[ROM][4.0.4] Slim ICS(I897) - Clean, Simple & Fast (54MB)

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Fowarek

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Well, I reflashed Slim and that didn't fix my problem. But after rebooting my phone 1 time, now I can't even boot into Slim. It gets stuck at the splash screen and doesn't go anywhere.
 

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Well, I reflashed Slim and that didn't fix my problem. But after rebooting my phone 1 time, now I can't even boot into Slim. It gets stuck at the splash screen and doesn't go anywhere.

Factory reset, format /system. Then flash Device Specific and THEN flash common. I'm assuming you where coming from another ICS rom
 

The.Se7enth

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I had just flashed to this rom from MIUI, since I felt out of date and wanted something new. Looks great, decided to run the GO Launcher instead because I like having my own custom homescreen with widgets, and I tried installing Swype again since it's my preferred keyboard.

... Only, it won't open. In fact, no keyboard loads on any application. Zedge, browsers, SMS, nothing. I can't get a keyboard to display at all, which means I can't type. This is a major setback. How do I even fix this, or should I just chalk it up as a major bug and try another rom instead?
 

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I had just flashed to this rom from MIUI, since I felt out of date and wanted something new. Looks great, decided to run the GO Launcher instead because I like having my own custom homescreen with widgets, and I tried installing Swype again since it's my preferred keyboard.

... Only, it won't open. In fact, no keyboard loads on any application. Zedge, browsers, SMS, nothing. I can't get a keyboard to display at all, which means I can't type. This is a major setback. How do I even fix this, or should I just chalk it up as a major bug and try another rom instead?

...Not really a bug since you are the first. So you didn't factory reset or format /system did you? :p
 

The.Se7enth

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...Not really a bug since you are the first. So you didn't factory reset or format /system did you? :p

If you meant prior to flashing the rom, yes, I did. And it was working fine up until I tried activating Swype in the settings menu. Prior to that, the Android keyboard was functioning at least, but after enabling Swype, it would simply bring up the "choose keyboard" in the notification panel, which I could select and try to choose one, but it'd just close it back to the notification panel and still not actually display any keyboards, no matter what was selected.
 

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If you meant prior to flashing the rom, yes, I did. And it was working fine up until I tried activating Swype in the settings menu. Prior to that, the Android keyboard was functioning at least, but after enabling Swype, it would simply bring up the "choose keyboard" in the notification panel, which I could select and try to choose one, but it'd just close it back to the notification panel and still not actually display any keyboards, no matter what was selected.

Did you restore the app with data? Else I figure you need to give the keyboard a min to load after you select it.
 

The.Se7enth

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Did you restore the app with data? Else I figure you need to give the keyboard a min to load after you select it.

Titanium Backup. But I only selected to restore the app, I believe. And I wouldn't have expected it to make it so not a single keyboard works. None of them load, at all. Even if I select one and leave it alone for a while, it never shows up.
 

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Titanium Backup. But I only selected to restore the app, I believe. And I wouldn't have expected it to make it so not a single keyboard works. None of them load, at all. Even if I select one and leave it alone for a while, it never shows up.

Sorry I can't help you. I don't use swype but I've never had this issue with SwiftKey

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The Sonos

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Titanium Backup. But I only selected to restore the app, I believe. And I wouldn't have expected it to make it so not a single keyboard works. None of them load, at all. Even if I select one and leave it alone for a while, it never shows up.

Swype-user here. I haven't come across this problem, been on slim since 3.8. Try uninstalling the restored Swype and re-downloading/installing...

