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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Crkr:
So I was opening a text 20 min ago or so and the phone rebooted. It was stuck at the initial boot screen for a while so I pulled the battery. Replaced battery, turned it back on and now EVERYTHING is gone; it's basically like a fresh flash having to go through the initial setup and everything again. Has this happened to anyone else?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dillalade:
This happened to me once on this rom I remember.

Havnt been on it for a while now though ~6weeks ago.

[* PyroIce ICS on DS/MT4gS *]
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ranteo:
Noted on that, thanks.

Another question I have is, would it be possible for sound to be played concurrently? I noticed that my music would pause to allow my message notification tone to be played before resuming my music. Perhaps there might be a feature in future versions on toggling such a function on and off?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] daswerk:
Mine has locked up several times and had to pull the battery but has never wiped everything out.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Man, did you post about it? I don't remember hearing anything like that before.

That is not cool - i've not had it happen, but apparently twice now it's gone down.

Anyone else have this happen?

Anything else you can think about surrounding when it did?

That's completely unacceptable and needs to be dealt with. Any information leading to the the extermination of this behavior is appreciated.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Shawn411:
I tried out this ROM I liked it but with the Bloater App I tried to reinstall 2 T-MOBILE apps. They never appeared in my app drawer. Did I miss something? The 2 apps were T-Mobile backup and T-Mobile Id
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ranteo:
My phone did just restart by itself as well. Was playing hanging with friends and then the screen went black, and restarted. I did have quite a number of applications running such as handcent, little empire, tweetcaster, so can't really isolate if any app is causing it though.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Crkr:
I wasn't really doing too much. Had been texting throughout the day, playing words/hanging with friends, and that's about it. It was the first and only time that the phone had a forced reboot, and when it did it just hung and restored like a fresh flash. Wish I could offer more information, but I hadn't changed anything or added anything when it happened.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Okay, I've been dumping all my time into trying to crack the S-ON / S-OFF issue, but thanks for posting about this and I'm sorry it happened.

I've been running this ROM on my t-mo phone without incident for a while now, but I have been making small changes here and there so that may not be a reliable metric.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ranteo:
The problem got rather bad for me today. My phone kept restarting repeatedly.

At first, I thought it might be a battery problem, but it still kept restarting when using my stock battery. Appears to be random, and no particular app causing the restart.

Just did a factory reset, rooted and installing bulletproof again, after which will slowly download apps to figure out if there's any particular app causing it.

Will keep you updated. :)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I appreciate that - weird that all of a sudden people are having a problem with it after so long...

( definitely not doubting you - and I appreciate the efforts put into troubleshooting, it helps, and thanks!! )

I've been trying to duplicate, so any lead I can get will be helpful.

I flashed a fresh copy to a device a little while ago, loaded it up with apps and i'm gonna leave it hooked up to a log over valentines day tomorrow, maybe i'll capture something that will help point out what the deal is.

I'm eagerly awaiting HTC to start pushing the OTA again so we can capture the updated software, i'm looking forward to integrating it and tying in the new radio. I've got most of the current OTA broken down and prepped, so mostly just waiting on what they're gonna release for the next step forward.

I'm definitely gaining ground on getting my tutorials, guides and utilities/hacks posted and made available, i've just got so much information to post it's all I can do to keep up :D :o

Again, appreciate the help and feedback while i'm running around like a nutcase working down a punchlist of things we need for the device in general, and as soon as I figure it out or someone gets enough info here for me to figure it out i'll generate a solution.

I have a specific project list laid out for when i get back the day after valentines day, just finished writing it out. I should have a solid 40 or so hours of uninterrupted dev time to continue closing the gap, and eagerly looking forward to it.

See you guys on wednesday, and happy valentines day!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] antonaq:
Do you think to make a newer version with 1.55.531.3 inside?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Yep, it's coming. I've been working around the clock breaking down the OTA's, posting guides and tutorials, and manning the IRC channel with a few others for on-call tech support, and trying to crack the S-ON problem for the people who are stuck with it.

I spent between friday and monday pretty much typing the entire time (and no, I didn't sleep) but (with some help!) was able to get an insecure boot image posted for the people on the new update, and made them for the older version software as well. That's one thing down - updating bulletproof to the new 1.55..531.3 softwares available from the update would've needed the new boot image too.

I have the current two OTA's that were out broken down and sitting here on my computer. Tomorrow when I get back to my desk, i'll be wrapping the apps up into flashable packages, like i've already done with the newest gtalk from it, and updating my GPS fix with the new GPS info from the update.

I'm mostly waiting on releasing a patch until HTC/T-Mobile restarts the OTA they paused to see what they are changing about it - once we get that you can expect an update pretty immediately.

My lady allows me to dev as much as I want without giving me grief about it, so I owe her today at the very least - going to pick her up soon and won't be touching a computer until I drop her off again tomorrow.

After that the only thing on my schedule is working right here in the doubleshot forums to get more guides, hacks and fixes posted and working until friday morning - I definitely won't need sleep so i'll get a good 40 hours of time to sit here and get things accomplished.

Don't worry, i'm working as hard as I can ( pretty much around the clock lol ) to get us straight. (us being the doubleshot community) ...and also working with other devs trying to save them time looking things up ( dev reference ) and making generic stuff ( like the insecure boot image ) so as a whole we can make more progress together. Definitely have some great devs working with us here in the doubleshot forums and together we are all making great progress now.

This community has pretty much become my life, and at this point I have so much direct knowledge of the specifics of the device on the tip of my tongue that I literally don't have enough hours in the day to get it all posted for others to browse, but working on it. Recently got a lot more free time to sit here and make it happen, so i'm rolling it all out as quick as I can.

Stay tuned, lots of fun stuff coming your way soon.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Limewirelord:
tl;dr: Go on IRC channel, get cool devs to talk with and hear them work on their projects
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ranteo:
Just wondering, if you have any apps to recommend that could log app data/system data? If it could list the apps that were running, and any other system info at the point of crashes or restarts, then I'm pretty sure that would be very helpful for you too.

I'm still running through my apps, and the reboots have started. But at random times such as Whatsapp or Hanging With Friends. I'm thinking it might be a background process that is causing it?

Another observation I made was that during the reboots, it would black out and then show the boot animation straightaway, bypassing the boot image. Hope this is of some help too.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ZeikHunter:
wifi error?

this is my first go at flashing an android ROM, but im an experienced winmo flasher.

got everything going smoothly, clockwork 5.0.2.7 and all that, i install, reboot, let it sit for 10+ minutes, do the setup, but wifi dosnt want to work. the only thing i found in this thread was a refernce to the kernel being incorrect (?) but i flashed from stock after unboxing today, so what exactly did i do wrong?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Coug76:
If you flashed a separate kernel you need to mount system in recovery prior to flashing said kernel.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ZeikHunter:
well, i didnt flash a seperate kernel, just flashed the .zip file from recovery as per the directions.

unlocked with the HTC tool, then roughly followed this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286324

what do i need to do to set it right?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I don't think this is something you did wrong - i had someone bring this up to me just recently and got me a logcat of the problem.

The wifi drivers aren't loading correctly, and i'm sitting here right now trying to peg why.

My best guess at this moment is that it's due to a change HTC made with the latest OTA which probably came pre-shipped on your device if you had to do the HTC unlock method.

I'm getting some files from a user working with me to solve this issue at the moment so i hope to have something better then "i don't know" soon.

I'm betting that the new updates on the partitions aren't playing nice with the wifi module in the kernel, if so i'll make a new module and make a new kernel, and that should solve the issue.

Meantime, i'll get this resolved as quickly as possible.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ZeikHunter:
whew, thats a relief, here I was thinking i broke something.

btw, my HBOOT is 1.45.0013, dated Nov 21

if theres any other info i can provide that would be of help, I'll provide it if i can.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Thanks, i'll keep that in mind if necessary, for right now I think i have enough to go on, just going to take most of the night to sort this out.

I apologize for the inconvenience, i'll get this worked out as quickly as I can.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ZeikHunter:
Well, upon furter caffiene-fueled reading, apparently using the HTC unlock tool will not set S-Off, verified by the big "S-ON RL" on the second line of my bootloader screen. THATS apparently where my problem is, unless I misread about how S-off is req'd to update a kernel.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Know what - someone else said this to me a while ago and I didn't buy it - but after everything i've been through so far tonight you might be right - i've got some more things I want to try first before I write that off as the reason.

Until I exhaust every method available to me to solve the issue i'm not going to take the easy way out and say "yea, that's it"

I want to rule out all of the new parts to the HTC update as a possible cause before jumping on this as the reason.

If it does turn out to be the case, though, this ROM is dependent upon the kernel in it to function properly, so that will mean S-ON people won't be able to use it regardless of lock/unlock status - i'm not there yet so we'll see what happens.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Well - the data is conclusive.

The 1.55.531.3 update which leaves people with the 1.45.0013 hboot is a problem.

If you are S-OFF, everything will work fine.

If you are S-ON, UNLOCKED - you will lose wifi and possibly other things unknown as of yet.

This will probably include other ROMs as well, such as ICS roms, or anything too far from a stock gingerbread build.

I will be focusing my efforts completely on breaking S-ON and getting my guides up and available. Everyone should be able to play with the ROMs available, and since I can't make this work for S-ON UNLOCKED people, then I need to make S-ON UNLOCKED people able to get S-OFF.

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If more information is discovered about other ongoing Bulletproof issues and posted here I will act on it if possible, otherwise I am strictly on crafting a custom hboot and making S-ON people able to be S-OFF.

