alright so a while back i flashed a custom kernel im not sure which one it was but in settings under kernel it says "2.6.27GK-0.32 gbhilstovepipe )". now when i flashed it i didnt really know what it was or what it does but it said it would make it faster. i havent noticed any difference and ive been looking around and searching but i cant find much information on the hero kernel. i was just wondering if anyone knows how i can get my kernel back to stock and if you could either explain to me or link me to what a custom kernel does. I know this is probably a dumb question but i was just wondering if anyone can help?
and just one more quick question. i have been trying out several of the new 2.1 roms and love them but cant deal with some of the bugs on them so i went back to gumbo 1.5c. i wiped and did a nandroid restore and everything seemed to be back to perfect but ive noticed that now it keeps acting like how it did when i put 2.1 on by slowing down after a while to the point where its just about unusable and i have to restart it. has anyone experienced this or know why my hero is acting so dumb?
Youll probably just want to reflash your rom again without wiping, should work fine. If not youll have to wipe and reflash to get everything back to normal.
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i have had my ATT N1 for a few months now and all has been great. I rooted awhile back and have been using Cyanogen 5.0.7 to great success. I have the pershoot kernal and never really had any issues.
Well, that has all changed. Recently I have been rebooting any many different occasions. It almost always does it when I am in Maps and navigation, which is not good because I need it in my life having relocated.
I have decided that maybe I will look to update my Cyanogen or maybe go over to 2.2. I did this today and still having these issues. I tried Kang and it still rebooted randomly and when I tried Modacos r17 it just would keep rebooting at the setup screen. I think that has to do with not having the stock kernal.
Any clues as to what is happening? I really need help and do not want to stop using Android, but I need my phone to be reliable.
If it happens on any ROM and with no correlation to anything - sounds like HW problem.
Did you use overclocked kernel?
I do have a overclocked under volted kernal
sounds like bad sw. get back to stock 2.1 update 1 (if you can) and see if your phone is stable...
WIPE all ( everything ) , and flash 2.2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=692609
Follow those 3 easy steps there !
Does your phone lock up (unresponsive) before rebooting?
Phone doesnt lock up. I tried wiping evertyhing but could not wipe the sd partition. Is that necessary? I have done full wipe's (data, dalvik, & cache) and still had similar results. I have updated my kernal to the newest pershoot and I installed Kang .9b1 and so far have only had 1 rebbot. It happened when I was in the browser and went to a flash heavy site to see how it worked. Is there any 2.2 roms that keep it close to stock? I am not a total fan of adw launcher.
Have a look in this thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703687
I'm really determined to figure out what is causing this issue for so many people! I've managed to cure my reboots for the time being, and it seems it is kernel related. That said, we need as many people as possible to give feedback as experiences seem to differ in regards to the ROMs and Kernels people are using.
Regards.
I looked over that thread and see some similarities but it is still not totally consistent with my issues. I am running Kang now fine but still have reboots that I won't call so random anymore. It happens when I use Maps for the first time, and definitely when I go to a flash site on the browser.
I cannot successfully use any other ROM since once I install it it goes into boot loop. This is driving me crazy and do not like the thought of being stuck to one ROM since it is the complete reason I bought this phone.
I have tried a couple of custom roms and they have all worked fine at first but then after a while most of them would do something like force close whenever i try to open anything. This is getting really frustrating. I have a build 1009 and im looking at phoenix 3.0 and perception 10.0 both look really nice. Could someone tell me what im doing wrong and how to fix it. Every time i try to enable third party apps recently or something else ( I can't remember specificly what it was but it was rooting it or something) it will do the blah blah something apcore stoped working force close so right now im just going to use my phone on stock firmware and use it like normal and see what happens but could someone help me. I have used gingerclone, Assonance (force close problem), Darky 8.0 with the captivate workaround (force close problem), and maybe a few others but those are the only ones i can remember.
Custom roms are rooted with side loading enabled. So if you are trying to do this after you have the rom loaded, that could be a problem. I also would like to know what you are restoring on these roms. Should only be user apps.
To pin point your problem please provide more detail
I have put apps from custom roms onto the stock rom and other roms. Could that be the problem? And also this is what im going back to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
Im only doing the first part im not going to jh7. would that have something to do with it. Any help is greatly appriciated.
yamato2 said:
I have put apps from custom roms onto the stock rom and other roms. Could that be the problem? And also this is what im going back to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
Im only doing the first part im not going to jh7. would that have something to do with it. Any help is greatly appriciated.
