Force closes after wipe (apps2sd) - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

searching for this answer is futile....seems like every post has apps2sd in it.
On to the question: when I wipe my phone, is it normal for some apps to not reinstall, despite having apps2sd (see sig for ROM).
Most of my apps do reinstall, but certain ones like google voice, Weather Bug, and Mobile Defense throw force closes until I reinstall them. Is there something that I am doing incorrectly, or is normal behavior for apps2sd?

Sounds like normal behavior to me, cause it happens to me as well. But only when I wipe and reinstall a new ROM. I highly recommend if your doing a wipe to just start fresh on ALL apps.

Dizzler does it to me, its a protected app. No matter whos build im on. I havent tried cyans newest yet though. And i think apps with zip instead of apk extensions do it too.

well, at least it is normal. Been ROMing so much lately...only about three or four apps do it. And the dang APN settings too....always have to reinput them. I thought there was an easier way to flash apn settings to the device, but haven't been able to locate the directions (I think it was called Haykuro's apn)

pinetreehater said:
well, at least it is normal. Been ROMing so much lately...only about three or four apps do it. And the dang APN settings too....always have to reinput them. I thought there was an easier way to flash apn settings to the device, but haven't been able to locate the directions (I think it was called Haykuro's apn)
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Try typing
Code:
fix_permissions
in console. Deleting your davlik cache should also work. Try that as well

B-man007 said:
Try typing
Code:
fix_permissions
in console. Deleting your davlik cache should also work. Try that as well
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Thanks, will give that a try.

actually, it didn't work. At least on CM 3.9. I noticed that Cyanogen mentioned (somewhere) that he was having the same problem with some apps. Don't remember how he said to solve it.
How do you delete the davlik cache?

pinetreehater said:
well, at least it is normal. Been ROMing so much lately...only about three or four apps do it. And the dang APN settings too....always have to reinput them. I thought there was an easier way to flash apn settings to the device, but haven't been able to locate the directions (I think it was called Haykuro's apn)
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You can use Backup for Root Users to backup APN settings instead of re-entering them everytime... it sucks... I know, I have memorized AT&T's APN settings cuz I typed them in manually so many times... T_T

