ICS Problems with D4

I just downloaded ICS to my Droid 4. I know ICS is geared around 4G service. Since downloading, I have had real good service in 4G areas. However, my 3G area service has been terrible.
I live in a 3G area and before downloading, I would have 3 and 4 bars on my service. Since downloading ICS, I am lucky to have 2 bars. And it is not only in my home area. I was in an area yesterday that is very saturated 3G area. Where I usually have full bar service. Most of the day I had only 3 bars of service.
I know that the update was not suppose to have anything to do with signal strength. But is it possible that it is blocking 3G to an extent somehow?
Someone please help. I am having serious problem with service at home. I have contacted VZM tech support. They tried to call me and the call would not go through. They have put in a repair ticket, but I always get the same answer from the field techs. I live in a limited service area.
I do live in a rural area with only one tower. But I am smack in the middle of the coverage area. I SHOULD have and have had great coverage in the past, but I don't now for some reason.
I have tired a network extender. My internet is not strong enough for it to work.
Someone please help. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Except to move. LOL

I did a Factory Reset to my phone after the upgrade. Phone acting up was blamed on an app that "might" have been causing problems. Might have been. I love that line. When ever someone (VZW or Motorola) has an issue with a phone, right off the bat it is an app causing the problem.
I know a virus can invade a phone and a computer and such, but with all the hype before marketing, I thought that the D4 was such a secure phone.
But to answer the question about the battery life. I have not seen any issue with my battery life since ICS.
ICS has made my D4 faster. And some things even work better. But maybe, just maybe they should think about fixing the bugs next time before releasing a major "upgrade". I know every bug can't be "fixed". I totally understand that. But to me this seems like more than a slight problem with ICS.
Mindy. My suggestion with the iPhone. Please don't be a fool. I will stack my D4 up against any iPhone out there and have on many occasions. And even with the problems right now with the ICS. I still take my D4 over an iPhone without even a thought.
I use my D4 daily and not just at a phone. I watch TV. I listen to music. I send and receive emails. Like any normal phone. But I have done searches with my phone that iPhone can't do. I have done internet things on my D4 that the iPhone can't do. And please, all you iPhone users, don't ask me what. I have no idea. I don't use an iPhone. All I am going by is using them side by side.
People have asked me to do things with my phone that they can't do with their iPhone. And yes. There are things that the iPhone can do that the D4 can't do. But as of yet, I haven't found anything that I could not do without. In the reverse. There are things that my D4 does that the iPhone doesn't that I couldn't live without.

