Ive been running cm6 on my n1 for a month or so now and yesterday something very odd happened.
My phone was being sluggish and it was stuck on gprs in an area i always get full 3g. So i rebooted and i noticed maps decied to uninstall it self. So i go to the market and install it again and it tells me its already installed and its gonna overwrite the previous data. Then i noticed swype was gone so i go to reinstall it and again it tells me its already there and i install anyway. I try to type something with swype now reinstalled and the keyboard pops up but when i type something it just slides back down. So i reboot again and more apps are missing. So i go to the market and it fc's. then almost everything i try to do fc's on me. I tell my friend and he jokes you got a virus. So since im gonna reflash anyway i download the antivirus free app and it tells me everything is infected or whatever. So whatever i just reflash cm6 and install my apps and the only app antivirus flags is android wifi tether which i got from code.google. Anyway i reflash and just dont install wifi tether and all has been well.
Does anyone know wtf just happened? I know everyone says theres no suck thing as a virus on android and i know that the antivirus app is also questionable but i have no idea what just happened. I havent installed or done anything different than i usually do. I would really like a logical explanation of what happened.
Your apps were just taking a while to load. I've seen it happen before. I've opened my app drawer, and watched my apps slowly appear, one by one, at 5 to 10 second intervals...
Might be time to wipe?
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However ironic the title may be, I updated my fiance's non-rooted N1 to the official release froyo and from the very beginning, it will work for a few seconds, then it will just freeze for a few minutes. I have patiently gone through and stopped almost every process, and nothing will fix it. It still just freezes constantly and usually requires a battery pull to get it to work at all. I told her she could try a factory reset, but she would rather just go back to 2.1-update1. I'm going to try renaming 22607-ERD79-update-nexusone-stock-signed.zip (or PASSIMG_Passion_Google_WWE_1.01.1700.1_ERD79_release_signed.zip) to update.zip and reflashing it in the stock bootloader on her phone, but I feel like that won't work because it is a previous version and not really an update. Does anyone have any advice on how to just bring her back, or perhaps how to fix her freezing problems on froyo?
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Try a fresh flash with no apps installed and see how its doing.... if it doesn't freeze then its a app probably ...
I'd like to try that, but she doesn't want to do a fresh install. I'd imagine that if an app didn't freeze 2.1, it wouldn't freeze 2.2. Besides, 2.2 freezes even after killing all applications and services.
I guess I'm really looking for advice on getting it back to 2.1 without rooting her phone.
dnoggle said:
I'd like to try that, but she doesn't want to do a fresh install. I'd imagine that if an app didn't freeze 2.1, it wouldn't freeze 2.2. Besides, 2.2 freezes even after killing all applications and services.
I guess I'm really looking for advice on getting it back to 2.1 without rooting her phone.
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Just do a factory reset in settings and security ... no reflash. Just cause a app didn't freeze 2?1 doesn't mean it wont freeze 2.2. And even if the apps currently not running or closed, it'll still wack ya phone. I had a freeze every hour yesterday with my chosen apps installed, flashed 3 different times to no avail. Now I factory reset with only 4 definitely needed apps installed and haven't gotten a freeze yet. So my conclusion is 2.2 doesn't like something I've installed so I'm adding a few apps every hour to fins the cause.
Since I factory reset with my few apps. I haven't had a freeze yet all night and morning long..
I'm having the same issue too. Not sure what is going on with FRF91, but my phone keeps freezing and I need to pull the battery to get it to respond again. I agree it very well could be an application, but installing every application one by one and testing would be a pain. Is there a better way to figure out what is causing the phone to lock up? Any time of log on the phone that would be helpful?
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I'm having the same issue too. Not sure what is going on with FRF91, but my phone keeps freezing and I need to pull the battery to get it to respond again. I agree it very well could be an application, but installing every application one by one and testing would be a pain. Is there a better way to figure out what is causing the phone to lock up? Any time of log on the phone that would be helpful?
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Have you tried a factory reset? That might fix it... let us know what you find. I've noticed a couple of freezes as well, but I'm not able to factory reset it just yet because I'm out of town and don't want my phone down for even half an hour.
I have to pull battery a couple of times a day.
I'm having the same issue on 2.2. I have done 2 factory resets. Nothing. N1 call center said slowly reinstall all apps to see if an app may be doing it. No luck.
Is anyone having issues with the screen still being responsive while on a call? My screen will go black but you cant still hit keys when you have up against your face.
I'm betting that you do not have a custom recovery and nandroid backup, or you wouldn't be asking.
I highly doubt that the phone will let you push the old firmware on top of the new one if you don't have a hacked recovery and a test-signed zip. But I don't know - you could try it...
