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[Q] Noob to xda, not so noob to android, flashing, etc...but having a noob problem

Hey guys,
I don't know that I've ever used anything from the XDA forum before unless it was passed and linked on Android Central or SDX. I've been rooting and toying with crap (not developing, just following smart people's instructions and borrowing their hard work on my own devices) since I got started out with my Samsung Moment.
I'm onto an epic 4g now, and decided that I needed to play with a new rom/kernal. I had it rooted with one click root/recovery before. So I flashed to stock, updated to EC05 and got to town flashing Syndicate Frozen Version 1.1.0 - with Twilight Zone. I didn't see a single post other than praise so it got my vote.
I'm having a problem though. And I've tried all of the usual fixes. Reflashing, rebooting, etc. etc. And I cannot figure out what is causing this highly annoying FC. Force close on Google Services Framework process.com.google.process.gapps
Anyone have that, or have the solution to what keeps causing this?

i believe you need to wipe googles data, go to manage apps in settings, clear data on all google apps you have. see if that works!

Well, at this time it appears that, that may have been a very stupid question. I guess after wiping data, clearing cache's, etc. that never occured to me. we'll see how this goes now.

No, it's not a stupid question, also don't be shy in posting these type of questions in the specific roms devolopment thread, there are a ton of nice people that are willing to help and have a lot more knowledge than me!
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A lot of times, a simple 1) boot into CWM 2)wipe data, cache and dalvik cache 2x each 3) reflash rom 4) reboot will do the trick.

running_the_dream said:
A lot of times, a simple 1) boot into CWM 2)wipe data, cache and dalvik cache 2x each 3) reflash rom 4) reboot will do the trick.
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Well put.
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running_the_dream said:
A lot of times, a simple 1) boot into CWM 2)wipe data, cache and dalvik cache 2x each 3) reflash rom 4) reboot will do the trick.
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I actually clear the cache/dalvik cache/ etc when flashing so I never thought of anything else needing to be cleared. Techargon hit it right on the head though. For whatever reason the google framework data had to be cleared, and it has worked perfect ever since. I'll definitely be sticking around here. This is quite a large community and I'm about 24 hours into absolutely loving my first ROM and Kernal from her.
Thanks guys!

jmiller0519 said:
I actually clear the cache/dalvik cache/ etc when flashing so I never thought of anything else needing to be cleared. Techargon hit it right on the head though. For whatever reason the google framework data had to be cleared, and it has worked perfect ever since. I'll definitely be sticking around here. This is quite a large community and I'm about 24 hours into absolutely loving my first ROM and Kernal from her.
Thanks guys!
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Glad it worked! XDA is an awesome community, good to see you're sticking around! Also it's nice to click thanks on any posts that help you, i do it all the time

[Q] Synergy ROM issues

Posting here since I cannot yet post to the actual ROM forum.
I'm running the Synergy ROM, RC1 and have a couple of issues. First though, thanks to the DEVs for all of their time and efforts, this looks to be a very good ROM!
I've been through most of the 200+ pages on the ROM's thread and did not see any information that may help (except turning off auto rotate of the home screen), but it's possible I missed.
The main issues I have are slow response issues. They are:
Slow response when I pull down the navigation bar.
Slow response when hitting one of the soft buttons (i.e., the + button to launch the app specified by the settings in Rosie).
Very slow response when I come out of a game that was in landscape mode. It takes a couple of seconds for the screen to switch from landscape back to portrait (after flipping the phone to portrait) and then another few seconds for it to put all the icons back on the home screen (home screen is blank when I come out of the game). I did turn auto rotate off and that has helped, but was wondering why there was such slow response without it.
Google apps such as Maps and Calendar that are started by another application, but do not shut down the starting app exists. This, of course, drains the battery and was not an issue on the stock rom.
When I flashed the rom, I did do a factory reset and erased all other caches. My apps and app data (not system data) were restored via TB.
I have also frozen the following apps via TB:
Flash
All live wall paper apps
Stocks
Flickr
FM Radio
News
Stocks
Smoke & Visualization Wallpapers
Voice Dialer
Voice Search
Thanks!
Mike

