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Hello, everybody. I have a T-Mo SGS2 SGH-T989 that's frustrating me, and I'm hoping one of you might understand what's happening and how to fix it. Its software seems to be frozen in time. Every time I reboot it, no matter what I've done to it, it opens on the homescreen I had in place as of last Thursday (6 September). As soon as it boots it downloads updates for every app that's had an update come out since then. Any apps I have tried to install since then give me a "could not be downloaded due to an error. (492)" message, and any already-installed apps I delete magically reappear unchanged as soon as I reboot. Not only that, but all the app cache data is frozen in time, too; Poweramp opens with the player cued to the middle of a track I had last listened to over Bluetooth in my car last Thursday, the Kindle app opens to a page within a book I had read last Thursday, etc. I can't make any permanent changes to my phone for no obviously apparent reason, though it's for the most part functional. To top it all off, though, after being powered on for a few hours, apps start randomly force closing until I reboot it again! I've been running essentially the same software environment on it for a couple of months, and up until last Thursday it was rock-solid reliable. I'm not a complete n00b, but I don't have nearly as much time as I'd like to devote to progressing beyond rank amateur status, and having my phone not completely functional is bugging the spit out of me. I've been trawling this and other forums as much as I can since then, and I can't make head or tail of this problem. Anybody have any ideas?
I've already tried wiping the cache and dalvik cache, I've tried restoring a backup from cwm, I've tried doing a factory reset and data wipe, I've tried darkside super wiping it, I've tried flashing new recoveries, I've tried to update the firmware through Kies, I've tried to flash it back to stock with ODIN, and I even downloaded the Android SDK so I could open an adb shell over USB and chmod all the file permissions to read/write! I keep encountering error messages in cwm and adb saying error mounting /sdcard, error mounting /sd_ext, error mounting sdcard/android.secure, etc. What really blows my mind is that everything seems to be working just fine in ODIN while I'm flashing it - until the phone reboots and shows me exactly the same environment it had before I flashed it. I had avast! Anti-Theft installed, and I disabled its device administrator privileges and uninstalled it before I made any of these attempts to fix it, but it keeps reappearing too. I'm at a loss.
Device details:
Phone: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 (rooted)
Android: 4.0.3
ROM: DARKSIDE.EVOLUTION.3 v5 (out-of-date, I know, but it had been working flawlessly for months, and if it ain't broke....)
Kernel: 3.0.8-perf-T989UVLE1-CL508451 (it says "[email protected] #1" on the line after that in the kernel version block of the "About phone" settings page)
Recovery: ClockWorkMod Recovery v5.0.2.7 (again, I know it's out-of-date, but if it ain't broke.... and now it won't let me re-flash it!)
Baseband: T989UVLE1
Selected Installed Apps: AdFree, Amazon Market, Amazon Kindle, ADWLauncherEX, avast! Mobile Security, Beautiful Widgets, BusyBox Pro, Dolphin Browser, Dropbox, DSPManager, KeePassDroid, Kies air, MX Player Pro, Poweramp, PriceCheck, QR Droid Private, ROM Toolbox Pro, Shazam, Superuser, TeslaUnreadPlugin, Titanium Backup, Widget Locker
Nizrael said:
Hello, everybody. I have a T-Mo SGS2 SGH-T989 that's frustrating me, and I'm hoping one of you might understand what's happening and how to fix it. Its software seems to be frozen in time. Every time I reboot it, no matter what I've done to it, it opens on the homescreen I had in place as of last Thursday (6 September). As soon as it boots it downloads updates for every app that's had an update come out since then. Any apps I have tried to install since then give me a "could not be downloaded due to an error. (492)" message, and any already-installed apps I delete magically reappear unchanged as soon as I reboot. Not only that, but all the app cache data is frozen in time, too; Poweramp opens with the player cued to the middle of a track I had last listened to over Bluetooth in my car last Thursday, the Kindle app opens to a page within a book I had read last Thursday, etc. I can't make any permanent changes to my phone for no obviously apparent reason, though it's for the most part functional. To top it all off, though, after being powered on for a few hours, apps start randomly force closing until I reboot it again! I've been running essentially the same software environment on it for a couple of months, and up until last Thursday it was rock-solid reliable. I'm not a complete n00b, but I don't have nearly as much time as I'd like to devote to progressing beyond rank amateur status, and having my phone not completely functional is bugging the spit out of me. I've been trawling this and other forums as much as I can since then, and I can't make head or tail of this problem. Anybody have any ideas?
