Total cleanup?

[Janis]

I've been flashing various ROMs, but continuously am running into force close/waits, lag, apps shutting down, but only random reboots on one of the ROM's and it got fixed. I get fc/w's on android.process.acore, calendar storage, alarm clock, you name it, I've probably had it error out on me.

I'm wondering how I can clean up my phone entirely.

I don't know what a ROM writes, or doesn't, but I think I've got something in there that escapes a wipe and a flash that seems to be interfering with the system.

I'm not the only one in the Cyanogen's Experimental thread, nor the lastest stable thread that has had this issue. I haven't been keeping up on the other ROM threads, so I can't say if anyone has had these issues with other ROMs or not.

The Mod on Cyanogen's thread has recently threatened bans for non-ROM -related posts, and to be honest, I don't think this is the ROM because it happens to few, but not all. I'ts not a ROM related question, since it shouldn't matter what ROM I'm using, if I'm rooted, I just want to clean off my phone entirely.

I'm also wondering f these issues could be hardware related, perhaps a different manufacturer of a chip or something.

So, how do I really scrub the thing?

 

[DirectMatrix]

From what I understand, going back to a stock, unrooted phone and going through the rerooting process should "unclutter" things.

I followed this how to

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350

 

[Janis]

I think I solved my issue

Going back to an unrooted phone doesn't deal with anything on the apps2sd partition that might be messing things up if I go back to it.

I ended up deleting the ext4 partition on my card and recreating it. The last time I cleaned up, which didn't do the trick, I just deleted everything I saw. I don't know if there was something left in lost&found or something hidden, but that's what I did.

I also flashed from RC29 instead of JF1.5.1. The first time I thought it would be easier to flash to a ROM I had on my PC that already had Terminal Emulator and Telnet already on it than to download the two apps. I don't think anything would get left in place from that, and I think people have had success with flashing CM's from JF, so I doubt it was that, but who knows. I did both just to be sure.

I also didn't enable any swapping, but i can't imagine that swapping would create acore force closes. ???

So, flashing from RC29 and starting from a freshly created ext4 did it for me.