Hello everyone,
I've tried several different roms on my X5, and some weeks ago I had a strange issue.
I had just installed MIUI 2 or 3 days before, and decided to change back to CM7.
Since I've done that my phone randomly freezes and restarts, sometimes even in the recovery. I've tried all the custom roms and they ALL have this issue now. System boots and 2 to 5 min later it just freezes and reboots.
Also I've noted that when it's booting it takes significantly more time than any other x5 (i've turned 2 iDeos X5 on at the same time and this one takes 2 more minutes to boot).
Now for the really weird part...
If I restock it with the official 2.2 rom I have absolutely no issues at all! Phone runs perfect, never freezes and never breaks.
I've tried everything, multiple kernels, multiple roms, played around with processor speed, reformatted internal SD, repartioned, fixed the permissions.... I'm at a loss, I have no idea what else to try, and since my phone is perfect on stock rom I cant really send it back to "fix" because apparently nothing is broken...
Anyways, help would very much be appreciated
Thanks
Did you totally reset the phone?
So when you open recovery:
* wipe data/factory reset
* wipe cache partition
* Advanced -> Wipe Dalvik Cache
Yep, did that everytime.
Also, the phone sometimes freezes on installing in recovery rom. mid-installation it just reboots...
which recovery version are you using?
I've tried 4.0.1.5 by Geno and 5.0.2.6.
also I've tried the others, but recovery freezes mid-installation
This doesn't seem to have an easy solution.
Try to use the powerful logcat utility to investigate what causes the problem. You can run it from a command prompt window(pc) with command:
adb logcat
or
adb logcat > log.txt
if you want to create a log file to C drive instead of display the output to command prompt window. Post the logfile here.
Maybe then someone can find the issue and hopefully a solution to your problem
thx for the idea, i'll try it when I get home and post the log when I have it
Hello again, haven't had the change to do the log, but I just found out something really strange.
I have here 2 iDeos x5, one works one freezes. What I just found out is that the one that works shows 353mb of RAM, i've researched online and says that this is normal because the rest of the memory is allocated for the GPU.
What is strange is that the one that freezes shows 512mb of Ram, making me believe that it has no video memory hence freezing the phone when I try to do something graphics wise...
Anyone know if this ever happened? or ideas on how to fix it?
Thank you so much
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Hi all, i have been having a very bazaar problem lately...When my phone boots up i get a pop-up message indicating that the gapps process shutdown unexpectedly...and sometimes i may even get a acore crash too. Applications from the market do not download...when i select my download i will end up getting a gapps crash and then the supposed download just sits there saying "starting...". Google talk doesn't even open! It will just say that the process quit unexpectedly. Even after a fresh install with factory data reset all these problems will continue. The initial boot up screen/tutorial will even show a gapps crash. I have tried with 3 different versions of cyanogenmod all with the exact same problem..Each version i've tried with a2sd enabled and disabled, formatting the partition each time before a new install to ensure no data carry-over issues. I don't know what to do. To me it seems like it make be something on googles side...but i can't for the life of me figure out whats causing these wild problems. Help would be very much appreciated.
ANDROID Market problems
I've recently had the same problem with the market getting stuck on "starting download". I thought it was something I modified as I'm putting together a STARGATE theme of my own based on kron2's work with this site and the theme for "Open Home" for DWANG's newest ROM. What worked for me was going back 1 restore point at a time till I found one that didn't have the problem (NANDROID backup). I also had luck with flashing DWANG's original unmodified ROM 1.17.1. I had the same problem when I flashed 1.16 ..weird. Up till 2 days ago I didn't have any problems changing anything in it. Others have said that they tried opening G-Talk at the same time and some how going between the 2 the problem would right itself. If you find out anything definite about what the exact problem is let me know as I'm going to keep looking for the answer myself.
six6star said:
I've recently had the same problem with the market getting stuck on "starting download". I thought it was something I modified as I'm putting together a STARGATE theme of my own based on kron2's work with this site and the theme for "Open Home" for DWANG's newest ROM. What worked for me was going back 1 restore point at a time till I found one that didn't have the problem (NANDROID backup). I also had luck with flashing DWANG's original unmodified ROM 1.17.1. I had the same problem when I flashed 1.16 ..weird. Up till 2 days ago I didn't have any problems changing anything in it. Others have said that they tried opening G-Talk at the same time and some how going between the 2 the problem would right itself. If you find out anything definite about what the exact problem is let me know as I'm going to keep looking for the answer myself.
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I have searched and it seems many people have the Market/Gtalk problem.
I have the same problem (with an Eclair 2.1 Cyanogenmod rom) and I've not been able to find a solution. Wiping the cache makes nothing.
