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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollenfeur:
So I have a weird issue with my phone, recently (as of last night) the physical lock button on the right of the phone suddenly responds to the slightest of touches. I don't even have to press it and it activates which, when the phone is in the pocket, can be very problematic.

I have taken apart my phone and cleaned out all the dust that I could find and still the problem persists. Is this possibly something I have to fix by flashing my phone back to stock?

I am currently running a custom rom, Paragon RC6
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meangreen247:
I'm having this exact same problem. It started a few days ago and is incredibly annoying. It happens when the phone is just sitting on a table and it also happens while I'm using it. When I do actually press the button, I merely have to brush against it to get it to activate.

I'm running Serendipity 6.4.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meangreen247:
I called AT&T and they said I should just have it replaced. I've had it for 13 months, so I'm getting it replaced through the insurance program. In the meantime, I'm using an old iPhone 3G. Oh the horror!
[Streak 5 General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
It's time consuming to go through and delete the unwanted stuff using Root Uninstaller, but I believe it to be time well spent if only to provide a bit more space on the internal MicroSD. Perhaps someone should write an automated script that will allow the user to delete the APKs in the "Safe To Remove" section of the post?

Removing things like Stage UI and the bundleware should be left out of such a script, since every user is different.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
The bundleware is more or less safe to remove, just as much they're usually older versions of what's available on market, you'd still need to update and would end up with 2 copies on your system. The current version at /data/app and the original older version at /system/app

Root explorer has a mass select button btw if you use that, I believe it also works for deleting but I'm not 100% sure. Only thing to be careful of is uninstalling a system critical file, though you can just as easily manually uninstall one by accident.

There's actually more stuff that can safely be removed, only the rom is the only way to get it as you cant download it normally. (eg swype and drmplayer, though swype beta is available as a slightly different thing)
[Streak 5 General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
I wasn't questioning the safety of removing the bundleware, since I removed most of it along with all the engineering stuff and the Stage UI yesterday. All I was saying is that in a script those things shouldn't be included because of individual user preferences.
[Streak 5 General] geo.samuel:
Nice work bruv!!:d
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
Added a couple more apps into list, turns out everything in com.oem.* is not required (if you ignore being able to use OTA updates, but as noone uses them to begin with)

Dont remove dellsettingsprovider.apk though, it's needed for dock mode with an official dock.
[Streak 5 General] crashDebug:
out of curiosity did you guys figure out what are all those com.engineeringmode.* apps? to be honest, removing something like gsensor.apk sounds scary :)
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
If you force them to run by making a custom activity shortcut, they mostly do exactly what they sound like.

Majority of them lets you test a single function (ie what they're named after). They're all essentinally debug utils. Dell might have them included because it makes fixing returned devices easier (ie warrentied devices)

Or just as likely they left them in because they're lazy, the entire build system for the s5 is a bit of a mess. They fixed it for building venue and streak 7 roms but they never bothered to go back and fix it.

Though all these apps are also included in stock venue and s7 roms
[Streak 5 General] borijess:
So before removing these apps do a nandroid backup. Will the nandroid save these files? Also can u do this with Gingerstreak?

Sent from the SuperStreak! ;-)
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
Of course nandroid saves it, unless you intentionally dont do a nandroid of system\, which defeats the point of nandroid.

SD2.3 doesnt include these nor does SD2.0
[Streak 5 General] borijess:
SD 2.3 doesn't save which ones?

