I have flashed prolly 25 ROMs over the last year or so. All were various XDA posted ROMs. All were flashed by first wiping the internal system fully as well as the cache and dalvik.
Over time my M7 has become sluggish.
Is it possible that the SD has some residual files that are slowing the overall OS and a total wipe might help?
metropical said:
I have flashed prolly 25 ROMs over the last year or so. All were various XDA posted ROMs. All were flashed by first wiping the internal system fully as well as the cache and dalvik.
Over time my M7 has become sluggish.
Is it possible that the SD has some residual files that are slowing the overall OS and a total wipe might help?
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You might want to do a full wipe and you might want to remove some old files off of your phone to give it more breathing room. Remember to backup everything including the ROM and copy it off of your phone in case something goes wrong.
If you really wanted a clean start then you could get an htc RUU but it would reset the phone completely stock, so make a backup. This helped me when I had a similar slow down on my phone
majmoz said:
You might want to do a full wipe and you might want to remove some old files off of your phone to give it more breathing room. Remember to backup everything including the ROM and copy it off of your phone in case something goes wrong.
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I did a full wipe factory reset. So far things seem better, other than the 1 xPosed module I installed, MacroExpansion, isn't working properly, or at least not the way it did before the wipe.
metropical said:
I did a full wipe factory reset. So far things seem better, other than the 1 xPosed module I installed, MacroExpansion, isn't working properly, or at least not the way it did before the wipe.
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how many of these slow down threads do you have going ?
To me it seems your digging the same hole you were in before. Why don't you try using the phone without Xposed and without 110 junk apps and games on it? xPosed is a Hack ..the second you install and activate it your phone is no longer normal and your asking for problems
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how many of these slow down threads do you have going ?
To me it seems your digging the same hole you were in before. Why don't you try using the phone without Xposed and without 110 junk apps and games on it? xPosed is a Hack ..the second you install and activate it your phone is no longer normal and your asking for problems
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couple thousand.
no junk, no games at all. and since exposed worked before without issues, I think it's likely to work again. But I'll have some worthwhile input to figure its' issue.
Do I have multiples of the same concept?
Yep, weather for instance. Coz sometimes the servers don't respond when I want to know what's ahead.
Do I have a lot of apps that are seldom used? Yep, but when they're of use, they are.
the one "junk app" that was in particular misbehaving was a NYC subway map, which can be helpful when I go to areas that I'm not totally familiar with.
It now works fine.
One mans junk is anothers useful app. But do I have dancing chickens? Nope.
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and since exposed worked before without issues, I think it's likely to work again.
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Right their is the flaw in your thinking, you did have issues that's why you wiped the phone (Twice). You'll eventually figure it out the hard way
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Right their is the flaw in your thinking, you did have issues that's why you wiped the phone (Twice). You'll eventually figure it out the hard way
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Time will tell.
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I might be a senior, but we're all still learning
So my question is, when you wipe/reflash something, is there a way to keep all the Protected/Paid apps installed when you start up? Normally, a wipe will break all of your protected/paid apps and list them in the launcher as "com.XXXX.XXXX" or even "org.XXX.XXX". Launching them results in the infamous Force Close box.
This is indeed on Apps2SD and with Cyan's new 3.9
Have you tried running the fix_permissions script?
I'll reboot and run it now
Didn't fix them, unfortunatly :/
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Didn't fix them, unfortunatly :/
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Back up all your apps using MyBackupPro or Backup for Root Users. I have all mine on my sd so they re-install automatically. I don't have to do anything, and they don't load up as com.xxxxx.htc.. blah. But I use Backup for Root Users when I do have to format my ext2 and this brings them back no problem.
Hmm interesting. I've never used Backup for Root Users with apps, just the data. Takes too long for me with all my apps...but I managed to find the spare time to re-install, that was fun . Thanks guys!
my advice to anyone on here who is going to play with anything on their phone:
before you do it, make sure you have enough time allotted to fix EVERYTHING, as if you were starting from scratch. that way, before you begin, you can have the peace of mind to know that if anything goes wrong, you've got all the time you need to fix it.
murphy's law: whenever you think you're in for a quick fix, theres a long road ahead of you.
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my advice to anyone on here who is going to play with anything on their phone:
before you do it, make sure you have enough time allotted to fix EVERYTHING, as if you were starting from scratch. that way, before you begin, you can have the peace of mind to know that if anything goes wrong, you've got all the time you need to fix it.
murphy's law: whenever you think you're in for a quick fix, theres a long road ahead of you.
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Wouldn't hurt to have a backup unlocked GSM phone too. That's one of the nice things about GSM-based technologies... if your phone dies for whatever reason, pop the sim out and put it in a backup phone. You'll still be able to be contacted while you fix the primary device.
