[Q] Phoenix ROM vs Cognition? - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm currently using the latest Cognition rom on my captivate. I'm thinking of switching to phoenix rom because of the themes that are available. However, since I'm relatively new to roms, I cannot decide if I should switch. Can you guys give me some pros and cons of switching?
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Well what kind of themes are you looking at? Cog has some cool ones.

I was thinking of a black theme
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Look up Darkness v2.5 in Themes and Apps.

I tried flashing that using CWM two days ago, but it made my phone freeze every time I unlock it. It then proceeds to automatically turn off the screen and back on again, repeating the freezing.
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Go with firefly ... It was made by the same dev team that made phoenix but has an awesome app with a lot of themes (including a black ang white one) and mods that you can download directly from there. Super convenient.

DarkVoidification said:
I tried flashing that using CWM two days ago, but it made my phone freeze every time I unlock it. It then proceeds to automatically turn off the screen and back on again, repeating the freezing.
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Did you clear cache and Dalvik?
Also, look in the Torch thread at post #2. Monochrome theme there is all black and white and *SHOULD* work with Cognition, as both are KB1 based. Worst that can happen is you're put in an endless boot animation, but even that probably won't happen.

How do you clear the cache and Dalvik?
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DarkVoidification said:
How do you clear the cache and Dalvik?
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In recovery ... Cache is in the main menu. Dalvik is in the advanced menu.
Note: after doing this the next boot will take a LONG time. Don't panic it's normal it's rebuilding those caches you just wiped.

Ok thanks
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Nope, still no luck. I cleared all the cache and Dalvik cache then reflashed the theme. However, it still did the same thing, which is freezing whenever I unlock the phone, then turning off the screen and repeats.

Any other themes that support cognition v4?
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go with phoenix unleashed

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Rom manager issue

Rom manager gets stuck upon opening. The loading wheel at the bottom just keeps spinning. This happened after I updated my kernal (to a dj05 safe one) following the radio upgrade to dj05.
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Try fix permissions from cwr.
Did this, still loading... Can't view roms...
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Try clearing cache in rom manager (menu key) happens to me a lot for some reason?
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Everyone seems to have occasional issues with rom manager. I usually just reboot the phone if it's being really temperamental.
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Tried many things at this point, changed roms and kernal because all of a sudden I can get into that menu even though its is still loading. Might just have to deal with it till a new version comes out...
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all bionic themes work on any deodexed rom on d3

Just giving the heads up....i tested all the current themes for the bionic on my d3. They all work fine, as long as you are deodexed.
suzook said:
Just giving the heads up....i tested all the current themes for the bionic on my d3. They all work fine, as long as you are deodexed.
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Yep. Roms however do not.. They take you into landscape mode.
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Have you tried the BigDX Bionic theme?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254657
It has peaked my interest but I'm skepticle if there are any compatibility issues, although it was stated deodexing wasn't necessary.
pm2gonzales said:
Have you tried the BigDX Bionic theme?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254657
It has peaked my interest but I'm skepticle if there are any compatibility issues, although it was stated deodexing wasn't necessary.
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I have tried several times I lose phone and contacts. Still trying. Bignadad did tell me someone on xda was working on porting it to the DROID 3
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suzook said:
Just giving the heads up....i tested all the current themes for the bionic on my d3. They all work fine, as long as you are deodexed.
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Is the stock rom 2.3.4 deodexed?
guiding light
Anyone had luck with the blue guiding light theme?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369281
I installed Blackwhite theme for TH3ORY Rom on my Droid3 running SteelDroid today. Looks really sexy!
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bigDX
I got the bigDX theme to boot finally. So far everything seems to be working. I flashed it over steeldroid without wiping data. Not sure why but wiping data before or after applying this theme makes me bootloop. Well worth all the trouble though!
I am not an expert by any means, but I don't think you're supposed to wipe data when installing ANY theme.
Themes need a rom to go OVER, if you wipe data before...you leave nothing for the theme to be applied to...
skankhush said:
I got the bigDX theme to boot finally. So far everything seems to be working. I flashed it over steeldroid without wiping data. Not sure why but wiping data before or after applying this theme makes me bootloop. Well worth all the trouble though!
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i tried flashing the ics one off here over monster but when i booted up i got force closes. My steps were
1. Wipe system data and cache, wipe mount system
2. Apply monster zip
3. Boot to check if all is good
4. Shut down and apply the ics theme
5. Boot up and it brought me to the accounts page with force closes. Am i missing an important step somewhere?
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Wife's galaxy s

