Did you apply OTA and lose dialer? - HTC EVO 3D

I read on another website that if your dialer icon goes missing from the lock screen and apps after the ota update then just do a hard reset and it will come back.

animal7296 said:
I read on another website that if your dialer icon goes missing from the lock screen and apps after the ota update then just do a hard reset and it will come back.
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Yea I lost mine after the OTA. I just replaced that icon with the internet icon since I use it more.

yep
I'd like to have it back but I didn't spend 4 hours today transferring all my stuff to just erase it all again.

i-l-l said:
yep
I'd like to have it back but I didn't spend 4 hours today transferring all my stuff to just erase it all again.
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There may be another update but till then it look like it is gone. I for one will not OTA tomorrow when I get mine.

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3d system update

got a message for the 1.13.651.7 update.
anyone else get this and know what its for?
Joey_UFC said:
got a message for the 1.13.651.7 update.
anyone else get this and know what its for?
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Interesting....have not got this yet
In addition to sending many Premier customers their preordered HTC EVO 3Ds yesterday, Sprint began rolling out a new software update (version 1.13.651.7) to fix a force close issue in the calendar.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with OTA updates, the new build fixes one thing but breaks a few other things. In this case, the phone app is removed from the Sense 3.0 lock screen launcher and pick list, certain app icons get replaced by "generic green robots," and the sync icon won't get out of the taskbar (even when the phone isn't syncing).
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thats from good and evo .com
No update for me!!!! lol
I have done all updates even checked there site out nothin new right now. No issues for me using the lastest updates no bugs yet or crashes.
Old update.
http://www.goodandevo.net/2011/06/htc-evo-3d-software-update-1136517-fixes-then-adds-bugs.html
reaper24 said:
I have done all updates even checked there site out nothin new right now. No issues for me using the lastest updates no bugs yet or crashes.
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You let updates touch your phone, Reap? lol
i really wanna update so i can get that stupid update from my top bar but my calendar does not force close and don't want to pick up bugs for something i don't need.
and i can't watch Green hornet without updating.
Joey_UFC said:
i really wanna update so i can get that stupid update from my top bar but my calendar does not force close and don't want to pick up bugs for something i don't need.
and i can't watch Green hornet without updating.
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You can watch Green Hornet http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1147632
The update didn't work for me but installing the app apk overwriting it, did.
I got it today, too... was like 26 megs, or so... waiting to install till I read more feedback
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Joey_UFC said:
i really wanna update so i can get that stupid update from my top bar but my calendar does not force close and don't want to pick up bugs for something i don't need.
and i can't watch Green hornet without updating.
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Just add the HTC Watch widget to a homescreen and launch the green hornet from there. If that doesn't work (although it should) then check in themes and apps section for the Watch update without the full OTA.
Got it yesterday after a few hours of that i had the phone, I thought it was old tho
From my EVO 3D

Don't want to take next week's ICS OTA

Am happily running on January RUU of GB.
Rooted with Amon Ra and deleted a bunch of stuff.
All the news is saying that the Zound's ICS will come
out April 6th. I am unlocked S-0n and I would rather not
take the new stuff yet.
Please can you suggest what's gonna happen when the OTA
is released and it's not wanted?
Thanks.
I think there is an app called FOTAkill for that.. maybe do a Google search for that..
just dont do the update it will ask before it downloads
flyyx said:
just dont do the update it will ask before it downloads
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even if you cancel the ota, the problem is that in every couple hours, the ota pops up again for install.
qudwis said:
even if you cancel the ota, the problem is that in every couple hours, the ota pops up again for install.
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This and when the January one came around I clicked don't install several times and then when I had to reboot at one point it did it on it's own. I was annoyed.
Just delete the ota files I will list em for ya do you have titanium back up just batch uninstall these...
HTC COTA Client
MCC_OTA
That should stop your phone from receiving the update cus I'm not positive but on my ego those are the apks that I know searched for an update for the phone so should be the same.
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Looks like your advice works...
Hey - You're the Easter Bunnee about 3 days early.
Went to Google Play (Market) and got Root Explorer.
Went to system - apps - and took out two items with
HTC OTA titles. Didn't seem to mess anything else up.
Easy solution - Thanks.....
Root Explorer is a rooted phone's best friend IMO.

