Hey all
For some reason today my phone has just started randomly locking up. Was running a nightly build of Cyanogen mod from Mid January. Never had any issues with it today.
Ive basically done a complete wipe of the system (/system, data, cache, dalvik, SD card, etc) and installed a newer nightly of Cyanogen mod, but it is still happening. Thinking it may be a hardware problem...
Any ideas as to how i can check whats going wrong?
Symptoms:
- Screen completely freezes on what it was doing. Screen state stays the same too (doesnt dim after a while)
- Haptic touch buttons sometimes work and sometimes dont (if they do work, all they do is vibrate, nothing changes on the screen)
- Tried a few button combinations to try and get it to respond again. Only way to get it goign again is to reboot the system completely (holding Power + Home)
Thanks
Dan
Sudden Death Syndrome?
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Twitchel said:
Hey all
For some reason today my phone has just started randomly locking up. Was running a nightly build of Cyanogen mod from Mid January. Never had any issues with it today.
Ive basically done a complete wipe of the system (/system, data, cache, dalvik, SD card, etc) and installed a newer nightly of Cyanogen mod, but it is still happening. Thinking it may be a hardware problem...
Any ideas as to how i can check whats going wrong?
Symptoms:
- Screen completely freezes on what it was doing. Screen state stays the same too (doesnt dim after a while)
- Haptic touch buttons sometimes work and sometimes dont (if they do work, all they do is vibrate, nothing changes on the screen)
- Tried a few button combinations to try and get it to respond again. Only way to get it goign again is to reboot the system completely (holding Power + Home)
Thanks
Dan
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have u intalled a samsung based rom and checked that all your hardware is working?
Is that a thing? I've had it lock up around 20 times today i would say...
Havent tried going back to a stock rom. Might give that a go tonight and see what happens... Thanks for the suggestion mate.
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Havent tried going back to a stock rom. Might give that a go tonight and see what happens... Thanks for the suggestion mate.
Twitchel said:
Havent tried going back to a stock rom. Might give that a go tonight and see what happens... Thanks for the suggestion mate.
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Back to stock rom, still happening...
Could this be a hardware issue?
Twitchel said:
Back to stock rom, still happening...
Could this be a hardware issue?
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Same thing happened with mine. Right before it died
Twitchel said:
Back to stock rom, still happening...
Could this be a hardware issue?
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last option :- backup internal storage. do a megawipe. install any samsung based rom again.
if that also does not work. bring phone back to full stock i.e there should be no proof that u used custom roms and then try to get samsung to exchange it. sorry.
lefttobleed said:
last option :- backup internal storage. do a megawipe. install any samsung based rom again.
if that also does not work. bring phone back to full stock i.e there should be no proof that u used custom roms and then try to get samsung to exchange it. sorry.
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Yeap, i've done a full wipe of everything (SD card and all) and its still happening..
Ill be calling Telstra to try and get a replacement
Twitchel said:
Yeap, i've done a full wipe of everything (SD card and all) and its still happening..
Ill be calling Telstra to try and get a replacement
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not full wipe. megawipe. from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832326
hope your s3 is the international version I9300.
If not then u r in the wrong section and installing non compatible roms and mods, that could be the cause of all this.
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Help!!! Have a Galaxy S3 rooted and CM installed. I installed Omega rom coming from stock ICS. I did not wipe cache or factory reset. After install it will not boot whatsoever. Tried using odin to recover with no luck. I'm afraid I bricked the phone already. How do I boot from power of to at least get to CWM?
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Help!!! Have a Galaxy S3 rooted and CM installed. I installed Omega rom coming from stock ICS. I did not wipe cache or factory reset. After install it will not boot whatsoever. Tried using odin to recover with no luck. I'm afraid I bricked the phone already. How do I boot from power of to at least get to CWM?
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well its almost impossible to brick a phone by doing what you said...
so, to boot to download mode its volume down, home and power
to boot to CWM directly its volume up, home and power.
Wait,
When you say stock ICS, do you mean the stock Samsung ROM or do you actually mean Vanilla ICS such as AOSP / AOKP / CM9?
When you say Omega ROM, do you mean the Stock Samsung based one, or teh AOKP one?
Be aware that system settings stored in /data for a stock samsung rom will not work well (probably preventing boot) on a vanilla AOSP/AOKP/CM rom and vice versa.
