Whenever I flash my phone with a custom kernel, be it YAOK; SpeedMod; Voodoo; Z4Mod etc. I *always* run into the same problem within the space of a few reboots / few hours of use (sometimes with only 2 reboots)
Essentially, the bug is that newly installed applications will NOT show up in TWLauncher. They're installed and work, but they have no icon. If I FC TWLauncher, kill it's data, or reboot, their icons show up. It's as though TWLauncher "can't be bothered" to re-scan installed apps when a new one gets added. (this seems to happen more with over 8 pages of apps; although there will be some spaces on page 2, 3 etc.)
This behaviour has previously been noted in both the modded versions of TWLauncher available on this site. I haven't tried this with ADW or LauncherPro as I don't like them as much.
I've now gone back to a completely stock kernel and merely rooted it (no lagfix) - so I'm waiting to see if this behaviour returns.
The ONLY thing I think may have possibly been causing this is either the Spare Parts application, or Samsung's new email / IM application. I've not restored those on this particular reset to see what happens.
I've tried everything I can think of to narrow down what's causing this, including NOT restoring any data from backups and instead downloading all my apps individually (there's currently 61 apps installed on my phone, in addition to the bundled ones)
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Now, before you all ask / comment:
Each and Every time this happens, I have been reformatting both the internal AND external SD cards; then doing a complete flash in Odin, using the 502 PIT file. Firmware is stock XWJPO (with JPP modem).
Is no one else suffering from this at all?
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I am experiencing some very unusual problems with my froyo installs, specifically when installing/restoring apps.
First the basic info:
Nexus One
Froyo 2.2 FRF 72 stock with root no radio update
Upgraded from FRF 50 stock with root no radio update
I used Titanium Backup (TB) to backup all my apps, I have done this countless times before. Everything was fine on FRF50, but I wanted to try out a modified ROM. Yes I nandroided, but the restore failed THANKS CLOCKWORKMOD!! I should have stuck with amonRA. Anway, I had no choice but to flash again. I tried a few from the forums with all the same results so I gave up on them and just did stock with root but still having the issues.
When I restored the apps with TB, i get about 90% of my apps restored then I get an error saying that my space is full (even tho I enabled the stock apps2sd method) OR TB will suddenly just stop restoring apps, again stuck around 94%. I am thinking, its okay ill just reboot and continue. Well I rebooted and all the apps were gone even tho they are obviously on the sdcard, i checked.
So typical solution:
force stop the launcher. that didnt work. i tried other launchers, nothing worked. i had no choice but to wipe and try again. trust me, i did this way to many times, i dont even wanna think about it.
So i thought there was an issue with TB, yes i clicked "problems", upgraded busybox, trust me, I did all the basic stuff, Im beyond that.
Then I tried installing every app manually, thats over 150+ apps, ya..it was annoying as hell. Then suddenly, I would get stuck at the installing screen....no app would install, not from TB, not from market, not from the sdcard...nothing.
So typical solution:
delete .android_secure
That only works temporarily, then its back to the issue.
The point is, it keeps happening. Like today, I install a fresh ROM, yes I wiped, I even partitioned the sdcard and within installing literally ONE app, I get this problem, no app installs after that. So I went and deleted .android_secure and everything seems to be working okay. But this will happen again, if I try to restore with TB now, the same thing will happen again. I have tried every combination of installing apps, using TB, wiping....nothing seems to work.
On top of all that, my apps wont restore automatically from the market when installing a fresh ROM. So my question, what do I do about this and has anyone else had this problem? Any help would be appreciated.
Update:
I called it. It happened again. Fresh install, installed one app, no apps installed after that, deleted .android_secure, everything was back to normal, started restoring apps with TB, stuck at 93%, nothing will install now...any suggestions? should i delete .android_secure AGAIN!?
Ayman
Decided to install cyanogenmod 6.0.0 final today (didn't flash any of the nightlies/RCs), and now I'm facing the same problem. My titanium backup restores all appeared to be going well, and in fact I can even run the apps that were successfully restored without problems. But at some point in the restore it'll hang, and I won't be able to install anything from then on. In fact, when I tried rebooting the phone, it wouldn't even detect any of the apps installed on the sdcard (although, when I checked /sdcard/.android_secure, all the .asec files were present).
OP/anyone else, did you ever manage to fix this problem?
I've got the exact same problem
Tried 3 different roms after wiping everything and I can't seem to install any app.
TB does not install app and neither does market and this is starting to get very annoying.
Same problem but with specific apps:
Wi-Fi File Explorer Pro (most important as I paid for it)
Angry Birds
Google Sky Map
My other 100+ apps restored from Ti Backup or installed from the Market.
I have logs that say "unable to open secure container" but who do I send them to?