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Stuck/Dead Pixels:
I bought my Droid Razr at around the 21st of December last year. On or around Christmas, I found a bright red pixel on the very bottom of my screen. Unlucky for me, I was leaving for Florida on Christmas Night. I got back on December 31st. Sometime in the first week of this year, I visited my verizon store and told the customer service lady that I had a dead pixel on my screen and had just bought it. But, she told me that she needed the manager to fix this and there was no manager there. For the next week I was busy with school and sports etc and was not able to go back to the store. It was now past my 14 day return period. So I decided, its only one pixel, most people won't notice it anyway. So here I am 5 months later, just starting to discover more pixels dying on my screen. I now have the one bright red one, two light blue ones, and one dark red. I have no idea what the return policy is on defective phones, and the verizon site is designed so that you can't find anything. And an FYI, I have tried stuck pixel removers and other apps, which haven't been successful.
Battery Life:
I have also been finding more problems with my phone. The battery life is terrible when 4G and even 3G are on. I actually see no difference in battery consumption between 3G/4G. My battery dies about 4-5X faster when data is turned on, compared to using no data. I know it isn't because of the apps I installed since when I use WiFi, the battery is alright. I also make sure that my RAM isn't above 400MB, so that the processor doesn't use a lot of battery. I feel like I completely wasted my money buying the Razr. Mainly because of the fact that the Razr Maxx was announced two weeks later, which has about 80% more battery. Not only this, but I've seen the Razr selling for only ONE PENNY on amazon over the past month and it still is. I payed $300 on my Razr.
Ice Cream Sandwich:
After these major problems comes another one, that I bet all Razr and Razr Maxx customers are still thinking about. When will I get Ice Cream Sandwich? It is very disappointing when you are told that you will be getting an upgrade in early 2012, and are still wondering where your upgrade is 5 full months in. From what I understand, we won't see an upgrade until the end of June, since Motorola has posted on their website that "rollouts" would begin in the second quarter. Even if they release it by the end of June, when will it get to your phone? Maybe another week or two for some people. This is another thing that I feel I wasted my money on. My brother told me to get the Nexus because of ICS, but I trusted Motorola that they would upgrade my phone in a timely manner. WRONG.
Phone Freezing:
One more problem that I've had is that the phone will freeze. Usually you only need to turn the screen off and on, but once in a while, you have to completely reboot your phone. When I was coming back from Florida, right as I was about to get home, my phone completely froze. I was about to go return it, but after about 15-20 minutes, it became unfrozen.
Motion Sensor not functioning:
Another problem, an annoying one, is that sometimes the motion sensor that controls portrait and landscape mode will just stop working. Some of the games I play are completely dependent on the motion sensor. It is very embarrassing when you are trying to show off to an iPhone friend and major components of your phone aren't working. They always tell me "why didn't you get an iPhone?". And I really just wanted to have a phone that didn't look like everyone else's, but I guess that comes at a cost. When the motion sensor stops working, I have to shut down my phone and restart, which takes a couple minutes.
Problems with camera:
My last problem would be with the camera. Sometimes if you bring the camera close to something, like a barcode, it will keep trying to focus, but never will. Another problem is photo quality in low light situations. It seems like the camera can't focus because it goes from being very dark into being bright because of the flash. I doubt this can be fixed because it's hardware, but a potential fix could be having the option to keep the LED light on during picture mode, that way the camera will be able to focus correctly.
In Conclusion:
I really just want someone to tell me how to return my phone for a new one, due to the dead pixels. I also wish I could be upgraded to the Razr Maxx because of the poor battery life on the Razr, but from what other people are saying, that probably won't happen. And finally, if anyone has more info about Ice Cream Sandwich, that would be awesome.

Well since it's a Manufacturing Error it should Fall under your Warranty if you got one with your Razr. You know you can Call C.S. an they can Assist you with the Matter on it.. Just remember to have another phone so they can Trouble shoot the One that is Experiencing the Issue an when you talk to them go over thing. An they should send you C.G.A.N unless they request you to send it in before you get anther one. If you feel Better going to the Store try that. And Good Luck..

Itunes 7.0.1 still has major problems with jerky video

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Editing .ics files with BBEdit

I'd like to change a name that exists on all my calendars in iCal, but cannot see how to do this.
The 1st problem is that Find .ics files doesn't find all of my calendars - tho' some do show up in username->Library->Application Support->SyncService->Backup Data->Calendars (and LastSync data>Calendars).
The 2nd problem is: I quit iCal then open an .ics file with BBEdit and do Search & Replace - it finds a number of occurrences and reports them changed. I close the BBEdit file and relaunch iCal, but the new name doesn't appear.
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Gillylal Fordham-Lear,
I'd like to change a name that exists on all my calendars in iCal, but cannot see how to do this.
Why are you not using the iCal user interface to accomplish your objectives?
Attempting to modify files or or using the OS X file structure to make changes to the user interface is problematical at best, and destructive to your files at worst.
Data which appears to have been changed successfully will revert to the previous state because the old information remains in a cache.
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Calendar subscription problems with ios7

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Here is a little update to my own thread:
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The problem occurred right after updating to IOS7 (where it worked perfectly with the previously installed version of IOS), and also after configuring the calendar subscription anew on an IOS7 device. And it does not occur on all devices.
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Toshiba - PLEASE FIX THE THRIVE ICS PROBLEM or OFFER REFUNDS OR UPGRADES

