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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mokey_:
Hello all,

I have a pretty quick question. I've been having problems with my power button lately. The power button makes the usual click sound as if it is retracting properly after being pressed, but it behaves as if I held the power button down. I took my phone apart and I noticed a black mark on the ribbon cable. I'm wondering if anyone will be willing to check their ribbon cable and see if this black mark is present.

This is becoming quite a nuisance because my phone will reboot when I press the power button after it has turned off. If it turns out that the ribbon cable is not defected, are there any other thoughts on what might be happening?

Picture of my ribbon cable (I'm too new to submut urls, so replace hxxp with http): hxxp://i.imgur.com/95boz.jpg

Thanks in advance for any help!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Hey guys, let me begin for apologizing if this is in the wrong place. I've been trying to read as much as I possibly can regarding these problems, and I'm stressed, and tired.

That out of the way, allow me to attempt to explain...

My Epic 4g seems to be "bricked" but only in the "soft way" (I've seen this term used before, and it seems to fit.)

It will still boot into Clockwork 2.5~ but no further, if I try to boot it farther, it will hang at the Samsung Screen and play the music.

Before anyone flames me, please, try to remember what it is like to have no idea what the hell is what after something weird happens.

I am running OSX Snowleopard, and have gotten Heimdall to run, but it will not recognize my epic when I put it into download mode. I feel like I am out of options, but I do have one more idea, and I wanted to run this past all of you ...

Since I cannot get my Heimdall to find my epic when I put it into download mode, would it be feasible for me to get a microsd reader (I found one at walgreens for 20 bucks), put an update.zip on it of like a stock eclair or froyo ( I hardly even care which version now, I just would like a working phone...) and run the update from sd via the still working clockwork recovery??

If this would work, it would rock, but I haven't seen any mention of it anywhere. I don't see why it would work, but then again I am not a wizard.

Any suggestions? Comments? Reassurance or Guidance?

If anyone could point me towards the best update.zip to try and push via the microsd reader, I would be eternally grateful. Or in general, if you have a better idea, I'd love to hear it...

Thank you so much in advance, to anyone willing to give me a shot or lend a hand...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfghjkl:
I have NEVER tried this but it sounds like its worth a shot...i would try CM7 just to get something booting (and its a small file to DL).

But you should definitely "find" a copy of windows (google it *cough cough*) and use bootcamp (search in spotlight) to partition your hard drive and install it and have a mac with osx and windows lol i have xp but you can try newer...

its pretty easy (instructions are detailed) and you will never have to worry about "soft bricks" because you have odin :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Yeah, I've toyed with the idea of bootcamping again, it's just such a damn pain, and so many of the "findable" windows on google are infected with godknows what. By CM7 do you mean cyanogen mod 7? I've never used cyanogen mod, if you could point me in a good direction I'd appreciate it.

Also, thank you for the civil reply... I have noticed a degree of distast for those who really don't know thier **** on many fourms, but I figure, everyone is starting at some point....

So should I look for a update.zip for CM7 and attempt to push it? Are there other considerations I should take into account? I really see no reason the microsd reader wouldn't work, and given that my phone is rooted and has clockwork operational on it (god willing it's as workable as it seems)....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfghjkl:
Your welcome, and HERE is CM7 (cyanogen mod 7). This is just to see if your phone still works (seems to me like it will) and after that you can root with clockwork 3.0.0.6 (if you want ext4). Be sure to have an EXT4 compatible rom when u boot into CWM. You will need to flash it after it converts your filesystem.

If you dont mind having a "dead" phone i suggest trying bootcamp...some files dont have "god knows what" and you will be able to odin EC05 prerooted. ALOT easier lol by dead i mean get no calls and sms, etc..

Just download file, put on sd card and flash...should work. I hope it works for you!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
I'm going to give this a shot -- Got nothing to loose either way, and I've heard sweet things about cyanogen anyway. I'm trying to see all this as a learning experience. I was a bit freaked to try custom roms before, but at this point, why the hell not, right?

