Hello,
my girlfriend has her Desire X for almost one year. During this time everything was quite ok, apps were installed and internet was working correclty.
Lately she found out that her smatphone is working slower - home screen is loading for a long while, when she has a possibility to enter text - her keybord does not appear as fast as it would be smooth and gentle
Well, for now I know that I can make her root and install an ew rom or wipe data and restore factory settings, but do not really want to loose data.
I have tried to unistall not used apps and restore factory version of some as well - it did not help.
Do you have any idea how to bring smile on her face again and make her phone working well again?
Regards,
koval113
koval113 said:
Hello,
my girlfriend has her Desire X for almost one year. During this time everything was quite ok, apps were installed and internet was working correclty.
Lately she found out that her smatphone is working slower - home screen is loading for a long while, when she has a possibility to enter text - her keybord does not appear as fast as it would be smooth and gentle
Well, for now I know that I can make her root and install an ew rom or wipe data and restore factory settings, but do not really want to loose data.
I have tried to unistall not used apps and restore factory version of some as well - it did not help.
Do you have any idea how to bring smile on her face again and make her phone working well again?
Regards,
koval113
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Factory reset, root doesn't make your phone smoother but factory reset does
What GtrCraft said. Also, since the DX is ICS+ you can use adb to backup apps+data ("adb backup -apk -all -nosystem") so you don't lose a thing. (Depending on apps this may be counterproductive however)
No other way than factory reset?
koval113 said:
No other way than factory reset?
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Try wiping cache and dalvik-cache via fastboot. To do this, connect the phone to PC, put it into fastboot mode, and do fastboot erase cache as well as fastboot erase dalvik-cache.
After flashing a new version of CM11, i found myself in a loop upon startup where many of the core applications of android stopped working. When i reverted back to the old version that worked(I didn't have a backup saved but rather i flashed the older nightly of the rom again), I noticed that my home button, lock screen, and notification bar/toggle screen wasn't working any more. I looked into it and looked at my apps, and saw an unnamed app with the description "com.android.keyguard". upon looking this process up, i found out that when people disabled this process their home button, lock screen, and notification bar stopped working (coincidental eh?), and decided that this was the source of the problem.
Is there any way to load on a new, fresh version of "com.android.keyguard" or should i just do a factory reset? I would prefer to save my local data, but if i must do it in order to have a phone that does anything useful, i obviously will.
If I need to do a factory reset, what is the cleanest and smartest method of doing so? I know titanium backup can cause a lot of problems (and in this case i'm worried it will duplicate com.android.keyguard), but I assume there is some sort of method that makes a factory reset while retaining the bulk of user data very easy. am i correct?
Do a full wipe and flash again, check the md5 of your download.
Only use titanium for use apps, never system apps or settings. There is no easier way to change rom.
I have the same problem now..I have did the full reset.But the problem is not going at all.
What should I do?
Jahid4 said:
I have the same problem now..I have did the full reset.But the problem is not going at all.
What should I do?
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Flash back to stock and start over.
Beamed in by telepathy.
I'm helping a friend with her S3 i9300. It was running very sluggishly and starting in the last couple months she's been having a sleep of death issue.
It works fine (albeit slowly) while she's using it but when it sleeps for more than 10 minutes it doesn't turn back on without a lot of trouble or a holding down the power button and hard resetting. Every once in a while it only boots if I go indirectly through download mode.
I've confirmed with the play store app that she does NOT have the "insane chip" involved in the SDS issue. I've also factory resetted, rooted, tried flashing a custom kernel, a custom TW ROM (S5 sensation) and now an AOSP ROM (resurrection remix) and the problem persists.
Looking at other users' suggestions I took it apart and cleaned/played with the power button, even replacing it with the one from my old t999. Still the same.
I'm at a loss at this point. Has anyone run into this issue and found a fix I'm missing? Thanks for the help.
Have you already tried to format system partition (sdcard 0) via recovery?
After that you MUST flash a ROM, cause there is no system installed.
So, try to do this and let me know.
Else you can try to do a MEGA/SUPER wipe.
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Have you already tried to format system partition (sdcard 0) via recovery?
After that you MUST flash a ROM, cause there is no system installed.
So, try to do this and let me know.
Else you can try to do a MEGA/SUPER wipe.
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Thanks for the reply. Before flashing any ROMs I've always made sure to do a factory reset and then individually wipe System, Data, Cache, and Davlik Cache even though I know I'm duplicating some of the wiping. Unfortunately that did not work in this case.
I'll give the MEGA/SUPER wipe a try and report back.
Thanks again.
Looks like MEGA wipe didn't do the trick either. The phone is on NA8; is there a newer baseband I can try? Not sure what else to try.
At this point I'm thinking it might just be a hardware issue.
Flash the latest stock firmware from sammobile then factory reset, remove sd card and sim then test with a different battery.
If still the same then it is a hardware fault, motherboard/cpu.
Hey guys
I need some guru help here :/
I've flashed cyanogenmod 13 with android 6.0.1 on my i9300 along with some gapps (stock version). Everything works well, besides the cell reception.
I've been able to see other networks around but couldn't connect to neither of them. (i'm on roaming, in germany, while my sim card and the phone are from poland)
I have applied no signal fix from here which didn't change anything.
Then I've flashed this (the one with "Poland" next to it), but that only made things worse, as the whole "cellular network" menu in settings is greyed out.
