[EVO 4G Android Development] gordon1hd1:
Low Battery Shutdown issue

Hi guys I have a issue I hope you guys can help me with:

I have been running Synergy RLS1 for 2 weeks now. After initially struggling a little bit with the constantly reloading launcher issue, I finally switch over to Launcher Pro (paid) version. With the LP setting to force stay in memory, the launcher reloading issue has mostly gone away, and things has been great(mostly).

However since last Sunday, I have ran into an unusually issue that i have not been able to fix: When the phone go into low battery shutdown (on its own), it will screw up the rom, and require restore to fix the problem.

1. First time it happened, i was playing starfront collision, and my battery died on me. Upon plugging in the phone to charge and restarting the phone half hour later, my phone would start-up, but have issue with gapps: message keep popping up every few second saying com.google.process.gapps has crashed... All the Google application (Gmail, gTalk, gVoice, Market) would force close upon launching. I tried to fix the problem by fix permission in CWM and wiping cache a d.cache, nothing work so eventually i had to do a full wipe and restore a nanadroid backup from 2 day prior.

2. Second time it happen, i was using the the tether app to go online with my computer when i was away from home. The battery died once again, and the evo go into a low battery shutdown. when I swap out the battery with a backup one i had on me, the phone would go into boot loop during the synergy rom animation. this time i was able to fix the problem by just doing a d.cache, and cache wipe, things worked fine afterwards.

3. Third time it happen last night, i used my phone heavily throughout the day, and by the time i got home, the battery was dead (stand-by drain the last 5% of the battery ). Upon recharge and reboot, i got the same problem, com.google.process.gapps force close every few seconds. Worst this time i also lost SU (SU app still there, but would force close when i try to manually open it), so i can't go into TB or Rom Manager. I tried to go into application to clean out the data/cache section on Google applications to see it would help or not, but the data/cache section won't go away, i hit the clear data button and looks like it worked, but the cache/data usage for the app never went down. Worst when i finally go into CWM, and attempt a restore, CWM will act screwy. For example, if i go into a CWM sub-menu and try to go back using the ***back...*** menu, all the menu item would disappear, and i would be left looking at the CWM background with nothing to do but a battery pull. Finally after multiple session of battery pull and re-enter recover, i was able to backup using nanadroid, wipe cahce, d.cache, user setting/apps, then re-flash the stock Synergy RLS1 rom image, freedom's more 0.8 kernel, and a few theme items, and finally restore the data section of my nanadroid backup (and things start working again).

It seem strange that the low power battery shutdown would corrupt the rom like this. I done many manual shutdown, restart since i install the rom 2 week ago, and the rom has never been once messed up doing it. but yet all 3 time my phone go into auto shutdown due to low battery, i end up with a corrupt rom.

My current setup:

- Synergy RLS1 (no god mode)

- More-Freedom v0.8 universal

- frickinjerms's Recent Apps Removal in Notification Pulldown Mod

- fdb8231's Alternative Weather Lock Screen for Synergy

I love the Synergy ROM, and I really don't want to abandon it due to this issue. But I am a heavy user of the Evo, and my phone does occasionally run out of juice and go into low power shutdown. Please help :(:(:(

-Gordon