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Did I kill my Hero? FC's and other weird problems.

So for the last 5 days I had some very weird problems with my phone. About 2 weeks ago I started with my first Cronos Rom and it worked great. I flashed 1.5 and 1.5.1 without problems and I used it without an ext partition all the time. But then the problems started. When I wiped my whole phone and tried to reinstall 1.5.1 JIT, the phone didnt boot anymore (stuck on the "Android" bootscreen). I wiped again and again, tried 1.5.1 without JIT, 1.5 etc, but I couldt get the phone to work. Nothing worked, so I created an ext partition and tried again. It worked. My phone started and I was able to use it for about a day without problems though I didnt want apps2sd. But then some other weird things happened. 3 Days ago I bought a bigger SD Card, partitioned it, wiped the whole phone and flashed 1.5.1 JIT. The phone started, but after I installed a few apps, I got an error message (installing xxx failed). I found out that theres an "repair ext" function, and it worked, but after I installed some more apps, the problem was back. The second problem was, that after rebooting the phone, more and more apps wouldnt start anymore (FC). The last problem that occured was an FC of the market app. After that, I wiped everything again, tried to flash 1.5.1 JIT, but it happened exactly the same like on the first time. Problems installing apps, FCs, stuck on boot etc.
I am totally down at the moment because I killed my whole weekend trying to get my phone working again. Could anyone please help my with this? I just dont understand what I did wrong. Shouldnt a complete wipe fix almost every problem? And I dont understand why I suddenly cant use my phone without an ext partition. Any Cronos version I try freezes on bootscreen without an ext patition. Is there any way to get my hero working again? Please please help me.
(PS: I also posted this on the Cronos Board.)

I would take out the sd card, wipe system and dalvik cache, and install some custom rom.

well, to make sure it is NOT your phone, did you try another ROM? Eliminate possible problems?
At least try something that is known and stable, like a stock rom, the Taiwain-rooted-repacks (not a rom based on it, but just the taiwan rom rooted) or good ol' MoDaCo 3.2 (based on 1.5 stock).

Til now I just tried the last 2 or 3 Cronos Roms, and as I said, they didnt work, but when I get home from work I'll try the Modaco Rom I used before.
I dont understand what this has to do with the Rom I use. I always wiped the whole phone, dalvik, etc. so shouldnt it just work like the first time I flashed it? No matter what Rom I use?
Another weird thing (could have something to do with this): After I wiped everything and flashed Cronos 1.5.1 JIT, the market still knew what apps I had installed last time. It showed my bought apps AND the apps I was able to install before the latest crash. So does this mean the phone wasnt wiped completely?

The market tracks your purchases and (free) downloads through your google account. So that's normal that the download-list is full.
But it might very well be that you didn't wipe correctly, although I'm curious how you manage to accomplish that. What is your current recovery?
The whole point about trying another ROM is elimination. It doesn't need to make sense, but you need to check things of the list.
There is something weird going on, so trying to solve it logically will only get you so far . Keep trying to narrow down the list of causes. Might well be a bug with Cronos 1.5, or the overclock not working these days because your phone is just a bit hotter than before, who knows.. Like I said: eliminate causes!

I'm using the newest AmonRa recovery to wipe the phone.
Theres one thing I forgot: Yesterday I flashed 1.5.1 without JIT, and then 1.5.1 JIT right after it (just rebooted a few times between). The phone worked great until my SD card crashed. In the taskbar it always showed me "checking for errors"(something like that, my phone's in german ), but in my PC and in the recovery the card worked like always, so I had to wipe the card and start again from the beginning.

Try another ROM , and if that doesn't work, try without SD card.

tombond said:
I'm using the newest AmonRa recovery to wipe the phone.
Theres one thing I forgot: Yesterday I flashed 1.5.1 without JIT, and then 1.5.1 JIT right after it (just rebooted a few times between). The phone worked great until my SD card crashed. In the taskbar it always showed me "checking for errors"(something like that, my phone's in german ), but in my PC and in the recovery the card worked like always, so I had to wipe the card and start again from the beginning.
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Maybe sdcard faulty? What are the logs you get when booting up the phone?