I've already tried wiping the cache and dalvik cache, I've tried restoring a backup from cwm, I've tried doing a factory reset and data wipe, I've tried darkside super wiping it, I've tried flashing new recoveries, I've tried to update the firmware through Kies, I've tried to flash it back to stock with ODIN, and I even downloaded the Android SDK so I could open an adb shell over USB and chmod all the file permissions to read/write! I keep encountering error messages in cwm and adb saying error mounting /sdcard, error mounting /sd_ext, error mounting sdcard/android.secure, etc. What really blows my mind is that everything seems to be working just fine in ODIN while I'm flashing it - until the phone reboots and shows me exactly the same environment it had before I flashed it. I had avast! Anti-Theft installed, and I disabled its device administrator privileges and uninstalled it before I made any of these attempts to fix it, but it keeps reappearing too. I'm at a loss.
Device details:
Phone: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 (rooted)
Android: 4.0.3
ROM: DARKSIDE.EVOLUTION.3 v5 (out-of-date, I know, but it had been working flawlessly for months, and if it ain't broke....)
Kernel: 3.0.8-perf-T989UVLE1-CL508451 (it says "[email protected] #1" on the line after that in the kernel version block of the "About phone" settings page)
Recovery: ClockWorkMod Recovery v5.0.2.7 (again, I know it's out-of-date, but if it ain't broke.... and now it won't let me re-flash it!)
Baseband: T989UVLE1
Selected Installed Apps: AdFree, Amazon Market, Amazon Kindle, ADWLauncherEX, avast! Mobile Security, Beautiful Widgets, BusyBox Pro, Dolphin Browser, Dropbox, DSPManager, KeePassDroid, Kies air, MX Player Pro, Poweramp, PriceCheck, QR Droid Private, ROM Toolbox Pro, Shazam, Superuser, TeslaUnreadPlugin, Titanium Backup, Widget Locker
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This sounds like an Android virus... Did you download anything "suspicious" recently?
whatiznt said:
This sounds like an Android virus... Did you download anything "suspicious" recently?
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Yeah what he said.. You could always try a virus scan, however I have heard they aren't that reliable.. Easiest fix would be get a warranty replacement and be done with it.
VoiD_Dweller said:
Yeah what he said.. You could always try a virus scan, however I have heard they aren't that reliable.. Easiest fix would be get a warranty replacement and be done with it.
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Oh, dear.
I wouldn't have thought I had downloaded anything especially sketchy. I won't install an app unless it's got a lot of positive reviews, but I suppose that's no guarantee of absence of malware. The trouble with sending it in for warranty service is, I've voided my warranty by rooting it and installing a custom ROM, and I can't flash it back to stock.
Nizrael said:
I wouldn't have thought I had downloaded anything especially sketchy. I won't install an app unless it's got a lot of positive reviews, but I suppose that's no guarantee of absence of malware. The trouble with sending it in for warranty service is, I've voided my warranty by rooting it and installing a custom ROM, and I can't flash it back to stock.
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What are you talking about, you can ALWAYS flash back to stock
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2
Nizrael said:
I wouldn't have thought I had downloaded anything especially sketchy. I won't install an app unless it's got a lot of positive reviews, but I suppose that's no guarantee of absence of malware. The trouble with sending it in for warranty service is, I've voided my warranty by rooting it and installing a custom ROM, and I can't flash it back to stock.
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If you already have a back up try this out. Format system, Format data, Format cache. Wipe cache partition, Wipe dalvik, Wipe data/Factory Reset. Do all these twice not once but twice then reinstall backup rom and reboot. See if this fixes the problem.
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richardlibeau said:
If you already have a back up try this out. Format system, Format data, Format cache. Wipe cache partition, Wipe dalvik, Wipe data/Factory Reset. Do all these twice not once but twice then reinstall backup rom and reboot. See if this fixes the problem.
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Creating a backup was the first thing I did after I rooted it, so I did what you suggested. The first four steps went well enough:
Reboot to recovery ---> mounts and storage ---> format /system ---> Yes - Format ---> Done. (x2)
mounts and storage ---> format /data ---> Yes - Format ---> Done. (x2)
mounts and storage ---> format /cache ---> Yes - Format ---> Done. (x2)
wipe cache partition ---> Yes - Wipe Cache ---> --Wiping cache... Formatting /cache... Cache wipe complete. (x2)
When I went to wipe dalvik, I got this error the first time:
advanced ---> Wipe Dalvik Cache ---> E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
So I tried it again, and it seemed to work:
Wipe Dalvik Cache ---> Dalvik Cache wiped.