Constantly Crashing

I have an issue that I cannot pinpoint the cause of figure out a solution to. Maybe someone here can help.
My Sprint G3 is always crashing and rebooting the launcher (phone doesn't turn off, just closes evwrything). I'd be in the middle of any app and it will randomly close every single app. The running apps page always displays after every crash. It's as if too much ram is being used, but it will happen even after a fresh phone restart and launching something simple like WhatsApp.
My phone is rooted via the Stump one click method. I don't have any type of rooted mods enabled, only Adfree. I use Nova launcher (paid & updated).
Is there some sort of event viewer that will log the activity of the phone so I probably someone here can see what might be causing the phone to crash? I'm tempted to Unroot and restore back to stock... But if I can avoid that, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Syph said:
I have an issue that I cannot pinpoint the cause of figure out a solution to. Maybe someone here can help.
My Sprint G3 is always crashing and rebooting the launcher (phone doesn't turn off, just closes evwrything). I'd be in the middle of any app and it will randomly close every single app. The running apps page always displays after every crash. It's as if too much ram is being used, but it will happen even after a fresh phone restart and launching something simple like WhatsApp.
My phone is rooted via the Stump one click method. I don't have any type of rooted mods enabled, only Adfree. I use Nova launcher (paid & updated).
Is there some sort of event viewer that will log the activity of the phone so I probably someone here can see what might be causing the phone to crash? I'm tempted to Unroot and restore back to stock... But if I can avoid that, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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If you're running ART that could cause that. Go back to dalvik and see if that cures it.
engine95 said:
If you're running ART that could cause that. Go back to dalvik and see if that cures it.
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I believe I'm still on dalvik as I never changed that setting.
Syph said:
I believe I'm still on dalvik as I never changed that setting.
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Maybe it's Adfree then. There's a special version that some people are using. It's in it forum somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
In the meantime, uninstall it and see if it goes away.
engine95 said:
Maybe it's Adfree then. There's a special version that some people are using. It's in it forum somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
In the meantime, uninstall it and see if it goes away.
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Thanks. I've reverted my adfree hosts file and uninstalled it. But I think the issue persists. If I try to use any app that clears cache, specifically Clean Master, when it's doing the scan of apps it'll crash midway through the scan. If I go to system settings > Apps & wait for all the downloaded apps to load the details, it'll crash there too.
This is the oddest thing.
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This visual may help. It's a video of me running Clean Master & seeing how it just crashes. I can replicate this issue every time like this, but the crashes are random when using other apps.
Link to video: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9-N9bB35E-QdnY3Zk1FaW9EMXM/edit?usp=docslist_api
Ok, so I began uninstalling some apps that I thought may have been the issue... Which they weren't as the crashing still continues. I decided to reboot under safe mode and the problem occurs there too.
I honestly cannot recall if this began before or after rooting with stump. I may have to Unroot & factory restore. =/
Syph said:
Ok, so I began uninstalling some apps that I thought may have been the issue... Which they weren't as the crashing still continues. I decided to reboot under safe mode and the problem occurs there too.
I honestly cannot recall if this began before or after rooting with stump. I may have to Unroot & factory restore. =/
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I'm at a loss... The 2 things I mentioned can be the culprits, but not for you I guess. Some other ideas?
Did you uninstall Stump after getting root?
Have you froze or uninstalled any system apps/ priv-apps?
It might even be Nova is having issues.
That's all I got.
engine95 said:
I'm at a loss... The 2 things I mentioned can be the culprits, but not for you I guess. Some other ideas?
Did you uninstall Stump after getting root?
Have you froze or uninstalled any system apps/ priv-apps?
It might even be Nova is having issues.
That's all I got.
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Thank you for your help. Nova was one of the apps I removed. I did remove the stump app after rooting & did not freeze/remove any system critical apps/files. I'm also at a loss.
I would try a restore to stock as the final option. If that doesn't fix it then I dunno man.
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haoleflip said:
I would try a restore to stock as the final option. If that doesn't fix it then I dunno man.
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I plan to do that this evening. Was hoping to not restore to stock... It'd always a pain setting up themes & apps again. Lol.
Syph said:
I plan to do that this evening. Was hoping to not restore to stock... It'd always a pain setting up themes & apps again. Lol.
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Pssh all of that stuff can wait and can be downloaded again. My main priority would be getting my phone working again lol
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haoleflip said:
Pssh all of that stuff can wait and can be downloaded again. My main priority would be getting my phone working again lol
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Tried to unroot but the phone doesn't move past the "Firmware Update. Do not unplug the phone..." screen after holding Volume Up & plugging into the computer. I installed the drivers before hand. But the "CDC Serial" doesn't update. I attempted to manually update the driver by browsing for the folder, but no go.
I may end up having to go to Sprint and exchange the phone for another one.
Syph said:
Tried to unroot but the phone doesn't move past the "Firmware Update. Do not unplug the phone..." screen after holding Volume Up & plugging into the computer. I installed the drivers before hand. But the "CDC Serial" doesn't update. I attempted to manually update the driver by browsing for the folder, but no go.
I may end up having to go to Sprint and exchange the phone for another one.
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any updates? did you ever fix the problem?
thanks!
JT-KGY said:
any updates? did you ever fix the problem?
thanks!
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TL;DR version = Yes, I did fix it. Factory restore did the trick.
A few days after my last post the phone wasn't as bad as the video. It would still crash and reset but mainly after heavy app usage or when trying to clear app cache using any app like Clean Master.
Once my storage reached about 40% used and I couldn't clear the cache, I began to get constant Play Store error messages. No apps would update. I think it was error 483 or something close to hat number.
Since I couldn't flash back to stock because the drivers wouldn't install, I gave up and tried a factory reset. I nearly sh-t myself bc once I confirmed the restore, the phone didn't want to automatically reset per the instructions. I pressed the button multiple times and nothing. I pulled the battery and when I turned it back on, I got the initial screen with the "powered by android" and then black. It did not wanna do anything. Pulled battery again, same outcome. It left it for maybe 10min and still nothing.
I was ready to go back to sprint and see if I could exchange the phone. While researching the closest store, the phone beeped and the initial android setup screen appeared. This was about 25min of waiting on a black screen.
The phone is now back to working order and it's still rooted. There must have been a corrupt file that was erased/restored once the g3 decided to behave.
Syph said:
TL;DR version = Yes, I did fix it. Factory restore did the trick.
A few days after my last post the phone wasn't as bad as the video. It would still crash and reset but mainly after heavy app usage or when trying to clear app cache using any app like Clean Master.
Once my storage reached about 40% used and I couldn't clear the cache, I began to get constant Play Store error messages. No apps would update. I think it was error 483 or something close to hat number.
Since I couldn't flash back to stock because the drivers wouldn't install, I gave up and tried a factory reset. I nearly sh-t myself bc once I confirmed the restore, the phone didn't want to automatically reset per the instructions. I pressed the button multiple times and nothing. I pulled the battery and when I turned it back on, I got the initial screen with the "powered by android" and then black. It did not wanna do anything. Pulled battery again, same outcome. It left it for maybe 10min and still nothing.
I was ready to go back to sprint and see if I could exchange the phone. While researching the closest store, the phone beeped and the initial android setup screen appeared. This was about 25min of waiting on a black screen.
The phone is now back to working order and it's still rooted. There must have been a corrupt file that was erased/restored once the g3 decided to behave.
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Congrats!
My G3 is crashing in the similar manner as the video you uploaded.
Except that it only happens when I'm in office connected to office wifi with almost no cellular reception.
On top of that, as far as I could tell... only two apps are causing the launcher to crash... the game Clash of Clans and LINE.
Very very strange....