Here is what I would do:
1. Install a custom recovery (like Amon-Ra 1.7.0.1), either by unlocking the bootloader, or by following the directions in the dev forum for doing this without unlocking if you have the fear. If you already a custom recovery, don't worry about this step.
2. Now boot into recovery and make a nand backup!
3. Now go ahead and try this one of two ways - either delete one application at a time until you figure out which one is killing you, OR do a factory reset and then re-add one application or a small number at a time until you figure out what is crashing you.
If it were me, with my 100 applications, I'd probably add 5 or 10 at a time. Once you get crashes after one group, try removing those applications one at a time until the crashes stop. The last removed app when the crashes stop should be the answer.
Of course, since you'll have to have adb running to get a nandroid, you could also just take a logcat of the running, crashing phone and see what app is killing it there.
I did a factory reset today and will report back letting everyone know if that has fixed the issue. Everyone else that is experiencing the freezing issue, did you have Beautiful Widgets installed?
I have that installed, is that whats cousing it?
Beautiful Widgets was killing my N1, too. Freezes, sluggishness, etc. I uninstalled and wiped my cache via stock recovery. No problems since.
I'm on stock FRF91 BTW.
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It appears that's the root of my issue. I would uninstall the application and clear the cache and see if that helps. Report back with your findings.
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Okay I first installed the latest stable version of CM5 on my Dream, and it loaded up fine, then I used my Backup Pro program to reinstall my programs then it kept saying that super permissions has stopped working and to end the program, and after it was done reinstalling my apps it said there was an error in all of them. So I rebooted my phone, and after the boot screen shows up I enter my 4 digit code and android shows up then it says messaging has stopped working end now, and I clicked it, and now it keeps going back to the boot screen over and over and over, how do I fix this?
Also it said something about the core not being responsive, and the gapps I installed was not working, and I really need my phone to work again, what did I do wrong?
EDIT - I wiped and reinstalled, I'll post back and see if it's fixed.
EDIT 2 - Well it didn't have any of those error messages, and I started to reinstall all my apps using my backup pro app then all of a sudden it froze for an hour and so I just took out the battery because my phone wasn't responsive at all. Then I tried turning it on and it just froze a the G1 symbol. So I wiped everything and reinstalled again, and now it's booting up again so I'll post back to see if it's working.
EDIT 3 - I was using my backup pro app again and it got to about half way before the super permissions kept force closng and then the android process kept closing over and over, so I'm rebooting my phone.
EDIT 4 - It keeps saying that home and android keep force closing, so I'm not sure how I'm going to get my apps back, I'm going to wipe and reinstall again.
Have you tried using something better than MyBackup Pro? If I ever meet the creator, I'm going to slap them and get my five dollars back. Then I probably kick their dog for even creating something that crappy.
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Have you tried using something better than MyBackup Pro? If I ever meet the creator, I'm going to slap them and get my five dollars back. Then I probably kick their dog for even creating something that crappy.
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What do you suggest then?
Okay I am sick and tired of this rom. It was working fine then I tried using some of my widgets and it would say they were not working, then acore kept closing and now none of my apps work, so I rebooted and it's stuck at the G1 screen, what the heck do I do now? So now my phone won't even boot into CM.
EDIT - Well I'm flashing Super E and hope that it's better.
Hey guys
I seem to have this odd problem. A week or so ago my Official Twitter app had a update so I clicked update as i normally would. But a few hours later I noticed that it STILL said installing. I ended up uninstalling the app in my system setting and nothing changed. Now on the marketplace it always says installing twitter. It getting REALLY old now. Worst of all i cant get twitter back now because it thinks its installing. Any ideas??
Thanks,
-Cyg
It ends up with re-flashing the phone for me. :-D
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I was having a problem installing my apps, a simple reboot seems to help cure the problem temporarily.
However, I'm looking for more of a long term solution, and if I find one, I'll be sure to let you in on it.
I have the same problem. I installed a couple of programs and after uninstalling them, the download section of my market app, shows the 2 apps installing and I have no option of cancelling them or some other way of getting rid of them. Its quite annoying and i dont know what to do.
Any help would be appreciated
Update: After a few days of this problem, I went to download a new app and it just got fixed by itself. Odd cuz Ive downloaded apps during this period and tried other things to fix it, but with no success. Thank god its fixed lol
Had the same issue with a couple of apps, usually this helps:
1. Force close market
2. Clear the market cache
3. Reboot your phone
4. Install the app
FIXED IT! Tried everything and nothing worked. But what did work was finding the app online and manually installing it from the SD card. POW!
Hello,
for a few days now i have something strange going on with my galaxy s. When i reboot the device, somewhere around the moment you can enter the pincode for the sim, the phone shakes one time first and and then two times as if there is something crashing.
