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CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 1

HI all,
I've flashed CWM5.5 from the recomended thread and installed Cyanogen 9 Alpha 1. Unfortunatly the phone seems to boot up but does never leave the boot animation screen (yes I've also flashed gapps after cyanogen).
Anyone can identify this pattern? On a normal device I could hook it up through a serial cable and try to debug the boot... Eventually how can I do that with a I8150?
Well, any help would be most welcome. I'm totally available for testing and I do have some experience with Linux even at a very low level/system space.

Install
Use CWM5.
Warning: Only use this recovery to flash CM9. Otherwise, you risk bricking your phone!
Wipe data and cache.
Flash update*.zip.
Flash gapps*.zip. You must flash gapps after every upgrade to CM9 since /system is formatted, wiping your previous add-ons.
Reboot phone.
After you setup your Google account, reinstall the three apps from Market in order to restore most of your apps, call log and SMS history.
Warning: Do not restore backup data of system apps!
If you restore a bad backup with cached settings in telephony.db in data/data/com.*.*.telephony it can break MMS.
It seems that restoring backups can also break Calendar sync.
read it thoroughly ...
1st you must flash update*.zip
2nd gapps*.zip
that just about it ....
what is your current kernel ?

That was pretty much it... I've restored not the original operator crap ROM, but instead the Value Pack ROM.
CyanogenMod9 seemed to install ok, but just looped and the phone didn't finished the boot. I'm not really sure on what happened. I'm just finishing restoring the stuff

I'm guessing you didn't wipe data/cache.

I did a factory reset, but sure, it might not have wiped the whole thing... Going to try again.

@argo68
True mate, the issue was not wiping the user cache. I've wiped the cache now from ClockWorkMod and it worked ok. Takes some time to boot compared to the stock samsung ROMs but it works fine
Anything you need tested ? I can most likely help.
I do have a problem with apps though, for example, GMAIL doesn't show the body of the message... as you can see on the screenshot, but I guess this is a app related issue maybe?
http://susepaste.org/images/39081870.png

After a reboot somehow it boots a bit faster and the gmail app is now displaying the body of the email and it seems a bit faster...
Good work, gonna ride this for a few days and see what happens.
@argo68
If you need beta testers, let me know. I'm off work this days but can't wait to get into my lab and check this stuff deeper

@argo68
he is arco68
just in case he takes offence, which I don't believe he would

Hopefully not, all the norwegians I knew personally were very nice people and always ready for some bear

ketheriel said:
Hopefully not, all the norwegians I knew personally were very nice people and always ready for some bear
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reAdy for some BEAR ????
do you actually mean bear or beer ??

chocolemon said:
reAdy for some BEAR ????
do you actually mean bear or beer ??
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Maybe it's the Nordic ascendance. They fight a bear with one hand while holding the beer with the other.

Hi I'm using this cyanogen mod for quite a few days now. The back side of the phone is always warm and the battery is drained very fast. Anyone have this similar problem?
I'm sure that I install the ROM correctly as i cleared everything on the phone with CWM 5.0.0.4 before and after. (Phone data / Cache Partition / Dalvik Cache / Battery Cache)
Any help would be appretiated

No such problem here. You should use an app to check what frequency the phone is running at in idle, and also how much load there is on the cpu.

All of a sudden...Bootloop? WTF

So, last week or a bit past last week, i flashed aokp JB build 3 and then franco nightly. I have Clockwerk recovery and flashed gapps. (Tutorial)
So now yesterday , my phone was fine. Around sometime in the afternoon after i replied a text , then an hour later my phone was off. I thought that was weird, so i turned it on and after the google logo, i'm stuck on the aokp logo. And can't get past it. I played a 55 MIN dota 2 game with the boot logo on. I'm quite a noob. So help me please?

kevinzone said:
So, last week or a bit past last week, i flashed aokp JB build 3 and then franco nightly. I have Clockwerk recovery and flashed gapps. (Tutorial)
So now yesterday , my phone was fine. Around sometime in the afternoon after i replied a text , then an hour later my phone was off. I thought that was weird, so i turned it on and after the google logo, i'm stuck on the aokp logo. And can't get past it. I played a 55 MIN dota 2 game with the boot logo on. I'm quite a noob. So help me please?
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Probably nothing wrong with your device. I would guess it has to do with a bug in either AOKP or your custom kernel. Flash back to stock and I bet your device will boot. (Link is stickied in General or look in my signature.) You have to expect issues like that when you are running custom roms and particularly custom kernels. If you don't want to deal with those issues, I would recommend to stay stock.