I had this issue too with the same Rom and with the previous version. This is how I solved it.
First I deleted all apps, etc from my SD card while it was connected to my Mac, just made it easier. (I was also running a previous Apps2Sd, not the one built into the mod, which I believe was the root of the issue. I didn't use the old apps2sd once I upgraded the ROM, and I may be way off but I find it suspect.
Then I wiped and reinstalled the ROM. Yea I had to reinstall my apps but...
...before doing all that I had tried removing and then reinstalling an app. A reboot/power cycle of the G1 would result in the icon being gone again and that ugly error message in regards to the app.
When I did the step I mentioned prevously, delete, wipe, etc I've not had any further issues.
I've also since updated by fs from ext2 to ext3 but that was after the fact.
Cyan's mod is by far my favorite and consistently stable and well documented. I'm glad I was able to correct my issues.
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my advice to anyone on here who is going to play with anything on their phone:
before you do it, make sure you have enough time allotted to fix EVERYTHING, as if you were starting from scratch. that way, before you begin, you can have the peace of mind to know that if anything goes wrong, you've got all the time you need to fix it.
murphy's law: whenever you think you're in for a quick fix, theres a long road ahead of you.
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Have to agree completely with the above. Hope for the best but plan for the worst.
lukekirstein said:
I might be a senior, but we're all still learning
So my question is, when you wipe/reflash something, is there a way to keep all the Protected/Paid apps installed when you start up? Normally, a wipe will break all of your protected/paid apps and list them in the launcher as "com.XXXX.XXXX" or even "org.XXX.XXX". Launching them results in the infamous Force Close box.
This is indeed on Apps2SD and with Cyan's new 3.9
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Did you manage to find a solution to this problem? If you did, could you please post it. I flash different ROMs often. Having to reinstall my paid apps over and over again is starting to get very annoying.
Haven't tried yet. I might try the MyBackup Pro option, as I heard it's a great app anyways. But I know what you mean
Hi guys,
My HTC Dream has been lagging beyond belief for the past few weeks, and I was wondering what I could do to increase the speed. I removed a lot of apps I don't use (I have running the latest Cyanogen build, so I don't know if apps2sd will affect my phones performance, but I removed some apps anyway), overclocked my phone, yet still it lags. When I go to SD card & phone storage I see my internal phone storage is only 20.07mb remaining. I see the Factory data reset, but I'm wondering if I should do that. I am hoping it doesn't erase my rom, for example.
.ili.music.ili. said:
Hi guys,
My HTC Dream has been lagging beyond belief for the past few weeks, and I was wondering what I could do to increase the speed. I removed a lot of apps I don't use (I have running the latest Cyanogen build, so I don't know if apps2sd will affect my phones performance, but I removed some apps anyway), overclocked my phone, yet still it lags. When I go to SD card & phone storage I see my internal phone storage is only 20.07mb remaining. I see the Factory data reset, but I'm wondering if I should do that. I am hoping it doesn't erase my rom, for example.
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This should have been posted in Q&A or the roms thread.
Get CacheMate from the market and clean your system.
Thank you, shadowch31, and sorry. So wipe would not be good why?
.ili.music.ili. said:
Thank you, shadowch31, and sorry. So wipe would not be good why?
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A factory reset can be a good thing when you understand what your doing with backing up etc. What it does is clear all your settings and setup back to how it looked when you first got the phone. Anything you have done to personalize your phone will be wiped hence hearing people say 'always do a backup!'.
Before you ask about different methods to back up and their practicalities use the search button. You will learn a lot more.
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A factory reset can be a good thing when you understand what your doing with backing up etc. What it does is clear all your settings and setup back to how it looked when you first got the phone. Anything you have done to personalize your phone will be wiped hence hearing people say 'always do a backup!'. And you won't lose cyanogen!!!
Before you ask about different methods to back up and there practicalitys use the search button. You will learn a lot more.
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Fixed it to his biggest worry
Well, thanks, the cachemate worked great.
JAguirre1231 said:
Fixed it to his biggest worry
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If your going to 'Fix it' at least do it properly.
Capital letter for Cyanogen and really is no need for three explanation marks, it was hardly that earth shattering a statement to warrant it.
shadowch31 said:
If your going to 'Fix it' at least do it properly.
Capital letter for Cyanogen and really is no need for three explanation marks, it was hardly that earth shattering a statement to warrant it.
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You'd be surprised how earth shattering it is to some people.
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You'd be surprised how earth shattering it is to some people.
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You have a point, I'll let that one slide then.