My story is no different from others on this forum. I bought a Thrive 10" in January. Thought it was great. Installed the ICS update from Toshiba in August and started having the same problems as many others have listed.
Because the Thrive is not my primary computing/surfing tool, I overlooked the problems, thinking that Toshiba would finally post a patch update and the issues resolved. After waiting 4 months, I contacted Toshiba support to get help. Though the tech support was courteous, they had no solution other than going through the ineffective process of suggesting a hard reset to "factory settings" which did nothing. Browser still crashes, unit locks up, SD card issues, etc.
I cannot say this is all 100% factual but here is what I was able to learn from Tech Support.
Toshiba did not develop the ICS update. It was provided by a third party.
There is no fix/patch that a user can install. The tablet will need to be sent to a service center.
There is no way for the user to roll back to R3.X (Honeycomb). That will require a service technician.
There does not appear to be any plan to provide a patch to fix the problems.
Toshiba assumes no responsibility for the ICS problems. The ICS upgrade was solely at the customer's discretion. Too bad it didn't work.
This is a software problem. Toshiba warrants the hardware only. Even if the Thrive is still under warranty, the customer will have to pay for repair.
I'm just guessing but I get the impression that there are multiple builds of the Thrive, likely using different internal components. If you consider the level of integration between the hardware and software on a tablet, it could be there is no "one size fits all" fix.
Saying all that, I cannot believe Toshiba, a major supplier, is willing to risk its reputation by not fixing a problem that it has created. I believe they should:
Provide a patch release to solve the problem.
If the user cannot perform the update, provide the service at no charge.
If it can't be fixed, offer a replacement Thrive or credit towards a new tablet.
Refund the cost of the Thrive.
I will continue to contact/badger Toshiba Tech Support until this problem is resolved and would hope other users on this forum will do the same.

I would say I hope and pray they don't "offer a replacement Thrive or credit towards a new tablet." I will never buy another Trashiba again after this POS. I am looking at a Samson now.
What they need to do, is offer the ROM for HC on their site where you can download it copy to the SD card and install from the recovery mode (and recovery mode install is not that hard even a idiot can do it with the proper instructions instructions
Reboot while holding the up volume and power button
when presented with the 2 icons select the one with the box, using volume rocker to select and power for enter
select apply update from SD card
that how it is on most if not all android devices)
But with the problems with the "thrive" and the fact that it not root able nor can you get a replacement rom, I will never buy another trashiba, I have already talked 3 people out of buying trashibas (unhappy customers usally leads to negative recomendations and loss sales but it not like thrashiba cares what 4 customers?)
Plus I am very sure the way they are doing things at thrashiba they are probably in violations of the GNU.

A problem with threads

I am trying to implement some kind of a server listening for requests. The listener part of the app, is a daemon thread that listens for connections and instantiates a handling daemon thread once it gets some. However, my problem is that i must be able to kill the listening thread at the user's will (say via a sto button). I have done this via the Sun's proposed way, by testing a boolean flag in the loop, which is set to false when i wish to kill the thread. The problem with this thing is the following...
Once the thread starts excecuting, it will test the flag, find it true and enter the loop. At some point it will LOCK on the server socket waiting for connection. Unless some client actually connects, it will keep on listening indefinatelly whithought ever bothering to check for the flag again (no matter how many times you set the damn thing to false).
My question is this: Is there any real, non-theoretical, applied way to stop thread in java safely?
Thank you in advance,
Lefty

This was one solution from the socket programming forum, have you tried this??
public Thread MyThread extends Thread{
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                    serverSocket = ss.accept();
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          try{
               sleep(91);
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}

Problem with Threads and a static variable

I have a problem with the code below. I am yet to make sure that I understand the problem. Correct me if I am wrong please.
Code functionality:
A timer calls SetState every second. It sets the state and sets boolean variable "changed" to true. Then notifies a main process thread to check if the state changed to send a message.
The problem as far I understand is:
Assume the timer Thread calls SetState twice before the main process Thread runs. As a result, "changed" is set to true twice. However, since the main process is blocked twice during the two calls to SetState, when it runs it would have the two SetState timer threads blocked on its synchronized body. It will pass the first one, send the message and set "changed" to false since it was true. Now, it will pass the second thread, but here is the problem, "changed" is already set to false. As a result, it won't send the message even though it is supposed to.
Would you please let me know if my understanding is correct? If so, what would you propose to resolve the problem? Should I call wait some other or should I notify in a different way?
Thanks,
B.D.
Code:
private static volatile boolean bChanged = false;
private static Thread objMainProcess;
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Thanks DrClap for your reply. Everything you said is right. It is not easy to make them alternate since SetState() could be called from different places where the state could be anything else but a status message. Like a GREETING message for example. It is a handshaking message but not a status message.
Again as you said, There is a reason I can't call sendMessage() inside setState().
The only way I was able to do it is by having a counter of the number of notifies that have been called. Every time notify() is called a counter is incremented. Now instead of just checking if "changed" flag is true, I also check if notify counter is greater than zero. If both true, I send the message. If "changed" flag is false, I check again if the notify counter is greater than zero, I send the message. This way it works, but it is kind of a patch than a good design fix. I am yet to find a good solution.
Thanks,
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Problem with threads running javaw

