Let me tell you a story. I once brought a Galaxy Note form Flipkart.com . When it arrived, it had features rivalling that of the iPhone 5, but had half the price and a larger screen size at that. I was over the moon. It seemed like nothing could go wrong.
I rooted it the day after it came. Almost miraculously, you had features like dual-boot animation. I, of course, in my inimitable stupidity, forgot to make a Nandroid backup. But who cared ? The device was up and running.
That's when the nightmare started. It just started out as minor blips - Google Play saying that authentication required or sevrver error or offline mode ( whatever the hell that means ) ; Google Talk forever on offline mode ; Gmail not being able to sync. These and more warning signs appeared, but I brushed them aside, thinking that they would be fixed with the passage of time. In retrospect, this was a very stupid thought.
Then the hell started. Galaxy offered a Jelly Bean Update. In my steadfast optimism, I downloaded it and installed it. Nothing changed. Absolutely ****ing NOTHING. My mother's sister, who was Android Development Head, informed me that it was due to some conflict between TouchWiz not being compatible with Android Jelly Bean. Then apparently, since the update was downloaded and not installed, it kept informing me that your update is due, and kept asking me whether I would install it. I, obviously kept saying NO. Some stupid person on androidforums told me to freeze Samsung Updater using Titanium Backup. But, my friends, the worse was yet to start.
As soon as I froze Updater it crashed. I had to force start using Recovery. Then the device wouldn't give any signal and even WiFi stopped working.
I then unfroze Updater, since that was the natural action one would take. It crashed again and on force start it said - " Android Updating, Start Applications... ". There was no signal whatsoever.
Then it seemed like Satan had reserved a special place in the depths of Hell for the Note. Every thirty seconds the Note would crash and give the same message which I listed above. Some person on some random forum suggested moving all the apps from the SD Card to Internal Memory. Well, great suggestion, because whenever I tried to open settings, Note would, very conveniently, crash again.
I tried backing up using ADB. Crash. Factory Reset attempt. Crash. Crossing my fingers. Crash. Just isolating it and keeping it on a bookcase. Crash.Crash all the way.
I've run out of ideas, so from my long post, if you have figured anything that might be of use, don't hesitate to reply
Regards And Thanks
Sid
Just download ROM of your choice, stock or custom. Use pc odin to flash stock rom or cwm to flash custom rom.. Head over to dr ketans thread for list of stock roms be it jb, ics or gb. If you still can access custom recovery (dont wipe on stock recovery) do all the wipes like /system /preload /data /cache(ofcourse if u dont want to backup anything important ) and the flash the stock or custom rom
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try Cursed4eva on youtube...this guy's videos would definately help u....btw u did tried flashing an official rom right?
Usually a factory reset and stock rom solves evrything
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it was working fine with both restoring and backing up my roms before (jm5), but once I've flashed over to jg8 it's stopped working.
one thing that's different is that I applied RyanZA's lag fix that makes use of ext2.
to be honest I don't even think that's the cause but I'm just putting putting it there for information's sake.
any help is appreciated, thanks.
had this on my phone right today as well...was trying to do a backup after a flash -
it's not that it stopped but it just really takes an awful long wait to finish that part of it
really? I guess I'm not a man of patience but the first backup went by faster! I shall give it another try when I'm not using the phone, thanks.
Yeah,i did this last night. Was worried it wasn't going to complete however just left it to it a bit and it does get through it.
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Yeah my EXT2 doesn't play nice with backup programs. Someone could make a new backup program that supports it, I guess, but that's probably not going to happen. It should be just temporary until either samsung gives us a better update, or someone cooks up a custom rom that won't need it.
well then, I'd rather have no lag than anything! damned samsung...
I can confirm this
I have a Bell Vibrant. I first applied the OCLF. Pressed Volume up, plus center button, plus power and booted into recovery.
Applied update.
Rebooted.
Went back into OCLF and played with all the other optimizations.
Installed Rom Manager.
Tried going straight to backup - rebooted into recovery and failed.
Installed nandroid recovery. Rebooted into nandroid recovery -> Great Success!