efrant said:
Probably nothing wrong with your device. I would guess it has to do with a bug in either AOKP or your custom kernel. Flash back to stock and I bet your device will boot. (Link is stickied in General or look in my signature.) You have to expect issues like that when you are running custom roms and particularly custom kernels. If you don't want to deal with those issues, I would recommend to stay stock.
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will this make my files be deleted? I would rather not have that happen please

kevinzone said:
will this make my files be deleted? I would rather not have that happen please
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Did you read the link I pointed out? Read it again, particularly note #5 on optional items...

efrant said:
Did you read the link I pointed out? Read it again, particularly note #5 on optional items...
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Hi, okay so it says that flashing wont remove data, then above on the top of the thread it says that it will erase everything. I'm confused.
If this is the ONLY way , then can you please tell me how to do this, i'm confused.
If there is another way on to get out of this boot logo aokp thingy, without losing data , please tell me.
Note: i dont know if i'm doing anything, but i backed up via the recovery CWM
then after i deleted cache and dalvik, then flashed aokp,franco and then g apps. And nothing happened

Bump please. i really don't want to wipe my phone

Reflash AOKP, the Kernel and GApps, You could also jsut reflash AOKP and GAPPS with no custom kernel. that should pull you out of the bootloop. If it does not pull you out of the bootloop you will have to find another rom based off of what AOKP is and try flashing that. Most likely right now there is a problem with your boot.img file or AOKP rom its self. if you just reflash everything like you are flashing a nightly you should be fine unless something else is work. After you flash everything like you do with a new nightly make sure you wipe cache and dalvik. If non of the above works you might have to wipe and start all over again. You do not lose your internal SD card data just your user data and system data.

Prod1702 said:
Reflash AOKP, the Kernel and GApps, You could also jsut reflash AOKP and GAPPS with no custom kernel. that should pull you out of the bootloop. If it does not pull you out of the bootloop you will have to find another rom based off of what AOKP is and try flashing that. Most likely right now there is a problem with your boot.img file or AOKP rom its self. if you just reflash everything like you are flashing a nightly you should be fine unless something else is work. After you flash everything like you do with a new nightly make sure you wipe cache and dalvik. If non of the above works you might have to wipe and start all over again. You do not lose your internal SD card data just your user data and system data.
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Uhh i reflashed aokp, kernel and gapps. Nothing really. Two questions.
1. Anything else?
2. for the reflashing, i want to flash another rom, how do i put the files on the phone? Gnex doesn't have an sd card slot and i dont know how to access it on the computer if it is in recovery mode. So confused
EDIT: not entirely sure what flashing means, so what i meant by flashing in my case, was that i just re ran the zips. then reboot. Nothing . waited 5-10 minutes ish. Never had long bootups on my first try.

Bump please!

kevinzone said:
Bump please!
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Please do not bump a thread more than once every 24 hours (see rule 16). Thanks.
As for your issue, I will say it again: the link I provided you has all the information you need to return your device to stock without wiping the data on /sdcard. You just need to take some time and read it carefully a couple of times instead of rushing through it. If you don't understand something, just ask. (What you had said previously: "Hi, okay so it says that flashing wont remove data, then above on the top of the thread it says that it will erase everything. I'm confused." says to me that you did not read the entire post and the notes. And note, if your bootloader is already unlocked, you do not have to unlock it again...)

efrant said:
Please do not bump a thread more than once every 24 hours (see rule 16). Thanks.
As for your issue, I will say it again: the link I provided you has all the information you need to return your device to stock without wiping the data on /sdcard. You just need to take some time and read it carefully a couple of times instead of rushing through it. If you don't understand something, just ask. (What you had said previously: "Hi, okay so it says that flashing wont remove data, then above on the top of the thread it says that it will erase everything. I'm confused." says to me that you did not read the entire post and the notes. And note, if your bootloader is already unlocked, you do not have to unlock it again...)
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But there is a problem. I cant access the phone. Since it won't boot up i can't access it from the computer.. Or can i? There's no sdcard slot either

