com.android.phone fails every time when accessing Call Settings. - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi Guys,
I got my S3 a few weeks back and had one of the Omega JB roms on it (think it was v17) and then com.android.phone just started failing all the time. So I took it back to the Stock backup i had done before installing the Rom and wiped/ factory reset before that reinstall. The Nandroid backup was made using CWM recovery.
The phone has been fine since then for the last week, but today I was trying to go into Call settings in Phone and every time I press the call settings link in the menu in Phone i get the "com.android.phone has stopped" error. I had facebook synced to the phone but only when on the Omega Rom and not since I've been back on the stock Rom.
I searched a few things for this and it always seems to come back to FB sync issues which cause com.android.phone errors, but I can't work out what else could be affecting it. I tried reinstalling the phone.apk by using the no-increase-ringing mod, but this also doesn't sort it either. I'd rather not go through a full stock rom re-flash if i can help it as well, but feel I might have to. I can make and receive calls no problem as well.
Any ideas?
UPDATE: Have reinstalled the stock phone.apk from Omega files (the one with the increasing volume) and the problem is now solved.

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[Q] As of Sunday, voice call lock phone?

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Unlocked, Rooted, S-Off, ICS Leak RUU 605.22
Was running Ivysaur Rom with no issues at all. On Sunday afternoon, the phone started acting up, wouldn't light up when pressing power button, huge lage problems and all the sudden, incoming calls lock the phone requiring a battery pull and outgoing calls lock during call resulting in battery pull. Well Sunday night Venosaur was released so I tried to update to that, update went good, but no fix. So desperate, last night I flashed the new leaked RUU. Everything went great, thought everything was working, but now, no incoming calls at all and outgoing locks the phone. Please help me, i'm at my wits end.
Upon further investigation, it seems as if I'm getting tons of Android Process has stopped, where you either select ok to close or wait. These are happening in the background for some reason. I've ran fix permissions, just tried clean wipe 5x and then flashing scroslers new debloated of the leak. Still having issues though. I think these process stoppages are causing my messaging issues too, as in no landscape texting which now comes and goes.
What should I do?
Wipe data/cache/system/boot in recovery and re-install rom. Be very careful of what data you are restoring as it sounds like a data issue to me.
dottat said:
Wipe data/cache/system/boot in recovery and re-install rom. Be very careful of what data you are restoring as it sounds like a data issue to me.
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I've once had similar issues flashing one ROM over another without wiping data properly. Could be due to different UIDs, folder layouts, etc. compared to the ROM pre-Ivysaur. And then Titanium Backup restores wreak havoc due to the differences. Remembering to do nandroid backups helps for just such occasions.
If sure about being fully clean before flashing, check MD5 of your downloads for corruption, check network settings in the ROM, reflashing the RUU twice in a row before using, and reverting back to PKMN ROM or downgrading to try and fix the call issues.

[Q] BIG problem - Stuck on Gingerbread 2.3.3 (old I know) trying to change custom ROM

Hi there, ive looked all over online and on here for about a week solid now for a solution for this and cannot find one anywhere! My situation is.. im running gingerbread 2.3.3 on my S2 that I got in 2011. As soon as I got it I flashed the Lite'ning ROM to it. It worked fine up until christmas just gone and just all of a sudden started saying this error message when I tried to open anything, such as messages, contacts, google, camera etc..
"sorry the application ..... (process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again"
So I have just been trying to get the phone back to orignal factory settings by putting a factory ROM on, or install a new custom ROM in the hope that this will solve the problem and get the phone working normally again. I used Odin and installed a custom ROM successfully (so I thought) but when I rebooted the phone I was still stuck on Lite'ning ROM and everything was how it was before. The same happened when I installed a factory ROM. I also tried to install a custom ROM via the SD card, but this failed everytime.
One other thing.. when I restore to factory settings while on the CMW and then reboot the phone.. nothing has gone, its exactly the same, with all my contacts, pictures and apps. I never knew it would be so hard to restore my phone. Im hoping someone here can advise me on what to do... Ive a feeling it might be to do with the fact the phone is gingerbread 2.3.3 and all the custom ROMs now are made for ICS or Jelly Bean? If so how do I get my phone to work with these ROMs. Thanks for reading and I really hope someone can help!
alexandamusic said:
Hi there, ive looked all over online and on here for about a week solid now for a solution for this and cannot find one anywhere! My situation is.. im running gingerbread 2.3.3 on my S2 that I got in 2011. As soon as I got it I flashed the Lite'ning ROM to it. It worked fine up until christmas just gone and just all of a sudden started saying this error message when I tried to open anything, such as messages, contacts, google, camera etc..
"sorry the application ..... (process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again"
So I have just been trying to get the phone back to orignal factory settings by putting a factory ROM on, or install a new custom ROM in the hope that this will solve the problem and get the phone working normally again. I used Odin and installed a custom ROM successfully (so I thought) but when I rebooted the phone I was still stuck on Lite'ning ROM and everything was how it was before. The same happened when I installed a factory ROM. I also tried to install a custom ROM via the SD card, but this failed everytime.
One other thing.. when I restore to factory settings while on the CMW and then reboot the phone.. nothing has gone, its exactly the same, with all my contacts, pictures and apps. I never knew it would be so hard to restore my phone. Im hoping someone here can advise me on what to do... Ive a feeling it might be to do with the fact the phone is gingerbread 2.3.3 and all the custom ROMs now are made for ICS or Jelly Bean? If so how do I get my phone to work with these ROMs. Thanks for reading and I really hope someone can help!
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I think you should try a 3-files odin flash rom.
If you search in google for "Odin 3-files i9100" than you will find the rom

