CM 10.2 Issues

[excalibar001]

Now that CM10.2 nightlies are available for Nook HD and HD+, I am opening this thread as a place to discuss common issues people may face when migrating to 10.2.

I am watching a lot of people posing the same questions time and again on the development thread, so this thread will provide people to share issues and find solutions to their common problems.

I updated to CM 10.2 after a dirty install on 10.1. I immediately regretted the decision.

1) The market would fail to download or update any apps giving [RPC:S-5:AEC-0] error. This issue arises, I believe, because the identity of the device has changed. People have suggested that clearing the cache (setting>storage>cache) and removing and adding your Google Account solves this problem. In my case, at least, it did not solve the problem but I will not stop anyone from trying it, as it is much quicker than the solution to this problem.
2) Clock and Google Music would crash.

So here is what I suggest
CLEAN INSTALL CM10.2 to avoid any problems.

3) I have been using this version of GAPPS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378992
[courtesy of johje] and have not had any problems with it (except two clock icons in apps which I can live with)

4) Superuser still does not work with 4.3. You have to download this version from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053&page=350
[Thanks Sherip for suggesting this solution]
before you could use adaway or Titanium back

5) [Resolved] Lock Screen slider positions does not work. Even if you add or remove shortcuts, your preferences will not be saved.[Edit: After a couple of restarts, now I can see a save button on top, Before that it only showed the reset button.]

6) Finally, for the first few hours after the install, the tablet was excruciatingly slow. so slow that I wanted to go back to 4.2. I think it was because of all the background Google processes and after the first few hours, the tablet is much more responsive now.

I will add more issues here once I found them. Please feel free to share, discuss and find solutions to your common CM10.2 issues.

 

[Deafcyclist]

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[excalibar001]

Sorry if this is a noobish question but what can I do to make a 'clean' install? Just wipe data/factory reset? what other thing I can wipe to 'clean' it up further? Is it possible to completely remove the previous CM for a clean slate install?

thanks.

That's what I did. I spent around six hours trying to fix a dirty install over CM10.1. The dirty install preserves your apps and settings (if it works). However, I would suggest that you update your backup (using Titanium Backup or any backup app you use) and then wipe data/factory reset before installing CM10.2. I installed CM10.2 img, gapps and Superuser zip together and restored most of my apps and settings within the first hour.

 

[kareinanikko]

Sorry if this is a noobish question but what can I do to make a 'clean' install? Just wipe data/factory reset? what other thing I can wipe to 'clean' it up further? Is it possible to completely remove the previous CM for a clean slate install?

thanks.

Make sure you also clear dalvik cache, battery stats and format internal sd. And please don't restore apps from Titanium Backup

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I installed 10.2 dirty but everything seems to work fine.
Try Greenify donated version it allows you to hibernate system apps to free up RAM

 

[Deafcyclist]

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[excalibar001]

Make sure you also clear dalvik cache, battery stats and format internal sd. And please don't restore apps from Titanium Backup

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I installed 10.2 dirty but everything seems to work fine.
Try Greenify donated version it allows you to hibernate system apps to free up RAM

I personally do not think that restoring user apps from Titanium backup will do any harm to your system. I know that it also backups system apps and settings which should not be transferred to CM10.2 but user apps, e.g., Facebook can safely be restored from backup. Just make sure that you have updated the latest version of your apps or else you may have to update them immediately in Play store. Even then, you retain all your settings which is important for me.

 

[pdx1138]

Though I have not yet installed 10.2

I really appreciate you starting this thread so I know what I'm in for when I do.

 

[rushless]

Thanks for the info. Since the only issue I have is some lag that is likely more hardware than software related and one game "Vice City" not working, I will pass for now. Can not be bothered starting from scratch with over 200 apps and about 17GB in total size. Not seeing the value-add in relation to current performance. Comics, video, browsing, emulators, games and Flash all perform fine. A little UI and app start lag seems the lesser of the "evils". Especially since I doubt software can compensate for a 4470 with 760mb of free ram and a older gpu pushing a 1080p display. The lower res Nook has none of the lag and is quite zippy. Only real difference is less than half the pixles to push.

Seems likely I could go through the effort and still have the lag. Added: I am tired of that word "lag". I prefer the "L" word.

 

[excalibar001]

Thanks for the info. Since the only issue I have is some lag that is likely more hardware than software related and one game "Vice City" not working, I will pass for now. Can not be bothered starting from scratch with over 200 apps and about 17GB in total size. Not seeing the value-add in relation to current performance. Comics, video, browsing, emulators, games and Flash all perform fine. A little UI and app start lag seems the lesser of the "evils". Especially since I doubt software can compensate for a 4470 with 760mb of free ram and a older gpu pushing a 1080p display. The lower res Nook has none of the lag and is quite zippy. Only real difference is less than half the pixles to push.

