Odd Problems with HTC Hero CDMA - Hero CDMA General

I have this weird problem, and I can't figure out the cause.
Whenever I use my phone lately, it will randomly freeze/force close certain apps. It's super laggy. If I drag my hand/palm across the touch screen, it will stop lagging and perform all the touch commands that I had "queued" up. This seems to persist even though I just wiped+flashed my phone again.
I've got nandroid backups for my stock hero, CM6.1.0, and now I just wiped and flashed to CM7.0.2. Sitting in the CM7.0.2 setup wizard as I type this, and it's lagging like crazy. Is it possible my Hero is internally damaged somehow and that's causing the problems, or does it sound like software? My Hero has been through a LOT of bumps, some harder than any phone should have to endure.
Still, I'm strapped for cash and making the best of what I've got. Anyone got any ideas? Is it possible that I screwed something up using the adb shell when I was a little nooblet? And that said, is there anyway to wipe everything and start with a completely clean slate?

rjhall said:
I have this weird problem, and I can't figure out the cause.
And that said, is there anyway to wipe everything and start with a completely clean slate?
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I'm new here but I've had a lot of different problems also. What I do is RUU and start over. It fixes a lot of screwups on my part... if you have the problems after RUU with stock s/w then I'd have to say its your phone. Good Luck.

rjhall said:
I have this weird problem, and I can't figure out the cause.
Whenever I use my phone lately, it will randomly freeze/force close certain apps. It's super laggy. If I drag my hand/palm across the touch screen, it will stop lagging and perform all the touch commands that I had "queued" up. This seems to persist even though I just wiped+flashed my phone again.
I've got nandroid backups for my stock hero, CM6.1.0, and now I just wiped and flashed to CM7.0.2. Sitting in the CM7.0.2 setup wizard as I type this, and it's lagging like crazy. Is it possible my Hero is internally damaged somehow and that's causing the problems, or does it sound like software? My Hero has been through a LOT of bumps, some harder than any phone should have to endure.
Still, I'm strapped for cash and making the best of what I've got. Anyone got any ideas? Is it possible that I screwed something up using the adb shell when I was a little nooblet? And that said, is there anyway to wipe everything and start with a completely clean slate?
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First when a rom is starting up, it's likely to be SLOW, for 2 reasons, kernels need to "warm up" and the market is probably downloading a crapload of apps (this is a new feature). Second, it sounds like maybe you're device is running low on RAM, I would suggest you get an app from the market called "autokiller" and set the preset called "optimum". Third, go into settings/cm settings/performance and then set your governor to interactive 352-691 or ondemand 264-691. Fourth, go read a LOT of the threads in here and learn some stuff that will help you. Fifth, what recovery are you using and what exactly did you "wipe". Sixth, what do you mean could you have messed something up with adb shell?

il Duce said:
First when a rom is starting up, it's likely to be SLOW, for 2 reasons, kernels need to "warm up" and the market is probably downloading a crapload of apps (this is a new feature). Second, it sounds like maybe you're device is running low on RAM, I would suggest you get an app from the market called "autokiller" and set the preset called "optimum". Third, go into settings/cm settings/performance and then set your governor to interactive 352-691 or ondemand 264-691. Fourth, go read a LOT of the threads in here and learn some stuff that will help you. Fifth, what recovery are you using and what exactly did you "wipe". Sixth, what do you mean could you have messed something up with adb shell?
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1. Yeah I know that. I hadn't had this problem until the last couple months. Until then, it was more or less okay. The problem is, it really is a completely fresh rom.
2. The Hero is kind of a low memory phone to begin with, so that's certainly a possibility. 2.2 and 2.3 aren't exactly kind on old hardware.
3. I don't have those settings in 6.1.0. I was using SetCPU for awhile with it at 480-7XX (Can't remember, I think 791, as that was max) and OnDemand. I had some screen off, temperature, and battery profiles too.
4. Any specific threads I should read you can suggest? I was lurking on the forums for awhile before I did anything to my phone (didn't want to brick it).
5. I'm currently using Amon RA 1.6.2. I considered clockwork, but some people said it has more problems. I've heard complaints that Amon RA requires signed packages, but frankly it hasn't been a problem thus far. It actually saved me from bricking my phone when I was new to this whole thing. As for what I wiped, I simply went through Amon RA and wiped data, dalvik, battery stats and rotation. Don't know what battery stats/rotation are, but I am familiar with the Dalvik cache.
6. As for saying I could have messed something up, when I was flashing my phone, it was something I'd never done before. It's certainly possible I mistyped something or screwed something up.
I was hoping someone could help me to completely wipe it and start fresh, since I'm sure it's had its share of problems.

I would suggest flashing clockwork. You can wipe more areas of the system then the one you have. And it has more features. I personally made the switch.
As for your lag, it might be your hardware. If you did a clean install and wiped boot, system, cache, data, and dalvik, and installed the latest stable release and it's still laggy? Then things are not looking good brother.
You experience the same thing on a sense base ROM?

also it could be cpu govenors because usually by default most roms have it set to ondemand witch has always caused problems for me and as soon as i set it to performance its fine.