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Long time reader, first time poster (hello everyone!). I was wondering what the opinion of the folks here might be and if they've any suggestions. Today my rooted Nook Color suddenly started acting up. Applications are very often not responding as they should, bringing up the 'Wait' and 'Force Close' box (happens when pressing the soft back and menu buttons as well). It's really quite weird, earlier today I was using it just fine, and suddenly it started acting like this. I tried the usual things like fixing permissions and clearing the dalvik cache, nothing helps. Also, annoyingly restoring a backup from a previous 'known working' state didn't help either. (I suppose I should note that I'm not running CM7 or anything like that)
Any suggestions or ideas on what could have happened? Should I perhaps return it to stock and try to exchange it for a new one (I've only had it for about a month)? The fact that it seemed to still be happening when I restored a back up makes me wonder if it's some kind of hardware issue.
The thing driving me crazy is how it's so suddenly acting strangely. I've been using it rooted (and overclocked, on dalingrin's excellent kernel) just fine for about a month and it's never seemed unstable or anything.
I forgot to mention (not that it probably matters) but the volume buttons caused the wait/force close thing too. Guess I'll be calling them tomorrow.
Having same problems. And VERY SLOW. Wait or Force Close
Very weird, but I noticed today that it started acting flaky in my Nookie Froyo 0.6.8.
I installed Amazon's app store on there today and angry birds rio. The apps seem to be okay, but general opening and navigating are herky jerky.
Something else that is weird, I was just using it and it completely locked up on me to the point of needing to do a hard shutdown by holding down the power. At the exact same time, I happened to look at my phone and it also had rendomly rebooted itself at the exact same time. My phone is running CM7 (Droid1).
Coincidence?
HI,
I had a variety of problems with similar symptoms as you describe, but I had
been playing with several uSD installs of HC/Froyo/CM7 internal/Froyo internal etc.
I believe that the main cause of my problem was due to an interaction between
the EXT3 and EXT4 formatting of the cache partition. The solution for me was to
reformat the cache partition for my current installation.
Other threads I looked at made suggestions such as:
Reformat the cache partition.
Clear the Dalvik cache.
Run ROM manager and select fix permissions.
Not sure if any of these are relevant to you though.
Good luck.
Peter
Try installing a custom ROM (not a backup), making sure to clear everything before install. If it still happens, then yeah it sounds like a problem with the device itself. I've had this problem on my Droid twice and it ended up being (the first time) an app I downloaded and (the second time) an app that I updated. It made the whole phone unstable!
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HI,
Other threads I looked at made suggestions such as:
Reformat the cache partition.
Clear the Dalvik cache.
Run ROM manager and select fix permissions.
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Thanks, but I tried those already (I forgot to mention it in the first post, but I did try reformatting the cache partition).
JLCollier2005 said:
Try installing a custom ROM (not a backup), making sure to clear everything before install. If it still happens, then yeah it sounds like a problem with the device itself. I've had this problem on my Droid twice and it ended up being (the first time) an app I downloaded and (the second time) an app that I updated. It made the whole phone unstable!
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Yeah, I guess that's a good idea. Then I'll be even more sure it's the hardware itself. I'll let everyone know how it goes. Also...it's kind of nice to know I'm not the only one with random issues.
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Then I'll be even more sure it's the hardware itself. I'll let everyone know how it goes. Also...it's kind of nice to know I'm not the only one with random issues.
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All I'd need to do to install Froyo from here is format/factory reset everything with clockwork and then install the zip from within CWM, correct?
Couldn't get it to work for some reason. Since I wasn't sure, I decided to format data, cache, and system, then use one of the excellent "Nook Color Restore to Stock" zips. It seemed like it was ok (couldn't test it more since I forget my B&N password and evidently made a typo when tying my mother's maiden name ), decided to try that back up again since I knew the back up worked at one time with no problem (and the md5 was fine, so that shouldn't have changed) and it worked fine for maybe 20 minutes, but now it's weird again.
I'll have to try Froyo again tommorow when I'm hopefully less out of it. I suppose that's probably a more meaningful test.
I know I said I was going to install Froyo, but I decided to try bringing it back to stock and re-rooting it from scratch. I've been using it for a while (reinstalling apps, changing settings back...etc) and it's worked absolutely fine. Been using it on and off for a few hours.
I'll be sure to really bang on it today to make sure it's stable, but so far so good.
I think I can declare it stable. Thanks a lot to all who helped out. I wonder what happened? What a strange, strange problem.
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I think I can declare it stable. Thanks a lot to all who helped out. I wonder what happened? What a strange, strange problem.
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Glad to hear! I actually just had a similar problem (again on my Droid) that it ended up being the ROM, but yet everyone else I know had no problem on that rom....just goes to show you Android is different for every unit.
this seems to be happenning very ofthwn for my phone, and it hasn't disappeared even with using a different ROM or kernel.