Clicked backup and everything seemed to be going well till it got to the file
linux.ex2
Then it seemed to be stuck for 3-5 minutes. I was reading this forum page when it got going again.
Great Success!
Thank you all!
For me, it stopped for about 5-7mins. It went again after I had a cigi.
Hey,
this problem started only today and has never happened before. The only things changing were some app updates and a few new installs. I already uninstalled all of the apps installed in the last few days in hopes of reverting the situation but it didn't help. And after I made the first reboot when the apps began to force close randomly it looked like a semi factory reset was made. All my contacts are gone, there are no SMS/call logs, but all SMSes, pictures and videos are still there. If I try to open the Market app it asks me if I accept TOS, Gmail is not set, mobile internet is not working (due to reset settings), Wi-Fi and bluetooth settings are still there. In short, everything is half-fuc*ed.
What do you thing happened? And is there any possibility I can go back to a normal state without starting from fresh?
Pegart said:
Hey,
this problem started only today and has never happened before. The only things changing were some app updates and a few new installs. I already uninstalled all of the apps installed in the last few days in hopes of reverting the situation but it didn't help. And after I made the first reboot when the apps began to force close randomly it looked like a semi factory reset was made. All my contacts are gone, there are no SMS/call logs, but all SMSes, pictures and videos are still there. If I try to open the Market app it asks me if I accept TOS, Gmail is not set, mobile internet is not working (due to reset settings), Wi-Fi and bluetooth settings are still there. In short, everything is half-fuc*ed.
What do you thing happened? And is there any possibility I can go back to a normal state without starting from fresh?
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Go into Recovery and Fix Permissions, then reboot and see if that has fixed the problem.
Flash a new stock rom to solve this issue..
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doomsdaycs said:
Flash a new stock rom to solve this issue..
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But try a wipe (factory reset) before, should solve thus issue.
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Oh yeah, and another thing. Market, Youtube and Maps apps where all a few version lower than before and started updating immediately after opening the Market app. Market still is (even the old design and everything). How can this be?
rschenck said:
Go into Recovery and Fix Permissions, then reboot and see if that has fixed the problem.
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I don't have a Fix Permissions option in recovery (3e)???
doomsdaycs said:
Flash a new stock rom to solve this issue..
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I'm trying to avoid that at the moment. Just for the time being so I can make a complete backup of all my stuff.
Lunchbox115 said:
But try a wipe (factory reset) before, should solve thus issue.
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Same as above. For now.
i9000 random loss of data
Yes, this is a rather old thread I'm trying to revive here, but as it is adviced to continue those instread of duplicating them, here are my issues:
I gave my i9000 to a relative ~a year ago and recently it started acting strange. About 1-2 times a month I get a call from that relative saying: "I get a lot of force closes, phone is unusable, nothing works". I then walk over, take a look and yes, unusable. It appears that all information in the /system partition gets lost for no reason. The relative told me that this usually happens when some google apps are updating, but it might still be random.
Currently MackayRom (latest) is installed.
Usually when I got the call, I hopped over to my relative, did a factory reset (wipe of /system and /data + Cache and Dalvik Cache) then reflashed the ROM and Gapps and everything looked good again. Sadly the issue continues to return.
What I tried so far is a complete wipe of anything, reverting to a stock TW Rom, and going back to an AOSP Rom from there (first CM 11, then Mackay). The issue appeard to be gone afterwards, I didn't hear from that relative for an unusual amount of time, but after a month or 1 1/2, it returned.
My guess is, that one of the chips that are containing the /system partition is broken or at least close to die (I'm not sure if it is just one or multiple chips, since the CM Team or Pawit himself changed something in the partition structure somewhere between cm10, cm10.1 and cm11 to ensure the compatibility of that old device with KitKat). Anyways, I'd love to hear any ideas or suggestions on how to solve this issue (although I reached a point where I think that solving this isn't possible anymore, unless I wanna swap the Mainboard, which would mean paying an amount of money that I could get a new phone for as well.) Soon as I have the time, I'll Odin-flash the latest TW Rom to the device and have my relative use that for a while, just to see if the different/older partition structure helps in any way.
Thanks in advance for any replies .