I have been working mostly on this anyway, but in light of current understanding about how crippling it is the full focus of my dev abilities is now aimed in this direction.

I have a good start on the issue, so here's hoping I crack this nut.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] tbalden:
so put simply:

s-on = no boot.img overwrite? that sounds valid, as those with S-On couldnt yet switch to ics rom. Naturally it wont boot, as the original boot.img is not containing the init scripts required to boot up an ICS android framework. (init.rc contains the Framework jars for the initial classpath of the dalvik vm, and in ICS android those jars are different.)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yogi2010:
hey guys, just thought i'd throw this up here:

http://htcdev.com/bootloader/faq

it's the faq from the htcdev bootloader unlocker. the unlocker seems to allow you to write to system, boot, and recovery partitions, but not radio, hboot, or any others. it would seem that people with S-ON are indeed flashing the full ROMs, but running them with the new radio and other firmware bits that came with the ota.

remembering back, people who flashed the new radio by itself were having random reboots:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1407411

they suspected that perhaps the radio didn't work right without the new kernel that also came with the ota?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Yogi - thanks for posting - we've determined through trial and error that the ability to write to boot is not all that true.

Apparently people can overwrite the files, allowing for insecure boot image access, but they can't replace the ramdisk which is the kernel.

Appreciate any info people can toss around relating to this, if I'll check in again if I can get the chance anytime soon
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AndroidBotx:
If you would read what undead wrote on rootzwiki he solved the wifi issue with people having unlocked S On. The way he explained it was basically it was a bcm.ko mismatch with the new kernel. Simply flashing the need lib modules restored wifi on those devices. I must say undead is very smart.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ranteo:
Mine is S-Off but hboot 1.44.1107. Does this mean I would need to update my hboot version?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
1 - For the moment, stock retail launch radio is all i've tested. I'll be bringing the ROM in line with the most recent OTA once HTC re-starts it and I get a chance to see what changes they made - i'd rather wait and use their working patch then something they had to stop mid-deployment because it was broken.

If you do experiment with the radio available in the current paused update - let me know how it goes :D

2 - I'll have to circle back to this one later - there are 4 keylayouts as flashable zip files in the mods section at the beginning of the thread that you can play with - if none of them suit you you could start in this thread to get what you need:

( any ROM ) Hardware Key Mapping | Flashable zips & Requests

3 - You could use a root level file manager to delete:

/system/app/VSuiteApp.apk

and

/data/data/com.nuance.android.vsuite.vsuiteapp

There are other ways to do it - i'm close to needing sleep but didn't want to leave you with nothing, so that's a start if you can do it that way.

You'll need to reboot, probably get force closes - can hold power, volume down and trackpad for a few seconds to force it if necessary.

After sleep i'll get you a less messy method if someone else hasn't first.

Then maybe this is unrelated to the issues people are having flashing ICS roms, and it will be worth looking into to see for sure - thanks.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
If you are s-off then it doesn't matter. That is just the revolutionary hboot version, you are fine.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
For the moment I am dumping all of my time into the S-ON problem.

I've been working on it around the clock with only a few small breaks here and there and rare sleep.

Worth it, every second, we are close.

Meantime, anyone with a wifi issue can pull the boot.img file out of the zip for the ROM and flash it independently, that should solve your problem.

Put it in the same folder as fastboot, reboot the device to fastboot mode and then type:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

I'll link other instructions and a direct download to the boot.img file later.

Once we crack S-ON, I'll be back on this ROM for the updates I want to make/have made for it.

Right now the S-ON problem is the best investment of my time for the greater good of the community.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] raycaster3:
I'm gonna keep reading but evo3d people that unlocked via HTC have a method to flash custom kernels through an app by extracting the boot.img flashing it somehow. I'll look for the thread and link it up.

The post right above mine is the same method evo3d people were using to flash kernels fasboot.

Here's a link to what they do.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17867055

Well it looks like this is old news around here the more I read. Oh well good luck folks.

»»DARKSIDE««
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] raycaster3:
If you made a backup of your stock rom grab it from there. If not look in the stock deodexed rom thread and dl that and get it from there. Or... maybe someone nice will upload it. If I have time later I will if no one else has

»»DARKSIDE««
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] raycaster3:
Hmm. How did you install it? You pushed it to system/app and made sure you set permissions to rw-r-r right? I have a deodexed version of the app I just made I could post that one here in a minute.

Edit: Try this one....

»»DARKSIDE««
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I am not sure why bloater stopped working right - nothings changed so it should be as it was.

Until I get time to sit down and puzzle it out we'll have to work around it.

What raycaster3 suggested is a good temp fix - use Root Explorer to set the permissions.

I just got in a little over an hour ago, and I have to leave again for work in a few hours, so I won't get the chance tonight - but i'll make a flashable zip update to add mail.apk to the ROM tomorrow (promise!) for people who want it.