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App market not working

i am wondering why my app market is not working and how i would fix that. It keeps saying "the requested app cannot be found". Yet when i search i find them as soon as i click them i get that error. I am running the latest kingxrom. On his thread it says to use this script but were do put this script i tried entering it in the terminal but it just forceclosed and then i tried the console and after the reboot i got just a blackscreen so i had to reflash so im wondering were im suppose to put this script or what another way to fix my market thanks.
# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
(enter)
# rm -rf /system/sd/*
(enter)
# rm -rf /system/data/*
(enter)
# reboot recovery
I myself also have been experiencing this issue, really annoying and don't know whats the cause.
ya i have flashed a couple other roms and im getting the same problem when i had mlign rom i didnt have this problem so i think im going to flash back to the mlign and see if it works. I searched google for 3 days and didnt come up with anything that worked man im so stumped on this problem.
I am also getting the errors. I have tried other ROMs and still get the errors.
mpfuzz2 said:
I am also getting the errors. I have tried other ROMs and still get the errors.
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seriously dang that sucks man now i know im screwed i dont know what to do i guess im going to have to buy a new phone because i lost all my apps to plus my navi that i need lol
if anyone finds a fix please let me know
still no fix
i been having the same problem also... with mlign... tried two different hero roms and the same thing happened, put cm 4.2.2 on it an now it works... so seems to me that google has somehow blocked 1.5 versions of the market??? only thing i can think of... im gonna try a couple other different hero roms and maybe trying cm 4.0.4 and see if it still works...
crackahunky said:
i been having the same problem also... with mlign... tried two different hero roms and the same thing happened, put cm 4.2.2 on it an now it works... so seems to me that google has somehow blocked 1.5 versions of the market??? only thing i can think of... im gonna try a couple other different hero roms and maybe trying cm 4.0.4 and see if it still works...
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ok well i have tried kings new rom sense v1.3 and the market still doesnt work so i guess ill be trying cm's 4.2.2 by the way is that rom faster then the hero's i find the hero's to be pretty dang fast
I switched to CM 4.1.11.1 and the is market working. It is the 1.6 version of course. Don't know what the 1.5 version market's issue is, and I really like the Hero ROM's.
mpfuzz2 said:
I switched to CM 4.1.11.1 and the is market working. It is the 1.6 version of course. Don't know what the 1.5 version market's issue is, and I really like the Hero ROM's.
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ya me to man i like the hero roms a lot but i need the market so guess ill be trying out the cm rom now is it faster then hero
why arent you guys flashing 4.2.1 - it is Very fast and better than the other CMs in my opinion.
i might just try that one
Strange, but I decided to try and go back to Hero ROM again and it works fine (the market). Like nothing ever happened.
associated with login
I had this problem. I tried several different roms, completely wiped everything, reformatted sd... I even wiped and went back to stock Donut. It didn't work, until I created a new Google account. Now it works fine on any rom. I wonder if google has put a limit on how many times you can log in to the market, to stop sharing of paid apps.
carnegie0107 said:
I had this problem. I tried several different roms, completely wiped everything, reformatted sd... I even wiped and went back to stock Donut. It didn't work, until I created a new Google account. Now it works fine on any rom. I wonder if google has put a limit on how many times you can log in to the market, to stop sharing of paid apps.
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I'm pretty sure that google did not do anything like that. Something got borked for all of you guys. While I have not flashed any Hero roms in a long long time, I do know that you need to really clean out your phone before you even attempt to put Hero on it. That includes
Wipe
Wipe again
Drop to terminal and rm -r
system/sd/app
system/sd/app-private
system/sd/dalvik-cache
data/app
data/app-private
data/dalvik-cache
data/data (I think)
run e2fsk on your system/sd
wipe again
And only then you should install Hero rom following all recommendations from the creator of the rom.
Also, I wouldn't wipe right after installing a rom: sometimes devs sneak a thing or two into /data which you could delete if you wipe.
Good luck.
borodin1 said:
I'm pretty sure that google did not do anything like that. Something got borked for all of you guys. While I have not flashed any Hero roms in a long long time, I do know that you need to really clean out your phone before you even attempt to put Hero on it. That includes.....
...Good luck.
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Yes, I definitely completely cleaned out my phone. I completely wiped EVERYTHING, everything in data, in cache, in system... I even completely formatted my sd back to fat32, then reformatted again with ext4 and swap partitions. Then I wiped again, twice, then flashed cyan's stable. I also did the same thing (minus the total reformat of sd, just a simple delete of data) with a couple other ROMs, including kingklick. Market still didn't work. I did one wipe, flashed kingklick's latest sapphire sense port, and logged in with a NEW google account, and it worked perfectly. I'm going to try wiping and logging in with my old account, to see if it gives me the same error.
edit: Confirmed. Wiped, flashed, logged in with old account --> Market broken. Wiped again, flashed again, logged in with new account again --> Market works. I'm trying to contact Google to see what can be done.
borodin1 said:
I'm pretty sure that google did not do anything like that. Something got borked for all of you guys. While I have not flashed any Hero roms in a long long time, I do know that you need to really clean out your phone before you even attempt to put Hero on it. That includes
Wipe
Wipe again
Drop to terminal and rm -r
system/sd/app
system/sd/app-private
system/sd/dalvik-cache
data/app
data/app-private
data/dalvik-cache
data/data (I think)
run e2fsk on your system/sd
wipe again
And only then you should install Hero rom following all recommendations from the creator of the rom.
Also, I wouldn't wipe right after installing a rom: sometimes devs sneak a thing or two into /data which you could delete if you wipe.
Good luck.
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i tried this over and over and over again and nothing im gonna try creating a new google account and see if that works
I ended up wiping, repartitioning my sdcard card and wiping and reinstalling my ROM and it all works (I did backup ONLY using backup for root users.) and it all works fine for me know, going on 1 1/2 days. I use the same google account.
i had apps backed up on my sd card but if repartioning the sd card worked for you then i might to do that dont want to make a new google account lol.
ok so pretty much nothing worked for me besides changing my gmail account anyway i can change my gmail account sign in back to my old one without reflashing

All browsers crash without a "force close"

