[Q] Strange problem. I cant load or delete anything! - Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi. I have this phone (XT912) thats giving me all sorts of errors. I thought it was some sort of malware, or something just got corrupted in software. I tried to factory reset. I tried to boot into recovery and do a factory reset from there. I even downloaded the razr utility and tried to flash back to stock from ap fastboot. Everything I try appears to be successful until I reboot and nothing has changed. Same apps installed. Same errors. Anyone seen this before? I'm guessing maybe the flash memory has failed but I wanted to confirm here. Is it possible to fix? Is it possible to replace the flash memory chip with another one from a spare phone?
Thanks,
Ian

ianedward said:
Hi. I have this phone (XT912) thats giving me all sorts of errors. I thought it was some sort of malware, or something just got corrupted in software. I tried to factory reset. I tried to boot into recovery and do a factory reset from there. I even downloaded the razr utility and tried to flash back to stock from ap fastboot. Everything I try appears to be successful until I reboot and nothing has changed. Same apps installed. Same errors. Anyone seen this before? I'm guessing maybe the flash memory has failed but I wanted to confirm here. Is it possible to fix? Is it possible to replace the flash memory chip with another one from a spare phone?
Thanks,
Ian
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Unfortunately I believe that it's a flash memory failure.
Flash memory cannot be replaced.
Seen this reported before, about much older devices, never seen someone post that they fixed it.
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[Q] Anyone knows where my storagespace went after upgrading to 4.3?

Hey guys,
i noticed something weird after ugrading to android 4.3 (official images).
After the upgrade and setting up my n4 i noticed that my available storagespace was only 6gb, but i have a 16gb model so it must be around 12gb user available space(????) at minimum i guess.
Somebody noticed this too or is there some explaination for this??
I clean flashed the sh*t out of it so that shouldn't be the problem i think.
Cheers
Sgace said:
Hey guys,
i noticed something weird after ugrading to android 4.3 (official images).
After the upgrade and setting up my n4 i noticed that my available storagespace was only 6gb, but i have a 16gb model so it must be around 12gb user available space(????) at minimum i guess.
Somebody noticed this too or is there some explaination for this??
I clean flashed the sh*t out of it so that shouldn't be the problem i think.
Cheers
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I don't recall the exact cause of this. But if you flash the factory images with the bat file it will be back to normal.
That will also wipe your phone though so keep that in mind.
albundy2010 said:
I don't recall the exact cause of this. But if you flash the factory images with the bat file it will be back to normal.
That will also wipe your phone though so keep that in mind.
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THNX m8,
gonna try asap!! Will report back.
Really??? So flashing the img one by one isn't the best way to do it, tought it was the right way.
Cheers.
Sgace said:
THNX m8,
gonna try asap!! Will report back.
Really??? So flashing the img one by one isn't the best way to do it, tought it was the right way.
Cheers.
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I'm sure it can be done no problem flashing them one by one. Just can't recall what causes it. Whether you need to fastboot erase things or what. Maybe don't flash the userdata. Img Had it happen to me on the original nexus 7.
I'm pretty sure if you look around in the how to threads its probably mentioned and explained. Or a Google search. I just don't care. Since the flashing script fixes it / doesn't cause it.
I think it mostly comes up from erasing cache instead of formatting it. I ran into it the other day too when going back to stock. You can try wiping cache if you installed a custom recovery, otherwise a factory reset (formatting data/cache) cleared out up for me
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Sgace,
I have the same problem.
Did you manage to solve it?
albundy2010,
Do you mean the file named flash-all.bat?
If yes, what should I do with it? enter the bootloader and double click on the file? I mostly used toolkits by now...
Thanks!
Edit: Nevermind, it seems a factory reset (from the phone settings, not recovery) fixed the problem. Wierd.
It will return to phone to a clean full stock 4.3. It will be exactly like how a device would ship from Google with 4.3 on it. Except that the boot loader will still be unlocked.
