Major problems after ICS on my Bionic

So I've had the Bionic since it was released and have never had any major problems with it. It wasn't until a few days ago when I woke up to a notice of the ICS update finally being available, so of course I pressed on Install now. I ended up going to sleep again and waking up later to a frozen screen. I did a battery pull since it was just frozen on the unlock screen, and after it booted up I was having issues with everything. Half of my icons were gone, neither of my text messaging apps worked and would force close randomly. I kept getting random reboots while just staring at my phone, sometimes many times in a row.
I ended up taking it to a couple different Verizon stores, the people at the first one told me they haven't heard of this problem nor did they know ICS was even out for Bionic yet, the second store was like "all you can do is FDR". After being hesitant on doing that since I didn't want to lose anything, I finally did it. After the restore, it hung on the "preparing system" screen for at least 2 hours before I finally did a forced restart. After that it decided to continue with everything...things were going okay for a little while, until I started to reinstall my apps. Then I started getting random reboots again, force closes on programs, and horrible battery life. I decided to give it a couple days to maybe settle in, and well, I thought it was better, but last night I started getting random reboots again and force closes on a lot of apps.
This is getting extremely irritating as I cannot use my phone much in fear of it crashing or rebooting itself. In the time it took me to type this, it has restarted 2-3 times, which is why I'm glad I have a laptop instead of having to type this on my phone.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or should I request a replacement phone? I have not rooted nor installed anything that changes system settings, and these problems only started after the ICS update, so it is not anything I did to my phone.

I've got the same problem after the update 3 days ago. The homescreen keeps closing and reloading - that takes >10 seconds every time. This update made my phone unusable. I can't get to anything because the interface keeps rebooting. I tried restarting it, taking the battery out and factory reset. Nothing helped - it works fine for about 5 minutes and starts messing up again. I can't even answer a call on it because it just freezes when I use any interface features. OMG... Motorola never again!!!
I'm taking it to the store lets see what I can get out of them. Who is testing these updates? Monkeys? That's what causes people to switch to iphones.

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Hi everyone,
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So I restarted the Powerbook since this obviously wasn't going anywhere. Apple logo came up, the little gear spinning thing as well and of course I could hear the HDD being accessed. After two hours of doing this I aborted and decided to boot into safe mode to install the combo update. Again, same situation. HDD running like crazy and Apple logo, but no login screen coming up.
So I decided to boot from the Install disk and have the disc utility check the HDD... but of course after selecting the language and clicking continue at the screen when the HDD first shows up it starts to access the HDD... I can't select the HDD, I can't even get to the DU, nothing. It's been running like that for hours now. It seems like whenever the HDD is involved in something the accessing starts and just keeps running without any result. The HDD is getting very hot already.
I've never run into such a problem before, so I'm kinda clueless what to do next. I don't mind to reinstall, but I have some files on that HDD that I need (some notes in text files, some emails and so on).
So at this point I can't boot into OS X to access the HDD and I can't use the installer disk to access DU or even reinstall if I wanted to. I don't think the HDD is broken, this only happened after the 10.4.8 update. It just seems that every HDD access takes hours and hours longer than it should.
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I'm getting the error message when I tap the People or Phone icons:
Unfortunately, Contacts has stopped.
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Good to find this forum on Android issues... Thanks Verizon!
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Recently updates my bionic to ics and as a whole it works fine but there is one problem I am having.
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A Mac expert buddy of mine did observe that if Apple releases a not-so-great update to the OS, usually the next one kicks butt. But my patience is wearing thin...

Hello Paul.
No problems/issues here.
Did you check the hard drive for any directory problems with Disk First Aid repair via Disk Utility when booted from your Tiger install package before installing the 10.4.8 Update?
Did you disconnect all external peripheral devices and quit all running applications before the install?
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
For future reference before installing a major OS Update such as 10.4.8, check this link.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
If there is no change after performing all system troubleshooting procedures per the link provided, did you use Software Update to install the 10.4.8 Update?
If so, download the 10.4.8 PPC Combo Update and try re-installing it.
A Mac expert buddy of mine did observe that if Apple releases
a not-so-great update to the OS, usually the next one kicks butt.
But my patience is wearing thin...
After each and every major OS update is released by Apple, there are a significant number of posts here claiming the update killed this or that or reporting a particular problem always blamed on the update. If there is a 10.4.9 update released by Apple, it will be no different here afterwards.
Although there have been times a portion of a particular major OS update is determined to be the cause of a reported problem, this is usually quickly addressed by Apple but for the most part, the process of installing a major OS update brings an unnoticed/underlying problem to the surface which is not caused by the update.

