Hi all, noob here with a question. I've searched high and low but can't find an answer.
A short bit of background....Today for the first time I decided to set up my work email on my SGS II. My phone asked me to change some of the security rules associated with the phone. I accepted and it set about encrypting phone storage and usb storage. As a result of this my phone went haywire. Constantly force closing various apps hundreds of times. I was unable to use the phone for hours but eventually got in to delete the email account. Once I'd managed to do this the phone automatically decrypted itself.
As a result though, no widgets on my phone load. I've tried battery pulls but this hasn't worked.
Does anyone have any ideas before I have to do something drastic like delete and reinstall each app?
Thanks.
Android 2.33
I9100XXKE7
Gingerbread.XWKF3
Have you removed the widgets from your homescreen and then added them again? That normally solves widget issues.
If you have then yeah, uninstall and reinstall. It'll only take a minute for each one so it's hardly the end of the world. Just a pain in the arse.
Thanks, simple solution, should have tried that before!
It is an utter pain because most of my widgets and short cuts are invisible- using circle launcher and wave launcher.
I shall get to it now!
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I just recently got the vibrant and got the OTA the same day, the gallery freezes about half the time, and about half of the time that it freezes i have to pull the battery, i cant get to task manager or put the phone to sleep and wake it up.
I searched google and there are alot of links regarding it but i didnt find any that gave any ideas to fix it.
I searched this forum and nothing came up. Anyway, I have a class 6 card, the gallery on my nexus is very quick and has never frozen, so it is definitely the phone.
In my experience with the g1, MT3g, N1 and now this vibrant, any time ive received an OTA it has come with costs, it always brings fixes and features but also causes new problems, large and small. So I dont doubt what I found while searching, that the gallery issue is a result of the recent OTA for the GPS fix. Anyway, its kind of silly that this awesome, technologically advanced device freezes when you open up one of the native apps. But can we do anything about it? And if not, is it likely that Samsung will address it in another OTA? thanks
edit: ive also just recently had my phone just turn off every day or so, and it wont power back on until i pull the battery. Maybe these 2 issues mean i have a defective device? Or is this par for the course with the tmobile galaxy s?
Overclock your phone to only run at 800-1000MHz. It completely solved this for me, 400-1000MHz still hiccups.
thank you, yet another reason to root i suppose...
So no way to fix that with stock phone? =(
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Overclock your phone to only run at 800-1000MHz. It completely solved this for me, 400-1000MHz still hiccups.
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overclock huh,, i never tried i am there is a link here let me go look or how did u do it
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That is odd, I've never had my gallery freeze or my phone reboot... Are you sure you don't have some rogue app? Perhaps you should factory reset and start fresh? Do you have any "junk" apps on your phone (stupid apps)?
I had a freeze on opening gallery right after the JI6 was released. I think it was trying to recreate the thumbnails from scratch and download pics from my Picasa acct.
Happened one time only and I actually had to pull the battery since it went unresponsive. Never had a problem after that.
~SB
perhaps unmount and remount the INTERNAL memory card. I've done this before just because I saw it as a suggestion and it recreated my gallery.
I having the same issue. I am ready to delete it and use a different app. Is that possible?
acjames said:
I having the same issue. I am ready to delete it and use a different app. Is that possible?
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If you're rooted you can probably remove it.
I have tried factory reset so I don't think its a rogue app. I got the ota the day I got the phone so I can't compare before and after. If some people aren't having the issue period maybe a warranty replacement would resolve it. Of course, if we do end up getting froyo maybe that's something that will improve. Love the phone either way, I just get fed up with stuff like gallery freeze, random reboot, GPS issues, etc... stuff that i would think shouldn't get past product testing.
OP, this is discussed at the thread below. (use the search next time)
You are not the only one having this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805784
Quick Summary:
- Even with the removable card blank, the Gallery still have the same issues.
- I did a complete wipe and still have the same issues.
- I cleared data through System Settings which recreated thumbnails and other data, still have the same issues.
androidmonkey said:
OP, this is discussed at the thread below. (use the search next time)
You are not the only one having this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805784
Quick Summary:
- Even with the removable card blank, the Gallery still have the same issues.
- I did a complete wipe and still have the same issues.
- I cleared data through System Settings which recreated thumbnails and other data, still have the same issues.
