I posted about this previously IN another thread, but I would like to start a formal topic about it, since I can't find any relevant information anywhere else.
After updating my Fascinate to DL09 per all instructions, the built in email app stopped working as it normally should. It now only sits on a black screen, does not force close, but says it's working fine and refuses to do anything. It only allows you to compose an email (That will not send, just sits in outbox) or view the account settings.
I've tried flashing DL01, DL05, and DL09 restores (via ODIN), and nothing seems to be getting the email back to a functional state, it is having the same issue under all 3 builds (and multiple custom ROMs). I'm more then happy (and able) to refurbish my Fascinate and start anew, but I'd like to figure out what the underlying issue is before I have to resort to that.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Best guess? DNS server issue. That said, installing a fresh ROM should have resolved anything but a data issue. But you probably already wiped data when you put on a known good ROM. And you probably already did a nandroid restore. If you could have forwarded all of your email to a gmail account and skirted the issue, you would have done that as well. So what does that leave? Titanium backup your favorite [user] apps and take captures of your home screen. Odin/heimdall everything with fallingup's stock or adrnalyne's mega Di01 odin.
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
soba49 said:
Best guess? DNS server issue. That said, installing a fresh ROM should have resolved anything but a data issue. But you probably already wiped data when you put on a known good ROM. And you probably already did a nandroid restore. If you could have forwarded all of your email to a gmail account and skirted the issue, you would have done that as well. So what does that leave? Titanium backup your favorite [user] apps and take captures of your home screen. Odin/heimdall everything with fallingup's stock or adrnalyne's mega Di01 odin.
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
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Actually, I hadn't thought to try my nandroid backup, but I'm doing that right now.
On top of that, Didn't actually have Titanium installed, and Odin'd everything I could find online. Hopefully restoring to a known-good nandroid will work. And as for the DNS issue, I did think about that, but It had literally been working minutes before odin-ing to DL09, which makes me think that if it was a DNS issue, we might be seeing more threads pop up about other things not potentially working.
Again, seriously appreciate those suggestions, trying what I can right now.
EDIT: Nandroid restore from the 25th worked. Thank god I hadn't done much in a week that wasn't saved onto the SD card.
Thank you so much for the suggestion, I don't know that I would have thought about it.
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I have had this Samsung Vibrant for a couple months. I have a good number of apps and did the one click lag fix sometime ago. Recently, I had experienced a bunch of force closes and overall bugginess. My Pure Calendar widget stopped loading. I emailed the developer. He had me send him the change log and responded to me that my phone had a bunch of problems.
He said that I should have wiped the phone before the lag fix. And that he can't help me until i wipe it.
Here's where I need help. . .How do wipe the phone but back it up in a way where I can get all of my apps and settings back?
Can you give me a step-by-step in "newbie language"?
After I wipe it, i will use the lag-fix and then restore the settings and apps, if that's the way I should do it (once again, what do you think?).
Sorry if I broke any forum rules or ettiquite. If I did, it was unintentional. I just need the help. Thanks in advance!
Generally the first step is to uninstall the lag fix. That may actually fix your problem since the earlier lag fixes were prone to degradation over time. I don't know which lag fix you installed and uninstalling it will take some research on your part.
After uninstalling the lag fix I would try flashing one of the newer roms that fix a lot of bugs and do not need a lagfix. Again, that will take some research on your part. Check out the bible in the development section.
Thanks for the reply, snowdogging.
I did uninstall it (v1). There is an option on the app that I used.
All I want to do is back-up, wipe, get back to original condition, and then restore my apps and settings.
It is not that hard to do with android but you can expect to lose some information. What I usually do is do a Titanium Backup of all my user applications. I then use SMS Backup+ to dump all of my text messages to Gmail. I am rooted so I use SU Explorer to make sure that all of my pictures and other important data is moved to my external SD card.
And then cross my fingers and use Odin to flash the latest rom that I think is worthwhile.
After a successful flash I do all of the first paragraph in reverse to restore my stuff. It is time consuming. As an example, the first time while learning took about 5 hours, while now I can probably do it in one.
Just make sure you can get into download mode while at the powered off green battery indicator BEFORE using ODIN and you should be OK to experiment. I have crashed ODIN and a bunch of other stupid stuff and am still on my original vibrant.
