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JB roms suddenly not working?

I'm just going to throw this out there for anyone who may know the answer, after searching for the last 3 days, I'm not finding anyone else having the same problem, so I'm thinking it may be something I did. Here's the issue.
I'm a confirmed flash-a-holic, and flash new roms or backups probably 2-3 times per week. I haven't tried any of the JB roms until recently, but dove in just before Nit's Viper Rom became available for ICS. I had installed the JB "global" rom, and had it working(ish), and then changed to the viper mod, then installed Aeroevan's "unofficial JB" when the 10/25 update on Goo.im came available. The install went smoothly and it worked great for about a day, then tanked big time when I tried to change the launcher from Trebuchet to Nova (I can't even guess why THAT had anything to do with it). It started lagging big time and then boot looping. Now, upon trying to wipe everything (factory reset/cache/dalvik/all partitions but sd), I get nothing but boot loops and NONE of the JB roms will install. From my reading, I know others get boot loops, but after a sequence, finally get into setup. Mine will too after 5-6 boot loops minimum, but the screen freezes on the initial setup screen and it's completely unusable (touch screen unresponsive). I don't get why that is when I HAD it installed the other day and it was very responsive (using Aeroevan's JB mod). I WAS using the 4EXT recovery when I started doing all of this, then switched recoveries to the most recent TWRP, and it allowed me to install Aeroevan's JB mod, and even start the setup, but very soon started lagging and then the boot loops again. At this point, I'm sortof at a loss, and the only thing I can think of is that maybe I should NOT have been wiping the sd partitions and SHOULD have only been wiping cache/dalvik/factory reset. At the moment, anyway all ICS mods are flashing/running just fine (currently on Nit's Vipermod and really liking it btw), but if anyone knows where I went astray, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks all, this is by far the best forum I have been a part of!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805773&page=117

Oh boy..... Be sure and post back if you find a solution, glad I'm not the only one! I thought I did this to myself... which I guess I sortof did if you get technical.
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I had the same problem but was told to flash new radio and it stopped bootlooping and everything went back to normal....

auberry05 said:
I had the same problem but was told to flash new radio and it stopped bootlooping and everything went back to normal....
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Which radio did you flash?

Ok, I made headway by reverting TWRP recovery back to 4ext's newest recovery, restored my oldest original stock GB backup with ext3 partitions which was originally a CWM recovery. I let it run after install for about 10 minutes without updating anything, then 4Ext wiped data, cache/dalvik, system. I then reformatted all partitions back to 4ext and then wiped everything again even fixing permissions. Then I tried a fresh install to Aeroevan's unofficial CM10 from 10/25 and gapps from 10/11. Install went smoothly and booted first time with no boot loops. I'm using it right now and I'm back in the butter again..... for now at least. If I take a turn for the worst, I'll post back.
Ok, well, scratch that, I am having the same problems a couple of other guys are having in the cm10 dev thread. I'm only able to run sense roms, original stock, UKBII, etc, no ICS or JB roms work, incredibly laggy and bootlooping endlessly. I have never had this much trouble flashing roms, I do it all the time. Sadly, it started when I flashed the viper rom, and I don't even have a copy of it to re-flash now since I wiped my card and it wasn't backed up on my computer (I think I must've downloaded it from my phone). I have spent WAY too much time on this, so am now relegated to only lurking here until someone can find a solution that's not just "firing down the well" like I've been doing since this started.