Hi my wife's galaxy s has started turning the screen on at random..and continuously sometimes. This as we know will start ruining the battery.I've had many issues with her ics. For some reason since installing a kernel. It messed it all up somehow the remains of the boot image or kernel etc is still onboard thankfully I still can boot her. Can't apply custom roms at all. I can send an official rom from the PC but that's it. I managed to get gb on. Its started randomly turning the screen on. Fairly certain its not the rom she's had it since last year
Any ideas? Is there anyway to totally strip the phone of virtually everything to the core and start against
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If you think its a kernel issue you could run a kernel cleaner script then reflash, but my sgs did this when it got water damage almost exactly as your described
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Thanks for the reply do you know where the kernel script is?
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Do a nandroid backup. Then copy necessary files to SD card (rom, kernel, modem, whatever.)
Then format /system and do a factory reset. Then do a fresh install of your kernel and rom.
Then in cwm go to backup and restore, advanced restore, and restore her data!
Then your phone is fresh .
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1166954 here you go read the guide and flash it , I seriously doubt the other suggestion will work as the nandroid backup restores it to exactly how it was before I mean like if your wifi was left on it will be on after you restore exact, so what ever bug is doing this will almost defiantly restore aswell
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It will work we are just saving data like settings and apps.
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Ill just back up apps. And SMS etc that's it. Need a new rom anyway
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AlwaysDroid said:
It will work we are just saving data like settings and apps.
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It backs all the system apps up aswell and every single thing so if there is a bug it will restore that aswell... your better off just redownloading the Alps from play market after and using a sms backup app if you want a clean install
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Custom boot animation issues

I flashed a new boot animation and it works smoothly at first then the screen flashes white for about ten seconds before booting. Now is really not assign issue just kind of annoying
I cleared the cache upon flashing
U have tried two different ones with same out come
Running kt747 kernel and synergy rom
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zmcat1 said:
I flashed a new boot animation and it works smoothly at first then the screen flashes white for about ten seconds before booting. Now is really not assign issue just kind of annoying
I cleared the cache upon flashing
U have tried two different ones with same out come
Running kt747 kernel and synergy rom
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Top of the forum see sticky you do not have I9305 phone do you .