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Wow i am so sick of reading some loser tell somebody to "search next time". You'll be so very relieved to know that I actually did search, and all i found out is that you dont have any friends. But honestly I did find your thread, however it didnt seem to me to be on point with what i wanted to ask specifically. Your post says that "watchdog" told you your gallery is a "resource hog" and that you have to kill it. I dont know what watchdog is, nothing told me anything i just cant get into my gallery app very often, so that didnt seem applicable. Also, i got ji6 the day i got my phone so putting the gallery issue in the context you did ("since ji6 update") didnt mean anything to me, i dont anything about this phone pre-ji6 update. All I know is that my gallery app sucks, your thread was a bit technical for me to be able to apply to my particular issue
Anyway, now my gallery freezes every single time i initially try to open it, i have had to pull the battery 6 times in a row, it works after the pull. This has been my favorite android phone (of 4) but now i just want to set it on fire and run over it with my car. I guess Samsung and Android arent interested in making their $600 products work, does anybody know how i can fix my phone so that it does what it is supposed to? Also im not rooted which i assume probably makes it impossible for me to fix? thanks for any help.
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Wow i am so sick of reading some loser tell somebody to "search next time". You'll be so very relieved to know that I actually did search, and all i found out is that you dont have any friends.
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Hi everyone. It's been two days since the process com.google.process.gapps has started crashing, "stopping unexpectedly" whenever i use the browser on my tab.
Reading the error report, it seems (not 100% sure about that) this is somehow related to the bookmarks sync with Chrome, but i can't find a way to disable this.
Has anyone exprerienced the same issue? Any known solution? Thanks
Go to settings > accounts and sync, click on your account then uncheck everything, then manually sync everything one by one to see what is causing the error.
Then go to manage apps and clear the cache of all the problem apps and re-sync them once you're done. It might take a few tries but it should take care of that error.
I'll try that as soon as possible, thanks!
browser sync was causing this for me
I believe that bookmarks sync no long works with galaxy tab. Google changed something on their end that should have worked fine(it still works on the xoom, transformer, etc.) but since samsung changed a bunch of stuff for no apparent reason, it is now broken. samsung is so stupid sometimes..
So you're basically suggesting that bookmarks sync should stay off to avoid problems like that?
well I don't really know. I never used bookmark sync in the first place. I'm just going by what is said in this article.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/br...gle-or-the-oems/17840?tag=mantle_skin;content
It turns out that at some point Google started making some changes to the backend systems that handle Google’s user account data. There’s nothing wrong with them doing this; it happens all the time. In fact, no other Android 3.1 tablets had any issues at all with the changes, and their bookmark sync continued to work without a blip on the radar.
Not Samsung, however... I did some digging around the internet, and it’s become somewhat well-known amongst Android developers that Samsung actually modifies core source code in the Android operating system that handles communicating with Google’s backend data services.
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Well, that's a pity. I had just started to think it was a useful tool to keep track of unread web pages between work, home and outside...
Let's hope Samsung somehow fixes that.
PS: disabling bookmarks sync actually stops the process from crashing, I think I've solved (if we could really say so...) the issue. Thanks to all!
Thanks, disabling auto sync for browser has stopped the error. Samsung developers need to fix this - I can't auto sync my gmail
What am I missing here?
Ok be prepared, this post may be rather long winded however I will try my best to prevent that. I have a Tmobile G2x I purchased on launch date. Ive not attempted to Root, change roms, or anything of the sort. (as much as I always wanted to, I always felt that my skills were not good enough to attempt these ideas no matter how easy they may seem. I just did not want to be the cause of screwing up my phone that I paid dearly for)
So I have a friend who claims to be the master (of disaster so it turns out) of rooting androids and such. He stops by my house just to hang out and eventualy convinces me to let him root my phone and install CM7. Within a few minutes the phone was rooted (super1click) and was running CM7 release candidate. (I really dont know what all these things truly are but I drilled him for answers once he jacked up my phone and left me with a half-bricked phone) So he installed Rom manager and convinced me to upgrade to the premium version via marketplace so I did. He was then showing me how easy it was to flash new roms at the touch of a few buttons. He put on some other rom which looked like CM7 but claimed to have extra tweaks. It worked fine. A few minutes later he put on some Faux Rom which gave a boot up screen like my old Nexus One did. (Multicolored X) It seemed to work fine as well. Then he said lets check out the nightly CM7 Rom so he put it on. (however I dont think it ever actually put CM7 back on.-still on Faux?) Thats when things got crazy.