bwpoersch said:
Ok, I made headway by reverting TWRP recovery back to 4ext's newest recovery, restored my oldest original stock GB backup with ext3 partitions which was originally a CWM recovery. I let it run after install for about 10 minutes without updating anything, then 4Ext wiped data, cache/dalvik, system. I then reformatted all partitions back to 4ext and then wiped everything again even fixing permissions. Then I tried a fresh install to Aeroevan's unofficial CM10 from 10/25 and gapps from 10/11. Install went smoothly and booted first time with no boot loops. I'm using it right now and I'm back in the butter again..... for now at least. If I take a turn for the worst, I'll post back.
Ok, well, scratch that, I am having the same problems a couple of other guys are having in the cm10 dev thread. I'm only able to run sense roms, original stock, UKBII, etc, no ICS or JB roms work, incredibly laggy and bootlooping endlessly. I have never had this much trouble flashing roms, I do it all the time. Sadly, it started when I flashed the viper rom, and I don't even have a copy of it to re-flash now since I wiped my card and it wasn't backed up on my computer (I think I must've downloaded it from my phone). I have spent WAY too much time on this, so am now relegated to only lurking here until someone can find a solution that's not just "firing down the well" like I've been doing since this started.
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On follow-up, I read mixed opinions about the wisdom of using TiBu on restores, assuming I'm able to ever recover this my thinking is that one could use TiBu to restore apps ONLY and NO data and that would/should not cause a problem (assuming you're restoring a backup from within your installed ROM's file structure .i.e., JB/ICS/GB)? Also, I use My Backup Pro to restore call/MMS/texts only, that oughta be safe too shouldn't it?

I had a similar issue last night. never had problems flashing from viper to cm10 till yesterday. I've flashed back and forth about 3 times until I flashed the leaked 4.2 camera with sphere camera on aero cm10 Halloween build. I was playing around with the sphere camera and attempted to get it to actually finish loading the pics together by overclocking to 1.4mhz and I ended up pulling the battery. it boot looped very slow and laggy after. I did a full wipe, fresh install of aeros cm10 from twrp and got the same thing. So I recovered viper Rom from twrp , booted, then did a full wipe and install of cm10 and still boot loops laggy. I did not have the overclock settings "set at boot" ticked when I put it to 1.4mhz. odd indeed
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So... I was having no issues until today's huge headache. I was on cm10 10-25 and it worked great. Dirty flashed to 31 and it all went to hell. Slowed to a crawl so restarted to recovery to fix permission. Restarted and it kept restarting. I got some failure message when it would boot. Don't recall what it was.
I then tried 3 different recoveries and also full wipes and fresh flashes of 3 different roms. Same loop result basically. Finally an old recovery worked and I'm on a month old mrom version now. Soo... any thoughts on what the heck happened? I did nothing out of the ordinary. I was worried I somehow bricked but obviously not since I'm sending this on my phone. Kinda freaked to do anything right now... any thoughts or help/ideas?
PS... I just use the basic cwm and only cwm for my recoveries.
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Ukb wont boot here.
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so I got aeros 10/31 build to boot after taking 10 min to finish the start up set-up. it was extremely laggy, it would random restart a few times. I played around with over clocking then under clocking but the cpu was maxed out 24/7. I'm assuming this is what is causing the extreme lag. I changed the governor to on demand and it started to act normal and not lag out. so I used it for awhile then I decided to change the cpu governor back to smartassv2 and then I was back to lag and the cpu was maxxed again... can't recreate the scenario cuz it doesn't boot now...
my conclusion is it has to due with the kernel and cpu governors on JB. I've tried aeros jb 12, 13,14,and 15 kernel and also Evans kernel with no luck on getting the cpu not to b maxed out... hope this helps solve the issue
Sent by the viper

