whenever i download something from the store or update an app but notification that the download has completed continues to reappear after being cleared. i can hit the x and clear everything or i can swipe off each notification - no matter what i do these notifications will continue to appear for days on end. the only way to get rid of these notifications is to clear app data. obviously, this isn't very convenient as i have to do it all the time if i want the notifications gone.
anyone else have similar problems or have any idea why this is occuring? i've owned a bunch of android devices and i've never seen this
not sure. Xing mines out always clear it.
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not sure. Xing mines out always clear it.
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yeah i'm completely stumped by this. also, if i download something from the notification bar i can't just click on that completed download and it will open. there is no way to open it unless i actually open the downloads app.
have you tried rebooting the device to see of it clears things up?
demandarin said:
have you tried rebooting the device to see of it clears things up?
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I would try a cold boot if a normal reboot doesn't work.
While prime is turned off, just hold volume down and the power button until white text appears. Then do nothing until it boots up. This will clear your cache and (hopefully) any problems.
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I would try a cold boot if a normal reboot doesn't work.
While prime is turned off, just hold volume down and the power button until white text appears. Then do nothing until it boots up. This will clear your cache and (hopefully) any problems.
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Great idea I think this may have fixed it thanks...
Edit - damn looks like I spoke too soon as about an hour later the problem started again. Any other ideas?
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Great idea I think this may have fixed it thanks...
Edit - damn looks like I spoke too soon as about an hour later the problem started again. Any other ideas?
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I removed some download related app and started getting this problem, this is first thread i reach when started searching for solution, do you got any solution till now, pls. help?
Click on downloads and clear it out. This will removed the notificatioms
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I removed some download related app and started getting this problem, this is first thread i reach when started searching for solution, do you got any solution till now, pls. help?
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is there a fix when your phone force closes apps after reboot?....like after i power my phone down it force closes a lot of apps that i use....sorry for how rough my spelling and grammar was before....was in a rush lol
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on my E3D my phone force closes google talk everytime after it dies....any fixed....have tried wiping cache and dalvic cache but no good
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You Google Talk force closes everytime after it dies???
tgruendler said:
You Google Talk force closes everytime after it dies???
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ya...and itll keep force closing
What do you mean by ''die''?
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What do you mean by ''die''?
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when my battery gets drained and my phone dies
I have the same problem all my apps close down after my phone shuts down........
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You may want to explain in better detail what the issue is because this thread sounds like " I cant turn on my PC because power is out in the neighborhood".
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I have the same problem all my apps close down after my phone shuts down........
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You may want to explain in better detail what the issue is because this thread sounds like " I cant turn on my PC because power is out in the neighborhood".
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fixed it sorry for the confusion
Hmmmmm....there's not much you can do for the force close option executing when your battery cell reaches its power output limit. And I do not believe our current android o/s has a ''sleep'' option available when a certain power percentage is reached; at least not built-in.
Are the apps fully functional upon booting up again, or are they fc'ing on you, forcing you to reinstall?
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Hmmmmm....there's not much you can do for the force close option executing when your battery cell reaches its power output limit. And I do not believe our current android o/s has a ''sleep'' option available when a certain power percentage is reached; at least not built-in.
Are the apps fully functional upon booting up again, or are they fc'ing on you, forcing you to reinstall?
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after about an hour they start working again
Hmmm...I do see your point. The apps shouldn't be taking that long to recover. Just drained mine until it turned off by itself, and all the apps ran fine after booting it up.
Have you tried reinstalling the ROM or trying a new one?
This is the only way I can describe it. I am on stock, no mods yet. It first started like it was having a seizure when I was setting a wallpaper. Live wallpaper settings started to blink so fast, that you couldn't X out, or choose anything. I shut down and restarted, and it did the same thing 3 times before I was able to change the live wallpaper. It also did it when setting static wallpaper- it was blinking so fast I couldn't get out of it and I pulled the battery. Did the same with google music and the heart rate app. Pulled the battery and restarted.
Anyone else having these issues on total stock?
I'm wondering if I need to swap it out?
That sounds really messed up...I would get that exchanged..
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This is the only way I can describe it. I am on stock, no mods yet. It first started like it was having a seizure when I was setting a wallpaper. Live wallpaper settings started to blink so fast, that you couldn't X out, or choose anything. I shut down and restarted, and it did the same thing 3 times before I was able to change the live wallpaper. It also did it when setting static wallpaper- it was blinking so fast I couldn't get out of it and I pulled the battery. Did the same with google music and the heart rate app. Pulled the battery and restarted.
Anyone else having these issues on total stock?
I'm wondering if I need to swap it out?
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I would do a master reset and I bet it fixes your issues. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is a hard reset.
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Sometimes if you power it off & then turn it back on holding both the volume down button & power button at the same time will get things working right. It's basically a soft reset.
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I would do a master reset and I bet it fixes your issues. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is a hard reset.
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Thanks for this info. How would I go about a hard reset? If you don't mind, idiot instructions? Otherwise I'll look it up. Thanks again.
highwayman1224 said:
Sometimes if you power it off & then turn it back on holding both the volume down button & power button at the same time will get things working right. It's basically a soft reset.