Omega rom v44.4 crashing

Hello,
I just updated omega 44.3 to 44.4 and the problem still persist. The problem is that there is no sound when i get an sms only vibration...(the problem started today). Even if i rebot the phone it doesnt help.
And when i try to acces the settings for sms messages it wont let me. it just freezes up the phone and after a few seconds it gives me an error that "messages has crashed". And i cant seem to find a way to get the ringtones for my messages up as i cant get into the settings... And also when i try to acces winamp shoutcast feature it freezes up the phone and after a few seconds i get an error that winamp has crashed (winamp is working fine btw. only the shoutcast feature isnt working). i didnt get these errors when i was on stock.
Other than that the ROM is working much faster than stock it just randomly crashes sometimes. like the galery crashes alot.
How is with the errors on 43.3 is it more stable?
and if i want to downgrade from 44.4 to 43.4 do i have to do a full wipe?
Any help would be appreciated.
gorsek1 said:
Hello,
I just updated omega 44.3 to 44.4 and the problem still persist. The problem is that there is no sound when i get an sms only vibration...(the problem started today). Even if i rebot the phone it doesnt help.
And when i try to acces the settings for sms messages it wont let me. it just freezes up the phone and after a few seconds it gives me an error that "messages has crashed". And i cant seem to find a way to get the ringtones for my messages up as i cant get into the settings... And also when i try to acces winamp shoutcast feature it freezes up the phone and after a few seconds i get an error that winamp has crashed (winamp is working fine btw. only the shoutcast feature isnt working). i didnt get these errors when i was on stock.
Other than that the ROM is working much faster than stock it just randomly crashes sometimes. like the galery crashes alot.
How is with the errors on 43.3 is it more stable?
and if i want to downgrade from 44.4 to 43.4 do i have to do a full wipe?
Any help would be appreciated.
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First of all, did you do a full wipe before upgrading or flashing 44.3? Even if you did a full wipe did you restore your messages and other with TB? If you did that - that is where your problem begin. You wrote that you had problem with that version even before flashing 44.4 and I assume that you didn't do a full wipe before upgrade from 44.3 to 44.4. That versions of Omega are based on leaked Samsung FW and it could have bugs.
If you plan to flash 43.4 you must do a full wipe. That version of Omega is based on official Samsung FW and it is definitely more stable than 44.x versions.
Ninolina said:
First of all, did you do a full wipe before upgrading or flashing 44.3? Even if you did a full wipe did you restore your messages and other with TB? If you did that - that is where your problem begin. You wrote that you had problem with that version even before flashing 44.4 and I assume that you didn't do a full wipe before upgrade from 44.3 to 44.4. That versions of Omega are based on leaked Samsung FW and it could have bugs.
If you plan to flash 43.4 you must do a full wipe. That version of Omega is based on official Samsung FW and it is definitely more stable than 44.x versions.
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i did a full wipe when i installed v 44.3 and it was all normall except a few crashes of the gallery facebook music player winamp and so on.
The problem with the sms accoured today and i did not install any new apps or so it just happened i have no idea why the ringtone for sms is gone and i cant acces settings for messages as it crashes... i tought that installing the v 44.4 would fix this but the problem is still there.
I ll just have to make a full wipe again and install omega 43.4 and see if it fixes the problem. If not i ll have to go back to stock...
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[Q] com.android.phone has stopped? HELP!