[Q] AOIP 8/3, 8/10, and now 6/3 reboots during app uninstall and data toggle

Hi all,
I've been using AOIP on my Exhibit since June... and have loved it, but I've recently had some reboot/crash problems.
Upon uninstalling an app or toggling cellular data off (and only off... turning it on has no effect and if the wifi turns data off I still see the same effect), the phone crashes and reboots immediately. There may be a couple more causes, but I haven't pin pointed them.
This had first occurred when I installed the 8/3 release without a full wipe. I performed a full wipe, flashed 8/3, and still experienced heavy crashing. I reverted to the 6/3 release and didn't have problems. I tried the same sequence with the same results with the 8/10 release a couple of weeks ago. I've again reverted to 6/3 without problems...
Then this morning, I noticed that my wallpaper had been reset over night (suggesting a crash) and now the phone crashes under the same scenarios mentioned above.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated - I've enjoyed the ROM and hope this has been addressed with other folks and has yielded a simple solution...although I haven't seen this problem in any forums.
jjmontem said:
Hi all,
I've been using AOIP on my Exhibit since June... and have loved it, but I've recently had some reboot/crash problems.
Upon uninstalling an app or toggling cellular data off (and only off... turning it on has no effect and if the wifi turns data off I still see the same effect), the phone crashes and reboots immediately. There may be a couple more causes, but I haven't pin pointed them.
This had first occurred when I installed the 8/3 release without a full wipe. I performed a full wipe, flashed 8/3, and still experienced heavy crashing. I reverted to the 6/3 release and didn't have problems. I tried the same sequence with the same results with the 8/10 release a couple of weeks ago. I've again reverted to 6/3 without problems...
Then this morning, I noticed that my wallpaper had been reset over night (suggesting a crash) and now the phone crashes under the same scenarios mentioned above.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated - I've enjoyed the ROM and hope this has been addressed with other folks and has yielded a simple solution...although I haven't seen this problem in any forums.
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What recovery and build of recovery?
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mwhitt said:
What recovery and build of recovery?
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Currently, CWM 6.0.3.6 touch - installed a few days ago, but crashing began today. Previously, CWM 6.0.3... something.... which ever version was available just before this latest touch version.
jjmontem said:
Currently, CWM 6.0.3.6 touch - installed a few days ago, but crashing began today. Previously, CWM 6.0.3... something.... which ever version was available just before this latest touch version.
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What did you do to perform a full wipe? What option/s did you use
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mwhitt said:
What did you do to perform a full wipe? What option/s did you use
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First, only wipe cache partition + flash the new ROM. Then, once I saw some crashing, wipe data/factor reset + wipe cache partition + flash new ROM.
I had a wallpaper reset, too. I didn't know what it might mean. Why would that indicate a crash?
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jjmontem said:
First, only wipe cache partition + flash the new ROM. Then, once I saw some crashing, wipe data/factor reset + wipe cache partition + flash new ROM.
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You need to go to mounts and Storage and format system for a full wipe,
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mwhitt said:
You need to go to mounts and Storage and format system for a full wipe,
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I see... so I'm off on my definition. Would you suggest doing so and flashing one of the AOIP releases? If so, which release and which kernel would you recommend?
jjmontem said:
I see... so I'm off on my definition. Would you suggest doing so and flashing one of the AOIP releases? If so, which release and which kernel would you recommend?
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Do the wipe data then format system then flash rom of your choice, i use the aoip before the white screen kernels came out, 8/3
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mwhitt said:
Do the wipe data then format system then flash rom of your choice, i use the aoip before the white screen kernels came out, 8/3
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I'll give that a try...
jjmontem said:
Hi all,
I've been using AOIP on my Exhibit since June... and have loved it, but I've recently had some reboot/crash problems.
Upon uninstalling an app or toggling cellular data off (and only off... turning it on has no effect and if the wifi turns data off I still see the same effect), the phone crashes and reboots immediately. There may be a couple more causes, but I haven't pin pointed them.
This had first occurred when I installed the 8/3 release without a full wipe. I performed a full wipe, flashed 8/3, and still experienced heavy crashing. I reverted to the 6/3 release and didn't have problems. I tried the same sequence with the same results with the 8/10 release a couple of weeks ago. I've again reverted to 6/3 without problems...
Then this morning, I noticed that my wallpaper had been reset over night (suggesting a crash) and now the phone crashes under the same scenarios mentioned above.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated - I've enjoyed the ROM and hope this has been addressed with other folks and has yielded a simple solution...although I haven't seen this problem in any forums.
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Had the same problem just flash one of the new kernels and you should be fine. Also flash 8/10 build
schuylkillparanormal said:
Had the same problem just flash one of the new kernels and you should be fine. Also flash 8/10 build
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I don't like the new kernels personally
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mwhitt said:
I don't like the new kernels personally
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I'm running the ocuvhm kernel and it works flawless stopped most of my problems.
If you've been here long enough you'll know that some of our phones work well with OC kernels and since don't. As suggested, I recommend flashing the stock kernel (white screen) and see if that solves your problem. If it does good, if not try a different thing. Make a nandroid first.
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Mwas. said:
If you've been here long enough you'll know that some of our phones work well with OC kernels and since don't. As suggested, I recommend flashing the stock kernel (white screen) and see if that solves your problem. If it does good, if not try a different thing. Make a nandroid first.
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I've now flashed the 8/10 AOIP release and have tried both OC kernels and the stock kernel (white screen)... but this hasn't solved the crashing. Any other suggestions?
jjmontem said:
I've now flashed the 8/10 AOIP release and have tried both OC kernels and the stock kernel (white screen)... but this hasn't solved the crashing. Any other suggestions?
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Then try another rom and see if it does the same thing. If not, I say backup your external SD card to your computer then wipe everything including your SD card and start fresh and see if that helps.
Try TWRP instead of CMW just for the heck of it. I would try downloading everything again just to be sure
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Mwas. said:
Then try another rom and see if it does the same thing. If not, I say backup your external SD card to your computer then wipe everything including your SD card and start fresh and see if that helps.
Try TWRP instead of CMW just for the heck of it. I would try downloading everything again just to be sure
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I've flashed camory's CM10 for the phone, and things seem to be running smoothly, although the new Maps (7.0) freezes up things.
I supposed I'll stick with this ROM and try out AOIP again if another version is released. Thanks for the help - try to keep me posted if this problem turns out to be repeatable and addressable...

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