Bierce22 said:
also it could be cpu govenors because usually by default most roms have it set to ondemand witch has always caused problems for me and as soon as i set it to performance its fine.
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Are you aware that the performance governor runs at the MAX CPU speed all the time? Seriously. Your battery life must suck.
sent from a series of tubes.

yea but otherwise my performance sucks lol.
most of the time on aosp and cm7 i cant even stream music without it freezing unless i set it to performance.

Houndog101 said:
I'm new here but I've had a lot of different problems also. What I do is RUU and start over. It fixes a lot of screwups on my part... if you have the problems after RUU with stock s/w then I'd have to say its your phone. Good Luck.
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What is RUU? How do I do this? I tried to search the forums but it said search was unavailable. Would this return the phone to 100% stock, no recovery software or anything? That's really what I'd like to do now, to make sure there's not a trace of rooting or flashing left, that way I can start from scratch.
oohaylima said:
I would suggest flashing clockwork. You can wipe more areas of the system then the one you have. And it has more features. I personally made the switch.
As for your lag, it might be your hardware. If you did a clean install and wiped boot, system, cache, data, and dalvik, and installed the latest stable release and it's still laggy? Then things are not looking good brother.
You experience the same thing on a sense base ROM?
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I tried using RomManager to flash Clockwork, and it still booted to Amon RA recovery. I'm going to try to use ADB to do it, but I don't know that I'll be able to.
EDIT: Manually pushed ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7 onto my Hero.
Before I touch any of these settings, what will format boot, format system, formata data, and format cache do? Can it brick my phone, or will it let me flash a ROM onto a completely clean phone?

hmm thats very weird thats just about the only thing rom manager is good for now adays is installing cmr

rjhall said:
Before I touch any of these settings, what will format boot, format system, formata data, and format cache do? Can it brick my phone, or will it let me flash a ROM onto a completely clean phone?
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You will not brick, that is how you wipe. You should also wipe dalvik cache. Go to this site for really good instructions :
www.romrepo.info/wiki

But please note when u wipe u "wipe" lol you will loose all your market apps and anything else installed just make sure you dont wipe sd card then youll loose all your photos and music backups exc...

rjhall said:
What is RUU? How do I do this? I tried to search the forums but it said search was unavailable. Would this return the phone to 100% stock, no recovery software or anything? That's really what I'd like to do now, to make sure there's not a trace of rooting or flashing left, that way I can start from scratch.
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So I downloaded the 2.1 update from the HTC website, ran it, and it completed with no problems. Phone booted up, and now I'm trying to go through the tutorial, lagging all the while. It's almost impossible to type.
Does this mean it's hardware related?

sorry for not posting sooner but lagg isnt usually caused by hardware the kernal probably has to worm up also is it the 2.27 software update or 2.3 because 2.27 lagged pretty bad anyway and if your typing with vibrate on keypress try turning that of it always helped me.

Bierce22 said:
sorry for not posting sooner but lagg isnt usually caused by hardware the kernal probably has to worm up also is it the 2.27 software update or 2.3 because 2.27 lagged pretty bad anyway and if your typing with vibrate on keypress try turning that of it always helped me.
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I had to start from scratch several times and my phone was pretty snappy when I first started it up after RUU. Also you stated your phone was fine and then just started running slow for no reason, was this after it took a bump?

are you talking to me or rjhall lol

Bierce22 said:
are you talking to me or rjhall lol
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sorry, RJhall..

I don't recall it taking any bumps before it just stopped working like it has.
However, I have found how to "fix" the problem. If I squeeze the sides of the phone in, it stops lagging and works. Any touch motions of queued up will then immediately execute. Any idea what in the phone is physically broken?

rjhall said:
I don't recall it taking any bumps before it just stopped working like it has.
However, I have found how to "fix" the problem. If I squeeze the sides of the phone in, it stops lagging and works. Any touch motions of queued up will then immediately execute. Any idea what in the phone is physically broken?
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Never had mine apart, maybe someone has and can help..

Okay so things have gotten increasingly weird. It used to be that squeezing the sides of the phone allowed the touch screen to work. Yesterday that stopped working altogether. Today, the screen stopped turning on at all. The LCD simply doesn't turn on. Pressing the red button turns on the phone (it vibrates when turning it on) and when the phone is on, pressing the red button lights up the keys (so I know it's waking the phone up). I took the phone apart (much simpler than I thought it would be) but I was unable to find anything that seemed out of place or broken. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Why does my phone shutoff?