[Q] Custom ROM Suggestions

Let me start of by saying I am a Noob. I have been learning about the root and custom ROM process for about three weeks now. I have succesfully flashed the latest PacMan ROM and the latest SlimBean ROM. Both times I have reverted back to my Stock ROM. Everytime I flash a new ROM using TWRP, I wipe the Cache, Davlik Cache, do a Factory Reset, and Wipe the ROM. This leads me to believe I getting a clean flash, and everything seems to go smooth with the install. I have no problems with the inital boot, and it usually happens pretty quick.
I understand that each custom ROM has some great new features, but it hasn't out weighed that the battery life and speed (responsiveness) is still better on the Stock ROM. Is the reason I am seeing this is because the ROM's I have tried are 4.2.2 versus the stock 4.1.1? Is there something obvious that I am missing? If it appears that I am flashing correctly, is there a ROM that is should try the will improve me battery life and speed?
Thank you!

a full wipe also includes format /system.
how long are you using these roms before flashing back or trying a new one? the software takes a little time to settle in so if you're hopping onto a new rom every few days, you may not see the best that each rom has to offer you.

xBeerdroiDx said:
a full wipe also includes format /system.
how long are you using these roms before flashing back or trying a new one? the software takes a little time to settle in so if you're hopping onto a new rom every few days, you may not see the best that each rom has to offer you.
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Do I format the internal memory of in TWRP? After doing some that is TWRP still functional? I have been afraid to do that because when I think of formatting it wipes everything. My thinking was the phone wouldn't operate.
Can you walk me through it in TWRP?
Thanks!

Huskerjeff said:
Do I format the internal memory of in TWRP? After doing some that is TWRP still functional? I have been afraid to do that because when I think of formatting it wipes everything. My thinking was the phone wouldn't operate.
Can you walk me through it in TWRP?
Thanks!
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as long as your recovery is current, you have a backup (nandroid) and you have the ROM/gapps zips on the device, you're good to format (wipe) system. that erases the OS and allows for a new, clean install.
make a backup (if you dont have one)
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
wipe system
flash rom
flash gapps (if required)
reboot
let device sit a few minutes and reboot again.

Theres more to it then just flashing and having a better running phone. If that was it everyone and their mother would do it. You need to learn about the system and ROM you are operating on and tweak the settings to optimal performance for your phone, and more importantly to your liking.
Every phone is different. If one rom works great on one persons phone it may not run so good on another persons. You have to learn and have enough know how to be able to set the phone up in a way that runs good for you. While it may be frustrating at times I guarantee if you take the time to try out a couple different roms for a couple days at least, and play around with the settings until you know what they all do and why they are there and how work for or against your goals you will end up with a phone that you enjoy using on all levels. Features, performance, looks, etc.
Hope this helps, and good luck finding your custom rom 'sweet spot'

Try AxisM RLS18 rom its a great rom with so many features to it.

xBeerdroiDx said:
as long as your recovery is current, you have a backup (nandroid) and you have the ROM/gapps zips on the device, you're good to format (wipe) system. that erases the OS and allows for a new, clean install.
make a backup (if you dont have one)
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
wipe system
flash rom
flash gapps (if required)
reboot
let device sit a few minutes and reboot again.
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TeknoGodz said:
Theres more to it then just flashing and having a better running phone. If that was it everyone and their mother would do it. You need to learn about the system and ROM you are operating on and tweak the settings to optimal performance for your phone, and more importantly to your liking.
Every phone is different. If one rom works great on one persons phone it may not run so good on another persons. You have to learn and have enough know how to be able to set the phone up in a way that runs good for you. While it may be frustrating at times I guarantee if you take the time to try out a couple different roms for a couple days at least, and play around with the settings until you know what they all do and why they are there and how work for or against your goals you will end up with a phone that you enjoy using on all levels. Features, performance, looks, etc.
Hope this helps, and good luck finding your custom rom 'sweet spot'
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Update: I searched for a ROM using a 3.0 Kernel and found one with great battery life reviews call "Sons of Android". I installed it using TWRP 2.4.4 with the directions quoted above, and everything is great execpt for two things.
First, I always seem to get mirrored data. There is a Emulated folder and an SDcard0 folder that appear to have the same data. I have searched in the forums and found that it is an issue, but havent seen a solution.
Second, Netflix is draining the battery twice as fast as the stock 4.1.1. Before I could watch 45 minutes with 10% of battery and now the same 45 minutes is taking 20-25% of battery. Is this a 4.2.2 problem. It has been a problem on all the ROM's I have tried.
I am going to stick with this ROM for a while beacuse other than netflix the battery life is good. Just about the same as my stock ROM.
Thank you for all of your help for the Noob.

