[Q] Possible Brick? - Fascinate General

Alright so I am running voodoo5 lagfix kernel DJ05 and jt's superclean .9 which i downloaded all from rom manager. My trouble began when I downloaded the puzzle piece slider in rom manager. I decided to switch it back in preferences to the glass slider. Well, when i changed it the glass slider no longer appears and I am stuck in an endless boot loop! My next course of action would be to wipe and revert to stock however there is a problem. My "red" CWM is not functioning properly. I can get into recovery with the three button combo, and view all of the options, however when I select any option with the home key, my screen goes black and the buttons stay lit on bottom. In order to return to stock, I know i have to disable any lag fixes, however my "red" CWM is hosed. I'm not sure how this happened I think the file must have been corrupted when I initially downloaded it. I was thinking that I should reinstall voodoo5 and then maybe my "red" recovery would actually work and I could disable the lag fix and then return to stock. I'm not sure how to reinstall voodoo or if this is even the best way to proceed. If I returned to stock without disabling the voodoo kernel what would happen? All help is appreciated.

In 'green' cwm home makes the screen shut off and on the power button selects, 'red' is probably the same.
Posted via my gimped Fascinate.

CxanDroid said:
In 'green' cwm home makes the screen shut off and on the power button selects, 'red' is probably the same.
Posted via my gimped Fascinate.
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He's right. Power selects, not home key.

oh oops. haha. i thought the navigation was the same as the stock recovery. so, how do you think i should escape this bootloop now?

When i switched to voodoo5 and superclean .9 from stock i didn't make a nandroid backup. I've only made a backup of the stock rom using the rom manager. Does nandroid backup your kernel and rom? Also, do you make nandroid backups in cwm and then just restore to them if something goes wrong? Right now I think I have to just disable voodoo5 and use odin to go back to stock everything because I'm stuck bootlooping.

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Stuck After Boot

Hey guys i know "Help!" threads get annoying (at least in the Fascinate forum they do.) but i could really use some help.
Rooted my friends phone today (root,clockwork,rom manager), and was going to install regular JAC kernal /voodoo w/o color fix.. I made sure the phone had the smaller NAND chip. Installation went fine (phone booted, voice told me it was switching to ext. 4.) and the voice said voodoo was complete. The phone was stuck at the S logo for about an hour and it was then i decided voodoo was botched. From there i rebooted to clockwork and went to restore the nandroid i made when i rooted. The nandroid got stock at one of the Data files for about 30 minutes. (i have a feeling this is around where i messed things up myself) Decided screw it and was going to flash JI6(T959UVJI6) and the stock kernal with ODIN. Now the phone boots past the S logo but the screen stays black and only the backlight menu buttons light up. It wont go past there. Any quick help is appreciated.
You didn't disable the lagfix I'm assuming.
Odin Eugene's Froyo that doesn't brick, then Odin JFD, install ROM of you're choosing.
Did you even try to search for a fix before posting???
~SB
problem0atique said:
Hey guys i know "Help!" threads get annoying (at least in the Fascinate forum they do.) but i could really use some help.
Rooted my friends phone today (root,clockwork,rom manager), and was going to install regular JAC kernal /voodoo w/o color fix.. I made sure the phone had the smaller NAND chip. Installation went fine (phone booted, voice told me it was switching to ext. 4.) and the voice said voodoo was complete. The phone was stuck at the S logo for about an hour and it was then i decided voodoo was botched. From there i rebooted to clockwork and went to restore the nandroid i made when i rooted. The nandroid got stock at one of the Data files for about 30 minutes. (i have a feeling this is around where i messed things up myself) Decided screw it and was going to flash JI6(T959UVJI6) and the stock kernal with ODIN. Now the phone boots past the S logo but the screen stays black and only the backlight menu buttons light up. It wont go past there. Any quick help is appreciated.
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If you can still boot into clockwork recov. you can save it by pushing the undo voodoo zip file that was mentioned about. Assuming that u have adb access. If not odin froyo that doesnt brick tepartition checked. Turn off. Boot back in download. Odin stock jdf. Ji6 isnt a standalone rom. Its more like a no wipe update. Lucky his vibrant wasnt hardware locked lol. He will have a 90% chance of losing EVERYTHING
Had to odin flash froyo that doesnt brick then jfd and yep he lost all his data but he didnt have much to begin with. Now happily running Fusion. Thanks for the help guys!

