[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bartfratze:
Hi Archi,

first of all I wanted to thank you for your hard work and the great result, it's one of the best roms I ever had!

Nevertheless I ran into some strange issues concerning the installation process and I cannot figure out any pattern in the behavior of your installer/rom or my device (archidroid 2.4.4 on my galaxy S3, i9300).

In the following I will describe what I already tried out and which tools I used.

When flashing your rom for the first time I had CM11, and philz touch cwm 6.07.9. Before the installation I did a full wipe with cwm, though I did not format /system or anything else. I chose boeffla, google launcher and keyboard, 280dpi. I did not install all of your tools

I unchecked titanium backup, lms, root explorer, cool tools. I also had no need of xposed privacy. Everything else I left unchanged and started the installation.

After the installation I noticed that the smart pulldown wasn't working properly, so I tried to clear data and so on in the apps settings which didn't work out. I finally decided to reinstall with same properties, but this time also formatted /system and cleared dalvik after full wipe, just in case. After rebooting the system I noticed that the boot animation was missing during the boot sound (just during the boot sound, the minute before everything was fine).

The phone setup also has been slightly different: after typing in my username and password for my google account there were just two checkboxes concerning google saving my position etc. The first check box to allow google to save my app data, Wi-Fi settings and so on was missing. After clicking next I was told that I successfully finished phone configuration. There has been no question about payment options, no google now introduction. Ah, and I forgot to mention that sometime in the middle of the phone setup a notification popped up saying that Pico.tts didn't work properly and was closed, but this didn't seem to influence overall system performance. The quick pulldown worked now as it should, but instead active display was behaving strangely. I turned pocket mode on, proximity time to 'instantly' and I checked the option, that the phone should go to sleep mode again when put back into pocket. The rest is default configuration. When I put my hand on the proximity sensor and take it away, screen turns on. When I put it back on, it turns out, as expected. But when I take it back again it stays off (no matter how long I hold my hand on it). When I put my hand on it and back again, it turns on. So basically my active screen turns on just one of two times when I take it out of my pocket.

This and sudden crashes during active display configuration bothered me, so I decided to do a full wipe again with philz touch cwm but for the installation use cwm non touch instead (since philz touch sometimes has problems with zip installations, for example the status 7 issue). That actually seemed to work OK, at least quick pulldown and active display where working as they are supposed to. During phone configuration I got the Pico.tts error but besides everything seemed fine. Unfortunately I forgot to save some important configurations in titanium backup so I had to restore my nandroid backup.

After doing that I installed archidroid again and experienced the old problems in many different combinations: swype doesn't work in google keyboard, Pico.tts error, com.android.acore error, phone configuration is missing some options. I never got active display to work properly again, and from the beginning gravitybox did never work. After trying to start it always stopped stating that it couldn't reach the host or server or something like that, I don't remember exactly. Also you write something about TouchPal, is it supposed to be included in your rom, because I couldn't find it (had to download it from the play store)?

I tried out different recoveries, many configurations in the aroma installer, but nothing really helped. I am running archidroid right now and apart from the Pico.tts error, the active display issue and not working gravity box it's awesome, but maybe you have an idea where this strange behavior could come from?

My phone still works perfectly with cm11 and stock, I also tried out the latest omnirom and could only reproduce the active display error, so maybe this is not related to your rom.

I will attach my installation log for the current installation, maybe this can help you?

Thank you very much in advance and have a great weekend, I hope you live near a place where you can get some swiderki, I love that ice cream :D

Best wishes

Bartfratze

Installation log:

AROMA Installer version 2.70RC2

(c) 2013 by amarullz xda-developers

ROM Name : ArchiDroid

ROM Version : 2.4.4

ROM Author : JustArchi

Device : Samsung Galaxy S3

Start at : Fri May 16 20:30:21 2014

>>> ArchiDroid is now loading...

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Ready!

about to run program [/tmp/adlock.sh] with 3 args

chattr: stat /system/etc/hosts: No such file or directory

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Formatting Partitions

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Formatting /data excluding /data/media

about to run program [/tmp/wipe.sh] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Executing Archi's Scripts

<b><#ff0000>RunOnce</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>$</#></b> Install Mode Detected

about to run program [/tmp/archidroid.sh] with 2 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Flashing ArchiDroid Core

about to run program [/sbin/sync] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Creating symlinks

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Flashing ArchiDroid Init Scripts

about to run program [/tmp/archidroid_backend.sh] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Setting Permissions

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Cleaning Old Kernel

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Flashing Boeffla Kernel

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Applying ArchiDroid PowerSave kernel preset

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Applying 280 DPI

about to run program [/tmp/dpi.sh] with 2 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing Google Apps

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Including Xposed Framework

about to run program [/sbin/busybox] with 5 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Including App Settings Xposed Module

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Applying ArchiDroid OTA

about to run program [/tmp/ota.sh] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing Google Keyboard

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing Google Launcher

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Applying ArchiDroid Bootanimation

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Applying ArchiDroid Tweaks

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Applying build.prop Tweaks

about to run program [/tmp/tweaks.sh] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Disabling Fast Dormancy

about to run program [/tmp/fdOFF.sh] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing Greenify

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing MXPlayer

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing Spirit FM

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Installing BetterBatteryStats

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Syncing System

about to run program [/sbin/sync] with 1 args

about to run program [/tmp/adlock.sh] with 3 args

about to run program [/sbin/sync] with 1 args

<b><#ff0000>root</#><#ecec36>@</#><#0cdfdf>ArchiDroid</#><#ecec36>:~</#><#c00cdf>#</#></b> Unmounting partitions

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ArchiDroid Flashed Successfully

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about to run program [cp] with 3 args

run_program: execv failed: No such file or directory

run_program: child exited with status 1

script succeeded: result was [1.0]

Installer Sucessfull (Status 0)

End at : Fri May 16 20:31:12 2014