Rooted my Hero and it doesn't matter which custom Rom I've tried(Fresh, Damage, others) my phone will shut off most of the time it goes into sleep. I don't know its off until I go to wake it up by hitting the end button. When I restore back to the stock Rom(still rooted) it works fine. I do a wipe and a Dalvick wipe prior to flashing. I'd like to get this figured out so I can use one of the nice Roms. Thanks.
If you're running A2SD and you have the Dalvisk on a slow sd card you phone can reboot or shut off. Try moving it off of the SD
patkin said:
Rooted my Hero and it doesn't matter which custom Rom I've tried(Fresh, Damage, others) my phone will shut off most of the time it goes into sleep. I don't know its off until I go to wake it up by hitting the end button. When I restore back to the stock Rom(still rooted) it works fine. I do a wipe and a Dalvick wipe prior to flashing. I'd like to get this figured out so I can use one of the nice Roms. Thanks.
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WOW! You are the first person that has had the same problem I have...I was never able to resolve the issue. I used that bastard 2.1 test leak.......read my posts and what I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6268366#post6268366
My phone works fine now with gumbo 1.5, but I cant use any 2.1 roms or the problem comes back......
kyouko said:
If you're running A2SD and you have the Dalvisk on a slow sd card you phone can reboot or shut off. Try moving it off of the SD
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I am not positive what A2SD is. I have a new 8MB SD card that came today. If I pop that in what will happen. Should it be partitioned? Thanks.
Chaid said:
WOW! You are the first person that has had the same problem I have...I was never able to resolve the issue. I used that bastard 2.1 test leak.......read my posts and what I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6268366#post6268366
My phone works fine now with gumbo 1.5, but I cant use any 2.1 roms or the problem comes back......
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Thank God I thought I was the only one. I searched but didn't see your thread. Weird problem.
Same problem here too since the new leaked 2.1 test ruu from damaged. The only 2.1 Rom that works for my needs without rebooting every 3rd or 4th time I wake it using the end call/power button is Damagedtrev 2.01, the updated 2.05 Rom in his thread just makes my phone reboot as described above. I don't have a link to his thread, but it would be interesting to see if it worked on your phone too. Other's have claimed a battery shorting might be causing this issue, but I'm not buying that. I've looked at /proc/lastkmsg for clues, but nothing obvious there. I hope the official Sprint update doesn't have this bug or sprint will be giving me a new phone. /end rant
I can't seem to find Damagedtrev 2.01
So I can't test it.
Here's the link to the thread.
I cannot post links, because of some restrictions,but here is the last part of the url.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653622
here's the link for the full rom
Oops cannot post link to rom on 4shared, look in the bottom of the first post in the thread for a link to the full rom of DamagedTrev_v201
Please let us know if the rebooting stops for you. Maybe one of the devs could find where the problem is. Pretty please!! I could post any info needed.
Ok, downloading......stay tuned.
I really hope this 2.1 ROM works.....I'm kinda sick of 1.5.
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P.S. I'm reading that there is a battery issue....do you have that?
kyouko said:
If you're running A2SD and you have the Dalvisk on a slow sd card you phone can reboot or shut off. Try moving it off of the SD
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Hey good news. I put the new SD card in after backing up the other one, partitioned it and copied the files and folders back on then flashed ALOYSIUS and so far so good. I have woken it up about 10 times in a row. Looking good.
I had tried that perticular Rom before with no success.
Interesting.....I'm using the 2 gig sd card that came with the phone....I wonder if that is my problem?
Well it started again. This was right after setting my Gmail and POP3 mail accounts. It shut off on the first sleep after this. Hmmmmm.
I'm re-flashing now and not setting up the mail accounts. Will report back later.
Waldo447
Please let us know if the rebooting stops for you. Maybe one of the devs could find where the problem is. Pretty please!! I could post any info needed.
Well, my friend. You were correct! full rom of DamagedTrev_v201 works on our phones for some strange reason. And updating his ROM caused the re-booting to start again. So whatever was changed from 2.0.1 to 2.0.5 is causing our particular problem. I'm not a dev by any means and don't know much about his stuff, but this is encouraging. Perhaps someone can figure out what it is?