Hi,
Having a problem with multi thread programming using client server sockets. The program works find when starting the the application in a console using java muti.java , but when using javaw multi.java the program doesnt die and have to kill it in the task manager. The program doesnt display any of my gui error messages either when the server disconnect the client. all works find in a console. any advice on this as I havent been able to understand why this is happening? any comment would be appreciated.
troy.

troy,
Try and post a minimum code sample of your app which
does not work.
When using javaw, make sure you redirect the standard
error and standard output streams to file.
Graeme.Hi Graeme,
I dont understand what you mean by redirection to file? some of my code below.
The code works fine under a console, code is supposed to exit when the client (the other server )disconnects. the problem is that but the clientworker side of the code still works. which under console it doesnt.
public class Server{
ServerSocket aServerSocket;
Socket dianosticsSocket;
Socket nPortExpress;
ClientListener aClientListener;
LinkedList queue = new LinkedList();
int port = 0;
int clientPort = 0;
String clientName = null;
boolean serverAlive = true;
* Server constructor generates a server
* Socket and then starts a client threads.
* @param aPort      socket port of local machine.
public Server(int aPort, String aClientName, int aClientPort){
port = aPort;
clientName = aClientName;
clientPort = aClientPort;
try{
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aServerSocket = new ServerSocket(port) ;
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// aClientListener.setDaemon(true);
aClientListener.start();
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// System.out.println("Connect to nPort");
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JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Server port " + port + " not available", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
serverAlive = false;
System.exit(1);
while(serverAlive&&aClientListener.hostSocket.isConnected()){
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//System.out.println("open client connection");
//System.out.println("client local: "+ aClient.getLocalAddress().toString());
// System.out.println("client localport: "+ aClient.getLocalPort());
// System.out.println("client : "+ aClient.getInetAddress().toString());
// System.out.println("client port: "+ aClient.getLocalPort());
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clientThread.start();
catch(Exception e)
//System.out.println("ERROR: Client connection failure");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Client connection failure", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}// end while
} // end constructor Server
void serverExit(){
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}// end class Server
*** connect to another server
public class ClientListener extends Thread{
InetAddress hostName;
int hostPort;
Socket hostSocket;
BufferedReader in;
PrintWriter out;
boolean loggedIn;
LinkedList queue;      // reference to Server queue
Server serverRef; // reference to main server
* ClientListener connects to the host server.
* @param aHostName is the name of the host eg server name or IP address.
* @param aHostPort is a port number of the host.
* @param aLoginName is the users login name.
public ClientListener(InetAddress aHostName, int aHostPort,LinkedList aQueue,Server aServer)      // reference to Server queue)
hostName = aHostName;
hostPort = aHostPort;
queue = aQueue;
serverRef = aServer;
// connect to the server
try{
hostSocket = new Socket(hostName, hostPort);
