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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
The problem you have when you soft brick from flashing is caused by not checking mounts BEFORE AND AFTER flashing the ROM. You have to make sure:

/system unmount

/data unmount

/cache unmount

Otherwise YOU WILL SOFT BRICK

I'll see if I can get mine to FC with MMS, haven't seen an issue yet.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Can anyone else confirm this issue ? I cannot reproduce this problem and I send/receive mms just fine. If anyone else is having this issue I will look into it soon as I get to my pc
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
You don't have to flash 1.1 before 2.0, just odin, root and get into cwm, full wipe, check mounts and flash rom, check mounts then reboot
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
I sent myself an mms from another phone, and I can't get it to force close. but it has been hanging at Downloading for 10 minutes now..... not sure if that would be the ROM tho?

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
the long download time is a t-mobile issue it takes forever for me to get a picture..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
yeah, I figured that. I actually forced it to come thru by sending myself another one from my number to my number, lol.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
so, it works for you guys too ?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
got me a whole album of stuff from myself to myself, lmao. jk

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
does any other app give you a FC ?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] pintek:
Just noticed something minor don't know if its just me but (on t mobile) but I don't get the voice mail icon popping up with people leave me messages.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
download and install Tmobile visual voicemail from the market
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
For those who use the Tmobile backup

Im adding it to the OP, it was requested for one but its possible others may need it too. Now in the add-ons section, Flash in CWM and it will install the Tmobile backup app.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Many thanks for the tmo contacts backup when I get on a comp ill hit the thanx button
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] miguel11691:
Do u think the mms force close issue I happening to me because my phone is unlocked and I'm using it for at&t
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bsilvino:
prety cool.. I will try this soon!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] miguel11691:
Just tried sending an mms message to my myself and it works fine... which is rather strange
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Is anyone else having an issue with ringtones not working? I had custom ones that aren't showing up anymore. I even pushed them to the system/media/audio/ringtones folder and they still don't show up :-/ and on top of that even the stock ringtones don't play the phone just vibrates and th volume is up all the way :-(
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
this might not help you, but when I first got my SK, I could never get my notifications sounds to play.... it turned out that after every reboot, my notification volume was being pushed all the way down to nothing... have you checked that out in Settings/Sound/Volume?

also, have you by any chance frozen or uninstalled the DRM service apks from your phone? asking just in case, because I believe maybe that can affect playback of custom ringtones.... not positive tho.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] pintek:
I'd prefer just to have the working notification working again if at all possible. Btw the Tmobile visual voicemail app is not going past the first screen its just hanging after you hit next >_<
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Go to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache. I had the same problem and doing this solved it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
Use zeam launcher with this rom. It is light weight and very fast.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] guenwhyever:
I use Zeam almost all the time. A bit feature light for a launcher, but I really like it. Still waiting to get home today to flash this ROM over.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] madsc13n41s4:
I can't install Music.apk on v2.0 Barebones.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
What music apk?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
i think he's talking about the apk i added! when i gave you the list of the apps removed from barebones!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] wilt100:
Do I have to wipe wen flashing update?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Media scanning takes a while. Also, on bootup there is no media scan. So my music and ringtones don't get read.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
I removed more apps from barebones

Calander

Calabder storage

Device management

Drivesmart

Drivesmart system

Launcher pro

Media hub

Samsung account

Samsung kwyboard

Quick boot

Swype

T-mobile device carbon

Task manager

Voice dialed

Voice search

Web
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
hm report back if you get any force closes seems like you've removed almost everything!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Yes full wipe
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Something is up with media scan. It won't read my ringtones on my sd card. And for some reason my playlists keep getting deleted. I wiped poweramp's data and uninstalled even and the problem still persists. I did a full wipe and reflashed fresh to no avail. I did a full wipe and restored data via recovery and still no go. What is going on?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ishred11:
i flash and rebooted and everything went well and then i restarted my phone and it softbricked its self (linda) started talking again and then the boot animation just keeps playing over and over again. i waited for 10 mins and it still didnt boot so i had to odin.

does anyone know why this happen?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
running a little low on sd card space can i delete this zip and the aosp lockscreen zipoff my sd card or do i need them there?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
thats weird never experienced that?