Been having problems with my widgets since flashing bk, though to be honest I don't think BK has caused it. Whenever I reboot all of my widgets show problem loading widget. Some other threads have said to check that your widgets aren't on your sd card, which mine aren't. They work alright if I delete them and add them again, but that gets to be a pest, especially when managing 4g.
I'm running Gv 1.3, bk 1.0, and I've got ice cream kangwich, all of which I adore and am really grateful for.
Anyone else encountered this/have suggestions? Tried reinstalling individual widgets, etc.
Thanks everyone
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I was having this issue to, but I never really figured out what was causing it. I suspected it had something to do with my clearing the dalvik cache or some other weird crap I was doing. This sounds like a paradox, but after installing BK, I felt like my phone ran faster, but was more prone to getting "bogged down" after awhile, and startup times were painfully slow.
However, I just finished finished removing the supercharger included with GV1.3, and installed the latest version along with a few of the extra tweaks available, and all of these issues have gone away.
Sorry, I realize this isn't that helpful. But you could try doing the same thing...It's definitely worth it; I'm seeing a pretty significant increase in snappiness.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18703418&postcount=5021
jamRwoo said:
I was having this issue to, but I never really figured out what was causing it. I suspected it had something to do with my clearing the dalvik cache or some other weird crap I was doing. This sounds like a paradox, but after installing BK, I felt like my phone ran faster, but was more prone to getting "bogged down" after awhile, and startup times were painfully slow.
However, I just finished finished removing the supercharger included with GV1.3, and installed the latest version along with a few of the extra tweaks available, and all of these issues have gone away.
Sorry, I realize this isn't that helpful. But you could try doing the same thing...It's definitely worth it; I'm seeing a pretty significant increase in snappiness.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18703418&postcount=5021
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Is the "snappiness" in a form of a 'circle' or 'Z' formation?
Well I've tried everything short of reflashing . Any ideas? I have reinstalled go launcher, reinstalled my widgets etc. Resupercharged. I Tried adw too. Don't want to reflash but I am running out of options. If I do reflash, would want to format everything. Tips for formatting internal? Know I shouldn't do it from settings. Where should I? Just want to start from scratch. Sorry about strange tone, practicing on swift key. So much trouble from some broken widgets. Thanks everyone
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Well I've tried everything short of reflashing . Any ideas? I have reinstalled go launcher, reinstalled my widgets etc. Resupercharged. I Tried adw too. Don't want to reflash but I am running out of options. If I do reflash, would want to format everything. Tips for formatting internal? Know I shouldn't do it from settings. Where should I? Just want to start from scratch. Sorry about strange tone, practicing on swift key. So much trouble from some broken widgets. Thanks everyone
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Why wouldn't you want to format from within Settings? I've done that before with no issues. Perhaps you're confusing this with not wanting to Factory Reset from within Settings? Because that you definitely don't want to do.
Or perhaps I'm crazy. But I've definitely formatted the internal (and external) sdcards from within the phone Settings. In fact, on one occasion I corrupted my external sdcard, and the only means of formatting that would make the phone recognize it again was formatting it within settings.
omik47 said:
Is the "snappiness" in a form of a 'circle' or 'Z' formation?
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LOL... [in an outrageous French accent] Good one!!! [/outrageous French accent]
pendragon11 said:
Well I've tried everything short of reflashing . Any ideas? I have reinstalled go launcher, reinstalled my widgets etc. Resupercharged. I Tried adw too. Don't want to reflash but I am running out of options. If I do reflash, would want to format everything. Tips for formatting internal? Know I shouldn't do it from settings. Where should I? Just want to start from scratch. Sorry about strange tone, practicing on swift key. So much trouble from some broken widgets. Thanks everyone
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!!!! TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!!
!! I post this because it worked for me, 2 of my friends and I did this myself personally with my own pc/software !!
### IMPORTANT NOTE ###
Doing this can BRICK your phone if you don't know or not familar with what I'm doing.