Sent from the SuperStreak! ;-)
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
I mean SD2.3 doesnt include anything that needs to be removed
[Streak 5 General] borijess:
Oh ok

Sent from the SuperStreak! ;-)
[Streak 5 General] crashDebug:
so I decided to remove completely all those apps; so far so good and I'll surely like the slightly higher amount of available RAM :)

I have found something odd though (albeit almost irrelevant). after uninstalling (via titanium backup) all these apps I have lost one of the two wallpapers galllery (the one with a lot of pictures). Unfortunately I cannot tell which is the app responsible for this as I uninstalled them in bulk (I am not even 100% sure the two facts are related as more tweaking was going on and I discovered the issue only hours later).

well as I stated before it's not what you call a deal breaker, who uses stock wallpapers anyway :) but you'd better be advised than sorry!
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
you likely removed something in com.android.*

wallpapers are set with either:

gallery app

stageui's set

default android live wallpapers

whatever others you downloaded
[Streak 5 General] crashDebug:
mmh unlikely mate. I'm not betting my house on this but I'm quite confident I deleted only the apps that are in this very OP. the LWP and the 2-images-only galleries anyway are still there, i think it's something related to stage.
[Streak 5 General] asianftw:
It is the stage UI. I LOVE the "beach & sea" one and lost it after removing stage ui
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
Updated list, there are a couple com.oem apps that are boarderline cases of being safe to remove, as they break functionality, but which depends on if that's a good or bad thing.

Case in point: the ota tools can be safely removed, but obviously break ota updates. If you're on a custom rom this wouldnt work anyway as custom roms dont support ota updates.
[Streak 5 General] mackeb:
Experience uninstalling these apps, based on 2.2.2 351 00:

Deleted the package apps = could not uninstall using Settings - App. Tried restarting phone as possible solution but got stuck on boot image.

Does cabledetection have anything to do with attaching with usb to pc? Gone, cannot use Streak as USB storage device in pc.

Note that many other appd can be removed too. Check Cyanogen barebones for detailed descriptions.

Question: Why is it impossible to "restore" apps I remove? Titanium simply does not work. At least with such far out ventures as removing, by accident though, and I had made a backup of everything, so it shoulf have been possible, the Accounts and Sync Settings apk.

Analogously - copying and pasting in RootExplorer does nothing at all, as is the case with trying to reinstall removed apps.

Anyways, lots of stuff can be removed. I even removed Market, to save resources, since I never download any apps from there anway.
[Streak 5 General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
You would be better off doing a nandroid backup before you muck around with the files. That way if something DOES happen you can go back to the original configuration. As to Titanium Backup, various versions of the app have had problems with restoring apps, corrupting not only the app, but the app's data as well. For backup purposes, Titanium Backup is not recommended. Nandroid instead.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
That doesnt sound right, i've removed many things and restored them though TI.

It sounds more like you broke something important in your rom before this and these are symptoms of it. Are you sure you're actually rooted correctly? Try reinstalling SU from superuser.

Regardless you should ALWAYS make nandroids before making any non-trivial changes to /system, else something like this could happen.

Right now i'd just recommend reinstalling to 360 and starting over or something, stuff like contacts have built in import/export mechanisms so you'd be able to recover pretty quickly depending on how much stuff you have installed.
[Streak 5 General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
I haven't used Titanium Backup since the first time I rooted, shortly after 351 was released. When I tried it, the results were absolute garbage. The app author may have fixed the problem with his app, but I've never recommended using it.

I back up the apps weekly using a different app, and rely on the partial restore ability of nandroid to take care of the data.
[Streak 5 General] mackeb:
Which app is that?

---------- Post added at 07:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:47 PM ----------

Alright, will have to learn Nandroid.

I had Streakdroid on the phone when I bought it. It started acting unstable and when I started fiddling with the CPU frequencies it froze and wouldn't go beyond the startup logo when I tried restarting.

I then found a simple guide on how to downgrade from custom to stock, and since I followed those steps, I've been able to just boot into the thing with the volume buttons and restore the stock rom everytime something's gone wrong. That's to say, the steps where a you go into Fastboot with the Streak attached to the computer is only neccessary once, and after that, provided you have the original rom named backup dot whatever on an SD, it's possible to just restore the whole thing directly without any additional procedures. It's much like having Windows 7 on an USB stick and reinstalling it when things get f'd up.

Obviously not likely to be good for the hardware, but what can I do? I still have to work at a pragmatic level, where the result I want is the one I get, so...