so you flashed and got it all booted up but when you restarted lynda talked again?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ishred11:
Yes and it never rebooted back up. I had to odin.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
Stable so far. Web force closed once. I used bloatware freezer. If the phone does ok I will remover permantly. I want to use that rom cooker guide and see just how far one of these roms can be stripped back
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
Csc and sns.apk on the chopping block
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
tell me how that goes ha!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I can confirm Media Scanning isn't stable. It does not run on bootup. Playlists get deleted. A manual media scan is needed by remounting sd card or getting an app to perform a scan.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
Can't believe how stable this rom is. I have butchered this rom . I am having problems right this second. I need user dictionary. I have rebooted and done calls mom's web and what not. I can post a nandroid of my setup for others to see what I have done?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
wanna just post everything you removed to a stable point
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
Yeah for sure I'm gonna play with this a while tonight. See how long it is stable for. I don't think anyone will believe how much I got off
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
I posted everything I removed. I want to see how long it holds together for.!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
where did you post it? and yeah definitely see how stable it stays and if you notice speed increase and such
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
I always remove quite a few apks from my phone, but nothing that would cause any problems. has anyone removed wifi calling from this ROM? normally, uninstalling it will cause a force close parade requiring a battery pull, but everything will be fine booting up after that. on this ROM tho, I tried removing it twice, and both times, I uninstall the apk, do the battery pull, but when I boot up after that, I am greeted by the setup wizard, even tho I was already all signed in. and then the setup wizard will close before getting to the end, and it's imposible to get out of that loop..... at least I haven't found a way. anyone know if I'm missing anything?

anyway, for now, I am just keeping wifi calling in the ROM, lol.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] miguel11691:
I bhave removed everything tmobile app from my phone including wifi alling and the phone works flawlessly... I had to reboot once I deleted each app but after I deleted them its flawlessly which is great because I unlokd it to work with my at&t service... don't need any tmobile stuff
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
ah ok, cool. I gave it another shot and removed wifi calling(and for good measure, the setup wizard which was giving me problems before) and everything is fine. not a big deal, but I do like things slimmed down and really don't need wifi calling at all.

Sent from my SGH-T839
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] madsc13n41s4:
Don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but my sk4g keeps randomly dropping the sdcard ext4 partition. Not sure what's creating the issue, if someone could tell me how to check I'd be more than happy to... using link2sd, and miui v2.0.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
I got sns out too. I cant believe how much can be removed and maintain stability. I have not tried wifi calling
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dw9906:
Don't know if it's the theme I flashed or what but to turn my phone off I have to pull the battery now. If I try to turn off with the power button I get a fc vibration and a reboot everytime. And the menu never pops up. I also get about 3 or 4 random reboots a day. Any suggestions? Also another quick question? Why is it not ok to format system thru CWM before flashing? Is it a Sidekick thing? With the Mytouch if you dont format system before flashing it sometimes causes issues. I know its a way different device. Just curious. I didn't do it but I wondered.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
What is an sdcard ext4 partition and how do you get it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Btw, I can also confirm the inability to delete pictures in galery.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] redcheetah:
I installed custom rom touchmiuiwiz v2.0 and gb battery icon. I have install

Pandora "radio"

Mplayer

File expert

Launcher pro plus

Dophin browser

Purple vrs "deaf use videophone"

Speed test

Psx4droid

Trillian

Go weather "with widget on launcher pro"

Facebook

Mango

When I restart sk4g I get freeze from launcher pro just that some icons will not display like missing default 4 squares icon. I had to go task manager to kill apps "ram manager" level 2 then start launcher pro load work fine since. Just that every time I restart I have to do it again. Looking good and very fast.

* I noticed while boot start up light change to dim I felt vibrate and led too. Then vibrate 3 times load on launcher then back to boot. Seems like something interfence while loading on boot.

Don't tell me that something install from apps. It work fine on 1.1 same apps on list.

micro sd is class 10
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
I think tegrak is making my system unstable. Maybe overclocking os going to be a tougher road than I antixipated
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] drwario:
I reverted to v1.1 I think loading the module creates all kind of fc's
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dw9906:
No one know?...Lol
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Brundonm:
I'm having sd card issues
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Same here. What kind of issues? I'm having problems with my playlists getting deleted, media scanning not running at boot unless I mount/remount my sd card or any similar action. I'm gonna try formatting my memory card.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rocketsbay:
Hi I'm about to flash this ROM but I'm a bit confused as the instructions in post #3 seem a bit conflicting.

It says before flash, that if on red CWM recovery, no need to bother with the mount/unmount:

*Now before you Flash, Only if you are on the orange CWM, (Not RED voodoo CWM from Bali) if on red CWM ignore the mounts/unmount part*

But for after the flash it says if on red recovery you have to check the mounts:

(AGAIN IGNORE UNLESS IF YOU ARE ON A RED VOODOO RECOVERY) after you flash, go back to mounts and storage and make sure your mounts look like this

Can someone clarify this for me?