Just to be sure, I tried it a third time and got the error again:
advanced ---> Wipe Dalvik Cache ---> E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
After several more tries, it seems to be alternating back and forth between telling me it works and giving me an error message, so I moved on:
wipe data/factory reset ---> Yes -- delete all user data --->
It seemed to partially work, but also gave me an error:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android.secure...
Error mounting /sdcard/.android.secure!
Skipping format...
Data wipe complete.
I tried it again three more times and got the same results, error mounting /sdcard/.android.secure. Moving on, I tried to restore a backup:
- backup and restore ---> restore ---> E:Can't mount /sdcard (x4)
The thought occurred that it might be trying to access an external SD card rather than internal storage, so I re-installed the one I had removed prior to mucking about trying to wipe things and tried again:
- backup and restore ---> restore ---> Couldn't open directory. No files found.
This was new, so I went back to the wipe data/factory reset step:
wipe data/factory reset ---> Yes -- delete all user data --->
This time it seemed to work without any errors:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android.secure...
Data wipe complete. (x2)
Since that seemed to work, I repeated all steps from the beginning and moved on to the restore step:
- backup and restore ---> restore ---> Couldn't open directory. No files found. (x2)
I tried the restore from internal sdcard option:
- backup and restore ---> restore from internal sdcard ---> Couldn't open directory. No files found. (x2)
I then tried the "- advanced restore" and "- advanced restore from internal sdcard" but with the same results ---> Couldn't open directory. No files found. (x2)
Then I rebooted it:
- reboot system now --->
And yet again, it behaves as though it's been powered down since Thursday before last.
Hi everyone, three days ago i updated my Galaxy Nexus to the latest 4.2 version, from the stock 4.2 (the one without december in the people app).
Yesterday i started to realize some weird behaviors with overall apps, and here are some of them:
. Câmera app : Photo is taken, but can't visualize it
. Galery app : Shows ammount of photos in each album, but all the thumbnails are solid gray, and no photo can be selected for visualization
. Swiftkey Keyboard : Keeps raising error related to "Dynamic Language Packs" (since swiftkey stores the dynamic packs in the sdcard/internal storage, this might be another access issue)
. All apps that use camera activity : Camera is loaded but once i took the photo, it does not return to the app, and the camera app keeps open. No photo is returned to the app that invoked the camera aswell
. Dropbox : Can't export to internal storage any file, sometimes it manages to finally "read" the internal storage and show me directories structure, and sometimes it doesn't. In both situations, file "fails to export".
This seems a really weird behavior to me, and i thought that it might be a "Permission" issue, so i got in recovery mode and fixed permissions, but nothing got solved.
Is there any other step i might take before having to actually try a full wipe / factory reset ?
Having to reinstall / reconfigure all the apps is a pain in the butt, and since i can't backup them with titanium because of the internal storage issue, i would have to do it "manually".
By the way : Play store can update and download apps with no problem at all, so this is not a hardware issue for sure.
Try this wipe cache via recovery and dalvik cache and then flash latest root.
This should work.
manumanfred said:
Try this wipe cache via recovery and dalvik cache and then flash latest root.
This should work.
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Wiping cache and Dalvik Cache will not erase all my internal storage right ?
EDIT: Wiping Cache and Dalvik have not worked
Weird Issue:
After booting up into recovery mode, and try to Install .ZIP from sdcard, the CMW does not actually find any other folder in my sdcard than some weird ones like "0", "odb" and "legacy".
What are those folders ?
Why it does not sees the other folders ?
marcelloLins said:
Weird Issue:
After booting up into recovery mode, and try to Install .ZIP from sdcard, the CMW does not actually find any other folder in my sdcard than some weird ones like "0", "odb" and "legacy".
What are those folders ?
Why it does not sees the other folders ?
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Nevermind, i just reinstalled the Factory Stock 4.2 Android and updated to 4.2.1 OTA
Then i rooted it and everything is ok now.
Alright, my t989 is currently on CM10 nightly, and every time after I downloaded the update zip directly into my phone by CMupdater, it reboot into recovery and just won't do anything.
then I upgrade my CWM5.o.X to 6.0.2.7touch (by just installing the zip), and now it freezes when formatting cache, restoring cache and any other activities related to "cache". So I failed flashing cm10.1 because I can't even do a factory reset or wipe cache.
I tried to use CMupdater again after restoring to the CM10 nightly that i used to use, and guess what.....nothing changed. It still doesn't install new zip automatically after reboot into recovery.