When you flash a new rom, only restore Apps using titanium backup, restoring data too will cause problems.
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ithrewitontheground said:
When you flash a new rom, only restore Apps using titanium backup, restoring data too will cause problems.
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Absolutely correct. On top of this, the other reason you may be seeing slow response would be the fact that this is a very large rom, and takes up more space in your usable memory than most roms. What I have done to *somewhat* alleviate this issue when I'm running the synergy rom is to move all of the apps that I can (except for those that I use widgets from) to the SD card.
Just my recommendation

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When you flash a new rom, only restore Apps using titanium backup, restoring data too will cause problems.
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My thought was that when restoring an app, such as WSOP Texas Hold'em, I also wanted to restore the data so it restored games won, amount of money, etc.
Is that data what you are saying I should lose when flashing new roms?
Thanks,
Mike

0soPolar said:
Absolutely correct. On top of this, the other reason you may be seeing slow response would be the fact that this is a very large rom, and takes up more space in your usable memory than most roms. What I have done to *somewhat* alleviate this issue when I'm running the synergy rom is to move all of the apps that I can (except for those that I use widgets from) to the SD card.
Just my recommendation
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Quite a few of my apps are on the SD card. I have 313MB free on the internal storage. Should that be enough to reduce some of the lag.
Thanks!

HELP!!! I flashed synergy rom last night and today, it goes to the boot animation screen and freezes. It just shows the synergy rom bouncing around and wont go anywhere from there. I tried doing a recovery through bootloader, but it wont let me move down from fastboot. Did I just brick my phone or is there any other way to get past this screen? can i plug my sdcard into the computer and delete this boot animation and if so, where would I find it? Please help, it would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Give the phone a minute. It will let you move it. I just keep hitting volume down. It will work.
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dysfunkshun said:
HELP!!! I flashed synergy rom last night and today, it goes to the boot animation screen and freezes. It just shows the synergy rom bouncing around and wont go anywhere from there. I tried doing a recovery through bootloader, but it wont let me move down from fastboot. Did I just brick my phone or is there any other way to get past this screen? can i plug my sdcard into the computer and delete this boot animation and if so, where would I find it? Please help, it would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
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If you can boot into recovery, you did not brick your phone.

I've had this problem before and I don't even use Titanium. I also had plenty of free space on internal. Ram never seems to free up though. It's the strangest thing.
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Does anyone else have issues with anything that requires data syncing (Facebook, Twitter, SMS, etc) stopping unexpectedly? It seems to happen at around 30% battery and the only way I've consistantly stopped the problem is to wipe and reflash Synergy Rom.
Any ideas?

Yea Idk what's going on with it after about an hour I would get android.process has stopped and needs to force close. I can't even use any app as that constantly pops up. Great ROM but unusable at this point.

Did you do a complete wipe before you installed it. Most of the issues I have seen arise because a complete wipe has not been performed. If you like the rom, do a complete wipe (factory, partition and dalvik) and reflash it.

jlokos said:
Did you do a complete wipe before you installed it. Most of the issues I have seen arise because a complete wipe has not been performed. If you like the rom, do a complete wipe (factory, partition and dalvik) and reflash it.
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This is after a full wipe, twice. Once the battery gets to a certain point, everything starts crashing and never recovers no matter what I do. Battery pull, full charge, cold restart. Nothing works.
Edit: I've also noticed that the GPS is locked on and I cannot shut it off.

Chindogg said:
This is after a full wipe, twice. Once the battery gets to a certain point, everything starts crashing and never recovers no matter what I do. Battery pull, full charge, cold restart. Nothing works.
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Yea I also did a full wipe two different times. I didn't notice it happening once the battery gets to a point I just know that after an hour or so of use it was unusable.

1. If you use DualRomX2 would that possibly speed it up? Because doesnt it install Roms on EMMC?
2. Im also really frustrated by the slow response on alot of things like right rosie button and notification pulldown.
3. Video recording for me is just awful. Im not sure about actual quality but the framerate for sure is horrible. I compared a video i shot on stock and with Synergy and there is a HUGE difference. Synergy video being much worse.
Great Rom just plenty of little annoyances.