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diakonos

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"Low on space" notification

So, I've been on Slim since 3.6 and I'm on 4.2 now using the stock kernel. Recently I've started seeing this "Low on space" notification. I searched this thread and found a post with a few replies that describes the same issue here:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27678214&postcount=2322

I have uninstalled some old apps that I don't use very often and I've been moving some apps that support App2SD over to the card and the notification might go away for a day or two, but then shows up again. I've found in other searches to "clear cache" on some of the apps that seem to keep large amounts of data while using them like Facebook, email, browser, etc, and I've been cleaning those out as well but still see the notification. I also found in searches to delete MMS messages with photos/videos attached as those tend to fill up the too small datadata folder as well. Is there a way to see what the content of the datadata folder is (assuming that is the issue which I think it is)?

Any other ideas or fixes that might gain me a little more time before I decide to take the plunge over to the "Slim Bean" thread? ;) I used to have a backup cappy that I could "play with" and install the latest cutting-edge ROMs to try out while still keeping my trusty Slim ICS but that phone finally died (water damage, I think - not too much flashing -- hah).
 
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prbassplayer

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So, I've been on Slim since 3.6 and I'm on 4.2 now using the stock kernel. Recently I've started seeing this "Low on space" notification. I searched this thread and found a post with a few replies that describes the same issue here:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27678214&postcount=2322

I havev uninstalled some old apps that I don't use very often and I've been moving some apps that support App2SD over to the card and the notification might go away for a day or two, but then shows up again. I've found in other searches to "clear cache" on some of the apps that seem to keep large amounts of data while using them like Facebook, email, browser, etc, and I've been cleaning those out as well but still see the notification. I also found in searches to delete MMS messages with photos/videos attached as those tend to fill up the too small datadata folder as well. Is there a way to see what the content of the datadata folder is (assuming that is the issue which I think it is)?

Any other ideas or fixes that might gain me a little more time before I decide to take the plunge over to the "Slim Bean" thread? ;) I used to have a backup cappy that I could "play with" and install the latest cutting-edge ROMs to try out while still keeping my trusty Slim ICS but that phone finally died (water damage, I think - not too much flashing -- hah).

You can use a root explorer type of app (like solid Explorer or es file explorer) and navigate to /datadata folder and take a look at what's there.
As for Slim Bean Powered its still early development but (I think) stable for every day use for most.

Sent from my Slim Bean Powered Captivate using Tapatalk 2
 

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You can use a root explorer type of app (like solid Explorer or es file explorer) and navigate to /datadata folder and take a look at what's there.
As for Slim Bean Powered its still early development but (I think) stable for every day use for most.

Sent from my Slim Bean Powered Captivate using Tapatalk 2


I have this happen sometimes too. What exactly am I looking for in the /datadata folder, and what should I do if I find it?
 

diakonos

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You can use a root explorer type of app (like solid Explorer or es file explorer) and navigate to /datadata folder and take a look at what's there.
As for Slim Bean Powered its still early development but (I think) stable for every day use for most.

Sent from my Slim Bean Powered Captivate using Tapatalk 2

I do have ES File Explorer and I looked in the /datadata folder and see numerous files. Most look current to match my current apps. I tried using ES FE to check the size of the /datadata folder bylong pressing on the /datadata folder and choosing Properties but it said the folder had 0 folders and 0 files when it obviously has content in it. Using Root Explorer app, I opened /datadata and it showed 158.91MB used and 13.09MB free. HOWEVER, I did find another "datadata" folder inside /datadata (so /datadata/datadata) which appears to have the same content. I'm not that food with "symlinks" and whatnot so that may be a true folder.

In any case, I'm going through the items one by one to find the ones that are multi-MB in size to see if they are still valid, installed apps to see if I still need them or can clean up the files/cache settings of each.

EDIT: So, I just found that my "android.providers.media" folder was 19MB so I went and cleared data on it and the low space notification went away immediately. I recently moved lots of images and video off my internal SD to the external SD and when I looked in the old media DB, the old references were still in there. Once I rebooted, the same media folder was down to under 1 MB. I'll wait until a full rescan is done but I think that's going to "clean up" a lot of the issue there.
 