Please help, I made a mistake with DJ05/Voodoo5

I am currently running DJ05 and have the Voodoo5 lagfix installed... I did a dumb thing by trying to flash a rom from Rom Manager. I was told when installing Voodoo5 lagfix that I would have to disable_lagfix before flashing any roms but I didn't do that before flashing (I know I'm dumb). So now after it "installed", my phone restarted and the screen was just white or like how a tv channel was back in the day when you didnt have that channel (white snow). I tried wiping data/cache and restoring a backup I made before flashing the rom but it didnt work. It just had a bunch of force closes and wiped everything. What can I do to get my phone back running?
Try to restart your phone while holding down on both volume buttons to get into recovery, and reflash a voodoo kernel to see if it works. If it does, you can then disable voodoo and go back to whatever you want to use, or keep the voodoo kernel on the new rom.
Also, this should have been posted in general, not development.
Hmm, the white snow thing seems to be the boot animation for geeknik's 1.96 kernel, or at least I got it on boot after updating my kernel to that. Don't see why the phone would do that otherwise because there aren't any analog signals involved here. But for me it boots up fine after the white snow.
Did you flash a kernel too?
I had this problem so I just completely removed voodoo and started new. Oh well, I won't flash voodoo until I can understand it.
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iofthestorm said:
Hmm, the white snow thing seems to be the boot animation for geeknik's 1.96 kernel, or at least I got it on boot after updating my kernel to that. Don't see why the phone would do that otherwise because there aren't any analog signals involved here. But for me it boots up fine after the white snow.
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Oh, it's actually the Gingerbread boot animation.
Knew this would be useful to someone...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868751

[Q] Themes

Right now im running DL09 with Voodoo. I'm on a stock theme. My question is, can i flash a theme right over it, or do i have to disable voodoo, flash the theme, then re-enable voodoo?
Just flash a theme right over, no disabling of Voodoo necessary. Just make sure you do it from the red CWM recovery, not green. Only the red one works properly with Voodoo enabled.
Posted from my DL09 SuperClean Fascinate with Voodoo
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=918443
Since im on DL09, this one will work perfectly then?
Just flash it in Red recovery?
(sorry, just being careful and trying to learn.)
Yep, that should work. Just fyi though, if you flash a theme that is for DJ05 instead of DL09, there's a theme fix you have to flash after the theme itself. That fixes it so that customizations to the power button menu will apply properly to DL09. Also, make sure you run a nandroid backup from red CWM first, so you can easily restore back if something does go haywire for some reason. Oh, and finally, first boot after applying a theme may take longer than normal, so be patient and wait a while before assuming it's frozen and doing a battery pull. Anyway, happy flashing, and enjoy your new theme!
Posted from my DL09 SuperClean Fascinate with Voodoo