I'm considering learning how to create "my own" custom ROM now, just so I don't have to go over the same procedure every time I boot back up, which involves removing the stuff mentioned in this discussion. Just to have everything install the way I want it, and know works, from start.

Anyways, getting back to topic, I still can't figure out how to backup or re-install stock apps and data. The thing with Titanium is obviously just the app sucking. But other than that, I'm really curious why it doesn't work to copy the files I want out of the system to the SD and pasting them back if I need them for some reason.

I use Thumb Keyboard, for example (which has a 5" layout, which I find perfect for the Streak, in case someone else might be interested in trying it), and when I deleted the user dictionary files, it wouldn't stop FC'ing. Would have been useful to just get them back into the ROM, rather than having to go through what I described above, re-installing the whole stock ROM and starting over.
[Streak 5 General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Super Manager. It takes care of my app backups and is my file manager for both system and external memory since it has r/w access to the system. It does much more than this, but most of these added features I don't use.

The thing about nandroid is that it takes a snapshot of the device at the time you run it, which is virtually identical to the Windows 7 backup feature. If a problem occurs, restore from the nandroid backup and you return the phone to the way you had it prior to the backup. This includes home page setups, configuration settings, and even things like the browser's passwords and cookies are retained.

I used nandroid in fact to return to my customized 360 from StreakDroid 2.4.4 after encountering an issue involving the camera. The only thing nandroid doesn't touch (and thus something I have to restore manually before running the backup) are the amss and dsp files.

It is possible to restore just the data from a nandroid backup if need be. However the data for all apps are restored with nandroid, or none are. Restoring data from one specific app requires opening up the approprate .img file with WinRAR on the computer, extracting the data for that one app and putting it on the device in the appropriate location or locations, which is time consuming and tedious.
[Streak 5 General] ivantastic:
thanks to the list :)

it'll help me much to selecting what will i use or not in every custom.zip before flashing :)

by the way, can you please explain about what are :

# AMOLED.apk [com.oem.engineeringmode.amoled]

# CableDetection.apk [com.oem.engineeringmode.cabledetection]

# CellInfo.apk [com.oem.engineeringmode.cellinfo]

# all the verifications ...

# and the others in "Safe to remove" list

really used for?

sorry for my stupid question, i just wanna know...
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
all the ones that say engineeringmode dont do anything, they're all for debugging/fixing them if something goes wrong, you cant even access them normally
[Streak 5 General] mackeb:
Thanks, great tip!
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
Turns out calibarator is in fact safe to remove, it's part of the emlist suite
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
Turns out displayversioninfo.apk is also safe to remove, it's only purpose is to enable a single secret dialer code to view some information about the installed rom and baseband

With this, I believe every single non AOSP-based apk is accounted for:

PreLoadNetworkSettings.apk [com.oem.prenetworksetting] - exactly as it's sounds, loads new APNs when the sim card is changed

Package (OTA) util - the utils used to prepare OTA updates

PackageChecker.apk [com.oem.packagechecker]

PackageUpdate.apk [com.oem.packageupdate]

Dell Settings Provider [com.dell.android.providers.settings] - not exactly sure how it's used, it seems dorment but this is the only one i'd recommend leaving without knowing
[Streak 5 General] lordmorphous:
Just FYI... I've removed Dellprovidersettings and didn't notice any ill effects. However I leave it now based on your recommendation.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
I believe it is in fact safe to remove, but it would be strange at best that there's an apk made that does nothing at all. It never runs and has no data so it might be dorment.

Even with stage ui installed it generates no data as the widgets each have their own data store.

But that's the singular apk that I'd recommend not removing from a rom that isnt AOSP-originated and not accounted for.

The other 3 are pretty self-explanitory at least.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
Fact checked: NEVER remove PreLoadNetworkSettings.apk or you will break cell data/apns.

It's needed whenever the apns need to be loaded/reloaded, such times are: after a factory reset, inserting a different carrier's sim.