I'm still pretty new to Android, I want to get into customizing my epic, specifically learning how to load custom roms.
I'm looking for some good how to resources, I've done some preliminary forum searches with some success.
So far I've updated to 2.2, and had the gps problem. Searched for a solution, found multiple threads for the fix, most involve using Oden, I've had zero success with getting oden to see my phone.
So I searched for alternative methods,
I finally fixed the gps problem, by doing one click root > made a clockwork back up > flashed back to DI18 > stepped outside, got gps lock > Flashed to the DK28 > Then Restored my clockwork back up. After that the gps has been super fast to lock, usually under 5 sec.
But I'm still chasing the dragon, I want the AOSP Lockscreen, I've tried clockwork installing different versions from the popular thread about the AOSP Lockscreen, to no success.
But now I get an occasional black out screen, the phone is still on, it if I leave it alone, the stock tw lockscreen comes back.
Now frustrated that I've come across another quirk, I want to try one of the 2.2 based roms, particularly the Nebula.
One problem, I can't find instructions on how to install it.
I do see instructions for other roms, I'm assuming that it's a similar procedure.
The Epic experience says oden to a stock 2.2, then in clockwork "wipe data/factory reset" before flashing the rom.
One question, when I do an oden flash to 2.2 and "wipe data/factory reset" will it delete my clockwork back up?
Current mission.
1. Have a backup of my data and apps.
2. Install a custom rom
3. Restore my data from backup.
Questions:
1. Anyway to use a custom rom with out Oden?
2. Is it completely necessary to do a factory reset?
3. Factory reset, will this effect my phone account information, such as being associated with my phone number and sprint account?
Any information is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
I'm a linux user, I've never used odin and I'm running the current rom of mammons.
When using clockworkmod to do the resets for factory and cache, it will not wipe anything stored on the sd card. So as long as your clockworkmod backup is on your sd card, and it should be, you won't lose it.
Factory reset and deleting cache its required. Do it 3 times to make sure its done before flashing the me rom.
It will not mess with your phone number our account info.
I recommend downloading titanium backup and backing up all app data and user system info.
If you have more questions that you couldn't find on the forums, our need clarification, ask away.
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Thanks mxcoldhit, I'm now running my 1st rom, Nebula, so far so good.
A few notes from my experience:
From my previous clockwork back up, restored that, installed titanium, backed up my most used apps & info, exported my contact info from the contacts app.
Went ahead and wiped 3 times, loaded my rom, installed titanium, restored all my apps and info that I've had since day one.
Things of note to noobs like me, clockwork is awesome, back ups seem to work like ghost images, whole frozen snapshots of the os with all data & apps.
Titanium and clockwork both store the backup data on your micro-sd card.
So you can play with different setups and if you want to go back, just restore the back up file, they don't get wiped when you wipe the phone.
Titanium works in much the same fashion, install it on your system and you can make back ups of apps and phone data, when you load a new rom, just go ahead and install Titanium if it's not already there, and you can restore your favorite apps and data.
One thing that confused me before realizing what i was doing wrong, was that after I flashed the custom rom, I restored my backup thinking that it would just add my data and apps back, well it does that and the os also, so just keep that in mind.
Sorry if this is in the wrong place. This is the first time I've posted.
I recently rooted my Epic 4g with the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388
and then used the "update.zip method" to fix Clockwork Recovery found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782300
Looking back, I suppose that was somewhat redundant, but there is nothing to indicate major system damage to me yet.
However, I am having a rather annoying issue that's causing me a lot of stress. All of my apps have come unlinked from the app market. Titanium Backup's market doctor finds "no recoverable market link" and even after I relink them myself by re-downloading them in the market, they come unlinked in a matter of minutes. It's pretty annoying and I'm eager for a fix.
What would cause this behavior? Did I **** something up in the rooting process? Is there anyone else out there experiencing this? I will be so greatful to anyone who can help me solve this problem.
I'm beginning to regret that I rooted my phone in the first place, which is kind of pathetic. What did I do wrong?
