[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s300pmu1:
5. Troubleshooting other problems

5.1. I'm getting multiple Force Close all the time

If you've used Titanium backup to restore stuff, that's the most likely reason. DO NOT restore system apps and\or their data, do not restore contacts from Titanium.

Solutions:

- Reflash the ROM, and restore only user apps+data OR

- Clear data for the Contacts app and sync contacts using google or third-party backup apps; if you're still getting ".htccontacts" FC's, also clear Mail service data. Thank doggydog for the tip!

Actually, the really bad thing is restoring TB made in previouos version of LeeDroid (e.g TB made under LeeDroid 3.0.x) on the new versions of LeeDroid (e.g. on LeeDroid 3.3.3). I assume that restoring TB made under 3.3.3 on same version 3.3.3 would run flawlessly.

However, even within one fork different versions of the rom may include different versions of some system programs, and restoring old TB backups completely in such cases (i.e. restoring a full TB backup of 3.3.3 on the next build e.g. 3.3.4) might lead to errors and instability.

- The safest thing is to back up and restore only user apps. It is the only way for restoring TB backups from older LeeDroid ROM forks such as LeeDroid 2.5\3.0.x.

Pros: no potential for screwing up your system

Cons: you'll have to manually re-configure any system apps after reflash, you'll have to restore contacts you had via sync \ separate back up e.g. vcard file

- The second best is to restore full TB backup only on the ROM of the same fork (i.e. restoring a 3.3.3 on the next build e.g. 3.3.4), with a nandroid made prior to that.

Pros: if restoring Tb screws up your system, you can restore from nandroid and restore "user apps only", see above

Cons: it takes time and you have to have space for a nandroid backup on your sd card, but hey, what d'ya want? Safety takes effort.

5.2. I'm getting Force Close on Calendar, both widget and the actual app

Wipe dalvik cache in recovery, then go into settings, manage applications and delete again data and cache of the calendar app.

5.3. Weather info on sense keeps disappearing after sleep mode, is there any fix for that?

Go to settings > Applications > Manage applications > All. Find the weather application and "Clear Data".

5.4. Videos distorted if made in portrait orientation

Common problem for HD ports. Not yet resolved.

I've seen people say (not tried myself yet) that playing the portrait video back in any non-Sense player will not show the problem. So most likely it is not the incorrect aspect ratio \ resolution problem, but sense-camcorder-vs-sense-player problem.

Or you could look in the Market for a camera replacement, such as https://market.android.com/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera

If the aspect ration is still screwed, you could adjust the aspect ratio in you PC player if you're using anything sensible like KMP or VLC or GOM Player. You could even repach the video stream in an MKV via MKVtoolnix, changing AR once and for all, though it gets a bit geeky there.

5.5. Battery life miserable

- Disable HTC Hub (an HTC app to simplify downloading wallpapers and ringtones, read "crapware"): start HTC-hub, menu, settings, disable sync of HTC sense and HTC hub. It should not be working if you haven't registered there, but if not still give it a try.

- If this hasn't helped, look for power-hungry apps you may have installed. Most users are very satisfied with battery performance under this ROM since version 3.3.3 R5.

- If you're using Sense 3.0 pack but can live without it, get rid of it. How? Not sure, but maybe flashing the rom on top might get rid of it - but not sure. I really do wonder though why people don't care to make a nandroid prior to installing Sense 3.0 pack...

5.6. Large apps such as Sygic Aura Drive disappearing after reboot

Result of failed zipaligning.

Solution 1 (preferable): Download and flash patch from this post. See this thread for more info.

Solution 2: If you have Root Explorer or QTADB go to system/etc/init.d and delete 97zipalign or something similar, reboot, reinstall those apps again, and you should be ok.

5.7. ADfree is not working

Solution 1:

Try this patch by anderl78, then start adfree update.

Solution 2:

With R5 there is a symlink in /system/etc

/system/etc/hosts -> /data/etc/hosts

The directory /data/etc did not exist, so no hosts file for adfree to write to.