Seems likely I could go through the effort and still have the lag. Added: I am tired of that word "lag". I prefer the "L" word.

I would say this upgrade is worth the hassle to go through a fresh install. My main motivation to upgrade to 10.2 was the presence of TRIM support which both increase the responsiveness and life of emmc. I have read [Leapliner] the trim app some people installed in 10.1 bricked their tablets so upgrading was the only option. If you make an update of your user apps, a fresh install will take less than an hour. Also make sure to take a nandroid backup. Even if something goes wrong, you can have your old setup back in a flash.

 

[RageAgain]

Dirty Install

Now that CM10.2 nightlies are available for Nook HD and HD+, I am opening this thread as a place to discuss common issues people may face when migrating to 10.2.

I am watching a lot of people posing the same questions time and again on the development thread, so this thread will provide people to share issues and find solutions to their common problems.

I updated to CM 10.2 after a dirty install on 10.1. I immediately regretted the decision.

I did a dirty update, but my results were largely different from yours.

1) Superuser works for me.

2) You used the old gapps (20130726), and I used the new (20130813) so I had no issues with the play store.

3) It was really laggy until I discovered that it only seems to like ( on my tablet anyway ) the ondemand governor with the cfq scheduler.

I have lost a few apps/widgets, but nothing that I miss so far ( stuff like 'Temp + Cpu v2 ), but it screwed up gl to sd until I manually edited its .xml file.

I update to 10.2 20130814 from 10.1 20130813, and it seems to be working but I have a lot more live testing to do...

 

[bpaulien]

I did a dirty update, but my results were largely different from yours.

1) Superuser works for me.

2) You used the old gapps (20130726), and I used the new (20130813) so I had no issues with the play store.

3) It was really laggy until I discovered that it only seems to like ( on my tablet anyway ) the ondemand governor with the cfq scheduler.

I have lost a few apps/widgets, but nothing that I miss so far ( stuff like 'Temp + Cpu v2 ), but it screwed up gl to sd until I manually edited its .xml file.

I update to 10.2 20130814 from 10.1 20130813, and it seems to be working but I have a lot more live testing to do...

That's good info to have. I'll try ondemand with cfq scheduler, and see if that helps. The only thing I noticed was that it was "slightly" slower than the 10.1 version. But not horribly so. I'll give this a try and see if it helps.

 

[rushless]

My stable pre 10.2 nightly salutes all of you folks that jumped in!

I will remain peaking out of a bunker, twenty fathoms below sea level until a common trend of opinion is it is worth it- not seeing that yet.

Unless lag free, I see no reason to take the six hours (really) to download and set-up everything again. 272 apps at 17GB total. So far, some state it is
actually slower and some say faster- net result though at this point seems a net wash.

 

[jpisini]

That's good info to have. I'll try ondemand with cfq scheduler, and see if that helps. The only thing I noticed was that it was "slightly" slower than the 10.1 version. But not horribly so. I'll give this a try and see if it helps.

That is how I feel too. It is slower but not enough to make me migrate back.

 

[Holysmoke99]

My stable pre 10.2 nightly salutes all of you folks that jumped in!

I will remain peaking out of a bunker, twenty fathoms below sea level until a common trend of opinion is it is worth it- not seeing that yet.

Unless lag free, I see no reason to take the six hours (really) to download and set-up everything again. 272 apps at 17GB total. So far, some state it is
actually slower and some say faster- net result though at this point seems a net wash.

stable? you have a stable build? my 10.1 reboots at the worst times

 

[rushless]

The nightly just before 10.2 version has had zero reboots for me and very low battery bleed in standby. Not seeing how 10.2 is worth it ATM since for every person raving, another is either having issues, or a slightly slower device. This does not include folks that installed over 10.1 rather than start from scratch.

Looking forward to 10.2 with feedback that is more favorable for performance to offset my apathy for starting from scratch.

 

[RageAgain]

Looking forward to 10.2 with feedback that is more favorable for performance to offset my apathy for starting from scratch.

Understandable. I am not having the same slowdowns and lag that occurred with the 20130814 now that I have updated to the 20130815 of the 10.2. Much smoother and more responsive, as now it never doesn't wake up right away when I push the power button, and the lock screen responds immediately. I have had no spontaneous reboots, and my screen hasn't gone black momentarily at all. Hopefully this positive trend will continue. My only current issue is the apps that no longer work, or no longer work correctly. Still a far larger percentage work without incident than not, and the ones that don't are mostly Android 4.3 problems and not Nook HD(+) problems so they will be fixed eventually.