If you're new to this, don'tbother doing it yourself as BRICKING your phone risk would be much higher
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I have issues last month when I was using gingervolt 1.3
Issues are
random reboots
reboot when tapping return soft key
no bluetooth at all can't connect to anything
screen freeze
some broken apps/widgets that have to uninstall/reinstall a few times
So I got tired of it and backup all my apps/app data/contacts with " mybackup root " app and put it in my pc
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!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!
Before trying to replicate what I did make sure you are able to flash the v7 tot file with LGNST and the phone can reboot otherwise it'll be hard to recover you're phone.
I did this because LGNST works flawless for me everytime so if you had problems w LGNST
!! DON'T TRY THIS !!
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After I copied my backup files/data into my pc, i checked the debug mode to make sure it's ON before I booted into CWM
go to "" mount and storage ""
from there I wiped all my data to start clean which include
Wipe cache
Wipe data
Wipe system
Wipe sdcard
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!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!
as you wiped everything noted above your revolution
WILL NOT BOOT UP
ALL FILES IN SYSTEM/SD-CARD WILL BE WIPED CLEAN
YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR BACKUP FILES INCLUDING CWM RECOVERY FILES
that why it's very important to transfer all your backup files to your pc/mac and you can flash v7 tot with LGNST without any problems
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After I completely clean my revo I plug it into my pc from CWM and run LGNST
LGNST recognized my phone as I expected then I started to flash the v7 tot file
Waited for about 15 minutes for it to complete the whole process
when LGNST reach about 80% it'll reboot you're phone
Make sure LGNST display COMPLETE before you unplug
Now I got a complete bone stock phone with v7 gingerbread I started the root--revotool kit--GV 1.3 again
I use the esteem root method to root my revo as it works for me flawlessly
I also use the original revotool kit since I don't have any issues with it
Then I transfer my backup files back to my phone and reinstalled it with myBackupRoot app
Doing all this work and taking the risk did payoff
It fixed all issues I had mention earlier and been running flawless ever since even after I flashed BK kernel
No reboot, no screen freeze, bluetooth connects with anything I have
As I mention above, not only did it work for me it also work for 2 other friends
Good luck
BLITZ Bulletproof ledded AWD SuperCharged GV + Nitro ;p
The principal of out school turned in her Tab 7 inch, they no longer want to pay $60 a month for 3G thats slower then a 14.4 dial-up!
It was given to out Tech Department and I snagged it to play with.
OK first thing, it's FC'ing on various apps. I decided to factory restore the unit by booting into Samsung's recovery and wiping the data and and clearing the cache.
This reset it but our principals gmail is still on the phone. It's the primary account. I can NOT get it to delete.
I found a thread here with a official Samsung flashing tool. This one:
Sprint_Galaxy_Tab_EA24_Flasher.zip
It seems to have worked, it got the device back to EA24. However when I reboot, it's FC'ing even more and the principals gmail is still there.
Well, it now sees an update called: EB28
It downloads it then boots into recovery and nothing more happens. No option to update, flash etc.
Also now EVERY TIME I restart/reset this device its like it's been factory reset, all the apps I installed are GONE, my Wi-Fi is GONE, and it FC's like crazy.
Contracts done on this phone so Sprints not going to do anything. Help! I'd like to get Gingerbread on this.
Thanks!
Wow, no one has one of these or has any advice?
Some updates on things I've noticed.
Well, previous to my original post, I was STOCK, non-ROOTED. This morning I used Roddricks guides to flash to ROOT with CWM via Odin.
It seems to have worked OK, I have root and I'm on the stock ROOTED Gingerbread but I STILL had all the default Google accounts. I booted back into CWM and did a complete data wipe and installed CM7. That worked too however when I booted it immediately said NOOK had forced closed...? OK, well I ignored that and installed a couple .apk's I had on my memory card and changed my wallpaper. Then I rebooted into Recovery again and flashed the Google Apps. Upon rebooting I saw no google apps and my wallpaper and installed apps were GONE. I was back to stock CM like it was just installed.
Now keep in mind I had done a FULL wipe to everything in CWM prior to flashing CM7. I booted the device BACK to the download mode and used Odin to re-flash Roddricks stock ROOT and kernel.
Upon booting the phone I'm back to stock Gingerbread and guess what? The default Google account is BACK and so are the two pre-added wireless networks.