I did notice that ALL the other 2.1 ROM's I have used that cause my phone to re-boot from sleep mode, is that when I hit the menu or power button to turn it on, the lights turn on, then reboot phone. With DamagedTrev_v201 that doesn't happen. The screen just pops up to unlock it.....don't know if that helps, it's just something I noticed.
Heres to crossing our fingers that someone can fix this!
P.S. I wiped and went back to Gumbo 1.5c as that 2.1 ROM was way to slow for me and I couldn't get bluetooth to work and audio would cut in and out.
reboot
i would like to know if its a full reboot or just a soft like where it hes to the sprint or boot animation
kwajr said:
i would like to know if its a full reboot or just a soft like where it hes to the sprint or boot animation
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It's a full reboot. The phone actually turns off when it goes into sleep. You don't know it's off until you hit the button to wake it up and the phone boots up.
Now for the good news. After re-flashing and not setting up the email accounts it was still shutting downconfused so I started looking elsewhere so I opened up what I thought was a likely culprit in Autokiller and none of the presets where selected so I picked Moderate and haven't had a shutdown since which has been over an hour. Fingers are crossed. I'll report back later.
That's it I've wasted way too much time on this. Phone works great on the stock ROM. They must have planted some devious anti-flash widget in this phone. I'll leave it rooted for now.
patkin, dude, I felt the same...I gave up on 2.1.
download, wipe then flash Gumbo-1.5c-BARE-signed.zip after it reboots, download and flash Gumbo-Sense-signed.zip.
You flash Gumbo-Sense-signed.zip over the Gumbo-1.5. No need to wipe or anything, it just adds to the ROM. Fast as hell and works PERFECT.
http://www.4shared.com/file/217809392/5fcf1f5d/Gumbo-15c-BARE-signed.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/217811195/3afb5fcf/Gumbo-Sense-signed.html
Give it a shot....I think you will like it......let me know =)
Gumbo thred so you can read up if you like. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630221
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Waldo447
Please let us know if the rebooting stops for you. Maybe one of the devs could find where the problem is. Pretty please!! I could post any info needed.
Well, my friend. You were correct! full rom of DamagedTrev_v201 works on our phones for some strange reason. And updating his ROM caused the re-booting to start again. So whatever was changed from 2.0.1 to 2.0.5 is causing our particular problem. I'm not a dev by any means and don't know much about his stuff, but this is encouraging. Perhaps someone can figure out what it is?
I did notice that ALL the other 2.1 ROM's I have used that cause my phone to re-boot from sleep mode, is that when I hit the menu or power button to turn it on, the lights turn on, then reboot phone. With DamagedTrev_v201 that doesn't happen. The screen just pops up to unlock it.....don't know if that helps, it's just something I noticed.
Heres to crossing our fingers that someone can fix this!
P.S. I wiped and went back to Gumbo 1.5c as that 2.1 ROM was way to slow for me and I couldn't get bluetooth to work and audio would cut in and out.
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Glad to see your rebooting issue was fixed with this rom even though you went back to gumbo 1.5. In my mind, this just confirms that it is not a battery issue. I never use bluetooth and have never experienced any audio loss with this rom, but apparently even people on the same hardware and firmware versions have different problems.
kwajr said:
i would like to know if its a full reboot or just a soft like where it hes to the sprint or boot animation
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Full Reboot here too.
patkin said:
That's it I've wasted way too much time on this. Phone works great on the stock ROM. They must have planted some devious anti-flash widget in this phone. I'll leave it rooted for now.
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Yeah, got my phone beginning of march 2010 and I also think there is something in the 2.1 test ruu or hardware that is keeping the phone from functioning properly with an altered 2.1 rom.
Just wanted to let people know what happened to resolve this. I went back to 1.5 then when 2.1 official came out last week I said what the heck if I can't enjoy a rooted custom 2.1 I'll try the official and guess what. Same problem as the other 2.1's.........phone shuts off randomly! Except this time they are replacing it with a new phone. Yeaaah! I'm probably going Evo now though since I found out I can get a new phone. Anyone need a new Hero?
I'm having the same problem.. One question. Does DarchDroid automatically move dalvik-cache to the sd