Hey all,
I've been an xda stalker for a while and have been using all sorts of roms for a while now, but now I am in need of my own question.
For a while now, my mother's G1 has been acting up, whether it be her own fault or a bug. But this one has me confused. Over the past three roms i flashed (dwang, cm, superd) this same problem is always around. Everytime I touch browser, dolphin, etc the page begins loading and then i see the home screen.
Everything else works as it should, which confuses me. Everytime I flash a rom, i wipe, wipe ext, repair ext, wipe, flash.
I'd be happy to post a logcat if someone would be so kind as to inform me how to dump to a txt file.
Hopefully this is something extremely easy so I can get her off my back hah
erkmasterflex said:
Hopefully this is something extremely easy so I can get her off my back hah
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sure its easy, if its your mom's phone, dont have a unsupported non-factory rom on it... the REAL awnser is: wipe EVERYTHING, even your ext partition, and reinstall base, then CM... I'm guessing its something you mucked up by going between builds without wiping, or not fixing permissions between builds, or some app on your ext didnt play nicely.
*oh yeah, wrong section, read stickys, or DIAF, your choice*
jmhalder said:
sure its easy, if its your mom's phone, dont have a unsupported non-factory rom on it... the REAL awnser is: wipe EVERYTHING, even your ext partition, and reinstall base, then CM...
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Nah I think he should install the RC29...just kiddin you should use Super-D or Enom's official. I kinda assumed this thread was about some kind of fix for browser problems.
Ace42 said:
Nah I think he should install the RC29...
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well, the RC29 might actually force a wipe... and would update itself and have OTA keys... honestly probably not a bad way to go... Super-D is good, but honestly dont notice a huge difference between that and CM.
it was even not working when i reverted to complete stock. could this be a problem with the phone itself? Maybe revert to stock again and take it in to t-mo?
There should not be any problem with leftovers from previous roms, since i completely wipe data and ext as i mentioned in my first post.
Moderators, please move this to correct section. this seemed like the correct section since this seems to be more involved in the development side of things. Definately not Accessories but more involved than Q&A. Thank you
Phone ><---USB--->< PC/Laptop/Mac
adb logcat
watch text fly up screen ... make browser crash
quick !!!!! take a picture of that text.............
if you don't have a usb cable handy, a PC or the time to figure out how to get adb installed
go to terminal emulator on phone, and type
logcat|tee /sdcard/logcat.txt
( get the pipe "|" with alt then s )
make browser crash
go back to terminal press ball then C
Edit : the ball can be a bit of a pain, when in term do menu --> preferences --> control key , and set to which key you prefer, I like left alt as ctrl[\i]
now have a look at the logcat.txt file, it
less /sdcard/logcat.txt
you could just do logcat > /sdcard/logcat.txt
but it doesn't look as geeky
NB use >> instead of > to append > will make new file >> will add to file
to append to file with tee use tee -a file.txt[\i]
and yeah, wrong section
thank you very much for your assistance and the little linux command briefing ha
i decided to try every sort of wipe, repair, etc and do it multiple times. probably didn't do anythin, but worth a shot ha.
Ended up working! I removed the ext and swap partitions, wiped anything i could multiple times, flashed super d, didn't work, wiped a bunch, flashed htc recovery image, then cyan, and presto. For whatever reason it finally worked.
Shoulda done the logcat and posted it so y'all could see whatever was going on and hopefully help someone out later. but all is resolved for now.
If there is a next time, I will post in Q&A. I want to thank everyone for their input and wish all a good night.
-Eric
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[Q] Stock ROM (SBF) Available for Droid 4?

