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Hi, hoping that someone out there will have some answers or solutions for me! My boyfriend is knowledgeable enough to help me flash new roms/radios to my phone, but is not confident enough to change anything like overclocking, or any of the advanced settings in my current rom, CM 7.2
Even back in 7.0 and 7.1, my phone was always losing signal--for example, losing data connectivity in my office for several hours! This is using the radio that comes with 7.2, as well as several others (my current radio is 12.28h.60.140fU_26.06.02.25). I'm kind of at my wits end---it's frustrating when everyone around me is using their phone no problem and I can't even get a signal because my phone is saying it lost data connectivity because it's out of range/roaming! Is this an issue I could bring up with my wireless provider, or is this a rom or hardware issue?
My other current concern is that in the last week, my phone has been running very slowly--there is a delay almost every time I press an icon, whether it be messaging, gmail, or facebook. Facebook and other apps have been especially slow--if I haven't opened it recently, it will take about 10 seconds to start loading, with a black screen in the mean time. I've tried switching apps from the phone to the SD card and back, and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'd hate to re-install the rom and go through the work of changing all of my settings if it ends up not fixing anything (waiting for an official release of CM9 anyways). Is there any settings I can change that would speed it up?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
your best off trying a new radio and flashing your rom over, yeah this can suck but im sure it will be well worth the time spent in the end.
you can restore most apps+data to the same point with titanium backup
if you use a custom launcher most of those settings can be backed up
sms backup + will take care of messages and call logs for you
really it wont take too long and you will be much much happier.
just make sure to do a full wipe when you reflash the rom
and when you change radios you can wipe efs and change ril-libs
this may also help out a lot -- here is some info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970809
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1335127
again - read through this material first - do a full wipe - reflash rom - try new radio -
wipe efs and change ril-libs
you are now happy... after you restore everything to your desire!
do a nandroid!
I think that what demkantor said regarding radio and the sorts is pretty solid. Radios are a trial and error thing, it's different for everyone, so test and see what works for you in terms of performance/battery life.
Performance wise, if you like CyanogenMod, I would highly recommend switching to ILWT CM7. It is considerably faster and has better battery life when compared to official CM. You can find it under the development section in this forum.
From there you can use the Supercharger V6 script, which also adds a boost most welcome. Try to avoid using task killers, they'll only slow down the phone as it will try to restore the killed processes. Also, try to keep your app count as low as possible. Having many apps slows things down A LOT. Ideally you should only keep the apps you need, in addition to 20~ complimentary (games and so on). There are also other apps called 'rogue'. They tend to hog your system resources and drain battery. You should notice this by looking at the battery stats/running processes windows. You'll have to
From there, you can achieve more performance you can overclock. My suggestion is to use CPU Tuner, get familiarized with it and set up some profiles, in order to preserve battery as it degrades.
(Hopefully) last edit: I wish I could add more to this subject but my provider's reception up here does not allow me to. I hope the above info will suffice.
Sent from my DZ.
OK, first of all, @demkantor, Titanium Backup is awesome! it kept all of my presets for EVERYTHING. Thanks for that referral!
I reflashed CM7.2 last night and all seems good so far--not as laggy as it had been, though I haven't opened tons of programs since last night, either.
I will take a look at the efs and ril-lib details--I've used that thread to find radios before, but kind of ignored those subjects, since the new radios technically worked, but not WELL.
@crestofawave Thanks, I might try ILWTCM7, at least until CM9 comes out, because battery life has also definitely always been an issue for me. However, not super confident about adding the supercharger V6 script and fiddling around with my CPU. Is there any sort of beginner's guide you can recommend for doing this? If I switch to ILWTCM7 but don't run the script or overclock, can I still expect a significant change in performance/battery life?
I really can't do much else about reducing battery usage--I've recently switched to the paid versions of some games, to eliminate those battery-eating ads I hear so much about, and I keep bluetooth, GPS, and WIFI off unless I am actively using them.
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
cbski9 said:
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
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Hi,
Thanks for documenting your experiences. Just wondering how is the battery life so far? Is it better than the Stock ROM?
thanks
TZ
cbski9 said:
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Android where you have choices.
