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regardless of rom i get FC

i have tried the fresh roms, and the TTG CDMA rom, regardless of the rom i get force close errors on settings in the phone and i dont have data or voice service. everything else works perfectly EXCEPT for settings and service.
help?

ae you performing a wipe before you flash? I know a lot of these roms say that they are no wipe but I have found that that it is always better to wipe then flash that way you know you are getting a clean install. also do you have a ton of apps? it is a known problem that the phone will freak if you have more than like 60 apps

yeah, i have wiped also. but one thing i only wipe data/factory reset
should
i wipe
dalvik cache also? alsong with anything else?

when I install a new rom I wipe both the factory/data reset and delvik cache. I also do this when I am going from say TTG 1.6 back to my backup of fresh 1.1. It just assures me that anything that one dev did in their rom will be wiped out and replaced by what the other did with no problems. the only FC I get is google voice ( which FC's on EVERYTHING for no particular reason)

ok wiping data, and dalvik because jusr assuming battery status, rotate settings and partition doesnt matter.

from my personal use I dont use all the options in recovery. the partition SD is going to be usefull once you get the ROMs running if you want to run apps2sd

nope...
ive unrooted used kitchen numerous times to auto root aswell then just apply update and I can get everything to work except FC on settings and no service, im trying to figure out how to use ruu 1.2.3 instead of the 1.5 one idk just gonna try.

samrozzi said:
nope...
ive unrooted used kitchen numerous times to auto root aswell then just apply update and I can get everything to work except FC on settings and no service, im trying to figure out how to use ruu 1.2.3 instead of the 1.5 one idk just gonna try.
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RUU 1.29 will not work for you if you have used 1.56. Are you sure you're running a Sprint CDMA Hero? Can you step by step explain the process you go through when RUU'ing and when flashing, and when the problems start?

ok if i wanted to start from scratch, i will unroot my phone with htc sync and reload the stock rom.
then i use kitchen and run the tests and everything checks out good.
i auto root and its successful and working.
then say I download fresh 1.1, load it onto the root of the sd card.
Power off the phone then power on while holding home.
apply .zip on sdcard. it applies the fresh 1.1 update says successful
i click reboot, phone goes through startup process everything seems fine, rom loads up i can navigate through menues. except i get force close errors anytime i goto settings, and i have no service, no data or voice signal.
I have tried renaming fresh and other roms to update aswell, i have tried numerous roms, one of the most recent was the TTG cdma hero rom. and i get the same errors.
One interesting thing is the first rom i tried on the cdma hero was eclair 2.1 beta and that worked flawlessly like all the roms i tried on my g1. but i decided to go to fresh and nothing works.

samrozzi said:
ok if i wanted to start from scratch, i will unroot my phone with htc sync and reload the stock rom.
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I'm not sure what you mean by unrooting it with htc sync and reloading stock rom? You need to be using the RUU to flash back to stock.
Also if you are using apps2sd then I would recommend temporarily formatting your sdcard back to 100% fat32 (you will lose all data) and then try RUU and flash. Or just grab another sd card and put it in there. If you are using apps2sd and there is an app on your sdcard that is breaking things then it will persist even after a wipe.
1. Partition sdcard to 100% fat32 or replace it with another temporarily
2. Run 1.56 RUU to return to bone stock. Confirm everything works.
3. Run auto-rooter in kitchen. Confirm everything works.
4. Flash a rom, confirm everything works.
If you follow those steps exactly then everything will work out for you.

ok gonna try it again when wiping sd card and foratting to fat32.
any way or know how to get htc sync to recognize my phone?
it picks it up on my vista laptop but on my windows 7 64 bit it doesnt, but atm all i have is my windows 7 one.

samrozzi said:
ok gonna try it again when wiping sd card and foratting to fat32.
any way or know how to get htc sync to recognize my phone?
it picks it up on my vista laptop but on my windows 7 64 bit it doesnt, but atm all i have is my windows 7 one.
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http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/08/24/workaround-for-htc-hero-sync-problem-in-windows-7/

ok about to return to stock, when i apply the fresh 1.1 rom after i use kitchen auto rooter i jsut stick it on root of sdcard and DO NOT change file name?
just used to most roms from g1 have to be renamed update.zip

samrozzi said:
ok about to return to stock, when i apply the fresh 1.1 rom after i use kitchen auto rooter i jsut stick it on root of sdcard and DO NOT change file name?
just used to most roms from g1 have to be renamed update.zip
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You can do it either way. But you don't have to rename it.