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Thank you for this info. I'll try this first.
What is the difference between this soft reset and the hard reset?
Is pulling the battery while the device is still powered on the same as the vol down and power option to power up? Does it do the same thing as a soft reset?
Thank you both very much for your answers. Hope it fixes it. I really don't want to have to swap out.
factory reset=hard reset. A total phone wipe. That I understand!!! That's as last resort. A soft reset just clears out the memory. I like that better!!
Sad to report a soft rest did not fix the problem. Google music settings went haywire again. I just did a hard reset- phone wipe via privacy, reset all data. The only thing I have checked is live wallpapers and google music. Seems OK. Now to set up all over again. Boy do I miss titanium BU!
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Sad to report a soft rest did not fix the problem. Google music settings went haywire again. I just did a hard reset- phone wipe via privacy, reset all data. The only thing I have checked is live wallpapers and google music. Seems OK. Now to set up all over again. Boy do I miss titanium BU!
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Never mind already saw that you did a factory reset
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Sad to report a soft rest did not fix the problem. Google music settings went haywire again. I just did a hard reset- phone wipe via privacy, reset all data. The only thing I have checked is live wallpapers and google music. Seems OK. Now to set up all over again. Boy do I miss titanium BU!
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Glad you were able to get it fixed.
Speaking of Google Music. I hate how it has the tablet interface and not the phone interface. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.
Vlingo is Pre-installed
I don't know if this had anything to do with my instability- but when I reset, and started to reset up my settings, came across the voice input and output settings- voice recognition powered by VLINGO. All the settings were the exact same Vlingo settings. I did not know vlingo was a systems install, and I installed Vlingo via market. They might have been fighting each other and causing my instability. Just my theory.
So to anybody reading, do not install vlingo- it's already on the Note via Samsung systems.
And thank you for all your suggestions.
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Glad you were able to get it fixed.
Speaking of Google Music. I hate how it has the tablet interface and not the phone interface. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.
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Thank you! Interface doesn't bother me at all. I don't use it that much yet, but I did get all my itunes up into google's cloud. So much easier than doubletwist, and no storage issue.
And I like your CAT!!
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Thank you! Interface doesn't bother me at all. I don't use it that much yet, but I did get all my itunes up into google's cloud. So much easier than doubletwist, and no storage issue.
And I like your CAT!!
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haha thanks!
I was having similar issues. The screen would randomly refresh, then some of my icons that I'd moved partially to SD would be missing altogether. @[email protected] Anyhow, I hard reset, and so far everything works 100x better. Will keep that in mind for future phones, I guess, as a preemptive measure to standard out-of-the-box loads. Thanks for the info, everyone. =D
the message icon on the main screen and when u goto the apps menu is showing i have 1 new message when i aint
i have tried restarting phone, deleted all messages but its still there
anyone else had this problem or can help?
Delete the icon from you home screen and then put it back , should work.
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Delete the icon from you home screen and then put it back , should work.
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i tried that a couple of times but its still got it showing as 1 new message when i aint
Try a restart
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Try a restart
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i have tried restarting it and clearing the data disabled it then enabled it again but its still the same
settings>applications manager>all>messaging>clear data
that should sort it out
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settings>applications manager>all>messaging>clear data
that should sort it out
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thanks for the reply
I have tried that aswell but it still sais there is 1 new message when there aint
deleted all messages
deleted the icon and put it back there again
restarted the phone
already cleared the data in the messaging as you suggested
i dont know what else to try i am just baffled as to why this is still happening
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thanks for the reply
I have tried that aswell but it still sais there is 1 new message when there aint
deleted all messages
deleted the icon and put it back there again
restarted the phone
already cleared the data in the messaging as you suggested
i dont know what else to try i am just baffled as to why this is still happening
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that is very odd. i have experienced that a couple of times with UltimaROM and just did the above procedure i posted. have you tried wiping caches in recovery?
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that is very odd. i have experienced that a couple of times with UltimaROM and just did the above procedure i posted. have you tried wiping caches in recovery?
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i did already try that but i just tried it again and still no luck
it doesnt show 1new message onthe lock screen but does on the home screen and when you click apps and can see all the apps
the only other option i can consider is re installing but i dont really want to do that if im honest
I had the same issue when I installed the Handcent widget and kept the stock messaging app. Here's what worked for me:
1) Go to Settings > Developer Options, and check "Do not keep activities". I'm not sure what this actually does (or how it affects other apps) so I unchecked it after it took away the message notification.
2) After a little while, the problem reappeared, so I found a free app called "SMS Cleaner Free" in the Play Store. That seemed to solve my issue permanently, as it hasn't reappeared since.
I'm not sure if one or a combo of doing both helped, but try it out and let us know.
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I had the same issue when I installed the Handcent widget and kept the stock messaging app. Here's what worked for me:
1) Go to Settings > Developer Options, and check "Do not keep activities". I'm not sure what this actually does (or how it affects other apps) so I unchecked it after it took away the message notification.