Welcome to android. Soon you'll be like others here and will have the files needed to root/install custom rom/install custom kernel before you even buy your phone!
If you miss some of the stock stuff you can always try some of the touchwiz based roms. They won't be like cm10 obviously but they are streamlined with a lot of the carrier/samsung crap removed.
tzones said:
Hi,
Thanks for documenting your experiences. Just wondering how is the battery life so far? Is it better than the Stock ROM?
thanks
TZ
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I am still experimenting, but so far it seems that battery life has seen an improvement. However, I must qualify that with the fact that I did not restore EVERY app on the new ROM because many apps were no longer needed. So, any improvement may not be specific to the ROM itself. However, I read a few posts where people were actually having worse battery performance; so I am very pleased that this is not the case with my installation. Sometimes I wonder if the people having sporadic issues that others are not having is more related to HOW they flash and how/if they restore various system data/settings. I pretty much wiped everything and restored very selectively with regard to system settings/data.
@ djkinetic & crash822, thanks for the welcome guys! crash822, with the stock rom I was actually using another launcher because the stock TW was so limiting, you couldn't even increase the icon grid size. The JB launcher (or at least the CM10 version) has that built-in, so it is quite nice. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
cbski9 said:
@ djkinetic & crash822, thanks for the welcome guys! crash822, with the stock rom I was actually using another launcher because the stock TW was so limiting, you couldn't even increase the icon grid size. The JB launcher (or at least the CM10 version) has that built-in, so it is quite nice. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
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I don't mean touchwiz the launcher. Touchwiz is the whole wrapping that samsung puts android into on their phones. It includes the features that the S3 came with like s-voice, some of the camera features, the eye track to keep your screen on.
Keep what I said in mind whenever you see things on these forums you might want to try that are touchwiz only when you're on CM10 which is aosp. The same can be said when you see things that are AOSP only when you're on a touchwiz rom.
I'd also like to point out that it usually takes 3 battery cycles to fully see how your battery is so don't freak out if when you flash a new rom the batter is trash. It might be trash the first day then it is great after that.
I too am loving the M1 CM10 release! Its been surprising how well everything works so far. I do have one question, the Play store says that Google Wallet is not compatible with my phone. I've considered trying to side load it and see if it would work but anyone else have any suggestions for getting this on my phone?
forwardbias said:
I too am loving the M1 CM10 release! Its been surprising how well everything works so far. I do have one question, the Play store says that Google Wallet is not compatible with my phone. I've considered trying to side load it and see if it would work but anyone else have any suggestions for getting this on my phone?
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I believe there is a cm10 workaround for google wallet in the development forum. It involves editing your build prop and using a custom wallet application.
crash822 said:
I believe there is a cm10 workaround for google wallet in the development forum. It involves editing your build prop and using a custom wallet application.
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Thanks, I will check that out.
((if this is in the wrong place or has been covered before, I apologize...))
Hello all.
I just became the new owner of a family member's Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T). Already owning and tinkering with two xperia Ion's I wanted to have a little more freedom and experience Kitkat on the GS3.
I had no experience in unlocked bootloaders and all that, so I figured that I would let the Cyanogenmod Auto-Installer do the work for me and install CM11 on my device.
It worked great initially! No problems whatsoever aside from minor glitches here and there. As soon as I started installing some more apps and Xposed modules, I noticed that things were getting odd.
Eventually, my phone wouldn't connect to google's play services whatsoever. Despite countless resets of the phone itself and my modem/router, nothing seemed to help. Flushing the cache and dalvik didn't help either, nor did a factory reset. The issue kept coming back.
Thinking that perhaps another rom wouldn't have the problem, I installed C-Rom (which was based on 4.4.4 KK). It ran BEAUTIFULLY! It is sure one hell of a rom. But then, not too long after I had everything installed and running the way I wanted it to, it had the same errors as before.
I don't know how to explain the error other than the phone just generally messing up. I don't recall it ever having those issues on stock, but then again, it wasn't my phone on stock, and the first thing I did upon receiving it was put a custom rom on it.