Now I get the com.google.process.gapps force close message all the time. He tried to fix it for 4 hours and finally gave up. Here is what I know he/we tried: After searching the internet for hours we tried everyone elses ideas. Clearing calenders cashes, un syncing, etc. We did about 40 factory resets. We have tried to install my backup (which was from BEFORE he even touched my phone) and upon holding both volume rockers and plugging in USB (no battery installed) and it still does nothing. Windows recognizes device but phone screen stays black. Tried Debug mode while doing this as well. If we hold the volume down button and power the little install bar comes on the screen and it does its thing (whatever that is) and goes right back to the way it was. I keep getting the gapps message all the time. After factory reset I cant even type in my gmail address to start the initial setup of the phone. The force close keeps cutting me off. If I type fast, I can sync the account but I cant use market whatsoever. Tried installing Rom manager to re-flash but just sticks at starting download and gapps pops up again.
My son is starting school tomorrow and he has a medical condition. I NEED this phone to communicate with the school nurse via emails and such. As of now I can only text, call, or surf web all while dodging force closes. If ANYONE out there can please help me get my phone back to normal Id greatly appreciate it. Im sure its something easy but as I said before, Im not good at this thing and thats why I never attempted it myself. Your welcome to submit answers here or PM me your phone # if you want to walk me through it on the phone. (I have a landline phone to talk to you on) Thanks in advance for everyones time and Im sorry this ended up being so long.
Hello,
Based on your post, I would suggest that you search your phone's development forum on XDA for a compatable clockwork recovery mod which will install a custom recovery on your phone. The thread will give you instructions on how to do so and how to enter recovery mode.
You can then enter the 'Backup and Restore' part of the recovery and restore your backup manually without using ROM manager. If this doesn't work, I would suggest that you then download the ROM of your choice and install it from the clockwork recovery. Make sure you clear user data and wipe the cache before you install.
Any fix yet? This is really annoying me as I rely on my bookmarks tremendously.
try this:
Open stock browser and under settings choose clear cache and deletehistory
Just updated to European ICS earlier. As expected, it reset my home screen layout and app drawer sorting. Irritating but fixable.
I spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time reorganising things how I like, folders and widgets etc. I made sure to backup TwLauncher's data using Titanium when I was done just in case.
So a bit later, I try to view an image in "My Files" with the gallery app, and it closes instantly saying the "media scanner running". No worries, I've seen that before, except... it isn't running. Nothing is scanning my media files as far as I can tell. So, I hold in power and do a reboot, thinking that'll clear the problem.
Boom. When the phone reloads, my home screen is once more 'stock', and what's worse, trying to open applications leads to a blank screen for about 5 minutes, at which point it loads up and once more, everything is all just stock / alphabetical.
Can someone tell me what's going wrong, and how I can avoid it happening again, so I don't waste my time reorganising? (Please, no clever reply of "What's going wrong is you're using TouchWiz")
Much appreciated,
Matt
Hello there!
I'm having a somewhat curious issue with my Samsung Galaxy SII phone: almost each time I turn the screen on from sleep, I get the "Feint requires an internet connection running to work...etc. etc. etc.".
I removed all games I knew brought OpenFeint with them, and scavenged around the phone to avoid it coming back to me....yet it constantly does, and I'm actually beginning to fear this OpenFeint "daemon" (or such) is actually draining my battery more and more (to the point I'm actually forced to charge it back twice per day....).
I'm on 4.0.3 stock rom, not modded since I haven't finished paying the phone yet, so rooting is out of the question....I was thinking about taking a backup and a hard reset, but I'm more than scared of loosing something, so I was hoping for a way to trash the darn OpenFeint out of the phone without having to re-initialize the phone itself....
Any word of advice, there? (Can provide additional details on the way, if needed.... )
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Save your contacts using kies or google sync and back up any files you want using app like titatium back up.
then do a factory reset, that will remove any user data including any problem files.
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Save your contacts using kies or google sync and back up any files you want using app like titatium back up.
then do a factory reset, that will remove any user data including any problem files.
