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Hero ROM Forced Closes

I am new to the HERO ROM's (have been primarily using Cyanogen ROM's - I have a G1 phone). I have implimented all the basic steps (3-partitions, wiping at the right time during the install, class 6 SD, etc.), but haven't seen a good thread on things to try if you are getting a lot of FC's.
Any insights on what is causing them, or what I should do try to get rid of them?
If you are looking for specifics, one would be - I downloaded the MLIGN Rom and added the HTC Calendar to my home screen. When ever I try go into the Menu and try to change the Calender View (from the monthly view), I get an FC.
I didn't want to post in the Android Development section because I am such a noob and I'm sure something on this topic has been covered somewhere, I just cannot find it (yes I have searched).

qwerty3656 said:
I am new to the HERO ROM's (have been primarily using Cyanogen ROM's - I have a G1 phone). I have implimented all the basic steps (3-partitions, wiping at the right time during the install, class 6 SD, etc.), but haven't seen a good thread on things to try if you are getting a lot of FC's.
Any insights on what is causing them, or what I should do try to get rid of them?
If you are looking for specifics, one would be - I downloaded the MLIGN Rom and added the HTC Calendar to my home screen. When ever I try go into the Menu and try to change the Calender View (from the monthly view), I get an FC.
I didn't want to post in the Android Development section because I am such a noob and I'm sure something on this topic has been covered somewhere, I just cannot find it (yes I have searched).
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What happens if you delete the calander off your homescreen and re add it but with the view you want. Also what other errors are you getting. Need to give more details.

[Q] Icons disappear from Home Screen ! How to solve this?

My Galaxy Note is running Android 4.0.4. I am running the stock ROM. Not rooted.
After I just installed the latest Samsung patch DDLR9, whenever I switch off my phone and restart it, the Icons on my Homescreen disappear. These are those programs which I have saved on my SD Card.
Never happened before this. Is there is fix to this specific to the Galaxy Note?

no this is a bug in the new DDLR9 firmware and happens to the apps moved to sd. For now move all these apps to phone and it will work fine
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and wait for jb uodate
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Fast Boot option may be the culprit
This is actually a long-standing problem in Android OS, going back at least two years (donkey's years in this technology!)
Something about the interaction of the OS and an sdcard formated for holding apps creates odd behaviours.
Lots of complicated suggestions have been made, including reformatting sdcard, reinstalling ROMs, changing launchers (the one suggested here) and such.
None of these approaches seems really to solve the problem even in most cases.
Now a ROM bug is proclaimed the cause. Well, maybe... That could always be the case, but given all the problems all the others have had in so many different configurations, I wonder...
What seems to be working for me (at least for the last week or so) is the following very simple tweak.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report anything further on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (especially now that the chosen thread no longer is the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:

[Q] Couple of days in - a couple of Qs...

So after some great help by gregbradley and others, I have a rooted T and now have an OTA 195 update.
However I have a couple of questions (apart from my continued quest to find a way to get the phone to save camera output in less compressed fashion.
1) Is it usual for mediaserver to be the 2nd great drain on battery after the screen and ahead of android system?
(there appear to be many web discussions on this, but I could not find a definitive answer. Mine has always been like this even before I tinkered with it, or before I put the sim in (I didn't put the sim in until after I had rooted and updated. I do not have an SD card in there yet (64Gb on order) and I have not added any new pics or movies to the stock provided ones.
2) Can you change where apps are installed? Can this be changed for Google Play apps (like xda) Is the default to install to "phone memory" rather than "internal storage". Given that "phone memory" is only ~ 2Gb, it would be good to install to "internal storage"
3) Are apps on the home screens (eg Walkman) always running, even when not in use (the walkman example is the app 4x1 icons wide and has basic controls on it)?
Many thanks as always!
icstm

some clarification I should have added yesterday...
1) quite simply I would be keen to know what type of apps call on the mediaserver process
2) I know that from the "apps" in settings" some apps can be moved, but that appears limited and no default can be set
3) when I say apps, I mean widgets and the like, not the simply shortcut icons

