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All right, so a while ago say..few hours or a day ago, I dropped my phone. Nothing seemed wrong, everything was working fine. Until I decided to go play Abduction World Attack. It's a game where you tilt the G1 and the little character moves according to how you tilt it. Surprise Surprise I ran into my problem. The little avatar wouldn't move and it was just stuck there no matter how I turned my phone. I also just noticed that auto-rotate won't work. I believe it's because the accelerometer is broken...Anyone have any advice on how to fix this or calibrate it? I've tried calibrating inside apps that use the accelerometer. I've searched but to no avail. Help will be appreciated Thank-you.
[Edit]: A wipe has fixed this! =)
If your under warranty, you may want to try and get it exchanged. Let T-Mobile/HTC know that it just stopped working.
If you are out of warranty, you can attempt at looking for a solution by taking apart the phone. The official manual is here
The manual has all of the disassemble instructions. Hopefully that will lead you to a solution.
Sounds like it could be a hardware issue but no harm in testing to see if it is a software one. Tried rebooting the mobile? If so see if other programs like Bubble works. If not then a final resort would be a reflash to at least eliminate the software side of things.
If its no go then best to try and get it exchanged...
I've fixed it guys ^^ Seemed like a wipe would do it. I changed to the hero build for a second and then reflash CM after a wipe and accelerometer is fixed. Thanks for the suggestions though! Greatly appreciated
The power of the mighty wipe ^_- Good to hear its been sorted. Since you're the OP too, could you edit the title to SOLVED so people know?
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The power of the mighty wipe ^_- Good to hear its been sorted. Since you're the OP too, could you edit the title to SOLVED so people know?
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Sure. OP and title has been updated!
Sure wish I had your luck. I'm having the same problem and a wipe didn't do me any good.
I have tried several different mods and none of them work.
tested with browser, bubble, Papi game apps, and Accelerometer xyz Values.
I don't have any akm files located in /data/misc
I do have a /system/bin/akmd but my ps output doesn't show it running.
whatchamccallum said:
Sure wish I had your luck. I'm having the same problem and a wipe didn't do me any good.
I have tried several different mods and none of them work.
tested with browser, bubble, Papi game apps, and Accelerometer xyz Values.
I don't have any akm files located in /data/misc
I do have a /system/bin/akmd but my ps output doesn't show it running.
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Most likely a hardware problem then mate. You could try un-rooting and see if the accelerometer works.
If I install RC29 then the accelerometer works without issue. So that rules out hardware issue.
Here is another thread I found that goes in much more detail about what I am experiencing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533749
so far there isn't any movement on this thread. I'm surprised that this issue isn't more wide spread.
I just had the accelerometer on my HTC Sapphire go belly up.
Auto-rotate was broken, compass apps wouldn't initialize, tilting maze games would slowly move the ball to the top left side regardless of actual tilting, etc..
Reboot didn't fix it. However I did have a file under /data/misc/akmd_set.txt and most of the values in it were set to 0.
I renamed that file to akmd_set.txt, then killed akmd, per instructions in a neighboring thread.
akmd rose from its ashes, a new akmd_set.txt automagically appeared, with lots of different numbers for each value in it. All my accelerometer-depending features were happy again.
so yay, and all that.
As a side-note, I've been playing with some not insignificant magnets on my desk, and I'm wondering if abnormal magnetic fields around my phone might have caused the accelerometer miscalibration?
Good for my G1 too.
Kudos to the OP, this solution worked perfectly on my G1 with the same symptoms. Many Thanks!
I was pretty happy with Nookie Froyo last night; it seemed to be working well enough & the market was going fine. I had one point where I had to open Rom Manager and set permissions, and it seemed to go on its way & be happy.
Today on the commute in, it fell apart. MortPlayer barfed on a directory, and wouldnt open, continually force closing as soon as it starts. Going into settings & hitting clear data and clear cache didnt do anything: the amount of KB used for both remained exactly the same. I opened Rom Manager, and it force closed immediately. I tried going into settings for it and doing clear data / clear cache, but again the amount of KB used for both remained exactly the same.
How can I fix this? What are likely causes for clear data / clear cache not having any effect? I've seen this last problem quite frequently on my various android devices-- Rom Manager seemed like the perfect fix (only found it last night) but now Rom Manager itself is borked. Help please.
For reference, I have plenty of experience with command lines, and have su, terminal, and adb all working fine. I just dont know what I need to do. And-- on my previous distro-- I found some mounts werent happy about remounting rw.
also, are there logs on these application crashes?
I had the same problem. Are you using a patriot card? Was the wifi on?
I reboot and leave the wifi off. Turn off time automatic update.
Not sure if that what fix it for me. Would not hurt to try.