fen0m said:
so I got aeros 10/31 build to boot after taking 10 min to finish the start up set-up. it was extremely laggy, it would random restart a few times. I played around with over clocking then under clocking but the cpu was maxed out 24/7. I'm assuming this is what is causing the extreme lag. I changed the governor to on demand and it started to act normal and not lag out. so I used it for awhile then I decided to change the cpu governor back to smartassv2 and then I was back to lag and the cpu was maxxed again... can't recreate the scenario cuz it doesn't boot now...
my conclusion is it has to due with the kernel and cpu governors on JB. I've tried aeros jb 12, 13,14,and 15 kernel and also Evans kernel with no luck on getting the cpu not to b maxed out... hope this helps solve the issue
Sent by the viper
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Someone just threw down on the info. Sounds like I will be flashing the latest mrom. Not gonna repeat the horror of my recent cm10 fiasco. Thanks for this.
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Unfortunately I too am finding it near impossible to flash any ICS/JB ROM. The closest I've gotten is the Google sign-in on Andromadus Mimicry, but that practically slows to a halt when signing in. As of now I'm on Condemned CM7 and I must say I REALLY miss Google Music.
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jtsrtr13 said:
Unfortunately I too am finding it near impossible to flash any ICS/JB ROM. The closest I've gotten is the Google sign-in on Andromadus Mimicry, but that practically slows to a halt when signing in. As of now I'm on Condemned CM7 and I must say I REALLY miss Google Music.
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Try installing 4ext recovery. Format system, data, cache to ext3 like 3 times. Flash tunnas global cm10 rom
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Baby mamas INC 2 has been having same issues. I have to believe it had something to do with her being on the ICS leak from back in September with the 320 radio. I went as far as to getting back to compete stock with s-off. Got back to 2.3.3, got CWM and root. Hopefully I can try getting her phone back on CM9-10 cuz she really misses it and we were having EXACT problems stated above. Boot loops, touch screen not responsive, wallpaper would change out of nowhere, lock screen would be black with nothing but hardware buttons lighting up. Thank GOD for these devs and their work to get back to stock or I would have thrown this POS out the window lol.
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A2Trip said:
Baby mamas INC 2 has been having same issues. I have to believe it had something to do with her being on the ICS leak from back in September with the 320 radio. I went as far as to getting back to compete stock with s-off. Got back to 2.3.3, got CWM and root. Hopefully I can try getting her phone back on CM9-10 cuz she really misses it and we were having EXACT problems stated above. Boot loops, touch screen not responsive, wallpaper would change out of nowhere, lock screen would be black with nothing but hardware buttons lighting up. Thank GOD for these devs and their work to get back to stock or I would have thrown this POS out the window lol.
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I did the revert a while back for some other issues and didn't have any trouble getting aeroevan's CM10 up and running. I haven't had any issues with it other than the persistent bugs which are no problem for me. I don't think these issues have anything to do with the radio, but with the way the stuff is getting flashed. You might try a different recovery. I have had success with TWRP and CWM (as installed from ROM Manager, not touch) restored from a backup for me, but I didn't install using CWM.

ericsdeadinside said:
Try installing 4ext recovery. Format system, data, cache to ext3 like 3 times. Flash tunnas global cm10 rom
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Did these things ....even Stunna's CM10 was laggy beyond belief. Back to gb.....again.
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Don't know what to tell you. I switched to 4ext ran CDMA miui for a week and I was able to flash cm10 with no issues.
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jtsrtr13 said:
Did these things ....even Stunna's CM10 was laggy beyond belief. Back to gb.....again.
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+1... seems like only Sence ROMs have been working on my girls Inc. 2. Viper seems fine for now... But her phone must literately hate CM9 and 10...7 works fine too. Not quite sure why these issues have been going on to few of us but I'm almost certain it will not be solved... On the move...
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hey guys I fixed my Inc 2 with jb ics lag/ boot looping issues.
check it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987051
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[Q] /Data partition possibly corrupt, Someone please help