Synergy ROM loading issue
Flashed Synergy ROM last week and was very impressed. However, saw where 3.0 Sense items were missing and realized after reading several other posts that the carousel +widgets.zip should have been loaded with the ROM. So I reloaded the ROM and widgets through AMON-RA Recovery (Followed all of the original instructions I had followed the first time I loaded the ROM). Everything looked fine until I rebooted the system. Now Synergy ROM start-up screen loops over and over. At this rate the fill battery I started with will run out, and I'm not sure what will happen at that point.
Anyone have any suggestions for this issue? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Options:
a) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, & flash a different rom.
b) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, flash Synergy again, reboot.
c) Pull your battery then turn on your phone like normal.
d) Pull your battery then boot into recovery, wipe cache/wipe dalvik cache, then boot into rom.
Edit: I don't use Amon_Ra, when I refer to "recovery" I was referring to CWM. Hopefully someone with experience comments in regards to Amon_Ra recovery.

Yeah I don't have too many issues with it... last night it got kinda squirrely so I fixed permissions in recovery and re-flashed the Warm Theme without wiping any data, it's been all good ever since.
The ROM is my daily driver... I really do think that these issues are app-related. There is something that certain apps do that this ROM is not built for, I'm just not sure what it is. It's been real good to me overall though, battery life and all.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Options:
a) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, & flash a different rom.
b) Pull your battery, boot into recovery, format data/wipe cache/dalvik cache/format boot/format system, flash Synergy again, reboot.
c) Pull your battery then turn on your phone like normal.
d) Pull your battery then boot into recovery, wipe cache/wipe dalvik cache, then boot into rom.
Edit: I don't use Amon_Ra, when I refer to "recovery" I was referring to CWM. Hopefully someone with experience comments in regards to Amon_Ra recovery.
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SlimSnoopOS, as it turned out I pulled the battery and rebooted into Recovery after a few hours, but thanks for the direction. These were the exact things I did. The reason I used AMON-RA instead of CWM is that Synergy says in a number of places that it only loads with AMON-Ra (and I'm a coward!),

Awesome, glad everything is functional again!

[Q] cm7 nightly and stable constant rebooting

please help my htc is rooted with cm7 nightly #215. it keeps rebooting i dont know why. even i if i just leave it there it will just reboot. like literally shut down, the htc sign appears and the cm7 thing appears. please someone help me. this is by far the best ROM but i cant really enjoy it because of the constant reboot

Simply reflash your phone man

i think i tried that before. what key board is most common? i use swift key x and occasionally it will hang and i have to reboot. hang as in stuff works button works but the key board will stay on screen

reflash as in i have to factory reset wipe data wipe cache partition wipe dalvik cache right? but i really hope i can fix this problem cause i like this mod. any other tips on how to stop the rebooting and hanging. sometimes it just hangs without rebooting..

does the version of clockwork mod affect the phone? mine is rooted through unrevoked so the cwm is 2. something. not the latest which i think is 5?

The problems may be due to corrupted dalvic cache, wrongly partitioned mem card, wrong gapps,corrupted kernal,wrong script/ tweeks, or even wrong settings. And you have to find it out. Coz you only know your phone specifications. You havent posted it here. For more accurate help, post your sprcifications, along with what you tried to do/ done.
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Im a newbie and screwed up...

