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Well, first post is troubleshoot post for me but need some suggestions to track down a small problem.
Had my phone for a while and have had no problems thus far till yesterday and i'm stumped.
Main Issue: In the settings menu when I click on "SD card and phone storege" I get a "Sorry! The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. dumpstate...yada yada yada---->[Force Close]
Every other settings entry I can go into and they all work flawlessly from top Wireless and Network to bottomSoftware Update. Only the "SD card and phone storage" force closes on me.
Last thing I did was apply Project Voodoo Update3 for Vibrant and it worked fine. I was able to check the SD card/phone storage section than. I temporarily disabled voodoo to get clockwork recovery to install and work properly so I could add the latest J16 MobileAP over my existing older MobileAP. Afterward I uninstalled clockwork. Somewhere in between all of that is when it started.
I let voodoo reoptimize back to ext4 and had the issue still. So thought disabling voodoo lagfix but made no difference. Turned off and on phone 3 times, Once without the SD card even inserted. Each time I still could not enter the SD card and phone storage section in the seetings menu. Always same Sorry! Force Close message. Just bugging me. Guessing some file may be corrupted or missing in data/cache or android settings.
If anyone can steer me in the right direction to fix than I will be happy as everything else work perfect on my phone for me. Thank you for your suggestions and thoughts. tryign to avoid wiping or redoing all my apps and settings and contacts/contact pictures etc for such a small issue.
For reference the phone has been for over a month now rooted & unlocked, t-mobile startup/shutdown logos removed, battery circular icon mod, most bloatware been gone for some time, Captivate camera app installed, J12 GPS files, J16 baseband modem installed, Mobile AP J16 installed working, did not want the whole J16 update. Rather wait for froyo or full working froyo builds later. Project Voodoo lag fix installed and running. SD card is a genuine 32Gb Sandisk not ebay knockoff.
Also in case it matters, I can use gallery and view files effortlessly, Market still installs and uninstalls applications just fine as well. So has to be something minor I would guess.
I'm getting that while setting the System and Ringer Volume (volume set via side keys work fine).
Odin JI6 (after dead OTA)
root (will probably unroot since no remount prevents removing startup/shutdown sounds)
ROM Manager loaded
Mobile AP loaded
Well, this is depressing. I tried going to system volume and ringer volume and also get the Sorry! [Force Close] their as well just as you do.
Maybe for me it is the kernel that is installed when you apply the Project Voodoo lag fix. What do you all think? Do you think removing the voodoo lagfix entirely and flashing the backup orginal kernel back on would resolve it. I don't mind but i'm really just not sure what to try before changing too many things unnecessarily.
Just fixed it. Found the cause. Since i'm not fully on J16 update; installing the MobileAP J16 version caused the problem for me cause it re does the settings layout it seems. Flashed back original MobileAP for while i'm on JFD still.
Just thought you would like to know and noticed that you also have MobileAP installed. Make sure it is the right version for your firmware...guessing J16 your on now.
I didn't apply any lag fix.
I may reload JI6 and see what that does.
Yeah, lag fix was not the cause. Definitely my fault installing the J16 MobileAP. Put back old version and I was fine. System Volume, Ringer Volume and SD card and phone storage settings all work again. But since you are on J16 maybe thought you installed old MobileAP on your phone causing your problem . But reapplying J16 update may fix it too for you. Good luck
rmeden said:
I'm getting that while setting the System and Ringer Volume (volume set via side keys work fine).
Odin JI6 (after dead OTA)
root (will probably unroot since no remount prevents removing startup/shutdown sounds)
ROM Manager loaded
Mobile AP loaded
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im getting the same thing. anyone? if i need to update the mobile ap can you please tell me how?
rmeden said:
I'm getting that while setting the System and Ringer Volume (volume set via side keys work fine).
Odin JI6 (after dead OTA)
root (will probably unroot since no remount prevents removing startup/shutdown sounds)
ROM Manager loaded
Mobile AP loaded
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I noticed there was a JI6 MobileAP version. I had re-installed the already downloaded JFD one. I installed the JI6 MobileAP version and no longer get a crash pulling up the volume settings.
Just upgraded to OTA leaked froyo, and now it won't let me select ringtones for text messages, calls, ect. The whole phone freezes up and shows a blank screen. What do I do? Is there any way to downgrade back to 2.1?
b3nny said:
Just upgraded to OTA leaked froyo, and now it won't let me select ringtones for text messages, calls, ect. The whole phone freezes up and shows a blank screen. What do I do? Is there any way to downgrade back to 2.1?
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I would try to either
1) ODIN back to DI18 and reapply the 2.2 update ROM
2) ODIN directly to DK28
your call
Do you have a link on how to Odin DK28?
