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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GameJelly:
Before I begin i'd like to say that I am not new to flashing, or these forums. I've been lurking about for a couple of years and thought it high time I become a member.

Little intro about me, I am a graphics designer and I am currently studying graphics design in college, i've had a few commission jobs mainly designing logos for bands and small businesses. I have studied IT and have touched upon C# coding (made a few small games) and visual basic. I am pretty decent at designing, creating and programming circuits for different uses. I am a pretty hands on person, i like to make things to fit my tastes and others when i need to, i'm pretty much a jack of all trades.

So to my question.

I want to begin making my own android ROMS, now im going to be honest i've only ever made one apk file and that was a tiny little drawing app with very few features. I know how to mod a few things within android and IOS (I know more of IOS i've been an active jailbreaker, themer and modder for a few years).

I understand i'd have to start with very basic things such as small apps and theming, so if anybody has any pointers that would be great. Hell maybe even a set of tutorials or something (google'd some things with no luck)

I have a concept I have created named it CUBE, it's basically a very minimalistic ROM and i mean very minimalistic... you would have your phone, camera, texts and browser and id try to keep pretty much everything else out, you would still be able to access play store and do everything android can usually do but only those basics are installed, i've sketched up most ideas, how everything would be layed out and such, colour schemes pretty much everything. I have an image of the logo and homescreen concept drawn up and it looks very nice to me (some little tweaks need here and there)

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tl;dr

I want to make my own ROMS, I have no experience in making them.

I know i need to start simple.

Need help.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faizbanafe:
Hi all. I really need your help.

I've been using my Galaxy Note 2 N7100 for the past 3 months with no problem.

But for the past 2 weeks, it keeps freezing/hanging, dont know why. This happens up to 6-7 times a day. The only way to get the phone running again was to take out the battery.

I finally decided to do a hard reset but the problem was not resolved. Then a factory reset, again the problem persists.

I'm on stock rom. Really clueless on what else to do. Hope you guys can help me out.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodrigoyasuda:
Looks like SDS.

Are you using the latest 4.1.2?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dmwitz:
When does it reboot? Does it do when it is just left alone or is it when you have it in a pocket.

My Note II does not like the back pocket of tight jeans!!!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faizbanafe:
I am on 4.1.2. What is SDS? Is there a way to fix it?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faizbanafe:
Mine loves my pocket. It freezes when I'm using it. Either after a call, on fb or tweeter, downloading apps. Pretty much randomly...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yahyoh:
please post screenshot from about phone :rolleyes:

BTW what Rom build u r using ??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faizbanafe:
I'm on stock...View attachment 1792093
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yahyoh:
can u flash latest MB5 Rom and try ? :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daz_2000:
You cant boot the phone with sds.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el_commandante:
I have the exact same issue. It does seem to be early symptoms of SDS. There's an app around which allows you to check if you have the affected eMMC chip - search around, I'm unfortunately typing this on a phone and can't find the link right now.

I do have the affected chip and did send mine in for repair. W-Support, Samsung's repair service here in Germany ignored the problem however ignore the problem and sent the phone back unrepaired. I'll have to either keep sending it until they finally repair it or try to get a replacement from Amazon. It's an extremely frustrating issue.

If you have the affected chip and hard reset + full wipe do not solve your problem it's almost 100% sure you have a hardware issue. Try sending it in. Good luck!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodrigoyasuda:
For most people who had SDS the first symptoms were freezes and reboots.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faizbanafe:
So I'm stuck with it?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faizbanafe:
Sorry i'm a noob on this. How do I flash the rom? Do I have to root the phone first or just do it from download mode?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el_commandante:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32260125#post32260125

Also, the forum has a search function, you know ;)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vzscrd:
Thank God I have a sane chip hehehe.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UtkarshGupta:
No sds is sudden. The cause of freeze is a new base. You should factory reset.

Who told you freeze is a symptom of sds ? Sds says sudden death syndrome. So it has to be sudden.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el_commandante:
It's discussed in many other threads. Most of the users who had a sudden brick had freezes and random reboots first. I tried factory reset + super wipe + all different versions of the stock ROM, nothing helps - it's clearly a hardware issue. And I'm not the only one...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bahaa89:
I'm having the same issue, now i'm searching and reading threads to know what exactly is the problem, my phone started to freeze a few days ago since I have updated to stock XXDMB2, it's random freezes, sometimes when unlocking the phone, sometimes when unlocking while charging, sometimes just randomly, these freezes occur randomly... sometimes 3-4 times a day... the next day no freezes at all... I don't really now what is the problem...

