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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Karl-Heinz Mali:
SGS4A I9295 X11 problem

I like to install the "Freedreno Chroot Method" on my SGS4A I9295 with Android 4.2.2. After building a kernel with all the option according the required changes the new kernel is working well. I am able to execute "sh /sdcard/u.sh bash" and everything looks fine.

But when I start "sh /sdcard/u.sh" I get a black screen and the I9295 is rebooting.

The /var/log/Xorg.0.log looks normal but is ending with:

[ 7547.497] (II) freedreno(0): Setting screen physical size to 1080 x 1920

What I am doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Thank you in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
I'm not entirely sure yet - it's possible that the xorg.conf might need to change for your device if the screen is different in any way. To keep the device from rebooting, you can do the following from a root android shell:

Execute the command stop - this will cause your screen to go blank, and your android will otherwise "stop functioning" until you reboot it (you can reboot from the android shell by using reboot).

Execute the command sh /sdcard/u.sh bash to get to the Ubuntu shell

Execute the command service lightdm start&

The ampersand (&) at the end will tell it to run in the background while dropping you back at the bash prompt (you need to hit Enter to get back to the prompt). This should throw a ton of garbage at you that might indicate better what's going wrong. Another command you can try is to just start Xorg server directly. This will be much simpler, and the garbage on the screen will more closely reflect what you're seeing in the X.0.log file. You can do that by executing startx& from the Ubuntu shell.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
I haven't worked on the project in a while, sadly. I'm slowly remodeling my house, which has been eating up all of my spare time lately...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Karl-Heinz Mali:
Thank you for your consideration, especially the startx background operation. It seems something is going wrong with the execution of freedreno. Once again a black screen. What is the best approach to debug freedreno on the I9295 anyway with gdb?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
It's possible something has changed with the freedreno build since I last downloaded it and looked at it... or for some reason it might not be compiling correctly from source. To troubleshoot, I would recommend destroying your Ubuntu build (execute sh /sdcard/u.sh destroy) and then downloading and installing ubuntu-install-v4.zip from recovery, if available. This would essentially replace Step 2 in the Freedreno Chroot Method.

If you are not able to flash .zip files for some reason (i.e. no custom recovery like CWM or TWRP), then let me know - there's another way to dump the rootfs, but I haven't documented it yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Karl-Heinz Mali:
I destroyed the Ubuntu installation with "sh /sdcard/u.sh destroy" and installed with CWM ubuntu-install-v4.zip the result is still the same. I get a black screen on my I9295 and it reboots.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] meow876:
can u install this native with safestrap?

---------- Post added 9th January 2014 at 12:56 AM ---------- Previous post was 8th January 2014 at 11:57 PM ----------

if i install safestrap and install the 3 files from the native boot section in safestrap will it work?

i noticed that you have the mf3 baseband as well are u using safestrap to dual boot?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DeadlySin9:
You can't install this on Safestrap. It won't work with the stock MF3 kernel. You can only do the VNC method.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jsphonorio:
How to remove/reset

I used the vnc chroot method and everything was working great. However, I would like to reset my ubuntu to a fresh install and I am little lost on how to do that. Where does all the settings/downloaded files get store.(The loop?(sorry newer to this)/persistence file)

---------- Post added at 04:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:22 AM ----------

I answered my own question by replacing the img file. However, is there a way to use sudo within vnc? I only seem to be able to use it through the terminal on my phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Stevethegreat:
Hi, I need to ask to those who have tried or use this.

Is there any discernible gain in performance apart from 2d/3d acceleration?

I'm compiling some very basic stuff and I would like to know I'd have better performance by giving the boot to the vnc middle-ware. So the distro would have one vnc server less to run while one uses it, is that enough to gain cpu-memory-io performance?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] balesss:
the mf3-freedreno-android-boot link is broken.

Is it compatible with Omega Rom 25?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DeadlySin9:
If anyone is still curious about this, I fiddled for a minute and got it to run my phone (NB1 kernel & bootloaders on GPE ROM). I can post the modified script if anyone wants. I'm going to do some fiddling and attempt to boot backtrack myself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 0EEVV0:
404's

So upon using suo apt-get install or sudo apt-get update/upgrade nothing works! it gives me errors like these:

W: Failed to fetch http :// ports.ubuntu.com/dists/raring/ universe/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.140 80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@loca

Please help! Since I dont know what to do!

spaces include since im newbie!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jmarussi@gmail.com:
Samsung
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gnanasreekar:
will this work with safestrap
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DeadlySin9:
Besides the chroot method, none of this ever worked past MDL. The chroot worked up to KitKat with some tweaking, don't think I've tried on Lollipop. There's not much use to it considering you can only download software compiled for ARM processors and using a desktop OS on a phone full time isn't too practical anyway.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow1212u:
I have installed a rom on i9505 snapdragon version and it has all bloat ware removed could some please post a link as to where i could ger the bloatware apps to flash back as i need some of the apps..

cheers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow1212u:
thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
I have got this issue since I wiped the dalvik cache on Android 4.2.2 to fix a Play Store issue which I should of deleted that dalvik cache file with Titanium Backup or use Lucky Patcher to remove that left over file in /data/app/ but also wiping the cache somehow broke the APN API not allowing me to add the wiped APNs and such.

Since then I had to reflash EVERYTHING using the Nexus Stock Image flasher from Google Developers, since then I had no issues until a recent Android 4.3 update which caused the dalvik cache issue to arise since it wiped the dalvik cache.

I also do not have root because of the update but the su binary and SuperSU is still there so I cannot fix the issues manually.

When I come back on holiday I will root the device to see if I can fix the issue

but if that does not help then I can use the root to backup ALL the user apps, backup ALL the internal SD contents and reflash also rooting it.

Because I paid for the TB licence I can just restore my stuff in a touch of a "button".

I have removed apps which I don't use and the ones which I suspect is causing the issue but that does not help.

It seems that wiping the cache partition now does not break anything.

The dialog box says in the title "Android is upgrading..." and it says below "Starting apps..." and then gets off in a second.

I have seen forums of people having this strange issue but there are no replies.

I am getting back from holiday on the 31/8/13.

I really want this haunting issue to stop so please help so others can fix this issue without going though annoyance caused by this issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
that android is upgrading dialog box is the dalvik getting rebuilt, it get rebuilt after you wipe it, it is SUPPOSED to happen when you wipe your dalvik. it isnt an issue. if not, you wouldnt have a bootable or usable phone. the real issue here is you using lucky patcher. we all know what it is used for, and is disrespectable to the developers that hang out on xda.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
I only use Lucky Patcher for important stuff and not really for what you think so that is NOT the issue what so ever and misleading to this thread and plus, other people use it.

I mean that in EVERY boot it says that it is starting apps, nothing to do with building at all.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilpig:
Late reply, but Lucky Patcher did this to my phone just now and I don't know what to do, other than reflash. Which sucks because I spent all night modding out my phone and was stupid enough to not to a nandoid backup.

Edit: The first boot it upgraded everything then everything force closed, 2nd boot everything upgraded, but seems to be working fine. Woo. Was scared for a moment.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
Well you was LUCKY (pun alert!).

Anyway it seems that the stock rom was always the issue, even reflashing does not fix this issue when you wipe the dalvik cache.

I am on ParanoidAndroid 3.98 at the moment and I am not getting any issues just by wiping the dalvik cache and/or the cache partition. :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garu8:
I have found fix for this error, it is mainly due to odex files which are created by lucky patcher so deleting these files using lucky patcher itself will surely remove this error with 50 percent success rate. Here's the fix; open lucky patcher, there in lower left section you can see Toolbox, click that Toolbox then select 4th last option i.e Remove all odex files.Thats it android will reboot on itself and vola no android is upgrading. .

Check out attached image for help:cowboy:.

:good:Hits Thanks If I helped u:good:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cristian83:
I just removed the odex files and worked great. Thank you.
[Windows 8 General] Deleted member 1198227:
When I set one of theme as default browser, it has the option to work in full win 8 mode. But at the same time the other one opens in desktop mode.. Is there a solution?
[Windows 8 General] tp2215:
Unfortunatly no, the way that Microsoft decided to implement it is that the browsers have to be at as the default for it to open fullscreen. Would be awesome though If a dev can figure out a hack to bypass this but to my knowledge it hasnt been done yet.
[Windows 8 General] death_entry:
What's actually the most infuriating about the whole default browser thing is that, the Modern version of IE is actually pretty decent for use on touch, really simple things such as the zooming and the keyboard coming up soon as you click a text box... it is a really good browser however... for some reason they remove access to it from your start screen if you install another browser and make it your default... I mean wth! lol...

I'm assuming you're not using Chrome on a tablet?
[Windows 8 General] SixSixSevenSeven:
This is something I would find quite useful personally, I haven't found a way to do it though.

Chrome being treated as a modern app in fullscreen mode should do the automatic keyboard though
[Windows 8 General] Deleted member 1198227:
Actually I do use chrome on a clover trail tablet in full screen mode. But ie10 is much faster and better in this slow cpu. But I need folders for my favorites which it doesn't have (it will be added in ie11 by the way). Anyway I wanted to use both of them.. :)
[Windows 8 General] BenHeng:
I would love to do that too. IE10 is the best browser in windows 8 mode. However the desktop version is not good enough...

Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 4 en utilisant Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lujo_zgb:
So, a couple of days ago, I accidentaly let my dock drain fully out. It was 2 days on 0%, as I didn't use my TF101 much because I am on vacation. All of a sudden, the wouldn't charge at all. I connected the charget to my docked TF101 and it charged only a little, about 3% in an hour, but the dock didnt charge at all. After that the dock charged to about 40%, not charging the tablet itself. Then the dock began to drain and ended up on 10%, still not charging the tablet.

I used my tablet for a bit of reading, without the dock and it got to about 6%.

I plugged them both to charge, but nothing.

Now they both dont charge and the dock doesnt light up red on the LED.

In the meanwhile the tablet drained completely, so I left only it on the charger. At first it wouldnt turn on at all, but after 10 mins, a big red battery icon appeared. After that it turned on and booted to android, but it says "Connect your charger" and it show 0% battery capacity but with a charging icon.

I am using TEAM EOS NIGHTLY 117 (Android 4.2.2)

The dock lights up red only when the tablet is plugged in. Sometimes it blinks red while it is charging, sometimes it only blinks 3-4 times while im pressing the power button.

I tried freezing the battery brick - but no luck.

I tried cold booting to - alas, no luck too.

Help please!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Give a run through this. I am thinking that plugging it into a USB port for a few hours (tablet only) should at least get the tablet working again. As for the dock, there is a switch that can change state when it gets to zero and wont allow it to recharge until you open the dock and flip the switch. It should still allow the tablet to charge when docked.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lujo_zgb:
Thanks. I saw your thread on that forum already.

Only thing I did not try is to let it charge over USB.

Cant bend the pins because I have a EU charger.

Is there any guide for opening the dock and finding the switch?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Just because you have the EU charger, the plug STILL comes off so you could try bending the pins.

Hmmm, I did not write a guide for the dock, but it is pretty simple.

First, remove an SD if present. If you don't you could lose the spring that holds the SD in and it is a pain to replace.

The back two rubber feet have small philips screws (#00 I believe). Remove these, then pick one of the back corners (I like the one with the USB port close to it) and start prying it apart with a rubber spudger, guitar pick or fingernail. Once I get it open to the hinge, work your way around the front and to the other side. Be careful around the charging port and the SD card as the metal is thin and bends easily. It can be bent back easily too, but just be careful.

Found the disconnect switch, it is on the board with the USB and Power Plug (on the left):

Here is a detailed teardown where that photo came from: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Disassemble-the-ASUS-Transformer-TF101-Keyb/
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lujo_zgb:
So I left it to charge on my laptops USB overnight (10hours).

When I plugged it in, it was turned on with 0%, now it has 14% and still says "connect your charger" with the charging icon when I connect it to the wall output.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
I let my dock run to 0% not that long ago too, and same with me, the dock refused to charge even leaving it plugged in overnight

I decided to open it and flip that little switch, connected the charger for about 30 mins with the switch flipped, still showed 0% and no signs of charging

Flipped it back to its original position and left it charging for another few hours and it suddenly stopped flashing orange and became a solid orange

Waited an hour or two and connected the tablet to see the dock % and it was finally charging again, and works fine still today

Not sure if flipping that switch did anything or not, maybe it just needs time and persuasion by continuous 1 hour charges and then disconnecting the charger for a while, but it did eventually sort itself out
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m2maynard:
I dissasembled the keyboard dock and flipped the switch and plugged in the charger. I will let it go for about a 1/2 hour and unplug and flip it back. I will update once something happens to confirm this actually will work for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
Got my fingers crossed for you, hopefully you'll have the same luck as I did
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
Sounds like the charger is fine if it's powering on when you plug it in, sounds like the batteries have over-discharged

Other than the switch inside the dock trick above, just leaving it powered off and charging for a long time to try to coax the batteries back to life might work

Yesterday the missus was playing on the TF for hours and hours, when I looked at the battery levels, it said dock 4% and TF 44%, cool no problem, the dock actually stopped discharging at a decent level, so I left her playing

When I plugged it in, dock was at 4% still and it began charging

I rebooted, and to my horror, the dock said 0% and refused to charge again, even on its own

I shut the TF off for the night with my fingers crossed and this morning it is 99% 99% on both batteries

I was thinking about what I would try this time if it refused to charge again, heating the battery up slightly was on the list, remembering that old trick in the tape deck walkman days to get a few minutes extra life out of the batteries by heating them

And directly charging the batteries + to + and - to - for a few minutes to a low powered DC supply to try and jump start their charging process before plugging it back into the normal charger via the dock and tablet

The latter would have to be done carefully and preferably outside on an extension as these type batteries can do some nasty things if they are over charged, ie. explode / fireball

Personally I would leave it on the charger powered off for a day or two and see how it gets on, if that fails try trickle charging it from PC USB while TF is powered off too
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
Try charging the tablet on its own without the dock if the dock is working fine again now
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
Not sure if they are identical batteries, but you could try swapping the dock battery for the tablet battery and vice versa

Also just read a post from someone who replaced their dock battery from here

http://www.kingbattery.co.uk/produc...=2512&osCsid=a9420d5fe00bf3837361daa9d0e6259e

Only £29 atm, looks like it will fit the dock and the TF
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
I've had the tablet open about 3 times, and the dock once, and in my case the tablet was a lot easier to open than the dock

Here is a video on how to get the tablet open

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-6dKsGJ4VY

The bezel on the dock seemed much more tightly clipped together, where the tablet, once you remove the screw holding the plastic bezel in place, it fairly easily clips off around the edges, then its just a few more screws under the bezel around the edges and it just lifts apart easily
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
There are probably English teardown videos too, but this one is great quality and shows exactly where each screw is etc

Good luck, a nice big clear table and some pots for the screws, take your time and just keep replaying the video if you get stuck on anything

It's about a 3/10 for difficulty for the tablet, the hardest part is just being gentle when you pry the bezel off
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frederuco:
Here is a tutorial (in English) on how to get the bezel off that I personally did: http://www.transformerforums.com/fo.../10501-rs-guide-power-lock-button-issues.html

That is the hardest part IMO. After that, there are ten #0 or #00 Philips screws holding the back cover on. There is one in each corner then 3 on top and 3 on bottom when looking between the screen and the back plate.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lujo_zgb:
Hey, havent posted in a while, but I think I know what my problem is. I used a multimeter to find the voltage output of the charger and it shows 5.16V. I supose the charger went in to safe mode, thinking it is charging a mobile phone.

Any way to mend this?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
Try the freezer trick

Put the charger into a sealed zip bag and put it in the freezer for 20-30 minutes

Might reset the thermal fuse if that is the problem
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lujo_zgb:
Tried that a while ago, did not work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *Detection*:
Did you check the voltage from the cable or the actual charger?

If charger, might be time to invest in a new one
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lujo_zgb:
Actual charger. 2 outer USB pins.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerth6000:
I also have a TF101 - about 2 years old.

It cannot charge anymore.

I tried to turn it off and charge off the PC.

I tried replacing the usb cable for the charger.

I tried replacing the charger with a new 15v wall charger from China, twice (2 different models)

I tried factory reset

I tried cold reboot

I tried replacing the battery with a new one.

After all of these things - it still doesn not charge when connected to a charger. It shows the white "low battery" icon when I put in the cable, but the battery charge never goes up.

The new battery has about 40% charge, but it will die soon, if I don't get a solution.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stormwyrm:
I actually bought two of these Transformers back in late 2011, and one of them, the one I use personally, is working fine running the KatKiss ROM (major improvement from stock and from Revolver, which I was using for the longest time). The other one, my five-year old son has been using, has been running latest stock and now it refuses to charge. I know there's no trouble with the charger because the wall bricks (both his and mine) charge my Transformer just fine. Neither works to charge my son's Transformer though, and all that happens is I get a red battery icon that flashes and then is gone. Sometimes not even that. I've attached a picture of what I'm seeing. I didn't take it myself: that battery icon flashes for only a few seconds and disappears, but someone out there managed to successfully take a picture that shows exactly what I see as well. From what I've been able to figure it seems my son managed to bring the battery in his Transformer down to absolute zero, and well, Li-ion batteries don't like that. The posts here seem to indicate the same thing. Apparently Asus made a design error with the TF-101, so it is possible to drain the batteries completely, and the tablet will not shut down before that happens.

Well, I'm going to try charging it on my laptop USB overnight as some have attempted, and well, I hope it works. I'm planning to buy a Nexus 7 in a few months but was planning to keep my Transformer as a secondary tablet mostly for video use. I'd rather not have to chant the Dies Irae for the other tablet just yet...