So my father-in-laws droidx has been freezing up, crashing and a wide array of other troubles. I was just curious what I could do to improve and stabilize it. Depending how hard the droidx is to root, I was thinking of just doing a factory reset, but if it would be relatively easy to root, what would be a good rom/kernel for stability and performance? I wouldn't need anything flashy or cutting-edge, just something that'll be durable and resilient for the foreseeable future.
Thanks in advance.
First things first: fix phone then worry about roms root etc.
Do a full factory reset/wipe every thing.
Don't forget to save your info.
If you have a sd scard copy info onto your pc put back in phone and wipe as well.
This phone seems to be very sensitive to the sd card. Wiping it wail reformat it to phone spec.
Lmk how it goes.
Ps what firmware are you running?
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Hi everyone!
I've had my X for about a month now and finally have some time to really play with it. You know, themes and such. But I have a bunch of stuff installed and want to start fresh for all this work.
I guess this is a bit like that itch when working with Windows that you want to reinstall every few months and start from scratch. I'm used to it for the PC, but this is the first time with a real smart phone, so I'm a bit lost.
What I'm looking for is maybe a step by step how to return to 'just out of box' stock, like after activation but before any real use. This way I can get a fresh Nandroid backup of that state in case anything goes to hell.
What would be the best way to accomplish this? Flashing the SBF and formatting the SDcard or wiping everything using the system options? I really haven't seen anyone describe this, so maybe this would help others by getting the steps written up.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Dan
yes man use the sbf and flash back and you can reformat ur sdcard to wipe everything. but why do you want to wipe everything?? if you need help send me a PM and i'll give u some links!
I think you want a factory reset, settings, privacy, factory reset. Be sure you sync your data with gmail in the accounts section of settings
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Want a real refresh? Next time back it up. This phone is pretty much a computer. Make an image of your hard drive, before you do things to it.
Won't have to rely on SBF's, after that.
dandroid213 said:
Hi everyone!
I've had my X for about a month now and finally have some time to really play with it. You know, themes and such. But I have a bunch of stuff installed and want to start fresh for all this work.
I guess this is a bit like that itch when working with Windows that you want to reinstall every few months and start from scratch. I'm used to it for the PC, but this is the first time with a real smart phone, so I'm a bit lost.
What I'm looking for is maybe a step by step how to return to 'just out of box' stock, like after activation but before any real use. This way I can get a fresh Nandroid backup of that state in case anything goes to hell.
What would be the best way to accomplish this? Flashing the SBF and formatting the SDcard or wiping everything using the system options? I really haven't seen anyone describe this, so maybe this would help others by getting the steps written up.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Dan
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Scout out this site..
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php/Smartphones/Motorola/Droid-X/Droid-X.html
It has great info plus checkout SBF Droidx on XDA.
I do what your doing quite abit reason being ...because I have to. LOL
Its part of the "Flashing fever"
Hi there, just looking for a little help. I'm pretty new to Android and all my other devices have been rooted pretty quickly after I got them. I thought I would take the Transformer for a spin unRooted and have been liking it but now I realize that I can't back anything up using my traditional method of Titanium Backup until I have root access. Adding to the problem, I'm currently on 3.1 which means (as far as I know) I'll need to backtrack to 3.01 to get root access and I'm not at all confident that my applications will survive the downgrade, root, upgrade journey I'm about to take them on. So I guess two questions really:
Anyone know of a backup program that doesn't need root? I went mad playing Plants vs. Zombies and really don't want to have to clear everything again if I can avoid it.
If not, does anyone know if the applications will be able to make it intact through the downgrade, root and upgrade? I realize if I don't wipe some of the system stuff from 3.1 will cause problems while rooting in 3.01 but I think that's all mostly ADB so as long as it boots I should be all right and then back to normal once I reapply the update.
Any advice would be appreciated. Worst case I'll just loose a few game saves but would be nice to avoid if I can.
Thanks!
I don't think u clear ur info if u do a root. It's been a while.
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when I rooted, I was on. 9. so no downgrade was necessary. However, I am almost sure you will not delete your saved stuff.
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findmike said:
Hi there, just looking for a little help. I'm pretty new to Android and all my other devices have been rooted pretty quickly after I got them. I thought I would take the Transformer for a spin unRooted and have been liking it but now I realize that I can't back anything up using my traditional method of Titanium Backup until I have root access. Adding to the problem, I'm currently on 3.1 which means (as far as I know) I'll need to backtrack to 3.01 to get root access and I'm not at all confident that my applications will survive the downgrade, root, upgrade journey I'm about to take them on. So I guess two questions really:
Anyone know of a backup program that doesn't need root? I went mad playing Plants vs. Zombies and really don't want to have to clear everything again if I can avoid it.
If not, does anyone know if the applications will be able to make it intact through the downgrade, root and upgrade? I realize if I don't wipe some of the system stuff from 3.1 will cause problems while rooting in 3.01 but I think that's all mostly ADB so as long as it boots I should be all right and then back to normal once I reapply the update.
