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So, long story short, I had a Nexus One, which I loved EXCEPT for the fact that my coverage was horrible, half my text messages didn't send, the battery life sucked, and the screen was getting burn in and had weird color saturation.
So I got an HD2.
And, coverage is great, in fact it's the only phone on any carrier that I have ever seen maintain a 3G signal in my dads house which is like in the forest lol. No dropped calls or unsent texts. Love the screen, love the music player, love Sense UI, etc. BUT...
No matter what I do, I seem to have the same problems...
1. Applications not opening. This happens most frequently with Opera. I've tried the stock ROM, the new 2.13 stock ROM, and ChuckyRom. And while for a day or two there are no problems, after a little bit I just randomly get error messages opening Opera (and some other programs) saying there isn't enough memory or a file is missing. Sometimes if I close everything in the task manager it will open but sometimes not. It always works again after a reset. It's REALLY frustrating. I don't really want to do crazy stuff with the phone, I just want everything to work. So any ideas how to fix this?
2. HTC Messaging. After a couple days, when I have a few contacts with 100+ messages, there is this AWFUL delay before I can type a response. Same as above, I tried a few different ROMs and after a couple days it's the same thing.
I know these seem like little things, but when I want to go to the browser and literally 2/3 of the times it just won't open without a reset, or when I go to reply to a message and it won't let me type for 30 seconds, it's just really annoying, all the time. So any ideas to fix this, whether it be different ROMs, or registry changes, or anything, please let me know.
Ugh I can't wait til someone ports Android or WP7 to this fantastic hardware lol.
i had the same problem that you were having until i used a custom rom. i figured everyone that was having lag is when using the htc messaging so i found a rom without it. its a pretty basic rom without the htc sense ui on there and that solved my problems. you should just try out different roms to see which one works best for you
Try using kumars latest ROM 2.0 with htc messaging disabled. No lag at all.
Sure the phone has a big screen. Yes it's easier to see things than my Wifes Dinc. No I dont think it is worth it, lets review.
All these issues/problems? happen rooted or not, or rooted without removing Bloat.
Rooted with Following Bloatware removed,
Blockbuster
City ID
Amazon
Youtube
3G hotspot
NFS
Issues........
Keyboard puts period in instead of space when typing, especially when typing fast. Had all features turned off like spell check, etc. Got so bad it would put a period in when I hit the H key or something, and I had to type real slow. Then there would be a delay in typing. I would start typing away and there would be no animation or...typing in the text box, then it would seem like the phone woke up and all of a sudden an entire sentence shows up.
Screen would not recognize touch. Could not unlock phone, could not scroll, if my finger got close to the screen it would select something and open it, but not scroll. Even though I was not touching screen. At times No response. Cleaned screen, cleaned hands. Tried clean hands, dirty hands, sweaty , etc. all same results.
Extreme slow response time. I would unlock phone, select app drawer, it would take 20 seconds before the app drawer would open, or if an app would open, or if the cursor would let me start typing, I had gone through 2 days of dealing with that BS.
Speaker. Oh this one is good...
So one day I notice the phone vibrates, yet no audio. So I check the volume, yup its up, check settings, ok all good. So I decide to play a song, its playing but just next to nothing for volume. I fiddle a bit and said Eff it, I reboot the phone. Audio is back to normal. Seems every 2 days or so I need to reboot the phone so I can hear any audio from speaker.
Random Lock ups.....
BT drops and then phone shows speakerphone button highlighted and BT button highlighted yet no audio from phone call from either BT or Speakerphone.
Unrooted bone stock with only a few apps on phone,
Same **** mentioned above.
Im tired of this. Can someone tell me what I need to do to have a stable Dx?.
Currently the phone is not rooted, and I am still experiencing issues.
I have documented these issues with the Big V as they happen, but have not done anything but order one for my wife gee looking forward to that mess, she loves to load up the apps.......
Try wiping your cache partition from recovery mode. If that doesn't work you can use the now available sbf to get your X back to factory. Now leave the bloatware alone and root again.
I agree with TF. try wiping the phone (I would suggest complete flash if possible) and see if same stuff happens.