I just created /data/etc and made a new blank hosts file in it.

adfree was able to update and now seems to be working OK

Solution 3:

Restore Adfree from titanium backup if you have one

Solution 3:

Remove it and install one from the market.

5.8. How to disable CRT TV on-off animations?

Install Spare Parts app from the market, set ANIMATION SPEED to FAST.

5.9. Is it possible to change the shortcuts on the Sense 3.0 lockscreen?

Yes, Customize / Lockscreen / Parameters / shortcuts

5.10. Where can I get the default Ginger2.3 keyboard? Call me crazy but I like it more than the Sense one

At the Market.

Call me crazy, but Swype beats any keyboard hands down, though!

5.11. When using Spare Parts, and I want to check the Battery History I get a force close error, anybody else?

Spare Parts is known to cause this error when running under GB.

To see battery history, you can use other apps, such as "Betterbatterystats".

5.12. Music not loud enough when using headphones.

Serch the market for "Equalizer" which may solve your problem.

5.13. Using Sense Camera app causes screen brightneess to go to 100%

No known fix at the moment, you could try using an alternative camera such as mentioned above in this section; most likely, this should resolve the problem. Otherwise, wait for further ROM updates where this issue would be fixed.

5.14. I've bought a larger SD card, now I don't know how to painlessly upgrade from the old card without loosing the system...

1. Make a nandroid backup of your system in recovery

2. Make the partitions (gparted best but less convenient way, minitool Partition Wizard is a sane alternative) on the new card as described in 2.6 of this FAQ

3. Copy all files from FAT32 partition of the OLD card to the FAT32 partition of the NEW card

4. Put the new card in the phone

5. Boot into recovery

6. Restore the nandroid you have made

5.15. I've switched to this rom from another one, and there's not enough space to restore my apps with Titanium Backup!

The latest builds of this rom have dalvik cached on nand (internal memory) by default for better performance. Dalvik cache grows with the number of apps installed, and thereby limits the number of apps you can install.

If this limit is too small for you, you can flash the dalvik2ext patch from the section "6. Mods and fixes" below, moving dalvik cache to sd-ext and thereby removing any limits to the number of apps installable at the expense of a slight performance degradation.

If your middle name is Thomas and you don't trust anyone and still believe that "App2sd script is not working", take a look at your \system\sd folder (which is actually sd-ext) in any reasonably advance file manager such as Root Explorer, and you'll see if all your apps are really there.

There also are apps like "App2sd" which apparently move your apps to sd (didn't try it so can't say where to exactly, fat32 or sd-ext) in a more complete fashion then the script, but the space savings are still small, so I wouldn't suggest using these apps to anyone. You'll save more by moving dalvik to sd-ext (around 100 mb).

Lastly, having so many apps is just a perverse form of hoarding. I have never seen anybody really needing all that stuff, myself included. I have 160 apps on installed on LeeDroid 3.0.8, and frankly, I can easily part with at least half of that number should the need arise. Just check which apps you haven't used for over three months - and uninstall them. Same goes for apps which you don't remember what they are.

5.16. AC charger is recognized as a USB charger and therefore charges the phone very slowly.

Several people had this problem. For most of them, flashing the latest version of snq's kernel helped.

Alternative solution is also kernel-related - flash Tristan's kernel.

5.17. Messages appear claiming that SU-binary is outdated but you can't update it.

Try this fix.

5.18. Camera app quits suddenly and\or switches screen brightness to maximum.

Try this fix from anderl78.

5.19. Can't get to bootloader...

There are two ways:

1. Power down device completely:

- by holding power button and tapping "power off" in the menu OR

- by pulling the battery and replacing it (less desirable)

Then, hold down VolDown and Power until you get to the bootloader

2. By rebooting to bootloader:

- by holding power button and tapping "restart" in the menu, then choosing "Bootloader" and tapping OK

What may be preventing you from getting there is Fast boot.

Check: Settings\Power\Fast boot should be unchecked.

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