Now I'm reading that this problem linked to something called sudden death... so I downloaded the app eMMC check and it says that I have an insane chip.... So are you sure that these freezes are symptoms for SD ? Or it can be something caused by an app.... ? How to know for sure what is the problem causing these freezes ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackfire2802:
I had the same problem and let me tell you have some bad luck.....I had to send mine into the service center 3 times and still got it back in the same condition....until I asked my lawyer to send them a letter and sue them....It's been 4 months and they agreed to replace the phone.....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ProtoDeVNan0:
Try to flash new bootloader via odin, I had the same problem. And it helped :D
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hasinkhan:
GT - N7100 freezing

I too was experiencing the same problem I have an unlocked UK Note 2,

I tried restoring factory default, but as soon as I started restoring my data it would crash again.

so took to Samsung reapir centre in Walthamstow London, The guy seemed to think it was software related and reinstalled factory image, I was running stock anyway. He advised just running with bare minimum and load apps one by one to find which causes crash.

However it worked until I updated the stock apps and samsung apps, then it started crashing again. So I restored again and have not done any updates and it seems to be stable. I am using Gmail with stock version that came with firmware 4.1.2,

baseband N7100XXXXDLK7,

KERNAL 3.03.31-679347 seinfra@SEP 1

SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 4 09:47:52 KST 2013

build JZ054K.N7100XXDMB2

I suspect it maybe Samsung Push service - but unsure

UPDATE Nope this made no difference still crashing - less frequently but still crashing - Battery pull seems to be best way of restarting, powercycling only temporarily restores usability for a few minutes.

Have appointment with Samsung Store on Saturday - will update post with results

Hope this helps
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leebopsicle:
Just wondering if anybody had found a solution yet? Currently experiencing reboots several times daily. Sometimes happens as soon as the phone boots up.

Tried various custom roms, latest 4.1.2 stock with SDS fix, new bootloader, full wipes, and now about to try stock 4.1.1 to see if that helps.

Unfortunately I'm not under warranty so really hoping I can fix this :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Osama Shah:
I've recently had the same SDS issues, (or I think they are??!!) actually most of the time it freezes when I use the Facebook app, phone starts to heat up with facebook running, and sometimes with facebook messenger also. I thought/think.. that it was a memory leak. I've had freezes with Play store too, but an instance of facebook chat was running in the background at that time. I had low internal memory so I cleared up space by deleting the videos. and the freezes have reduced to once every other day..... don't have time to root my phone at the moment so will be checking online with others. but can anyone else confirm if facebook causes your problems too? you know, leaving my phone as is for 5 or 6 minutes actually brings it back to life! and it unfreezes. initially I thought that the Olde fonts pack that I had installed could be the reason too, cuz it gave way too many adds on everything I did, the day I had way too many freezes I uninstalled olde font pack and also cleared phone memory and it helped me. so I dunno which is the culprit.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Villis87:
I had the same problem with you. i have the 4.1.2 (DMB2) version as soon as it came out in my country and i also have the "sane" 0xf7 chip. Everything seemed to run smoothly and fine until 3 weeks ago where i made a hard reset due to battery drain by media scanner. After setting up my phone, eveything ran fine for a week, but then i had problem when i connected to a wifi network. Turnong off the wifi made everything fine. I also tried with 3G and also had freezes as soon as the data were connected. The first thing I inspected were the apps i used, although i've been using the same setup for 5 months (since i bought the phone). Hard reset seemed to correct the problem but a week after the same thing started to happen again. I also noticed that i couldn't wipe the internal storage from cwm recovery as it said there is a problem with a block. Moreover i couldn't delete some files in the internal storage as file explorer said that they couldn't be deleted. I visited the service and what they did was just to flash the rom once more (i have already done that and the problem persisted). I'm waiting to take my phone back from the service but i'm sure it's a hardware issue. What could we do? Isn't samsung aware of this? I saw that they have to change the motherboard to correct this but they are unwilling to do this...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
Did the store techs say anything about this issue?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fmstrat:
Hi all,

Trying to encrpyt my Nexus 4 running stock with 1% battery mod and TWRP. However, when encrypting, it just reboots back to normal Android with no encryption. Can anyone think of a way to fix this without a factory reset?

Thanks,

Ben
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fmstrat:
Well, for anyone else running into this issue. Retrying about 4 times and the 4th try it started encrypting. No idea what happened or why. Oh well.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNAR:
I had this problem for a looooong time. Thankfully, I seem to have discovered a solution for those still encountering this issue.