I think you may have a bad phone. If the software reset doesn't fix it, See if VZW will exchange it. I've not had any of the problems you describe. And the fact that you are having screen/touch issues, and there was a small batch of phones with screen problems, tells me you may be one of the "lucky:
Don't have much to say, i've only had one reboot and that was bc of rogue app and i had on complete freeze but my battery was less than 10% while actually on this forum, other than that it has been smooth as butter for the most part. I came from the DInc and wouldn't switch back for anything
sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
I forogt to mention I did unroot, then wipe, then left it stock, still have same issues.
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I forogt to mention I did unroot, then wipe, then left it stock, still have same issues.
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Unfortunately, wiping (factory Reset) doesn't completely restore all of the files. As evidenced by other threads where people changed/removed some APK's and were left in a boot loop when they did a reset.
I'm still leaning towards you having a bad piece of hardware, but it would be better to rule out the software environment first. Thus, it may be worth learning how to flash the new SBF file. That should truly put your phone back in 'out of the box' condition.
To get outta the box you need to use the .sbf file then factory reset. Just using the.sbf leaves all apps and data. Have done .sbf from linux and windows with no problems.remember to *228 option 1 after to reactivate. Would give this a try then bring in for warranty if it doesn't solve it
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you def have a bad phone...exchange it.
I've never had any of these problems, except for the ****ty speaker.
There is as 17+ page thread on Motos forum about the rebooting issue. I just jumped ship from Verizon and went with Sprint.
I could of handled the phone issues and waited for the 2.2 update, however working for Verizon I was in awe of the ****ty service by one particular Verizon store. On a Evo now with 2.2
Yes my phone is a beast. Much more so than the evo. I owned the DInc so yes i know EXACTLY how the evo runs. I definitely think there was an initial bad batch that went out, just like every other phone, evo and dinc, and iphone, and all the galaxy phones that went out. Im in love with this phone
sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
mine works fine
Mine runs like a champ, get yours exchanged before the 30 days runs out. Simple and easy fix.
Mine is rock solid... works great... this should be a comfort to you... since all you have to do is exchange it for another one.. then you should be good!
Loving mine, glad I waited several weeks to jump on it, after the screen issues, speaker issues, I ended up getting a flawless device, speaker isnt like my tp2, but I havent missed any calls or had any issues hearing it like many others. After being burned time after time, think im gonna wait on pulling the trigger on every phone I get from now on!
this phone is definitely a beast, love it, coming from a Dinc, i have to say the X blows it out the water...
you may have a bad phone...
did u experience the issues you listed prior to rooting? if no, then theres your answer and follow the advice listed earlier about flashing the phone back
You're not by chance running a task killer set to kill everything are you?
The messaging app in cm6 is extremely slow and laggy at times. Does that happen to you guys? and its also buggy when trying to open it, at times it will open something else when i press the message icon. Sometime i find myself hitting the back button a **** load of times to only sometimes get to the actual app. Alot of the time i have to actually go into my contacts and find someone that i know is in my inbox (my girlfriend most of the time) and then i can get back to the app. Its verrrrryyyyy annoying at times
I have the same issue as you when I try to open one person's text message, someone else's will open up, although I just go back and open again and it will open to correct message. Doesn't happen often though... maybe like once or twice a week.
I've been a faithful CM user for quite sometime. After switching to Chevy though, I can say CM seems kind of silly to me now. I ran CM6 final for about 4 days and felt like my phone was CONSTANTLY lagging.
I went back to Chevy 4.7 today(4.8 in two more days ) and It's running incredible. Like people say every phone is different but my phone doesn't like CM. It's always had a little lag to it regardless oh which kernel i run etc. My messaging lagged the worst.
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I've been a faithful CM user for quite sometime. After switching to Chevy though, I can say CM seems kind of silly to me now. I ran CM6 final for about 4 days and felt like my phone was CONSTANTLY lagging.
I went back to Chevy 4.7 today(4.8 in two more days ) and It's running incredible. Like people say every phone is different but my phone doesn't like CM. It's always had a little lag to it regardless oh which kernel i run etc. My messaging lagged the worst.
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chevy?? what is that rom/?
Yea what is chevy?