What I've figured out is that when typing *#06# the phone app makes some noise and hangs, and in the settings there is no IMEI number.
This leads me to the conclusion that EFS (seems empty in the TWRP file browser) is broken/cleared.
I've seen many instructions on bringing it back to life, non of them are clear to me, and all use Windows. Is there a way to do that on Mac OS, or.. basically is it THE way to go for?
I would appreciate all the help as I need that phone in the next days :/ thanks!
@krecio4:
1. Look for efs-backup. Some kernels create this. Or as part of TWRP-backup. Restore it.
2. Flash latest firmware with Odin. If IMEI is still gone afterwards, try KIES repair function.
3. Let it repair in service center.
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@krecio4:
1. Look for efs-backup. Some kernels create this. Or as part of TWRP-backup. Restore it.
2. Flash latest firmware with Odin. If IMEI is still gone afterwards, try KIES repair function.
3. Let it repair in service center.
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thanks a lot @rp158!
I've tried searching for an efs backup but no luck :/ any idea where do they create it? restore option only has those files that I've backed up.
latest firmware you mean the official one, right? Is there a way to do it on mac os?
cheers
@krecio4: TWRP backup contains efs-partition, if you chose/ticked it. Kernels (Boeffla, Agni) store it in sdcard0, but if you never flashed a special kernel, it's over.
Firmware means Samsung's stock 4.3 from sammobile.com. Look there, if they offer Odin and KIES for Mac. Otherwise lean a Windows pc. It's useless to make it more complicated by struggling software.
@krecio4: read this. That's not the solution, but if that all caused by actual CM13-nightly, there comes perhaps any...
I have the same problem with latest nightly. This work fine: "cm-13.0-20160523-NIGHTLY-i9300.zip".
@krecio4 I think that you have to first flash latest firmware then root your phone and then you have to use z3x box, hope it will fix :good:
thanks for your sugestions guys
What I did is to get the latest firmware from sammobile, restored it with Odin, phone was working, I was receiving calls and texts.
So I installed TWRP, backed up EFS, System, Data, and one more thing that was marked.
Then i did a factory reset and installed latest CM13 + gapps in one run (as a batch of files, selected the CM13 first, than the gapps in the que)
rebooted
Again - CM13 works well, but it says "please insert SIM card" :/
No IMEI, IMEI SV (Unknown)
Cellular networks in settings are off, and greyed out inside, "preferred network type" is "Invalid Network Mode (-1). Ignore"
Do you think there is any hope?
I noticed that EFS is empty, after restoring it from backup, and rebooting, it's empty again.
so tired of everything, I went back to the original software using this method (even easier than Odin) http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-factory-installed-firmware-sgs3-t1838480
If you come up with some solution, I'd love to try Cynanogenmod for longer and.. for real
1. Be happy, that your efs-data are ok. Make in TWRP a backup of this partition only, for worst cases.
2. Try @mexit's advice.
Can I with no problem have a custom recovery installed while using original firmware?
So you are saying that it might be with the last 3 nightlies that they are messing up with backed up EFS? If so, I'll try installing the one you've mentioned, but now I've list 2-3 days for the whole crap so I will wait until I have too much time But thank you very much for your support!
BTW, I found this as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/tool-backup-restore-efs-imei-sgsiii-t1901098
Posting for anybody, as I digged the whole internet for any answers
Install this: https://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/162926/cm-13.0-20160524-NIGHTLY-i9300.zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67034195&postcount=5968
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ok, as I don't give up easily, as you can see, I did another approach. Backup, backp EFS only.
Installed the edition from 23rd of mai. All good! But during the "installing apps" during the initial boot, close to the end, the battery died (after the screen flickering). but reboot and it all seems to work well Any issues that could appear after an unexpected reboot during the first boot? Do you suggest to do factory reset and flash CM13 + gapps again?
If I understand well, battery died during compiling Dalvik/ART. Should be happen again after cleaning both caches. But to avoid any mess, I would clean flash the ROM again.
So you suggest to do the factory reset, install CM13, install gapps, reboot ?
No.
Wipe system, data, cache, Dalvik cache.
Flash CM13. Wipe cache, Dalvik cache.
and gapps installation shouold be along the CM13 in a que right?
@krecio4: flash GApps afterwards. Read the last posts of CM-thread: your problem was probably caused by a modem-bug in CM, should be gone now.
after the wipe cache & Dalvik?
so CM13, wipe, gapps, reboot?
Ok, very precisely:
flash cm13, wipe 2 cashes, reboot
if net and wifi ok, make a backup of this state
flash GApps, wipe 2 cashes, reboot
case closed
I have an S3(android 4.2) and I wanted to flash it to 4.4(for Pokemon GO). Now I installed [this](http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-blekota-s5-lite-beta-4-5-1-t2752331) but I dislike the S5 menues, hud etc.
I want to reset my phone(everything). How can I do that? I tried via the menue, however it resets the phone, but keeps the S5-look(check the link above). My goal is to reset the phone and only update to 4.4 kitkat, while keeping everything like it was before on my S3.
Thanks.
@faaaz: I recommend SmartDroid: JB-style & light. If you need extra SammyCrap, use Bloatinstaller. Wipe system, data, cache, DalvikCache before. No need to flash firmware before, if IMEI and net-access are ok.