[GUIDE] darky's rom restarting issue

If anyone is experiencing random restarts with darky's rom he/she should: long press power button> select recovery> wait> click delete(clear) cache >than click advanced> click clear dalvik cache >and when it's all done than restart adbd and reboot device
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Hello,
I experienced with this ROM a strange issue: randomly with the phone in stand-by pressing the power button the phone is unable to switch on the screen and the only way to re-switch on the screen is a long press of power button in such a way that it is able to shutdown and reboot.
Has someone else experienced the same issue? Suggistions to fix it?
Thank you
better solution: don't use Darky's
best solution : read -> think -> dont hate !
decouvrir said:
better solution: don't use Darky's
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you suck big time !
paky79 said:
Hello,
I experienced with this ROM a strange issue: randomly with the phone in stand-by pressing the power button the phone is unable to switch on the screen and the only way to re-switch on the screen is a long press of power button in such a way that it is able to shutdown and reboot.
Has someone else experienced the same issue? Suggistions to fix it?
Thank you
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what version do you use .... try updating
I'm on the 9.1!
Sorry, but I have searched and I read a lot but no answers to this problem have been found!
themate1987 said:
If anyone is experiencing random restarts with darky's rom he/she should: long press power button> select recovery> wait> click delete(clear) cache >than click advanced> click clear dalvik cache >and when it's all done than restart adbd and reboot device
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Has this been reported to Darkyy? And if so, what is his response?
I've had a couple of random restarts on Darky's - I assumed it was due to the lagfix for some reason. But I've cleared the Dalvik Cache and will post back if that doesn't fix it!
lljkpugna said:
I've had a couple of random restarts on Darky's - I assumed it was due to the lagfix for some reason. But I've cleared the Dalvik Cache and will post back if that doesn't fix it!
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Flash Darkyy's No-Wipe ^ flash Doc's No-Wipe. You will see the difference.
ragin said:
Has this been reported to Darkyy? And if so, what is his response?
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Shouldn't this be
"Has this been reported to the moderator?" This is the Development forum.....
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i experience this whenever i had my phone plug in over-night to recharge to full 100%. after i unplug and off the screen, it just wont wake up until i long press power button to restart it. then after that, everything seems fine until my next overnight recharge.
ragin said:
Flash Darkyy's No-Wipe ^ flash Doc's No-Wipe. You will see the difference.
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So, what's the difference?
@topic
Random reboots?
There are thousands of people running my ROM everday and don't have any issue like that.
The OP is indeed right - clearing caches might work.
You guys may have to wipe - don't worry, a new ROM which will do that 110% automatically is coming soon.
Darkyy said:
Random reboots?
There are thousands of people running my ROM everday and don't have any issue like that.
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Installed R4 yesterday (going from another custom ROM via resurrection and then the latest greatest with wiping) and already experienced some reboots. Last one was trying to copy a directory from a sdram to external SD. Next try was OK.
I am going to wipe the caches - I'll report if this does not fix it.
on 10.2, just use another Launcher. TwLauncher is the issue.
I get random reboots when using Google Maps Navigation, it just freezes for 4-5 mins then reboots... sucks when driving...
Just adding my tuppence...
I wish to mention before I start that I am more than happy with all aspects of Darky's 10.2EE - it's a really snappy and slick-looking ROM.
I have had the ROM installed for about twelve hours now. I installed the ROM only after cleaning-down my SGS, removing anything and everything that was not stock, and formatting with prejudice...
...but I'm a little concerned about something. Three times today, the system has apparently rebooted, showing the boot animation.
I do not believe it is a standard reboot, however, as it is very quick. It is rather more like a quick reboot, where the ram is cleared and the front-end re-loads.
It has happened while I was restoring apps (app only, no data), while I was downloading game data (N.O.V.A 2 first launch) and one other time (I forget what I was doing).
I am running ADW Launcher EX, so I don't believe it has anything to do with TWLauncher, though I may be ill-informed to make such an assumption.
I imagine that restoring my apps and intensively downloading data might be putting my SGS under some stress, and while it does not reboot while running anything particularly CPU-intensive, it does appear to be occurring when moving large chunks of data around.
However rare this issue, I'd welcome sensible suggestions on what to look out for. I'm going to see if I can replicate the reboot while plugged into the log viewer - if anything useful comes of it, I will post the result.
Again, let me re-iterate that I am not complaining - this is an absolutely amazing ROM, and if it happens to perform a ten second reboot every now and again as a result of heavy downloading or data movement, I think I can live with it. Everything else lives up to the 'blazing fast' claim admirably, and there seem to be massive improvements to general performance in CPU-intensive apps too (I was previously running Tayatuma's FroYo ROM, and despite some glitchy behaviour, I was too lazy to get rid of it until now).
lol darky. thats funny
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@Whie Hawk:
1. DO NOT use 10.2, if you can use 10.2.2 (you flashed recently, didn't you?);
2. you are on custom ROM. Therefore, it is ALWAYS better to install app from Market, than to restore it, as some "minor" differences can cause "big" issues;
3. I'm (personally) glad that you're not on the "blazing fast" stadium yet
4. what I'm doing while switching ROM... is: I have all... "out of market" apk's on card, ready for install, while the Titanium is rather a list for me, not the resource. simply, when I finish flush, I check on titanium what I had, and then I reinstall it fresh from Market/SD card. BTW, Titanium is best for freeze/backup/restore while I'm on same ROM...
@Sixhouse: sorry, I couldn't understand... For a time being, looking on your posts, I presume that you are aiming to have 10.000 useless posts on XDA in different device's threads... Is it a homework in your primary school?
decouvrir said:
better solution: don't use Darky's
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Best idea ever