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basily

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I do have ES File Explorer and I looked in the /datadata folder and see numerous files. Most look current to match my current apps. I tried using ES FE to check the size of the /datadata folder bylong pressing on the /datadata folder and choosing Properties but it said the folder had 0 folders and 0 files when it obviously has content in it. Using Root Explorer app, I opened /datadata and it showed 158.91MB used and 13.09MB free. HOWEVER, I did find another "datadata" folder inside /datadata (so /datadata/datadata) which appears to have the same content. I'm not that food with "symlinks" and whatnot so that may be a true folder.

In any case, I'm going through the items one by one to find the ones that are multi-MB in size to see if they are still valid, installed apps to see if I still need them or can clean up the files/cache settings of each.

EDIT: So, I just found that my "android.providers.media" folder was 19MB so I went and cleared data on it and the low space notification went away immediately. I recently moved lots of images and video off my internal SD to the external SD and when I looked in the old media DB, the old references were still in there. Once I rebooted, the same media folder was down to under 1 MB. I'll wait until a full rescan is done but I think that's going to "clean up" a lot of the issue there.

Run these commands in your terminal:
cd /datadata
du -ks * | sort -rn

It will give you a sorted list of what's in your datadata, biggest at the top. I constantly run into this problem, and the biggest culprits for me are:
Google chrome
Google currents
Browser
Gmail (if you cache your emails)


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The.Se7enth

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Swype-user here. I haven't come across this problem, been on slim since 3.8. Try uninstalling the restored Swype and re-downloading/installing...

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One problem with that -- no keyboard worked. So I couldn't actually go to the website to redownload it in the first place.

Instead, I just wiped all the data and cache again, formatted /system, and reflashed the rom once more. The first things I did were install the Go Launcher again, Go SMS, then went to the Swype website, redownloaded the beta and installed it, then manually installed everything from Titanium Backup one by one, app only. I think the only things I backed up both the app and data from were the SMS Backup & Restore application and Zedge.

Nonetheless, working fine now. I'm assuming it may have been a bug with restoring a previous version of Swype through Tibu, and I've been told that you have to be cautious about using the batch restore on it anyway. I'd never had any problems previously, but I've only used a few roms.

Glad to see it's working now though. Very smooth, even faster response time than I had on Miui. And I love that there's an addon detector built into the rom. But, with that said, I do have to ask -- is there a data monitor built in, or do I still have to keep an eye on it manually? It's a convenient feature I rather liked in Miui, since I've always had issues with Onavo force closing itself and losing the data count.
 

simple man

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If you go to settings-data, there's a built in data monitor (new feature of Android 4.0), you can set a warning and a shut off, by sliding the horizontal colored bars on the graph. You can also set your billing start date.

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The.Se7enth

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If you go to settings-data, there's a built in data monitor (new feature of Android 4.0), you can set a warning and a shut off, by sliding the horizontal colored bars on the graph. You can also set your billing start date.

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Thank you! That's exactly what I needed. Onavo, not only force-closed itself constantly, but I couldn't set the 29th as the billing date. It only went up to 28 (February has 28 days). I find that a little odd since some people may have started their contracts on months with 31 days, giving them the 29th, 30th, and 31st as potential rollover dates. Nonetheless, this should work perfectly. And I like that this has a graph, and shows which apps are using how much data. I feel slow for not finding it myself, but, I'm glad I got a quick response. This community really is fantastic.
 
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Fowarek

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Factory reset, format /system. Then flash Device Specific and THEN flash common. I'm assuming you where coming from another ICS rom

Did a clean install. And I came from GB to ICS. When it started going bonkers I just reflashed. But I'm still having issues after the clean install, namely that my text message memory is full, which makes no sense because I literally have about 5 conversations with about 10 texts each.
 

aluvn

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Hi there, I just switched from SGSICS to Slim ICS and I have to say this ROM is awesome. Thanks to all the developers out there for your brilliant work. But there's a small bug (?) that's bugging me, which is the weird space between notifications. Look at the screenshot and you'll know what I mean.

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