Disable/enable sprint owa

A few months back, when this particular phone was rooted, I ran a script to stop OTAs. Can someone refresh my mind and tell me how to undo it for Sprint 990 via terminal, hopefully without root
There is a video on YouTube about it
http://youtu.be/bUGOKsyb0I8
Looking for terminal commands where root might not be needed.
So I followed the advice here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-...tes-update-t2909412/post58990876#post58990876
a while back to block OTAs. I may, however, have inadvertently reenabled OTAs when I upgrade to Barrin v3. So yesterday the OTA was downloaded to my LS990. I copied the file to my external SD, and deleted it from the cache folder. But now I can't get rid of the notification telling me the system update downloaded.
Any thoughts?
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So I followed the advice here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-...tes-update-t2909412/post58990876#post58990876
a while back to block OTAs. I may, however, have inadvertently reenabled OTAs when I upgrade to Barrin v3. So yesterday the OTA was downloaded to my LS990. I copied the file to my external SD, and deleted it from the cache folder. But now I can't get rid of the notification telling me the system update downloaded.
Any thoughts?
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Doesn't that same thread work? It should.
Duh. Tired brain. I was thinking of that as preventing the update, not removing the notification after. I'll give it a try.
Thanks.
engine95 said:
Doesn't that same thread work? It should.
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Well, sort of. That thread's answer to eliminating the notification is to disable notifications for Play Services. Which eliminates ALL notifications from Play Services, which isn't really a very good idea in my mind.
I tried turning notifications off, then back on, but the darn thing came back. So I turned it off for a couple of hours, then cleared cache for Play Services, and turned notifications back on. I don't know if it was clearing cache, or leaving notifications off longer, or the combination, but the notification seems to be gone now.
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Doesn't that same thread work? It should.
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meyerweb said:
So I turned it off for a couple of hours, then cleared cache for Play Services, and turned notifications back on. I don't know if it was clearing cache, or leaving notifications off longer, or the combination, but the notification seems to be gone now.
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Damn Google. The notification is back. And I had done all the things that prior thread said to do to prevent it.
meyerweb said:
Damn Google. The notification is back. And I had done all the things that prior thread said to do to prevent it.
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Have you tried from this post yet? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59064627&postcount=1010
engine95 said:
Have you tried from this post yet? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59064627&postcount=1010
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That works, but it disables ALL notifications from Play Services. I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Question Spy/malware removal