WHY IN THE HELL WON'T THIS THING WIPE and why does it keep resetting to just installed defaults when I reboot.
I see I am not the only person with this issue. Someone else made a thread just the other day saying their 7 inch Tab resets on reboot too.
Can someone give us some pointers? In my case I can install custom ROM's but I have to set everything back up EVERY TIME I reboot? Come on, that's not [email protected]#@[email protected]#$
Firstly, it sounds like you're not actually doing the right kind of wipe. You want factory reset / wipe. Either from recovery or within the stock firmware.
Once you successful do this, all downloaded apps and account settings will be gone.
Next up it seems you're not actually managing to install custom firmware. You'll need to specify more details about what you've done and read carefully what appears on screen and report on it if you want useful advice.
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I've done the factory reset from stock firmware, I've done the factory reset from CWM 4 and 5.
I've manually wiped from adb using rm -R and rm -rf for /dbdata /system /cache /data, all of which appear to be wiped and then doing an "ls" reports the directors are GONE.
Then I flashed stock GB stock rom, booted up and guess what? My default gmail and wirless networks were STILL there.
Adb'ed back after a root'ed kernel and manually went into the folders and deleted EACH file, then backed out and deleted the folders. Rinse, wash and repeat with the ROM and guess what? default Googles still there along with the Wireless.
Also one thing to note is that with every one of these wipes, boots, flashes etc, lets say I setup the Tab and install a couple apps, add my wireless, change my wallpaper etc, when I reboot, it's ALL gone. The Tab's back to default fresh like I just flashed.
Spent like an hour with Rodderik in the #gtab channel trying to figure this out.
Ok. I believe you.
I still can't rationalize what is happening there. One thing you can trust about computers is they do what they are told. However, sometimes it's hard to understand what you've told then to do.
Kies knows how to restore user state. It's also somewhat evil in terms of still running when you've quit it. Make sure Kies is not running.
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Is it possible some settings got backed up to the SD and are auto-restoring? Honestly haven't used my tab in a while so I'm not even sure this is an option. Maybe try clearing dalvik?
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sounds like somehow you may have a read only nand mode going on...strange haven't heard of this problem with the samsung its quite popular with the dell streak 7....in the dell streak 7 many people have to send it back to dell to repair it no other way... as for it on the samsung like i said never heard of the problem but if you can't reset properly or everything reverts to a state upon reboot then you may have whats called read only mode basically anything you install change add once you reboot the device it erases everything you did to it....from what i have read its a failsafe in linux try reading a few of the dell streak 7 problems with read only mode it may help in understanding and maybe finding a solution good luck. then again i may be wrong but just what you described sounds similar.
I would just load a new rom like overcome gbsafe_v5
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Kdoggy, were you able to fix your problems?
I have somewhat the same problem with my Galaxy Tab 7
Thanks
kdoggy said:
The principal of out school turned in her Tab 7 inch, they no longer want to pay $60 a month for 3G thats slower then a 14.4 dial-up!
It was given to out Tech Department and I snagged it to play with.
OK first thing, it's FC'ing on various apps. I decided to factory restore the unit by booting into Samsung's recovery and wiping the data and and clearing the cache.
This reset it but our principals gmail is still on the phone. It's the primary account. I can NOT get it to delete.
I found a thread here with a official Samsung flashing tool. This one:
Sprint_Galaxy_Tab_EA24_Flasher.zip
It seems to have worked, it got the device back to EA24. However when I reboot, it's FC'ing even more and the principals gmail is still there.
Well, it now sees an update called: EB28
It downloads it then boots into recovery and nothing more happens. No option to update, flash etc.
Also now EVERY TIME I restart/reset this device its like it's been factory reset, all the apps I installed are GONE, my Wi-Fi is GONE, and it FC's like crazy.
Contracts done on this phone so Sprints not going to do anything. Help! I'd like to get Gingerbread on this.
Thanks!
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same same same issue bro with my tab too its p100 too any solution's???
Hi everyone,
I finally might have figured out how to fix the ghost call issues and the reorginizing internal process problem... it has been 10 days that I have had no ghost calls and no RIP.