Anyone knows how to solve it?
Huh. I had a problem with the market at first with cyan 5.0.8 . I went in the terminal and ran fix_permissions after su and haven't had any problems since. Might try that
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Hi,
I have problems with self reboots of my X8 since I got it.
I had problems with stock ROM, upgraded stock ROM and all custom ROMs and kernels.
I couldn't find any pattern why and when is this happening.
sometimes it doesn't happen for weeks (at least I don't notice), and then it starts happening every few minutes, and then it slows down again.
only pattern I noticed is that since I flashed Alfs kernel, phone reboots when I try to make skype call. but this is probably complitely different problem.
full wipe or ROM reinstall helps to slow it down if it is happening to often.
I would really like to find out what is causing this.
today I noticed than phone rebooted while standing still on the desk. after it booted I entered terminal emulator and wrote this:
su
logcat -d > mnt/sdcard/logcat1711.txt
dmesg > mnt/sdcard/dmesg1711.txt
I hope this is the right way to do this cause I don't understand much this logcat and dmesg or linux in general.
logcat and dmesg are always written in some kernel buffers? when I write this I only print it to txt document? How long to history is always written it those buffers?
OK. the real question is can somebody take a look in these documents and see if some conclusion what causes self reboots can be made from them.
Thank you!
Hello everyone!
I encountered two problems with my HD2 having installed Gingerbread 2.3.7 Nexus-HD. The first one; sometimes, I don't know sure why, and what causes this, but when I lock the phone and I try to unlock it( immediately, I didn't try to wait for longer) it doesn't unlock, but the display turns from dark(as locked) to a little bit grey, as if it would work, but I cannot see what I am doing.
The second one, sometimes, I think after I run a game, or something that requires more power and I press the HOME button, when I try to enter the Menu, it flashes continously.( as if it would change rapidly from Menu, to Home screen)
Where these problems might come from and what can I do in order to fix them ?
Really sounds like a hardware issue, try pressing the buttons hard and releasing a few times.
Did any liquid get on the phone ?
CruceruCalin said:
Hello everyone!
I encountered two problems with my HD2 having installed Gingerbread 2.3.7 Nexus-HD. The first one; sometimes, I don't know sure why, and what causes this, but when I lock the phone and I try to unlock it( immediately, I didn't try to wait for longer) it doesn't unlock, but the display turns from dark(as locked) to a little bit grey, as if it would work, but I cannot see what I am doing.
The second one, sometimes, I think after I run a game, or something that requires more power and I press the HOME button, when I try to enter the Menu, it flashes continously.( as if it would change rapidly from Menu, to Home screen)
Where these problems might come from and what can I do in order to fix them ?
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Had alot of this issue on slow dying sdcard. My experience is your card have some problems. Try to check your card windows pc, start CMD and type- chkdsk (drive letter of sd card): /x /f or try to format your card with sdformatter pc freeware.
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You can try flashing the rom again. Before doing it, remeber to format your sd card. Try other roms too. If the problem persists in evry rom, then try a different sd card. after this the only problem will be your hardware.
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I don't think it is a hardware problem, beacause it worked all fine a few days ago, and the phone didn't took any damage in this time. I have this HD2 from a friend and when he gave it to me, I wanted to reinstall the ROM,bacause I wanted not to appear anymore his google account. I am a beginner in HTC and I installed this ROM following a tutorial, but I am not sure I did eveything all right. I wonder how I could erase everything and install a good,stable ROM from scratch, but I need an exact tutorial for this.
Meanwhile, those problem solved by themselves, but now I get the same freezing screen when I try to call or someone calls me. I can hear them, but it just freezes and I cannot do anything, unless I remove the battery. It doesn't happen all the time, but very often...
LE: Right now I'm trying another ROM, I installed a version of CWM of 150 mb( as requested by this ROM) and wiped everything and now it is installing hyperdroid CM7 v5.5.2.
I have to say that with the previous ROM I tried to remove the SD and the same error, so I thought that changing it may be a solution.
CruceruCalin said:
I don't think it is a hardware problem, beacause it worked all fine a few days ago, and the phone didn't took any damage in this time. I have this HD2 from a friend and when he gave it to me, I wanted to reinstall the ROM,bacause I wanted not to appear anymore his google account. I am a beginner in HTC and I installed this ROM following a tutorial, but I am not sure I did eveything all right. I wonder how I could erase everything and install a good,stable ROM from scratch, but I need an exact tutorial for this.
Meanwhile, those problem solved by themselves, but now I get the same freezing screen when I try to call or someone calls me. I can hear them, but it just freezes and I cannot do anything, unless I remove the battery. It doesn't happen all the time, but very often...
