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[burwatti]

Hi there, last week I upgraded from 7.0.X to 7.1.0 using ROMManager from a zip on my SD card, and I have been having a few niggly problems ever since:

1) The lock screen occasionally freezes - the only working button is the Emergency call button. A combination of pressing that, followed by the back button, tends to reenable numpad. The commonly happens when charging my phone.

2) The UI becomes sometimes unresponsive and I have to use the trackball to open the Fast Reboot app, which fixes things.

3) The camera app won't open at all.

Any suggestions? Anyone else experiencing this?

Cheers,
Jim

Edited by burwatti, 13 November 2011 - 11:49 PM.

[bassmadrigal]

Try wiping the /system partition and reinstalling CM and gapps. This won't cause any data loss.

[burwatti]

Thanks for your quick response. What's the safest way to delete the /system partition?

EDIT: with ClockworkMod Recovery. Got it.

Edited by burwatti, 14 November 2011 - 01:38 AM.

[burwatti]

Ok, I've tried wiping /system and have reflashed 7.1.0. The camera still doesn't work (black screens), I'll have to wait and see whether the other problems have sorted themselves out.

I just looked at my log - I get the error:

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E/QualcommCameraHardware( 116): native_access_parm:error (No such file or directory): fd 22, type 1, length 32, status 0

One other problem that I forgot to mention in my initial post - my phone now has real trouble remembering that I have a network operator and I have to click "Mobile network settings > Select automatically" every time I reboot / exit airplane mode...

Cheers, Jim

[bassmadrigal]

With the camera issue, try renaming your DCIM folder to something else (like DCIM.bak). Then try to use the camera (the camera app will recreate the folder).

With the Mobile Network, I really don't know on that one. It might be worth it to try a complete wipe. You can save all your apps and app data with a program like Titanium Backup. Just make sure you don't back up system settings as restoring those could also restore your problem.

[burwatti]

I tried renaming the folder - this no longer makes the Camera black screen, instead I get a "Camera error: cannot connect to camera" dialog. The stack trace in aLogCat is:

E/CameraHolder( 1641):  java.lang.RuntimeException: Fail to connect to camera service
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at android.hardware.Camera.native_setup(Native Method)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at android.hardware.Camera.<init>(Camera.java:258)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at android.hardware.Camera.open(Camera.java:220)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at com.android.camera.CameraHolder.open(CameraHolder.java:124)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at com.android.camera.Camera.startPreview(Camera.java:1865)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at com.android.camera.Camera.access$5500(Camera.java:94)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at com.android.camera.Camera$3.run(Camera.java:944)
E/CameraHolder( 1641):  at java.land.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)

And a warning:

W/CameraService( 116): CameraService::connect X (pid 1641) rejected (existing client).

I might try a complete wipe this evening...

Cheers, Jim

[burwatti]

Sorry about the delayed reply. I've finally had a chance to wipe my phone. First impressions are that it's a lot better - I can get 3G now which I couldn't before (forgot to mention that), but will have to wait a while to see if the UI issues are still there.

Sadly though, the camera problem still exists. If you haven't any other suggestions, I may have to downgrade to 7.0.3. No other Nexus One users had camera issues?

Thanks,
Jim

[bassmadrigal]

What is your radio/baseband version? Settings -> About Phone

[burwatti]

32.50.00.32U_5.12.00.08

Have had a couple of UI freeze ups again - problem not gone away

-Jim

[bassmadrigal]

And you aren't restoring any system settings when using Titanium Backup (if you are using it)?

[burwatti]

Nope - I just restored apps and app data.

[bassmadrigal]

I doubt this is related, but it may be worth a shot. The recommended radio version for Gingerbread is 5.08 (we just use the two sets of numbers after the underscore "_"). You are currently running 5.12, which google decided to skip over when they released the update to Gingerbread (they included the 5.08 radio with the GIngerbread OTA update).

[burwatti]

Okay, worth a shot - so where would I get the radio update for 5.08? BTW I had applied the OTA Gingerbread update before flashing Cyanogen..

[bassmadrigal]

I wonder if at some other point you updated to the 5.12 radio. But to update the radio, you will either need to be running Amon_RA or ClockworkMod v2.x recoveries. Then I believe the radio is available on the wiki, but if not, xda will have it for the N1 wiki.

[burwatti]

Hi bassmadrigal, sorry it's taken so long to reply again. I've finally gotten around to trying to flash the radio.. but can't. I downloaded the 5.08 radio from the wiki - trying to flash it with ClockworkMod Recovery which doesn't work as CMRv3 no longer supports amend scripting. So I tried to flash it using fastboot, but this didn't work either - giving me an error as follows:


> fastboot flash radio passion.radio-5.08.00.04-signed.zip
sending 'radio' (26114 KB)... OKAY
writing 'radio'... FAILED (remote: image update error)

Any suggestions?

I've reflashed 7.1.0 and the problems are all still there (I haven't performed any backup at all). I think I'll downgrade to 7.0.3 now for the time being, my phone is getting more and more unstable - freezing and crashing, whilst I'm suffering from the power button issue meaning that I have to kick start the phone every time using the battery trick. Sad times.

Thanks

[burwatti]

Hmm... I just downgraded to 7.0.3 (performing a complete cache and data wipe) and the camera problem is still there... When running 7.0.3 previously, there was no problem at all. It's too early to tell whether the other problems are now in this version, but I'm totally confused.

-Jim

[bassmadrigal]

With flashing through recovery, you would need to be running ClockworkMod v2.x or Amon_RA. Or if you wanted to flash through fastboot, you need to unzip the file and flash the img file.

And to really get yourself back to a stock configuration, you NEED to wipe the /system partition along with performing a Factory Reset/Data Wipe. Those two will wipe out everything except for your sdcard.

[burwatti]

Ok, I've flashed 5.08, and I just formatted /system, did a factory reset, and reinstalled 7.1.0. The camera still doesn't work...

I really appreciate your help with this, by the way.

[bassmadrigal]

Maybe you should try reverting to a stock build to see if something got screwed up with your hardware. Because with a clean system the camera *should* function properly. Have you tried backing up your sdcard and completely formatting it (you can also wipe the sdcard through the recovery)? I am really running out of things it could be... unless it is hardware.

[burwatti]

I think that's worth a go. I haven't got the time tonight, so I'll keep things as they are and see if any of the other problems reappear. I'll let you know what happens when I revert to stock. I hope it isn't hardware... It *shouldn't* be. Anyway, I can upgrade my phone in January.. Think I'll get the Galaxy Nexus :-)

Thanks again for your help, bassmadrigal. You're a hero.