Is there any kind that actually works? I keep fishing around on Google play and everything is either old, doesn't work, or is full of sh*t, or a combination of all 3.
Welcome to XDA
If you're running Android 9 or higher simply do a factory reset. There are no known rootkits that can worm out of the user partition, once that data is wiped so is the malware.
Don't reload it again after the factory reset.
blackhawk said:
Welcome to XDA
If you're running Android 9 or higher simply do a factory reset. There are no known rootkits that can worm out of the user partition, once that data is wiped so is the malware.
Don't reload it again after the factory reset.
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Thank you for the welcome. Sorry bout the late reply. I don't suppose there's another way is there? Im literally fresh out the box, I've never done a factory reset.
Michael Romanov said:
Thank you for the welcome. Sorry bout the late reply. I don't suppose there's another way is there? Im literally fresh out the box, I've never done a factory reset.
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You're welcome. The other way is to find the malware and delete it completely.
blackhawk said:
You're welcome. The other way is to find the malware and delete it completely.
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Which would be how? Would I need a app or something for the pc? And if so do you have any recommendations? I have the mixsilver file manager on my phone (pixel 6 "Not pro"). Would there be a way I could find it thru there? Also my device is not rooted. So would I need to root? I'm sorry if this gets on your nerves. If so tell me, won't hurt my feelings. I'm literally a noob at this stuff. I've been trying to teach myself and just do trial and error but im getting in over my head and don't wanna accidentally brick my phone or worse.
What makes you sure you have spy/malware? Or do you mean adware?
Cheers
Tom
With Avast or AVG Antivirus you can do a pretty good scan of your apps, even system apps if you want.
For Factory reset see here https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4596836
or go here on a PC (you need your Pixel connected by usb to the PC then): https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/carrier_selection
tom1807 said:
What makes you sure you have spy/malware? Or do you mean adware?
Cheers
Tom
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Chrome ****tin out 3 gigs of data a day. I have unlimited so it's not that big of a deal but still.....and some of the options I had in settings like "permissions, enable/disable, clear data/cache" that I know for a fact I had not too long ago are now greyed out or nonexistent. Also sometimes when I bring up "location" thru the settings menu everything is supposed to be "off" but there's 2 or 3 that look like they are switching back to say "off" as soon as the page shows. 1 of them outright takes several seconds to display any "on or off" setting at all. I've found a "Verizon" system app on my phone, some kind of Samsung telephony thing. And it seems like I can input a change to settings or something and when I look at my phone in the morning everything I had set up is back to it's previous settings.
psi78 said:
With Avast or AVG Antivirus you can do a pretty good scan of your apps, even system apps if you want.
For Factory reset see here https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4596836
or go here on a PC (you need your Pixel connected by usb to the PC then): https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/carrier_selection
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Thank you. Umm.....stupid question but I've never done a full reset before so.....how and would I need to move my apps to another storage or could I just go back thru the play store and redownload? And any paid apps and subscriptions?
It probably explains all that in those links doesn't it?
Just do factory reset and you are okay.. Then start using phone as new..
Michael Romanov said:
Chrome ****tin out 3 gigs of data a day. I have unlimited so it's not that big of a deal but still.....and some of the options I had in settings like "permissions, enable/disable, clear data/cache" that I know for a fact I had not too long ago are now greyed out or nonexistent. Also sometimes when I bring up "location" thru the settings menu everything is supposed to be "off" but there's 2 or 3 that look like they are switching back to say "off" as soon as the page shows. 1 of them outright takes several seconds to display any "on or off" setting at all. I've found a "Verizon" system app on my phone, some kind of Samsung telephony thing. And it seems like I can input a change to settings or something and when I look at my phone in the morning everything I had set up is back to it's previous settings.
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For what it's worth, the Verizon system app comes with the phone in case you use a Verizon sim.
If you end up clean flashing or factory resetting, I would not restore any apps from backups. I would reinstall everything fresh or you could just be putting the malware back on your phone, if that indeed is what you have.
Michael Romanov said:
Thank you. Umm.....stupid question but I've never done a full reset before so.....how and would I need to move my apps to another storage or could I just go back thru the play store and redownload? And any paid apps and subscriptions?
It probably explains all that in those links doesn't it?
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Just redownload them. Google remembers your bought apps or subscriptions in your Google account, so as long as you use the same email/account for logging in to Playstore after Factory reset you're good.
Your contacts normally are also synced to your Google Account, so you get them back also then.
psi78 said:
Just redownload them. Google remembers your bought apps or subscriptions in your Google account, so as long as you use the same email/account for logging in to Playstore after Factory reset you're good.
Your contacts normally are also synced to your Google Account, so you get them back also then.
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Thank you. I was worried it wasn't gonna remember me.
Lughnasadh said:
For what it's worth, the Verizon system app comes with the phone in case you use a Verizon sim.
If you end up clean flashing or factory resetting, I would not restore any apps from backups. I would reinstall everything fresh or you could just be putting the malware back on your phone, if that indeed is what you have.
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But that's the thing. I don't use Verizon I use sprint which is part of t mobile. That's why I just don't get it.
Michael Romanov said:
But that's the thing. I don't use Verizon I use sprint which is part of t mobile. That's why I just don't get it.
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It comes with the phone by default just in case you do use Verizon. Basically that app helps give the phone Verizon support, of sorts. It's disabled by default if you don't use Verizon so there's really nothing to worry about with that app.
Lughnasadh said:
It comes with the phone by default just in case you do use Verizon. Basically that app helps give the phone Verizon support, of sorts. It's disabled by default if you don't use Verizon so there's really nothing to worry about with that app.
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Man thank you. There's stuff on here that I don't understand and I've been thinking it's something I've downloaded or whatever. I'm new to all of this.

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