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[ROM] [05.01.11] Velocity V1.1 | LG Ally | Android 2.2.1 Froyo | Super Fast | Stable

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You have backout of the flashlight app with the back button and not the end call button....have not had that battery icon issue.
 
I agree on the process to shut down the Flashlight. Same thing happens to me. But I have not had an issue with the charging indicator.
 
Ok. I had the end button set to close, but appearantly that wasnt enough lol. Thanks guys. Jury is still out on the charging problem though.

Finally broke down and formatted the sd card, i will see if that helps.
 
Zoandroid said:
Yes, you would use Recovery to do this. I recommend your first step is to create a Nandroid backup, so if you need to get 'back to square one' in your efforts you can easily do that. You might also like to use Titanium Backup to back up all your apps, unless you plan to manually re-install them.

After creating the Nandroid, check the SD Card/Nandroid/mem=223M folder to note the file name of the new backup (if you have multiple Nandroids).

Then go back into the Recovery 'wipe' menus and wipe the cache and Dalvik cache. After that, use the Flash Zip menu to locate the Velocity zip file you placed on the SD card, and flash it again. That should get it reinstalled.

Then you can restore your apps with Titanium Backup, if you backed them up.
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ok so I didn't die to today and all set to do this. But when I boot into recovery all I get is a blue screen and I have to pull the battery out to get it back. something is wrong I imagine. Help!
 
Ok another bug. Right now I am typing by my on screen keyboard because the slider isn't working.
This has happened a few times and is only fixed with a restart.
When this happens my home button also has no function. It has happened on 2 different installs.
Just a heads up.
 
gb4fan said:
ok so I didn't die to today and all set to do this. But when I boot into recovery all I get is a blue screen and I have to pull the battery out to get it back. something is wrong I imagine. Help!
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If you can't get to recovery, you may need someone to help you use ADB and flash a copy of recovery. I don't have the knowledge to do that. If you would like faster help, check the Ally IRC forum to see if someone will help in real time. (There is a thread for Ally IRC if you are not familiar with it).
 
stenz said:
Ok another bug. Right now I am typing by my on screen keyboard because the slider isn't working.
This has happened a few times and is only fixed with a restart.
When this happens my home button also has no function. It has happened on 2 different installs.
Just a heads up.
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Are you running overclocked? If so, have you tried setting it back to stock 600 MHZ to see if things improve?
 
Thought I would mention a very minor cosmetic issue in 1.1. When using non-stock fonts, if the phone is turned on from standby in landscape mode (i.e. keyboard slider out) the date/time stays in its portrait position and the time is chopped off at the top of the screen.

The position of the stock font is the same, of course, but it manages to squeeze in just under the top of the screen.

Again...totally minor, but since my phone is mounted landscape/keyboard out when I am driving it is something I notice often.
 
I saw a similar issue while playing with the home screen icon layout in ADW, but not with the fonts being changed within Velocity Scripts. I am using a changed font and it works OK (forget the name, but I think it ended in "AA".)
 
gb4fan said:
ok so I didn't die to today and all set to do this. But when I boot into recovery all I get is a blue screen and I have to pull the battery out to get it back. something is wrong I imagine. Help!
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Hey start off by downloading ROM Manager, give it root access and scroll to the very bottom of the page, there should be an option to "Flash Alternate Recovery" Flash the Amon-RA recovery, I would recommend flashing it three times because (in my experience) the first two flashes don't always "stick". Then try to boot into recovery (hold down the end button and choose the "Recovery" option). Scroll through the menu using the up and down arrow keys, pressing enter to access a menu, and the down volume button to return to the previous menu. Scroll to Backup/Restore and make a full nandroid backup.
 
Zoandroid said:
Yes, you would use Recovery to do this. I recommend your first step is to create a Nandroid backup, so if you need to get 'back to square one' in your efforts you can easily do that. You might also like to use Titanium Backup to back up all your apps, unless you plan to manually re-install them.

After creating the Nandroid, check the SD Card/Nandroid/mem=223M folder to note the file name of the new backup (if you have multiple Nandroids).

Then go back into the Recovery 'wipe' menus and wipe the cache and Dalvik cache. After that, use the Flash Zip menu to locate the Velocity zip file you placed on the SD card, and flash it again. That should get it reinstalled.

Then you can restore your apps with Titanium Backup, if you backed them gup.
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Well late last nite I finally got around to reflashing Velocity 1.1 but it didn't go as smooth as I had hoped. My recovery kept booting to a blue screen after I solved that problem and reflashed I was stuck on the Velocity screen. But searching the forums helped me out and after a few hours I was back in business. Just finishing up the last of restoring apps and trying to get my phone back to where it was. And message attachment now works. Thanks Zoandroid and all the posters who's information I used to rescue me.
 
I've had this issue too, are you using the charger that came from Verizon, car charger or a microusb charger from a different non smart phone? Whenever I'm not using my Verizon smart phone chargers that can sometimes happen.