If you remove it at a time it's needed, you'll be locked out of the apn editing screen (at least on a fac reset, may not be true to modify after the fact) and your cell data will be broken.
[Streak 5 General] menting:
can i remove it then if I dont have a data plan? ie, I just use the phone portion and the wifi portion.

thanks.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
you can remove it if you dont have a sim card at all, everything but the calls themselves require APNs to control, such as MMS. SMS may be the only thing that isnt broken by having the wrong apns, also (depending on the carrier) it may incur charges.
[Streak 5 General] ivantastic:
how about if i replace it with another GB one? like the default 407 switch replaced from another GB?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicNewb4g:
so right now I am running ace rom 2.0 with clockwork 3.0.0.6. my phone is running fine and everything, no complaints, thanks ace rom! anyway, i want to update to the latest version of clockwork mode which i believe is 3.1. how would i go about this? what does it mean to flash a modem??
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdelano:
download the update flashable zip from here:

ClockworkMod 3.1.0.1 PURPLE UPGRADE RFS/EXT4/USB CUSTOM FOR EPIC4G

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1115999
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjben:
You can use any available modem with any rom or cwm that you may be interested in. They are entirely seperate things. You can get the modems in the thread below. You need to use Odin to flash them. I believe there are sufficient instructions and videos.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14701765

Sent from a secret underground bunker
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
For each new build, or software attempt at a build, they label it with a date code which corresponds with the baseband version or the modem. So EC05 is the accepted modem for Froyo. There have been many Gingerbread leaks so far, EF02, EF10, EG22, EH06 and EH17. They each came with an updated modem. However a lot of people have found it best to try these leaks and not update the modem and stay with the EC05 modem. The modem software basically tweaks the actual radios on the phone. So results vary by phone as to what would work best for you.
[Motorola Droid 3] ShortChop:
Slacker - Sign in not working - Incorrect name or login ID

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17099756&postcount=56

Experienced this same behavior and the work around above made Slacker sign in work again.

After bloat removal have to download Slacker from Market.

Go to Applications > Slacker > Clear Data

Uninstall Slacker

Re-Install Slacker

HDMI disable/not working

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17188217&postcount=88

After running bloatware removal HDMI is disabled/not working. Going to go thru every item in script to figure out which removed bloat is causing issue. After re-bloating it worked again.

Had to do Slacker thing all over.
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
Maybe it's because of renaming the original home screen? Just an idea. I don't really use Slacker, but I do use HDMI so it would be nice to figure out what the issue is...
[Motorola Droid 3] ShortChop:
After reading it looks like it's part of blur.

From a Droid X forum:

"... RealHDMI both depend on com.motorola.process.system which is the ExtDispService that controls the core of the HDMI video routing on the phone. From home screen if you hit the menu button, hit settings, selection applications, then select Running Services. Then look for a service listed as "android system->ExtDispService" if the service is not there then most likely there is no HDMI..."

"...basically, if you want/need HDMI, you need to be running a ROM with blur in it...APEX..."

After reading it may not be dependent on just one removed bloatware. Which I renamed blurhome and blurhome.odex from back to apk and rebooted the phone still no HDMI.
[Motorola Droid 3] ultima86:
any leads on the break of hdmi?
[Motorola Droid 3] jashford595:
Fix but not sure how

ok, ran into same problem as you all, running the with the latest update installed. Ran script removing bloatware, tried to connect to tv- no dice. Then ran script restoring bloatware- works great. Then ran script again, removing bloatware- STILL HAVE HDMI with no bloat! Not sure what happened, but it works. Now you try and see if it's just me...
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
When you removed bloat the 2nd time, what did you keep installed? Blur home? Skype? etc.?
[Motorola Droid 3] ShortChop:
Maybe you can look at the running services against the bloat script and see what is running? Plug in your phone make sure HDMI is still working then list all the running apps.

Is there an app to list all running then out put the text so he can post it here?

Oh and did you have the HDMI plugged in when you ran the script?