EDIT: Nevermind, I think I want to go back to DI18 and just wait for the official OTA, I'm having too many problems
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Do you have a link on how to Odin DK28?
EDIT: Nevermind, I think I want to go back to DI18 and just wait for the official OTA, I'm having too many problems
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861253
Thats the DK28 ODIN file
Give it a shot man, I'm running it with NO issues to speak of
I did it, but my gps doesn't seem to work anymore.
Has anyone used 4g after the update. Is the connection more stable?
Is it me or does it seem that the linpack scores should have gone up a bit more..
I was getting around 8.3xx in 2.1, and now I'm getting 13.7xx in 2.2.
(I used the 1506bdf2e04b.update-SPH-D700_DI18ToDK28.zip renamed to update.zip method.)
Saw a video the other day showing a nexus 1 scoring 20+ on 1st run and 40+ on 2nd.. My friends Evo (with 2.2) scored @ 38 or so..
Quadrant still shows me well under all of the 2.2+ phones listed.
(1st post, great forums BTW!)
=]
I ended up flashing my phone back to the DI18 version because of the plethora of problems I was encountering. Hopefully the official release of froyo will be flawless, because the parts of my phone that were working were absolutely fantastic!
I updated and everything is working fine except I can't download apps. It just sits there in "starting download." I can access the internet fine. I tried it over wi-fi, 3g, 4g. Any ideas?
tyklip said:
I updated and everything is working fine except I can't download apps. It just sits there in "starting download." I can access the internet fine. I tried it over wi-fi, 3g, 4g. Any ideas?
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Fixed it by logging in to google talk. just like android troubleshooting told me to do. Duh.
Anyone having problems with the email app? Im trying to setup my gmail through the email app as an exchange account and ots not working anymore
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I was having alot of the same issues as you b3nny. A factory reset got my sounds, camera, and memory card reader back. Haven't tried gps though
I used the rename zip on memory card to update method
I installed dk28 and decided to go back to di18 due to the issues with dk28. When I reinstalled di18 from odin the accelerometer won't change the screen anymore. So now it appears I am stuck with dk28 and the slow screen flip issue and can't go back to di18 until the problems are worked out.
Anybody have any ideas?
Exact same problem here. I want to stay on DI18 until OTA Froyo.
Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793441
Hi all, I was wondering if you could help with an annoying issue I'm having.
I made a big mistake by updating to an ICS Rom, it worked fine apart from the accelerometer which stopped 100%. I did a backup, but system crashed and that's the end of that backup
1: I've since downgraded to Honey Comb Acer_A500_7.14.14_COM_GEN1, but Accelerometer still won't work, I don't know why, is there some fix or file to replace or anything like that.
2: Second question, because I updated to ICS the boot loader got updated also, is there a way to revert the boot loader back to the original so the end product would be a 100% original
This is a 16GB UK version of the A500, so any help would really be grateful. Even if I can get both the boot loader and OS to original I can then send it off to Acer for repair.
Kindest Regards to all
Garret
Man, I don't have an Acer iconia, but I have a Samsung galaxy player 5.0 and I just experienced the same issue after trying an ICS ROM.
When I searched for a way to solve my problem, I've seen many many users (increasingly, indeed) with the same kind of problem. It's hard to think that so many users are having accelerometer hardware fail. I believe it's not physical problem, mostly because this kind of issue happens after ppl try modding their phones/tabs or changing roms. I've seen some users talking about removing a sensorfile yamaha.cfg and trying to reboot the device. That didn't solve my problem, or executing:
"sensorcalibutil_yamaha"
It is under /system/bin/, you can see that with root explore.
Unfortunately, didn't work for me. Hope it works for you.
Best regards.
Thanks for your reply, I found a way of down grading the bootloader and OS to 3.0.2 which fixed it, then updated the odds to the latest and back working 100%.
Hello, same issue for me, accelerometer doesn't work anymore! I had yesterday the official ICS fota. Is there a patch somewhere for this problem?
after official Acer ICS update - Accelerometer quit?
My A500 pad just quit doing auto-rotate just about 30 mins after I applied the "official" ICS update to my device. I haven't done anything different, I did lock the pad into portrait to read some stuff, but unlocked it (manual switch) and it was fine then all of a sudden - it stopped rotating between portrait and landscape. The switch now has no effect on it. Of course there's not a setting to change the rotation either. Argh? I was so excited to get ICS - not this goofs on me? I see quite a lot of posts about people who experience this from hacking around on their tablet or phone - I haven't hacked on this one at all - its the "official" stuff... Reset didn't help.