Using an ADATA "class 10" card (pshaw! 6mb/s does not class ten make!). I was in Airplane mode on the commute. I'll try turning of automatic update.
Let me know. I would like to find out what is happening.
this is interesting i get these force closes on both my centon and kingmax cards cm7 and nookie froyo respectively. The force closes then go into an epidemic with framework services fc every app launch. it makes the nook unusable until reboot then it happens all over again. i use the nook praying the browser doesnt crash then force close hell ensues. I hope there's a fix
based on the lack of responses in this thread i assume this is a known issue. I'll continue to Google a cure
Guys my Nook is freezing sometimes.
I have to shut down manually with the power button .
I am running right now nightlies 102 with OC 18/06.
But I had this problem and with Phiremod test Rom.
I have install the rom to my internal emmc.
any suggestion?
Isolate the machine..by this run without the OC kernel..or try running a different version of cm..many time on my machine with the nightly updates it does also freeze..I always to back to one that does not freeze..remember you are flashing test builds and they must be treated as such. Also..what speeds are you using...are you running setcpu with at boot option on..which you should not do. It WILL lock up..have you deleted any of the .apk files? Did you clear the cache and dalvic?
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Isolate the machine..by this run without the OC kernel..or try running a different version of cm..many time on my machine with the nightly updates it does also freeze..I always to back to one that does not freeze..remember you are flashing test builds and they must be treated as such. Also..what speeds are you using...are you running setcpu with at boot option on..which you should not do. It WILL lock up..have you deleted any of the .apk files? Did you clear the cache and dalvic?
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I will try to clear the cashe adn dalvin. No I dont use setcpu I know that it will crach with the preinstalled performance settings.
Try a complete flash with a differently nightly..what I mean is wipe all 3 (dalvic, data and cache and try just to boot) some times the nightlife are not very friendly... Build 110 comes to mind...it froze up..had to do a complete restore..frankly...I am getting tired of always flashing theses...my favorite is build 64 with the 1.3 sped kernel. For me this was running just right. I am going to flash 112 later tonight and I want to write a guide to which apks to remove safely for new flashers..I been meaning to write one for awhile..
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Try a complete flash with a differently nightly..what I mean is wipe all 3 (dalvic, data and cache and try just to boot) some times the nightlife are not very friendly... Build 110 comes to mind...it froze up..had to do a complete restore..frankly...I am getting tired of always flashing theses...my favorite is build 64 with the 1.3 sped kernel. For me this was running just right. I am going to flash 112 later tonight and I want to write a guide to which apks to remove safely for new flashers..I been meaning to write one for awhile..
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maybe I will try a new build tonight.
I will report back.
cool......
searius said:
Guys my Nook is freezing sometimes.
I have to shut down manually with the power button .
I am running right now nightlies 102 with OC 18/06.
But I had this problem and with Phiremod test Rom.
I have install the rom to my internal emmc.
any suggestion?
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Try the new CM7.1 RC release. I always do a clean install whenever i have freezing issues or i feel that nook is running slow.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=RC&device=encore
To many freezes,
Oh how dare you mock me so.
Power off again.
sounds like SOD...
SOD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1108964
I have put nightlies 112 now.
For the moment I had not any freeze only one time SOD.
But I have not use too much the Nook those days. I have exams
It doesn't look like Sleep of Death. My NC is not sleeping. Just when I'm in some application (for example, Angry Birds) it becomes extraordinary slow.
I exit the application and it is slow in launcher screen. Looks like frozen, then after several seconds it starts reacting on previous gestures. Then long delay again. Have to power off or reboot Nook.
I saw it yesterday for first time. My Nook was turned off for ~2 weeks. Then I turned it on and updated some apps in market. I noticed Netflix app was in memory. I don't think it loaded automatically at start up before.
I have CM7.0.2 stable, with normal kernel at 925MHz. I installed more than 100 apps, maybe one of them is the reason. It happens quite often, maybe once in half an hour. It can also happen in market during update. Nook is unusable right now.
But my friend has CM7.0.3 and he didn't install that many, I believe he has the same problem.
Will try to wipe stuff and to prevent unnecessary apps from starting with autostarts. Will see how it goes.
With that many apps...make sure you clean out the cache frequently...there are a few apps that do that free on the market....when got got my first android device...a evo I would load everything I could under the sun and delete and installed like crazy....now I have a few trusty apps and I clean out my cache everyday....browsing along will fill up the cache like crazy...
searius said:
I have put nightlies 112 now.
For the moment I had not any freeze only one time SOD.
But I have not use too much the Nook those days. I have exams
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Glad to see you up and running.....