Thanks a lot!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
no i meant again, ignore the mount checking if your in the RED CWM

Meaning you down have to worry about them if your already using bali with red CWM
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
Y3a same here
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Brundonm:
Mounting issues
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Ayoteddy, I tried Revolution's and John_2K2's rom, Sensekick, and did not incur the deleting of playlists upon boot when mediascan runs. I tried it fresh for your rom, both v1.1 and v2.0, using the music player and have failed. So it has to be your rom. Can you look into it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
did you use a nandroid restore?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
Yeah I tried that as well. Still the same problem. Weirdly enough, I used to have around 226MB free when I backed up. After restoring I had 150MG free. Dunno why.

But right now I'm uninstalling the music players (MIUI and aosp) to see if they're the problem.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
when you did your nandroid backup did you wipe data/factory reset? this will stop most problems
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
You mean before restoring? I think I did. I even checked mounts to be anal about it. I usually wipe everything--reset, cache, dalvik.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
so you flashed the rom booted up went back into the recovery wipe data/factory reset then restore data! it should work! you dont need to check ounts when restoring
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
So is there anyone else out there who is experiencing music problems? Deletion of playlists on boot, music tracks not showing up without running a media scan, etc. I want to know if it's an isolated incident or if it's the rom.

I have never encountered this on any other rom besides this rom. I tried Sensekick and that worked fine. Is there something related to the Android system library and the way it scans for media? Is there something in Titanium Backup I can try to wipe the data of?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dw9906:
I lost all my playlists the first time I flashed it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
But I still keep on losing them. They're deleted but show up in players with no tracks inside.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dw9906:
Same here.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] wilt100:
I'm havin the same problems with the media scan but if u got to settings sd and phone storage unmount and then remount your sdcard it works....just a fix for now!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] pintek:
The standard music app doesn't see any of my music files on my SD card though power-amp is having no trouble whatsoever not sure what happen there but great work guys enjoying this rom a lot still.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TM_SK4G:
Looking at the bug log on the first page, I can tell you that the "unable to delete from the gallery" is not caused by restore from backup. I did a clean install and didn't restore anything.

For some reason fruit slice likes to do screen shots when I'm playing and put them in the gallery. I just tried to delete it and it still shows in the gallery. I rebooted and the image file is still there. Just something to correct in 1.2.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Im looking into the media scan and gallery issues, they will be fixed in the next release for this ROM
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
As for the gallery issue, that doesn't exist for me or many users, unless you can give me steps on how to replicate the issue, I cannot fix the issue.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TM_SK4G:
ok, it looks to be just the screen shot is the issue. I can take a pic myself and remove it. The screen shot is a separate gallery. I have a Camera gallery then I have droidhen gallery which is the screen shot. I can remove items from the camera gallery but the droidhen one I can not. I'm guessing permissions of some reason may be the issue ( even though I'm root... ) either way, small issue with only my phone I guess.

EDIT: I just attempted to delete the whole droidhen gallery and that did work so no issues here.

thanks.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Rock3rboy13:
Same as well
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I went in Titanium Backup and wiped data for "Media Container Service 2.2.1" and "[PLAYLISTS] Media Storage 2.2". Now when I invoke a media scan via Widgetsoid, it scans then says it's complete soon right after, in like a second.

I'm guessing the Media Scan problem may be related to those two items.

Edit: I restored data for Media Container Service. Now it media scans just fine. I will check to see how my playlists are with just Media Storage wiped.

Edit 2: Media scan works fine. I will have to test how it does after a reboot.

Edit 3: Media scan does not run at boot. It must be invoked by the user. Playlists still show up on the player after a media scan and still show as empty with no tracks. But playlists don't get deleted. I'm going to try sduvick's stock deodexed kg2 rom and see if the problem exists there, which it shouldn't, and maybe pull some files from there and see how they work in this rom.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] thelastillwill:
me too, i have to use my astro file manager to delete pics
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TM_SK4G:
A bit of added information I found to my "delete picture from gallery" issue.

I could delete the picture from the camera gallery but when I close the gallery and go back in the image is still there. Rebooted the phone after I deleted the picture and it's still there. Just a small bug that should be looked at. I'm guessing some sort of permissions issue but couldn't say for sure.