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Anyone who has the wifi issue - the problem is, in fact, that the kernel is not being flashed correctly as I first supposed. Despite other theories, we have determined this to be the case and it only affects people who have the newest version of HTC software on their device and are S-ON.

Anyone S-OFF is fine.

There are usually a number of ways to solve a problem, for right now for end users this is the best method:

You have to flash the boot.img file separately to the ROM to have it actually flash to the device - it will no longer happen in one single ROM flash like we are used to.

I'll deal with this when I get the chance to figure out how to make it all happen in one single, smooth install package - but again, i'm wiped out and have to leave for work in just a few short hours so tonight is out.

Meantime, limewirelord wrote an excellent tutorial on how to flash the boot.img seperately:

Flash ICS ROMs with S-ON Unlocked

So anyone with wifi not working, this is a problem HTC made for us but it's just adding an extra step to the install process, follow limewirelord's guide and you'll be all set.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
As promised:

doubleshot_Mail_apk_installer_signed.zip

MD5: cf2f6696b84817a190b38d223bd63c2e

This is a de-odexed app. It may be used on an odexed file system - but not one that already had an odexed copy of this app installed.

(Bulletproof is a de-odexed filesystem - the stock ROM is not.)

...and the workaround is going to be a flashable zip package for each app.

Yep, after making this one I figured I might as well invest the time, effort and energy into just making a whole series of flashable zip installers for each app.

I am part way done already, creating then testing and uploading and getting into a rhythm.

I will be posting in 'Themes & Apps' sometime a bit later this afternoon (few hours from now) a post with links to each app installer.

Please save anything to be said about it until you see the thread in 'Themes & Apps' - let's keep this thread on Bulletproof.

I am not sure what's up with Bloater - and who knows how much time i'll have to invest in troubleshooting and figuring it out. If I didn't really have anything to do that would be a fun project, but right now saying I have a full dev plate would be understating the issue and there are much more important nuts to crack then Bloater at the present time.

Yea - making this sucks, and is tedious, and a bit aggravating - but it's a specific (if incredibly boring!!!!) investment of time to produce a guaranteed result. If I could say that 3 hours from now Bloater would be fixed if I worked on it, i'd do that - but I can't, so 3 hours from now all the apps will be done and either hosted or in-process of being hosted. (maybe 4, but that's what i'm doing until it's done.)

Yes, I am doing all of the apps from the new OTA as well.

(...and yes, I do wish I was someone else for the next few hours.)

Edit - okay, 4 hours later, about half done. I should have done this a long time ago, it's that kind of tedious project you only have to do once...

It will be good for a lot of people. Aspiring devs will also be able to use them as a teaching tool to see how to properly update and install apps, so this is a worthwhile project for the good of the community.

Bloater was great while it lasted - and when I get the time to fix it, it will be great again - meantime this should hold everyone over.

Break is over - back to work :p
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] glitchsys:
Dude you rock. This ROM rocks. Thanks for all your hard work and effort.

edit: Wow... Downloading 372mb @ 60-90kbps wasn't fun. And I have a fast connection to. If you need a mirror let me know.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
I love this rom I recently switched back to it and the battery life is amazing but I really miss ics
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] glitchsys:
Kernel not changed

So my MT4GS was running original OEM stock. I rooted it but that was about it. It kept bugging me for the past month or two about a system update, but because of CWM installed and not the OEM Recovery, I could never update. My phone was unlocked and S-Off though. So I finally broke down and decided to install a custom ROM. So on the stock rom I wrote all the sw info down, version numbers, kernel info (version, who compiled it on what machine, etc. and then proceeded to wipe data, system, cache, dalvic, etc. and I installed Bulletproof 1.1; Now I'm in bulletproof and quite surprised to learn that none of that info has changed. Same SW version, same kernel, etc.

Is Bulletproof using the older "base" ROM? What SW changes are made by the official OTA update and how come Bulletproof isn't based on that OEM ROM instead of the older/original? And how come the kernel didn't change?

Android: 2.3.4

HTC Sense: 3.0

SW Number: 1.28.531.9

Mod Version: Bulletproof_1.1

Kernel: 2.6.35.10-g6dea02d htc-kernel@and18-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 27 13:23:58 CST 2011

Baseband version: 10.48.9007.00U_10.12.9007.07_2M

Browser Version: WebKit/533.1
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] glitchsys:
Look at post #468. I don't like reading through a ton of posts either, but a quick search for "mail" in this forum showed that post 466 somebody provided the apk which worked and in post 468 the ROM-Creator provided a flashable zip.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22798945&postcount=468

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Thanks Blue6IX, your work and dedication are much appreciated. I'll keep an eye on this forum. You seem to be one of the last few dev's actively working to make this phone better.