So heres my problem...a couple days ago I was deleting some system apps from my S4 to make the phone faster and I was running Eclipse 4.02 at the time...Okay well after I got done deleting the apps I rebooted my phone, everything worked fine for a couple of minutes but then I got a pop up that said "The Process com.android.phone has stopped" and I would hit okay but this diables the data and I have to restart my phone to get data working again...I've tried deleting the Rom from my SD card and redownloading it, I've tried factory reset, and I've also tried flashing a stock md5.tar file in ODIN but it fails at the very end...It will boot but the Wi-Fi doesn't work due to me having to flash gogolies Wi-Fi fix in order to have working Wi-Fi on Eclpise and I still get the "com.android.phone has stopped" issue...the only work around I've found so far is flashing the Google Play Edition Rom this fixes the "com.android.phone" issue but sometimes I won't receive SMS or I will gert them in halves and won't get the others until hours later. I made sure to read the instructions carefully and I am aware of the GPE Rom having issues anyway like MPT connection and Tethering not working but is it possible that somehow I corrupted /system or /system/priv-app or even /system/app? If so is it possible to fix this problem I called Samsung and they said they couldn't do anything about it...but still I would love to use Eclipse again but I can't due to the annoying com.android.phone has stopped issue...If anyone can help or upload the original /system, /system/priv-app, and /system/app that would be great I would just need to know how to install them back because I have no idea...Eclipse is a 4.4.2 Rom and GPE is a 4.4.4 Rom and I'm running baseband NC5 and using stock kernel and I am currently runnin g the GPE Rom to avoid the com.android.phone problem but I don't always receive SMS...any help would be greatly wonderful! Thannks!
Killoma572 said:
So heres my problem...a couple days ago I was deleting some system apps from my S4 to make the phone faster and I was running Eclipse 4.02 at the time...Okay well after I got done deleting the apps I rebooted my phone, everything worked fine for a couple of minutes but then I got a pop up that said "The Process com.android.phone has stopped" and I would hit okay but this diables the data and I have to restart my phone to get data working again...I've tried deleting the Rom from my SD card and redownloading it, I've tried factory reset, and I've also tried flashing a stock md5.tar file in ODIN but it fails at the very end...It will boot but the Wi-Fi doesn't work due to me having to flash gogolies Wi-Fi fix in order to have working Wi-Fi on Eclpise and I still get the "com.android.phone has stopped" issue...the only work around I've found so far is flashing the Google Play Edition Rom this fixes the "com.android.phone" issue but sometimes I won't receive SMS or I will gert them in halves and won't get the others until hours later. I made sure to read the instructions carefully and I am aware of the GPE Rom having issues anyway like MPT connection and Tethering not working but is it possible that somehow I corrupted /system or /system/priv-app or even /system/app? If so is it possible to fix this problem I called Samsung and they said they couldn't do anything about it...but still I would love to use Eclipse again but I can't due to the annoying com.android.phone has stopped issue...If anyone can help or upload the original /system, /system/priv-app, and /system/app that would be great I would just need to know how to install them back because I have no idea...Eclipse is a 4.4.2 Rom and GPE is a 4.4.4 Rom and I'm running baseband NC5 and using stock kernel and I am currently runnin g the GPE Rom to avoid the com.android.phone problem but I don't always receive SMS...any help would be greatly wonderful! Thannks!
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I'm really new to XDA but just an update...I fixed it by flashing the NC5.tar again and it actually passed finally I then updated to NK1 so if anyone actually has this problem just repeatedly flash the NC5.tar until it passes I also had to flash the .pit file to return it to factory stock and before I did all this I went into stock recovery (Not Safestrap) and cleared data and cache and then flashed everything through ODIN and it passed and haven't had the problem since
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Stock message app recently stopped sending and receiving SMS

