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[FIXED] having issues.. EDIT! ram issue! Edit 2: fixed! sd card issue

im not sure when this started but it seems like every rom, every kernal i use now my phone will close apps to a black screen and freeze up for different lengths of time. was doing it in stock, and now a custom rom. tried different kernals... seems to be worse when the phone first boots up. its almost like a force close but slower and i don't get the force close message. help
Edit: ok i brought up the ram manager and my ram would start around 250 and climb up before my eyes until the screen blacks out.... how do i figure out what is eating up the ram.. and why does it stop?

murso74 said:
im not sure when this started but it seems like every rom, every kernal i use now my phone will close apps to a black screen and freeze up for different lengths of time. was doing it in stock, and now a custom rom. tried different kernals... seems to be worse when the phone first boots up. its almost like a force close but slower and i don't get the force close message. help
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I assume you already tried Odin to clear out any crap left right?
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JohnCorleone said:
I assume you already tried Odin to clear out any crap left right?
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yeah odined to stock ec05 and it was just as bad. rebooting the phone actually made it worse... seemed like it took forever for everythign to stabilize. phone also seems to get hot but i could be wrong about that. not the battery but above the battery near the camera

Quite often this is caused by restoring old data over a new rom using a program like titanium backup. Sometimes you can get away with it between similar roms but restoring Froyo data on to a gingerbread rom will almost always cause lots of FCs.

poit said:
Quite often this is caused by restoring old data over a new rom using a program like titanium backup. Sometimes you can get away with it between similar roms but restoring Froyo data on to a gingerbread rom will almost always cause lots of FCs.
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i never restore data from nandroid backups and i reinstall all my apps from the market...
maybe my phone is tired
modem seems to be resetting alot too

murso74 said:
yeah odined to stock ec05 and it was just as bad. rebooting the phone actually made it worse... seemed like it took forever for everythign to stabilize. phone also seems to get hot but i could be wrong about that. not the battery but above the battery near the camera
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Isn't the spot right above the battery where the chip is located? Have you been overclocking your phone like I have at 1400 everyday? I was wondering if I have been flashing too much. I saw some of these issues myself. Odin started freezing as well but it seems to have smoothed out. I thought I may have wiped out my phone
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JohnCorleone said:
Isn't the spot right above the battery where the chip is located? Have you been overclocking your phone like I have at 1400 everyday? I was wondering if I have been flashing too much. I saw some of these issues myself. Odin started freezing as well but it seems to have smoothed out. I thought I may have wiped out my phone
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no.... set at concervitive 200 - 1000. but i was using drockstars kernal before this without using a governer and it was still doing it. now i'm using TZ 1.1.1
it is that spot.. but its not hot there all the time either. very annoying issue

murso74 said:
no.... set at concervitive 200 - 1000. but i was using drockstars kernal before this without using a governer and it was still doing it. now i'm using TZ 1.1.1
it is that spot.. but its not hot there all the time either. very annoying issue
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Ummm, I am kind of at a loss here. You don't have any physical damage to your phone? No serious drops? You didn't go swimming with it in your pocket? But seriously, I run at 1400/100 on demand all of the time and that spot gets hot on Gingerbread ROMs but not on Froyo unless I run a lot of video at 1400 max.
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JohnCorleone said:
Ummm, I am kind of at a loss here. You don't have any physical damage to your phone? No serious drops? You didn't go swimming with it in your pocket? But seriously, I run at 1400/100 on demand all of the time and that spot gets hot on Gingerbread ROMs but not on Froyo unless I run a lot of video at 1400 max.
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yeah i don't know what to think either. i guess when official gb finally drops i'll try one last clean install and if it keeps doing it i'm going to have to go through insurance

murso74 said:
yeah i don't know what to think either. i guess when official gb finally drops i'll try one last clean install and if it keeps doing it i'm going to have to go through insurance
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When did you purchase your phone? did this start to happen after you started loading custom ROMs or since the start?
What is your current setup right now? Do you use RFS or EXT4?
What hacks have you loaded to your phone, and after what even that you performed on the phone did you start experiencing this issues?

megabiteg said:
When did you purchase your phone? did this start to happen after you started loading custom ROMs or since the start?
What is your current setup right now? Do you use RFS or EXT4?
What hacks have you loaded to your phone, and after what even that you performed on the phone did you start experiencing this issues?
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i've had the phone for a year. i've been doign roms for at least 6 months.. this only started in the last month on both rfs and ext4. i don't know what i did that could have done this.. honestly i started noticing it when i odined back to EC05 a few weeks ago. then i did an rfs rom, then drockstars kernal, now srf 1.2 and tz kernal. just seems to be getting worse and worse. to be honest it may have started after i flashed back from eh22

Are you on TW4 Launcher? That can cause phone to freeze.