catch(IOException e){
//System.out.println("ERROR: Connection Host Failed");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Connection to nPort Failed", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
System.exit(0);
} // end constructor ClientListener
** multi client connection server
ClientWorker(Socket aSocket,LinkedList aQueue, ClientListener aClientListener, boolean diagnostics){
queue = aQueue;
addToQueue(this);
client = aSocket;
clientRef = aClientListener;
aDiagnostic = diagnostics;
} // end constructor ClientWorker
* run method is the main loop of the server program
* in change of handle new client connection as well
* as handle all messages and errors.
public void run(){
boolean alive = true;
String aSubString = "";
in = null;
out = null;
loginName = "";
loggedIn = false;
while (alive && client.isConnected()&& clientRef.hostSocket.isConnected()){
try{
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(client.getOutputStream()));
if(aDiagnostic){
out.println("WELCOME to diagnostics");
broadCastDia("Connect : diagnostics "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
out.flush();
else {
out.println("WELCOME to Troy's Server");
broadCastDia("Connect : client "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
     out.flush();
String line;
while(((line = in.readLine())!= null)){
StringTokenizer aStringToken = new StringTokenizer(line, " ");
if(!aDiagnostic){
broadCastDia(line);
clientRef.sendMessage(line); // send mesage out to netExpress
out.println(line);
out.flush();
else{
if(line.equals("GETIPS"))
getIPs();
else{
clientRef.sendMessage(line); // send mesage out to netExpress
out.println(line);
out.flush();
} // end while
catch(Exception e){
// System.out.println("ERROR:Client Connection reset");
                         JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR:Client Connection reset", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
try{
if(aDiagnostic){
broadCastDia("Disconnect : diagnostics "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
out.flush();
else {
broadCastDia("Disconnect : client "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
     out.flush();
// close the buffers and connection;
in.close();
out.close();
client.close();
// System.out.println("out");
// remove from list
removeThreadQueue(this);
alive = false;
catch(Exception e){
// System.out.println("ERROR: Client Connection reset failure");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Client Connection reset failure", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}// end while
} // end method run
* method run - Generates io stream for communicating with the server and
* starts the client gui. Run also parses the input commands from the server.
public void run(){
boolean alive = true;
try{
// begin to life the gui
// aGuiClient = new ClientGui(hostName.getHostName(), hostPort, loginName, this);
// aGuiClient.show();
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(hostSocket.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(hostSocket.getOutputStream()));
while (alive && hostSocket.isConnected()){
String line;
while(((line = in.readLine())!= null)){
System.out.println(line);
broadCast(line);
} // end while
} // end while
catch(Exception e){
//     System.out.println("ERRORa Connection to host reset");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Connection to nPort reset", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
try{
hostSocket.close();
     }catch(Exception a){
     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (a.toString()),"ERROR: Exception", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
alive = false;
System.exit(1);
} // end method run