Soooo, I wiped everything again and flashed Modaco 2.8 without an ext partition. It booted correctly, so I wiped the dalvik cache and flashed Cronos 1.5.1 JIT. It also booted (wow, first time it booted without ext since all the problems started to occur) but I instantly got FC's (phone app for example). Now I wiped completely again and flashed 1.5.1 JIT. I hope it boots, as I still dont have an ext partition. As soon as I know something new, I'm gonna tell you.

So now it seems like its working again. I was able to install all the apps I need without a single error and now I'm restoring my settings and contacts. Suddenly it even works without ext again.
I guess there was something very big f*ked up that I couldnt repair by simple wiping the phone. Very weird that just flashing Modaco got it running again. Now I have back my working phone with ultrafast Cronos Rom and without App2SD, perfect. At least till now I hope it keeps working.
Thanks for your help guys, I think I would have smashed the phone to the wall sooner or later. I never thought about flashing Modaco so I'm happy there are people like you.
Thanks again, and thanks to Feeyo for his unbelievable Rom.
PS: Can I uninstall, Facebook and Footprints without destroying everything again?

Yes, just delete both apps using ADB or use a root explorer, search both apps in System/app and delete them.

Or you could use the MoDaCo online kitchen for removing those apps.

[Q] Frozen on first bootup of all Android SD ROM's

Whenever I try to boot up an Android SD ROM through MAGLDR, it all seems to go right until it gets to the lock screen and then, the phone freezes. Always in the same spot where I can see the wallpaper, the date and time, the No Service sign and "Preparing SD card" on the status bar on top. This same thing happens with all ROM's, so it's not ROM specific. Also, I have had a ROM installed since before this started happening and that one runs fine. It's only new ones as they try to boot up for the first time.
I was wondering if anyone has any idea of what could be causing this and how I can fix it without having to repartition the entire SD card again, reinstall WP7, etc. That's a lot of work. I have even tried formatting the partition and that didn't work.
Thanks in advance.

Solution
For anyone else having this problem, my solution was to DELETE (formatting wasn't enough) the Android partition, then recreating it and then installing my ROM. That way, I did not mess up the WP7 installation.

[Q] Screwed up a rom install - new installs don't detect sim/battery stats - fatal?

Hi everyone
Not sure how, at which point and why, but I've screwed up installing new rom, and now while I can install whatever I want, latest CWM 5.5.04 installed, new roms while do start just fine, don't detect sim, battery shows at 0% full stop, etc...
It started with me wanting to update to latest Elite Rom 9.7 based on MIUI by Terramino. Tried 2 versions, multiple re-downloads, every time it would try to install from zip and just returned the install aborted, bad zip message.
At this point phone is wiped to factory reset, dalvik cache wiped, cache wiped, /system mounted and formatted, so ok, need something else...
Downloaded MIUI 2.1.20 (2.6.35 kernel like the one before reset), and that's when I noticed the problem, thought maybe didn't wipe something correctly, so again factory reset, wipe cache, format /system, retry - same issue, after that it's always the same result whether I use CM7, MIUI or whatever.
Following few threads loaded the 5.5.04 CWM in the end, and to my surprise to add to the problem - now when I mount SD card from within CWM to system - it shows with a cd icon in the system and is now read-only, so can't even add anything to it seemingly.
Booting to pink screen still gives debugging access to internal SD card of the phone via usb.
Any ideas from knowledgeable users as to how to fix this problem? Help greatly appreciated!

That elite rom is only for .32 kernel
you flashed it over official gb that's the prob
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Thanks, figured that this was the case, just not sure why after trying to load back newer roms meant for .35 it's still messing it up.
Will do full reload of a kernel and get a proper rom to follow suit, hopefully it resolves the issue.

[Q]CM10.1 corrupt/blank SD Card.