But the error can only be explained as a general f***-up of the entire OS. Commands run brutally slow (I will launch the flashlight and it wont turn on until seconds, even minutes later. Alternatively, text messages take eons to send and receive, which I am positive is not an error on the AT&T side of things). Then, whenever I try to download or install an app from the play store, the application will download partially and then stall for what feels like eons. Some of the applications just stop there, and some I will find installed on the device some 30 minutes later. Not to mention that the signal icons on the quick setting tiles are all turned orange for some bizarre reason. Another bizarre issue is that no matter what, I can never launch the terminal to execute an htop, logcat, or anything! The terminal just stalls and eventually crashes, while it worked fine before.
I've checked online for errors similar to this, but haven't found anything that has helped the phone. Anyone out there who is willing to give this a crack or just point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
benhofb said:
((if this is in the wrong place or has been covered before, I apologize...))
Hello all.
I just became the new owner of a family member's Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T). Already owning and tinkering with two xperia Ion's I wanted to have a little more freedom and experience Kitkat on the GS3.
I had no experience in unlocked bootloaders and all that, so I figured that I would let the Cyanogenmod Auto-Installer do the work for me and install CM11 on my device.
It worked great initially! No problems whatsoever aside from minor glitches here and there. As soon as I started installing some more apps and Xposed modules, I noticed that things were getting odd.
Eventually, my phone wouldn't connect to google's play services whatsoever. Despite countless resets of the phone itself and my modem/router, nothing seemed to help. Flushing the cache and dalvik didn't help either, nor did a factory reset. The issue kept coming back.
Thinking that perhaps another rom wouldn't have the problem, I installed C-Rom (which was based on 4.4.4 KK). It ran BEAUTIFULLY! It is sure one hell of a rom. But then, not too long after I had everything installed and running the way I wanted it to, it had the same errors as before.
I don't know how to explain the error other than the phone just generally messing up. I don't recall it ever having those issues on stock, but then again, it wasn't my phone on stock, and the first thing I did upon receiving it was put a custom rom on it.
But the error can only be explained as a general f***-up of the entire OS. Commands run brutally slow (I will launch the flashlight and it wont turn on until seconds, even minutes later. Alternatively, text messages take eons to send and receive, which I am positive is not an error on the AT&T side of things). Then, whenever I try to download or install an app from the play store, the application will download partially and then stall for what feels like eons. Some of the applications just stop there, and some I will find installed on the device some 30 minutes later. Not to mention that the signal icons on the quick setting tiles are all turned orange for some bizarre reason. Another bizarre issue is that no matter what, I can never launch the terminal to execute an htop, logcat, or anything! The terminal just stalls and eventually crashes, while it worked fine before.
I've checked online for errors similar to this, but haven't found anything that has helped the phone. Anyone out there who is willing to give this a crack or just point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
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It sounds like you're the modules you're installing are crashing your system. I'd suggest you do a clean flash of w/e rom you wanna rush (you seem to like C-rom) and run it clean for a few days. You can install apps and such but don't restore system apps and don't install modules.
If it runs fine after a few days, you can cherry-pick the modules you wanna use (make sure they're made for the sammy phones). Install one or two, test for a couple days and so on. You'll eventually find which one is messing with your system (if that's actually what's causing the problems).
All seems to be well now. I've isolated the problematic app after slowly restoring all my app data one at a time. I have since moved to a different rom (SOKP) and everything is going running smoothly! Surprisingly, it wasn't Xposed causing the issue, but a market app that displays system info similar to conky on Linux computers. Once I installed it, the system just crapped out. Signals dropped, the terminal froze, and none of my apps seemed to work properly. But once I uninstalled the app and reset my phone, all was well.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Hello everybody,
got this mobile a few months ago, latest Android officially available release, only thing I did was rooting and adding some software, I use it as a second device mostly to check email and online services, I use my other smartphone as a phone and for calendars, phonebook and notes.
I noticed that the device all of a sudden restarts without me doing anything, my son (who uses Android since longer than me but who doesn't really know much about it...) said it could be the heat (it's always in the shade) or too many options on (wi-fi in primis) but I checked and there are just a few apps running (mail, phone, phonebook, sometimes Instagram), what can I check to find how does it restart without any notice or action from me?
