Swipe unlock has vanished

[Guest ohio66]

Hi folks need a bit help please.

I have an Orange san francisco rooted and running the Japanese Jellyfish RLS9. Has worked faultlessly for the past 10 months.

Phone still works fine but the "swipe to unlock" which comes up when you switch on has vanished.

It also does not show the state of charging on the main screen when the phone is first switched on and is connected to the charger.

(The charger indicator at the top of the screen shows the correct information but is a bit hard to read when you are a senior citizen!!)

With my minimal knowledge of Android I tried setting up an zip pattern to unlock the phone but that wont work either.:(

So currently I am stumpted

Can anyone help me??

Thanks in advance for your help

[Guest flshg]

What might have caused this? Have you installed/uninstalled an app or changed any settings recently?

I'm wondering if perhaps the phone isn't reaching 'sleep' state (which then requires the swipe unlock on waking up). Does the swipe/pattern unlock appear after rebooting the device?

[Guest ohio66]

Thanks for the reply.

Have not installed anything lately (Have looked thru a few apps like superuser/astro file/esfile but did not change anything). Does not appear when I reboot even from full shut down and removal of the battery.

Funny thing when I shut down "Power Off" the screen goes out of focus and for the last few seconds before the final shut down the correct screen is shown with the swipe icons then the phone switches off completely.

[Guest flshg]

Very strange. One suggestion is to reflash your rom. If you still have the original files that you used to flash Japanese Jellyfish, you could go into clockworkmod, flash the rom without doing a full factory reset (wipe dalvik and cache). That rules out corrupted system files. I would advise you back up important data and apps using titanium backup first though.

Failing that, you could take this opportunity to update to a newer rom. If you wish to keep android 2.2 you could flash swedish spring 5, or go with android 2.3 using Blade mix, Moldovan MHMP, or Negaraku.

[Guest ohio66]

Very strange. One suggestion is to reflash your rom. If you still have the original files that you used to flash Japanese Jellyfish, you could go into clockworkmod, flash the rom without doing a full factory reset (wipe dalvik and cache). That rules out corrupted system files. I would advise you back up important data and apps using titanium backup first though.

Failing that, you could take this opportunity to update to a newer rom. If you wish to keep android 2.2 you could flash swedish spring 5, or go with android 2.3 using Blade mix, Moldovan MHMP, or Negaraku.

[Guest ohio66]

Very strange. One suggestion is to reflash your rom. If you still have the original files that you used to flash Japanese Jellyfish, you could go into clockworkmod, flash the rom without doing a full factory reset (wipe dalvik and cache). That rules out corrupted system files. I would advise you back up important data and apps using titanium backup first though.

Failing that, you could take this opportunity to update to a newer rom. If you wish to keep android 2.2 you could flash swedish spring 5, or go with android 2.3 using Blade mix, Moldovan MHMP, or Negaraku.

Unfortunately one of my friends did the ROM conversion and I am bit unsure if I could re-flash the rom. Can you point me to an idiots guide to re-flashing the the Japanese Jellyfish rom please.

Thanks in advance

[Guest flshg]

Alright, then you should back up your most important data onto your sdcard (documents should already be on there, but SMS messages etc won't). Sync your contacts and calendar so they're stored on the google servers, or do a backup of those manually using whatever backup method you use.

I think first you should try a dalvik cache wipe before going for a new rom. Power off the phone. Wait a few seconds, then hold down the volume(-) button, then hold down the power button. Keep vol- held until you boot into clockworkmod recovery (black screen, orange writing). Using the vol+/- buttons to navigate the options and home button to select, back button to go back, find the 'clear dalvik cache' option (depends on version, but may be in the advanced menu). Once done reboot phone, see if problem resolved.

Failing that http://android.modaco.com/topic/329864-22may-guide-how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-the-zte-blade-gen1/ has a guide to many methods to install a new rom.

I suggest the TPT method to bring everything up to date in one go. For this you need to go to http://android.modaco.com/topic/347215-romgen1-2-3-moldovan-mile-high-mountain-pie-rls7-android-235/ for my recommendation for a stable, fast rom. That page has a link to download the TPT file and instructions. I would add that the phone should be fully charged before starting the actual TPT (but disconnected from anything).

The TPT completely wipes the phone (sdcard not affected) so again make sure all is backed up.

[Guest Davidoff59]

have you thought about downloading another locker like go locker for example. much quicker than a reflash and will show you if its just a setting issue or something a bit more

[Guest ohio66]

Thanks guys for all the information, am away this weekend so will try the fixes when I get back.

Thanks again for a splendid forum response!