Any solution to my problems? I am losing faith.
croftwzx said:
Alright, my t989 is currently on CM10 nightly, and every time after I downloaded the update zip directly into my phone by CMupdater, it reboot into recovery and just won't do anything.
then I upgrade my CWM5.o.X to 6.0.2.7touch (by just installing the zip), and now it freezes when formatting cache, restoring cache and any other activities related to "cache". So I failed flashing cm10.1 because I can't even do a factory reset or wipe cache.
I tried to use CMupdater again after restoring to the CM10 nightly that i used to use, and guess what.....nothing changed. It still doesn't install new zip automatically after reboot into recovery.
Any solution to my problems? I am losing faith.
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Ok, try this
From inside Android Download ROM MAnager from the market and open and grant Root
Now tap top-most option when it opens and install CWM recovery that way
I have never trusted updater that try to script the install and auto restart and do everything for you.
BE SURE YOU HAVE A GAPPS INSTALL ZIP TOO BEFORE RESTARTING TO RECOVERY IF YOU WANT TO HAVE GAPPS ON FIRST BOOT [not mandatory but most people then wonder why they don't have the market and cant log-in to google account though you can technically flash gapps zip anytime you wish]
Instead try the manual way go to mounts and storage and wipe /system and /data [may not need to wipe data but suggested to minimize possible tiny issues]
go back to main menu wipe cache and dalvick cache [in advanced and it may take a second as it sill come back stating /sd-ext doesn't exist but should only be a second not more than say 10].
Then tap the install from SDCard
tap to find your downloaded zip and tap it to install
Now do the samething but this time find the gapps zip you downloaded
When done restart the device and wait as long boot ahead [about 5 min the usual when it says android is upgrading and goes through the number of apps you have].
RealPariah said:
Ok, try this
From inside Android Download ROM MAnager from the market and open and grant Root
Now tap top-most option when it opens and install CWM recovery that way
I have never trusted updater that try to script the install and auto restart and do everything for you.
BE SURE YOU HAVE A GAPPS INSTALL ZIP TOO BEFORE RESTARTING TO RECOVERY IF YOU WANT TO HAVE GAPPS ON FIRST BOOT [not mandatory but most people then wonder why they don't have the market and cant log-in to google account though you can technically flash gapps zip anytime you wish]
Instead try the manual way go to mounts and storage and wipe /system and /data [may not need to wipe data but suggested to minimize possible tiny issues]
go back to main menu wipe cache and dalvick cache [in advanced and it may take a second as it sill come back stating /sd-ext doesn't exist but should only be a second not more than say 10].
Then tap the install from SDCard
tap to find your downloaded zip and tap it to install
Now do the samething but this time find the gapps zip you downloaded
When done restart the device and wait as long boot ahead [about 5 min the usual when it says android is upgrading and goes through the number of apps you have].
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Thanks for the help! I already tried using Teamwin wipe and it works much better than cwm....I think i am gonna leave cwm then
I was running CM 10.0.0 maguro stable.
Found CM 10.1 M2 maguro, updated it, with wiping dalvik cache, i didn't wipe data/factory reset.
Then gapps 121212.
Bang. Working fine but with some issues.
1. Clock stop working pop up appears once or twice. But clock is working great.
2. I couldn't manage to find my camera images, whats app images, screenshots, downloads images, Bluetooth images in Gallery.
3. My all audio songs are gone or hidden. i don't know. Apollo stop working pop up appears. Movies were there in Gallery. They seems fine.
4. In file manager, or when connecting through USB, i had quite many folders, like 0, but now 0 isn't there. This mod mixed up the 0 folder with main directory folders.
Please Help. Thanks
Update your recovery. Clean install. Search for the fix for your 0 folder issue
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Somehow clock and apollo is ok, found my audio songs. But images are missing.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250
clock crash
Suhayb666 said:
I was running CM 10.0.0 maguro stable.
Found CM 10.1 M2 maguro, updated it, with wiping dalvik cache, i didn't wipe data/factory reset.
Then gapps 121212.
Bang. Working fine but with some issues.
1. Clock stop working pop up appears once or twice. But clock is working great.
2. I couldn't manage to find my camera images, whats app images, screenshots, downloads images, Bluetooth images in Gallery.
3. My all audio songs are gone or hidden. i don't know. Apollo stop working pop up appears. Movies were there in Gallery. They seems fine.
4. In file manager, or when connecting through USB, i had quite many folders, like 0, but now 0 isn't there. This mod mixed up the 0 folder with main directory folders.
Please Help. Thanks
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My clock app also has this problem. Additionally I cannot access alarms as this causes the clock app to crash.