I ... may have bricked my Droid 4. I won't go into details unless somebody asks, but I don't think it's necessary. I AM able to get to the recovery mode though, I just have nothing to recover from.... I misplaced my back-up.
So, I need SOMETHING to flash my phone to. 4.0/2.0/I don't care, I just need any rom/SBF to make this bad boy boot again. Anybody have anything?
I saw and downloaded the first thing that shows up when you google "droid-4-system-dump-wallpapers-ringtones.html" (link doesn't work because I'm new) But, I was unable to make anything of it.... What do I do?
Just to help others avoid the same fate can you please let us all know what you did?
zeroibis said:
Just to help others avoid the same fate can you please let us all know what you did?
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Well, in hindsight it was kind of dumb. I rooted it, and began to remove all of the VZW sponsored apps. Once I did that, it cleared out a lot of memory (storage AND ram) but seemed to come with the downside of preventing my "settings" activity opening up. As in, whenever I hit "menu" then "Settings" from the main launcher, it would force close behind the scenes (logcat showed the stack trace for the settings activity).
I spent the next day trying to fix that issue, copying "settings.apk" from that link I mentioned earlier to my root director, but that didn't fix it. So, I went and tried copying entire folders over. This is the embarrassing part... I hit a 'delete' button on the "system/apps" folder, got about 30 force close windows, and am now stuck in a bootloop.
Doing the "power + both volume buttons" still gives me the recovery menu, but I don't have anything to recover to, as I was stupid and didn't think to make a backup.
Dwebtron said:
Well, in hindsight it was kind of dumb. I rooted it, and began to remove all of the VZW sponsored apps. Once I did that, it cleared out a lot of memory (storage AND ram) but seemed to come with the downside of preventing my "settings" activity opening up. As in, whenever I hit "menu" then "Settings" from the main launcher, it would force close behind the scenes (logcat showed the stack trace for the settings activity).
I spent the next day trying to fix that issue, copying "settings.apk" from that link I mentioned earlier to my root director, but that didn't fix it. So, I went and tried copying entire folders over. This is the embarrassing part... I hit a 'delete' button on the "system/apps" folder, got about 30 force close windows, and am now stuck in a bootloop.
Doing the "power + both volume buttons" still gives me the recovery menu, but I don't have anything to recover to, as I was stupid and didn't think to make a backup.
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No files are floating around at this time. You really screwed yourself over on this one. Go back to Verizon and beg. You chose to void your warranty.
Dwebtron said:
Well, in hindsight it was kind of dumb. I rooted it, and began to remove all of the VZW sponsored apps. Once I did that, it cleared out a lot of memory (storage AND ram) but seemed to come with the downside of preventing my "settings" activity opening up. As in, whenever I hit "menu" then "Settings" from the main launcher, it would force close behind the scenes (logcat showed the stack trace for the settings activity).
I spent the next day trying to fix that issue, copying "settings.apk" from that link I mentioned earlier to my root director, but that didn't fix it. So, I went and tried copying entire folders over. This is the embarrassing part... I hit a 'delete' button on the "system/apps" folder, got about 30 force close windows, and am now stuck in a bootloop.
Doing the "power + both volume buttons" still gives me the recovery menu, but I don't have anything to recover to, as I was stupid and didn't think to make a backup.
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I'm curious about this too - I deleted a bunch of vzw garbage. I did make a copy of of everything with titanium backup first but when I tried re-installing one of them it just hung while another re-installed fine.
I had a similar issue with one app - I had to go into /system/app and change it form RO to RW. Once Read/Write was enabled, Titanium was able to restore the app.
I have been playing it safe and only freezing the apps, not deleting them. I have had no FC or any odd behavior. I figured with an allocated 3 gb to applications, at this time gaining an extra 100MB of storage space is superfluous...especially with no SBF available.
As mentioned above, try going to the VZW store and getting an exchange. I'm certain an .sbf will be released at some point but it could be weeks/months before that happens.
And for future reference/anyone else reading this thread...never delete system apps! Just freeze them. Yes they will still be taking up space, but they won't be using any memory and they won't show up in your launcher so it's basically the same thing...except with freezing it is 100% reversible and will still allow you to receive updates.
Can someone upload these files from D4:
/system/build.prop
/system/default.prop
Freeze Apps
SGMD1 said:
As mentioned above, try going to the VZW store and getting an exchange. I'm certain an .sbf will be released at some point but it could be weeks/months before that happens.
And for future reference/anyone else reading this thread...never delete system apps! Just freeze them. Yes they will still be taking up space, but they won't be using any memory and they won't show up in your launcher so it's basically the same thing...except with freezing it is 100% reversible and will still allow you to receive updates.
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What is the best way to freeze apps? I know you can do this with Titanium Backup. Do you need the pro version in order to do this? Are there other apps out there that also allow you to freeze apps?
kwyrt said:
What is the best way to freeze apps? I know you can do this with Titanium Backup. Do you need the pro version in order to do this? Are there other apps out there that also allow you to freeze apps?
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You do need the Pro version of Titanium Backup to freeze apps I believe. There are free apps that will do it (i.e. Bloatware Killer) but I am not really familiar with them.
Skrilax_CZ said:
Can someone upload these files from D4:
/system/build.prop
/system/default.prop
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http://db.tt/LymDelkf
That zip contains the 2 files you asked for. Anything else you need just ask and I can pull it for you. I havent done a dd of all the partitons yet but will be doing that as soon as I can.
cellzealot said:
That zip contains the 2 files you asked for. Anything else you need just ask and I can pull it for you. I havent done a dd of all the partitons yet but will be doing that as soon as I can.
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The link that I was referring to in the first post SHOULD have every file from the D4.
I meant if he needed any of the other partitions besides the system.
I wanted to give him exactly what he asked for because he is avery sharp guy who may help us out with this device.
Unfortunately I did the same (though not as bad...I just can't open any of my contacts). I changed the permissions for /system/apps but I still am hanging at restoring in Titanium Backup. Are there any other directories that should have changed permissions to get some of these apps restored?
Also, lesson learned....freeze no uninstall
mattlgroff said:
No files are floating around at this time. You really screwed yourself over on this one. Go back to Verizon and beg. You chose to void your warranty.
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Yeah so what? Why do people feel the need to post condescending comments for no reason? Its because of mistakes and screwups that the community progresses. There will be files floating around by the weekend, I'm sure.
I'm in the same boat... I bricked by droid 4... now waiting for a sbf file... someone said go to vzw and beg... has anyone ever tried that, after bricking your phone? what did you say? and did it work?
I'm just trying to figure out how to get vzw to replace this phone.
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reigndropz said:
Yeah so what? Why do people feel the need to post condescending comments for no reason? Its because of mistakes and screwups that the community progresses. There will be files floating around by the weekend, I'm sure.
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The files will be released by the weekend? YAY... how do you know?
Also what does it take/what has to be done for someone to release these sbf files?
jgardner said:
Unfortunately I did the same (though not as bad...I just can't open any of my contacts). I changed the permissions for /system/apps but I still am hanging at restoring in Titanium Backup. Are there any other directories that should have changed permissions to get some of these apps restored?
Also, lesson learned....freeze no uninstall
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That's the only path I had to change. Do you recall if you happened to have moved an app to a different path (perhaps to the sd-card) then removed it?
Are there multiple apps you are trying to restore? If so, have you tried restoring them one at a time?
im going to wait for the sbf files before any major modifications to my phone, then we can all start the fun
i just froze apps to prevent them from running, im not worried about space since i put in a 32GB SD card
I think it's very wise to wait for the firmware to be released, but it's worth noting that the term SBF is a mistaken reference to the old format for firmware files and that all dual core Motorolas have fastboot support now and RSD Lite has been modified to support this and uses xml.zip files that are sets of signed images rather than the Single Binary File(SBF).
This is a very important distinction to be made as the new format and boot menu provide many more options for controlling the flash process for the end user and it is ultimately much safer and more flexible.