Any ideas? Other apps I installed to try (eg Signal) fail too. Stock ROM.
This is my fist post, have visited many times. Here we go.
As a LG V20 owner, I recommended the V30+ to two people at work. In a matter of 24 hours, both units stopped sending and receiving emails. I have taken the sims out and tested these in other phones, not a sim issue. I then moved my sim (Telstra Aus) into the V30 and only in the Messaging app, it came up with the message No SIM. This I thought might be a sim slot issue, moved it into the other slot closest to the outside. This worked for about an hour. Then the same issue occurred again. It has to be software, an update or a network change that has caused this. I did a network setting reset, have cleared cache for messaging app. SAFE MODE etc. Very strange.
yanni_pap said:
Any ideas? Other apps I installed to try (eg Signal) fail too. Stock ROM.
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Yes I used Messenger app for SMS and this failed. It sounds network setting related but still testing.
I had the same problem on my V30, suddenly SMS has stopped working. (I'm using Textra app)
I checked the sim card on the other phone and it was ok.
I found on the internet that other V30 are also affected.
The solution was to install the Message app from Google and run it.
Now SMS is working on Textra and also on the stock app.
Whoa, didn't see this before I posted in another thread. Same problem here, but I already had Messages installed! Wonder if it's just this phone for some reason?? My partner is also on VZ (S7) and can send SMS
edit: apparently it's something Google broke. Temp fix is to disable Carrier Services!
I just recently started having text messages not sending. I am on Verizon LG V30 using the vs996 30c debloated rom. Everything has worked fine until last week when I installed the latest Resurrection Remix rom. Since these roms’ tethering and WiFi do not work, I tried installing the us998 modem zip. I don’t know if that is the problem or not, but, I could not get it to work. I have since reinstalled my 99630c debloated rom and have now lost the ability to send text messages, although I can receive texts just fine. I have done clean installs and dirty installs of the rom. I, just yesterday, did a restore of a previous 99630c backup, changed messaging apps, etc. I even reinstalled Verizon’s messaging app.The messaging problem still persists.
i just got off the phone with a very nice Verizon tech, who spent about 40 minutes trying to help me. No success. She said everything appears to be working fine on their end. She ran out of things to try. She thinks my rooting the phone might possibly have something to do with it, which I agree with.
Does anyone have a working link to John Fawkes vs99630c zip? The one one his zip thread does not download for me. I thought I would try starting again with that zip. Maybe I need to try a different modem download?
Any suggestions much appreciated. Thx
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I just recently started having text messages not sending. I am on Verizon LG V30 using the vs996 30c debloated rom. Everything has worked fine until last week when I installed the latest Resurrection Remix rom. Since these roms’ tethering and WiFi do not work, I tried installing the us998 modem zip. I don’t know if that is the problem or not, but, I could not get it to work. I have since reinstalled my 99630c debloated rom and have now lost the ability to send text messages, although I can receive texts just fine. I have done clean installs and dirty installs of the rom. I, just yesterday, did a restore of a previous 99630c backup, changed messaging apps, etc. I even reinstalled Verizon’s messaging app.The messaging problem still persists.
i just got off the phone with a very nice Verizon tech, who spent about 40 minutes trying to help me. No success. She said everything appears to be working fine on their end. She ran out of things to try. She thinks my rooting the phone might possibly have something to do with it, which I agree with.
Does anyone have a working link to John Fawkes vs99630c zip? The one one his zip thread does not download for me. I thought I would try starting again with that zip. Maybe I need to try a different modem download?
Any suggestions much appreciated. Thx
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See my solution directly above your question. It's not "rooting" that caused it, it's "Google" that caused it. Uninstalling or freezing Carrier Services will fix it. Did for me.
Check the litany of * reviews from today alone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.ims&showAllReviews=true
Also, both the standard and debloat ROMs for VS99630c from their respective threads and androidilehost are downloading fine for me.
Thx, but did not work for me. I went into TiBu and found carrier services sitting in the non installed portion of the apps. So, I installed it (first with app, then with data) and tried both messaging apps with it installed. That did not work, so I went back into TiBu again and froze it. It still does not work.
I have tried downloading the standard zip from Fawkes zip thread 8 or 10 times or so. It gets to about 8 or 9% , then gives the message unsuccessful.
I will keep trying. Thx for your suggestions.
As an edit. My phone has also started giving me problems with my fingerprint recognition and my phone dialed has suddenly changed looks forcing me to constantly press and swipe an unlock button to keep the dial pad open if I hesitate too long in punching in numbers or trying to change to speakerphone from there.
I don’t know if it is something I have done/installed (wrong modem perhaps?).
And having the new XDA transition at the same time certainly didn’t help .