After many hours arguing with LG (who after all 12 calls still said they never heard of this problem before). The only advice they could offer me was to send my phone to repairs.
I decided to do a final attempt and if it didn't work I would have sent my phone in 3 times to get a different phone and end this nightmare.
So I did a factory reset on my phone.
The problem was still there.
I heard about keeping the CPU above 600mhz all the time and while that temporarily worked it came back.
I loaded the recovery mode and factory reset from there and I also cleared the cache. that didn't work.
After more research I found that putting the phone in 2g will help. While this was true it was still happening but a lot less.
I decided to explore the world of Roms and that's where the fix came in.
My phone is rooted. Big thank you to Dan 
I am running V20c 2.3.5
I Formatted my internal SD and my external.
I installed clockwork mod and backed up my stock rom... I then booted into recovery mode and cleared every cache option (2 on first screen and dalvik in advanced. The only exception was battery stats with CWM.
After doing all that, I had to leave so I figured I would look for a new rom another time. That was 15 days ago. After a week I realized that I haven't been getting the RIP or the GC problem... seeing as how it was hard to check I forwarded all my calls from my home office line to my cell phone so that if the call was not answered it would go to my cell after the 2nd ring. To this day (10 days later)... every call on that phone has been registered on my cell... therefore I believe that CWM IS THE KEY TO OUR PROBLEMS
*JUST NOTE THAT I SAVED MY SD CARD TO MY PC SO I HAD A EXTRA BACKUP SHOULD NEED BE.*
**WHEN I DID IT, I FORMATTED WITH CWM**
so after all that here's the process...
*WORKS ON V20C 2.3.5 ROGERS*
1. ROOT
2. FORMAT EVERYTHING (SETTINGS/STORAGE...)
3. VERIFY THAT YOU STILL HAVE ROOT (YOU SHOULD)
4. INSTALL CWM
5. BACKUP YOUR DEFAULT ROM (NEVER KNOW)
6. ENTER CLOCKWORK RECOVERY
7. CLEAR ALL CACHE EXCEPT BATTERY STATS (I DID NOT TOUCH ANY PARTITIONS OPTIONS)
8. GO BACK IN YOUR PHONE
9. DO NOT PUT BACK YOUR BACKUP ROM
***Remember this is working for me on Rogers V20c 2.3.5***
I made a titanium backup of all my Apps but I am not restoring them I am redownloading from scratch. I do not know if it will cause issues with the GC/RIP issues.
Good luck to all of you and I hope that you finally get to enjoy our cursed phones. I had RIP messages easily every 2 hours and for 15 days I haven't seen a single one and all my calls are working.
Thank you to Dan for Root and the Creator of CWM for saving us.
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Nitedriver said:
Hi everyone,
I finally might have figured out how to fix the ghost call issues and the reorginizing internal process problem... it has been 10 days that I have had no ghost calls and no RIP.
After many hours arguing with LG (who after all 12 calls still said they never heard of this problem before). The only advice they could offer me was to send my phone to repairs.
I decided to do a final attempt and if it didn't work I would have sent my phone in 3 times to get a different phone and end this nightmare.
So I did a factory reset on my phone.
The problem was still there.
I heard about keeping the CPU above 600mhz all the time and while that temporarily worked it came back.
I loaded the recovery mode and factory restored from there and I also cleared the cache. that didn't work.
After more research I found that putting the phone in 2g will help. While this was true it was still happening but a lot less.
I decided to explore the world of Roms and that's where the fix came in.
My phone is rooted. Big thank you to Dan 
I am running V20c 2.3.5
I installed clockwork mod and backed up my stock rom... I then booted into recovery mode and cleared every cache option with CWM. Formatted my internal SD and my external.
After doing all that, I had to leave so I figured I would look for a new rom another time. That was 15 days ago. After a week I realized that I haven't been getting the RIP or the GC problem... seeing as how it was hard to check I forwarded all my calls from my home office line to my cell phone so that if the call was not answered it would go to my cell after the 2nd ring. To this day 10 days later... every call on that phone has been registered on my cell... therefore I believe that CWM IS THE KEY TO OUR PROBLEMS
so after all that here's the process...