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With that many apps...make sure you clean out the cache frequently...there are a few apps that do that free on the market....when got got my first android device...a evo I would load everything I could under the sun and delete and installed like crazy....now I have a few trusty apps and I clean out my cache everyday....browsing along will fill up the cache like crazy...
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The only reason to do this kind of nonsense is if you need more space in /data, which is unlikely a problem on the Nook Color.
khaytsus said:
The only reason to do this kind of nonsense is if you need more space in /data, which is unlikely a problem on the Nook Color.
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I have to disagree...I use firefox on the nook and after a few hours of surfing..it will slow down dramatically...clear my data cache and speed goes up...Also...the more apps loaded the more processess and services runningcin the background which results in overall slowdown...I really don't know why you call it nonesense when it is simple math..the more you have and use the more it is caches and or memory is gutted down with more crap running on it in the background and or swapping in and from cache.
I wiped cache partition and Dalvik cache using CWM recovery. NC looks better now. Didn't freeze so far, but I need to test more.
Thanks
PS. I rarely use browser. It froze while playing some game, or immediately after exiting game, in Zeam launcher.
micksh said:
I wiped cache partition and Dalvik cache using CWM recovery. NC looks better now. Didn't freeze so far, but I need to test more.
Thanks
PS. I rarely use browser. It froze while playing some game, or immediately after exiting game, in Zeam launcher.
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I don't do the dalvic cache...I am talking about the general cache...currently using 'cache cleaner' from marketplace and works like a charm.
my nook has been freezing a lot lately too. randomly. it doesn't slow down or anything, it just freezes and I have to hard reboot. at least 3 times a day. I am on nightly 116, this has been happening since beta 3.1. using 6/18 kernel. overclocked to 1175.
sometimes it will even freeze right after the bootanimation as soon as it gets to the main screen. Any ideas on what I can do? I have changed the kernel from conservative to ondemand and that didn't help. I lowered the overclock from 1200 to 1175 and that didn't help.
edit: as I was typing this it froze while clicking on the dropbox app. I restarted and it froze as soon as it got to the homescreen. also just cleaned the cache. freed up a lot of memory but it didn't help.
Slow clock down to stock..or flash another build...also just use cm for over clocking if you are using setcpu..uninstall it..I don't know if you are. Try interactive...if still freezing..with setcpu..yes..reinstall..basically try different combos...when you find one that is stable...backup and use that as your daily driver and then experiment with different build.
I cleaned program cache too, with Android Assistant. I guess it's the same. Nook froze badly today. Played Angry Birds, froze completely. Pressed "n" button, exited to launcher, but could not do much in it. Only long-press power button helped.
The thing is it worked well two weeks ago. Then I didn't use it, then I downloaded few free apps from Amazon and ran out of space on eMMC. Then I moved some apps to microSD (I don't think I moved Angry Birds but it looks like it is on SD for some reasons). And my microSD has bad random access times. Can this be the reason?
People in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005633 reported problems when booting OS from slow cards. It probably applies to apps on SD too. I bought Sandisk card now, but it will take time to deliver.
Hi guys,
Not sure if anyone else has ever experienced the same problem. I'm running Hyperdroid GBX v11.0 on my HD2 and all works great with the exception of Pandora. From time to time it goes into stuttering mode where the sounds is interrupted constantly and the "P" symbol in the taskbar is flickering. Doesn't look like it's a problem with being in and out of service/coverage but more like there is an issue with this specific app.
Tried reinstalling, rebooting etc. - nothing worked. There are times when it works completely normal and then it starts up again, can't make out a pattern. Has anyone ever had the same problem with Pandora?
thanks!
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Im having what is certainly a stupid problem. This morning I decided to update the touchpad (I think android was originally installed 3+ years ago). I used the guide here and got cm-11-20160314-NIGHTLY-tenderloin installed, everything went swimmingly. This tablet is used exclusively for radio and video in the kitchen and everything seems to work except netflix. More often than not when I start a video it comes up black and white in sort of a jumbled jigsaw puzzle. The audio is fine. I have tried, rebooting, uninstalling, force closing, clearing cache and data, and from the one google product forums thread I found dealing with a similar issue (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/3JKWt0rEo5I), clearing both data and cache in chrome as well, to no avail. If I close and reopen the video over and over it sometimes works. Youtube seems to work flawlessly. Im stumped. I hope someone could help with this as the tablet was getting to barely usable and this seemed to have breathed some new life into it.
EDIT I have since tried a rotating list of different roms. The only one I can see to get working netflix video is : cm-11-20151116-SNAPSHOT-jcsullins-tenderloin. Im not sure what the deal is. Its strange that I seem to be the only one with this issue. Oh well.
I have this issue as well. Unfortunately I've no idea how to solve it!