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[Q] unable to install custom roms / custom screen resolution

I recently had my DX replaced with a new one, and this one seems different, both hardware-wise and software-wise. It is rooted, has CWM and I can back up / restore from cwm fine.
However, when I try to set a smaller screen size (so more shows up on screen), I then cannot use the phone app. It simply exits. Also, I am not able to install any custom roms - just bootloops.
Any help is appreciated.

I recall issues with the blur phone when changing the lcd density.
You can solve this by either not changing the density, or replacing the blur phone with something else.
I'm not sure if you can just pull an aosp phone app from another rom, or if you have to use another rom without the blur phone

Hate to ask what is sometimes the obvious, but when you flash a custom rom, did you format Data and Cache?

canyoufindben said:
Hate to ask what is sometimes the obvious, but when you flash a custom rom, did you format Data and Cache?
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Its always good to format Dalvik Cache. I always format System/Data and Dalvik Cache before installing any ROM's.

bigshotrob22 said:
Its always good to format Dalvik Cache. I always format System/Data and Dalvik Cache before installing any ROM's.
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Am I wrong is saying that if you formated /data, then you already wiped Dalvik cache since it's located in /data/dalvik-cache?
I don't want to start an argument. I'm just wondering about the benefits of wiping the Dalvik Cache after you already wiped/formated /data.
When switching ROMs, I've always just wiped /system, /data, /cache and never had any problems arise.

[Q] Problem with Flexreaper Rev5

I am having some problem with Flexreaper Rom. I installed it yesterday and it worked really fine for me. But I faced some problem when I restarted my Tab. If I restart my tab in Recovery and do not do anything, not even wipe my cache, just reboot. Rom is stuck at Boot animation screen. I need to reinstall the Rom. So when I install the Aroma themes without wiping the cache, I can not run my Rom. But I loose all my previous settings and installed applications on wiping the cache memory.
Is it the problem with my tab only or somebody else is also having the same problem.....

How to delete ALL data

Hi,
So I am new into android and flashing. I performed now happily flashing 10 flashes, using sammobile stocks and custom roms, using odin and philwiz.
I did several hard formats, cleared cache, wiped data through recovery, but I noticed something...
Data is not really deleted.
When I flash for example custom rom, I firstly do factory reset, then clear cache and wipe data, but after flashing custom rom, there are still remaining folders from previous rom
How come, why? How to completely remove this.

Phone2GO said:
Hi,
So I am new into android and flashing. I performed now happily flashing 10 flashes, using sammobile stocks and custom roms, using odin and philwiz.
I did several hard formats, cleared cache, wiped data through recovery, but I noticed something...
Data is not really deleted.
When I flash for example custom rom, I firstly do factory reset, then clear cache and wipe data, but after flashing custom rom, there are still remaining folders from previous rom
How come, why? How to completely remove this.
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You mean folders on your internal storage? You should delete them manually.
Or do you mean that there are still folders left on the /system partition? Then you are not wiping properly. A factory reset = wipe cache, wipe dalvik and wipe data. A full wipe also includes the /system partition.

Phone2GO said:
Hi,
So I am new into android and flashing. I performed now happily flashing 10 flashes, using sammobile stocks and custom roms, using odin and philwiz.
I did several hard formats, cleared cache, wiped data through recovery, but I noticed something...
Data is not really deleted.
When I flash for example custom rom, I firstly do factory reset, then clear cache and wipe data, but after flashing custom rom, there are still remaining folders from previous rom
How come, why? How to completely remove this.
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Wiping with custom recoverys won't delete folders and stuff.
Go to settings -factory reset.
When you want to be sure that really EVERYTHING is deleted you have to burn your device ^^
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Need help with Lollipop bugs

I have updated my phone to latest official 5.0.1 and have also installed the 355 mb update that came after the main lollipop update Have wiped cached and data and done a clean install yet i still have some of the lolipop bugs..They are as follows:
1. homescreen Wallpaper gets set to default wallpaper randomly.
2. Keyboard crashes few times in a day.
3. Using snapchat and other apps continuously causes the phone to reboot
4. Overheating...phone gets heated like mad.
I noticed most of this happens when I am on 3g and on wifi everything works smooth.
my phone is rooted. Please let me know if there are tweaks or apps that i can install to fix these bugs. Thanks so much!
Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk

I think you should try some custom roms which base on android 5.0.1 for S4, suggest Omega Rom v28 .
This will fix those bugs easily

hey thankss! Can i install custom rom n retain my data or i will hv to wipe the data???

techspark said:
hey thankss! Can i install custom rom n retain my data or i will hv to wipe the data???
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Start with a clean device. Thus wipe your data.
It's not needed to wipe your internal storage. But make sure to wipe /system, /cache en /data (without internal storage).

Hey thanks for your reply. Can you tell me how to wipe data without wiping internal storage ?? Generally when i wipe data or do a factory reset it wipes everything.

techspark said:
Hey thanks for your reply. Can you tell me how to wipe data without wiping internal storage ?? Generally when i wipe data or do a factory reset it wipes everything.
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Use custom recovery like TWRP.

What did I do wrong?

My phone was building up too much cache so I decided to go on TWRP and do a wipe of cache and dalvik cache, but after that it started to lag *a lot*. After booting the phone takes a lot of time to load the launcher, Google feed works after 5 minutes of the boot, everything lags, it doesn't detect the Sim card unless I pull it out and in again. What did I do wrong? I what cache is and why does it exist but I didn't think this would do so much harm.

Should I reflash the ROM or something like that? Don't know what to do.

I thought after a few boots it would build up enough cache again to work properly but it has been a week already and every boot is the same, it takes at least 10 or 15 minutes to work properly

E11101101 said:
I thought after a few boots it would build up enough cache again to work properly but it has been a week already and every boot is the same, it takes at least 10 or 15 minutes to work properly
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Are you sure you haven't wiped any other partition?
Are you on stock ROM?
Anything installed to cache like the loopback bug fix for magisk?
Usually the wipe of cache and dalvik causes no problems, the first boot will take longer but after that everything should turn back to normal again.
If the problems persist a factory reset or if that doesn't help a reflash of the ROM may solve the issues.

Wolfcity said:
Are you sure you haven't wiped any other partition?
Are you on stock ROM?
Anything installed to cache like the loopback bug fix for magisk?
Usually the wipe of cache and dalvik causes no problems, the first boot will take longer but after that everything should turn back to normal again.
If the problems persist a factory reset or if that doesn't help a reflash of the ROM may solve the issues.
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I decided to flash the ROM again, I am on the Pixel Experience rom, didn't have any fix or anything like that, but after reflashing it has been working better, guess I'll wipe dalvik only when flashing something like a Magisk module.

E11101101 said:
I decided to flash the ROM again, I am on the Pixel Experience rom, didn't have any fix or anything like that, but after reflashing it has been working better, guess I'll wipe dalvik only when flashing something like a Magisk module.
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I haven't wiped dalvik/cache for over a year now while flashing magisk, different modules and other stuff. I personally think wiping cache and dalvik is overrated on newer devices.

Wolfcity said:
I haven't wiped dalvik/cache for over a year now while flashing magisk, different modules and other stuff. I personally think wiping cache and dalvik is overrated on newer devices.
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I'll surely not do it again because it ruins the launcher an awful lot.