All in all, I would say that 4.3 isn't as bad as it was initially made out to be...

 

[bpaulien]

Understandable. I am not having the same slowdowns and lag that occurred with the 20130814 now that I have updated to the 20130815 of the 10.2. Much smoother and more responsive, as now it never doesn't wake up right away when I push the power button, and the lock screen responds immediately. I have had no spontaneous reboots, and my screen hasn't gone black momentarily at all. Hopefully this positive trend will continue. My only current issue is the apps that no longer work, or no longer work correctly. Still a far larger percentage work without incident than not, and the ones that don't are mostly Android 4.3 problems and not Nook HD(+) problems so they will be fixed eventually.

All in all, I would say that 4.3 isn't as bad as it was initially made out to be...

I agree. I'm one who said it was slightly slower than 10.1 initially, but after updating to the 0815 nightly version, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

Although, I also changed the governor to OnDemand, and scheduler to cfq, like I heard from somebody who got better results with that configuration, on another post somewhere... So I don't know if it was one or the other, or a combination of both. But I have no complaints with the current setup.

 

[sudheersagar]

I did a dirty update, but my results were largely different from yours.

1) Superuser works for me.

2) You used the old gapps (20130726), and I used the new (20130813) so I had no issues with the play store.

3) It was really laggy until I discovered that it only seems to like ( on my tablet anyway ) the ondemand governor with the cfq scheduler.

I have lost a few apps/widgets, but nothing that I miss so far ( stuff like 'Temp + Cpu v2 ), but it screwed up gl to sd until I manually edited its .xml file.

I update to 10.2 20130814 from 10.1 20130813, and it seems to be working but I have a lot more live testing to do...

Could you please let us know what you did for the dirty update, I am planning to upgrade from CM10.1 to CM10.2 without loosing the Apps and User profiles(?) For normal updates in CM10.1, I just run the ROM update choosing the Update file (No cache clearing etc, it automatically update without going to CMW recovery mode, at least i dont have to choose any options in this kind of update). If this is not correct method of Upgrading to 10.2, could you please provide all the steps that i need to do. Thanks in advance.

 

[RageAgain]

Could you please what you did for the dirty update, I am planning to upgrade from CM10.1 to CM10.2 without loosing the Apps and User profiles(?) For normal updates in CM10.1, I just run the ROM update choosing the Update file (No cache clearing etc, it automatically update without going to CMW recovery mode, at least i dont have to choose any options in this kind of update). If this is not correct method of Upgrading to 10.2, could you please provide all the steps that i need to do. Thanks in advance.

First, I am using the TWRP recovery and not the CMW, as I just wanted the touch...

The steps that I took were just, in TWRP choose both the update file and the gapps file and let it install both. Then I cleared the cache and dalvik cache, and rebooted. I usually wait until it settles down after the initial boot and then reboot.

So, in CMW, I guess that would be ( they way I used to do it in CMW anyway ):

1) Reboot into CMW

1a) When in doubt, do a backup

2) Install System update

3) Install Gapps ( 4.3 version latest that I used was the 20130813 )

4) Clear/wipe cache and dalvik cache

5) Reboot into Android and wait til it stops fiddling with itself

6) Reboot again

It is the method I have used since my Acer A500 days...

 

[Sir Wuffleton]

SU Still Mishandling Environment

Even with the SuperSU package linked in the first post, I'm still having issues with SU misbehaving in terms of how environmental variables are handled. In 10.1 I can pass pretty much whatever I want into the su session, and it behaves quite similarly to su running on a linux desktop. In 10.2, I can't pass anything, even with the --preserve-environment flag (which shouldn't even be necessary, since I'm not using -l.) SuperSU doesn't seem to improve the situation much, except for making su usable in the shell again. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I in the minority of people that wants to pass things like PATH and ZDOTDIR into my su session? Is this a security feature of Android 4.3, or just a quirk with SU at this point?

I've tried some test cases to illustrate this behavior:

CM 10.1 20130813

[[email protected] /]% su -v
13 com.android.settings
[[email protected] /]% export TESTVAR=1234
[[email protected] /]% su
[[email protected] /]# echo $TESTVAR
1234

CM 10.2 20130815 w/ SuperSU linked in OP

[email protected]:/ $ su -v
1.51:SUPERSU
[email protected]:/ $ export TESTVAR=12345
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # echo $TESTVAR

[email protected]:/ # exit
3|[email protected]:/ $ su --preserve-environment
[email protected]:/ # echo $TESTAR

CM 10.2 20130815 without SuperSU had the same result, but had really broken output.
CM 10.2 20130817 has the same behavior as the previous nightly.