One question: what is this EXT4 business? I've seen it popping up, and I think I missed the boat. What would you suggest for a EXT4 compatible rom to use? ( Are you on an epic, by the way?)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfghjkl:
Lmao yea i have an epic. And ext4 is just a faster filesystem than RFS which is stock. Also most roms have journaling off which means you

cant just pull your battery and stuff like that because you will have corrupt data (most likely). Journaling enabled (like in stock with RFS)

will simply keep a journal of what the system does and in case of an improper shutdown (battery pull or phone falls and batt. pops out or

batt. drain to 0) when it turns on it will "recover" from where it left off. The only bad thing about this is that it writes to the nand (i

think) ALOT...maybe more than RFS but really it would kill your phone in 3-4 years and you probably wont keep it that long anyway lol

I usually run bonsai but you have to sign up to their forum for the download...i dont think im allowed to post a link. but ive heard Syndicate

rom frozen is also VERY good. And quick. But in short, if you want a speedy epic, choose EXT4 lol

Also you can try MIUI 1.3.5 rom..Its really cool. Sort of like best of iphone and android in one. Im actually one of the guys trying to port it now...

but im not a dev lol

Good luck!! and trust me, custom roms are fun. Especially when you become a flash-a-holic lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Yeah, I get the feeling it's pretty addicting. I'm going to start by flashing CM7, as you said, just to make sure the thing isn't an expensive paperweight. Next I am either going to try Syndicate or try out the froyo stock w/out bloatware....Since I had it rooted months before the OTA happend, I'd been stuck on eclair. I may just be happy with a working phone, but as this point, i've tasted blood.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdfghjkl:
Lol it happens to everyone xD

And let me know if it works...if not you will have to try the bootcamp way
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Will do...

Thanks again for your help! I truly appreciate it!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomKing:
As long as you're rooted with a working ClockWorkMod and can manually access your sd card, you can flash anything to your phone. You may want to make sure you format Data, Cache, And Dalvik Cache 3 times before flashing a rom though. Also, you may want to upgrade to ClockWorkMod 3. I have it referenced in my signature. It will need to be booted into first, while it converts to ext4, then a suitable rom like Syndicate Rom Frozen will have to be flashed.

Have you tried to fix it with an update.zip? My assumption is that this would not work for a number of reasons.

Your questions are not new, and have been asked more than once in their own threads as well as general question threads. GOOGLE search your question with "XDA" in the search bar. It's your friend, and it will answer your questions.

Just to recap:

1. CWM 2.5 or 3

2. Flash suitable rom

3. Shutdown properly, no reboot or battery pull!

4. Boot into CWM

5. Backup, and then immediately restore! This will re-engage Journaling and prevent future data corruption

6. Use Google! The more questions that are asked repeatedly, the more threads people will have to dig through to find answers. :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it.

I have been using google extensively, and it's just that many times I would get conflicting or not quite as clear as I was hoping answers, but yes I understand what you are trying to point out here. Syndicate seems like my best best, and as such I am going to need to get to CWM 3. I went to the thread, I am assuming I should use the new version (EB13) as opposed to the the DK28, correct? Since Syndicate is an EC05, I should go for the newer one?

Excuse me for my ignorance, again, we all start somewhere... :)

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomKing:
I can also recommend Bonsai and Midnight as fantastic roms. I use them all, but Syndicate is my current. Syndicate EB13 is the one you want. EC05 didn't change the firmware, it only modified the modem. I've tested EB13 as well as EC05 with Syndicate, switching back and forth, with no visible problems. If your phone is on EB13 or EC05, then Syndicate Frozen 1.1 should work nicely, it's linked in my signature. :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Yeah, unfortunatly it was stuck on DK18 for a varitety of reasons.... I hope that doesn't change anything...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomKing:
If you're able to use Odin on your computer, just use my CWM Odin link. You'll find EB13 pre-rooted with CWM 3 and you can flash that straight from the computer. Just be sure you have a Rom on your SD card first so it's ready to install from the recovery menu.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Odin is not a possibility right now, however, I just got CM7 to boot. And although it seems to have no service (or it could be because airplane mode toggles on and off faster than I can blink) it seems to be at least functional in a baseline way. I'm going to try to use one of the CWM backups I saved on my computer to see if that works... Thanks for your help!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandomKing:
Good luck to you! Hopefully you read the following:

What does NOT work in CM7 for Epic::

GPS

Camera

Multimedia Messaging

Bluetooth In-Call (Hands-Free Profile)

WiMax 4G (This is absolute LAST priority, DON'T ASK ABOUT IT)

I don't develop personally, but I make it a habit to try and understand what's going on, and as such I rearrange and personalize ROMs to my liking, and subsequently carefully test them to maximize performance and battery. I like to share my understanding and insight to help alleviate the task from developers who already do so much work in an effort to pay them back! :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Yes, I am aware of the current limitations of this incarnation of CM7, it seems as though right now, cell coverage radio is going a bit insane (toggle rapidly airplane mode) with my setup. I am currenly looking into how to get CW3 on it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
Hey I managed to gain access to a windows laptop, installed odin on it, and attempted to reflash with what I imagine are the stock files, but it's failed twice...

Which files should I be using? My phone WAS on DK18, but all i'm looking for now is to get it working in a stock way, then I can venture out again....

Any help?

Edit: Odin said it failed, but it seems like some stuff took, it will boot to the samsung screen, do the sprint yellow boxy thing with music, go to the glowing S, it'll pulsate for a while, then it goes to a black screen sat for a good while., Now when I reboot, it hangs at the first samsung screen again..

Does it look like I just used the wrong files, or was it a usb issue?

I'm a bit perplexed...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldpreowner:
I'm a noob as well. You need to watch qbking77 on you tube. He goes through the exact steps and exactly what files to use if using odin in one of his videos. The links are all there as well. I have hade my epic a week and have done about everything in his videos to help me understand what I am doing.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldpreowner:
http://m.youtube.com/#/profile?user=qbking77&v=YQ2g6J1JgjU&view=videos

That is a link to the video.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
All the files you need are in the thread at top of Development in the one about fixing a bricked epic, pulling it from the brink or something like that. Grab the EC05 tar file in there.

Do you BONSAI?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueoxide:
THANK you!

Hey thanks to everyone who decided to lend a hand. My phone is fully funcitonal again and ready to be flashed with all matter of wonderful things in development. This whole thing has taught me alot about how all this works, and in some way took some of the fear out of it.

Thanks so much again! I'm off to get my Syndicate on. :cool:
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Needless to say, you must be rooted for this. The thread mentions two apps that could be usefull if your four android keys no longer function. And yes, i know theres always the 4 on the keyboard, but some might like this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1064475
[Epic 4G General] Top Nurse:
I don't think this is useful on the Epic...

Sent from Bonsai 7.1.3.1
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Like I said in the op, some migh like it, some might not. Personally, I agree because we have the keys on the keyboard, but you never know.

Sent from Z's phone with an ever-changing sig.
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Nice find. hope I never have to use this though :P

Sent from my Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Thanks. I just happened to see it in android general.