Enom from TheOfficialRom has stated that restoring from Titanium is really not very good practice. I had the exact same thing happen to me when i first installed his rom; enabled apps2sd, restored all apps and data with titanium backup.
Here's the catch, and might help you. I then did a wipe (don't wipe ext too!) and when it came up all of my apps were installed and worked fine. I even went through and manually restored all of the data from the apps and they continued to work fine! Just don't restore "System" data, set that stuff back up by hand. So in this case, the apps are "already installed" and for me worked fine, even after restoring their data (not the apps themselves, as they were already on the ext partition). This fixed my primary issue ("all" apps failed to install or upgrade).
However, I continued to have periodic problems with certain apps as I had also enabled dalvik-cache to /cache which works if you don't have a bazillion apps installed, but I have >115 and my /cache was always 100% full and caused app installs to fail. Some were fine, some were not. Don't know why, but I know (after wiping again) and NOT moving dalvik-cache, zero problems. I even repeated the process back and forth a few times and dalvik-cache to /cache = fail for me. You can check in his Spare Parts if you're using his ROM, or just df in a terminal if you've moved the dalvik to make sure where it's at isn't full.
Hopefully this helps some.
I had this problem earlier on after trying a custom rom moving from FRF91 when it first came out. I had to go through the market to get the apps, but titanium would restore the data after i installed the app... i think.
The Clockword nandroid kept failing on me too. BUT, i found if i tried them a second or third time, they would actually work.
I'm have a Motorola Droid A855 (Droid 1) running CyanogenMod 6.1.2 with a Slayer 2.6.32.9 1200 MHz kernel. It's been running just fine.
I have ROM Manager 2.5.0.9 installed and have been running it for a while; weeks, or months.
Recently, I visited the market app and checked on downloads. I see that a ROM Manager download is in the Currently downloading section and reporting "Starting download..."; for ever.
I have rebooted. I have killed the market app. Always the ROM Manager app is "Starting download..." and never makes progress and never goes away.
Any idea what could be causing this?
I did notice that ROM Manager has had recent updates, but I generally un-check the auto-update box on all apps. Occasionally one gets through with the auto-update set, but I doubt that ROM Manager was one of those. And, who cares, it should not sit in the Starting download state for ever.
Oh, and this is on WiFi, or on Cellular.
Thanks for any insights,
Dave
When I have this problem, clearing the data for the Market App fixes it. You can do this through Settings->Application->Market->Clear Data
I was also experiencing problems with updating from the market, and found out that I needed to clear out the android_secure folder on my sd card to have less than 231 MB of info in it. I had used Titanium backup to force some apps to sd card and it put doubles in that folder. The market must see space in that folder in order to complete either the download and/or install. After I cleared that folder out I was able to use the market as usual.
Hello,
I've generated a zip with romkitchen.org, for my Galaxy S.
It's a wipe version, and to avoid problems, I made a factory reset and wiped cache partition before flashing.
I had no problem for flashing the rom. But my phones reboots without a reason (for exemple after downloading an app in the market, just before installation).
Is it possible to know a little more about the problem or if someone already had the problem ?
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I don't have that problem using Darky's.
The Doc build is composed of :
- XXJPY v8.1.1 WIPE
- JP9 Multi CSC
- Hardcore's Kernel
- JPY Modem
- Android 2.2.1 Browser, Zeam Launcher 2.8.7, Go Launcher v1.41
- Swype JPU, Samsung EURO Keyboard
- Unified Inbox, Flash Player, FM Radio App, Maps 5.0, Memo, MMS AOSP, STK, Screen Capture, YouTube App
- Quickboot, SGS Tools
- Non Increasing Ringtone, Voodoo Sound, Damian Tweak, LCD Density Changer
- WPA Supplicant Standard
- XXJPY AOSP theme
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I know it's not cool the bump his own topic, but i've an update :
It's not just happening on market downloads, also on other apps (tried to launch titanium backup && MMS app, same problems).
Could it be a kernel problem?
hi, when i install a new rom I do this steps:
1) factory reset
2) format card (internal+external) - before this i move the titanium backup folder on PC
3) clear cache/dalvik
5) install wipe version
I never had problems. try to do this and see what happens. after installing the rom from kitchen, update the kernel to 13c, the latest one on hardcore's topic. After that connect to PC an copy back to the root of the SD card the titanium backup folder. Install TB and restore.
If you still have problems like reseting, then it's a fault hardware.
To be shure, try to install a stock rom, if it still resets it's hardware
I'm using Darky's and I don't have reboots atm.
I didn't format my Internal SD. I'll try it. Thanks for the advice. (Altough I didn't think it was possible to be the source of the problem!)
