[Q] ugh.. stupid update question - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

been putting this off but the install update popup is killing me. i like my 7 as is, its rooted, not romed, i have the stock browser from my nexus phone working well, much better than firefox does with flash. over all, i just wanna make the update pop up go away. i don't see any roms i want to try, and all the so called stock update roms, seem to have issue 16 pages into the thread.
from what i can tell, the stock browser from the nexus phones will not work after the update, so i'm stuck with firefox crash fest to use flash. and to get it to update, i will have to flash back to stock, update, re root and then reset everything up. this sounds like a total pain at this point, to have it do nothing but get rid of the update popup.
someone set me straight, have i missed an easy update way, a stock updated rom that isn't crap and a verison of the stock browser that works on it, oh and anyone know if the news widget works after the update? i really like having that from the phones too. or just a way to hide the update pop up?
i've run so many different roms on my old d1 and like sourcery on my nexus. but on my tab, i like it how it is, well with apex launcher. anyway i find to update it, seems like i'm giving something up.
any thoughts?

You could try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780853
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ended up going the long way around... miss the browser thou. even more now that chrome updated and seems to be for the worse lag wise.

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Can't find anywhere... maybe i just suck as searching...

So i am fairly new to root, to roms, to cooking, etc... (jumped the gun and was on leak 3 forever, got a refurb due to a cracked screen, which had leak 3 on it (go figure) so anyway, i'm cooking myself a rom, and i'm wondering, how would i link an app that i know is in the market (but i have pulled from my phone to put into this rom) back to the market, so it would receive updates. Like, i'm using Launcher Pro as my launcher, but it's not linked to the market, it's always going to be at version like 0.7.0.4 unless i manually update it... and i feel like there is a way to link it...
Any help appreciated, tried to search, but it was no luck.
~Tucker
Tuckface1 said:
So i am fairly new to root, to roms, to cooking, etc... (jumped the gun and was on leak 3 forever, got a refurb due to a cracked screen, which had leak 3 on it (go figure) so anyway, i'm cooking myself a rom, and i'm wondering, how would i link an app that i know is in the market (but i have pulled from my phone to put into this rom) back to the market, so it would receive updates. Like, i'm using Launcher Pro as my launcher, but it's not linked to the market, it's always going to be at version like 0.7.0.4 unless i manually update it... and i feel like there is a way to link it...
Any help appreciated, tried to search, but it was no luck.
~Tucker
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The only thing i can think of is when there is a new update download it from the market, overwriting the app in itself, which will put it into the update loop. an educated guess but it may work. the only thing that might stop it is that it will be cooked in as a system app and i dont know if the market will let you overwrite it.
make sure the apk is installed to /data/app
and NOT /system/app
should update fine then
ok, yea i had tried to put apps in their before, but those apps have to be in com.domain.package.apk format... and then they automatically get linked to market, i have no idea any of the reasons for why any of this works, but it does, so thank you

Leaked 2.2 browser

Anyone else notice the web browser on the leaked 2.2 Rom being sluggish when there are flash ads on the page?
Ya think
Flash does take a TON of resources. Its going to be sluggish. Same as your computer if you go to a high flash site...
turn flash off it it bothers you then
How do you disable flash then?
He's got a valid point. Flash 10.1 on Damagecontrol (eclair version) was very smooth. On 2.2 , flash flickers when you stop panning around and scrolling sometimes just downright refuses to work. My guess is that this leaked version includes an outdated version of flash... I sure hope so.
When I first flashed...
the OBNR (Official but not really) 2.2, mine was hanging. Because of a couple of other quirks, I ended up reflashing and got much better results. Now, mine flies! Pretty happy over all.
use ad free or set it to on demand.
Basically, this is either because of the browser in this version isn't really built well enough for full flash, or because this is a pre-beta of Flash 10.1 on Android. To turn off Flash, go into the browser settings (menu>more>settings) and then go to Enable Plugins and set to either "On demand or off". I leave mine on On Demand. Then, I don't have to turn it on when I want to use it. You just tap on the block where your flash content should be to turn it on. Really the best of both worlds. Also makes a great flash ad block without completely turning off flash.
Thanks for the info. Also another thing to point out, I notice that the talk to text button on the keyboard was changed to a language button for English/spanish. Anyone know how to get that button back?
zackhow said:
Thanks for the info. Also another thing to point out, I notice that the talk to text button on the keyboard was changed to a language button for English/spanish. Anyone know how to get that button back?
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There's a thread around here somewhere talking about that. Only a handful of people are having that problem. The only thing I can think of is to try a factory reset.
if I were to do a factory reset would I have 2.2 as my recovery image?