Problem with threads and camera.

Hi everybody!
I've a problem with taking snapshot.
I would like to display a loading screen after it take snapshot ( sometimes i
have to wait few seconds after i took snapshot. Propably photo is being taken in time where i have to wait).
I was trying to use threads but i didn't succeed.
I made this code:
display.setCurrent(perform);
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                while((!performing.isShown()) && (backgroundCamera.isShown())){
                    Thread.yield();
                notifyAll();
        }).start();
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                try {
                    this.wait();
                } catch(Exception e) {
                    exceptionHandler(e);
                photo = camera.snapshot();
                display.setCurrent(displayPhoto);
        }).start();This code is sometimes showing performing screen but sometimes no.
I don't know why. In my opinion performing.isShown() method isn't working correctly.
Does anyone have some idea how to use threads here?

Hi,
I've finally managed to work this fine.
The code:
       Object o = new Object();
       display.setCurrent(perform);
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                while(!performing.isShown()){
                    Thread.yield();
               synchronized(o) {
                  o.notify();
        }).start();
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                try {
                    synchronized(o) {
                       o.wait(1);
                } catch(Exception e) {
                    exceptionHandler(e);
                photo = camera.snapshot();
                display.setCurrent(displayPhoto);
        }).start();

Problem with threads hanging

We have a problem where our application stops responding after a few days of usage. Things will for fine for a day or two, and then pretty quickly threads will start getting hung up, usually in places where they are allocating memory
We are running WebLogic 8.1 SP2 on Sun JDK 1.4.2_04 on Solaris 8 using the alternate threading model and the -server hotspot vm. We are running pretty much the same code that we had no problems with under WebLogic 6.1 SP4 and Sun JDK 1.3.1.
A thread dump usually shows that some or all of our execute threads are in the state "waiting for monitor entry" even though they are not currently waiting on any java locks. Here is a sample thread from the thread dump (we have ~120 threads so I don't want to post the full dump).
=============================================================================================
"ExecuteThread: '8' for queue: 'itgCrmWarExecutionQueue'" daemon prio=5 tid=0x005941d0 nid=0x2c waiting for monitor entry [c807f000..c807fc28]
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1446)
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1411)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.getRelativeUri(ServletRequestImpl.java:1872)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3492)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2585)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:170)
=============================================================================================
String.java line 1446 for this jdk allocates a new String object, and all the other threads in this state also are creating new objects or arrays, etc.
We've done a pstack on this process when it's in this state, and the threads that are in the "waiting for monitor entry" that look like they're allocating memory are all waiting on the same lwp_mutex_lock with some allocation method that's calling into the native TwoGenerationCollectorPolicy.mem_allocate_work (see pstack output below for the same thread as in the thread dump above)
=============================================================================================
----------------- lwp# 44 / thread# 44 --------------------
ff31f364 lwp_mutex_lock (e3d70)
fee92384 __1cNObjectMonitorGenter26MpnGThread__v_ (5000, 525c, 5000, 50dc, 4800, 4af0) + 2d8
fee324d4 __1cSObjectSynchronizerKfast_enter6FnGHandle_pnJBasicLock_pnGThread__v_ (c807f65c, c807f7d4, 5941d0, 0, 35d654, fee328ec) + 68
fee32954 __1cQinstanceRefKlassZacquire_pending_list_lock6FpnJBasicLock__v_ (c807f7d4, ff170000, d4680000, 4491d4, fee1bc2c,
0) + 78
fee3167c __1cPVM_GC_OperationNdoit_prologue6M_i_ (c807f7bc, 4400, ff170000, 2d2b8, 4a6268, c807fa18) + 38
fee2e0b0 __1cIVMThreadHexecute6FpnMVM_Operation__v_ (c807f7bc, 963a8, 0, 0, 1, 0) + 90