Hi guys im a newbie introduced to the rooting scene. I got to say that this is by far one of the nicest forums ive read through. But i come to you for advice. My best friend rooted my htc evo 4g and did a great job with it. He put overclocking, super user, cache mate, etc. as i was slowly gathering the apps ive used i kept coming across the google play store saying that i had insufficient memory to further download the apps. So i took my search online and tried several methods to figure out why I couldnt download apps. I found out that it was due to the dalvik cache and all that. So i read further into it and tried to follow what advice was put out before me on the forums. Sadly i think i took a misstep somewhere and now am stuck at the black screen with the white android logo flashing slowly for 15 mins at a time. So did i just mess up? Please help.:crying:

Lmao.....yeah ur not bricked atleast. Go into your recovery. Click on mount usb or whatever it says. Connect phone to computer. Transfer ur favorite rom to ur phones sd card. Then exit that screen. In recovery go to wipe. Wipe everything except sd card. Then go to flash a zip. Go to the rom.zip u pit on ad card. Flash and reboot. I also recommwnd switching to smelcus recovery as it wipes so muxh better. Find that I'm dev section. Hope that helped a little
This is fixable...ur just bootlooped
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What papa smurf151 is driving at is you killed your current ROM install when you wiped the davilk cache. (at least I know mine wouldn't work when I did the same thing playing around with my phone.) I had to reinstall the ROM to get the phone to work.

koker93 said:
What papa smurf151 is driving at is you killed your current ROM install when you wiped the davilk cache. (at least I know mine wouldn't work when I did the same thing playing around with my phone.) I had to reinstall the ROM to get the phone to work.
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This depends on the ROM. A lot of ROMs are fine after wiping dalvik-cache.
What Papa is doing is ensuring the phone will boot with the selected ROM.
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[Q] HELP! my note 2 wont boot past samsung logo!

hey, new user here, don't know if this has come up before but i did a search and haven't found anything that has the same particulars as i do.
recently my phone hasn't been responding to power button or home button wake up, intermittently. freezes up sometimes and some apps force close more than usual. then the other day, my phone died on me (full battery discharge) and when i finally got around to charging it, it charged fully but it wouldn't turn on past the Samsung boot logo, and gets real hot while doing so.
Also, the samsung boot logo appears before the AT&T splash screen tone starts.
im running stock Rooted 4.1.2 with the latest perseus kernel version.
any suggestions? i havent made a nandroid in a couple weeks, so my preferred route would be without a data wipe.
i can still access CWM recovery, btw.

well damn wheres the help?

I would download the stock rom and flash it again. If that doesnt work, custom rom time. I honestly cant see this problem getting fixed without a data wipe though good luck and keep me posted.
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With the non-response issues you describe, and the fact that you are seeing multiple force closes on the device....start with a wipe of the cache and dalvik cache in recovery.
It sounds as if the device is having cache file management issues, and trouble within the file structure.
While I dont think you have any hardware issues, it does sound like the software is suffering for one reason or another, and a base cleaning of the caches may help.
If no improvement is seen after cache cleaning, then we move to the data next.
I realize you want to keep your data intact, but if corruption has occured, you will have no choice but to factory restore the device and test again.
Try the cache cleaning first, then boot and test....
Beyond that...as the above poster states...a fresh install may be needed....g

Before a data wipe try reinstalling the kernel, and also try dirty flashing the Rom.

Not sure I would recommend a dirty flash to him. Plenty of times the result for users has been bad. Though as stated above yours, It does appear to be a file system error. He is probably right and I should have thought about wiping the dalvic cache first.
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i was afraid this would happen....
tried wiping both caches with no new results.
ive read that dirty flash has had mixed results. if i can at least get the OS booted so that i could backup what i need to, that would be a good thing.
im thinking its a kernel issue, since the phone gets real hot while stuck on the samsung screen. could i be right?
thanks guys:good:

i also tried reinstalling the kernel through cwm recovery, nothing new

FIXED
did a data/factory reset from recovery. it kept everything! thank god for cloud backups. Google is the JOINT!! i even kept my kernel and root, and at&t backed up my texts and calls....thanks everybody for the help, i really appreciate it!
its still kinna hot though...turned it off to let it cool down and see what happens when i start it back up....will keep posted if anything

Great. Know I didnt help too much but glad you got it worked out. :thumbup:
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DroidOblivion said:
did a data/factory reset from recovery.
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Great news ....
Data corruption is so very easy to get.
As we mix and match pieces of code, those issues do arise.
Sadly, the causes are often elusive.
But the plan "B" wipe generally does the trick, as is the case here.
Happy flashing....g