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Thanks, Cosmic Blue, but, as I said, I'd like to think of this solution as a "last resort" (I'll keep in mind the suggested steps, though, )....anything else I could/should try before this, to nail the issue down?
Sorry no other way since Openfeint has installed itself in several needed files.
Short of factory reset, there is a very slim chance of deleting it without rooting the phone, as any app that can get rid of it requires root access.
OpenFeint faced has been accused of computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, etc. so I am not surprise of the annoying stuff you're receiving. I managed to get rid of it when I upgrade to JB, for your case you may want to try this (sorry, can't post link yet):
1. Ensure you have a data connection, like 3G or Wi-Fi.
2. Start up a game with Openfeint support and hit the score or Openfeint tab.
3. You should now be in the Openfeint webpage.
4. Hit the menu button on your phone and select the settings tab.
5. Scroll down and hit the REMOVE ACCOUNT tab.
6. A second screen will pop up and you have to confirm your decision to remove your account.
Openfeint will be a thing of the past soon (they're gonna shut their servers down) but meanwhile you can use a file explorer app and delete the openfeint folder in your internal sd.
Hope that helps
Thanks xdanoober and bi11ie,
I had already tried deleting any openfeint account I might have unavertedly subscribed, but, of course, I could not connect to the darn server itself....:cyclops:
Yesterday, after writing my answer to this topic, I also tried deleting the OpenFeint folder itself as suggested. I actually zipped a copy before, to see if the contents matched any auto-respawn of the same...so far so good....the phone has been sitting quietly since this morning, and I'm still around 50% battery....let's see how this goes...will report back in a pinch.... :fingers-crossed:
A small update, 24 hours later: battery life slightly improved, I still see the Feint message,now and then, soI guess I'll pack my things and go for the harsh treatment.
Btw, does anyone know some kind of savegame backup app?I'd hate having to play again all my videogames...
Yet another update:I uninstalled "Elemental" and Feint messages seem to be gone for good: apparently, the game had an "exclude Feint" option....which did not work at all!!
Will monitor the situation for more developments....unfortunately,now that Feint has shut down, this issue will plague almost all Feint-supported games: they will try to log in to Feint servers at least once...and fail miserably, thus starting a battery-costing loop....:banghead:
Ok,we can flag this as SOLVED.
No Feint messages in more than 24 hours.Battery working slightly longer. Yay!!
Summing up the results, it was all Elemental's fault. A pity, since the game was funny to play....
Thanks you all for your suggestions.
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A small update, 24 hours later: battery life slightly improved, I still see the Feint message,now and then, soI guess I'll pack my things and go for the harsh treatment.
Btw, does anyone know some kind of savegame backup app?I'd hate having to play again all my videogames...
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The best backup app there is is Titanium Backup. You can find it in the Play Store (there's a free and a paid version) and your phone has to be rooted. You won't lose your data if you root your phone, so you can root your phone and then back everything up All the progress you've made in your games will be saved and you'll be able to restore it. Go for the Pro version because the guy who made Titanium Backup is amazing!! We should all buy him a :beer: !
This is driving me crazy. It's impossible to multi task. I'm on uber. I get a text message, read it, get back to Uber and now it's loading from scratch in the middle of my trip. Go to my browser to complete the post i was typing but now it's reloading, and it's cleared my message and now I have to type it all over again. Go back to Google maps and I have to re-search the place and the direction. On Skype, go to contacts to retrieve a number but now it's dropped my call. It's extremely frustrating.
My phone is Huawei 2017 MYA L22. Its on Android 6.0. 2GB RAM. The reason I post here and not my phone's forum is because no one ever replies on that forum.
I've gone through all the battery optimization options on the phone but it hasn't solved the problem. I've also gone through the development option. I have a phone with 1GB RAM, although, really slow, it will never kill or reload apps, everything is right where I left it. With this phone I almost never reach 1GB of usage and it acts like I'm using everything it's got.
It's not rooted (would love to root it but that's another problem. Can't find the method to).
UPDATE: Rooted it (FINALLY!) and uninstalled all the bloatware, as well as experimenting with freezing Phone Manager and Mobile Genie...same sh*t! Nothing changed. Still killing apps! Agh!
Any help would be greatly appreciated guys!
Anyone?