just not interactive. and once i lock it the soft keys go crap and dont work(got button savior). So i thought well if this rom worked maybe the cwm is fixed. I tried to boot into the cwm through the power menu of the rom and it just froze while turning off. Held the power button then booted into recovery and the blue options line didnt come up so then i rebooted again and this time didnt let go of the volume buttons when the background came on. Thankfully they came on.
SO... i tried to run my backup of DU again and nope so then i repeated to go back to jedi mind trick cuz i need a working phone.
What im trying to solve is can i go back to DU working perfectly fine.
also i have tryed mostly everything in recovery But post as much help as you can and ill get back to you.
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I also have been doing some research about the problem i had. Lots of other people had it but not really a solution.
I have kinda concluded on a solution in mind.
Heres the big question:
Can i unroot my phone and put the original firmware and stuff. Then just reroot and put a rom?
Is there a way to solve this problem?
Sorry for the big topic but i am really stressing because its a really good phone and i dont want to go to a crappy backup.
Thank you if you can help!

Lejojaluel said:
Heres the big question:
Can i unroot my phone and put the original firmware and stuff. Then just reroot and put a rom?
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I had a similar issue flashing a new ROM and I had to unroot my phone as well. This was the guide I used: http://galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-ga...-to-ics-stock-on-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989/
After this you may want to upgrade to the latest firmware by using Kies, and then try your hand at re-rooting and putting another ROM.
Hope it works out for you. :highfive: :fingers-crossed:
Don't know about the rest of your post because I don't have experience with that ROM.

francoisdepaule said:
I had a similar issue flashing a new ROM and I had to unroot my phone as well. This was the guide I used: http://galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-ga...-to-ics-stock-on-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989/
After this you may want to upgrade to the latest firmware by using Kies, and then try your hand at re-rooting and putting another ROM.
Hope it works out for you. :highfive: :fingers-crossed:
Don't know about the rest of your post because I don't have experience with that ROM.
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use that link , heres updated tar and odin
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2f0qpol7boj2jez/Odin3_v3.04.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxapb57yeuk60ud/T989UVMC6_T989TMBMC6_TMB.zip

[Q] galaxy note 2 issues

Hello All,
Today I tried to update to the most recent snapshot for cm11 and now my phone is totally pooping bricks lol. I tried almost everything i could in my book. I re flashed Recovered Re partitioned factory reset re downloaded then re flashed and still nothing i just keep getting errors. I was wondering if anyone knows any way to Go back to complete factory stock rooted or if there are any great reliable ROMs out there for the sprint gn2
Thanks,
Tom

tclementi1 said:
Hello All,
Today I tried to update to the most recent snapshot for cm11 and now my phone is totally pooping bricks lol. I tried almost everything i could in my book. I re flashed Recovered Re partitioned factory reset re downloaded then re flashed and still nothing i just keep getting errors. I was wondering if anyone knows any way to Go back to complete factory stock rooted or if there are any great reliable ROMs out there for the sprint gn2
Thanks,
Tom
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769 try that link out. hopefully it helps

if the above link doesn't work, you can odin the NE2 firmare. I'm not sure you go to MC2 after being on 4.3 or above, even if it was AOSP. Here's Garywin's NE2 link: thread linky and Samsung's official: page linky. If you use either of them, it's a lot harder to restore back to MC2; Apparently Samsung did something with the recovery. Plus, you'll get Knox and you'll get the warranty void when you root; probably not a big deal since you've probably had the phone for over a year.

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Im on CM 11-20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-l900 its buggy sometimes but for now its working fine. I just want a reliable ROM that is not buggy and works all the time.
Thanks