If you are on any rom try reflashing it after wiping system data through clockwork if that doesn't work then try using odin. If the problem still persists your FINAL option is to take it to the sprint store
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I unrooted the phone after I ran into big slowdowns in network speed and overall performance while trying to re-download all my apps for the third time and that fixed both my issues.
Thanks for the response, btw. I'm not running any custom ROM, just Stock 2.1.1, but I assume those options could still work, although It would result in having to download my apps agin, wouldn't it? Also, what would I say if I took it to the Sprint store?
The upshot of all this is that I still have clockwork recovery, so last night I made a backup of my non-root image to revert back to if I have the same problem next time I tempt fate and try the root again. That's how it'd work, right?
So, n00b to the forums here, at least as far as posting, but I've been lurking around and I'm pretty familiar with rooting and its processes (been doing it for about a year now).
Anyways, on to the issue:
I have a Droid X. I originally rooted it when I get it around Sept. of 2010. Hadn't touched it, all was swell. Wanted to get updated to .340, and I was on the old leaked Froyo. So I decided to start clean, did a Titanium Backup of all files (just in case) then did a data/cache wipe and did an SBF boot using RSD Lite to .340. After the boot, I had to re-activate and resync my phone and immediately thereafter I went ahead and re-rooted and put on MIUI. (The new version, found at the forum here. ) All seems well and good, got it booted up, loving the new interface. But when I go in to contacts, I only have 14, compared to my previous 200 or so.
Now yes, I do use Google backup for contact sync. So I went in to my google account on my laptop, and the blasted thing is only showing 14 contacts too! So apparently, at some point after the SBF and loading MIUI it got corrupted somehow. Maybe because I went straight in to downloading z4root and re-rooting and re-bootstrapping in to MIUI, I'm not sure. Regardless, I'm missing all my contacts. I did check My Verizon and they are all there, but the format My Verizon uses is not compatible with the MIUI interface.
So, here's my question. I really don't want to have to go through and add all 180+ missing contacts manually from My Verizon, OR have to go back to a stock ROM to sync from My Verizon. I do have a Titanium Backup copy of my contacts though. That being said, MIUI uses a different contact storage system than the OTA. Is there a way to translate those files to the MIUI interface? Or for that manner even get it on to MIUI? The rest of my app recovery through Titanium Backup has gone swimmingly, but when I try Recover the data portion of the Contact Storage, it just puts it on an endless loop and never recovers.
Any ideas?
Has anyone else had an issue with s-voice not working? Mine opens fine, takes the voice command, acknowledges it, and then black screen and crash. I've rooted and disabled all the AT&T labeled apps in TiBu and that's it. Any input on troubleshooting would be great!
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Has anyone else had an issue with s-voice not working? Mine opens fine, takes the voice command, acknowledges it, and then black screen and crash. I've rooted and disabled all the AT&T labeled apps in TiBu and that's it. Any input on troubleshooting would be great!
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That's exactly your issue by experience, you can't disable chatOn, somehow it is needed food S voice to work, if you removed them you still need to restore with Kies or Odin, if you didn't remove them, then unfreeze them.
Yeah I had removed them in TiBu and then restored them, but the problems persist. Right after I posted the thread I read another with the same problem. So, right now I'm in the middle of a reset.
devlmaycry81 said:
Yeah I had removed them in TiBu and then restored them, but the problems persist. Right after I posted the thread I read another with the same problem. So, right now I'm in the middle of a reset.
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Tryng to restore them after been removed doesn't work , like I mentioned before, the same happened to me, it seems that once you remove them something gets corrupted in the shared apps and it doesn't get fixed restoring those apps back in order to fox you must restore with Kies or Odin. but don't worry, you won't lose your data, settings and apps, you will get all the original apps back just re-root, and this time just remove the rest but these ones.
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Tryng to restore them after been removed doesn't work , like I mentioned before, the same happened to me, it seems that once you remove them something gets corrupted in the shared apps and it doesn't get fixed restoring those apps back in order to fox you must restore with Kies or Odin. but don't worry, you won't lose your data, settings and apps, you will get all the original apps back just re-root, and this time just remove the rest but these ones.
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Cool deal! I'm waiting for the stock rom to DL now so I can odin back to stock... The things I will do for an app to work
Problem fixed with odin back to stock then freezing everything except chatON.
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