Overstew said:
Are you on TW4 Launcher? That can cause phone to freeze.
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i am actually.... although this started before the tw4 launcher. i guess i'll remove it for a while and see what happens. dammit i liked the tw4 launcher too

Don't use any CPU programs like setcpu, etc.. if not try wiping your sd card. Could just be your phone too.
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I had this issue for a while and it caused me to leave to the iPhone, but now after months of waiting I am trying to bring my epic back
I will post my results I am going to try flashing back to stock and see it if can stay on for a day with out crashing....I'll be back with results in a day or 2

Mine does the same thing and it shuts off sometimes at 35% battery left. Just in the past month. Im stock not rooted. One more thing somedays i get 13 hrs of life and others like 6, same usage everyday and same area so service isnt the issue.
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I had this same issue. I was to a point of chamging phones.
I decided to watch 5 different tutorials/youtibe videos on how to odin back to stock.
In that process, 3 of the videos had different options checked. Yes, I decided to try each way, restoring apps/data from Titanium, each time.
After the first 2 attempts, and still seeing the freezes, I started to get some kind of com.google.apps process force close errors.
I was really ready to beat my phone up at this point.
So, after deciding, I've had enough, I said I would do it ONE more time. (There was still one more checkbox that another video was showing...)
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Sry, my fat fingers pressed submit.
Anyhow, Ive 0 programming experience so, all of this might kust be a lucky fluke. When I odin'd, I checked all three options. Re-Partition, Autoreboot, And F. Reset Time.
Only 1 video of the 4 I watched said to do this.
I then restored my apps and data back w/ Titanium.
I did make sure that any data from OEM apps, was not broight back, as a precaitonary on my part. It was really driving me nuts. Hope this helps....
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crap well it wasn't TW4... uninstalled it last night. today rebooted and same thing.... its so strange it only happens the most after i reboot the phone. black screen with the status bar up top. if i touch the screen the button lights will come on ... if i swipe down the status bar it will eventually come down.. but with a ton of lag
i guess i'll nandroid backup and start from scratch with odin again. bone stock no root see what happens.
EDIT: just noticed that the modem seems to reset every time it does this. didn't see that before cause it doesn't always make the no signal sound. but the bars on the status screen go dark and the little x pops up above them before the home screen redraws. so basically whatever i'm doing goes to black screen.. times out for 10 min with just the bar on top, modem resets and goes back to the home screen

ok i brought up the ram manager and my ram would start around 250 and climb up before my eyes until the screen blacks out.... how do i figure out what is eating up the ram.. and why does it stop?
man this is nuts... i've got android system info running and i'm watching the processes tab... all the programs start usign memory, then android starts killing them off until they are almost all gone then i go to black screen... i dont' know what the hell is going on
edit: tasks is showing android.process.acore twice, package com.fede.launcher. both are using 34.89 MB and have cpu at 100... however total CPU usage is only showing 7%

How else can I get battery to original state?

Like others in the forum have mentioned, there is a very serious bug that causes the phone to just turn off when something more power intensive is turned on (especially mobile data).
I'm fairly sure my battery still holds a lot of charge after my phone turns off, and I'm getting poor battery life because of that. Changing back to old roms doesn't fix it, but I don't want to buy a new battery because I think this one should still be healthy.
So, my question is, what can I do? Is there anything else I should wipe besides batterystats.bin? Something a reflash or data/cache wipe doesn't remove? I tried to fully discharge the battery, but the phone always turns off much before it's empty.
Also, how can I be sure this bug wouldn't affect my new battery, if I were to buy a new one?
Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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jpaisneto said:
Like others in the forum have mentioned, there is a very serious bug that causes the phone to just turn off when something more power intensive is turned on (especially mobile data).
I'm fairly sure my battery still holds a lot of charge after my phone turns off, and I'm getting poor battery life because of that. Changing back to old roms doesn't fix it, but I don't want to buy a new battery because I think this one should still be healthy.
So, my question is, what can I do? Is there anything else I should wipe besides batterystats.bin? Something a reflash or data/cache wipe doesn't remove? I tried to fully discharge the battery, but the phone always turns off much before it's empty.
Also, how can I be sure this bug wouldn't affect my new battery, if I were to buy a new one?
Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)

J.Purungrit said:
For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)
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Thing is, I'm not getting bad battery backup. It's more like the phone just turns off if I actually try to use it. With mobile data on and to some extent wifi it just turns off in minutes or seconds. A full charge lasts for 2 hours or less with 3G on. I've tried other roms and kernels, including stock, but nothing fixed it.