I'm on tweaky's 2.3.5 JVS now, and I sometimes when I am in dialer and I type in 3 numbers, it just closes itself and shoots me back to the homescreen. it keeps doing that, and I'm unable to dial out because of this, until after a while and it irritates me to no end.
this also seemingly happens with me using whatsapp or Viber, where when I want to reply a message, after whatsapp has loaded up, it shoots me back to the home screen.
now, I've tries to get rid of my task killers, and saw no changes whatsoever, so can someone enlighten me on what's going on, and how to rectify this????
You say you did try a couple of roms, have you performed a factory reset or re-partition when flashing the roms?
Yes I did, all the time with Odin... Happenned with Darky, symply, simplicity, all of them
I wipe data and factory reset, even format the storage.
I'm not sure but as you said you've tried to change both rom and kernal yet there seems to be some sort of constant.
Are you backing up your apps accounts data etc and then restoring data? or the apps themselves? Because this can cause in-compatibilities.
If you do then start from scratch install only apps but only from market and one by one. Try play around half a day or something (or if you know a definite trigger see if it happens) if nothing then install another of your old apps.
Also have you tried installing no apps just use those that came with the rom. If it still happens after everything has been wiped (cache, dalvik cache, repartition, format sd, no external sd) then im inclined to say its hardware... When did this start happening?
Hi, thanks for the reply.
I back up my applications using Appmonster, and this retains just the program itself, I reset everything back to how it was after I wipe.
I'm not sure, I tried to think on whether its an issue with like lacking of ram or something, because SOMETIMES it behaves after I kill of some apps and free up some RAM.
I also thought it might have been a task manager which is doing it but uninstalled that and nothing changed.
I tried to install the programs slowly and individuality and it was a VERY slow and painful process, and it got me really nowhere, as like after i uninstalled and backtracked it still happenned.
I was wondering to myself if it was app incompatibility, as I have a relatively large list of apps installed.
It doesn't seem to do it if its fresh, so I'm not too sure myself.
Any ideas per se? Maybe a list of my installed apps? IDK I'm trying to find a solution to this.
At this rate I'm tempted to get a new phone
No harm in sharing the list of apps I guess, maybe someone more knowledgeable can give you a hand with that info.
Okay, But are there known apps that do this to the system? doesn't seem to happen for games but for Dialer and Whatsapp and Viber.
Everything else just works peach.
I just realised it might take more than a while, perhaps I will try a slow install of only the absolute necessities then.
I'm just wondering if I'm the only one who's encountering this issue. I'll try a week of the basics soon.
Thanks anw. :3
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I'm just wondering if I'm the only one who's encountering this issue. I'll try a week of the basics soon.
Thanks anw. :3
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It happened to me too.
I am also seeking the reason.
But the latest ROM Gingerreal v7.14 was okay..
That's really strange then.
Perhaps its the combination of apps... I don't know, I'll try getting rid of the unnecessary and see if it'll cause the same issues.
dialpad problem and other
sas_sas said:
It happened to me too.
I am also seeking the reason.
But the latest ROM Gingerreal v7.14 was okay..
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good to me the same thing happened to good use Viber but not if I used other application in restored times I have installed from scratch I have used several JVS rom and even some custom rom and also jvr stock but it is more about the JVS rom because jvr step with me after a few occasions,
JVS install and initially as well but in the kernel changes and custom rom rom that has happened to me in all I've used lately.
I am filling in the info for him but he told me today that as of the update he gets freezing, only half the apps and info loads, can't see any of his text and he has done about 5 battery pulls already. Prior to the update everything was smooth sailing, he is not rooted and when he got the update he left the phone alone to do it's thing the entire time.
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I am filling in the info for him but he told me today that as of the update he gets freezing, only half the apps and info loads, can't see any of his text and he has done about 5 battery pulls already. Prior to the update everything was smooth sailing, he is not rooted and when he got the update he left the phone alone to do it's thing the entire time.
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Tell him to wipe his data, that should help clear out anything strange.
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Tell him to wipe his data, that should help clear out anything strange.
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I already told him he will probably have to lose everything but I was hoping to maybe give him another alternative.
mentalcase87 said:
I already told him he will probably have to lose everything but I was hoping to maybe give him another alternative.
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I agree with danifunker. Just back his user data (pics, music, etc.) up to external-sd if it isn't already there. You can try backing his user apps up with Titanium Backup, but YMMV with that. You're reintroducing variables back into the flash.
I have also seen quite a few cases where selecting the backup/restore phone with Google during the initial setup after a major OS update has caused issues as well. This happened on quite a few employee phones here where I work during a previous upgrade. So much that it's our standard policy to not select them after a major upgrade. If a data wipe doesn't solve it, a full system restore and unselecting those options during setup is another (destructive) alternative.
Good luck amigo. Keep us posted. :highfive: