It seems as that everytime I install a theme, it boots up, goes to the theme splash screen, and then the screen goes black ( as in, it's backlight, but theres nothing on the screen )
I let it sit in this state for quite some time ( well over 15mins ) and to no avail. I made positive to wipe/restore ext/etc. when I flash over a new theme, but I get the same problems. When I nandroid back though, I have no problems what-so-ever.
Any ideas? Thanks!
which version of cyans rom are you running
4.2.3.1, the same version the themes were made for. I tried themes that said 4.3.2.1, but I was pretty sure they meant the other way around, or not, either way, I tried like 4, 3 with 4.2.3.1, and 1 with 4.3.2.1, they all did the same thing.
Thanks for the response
Exodeity said:
It seems as that everytime I install a theme, it boots up, goes to the theme splash screen, and then the screen goes black ( as in, it's backlight, but theres nothing on the screen )
I let it sit in this state for quite some time ( well over 15mins ) and to no avail. I made positive to wipe/restore ext/etc. when I flash over a new theme, but I get the same problems. When I nandroid back though, I have no problems what-so-ever.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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Do not flash a theme over Stericsons Lock screen, flash it after.
If you flash CM then a compatible theme right after that, it should always work.
I'm not using a theme that has stericsons lockscreen in it. I don't know why it's not working, I don't have anything extra installed on the rom. Thanks for the help!
Stericsons LS is the cause of a lot of problems. Flash cyans ROM again... run it, them download and flash a theme that does NOT have this LS. I think all of your issues will be okay then. M_blend is a great theme without the LS.
Stericson and Cyanogen I think are working to get the LS perfect, but right now... it's not.
^ what theme, or themes, have you tried flashing since installing the ROM?
Trying to reflash everything as I'm writing, I'll edit it with the results.
I've tried; M-blend ( that looked really awesome, ) Freaky blur, Femio, and lucky's turn.
All the newest versions.
Edit: I reflashed cyan, wiped, cleared ext, everything. Flashed M-blend, black screen still.
FML. v.v
Lol, thanks for the help those guys!
When you flashed cyans rom, did you reboot and run it, power down and then flash the theme?
if not, that could be your problem. You do need to run the ROM before flashing a theme.
Two things I know:
1 - nothing is wrong with the rom
2 - nothing is wrong with the theme.
Are you downloading these over wi-fi or 3G so you know you are getting good d/loads?
Of course, I know all about 'stirring the pot' so to speak
I tried it again, and now it's working like a dream... *Insert Flaming for horrid pun* Lol xD
Thanks for the help guys!
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when i go to veiw a picture(meaning im looking at the picture) it wont rotate. bkmo said the problem was the stericson lockscreen. because when he put back the stock lockscreen it rotated again. so i think the solution there. but since the viewing isnt that big of a deal to me, plus i love the stericson lockscreen, im gonna keep my lockscreen so this is more for people wondering about the same problem...
google apps and themes:
if you flash a theme that modifies the google apps, flashing 4.1.999(and up) wont restore the stock app. clearly its cause he doesnt have the copies of the apps in there anymore. how do you restore? im not sure. i flashed a theme that themed my market red and black, then flashed his rom, then another theme, but the market stayed the same. im guessing that flashing the htc recovery, then the rom, will probably restore the google apps to stock, but im not sure if it requires a wipe.
does it?
because if it does ill just keep the themed market. its not really a problem, im just a little annoyed since im not sure if this has any negative effects. can anyone help on this? i dont wanna try because if i need to wipe, i dont have time to set everything up again. and i dont want to find out i did need to wipe and end up with having to wipe anyway. plus someone told me its possible to lose root somehow, and i only have 1 phone. otherwise i'd try this out myself for you guys. please someone try, or give some professional input on this. thanks!
Well i haven't found any 1 with the same problem as my friend. I rooted his white G1 and for weeks it worked perfect now it'll freeze and there is no way to turn it off but by taking the battery off so he does that when powering on its stuck on the G1 screen and unlike others i know it isn't bricked. Reason being i can access (Home+Power) and i think (Camera+Power) but if i wipe and re-flash or flash new theme same thing happens. Any one know whats going on and if there's a solution to made this stop ?
Edit : Forgot to say he has everything the same as i do. 1 click root, danger SPL, lattes radio, RA-dream 1.2.2 recovery IMG. Except this doesnt happen to me.
did you say flash a new theme? themes sometimes do that to roms. they make them unstable. well at least a handful do. does the same problem occur if you just flash a rom and no theme?
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did you say flash a new theme? themes sometimes do that to roms. they make them unstable. well at least a handful do. does the same problem occur if you just flash a rom and no theme?
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Well first it was with Hero on the phone so he believed it was that. Then i installed a donut ROM with a theme and the same keeps happening.
some hero roms freeze as well, especially if you didn't set it up right with all your partitions and such. My suggestions would be to flash over a rom with NO theme and see what happens. Then you can go from there.
What if i flash a ROM with no theme and same keeps happening ? What then ?
hopefully that won't happen, but if it does, I would suggest you reformat the sd card. from there, you can try different roms. every phone is different to certain roms. For example, some phones experience blurry screens when flashing a certain hero rom, but the same thing does not happen with another hero rom. There are a lot of variables to take into consideration. Worse comes to worst, you can try to unroot and reroot the phone, but I am not sure if that would even do anything.
Well thnx for the help. Ill do as told.
Well tazz9690 thnx for your help. My friend just left his phone charging over night and that seemed to have fix his problem. IDK how...
just so he knows... he can reboot by pressing menu+talk+power at the same time so he doesnt need to pull the battery.
reformatting the ext partition may help
I successfully installed the blue haze them for my myTouch. I am running the current cyanogen mod for it. That all worked great, but when I try to install any other theme, I get stuck at boot screen.
I tried the District 9 theme, the clone theme and a couple others.
Am I missing something? I'd feel a lot better if the first theme hadn't worked but it did and now.....GRRRR
Help?
it happens to me too but i dont know why. there are themes who works good and others not.
for example, install a theme and connect your phone to pc, do 'adb logcat ' it will show you all the steps that phone do!!
there are themes that (on my phone) goes on loop at 23% of something, others that launcher give problems and you will see all black!! (except for lockscreen).
if you want to be sure how to install a themes do this passage:
reboot to recovery
install the rom
reboot
watch if the rom works good (it should)
reboot again to recovery
flash the theme
reboot
do adb logcat
P4p3r1n0 said:
reboot to recovery
install the rom
reboot
watch if the rom works good (it should)
reboot again to recovery
flash the theme
reboot
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That's the best advice. And it's best to flash a theme unto a fresh unthemed rom, rather than a themed one. Less probability of having problems. Hope that helps!
so lets say I'm using cyanogen 4.2.15.1
I would wipe, install cyanogen, reboot, install theme, reboot?
Are there some themes that won't work on cyanogen that will on regular donut?
What about the theme CM theme updater? I can't get that to find any new themes.
rudeguy said:
so lets say I'm using cyanogen 4.2.15.1
I would wipe, install cyanogen, reboot, install theme, reboot?
Are there some themes that won't work on cyanogen that will on regular donut?
What about the theme CM theme updater? I can't get that to find any new themes.
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Yes, the process you described is exactly right.
Yes, there are themes that will work on standard 1.6 that wont work on CM because CM contains LOTS of stuff from eclair.
CM theme updater requires a json to be input to search for updates for specific themes. it's not automatic.
ok thanks. I found that I needed to revert back to an older CM version to get that district 9 working. Its working like a champ now.
So there is no way to change the theme (when using cyanogen) without doing a wipe?
Sorry for being a noob!
no, you can definitely change themes without wiping. however, it does cause problems from time to time. I highly recommend metamorph for just this process.
kusotare said:
no, you can definitely change themes without wiping. however, it does cause problems from time to time. I highly recommend metamorph for just this process.
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Is there a good walkthrough for that? I've tried it twice and I locked up my phone both times
cant flash any theme keep getting boot loops no matter what i do was running cm6 rc1 bx theme decade #7 kernel and firerats recovery mod flashed back to a sense rom and updated my profile and spl re did the partions and tried to do a nand restore and none of mine worked re did the whole process and still no go even tried flashing anthoer theme and still no go im able to boot up and run roms fine just cant flash a theme need help dont know what to do
laie1472 said:
cant flash any theme keep getting boot loops no matter what i do was running cm6 rc1 bx theme decade #7 kernel and firerats recovery mod flashed back to a sense rom and updated my profile and spl re did the partions and tried to do a nand restore and none of mine worked re did the whole process and still no go even tried flashing anthoer theme and still no go im able to boot up and run roms fine just cant flash a theme need help dont know what to do
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Make sure you are completely wiping your phone before installing new ROMs and switching between them like that. This could be one reason you are getting bootloops.
Wipeing like there's no tommrrow still no go for the bx theme finally got the all black theme working thanks man out of all the members of xda u were the only reply to my quest for help and I posted 3 different threads on this I was sure I would find more help but guess not but thanks for taking the time to reply I appreciate it
Still love my hero and still got love for xda
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Firerats recovery mod
CM6 8/22/build
Decades #7 kernel
All black theme
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Well my guess is that since CM6 is still an ever-changing ROM with new updates and versions coming out basically every day, that's why some of these themes you're flashing aren't working. It's possible that the theme someone designed works on a very particular build of CM6 (that was only available for maybe like a day or so), then as soon as something is updated or changed in a new ROM release, that theme might not be compatible anymore with the new stuff. I don't use CM6 so I can't say that for sure, but I bet it's part of the reason. A lot of themes are only compatible with very specific frameworks and apk's, so if any of that has been changed or updated, the theme no longer works properly, sometimes causing bootloops.