Please clarify exactly what ROM you are coming from and what ROM you have flashed.
i failed to mention I tried both button combinations and nothing is working
Have you tried starting fresh from a battery pull?
Take the battery out for a few minutes then re-insert it. See if the combinations work then.
well if you phone is giving you no sign of life at all the nits not looking good.
Tell us exactly what you did, because from the little you told us above there is no way you have bricked.
I was coming from the stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 to Omega v3 rom if that helps
i'll try the battery pull. I tried it earlier similar to the Droid X recovery from power off
spdrasr3 said:
I was coming from the stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 to Omega v3 rom if that helps
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Please give us a step by step of what you did, exactly - including what buttons you pressed and when.
Please try not to leave anything out.
Also try removing the battery like I said.
...and.... When you sya it does nothing, do you mean nothing? No scvreen, no button back lights, no vibrations?
Have you tried pulling the SD card?
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what happens when you put the power cable in?
Got the Galaxy S3 on thursday. Left completely stock until yesterday. Yesterday I rooted the phone and installed CWM using odin. The phone was working fine. Downloaded Omega rom v3 overnight. Before installing the rom did a nandroid backup. Installed the rom but without doing a factory/data reset or partition format. Clicked on the radio button to finish install where is said it should reboot. Waited a while as I know new roms can initiallly take longer to boot. Then the phone never rebooted. Next I tried both button combinations several times with no response from the phone. Now I can get the LED to light up while attached to a charger that's it. My PC doesn't even see it as a drive or as a device now. I had a HTC EVO before this and installed many ROM with no problem like this and felt comfortable enough to do the S3.
Any help would be greatly appreciated at this moment.
if i plug the cable in the computer recognizes something put still doesn't see the device
keep trying the download mode combo
hold volume down and don't let go
hold home and don't let go
hold power until you see life - don't let go of the other two!
if I ever do see life again then what next?
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if I ever do see life again then what next?
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when your in download mode you can flash a stock rom back with odin
okay thank you.
I've had stuck boot and no recovery and had to remove micro sd before I could get into recovery or download mode.
no life...looks like i'll have to return it
yeah i removed the sd card thinking the rom was on it. No luck. How'd you get yours to recover?
So I have a fairly new Blue 9300 and it was working fine and then started not responding to my finger on the lock screen. Then I would try to use the power button to cycle the screen on and off and it wont work. Sometimes I can hold the power button and get the power off menu to appear and then sometimes it will respond and let me reset.
First Question: Anyone else have this?
Second: I think it may be due to flashing so is there a superwipe I can try?
Ok, what did you do prior to this, which Rom etc
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Ok, what did you do prior to this, which Rom etc
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LoL
Not too much. Rooted it busybox super user. That's it. I did do a full backup from my white 9300 and restored to the blue 9300 but have since reflashed stock everything from Odin and still have bug. I restored through MyBackup Pro after the Odin reflash. I was hoping for some kind of super wipe to try and one last restore and then this bad boy is going back to Sammy I think :crying:
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Mybackup restore was just call logs and sms mms no apps.
try a complete fresh Odin flash with no restore of anything and see how that goes, then if you are going to do a restore do a bit at a time if all is good, and see if that gives you any indication of where the problem may lie
slaphead20 said:
try a complete fresh Odin flash with no restore of anything and see how that goes, then if you are going to do a restore do a bit at a time if all is good, and see if that gives you any indication of where the problem may lie
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Ok so I'm guessing no super wipe yet for sgs3. Never got the point of them but now I wouldn't mind. Should I do a factory reset and then odin restore? I think part of the issue was that I didn't do a reset before the Odin flash before. All My info was still there after Odin except my root haha
there is a super wipe app over in general, just be aware that this wipes sd card as far as I know
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there is a super wipe app over in general, just be aware that this wipes sd card as far as I know
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Alright did wipe now I am doing restore through Odin. Hope it works if not Triangle Away will be the best $3 I ever spent
Ok I'm back to using the it (it's my loved pebble blue that I hunted down ) and it seems fine only issue I am now getting is a not responding on the Messaging app. This is kinda weird as this is one of the things I did restore. It happened right after the restore. When I go into the messaging app it does the same thing and force closes.
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Hello everyone
Since a few days ago my S2's Wifi is not working
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The icon stays like this, pressing it does nothing. it happened 3 - 4 times before, usually, I'd just reboot it and that would do the trick (I google'd a bit and saw this is a common glitch when trying to turn wifi on), but not anymore, it refuses to turn on no matter what I do, rebooting, shutting down and restarting, it's stuck.
