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[Long]Trials and Tribulations of my G1. Issues and Insight.

WARNING This is a long post describing various events of my G1 and things I was going through, so Im basically doing a dump of my thoughts and possible reasonings to put everything I can report, case it is a ROM, Hardware, or Software flaw somewhere or just user error. But since this forum is about feedback for devs or rom providers =)
Ok I dont know where to begin with this post. Last night my G1 needed a wipe. Why? Cause all it did was reboot over and over not getting past 1st home screen, then finally android screen. What happened before this? All I have of the things going on during that time frame was this:
(Now before the below stuff, earlier that day, Quest Live glitched on me, and when I was at the home screen, I tried to scroll left and right and it got stuck half way, which WORRIED me since I thought the touch screen was messed up. To my luck after a reboot and iso alcohol rub down on screen, it was fixed. Tho only after I unplugged it from the car charger (Which seems to really make the G1 % battery jump in record speed.. glicth?) Or Power Manager issues? Tho this wasnt the updated one, so the new one may have fixed the issues the dev said power manager was causing.
I plugged in the usb to a ubuntu running PC. To charge it, thus triggering Power Manager. Same time, I was trying to install SnapPhoto, which it downloaded, but didnt install, I was also noticing abit of lag, So I ran task manager to turn off some apps running in background, Camera, Gallery, Gaming Buzz Widget, Weather app Widget, Calender. (Then as I rem.. I tried to update AdFree when the new version came out.. it didnt install but same time when I tried to load it, it just came up black.. sign of a bigger issue maybe?)
After that of course couple of them came back. Then I tried to change the volume using the side button, It didnt respond, The on screen worked fine tho. So I decided ok, time to reboot fresh on the phone. Rebooted, Then it loaded to home screen before radio signal, then rebooted. After getting tired of not booting, (I had unplugged it from the USB btw which at 1st kept the charging light on before I rebooted it. ) I pulled the battery out. Which MAYBE I pulled it out at the wrong time during the android screen. Cause after that and I put it back in, all it did was goto the G1, then Android cycling screen, but no longer went to the home screen to try to load. Then was too late for this trick, but the Safe mode attempt. Which MAY have worked when it made it to the home screen, but once it was on Android only, safe mode didnt load at all. Just endless stuck on Android. So I had to wipe 1st then I reapplied the JF 1.51 update.zip to fix it and get the G1 to turn on again and boot.
Advice tip: If you can still boot to the home screen "somewhat" next time it cycles, try holding "Menu" in to have the G1 bypass any apps and load into safe mode, which may allow you to uninstall or fix whatever the issue is.
To my surprise. The Apps when the G1 started installing again went to the SD card. (I do not use apps2sd, Only Lucids orig) Now thats when I noticed more hell.. I went to the market to look at "My Downloads" and WHAM, the 10 apps it auto downloaded (Which I guess was a sync) are the only ones in the My Download section.. nothing from my past downloads.. Which is 110 more apps.
Advice tip: Use Atrackdog to "Export" your database to a text file and keep that on your PC. This way if ANYTHING happens, you least know which apps to look for.
Advice Tip: Upon reflection I probably should have made a nandroid backup after 1.51 was smooth. So if you havent, Id suggest looking at it) I know I will once Im set back up.
So now I am left with a interesting ponder. I msged Lucid to see if his scripts would allow me to use my 2GB which had my 1.51 data on it and somehow relink it to the G1 and have everything restored, then recopy to the 4GB which is my current one. But chances are I need to 1 by 1 install again. (Anyone know how you get apps back that arent on the market anymore? Extract from the SD card maybe?)
Anyways now I am wondering, If you install too much to the G1, will it in the end cause a problem? Im not a dev so I dont know how that all works with the ROM builds. But that wouldnt be good news if you have 129 apps, things could start messing up. (Tho not sure if that was a cause for any of the above)
Another thing I learned, if you have a GOOD screen protector on the G1 (Not the one it came with) and it smears up, or gets smudgy it seems it may interfere with the response of the touch screen. Ive notice if the screen thinks its being pressed in, a app could hang, lock up or choke the G1 to where it fixes itself by doing a reboot. Now that sounds odd that the G1 is sensitive to smudges or oil from your hands (If you had a humid hot day). Anyways fixed that with iso rubbing alcohol and a soft wipe cloth. Then rebooted.
Now my next task is to 1: Find out if my Cache since the wipe is running on the SD still, or if its on Internal. The app "Move Cache" I hear could do that, but I heard it messes up market, maps etc.. so not what I wanna do atm. Then I just gotta see if I can restore apps from SD using a app or terminal, which I am studying now, but just wanna end this post for now.
Will post more as I get around to it. Maybe I can restore the market cache manually.