Something Is Seriously Wrong With Froyo

I updated my phone yesterday using the update.zip method via the SD card and I must say I am very annoyed with what it's done to my great phone.
Everything on my phone is now super-laggy and it's driving me crazy. I could deal with this issue if it was isolated to one issue but everything is SLOW:
Screen Rotation is slow and sometimes the wrong layout, wtf?
Power button is slow to respond on wake, about 2 seconds.
SMS list takes a few seconds to populate, new msgs just sit there with a blank screen.
Navigation through the menu's is also slow and laggy.
I've wiped my phone after the initial upgrade and still it doesn't improve the issues I'm having. I haven't checked out the GPS or other features yet but I wouldn't be surprised if they had issues too.
Major thumbs down. With the constant Froyo talk around here you'd think something miraculous was being released, what a pile of ****.
I don't have any of those issues. Did you wipe before you installed? I noticed that when I installed it didn't touch my /data partition, once I saw that I went bck and did it again.
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I also have none of those issues. the only issue i have seen is when joining contacts from facebook i get a force close.
Yeah, it's pretty buggy.
It doesn't let me dial *2 for customer service
Its mixed reviews. Mine workes almost perfectly. I'm happy wth it. Others arnt so lucky. Your milage may very.
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My suggestion would be to use the rooted with clockwark tar. I was having some strange issues to after doing a .zip update and flashing the modem through Odin. Upon an entirely clean install from Odin it seems much better and my GPS came back.
There ARE a lot of quirks with Froyo. For one, the screen rotation is slow. Also, the browser has checkerboards all over the place.
With the browser, if you want the text to reflow, you have to pinch to zoom in to your desired size and then double tap the screen for the text to reflow and fit the screen. I kind of like that feature myself, but it took me a while to figure it out.
Why are people still using the stock browser anyway when there are better alternatives out there? I use dolphin ever since I had my moment running 1.5.
As far as the rotation, I have no issues with that anymore with DK17 or DK28
I flashed my phone with a zip and it had issues with browser checkers and slow rotation. I flashed my sister's with the full .tar from briefmobile. Hers doesn't have these issue.
Did my flash with the odin tar, and haven't had any problems...
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NYYFan325 said:
Why are people still using the stock browser anyway when there are better alternatives out there? I use dolphin ever since I had my moment running 1.5.
As far as the rotation, I have no issues with that anymore with DK17 or DK28
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Dolphin is horrendous looking and it takes up half of the screen with its useless junk UI. Stock browser destroys Dolphin.
My point is there are other options then the stock browser, which browser you use is a matter of opinion
I haven't had any problems so far...
wiped 3x, wiped cache, and dalvik.
Flashed rom
wiped 3x, wiped cache, and dalvik.
Flashed rom again.
I use Dolphin HD and its the best i've used imo. Easy swipe for bookmarks, make it fullscreen if you don't like extra "junk ui". Tabs, ability to download audio from streams, skins and addons, you really can't complain. I've noticed the stock broswer doesn't let u change the uAstring?
So..
I just slid my Epic into my $40 SAMSUNG Multimedia dock looking forward to rocking some tunes out on the home stereo using the line out they told us on that little peice of paper in the packaging would work when Froyo is released.
Color me SHOCKED when I hit the play button and music played... Through the phone speaker and not the line out.
Seriously? This irritates me to no end..
muyoso said:
Dolphin is horrendous looking and it takes up half of the screen with its useless junk UI. Stock browser destroys Dolphin.
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I have to agree, I like the minimalistic stock browser. I don't have checker boards..never have noticed em...I have never seen reflow work perfectly on any mobile browser.
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NYYFan325 said:
Why are people still using the stock browser anyway when there are better alternatives out there? I use dolphin ever since I had my moment running 1.5.
As far as the rotation, I have no issues with that anymore with DK17 or DK28
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How'd you fix it? My screen won't rotate on the home screen unless I pop open the keyboard..yet it works perfectly fine in programs.
Flashed with tar file, keyboard now slow and unresponsive, skips letters every 5-10 strokes, annoying as hell, browser rotation slow.. everything else somewhat fast. gps works.
keyboard issue is a huge thumbs down from me though
omair2005 said:
I've noticed the stock broswer doesn't let u change the uAstring?
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It does if you use this modified version. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9263247&postcount=57
The UaString is always shown in the menu with this one.
1.Remove stock browser(I used Titanium)
2. Flash this one with recovery
Not having any of the issues mentioned here, I'm on the SPH-D700-DK17-Extended Rom flashed
using Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853209
My screen doesn't want you shut off with the new update. The screen turns off then back on when the lock screen initiates
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LauncherPro always hanged in 2.2