[Q] EB01 - Application not remembering preferencess

Hey folks, I'm hoping one of you can help me out with an issue that just cropped up on my phone. I've been running EB01 since it's release and have had no issues whatsoever except for today when I noticed my apps (Titananium Backup, Tapatalk, Root Explorer) we're remembering preferences anymore and/or every time I exit from them and launch again....it thinks it's the first run again.
Did something hose up my permissions/ownerships? Only think I did recently was flash the de-binged browser via CWM.
Any ideas??
What are you running? It may be a permissions problem. Have you tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it?
I'm having a similar issue. Help!
jpolzner said:
Hey folks, I'm hoping one of you can help me out with an issue that just cropped up on my phone. I've been running EB01 since it's release and have had no issues whatsoever except for today when I noticed my apps (Titananium Backup, Tapatalk, Root Explorer) we're remembering preferences anymore and/or every time I exit from them and launch again....it thinks it's the first run again.
Did something hose up my permissions/ownerships? Only think I did recently was flash the de-binged browser via CWM.
Any ideas??
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I was just about to start a thread about this. I'm having the same problem. I upgraded from blackhole 4.1 (DL30) to Superclean 2.2 EB01 with voodoo lagfix. I got the red CWM flashed via odin and proceeded to install the EB01 modem and the superclean 2.2v (EB01).
The first time I flashed was a disaster, there were issues with Odin completing the flash, so I had to do USB pulls about 4 times (which ended up giving me full "light blue" screens during download mode at times).
After getting Odin to cooperate, I was able to flash the Superclean 2.2v (EB01), and then I restored everything from Titanium Backup, which worked fine until I restarted the phone or left it alone for a couple of hours. Everything would force close (like ADWLauncer Ex, forcing me to use ONLY TWLauncher) and all my preferences were lost. Like gmail would have to resync as if it were new, all the EULA dialogs would come up (like in android market), my trillian profiles were all lost, if i turned off haptic feedback that would turn back on, my ringtones would go back to the defaults, etc.
So I read some other thread in the Development section which said to reflash, and do not do any restores at all. So I reflashed with Super clean 2.3v (EB01), but it happened again, all my preferences would be lost. I also tried to do "fix permissions" from RED CWM, but it just ran for like a fraction of a second and didn't seem like it did anything, as the problem persisted.
I'm planning to go back to DL30 or even DL09 to see if my phone functioned properly or not.
If anyone has a solution to this problem please help!
- Superclean 2.3v (EB01)
I'm thinking it has something to do with flashing either the De-Binged browser or the new market update. Maybe something in the framework-res is getting hosed up?
I just did a wipe and reflashed plain old EB01 and I'm not going to flash any changes and see if the problem comes up again.
emortio said:
I was just about to start a thread about this. I'm having the same problem. I upgraded from blackhole 4.1 (DL30) to Superclean 2.2 EB01 with voodoo lagfix. I got the red CWM flashed via odin and proceeded to install the EB01 modem and the superclean 2.2v (EB01).
The first time I flashed was a disaster, there were issues with Odin completing the flash, so I had to do USB pulls about 4 times (which ended up giving me full "light blue" screens during download mode at times).
After getting Odin to cooperate, I was able to flash the Superclean 2.2v (EB01), and then I restored everything from Titanium Backup, which worked fine until I restarted the phone or left it alone for a couple of hours. Everything would force close (like ADWLauncer Ex, forcing me to use ONLY TWLauncher) and all my preferences were lost. Like gmail would have to resync as if it were new, all the EULA dialogs would come up (like in android market), my trillian profiles were all lost, if i turned off haptic feedback that would turn back on, my ringtones would go back to the defaults, etc.
So I read some other thread in the Development section which said to reflash, and do not do any restores at all. So I reflashed with Super clean 2.3v (EB01), but it happened again, all my preferences would be lost. I also tried to do "fix permissions" from RED CWM, but it just ran for like a fraction of a second and didn't seem like it did anything, as the problem persisted.
I'm planning to go back to DL30 or even DL09 to see if my phone functioned properly or not.
If anyone has a solution to this problem please help!
- Superclean 2.3v (EB01)
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I'm having the exact same problem. I've been all the way down to DJ05 to see what happens, and when I come back to superclean 2.2 voodoo-ed, I get force closes on everything the first time I restart - that issue was due to the new feature froyo added "automatic restore" in settings > privacy. I got that taken care of by uninstalling all apps.
However, when I restart now, my entire phone defaults back to cleared data. I'm talking every setting that I could think of (usb debugging, sound, brightness, contacts, security pin cleared). I don't get it at all. Everything else has been working right though.
Just thought I would share - I'm kinda still in limbo till I figure out what I should do.
brettdacosta said:
I'm having the exact same problem. I've been all the way down to DJ05 to see what happens, and when I come back to superclean 2.2 voodoo-ed, I get force closes on everything the first time I restart - that issue was due to the new feature froyo added "automatic restore" in settings > privacy. I got that taken care of by uninstalling all apps.
However, when I restart now, my entire phone defaults back to cleared data. I'm talking every setting that I could think of (usb debugging, sound, brightness, contacts, security pin cleared). I don't get it at all. Everything else has been working right though.
Just thought I would share - I'm kinda still in limbo till I figure out what I should do.
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I wonder if it has to do with the type of EB01 we're using or the CWM. I flashed CWM red via Odin, rather than updating via Rom Manager or update.zip. Also I used the EB01 Walkthrough in the fascinate developers section, the link is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948722
***UPDATE***
I resolved the problem... I think. I noticed there was a difference in the file names of the EB01 Modem in the walkthrough link I provided on the last line of the paragraph above and the EB01 Modem given in the original EB01 stock thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948679). I flashed with the eb01a_modem.tar given in the stock thread and then upgraded to Super Clean with Voodoo (v. 2.4 as of this writing). The market DID restore all the apps, before I was able to stop it, but after I restarted, there were no force closes nor were there any loss of preferences. I hope the modem issue was what was wrong...
Started doing it again this morning. This time I did not flash any mode via ROM Manager. Only things I did was de-bloat using Root Explorer and Titanium Backup.
Not every app started forgetting preferences, some still reemebered. Any of the devs have an idea of what's going on here? I'm running the plain old, fully-bloated EB01 ROM. No voodoo, no de-odexed, or anything like that.
I think it's a dbdata partition issue. I can't say how to fix because it's above my paygrade, but you may have to wait until it is officially released.
jpolzner said:
Started doing it again this morning. This time I did not flash any mode via ROM Manager. Only things I did was de-bloat using Root Explorer and Titanium Backup.
Not every app started forgetting preferences, some still reemebered. Any of the devs have an idea of what's going on here? I'm running the plain old, fully-bloated EB01 ROM. No voodoo, no de-odexed, or anything like that.
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Try the Odin back to stock...DI01, wipe everything. Reroot and and get cwm. Then ODIN EB01 Modem Tar followed by super clean 2.4 install through cwm. Be sure to wipe data and cache before flashing super clean.
I there a reason I have to go all the way back to DI01, or can I use any All-In-One Odin package that writes the ROM, Kernel, & Radio?
jpolzner said:
I there a reason I have to go all the way back to DI01, or can I use any All-In-One Odin package that writes the ROM, Kernel, & Radio?
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I suggest that typically before anything else b/c it seems to help most. I've never experienced these issues but many suggest this is a viable method to remedy certain problems. Don't see why you couldn't try the odin DL09 all-in-one and wipe the hell out of it and try again. Good Luck.
Is the corruption in the dbdata partition caused by an older version of CWM or a problem in the EB01 ROM itself?
Is it safe to go back to EB01?
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Is the corruption in the dbdata partition caused by an older version of CWM or a problem in the EB01 ROM itself?
Is it safe to go back to EB01?
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I believe it's currently inconclusive. There is speculation about exactly what causes it hence the reason I suggest wiping everything and then flashing the most recently provided stuff. That way it'll narrow things down. Someone can correct me, but if you odin back to stock, I'm 99% sure super cleans 2.4 voodoo kernel includes the new cmw. I was on green cmw unitl I flashed the seperate voodoo kernel posted by jt. I haven't had any issues.
Its almost certainly dbdata corruption. The cause is...yeah questionable. Seems most common with voodoo with the current hack being used to get it working with froyo.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
I've never run Voodoo on my phone, but I did my initial install of EB01 with one of the older "Green" CWM versions.
adrynalyne said:
Its almost certainly dbdata corruption. The cause is...yeah questionable. Seems most common with voodoo with the current hack being used to get it working with froyo.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
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Any other suggestions or fixes?
I went all the way back to DI01, then flashed to EB01 using an Odin All-In-One and now 48-72 hours later, my apps (most notably Tapatalk, Root Explorer, and Titanium Backup) think it's the first time they've run every time I launch it.
Shouldn't have going back to DI01 fixed the corruption since it reformats the ROM partition? Also, something I notice was that flashing to DI01 or EB01 using odin did not get rid of the new CWM Recovery.
Would running the permission fix correct the issue?
jpolzner said:
Any other suggestions or fixes?
I went all the way back to DI01, then flashed to EB01 using an Odin All-In-One and now 48-72 hours later, my apps (most notably Tapatalk, Root Explorer, and Titanium Backup) think it's the first time they've run every time I launch it.
Shouldn't have going back to DI01 fixed the corruption since it reformats the ROM partition? Also, something I notice was that flashing to DI01 or EB01 using odin did not get rid of the new CWM Recovery.
Would running the permission fix correct the issue?
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No...are you running voodoo? And what rom are you using?
EB01 Fully Bloated, Non-Voodoo Kernel
Baseband version: S:i500.04.V.EB01
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9
Build number: SCH-I500.EB01
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...roms-w-root-new-clockwork-updated-2-15-a.html
Try This...
This will hopefully repartition and clean dbdata corruption. BTW, I couldn't get 2.2 to run on my phone until I odin flashed a ROM which allowed me to then flash Adrynalyne's 2.4.
DI01, DJ05, DL09 did not work for the fix. Eclair worked fine, but Froyo would not work until I flashed a 2.2 odin.
Do I need to check the "Re-Partition" option in Odin when flashing or does it do it automatically?