In the past couple of weeks I had jedi 3.x rom installed on my i317 from att, with asylumcore kernel at 1.92ghz overclock and no fsync(). Had it fully themed from various theme mods around the forum and everything was running great till i found a AOSP lockscreen mod that i decided i really wanted to put on here. I flashed the mod and my phone would load up show the TW lockscreen for 1 second then reboot again over and over. I was stupid and did not make a backup before flashing the lockscreen. could not get phone to stop resetting w/o pulling battery. after flashing the new jedi rom and kernel my phone still continued to bootloop, but without ever getting to the bootanimation. I had a cm rom on the sd card that i kept to try on a "rainy day". after flashing that the phone was able to fully boot and was working but this rom is very buggy for me. i realized that i had forgot to format /data before or after flashing and thought this could be the issue. went into recovery and now every time i try to format it the recovery reboots. tried flashing teamwinrecovery and it only loads the splash image then a blank screen. So i went back into cm and used the app Rom Toolbox Pro to see if it could clear out all of /data, and mentioned that my version of cwm had to be done with rom manager but with the option to try anyway? i answered yes. phone booted into recovery and now automatically tries to clear /data but keeps rebooting and repeating the process. Now i can't flash anything becuase rom toolbox is automating the whole thing.
So I ask, does anyone please know of anyways that i can mount my phone to my computer for editing without being booted up into the rom or recovery? or is there a way to use Odin to somehow clear all the partitions so that i can start new?
Sorry for long post but right now my phone is a $650 brick.

U just answered ur own question.......odin bacjk to complete stock
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I live outside of any major city and the only real internet i could get was through my phone via tethering. so i was on dialup to even write the previous post. But I went into town and borrowed the local restaurant's cable internet and downloaded the stock firmware and I believe everything is in working order

[Q] Nothing happens after Startup screen after I installed overclock Kernel.

Ok I rooted my note 2 Exactly as explained on this site. Worked perfect!! Then did the backup before i flashed the new ROM exactly how it was explained on here and the new PAC MAN ROM worked freaking amazing! I came to the android world after being a faithful iphone user since its launch and when they brought out the BS iphone 5 that was it for me. I knew it was time to switch, and Wow I wish I'd come sooner. The devs on here make owning an Android so much fun!! Cheesy yeah whatever but Im a tech nut so this is my new playground. Thank you all.
Now back to the problem. I wanted to install an overclock Kernal because I had it on the JEDI X ROM previous to the PAC MAN and when I set it at 1.8 the phone was fast and the battery did good enough for my work. However when I tried to install it after the PM ROM the phone will not load past the Samsung Galaxy Note2 load screen. It just goes blank. I've tried every single restore method I could find. It goes to the download mode and itll go into custom recovery mode just fine. But once i try the recovery options with any wipe possible it still only lights up for the Samsung Screen. When i plug the phone into my computer it doesnt show up in the list of removable drives like before however the Device Manager sees it just fine. Hopefully you guys can help. I will answer whatever I left out if I havent been complete enough. Yeah I'm an FNG so Ive got to learn a bit more yet! Thanks again.

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ngclassicsgb said:
Ok I rooted my note 2 Exactly as explained on this site. Worked perfect!! Then did the backup before i flashed the new ROM exactly how it was explained on here and the new PAC MAN ROM worked freaking amazing! I came to the android world after being a faithful iphone user since its launch and when they brought out the BS iphone 5 that was it for me. I knew it was time to switch, and Wow I wish I'd come sooner. The devs on here make owning an Android so much fun!! Cheesy yeah whatever but Im a tech nut so this is my new playground. Thank you all.
Now back to the problem. I wanted to install an overclock Kernal because I had it on the JEDI X ROM previous to the PAC MAN and when I set it at 1.8 the phone was fast and the battery did good enough for my work. However when I tried to install it after the PM ROM the phone will not load past the Samsung Galaxy Note2 load screen. It just goes blank. I've tried every single restore method I could find. It goes to the download mode and itll go into custom recovery mode just fine. But once i try the recovery options with any wipe possible it still only lights up for the Samsung Screen. When i plug the phone into my computer it doesnt show up in the list of removable drives like before however the Device Manager sees it just fine. Hopefully you guys can help. I will answer whatever I left out if I havent been complete enough. Yeah I'm an FNG so Ive got to learn a bit more yet! Thanks again.
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I tried to unroot/unbrick with ODIN. Once I hit start the Message Box in odin says MD5 Hash Value Invalid. Ideas please? Thanks again.