Help with Nebula ROM ISSUES

After a few issues I was able to get Nebula ROM 1.0.7 up and running on my EPIC. I really like it so far. It is much faster then the other ROM I tried out, plus it doesn't have any of the cheesey sound efffects.
I have used it for a day with no problems. My battery was getting a bit low so I shut the phone down to change batteries. I put the new battery in and when I booted it up it just went into a loop with the Nebula animation, then the 1.0.7 screen would come up and then it would just loop.
I took the battery back out, reinstalled it, and this time it boots into the phone but everything FC's. Took the battery out again and booted it back up and now this time it loads up, some things run, but others FC...
I did the clearing of all caches and user data three times along with a dalevic wipe three times... What gives??
I consider myself a computer geek, but am definately new to the rooting/custom rom thing, so I am a Noob, be gentle!!
socos25 said:
After a few issues I was able to get Nebula ROM 1.0.7 up and running on my EPIC. I really like it so far. It is much faster then the other ROM I tried out, plus it doesn't have any of the cheesey sound efffects.
I have used it for a day with no problems. My battery was getting a bit low so I shut the phone down to change batteries. I put the new battery in and when I booted it up it just went into a loop with the Nebula animation, then the 1.0.7 screen would come up and then it would just loop.
I took the battery back out, reinstalled it, and this time it boots into the phone but everything FC's. Took the battery out again and booted it back up and now this time it loads up, some things run, but others FC...
I did the clearing of all caches and user data three times along with a dalevic wipe three times... What gives??
I consider myself a computer geek, but am definately new to the rooting/custom rom thing, so I am a Noob, be gentle!!
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Firstly, I'm sorry for your troubles and welcome you to the ROM scene. But I would say posting this (or looking through) the Nebula ROM thread or posting this in the Q&A section would likely end up with better results.
Secondly, I also had experienced issues with Nebula ROM 1.0.7. My recommendation is to Odin all the way back to DK28, then work your way back up to Nebula. Also, try flashing Nebula twice onto the device to try to remedy any problems.
Another tip, it seems that if you are using things like Titanium Backup that there are instances of people running into problems of backed up apps causing problems. Starting new is probably the best bet.
Hope this was of some use!
Thank you for the help.. I posted this in General because every other day I see people getting ripped into for not posting in General, so to be honest I have been scared to post anywhere else... But I have read the Nebula thread, not all 110+ pages, but quite a few of them. I am going to Odin back to DK28, format my SD card, and start from scratch, then try reinstalling all of my Apps.
I just think it is wierd that it worked flawlessly for a whole day without one FC and then when I changed my battery it went to hell.
The even stranger thing is some apps work fine, and then others FC everytime. Seems to be no rhyme or reason..
Only other thing I am thinking is I installed a bunch of new apps today and wondered if that could be part of the problem...
Oh well, it has made me more aware of what is going on behind the scenes with my phone.
I could be totally wrong, but I think that's due to it being an ext4 with no journaling rom. Without that safety net its possble for data to be corrupted. sinse I switched to ext4 with no journaling I started letting the phone turn off instead of just pulling out the battery.
Like I said tho I could be wrong on this. Back when I was on the moment I had ext2 which doesn't have journaling either and if the data became currupted somehow, it would cause the symptoms you are explaining.
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Thank you for the help.. I posted this in General because every other day I see people getting ripped into for not posting in General, so to be honest I have been scared to post anywhere else... But I have read the Nebula thread, not all 110+ pages, but quite a few of them. I am going to Odin back to DK28, format my SD card, and start from scratch, then try reinstalling all of my Apps.
I just think it is wierd that it worked flawlessly for a whole day without one FC and then when I changed my battery it went to hell.
The even stranger thing is some apps work fine, and then others FC everytime. Seems to be no rhyme or reason..
Only other thing I am thinking is I installed a bunch of new apps today and wondered if that could be part of the problem...
Oh well, it has made me more aware of what is going on behind the scenes with my phone.
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Ah, alright. I'm not too certain as I'm unaware of a good deal of the inner workings of Android, but I do hope things get straightened out for you. My phone still has some apps that act up sometimes, mostly JuicePlotter it seems.
Hanging arround... I forgot my last un and passwd(I had an htc tilt a while ago... now I can't post on dev forum...) to use 1.0.7 I think you need ext4 (at least I'm using it) some apps are giving troubles with ext4. So try one by one, and use the cwm3 backup system. At least for me is easier and safer than tit or backup pro.
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I am so glad I didn't update to 1.0.7!
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After a few issues I was able to get Nebula ROM 1.0.7 up and running on my EPIC. I really like it so far. It is much faster then the other ROM I tried out, plus it doesn't have any of the cheesey sound efffects.
I have used it for a day with no problems. My battery was getting a bit low so I shut the phone down to change batteries. I put the new battery in and when I booted it up it just went into a loop with the Nebula animation, then the 1.0.7 screen would come up and then it would just loop.
I took the battery back out, reinstalled it, and this time it boots into the phone but everything FC's. Took the battery out again and booted it back up and now this time it loads up, some things run, but others FC...
I did the clearing of all caches and user data three times along with a dalevic wipe three times... What gives??
I consider myself a computer geek, but am definately new to the rooting/custom rom thing, so I am a Noob, be gentle!!
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Sorry I missed this yesterday, but I wanted to say that I had the same problem updating to 1.07 and I had already gone back to DK28 stock w/ CWM3 before the upgrade. I also restored some apps and settings selectively using titanium. One thing that we may have in common is that I ran my battery ALL the way down accidentally after this upgrade, tried turning it on a couple times (and it would shut down right away) and when I plugged the phone back in I got the repetitive force closes when I tried to turn it on.
Anyhow, I recharged completely, started from stock DK28 again (and wiped the battery stats) and even with restoring the same settings from Titanium I have been running it for about a week now and it is rock solid. So, give it another shot and see how it goes...
The short version is I got everything working!! And Nebula 1.0.7 is the fastest rom I have used yet... But don't get too excited because this is only the third I've tried, and one of the other two is stock DK28.
What I ended up doing was Odin'ing back to DK28, installing CW3, and then doing the 3x3 clears. Then I also formated everything I could find in CW. Installed the Nebula Rom and still had an issue. Rebooted back into CW3 and then reinstalled the ROM again, and whalla.. It works.
I think for some reason you have to install it twice.. Strange I know..
I had force close issues as well, and all I did to fix it was go into CWM, and format/clear cache partition, and format/clear the dalvik-cache. Did this cache clear and dalvik clear 3 times.
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I could be totally wrong, but I think that's due to it being an ext4 with no journaling rom. Without that safety net its possble for data to be corrupted. sinse I switched to ext4 with no journaling I started letting the phone turn off instead of just pulling out the battery.
Like I said tho I could be wrong on this. Back when I was on the moment I had ext2 which doesn't have journaling either and if the data became currupted somehow, it would cause the symptoms you are explaining.
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I second this as a possible problem. Shut the phone off 100% before removing the battery. On the moment that I also had if you removed the battery or used quick boot with ext2 you faced possible data corruption, but there were kernels that would check and fix data. You'd end up in a boot loop though if it didn't repair.
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I've been making sure to shut it off before removing the battery, so far so good. I'm really liking this much better than stock.
Want to try a speedtest with the wifi tethering while going down th road.
I did a speedtest yesterday in my house and got 1.5mb DL, .5mb up. That was on my airrave though.
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I'm at a loss