I tried different leak rom before,
and right now I am using official froyo
Every time after starting up the system, or after mounting the SD card,
when the media scanning is finished, launcherpro is not responding and hanging.
Anyone got the same thing?
I dont want to send email to the author if this is an only issue of me
I think another update is coming soon for lp. I sometimes get a lockup and fc in 2.1 with lp
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I have the same thing, it's so annoying that I switched to Zeam. Hopefully a new update will come soon.
Same thing happens to me. I am running official Rogers Froto on my AT&T Captivate. I tried looking in the logs for something, but I couldn't find anything. Send a emails to the developer.
Yea I've tried like 20 roms.always locks up and force closes after reboot. Sometime it sits for like 5 mins before the fc message pops up. I have the plus version and running Axura 2.2.7.1 Voodoo.contacted tech support about it and he said that its my rom.can't be. tried 20 different Roms.pisses me off.
Killing Zombies With My Axura Voodoo Vibrant!
I have had this happen a couple of times as well. However, I have noticed that it only happens when I try to start opening things or moving between home screens before the media scanning has finished. If I let it do its thing, then it doesn't seem to hang ever. Still kind of annoying, and I don't know if that is the case with you all as well, but that seems to be what causes it on mine.
Dbarker 2 said:
I have had this happen a couple of times as well. However, I have noticed that it only happens when I try to start opening things or moving between home screens before the media scanning has finished. If I let it do its thing, then it doesn't seem to hang ever. Still kind of annoying, and I don't know if that is the case with you all as well, but that seems to be what causes it on mine.
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Nope because I always wait till the media scanner is done.but it still locks up and a fc message pops up.even let it sit for like 20 mins before but was still stuck until it errored out and fc again.they need to fix the dam bug.I even got the plus version.
Killing Zombies With My Axura Voodoo Vibrant!
LP runs fine for me, but I'm having a problem having it stick as the default launcher. Whenever I use Titanium Backup or long-press the home button, I'll get the prompt asking me which home application. There are a couple of other apps that result in the same problem, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. I've tried using Home Switcher to see if that fixes it, but no luck. I have the same problem with ADW EX.
This is happening to me as well.
If it locks up, try repeatedly hitting home, usually will give me a prompt to wait or fc. I never get this issue on my galaxy tab and it's running 2.2
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Looks like there is enough evidence to show them launcher pro has some kind of problem in vibrant 2.2
This happens to me as well. Hold the hime button then go to task manager and kill lp.
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When lp acts funny for me I hit the power button then unlock it and that usually works for me.
LauncherPro has worked great on my device with 2.2 (Nero V5) the only time I seem to notice anything is when the media scan is finishing its thing and there are to many apps running at start up in the background. I use advance task killer to kill the apps that do not need to be running and I never seem to have the problem again until I reboot. It doesn't seem to me to be a LauncherPro issue, media scan seems to bring the device to its knees until it is finished. Once my device is running smooth I never seem to have that issue again only after I reboot my device.
Love my Vibrant and LauncherPro Plus is far better then all the other Launchers I have tried (in my humble opinion) but each of us have different needs I guess. I actually use almost everyone of the widgets and can not wait for the update coming when the gmail widget will be added to the Launcher.
cheers
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hitman818 said:
This happens to me as well. Hold the hime button then go to task manager and kill lp.
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Yes this is what i do everytime after starting up...
But still so annoying and the should fix it.
So just to update on the topic I downloaded Launcher Pro again today and everything works well. No hanging after reboot and no other problem from what I've seen. You guys may want to give it a try.
hanbaoquan15 said:
So just to update on the topic I downloaded Launcher Pro again today and everything works well. No hanging after reboot and no other problem from what I've seen. You guys may want to give it a try.
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Actually i tried reinstall before post: (
Emama said:
I tried different leak rom before,
and right now I am using official froyo
Every time after starting up the system, or after mounting the SD card,
when the media scanning is finished, launcherpro is not responding and hanging.
Anyone got the same thing?
I dont want to send email to the author if this is an only issue of me
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I was using Nero5 and got the same problem FC alot in LauncherPro. I couldn't save the LP settings though. What seemed to fix it is removing LP and reinstall it. After that, things seem to work better and less FC with LP.
I'm using stock Froyo now with fresh LP install from the market, no FC so far. So I would say it's not LP always hanged in 2.2...but something is stuck or got carried over from previous installation/ROM. Just try remove it and reinstall LP again from Market, it should work better - at least for me, it did.
Emama said:
I tried different leak rom before,
and right now I am using official froyo
Every time after starting up the system, or after mounting the SD card,
when the media scanning is finished, launcherpro is not responding and hanging.
Anyone got the same thing?
I dont want to send email to the author if this is an only issue of me
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Same thing happens to mu phone on adw ex... when i turn my phone off and turn it back on, the screen goea blank, i can only see the notification bar scanning, but would hang on black screen then shuts off by itself.. that's with stock ka7.. now im on ka6 kies version and my phone is fine...
or maybe the cause was the lock screen? I used the pin code lock screen.. it could be it? Now im on ka6 official and with pattern lock screen, it seems fine... and i domt wanna try and use any other lock screen besides the pattern one. Ive done countless reflash because o this issue.. so no more flashing, lol.. but i could be wrong though, it could be something else that's causinrit, just speculating..
The only time I've experienced a FC of any kind on LPP, is when I had Colorize running with it. They don't play nice together. Other than that, it's been 100% stable for me with any rom.