So, I recently installed CM10.1 from Quarx, with the 2.6.32 kernel on my defy+, and I keep getting notifications
that my sd card is corrupted/blank, also apps that are on the SD keeps disappearing.
I already know about the mmcfix on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1596997
but i don't know if it will work on CM 10.1, also don't want to mess up since, i don't know why, my defy+ only
accepts custom roms if the stock rom is installed first and not one custom rom over another, and that would be
a very tedious and long process.
Anyone having the same problem, knows if the mentioned mmcfix work on CM10.1, or know a better way to fix this problem?

Am I the only one with this problem?

The mentioned fix is not compatible(says so in its thread).
You can try backing up the data from the card and formatting it from a pc and using it again
To install custom roms over each other you must wipe data, system and cache from twrp recovery, or use the wiper script. To downgrade to a ginger bread or earlier rom, one more step of converting data and cache to ext3 is also required, from the boot menu(tools: format to ext3)
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thekguy said:
The mentioned fix is not compatible(says so in its thread).
You can try backing up the data from the card and formatting it from a pc and using it again
To install custom roms over each other you must wipe data, system and cache from twrp recovery, or use the wiper script. To downgrade to a ginger bread or earlier rom, one more step of converting data and cache to ext3 is also required, from the boot menu(tools: format to ext3)
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I already know about wiping everything, had other android phones in the past and this defy+ is the only one with this kind of problem with installing another roms, say if i try to install any rom that's different than the one currently being used, it bugs the whole phone and nothing works until a factory restore is done, but the real thing that keeps haunting me is the sdcard bug that keeps not being recognized, and as of late the phone stops working out of nowhere and only works again after deleting everything and reinstalling the same rom, which is making me think that my defy+ could be reaching it's end.

Igneom said:
I already know about wiping everything, had other android phones in the past and this defy+ is the only one with this kind of problem with installing another roms, say if i try to install any rom that's different than the one currently being used, it bugs the whole phone and nothing works until a factory restore is done, but the real thing that keeps haunting me is the sdcard bug that keeps not being recognized, and as of late the phone stops working out of nowhere and only works again after deleting everything and reinstalling the same rom, which is making me think that my defy+ could be reaching it's end.
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If you tried CM10 then even I've experienced that bug. Don't know why that happens but even I've had to wipe everything and start again atleast 3-4 times in the past.

Igneom said:
I already know about wiping everything, had other android phones in the past and this defy+ is the only one with this kind of problem with installing another roms, say if i try to install any rom that's different than the one currently being used, it bugs the whole phone and nothing works until a factory restore is done, but the real thing that keeps haunting me is the sdcard bug that keeps not being recognized, and as of late the phone stops working out of nowhere and only works again after deleting everything and reinstalling the same rom, which is making me think that my defy+ could be reaching it's end.
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Data and cache (and system optionally) must be wiped between switching roms for best results, since 'dirty' installation of roms requires them to be similar as well. If wiping data does not fix your roms issue then it's indicative of eMMC issues(hardware). The sdcard bug seems to occur with only some classes of sdcards. If possible you could try a different sdcard to see if the problem is resolved. Your problem prima facie does not appear to be linked to your mobile hardware.

SD Card not mounting

Hi!
I recently encountered an SD Card-problem on my F320S where the SD card not mounts in Android, BUT in recovery. It don't know when it exactly happened, but it happend without warning. I ran the IceX LP-rom without any problems when the SD-card started to fail. I discovered it as all my pictures were gone from the Gallery-app. I chose to flash CloudyG2 3.3 over IceX to see if there was a problem with the rom, but with no luck. Then, I wiped data and tried, but with no luck. Eventually, I flashed a completely new Marshmallow-rom, but the problem occured there too.
What's weird here, is that the SD-card mounts in Recovery (TWRP 3.0.0.0). Does anybody know how I could possibly fix this? If it helps, I can say that it is a Sandisk 64GB UHS1-card. I hope someone is able to help!
Thanks in advance!

I fixed it by installing new Bliss Rom 6.1 and hybrid bootstack, so now it works flawlessly!