WOW IT WORKS, their had to be something wrong with my sd card, because it wouldnt let me format it.
I had to delete all the files, then install some 3rd party software that would let me format it. idk what was wrong, but working great !!!
so excited finalllly lol
thanks everyone and especially flipz
i am running fresh 1.1 defreshed atm, love it but curious about what AOSP i think its called. what exactly is that, looking at it and seems interesting,
im hoping we get a rom similar to nexus, love the app drawer etc..

It may have worked because when you wiped your Sd, you deleted your apps, if you install too many, you'll have the same issue. I went round and round with mine before I figured it out, then found a thread on it.

AOSP stand for "Android Open Source Project" they are ROMs that are crated and developed from scratch by various developers.
I have played with AOSP builds and I have found that out of them all I like AOSP 1.6 best. The thing you have to rememeber about AOSP builds right now is that A. we still dont have the Kernel source so not everything is working correctly and they can be kinda buggy and B. all the AOSP builds are vanilla android, meaning they dont use sense UI which in my opinion defetes the purpose of having a hero. If I didnt care about sense then I would have gotten a moment.
that being said I will say that the AOSP builds are REALLY fast.
if you want to try a ROM that is close to an AOSP build but still has sense try TTG1.6 its really fast and has a really small memory footprint due to it being almost completely gutted and optimized.

[Q] Help with flashing ROM

Hey guys, new to rooting and mods on phones. i have a samsung fascinate that i rooted on saturday. installed rom manager, root explorer, clockwork and ti backup. the problem i am having is that when i attempt to flash the super clean rom from jt1134, by using the rom manager. it keeps giving me a few different error messages. on is E: failed to verify whole-file signature and E:Signature verification Failed. Through my research i tried dl'ing the zip form to the sd card, and similar messages came up. please help. Thanks

Can I make a recommendation? Dont instal any roms as of now. None are true custom roms. All still have the touchwiz running. None of the roms run bug free and all see Force Close errors!!
Your better off...just rooting, Install lagfix from market, and use launcherpro.
Ive tried the custom roms and honestly not worth it till froyo comes.

stupid question but what exactly does lagfix do?

Ok ive noticed it fixes how slow the market reacts when opened, also speeds up when page loads somewhat.....if you use the LagFix in the market it has a option in the app to remove it if you dont like it , but im sure you will. Stay away from Voodoo LagFix it can be tricky.
Download oclf from market
give it root access
choose to install EXT2 Tools
Then go back and install Lag Fix V1+
This is the only lag fix i know of that be removed by the app itself no outside programs.
Trust me the roms that are out you wont notice anything special from them. all they do is remove apps!!! Wait till cyanogen releases his rom for Fascinate. He makes the best Roms period!!! And he just made a beta for the galaxy lineup....but the fascinate will not see any true roms untill froyo is released!!!

whats the eta on froyo? seems like it keeps getting pushed back.
the cyanogen rom was the entire reason i wanted to test it on the fascinate(i didn't know it wasn't available yet). i had a buddy with it and it seemed to be a super powerful rom.
thanks for all the info martyotaku

From the looks of it.... not till January! Was supposed to be this month. Who knows might still happen.
Honestly if I'm you if your in your 30 days return it and wait for something else. Samsung is known for horrible support.

It sounds like you haven't actually installed CWM... Did you just try to flash it via ROM Manager? Because that won't work. You actually have to flash it using Odin. Once you have CWM successfully installed, you can flash ROMS, kernals, etc...
And I would stay away from the OCLF. A lot of people have been having problems with it, just like VooDoo. Once I uninstalled it, I noticed significant battery life increase. All the lag fix really does is artificially inflate quadrant scores, which don't really count for much anyways.
I've been running JT's Super Clean ROM and I can easily go 48 hours without a charge... No where near that on the stock ROM

just bought cwm from the market and installed.
which i didnt do before. i assumed when i dl rom manager and did that recovery it was already installed.
went to see how super clean acted and tried to redo the flash. still gave me the same two error messages.

Again, you have to flash CWM through Odin, you can't just install it and it magically work

gotcha. ill research how to use the odin ect.... thanks kevin

No problem!
Here's the thread on how to do it

And I cannot stress this enough...
NEVER, EVER, EVER USE THE "PHONE" BUTTON IN ODIN!!!
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS USE THE "PDA" BUTTON.
You will have an expensive paper weight if you use the "phone" button.
Don't do it.

Well if that happens... I'm going straight to verizon and opsse sorry I dropped it in a lake... Haha
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figured odin out... got it installed and did a back up... completely different process.. looks like it has worked. phone is rebooting right now. and ... its stuck on vz symbol for a few min... bammm...very nice!! recommendations from here... sweet themes maybe???
Cant wait to see how it goes from here on out... Thanks so MUCH Kevin. is there any way to give props on this website?