To use the bat file its fairly simple.
1. Unpack the file you get from Google. Do not extract the files you end up with any further.
2. Depending on how your system is set up it can vary. So just do this to make to be sure. Move everything that was extracted to whatever directory has the fastboot executable ( fastboot exe)in it. Toolkit folder maybe ( I don't use those awful things so no idea where it puts things.). Or the platform tools folder in the SDK if that's installed.
3. Yes the phone needs to be in the bootlader. Once you're in the boot loader just click on the bat from within the folder with the fastboot.exe from step 2.
All this is assuming your computer has the proper drivers / working fastboot etc.
Still lost or can't figure it out, follow the flash factory images guide.
For me also a factoryreset from settings did the job.
Thnx for the help Guys!!
Cheers
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Bootloader Loop problem

Hi, my phone acted weird today, been running custom room for over couple months without any problem, but then when i resart my phone today it got to the bootload screen and stuck there ever seen. I can able to go into custom recover and did a full wipe but nothing change, could anyone help me out? I have loki also. Using S4 ATT version.
Try wiping cache in your recovery
i did that, always do that after install a new rom, don't know why my phone is soft bricked now...
akahimaro said:
i did that, always do that after install a new rom, don't know why my phone is soft bricked now...
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if you've done a full wipe and tried either re-flashing your rom or restoring a nandroid and neither was successful, you may need to consider going back to stock via odin and starting over.
i've never seen a phone run on the same rom and kernel settings for months and then just shut down and softbrick without something having been changed recently.
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if you've done a full wipe and tried either re-flashing your rom or restoring a nandroid and neither was successful, you may need to consider going back to stock via odin and starting over.
i've never seen a phone run on the same rom and kernel settings for months and then just shut down and softbrick without something having been changed recently.
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yes, i'm doing that right now, thanks for the tips, i had that happen to my s2 before. Really weird...
Before ODIN'ing back to MDL/MDB...
akahimaro said:
yes, i'm doing that right now, thanks for the tips, i had that happen to my s2 before. Really weird...
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What recovery image are you running? You are not the only one that had this problem. I am trying to piece this together.

[Solved (partially)]ROM can't boot after turning my phone off... So weird !

Hi, I'm desperate today. I've been without my phone since a few days.
In the first place, I wanted to flash another custom ROM. I hadn't change anything to my N4, I was using AOSPAL. You know that F2FS has come, so I wanted to test it. After some fails, some resets, I succeeded to make my phone clean & fast (F2FS & custom kernel). Now I can tell you about my problem.
I noted that, after many tests/flashs, my phone can't boot after turning it off. I stuck at "Google" logo, the ROM apparently disappeared from my phone, or something else went wront. I don't know what.
Then I did a new factory reset, I flashed a ROM/Kernel without any changes to FS, but I got the same problem. If I reboot (reboot from adb, ROM...) my phone, it works. But if I turn it off, I'll stuck at "Google" logo the next boot.
I've actually no ideas, and Google gave me no results...
I'll try to make a new reset, or try another kernel... I don't know where I'm going.
Thanks for help and I wish you to have a nice day.
PS : I'm not a newbie, I already did more than hundreds flashes, some bricks, but I've never seen a similar problem.
Why don't you try flashing the factory image and start over. That should clean everything up
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hi
try use nexus tool kit for restore fone bootloop flash rom stock
jd1639 said:
Why don't you try flashing the factory image and start over. That should clean everything up
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I've already done that each time before flashing any custom mod, since I got that problem.
eltonpestana said:
try use nexus tool kit for restore fone bootloop flash rom stock
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This isn't the problem... I flashed the factory image many times. It works, but when I turn my N4 off and I want to boot it, I stuck at "Google".. When I reboot from the ROM or adb, there's no problems...
Diaruga said:
I've already done that each time before flashing any custom mod, since I got that problem.