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My Livedock stopped working after the ICS Update (via PC Companion).
I tried uninstalling the app update so I could reinstall it again and see if this fixed the problem however I now get the following error when trying to update livedock to the latest version:
"Package file was not signed correctly. Uninstall the previous version of the app and try again."
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Try to reinstall the phone software via PC Companion.
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Warning: think seriously before upgrading to 10.4.11. I did this recently and the following happened:
Update went well - computer started normally
Then noticed that the Air Port wasnt working - was unable to find my network.
After a restart, there was a Kernel Panic on startup - I could only boot in safe mode.
Used disc utility and fsck and all reported no problems.
Hardware test also normal
Performed and Archive and install back to 10.4 - but computer would not restart and still had the Kernel panic on start up - had to finish the install in safe mode after which it restarted and had another Kernel panic.
Switched off and left for several hours - then it started up ok??
Have now regraded to 10.4.10 as before but still have no Air Port working.
I have no idea why the airport is not working now as it worked when I was at 10.4.0 - also why the Kernel Panic seems not to occur after the machine has been turned off for a few hours.
Have not wiped the drive yet as this will be a last resort - can anyone help or offer advice?
Apple are aware of the problem I have experienced and have been very helpful so far but this does not excuse the fact that the machine was working fine before this update and now I am looking at a complete new system install!

Same ever since upgrading to 10.4.11 I am getting Gray screen crashes alot about every hour mostly seems to be triggered using safari.
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Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000007C671B8C PC=0x000000000009AD24
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x4FAF1780)
PC=0x0009AD24; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0x7C671B8C; DSISR=0x00200000; LR=0x0009AC00; R1=0x36F3B500; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
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0x000F000C 0x00099EE4 0x00098C94 0x0006ACEC 0x0006B3D8 0x0006B8C8
0x00038348 0x00266E58 0x002738D4 0x000252AC 0x000ABFB8 0x00026D50 0x000A89BC 0x000A877C
0x000ABB80
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFBCF0
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x4FAF1780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x4EDC4A00)
PC=0xFFFF9374; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x005E7F58; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x90A40C00; R1=0xBFFF9310; XCP=0x00000003 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000954F8 0x00095A10 0x00026898 0x000A8204 0x000ABB80
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x4FAF1780)
PC=0x0009AD24; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0x7C671B8C; DSISR=0x00200000; LR=0x0009AC00; R1=0x36F3B500; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
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0x000F000C 0x00099EE4 0x00098C94 0x0006ACEC 0x0006B3D8 0x0006B8C8
0x00038348 0x00266E58 0x002738D4 0x000252AC 0x000ABFB8 0x00026D50 0x000A89BC 0x000A877C
0x000ABB80
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFBCF0
Exception state (sv=0x4EDC4A00)
PC=0xFFFF9374; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x005E7F58; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x90A40C00; R1=0xBFFF9310; XCP=0x00000003 (Unknown)
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Greetings all, have been spending a lot of time reading and trying this and that to fix this issue with out having to post a thread about it, but here we are.
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Then boot up re-started until it got to rpcbind.
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I appreciate any and all responses and guidance you provide, I apologize for this being long, but wanted to supply as much helpful information as possible.
All the best,
Ian
Last edited by ichase (2011-05-09 14:16:47)

you're right, this issue really doesn't make sense. but, what also doesn't make sense is why you're still using HAL. arch uses udev now, the successor and replacement to hal. i'm sure if you're using both at the same time, you are really screwing things up. i would download a brand new image of arch and reinstall it. theres a slight possibility that udev doesn't have certain drivers for an important piece of hardware you have. this is highly unlikely but you never know.
depending on what this is used for, you might want to use something more dated like debian. i myself have converted from debian to arch and i like arch a lot more but debian is a bit more hardware friendly than arch, and on a fresh install it is less likely to encounter issues.

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Here is what I suggest you do to extricate yourself from your predicament. Boot from the external HDD and see if you can access the info on your computer and try backing up your Users Folder which contains your data and library. You can use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone it, or just drag and drop it. After you have secured your Users Folder then boot from the install disk of the OS of your choice, wipe disk using a simple erase, then reinstall your OS. You can then migrate your Users Folder back.
Good luck.
cornelius
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