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I do not think only going back to jh7 would cause your issue. Tell me more about what you are trying to do to enable side loading, and why you are doing it on as custom rom
I had the ones i downloaded and i sideloaded one wireless tether app a long time ago then i backed it all up with titanium backup and i would install a custom rom and it would have roms preinstalled on it. I would want to put on a different custom rom so i backed up again and the flashed back to stock the to the new rom. and i would restore all the apps including the one from previous roms. If you are asking for the specifics it would take a while and about the side loading i followed the guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738376 and did the method 3 it seemed to work fine until i rebooted and then it did the force close thing. And i didn't go to jh7 i went to jh6 or jh2 or something like that but im going to try going to jh7 and see if that helps.
dont restore ALL apps in Titanium Backup. safest option is "restore missing apps+data"
all the custom 2.2 roms have tethering/wifi hotspot built into them...no need for another app for it.
for custom roms, you DO NOT need to root or sideload...they are enabled by default on all custom roms.
Thank both of you for your help. I will probably for now only install roms specificly for captivate and with specific instructions.
Guys,
I really appreciate the wealth of good information here about the Captivate. I do have a quick, specific question I haven't seen answered but perhaps I missed so apologies in advance if I did.
I am on a rooted factory 2.1 phone right now and would like to flash a new ROM (undecided but will probably try a few). I have seen a few mentions that it is advisable (necessary?) to revert to stock before doing this and I am curious if it matters if I revert back to 2.1 or if I can 'revert' to 2.2 and would that be any advantage/disadvantage since it seems to be a temporary thing anyway.
I see both files on mobiletechvideo's site among other places. Would really love to know if there is any difference and if, in fact, I do need to do this step at all.
Thanks.
-Dan
The only step you'd need to take is to backup your things, and to do a Master Clear. It shouldn't really matter too much actually, so if you can't be bothered, feel free to flash away!
Thanks, venomio.
To follow up, I ended up flashing to 2.1 but using a version that had the 3-button fix (for getting into recovery mode I believe, which my phone could not do). Everything worked pretty much flawlessly getting back to 2.1 and 3-button fix was successful.
Then I flashed to Cognition 4.2.2 and again, everything went perfectly.
So if anyone stumbles across this in their research, go for it.
Hi, I have ran into a small problem that might be solved with me flashing a custom rom, but I don't really want to do that. I have searched and didn't find anything, so here we go. I was recently on BeatMod GB and I enjoyed it for a while but from my experience in terms of what I am looking for, the stock 1.6 rom beats all I have used. What I want to do is be able to keep the custom recovery image that I have flashed numerous times without it going back to the stock recovery and I'm afraid to flash kernels because of the same situation. It is rooted as I have superuser and setcpu and both are functional so I know its rooted but nothing else I do seems to want to stay. Is there anything besides flashing a custom rom that I can do? Heh, this is to ultimately overclock my phone to 700mhz and hopefully play angry birds without lag. All the other roms won't run angry birds from what i have experienced..... unless I did something wrong haha. Thanks in advance for your help
I looked around a bit more and found that if I used a "defanged" base then all the stuff that is flashed won't revert back to stock, but will this work if I use the stock 1.6 rom? Thanks again for help.
edit: Alright, I think that I have everything under control now, I used the defanged base and Amon RA's recovery is still there along with root and all of that.... So I have just one more question, hopefully someone can answer this one :] is there a kernel I can flash for overclock for stock 1.6? I cannot find one that I think would work... Thanks for the help :]
I was wondering the same thing. :3
My Alltel heroc randomly soft resets itself. It's done this while unrooted and on the stock 2.1 ROM, and most recently again after I rooted and flashed CM7 on it.
The only change I can think of causing this behavior is that I installed the CWM Tether app on it, but I find it difficult to blame the app for this behavior.
I've perused other threads, but none of them seem to offer any help or solutions. What should I do? Thanks in advance.
Update!
The phone was originally S-on, this did not seem to affect flashing CM7 or anything though. I got the phone S-off, then changed recoveries to CWM from darthstar recovery. I had seen that CM 7.2 had been updated to RC3 for the heroc, so I downloaded it, wiped everything, and flashed it. I also formatted the SD card before and after the flash. I hope this will take care of it for good.
hopefully your issues are gone for good, but if they come back and you figure out what the deal was please let us know