It says in your sig that your using darch recovery, and if you're not using the engineering spl, then that means you have no way of formatting /system, which when you're flashing back and forth between roms on the partition mod, you really need to do. So either change to the spl so you can use fastboot to erase system or go to clockwork recovery and do it there. If you change your recovery, you will have to redo the whole partition hack again from the beginning.
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Fast boot works for me and I did the system wipe threw fast boot and I ran the ruu and rerooted again still no go I think its the theme cause I have the all black theme working again I emailed the Dev mabey hell do an up date thanks for the response
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I heard running adb threw Linux is easier than windows don't know if its true anyways I partition my hard drive and installed Ubuntu. The latest I'm new to this as I've always worked on windows so my question is can anyone point me in the right direction on how to install adb on Ubuntu like I said I'm new to Linux but I want to start learning it I think I might need to in the long run help would b appreciated thanks
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Quick run down:
Pretty new at all this stuff, flashed my first Custom ROM on Friday (sc 2.4non voodoo), then quickly upgraded to Sc 2.6 Voodoo. From that point I flashed my first Theme (VA Green), really like it but wanted to dab in some other ones just to get a feel. At that point I flashed right over the VA Green with the Black and White Super Light Theme. Everything seemed to have worked fine, but I realized it was a mixture of the two themes and that wasn't what I was going for (being the noob I am I thought the new theme would just 'over write' the existing theme). SO I decided it would be a good idea if I restored back to my Frankenclean 2.6 vd that I had backed up (no theme).
After doing this I downloaded and flashed the newest version of Honeycomb. It booted, but as soon as I unlock my screen; boom FC loops to no avail. I, then restored my Frankenclean 2.6 voodoo (no theme) and everything was cool. I thought it was just the Honeycomb theme, so I tried simply restoring my VA Green theme that I had backed up and this time I got FC loop, into boot loop.
So essentially the only thing I can run is my non-themed Franken 2.6 voodoo. I have tried to trouble shoot as much as possible and truly cannot figure out where I steered wrong. -- I did go into CwR---> Mount/Storage at one point and MAY have changed a thing or two, so if anyone knows what that screen should read that would be VERY helpful (as far as what is mounted/unmounted etc etc).
Lastly, (since I didn't make it very clear earlier) I did do a factory data wipe/cache wipe and davlik wipe before proceeding from one step to the next. I also do have plenty of personal data storage available (someone had told me that could be the issue).
I am close to just flashing over to a completely different ROM and starting over, if anyone has ANY clue on how to possibly fix this I would appreciate it much more than you know.
Big thanks in advance!
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Quick run down:
Pretty new at all this stuff, flashed my first Custom ROM on Friday (sc 2.4non voodoo), then quickly upgraded to Sc 2.6 Voodoo. From that point I flashed my first Theme (VA Green), really like it but wanted to dab in some other ones just to get a feel. At that point I flashed right over the VA Green with the Black and White Super Light Theme. Everything seemed to have worked fine, but I realized it was a mixture of the two themes and that wasn't what I was going for (being the noob I am I thought the new theme would just 'over write' the existing theme). SO I decided it would be a good idea if I restored back to my Frankenclean 2.6 vd that I had backed up (no theme).
After doing this I downloaded and flashed the newest version of Honeycomb. It booted, but as soon as I unlock my screen; boom FC loops to no avail. I, then restored my Frankenclean 2.6 voodoo (no theme) and everything was cool. I thought it was just the Honeycomb theme, so I tried simply restoring my VA Green theme that I had backed up and this time I got FC loop, into boot loop.
So essentially the only thing I can run is my non-themed Franken 2.6 voodoo. I have tried to trouble shoot as much as possible and truly cannot figure out where I steered wrong. -- I did go into CwR---> Mount/Storage at one point and MAY have changed a thing or two, so if anyone knows what that screen should read that would be VERY helpful (as far as what is mounted/unmounted etc etc).
Lastly, (since I didn't make it very clear earlier) I did do a factory data wipe/cache wipe and davlik wipe before proceeding from one step to the next. I also do have plenty of personal data storage available (someone had told me that could be the issue).
I am close to just flashing over to a completely different ROM and starting over, if anyone has ANY clue on how to possibly fix this I would appreciate it much more than you know.
Big thanks in advance!