1. ROOT
2. FORMAT EVERYTHING (SETTINGS/STORAGE...)
3. VERIFY THAT YOU STILL HAVE ROOT (YOU SHOULD)
4. INSTALL CWM
5. BACKUP YOUR DEFAULT ROM (NEVER KNOW)
6. ENTER CLOCKWORK RECOVERY
7. CLEAR ALL CACHE AND FORMAT (I DID NOT TOUCH ANY PARTITIONS OPTIONS)
8. GO BACK IN YOUR PHONE
9. DO NOT PUT BACK YOUR BACKUP ROM
***Remember this is working for me on Rogers V20c 2.3.5***
I made a titanium backup of all my Apps but I am not restoring them I am redownloading from scratch. I do not know if it will cause issues with the GC/RIP issues.
Good luck to all of you and I hope that you finally get to enjoy our cursed phones. I had RIP messages easily every 2 hours and for 15 days I haven't seen a single one and all my calls are working.
Thank you to Dan for Root and the Creator of CWM for saving us.
Sent from my LG-P925g using XDA
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CWM isn't the issue. It's the baseband.
CWM is on a different partition than the baseband and is not active until it is called. Ghost calls still exist because 2.3.5 in general has this issue. 2.3.6 fixed ghost calls.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II w/ CM9
Never said that CWM was a problem I said CWM helped fix this issue
I posted this to help others who were looking for a solution it is still working for me so I'm happy and I figured id share my findings in hopes of helping others who got nothing to lose and everything to gain with this phone.
Have a good one.
I believe that CWM FIXED my phone
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Hi Guys, be aware that people have fully bricked their phone formating there sdcard using CWM.
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Ooo I wasn't aware... well guess I was lucky.... I think just formatting the SD card regularly (not with CWM) and then using CWM to clear caches would be enough...going to modify original post thanks John
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146 views and no confirmations or experiences... there is a 0% chance of bricking your phone.... come on guys try it and post... if it doesn't work for everyone else then at least people know. Help eachother out you got nothing to lose (if u back up) if ur scared for ur backups remove the external SD during testing or backup to ur PC.
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Wait. You should remove the notices for BRICKING.
Reason being as it is only applicable to CyanogenMod. It has an option to use the sdcard for data instead. Stock doesn't.
Formatting sdcard and emmc in ClockworkMod will not and can not brick your device on a LG Firmware.
This, again, does not include CyanogenMod.
Now. As for fixing the problem, I've done this method and still have ghost calls.
You will ALMOST always get ghost calls with 2.3.5.
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Hi Guys I was going off other information in other posts for example http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529836&page=2 talking about CWM and CyanogenMod.
I'm not an expert in this area and after reading this didn't want a lot of bricked phone so thought I'll better say something, have edited my post and removed the comment.
I have also tried this, worked for 3 days then a GC
The Dark Lestat said:
Wait. You should remove the notices for BRICKING.
Reason being as it is only applicable to CyanogenMod. It has an option to use the sdcard for data instead. Stock doesn't.
Formatting sdcard and emmc in ClockworkMod will not and can not brick your device on a LG Firmware.
This, again, does not include CyanogenMod.
Now. As for fixing the problem, I've done this method and still have ghost calls.
You will ALMOST always get ghost calls with 2.3.5.
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Done thanks
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Its been mentioned that 2.3.6 fixes the ghost call issue, however i am having dificulties finding this. Can someone post a direct link to the thread or download spot gor it?
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cmeducknow702 said:
Its been mentioned that 2.3.6 fixes the ghost call issue, however i am having dificulties finding this. Can someone post a direct link to the thread or download spot gor it?
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I assume this because all devices friends have ranging from Nexus to Samsung to HTC with 2.3.5 had ghost calls and when they updated to 2.3.6, ghost calls disappeared. They were on stock as well.
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Ok, i've only been worried about my thrill... never paid attention any others. Thanks
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Scrap this thread guys....I just got my first. R.I.P I HATE THIS PHONE!
it was going so well....
Does anyone know any stable 3D working roms that fix this issue??? Let me know thanks...
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