Clean install means wipe everything, factory reset.?
I am afraid if i do so, i have to install all of my apps again, all accounts and data will be lost. I know i back it up, but the thing is how can i redirect myself to the same page as i am now. Like fb dp sync, skype, blah blah.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250
In twrp wipe the top 4. Use titanium backup to backup your apps. Use mybackup app yo save text messages call log etc. I think you have to manually restore your accounts
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I'm not an expert, but i found 2 clock apps in Settings > apps > all,. I think that's why clock is crashing. Maybe disabling 1 of them will do the magic. Am not sure.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250
Well i am using clockwork recovery. I have complete back up of my everything, Backup to Gmail for sms, mms, call logs.
But I am kind of little lazy, i mean if i clean install my gnex, then from play store i have to install all my apps one by one. Then enter credentials one by one in each and every app. Then joining contacts. O god
Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250
The CM team says not to report issues or bugs unless you have done a clean install, that should hold true here as well.
clean shot
WiredPirate said:
The CM team says not to report issues or bugs unless you have done a clean install, that should hold true here as well.
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remove each and every thing, wipe data/cache , wipe data/factory reset, factory reset from phone setting > backup & reset.
Then i installed CM10.1 M2 and gapps 121212.
Still not getting the "0" folder, but getting these mixed folders. is it normal or what ?
Worried
Suhayb666 said:
I was running CM 10.0.0 maguro stable.
Found CM 10.1 M2 maguro, updated it, with wiping dalvik cache, i didn't wipe data/factory reset.
Then gapps 121212.
Bang. Working fine but with some issues.
1. Clock stop working pop up appears once or twice. But clock is working great.
2. I couldn't manage to find my camera images, whats app images, screenshots, downloads images, Bluetooth images in Gallery.
3. My all audio songs are gone or hidden. i don't know. Apollo stop working pop up appears. Movies were there in Gallery. They seems fine.
4. In file manager, or when connecting through USB, i had quite many folders, like 0, but now 0 isn't there. This mod mixed up the 0 folder with main directory folders.
Please Help. Thanks
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I have a problem here, enabled the quiet time, but the touch sound is still there.
Suhayb666 said:
remove each and every thing, wipe data/cache , wipe data/factory reset, factory reset from phone setting > backup & reset.
Then i installed CM10.1 M2 and gapps 121212.
Still not getting the "0" folder, but getting these mixed folders. is it normal or what ?
Worried
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You don't have to do the factory reset from the settings menu if you do it through recovery.
In recovery:
factory reset
wipe data
wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
format /system
flash rom.zip
flash gapps.zip
fix permissions
reboot
If you use Titanium Backup to backup all 'user apps' just before you install the ROM, and then restore 'user apps plus data' after you install the new ROM, all of your user apps' credentials, logins, etc will be restored. Just don't backup or restore any system apps or system data.
Contacts allows you to export contacts to the sdcard and restore them later.
If you also want to backup and restore phone log and messages, there are umpty-zillion apps to do that.
You should wipe system, cache, dalvik, and factory reset in your recovery before installing the new ROM.
Thanks guys, for the help, anyways M2 is working great, Battery time is little low, Cant found the option (dont lock phone after ending call).
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If it's not under the "security" section in settings I would check the settings in the "Dialer" or "Phone" app.
Nopes its not there, not in security, dialer or phone.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus i9250
AFAIK my phone has never locked after a call ends.. Maybe you have an app that is doing that for you?.
Was I not supposed to wipe the cache and/or ART cache in TWRP? Because, to try and fix a stupid problem, I did wiped that and created a lot of other problems. STUPID!
Facebook/Messenger keep force closing when opened...
Amplify also keeps force closing when opened...
Xposed no longer works, it says it's installed and active but it does nothing. Tells me to check the log, but there is no error file (it can't create the file).
I get a 404 error when Xposed tries to download the modules list.
I made a System + Data + Boot backup but I've read that since "Data" is encrypted on the HTC 10 with proprietary algorithms, that it's not possible to restore it. I could just restore "System" and "Boot", but will that do anything? And shouldn't I clear Cache and ART Cache after doing that anyway?
What the hell did I do to my phone? Save
I might have fixed this...
I just uninstalled a bunch of root apps (AdAway, Xposed, SuperSU, Greenify), apps that change the "system" (although they were systemless) and restored my boot image. Cleared Cache and ART Cache again, rebooted and reinstalled Facebook/Messenger. They are now working again
I'm going to reinstall everything else back, one by one and see if everything is fixed...
Everything seems to be fixed