Random offset while flashing in Clockworkmod recovery

emjayes

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• Nov 25, 2011

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Since I have been lurking and not posting enough to be able to post in development threads, I decided to post here instead.

edit:enough posts to write in dev section, but brainmaster already updated his OP with this information, which is probably the reason you are reading this now.


People are freaking out of the "Random offset XXXX" notification (it is not an error) when they flash an ICS rom in Clockworkmod recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1357407

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19619828&highlight=random+offset#post19619828

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19664213&highlight=random+offset#post19664213

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19669257&highlight=random+offset#post19669257

..and so on.

As far as I understand correctly, this is not an error message at all,
but a safety feature implemented in ICS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization#Android

So, it might be wise for the OPs to update their first post in any ICS ROM threads to tell people not to be scared.

Thank you koush, brainmaster, kwiboo and frasiscofranco for a very useful ICS ROM and kernel.

 

Last edited: Nov 26, 2011

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mike.b93

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• Nov 25, 2011

• #2

safety for what?

i had this several times but since everything worked fine i didn't think of it as an error..

 

emjayes

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• Nov 25, 2011

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from

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html

Security for apps and content

Address Space Layout Randomization

Android 4.0 now provides address space layout randomization (ASLR) to help protect system and third party applications from exploitation due to memory-management issues.

 

Last edited: Nov 25, 2011

simms22

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• Nov 25, 2011

• #4

emjayes said:

Since I have been lurking and not posting enough to be able to post in development threads, I decided to post here instead.

People are freaking out of the "Random offset XXXX" message when they flash an ICS rom in Clockworkmod recovery

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1357407

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19619828&highlight=random+offset#post19619828

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19664213&highlight=random+offset#post19664213

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19669257&highlight=random+offset#post19669257

..and so on.

As far as I understand correctly, this is not an error message at all,
but a safety feature implemented in ICS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization#Android

So, it might be wise for the OPs to update their first post in any ICS ROM threads to tell people not to be scared.

Thank you koush, brainmaster and frasiscofranco for a very useful ICS ROM and kernel.

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its not only in clockworkmod recovery, its in twrp recovery too. its not an error.

 

emjayes

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• Nov 25, 2011

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Which is exactly the reason I request the developers to notify users of this. I would do it myself, but since I'm still a xda noob, I can't.

edit:enough posts to write in dev section, but brainmaster already updated his OP with this information.

Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk

 

Last edited: Nov 25, 2011

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live99

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Sep 26, 2010

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• Nov 26, 2011

• #6

Thanks, I thought there were a problem with the rom

 

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razor411

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• Dec 7, 2011

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Sorry for digging out this Thread again but I just wanted to thanks emjayes for his help....This nearly drove me insane and I flashed ICS for the 30th now.

 

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brianw4010

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• Dec 18, 2011

• #8

Thanks i thought something went wrong

 

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MrDixon1213

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• Feb 10, 2012

• #9

What's the fix

My phone wont boot... Running Jokersax11 alpha ICS on a MoPho.

 

jesusice

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• Feb 10, 2012

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MrDixon1213 said:

My phone wont boot... Running Jokersax11 alpha ICS on a MoPho.

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Probably want to ask in your phone's own forum.

 

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gr8skilz

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• Apr 1, 2012

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What if you get random offset during CWM and nothing ever happens?

Flashing latest ICS Passion on Vibrant (from CM7)

 

snandlal

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• Apr 1, 2012

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These Rom devs need to add this fix to their source.....

https://github.com/Vanilla-AOSP/pla...mmit/25106fad5ade1aff864c3f3facebde51b0207ff6

 

Tycff

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• Apr 7, 2012

• #13

Thank You!

I noticed this error (0x315 for me) and I got worried. But, after seeing this, and now that the rom is currently booting up right, I feel safe.