Any advice would be appreciated. Worst case I'll just loose a few game saves but would be nice to avoid if I can.
Thanks!
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I went from stock .13 to leaked-but-stock 3.1, then decided to root.
I downgraded to .9, and had to deal with lots of glitching and FC's, but it didn't prevent me from rooting, and then moving to Primordeal 3.1.
I DIDN'T LOSE ANY OF MY APPS, SETTINGS OR PROGRESS...
BUT
During the process, I did end up formatting my external SD card, so make sure you use a spare during the rooting process. All contents on the internal memory came through intact.
Ender666666 said:
I went from stock .13 to leaked-but-stock 3.1, then decided to root.
I downgraded to .9, and had to deal with lots of glitching and FC's, but it didn't prevent me from rooting, and then moving to Primordeal 3.1.
I DIDN'T LOSE ANY OF MY APPS, SETTINGS OR PROGRESS...
BUT
During the process, I did end up formatting my external SD card, so make sure you use a spare during the rooting process. All contents on the internal memory came through intact.
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That's perfect! Thanks for the info. I figured someone would have to have been in about the same boat as me so good to hear I might be spared clearing all those levels again!
be careful..
I had a similar experience during root -- but I -DID- lose all apps and data. I also went from the leaked but stock 3.1 -- got the FCs during the downgrade, but eventually had to do a system wipe to actually get the downgrade to stick. Astro will let you make a backup of the APKs, but I don't think it retains any data.
findmike said:
That's perfect! Thanks for the info. I figured someone would have to have been in about the same boat as me so good to hear I might be spared clearing all those levels again!
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Just a quick follow up in case anyone else decides to venture down this road. Finished the downgrade, root upgrade and all went well and still have all my data. Mostly just followed the guide at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106587
Got up and running in just about a half hour or so, not too painful. As long as you have ADB access and download all the files before you start it should go much quicker than that. Since I just took the 3.01 system up to Primordial 3.1 I was able to just ignore the constant FC's in the downgraded OS and move right back to 3.1 where nothing FC'd anymore.
Anyway, if anyone else gets stuck with an unrooted TF it's not at all hopeless. If you follow the guide above and use a blank SD card to start the process I suspect nothing important will get deleted but of course YMMV.
findmike said:
That's perfect! Thanks for the info. I figured someone would have to have been in about the same boat as me so good to hear I might be spared clearing all those levels again!
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No problem, glad I could help.
I'm curious about this, but for a slightly different reason. I'm thinking of either returning my 16gb to Frys and buying a 32gb, or at least exchanging for one with a bit less bleed and more balanced speakers. It seems a long way going about it to root, titanium, then unroot, and while I'm ok with a little extra work, if there's a more direct method that'd be preferable. Any thoughts? Thanks!
What is the secret of stability folks? i was a veteran at making mistakes when flashing roms...(i failed day 1 of owning my DSstreak5...sat seemingly dead for a week before i got things going)
Anyway my post is looking for some post detailing what works. And that means those veterans that appear to be able to go further than 48hrs without a hitch. Is it about how much gets wiped i constantly wipe dv and perform both resets. and still boot to problems.
I have mastered Baseband changes and such one of my crucial first issues (currently 366bb via dsc flashme3).
but as of late I am having problems getting reliable operation out of the box on a few roms..dsc and longhorn.
Dsc has been fairly usable...My bread and butter or must have apps are lastfm and somafm.. i must have these functional but ity appears these may be causing issues...they freeze and fc off and on.
Longhorn seems to want to throw process errors right from the start...with 2.9.1 it constantly froze at boot...(is it truely 366 compatible)
anyway thats my rant for now please post your views and tips...while i attempt to try lxdroid...wish me luck!!!
ps does loading/transferring files in ubuntu linux vs windows make any difference in the stability of files or the sd?
ellisna said:
What is the secret of stability folks? i was a veteran at making mistakes when flashing roms...(i failed day 1 of owning my DSstreak5...sat seemingly dead for a week before i got things going)
Anyway my post is looking for some post detailing what works. And that means those veterans that appear to be able to go further than 48hrs without a hitch. Is it about how much gets wiped i constantly wipe dv and perform both resets. and still boot to problems.
I have mastered Baseband changes and such one of my crucial first issues (currently 366bb via dsc flashme3).
but as of late I am having problems getting reliable operation out of the box on a few roms..dsc and longhorn.
Dsc has been fairly usable...My bread and butter or must have apps are lastfm and somafm.. i must have these functional but ity appears these may be causing issues...they freeze and fc off and on.
Longhorn seems to want to throw process errors right from the start...with 2.9.1 it constantly froze at boot...(is it truely 366 compatible)
anyway thats my rant for now please post your views and tips...while i attempt to try lxdroid...wish me luck!!!
ps does loading/transferring files in ubuntu linux vs windows make any difference in the stability of files or the sd?
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You may wanna try an app called SD maid... it looks for unused directories and files and THOROUGHLY will clean up your system
Are you doing factory resets from both StreakMod and Dell recoveries?