[Q] Flickering/disappearing launcher

my Iconia (always more often) flashes in the launcher, flickers and most of the times everything disappear apart the wallpaper...
i have used apex, nova, trebuchet, holo... all (before or later) start flickering and then die... only way out is to kill the launcher or start another one somehow.
my rom is reflexxx stryker rev 4.2 (but i also used cm9 and had some problem)
i have ics bootloader, but i can't say what version, sorry
i have seen some posts about this problem,
most common idea is that the problem is in the ics bootloader.
the only idea of a solution was to go back to honeycomb BL
but those posts i saw where almost 2 months old... so i wanted to ask:
are there any new solution about this? any new hints? any new ideas?
it is also difficult to search about this on the forum.. since i don't know exactly what to search
thanks anyone for any hint.
loth77 said:
my Iconia (always more often) flashes in the launcher, flickers and most of the times everything disappear apart the wallpaper...
i have used apex, nova, trebuchet, holo... all (before or later) start flickering and then die... only way out is to kill the launcher or start another one somehow.
my rom is reflexxx stryker rev 4.2 (but i also used cm9 and had some problem)
i have ics bootloader, but i can't say what version, sorry
i have seen some posts about this problem,
most common idea is that the problem is in the ics bootloader.
the only idea of a solution was to go back to honeycomb BL
but those posts i saw where almost 2 months old... so i wanted to ask:
are there any new solution about this? any new hints? any new ideas?
it is also difficult to search about this on the forum.. since i don't know exactly what to search
thanks anyone for any hint.
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As far as I know there is no fix. I've tried many different roms and bootloaders as well as MANY launchers. The only way that I have been able to tone it down is to not use Google widgets. But even then when I play something that uses 3d graphics it may still trigger. I've taken logcats and it says something about some sort of video error, researched it a little and found nothing. I hope that someone has a solution.
JdgM3NT4L said:
As far as I know there is no fix. I've tried many different roms and bootloaders as well as MANY launchers. The only way that I have been able to tone it down is to not use Google widgets. But even then when I play something that uses 3d graphics it may still trigger. I've taken logcats and it says something about some sort of video error, researched it a little and found nothing. I hope that someone has a solution.
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i tried to use less widgets... but doesn't really change much...
it is very random, but in my experience it appears more often when battery is low
do you feel the same?
i hope it can be fixed, i'm seriously thinking to sell it because of that (but who will buy it..?)
loth77 said:
i tried to use less widgets... but doesn't really change much...
it is very random, but in my experience it appears more often when battery is low
do you feel the same?
i hope it can be fixed, i'm seriously thinking to sell it because of that (but who will buy it..?)
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Don't sell it, just flash stock. I tried them all and had problems. Stock for me run's with no problems and the fastest just give it a try and you won't look back.
shaun298 said:
Don't sell it, just flash stock. I tried them all and had problems. Stock for me run's with no problems and the fastest just give it a try and you won't look back.