So I've tried everything I could think of. Reflashing ROM, using a different ROM, different browser, everything minus a different modem, which I'm not sure would really do anything. But where I'm at is that anytime I go to status on facebook it closes the browser back to the home. I'm on Frozen ROM at the moment, I've tried on stock, same issue. Tried on the ASOP ROM, same issue, tried on those ROM's with Dolphin, Miren, Firefox, Stock Browser, all the same issues.
So will a modem actually make a difference is how the phone handles? Or is it more related to data speeds? I don't know what else to do, this is driving me absoluetely nuts. Thanks Guys.
Try this go into settings / manage application / all application & wipe data from browser & wipe data from Google search then reboot if that doesn't work I don't know
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Figured I would move it to the proper area. Haha. I really appreciate all the help Bro. Tried the other route you said, nothing doing. So I don't know either. It's annoying though. I think I got the phone into a bootloop now tried to install a different ROM see if that would work, and doesn't seem to be working. Piece of crap. Just my luck. Ha.`
What kernals were/are you running?
Okay, so I did ALL that, and nope, same issue. I don't know what the hell the issue is, I thought it might be the kernal, but when I flashed back to stock, had the same issue, with no kernal. So I don't know.....doesn't do this on my Photon.
odin back to stock
and clear out the sd card. redownload everything and rebackup.
Did you uninstall the Facebook app and redownload it? Wipe data in it before uninstalling. Did you try a different browser like Miren or Dolphin?
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Okay, so I did ALL that, and nope, same issue. I don't know what the hell the issue is, I thought it might be the kernal, but when I flashed back to stock, had the same issue, with no kernal. So I don't know.....doesn't do this on my Photon.
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Well, you aren't running without a kernel - the kernel is the core of the Android operating system.
Maybe you're having a hardware issue, such as a touch screen that's acting up (you said it wasn't force closing or anything, right?) - it could be registering false touches in the wrong location... I'm just taking a shot in the dark on this one, since it sounds like you've tried restoring just about everything...
I would suggest reformatting your sd card (copy the contents to your computer first, the card WILL be erased).
Then, Odin a full stock tar (try DI18, you'll get an OTA to EC05 after you boot).
Then use the one click root and recovery - be sure to have the rom on your sd card, especially if you use an ext4 recovery like 3.1.0.1, because of the file system conversion (stock kernel won't boot ext4, so you'll need to flash the rom and an ext4 kernel before rebooting from recovery - Genocide or ACS's twilight zone or vision kernel... I would stick to Genocide for now, under worked the best for me)
You might want to skip the rooting step momentarily, so you can see if the same problem occurs on a completely stock setup.
Finally, I would suggest carefully cleaning your touch screen with something mild - I use eyeglass cleaner (safe for glasses with all the expensive protective coatings), other users here might have other suggestions.
This should cover all of your bases, and if you still have problems, it might be a hardware issue.
I do want to point out that (unless I'm missing something about what you're trying to do) the facebook that you access from the browser is loaded from their servers every time you connect - it isn't software on your phone. It cannot be the older version, not like an app, which has to be updated on your phone. The pandora issue sounds like a different issue, but I still need to test that (had to get to sleep last night, I was passing out mid-sentence, lol)
EDIT: re read the first post... Pandora issue was mentioned in the SRF thread... But it seems you did try stock and other roms...
When you say it closes back to home, I think I misunderstood - I had an issue once or twice where facebook would act up, going back to my facebook home page, but did you mean that the browser simply closes and dumps you back to your phone's home screen?
Because that could be as basic as your capacitive home button registering a false touch (the opposite of the unresponsive button issue we're all used to, lol)... But cleaning the touch surface could still help... Turn the phone off first, and apply whatever cleaner you use VERY lightly... Don't use household cleaners, if you don't have eyeglass cleaner then I would research whether rubbing alcohol is safe for gorilla glass...
Side note - swype suggested "guerilla" glass... made me chuckle...
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What he said. ^... Also I would let it
Repartition and reset time when you Odin back to stock. I know most people say not to when flashing some things, but this would be an exception. Also when you flash to stock use the victory.pit file as well as the ROM tar.
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All righty. I'm gonna try all that. As really nothing else has worked. I do think it's something with the screen though.....I just can't figure out why it only happens on the NEW facebook. I got her using the APP now she was only using the browser before, but I would punch say four letters it would bump a couple more then close. So you may be onto something with that touch screen registering incorrect keys so would that have anything to do with the contents of the SD card itself? Or is that an actual hardware conflict with the facebook (newer version) of the software? Cause it works fine on the APP. So I guess I'm basically at a loss for how this really makes any sense ,but really appreciate all the help from you guys.