LE: Right now I'm trying another ROM, I installed a version of CWM of 150 mb( as requested by this ROM) and wiped everything and now it is installing hyperdroid CM7 v5.5.2.
I have to say that with the previous ROM I tried to remove the SD and the same error, so I thought that changing it may be a solution.
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Well did you try mtty
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623356:confused:
OK. so you want to flash a new NAND rom from scratch? deleting everything in the process. please contact me through the private messaging function i will take you step by step through evrything. all links, steps, etc. arite?
Hi
Want to share with you an issue which seems to be fixed in a little different manner. I have been experimenting with different ROM, last was with Ultimate and when the update came i updated to XLT4. Post this series of issues so uninstalled the ROM, rebuild with Paranoid and still issue was there - system will reboot at random intervals. All the kernels tried and experimented as given but restarts wont stop. Worse thing is that it will enter a boot loop or stuck at Samsung log. Also tried to check APN settings, all the technical steps in every forum.....but no result.
Finally the new version XLT5 and XLT6 tried but still the problem existed. As a check i installed Ram booster (though i never believed in task killers) and strange but true no more restarts and works smooth.
I am not sure if this is how this should have been resolved, but will be happy if any users faced this issue and a similar thing resolved the problem. Now running with XLT5 and a RAM Booster things are pretty smooth with all root privileges.
Thanks for your time.
Did you wipe data/factory reset first before flashing roms? That might be causing the problems
May I have your attention please.
Greeting to all who may be concerned or able to fix camera failed issue on Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 !!!
I know that there are other threads with similar topic, but I think we should recindle this issue as serious problem.
The story goes:
I bought slightly used S4 i9500 phone with no guarantee. It worked fine, was taking pictures and all. Splendid.
It was on some stock firmware. Some german version I think.
Then crappy and useles bloatware began to bother me. Just mountains of really crappy and uselles meaningless bloatware.
I wanted to remove that horses*it apps and therefore I rooted the phone flashing adam kernel and cofface cwm.
One lovely day i tried to take photo, camera opened with black window and showed camera failed notification with persistancy.
i flashed some newer stock firmware, it opened and was taking pictures till i tried some camera modes (action or something) and it froze with pink screen.
After that event, nothing was helpfull to fix this problem.
1. I flashed countles stock roms, nearly all available custom roms, new and old (think over 20 flashes).
2. Prior to flashing I did: Wiping dalvik, system, data, cache, preload, or full wipe, hard resets, wiping sdcard and external card.
3. Tried also nand erase (it took some time to revive phone afterwards).
4. Tried solutions like clear camera cache and data.
5. Tried turning off phone, taking battery out for some time, with full recharge,
6. Tried non stock camera apps. (e.g. camera fx, camera mx..)
7. Tried removing camera app by deleting it with titanium backup, or with root exploer - then installing it back to system apps with root explorer.
8. Tried switching sd cards- 8gb, 16, 32, 64 gb, no card, and tried settings without saving pics to sd card but internal storage.
9. Tried turning off gps, and location services
10. Tried limiting processes to 4 only.
11. Tried flashing with odin, or via cwm cofface or philz.
12. I opened phone with screwdriver to check for posible visible faults or something - all ok.
13. Flashed official firmware claimed to solve camera problems.
Maybe something more i did?- i cant remember, if i do i will notify about it.
And I ordered camera module from internet, will try to replace it - we will se what happens.
In the meantime, if someone, some wise one, genious or ordinary person, knows how to fix this persisting problem PLEASE HELP!
You will help me, and help others that have this problem.
Samsung officials, if you somehow should read this, take this into consideration. There are many eyes upon you. Provide solution for this.
Any one - SOS
FIXED IT.
Since no one cared enough to even try to help me with this problem I will not post the solution !
Said enough.
duxerica said:
FIXED IT.
Since no one cared enough to even try to help me with this problem I will not post the solution !
Said enough.
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I too like you tried everything and found nothing. Camera takes forever to open. Hope you decide to share the solution.Knowledge should be shared.Don't be bitter about it.I'm sure if someone had a solution they would have posted it.
cheers.
duxerica said:
FIXED IT.
Since no one cared enough to even try to help me with this problem I will not post the solution !
Said enough.
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Likewise, some people may have missed your post or nothing good to add, still I too would like to know what finally worked as I tried most of what you did.
Bests
M
If you have message "Camera failed"...
First of all try this: Open Camera app from the "Application manager" and do "Clear data", then restart the phone.
Second: Do a Factory reset (of course save your data!).
Third: Reinstall Android OS.
If this not help you, you have a hardware problem. You need to change the camera.
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Video tutorial:
http://youtu.be/3nzetqisty0