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This should be in general
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Odin back to stock, this should be in general as stated above.
chargerfn909 said:
Quick run down:
Pretty new at all this stuff, flashed my first Custom ROM on Friday (sc 2.4non voodoo), then quickly upgraded to Sc 2.6 Voodoo. From that point I flashed my first Theme (VA Green), really like it but wanted to dab in some other ones just to get a feel. At that point I flashed right over the VA Green with the Black and White Super Light Theme. Everything seemed to have worked fine, but I realized it was a mixture of the two themes and that wasn't what I was going for (being the noob I am I thought the new theme would just 'over write' the existing theme). SO I decided it would be a good idea if I restored back to my Frankenclean 2.6 vd that I had backed up (no theme).
After doing this I downloaded and flashed the newest version of Honeycomb. It booted, but as soon as I unlock my screen; boom FC loops to no avail. I, then restored my Frankenclean 2.6 voodoo (no theme) and everything was cool. I thought it was just the Honeycomb theme, so I tried simply restoring my VA Green theme that I had backed up and this time I got FC loop, into boot loop.
So essentially the only thing I can run is my non-themed Franken 2.6 voodoo. I have tried to trouble shoot as much as possible and truly cannot figure out where I steered wrong. -- I did go into CwR---> Mount/Storage at one point and MAY have changed a thing or two, so if anyone knows what that screen should read that would be VERY helpful (as far as what is mounted/unmounted etc etc).
Lastly, (since I didn't make it very clear earlier) I did do a factory data wipe/cache wipe and davlik wipe before proceeding from one step to the next. I also do have plenty of personal data storage available (someone had told me that could be the issue).
I am close to just flashing over to a completely different ROM and starting over, if anyone has ANY clue on how to possibly fix this I would appreciate it much more than you know.
Big thanks in advance!
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Personally, I would factory reset and start at square one with flashing a stock rom in odin, stock kernel, root, then install SC2.6 + patch, kernel, then VA Green. Search the development forum for the stock files.
Sorry bout that fellas, mod feel free to move.
Ok, I guess back to square one it is. Thanks guys
EDIT: Since phone is rooted, if I flash an all in 1 file (that includes root) will that cause any problems?
chargerfn909 said:
Sorry bout that fellas, mod feel free to move.
Ok, I guess back to square one it is. Thanks guys
EDIT: Since phone is rooted, if I flash an all in 1 file (that includes root) will that cause any problems?
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Nothing will happen, make sure you disable voodoo before you odin back to stock.
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Nothing will happen, make sure you disable voodoo before you odin back to stock.
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Will do that right now, thanks alot man.
Again, sorry for the noobish issues; and more importantly misplacement of the thread.
You CAN flash themes over other themes, they do overwrite eachother, but you need to wipe data in between or they can mix the two themes together like that.
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You CAN flash themes over other themes, they do overwrite eachother, but you need to wipe data in between or they can mix the two themes together like that.
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Forgive my ignorance, but when you say data, you are referring to factory restet/data wipe right?
Then from that point would I reboot from my restored frankenclean 2.6voodoo, or just run the zip after the data wipe?
Thanks again
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Forgive my ignorance, but when you say data, you are referring to factory restet/data wipe right?
Then from that point would I reboot from my restored frankenclean 2.6voodoo, or just run the zip after the data wipe?
Thanks again
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I dont think you should be "restoring" the 2.6v with rom manager (thats what it sounds like to me from your posts). I would red cwm install from zip after wiped cache and dalvik cache. Boot up your 2.6v and restore apps and settings only, not restore your rom backup. Then go back to red cwm, wipe cache and dalvik and install your theme zip. Basically the theme only overwrites specific apks that the dev picked. Hope this helps get you going in the right direction.
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I dont think you should be "restoring" the 2.6v with rom manager (thats what it sounds like to me from your posts). I would red cwm install from zip after wiped cache and dalvik cache. Boot up your 2.6v and restore apps and settings only, not restore your rom backup. Then go back to red cwm, wipe cache and dalvik and install your theme zip. Basically the theme only overwrites specific apks that the dev picked. Hope this helps get you going in the right direction.
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Appreciate it man. About to flash Full Dl01 package via Odin and start all over. WIsh me luck lol
Thanks for the help gents. I flashed to the Stock Dl01 ROM, from there to the sc 2.5/cwr/root package, to the frankenclean 2.6 voodoo.. Just flashed honeycomb...profit.
Nice to know I can flash back to stock if needed as well Thanks again
chargerfn909 said:
Thanks for the help gents. I flashed to the Stock Dl01 ROM, from there to the sc 2.5/cwr/root package, to the frankenclean 2.6 voodoo.. Just flashed honeycomb...profit.
Nice to know I can flash back to stock if needed as well Thanks again
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Glad it worked out.