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[Solved w/ workaround] Rooted 3G Nexus 7 stuck at boot after 4.3 Jellybean OTA

Hi there,
I have a rooted 3G Nexus 7. I ran the notification to run an OTA update for 4.3 Jellybean, it rebooted into TWRP, and I blindly said yes. Eventually I confirmed TWRP to allow it to fix root permission. I tried rebooting, but I ended up getting stuck at the X screen. Tried a few resets, but that didn't work. I Googled a bit, cleared the cache and the dalvik cache on TWRP, and came across this.
I got lazy, and probably shouldn't have done most of what I had done, so I'd like to know if there is a way to fix this without having to reflash the ROM.

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I got impatient waiting for a response, so I just flashed Cyanogen on it, thinking this would be the most opportune time to try it out hehe. To anyone else who runs into the issue and sees this, I'm 99% sure that you could just flash stock on too, but I wanted to try out a custom ROM.

[Q] Seems like I've got corruption of some kind...

ATT Galaxy S4 currently running Goldeneye 6.0 and TWRP 2.6.0.0 (never installed MF3 base, but have tried both MF3 and MDL modems)
First odd thing...
[About->Status->Device Status] is listed as "Sd card" instead of the more common "Official" or "Custom".
Anybody know what that means or is telling me?
This is the latest thing I've noticed with my phone, which has been having all sorts of issues lately that I cannot seem to figure out. My main problem is, I can reinstall a new ROM, boot into the ROM, change settings around, reboot just fine, but, as soon as I install anything from the Play Store, the next reboot will hang on the initial Samsung splash screen. Wiping is the only fix I've found, and fixing permissions in TWRP errors out with an error that it cannot chown one of the new/updated .apk files.
Both Goldeneye 5 and 6 are doing this now (5.0 was installed and rock solid for several weeks before this all showed up...it started sometime after I decided to try out a couple of the aroma roms and then came back to GE).
Used ODIN to go back to factory rom, re-rooted/installed TWRP, then reinstalled GE6.0, but the same thing happened. Everything looked good until I ran updates from the store, then I was stuck again (note: used Root Explorer to check to permissions on the updated apks before rebooting and they were all correct (755)).
Other things I've noticed are:
1. Sometimes, on any reboot, the startup locks at the initial Samsung screen and I have to long press the power button to get it to reboot. It usually boots the second time around (this is before I install any additional apps and am completely unable to reboot).
2. Sometimes when wiping cache, davlik, and/or data, TWRP will seem to hang for up to a minute when trying to initialize the partition. A couple of times it even hard reboot my phone when I did a cache+davlik wipe.
3. I rolled back to a recovery image just fine; however, it was a couple months old. Everything started off looking great, but once I updated to a new ROM, my issues returned.
Trying Heimdall to go back to factory; however, I'm having issue with my laptop and getting the Zadig drivers installed. While I'm working that out, figured I'd see if anyone else has any suggestions on what else I should be trying or looking out.
thx

I would flash your phone back to MDL stock with odin using the mdl tar. This should format your paritions correctly. You could also reinstall MDL using kies since they still don't support MF3.
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[Q] AT&T s4 refuses to go KitKat

Hey XDA, just a long time stalker who has finally given up trying to find his solution on already posted items (I think 10 hours of trail and error means I'm not gonna catch what I'm failing to see...)
When I first got my galaxy s4 I downloaded KangaBean and it was on 4.2.2 I believe. Today I decided I should upgrade to 4.4.2 since I've only been hearing good things about it, and I wanted the slight updates that came with it.
Well, I have a AT&T s4, sgh-i337 that was on CWM 6 when I tried updating to another ROM, the first one I tried was GOOGLE EDITION 4.4.2 BY DANVDH. Did a wipe, cache, dalvik, format system, flashed it, flashed loki doki, said no to re-root/root fix prompt that followed, then I came to the yellow triangle, I thought that was odd, believed I missed something.
So, I downloaded TWRP 2.5.0.2 like the thread suggested, tried again, no luck. Then I tried Unoffical Carbon KitKat, which just caused the "Samsung Custom" logo to stay on indefinitely (I let it sit for 40 minutes before giving up.) After 2 failed ROMs, I tried KangaKat, updated version of KangaBean, so it should be just dandy right? Narp, same luck. This one boots, then reboots into recovery.
At this point I considered myself to be stupid in some way so obvious that I would die before I noticed it. So, then I just flashed the stock firmware thats like 2.5 gb through odin, re-rooted and installed CWM 6.0.4.4 LOKI'd and tried to flash KangaKat, being confident it would work this time, again I got boot to the logo and then reboot into recovery.
At this point I attempted the other 2 ROMs again, multiple times.
After some sobbing, I re-did the stock firmware, tried again, failed again.
My sadness turned into rage, I just destroyed one of my micro sd to usb-s because it was being annoying and I was annoyed, I took a picture and got over it.
I tried a 3rd time with the re-flashing stock firmware and tried with twrp again, no cigar.
Now, after MANY hours and MANY false hopes... I shall be using my blackberry and hoping to return to android soon, if somebody can help me figure out what I'm missing. Many thanks ahead!

Did you do lokidoki after?
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Did you doa hard reboot clear the cache and davlik after it got stuck on the lock screen ? It seems odd that it would just not boot up at all. I was about to wonder if maybe it was the CM kernel bug that will keep it from booting past the initial screen but you tried aGE rom so...

[Q] com.android.phone Crahes (VZW G2 - CM11 03/08 Snapshot)

Hi All,
I'm having an issue with my G2. I've been running the CM11 nightlies for a while now, they've been pretty decent.
I decided to flash the newest Snapshot today when I saw it pop up on my update list. As soon as I booted, I got the error "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped".
This happened yesterday, so I booted into recovery, cleared cash, reinstalled the rom, cleared cache again, reinstalled gapps, cleared cache again, and it worked. Now I'm not getting so lucky. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I'm really hoping this isn't going to be an issue with every CM nightly moving forward.
The best solution I could find seems to be specific to HTC phones, which involves reinstalling the boot.img. I don't think that applies to us, but if it does, how can I do that.
Thanks for your help.

EtherBoo said:
Hi All,
I'm having an issue with my G2. I've been running the CM11 nightlies for a while now, they've been pretty decent.
I decided to flash the newest Snapshot today when I saw it pop up on my update list. As soon as I booted, I got the error "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped".
This happened yesterday, so I booted into recovery, cleared cash, reinstalled the rom, cleared cache again, reinstalled gapps, cleared cache again, and it worked. Now I'm not getting so lucky. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I'm really hoping this isn't going to be an issue with every CM nightly moving forward.
The best solution I could find seems to be specific to HTC phones, which involves reinstalling the boot.img. I don't think that applies to us, but if it does, how can I do that.
Thanks for your help.
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You've done a clean flash? Meaning you wiped Dalvik, Cache, System, Factory reset? I usually erase twice and then install CM and then GAPPS then restart the phone (Don't install custom kernel) some custom kernels are having trouble because looks like they updates some things in their kernels.

xxxrichievxxx said:
You've done a clean flash? Meaning you wiped Dalvik, Cache, System, Factory reset? I usually erase twice and then install CM and then GAPPS then restart the phone (Don't install custom kernel) some custom kernels are having trouble because looks like they updates some things in their kernels.
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Thank you.
After some more digging, I had the idea to check the development thread of the CM ROM here. Apparently, a few other users have had the same issue.
It turns out, the newest version of CM needs to be cleanly installed, a dirty flash won't work. I just did a wipe and it's now downloading all my apps and reinstalling.
*sigh* such a pain, but whatever. Could be worse.