Sent from Z's phone with an ever-changing sig.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] yoyoyo109:
hello everyone. i recently had my touch pro2 swapped out for the hd2 and i would like to put android on it. i've found some files from a developer named darksense but i'm not quite sure how to make use of them. can anyone explain how to install android on a fresh HD2? or at least link me to a thread in the forums that will help. thank you in advance

p.s. i've noticed two installation methods(SD and NAND) i'd prefer the NAND because from what i've gathered, i dont HAVE to have an SD card that will hold the OS
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] T-Macgnolia:
Click on the link in my sig for my guide and read the whole thing before flashing anything. Also I have to guides on how to install Android linked at the top of my guide.
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
I have been researching how to root my inspire for the last couple days and finally went ahead and tried it. Here is my problem. I used bubby's (I apologize if i messed up his name) tool and everything seemed to be going great until I got to the part near the end of the video where it says that it will flash the rom with superloader etc. in it. It then just hangs for a while and nothing happens. The phone will now make calls,text but with no sound on my end. It seems to me that I now have a desire HD. Where do i go from here? Thank you in advance.
[HTC Inspire 4G] XAviierG:
Download the hack kit and flash the PD98IMG file
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
download rom manager from market, flash recovery, download a rom, then flash the rom through recovery.
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
thank you guys for your quick response. I installed Rom Manager but it says that I do not have root. When using the tool I know that it did say my phone had s-off. Is that temporary ?
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
did you run the rage command from terminal emulator?
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
i did. It all seemed to work until the point where it says it will flash the cooked rom with busybox,superuser etc. then it just doesn't seem to find it or something. it sits in the fastloader screen with the bootloader option highlighted. how long should that take ?
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
It can take a while, just to make it easier for you, run the ruu to get back to stock (will still have s-off) then run the rooting process again, you can also try the hack kit as well.

There is a link to the ruu in the guide. You will not have to s-on.

At this point since your rom is downgraded instead of flashing back to stock you could download visionary from the desire hd forum and root that way.

Its up to you.
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
ok. I downloaded visionary a few minutes ago thinking i may need it. I will try that now. thank you both for the help.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
visionary will root your phone, from there you will have to flash a rom via clock work mod recovery, which you can flash with rom manager.

If you need help flashing a rom check out my guide that is stickied.
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
will do. hope it works.
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
i got one more question. Is there a way to install superuser? when i try to go into ROM manager it says "you must ROOT your phone for ROM manager to function superuser was not found"
[HTC Inspire 4G] mudknot2005:
down load this pd98img, place it on your sd card, boot into hboot and flash via the boot loader.
[HTC Inspire 4G] connordroid:
using that file you linked to worked! I think the one I had was corrupted or something.(I don't even know what that means) ;). thanks again man! I know to you it was probably nothing, but you just saved me a ton of headache. I was freaking out ! I'm gonna live in these forums for the next few weeks. Android is the fuzzy neagle!
[HTC Inspire 4G] shammad16:
My inspire is on the loop of android screen at the startup when i restarted my phone after doing the factory reset.

any idea what shud i do??? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
Hi all,

So, this problem appears common on other phones as well, and appears to be a Gingerbread issue. Drilling down further using Watchdog Lite on the phone, it appears to be a process called Suspend causing the high CPU usage.

There are a few threads on this:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126#makechanges

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15057

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10004299&posted=1#post10004299

http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/myTouch-4G/quot-suspend-quot-linux-process/m-p/605813

Personally, I'm getting pretty terrible battery life out of my S2, and I can confirm that in the Battery Status menu, Android OS appears extremely high at around 40% (a friends Nexus has this sitting at around 2%).

Not sure there's much we can do about it but wait and hope for a fix from Samsung (or Google)... People are reporting that rebooting the phone can help, but it's only temporary.

Anyway, just something to check if you're having issues.
[Galaxy S II General] rdy2go:
+1 second that.

Android os eats the most of the battery

Reboot helps temporarily.
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
My os is at 79% i have no idea whats going on? but i am running launcher pro plus?
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
OK. So now we have identified an "issue".

Could you guys post juiceplotter logs while phone is asleep and draining, and while in use?

For asleep, i mean literally not touching it for half an hour. On, just occasional tap to keep screen on.

What we are after is an idea of what is causing system to use the power. Can we compare configurations of push email etc, to see if anything differs?