do you still experiencing the touch screen error problem after all the steps you have taken? because i have the same problem. sometimes when i use touch screen to switch screens, the screen get stuck in the middle and shaking. i also cannot select anything correctly by touching. and i've read from various forums that this has something to do with the charger / charging process. i think that my problem occured because i charged using usb cable to my computer. because i never done that before (i usually charge my phone using a wall charger) and when i did, the problem happened.

How I fixed it? I turned off the G1, used rubbing alcohol with a tissue to gently wipe the screen off and clean it. Then turned back on and it was fine.

[Q] Black screen after CM RC2 install

The other day I installed the new CM RC2 rom on my HTC Wildfire. Everything went fine for the couple of days until it went into sleep mode and I could not come out of it. I had to pop the battery and when still problems, I re-installed rom - again with flashed kernal 4.1 and up to date gapps.
Managed to get it working. But then same thing again. Overall I had to re-install 5 times yesterday alone!
Out of frustration I tried to re-install my CM RC1 from before with the kernal 4.1. And this was fine again for about an hour, then again, mobile went into sleep mode, and again was left with black screen. Again not able to come out of it.
Am at a loss as to how to get my mobile back up and running. If anybody can help, this would be most appreciated.
Thanks

Does this happen with all ROM's, or simply CM7? Also, what are your overclock values and SetCPU Profiles, if any?

Have only tried cm7 so far. and cpu was not touched. was left at default settings. Am not able now to even boot into recovery. Totally DEAD!

Probably a hardware issue. I doubt CM7 can have such far reaching implications as to make the phone dead. Anyhow, this issue looks uncannily similar to this

Thats worrying.
If I do manage some how to get it switched on, is there anything that you can suggest to stop this happening again?
Also keeping the battery out of the mobile for a 5 mins, SHOULD that help instead of just taking out and imediatley replacing?

Doesnt sound too good. If you manage to switch it on you could try setting your minimum cpu speed to 245mhz+ Although it sounds like you have more serious issues. If its still under warranty I would consider returning it

Thats what I feared.
Thing is, cause it is rooted, it is out of warranty. I dont think I have a leg to stand on.

Its worth a try, they may not even check/notice that its rooted

Well.......
I managed to get it switched on. And decided to try and install Wildpuzzle as I had that on the phone before with no problems. And so all was well......
....untill just now.
Mobile went into sleep mode, and when I pressed the power button to get into it, black screen. Wouldnt come out of sleep mode. So had to pop battery again and after 10 mins, re booted it.
This seems to be the norm now. If it gets a chance to drop off into sleep mode, then I am stuck.
I am starting to pull my hair out.

Have just read on another thread that should try turning off auto rotation and auto brightness.
Fingers crossed this will work.

If the problem occurs throughout various ROMs it could well be hardware related. Flash an RUU (this will get rid of all traces of root) and return it

Will do.
Thanks

cant access cm7 rc2
any ideas why i cannot access or see any file in the website download.cyanogenmod.com regarding cm7 rc2 for buzz/wildfire?