For example, is there an app/method to prevent the phone from shutting down, only allowing a"hardware" shutdown? I mean only when the battery reached a critical voltage and stopped discharging for safety reasons, or something. Maybe that way I could properly calibrate it.

J.Purungrit said:
For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)
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It works with cm7?
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J.Purungrit said:
For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)
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I used the fugumod 2.4 beta 3 but it didn't work properly...it was laggy,the phone was freezing from time to time. ..now im back on g3mod OC and my battery lasts 2-3 days and for oc thats ok
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jpaisneto said:
Thing is, I'm not getting bad battery backup. It's more like the phone just turns off if I actually try to use it. With mobile data on and to some extent wifi it just turns off in minutes or seconds. A full charge lasts for 2 hours or less with 3G on. I've tried other roms and kernels, including stock, but nothing fixed it.
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What are u using now and what have you tried?
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nanos7 said:
What are u using now and what have you tried?
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Batter backup started getting worse even when mobile data was off, so I just bought a new battery on eBay. It seems to have fixed it
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Glad to hear it! ;-)
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Got this issue when I upgraded my cell from kyrillos' v 4 to kyrillos' v10. Well that might be a bug in gingerbread upgrade for G3 but never experienced that when I was on official Rom or even when upto. Froyo. Well for now I am gonna switch to ICS and see if issue persists.
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Galaxy Note CPU problem with overheating !

Since I tried to install The MIDteam's 1.4.2 Update 3 BETA 3, my Galaxy Note has been getting really hot even when I just open the Play Store for 5 minutes...
I'm now back on CheckRom HD the latest version and the only kernel I can get into deep sleep with is the AbyssNote kernel. My problem is that my phone goes straight from deep sleep to 1.2 or 1.4 GHz so if it has happened to anyone please help me !!! I've tried flashing every single rom but none of them do the trick and it's always super laggy.
also, I don't know if there's a link but whenever I try wiping everything from recovery it won't wipe .androidsecure and my external sd card is shown in the recovery menu but not the zip files on it.
Thank you in advance !

Have you tried other kernels? Are you using CPU Spy to see what state your CPU is in most of the time? The problems your describing isn't a rom issue, its a kernel issue.
Your phone will run hot from time to time. Mine does too. If something wasn't right I'm sure you would be getting a ton of FC`s and random reboots.
Im currently running KindDroid and SpeedMod kernel with no issues. Gets warm but nothing out of the ordinary.
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Try flashing a different modem

g2tegg said:
Have you tried other kernels? Are you using CPU Spy to see what state your CPU is in most of the time? The problems your describing isn't a rom issue, its a kernel issue.
Your phone will run hot from time to time. Mine does too. If something wasn't right I'm sure you would be getting a ton of FC`s and random reboots.
Im currently running KindDroid and SpeedMod kernel with no issues. Gets warm but nothing out of the ordinary.
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I have tried flashing speedmod kernel too but it didn't make things better...
I'll try your configuration though thank you !

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Try flashing a different modem
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Not a modem problem I've tried every single one you can find on CheckRom Kitchen app !

Also consider BetterBatteryStats from the Play store. It will give you a better idea if your getting any wakelock problems as well.
My phone last night got stuck on 1.4Ghz from 12am till I woke up (6:00am). It was warm but nothing different then normal use. I found out by setting my alarm clock somehow caused the phone to get stuck and not sleep. Almost like I changed the governor to performance (which I didn't lol)
Such is why I'm on speed mod now. Phone can sleep now and almost zero lag
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g2tegg said:
Also consider BetterBatteryStats from the Play store. It will give you a better idea if your getting any wakelock problems as well.
My phone last night got stuck on 1.4Ghz from 12am till I woke up (6:00am). It was warm but nothing different then normal use. I found out by setting my alarm clock somehow caused the phone to get stuck and not sleep. Almost like I changed the governor to performance (which I didn't lol)
Such is why I'm on speed mod now. Phone can sleep now and almost zero lag
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I'll be sure to get that app !
Oh and another bug, my phone won't turn off. When i tap turn off then yes the buttons led stay on and my phone gets really hot !
Switching to KingDroid with speedmod tonight, I'll keep you updated