After that all seems to be working fine... That is, until i notice up to two times now, an app went missing, from which i can't remember i removed it. After i reinstall the app, all settings i configured before for that app where there in place...
I am not sure if these two issues have something to do with each other...
I am running the stock Froyo rom 2.2.1 with the speedmod kernel (k12t)...
Is there someone out there who has an idea?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Mart
Did you recently change to the froyo 2.2.1 rom, and did problems only occur after changing?
Did you do a full wipe when changing?
Thanks you for the reply...
well no, i am running the 2.2.1 for a few weeks... As far as i am able to point to the moment it started it was just after i removed the battery when the phone was locked (i mistakenly thought it was off). After i placed back the battery and started the phone, i started noticing the possible crashing...
A day or 2 later i noticed an app was lost, the icon was still on the desktop, but it was a green android (like that from the market) and won't start. Because i didn't remember removing the app i looks strange to me. After reinstalling the app all settings i configured before where in place, as if wasn't gone for a while... That's why i notice it, because when i remove an app, i normally make sure everything is removed including settings...
Up until now i have found two of these in a strange way lost apps...
Because there was some time between the removing of the battery with the start of the first issue and noticing these lost apps, i am not really sure they are connected...
It seems that you have any kind of data corruption. If the phone shakes 1 and then 3 times, it is saying that some process has stopped. Also if you lost some app without your intervention... looks like I said. Consider backup your data, wipe and reinstall.
Good luck
I am running a Custom ROM for a while and everything had been going smoothly. Last night I installed the Beta Version of Norton Utilities which I found on the Market and my phone started locking up and having Forced Closures. Though it might have been something all the sudden occurring in the ROM or the Kernel that caused this I don't think it was so I was wondering can an App mess up your phone?
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Get rid of app. See what happens
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Get rid of app. See what happens
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I tried to uninstall it but I not 100% sure it did. I use Tibackup and it would lockup when I did uninstall. I did a Force Close and Reboot and though it don't see the App listed anymore I am not 100% sure if everything from the App was removed. I then tried to Restore my Data and Apps with Full Tibackup Restore and my phone went into Reboot Loop.
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I tried to uninstall it but I not 100% sure it did. I use Tibackup and it would lockup when I did uninstall. I did a Force Close and Reboot and though it don't see the App listed anymore I am not 100% sure if everything from the App was removed.
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Go to market, search app, see if out says installed
It not that big of deal since I had everything backed up I just Wiped all my Data,Davik and reflashed ROM and restored and I am bak up and running I just was wondering if anyone had ever seen an App just "attack" a phone?
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It not that big of deal since I had everything backed up I just Wiped all my Data,Davik and reflashed ROM and restored and I am bak up and running I just was wondering if anyone had ever seen an App just "attack" a phone?
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Yes although I forget the app
I am sure a lot of this had to do with me having a Custom Rom and testing a "Beta" App. I should have known better esp. since it was "Norton's Product" and the experiences I have had with them on a PC and how they truly "invade" a system.....
its Norton.....theres your problem
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its Norton.....theres your problem
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Plus a billion! I know how hard it is to scrub Norton off my computer, I wouldn't let it anywhere near my phone.
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Where was time when Norton was king. Symantec was the downfall of Norton.
Thanks for your post........as I hear more about viruses and smartphones, I have been wondering if I need some kind of protection? Maybe not.......
i have yet to find an antivirus program that wasn't more of a virus than the viruses it protects against. i refuse to run them on my home computer or my phone. they screw things up and give you more popup windows than the internet did a couple of years ago before browsers started blocking them. but that is just me do what you must to keep your stuff safe. as for the app wrecking android i had one on my backflip that was causing havoc but i too forget what it was.
I was a Big Norton's fan on my PC back when Norton's first appeared but as the more and more things Norton/Symantec added the worse the product got it was like the Protection it provided was worse than having a Virus. The only thing I am running on my phone that seems to add some protection is the app called 'Lookout". I started using this app as I way to find my phone if I missed placed it. I guess they have updated it because I notice now that when I add a new app Lookout does some sort of scan and it says that the new app is safe. I don't know what it is looking at when it does the Scan since I didn't make any setting changes to evoke this Scan. BTW I am using Free Lookout version.
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Thanks for your post........as I hear more about viruses and smartphones, I have been wondering if I need some kind of protection? Maybe not.......
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When you see the first post or internet article claiming that smart phones are getting infected THEN I'd worry. Until then, just don't load anything you don't know where it came from.
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its Norton.....theres your problem
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LOL stole the words right out of my mouth!
I know were getting close to needing AV for our phones - but the day I install Norton on a LINUX device - I will commit seppuku.