Yes the ROM kitchen is having problems right now. The problem seems to be certain themes, which make the entire ROM defective. Several of the themes work fine. Try Andromeda. Hopefully the problem will be fixed before long.
Also, make sure you use the most recent version of the ROM
I am running Darky's Mod v9.5.XWJS28 on a rooted galaxy S GT-I9000, and SGS tools came pre-installed on it. Last night I had a look at the "upgrade stock apps" selection in SGS tools, and had a look at some of the apps. I installed the hacked camera app and the Galaxy tab E-mail app but I DID NOT install any of the launcher apps, only had a look at what each of them did. The stock launcher (touchwiz30.apk I am pretty sure it is called) worked perfectly fine after that.
Then late last night my battery ran dry. I plugged it in and charged it up, to notice that the launcher had changed to the extra one I got with Darky's Mod (so not the stock one that comes with an un-modified galaxy s). I went to "home switcher for Froyo" to find the only one showing up was the extra one (simply called "Launcher"). I was tired so I went to sleep, thinking that maybe if I restarted the phone it would fix itself.
So I woke up this morning and tried it, to no avail. I then tried downloading various Touchwiz30.apk from the internet, moving them over to my sd card and then using "My Files" to install them, but trying to do that just shows up with "application not installed" and nothing else to tell me why that is.
SGS tools also says that it backs-up the stocklauncher in sdcard/sgstools, and if I press "apply script" within the program and then "restore_launcher.txt" I will get my launcher back, but lo and behold, "apply script" works but then there is no "restore_launcher.txt". Using "My Files" to go to that folder, I find a Touchwiz30.apk in there, but checking its details, it takes up a whopping 0bytes of space!
Obviously I am going to uninstall SGStools after this, but in the mean-time how do I get my stock Home launcher back?
Possible Darky ROM solution
Hi Shi-an,
The same thing happened to me running Darky 9.5. You have probably resolved this by now but I thought I might post this for other people. Firstly, I am a novice... but I tried using "nitrality" (free version) to restore the twlauncher, which it did well. But when I the twlauncher, it force closed when I selected any apps. So Nitrality is NOT the solution for this.
To fix this I restored Darky ROM without wiping. (like a factory reset of the system area I think, but leaves your data and apps in tact.)
1. Undo lagfix using Voodoo Controls (if you use it) (as I said, I am a novice, so not sure if you need to undo lagfix when reflashing your ROM). Reboot and wait for the robot voice to take care of this for you.
2. Used Darky ROM Configurator (you probably already have it, otherwise its on the marketplace)
3. Made sure all the options I want were selected. Not wiping data is fairly important ... so make sure you don't select it unless you want to start fresh.
4. Menu, save and exit.
5. Go back into it, then menu select zip and flash.
6. Select the Darky 9.5 zip file (approx. 251mb)
The phone should restart into recovery and start reinstalling Darky ROM.
When it was all done, twlauncher works properly again.
I hope this helps someone. I take no responsibility for this... and I have assumed quite a few things, like you are running Darky ROM, with a custom rooted kernel and recovery mode which can work with Darky Configurator. I think I am on Darky Core 1.5.
Cheers.
Hello people,
I've been using gingerbread for two days and scared by the battery problem, I decided to fall back to froyo. Here's what I did:
1)JSD flash (with PIT/re-partition)
2)Speedmod kernel flash
3)Turned everything I could to ext4 from recovery
After this, I recognized that some apps in the market are missing, such as Fancy Widget, Launcher Pro, Titanium Backup, Watchdog etc. These were some of the applications installed on my phone before. However, some other items installed on my former system were there, such as Battery Status Bar, Digital Rain, Andoku, etc. I'm not talking about "My Apps", I'm talking about searching and not finding. Then;
4)Flashed JPO (with re-partition/PIT)
5)Flashed fugu root
6)Flashed original kernel back
The market situation was the same;
7)"Uninstalled the Updates" and "Cleared the Cache" of the Market from Settings/Application Manager.
Still nothing;
8)Cleared cache and did factory reset/clear user data
9)Applied "fix.apk" from jrummy
Nothing...;
10)JPH flash
11)Fugu root/flashed JPH kernel back
12)Market enabler
Frustratingly, none of this worked. I would very much appreciate your help, thanks in advance.
my problem like you plus that search result doesnt so good at all!
I'm starting to think that some data survive through repartition flashes/factory resets.
For instance, my APN settings were never gone(which I never understood).
Anyone knows how to fully reset my data?
Here's some new things I tried:
1)Installed Juwe's Mod
2)Did the market fix
Nothing changed,
3)Installed a themed market (not much hope in this)
4)Converted /system /data /datadata /cache to ext4, did factory reset
And still nothing. Anyone has the slightest idea on how to fix this?
Any ideas?