Trouble finding an App that is causing Hot Reboot (solved)

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it's been almost 4 days now

everything on the phone runs great until i restore that mysterious app from backup.

problem is having over 500+ apps/games makes it extremely difficult to pin point which particular app is causing the hot reboot

hot reboot = not full reboot, it just crashes everything and reload the OS

my current suspect some of the many plug ins for Go Launcher EX or IM+

Go Launcher EX runs great on the phone, but then once i restore all those plug ins, it appears to cause the problem

same with IM+

there are other apps i suspect as well like SD card speed increase, or Dual USB

or if not something to do with the Keyboard

at one point the keyboard selection got locked out, and i was unable to choose another keyboard or language

anyways... back to the haystack to find the needle...

Have you tried hooking it up to adb and running a logcat on that bad boy?

Edit: If you run logcat and reproduce the hot-reboot it may show you what is causing the problem. And if that doesn't work there is also a command you can call to get the last kernel message before the reboot. I don't remember what that's called though. Kmsg I think, idk.

-We do what we must because we can. For the good of all us, except the ones who are dead.-

lol perhaps i should, i was too lazy to do that, don't really have the time, but after spending 4 days trying to track down the app... i guess it's about time to go about it the smart way

Originally Posted by AllGamer

lol perhaps i should, i was too lazy to do that, don't really have the time, but after spending 4 days trying to track down the app... i guess it's about time to go about it the smart way

If the simple method doesn't work the first couple of times don't try it repeatedly, it won't ever work effectively.

-We do what we must because we can. For the good of all us, except the ones who are dead.-

i've actually narrowed it down to ICE Music 4.0x or IM+

everything else working great since the last wipe & restore, excluding those 2 apps

Originally Posted by AllGamer

i've actually narrowed it down to ICE Music 4.0x or IM+

everything else working great since the last wipe & restore, excluding those 2 apps

Freeze one and test it out.

-We do what we must because we can. For the good of all us, except the ones who are dead.-

The command is: adb pull /proc/last_kmsg

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in the end the problem was caused by the USB / Media Scanner

Originally Posted by AllGamer

in the end the problem was caused by the USB / Media Scanner

That kinda makes sense as to why you thought it was music then but why im+?

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both of them were caught doing something and then crashing everytime it happened

in the end it was because both were trying load up stuff from the SD card which was being hogged by the media scanner, and apparently that didn't share well among those apps and the system itself, and kaboom!