LoL...maybe he thinks we're talking about a GM...and now he owns a Chevy. LoL.
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I have the same issue as you when I try to open one person's text message, someone else's will open up, although I just go back and open again and it will open to correct message. Doesn't happen often though... maybe like once or twice a week.
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Actually I completely forgot about that one, I get that **** at least every ten texts, no joke its extremely irritating but its kinda become a habit to press the back button really quick lol
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I have been running stock everything since I got the phone last year. I even was patient and did the OTA for gingerbread. I have had no problems at all, but that changed this morning, and I hope someone here can help me out.
I was using my phone normally, checking mail, texts, games between work and what have you, when suddenly while texting in the stock text app, with the stock multitouch keyboard, the key board froze on the screen. I tried to back out, close the keyboard, go back to my message, but it wasn't having it. Then I tried to go home - the keyboard stayed on the bottom half of the screen (portrait mode) and the top half filled with what would have been the bottom half of the screen. Couldn't touch anything. Hit home again, I got the display of my seven pages, but when I touched one the keyboard stayed and did the same thing to each page. Nothing on the screen worked. Couldn't access settings, menu, what have you. I tried rebooting (thankfully I could touch the power off menu.) Upon restart, everything seemed normal, but when I went back into messaging, the exact same thing happened. I decided then to play around a bit. This happens in landscape mode as well, except upon switching to portrait, half the keyboard just gets cut off and the other half of the screen just goes to black. Sometimes I can get the settings screen to pop up, and if I change the keyboard to Swype, and THEN reboot, everything will be back to normal. Using swype for everything does work, so that's a temp fix. This happened with the stock keyboard in everything I tried -gmail, talk, texting, G+, Facebook, etc....
I could not find anything pertaining to this in the DX forums, so please if any one has any ideas let me know. Thanks a lot!
I tinkered with it a bit when I got home, but could get nothing to work still.
Please, anyone have any idea what's going on?!
This happened to me while on apex rc2 that used the gb kernal... since I have flashed cm7 I haven't had any problems with it... installed better keyboard, so I'm using that now
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Had the same problem after upgrading to GingerBread. Ended up reflashing and now after about a week, haven't had the keyboard problem again, but GB is def not as stable with lots of various little bugs and anomolies. My keyboard problem after taking the battery out and restarting it. Actually, several things changed after removing the battery a few days after upgrading to GB??? It was like it needed a "reboot" for all the new features in GB to replace the old.
I seriously can't believe it's this unstable after all this time : (
I will try and install a different keyboard first, before flashing. I think if I do flash, I'm gonna go with a rooted version and start cooking up some roms. It's unacceptable to have the "official" phone to be so much worse.
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I seriously can't believe it's this unstable after all this time : (
I will try and install a different keyboard first, before flashing. I think if I do flash, I'm gonna go with a rooted version and start cooking up some roms. It's unacceptable to have the "official" phone to be so much worse.
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Try going to settings..applications/manage applications and all. .find multi keyboard and clear data. ..should clear it up for you. ..
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Try going to settings..applications/manage applications and all. .find multi keyboard and clear data. ..should clear it up for you. ..
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YES!!!!!! That did it! The thanks of a thousand happy monks upon you!
Maratu said:
YES!!!!!! That did it! The thanks of a thousand happy monks upon you!
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Haha..awesome glad ya got it going. .
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Hello my name is Xan Steel. I've been trying out roms on this forum for my Epic 4G. However I've run across a lot of bugs in this rom "ACS ICS V6". I would love to be able to post them in the development thread pertaining to the rom, but since I'm under the 10 post limit to post in a dev thread. I would like to ask how I go about doing this the correct way without breaking forum rules.
Thanks in advanced
Xan Steel
Tell us what your problems are here.
1st you have to have 10 post. Go to other threads and comment on stuff like the off topic forum. Then you should be able to post on dev threads. Or you can pm them and let them know.
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Well as Neckberg has said to post my issues here (Thanks) I shall.
[ROM] ACS ICS V6.
Where to began.