Restoring app data via TiBu on ICS ROMS = FC

Is anyone else having this issue? More importantly, has anyone else solved this problem? I've searched (as effectively as I can via mobile) and found a thread or two discussing it, but no one seems to have a solution.
Regardless of the ROM, it seems that a lot of apps immediately FC when I open them after restoring their data. Installing the app by itself works fine, but the moment I attempt to restore the data I get the FCs.
It's quite infuriating really, as it's preventing me from trying any MIUI ROMs because I can't get them to boot without doing a data wipe (no, I won't run a ROM without my apps' data, sorry)
Checking and unchecking the "follow all symbolic links" option hasn't worked either.
Basically, HALP!
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So... I'm the only one with this problem?
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I only had this problem because I was using a datafix script and didn't have the symbolic links option checked. I lost all my data because of this. Now would be a good time to check if my new backups even work...
EDIT: They work fine... Maybe try deleting all of yours and doing it again, and have symbolic links checked.
korockinout13 said:
I only had this problem because I was using a datafix script and didn't have the symbolic links option checked. I lost all my data because of this. Now would be a good time to check if my new backups even work...
EDIT: They work fine... Maybe try deleting all of yours and doing it again, and have symbolic links checked.
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Sorry I never replied, I had a response typed out and never posted it =/
My problem seems to have disappeared after coming back to SimplyAOKP from my nandroid. I don't actually use a datafix script.
Here's what prompted me to post this:
I wanted to try out the port of Andy's MIUI v4, so I wiped all of my backups and made new ones (didn't check the symbolic links option before backup) as well as a nandroid. After flashing MIUI, I'd say about half of my apps worked fine. The rest FC'd immediately. Now that I'm back on SimplyAOKP, the backups work fine =/
After thinking about it, I realized that I usually move my larger apps to the SD, and never did that on MIUI. So in the end, the FCs mightve come from my datadata partition being full (I never checked, just figured it was the same old backup problem and nandroided back) . If the problem resurfaces, I'll post back here and hope for the best.
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cmod7 kindle app - no menu bar when reading

