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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Ouch! That's a little painful. Did you use the second 6.2 posted on 4/27? I haven't been able to get the change log on that. Your phone's getting locked up.

Is some app trying to write to the external SD card? That can screw things up - I've had the same thing happen with a documents program trying to write to sdcard1. THere are new policies in place in KitKat for writing to sdcard1 and some apps can't do it, yet, or they hang up just like that.

Have you installed something? What does OS Monitor show is running? (Play Store.) You could install Cat Log from the Play Store for an easy log cat experiment.

That's one of the more serious borks I've heard from this ROM!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghost Protocol:
Hello Buddy!! I have not forgotten you! I wanted to play around with the Rom and the settings prior to replying to your last post to me.

With that being said... this message will be based on my experience to date.

Well, You're right... This Rom is "Sweet"!!! :highfive:

It's different from any Rom that I have ever used ~ Of course 'Touch Wiz'. ;)

I am currently trying what you suggested ~ The "App Bar and the App Circle". To be honest, I don't like 'cClock' too much, because it lacks a certain feature ~ Other weather locations. The 'Show 4G network' setting does not show 4G network. I am still seeing "LTE".

Questions ~

How to Tweak the Kernel in the 'Kernel Tweaker' settings?

What is 'Active display'?

What does 'Animation Control' do?

I hear the 'Halo' feature mentioned, but what is it suppose to do? I, too, enabled it, but not noticing anything.

What is 'Gesture Anywhere'?

What is 'OmniSwitch'?

You mentioned 'Slim Recents'. What is that?

Now, please excuse the ignorance, but I am learning this Rom and have not taken the time to learn a Rom like I should. Willing to take your advice... So, I am giving this Rom a try.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
I rather like cLock - it doesn't have that feature as the TW one but it's attractive, transparent and has some customization features. I also use the Accuweather widget from the Playstore (free w/ ads or on sale for $2 no ads) because It has waay more features than the TW one and is pretty amazing, though the widgets could be better. Also, your right, only LTE shows.

In the upper left corner of that screen are some gears. Touch those and a whole panel of features and settings will appear. You can search on some of these to see what they do.

Active Display: as far as I can make out, it is a notification tool only. I haven't been able to figure any other use. i don't use it because it interferes with the lockscreen in a way I don't like - I like the notifications on there setup from the 'Lockscreen' interface and my custom image. Plus, after getting used to it, I love the pocket mode (not the one in Active Display.)

Animation Control 'controls' the way things come onto or go off the screen. There are dozens of options!

Halo is a popup notification tool that can open the app in a floating window. (Lots of floating windows on this ROM!) For some reason, Halo was borked on 6.2 but will be fixed on the next release. However, if you were dirty flashing from 6.1 it would still work. Many people are crazy about Halo and would probably reflash just for that!

Gesture Anywhere is really only gesture on the left or right edge of the screen. It is used to activate actions/apps. App bar uses this same feature - love App Bar! Long press App Bar item to get it opened in a floating window. Plus I use Apex Launcher which has more practical gestures (I think.)

OmniSwitch is a recents/favorites floater off the edge of the screen that also has soft keys. I don't use it at this time. A search will reveal more.

Slim Recents is a fast recent apps tool that you can choose instead of the stock recents in 'Interface.' It's quick and you can customize the width in the Accessibility settings outside of C-tools (for some reason.) I put it down to the narrowest. Long press on that can also give you a floating window, though it's a little flaky.

As I said, I use Apex free launcher - it really makes this ROM sing in my opinion, adds functionality and (to me) fixes issues. I also don't use the quick settings ribbon but to each there own tastes. I love the panel quick settings (with my own custom image for the panel - swipe sideways on a clear area of the panel - nice! ) and select 'Contextual Not. Panel Header' in 'Misc. Options' for a surprise!:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidxxxxx:
been running rock solid as my daily driver for a few days now..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghost Protocol:
Hello ~ Hello ~ Hello!! :highfive:

Buddy... Buddy... Buddy, I am lost for words now, because today, as I traveled back to NY (From Florida), I experienced many issues with my mobile phone. Where should I begin... See below.