fed2c2a4 __1cbCTwoGenerationCollectorPolicyRmem_allocate_work6MIii_pnIHeapWord__ (962c0, ff1c29ec, ff1c297c, ff131a26, 4800, 4998) + 160
fed22940 __1cNinstanceKlassRallocate_instance6MpnGThread__pnPinstanceOopDesc__ (ee009020, 5941d0, 15ca581, 3647f0, 4a6268, c807f8c8) + 180
fed34928 __1cLOptoRuntimeFnew_C6FpnMklassOopDesc_pnKJavaThread__v_ (ee009018, 5941d0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 28
fa435a58 ???????? (ee009018, e86de, 15ca4de, 50dc, 5941d0, c807f9c8)
fb36f9a4 ???????? (0, d412ccd8, ee046c28, ff170000, 0, 0)
fad8b278 ???????? (ee046c28, d6000c90, ee046530, 8, db8e8450, c807f9e8)
fad62abc ???????? (d412ccd8, ee046530, d6000c90, ee3bfa38, 8, c807fa18)
fa4b3c38 ???????? (c807fb9c, 0, f2134700, fa415e50, 8, c807faa8)
fa40010c ???????? (c807fc28, c807fe90, a, ee9e1e20, 4, c807fb40)
fed5d48c __1cJJavaCallsLcall_helper6FpnJJavaValue_pnMmethodHandle_pnRJavaCallArguments_pnGThread__v_ (c807fe88, c807fcf0, c807fda8, 5941d0, 5941d0, c807fd00) + 27c
fee4b784 __1cJJavaCallsMcall_virtual6FpnJJavaValue_nLKlassHandle_nMsymbolHandle_4pnRJavaCallArguments_pnGThread__v_ (ff170000, 594778, c807fd9c, c807fd98, c807fda8, 5941d0) + 164
fee5e8dc __1cJJavaCallsMcall_virtual6FpnJJavaValue_nGHandle_nLKlassHandle_nMsymbolHandle_5pnGThread__v_ (c807fe88, c807fe84, c807fe7c, c807fe74, c807fe6c, 5941d0) + 6c
fee6fc74 __1cMthread_entry6FpnKJavaThread_pnGThread__v_ (5941d0, 5941d0, 838588, 594778, 306d10, fee69254) + 128
fee6927c __1cKJavaThreadDrun6M_v_ (5941d0, 2c, 40, 0, 40, 0) + 284
fee6575c _start   (5941d0, fa1a1600, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 134
ff3758c0 lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
=============================================================================================
Also when it's having this problem, the "VM Thread" is always using a lot of processor time. We did a couple of pstacks today while it was having this problem, and this thread was stuck in the ONMethodSweeper.sweep for over 15 minutes when we finally killed the server.
From the thread dump:
"VM Thread" prio=5 tid=0x000e2d20 nid=0x2 runnable
From the first pstack:
=============================================================================================
----------------- lwp# 2 / thread# 2 --------------------
fed40c04 __1cXvirtual_call_RelocationIparse_ic6FrpnICodeBlob_rpC5rppnHoopDesc_pi_nNRelocIterator__ (42a2f4, fa5fa46d, ffffffff, fc4ffcb8, 42a2f4, 42a324) + 124
fed46318 __1cKCompiledIC2t5B6MpnKRelocation__v_ (42a2f0, fc4ffd24, fc4ffd4c, e802, 0, 6) + 38
fed90c38 __1cHnmethodVcleanup_inline_caches6M_v_ (fa5f7f88, fa608940, 1, 0, fa400000, 6) + 1ac
fede18b4 __1cONMethodSweeperFsweep6F_v_ (2cf38, 0, ffffffff, ff1cf1fc, ff1c66e8, fede1d44) + 1b0
fede1e6c __1cUSafepointSynchronizeFbegin6F_v_ (2cf38, ff1ba138, 5000, 50dc, 5000, 525c) + 248
feef1fd4 __1cIVMThreadEloop6M_v_ (4400, 4000, 4324, 4000, 42b0, 3800) + 3d4
feef1ae4 __1cIVMThreadDrun6M_v_ (e2d20, 2, 40, 0, 40, 0) + 8c
fee6575c _start   (e2d20, ff270200, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 134
ff3758c0 lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
=============================================================================================
Second pstack
=============================================================================================
----------------- lwp# 2 / thread# 2 --------------------
fed41180 __1cXvirtual_call_RelocationIparse_ic6FrpnICodeBlob_rpC5rppnHoopDesc_pi_nNRelocIterator__ (0, ff1b9664, ffffffff, fc4ffcb8, a6f2cc, fc4ffbd0) + 6a0
fed46318 __1cKCompiledIC2t5B6MpnKRelocation__v_ (a6f2c8, fc4ffd24, fc4ffd4c, e802, 0, 6) + 38
fed90c38 __1cHnmethodVcleanup_inline_caches6M_v_ (faded4c8, fadf2c80, 1, 0, fa400000, 6) + 1ac
fede18b4 __1cONMethodSweeperFsweep6F_v_ (2cf38, 0, ffffffff, ff1cf1fc, ff1c66e8, fede1d44) + 1b0
fede1e6c __1cUSafepointSynchronizeFbegin6F_v_ (2cf38, ff1ba138, 5000, 50dc, 5000, 525c) + 248
feef1fd4 __1cIVMThreadEloop6M_v_ (4400, 4000, 4324, 4000, 42b0, 3800) + 3d4
feef1ae4 __1cIVMThreadDrun6M_v_ (e2d20, 2, 40, 0, 40, 0) + 8c
fee6575c _start   (e2d20, ff270200, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 134
ff3758c0 lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
=============================================================================================
Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I'm trying to figure out if this is caused by something we're doing, or something relating to our environment and jvm options. Any ideas?