I came from ACS SyndicateFrozen 1.1.1 I could never get 1.2 to run. And this ROM was based on GB. Really wanted to see what GB was like. SO after installing the ROM. Everything started out normal (no issues at that point). It was sluggish which made me wonder if Carrier I.Q. was still in the ROM. It wasn't listed that it was removed.
SO I started trying things out. Everything was going good until I turned on the Wireless WiFi Tether. It crashed outright. Tried again, and crashed. It would open to a black screen and then crash. So I did some digging, and apparently this is a known issue. So I got a different one from the market that worked (Open Garden WiFi Tether).
I installed Opera. I like Opera for it's desktop mode that actually works over Dolphins. I would type in a address, and hit go, and it would act like its going, and then stop and remove what I had typed. Tried again, and it would load a blank page. Tried a third time, and got the HTML header to load the page in a text format. Uninstalled and reinstalled same thing happen. So I left it alone, and about 3 hours later it had uninstalled itself/completely missing on the phone and market stated it wasn't installed. Rebooted phone, still gone. Not idea where it went. After reinstalling it again. it would do the same thing.
So I flashed and wiped X3. And reloaded the ROM. Thinking I have a bad load.
reinstalled all my apps and even though Opera is still doing it's thing I mentioned earlier, it hasn't uninstalled itself... yet.
Now after the reload of the ROM. Last night I lost cell service (couldn't make calls) but I had data. Which was odd to me. Rebooted the phone, and same thing. Had data but not cell service. After about and hour or so, I have cell and data back together. Maybe it was someone working on the tower in the area at 11pm, or maybe the ROM decided it would be funny.
Another thing I noticed. If you hit the menu button to pull menus in apps and on the home screens. They are white on black. White text and image, on a black background. Now if you go into any sub-menu from the main menu, its black on black. You can't read anything unless your lucky to have a bright white page behind it, so that it can try to bleed through some of the transparency.
The battery icon when charging in portrait goes from normal to skinny (blinking), while in landscape mode it goes from normal to fat (blinking).
Also two music apps is not really needed. One is fine. Trimming down on unneeded apps would help save on space. Also remove Carrier I.Q. if it hasn't been yet.
Adding that super brightness, is actually bad. Not thinking about it, it's actually crashed the video HW of the phone. On a plain white screen at max brightness, it starts to artifact, and if what ever your trying to do doesn't complete. The video HW crashes, and you get a pretty rainbow on the screen until you pull the battery. Basically acts like a dying or dead video card in a PC. Also it can (and has happened to me) cause screen burn in. If you want a image of it let me know and I'll post one.
Also Rom Manager does not recognize any ClockWorkMod Recovery, if you manually install the recovery yourself.
If I find anything else buggy I'll post and update here.
Thanks
Xan Steel
Phone: Epic 4G
ROM: ACS ICS V6
Recovery CWM 3.1.0.1 purple
Note, I haven't tried this rom myself.
No, carrierIQ is not removed on this rom, nor has it been removed on any GB rom that I know of. Still, removed or not, it won't make any difference in the performance of the device.
Any apps that you fine are useless can easily be uninstalled, even if they are installed system/app folder. Rom chefs correct attitude about roms is that they build for themselves first. I personally have 3 music players installed.
We don't have official Rom Manager support so that will be an issue on pretty much all non AOSP roms for the epic.
Your lack of service issue it probably a carrier issue and not a rom issue.
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Note, I haven't tried this rom myself.
No, carrierIQ is not removed on this rom, nor has it been removed on any GB rom that I know of. Still, removed or not, it won't make any difference in the performance of the device.
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Ah makes sense. It's relatively new, and most likely not been worked on yet.
Any apps that you fine are useless can easily be uninstalled, even if they are installed system/app folder.
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Ah, then I should be able to remove them myself fairly easily.
We don't have official Rom Manager support so that will be an issue on pretty much all non AOSP roms for the epic.
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Do you know if that is something being worked on?
Your lack of service issue it probably a carrier issue and not a rom issue.
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It's a good possibility since it only happened the one time, but since it is a beta, and I'm using it for the first time. I felt it needed to be brought up just in case it wasn't. Heh beta tested a lot of new software, and got into the habit of reporting everything, even if it looks like something else is the issue and not the software.
Many Thanks
Xan Steel