icstm said:
some clarification I should have added yesterday...
1) quite simply I would be keen to know what type of apps call on the mediaserver process
2) I know that from the "apps" in settings" some apps can be moved, but that appears limited and no default can be set
3) when I say apps, I mean widgets and the like, not the simply shortcut icons
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1) Anything that needs to scan the sdcards for contents will call on the media server. After a fresh flash many apps will be collating their cache so the mediaserver may have a high battery drain, you should never worry about battery drain untill you have run a ROm for at least 3-4 days to let it settle
2) Yes, use apps such as link2sd or app2sd, free in the market. However I have not yet felt the need to do this with a 16gb internal memory
3) Thos e widgets are just shortcuts, e.g. I have a weather app set to refresh every 2 hours...it will be woring in the background whether or not the homescreen widget is on the homescreen or not.
However, do not worry about task killers, since android 2.1 the best task killer is the one that comes with the OS. The only other exception is if you install init.d scripts and supercharge scripts etc, but you may want to leave that for a bit and get used to the phone first.

So I am on the xda app, much better way to view the site than mobile browser .
However, I cannot see what you wrote when I reply.
But it relates to your last point on making customisations. And not just keyboard which prefers US spellings over UK ones .
I am thinking of tinkering with the OS files as I am very upset with the compression of photos. So I am keen by what you say just below number 3.
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AW: [Q] Couple of days in - a couple of Qs...
Change your keyboard or even better your whole phone to UK in language and keyboard setting and it'll propose BE instead of USE.
Greg is correct, the media server goes nuts the first two to three days after (re)flashing or taking up a device. You can improve the situation by keeping your folder structure clean and neat and trash out left over files, old garbage and file system junk.

Thanks for your posts in both threads.
As for mediaserver, yes all is quiet now.
Not sure about which system files to delete at this stage, but I sure do keep a neat folder structure for my content.

[Q] Lost the widget Data

Hi there,
I recently rooted my Galaxy y (ah! that feeling). After rooting I used Rom Toolbox to move some of my apps to sd card. While doing this I also moved two of my widgets to sdcard - Sticky notes and Extended control. It didn't take long to realise that moving widgets to sd card was not a good decision!
I lost all the sticky notes that I've put up on my home screen (and there were LOTS of them). I've put up a lot of information on those sticky notes and now I don't have access to any of it.
Also, rooting didn't cause this as notes were there even after rooting.
Can somebody help me with getting them back. I mean, I didn't delete them, so they have to be there somewhere in memory..
Help! :crying:

probably best to ask these questions in the Galaxy forum rather than dream, but whatever.
as you found out widgets dont play nice on the sd card and you need to move them back (yes you are right that rooting didnt do anything bad to your phone)
you need to see where the data attached to these apps/widgets are stored and make sure they are not lost, commonly found in
data/data

demkantor said:
probably best to ask these questions in the Galaxy forum rather than dream, but whatever.
as you found out widgets dont play nice on the sd card and you need to move them back (yes you are right that rooting didnt do anything bad to your phone)
you need to see where the data attached to these apps/widgets are stored and make sure they are not lost, commonly found in
data/data
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Moveing the widgets back to phone memory enabled the widgets but didn't recover the data. Tried to find folder of sticky notes in data/data but couldn't.
How to proceed now?

Get a list of broken app shortcuts

Hello Xperia Xperts!
I have an old Sony Xperia Z with latest factory updates (Android 5.0), and I had few apps installed on its external SD card.
Now the SD card is damaged for some reason, my app drawer is left with few broken links to non-existing apps. Instead of my apps' icon, it shows a green Droid icon with a small red SD icon on its top-left corner, which obviously means that those apps can not be loaded because device can not read the SD card.
I don't care much about the SD card for now, my concern is how to get the list of those broken shortcuts? I wish to get even the groupId of those apps (e.g. com.example.foe) so that I can figure them out and re-install them from Play Store.
Is there anyway to get this list?
Since I asked in other forums as well and still did not get an answer, I want to highlight that those apps are not available on the Play store installed list, they are not considered as installed anymore by any Android related tool. They are not in `pm list`.
Apparently only Sony launcher recognizes them and I want to find a way to read what Sony launcher is reading.

And, answering myself. I found them all available inside this file:
Code:
/data/data/com.sonyericsson.home/shared_prefs/home_external_storage_apps_pref.xml