-sc
[Motorola Droid 3] lunatic_fringe:
I too had issues getting HDMI to display anything after bloat removal. I restored bloat, connected HDMI, ran bloat removal script again while HDMI was working and it appears to still be working post-removal reboot. When I removed bloat I chose to remove the home screen and all others, keeping only motoprint and DLNA.
[Motorola Droid 3] lunacie:
DLNA is the culprit - its part of the hdmi system of apps. Rename it back to .apk and .odex and you should be good to go.
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
That worked! Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] Redstars:
Don't suppose you guys are on Steel Droid 1.0? Can't seem to fix it like that on my end.

Edit: nevermind found DLNA patch for deo.890
[Thunderbolt General] atlmatt:
My camera does not start up. goes to a black screen and then back to my home screen.

Any ideas on the cause of this? I am running the leaked gingerbread OTA

It just started doing this been running the leaked OTA for a week with no problems
[Thunderbolt General] MisterDonut:
Don't Thank me.. Thank mzimand

FIX:

1. Go to Settings and select Date & Time.

2. Un check Automatic

3. Change the time to 08-01-11

4. Go and open your camera (it should work now)

5. Now you can go back and check Automatic in the Time & Date Setting
[Thunderbolt General] atlmatt:
edit:

works
[Thunderbolt General] MisterDonut:
try it again.. it worked for me and a buddy.. you need to to change the date on your phone to august 1st. then try using the camera a couple of times..

once it works, just click it back to automatic for your date and time
[Thunderbolt General] blomgren:
Try the date change again. Leave it for five. Open the camera and it should work. I tried my camera and it did not work then tried the camcorder and that worked then back to the camera and that worked. Then set date back to auto.
[Thunderbolt General] atlmatt:
What causes this? Is it preventable?

I loaded the leaked GB on both mine and a friends phone same time and I am the only on that has gotten the issue, or is it with the phone?
[Thunderbolt General] ilikebikes:
awesome, worked great. had to try it a coupe of times.
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
This is an issue that came up last night across many custom ROMs and stock GB RUUs. This LINK is a download for a flashable .zip that will fix the problem permanently.

The link provided may be credited to this post, as well as mpwt51 on the Android Central Forums and Snow02 on the BAMF Forums. I will also post a link in my q AND a stickied at the top of the QandA forum.
[Thunderbolt General] fixxxer2008:
what the hell would cause something like this anyways?
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
Adrynalyne knows....
[Thunderbolt General] fixxxer2008:
is it the new leak?
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
No. It was affecting any ROM using the gapps with Gtalk video. Some weirdness to do with a file that uses camera mainly, but also tied into Gtalk's video feature. The fix is actually for the camera, but it gets gtalk going again.
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
HTC timebombed a lib used by the camera and it expired 8/31. It was probably an accident and not malicious in nature. The lib (and several camera libs) were dated back from May. Even the 2.01 alpha had newer camera libs.
[Thunderbolt General] adrynalyne:
As you folks have already noticed, 2.11.605.0 will NOT be the final release version, LOL.
[Thunderbolt General] androidaddict23:
Can any one come up with a permanent fix for the camera, because it seems to reset when the phone is powered on?
[Thunderbolt General] Turd Furguson:
This would have explained why Uberbamf wouldn't let me use the camera then. Thx for posting the fix.
[Thunderbolt General] bthomp21:
Yesterday, my gtalk app stopped working, my camera stopped working, now my phone is going crazy. Im on uber bamf and its just crazy. re-flashing isnt working or anything.
[Thunderbolt General] bart77:
I had this problem after flashing a custom lockring. So I formatted and restored nandriod and still had the same problem. My issue was gtalk instantly fc at startup, didn't even notice the camera didn't work until I read up on this problem. I blamed it on the new cwm update that just hit yesterday because some people were having issues with it too. But apparently that wasn't the case.
[Thunderbolt General] bthomp21:
was there some sort of app change or auto update?
[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
I posted a link to the camera.zip file on my thread. There's a link in my sig to get there. It's at the top under "Notice:"