[Q] Can reboots be caused by location?

I'm have troubles with my HD2 randomly rebooting itself for apparently no reason. Initially I had a barebone CM7 ROM, and it seemed to reboot much more frequently when I came home from university. As soon as I got home for this break, sure enough, it began rebooting again. I then switched to a CM10 ROM, thinking it was just the previous ROM messing up, yet the problem persisted.
If it's not a ROM causing it, what could it be? It's really annoying having the phone shut off randomly while I'm doing something, and I'm worried it'll end up worse just because of how frequently it reboots.
overheating? failing touch screen? dodgy battery? failing hardware? faulty/fake copy SD card? old/wearing out sim card? some app that doesnt play nice on the hd2?
they can all cause reboots on multiple roms, along with another half a dozen reasons, i'm sure.
If the phone did reboot from any of those, it still wouldn't explain why it doesn't happen when I'm at school. I'm not exaggerating; once I go back (about ~126 miles away from home), it never reboots like this. At this point, you may be thinking, "Why not just wait to go back?" I have only two semesters left, and I want to get this fixed prior to me moving back here.
But nonetheless:
overheating?
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I've held my phone in front of an AC to test if it's overheating, and it still rebooted. I had the back cover off and the air blowing into the battery.
failing touch screen?
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My 'End' button is failing, but my touch screen seems to work just fine. Is there a way I can test if it's the touch screen causing the reboots?
dodgy battery?
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I have two batteries, one original and a new from Amazon. Reboots occur using either of those.
failing hardware?
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Quite possible, it's an old phone, but I feel that it would reboot regardless of where I'm at if this was the case.
old/wearing out sim card?
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Same as above.
some app that doesnt play nice on the hd2?
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I thought this was the case at first as well, but I uninstalled all my apps on the barebone CM7 ROM, and reboots still occurred. Even after doing a fresh install of this CM10 ROM, the phone rebooted before I even began installing apps to it.
Are there any files that don't get changed by flashing a new ROM? I was thinking that it could possibly be the modem I have flashed to my phone, but I wasn't sure if flashing a new ROM automatically changes the modem as well. Can I get some insight on this?
By modem do you mean the radio? It's unlikely to be the radio itself, however it could be something like the phone struggling to switch between 2g and 3g,,try it with the phone in only 2g mode,, perhaps you have a faulty cell tower in your area,,unlikely but not unknown.
Yeah, sorry about the terminology haha. But thank you, I'll try that and report back!
So disabling the 3G didn't change anything, but I noticed a drop in the frequency of reboots when I disable my wifi. Could some of my router settings be messing with the phone? I tried deleting the network on the phone and re-adding it, but the reboots remained consistent.
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So disabling the 3G didn't change anything, but I noticed a drop in the frequency of reboots when I disable my wifi. Could some of my router settings be messing with the phone? I tried deleting the network on the phone and re-adding it, but the reboots remained consistent.
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still sounds like hardware really, as suggested.
does it reboot even with the phone in airplane mode?
But the phone doesn't reboot when I'm in the city where my university is located, only when I come back home. That doesn't really lead me to believe that it's the hardware.
I have the same problem with the
[1.Dec.2012][All in One] EvoHD2v10 ICS 4.0.4-full HWA "Fastest ICS ever"
it reboots more than 3x a week!!!!!!!
For me, it can literally get up to 10 reboots per day, when I'm in this particular city. It gets very aggravating, and I'm worried about the stress it's putting on the hardware by constantly booting back up.
Anyway, I decided to say **** it and start from scratch. I don't think it's a hardware problem, so I decided to go back to the beginning. I formatted and re-partitioned my SD card for Native SD-compatibility. I flashed Xylo's 4.1.2 PA ROM. Now it's time to use it like I would normally.
If anyone is experiencing the same problem as me, or reads this in the future with the same issue, I'll try to keep the post up-to-date with what stopped the reboots for me.
dont forget to clear out your sd card, , leftovers from previous roms can cause issues. Easiest way is to flash teh new rom, then immediately in CWM do a wipe data/factory reset, as this clears out both fat32 and ext folders.
AW: [Q] Can reboots be caused by location?
I had the same problem with my fathers HD2. I installed clK before and it rebooted the last time quite often.
So I reinstalled everything. I started installing the official HTC WinMo 6.5 Rom.
Then I've done Task29 and installed MagLdr and then a Radio which Supports 576 MB Ram. (I think it was 2.15.xx) , repartitioned it for BlueOrange Mix Rom 1.2 (The best I ever installed so far) and flashed it in CWM.
So the HD2 is running since 150 Hours without any Problems.
P.S.: Task29, MagLdr, Radio Installation and Repartition has been done in HD2 All in one Toolkit.
Greetings by Myself5 and I hope I could help you.
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