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sampei

Post subject: HTC Magic forever boot

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:19 am

Joined: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:30 am
Posts: 2

Hi all.

My device (HTC Magic, Rogers ROM) boots forever when I power on it.

If I do adb logcat the problem seems to be this:

Code:

W/dalvikvm(   75): threadid=15: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75): Uncaught handler: thread android.server.ServerThread exiting due to uncaught exception
E/AndroidRuntime(   75): *** EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS.  System will crash.
D/MountListener(   75): handleEvent ums_disabled
D/MountListener(   75): handleEvent ums_connected
E/AndroidRuntime(   75): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at com.android.server.status.NotificationViewList.clearViews(NotificationViewList.java:114)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at com.android.server.status.StatusBarService.getNotification(StatusBarService.java:831)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at com.android.server.status.StatusBarService.performAddUpdateIcon(StatusBarService.java:689)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at com.android.server.status.StatusBarService$H.handleMessage(StatusBarService.java:644)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime(   75):        at com.android.server.ServerThread.run(SystemServer.java:374)

So it is something related to the e notification area.

Maybe if I delete all notifications via adb shell (that works), then it can boot.

How to do this?

Is there any key in the file

Code:

/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

in order to mange the notifications?

Is there any on line guide for all the keys that are in the table system?

i.e. if I do (from adb shell):

Code:

# sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
SQLite version 3.5.9
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> .tables
android_metadata   bookmarks          secure           
bluetooth_devices  gservices          system           
sqlite> .dump system

it returns:

Code:

BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE system (_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,name TEXT UNIQUE ON CONFLICT REPLACE,value TEXT);
INSERT INTO "system" VALUES(5,'volume_alarm','6');
INSERT INTO "system" VALUES(9,'mode_ringer_streams_affected','38');
(...etc...)

Now, I think there must be a lot of other keys, maybe some of them related to notifications..

Thanks to all.

Mario
http://www.dataworks.biz

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sampei

Post subject: Re: HTC Magic forever boot

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:06 pm

Joined: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:30 am
Posts: 2

OK, I found a solution.

Conditions:

The device boots forever, but adb shell works fine.
You have an old nandroid backup but if you restore it newer data are lost.

1) via adb shell do a copy of data directory:

Code:

adb shell
# cd /data
# tar cvzf data.tar.gz data/
# exit
adb pull /data/data.tar.gz data.tar.gz

Now your data are in the file data.tar.gz stored on your PC

2) Restore the old nandroid backup. Now the device starts but you do not have newer data.

3) If you have the recovery v1.7.0 power on in recovery mode.
Otherwise downolad it and start via fastboot with:

Code:

fastboot boot recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img

(1.7.0G is for my HTC Magic - download the version for your device)

4) mount the data partition via adb shell

Code:

adb shell
mount -o rw,nosuid,nodev -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /data 
exit

5) Then copy the data saved before from PC to device:

Code:

adb push data.tar.gz /data/data.tar.gz

6) Replace the data directory of the device with your data:

Code:

adb shell 
cd /data
/data # rm -r data
/data # tar xzf data.tar.gz
/data # rm data.tar.gz
exit

7) Now your data are saved, but if you boot the device they will erased because of uid mismatches

So, from the recovery menu do:

Code:

Others

and

Code:

Fix apk uid mismatches

then reboot

Hi all.
Mario
http://www.dataworks.biz

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