[Android Apps and Games] mattyyey:
one BIG **** up!

@chainfire

I have a bug report. a MAJOR one. I was worried my phone was bricked by your application! :eek: I'm sorry if this is a long post but I want to give details so you can try and figure out what it was...

HTC Desire GSM on O2 UK

CM7r2 Hboot

Sandvold's (part of Evervolv team) ICS build beta 0.15.0.1

amarullz a2sdx (1024mb EXT4 partition)

4EXT Touch Recovery v1.0.0.5 RC3

[root] live logcat lite version 2.6

No logcat - just said waiting for device or cannot find (latter in recovery mode)

I just want to make you aware of this.... or maybe tell me what i did wrong?

So here's the tale...

I was out n about today, while my dad was driving back from Plymouth I thought I would continue getting all my apps set-up right, as I had recently updated to 0.15.0.1 a few days ago. I remembered I hadn't enabled live logcat... It's a feature I love! and I've honestly been thinking about buying it... but I keep spending my money on things other than apps (trying to get a motorbike on the road atm) I have had live logcat on gingerbread and on ICS, I had it enabled before I updated the ROM and I had restored the app using titanium backup (app and data, my error maybe?). I had such faith in your product I didn't do the recommended nandroid (don't tell me this was my error because as you will come to see it wouldn't of helped that much). I clicked install anyway. It said Install successful, would you like to reboot and view it? I said yes :D I do like watching it :cool:

And here's where it ALL goes wrong.... It took a few seconds to shutdown, I felt it vibrate and saw it display the SPL (why so serious? :D ) I looked up as dad was talking to me, and then I felt it vibrate a second time.... This time I watched it like a hawk! it displayed the SPL for a few seconds then a blanks screen for about a second or less.... then vibrate n display SPL. It did this for about 5 mins, when I finally decided to pull the battery, thought I'd try wiping cache n dalvik... so hboot then recovery and when recovery loaded (took nearly 50 seconds! that was NOT normal at all - later I'll discover at 60s it goes into safemode) the recovery didn't display any msgs and didn't load. It got as far as displaying the name at the start - and it would normally then show partitions and then menu (very quickly mind you) but no. So I pulled the battery (no way to turn off in recovery like normal) and left my phone till I could get to my PC with adb fastboot and all the tool's I was going to need to fix it.

So firstly... see if it boots now... Nope. Secondly lets try and get a logcat.... "waiting for device" while it sat there in a boot loop, again and again, same as before. ok.... lets google the problem....

The only thing I could find was in this thread, someone said that if you restore the bootanimation it would boot again. So I loaded recovery (still wouldnt load properly) and did adb shell. in the shell I couldn't see all the partitions and it appeared my SDCARD and SD_EXT were empty.... I had a minor panic! I could only see 3 folders in /system/ !! (/bin/ and a couple of others sorry cannot remember). I exited and pulled the battery and SDCARD. I ran downstairs to use the card reader to check my contents,,,, So all my stuff was there! thank god. I made a backup of it all, and decided it would be wise to delete the 4ext recovery settings just in case that was causing the problem. It wasn't, recovery still didnt load right, but my theme was gone... So I tried to pull a file from my sdcard using adb that I knew was there (tetherxp.inf) it claimed it didnt exist. meh.

So finally I used fastboot erase all my partitions.... Now recovery worked, I wiped sd-ext, factory reset, format system, boot, data, cache and installed the ROM again, and while I'm writing this Titanium is restoring my apps... all fixed I guess... I still do not know what the problem was though, but I thought I had better tell you what happened.