[Q] Tiamat ROM Xoom Reboots

I have never been able to get a tiamat kernel to work on my xoom. I followed a set of directions to completely start from scratch (again, plus formatted whole xoom 3-4 times before doing that) and flashed Tiamat ROM and it worked! I was even able to OC to 1.4, 1.5, then tried 1.7 which caused it to freeze and crash. Then it started acting funky so I did a restore and everything is fine until I turn the screen off or let it turn itself off with a timeout.
The system reboots into M screen and/or a black screen. A reset or two gets it rebooted. I increased the min freq and reset max to 1ghz. What can I do to fix this?? Thanks!
--- Update --- The browser causes a reboot as well. Random reboots into black screen. Def could use some help

ALWAYS stays on black screen when screen times out. Also does it after clearing data via honeycomb. Looking for a little help, can't post on the ROM thread yet

Well I would start from new wipe everything and reflash. Can't hurt. Sounds like something is broke. You can also try to fix promissions as well.

I've completely formatted the xoom including the sdcard and then started w/ 3.0.1 then did the 3.1 flash via CWR then the ROM install. The booting is better after complete wipe but screen still doesn't come back on after a time-out or i shut screen off manually. Browser also causes are boot which takes me to a 2-3 'M' reboot which then times out into black screen. 2 or 3 resets later and it boots up but then reboots within a couple minutes.
The official 3.1 update had my browser crashing which is why i said screw it, i'll flash new stuff. Could def use a hand

I am going through the same symptoms. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Random reboots and browser closes all of a sudden, no force close warning..

Me as well I've tried everythingeverything. Currently on tiamat 1.1. With rc4 3.3.0

go into wifi settings and make sure your wifi disconnect policy is set to never

2JZ GZE said:
I am going through the same symptoms. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Random reboots and browser closes all of a sudden, no force close warning..
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also occassionally find the xoom stuck on motorola boot screen without me trying to turn off or back on..

Ill try but I don't think the wiring has anything to do with the black screen. This will lock even if wifif is off

Mine didnt like 1.7 either, I ended up leaving it sat next to a desk fan for a while to cool it down whioe switched off, then very quickly when it booted managed to get into antutu widget to drop the speed down and hit apply before it locked up again, rebooted all fine now, set it to 1.2ghz to be safe..

Kippui said:
go into wifi settings and make sure your wifi disconnect policy is set to never
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Dude. I think this worked. I switched my wifi disconnect setting to, never while charging..it was set as, never(uses more battery power). I am currently on Tiamat 1.4.5 with CWM (rc4)3.2.0. Just let it chill over night and charge after a factory reset and viola. Have booted the screen in rotation and a few power offs. Even running at 1.2 g with set CPU. Been running smooth for 2 hours and I can't force it to even freeze. Could it really be that simple. Hahahah. Well see.

Got my first random reboot on EI22

Everything was fine until today when I decided to remove the stock recovery reload script, reodined CWM and also flashed the CRT off zip.

CapsLockKey said:
Everything was fine until today when I decided to remove the stock recovery reload script, reodined CWM and also flashed the CRT off zip.
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Was the CRT script based on the EI22 framework?

I got it from the EI22 CRT off thread in the theme section.

Last night I also had an odd reboot. Not like the old random reboots that would happen when the phone was asleep, this one seemed like it was caused by a GPS crash. I had been using an app that triggered the GPS, (weatherbug I think) and when I closed it, the GPS icon stayed on. Even after I turned off GPS it still stayed on. The phone also started getting pretty warm. GPS itself no longer worked. After a few minutes of trying to shut down GPS the phone locked up. A minute later it did a "partial" reboot, playing the startup sound and eventually giving me the launcher screen. It was still not running right, with the GPS icon stuck on and the phone very sluggish. I did a shutdown and restart. The phone took a long time to start up, sitting on the "big S" for a while just like on it's first startup. Makes me think something got corrupted in the cache and it had to rebuild it.
I don't know if this was just a random event or the sign of problems to come.
This was on Stock EI22, installed as an OTA upgrade over a fresh EC05 install. The only mod was the CRT off / Circular battery mod that I created at the UOT kitchen.

Well fortunately my phone hasn't done it since. Thinking back, it may have been somehow triggered from a WiFi issue as I leave my WiFi toggle on most of the time and I had just pulled into my garage so the phone obviously was switching from 3G to WiFi around that time.
I am still having a weird issue though where Launcher Pro force closes initially every time I reboot the phone ever since then.

CapsLockKey said:
Well fortunately my phone hasn't done it since. Thinking back, it may have been somehow triggered from a WiFi issue as I leave my WiFi toggle on most of the time and I had just pulled into my garage so the phone obviously was switching from 3G to WiFi around that time.
I am still having a weird issue though where Launcher Pro force closes initially every time I reboot the phone ever since then.
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Perhaps clearing data on LauncherPro and rebuilding the setup from scratch will solve that for you.

poit said:
Perhaps clearing data on LauncherPro and rebuilding the setup from scratch will solve that for you.
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Tried clearing data, reinstalling, etc. Doesn't matter, still FC's immediately after reboot. Problem must be with Launcher Pro not liking something, because I just flashed CleanGB Rom (which includes the CRT-off and several other tweaks) to try it out and it does the same thing on that.
Update: Seem to have solved it, but not sure why. Had Voodoo Plus set to load module on boot, when I turned that off LP did just fine after rebooting. Decided to flip the load on boot back on to see if it would start FCing again and magically enough it hasn't.

I just had a random reboot and im in stock EI22..... Why?
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Been on it since it was released, no reboots here... Working great for me.

ive had this off and on for a few days now. i find it to be caused by having multiple launcher in my case spb shell .had it running stock the first day so i flashed a rom and its still there. also other apps that use alot of resources will cause it. it partail reboots about 3 or 4 times and then runs normal.

CapsLockKey said:
I am still having a weird issue though where Launcher Pro force closes initially every time I reboot the phone ever since then.
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I have the same issue with Zeam Launcher, clearing defaults doesn't seem to help. I wonder if there's some kind of half-assed check to make sure that TWLauncher is running? I dunno, but it's obnoxious considering how many times a day I'm forced to reboot EI22, added to the fact that they got rid of the deathgrip reboot.
My phone has "Randomly" rebooted on me several times, usually in an area with little signal coverage. Each time, it seems like there's some program (like Spotify or DI.FM) running that's making network calls when the signal craps out.
EI22 has been nothing but problems for me.

Just had my first random reboot. I'm stock EI22 not rooted yet. Imanually installed on the first day and this was my first. Phone was off just sittin on the table and the screen come on showing low battery but was still sittin at 30% and it shut off and the samsung screen come up and went thru the boot up process.
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Please see this thread if you get random reboots with WIFI on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359315

My Stable setting with no random reboots !!!!
After trying out virtually every rom/kernel out there (started with stock) I finally got a configuration in which I hadn't got any random reboot (or any other silly issues). My current setting are :
ROM : ERA Lagendary RC2
Kernel : Samurai 2.0.1 (inbuilt with Rc2)
Theme : Ei22Ics version 2 (just for fun !!!)
I have used Voltage control to OC it with settings : 400 Mhz minimum(recommended somewhere in dev post), 1340 Mhz maximum(~1400 mv voltage which I think maximum my handset can handle) with ONDEMAND governor.
My Epic is running flawlessly with no random eboots of FC's since last 4 days (while it used to reboot atleast 3-4 times daily earlier).
Hope this helps !!!!
Epic Timezzzzzzzzz !!!!!!

I still get random reboots in EI22, but not as many as I did on the GB leaks. I can cause a reboot by scrolling to fast in Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, All. I have had the phone run for 90 hours without a random reboot so I'm happy.

Had 2 reboots over the past week, where after charging all night I pulled the usb charger cable out and it rebooted. Stock EI22 except rooted, keyboard/CWM flash, and GPS_fix.

rando991 said:
Had 2 reboots over the past week, where after charging all night I pulled the usb charger cable out and it rebooted. Stock EI22 except rooted, keyboard/CWM flash, and GPS_fix.
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Sounds like your USB port or charger cord is going bad. That is not random. If connections are shorted momentarily it will cause a reboot. Happened once to me on my cheap car charger.
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i dont get any with
ROM = ASC AICS 5.5
Kernel : Samurai 2.0.6
Theme = Shake & Bake Mix Up v.5.9

kennyglass123 said:
Sounds like your USB port or charger cord is going bad. That is not random. If connections are shorted momentarily it will cause a reboot. Happened once to me on my cheap car charger.
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Well I did notice it only happened on that particular charger (from Walmart)...also, my wife's epic didn't reboot, but had the charging light stuck on all day. I had to power it off and remove the battery to end it. Would that be maybe the same problem?

Been on CleanGB for quite a while. Went out of town this weekend to Chicago and ended up being rebootpalooza on my phone. Probably had almost half a dozen, once it just shut down in the middle of a phone call at the train station after the low battery notice came up, even though after I powered it back on it still had 28%. Another reboot was I unplugged the car charger shortly after the "full" indicator light came on. Others were just amazingly random. I've loved my Epic up until this trip when it turned into the most unreliable thing I've had.

LG G2 storage filling up, and extreme home key lag.

PLEASE HELP!
My Vzw G2 home key lags, I press it, and sometimes it stays pressed, then it goes to my home screen, when I try to open recent apps, I almost have to hold it down for 5 seconds for the window to appear. I woke up this morning, checked my storage and it said 455mb free (originally I had 19gb free) then I cleared cache, the cache said something like 19gb+. Got my storage back, but I just checked again a while ago and my cache was at 2.5gb.
I'm fairly new to rooting and such, but anyways, last night, my phone was absolutely fine, but my battery seemed to be dieing on its own, so I decided to "recalibrate" it by killing it completely and fully charging it, so I killed the phone, and put it to charge when I went to bed, woke up 5 hours later, and it was at 66% shut it off, started charging it, went back to sleep, woke up in 2 hours and was at 98%, then I waited for a bit for it to reach 100%, that fixed the problem, it charges normally now and dies as fast as it used to. So I unlocked the phone, and started using it, and I notice my home key is extremely laggy, I press it, it stays pressed, then goes to the home screen 3-5 seconds later, it does it frequently, the pressing animation for it seem to lose frame rate too, all other nav bar keys are fine. Then I check my storage, and It says 455mb availible, I originally had 19gb the day before, my cache was at 19gb+ so I cleared it, and then 7 hours later, the cache is at 2.5gigs again. So I cleared it just 20 minutes ago, and its at 610mb now. Does anyone know what's going on? Please help me, these problems literally came overnight, the day before I hadn't installed any tweaks besides xstana to mod my nav bar, which didn't cause any kind of lag for the 8-9 hours I used it. Another thing it was doing this morning was that it does is that it keeps underclocking itself to 1.9 or 1.7ghz, why does it keep doing that? Does anyone have any idea on what to do? What would you do? PLEASE HELP I've been trouble shooting this all day and haven't been able to find a similar thread.

How many backups did you make? The nav mod is probably causing your lag.

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How many backups did you make? The nav mod is probably causing your lag.
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Backups of what? Doesn't really matter though I haven't made any back ups of anything.
Also I removed the nav bar mod several times, it still lags.

Fixed (kinda)
So I gave up and just reset my phone. I just finished setting up the entire phone again with all the mods/tweaks I had before, and everything works now, cache doesn't seem to fill up on it's own anymore, battery life is still normal, home keys are responsive again, BUT it still keeps underlocking itself to 1.9 or 1.7ghz, anyone have any idea what's going on? I had a fix for it earlier with an app that would set my cpu freq one every boot up but that doesn't seem to work anymore. I think I'm gunna leave this thread up because I haven't seen any other threads on cache filling, and home key unresponsiveness.
Edit: I take that back, the cache data is still filling my storage, I just cleared 10gb of cache data. Can someone PLEASE tell me why this happens? Or if there is some way to set a limit to cache data?