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Thx, but did not work for me. I went into TiBu and found carrier services sitting in the non installed portion of the apps. So, I installed it (first with app, then with data) and tried both messaging apps with it installed. That did not work, so I went back into TiBu again and froze it. It still does not work.
I have tried downloading the standard zip from Fawkes zip thread 8 or 10 times or so. It gets to about 8 or 9% , then gives the message unsuccessful.
I will keep trying. Thx for your suggestions.
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I don't know what to tell you about the downloads, confirmed they work.
You don't need to freeze CS, you can literally just uninstall it from the Play store. It's just an enhancement for the Google MEssages app they broke. if you don't use Messages, you surely don't need it. I don't know what you meant about CS showing up in the "non installed portion of the apps". It's either installed and frozen or thawed, or it's not. Maybe you had a backup there for reasons? Regardless, you certainly need to reboot after changing CS, not sure if you did that.
You have alot of other issues coming from RR, then flashing a modem, then trying to dirty flash VS996. Since you have TB already, you should definitely backup your apps, then Maybe clean flash VS99630c once you've followed the WTF thread. You should probably wipe your system after the other ROMs and just start over.
That certainly was a quick answer. In TiBu, under “backup/restore”, I have all the apps that are currently on my phone—a very long list. This list can be frozen, etc., and is bolded and colored fonts. Scrolling down that list, it ends and a list starts that is not bolded and has lines thru it. I guess these are apps, etc. that I have, at one time, had on the phone and can be re installed via TiBu.
I was trying to “start over” by downloading the vs99630c rom and try it. Where were you thinking I need to start over at? I wish to work only on “zips” via twrp, as I don't have much luck/knowledge with kdz and computers.
Thx, again.
Again, I'm the furthest thing from the expert here, but he's on travel! Check the WTF thread, because I'm not sure what happens when you wipe with the flashes you've made. But you'd probably start from 6.7. MORE TWRP ACTIONS here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ar-instructions.3790500/page-10#post-76584629
I would reboot to TWRP and do a complete system backup in case this goes tits up you can restore that from TWRP. Then I would boot to OS and back up everything in TB, then delete all uninstalled backups through the batch actions. Then reboot to TWRP again, wipe, install the VS99630c ROM, install MAgisk, reboot. Make sure your install works then restore your apps through TB.
Ok, thx. I wish to install the vs99630c rom zip now (not the debloated) and am unable to download it from JohnFawkes LG V30 vs 996-30c thread from here on xda. I have tried via my phone about a dozen times now and it stops now generally after the 10 to 20% zip has downloaded. I even tried it a couple of times downloading onto a laptop. Can you possibly point me to a different link that I can try? I need to be on Verizon’s vs 996 and not on the 998 rom, I think? Sorry for the big bother.
Well, I did finally find a download mirror on here from chazzmatts thread using his mirror. It is downloaded now. I will try this installation before going thru the wtf steps you referred me to. If this doesn’t work, then i will try it.
thx, again for your help.
As an update, I did a clean wipe and installed this zip. So far, it seems to have settled things down for. I was able to text (2) and make a phone call. Both worked. I did agree to everything they asked (I normally refuse things such as location, etc.). I’m happy for now. Later, I may try to reinstall the debloated zip.
Ideveraux, thx for all your help on here. I really appreciate it.
Make sure you backup TWRP and TB. Just saying!
And to the OP, I’m sorry I hijacked your thread. I hope you got yours solved, too.
I had this problem after owning the phone for several days.
I'm not sure why, but when i installed Google's "Messages" app, the problem was fixed.
I didn't have to run the messages app, just install it. The stock app suddenly started working again.
I then uninstalled google messages (without ever running it), and the next day I had the same problem.
Once again; I installed google messages, and the problem solved itself without ever running google messages.
This time; I haven't uninstalled google messages.
I'm guessing that something about SMS settings got messed up (i checked them when the problem first happened and couldn't find a problem), and installing a new message app restored the settings to normal.
TLDR: if SMS stops working, Install Google Messages. Problem solved.
Lozv said:
I had this problem after owning the phone for several days.
I'm not sure why, but when i installed Google's "Messages" app, the problem was fixed.
I didn't have to run the messages app, just install it. The stock app suddenly started working again.
I then uninstalled google messages (without ever running it), and the next day I had the same problem.
Once again; I installed google messages, and the problem solved itself without ever running google messages.
This time; I haven't uninstalled google messages.
I'm guessing that something about SMS settings got messed up (i checked them when the problem first happened and couldn't find a problem), and installing a new message app restored the settings to normal.
TLDR: if SMS stops working, Install Google Messages. Problem solved.
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I tried that initially and that's not the accepted fix at all. Read above.

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