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HTC Pure suddenly gets sluggish

My Pure has gotten really crappy lately.
Out of nowhere, the phone takes forever to complete tasks. It took 3 minutes to open a contact to dial. It took 2 minutes to get to dial a number completely, and another 45 seconds before pushing the talk would start dialing on the network. It took me 30 seconds to open up SPB Insight. Another minute to open up Opera browser. Took 5 minutes to open up the Messaging app to try and text. Etc...
Also, it seems to not want to show me whose calling half of the time. It just plays my ringtone and the signal meter has the image of a phone on top of the bars.
I have not installed any new applications on the system in over a week. I don't have all that much installed anyway. I try to keep data on the sd card. I emptied out all messages and still no speedier.
What can be done to defrag or something to help this POS work better?
Thanks!

try a hard reset. thats what i would do.

Any good, free ways of backing up my Apps and crap first?

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Any good, free ways of backing up my Apps and crap first?
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are you using a stock rom or custom rom? i use energy roms and they all have pim backup cooked in. im sure if you just do a little looking around you will find a few different backup apps. ill see if i cant find the cab on my comp for sprite.

check this out. it will even re-install your apps for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582421&highlight=backup+app

stock rom is in use.

Yeah that application for backing up didn't work whatsoever. When it started up it went ape-crap with errors. Downloaded an update, same thing.
Any other ideas to keep from losing all of the settings, programs, etc, before hard-resetting?

yeah, lookup pim backup or sprite backup. some ppl like spb backup but i think it might cost a few bucks. im sure there are some around xda if you look, or just google those i just told you about.

Silly Question
Did you try a soft reset first before you leap to a hard reset? Just wanted to make sure as I saw no mention of simply soft reseting...

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Did you try a soft reset first before you leap to a hard reset? Just wanted to make sure as I saw no mention of simply soft reseting...
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i was asuming he has already done that.

About 15 soft-resets a day with the occasional forced pulling out of the battery because it literally hangs for 5 minutes with the screen seemingly locked up waiting on something to open or close...

Just hard-reset the dang thing. Still as slow as ever. HTC has let me down for the second time.

You need to install a good task manager and find out what is running in the background.

what would be a good, free task manager to try?

Try sashimi for restorals. PIM back up is not for programs.

Well I did a hard-reset and it didn't resolve anything whatsoever. Must be device related.
But since it's bricked sort of, anyone have advice on a good, liteweight ROM to use on HTC Pure? May as well try to do that for the first time, since I'll have a replacement in a few days.
I like very little about ATT's ROM. Slim would be great.

crypted said:
Well I did a hard-reset and it didn't resolve anything whatsoever. Must be device related.
But since it's bricked sort of, anyone have advice on a good, liteweight ROM to use on HTC Pure? May as well try to do that for the first time, since I'll have a replacement in a few days.
I like very little about ATT's ROM. Slim would be great.
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if you are getting a warranty replacement i wouldnt flash a rom unless you want to flash it back to all stock b4 you send it in. if its insurance go ahead and flash away.

Guess I'll wait. Out of all the threads here on the matter, can anyone recommend a good thread for how to go through the steps required to get a Stock PURE flashed to another ROM?
Want to do it the easiest and best way possible.

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Guess I'll wait. Out of all the threads here on the matter, can anyone recommend a good thread for how to go through the steps required to get a Stock PURE flashed to another ROM?
Want to do it the easiest and best way possible.
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here, read this. this is a pretty good guide as how to do it. its the one i used when i started flashing my pure. be sure to flash hardspl first!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=632886

Check my Signature. Runs at 53% mem usage all day long.

[Q] Evo Shift keeps rebooting

Looking for some advice/help. I got my wife the Evo Shift a couple of weeks ago. Her phone has not been rooted and other than a few added apps the phone is completely stock. The phone reboots on her 4 and 5 times a day. She does not have any kind of task killer installed so that's not it. She plays Angry Birds a lot and uses Pandora quite a bit. I have also installed Sound Manager for her. Other than that I can't think of anything that would be helpful for trouble shooting. I have searched here and through Google and have not seen any info of others having this problem. I am not sure if I should root the thing or return it to best buy. I have the Evo and previously the Hero and am no stranger to rooting or custom ROMs. Just really did not see the need to root it since my wife has no idea about any of that. Any help or advice will be appreciated.
Thanks.

root and install nfinitefx's or mik's rom; you'll have less trouble than if it was stock.

danaff37 said:
root and install nfinitefx's or mik's rom; you'll have less trouble than if it was stock.
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That's what I was thinking. I am a little worried its a hardware problem though. I guess I could always flash back to stock and return it if that doesn't fix it.