The phone locked up when plugging an Audio cable from the Aux to the phone (Headphone Jack). It kept locking up no matter what I did (e.g. Restart phone/Turn off the phone/Take out battery), but was able to play music fine w/o plugging it into the car.

Phone was restart, on its own, into SAFE mode (After locking up or freezing).

Phone would restart on its own.

Some Widgets (Business Calendar/Weather & Clock Widget/GNotes) would disappear, and I would have to add them back.

For some reason I would also have to log back into Dropbox (After locking up or/and restarting into Safe mode).

Sometimes the Softkeys lights up, but the display does not come on when trying to use the phone after it has been sitting/on standby. I would have to take out the battery.

Sometimes when receiving a phone call the screen would remain dark/black and the Softkeys would light up. after awhile (After pressing the power button and pressing the softkeys the screen would come alive.

Anyway, I created a Bug Report, via Logcat Extreme. See attachments. Hope it helps everyone to help us! :fingers-crossed:

P.S. ~ Charging the phone now and awaiting feedback. Thank you!!

EDIT : I just received a WhatsApp message and when I picked up the phone and press the power button to wake up the display the phone restarted on its own.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Ouch! Sorry to hear you're having these kinds of problems. I have seen some of this before - some apps don't play well with KitKat's new policies about writing to the external SD card, and can lock up the device just like you described. Also, just a glance at a logcat and I found something that said the weather widget you're using" won't fit on this device." Now, I don't know much about what's going in in that logcat but you might dump this app and see what happens. Accuweather free (with ads, $2 no ads) works perfectly. There may be some others.

Do you have some stuff trying to write to sdcard1? I've also heard of people having a problem with the screen not coming on when a call comes in but there's a setting somewhere to control this, though it still could be related to the phone being hung up from other apps.

Also, do you have the feature to automatically pull up your music app when you plug in to the jack? I have never tried this - maybe that is causing you that problem. I play mine everyday in my car.

My feeling is that you've put some apps on recently that are borking things. Remove or freeze those apps and see if things smooth out - that's the only time I've had any problems on this ROM.

PS - 6.3 is out and ought to be dropping for our phone soon, though I don't see any of your problems being fixed by that, though you never can tell?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghost Protocol:
Hello Again. :cool:

Yeah, I noticed the same thing within Logcat, but I do have the payed version, of Accuweather, and using the 4x3 size to fit the Home screen.

Also, I have 'Active display', 'Pocket mode', and 'HALO' turned off and yes, I unchecked the feature 'Launch music app' (Settings--> More.../Other device options). Right after having the issues I was having I made those changes without any hesitation.

I just notice a setting that may be in reference to the dark/Black display not coming on when pressing the power button --> The 'Home button wake' (C-Tool-->Buttons). What do you think? This feature is selected. I will press the Home button to wake the phone to see if this would make a difference. :angel:

The feature to automatically pull up the default music App when a headset is plugged in was enabled, but after having the issues I disabled it. I don't know what would or is trying to access my external memory card. Moving forward... I will make note of any issues since making the necessary changes after my 'learning' experience earlier.

Question ~ What is 'Expanded desktop' & 'OmniSwitch'? Also, what is the difference between this ROM and BeanStalk Build 4.4.285?

P.S. ~ You stated that version 6.3 is out, but do you mean for other service providers (e.g. AT&T/SPRINT) and when is the expected date? :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
This line in your logcat: AppsCustomizePagedView: Widget ComponentInfo{com.devexpert.weatheradfree/com.devexpert.weatheradfree.view.WidgetWeather5x1Cur} can not fit on this device

Indicates you have another weather app on your phone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devexpert.weatheradfree

I don't know what it is yet, it looks pretty cool, though. One person complained about it being a resource hog. I didn't see any complaints about 4.4.2 incompatibility. I don't think those lines indicate any issue, really, and if I search on 'error' through the logcat, I don't know what it means. But, if you still have an issue we can get it to the dev.

I have no problem with Pocket Mode but with Active Display disabled (just because I haven't figured out the value of AD yet.) Also Halo no prob. Don't know about BeanStalk. Omniswitch is an Appbar type tool with some other functions. You tell me about Expanded Desktop after you test it! ;) 6.3 is out right now for phones other than American S3s (d2lte), of which Deliberate will port over for us soon. :fingers-crossed:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROIDLOVERX2:
Let me start off by saying this ROM is fantastic! Best AOSP ROM I've ever ran. It has breathed new life into my aging S3.

However, the OTA update doesn't appear to be working for me. I came the latest version of CleanROM to this. I followed all of the steps in order and correctly as far as wiping and flashing the OTA update fix before and after flashing the ROM. But just a few minutes ago I received a notification about an update for the PA Gapps I'm running. So I downloaded the update and the download finished but my phone actually froze in the midst, so I was forced to do a battery pull. Now the download still shows up as complete, but when I go to select it to install it, this happens:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1gwh22df9jx9htd/Screenshot_2014-05-04-15-38-55.png

Does anyone have any advice for this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Clear data and cache on C-Rom OTA in apps and see if that fixes it. Also, you could also flash the ota-fix again! if it doesn't work. Hey, it's worth a shot! If you were coming from another ROM there was no need to flash the fix before, that's for someone already running C-RoM 6.1

Hmmm..., I'd have to look at the script of the fix to see if it was superfluous - non-harmful, to do that before flashing the ROM. Probably was. (I'll check the script when I have time.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROIDLOVERX2:
Thanks for the fast reply! I wiped cache and data for the app and reflashed the fix. I'm downloading the gapps update again now. I'll let you know what happens!

Didn't know that! Hopefully it didn't hurt anything, but if it did I'm assuming worst case would be that I'd have to reflash the ROM again? I do appreciate you looking into it for me. Thank you!

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No go on the update still. Same issue as before! Any other suggestions? It's not a big deal, so I can just wait until you check it out if you don't have any. Do you think flashing the ROM again would help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
I guess you could also wipe dalvik and cache. But probably a guarantee to flash ROM after dalvik/cache wipe and factory reset, though, since you want to clear up this little problem. I wonder what would happen if you extracted the ota apk and pushed it into place, fixed permissions, if that would help? Might be worth a try, but no reason not to reflash clean - you can flash gapps also before booting, and the fix. Before you turn around 6.3 will be ready to install via OTA ...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] simpson173:
OTA ready with 6.3......just pulled the trigger on it without a hitch....so far so good. It just keeps getting easier and easier. Not to mention better!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Did it drop for us? There's usually a post here. (Admittedly, I've been playing around with the amazing things you can do with the Alliance TW ROM! Certainly the best TW ROM out there. EDIT: However, I've just found myself at the place again where I throw up my hands in frustration and dump it and come back to C-RoM)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROIDLOVERX2:
I never could get my OTA updates to work. Tried extracting it, fixing permissions, etc. but had no luck. I'm downloading the 6.3 zip right now and I'm just going to do a manual, clean install so hopefully that will fix the issue.

Question though: Considering I am doing a manual flash coming from 6.2, but my OTA does not work, should I still flash the OTA fix or is it already fixed in 6.3?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
I just downloaded it after flashing OTA-Test, and it downloaded the 6.3 update but then said that it did not receive an MD5, so it was different from the calculated MD5. I went to press the install Now button, and it pops up stating that the device will need to reboot and has an install and cancel button - Pressing either of those takes me back to the OTA download page.

When I clicked hte down caret at the top right, it gave me options, make a backup, wipe data and wipe cache. I selected make a backup, and then when I pressed Install Now I got a menu asking waht to backup, then get the same your phone must reboot to install, and regardless of pressing Install or cancel it goes back to the download screen.

I'm on 6.1. BTW.

I'm going to try installing it manually.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Difficult Transition to 6.3 - Themes

Hey!

Well, I got it! Ouch! This has been a rough transition but I think I got it figured out. First, however, not perfect because of MD5 mismatch reported again in the OTA and file size differences - was no problem on 6.2 to install that way, as Deliberate said. (No MD5 file found yet on c-rom.org download page.)

Second, a theme I had applied threw things off when it rebooted the first time - came to home screen and locked up there with no wallpaper, just black. Also, icons were winking on and off. Was able to reboot eventually (pulled the battery just in case, if I'd left it long enough it might have come alive on it's own) and boot into it with same no wallpaper and winking icons (faster) but screen eventually came alive. Applied System Theme and all was well untill I tried to apply that theme again - Woody. I noticed that the theme was scewed like it had the wrong resolution or something.

I had read 2 things - 1 that aways said perhaps a new CM Theme Chooser had been incorporated into this (though it's not in the changelog,) but I couldn't quit understand what he said, and 2, I also read of someone somewhere having to just uninstall all of their themes (through the Theme Chooser) and reinstall them, so, that's what I did and it worked! All of the themes are working and I'm back up and running and everything seems normal.

You will probably be the one to tell us if the OTA works or not. When it didn't work before, there was a message in the OTA screen that said "device not recognized" in red.

Someone else had similar problems. You would hope that it would work even if you missed an update but had applied the fix, but the OTA has been flaky and I guess we won't know until this and another update come out if all of the bugs are worked out. Maybe others are having a similar problem going from 6.1 directly to 6.3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROIDLOVERX2:
Well here goes nothing! Will post what I find! Doing a full wipe on everything then install without flashing the OTA fix.

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Just flashed the latest update and it appears all is well now! After doing my Google sign-in, I went to the OTA updater and it allowed me to select a file to update without force closing! Yay!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
I entered recovery, manually found the OTA downloaded 6.3, then added GApps package I used before, and finally, just in case, Add the OTA_Test and flashed away.

Thus far, it is just now booting after optimizing 333 apps.

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Worked, am on 6.3 now. When the next build is released, hopefully the OTA part should work perfectly fine :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Excellent! Yeah, it always does that on a new installation (optimize apps. I only have 167 - it must've taken yours forever!)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] simpson173:
If the flash failed...like it did for me on my Verizon (it didn't on my at&t) Wipe cache and dalvick and find zip in cromota flash and you should be good.....worked for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
About 7 minutes or so, IIRC. I'll try to actually time it the next time we get an OTA :p

This is my daily driver now so I have a ton of app installed, and most of which I use at least once a week. My last phone was the BIONIC, and poor thing could not handle having so many apps nor so many live connections to the Internet (Google accounts, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, My_, Highlight, 4□, ... you get the picture lol....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OptoChip:
Installed C-RoM 4/27 about a week ago and I've been absolutely loving it as my Daily Driver!

Just wanted to ask if anyone else is having a problem with a constant Halo icon in the Status Bar on the new 5/04 build? I do have Halo disabled, and I've even rebooted to see if it needed a reboot to fix the issue but no luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROIDLOVERX2:
I have the same problem! At first I had no idea what the icon was as I never had used Halo before, but after playing around with the settings I realized what it was. Whether or not the Halo feature is turned on or off, the icon still remains in the status bar. Not a huge deal, but I would like it not to be there when Halo is turned off.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Yes, every other build aways takes it out and puts it back and takes it out and ... because apparently it has to be there permanently for Halo to work. At least he hasn't figured a way for it to come and go depending on whether it's been enabled. But, a lot of people use Halo so when he takes it out they scream.

However, It was working on mine fine on the last build without the icon - but I dirty flash. New flashers or skipping a build might throw it off for some people? In fact it has always worked for me with or without the icon permanently there. At least he used a smaller one this time. (It's just right over the beautiful full moon at night! Not the end of the world...)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DROIDLOVERX2:
Interesting! Well it certainly doesn't bother me especially since I am starting to use and like Halo! Considering how flawless the rest of the ROM is and how happy I am with it, I certainly don't mind it being there, supposed to be or not!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dandydon414:
problem installing xposed

anytime I try to install/update xposed the phone doesn't boot up properly. just flashes the default wallpaper then my home screen over and over again. I've tried uninstalling xposed and reinstalling it but no good.

edit: after flashing this rom I restored xposed, xblast and xuimod from a backup. that was causing the problem. I had to uninstall all 3 and reinstall and now all is well
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrBrady:
Just started using this ROM yesterday and so far I see no issues.

From what I read a lot of people are using KTs kernel. Is that the most stable, well rounded with this ROM?

VZW SGSIII
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
Any ideas if any of the kernels for the S III support F2FS? If not, I want to talk to a dev in the TF700 forums about making one....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dandydon414:
seems that front facing camera is working on KK....google camera was updated and it doesn't reboot when you snap a front photo (at least not on this rom).....FINALLY! Neither do the other cameras that I have installed (cymera and ucam) which always caused a reboot when taking a front facing shot. now they all work. Now only if some hot shot dev would write something to have different battery styles other than the boring ones that come with KK roms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
+1 to that - CTM dev wrote a neat one called bluesphere that I'd love to see incorporated into this ROM....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dandydon414:
what is bluesphere?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ghost Protocol:
Hello Buddy.

I decided to see what's new and if any one is having or had the same issue as I did with the previous and most recent update.

Please note that this was an issue, too, with the previous version. For some strange reason 'Dropbox' resets itself after or if the phone locks up or freezes!! I would have to sign back in again. I have kept many features disabled or/and that I have no clue to what they are and do. For example... Halo, OmniSwitch, Active display, Animation Control, and (Get the point, right). Also, I am still having the issue with the display/screen staying dark/black when receiving a phone call. Pressing the Home, Volume, and Power Button does nothing. Any suggestion or solution for this issue yet?

Anyway... What's up with you? Any new Apps to recommend? I am currently using '8mms' as my default SMS/MMS App. Using 'Business Calendar Pro' as my default Calendar App, and may give your suggestion (Launcher) a try. I believe the App/Launcher is 'Apex', right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2227566

It's a very cool looking blue sphere that indicated battery percentage. It's a mod for the TFx00 series of tablets running either JB ROMs on those tablets. I know Paul (the dev) has ported his CTM over to the CM11-based cROMBI-kk, but I don't see bluesphere there as a part of the available options.

But it is hands down the best 3D-simulated battery icon I Have seen yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thelangosta:
There's a lot going on for the original nexus 7(grouper) in terms of f2fs as well so you might want to check in over there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnlgalt:
Thanks,. And not Surprising, as that is an ASUS-made device, too, right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thelangosta:
Yes, that's right. Would be nice to have f2fs for our old tf101 that is feeling kinda slow these days. Here's hoping you can convince someone to take a look at the s3 kernel.
[Lenovo A850] ankush_pathania:
Hello to all xda members,

I rooted my phone and flashed a stock rom with updated version,it worked fine for a few hours but when i restarted it startes giving me error no sim card detected in both sim cards,i didn't have the backup of my original rom so i downloaded the rom of smae version and flashed it wit sp tools but the error continues,what should i do? please help. I tried flashing roms using cwm but i cannot flash any rom using cwn recovery.
[Lenovo A850] spensa:
Try this http://www.needrom.com/mobile/a850-stock-s123-multilanguagegappsroot/
[Lenovo A850] ankush_pathania:
Didnt worked

thanks for the reply but this did no worked,any other solution?
[Lenovo A850] glndrk:
Check your IMEI, may be is deleted after upgrade...