ngclassicsgb said:
I tried to unroot/unbrick with ODIN. Once I hit start the Message Box in odin says MD5 Hash Value Invalid. Ideas please? Thanks again.
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after you installed your Back up rom files, did you do a wipe cache and etc?I think you have to do the wiping before you flash a rom? I don't remember, I did have a Xoom that kept bootlooping after flashing my back up, so I did a system wipe, factory wipe, etc and it started up.
I also See a option to Wipe Rom, maybe try that? then flash your Back-up Rom Files

You say you can get into recovery, try wiping cache and dalvik, doing a factory reset, then re flashing the rom and kernel.
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ngclassicsgb said:
Ok I rooted my note 2 Exactly as explained on this site. Worked perfect!! Then did the backup before i flashed the new ROM exactly how it was explained on here and the new PAC MAN ROM worked freaking amazing! I came to the android world after being a faithful iphone user since its launch and when they brought out the BS iphone 5 that was it for me. I knew it was time to switch, and Wow I wish I'd come sooner. The devs on here make owning an Android so much fun!! Cheesy yeah whatever but Im a tech nut so this is my new playground. Thank you all.
Now back to the problem. I wanted to install an overclock Kernal because I had it on the JEDI X ROM previous to the PAC MAN and when I set it at 1.8 the phone was fast and the battery did good enough for my work. However when I tried to install it after the PM ROM the phone will not load past the Samsung Galaxy Note2 load screen. It just goes blank. I've tried every single restore method I could find. It goes to the download mode and itll go into custom recovery mode just fine. But once i try the recovery options with any wipe possible it still only lights up for the Samsung Screen. When i plug the phone into my computer it doesnt show up in the list of removable drives like before however the Device Manager sees it just fine. Hopefully you guys can help. I will answer whatever I left out if I havent been complete enough. Yeah I'm an FNG so Ive got to learn a bit more yet! Thanks again.
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Which kernel are you trying to run with PAC MAN rom? You can't use the same kernel as Jedi is stock based and Pac Man is aosp based. If you flashed the kernel you used on Jedi with the Pac Man rom the results would be what you are seeing. Soooo....try this, boot into recovery and wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvic cache and reflash Pac Man rom, just the rom and see if it works, if it does great, go find an aosp based kernel and try again. I am suggesting this because of what you said that I highlighted in red in the quote above.
The md5 hashcheck failure sounds like a bad download. If this doesn't work I would suggest looking at mr. robinson's " Root no tripping flash counter" thread and odin flash a stock rooted firmware with odin and start over. Here is mr. robinsons thread

Worst case you can odin stock firmware, root, recovery, restore backup. That may not identify the cause but should solve the problem if you can get to dl mode.
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[Q] Phone isn't bricked, but nothing will revive it!

Hi everybody, I was hoping to get some help here. Be warned, this is a long story.
I was running CM10.1 fine. My phone was lagging for some reason. A quick search told me to clear my cache. I did. I flashed the Darkside cache wipe. Now my phone wouldn't boot. There would be a Samsung Splash screen, then nothing and my phone would (try to) reboot. Again and again.
My (external) SD card had been acting up a lot. It wouldn't be recognized, copies would be slow, and all sorts of problems. So I formatted it. It worked fine. I assumed my phone was back to normal.
I restored my phone to stock via ODIN. It would reboot at first, but I That worked fine. I was happy until I needed my Wifi hotspot back. I rooted via Odin. The Deleting of tethering provision no longer worked. I flashed the Darkside ICS Rom. That worked fine. I missed Jelly bean/stock android. I flashed CM10.1 along with a fresh download of the Darkside cache and data wipes.
The phone didn't boot. Same problem as before. I assumed same solution. I got a PASS! and unplugged the phone. At this point, It showed the stock splash screen (Galaxy SII, Android 4G etc.) and then an animation of the Android with some blue 3D figure spinning in his belly. The %age status bar at the bottom reached 30ish% then stopped. The animation continued and the bar remained at 30% for a very long time. I tried to reboot normally, which would result the Splash screen with a %age bar at 99%, frozen, and to enter recovery which gave me a splash screen then this:
-- Verifying internal MMC block...
Not need checksum confirmation
already executed!!...
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : TMB
Successfully applied multi-CSC
This is character to character what I read, and there seems to be a dead android with a red triangle in his belly in the back ground.
I can consistently reproduce these two situations, both of which are disturbing. I could try to restore via Odin for the third time, but I risk making things worse.
Thanks for reading the essay. Until I can somehow fix this, I'm stuck with Hercules in a coma.
Any help is appreciated.