[Q] SGS2 memory problems

So the other day i go put on a new rom and boot into TWRP to wipe and install. so i do my normal thing (wipe data/system/cache then install rom and gapps then wipe cache again. then reboot. i let it do its 10 min thing. then start to use the phone again. same problem as before (launcher constantly crashing) so i do my wipe and install again. this time i notice i have significantly less room on my data partition. so i go and do another wipe and install to check. this time even less space. i do it a couple more times to see if maybe it will fill up the space and then maybe completely wipe everything. no such luck. no my phone is basically useless with no way to install an OS or boot into the current one. any help on actually doing a real full wipe so that i have room again? i prepared to use odin or whatever i need to do to revert back to full stock then start all over again with the root process just to refresh my skills and get everything brand new again.
please any info would be great since id like to have a working phone again (pulled out the old iphone 4 in the mean time)
thanks guys!

Did you try a full system wipe using Infamous or Dark side to begin with? Try that first before doing anything else and see what happens.

mlbinseattle said:
Did you try a full system wipe using Infamous or Dark side to begin with? Try that first before doing anything else and see what happens.
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ok ill try that out and let you know
update: seems to have worked have a new rom installed. hopefully it keeps running without a hitch. thank you very much. i wish i had known twrp had a crappy delete function and that it could be cast aside in favor of darkside or infamous.

olyvaha said:
ok ill try that out and let you know
update: seems to have worked have a new rom installed. hopefully it keeps running without a hitch. thank you very much. i wish i had known twrp had a crappy delete function and that it could be cast aside in favor of darkside or infamous.
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TWRP has a Dalvik cache wipe which, IMO, is basically a factory reset. There may be more to it than I'm aware of. I'm not a dev, so I really can't say one way or another. Infamous and Darkside both have the full wipe which does everything. Anytime I flash a new ROM, I'll run Infamous followed by the TWRP wipe. Haven't had a problem, yet.
Glad it all worked out for you. I know what it's like to be in a situation like that. Been there, myself, a couple of times.

Virus???? Idk but phone is messed up

Ok here it goes. my network service is off so i use my droin inc for games and such. running custom rom wildstang83 IceCream Scencless 1.0. im not sure what happened to my phone but i left for 3 days and come back to my phone being totally jacked up. It wot dl apps the google play reverted back to the old market icon. wont save my passwords for google sighn in. every time i go to youtube it says to re dl the google play services. im sure other stuff is messed up too. i have tried to flash another rom but when it gets loaded back up it keeps saying process. whatever failed and there a bunch of those that loop and i have to pull battery. when i try to factory reset it says everything was formatted but when i reboot phone its the sme as it was before apps and all. So is there anyone out there who can help me with this. Sorry if i posted in the wrong place or what not. i wasnt sure where to post it cuz its kinda an advanced question but not really a question just need help.

not a virus but it does sound like your phone might have exhausted all the space in the /data folder. I had a similar thing happen to me before I rooted and fixed my phone where i exhausted the space, itt went a factory reset and put the phone into an unusable state.
i don;t know anything about the rom you are running but are rooted and have CWM installed? if so, you should be able flash a new ROM to your device, GAPPS and optionally, the low space disk fix.

tekweezle said:
not a virus but it does sound like your phone might have exhausted all the space in the /data folder. I had a similar thing happen to me before I rooted and fixed my phone where i exhausted the space, itt went a factory reset and put the phone into an unusable state.
i don;t know anything about the rom you are running but are rooted and have CWM installed? if so, you should be able flash a new ROM to your device, GAPPS and optionally, the low space disk fix.
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Yes i do have cwm but i tried to flash a new rom via the recovery section. after i choose the zip to flash everything goes as expected untill after the reboot and it goes into the setup part where u have to put gmail password and stuff in then it basically freezes up with unlimited process failures. but i will try again. cant hurt from where it is now.

if you are not doing so already, i would wipe cache and dalvik cache after flashing the rom. that may fix the FCs.
I would also suggest you run a newer jelly bean ROM like Tiny;s 5-16 with his version of GAPPS(4-05) version plus the low space disk fix so you can maintain parity with what is the latest.
I am currently using evervolve 6-25 and it is working well for me.
the reason I say that is these newer JB roms have the ability to let you skip the activation easily. I don;t know if it was some feature of GB roms but the activation wizard in the JB roms seem to be better my opinion.