Thanks for the reply - I'm testing our app with the +UseConcMarkSweepGC now in our test environment to make sure it doesn't cause any problems there. Unfortunately the only place we've had this problem is on the production server, so it's extra difficult debugging this.
We're using the following memory options:
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-verbosegc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintHeapAtGCBTW, which c++filt version and options are you using? Our Solaris boxes only seem to have the GNU version installed. I was trying to run that on some of the other stack traces and wasn't getting anywhere, and didn't know if because it was GNU version wouldn't work on something compiled with the Sun compiler.
Thanks!
--Andy

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Below I attached the sapinst.log and jload.log with more detailed messages.
sapinst.log ###########
INFO 2007-03-12 22:06:24
Working directory changed to C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_~1\ONE_HOST.
INFO 2007-03-12 22:06:24
Output of D:\Java/bin/java.exe '-classpath' './sharedlib/antlr.jar;./sharedlib/exception.jar;./sharedlib/jddi.jar;./sharedlib/jload.jar;./sharedlib/logging.jar;./sharedlib/offlineconfiguration.jar;./sharedlib/opensqlsta.jar;./sharedlib/tc_sec_secstorefs.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\base.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\util.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\sqlserver.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\spy.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jce_export.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jsse.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_smime.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_ssl.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/w3c_http.jar' '-showversion' '-Xmx512m' 'com.sap.inst.jload.Jload' '-sec' 'WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key' '-dataDir' 'S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP' '-job' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML' '-log' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log' is written to the logfile C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_~1\ONE_HOST/jload.java.log.
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Execution of the command "D:\Java/bin/java.exe '-classpath' './sharedlib/antlr.jar;./sharedlib/exception.jar;./sharedlib/jddi.jar;./sharedlib/jload.jar;./sharedlib/logging.jar;./sharedlib/offlineconfiguration.jar;./sharedlib/opensqlsta.jar;./sharedlib/tc_sec_secstorefs.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\base.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\util.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\sqlserver.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\spy.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jce_export.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jsse.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_smime.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_ssl.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/w3c_http.jar' '-showversion' '-Xmx512m' 'com.sap.inst.jload.Jload' '-sec' 'WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key' '-dataDir' 'S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP' '-job' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML' '-log' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log'" finished with return code 1. Output:
java version "1.4.2_13"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_13-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_13-b06, mixed mode)
12.03.2007 22:06:25 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
INFO: Jload -sec WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key -dataDir S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP -job C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML -log C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log
12.03.2007 22:06:26 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
SCHWERWIEGEND: couldn't connect to DB
com.sap.sql.log.OpenSQLException: Could not load class com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver.
ERROR 2007-03-12 22:06:26
CJS-20065 Execution of JLoad tool 'D:\Java/bin/java.exe '-classpath' './sharedlib/antlr.jar;./sharedlib/exception.jar;./sharedlib/jddi.jar;./sharedlib/jload.jar;./sharedlib/logging.jar;./sharedlib/offlineconfiguration.jar;./sharedlib/opensqlsta.jar;./sharedlib/tc_sec_secstorefs.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\base.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\util.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\sqlserver.jar;D:\usr\sap/WPT/JC10/j2ee\jdbc\spy.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jce_export.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_jsse.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_smime.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/iaik_ssl.jar;D:/usr/sap/WPT/SYS/global/security/lib/tools/w3c_http.jar' '-showversion' '-Xmx512m' 'com.sap.inst.jload.Jload' '-sec' 'WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key' '-dataDir' 'S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP' '-job' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML' '-log' 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log'' aborts with returncode 1. Check 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log' and 'C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.java.log' for more information.
jload.log ###########
12.03.07 22:06 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
INFO: Jload -sec WPT,jdbc/pool/WPT,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.properties,D:\usr\sap\WPT\SYS\global/security/data/SecStore.key -dataDir S:/D51030724\J2EE_OSINDEP\J2EE-ENG/JDMP -job C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/IMPORT.XML -log C:\PROGRA1\SAPINS1\NW04SR1\WEBAS_1\ONE_HOST/jload.log
12.03.07 22:06 com.sap.inst.jload.Jload main
SEVERE: couldn't connect to DB
com.sap.sql.log.OpenSQLException: Could not load class com.ddtek.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver.
Best regards,
Bernd

Hello Kairat,
Please follow the below mentioned guide to install it.
Check all the parameters to set and run pre requisite checker before starting installation.
Keep in mind that before starting any SAP installation you should always run prerequisite checker.
https://websmp205.sap-ag.de/instguides --> SAP Netweaver -->SAP Netweaver 7.0 -- > Installations --> EHP2
Regards,
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