2) After a little while, the problem reappeared, so I found a free app called "SMS Cleaner Free" in the Play Store. That seemed to solve my issue permanently, as it hasn't reappeared since.
I'm not sure if one or a combo of doing both helped, but try it out and let us know.
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i just tried that aswell but the problemis still there
i text my phone from a diff number twice and on the lock screen it come up i had 2 new messageson the msg icon but when i went to the home screen it only said 1
I'm totally stock and I updated to kitkat a few days ago. But I've noticed after I start typing for about 5 seconds, my phone locks up and doesn't reply to touch for another 5 seconds. This also happens when attempting to scroll through messages, the internet, or even playing games. It keeps locking up. I did a factory reset and it didn't do a damn thing.
Also, I keep getting told my wifi connection is unstable and I'm a good 10 ft from the router.
Someone please tell me what I can do. My phone is not rooted. And I'm hoping I can solve this without root.
Did you do a full factory reset after installing it? You could also try flashing the full tar.md5 in PC Odin and do a full reset after everything installs and settles down.
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Did you do a full factory reset after installing it? You could also try flashing the full tar.md5 in PC Odin and do a full reset after everything installs and settles down.
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Yes I did. I'm so confused and upset cause I thought kitkat was supposed to be better. Now I'm afraid my phone is all messed up.
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Yes I did. I'm so confused and upset cause I thought kitkat was supposed to be better. Now I'm afraid my phone is all messed up.
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The stock I/O scheduler for NAB is cfq i have found that changing it to deadline or noop works better. See this post for more information thanks @cun7 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649820
You need to be rooted and a cpu manager I use "CPU Adjuster" free from Play Store.
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The stock I/O scheduler for NAB is cfq i have found that changing it to deadline or noop works better. See this post for more information thanks @cun7 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649820
You need to be rooted and a cpu manager I use "CPU Adjuster" free from Play Store.
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Rooting the phone shouldn't be an answer to a stock ota update that caused my phone to get lock ups.
Can anyone confirm this happening to them as well, or suggest a solution?
Stock unrooted 4.4.2 NAB build running just fine here. No force closes or lockups so far.
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Rooting the phone shouldn't be an answer to a stock ota update that caused my phone to get lock ups.
Can anyone confirm this happening to them as well, or suggest a solution?
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Then did you try to clear cache/data from the stock recovery?
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Then did you try to clear cache/data from the stock recovery?
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No I did not. Can you please tell me how?
Also, I read reported instances of this happening but only on the nexus 4 or 7. I believe it's called ghost touches, or phantom touches or something. Even as I'm typing this it locks up and the screen becomes unresponsive for a little while. I liked 4.3 way better.
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No I did not. Can you please tell me how?
Also, I read reported instances of this happening but only on the nexus 4 or 7. I believe it's called ghost touches, or phantom touches or something. Even as I'm typing this it locks up and the screen becomes unresponsive for a little while. I liked 4.3 way better.
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Power off the phone then press Power & VOL + & Home button this will take you to recovery mode (yes it does exist even on stock). then using the volume button move to clear cache/data and finally select it with he power button, after that move and select YES and presto. Reboot phone enjoy.
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Power off the phone then press Power & VOL + & Home button this will take you to recovery mode (yes it does exist even on stock). then using the volume button move to clear cache/data and finally select it with he power button, after that move and select YES and presto. Reboot phone enjoy.
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Ok I wiped cache and it said it was complete. But the little android in the background said error which I thought was weird. I rebooted and it still locks up. I'm so confused
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Ok I wiped cache and it said it was complete. But the little android in the background said error which I thought was weird. I rebooted and it still locks up. I'm so confused
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Probably you have bad flash, my suggestion is to flash the stock NAB again check that the file is not bad with the md5, or test that you do not have faulty hardware touch screen using a touchscreen tester found in app store. I used Odin 3.09 and it worked since the first time no problem.
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Probably you have bad flash, my suggestion is to flash the stock NAB again check that the file is not bad with the md5, or test that you do not have faulty hardware touch screen using a touchscreen tester found in app store. I used Odin 3.09 and it worked since the first time no problem.
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I will give that a shot thank you. I appreciate the help.
Sidebar, camera 360 was one of my favorite apps ever and it doesn't work on kitkat. It launches and I can see fine, but after pressing the shutter, images don't save. Is this an app problem or?
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I will give that a shot thank you. I appreciate the help.
Sidebar, camera 360 was one of my favorite apps ever and it doesn't work on kitkat. It launches and I can see fine, but after pressing the shutter, images don't save. Is this an app problem or?
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If you tell me the exact name of the app i can test it on my phone.
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If you tell me the exact name of the app i can test it on my phone.
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Camera 360
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Camera 360
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Camera 360 by Salex has been replaced by Camera 360 Ultimate by pinguo inc. I just intalled it and it works takes pictures and save no problem.
If you like you can try this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/c91q2v5jhjpo32u/SCG_arm_hd_std_sus.apk
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. =/
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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any updates? did you ever fix the problem?
thanks!
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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.
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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.
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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....