When you flash ROM you should flash ROM and do a factory reset... then boot back into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik, flash ROM again, then fix permissions from recovery before booting
Also... every once in a while I like to completely wipe my SD card with diskpart using the clean all command and then let the Streak format it. Once booted and SD formatted, I mount in recovery and copy files back to the SD using the robocopy commands from Windows
I can honestly say that apart from the occasional wifi freeze or hangup I have zero problems with apps on my Streak
Mind you I don't install apps just for the sake of having it or because it was cheap on sale... I run what I need to get done what I need.... I don't use task killers but I do use Autorun Manager to prevent apps from starting and Autokiller Memory Optimizer to help out with memory
Nor do I ever have apps installed to my SD cars
Hope some of that helps
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cdzo72 said:
You may wanna try an app called SD maid... it looks for unused directories and files and THOROUGHLY will clean up your system
Are you doing factory resets from both StreakMod and Dell recoveries?
When you flash ROM you should flash ROM and do a factory reset... then boot back into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik, flash ROM again, then fix permissions from recovery before booting
Also... every once in a while I like to completely wipe my SD card with diskpart using the clean all command and then let the Streak format it. Once booted and SD formatted, I mount in recovery and copy files back to the SD using the robocopy commands from Windows
I can honestly say that apart from the occasional wifi freeze or hangup I have zero problems with apps on my Streak
Mind you I don't install apps just for the sake of having it or because it was cheap on sale... I run what I need to get done what I need.... I don't use task killers but I do use Autorun Manager to prevent apps from starting and Autokiller Memory Optimizer to help out with memory
Nor do I ever have apps installed to my SD cars
Hope some of that helps
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I am going to start easing up on the moving to sd ...things do become a little iffy when i move programs over
Wiping the sd card deserves a fresh look...I do recall once long ago wiping or swaping the sd and getting better results initially.
Maybe some mild corruption is occuring during some file transfers?
I wonder if anyone has noticed more or less issues transfering via the usp vs pulling the sd completely and using a sd adapter/slot?
cdzo72 said:
You may wanna try an app called SD maid... it looks for unused directories and files and THOROUGHLY will clean up your system
Are you doing factory resets from both StreakMod and Dell recoveries?
When you flash ROM you should flash ROM and do a factory reset... then boot back into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik, flash ROM again, then fix permissions from recovery before booting
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The streakmod data/factory reset followed by the dell reset is a true staple in my flashing diet...
i have on occassion tried the double flash as well...but just to clarify you are recommending :
1...access Recovery .....streakmod(my recovery of habit) or clockworkmod(not sure of use on the streak5 havent used since gingerstreak)
2...flash ROM "X"
3...do a factory reset........ "dell" or "streakmod" or "both" (i have done a reboot rather than any resets between the second flash)
4...access Recovery
5...wipe cache
6...wipe dalvik cache
7...flash ROM "X" again
8...fix permissions
9...reboot
I will try to add the double flash more as a matter of design than troubleshoot option in future
I AM A NOOB..and im proud of it.. I become less NOOBish everytime im on this site and learn, so i pose this question as a Noob thats needs to learn..I would like to format my virtual sd card on my nexus 7 to clean it out, basically to start over ..after doing lots of tinkering on it from this site..how would i go about doing it?..should i use the wug tool redo everything from scatch root unlock and new rom..or is there a way just to erase the sd..i just want to take precaution..thanks KUCZMAD
I would recommend using clockworkmod recovery for this
Backup any contents you want to save
Boot to Cwm recovery
Choose mounts
Press format /sdcard
Easy as
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or with TWRP.more choice
I've wondered if this is beneficial. On my N7 and gnex I've factory wiped and installed ROMs many times and installed/deleted dozens of apps. I can't shake the feeling that completely wiping everything might help clean up and might even result in a minor speed and/or battery improvement.
Any of the experts able to weigh in on this?
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I’m new to this forum and to the Android world, so please bear with me.
I have just purchased the Samsung Galaxy Tab2 10.1 GT-P5113, and the 1st thing I did was to root the device.
I have since been searching for the perfect ROM in order to get both smoothness/performance and the ability to over clock up to 1400. I have tried a couple of ROM’s and flashing ROM’s became pretty straight forward for me, but I was just not happy with the ones I have tried and the only over clocking one only allowed me overclock up to 1200.
Now I just restored it back to factory settings, but I now have an issue…
The available space on the internal sdcard is less than 500Mb!!!! I followed all the procedures of wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik. And still, something is getting stored on the sdcard and I’m not sure what or where that is.
I also have the issue, that I’m not able to update the OS, but that I would guess it’s because, and correct me if I’m wrong.. the devise is Rooted..
So all in all, those are my issues and I would like to get them fixed. Any help would be gladly appreciated.
1- The sdcard space causes me headaches and I don’t know how to resolve it.
2- What ROM would you suggest based on what you read
3- Why can’t I update?
1-Their is option in cwm to format emmc use with extreme caution
2- use aokp or cm10 from www.teamhacksung.org and it has update feature inside it
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