anatole78 said:
I'll be sure to get that app !
Oh and another bug, my phone won't turn off. When i tap turn off then yes the buttons led stay on and my phone gets really hot !
Switching to KingDroid with speedmod tonight, I'll keep you updated
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Not a clean install use cpuspy to see whats eateb you alive, and next use a cleaning script and reflash kernel you can use the current one ymtoo just flash again after cleaning, now check if everything works, just in case wipe dalvik code.
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Yikes. Let me know. Had a similar issue with a Skyrocket a month ago. Ended up getting to the point that I couldn't even connect the phone to USB anymore. It would only charge. Even Odin couldn't see it. Turned out being a hardware issue with the phone.
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Ok so flashing KingDroid's rom and the speedmod did the trick but now the superuser rights are gone. Could you tell me how you rooted the speedmod kernel please ?
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Are you on 2.0? If so your rooted. I just installed Superuser from the market.
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Are you on 2.0? If so your rooted. I just installed Superuser from the market.
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Yes I am on 2.0 and even after flashing speedmod kernel through Odin I don't have root permissions even though Superuser app is installed...

Interesting. I flashed with CWM. Can't say I can help you my friend. Sorry.
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Actually try this. Go to SuperUser, tap on the top right icon (wrench), go to the bottom list and look for check SU binary (underneath says check for update). Check for update, install update and done.
Hope that helps.
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Doesn't work either, when trying to update the su binary I get stuck at trying to obtain root access --'

anatole78 said:
Doesn't work either, when trying to update the su binary I get stuck at trying to obtain root access --'
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Reflash and reROOt and try again..
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[FiX] Galaxy Note ICS OVERHEATING PROBLEM SOLVED
[FiX] Galaxy Note ICS OVERHEATING PROBLEM SOLVED:
1 Go to settings- developer options - UNCHECK "Dont keep activities"
2 Use go launcher ex (or some other good launcher...) instead of default launcher
3 Instal from google play android assistant and use it to clean cache and stop most of background process
4 install from google play "cpu master free" (MUST HAVE ROOTED PHONE) and set 1000 MHz for MAXIMUM, and check box "set on boot"
5 Turn off gps, bluetooth, sinc, WiFi, Packet Data and all other stuff that you dont use at moment...
P.S. DO NOT expect that your phone will be cold as ice after you do this...
ICS is build that you can use max. out of dual core, and galaxy note is pretty slim and back is made out of plastic...All that increase heating problem...
Hope i helped! =D

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The OMAP4 Cortex A9 platform specification shows that its operating temperature is 40° to 85° C (104° to 185° F). Then why the Galaxy Note overheats but other phones do not? It is very thin so you are holding your hands very close to processor and you feel heat.
There is nothing you can do about the Galaxy Note overheating and you have to live with it. If you don’t use it for gaming or videos you won’t notice heat. If your Galaxy Note gets warm while you are using it only few minutes without pushing it to limits then it could be some other issue with your device.
As long as you can’t fry eggs on the Galaxy Note, it doesn’t melt, and you can still hold it in your hands its absolutely normal. So it’s not a big deal and there is no fix for it unless you want to stop playing games and watching videos.
battery manufacturers say this ...
Notice:
1. Do not remove battery at will charging.
2. Do not place the battery stored in more than 45 ° C high temperature environm-ent or in fire, otherwise it may cause the battery explosion. :laugh:
3. Don't exert external force to the battery or rendered from falling.
4. Do not place the battery with conductor such as key, coins, etc, to avoid short-Circuit.
5. Do not let battery be moist or put it in water.
6. Suggest choosing original charger or performance reliable charger for charging.

if you live at a place where the environmental temperature reaches 43° C then overheating of your note is natural.. lol
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Problem: Screen doesn't turn back on until soft reset

I have this problem where my phone's screen (Nexus 4) goes black due to inactivity but but I am unable to turn the screen back on until I do a soft reset (ie, hold down power button for 30 secs). I read that this was an issue on Galaxy Nexus but have not heard of a solution for it. Has anyone else had this issue and figured out a solution? Thanks.