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My A500 pad just quit doing auto-rotate just about 30 mins after I applied the "official" ICS update to my device. I haven't done anything different, I did lock the pad into portrait to read some stuff, but unlocked it (manual switch) and it was fine then all of a sudden - it stopped rotating between portrait and landscape. The switch now has no effect on it. Of course there's not a setting to change the rotation either. Argh? I was so excited to get ICS - not this goofs on me? I see quite a lot of posts about people who experience this from hacking around on their tablet or phone - I haven't hacked on this one at all - its the "official" stuff... Reset didn't help.
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This is the same issue I have on the leak version.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA
gbyrne2011 said:
Thanks for your reply, I found a way of down grading the bootloader and OS to 3.0.2 which fixed it, then updated the odds to the latest and back working 100%.
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I need to do the exact same thing. Could you please let me know what you did to start all over and get all the OTAs?
Thanks!
One could conjecture that if the accelerometer is stuffed, so would the orientation detection be.
Cause and effect?
Z.
Sent from my A501 using Tapatalk 2
Same here but a reboot cured it.
anyone find a fix for this ? im on the official with no root ics update and mine has also stopped auto rotating.
What did you use to do the downgrade back to 3.0.2?
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anyone find a fix for this ? im on the official with no root ics update and mine has also stopped auto rotating.
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The only solution I found so far is keepin rebooting, eventually at some point accelerometer starts to work.
Best regards.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA
If any off you had a leak and altered boot loader prior to install, it may have caused that. You should have had a 2 step optimizing process in the update, when I tested it on a leaked/flashed back version the bootloader was wrogn and that issue resulted. The stock had no issue and went through the full hardware optimizing process.
Also you shoudl have applied the market place update first, it has a pre fix to prepare it for patching.
Hey guys, i also have the same issue with accelerometer. I downgraded the a500 to Honeycomb and it fixed now.
I followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1516012
Rollback OS + Bootloader back to Rooted HC 3.2.1
Use this to Rollback OS + Bootloader back to Rooted HC 3.2.1
WARNING EXTREMELY DANGEROUS | YMMV | WARNING EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1516012
WARNING EXTREMELY DANGEROUS | YMMV | WARNING EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
the guides to rollback posted above can be used on an official pad , with no hack or root stuffs ?
No, it rolls you back to rooted 3.2.1. with stock bootloader. Once ur back, you can load your official 3.2 rom on an SD, use Pwr + Volume down to update to it. Then OTA to ICS.
Just saw a guy posted a system of methods to completely wipe all the system files (not just most) and clean install ICS which supposedly fixes the accelerometer problem.
Accelerometer / ICS
I sent my tab back to Acer for repair, they say they replaced the "motherboard" and it did work fine on stock ICS as returned for a while. Periodically it would stick in orientation and not auto-rotate, but a power cycle with a few minutes in between seemed to always bring it back ok. NOW - nothing I do brings it back - its working the very same way it was when it originally experienced this issue. I don't want to send this slab back to Acer every couple of months and deal with setting it back up when they ship it to me a week or so later. This is rediculous or am I just being picky?
Anyhow - How bout a reference or link for the info on downgrading, wiping ICS and re-installing from scratch as mentioned above? That would be helpful if I knew where to look.
UPDATE: This morning, based on another post about finding errors in the bootlog, I downloaded the bootlog capture app, ran it, and poof - the auto-rotate function came back to life - like magic. I'm sure it was NOT the app, but rather the fact that I had powered down the unit and let it sit all night long without touching it or powering it on/off, etc. so at least for now, I won't be sending it back to Acer for Warranty repair (AGAIN). BUT I might be listing it rather quickly on ebay and shopping for another tab that doesn't have this issue....
I have had this issue and normally a power cycle fixes it. I did have one time where it did not but I found an article that said to do a hard reset. You do this with a paper clip pushed into the very small hole. I did not lose any data.
Marc
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take a look at this. It work for me.
http://androidforums.com/acer-iconi...veral-a500-ics-related-symptoms-problems.html........
delete the last dots.
The Official OTA 4.0.3 ICS update broke auto rotation. The rest of the thing is running smooth as butter, but no auto rotation and the switch isn't doing anything.
Anyone know of a fix to this? I had this prob with the leak but after rooting and reinstall leak from scratch it cured itself. This one isn't doing that.
Is there an app to set the orientation of the screen manually that i can use in the interim??
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400+ Views later, i think quite a few people have this issue and are trying to find a solution to this.
So far, thank you networkdawg for your app suggestion for manually rotating the screen, however that is a paid for app with a few too many options for my need. I'm currently using Mantano Reader Free to rotate my screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
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Before i accidentally upgraded to the ICS leak, i had my old HC bootloader and was running Lightspeed flawlessly.