Not that I know of, other than the way you just did!
Glad you got it working.
I'm using JT's Super Clean ROM from ROM Manager with the Dark Gloss theme

i so far like the set up of revolutions v3 w/ circle battery. here in a few i am going to switch to dark gloss mod w/ slide animations...

[Q] Cannot DL market aps

Ok so after succesful GB install every things going fine until this:
every time I install a new or already paid for ap (like re-installing old ap I paid for like TI.backup pro) after it says dl'd it goes to "installing" and then...reboot
every time. any one experience this or have any solutions?
Everything else works perfect: wi-fi , out/incoming calls, internet,3g, etc.
I can get into market np and I can DL, but the minute it goes to install....bam!
reboot.

I expierenced the same thing on a custom gingerbread rom. Thats because I messed some stuff up though. I would say just SBF it back to stock, and if you want to reinstall the gingerbread update then you can.
Also did you wipe your phone before you installed gingerbread?

Download and run Market Fix, reboot and everything should be sweet.

silverfang77 said:
Download and run Market Fix, reboot and everything should be sweet.
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I was under the impression that the market fix only makes certain apps capable of showing up. Does it fix other things too?

silverfang77 said:
Download and run Market Fix, reboot and everything should be sweet.
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not my issue also in the op thread I dont see how this is going to help me.
For me when it comes to modding phones DL something "just to see" seems like a good way to brick your phone, and not having enough knowledge to fix bricks I dont want to take a chance.
How will a factory reset affect me? I have never FR. Everything else is running perfectly, I cant believe there is no way to fix this, its has to be a missing file/permission?
anyone?
Edit may 4 2011: so.... I ended up sbf phone back to stock, rerooting and decided Ill wait for the real GB release. Not sure why this bizaare shizzle happened but better to play it safe. too many people with issues with this gb hack, to many peeps BL'd. I still think it was interesting I was able to load the bootstrap from my ap "mini task" yet it would not load from the ap screen itself.

[Q] 2.3.3 OTA Rooted problem...

Hey I would have posted this on a different thread but i cant because i just made this account they want atleast 10 posts...
heres the deal... i have a rooted evo and running cm7 which i like, but i was dropping calls and where i live i should have good service. so i got the updated radio/wifi/ ect package and flashed it... it installed but did not help with the call issue... i heard many other having the same problem.
so i flashed the ota root update... which seemed like it did it really fast (wasnt watching the whole time) and the phone rebooted but gets stuck at the white htc evo screen, i let it sit there for 20 mins nothing, so right now i am recovering my old cm7... just wondering if anyone has that same problem or can help with getting better voice reception on cm7.. like i said i have tried the package for radio ect... and my prl was updated before i flashed to stable of cm7 so that should be in good standing i would imagine... thanks..

The obvious first question is, did you do a full and complete wipe of everything before you flashed the ROM?
As far as your signal, it may have been just in my area, but I know a few people that had problems texting and making calls, getting a "Network Is busy" error.

yea i did the wipe data/cache i wasnt dropping calls before the cm7 so im not sure right now im shootin to myns seeing how that is... cm7 was first flash i did
well as im trying to flash to the myns its looking like the samething... ill go through the steps...
have zip file in root of sd card
open up rom manager, have the newest clockwork thing installed
i goto flash from sd wipe data and cache are checked... i already have a backup so i skip that part
it installs.... says install is done and reboots itself... but seems to stay on that white bootscreen
if i take the battery out then i can reboot with recovery from the save file i have

blah i dont know... i got the ota installed... looked like it got a bit better reception.. i updated prl and came back to cm7 same probs... i dunno maybe ill just have to let go of cm7... really dont want to though its so sexy lol

I had the same weak signal issue with cm7 and had dropped calls and data dropping to 1x. I am on stock rooted 2.3.3 and reception is good again. Liked cm7 but need a phone I can use in the boonies.
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Dude, please, don't use ROM Manger.
Just boot to recovery, hopefully, you have Amon Ra, if not, search how to get it on your phone, it's not hard, do a FULL WIPE, full, wipe everything in recovery, then flash the ROM in recovery.
No offense to the Dev, I know he's a great guy, a smart guy, hard worker that makes a contribution, but Rom Manager is not the best way to do this.

Yea had to do it manually but nymph works now liking it so far

ok now i have different problem.... got the myn working liking it, but my market is completely different, not just the theme, but the apps i usually download... so tried to flash new market but it just open/closes quickly... any ideas for that?