Just plug in the phone again wait a second and unplug it and that should clear the issue up.

stenz said:
Has anyone had the phone status stay "charging" after unplugging. My ally does this 8 of 10 times and it takes a restart to clear it.
Also if I use the flashlight app, the LED indicator keeps flashing red/blue/green until I restart.
Any ideas?
I have cleared and reflashed 3 times. Only thing I haven't done is completely format the SD card.
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gb4fan said:
Well late last nite I finally got around to reflashing Velocity 1.1 but it didn't go as smooth as I had hoped. My recovery kept booting to a blue screen after I solved that problem and reflashed I was stuck on the Velocity screen. But searching the forums helped me out and after a few hours I was back in business. Just finishing up the last of restoring apps and trying to get my phone back to where it was. And message attachment now works. Thanks Zoandroid and all the posters who's information I used to rescue me.
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You're welcome. I'm glad you got it working again. :)
 
ecb562 said:
it just says "error" right underneath "Wi-Fi" .
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If the Ally wifi never comes on no matter where you are, and if it has not ever worked since installing Velocity, it sounds like an internal problem. Have you tried going back to stock ROM at stock clock speeds to see if it works that way?
 
Zoandroid said:
If the Ally wifi never comes on no matter where you are, and if it has not ever worked since installing Velocity, it sounds like an internal problem. Have you tried going back to stock ROM at stock clock speeds to see if it works that way?
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i havent tried that. im new at this when you say stock you mean everything it had before installing the rom. If thats what you mean how do i go back to stock?
 
I hate to suggest this but it may be a hardware issue. If it is, only replacing the phone would work. If you have not had the phone long, while you have it back to stock you might want to talk to Big Red and see if they will warranty-replace it for you.

Did the wifi work OK when the phone was new? When did it stop working?
 
stenz said:
Ok another bug. Right now I am typing by my on screen keyboard because the slider isn't working.
This has happened a few times and is only fixed with a restart.
When this happens my home button also has no function. It has happened on 2 different installs.
Just a heads up.
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There is a file in the system files which holds the assignments for the QWERTY keyboard and the buttons on the face of the Ally. There is a discussion on another thread, in which I took part, which details how to re-define keys, such as the home key placed on the QWERTY slide out board, which many users find to be very inconvenient, as it is too easy to bump when typing. Anyway, I am wondering if that file may have become corrupt on your Ally? When you flash a ROM, such as Vel 1.0 and 1.1, that file gets over-written back to "stock" again. I think I would re-flash the ROM to see if that made the keyboard fully operational again.

Here is the other thread if you would like to read what I discovered about manipulating that file:

http://androidforums.com/ally-all-things-root/250271-re-map-key-keyboard.html
 
It has dropped the keyboard on a few different flashes. Just a random thing that happens. It just bugs me to restart to get it back.
 
im afraid my phone is bricked. it was working today till on the way home from a movie it started freaking out (i.e. the camera was turning out, it was taking pictures, phantom touch screen presses, screen would turn on and off randomly, etc.) i eventually managed to restart it normally, but when i did it turned on in safe mode and the slideout keyboard doesnt work. i thought i would just reboot into recovery and either install the backup or reinstall velocity entirely. however, heres the catch: the slideout keyboard doesnt work in recovery either, so i cannot install anything at all through that. and as the keyboard doesnt work when it is booted up anyway, the terminal is useless as well. is there anything i can do to save my phone? i tried doing the hard reset through privacy settings, but that didnt do anything either and the slideout keyboard still does not work. i cannot get safe mode to go away either.

i have been running velocity 1.1 since may 3rd i believe without any issues at all and have been using velocity as a whole since 0.2. i am at my wits end as to do with the exception of getting a new phone

edit: to clarify, b and left arrow work on the keyboard. nothing else does
 
forcifer said:
im afraid my phone is bricked. it was working today till on the way home from a movie it started freaking out (i.e. the camera was turning out, it was taking pictures, phantom touch screen presses, screen would turn on and off randomly, etc.) i eventually managed to restart it normally, but when i did it turned on in safe mode and the slideout keyboard doesnt work. i thought i would just reboot into recovery and either install the backup or reinstall velocity entirely. however, heres the catch: the slideout keyboard doesnt work in recovery either, so i cannot install anything at all through that. and as the keyboard doesnt work when it is booted up anyway, the terminal is useless as well. is there anything i can do to save my phone? i tried doing the hard reset through privacy settings, but that didnt do anything either and the slideout keyboard still does not work. i cannot get safe mode to go away either.

i have been running velocity 1.1 since may 3rd i believe without any issues at all and have been using velocity as a whole since 0.2. i am at my wits end as to do with the exception of getting a new phone

edit: to clarify, b and left arrow work on the keyboard. nothing else does
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Did it get wet? Good drop maybe? Ive killed a friends phone by taking it for a swim and it was actin crazy like that before dying. If you have fastboot you can try flashing velocity from the 2.2 root guide. That would allow you to do a wipe and reflash from the pc. I think you can restore and such from within recovery via adb, i only say this because ive gotta an error trying to restore telling to run nandroid-restore.sh or something like that. Vauge i know but thats all i got. If you dont have fastboot but the phone still turns on try LGNPST. Itll take it back to stock V6 and if neither LGNPST or fastboot work then its probably hardware
 
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