Turn off SuperSU (Settings -> More -> Application manager -> All -> SuperSU -> Turn Off)

Reboot into Safe Mode (How to)

Run encryption (Settings -> More -> Security -> Encrypt Device)

Turn on SuperSU after complete (Settings -> More - > Application manager -> Turned Off -> SuperSU -> Turn On)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papperlapapp:
That did not help for me.

Nor did any of the tips from there help with my Xperia Z1:

https://code.google.com/p/android/i...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=58073
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BooGieMen:
Last week i got my Sony Xperia Z.

After unlocking the bootloader and stuff like that I used it for a week and in this week I encountered the following problem:

Sometimes the network signal dropped to 0% and after rebooting the Xperia Z it reconnected to the network and i could use it once more.

On Wednesday the problem got worse and I needed to reboot several times a day. On Friday the Xperia Z could not connect to any network any more.

So I tried the following:

- Put my SIM card in another telephone, it worked as a charm in the other phone

- Replacing my SIM card (got a new one) worked in the backup phone but not in the Xperia Z

- Tried to manually search for network it could find the networks but when i tried to connect to it. It failed.

Now it's being shipped to Sony for Repair or Replacement.

Anybody else encountered the same problem? :confused:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garoo10:
Same problem here, its randomly droping the network signal, sometime comes back sometimes need to reboot the phone dont know why it happens, and i have reboot problem phone reboots it self , i wish its all software related and get fixed with software update
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eugene84:
Me too. I'm also facing the same issue. The only way to temporary resolve is by restarting the phone. Should i sent back to Sony? or wait for an update?:confused:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturtz1987:
im also having this problem. Are all of these phones bootloader been unlocked and/or rooted? Any stock handsets doing this? I dont know if i should try sending it back or not because its been modded.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garoo10:
My phone is not rooted its stock

---------- Post added at 10:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 AM ----------

My phone is not rooted its stock
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturtz1987:
what network is your phone on? im getting a replacement tomorrow.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mochuothp:
got mine yesterday. everything is great except the wifi signal >"<

it is so so weak. is there any ways to make it better :(

same place, but ip4, ip4s and arc get better wifi signal than z :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidhd:
Oo, got this problem yesterday, first time in 10 days. No root, locked bootloader, everything as it should be. After I finished call, signals was lost. I had to reboot phone, to have signal again. Simcard is new, it is old as phone is. Also I don't belive it is with simcard, since I tried to search network manual, before I rebooted my phone and XZ see every possible network, just it was not able to connect to it. Reboot helped.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morsolo:
I am also getting this issue, my phone is stock and rooted, using Telstra in Australia.

I'll change the SIM tomorrow, but judging by everyone else, it's not the SIM. Telstra has the best coverage in Australia (by a large margin), and the Xperia Z is a "blue tick" phone, which means in network testing, it had a significantly better antenna/coverage than most other phones. So it's not the network.

It appears there's an issue with the phone, then. Hope it's software. :(

Do we know if it's possible Stamina Mode might be killing it? I usually find my signal gone when I wake the phone, I haven't noticed it randomly just drop out when I'm using it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thaevil0ne:
This does not seem normal, I did not have this problem yet.

I do not think it has anything to do with unlocking or rooting as:

My Xperia Z is Simlock free, bootloader unlocked, rooted and running DooMLorD his kernel.

Kind regards, Stefan.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garoo10:
Its vodafone Turkey, i dont use stamina mode, try'd sim card with another phone its workin fine, almost try everything im waiting for the update i guess its baseband related update so maybe its also fix for our issue
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturtz1987:
im wondering if it has anything to do with the screen protectors placement?

im just backing up and returning to stock rom and getting a replacement.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geekgeek77:
Hey all,

I'm having this really annoying problem as well, and it's frustrating as there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, and the only way to solve it is a restart (although once in a while it suddenly reconnects on its own)

I'm also on stock Jellybean.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eugene84:
I use to have this problem as well but it is all ok now after updating to the latest firmware.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geekgeek77:
Anyone sent their phone back to Sony have any updates? I'm still experiencing this problem at least once a day and it's pretty darn annoying :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
If I'm not mistaken, I stopped having these drops after the .434 update.