step one, flash twrp (2.5.0.0) via odin
step two, wipe everything except external sd
step three, flash whatever rom
the end

What are you restoring your phone to...ics or jb?
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ClaireH said:
step two, wipe everything except external sd
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Are you trying to make him wipe his internal storage as well? :sly: lol
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ClaireH said:
step one, flash twrp (2.5.0.0) via odin
step two, wipe everything except external sd
step three, flash whatever rom
the end
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I did the same thing day before, actually. Only I flashed CWM via Odin. I could now access recovery, but flashing CM gave me the same no boot problem. Funnily, resetting to stock actually worked after I did this!
Obviously I'm not happy with stock. However I am hesitant to mess with my now fully functional phone.
And without starting a flame war, would using TWRP give me different results?
Oh yeah, iburnhearts, I resetted to the (I think) latest stock JB, 4.1.2. Should it matter? I heard there was a difference in where the SD card was located or something.
I will make a backup before trying TWRP this weekend.
Thanks for all your help.

sauprankul said:
I did the same thing day before, actually. Only I flashed CWM via Odin. I could now access recovery, but flashing CM gave me the same no boot problem. Funnily, resetting to stock actually worked after I did this!
Obviously I'm not happy with stock. However I am hesitant to mess with my now fully functional phone.
And without starting a flame war, would using TWRP give me different results?
Oh yeah, iburnhearts, I resetted to the (I think) latest stock JB, 4.1.2. Should it matter? I heard there was a difference in where the SD card was located or something.
I will make a backup before trying TWRP this weekend.
Thanks for all your help.
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Glad to hear you're phone is fully functional...stock jb touchwiz isn't too bad in my experience especially now since a lot of the newer cm10.1, pacman and carbon nightlies are having SODs and RRs.
As far as twrp vs cwm...in my experience twrp has a much simpler user interface which makes it easy to wipe amd theres no need for the darkside scripts. Although if you want to flash a custom touchwiz jellybean ROM then you would need the infamous wipe scripts which are similar to dark side but they've been updated by Jamison.
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Hi everybody,
I flashed CWM via ODIN, then I flashed the TWRP .zip. It was easy enough. Then I flashed CM 10.1, gapps and a custom boot animation by nozerogravity (keywords CMX boot animation). All went surprisingly well, and the welcome screen alleviated my concerns.
There still remains the problem that originally worried me something was wrong with my phone: it would lag during the simplest of games. Until I tried other ROMs I didn't know that this was a known issue with CM 10.1. I simply had to lock and unlock to temp fix this problem.
TWRP is much simpler and cooler than the classic CWM. Also, why did CWM conk out on me so? That is the real question. The evidence seems to point to CWM, however, I am reluctant to blame such an established piece of software, esp. considering the fact that it's free.
Thanks everybody, for the help!
*Nota bene: No wiping scripts were needed with TWRP, neither Darkside nor Infamous (I'm not familiar with the latter)