This isn't the problem... I flashed the factory image many times. It works, but when I turn my N4 off and I want to boot it, I stuck at "Google".. When I reboot from the ROM or adb, there's no problems...
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I assume you've done a factory reset in the stock recovery too? If so I think something is wrong with your phone. Is it still under warranty.
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jd1639 said:
I assume you've done a factory reset in the stock recovery too? If so I think something is wrong with your phone. Is it still under warranty.
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Mhhh when I tried F2F2 and wanted to try something else, I've not done a factory reset in the recovery (did you mean the format partitions in ext4fs or the wipe data/cache/dalvik ?). I used fastboot in order to erase all my partitions, then I flash the factory image archive through fastboot command "-w update".
I don't know whether something is wrong with my phone or not, but I've never seen that problem. It appeared when I did some tests with F2FS. That's all, that's so weird...
Diaruga said:
Mhhh when I tried F2F2 and wanted to try something else, I've not done a factory reset in the recovery (did you mean the format partitions in ext4fs or the wipe data/cache/dalvik ?). I used fastboot in order to erase all my partitions, then I flash the factory image archive through fastboot command "-w update".
I don't know whether something is wrong with my phone or not, but I've never seen that problem. It appeared when I did some tests with F2FS. That's all, that's so weird...
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I would definitely try to flash the factory image again, then boot into the stock recovery and do a factory reset. F2FS may have borked something. I've never tried it since it does mess with the positions
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hi'
I'm not sure if this can work. But it never hurts to try. After flashing stock ROM with CWM. Enter recovery and make full format of all partitions. System and Data partitions and cache and all. After that reinstall the stock rom using nexus tool kit for flashing mode in bootloop. after that flashing custom recovery again and do cleanup, but not the only formates cleanings. I believe you are having trouble reading recognition, partition boot. Uncompensated You must have notice a conflict of partitions on the system format.
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Uncompensated You must have notice a conflict of partitions on the system format.
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I was wondering the same thing...
Thanks guys for your help, I'll flash stock again, and then I'll format correctly the partitions. I hope that's the good way...
Next time its stuck on the Google logo just try plugging in you're charger.
I had the same problem but not down to using F2FS but it did hang on the logo during boot.
After plugging in the charger it booted and hasn't stuck since.
Don't ask my why as I haven't a clue but it worked.
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bladebuddy said:
Next time its stuck on the Google logo just try plugging in you're charger.
I had the same problem but not down to using F2FS but it did hang on the logo during boot.
After plugging in the charger it booted and hasn't stuck since.
Don't ask my why as I haven't a clue but it worked.
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FYI this could indicate a problem with your battery
@Diaruga did you ever find a solution?
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I plugged my N4, then I tried to flash the factory image again. That was fine. After flashing a custom ROM + custom kernel, still no probems after turning my phone off.
I can't explain why...
Thanks to all, my problem has been solved.
Diaruga said:
I plugged my N4, then I tried to flash the factory image again. That was fine. After flashing a custom ROM + custom kernel, still no probems after turning my phone off.
I can't explain why...
Thanks to all, my problem has been solved.
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Thanks, glad you got it working again
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[Q] Freezing, rebooting, and can't flash stock rom (reverts to previous state)

Okay, so I feel like I've looked everywhere and tried everything for this problem with my Nexus 7. The closest thing I found was this:
(Google: Nexus 7 2012 rebooting reverts back to previous state)(I can't post outside links as I am a new member)
and there was no followup reply, and the thread was closed.
Here's my problem (I want to be very detailed in case I missed something):
I've had Cyanogenmod 11 on my Nexus 7 for a long time (I think I started with M1 release). I recently installed the M7 release after previous nightly and it was working so smooth that I had finally decided there was no need to install nighties anymore. Everything was going fine until the night after when I noticed it kept rebooting, so I reverted it back to the nightly I had before (June 11th?) because I assumed it was probably something bad with the update. Except it did the same thing, rebooting after a couple minutes, which is weird because it never did that with this nightly. There was never enough time to download the nightlies before it reboots so I tried downloading them on my laptop and then just transferring them to my nexus via usb. I put it in the cmupdate folder so that I could quickly go to settings and press install (as it can see the update from there). It rebooted to install, but it went into cwm with what appears that nothing happened, and I usually never see cwm when updating this way. So I figured, while I'm here, I could just "install zip" and find that zip I just transferred and install, right? Nope. The zip mysteriously vanished, yet the other two updates were still there (M7 and the previous nightly). So I just rebooted just to try the process again, maybe the file transfer didn't work. Same thing happened. So I went to cwm and tried wiping cache, nothing. Wiped dalvik cache, nothing. So I went and did it, wiped data/factory reset, that did NOTHING, as in I rebooted and everything was still there.
So I got to the point where I just wanted to see if I could just revert back to stock so I have a place to start from, maybe contemplate on just staying there for a while where there shouldn't be problems. So I got that all set up with fastboot, got the latest 4.4.3 image, unarchived until I could get to the flashall.bat I ran that and it was successful. Okay now I can just boot into that, right? Suddenly I see the cyanogenmod boot graphic. What happened? Even all of my apps are still there. Still freezing and rebooting.
I tried reverting to stock manually by erasing then formating everything that I can, flashed bootloader (grouper 4.23), flashed zip, locked bootloader, unlocked bootloader (trying to erase as much as I can). This did nothing, still cyanogenmod. I tried a third time while rebooting to bootloader with each step. Nothing. I tried doing a factory reset within cyanogenmod, but when I press the "erase everything" button it doesn't lead anywhere, so I could never get that to start the process. I also tried doing the erasing and formatting from cwm (which isn't being overwritten, as it seems, by all the attempts at flashing stock?), nothing.
I was curious. I uninstalled Netflix because it was right there in my dock. Then I rebooted myself. When it came back up, Netflix was still there. I tried various things, also going back to locking the bootloader and rebooting the bootloader, it still said it was unlocked. So I came to the conclusion that literally nothing was being written or committed to the sdcard no matter what I do.
I did some more research and found that article up top. So I tried uninstalling some apps because it said it may have something to do with a third-party app misbehaving (seems a bit extreme, I'll do it anyways), but there's never enough time to erase everything before it reboots. It also said to try to get it into safemode. I think I might have gotten there once but it still rebooted (which makes me think that it didn't get to safemode), the rest of the times it wouldn't even get to the lockscreen.
What I'm currently attempting is to see if I can get it into safemode, or I'm trying to uninstall or stop/clear data for every single app with an intentional reboot each time.
Anyone got any idea what's going on? Is it maybe a bad sector, or worse, bad sdcard?
Gonna bump this. Still no luck on my part.
Anyone have any idea?
Perhaps somehow something got triggered to prevent anything being written to the sdcard? (Kinda like the lock switch on actual sdcards?) Is everything I've been doing going straight to memory since everything reverts back after a reboot? That's the only explanation I can think of.
Perhaps there's more I could try. I'm only moderately knowledgeable with things like fastboot and roms, so maybe someone with more experience might have more insight. Please, chime in.
Thanks in advance,
JM
Same problem here....
Flash factory image
USBhost said:
Flash factory image
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Although you flash the factory image, the previously ROM boots again, that is precisely the problem.
Amd64bits said:
Although you flash the factory image, the previously ROM boots again, that is precisely the problem.
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O ok
Amd64bits said:
Same problem here....
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Curious, how did you get to the point where it boots the previous rom? Same as me or something else? Are you using cyanogenmod? I want to try and rule out some possibilities.
I'm at the same point since last time. Trying to nuke the hell out of cyanogenmod but it won't go away!
This just outright baffles me!
Try this out format /system /cache /data with twrp to f2fs
If it doesn't boot then cheers you got out if the loop
Then adb sideload an f2fs ROM and kernel them flash
USBhost said:
Try this out format /system /cache /data with twrp to f2fs
If it doesn't boot then cheers you got out if the loop
Then adb sideload an f2fs ROM and kernel them flash
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I have clockworkmod recovery v6.0.4.3 probably from installing cyanogenmod, however formating any of those partitions does literally nothing. I'm not sure what file system it formats it to, but the process seemed too quick for a full format.
I cannot flash a different recovery because... well... it doesn't remember me flashing a recovery (even when nothing "fails" when flashing). So I'm stuck with whatever is already on my internal storage. Nothing is writing to the sdcard, and nothing is being deleted.
violoncellemuse said:
I have clockworkmod recovery v6.0.4.3 probably from installing cyanogenmod, however formating any of those partitions does literally nothing. I'm not sure what file system it formats it to, but the process seemed too quick for a full format.
I cannot flash a different recovery because... well... it doesn't remember me flashing a recovery (even when nothing "fails" when flashing). So I'm stuck with whatever is already on my internal storage. Nothing is writing to the sdcard, and nothing is being deleted.
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Boot twrp temporary from the bootloader
USBhost said:
Boot twrp temporary from the bootloader
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I'm unfamiliar with this, how do I boot temporarily?
violoncellemuse said:
I'm unfamiliar with this, how do I boot temporarily?
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1 set getting on computer
Okay, so I was able to boot twrp and change the partitions to f2fs. No dice. Still cyanogenmod.
violoncellemuse said:
Okay, so I was able to boot twrp and change the partitions to f2fs. No dice. Still cyanogenmod.
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then you did boot twrp temporary
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then you did boot twrp temporary
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I did. I didn't know that was possible until now.
But still, changing the file system or formating anything doesn't do anything after I reboot. I even checked after I changed the file system to f2fs in twrp to see the "current file system" when changing the partitions again, but it says it's ext4 still.
I tried repairing system, which processed quickly. However, trying to repair cache and data led to an error. Perhaps this might mean something? or is this normal?
violoncellemuse said:
I did. I didn't know that was possible until now.
But still, changing the file system or formating anything doesn't do anything after I reboot. I even checked after I changed the file system to f2fs in twrp to see the "current file system" when changing the partitions again, but it says it's ext4 still.
I tried repairing system, which processed quickly. However, trying to repair cache and data led to an error. Perhaps this might mean something? or is this normal?
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thats not normal
ok i know why its a new cyanogenmod feature
no matter what you do cyanogenmod is now unkillable lol
this is such a strage problem
USBhost said:
thats not normal
ok i know why its a new cyanogenmod feature
no matter what you do cyanogenmod is now unkillable lol
this is such a strage problem
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Do you have any more info? Perhaps my sdcard is "softlocked" or something.
violoncellemuse said:
Do you have any more info? Perhaps my sdcard is "softlocked" or something.
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i have been noticing CWMR is the root of all the problems
i dont sorry but your not the only one i think there are 3+ people that have this same problem
formating should have fixed it
USBhost said:
i have been noticing CWMR is the root of all the problems
i dont sorry but your not the only one i think there are 3+ people that have this same problem
formating should have fixed it
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I do thank you for trying to help me out.
I found a thread with someone with the same problem I'd like to direct people towards: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2800064
violoncellemuse said:
Curious, how did you get to the point where it boots the previous rom? Same as me or something else? Are you using cyanogenmod? I want to try and rule out some possibilities.
I'm at the same point since last time. Trying to nuke the hell out of cyanogenmod but it won't go away!
This just outright baffles me!
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Well, I have Paranaoid Android 4.4.4, not Cyanogen, and everything seemed ok until I installed Cloudmagic (and maybe Busybox?) that poped up a Play Store error (I don't remember which one), and suddenly all the problems began. It started to reboots, rebooted so many times that I decided to flash another ROM... but this wasn't possible.
My recovery is TWRP, so we can discard Cyanogen, ParanoidAndroid, CMW and TWRP as guilty, I think.
USBhost said:
Try this out format /system /cache /data with twrp to f2fs
If it doesn't boot then cheers you got out if the loop
Then adb sideload an f2fs ROM and kernel them flash
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Tried that, nothing happened, still with Paranoid Android.
violoncellemuse said:
I did. I didn't know that was possible until now.
But still, changing the file system or formating anything doesn't do anything after I reboot. I even checked after I changed the file system to f2fs in twrp to see the "current file system" when changing the partitions again, but it says it's ext4 still.
I tried repairing system, which processed quickly. However, trying to repair cache and data led to an error. Perhaps this might mean something? or is this normal?
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Same here.

Soft-bricked Nexus 4, no guide will work

My Nexus 4 had been running Cyanogenmod (cm-12.1-20151007-SNAPSHOT-YOG4PAO334-mako) correctly for months. Two days ago, the screen failed to auto-rotate when I tilted the phone so I decided to reboot and see if that worked. Not only did it not work, the device went into a bootloop. It would boot, ask for my encryption password, accept the password but the OS would never start (I waited over 2 hours).
I'm able to use adb, fastboot, and access TWRP.
I tried reflashing CM12 to no avail. I've also tried going back to stock by reformatting all partitions in fastboot and flashing stock bootloader, radio, and system image (also in fastboot). That's where I'm at right now. I have everything stock except for the recovery partition where I have TWRP.
Here's the TWRP log: http://pastebin.com/MCKD73G0
Here's the dmesg log: http://pastebin.com/BdVjV2vz
Here's the last kernel message log: http://pastebin.com/DBQQBFQv
Any ideas?
I have a very strong hunch that this problem has got something to do with the sensors.
I flashed Android 4.2.2 and, to my surprise, the phone booted correctly into Android. No other ROM (stock or otherwise) would boot correctly. As I mentioned in the OP, screen auto-rotation isn't working so I downloaded an app to test other sensors. The proximity sensor, pressure sensor, light sensor, and the gyroscope don't work. I strongly doubt this is a software issue but I'm not ruling it out yet. I will try to open the phone case later tonight and move the sensor around, it might be stuck.
Just had a pro take a look at my phone. He said there's nothing wrong with the sensors so it must be a software problem. I've been trying to fix this for days now.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I just noticed that my phone does not have the /sys/class/sensors/ or /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/ folders, is this normal? If not, how can I solve this?
Feareilo said:
I just noticed that my phone does not have the /sys/class/sensors/ or /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/ folders, is this normal? If not, how can I solve this?
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I had this issue twice.. flashing an old version of Frank ROM (in L preview times).. all my sensors got screwed... and trying to flash other roms or factory resetting the phone didn't work!
So I downloaded latest factory image and flashed it with the flashall.bat script
VoilĂ ! All the sensors started to work again!! And they still work! So... some very deep part of the system can be wiped only by the stock recovery factory reset.. I don't know why though.. but that's it!
bart.found said:
I had this issue twice.. flashing an old version of Frank ROM (in L preview times).. all my sensors got screwed... and trying to flash other roms or factory resetting the phone didn't work!
So I downloaded latest factory image and flashed it with the flashall.bat script
VoilĂ ! All the sensors started to work again!! And they still work! So... some very deep part of the system can be wiped only by the stock recovery factory reset.. I don't know why though.. but that's it!
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Thanks for your input. Unfortunately, that didn't work. Flashing stock ROMs didn't work and neither did doing the factory reset.
Feareilo said:
Thanks for your input. Unfortunately, that didn't work. Flashing stock ROMs didn't work and neither did doing the factory reset.
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Sad to hear that... did you already factory reset from the stock recovery?
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Sad to hear that... did you already factory reset from the stock recovery?
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Yeah

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