[Q] Frozen LauncherPro now I'm stuck.. - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was just finished installing a webtop hack for the Bell Atrix and apparently I didn't "unthaw" everything Moto related I needed to before "freezing" LauncherPro to resort back to the stock launcher..and now I've got no homescreen or nothing..
The phone boots up fine and everything..and I can get to my unlock code screen (and do an emergency call etc), but as soon as I unlock my phone it starts glitching out.
What can I do? Reboots do nothing..I do have access to the phone via webtop mod now..but even the Mobile View there does nothing..
Any ideas anyone?

I'm no expert, but have lurked long enough to guess that you probably need to flash the sbf file or something, to get yourself back to stock.
Problem is there is no Bell sbf yet. One has popped up here the last day or so but it is actually the Aussy sbf, which does technically work but there may be underlying "issues".

The problem is that you have no laucher installed?
If so:
Try to push the blurhome apk through adb.
Don't know how to do so however...
Use search

if i remember right, all you have to do is change the launcherpro apk back to apk because tiba freezes them by changing file extension, in webtop, can you access apk files in the system.

benny6812 said:
if i remember right, all you have to do is change the launcherpro apk back to apk because tiba freezes them by changing file extension, in webtop, can you access apk files in the system.
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I can't seem to get into the system folders though thru webtop or the Moto Phone Portal.. All's I can get to are the internal and external SD card..
Is there a way I could push a Launcherpro apk to the phone?

Rickroller said:
I can't seem to get into the system folders though thru webtop or the Moto Phone Portal.. All's I can get to are the internal and external SD card..
Is there a way I could push a Launcherpro apk to the phone?
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I assume you can rename a file through adb but you need to know the path and that it gets called when its frozen.
Otherwise you can do a factory reset through recovery.

Thanks..yea I just went ahead and did a factory reset. Was pleasantly surprised when I never lost root, webtop, or my Gingerbread theme (figured it would get wiped to scratch..lol)

nice! welcome back

Rickroller said:
Thanks..yea I just went ahead and did a factory reset. Was pleasantly surprised when I never lost root, webtop, or my Gingerbread theme (figured it would get wiped to scratch..lol)
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In the future you can just use a desktop and log onto you're market account and download any launcher. It will be pushed to your phone and you can proceed to unfreeze your launcher. Won't lose any data that way.
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good point I had thought of that but my thinking was limited to redownloading launcher pro which wouldn't have worked. meanwhile adw or another launcher probably would have worked out.

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Serious issue

Hello, I have to let you know that my knowledge over android is limited.
My (rooted) p500 was working flawlessly.
One day the music app just stopped working. I tried to uninstall it with an unistaller, and try to install it again. It wouldnt install for no reason. Just keeps "installing" and never ends.
Next step was performing full backup with the titanium backup. After that i restored the phone to the factory settings.
And here comes the major problem. Any app i try to intall Just keeps "installing" and never ends. Even from the market or just by running the apk.
I performed several restores to factory setting and it didnt help. I cleared the updates the cashe and the data from the Market app. Didnt help.
Is there any way to bring my phone back to normal?
use AppMonster to do your installs/uninstalls or Astro File Manager. I've experienced this issue with the latest version of titanium backup.
Well at this time my phone is useless. I can't install anything.
Is there a way back?
sspyross said:
Well at this time my phone is useless. I can't install anything.
Is there a way back?
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have you tried resetting to factory mode? HOME+VOL DOWN+POWER
I'll do it right now.
Well i thing holding down those keys is the same as doing it from the settings.
So yes i did it once again and nothing happened. Still cannot intall a s#!t!
oh boy... it sounds like it's time for an LG Stock ROM flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883314
here is the stock ROM:
csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdata/WEBSW/LGP509BK/ATMOBK/V10l_00/V10L_00.kdz
edited for latest stock rom.
I'll try it also! Thank you!
If its not too late, it might be better to use a lower version ROM as that is V10L. Which I believe is NOT ROOTABLE.
AzNxJoHnNy said:
If its not too late, it might be better to use a lower version ROM as that is V10L. Which I believe is NOT ROOTABLE.
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I tried to do the trick but i could make it through the drivers setup. I put the phone in the emergency mode. After that, and seeing that i couldn't got it working. I restarted the phone, did a reset to factory settings. My phone at this time WAS working.
I started installing apps, but after installing 13 of them, it stuck again. From now on it's in the same situation as before, i cannot install any more.
Should i try the trick again?
Try a different sd card.
Do you have custom recovery? If not, install it. And then you can install any custom rom.
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk.
What else have you done with your phone?
My phone did something like this before when I tried to force it to directly install everything new to my memory card which was Class 2. I used some command prompt stuff I found on the internet to instruct my phone to shift to SD card.\ storage.
It would be able to install some files and I even remember Angry Birds would install to SD card even before the mod. Then it would stop and hang at the installing screen after a while.
The solution (after a week at the service center) was to get a faster memory card. That's what the guy said. My temporary fix was to install everything to the Internal Memory like it is supposed to, and move them to the SD card using Titanium Backup. But this made some apps move too slowly...
lekhwani said:
Do you have custom recovery? If not, install it. And then you can install any custom rom.
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk.
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Would be nice if i could istall anything.
raylgo said:
What else have you done with your phone?
My phone did something like this before when I tried to force it to directly install everything new to my memory card which was Class 2. I used some command prompt stuff I found on the internet to instruct my phone to shift to SD card.\ storage.
It would be able to install some files and I even remember Angry Birds would install to SD card even before the mod. Then it would stop and hang at the installing screen after a while.
The solution (after a week at the service center) was to get a faster memory card. That's what the guy said. My temporary fix was to install everything to the Internal Memory like it is supposed to, and move them to the SD card using Titanium Backup. But this made some apps move too slowly...
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I used an unistaller to unistall the preinstalled music app because it stopped working. When i tried to install it again that was it, it hangs at the installing screen forever.
According to the sd the only thing i used the move2sd, but i didn't use it.
My sd is class 6.
Is it normal that the superuser (root) remains after recovering to the factory settings?
Should i try to reinstall the software by myself or let the lg technicians do it?
Mind-blowing (for me) update.
While using the device without the sd, the apps get installed normally!
WTF?
PS: Should i use the FAT or the FAT32 file system on my sd card?
I used another sd and it seems to work till now.
Finally.
I formatted the sd card (fat32 just as it was before) and now everything works perfect.
The only minor issue is that i cannot install the music.apk
It always fails. I like when it fails, at least it doesnt freeze.
Do you now any way i could install it, or should i get over it and use an other music app?
sspyross said:
Finally.
I formatted the sd card (fat32 just as it was before) and now everything works perfect.
The only minor issue is that i cannot install the music.apk
It always fails. I like when it fails, at least it doesnt freeze.
Do you now any way i could install it, or should i get over it and use an other music app?
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use Winamp from the Android Market.
sspyross said:
Finally.
I formatted the sd card (fat32 just as it was before) and now everything works perfect.
The only minor issue is that i cannot install the music.apk
It always fails. I like when it fails, at least it doesnt freeze.
Do you now any way i could install it, or should i get over it and use an other music app?
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Yes, you could get over it and try some other app. There's plenty of them on the market. I settled for doubleTwist.
AzNxJoHnNy said:
If its not too late, it might be better to use a lower version ROM as that is V10L. Which I believe is NOT ROOTABLE.
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I have rooted V10L no problem with z4root

messed my phone up

so i downloaded bamf 1.6.3 remix then tried to use the desense thing on the page and it worked but it loaded and said there was a problem with the ui or watever and i needed to clear my data, didn think much of it so i hit the feeling lucky button then tried to launch adw as my home launcher and now i cant get to my home screen at all its all black. messaging halfway works and phone calls work if i recieve them or go threw messaging to make the call. tried rebooting into recovery and it tried to load that image file so i pulled the battery and now im just kinda trying to get feedback from someone on how to fix this.
got it to connect to my pc finally should i delete the pg05img.zip file and reboot into recovery?
I would re flash the Rom. Install adw then use the de sense script.
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You should definitely either delete or rename the PG05IMG.zip so that you dont coincidently flash it in the future. You could try to long press on the screen as if you were going to add a widget and add the market to whatever screen your defaulted in and try to remove ADW and reinstall it and hope that works. Or maybe try another launcher. I use Launcher pro myself and it works fine.
yeah, I made the mistake of installing a new radio, leaving the pb05img on the card, then installing a new rom on top of it. When it didn't like the rom (couldn't get to the desktop portion or whatever its called), I couldn't go in recovery from hboot either.
What I did was...
remove the memory card, go into hboot, choose recovery, once in recovery I put the microsd card in from under the battery WHILE the phone was still up and running (needed a knife to do it)
Then mounted the sdcard within CWM and chose my backup.

Contacts Issue and Apps.zip

I have found a couple people that have frozen or removed apps and are starting to get issues with their contacts. Not being able to remove, add, update, or anything with them. So I am posting a zip file off all of the apps for people that have removed them without backing them up. You simply need to restore the app that you removed which is most likely a yahoo contacts or email that is tied into the contacts. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2VU48HSU
Great resource this. I was going to post mine up soon, but you beat me to it. Only had my X2 for a day.
Do you restore these with titanium backup? Because I backed up the bloat ware and later tried to restore it to no luck. However the apps were frozen when backed up so perhaps that caused an issue?
I don't think titanium backup is good at restoring. I've tried it a couple times with no luck. if you place a copy of the zip file extracted on your sd card and open it with files select the application you want to install you can install it from there. I personally only like titanium backup for freezing the application I don't use and cannot remove.
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I have tried to install the apps in your list but some would not be installed. Is there another way I can force them to be installed? By putting them in a location?
The list is:
Backup Assistant
Backup Assistant Client
DLNA
DLNA System Service
Emergency Alerts
All Authenticators
Help Center
Home Screen Tips
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.2.2
News
Pico TTS
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Status
Sticky Note
Tasks
Video Editor Lite
Voice Commands
Just use root explorer and place them in system/data or push through adb.
Reboot after you place them there.
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Sorry, I'm rather new to this whole root thing. I uninstalled backupassistant with Titanium backup and my contacts got screwed. I downloaded the zip and tried to install Backupassistant.apk but it says "application was not installed". Is there a specific way that I need to reinstall? Root explorer does not allow me to change permissions from read only for "system" so I can't move the apk files in there.
ffejin123 said:
Sorry, I'm rather new to this whole root thing. I uninstalled backupassistant with Titanium backup and my contacts got screwed. I downloaded the zip and tried to install Backupassistant.apk but it says "application was not installed". Is there a specific way that I need to reinstall? Root explorer does not allow me to change permissions from read only for "system" so I can't move the apk files in there.
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Check and see if you are rooted first. You cannot install system files as a normal app. They must be pushed to system/app or placed there using root explorer. Check and see if you are rooted or that you superuser has blocked root explorer.
ffejin123 said:
Sorry, I'm rather new to this whole root thing. I uninstalled backupassistant with Titanium backup and my contacts got screwed. I downloaded the zip and tried to install Backupassistant.apk but it says "application was not installed". Is there a specific way that I need to reinstall? Root explorer does not allow me to change permissions from read only for "system" so I can't move the apk files in there.
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I think I know what your talking about, follow Nitros instructions but when you are at the starting folder in Root Explorer press the Mount R/W button, I believe as long as you stay in the program (or don't press back too many times, because if you are at the base folder and press back it will go back to R/O) any folder you go into will say "R/W" at the top. So just press the button when its available and THEN go into the folder you need to go to and the setting will stick.
Edit: actually I just was messing with my phone and the reason I saw that behavior is because I was in the SD card where its always R/W. If its not showing up then yeah I'd listen to Nitro on this one, though I have no idea how you got rid of Backup assistant without root.
So I just copied the app list you posted onto my phone and now its in a boot loop. I thought that when I copied all of them over it would let me choose to not replace files already there. Now the phone is in a boot loop.
This may sound stupid, but I am kinda hoping its reinstalling the apks, one with each boot? But I kinda have a sneaking suspicious that I just ruined my phone since there is no SBF
Also, the boot times before restarting are not consistent, does this mean anything?
ryoxsinfar said:
So I just copied the app list you posted onto my phone and now its in a boot loop. I thought that when I copied all of them over it would let me choose to not replace files already there. Now the phone is in a boot loop.
This may sound stupid, but I am kinda hoping its reinstalling the apks, one with each boot? But I kinda have a sneaking suspicious that I just ruined my phone since there is no SBF
Also, the boot times before restarting are not consistent, does this mean anything?
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If you are in a bootloop but all of your apps are still in place there is a slight chance that you could do a factory reset through recovery and the phone will boot.
nitroglycerine33 said:
Check and see if you are rooted first. You cannot install system files as a normal app. They must be pushed to system/app or placed there using root explorer. Check and see if you are rooted or that you superuser has blocked root explorer.
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Yeah I am rooted with gingerbreak 1.2. As of now Im not really concerned with the contacts anymore because I can still add and save new contacts. My concern now is that when the OTA Gingerbread update is out for the X2, will I be able to install it without the original Bloat.
nitroglycerine33 said:
If you are in a bootloop but all of your apps are still in place there is a slight chance that you could do a factory reset through recovery and the phone will boot.
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Yeah my office tech support guy took a look at it and tried it, we got an error indicator icon when we tried. I don't think it finished copying, I think everything dying killed the copy process and left something important unfinished.
Now I am a little wiser for my new phone.
ryoxsinfar said:
I have tried to install the apps in your list but some would not be installed. Is there another way I can force them to be installed? By putting them in a location?
The list is:
Backup Assistant
Backup Assistant Client
DLNA
DLNA System Service
Emergency Alerts
All Authenticators
Help Center
Home Screen Tips
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.2.2
News
Pico TTS
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Status
Sticky Note
Tasks
Video Editor Lite
Voice Commands
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So I'm guessing the only way to get these programs reinstalled is if the SBF is available for the X2, which it is not?

[Q] I Accidently deleted the stock internet app and now i have no internet...help?