When switching to a different ROM, it is crucial to wipe /system. This can be a source of FCs. Also, if switching, it is also a good idea to do factory reset.

tekweezle said:
if you are not doing so already, i would wipe cache and dalvik cache after flashing the rom. that may fix the FCs.
I would also suggest you run a newer jelly bean ROM like Tiny;s 5-16 with his version of GAPPS(4-05) version plus the low space disk fix so you can maintain parity with what is the latest.
I am currently using evervolve 6-25 and it is working well for me.
the reason I say that is these newer JB roms have the ability to let you skip the activation easily. I don;t know if it was some feature of GB roms but the activation wizard in the JB roms seem to be better my opinion.
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I just flashed another rom i used in the past by the same dev and so this is my step by step. 1. choose zip from sd. 2. factory reset. 3. wipe dalvik cache. 4. wipe cache partition. If this doesnt work i will try jb roms but i would hate to have to dump the dev that im useing. there the most stabe roms i have come across so far

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When switching to a different ROM, it is crucial to wipe /system. This can be a source of FCs. Also, if switching, it is also a good idea to do factory reset.
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what do u mean wipe /system. where do i find that. only reason i ask is cuz maybe ive never done that. but i have never had a problem withthe other 15 roms i have flashed before so thats why im so confused about what happened to my phone. all i did was shut it off and leave it home. nothing changed from my daily use before that and it was working top notch before i shut it off

im getting settings fc. youtube fc, my uploads fc, market fc, clock widget fc, internet fc, rss reader fc, htc sence fc, all those off of a fresh flash ad new sd card
Just lost my bckups that were saved on sd card so now i cant even get on it i dont get it. its not bricked but yet it i unstabe to run any rom but the preivious saved backup (now there deleted)

maybe the rom you downloaded is corrupt. worst case scenerio is that your phone is on it;s last legs.....
i would suggest you try downloading the JB rom and Gapps plus the low space fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050930
it;s kind of proven to work in my opinion. the 5-16 build is pretty stable.
what I do is flash the rom zip, gapps zip and low space zip, then wipe cache and dalvik. it probably should not make a difference but I am using TWRP as my recovery instead of CWM.
goodluck!

tekweezle said:
maybe the rom you downloaded is corrupt. worst case scenerio is that your phone is on it;s last legs.....
i would suggest you try downloading the JB rom and Gapps plus the low space fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050930
it;s kind of proven to work in my opinion. the 5-16 build is pretty stable.
what I do is flash the rom zip, gapps zip and low space zip, then wipe cache and dalvik. it probably should not make a difference but I am using TWRP as my recovery instead of CWM.
goodluck!
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Thank u and its still not working. probably just takeing a dump on me now it is just bootlooping.

when i do a factory reset i get a wipe completed. but it says "no app2sd partition found. Skipping format of /sd-ext" could that be part of the issue?? ive never noticed that before

i don;t know if switching to TWRP might help you but it might be worth a try. maybe a coincidence but the last time I had a screw up on my Dinc installing a ROM, i was using CWM. I switch right after that. I think i did read something about TWRP specifically supporting the EXT4 Low space fix.
maybe someone more knowledgable can chime in.

tekweezle said:
i don;t know if switching to TWRP might help you but it might be worth a try. maybe a coincidence but the last time I had a screw up on my Dinc installing a ROM, i was using CWM. I switch right after that. I think i did read something about TWRP specifically supporting the EXT4 Low space fix.
maybe someone more knowledgable can chime in.
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i will try it but it is doing the same thing on every rom i have tried to flash. ive tried 6 different roms so far and i have ran them all in the past so im incined to think its jacked. and is there a specific twrp for the different roms or can i just dl the latest version and it will work