i get this same issue and a friend of mine who has one also does . . i'm running the newest build of zylon got the nexus the first week of release tried switching roms kernals etc. still get the issue . . havn't found any test to duplicate it but it happens atleast 3 times a day randomly.. weird stuff for sure
edit. i even tried asking my friend to give me a call when it did it yesterday and it rings all the way through but my phone doesn't turn on or ring

rom / kernel ?

u guys might want to switch the kernels..what you are getting is a SOD...or sleep of death...its mostly due to heavy UVs..so change the kernels...perhaps use stock ones..as they are mostly the best..!

naveediftikhar said:
u guys might want to switch the kernels..what you are getting is a SOD...or sleep of death...its mostly due to heavy UVs..so change the kernels...perhaps use stock ones..as they are mostly the best..!
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Stock settings are not always the best

calanizzle said:
Stock settings are not always the best
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Depends what's you want from your phone... Stock might be not that good for battery but I'll go for stability over battery any day for a phone like nexus 4
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Thank you. I am using a franco kernel. I would hate to go to stock after using this. Is it possible that it is just the version that I am using? I hope so because I love my battery life using this kernel.

jchi18 said:
Thank you. I am using a franco kernel. I would hate to go to stock after using this. Is it possible that it is just the version that I am using? I hope so because I love my battery life using this kernel.
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Its possible but nothing can be said... It's better if you return to stock to test if the issue is with your rom or kernel!
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The story so far.

Long term lurker, new member.
Had my I9100p for a year now and have only just got round to rooting and playing about with roms, god knows what took me so long!
Rooted 2 weeks using the Exynos exploit and patched the bug.
Installed Titanium Backup Pro and begun tinkering and freezing apps.
Spent a day or two convincing myself I was only rooting to freeze bloatware and improve performance and battery life.
Decided I wanted a new ROM as I was bored of ICS.
Flashed CWM recovery with the Clockwork Mod app.
Made complete backup using CWMR and TBpro
Chickened myself out for a few days.
Committed. Downloaded Rootbox V3.2 (slightly older and running 4.1.2 but this was an I9100p ROM) and saw the light. Speed and battery life through the roof. Light usage day, (40+ texts , Twitter/FB checking , 20 mins of phone calls and maybe 20 minutes of internet browsing) only used something like 25% of the Battery.
Got bored of 4.1.2 and wanted to see 4.2 in action.
Downloaded and flashed JellyBam V7.7 (Yesterday)
Customised the look, played about with it, got lost in all of the settings.
Changed my RIL as it was not working particularly well, think it may be because my Baseband is for the i9100p but im running an i9100 ROM.
Flashed NFC enabler from a thread on this forum , activated NFC and gave me the options back, however couldnt seem to disable the NFC just kept re-enabling itself and drank 30% of the battery overnight by keeping the phone awake for 10 hours(the time from me flashing it to me getting up the next morning).
Flashed the NFC remover. ( I can live without NFC )
Today I have mostly spent trying various tweaks and settings to help battery life(disabled media scanner, apparently a known bug which can drain battery). Will give it a few days before making a call on whether I keep Jellybam or flash to another ROM/back to rootbox.
A few minor bugs I have seen so far include,
Loss of screenshot ability due to disabling media scanner for battery life- Not a major dealbreaker but a bit of a PITA at times.
Soft reboots on unlocking, still see a few people beginning to mention this on the JellyBam forums.
[*] Fairly major- No data or 3G connections.
It is addictive, I want to flash another ROM and compare the differences already!
So thanks to all of the hard work people on this forum have put in and to all of the developers who make things like this easy and possible to the masses, although you may have destroyed all of my free time for the near future!

yep, it is addiction... flash flash flash flash

Hi... I hear ya bro... I'm on a super nexus ROM for about 4weeks. But I'm getting ready for a change. Thinking of trying a cyanogen ROM next...
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Just reflashed back to RootBox - I loved the look of the JellyBam but the contant soft reboots and the issues with the signal drove me to dispair in one day! haha

WhenIWake said:
Just reflashed back to RootBox - I loved the look of the JellyBam but the contant soft reboots and the issues with the signal drove me to dispair in one day! haha
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Welcome to the club.
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Can't wait to try out Rootbox, have been hearing mostly good stuff about it.