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I went stock for a while and it was noticeably less often, I still had the issue. Especially when playing Great Little War Game. So I just went back to an overclocked rom. I enjoy the performance more than I regret the flashing screen...
as i wrote to JdgM3NT4L in a pm:
my "solution" is to put a home switcher app shortcut in the lockscreen.
so that when it happens i can kill apex or switch to nova
i mirrored my settings in apex and nova (nova can import all apex settings automatically)
that's the way i survive this boring bug
if someone like the "solution" can try it
and maybe hit thanks button
JdgM3NT4L said:
I went stock for a while and it was noticeably less often, I still had the issue. Especially when playing Great Little War Game. So I just went back to an overclocked rom. I enjoy the performance more than I regret the flashing screen...
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Did you go full stock no unlocked bootloader..? Not just run a stock rom.
shaun298 said:
Did you go full stock no unlocked bootloader..? Not just run a stock rom.
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I actually did the rollback to 3.1, updated officially over the air all the way up. Complete stock. It was better, but the issue persisted.
Loth, I have not noticed if the charge had much effect, But one thing that I think that seems to trigger it is when there is a game/app going that is using 3d graphics, and then any sort of notification pops up as an overlay. There is one rom that I could get it to do this almost on command. I could have a game going and the check the notifications. 80% of the time that was enough to get the flashing started.
So perhaps what you've noticed could be triggered by the low battery popup?
I can say that the latest Flexreaper ShellSHOCK does this very rarely. Maybe three times in the last few weeks, and I play with the tablet a lot.
JdgM3NT4L said:
I actually did the rollback to 3.1, updated officially over the air all the way up. Complete stock. It was better, but the issue persisted.
Loth, I have not noticed if the charge had much effect, But one thing that I think that seems to trigger it is when there is a game/app going that is using 3d graphics, and then any sort of notification pops up as an overlay. There is one rom that I could get it to do this almost on command. I could have a game going and the check the notifications. 80% of the time that was enough to get the flashing started.
So perhaps what you've noticed could be triggered by the low battery popup?
I can say that the latest Flexreaper ShellSHOCK does this very rarely. Maybe three times in the last few weeks, and I play with the tablet a lot.
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i installed latest shellshock, let's see
It happens to me all the time with all the launchers I 've tried. I am in unlocked ics bootloader and stock rom. The same happened with the locked bootloader. I tried the CM10 Rom same results. I removed all widgets from the homescreen with no luck.
If it's in the ICS Bootloader then all must have the same problem or not?
Any solution except going back to 3.2?
To fix it I had to go full stock to Honey Comb then reinstall CWM then install Thor cm v15 and no problems since. I think the problem is the ICS bootloader
After some good times with few troubles, now it is again a huge problem: i almost can't use the tablet it happens every day and more than once.
I think I'll go back to stock honeycomb
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