Are we rooted? Etc
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
this is a screen print of my usage.

How do you do the log thing ?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/sc20110509160954.jpg/
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
Hi mate,

I rooted my phone yesterday, but I don't think that's a cause as it was just as bad before. In fact I rooted it just so I could freeze some apps :)

At the moment, I only have my google account set to sync (calendar, mail, contacts), and I have gmail pushing through emails.

All the stock Samsung apps are frozen. No widgets are running (I'm trying to run it fairly barebones to see how long I can get out of it).

I don't have juiceplotter installed, I'll look into that. I do have Watchdog though, and from all the other threads on this issue the problem seems to be the Suspend process (confirmed by a Google employee).

I don't think there's much we can do aside from wait for a fix. The problem appears to have been around since at least September last year.
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
I had this the first few days I had the phone, my battery was being wiped out in hours.

I formatted both my mem cards and hard reset. Since then my battey life has been amazing (got through the whole day yesterday only using 25% battery), and os use has dropped to about 18% (still a bit high but better than 40%).
[Galaxy S II General] DocRambone:
Same issue here, both new flashed roms and my own slim roms suffer from same issue. I have a look tonight if i can find any solution.
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
OK. I will see if I can think of anything, as I remember we fixed a similar issue when popping 2.1 onto it, when some binary was giving us trouble...
[Galaxy S II General] DocRambone:
Root or no root don not affect this issue. Only time i dont get it: fresh flash of new rom without anything installed.
[Galaxy S II General] beppez82:
Same issue here and I rooted freezing load of Apps but still drain

*edit*

It seems to stop drain when using reboot the phone.. not yet confirmed just a speculation... Btw these processes eat a lot of battery never got these problems on sgs1 custom gingers rom
[Galaxy S II General] DocRambone:
Seem that ginger on SGS 2 has this bug present:

http://phandroid.com/2011/03/04/android-2-3-3-gingerbread-update-killing-nexus-one-battery-life/
[Galaxy S II General] MaelstromXC:
Did anyone tried this? I had a similar issue with Gingerbread on SGS1 and it was fixed after clearing the data for System Update.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1021711
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
Haven't encountered the problem yet with pretty heavy use plus a few resets. It's probably a specific app or settings that you're turning on/using after each hard reset that causes it.

I'm still on the original firmware though, haven't flashed a new one yet. Might be related.
[Galaxy S II General] spyrale:
this is not universal, i don't have this problem. sgs 2 rooted with insecure kernel by chainfire.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
*subscribing*

I also have the same drain issue. I have the S2 setup exactly the same way my Captivate was, and the battery life isn't the same.
[Galaxy S II General] DocRambone:
I got better results after disabling background data in accounts ans sync (settings)

More testing ongoing.
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
Not really relevant I think - all Android users are going to have background data enabled in accounts and sync. ;) Mine is enabled without the issue, anyway. I am only syncing a single gmail account though.

Have you tried what the linked thread recommends - going into manage applications and clearing data for the update system? You might want to try clearing data for all of the android system tasks.
[Galaxy S II General] DocRambone:
Yes, but this 2.3.3 bug eat 5-10% battery/h in idle!... so all solutions is good. :)

I tried a number of "solutions", none helped. The background data seems to help
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
I just tried this, gonna charge to 100% then unplug it and let juiceplotter run to see what happens. Also I have the Samsung account app frozen.
[Galaxy S II General] Burko:
I've not even got around to rooting yet.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
I just noticed that I didn't have software update frozen.... doing it now...
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
I froze it yesterday, updated to XWKE1 today.

Android OS already raising. :(
[Galaxy S II General] slyydrr:
Did you refreeze it after the update? I don't think it'll help, but just curious. Mine has been frozen since I went to KE1 and I'm still having Android OS issues. Thankfully with my usage habits, I can still get a full day out of my phone, but it just sucks to know that the overall longevity of my battery is being affected. :(