Thank you
soory
I had an issue where my Note 2 would randomly reboot, I also had an issue where my power button was dodgy.
What it ended up being was the ribbon for the power button, got this replaced, and this fixed my dodgy power button issue, as well as the random reboots.
I paid to get this done in a shop, but it seems you can do this yourself.
Sorry i can't post links - hope this makes sense
youtube com/watch?v=T5zPvP4btDA
Of course, your problem might be different
Giuann said:
Hello everybody,
got this mobile a few months ago, latest Android officially available release, only thing I did was rooting and adding some software, I use it as a second device mostly to check email and online services, I use my other smartphone as a phone and for calendars, phonebook and notes.
I noticed that the device all of a sudden restarts without me doing anything, my son (who uses Android since longer than me but who doesn't really know much about it...) said it could be the heat (it's always in the shade) or too many options on (wi-fi in primis) but I checked and there are just a few apps running (mail, phone, phonebook, sometimes Instagram), what can I check to find how does it restart without any notice or action from me?
Thank you
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Dear Giuann
What you are experiencing is know as SOD (silence of death) on our Android World
If your phone is rooted and you have custom Kernel then it would be due to the kernel... change your kernel to stock or a more stable one as per your device.
If you have a stock kernel... then clean your cache.. etc.. or better reflash stock ROM...
alternately use Betterbattary stats to identify if you have any rogue application which is causing issues...
I have experience this issue when I did rooting.. re root it with the correct method....
I did only root it as to install software I download from the internet, everything is as it originally was, ROM is the stock one.
Which are the steps to perform to clean the cache and to check if some app is making the OS crash?
Thank you
I'm running stock AT&T 4.0.4 ROM, rooted with CWM. Google Play Services just updated to version 9.2.56 (034-124593566), and it's sucking my battery dry and making the phone run hot. I have a spare phone and brought it online, and the same thing happened as soon as Google Play Services updated. It is running anywhere from 50% to 80% of my battery when the screen is below 10%. Yep, it's using more than 10x what the screen requires. Battery that used to last 18 hours now lasts 2 to 3. Others have posted similar comments in the Play Store (like that's going to do any good). Common theme is it's older OSes.
I have tried disabling everything and it doesn't do any good. Too many things break if Google Play Services is removed. Going back to an old version is futile -- it self-updates within minutes. I tried GServiceFix and it works for few minutes, then the usage creeps up again.
I sent Google an email, but I expect nothing less than the run-around. So, I turn to XDA Developers.
First, is anyone else here still running stock, and did the same thing happen to you? How about on other ROMs (please specify)? Did you find a fix?
Assuming Google will do little to help, I need to do something to make my phone work right. So if there is a ROM where this is not a problem, I guess it's time to jump in. Problem is, some of the links in this forum are broken. I've found (or already had) most of what I think I need except a version or EFS Professional that works on our phone. I can find no working links to an older version that will do the job. I do have a Nandroid backup (also stored on my NAS), which I believe can restore the EFS, but I'd like to get just the EFS in case I need to load it to the system after flashing. None of the tools available in the Play Store seem to work on the Glide -- I end up with an empty backup directory.
My plan, assuming there is a Jellybean ROM without this issue, is to flash twrp-2.8.4-flashable.zip, since I understand TWRP is required for JB, then do another Nandroid backup with it, then flash whichever ROM is suggested to get over this. I've looked at Bubor's CM10.2, and it looks like it will fill my needs unless it also suffers this problem. If there is a reason I should update the Kernel, please let me know. I have not seen anything that makes me believe I need to.
Man, I wish one of the manufacturers would come out with a similarly sized new phone with a slide-out keyboard and AT&T compatible. I'd gladly upgrade, but there is nothing out there that meets my needs. Samsung S5 mini with slider -- I'm in.
Hi,
its one year later...
I'm with the same problem. Do you still have a solution?
Other ROMs have issues with camera and BT...
https://productforums.google.com/fo...rce=footer#!msg/play/uX3Xqk2gi_k/LurezyxjAgAJ