Not sure by what you mean by the apps you usually d/l.
One thing about the Market in these newer ROMS is that sometimes, you just need to give it some time to fully sync before all your apps so up...
You should pull the market out of the zip file for the ROM and re-install that one, but you'll have to delete the one you have installed now, first.

umm usually download ninjump cant find that just some games that are usually on my phone the market on cm7 had them... ill give it a try though

look on the android market website

stable ROM pls???

hi all,
im new here and i would like to ask for a link for the most stable and fast ROM... i know many of members here already posted this kind of request and i've read some of them but still i think chose the wrong one.. i tried to install the floyo ROM on my x8 last week... on the first two days its ok... but when i tested the wifi, the browser is malfunctioning so i tried to reboot the phone... after that, the system suddenly crashed and some of the apps like launcher failed to initialize... i can't even see the menu that time and the phone always displays the "force close the application"... i thought that i will not be able to use my phone again but thanks to flash tool which i also got here...
i also want a ROM with multi touch... and please the most stable.... if there are some tips and reminders in using custom ROM's to minimize this errors that i've experience please give me a list... i still need a lot of info in modifying my x8... thanks guys!!!

Nearly all 2.2 ROMs are stable, and if you want Gingerbread, use GingerDX or MiniCM7 (I´d recommend you GingerDX).
You can also use KuyaDroid, but I did never use it and so, I don´t really know how fast and stable it is.
All those three have a fully working camera.

My tip is that you do a full wipe before installing ANY new ROM, to avoid those errors you had.
Like codfreak, I also recommend you GingerDX 010, very stable and fast.
If you are lucky to have a Cypress digitizer on your X8 you will get multiTouch.

This is my recommendation
Froyo/cm6:Froyobread because is Final
Gingerbread/cm7:GingerDX is most stable cm7 for daily use
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Froyobread most stable rom ..or u can also try floyo 0.30 ..its stable as well..atleast for me..

I think the GingerDX v.6 i currently use on my phone is very stable. I know v.10 is out there but right now im to lazy to do a full wipe and so on. The only problem i had was when i first did the installation from stock 2.1. to GingerDX v.6. I did not do a full wipe before the installation and the phone did hang at the CM logo.. I rebooted and did a full wipe. Since then the phone has been rock solid. Everything i have tried on my phone works. One minor bug is that when the battery is realy empty (as in: the phone closes itself) the X8 recovery comes up the next time the phone is started. When i do a reboot in the recovery-program a "master pin code"- question is popping up. I just click never ask for this again or something like that and after that everything is fine..
I´m very happy with the GingerDX!

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My tip is that you do a full wipe before installing ANY new ROM, to avoid those errors you had.
Like codfreak, I also recommend you GingerDX 010, very stable and fast.
If you are lucky to have a Cypress digitizer on your X8 you will get multiTouch.
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Hi... i have a new problem... i updated my phone yesterday using pc companion to restore its original ROM because it was bricked last week... then i rooted it and installed the busybox, root folder and xRecovery.. i wanted to test this "STABLE ROM" on my x8..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036335
so i installed it using xRecovery.... i tested everything and it was great... i installed some app and games on it and tried to transfer the installation using app manager to save some phone memory... i also installed the launcher pro...
i reboot the phone to see if the xrecovery is working for backup if ever i encounter an error again using the ROM... and its working...
the last thing that i did was testing its wifi... its already in obtaining ip status... but its always disconnecting and after several disconnection, the phone reboot and suddenly its showed a message that "the application DSPmanager has stopped unexpectedly" (can't remember the exact message) and telling me to "force close" it... i rebooted the phone several times but it always shows that message... so i tried to access the xRecovery but it doesnt appear and i tried it many times....
is there something wrong on my installation process?? or this is just a bug of that ROM??? i've read some feedbacks on that thread but i didn't see a wifi problem on others and "the application DSPmanager has stopped unexpectedly"...
i just dont know why can't i access the xRecovery... PLease Help me T_T]
Thanks a lot for the feedbacks guys!!!

for me, the stable rom is minicm, it's standard
but i like feature on GDX/Froyobread

Hi mikel_0004 If you still can boot your phone, why don't you re-install xRecovery? and then restore a backup...
If your ROM was working BEFORE you started installing apps, then the problem should be some app you installed OR uninstalled, Did you uninstall any system app?
...tried to "transfer the installation" using app manager to save some phone memory...
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are you talking about SystemAppRemover ? what did you "transfer" ?
About DSP manager, you can safely delete that app from /system/app with root explorer. (I read it has problems if you are using kickass module)

@mikel_0004:
If you have your ROM's backup, you can try to flash back to stock ROM, re-root and re-install xRecovery. after that, restore your backup.