Does anyone know of a way to downgrade the bootloader back to HC so i can run a custom bootloader?
OR
a custom bootloader for ICS?
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Ok so in the end i used jazzyjames' tutorial and blasted HC + HC Bootloader back onto my tab (accelerometer now working once more), rooted, ran Acer Recovery Installer and loaded Light Speed ICS once more.
Everything is working swimmingly. No issues and i got ICS running like a champ.
When the hardworking devs in the dev section have streamlined the ICS bootloader unlocker and installing of a custom recovery a little further, i may try the ICS bootloader once more. But for now, to just have a functional tab, im sticking with the old stuff a little longer.
Thanks Civato, Blackthund3r and jazzyjames for their excellent tools and tutorials. I could not have done it without their help.
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Update May 08 2012
Did something new, reverted back to stock 3.2.1 (the Gen 2 that was used in Jazzy's revert tutorial), did an OTA upgrade to ICS Official. On first run everything worked.
The minute i rebooted, the accelerometer stopped working.
Followed Civato's tutorial down to the letter, got the custom ICS bootloader working with recovery. Ran like a charm.
Installed a custom ROM (Lightspeed), accelerometer was still not working.
MY TAKEAWAY ---- The accelerometer issues is not a problem with ICS itself, but related to the new chipset firmware and bootloader included with the ICS update. I could be wrong here.
Anyone have any other insights into this?
Back to HC bootloader once more (accelerometer working again) no dice with ICS bootloader :S
I'm not aware of any apps that will switch orientations, only lock it.
Have you tried switching the lock to off then rebooting to see if that resets it?
I have noticed the orientation check isn't as sensitive as it used to be so sometimes I have to wait a few extra seconds or orient the tablet a little more [than usual] to get it to switch over. But it does work.
I have the rotation problem also. As a workaround, I installed this and it works great, although manually.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
veer01_42 I'd be interested in your review of that app if you use it and/or pay for it.
I have the same issue. I have a couple apps that are orientation locked and I can use them to rotate but it's very annoying. Hope this gets fixed soon
anyone try a factory reset to see if that fixed it
A factory reset fixed it for me
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Been factory resetting this thing all night, no beans at all.
With the 4.0.3 leak, after one reset it worked for me, but i never got it to repeat again. So don't go factory resetting your tab in a hurry if you know whats good for you, especially if your rotation is working.
Good app, lots of options, but for what i want, this app is too much and it puts an icon next to the clock for quick access, but you cant preset the orientations there. There are only three, locked, auto and whatever you have it in now.
To get to the other options, tap the notification and it brings up a menu with all the other orientations (over 10 of them) its too much for me. But its an extremely powerful app.
Not worth the money as a workaround to a stupid accelerometer.
Encountered the same issue. I was in Portrait mode, playing Draw Something, and suddenly it just rebooted and went into Landscape mode. After a factory reset, it is not fixed. Not sure where to go, but this is highly disappointing for a tablet I paid close to $500 for...
Try wipe cache, it works for me. All said methods in the forum doesn't work for my tablet though.
qpmzal said:
Try wipe cache, it works for me. All said methods in the forum doesn't work for my tablet though.
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What cache?
Do you mean Pwr Button + Volume Up while toggling screen lock switch?
Or is it something else?
On some a500 that were rooted and accepted the ics ota, a few things got broken during the upgrade. Flash a stock rooted ice rom, but before you do go into recovery and and select backup an restore,click on toggle backup of internal storage. Then you should see enabled on the screen. Then do full reset in mounts and storage plus your normal wipe. This will fully format everything on your tab but sd . When you reflash the new ics rom everything should work fine.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take....... ..Wayne Gretzky.......
Flash a stock rooted ice rom
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You mean the 4.0.3 Leak, install that and then use the one click root tool available in the forum?
but before you do go into recovery and and select backup an restore,click on toggle backup of internal storage.
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Are you talking about Installing the V3 ICS recovery or the original honeycomb?
Then you should see enabled on the screen. Then do full reset in mounts and storage plus your normal wipe. This will fully format everything on your tab but sd . When you reflash the new ics rom everything should work fine.
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This is in the ICS V3 custom bootloader/recovery right?
variations on problem for different versions
More pieces to the puzzle.
I just downloaded and installed Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1 (very close to stock OTA, but rooted) from XDA and applied it over the stock OTA I had received from Acer directly, Acer_AV041_A500_RV05RC01_PA_CUS1.
Under Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1 screen rotation (and the error 26's) would not clear. I could not get the rotation to work at all, even with multiple reboots, and hard (pinhole) resets.
I restored to Acer_AV041_A500_RV05RC01_PA_CUS1 and rotation is back to it's unstable self, but at least a pinhole reset will clear it.