hell return it ya got nothing to lose but a headache

Did you try a factory reset?
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JKILO said:
Did you try a factory reset?
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Not yet. I did get some more info from my wife though. It only happens when she is at work. And she says she get some sort of "radio error". I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the building she is in. She had my hero for a couple months before I got her the shift and had no problems. It had CM 6.1 running though.

hauntedchild said:
Not yet. I did get some more info from my wife though. It only happens when she is at work. And she says she get some sort of "radio error". I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the building she is in. She had my hero for a couple months before I got her the shift and had no problems. It had CM 6.1 running though.
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im running mine stock and rooted and dont have any problems with reboots. sounds like a app is probably screwing something up

i had a similar problem with one of the streaming media apps i used to use a month or so ago i cant remember the name but for some reason if i lost signal it would crash the phone and need to be rebooted
i took it off and installed tuneinradio and it worked better anyways

My shift was rebooting itself 3 to 4 times a day, I just rooted it and it seemed to stop rebooting itself for a day. Now its starting to reboot itself again, but not as often.

I am almost convinced its a hardware problem. Sounds too rare to be anything else. Maybe bad memory or something.
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I had a freezing issue with my phone which people suggested possible due to pandora and bluetooth. Perhaps you have the same issue?
Anyway, try to find "bluetooth for automotive" settings for pandora and turn it off.
I wouldn't recommend rooting your phone if you think its broken. You might just end up breaking it further and render your warranty void.
If you can't fix it, get sprint to replace it.
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This may be resolved by now, but I got my shift previously used. When I first activated it, I was getting some radio errors and I could not make calls or send sms messages, but the email worked fine. I contacted Sprint customer service via chat from the website and they did something from their end to fix it. I had to turn off my phone and she said now wait till I tell you to turn it back on. I waited 5 minutes and when I turned it back on, everything was fine. So I would take it in or contact Sprint and see what they say. As for not sure if you wanna root it for her, I would definitely recommened it, she doesn't have to take advantage of all the advanced tweak that some use but it will just make the phone a lot smoother and easier to use. IMHO.
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Michael61182 said:
This may be resolved by now, but I got my shift previously used. When I first activated it, I was getting some radio errors and I could not make calls or send sms messages, but the email worked fine. I contacted Sprint customer service via chat from the website and they did something from their end to fix it. I had to turn off my phone and she said now wait till I tell you to turn it back on. I waited 5 minutes and when I turned it back on, everything was fine. So I would take it in or contact Sprint and see what they say. As for not sure if you wanna root it for her, I would definitely recommened it, she doesn't have to take advantage of all the advanced tweak that some use but it will just make the phone a lot smoother and easier to use. IMHO.
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Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to go ahead and root it. After keeping an eye on the situation its seems its only happening when she is at work. I can't imagine it will fix it but I think its worth a shot.

I think I fixed mine. I tried to use navigation and it kept force closing, that was strange because I've used it before with no problems. I googled around and found some info that if you had another text to speak engine in your phone then uninstalled it without setting it back to pico as default it would cause nav to FC, which is what I had done. So I set it back and checked "Always use my settings" in the Voice section of settings, nav started working and the reboot issue went away for the past 7 days.
I don't really know crap about phones and most tech stuff for that matter (heck 99% of what is said in these forums goes over my head) but I think why this fixed it is either nav or some app was trying to use pico or something and when it couldn't the phone would get an error and reboot itself. I may be wrong (probably am) but maybe she deleted something or changed a setting some app needs and that is causing her problem. Hope this helps in someway or at least gives you another direction to start checking.

[Q] long time watcher and rom user. first time poster.

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.

shane6374 said:
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

why not to rename system app .bak (how I bricked my phone) - Resolved

Resolved: see post below.
Hi there, I'm really writing this hoping that maybe someone knows a fix for my problem and as a warning for why renaming system/apps with .bak is a silly idea when you can just do it via titanium or something similar.
About the device
Phone is a bell model, rooted but running the stock rom. I froze a bunch of apps with titantium (the smart way) but also added the .bak extension to some apps in the system/app folder.. I can't remember which ones but evidently important ones.
Everything was fine until today when an app I sideloaded caused my phone to go into a boot loop. I've been fighting with wakelock issues lately so I figured it wasn't a big deal to pop into the android recovery and do a factory restart. Problem is, some of the apps I added the .bak extension to are needed via the setup.
Problem I'm having
I can boot the phone fine and get to the blur setup screen which I can bypass as well. Problem is, once I skip the screen I immediately get a force close, and instead of taking me to the home screen, it goes back to the blur setup screen. I tried the keyboard shortcut bypass method which also works fine, but renders the phone useless since I can't access any menus, etc. It's just a black screen with the notification bar at the top. Horrah!
Long story short:
I can't enable usb debugging unless there is a way to sneak into the settings menu from the emergency call screen
Bell doesn't have a stock rom available
I can't re-root and fix my problem via adb because I can't turn on debug mode.
GAH!
Anyways, I'm pretty screwed. What are my choices?
I can return it to bell and hope they don't notice my giant gaff, flash an aftermarket rom and lose any warrenty I might have (I'm pretty toast now anyways) or buy a replacement phone.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
- Kate

