I am new to phonegap programming and hoping someone can help me out here:
cordova 1.7.0, Jquery 1.7.2 and JQM 1.1.0 are used. The app is being tested on Android.
I ran into troubles when upgrading from jquery-1.7.1 to jquery-1.7.2, so I quickly switched back. The JQM site says it currently supports jQuery 1.6.4 and 1.7.1. Could you try downgrading to 1.7.1 and see if it works?
(Using cordova 1.8.0 and JQM-bleeding edge)