EtherBoo said:
Thank you.
After some more digging, I had the idea to check the development thread of the CM ROM here. Apparently, a few other users have had the same issue.
It turns out, the newest version of CM needs to be cleanly installed, a dirty flash won't work. I just did a wipe and it's now downloading all my apps and reinstalling.
*sigh* such a pain, but whatever. Could be worse.
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Yeah it can be such a pain, I flashed nightlies when they sounded like they fixed an important issue (it'd be every other day) and I flashed clean all the time. Now im just going to stick to CM11 M4 until the next milestone.

try changin network type to GLOBAL.

[Q] Systemui keeps crashing on custom roms

Need some expert assistance. The problem is my phone keeps crashing with systemui errors when using custom roms. It always happens after a reboot and usually within 1-3 days, depends on WHEN I reboot the phone. Let me give you a little backstory.
A little over a month ago, I was running AICP on my phone, but decided to try SimpleAOSP and Hells doctor.. So I created a backup in TWRP, then flashed SimpleAOSP and HD. The next day day I started getting the errors. At the time, I thought it was the kernel or a Titanium Backup glitch.
So I wiped and reflashed SimpleAOSP without HD and without restoring from TB. But the next day, systemui failed to start. I thought it might be a rom issue so I restored AICP from my TWRP backup. And I couldn't believe it when the same systemui errors happened. So I restored the backup again. Again it was okay for a few days, then error.
After that I copied everything from my phone to the PC and wiped internal storage. Then installed the same rom version from AICP that I had been using for weeks prior to all this. Same error after a few days.
So next I tried wiping internal storage again and flashing stock 4.4.4. I used that for over a week with no system errors. So I did a TWRP backup of Google stock rom, Then installed AICP again but this time without modifying any systemui type settings, I left the rom as stock as it could come. Didn't even restore apps or anything. I then the rebooted the phone a couple of times to test and the error came back. This was the same day I installed it.
So I restored the stock backup and have been running fine all week. I want to get back on a custom rom though. Any suggestions?

Am I getting no replies because I'm missing something really obvious?
Or can no one think of anything that I haven't already tried?
By the way, right after posting the OP I installed the L preview and it's been working fine so far. I figured if I had to run stock android it may as well be the latest thing.
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I don't have any answer to your question but I was wondering if this happens without installing a custom kernel on CM11 and AOSP custom ROMs.

Thanks for replying.
When I tried SimpleAOSP, it was with and then without an additional kernel. I saw no difference as far as the error is concerned. I have not tried a CM11 based ROM since this all started.
Maybe I should try a custom rom that doesn't have heavy modifications like AICP has.
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Are you flashing a Gapps package? A couple weeks ago when I was trying different ROMs I was getting system crashes after flashing PA Gapps and they updated. I never narrowed it down, but after uninstalling a bunch of them (News/Weather, Talkback, Keep, Newsstand, some others) so they wouldn't update, I stopped getting system crashes.

Idk why I have the feeling your theme/icon pack has something to do with it. I run pa and whenever I try to use click ui icon pack it happens to me but if I just run veu I don't have a problem. Try not using themes for a bit to see what happens

Sorry, I missed your responses, I had kinda given up on the whole thing. Android L is running good for an unfinished product.
Getting back to the original issue, no theme or icon pack was installed.
Yes, I was using PA gapps mini from 9-23. Maybe that was it.
But that would be weird because I don't remember my first ROM running PA gapps, not 100% sure... that was a month ago.
I'll try to install without any gapps package and report back. Thanks.
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from my past history, I'm facing issues when I did 3 things :
1. if I just dirty flash or factory reset only before flashing new rom.
2. Did restore backup from TB (which from your explanation above, you don't have any problem TB)
Nowdays I always use wipe dalvik, system, data, cache. Because someone once told me if you changing roms, if not it's possible that the system setting from old rom will crash with the new ones. and for the wipe system part (some roms included that command in their roms zip file and some didn't).