OMG
my heart had literally stopped beating for the past hour until I remember reading somewhere that you could text message a link to a replacement launcher hosted on dropbox.
OMG
Problem solved, phone is working.. I think.
Lesson for today kids: Do not mess with things you're not totally 100% sure about. Also, don't screw around with work phones. You need them to stay employed. Bricks don't keep you employed.

Flashing after market software shouldn't void your warrenty. I've sent in a few self bricked phones to bell.
Try early USB enumeration mode for ADB access
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marko! said:
Flashing after market software shouldn't void your warrenty. I've sent in a few self bricked phones to bell.
Try early USB enumeration mode for ADB access
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And I have sent 2 of my atrixs back to at&t both were unlocked and rooted
No questions asked not on extra doller spent I love insurance its worth 5 dollers a month to me + my phones were both bricked by apps in the android market
that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!
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marko! said:
Flashing after market software shouldn't void your warrenty. I've sent in a few self bricked phones to bell.
Try early USB enumeration mode for ADB access
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Does that work even if usb debugging is off? If so, that's fantastic! I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in a horrible jam.
It wasn't market apps though that was my concern though... rather it was messing with system/apps and build.prop that had me concerned. Any wise tech would know that my problems weren't caused by some error on Motorola's part, but rather a silly girl who's breaking things from within.
Thanks though

I once told the **tech repairs specialist** that I bricked my phone installing a custom rom and got asked " what kind of customer was on the phone?"
Try and find NFHimselfs atrix mods apk it will help a lot
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HTC T Mobile MT4G Needs help

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OK, so here is where my T Mobile MT4G is at:
Had the phone since November 2010. Sole user. Never dropped, or wet.
S=ON.
I purchased a new battery last month as thought this may have been part of the problem.
Phone started acting weirdly, apps freezing, pone freezing, not working correctly and rebooting out of nowhere.
Decided to attempt reset, full factory reset. Could not do so via the phone or via the vol down power on method either.
After a few weeks of negotiating, because the phone is out of warranty, HTC customer service (Thanks guys!) gave me the PD15IMG file. I loaded it onto a formatted SD card.
Uchecked FASTBOOT.
I was able to use the battery out, re-install battery, vol down and power button to allow the new ROM to load from the SD card, which it seems to do, that is, all files, but the first TP file which is "bypassed".
Then when asked to hit the power button to reboot, the screen freezes on the T Mobile MY screen.
If after say 20 minutes, I remove the battery to reboot, doing it this way instead, all apps and previous settings are still in place and the phone is still more or less inoperative. The new ROM is not installed. Go figure.
Messages from various apps keep popping up indicating that Andriod app this or that is not functioning correctly.
I never dropped the phone or got it wet. It looks great, only does not work correctly.
I suspect part of the problem may be apps (guilty as charged for having too many apps) that may be conflicting and I can not even manually delete the apps as they constantly reappear, no matter what. Tried this many times.
This has happened repeatedly. For well over a month.
I can not factory reset from within the phone either (Phone and SD Card > Factory reset).
The factory reset seems to take place yet the phone when and if it reboots only reboots to the most previous state, it certainly is not reset.
I downloaded the full wipe software (FULL_WIPE_1.5_EXT4_DS), and am unsure how to use it.
I am tired.
Here's my proposition:
Am willing to send the phone to anyone who thinks he or she can get it working. I'm a 64 year old guy and will offer up to $50.00 if the phone can be returned to a fully functioning default state in whatever rom you choose. I will pay return shipping cost (via USPS) too. I know this is not much, but I am fearing the phone may be fried, or not!
Personally I am looking for a non app rom, like virtuous unity 2.2, (with S=OFF, naturally) and will settle for the HTC rom of PD15IMG (S=ON) at the very least.
I have spent too many hours on this and my son also has spent many hours attempting to get the phone working in the pristine state.
Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated.
Cordially,
Robert

I'll gladly help you out for free man!
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I'll gladly help you out for free man!
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I was thinking the same thing, but I don't have a computer right now & ain't sure if I could do it without 1. But that's another reason why u are awesome! And I'm very serious, that speaks volumes about your character...
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Old dude you have no idea how lucky you are... Awesome is a very good DEV and offering to do it for free is well Awesome lol

If I were the OP I'd ask Awesome to sign the back cover! :laugh: