Going crazy here...about to destroy this POS (need to rant)

awenthol · #1 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 03:04 PM

I had this phone running perfectly (the best it has ever run) on NRGZ Feb 16 ROM but decided to update to the 21st ROM since I had time to kill...Ran like crap...hard reset...crap...hard reset...crap. Gave up and went back to the 16th. Loaded it up, hard resetted a couple times to get back to running like crap. At this point Mighty has publicly released the latest IMPACT so I go to that. Hard reset a couple times after loading and load everything up. I get it running decent ("decent" only because I hadn't quite setup everything to my liking) and my Contacts tab goes empty...can't get into texts or email (clicking or sliding to their tabs sends Sense restarting).

Hard reset...start loading everything up again this morning. Just went to use email about an hour ago and they show up in Sense but are inaccesible otherwise....awesome. So I get to hard reset yet again. Over the past week, I have not had this phone running right...at all. I'm getting really really frustrated. I realize this is likely an app/tweak conflict but it's pissing me the hell off because I had them all working nicely in the Feb 16th NRGROM...

Note to self...if it's ever running perfectly again...LEAVE IT ALONE.

/Rant off....anyone else having one of those days?

superevilllama · #2 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by awenthol

Note to self...if it's ever running perfectly again...LEAVE IT ALONE.

Haha isn't that the truth!! Good luck!

HTCotta · #3 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 03:15 PM

Flash stock then NRG. I never do unless stuff like this happens, believe me it helps.

awenthol · #4 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 03:18 PM

I see NRG updated again and I'm gonna try that (back to stock) before flashing it, as I've never flashed to stock between ROMs.

mishajmo · #5 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 04:09 PM

I don't understand why suddenly the device itself qualifies--in your eyes--as a POS, when obviously its inoperability is the fault of the user.

supdawg · #6 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by awenthol

I had this phone running perfectly (the best it has ever run) on NRGZ Feb 16 ROM but decided to update to the 21st ROM since I had time to kill...Ran like crap...hard reset...crap...hard reset...crap. Gave up and went back to the 16th. Loaded it up, hard resetted a couple times to get back to running like crap. At this point Mighty has publicly released the latest IMPACT so I go to that. Hard reset a couple times after loading and load everything up. I get it running decent ("decent" only because I hadn't quite setup everything to my liking) and my Contacts tab goes empty...can't get into texts or email (clicking or sliding to their tabs sends Sense restarting).

Hard reset...start loading everything up again this morning. Just went to use email about an hour ago and they show up in Sense but are inaccesible otherwise....awesome. So I get to hard reset yet again. Over the past week, I have not had this phone running right...at all. I'm getting really really frustrated. I realize this is likely an app/tweak conflict but it's pissing me the hell off because I had them all working nicely in the Feb 16th NRGROM...

Note to self...if it's ever running perfectly again...LEAVE IT ALONE.

/Rant off....anyone else having one of those days?

When you were doing all of these hard resets, did it occur to you to flash to stock ROM, hard reset, then move back to a custom ROM?

When my phone acts squirrelly, that's what I do, and it usually fixes my problems.

**00_MACKIE_00** · #7 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by awenthol

I see NRG updated again and I'm gonna try that before flashing it, as I've never flashed to stock between ROMs.

When things get wonky, its always suggested flashing back to stock.

I always flash stock first with any custom rom I use, just so this don't happen. It may take an extra 10 minutes but the time I save using Sashimi I still can do a rom upgrade completely with everything set up in less than an hour.

**nrfitchett4** · #8 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by mishajmo

I don't understand why suddenly the device itself qualifies--in your eyes--as a POS, when obviously its inoperability is the fault of the user.

half the fun of being on this forum is watching the frustration of users who kill their phones.

HTCotta · #9 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 05:39 PM

Dude, go for the stock, look how many people under my post agree, don't waste your time flashing NRG again. The issues you're having are more than likely a result of old data left over from ROMS, flashing the stock ROM will allow you to have a clean slate for a custom ROM. Take the trash out man!

**shaggylive** · #10 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by supdawg

When my phone acts squirrelly, that's what I do, and it usually fixes my problems.

nail on head.

on this note, there are aspects of the official roms that only get flashed if done properly through activesync. if you manually put the phone into bootloader (or via SD) some of the files do not get pre-loaded.

manually entering bootloader and flashing will usually get a brick going again, but another flash via activesync is the real 'cure'

again, this is only for the official roms, and I only do it when my phone gets the flee's or i'm making a major change like between 6.5 & .1