So i have a galaxy S I9000 and im not very hi tek...i rooted my phone so i could download gameboy games and i may have also got an app to delete stock android apps...accidently deleted the stock internet app and now i have no internet....i have tried a factory reset and a hard reset...formatted the internal memory and cleared cache and may have threw the phone at the wall...(china made phone cases cost so little but really do help the average angry person)....im willing to try anything short of sending my phone away to get it fixed or running it over and claiming a new one on insurence...can someone please help
Why don't you just go to the market and download an internet app?
YoungSinema said:
Why don't you just go to the market and download an internet app?
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....no market....no internet
Beetz said:
So i have a galaxy S I9000 and im not very hi tek...i rooted my phone so i could download gameboy games and i may have also got an app to delete stock android apps...accidently deleted the stock internet app and now i have no internet....i have tried a factory reset and a hard reset...formatted the internal memory and cleared cache and may have threw the phone at the wall...(china made phone cases cost so little but really do help the average angry person)....im willing to try anything short of sending my phone away to get it fixed or running it over and claiming a new one on insurence...can someone please help
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As the previous poster said, you can just download another browser app from the market. Your phone does not depend on the browser app for a data connection. If for some reason you can't do that:
Check the I9k forums and find a CWM flashable, stock ROM. Download it, use 7zip or winrar (or any other windows archive program- google search 7zip, its free to download) and open the ROM file. Go to: system/app. Find browser.apk and extract it to your desktop. Use adb to install it: adb push /system/app/browser.apk and you should be all set.
thanks for that did kinda help...is there anyway i can just remove everything on the phone and re install everything....kinda like re-booting with all the preloaded samsung apps...regardless if i deleted some or not?
Beetz said:
thanks for that did kinda help...is there anyway i can just remove everything on the phone and re install everything....kinda like re-booting with all the preloaded samsung apps?
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No, not really. You would need to reflash the stock system image. Factory resets just wipe user settings, app data, and other stuff like that. It won't restore anything. If you want to do a reinstall, look into using Odin to flash back to stock. Just BE CAREFUL. Odin can brick you if you don't know what you're doing. Better off following the steps I outlined, or installing CWM and flashing a stock ROM. Again, the safest way to do what you want is what I previously posted.
if i updated through kies not a month or 2 ago and im using an australian SGS GT I9K 16BG with optus what would i be running (eg...gingerbread, Eclair, Kernal, Froyo)?
just get an market apk file n install
10tonhammr said:
No, not really. You would need to reflash the stock system image. Factory resets just wipe user settings, app data, and other stuff like that. It won't restore anything. If you want to do a reinstall, look into using Odin to flash back to stock. Just BE CAREFUL. Odin can brick you if you don't know what you're doing. Better off following the steps I outlined, or installing CWM and flashing a stock ROM. Again, the safest way to do what you want is what I previously posted.
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ok i have fixed everything with odin...i followed it word for word and was really simple 2 downloads and 5 mins and im now on 2.3 gingerbread with all stock apps....used pathikshah .com/blog/install-android-2-3-3-gingerbread-on-samsung-galaxy-s/

[Solved] System Recovery Disappears After Reboot

I recently received a new phone (sent the other one back because it wouldn't boot/charge anymore). Anyways, I am not sure if this is something that was occurring on my previous phone or not, but if I install MOTODX2_Bootstrap_signed.apk (which is a package I have had forever... maybe there is a newer version or something?) everything works fine until I reboot. I can get into recovery and create/restore a backup, install .zip files, etc. However, after I reboot the phone the icon for System Recovery is no longer in my app drawer. I can re-run the .apk from my external SD card and everything works fine again... until I reboot. Anyone seen this?
BTW Stock 2.3.5 1.3.418
I had that happen before, my solution was move it to system apps, worked at the time
I've SBFed since, and it's working fine
Xeno62277 said:
I recently received a new phone (sent the other one back because it wouldn't boot/charge anymore). Anyways, I am not sure if this is something that was occurring on my previous phone or not, but if I install MOTODX2_Bootstrap_signed.apk (which is a package I have had forever... maybe there is a newer version or something?) everything works fine until I reboot. I can get into recovery and create/restore a backup, install .zip files, etc. However, after I reboot the phone the icon for System Recovery is no longer in my app drawer. I can re-run the .apk from my external SD card and everything works fine again... until I reboot. Anyone seen this?
BTW Stock 2.3.5 1.3.418
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moving the app to your phone
DROID DOES, Apple did...like I forgot when
Pixelation said:
moving the app to your phone
DROID DOES, Apple did...like I forgot when
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I guess I didn't clarify... I am not running it from my external sd card. That is where I have the installer... I have to reinstall it after every reboot.
sd_shadow said:
I had that happen before, my solution was move it to system apps, worked at the time
I've SBFed since, and it's working fine
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That fixed it... though I don't know what changed. I remember before just hitting the .apk on my external sd card, it installed, and I was fat and happy after that... go figure.
Thanks!

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