I can say that when I deleted my "droiden" gallery with the screen shot in it, it did stay deleted but that was a whole gallery and not a single image delete.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
We found the cause of the SDcard scanning issue, a fix will be posted shortly.

EDIT: there is a flashable zip fix in the 2nd post to fix the SDcard scanning issue.

http://www.multiupload.com/TQRZPPP411

For those curious/technically minded, this issue was caused by an init.d script, S77simplytweaks. It disabled the media scanning service on boot to try to speed up the boot process, that was supposed to reenable scanning after 2 min, but apparently never did. We just removed that so it just never disables. My guess is that this also will fix the Gallery issues, can someone who was having that issue please flash the fix and let me know if that fixes it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
yeah it does not fix the gallery deleting issues!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Ok, wasn't sure if it would or not, but it fixes the sdcard scanning media
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
i never ran into that issue actually
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Then you're not on the latest version of TMW, or you have modded/edited your init.d?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] tylermaciaszek:
i asked before but never got an answer so i'll ask again

do i have to keep the rom zip file on my sd card because im running out of space and any space would help until i get a bigger sd card
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
No you don't have to, you only need the zip to flash the ROM.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I'll have to test this out if my playlists still get misread and/or deleted. Thanks for looking into it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
If the temporary fix of unmounting and remounting your SDcard fixed it before, then this will fix it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
What do you mean by temporary? Until the next version is released with the fix implemented?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Nope, this fix is already released and implemented. I was saying, that if *prior* to this fix, unmounting and remounting fixed the issue, than this fix will work. If that didn't fix the issue previously, then there is a different issue.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
When I unmounted and remounted my playlists would still have errors, either empty or deleted off the card. I'll have to check this out if it still does it after this fix..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Hmm, that doesn't sound like a media scanning error? if it's still there I'll have to get specific steps on how to replicate that if I'm going to fix it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
If you haven't encountered the problem idk how I can give steps to replicate it. You don't have playlists on your phone made by mediamonkey or winamp while on a newly flashed TMW v2.0 rom, no edits? I ended up using Odin to reflash TMW and I formatted my sd card. Problem still exists after all that.

Right not I'm on your stock deodexed KG2 rom and there is no problem. Media scan runs normally. So if you fixed it here then I will report back later if it worked or not. Hopefully I can restore my nand backups because last time my MD5 check sums didn't match, according to CWM, when I was on Lightning Rom v2.0.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Ok, I'll try making playlists and see if I can get them to disappear. Test it out and let me know if this fix works, I'm not sure what else besides media scanning would be interfering with your playlists.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
It's got to be only media scanning that would interfere. I'm really positive your fix would resolve the problem.

Btw, the Gallery not being able to delete pictures, that issue isn't solved with this fix? Tyler confirms it doesn't work. I'll see if I can delete stuff.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Looks like the gallery issue still isn't resolved, I'll see if I can find where the issue lies.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I did a fresh install of TMW v2.0 with the sdcard fix. At first boot, sitting for 10+ mins, ringtones are being read, system or sdcard. I opened the music app and found my music and playlists intact, so media scan ran without unlocking the phone. However, once I rebooted the phone maintained the same problems as before. So I will be reverting back to the stock KG2 rom until maybe the next update/new ayoteddy/sduvick rom.

Thanks for taking the time to look into it. Appreciate it. I'll be looking forward to the next new thing. Btw, can you upload the font for TMW? I wanna use that instead of the regular font.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Wait what problems were maintained?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I meant to say that the original problems I experienced were existent after applying the sdcard fix. Media scan ran the first boot. After that it went back to not running at boot. When it did run my playlists would get deleted.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
...that doesn't make any sense. there's nothing that should stop it anymore, I don't have that issue?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] badboi_zero:
I have no idea. dw9906 also experiences the same thing, as he/she stated a few posts up. If it's only us two experiencing this then it must be something exclusive to our phone's setup. But I'm running just the rom, fresh with no advance data restore, no extra tweaks or add-ons.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
This issue should have been fixed by the update/sdcard fix. there's no reason media scanning should stop working on boot after this fix is applied.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] CTown:
Is there Arabic support?

Is there Arabic support? If not, can I request it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] lmendoza23:
my camera doesnt work and im on 1.0 if i go to 2.0 will it fix it???
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] lmendoza23:
Camera still doesn't work
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
imendoza, did you restore a backup in Nandroid? if so, that's what broke the camera. Camera has been fixed since an early build of 1.1.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] lmendoza23:
So I just wipe data and it should work?