Don't know it this is a setting somewhere or what, but I have a question on using the Kindle app on the Nook Color running cmod 7 (7.20 stable). The app runs okay, but I seem to be missing a navigation bar once I start reading a book. It only shows the title and where I am - no options to go back to the Kindle menu (like if I want to read a different book). The only way I can get back to the Kindle menu is to reboot.
I've searched the forum and the closest thread to this problem talks about changing the settings - I don't seem to have any settings to adjust. Even if I go to settings/applications/manage applications/downloaded/kindle there still aren't any changable options.
Sorry for so many questions - I'm a noob. I've searched the net on this and searched this forum with no luck.
any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Dave
dweaton said:
Don't know it this is a setting somewhere or what, but I have a question on using the Kindle app on the Nook Color running cmod 7 (7.20 stable). The app runs okay, but I seem to be missing a navigation bar once I start reading a book. It only shows the title and where I am - no options to go back to the Kindle menu (like if I want to read a different book). The only way I can get back to the Kindle menu is to reboot.
I've searched the forum and the closest thread to this problem talks about changing the settings - I don't seem to have any settings to adjust. Even if I go to settings/applications/manage applications/downloaded/kindle there still aren't any changable options.
Sorry for so many questions - I'm a noob. I've searched the net on this and searched this forum with no luck.
any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Dave
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On my device I only have to tap the middle of the page and the menus all pop up.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
Still no go......
Tried that - I still only get the title at the top and the how much I've read meter at the bottom - no menu.
Thanks for replying!
Dave
dweaton said:
Tried that - I still only get the title at the top and the how much I've read meter at the bottom - no menu.
Thanks for replying!
Dave
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What version of the Kindle app are you using? Try updating to the latest version.
Also try playing with the settings in cm. Go to settings, cyanogenmod settings, tablet tweaks, and play with checking and unchecking disable full screen.
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uh.....I'm not sure
Thanks for the reply! I downloaded the Kindle app via Amazon, so hopefully it is whatever is their latest. I sure didn't know about the settings, so I'll give the go and see what happens! I do get the drop down from the top stating the title, and the pull-up from the bottom, but the bottom only has how much I've read so far.
Thanks again!
Dave
EDIT: Well, I don't have the tablet options. Everything in there is for a phone! Seems kind of weird on a device that doesn't have a phone.
lost cm settings
I tried the cyanogenmod settings, and while everything there was for a phone, I turned off things like vibrate, etc. - pretty much everything dealing with a phone. Now when I try to go back to cyanogenmod settings, the app aborts.
I also look in the dev settings and see a config file in there that set s default resolutions, etc., and includes an option that looks like it hides the menu bar, so I used terminal (I am familiar with Linux) and checked for such a file for the system but wasn't able to locate one. I'm wondering if there's a setting like that somewhere, as I don't get any back arrows, menu, etc., just on the pages, and was wondering if that was also stopping me from getting the full menu bar in the Kindle app?
So you do NOT see the word Kindle in orange Aa, magnifying glass and three vertical dots and a bookmark icon as well as the blue dot and position in book at the bottom of screen when you touch anywhere that is NOT the far left and far right of the screen?
And you do NOT see the back, home, recent apps and "menu" button in the bar at the bottom of the screen outside of the kindle window?
Dev settings? no such beast in CM7 or CM9
There is a Developer options which has nothing to do with any sort of resolutions..
I suggest you reinstall CM7.2 release from the official site, stay out of ADB, and stay away from all the various "work in progress" roms until you can actually navigate the default device...
I think you probably got a bit happy and broke something .. there is a setting in CM7 settings to disable fullscreen apps from hiding the "menubar" at the far bottom of the screen and that should be under tablet tweaks in the system settings app.
Yep, none of those
Yep - none of those. This was just after getting 7.0 stable installed and loading in the gapps, since the gapps file was dated just slightly after that release. Immediately went and got Kindle and Nook reader apps. Tried them to be sure they looked like they were working and then applied the zip of 7.2 stable. I didn't try the cyanogenmod settings until later when it was posted in this thread. Again, there are no options in there for a tablet - only a phone. I don't mind going back and doing everything over, just as long as I don't end up in that deadly embrace of things aborting and google market not working. I'll let you know what happens.