Still have to thoroughly test it, though.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hiaviii:
same problem with my xperia z also .i have just purchaed it and within 2 days it sarts giving network problem.tomorrow i will go to service center and will update what they says
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidhd:
I made repair with Sony Bridge for mac and I had no problems with signal drop last 4 days (still on .350 firmware). After I first time posted here, I had like 3 or 4 times that, but as I said after repair it is gone. Hope on some other fixes within update to 434 :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XperiaZCanada:
Im having the same problems in canada, phone was brought over from hong kong, if I dont have any APN it works fine. once I add 3G and MMS configuration it starts dropping network 5 times a minute. really frustrating, so I bought ZL, seems better in North America. Sony told me its the hardware in Z that makes in incompatible, nothing to do with software or firmware.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danw_oz:
Yes but once I updated to .434 Rom the problem was mostly fixed
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohanparvatham:
Suddenly i got the same issue.....:(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_Unknown:
Dunno if it helps but I'm experiencing the same dropouts with Xperia ZL. First thought it was LTE, then changed connection to 3G but I still keep getting dropouts, although less often than with LTE..

Previously I owned an iPhone and never experienced any 3G / GSM dropouts, I live in a well covered area.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bla1011:
today i have just bought my xperia z, but i cannot connect to any network. i have already updated my software to .434 version, but that did not solve the problem.

any suggestions what i could do to fix that issue?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Perleques:
Since .434 My signal drops after a call but it comes right up after 2 seconds.

I'm not rooted and neither I have unlocked bootloader. As anybody found a solution for this?Is my phone a faulty unit?

Thanks.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturtz1987:
Have you checked "allow mobile data" that was the mistake i hadnt done when 1st got phone
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meghanath reddy:
i do have same problem at 1st after few days of using its wrking nice with my voda sim

and if u r stock .350 there will be no problm if not try to update ur firmware to .350
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amritbharadwaj:
Same problem, Stock ROM What to do ?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bajco_Rendlach:
So I've also been experiencing this issue with increasing frequency. My z is on locked/ stock everything, .434 update.

Some things I've noticed:

I never had this problem on the .350 stock. I only updated because I was having the random crash issue before, also with slowly increasing frequency

my way to work I travel through three different towns by train, each with their own distinct network changes:

Home (H, H+) --> Town 1 (LTE) --> Town 2 (edge) --> Work (edge)

Every single time I've seen my phone lose signal in my hand it has been between Town 1 and Town 2, leading me to believe the problem occurs when switching radios. It has never once found or reconnected to any network on its own after such an event.

Fast forward two weeks, I've thrown all my previous theories out the window as its now losing signal switching between all networks, including between H and H+. It is also turning of when sat in a strong edge area with no other clashing networks (I.e. At work I have full edge bars but nothing else.) this particular issue is unique in that is the only time the signal will be lost when the screen is turned off

I have discovered that turning airplane mode on and off also seems to fix things, mmeaning I no longer have to deal with the horrible battery drain and wait times of constantly rebooting my phone

I am currently experiencing signal loss on average 3 to 15 times a day, in the beginning it took about three days before I saw the next one.

gut tells me this is somehow related to stamina mode/ low battery mode or any of the other varies changes that Sony programmers have made to stock android, simply because a large portion of other unrelated bugs so far seem to come from stamina mode, in fact everything I've experienced so far except the"Google apps media server location services" thing has been.

I also saw the same thing happen with the pre-update random rebooting problem, meaning over time it started happening more and more often, up to the point when I updated to .434 it was occurring about 3 times daily

I have not yet taken any proactive steps toward fixing it through factory resting our anything like that, as frankly it always just seems to cause some new issue.

aS an aside note, I continue to stubbornly soldier on with stamina enabled from 100% as well as low battery mode from 25% on, and set to disable data.

hopefully this helps someone smarter than me figure it out, these issues suck. But I suppose it's the price to pay when being on the fore front of a new company's first heavyweight attempt.

Sorry for the essay

Edit: sony obviously aren't new, I just meant in this particular arena
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danw_oz:
Yes I am certain it is a radio issue, and a switching issue.

I can report the same thing mentioned above, the problem when travelling around.

I must say that .350 was the worst, because I was regularly getting complete outages and red signal strength indicator every day, now since .434 I have only seen this about three times.

What is the most frustrating from my findings is that it seems like the radio goes to sleep, and I do not have any power saving features enabled. On a very regular basis I get a no connection messages in many different applications, even though I have signal and 4G coverage, when I click retry then it works.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
I flashed .434 global, but flashed the baseband of .350 local (Croatia) and it's a bit more bearable now. Could be a baseband issue.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anton.reyes:
Same issue with my Xperia ZL

I live in the Philippines and I'm registered to Globe postpaid. I also experienced losing network signal...

I tried turning airplane mode on and off (this usually worked for my HTC Desire S) and it still did not work.

I also tried to manually select the network operator but there is still no signal.

Only when I reset the phone does the signal come back in.

I also have the .434 version. I hope sony fixes this or maybe someone here knows how to stop the issue from occurring or knows of an easier workaround than a restart.

Thanks!