Issues With Kernels

Hi there!
I have a bit of a problem with my T-Mobile S4 and I was wondering if there was anything I could do to remedy the situation. So here is the problem;
Two days ago, I was playing PPSSPP and then I saved the state so I could eat lunch. When I came back to play, I loaded the state and then all of the sudden, my screen jumbled for a split second then went black. I tried to restart my phone, but it would always boot up and then go back to a black screen. I then reinstalled my ROM and was able to use my phone again. Thinking that it was over, I decided to re-flash my kernel. But then, it happened again, only this time, I could kind of turn my screen on but it was all messed up. See photo below. I re-flashed my ROM once more, made a titanium backup of my apps and then proceeded to wipe my whole phone through TWRP, going to wipe -> advanced wipe and then selecting every check box except for external sd and USB otg. Afterward, I re-flashed my ROM once more, booted my phone to make sure it worked then flashed the kernel same thing happened. SoI tried a couple different kernels but they all produced the same results. Just a jumbled screen. What could have went wrong? And is there a chance I can fix it?
ROM used - ParanoidAndroid 3.99 RC2
Kernel used - KT-SGS4
Other Kernels tried - Chronic Kernel, Blue ROM kernel

Anyone ever have this problem?

over16bit said:
Hi there!
I have a bit of a problem with my T-Mobile S4 and I was wondering if there was anything I could do to remedy the situation. So here is the problem;
Two days ago, I was playing PPSSPP and then I saved the state so I could eat lunch. When I came back to play, I loaded the state and then all of the sudden, my screen jumbled for a split second then went black. I tried to restart my phone, but it would always boot up and then go back to a black screen. I then reinstalled my ROM and was able to use my phone again. Thinking that it was over, I decided to re-flash my kernel. But then, it happened again, only this time, I could kind of turn my screen on but it was all messed up. See photo below. I re-flashed my ROM once more, made a titanium backup of my apps and then proceeded to wipe my whole phone through TWRP, going to wipe -> advanced wipe and then selecting every check box except for external sd and USB otg. Afterward, I re-flashed my ROM once more, booted my phone to make sure it worked then flashed the kernel same thing happened. SoI tried a couple different kernels but they all produced the same results. Just a jumbled screen. What could have went wrong? And is there a chance I can fix it?
ROM used - ParanoidAndroid 3.99 RC2
Kernel used - KT-SGS4
Other Kernels tried - Chronic Kernel, Blue ROM kernel
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I have never heard of this problem. It seems you have tried your best to fix it...
My suggestion is to go back stock and see if the problem is still there. If it is then its a hardware problem.
If its not...re-root and flash a rom and go from there.
Sent from a Insane S4
SICK MADE DEVELOPMENT

alloycowboy said:
I have never heard of this problem. It seems you have tried your best to fix it...
My suggestion is to go back stock and see if the problem is still there. If it is then its a hardware problem.
If its not...re-root and flash a rom and go from there.
Sent from a Insane S4
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This...but use Odin to go back to stock. Dont' just try to flash a stock ROM.
REALLY reset it hardcore by using Odin to flash the stock firmware package in its entirety.

That's what I was thinking about doing, but I can't download the stock image. The download never completes. I've thus far tried to download from the hotfile mirror and from stockROMs but they're always slow and never complete. What I'd really like is a torrent, but if anyone knows of any other mirror or what might be going wrong, I'd appreciate a point in the right direction.
Thanks!

over16bit said:
That's what I was thinking about doing, but I can't download the stock image. The download never completes. I've thus far tried to download from the hotfile mirror and from stockROMs but they're always slow and never complete. What I'd really like is a torrent, but if anyone knows of any other mirror or what might be going wrong, I'd appreciate a point in the right direction.
Thanks!
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You need to use your pc to DL the firmware....it will fail trying to from your phone.
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Flash the 10.16 AOSP 4.3 build of KT's kernel. Any build newer than that is for CM based ROMs compiled AFTER 10.20.

alloycowboy said:
You need to use your pc to DL the firmware....it will fail trying to from your phone.
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I am trying to download it from my PC. :/
Also, I tried the earlier KT kernel as that was the one I had on hand. Same thing happens.

over16bit said:
I am trying to download it from my PC. :/
Also, I tried the earlier KT kernel as that was the one I had on hand. Same thing happens.
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Sounds like hardware problem. I hope im wrong.
Let us know how it goes after you odin back to stock
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