If I flush out the Kindle cache I can get back to seeing my titles, but that really defeats the purpose of reading on the device.
Something is not right
Okay, I downloaded everything again and made the microSD. I booted the microSD, did the format data/system reset, went to mounts and did the format /system, while there I tried the format /data - it fails. I had noticed before that when the data/system reset is run and completes, I can no longer do anything - I have to manually power off, wait a while, and power back on. Did all that, went to advance and cleared the kelvich or whatever it's call cash. Installed the cmod7.20 stable. Took out the microSD and rebooted. All of my old apps, etc., are still there. I also was looking at settings and see that the settings I changed were under "phone", not using the cyanomod settings app - it still just aborts.
So, what have I got to do to completely clean all this stuff off and then try installing again? As you can imagine, the number of attempts, partial successes, successes (at least I thought it was only the Kindle app that wasn't showing the menu), etc., we're talking all kinds of hours starting Monday night - probably at least 10 hours each day. Now I'm no further than when I started. For now I'm going to load the old 1.4.1 image again for the umpteenth time and hope someone can tell me how to clear this all up, or else recommend a different android that will run on the Nook Color without problems.
I still think if I can clear EVERYTHING (well, not /boot, obviously) so I'm starting with a CLEAN slate again it may help. I just don't have a clue how to do that using cwm recovery.
Still no good
I redownloaded everything again, created the microsd and tried to install 1.4.1 just to get back to a clean starting point. Can't get beyond where it asks for B&N userid/password as the keyboard shows for about 1/2 a second, no matter what I do. So, I tried the format data/system reset again and just loaded in the cmod 7.20 stable. Again, after booting, everything is still there - the google apps and all. How do I get rid of all this stuff so I can try an install from a clean slate? Right now I've been going thru all the data folders I can find and manually removing everything there. I would like to delete a lot of apps, but I never seem to be able to "uninstall".
So, before I start over again, can someone tell me how to clear EVERYTHING (except /boot, /emmc [unless I need to],/sd*) so I have a clean system first?
Thanks!
Dave
dweaton said:
I redownloaded everything again, created the microsd and tried to install 1.4.1 just to get back to a clean starting point. Can't get beyond where it asks for B&N userid/password as the keyboard shows for about 1/2 a second, no matter what I do. So, I tried the format data/system reset again and just loaded in the cmod 7.20 stable. Again, after booting, everything is still there - the google apps and all. How do I get rid of all this stuff so I can try an install from a clean slate? Right now I've been going thru all the data folders I can find and manually removing everything there. I would like to delete a lot of apps, but I never seem to be able to "uninstall".
So, before I start over again, can someone tell me how to clear EVERYTHING (except /boot, /emmc [unless I need to],/sd*) so I have a clean system first?
Thanks!
Dave
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Boot to CWM and do a factory reset. If you don't have CWM on emmc, make a bootable CWM SD. You can get one on my tips thread linked in my signature. A factory reset clears /data, /cache and clears any apps you may have installed to SD. It does not touch boot, system or emmc media.
no good
leapinlar said:
Boot to CWM and do a factory reset. If you don't have CWM on emmc, make a bootable CWM SD. You can get one on my tips thread linked in my signature. A factory reset clears /data, /cache and clears any apps you may have installed to SD. It does not touch boot, system or emmc media.
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That's what I've been doing - format data/factory reset option from cwm. Before rebuilding the entire microSD on my Windows PC I have also done a complete format of the media. I then boot CWM from the microSD and install the cmod7 7.20 stable zip - I always assumed this was going straight to the device since when I remove the microSD and boot cmod7 is there. However, none of the pre-existing apps are gone - everything is still there.
I've tried using CWM, advanced options, and format /data - it always fails. So I'm wondering if perhaps the format of /data the is part of the factory reset also fails but the script doesn't error out. Right now I'm going through an extremely time consuming task of manually removing the files and folders in /data via the terminal and su so I get the permissions. If there is another quicker way to clear /data I'd sure appreciate knowing. I've tried some of the treed removes from my Linux experience but they don't seem to work.
Thanks!
Dave
EDIT: forgot to mention - I'm trying your partition restores from the link in your signature - only the "safe" ones - I don't to do that partition 2 stuff and really mess up. Perhaps this will clean everything off.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
leapinlar said:
Boot to CWM and do a factory reset. If you don't have CWM on emmc, make a bootable CWM SD. You can get one on my tips thread linked in my signature. A factory reset clears /data, /cache and clears any apps you may have installed to SD. It does not touch boot, system or emmc media.
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I followed the link and did the repartitioning and formating with the first 2 scripts (left partition 2 alone!). Installed 7.20 stable - I now have the bar at the bottom of my screens. I'm waiting to format a 16gb microSD then I'm going to try the Kindle app out again, but I'd say this looks REALLY promising! Your scripts did what I wanted to do - they cleared everything out!
Thank you SO much!!!!!
Dave
Thank to everyone!
I just wanted to post a big THANK YOU to all the people who made cwm and cmod 7 so this whole thing would even be possible. Thanks to everyone here who helped me! Now "all" I have to do is just try to learn this! Maybe some place down the road I might try some programming, but I don't know how different it will be from my C using GTK++ on Linux. But first, to learn!
Thank you everyone SO much!
Dave
dweaton said:
That's what I've been doing - format data/factory reset option from cwm. Before rebuilding the entire microSD on my Windows PC I have also done a complete format of the media. I then boot CWM from the microSD and install the cmod7 7.20 stable zip - I always assumed this was going straight to the device since when I remove the microSD and boot cmod7 is there. However, none of the pre-existing apps are gone - everything is still there.
I've tried using CWM, advanced options, and format /data - it always fails. So I'm wondering if perhaps the format of /data the is part of the factory reset also fails but the script doesn't error out.
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I know you got it all working and I am glad, but just for future reference, the problem you were having probably stemmed from using an old version of CWM. You have to use version 3.2.0.1 or newer or the format of data will fail on the newer nooks. The one in my tips thread is the newest version.
Thanks!
leapinlar said:
I know you got it all working and I am glad, but just for future reference, the problem you were having probably stemmed from using an old version of CWM. You have to use version 3.2.0.1 or newer or the format of data will fail on the newer nooks. The one in my tips thread is the newest version.
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I did look at the the tar file I downloaded when I was trying to install from a 4gb microSD - it does say only 3.0.2.8, so I'm sure the 16gb I ended up installing from was probably the same, so I'll go grab what you recommended!
Since I don't want to have the problem again, I'm DEFINITELY going to follow your advise!
I had another suspicion for what may have happened, and why I had so much problem from the get-go with cmod 7 - I tried someone else's "put android on your nook" thing, which I know tried to root the nook and then dump some stuff in, and that didn't end up working.
I'm just glad your posts have gotten me going correctly!! BTW - the Kindle app works fine now, too!
Again, thank you SO much!!
Dave
Want to make sure I get this all right
You've been such a great help - I hope you don't mind a couple of more questions:
- The new CWM you recommend is the 5.x.x.x that's on the link, correct?
- Are there any newer releases of Android for the Nook Color? Right now I don't know anything about Android (complete noob [LOVE the movie on the registration page!] ). I know someone who is quite versed in all of this he mentioned that I'm running some name (honeycomb or something like that) and that there are newer ones out there (maybe that was honeycomb). At any rate, are there some updates I could run to make this any "better"? I know the version I'm running also seems to think it's a phone - is there one where it actually thinks it's a tablet?
Again, thank you SO much!
Dave :good:
dweaton said:
You've been such a great help - I hope you don't mind a couple of more questions:
- The new CWM you recommend is the 5.x.x.x that's on the link, correct?
- Are there any newer releases of Android for the Nook Color? Right now I don't know anything about Android (complete noob [LOVE the movie on the registration page!] ). I know someone who is quite versed in all of this he mentioned that I'm running some name (honeycomb or something like that) and that there are newer ones out there (maybe that was honeycomb). At any rate, are there some updates I could run to make this any "better"? I know the version I'm running also seems to think it's a phone - is there one where it actually thinks it's a tablet?
Again, thank you SO much!
Dave :good:
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Yes that CWM is attached to my tips thread linked in my signature.
You can try CM9 which is tablet based, but it is still in alpha and not as stable as CM7. Don't use honeycomb, it is old and very buggy.
Thanks!
Thanks again for the info! I'll get that copy of cwm right away. Since CM9 is still early, I'll wait on any updates. I really don't know anything yet, but I am having fun with the Nook Color being all Android now. It's nice having the Kindle app and the Nook app - this way have all my books on 1 device, and that works great!
Thanks again!
Dave :good:

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