Problem after flashing roms

Hey so I've been flashing roms for awhile now with no problems... But the other day I odined back to stock... Now after I flash any rom when I use the power button to try to wake the phone up to get to the lockscreen it takes forever for it to wake up... But this only happens after I flash a rom.... Doesn't happen on the stock jfd rom..... So I know its nothing wrong with the button itself....
And also after flashing custom rom and booting into recovery from cwm the recovery will be red not green and I can't restore any nandroid backups....
So anyway... I haven't done anything different than I have in the past as far as flashing goes but now my phone is jacked!
If anyone knows why this is happening I would greatly appreciate any help!
Thanks
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djordan79 said:
And also after flashing custom rom and booting into recovery from cwm the recovery will be red not green and I can't restore any nandroid backups....
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This happened to me the other day and I could not restore a nandroid either. Still don't know what happened and I haven't even tried to restore anything b/c I don't want to have to Odin back and rebuild everything again from scratch.
When I was on Cincinnati Bell stock Froyo, I was able to root and install CWR with the green recovery and screwed something up and was able to restore just fine. I have since flashed Toxic8 which comes with the Red Recovery and through some self-inflicted stupidity, caused an unrecoverable bootloop that I couldn't clear, wipe or restore. That is when I had to Odin and rebuild.
Interested if anyone else knows why this is. Wonder if I could download CWR from market and use that as opposed to the Red Recovery that came with the ROM?
The red cwr is for voodoo enabled roms make sure you disable voodoo before flashing roms that do not include voodoo lagfix.
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I knew that Red was for Voodoo, but would I have to disable it to restore the same ROM, just a backup? With the Red Recovery,I haven't been able to restore anything at all. In fact IIRC I did try it with it disabled and it didn't work that way either.

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