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I can't Scan, add a network nor switch the toggle on/off because pressing them does nothing, So... I thought I should do backup and factory reset it, nope. still stuck.
What's wrong with it? Any ideas? The phone is a year old, running 4.0.3 Stock
Sorry about the dots in the URL's, can't post links yet.
Edit: Forgot to mention it started doing this since I got ICS, maybe I should try flashing it to see if that fixes it, I'm kinda reluctant though, since the factory reset didn't seem to do anything and I haven't done it before.
Cathari said:
Hello everyone
Since a few days ago my S2's Wifi is not working
h.ttp://i.imgur.com/ojDOm.png
The icon stays like this, pressing it does nothing. it happened 3 - 4 times before, usually, I'd just reboot it and that would do the trick (I google'd a bit and saw this is a common glitch when trying to turn wifi on), but not anymore, it refuses to turn on no matter what I do, rebooting, shutting down and restarting, it's stuck.
h.ttp://i.imgur.com/KeMxb.png
I can't Scan, add a network nor switch the toggle on/off because pressing them does nothing, So... I thought I should do backup and factory reset it, nope. still stuck.
What's wrong with it? Any ideas? The phone is a year old, running 4.0.3 Stock
Sorry about the dots in the URL's, can't post links yet.
Edit: Forgot to mention it started doing this since I got ICS, maybe I should try flashing it to see if that fixes it, I'm kinda reluctant though, since the factory reset didn't seem to do anything and I haven't done it before.
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Do the steps below
- Boot to CWM recovery
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
- fix permissions (under advanced)
- reboot system now
The above steps will not make you lose some files and data
If that does not help, then flash another kernel
Since putting a custom kernel on my phone my bluetooth does exactly the same as what your wife is doing. Only way to turn it on is to reboot the phone whilst it is trying to turn on (ie whilst it is a shade of green)
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Do the steps below
- Boot to CWM recovery
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
- fix permissions (under advanced)
- reboot system now
The above steps will not make you lose some files and data
If that does not help, then flash another kernel
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Gonna try that and flash CM9 while I'm at it, never done this before... Lets see how it goes following the steps on CM's wiki
Cathari said:
Gonna try that and flash CM9 while I'm at it, never done this before... Lets see how it goes following the steps on CM's wiki
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you should be Ok its relativley straight forward
Well, Flashed in CWM Recovery and CM9, wiped cache, Dalvik cache and fixed permissions but the wifi is still not working... it's still stuck at "Turning Wi-Fi on"
I really have no idea about kernels and that stuff, I don't know how to flash 'em (unless it's the same as flashing CWM) or which one to get at all, since theres too many and I don't know what they do/know if they're compatible.
Flashing kernels are the same as flashing ROMs and modems..
There are 2 ways to flash kernels.. 1 is via odin (.tar file) and 2 is via CWM (.zip file)
Now, if your ROM is on JB then use a JB Kernel
If ICS = ICS Kernel
AOKP = AOKP Kernel
AOSP = AOSP Kernel
The thing with kernel is that you have to match it with the ROM's base..
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Hm...Checked my phone 7 hours after flashing CM9 on it and suddenly the Wifi's back on
Any explanation for this? It doesn't make any sense, I didn't even touch the phone during that time and it fixed itself?
Edit: Thanks for clarifying that up saywhatt, since I already flashed if and thus, voided the warranty I might as well go ahead and try flashing a kernel to improve battery life and get into the scene.
Cathari said:
Hm...Checked my phone 7 hours after flashing CM9 on it and suddenly the Wifi's back on
Any explanation for this? It doesn't make any sense, I didn't even touch the phone during that time and it fixed itself?
Edit: Thanks for clarifying that up saywhatt, since I already flashed if and thus, voided the warranty I might as well go ahead and try flashing a kernel to improve battery life and get into the scene.
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No problem.
Perhaps the ROM was "settling"? Lol i dunno.. but i'm glad to hear you got it sorted out. You can revert back to complete stock if you have some serious problems and it is needed to be sent to the service center..
1 download triangle away to clear the binary count
2 flash stock firmware
Voila! U no longer have a void warranty
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Hi there,
i tried a lot of word combinations to get a thread with my specific problem but i didnt manage it to find one.
So here is the deal:
i have german galaxy s 2 (9100, bought in september 2011) and i flashed it last year with darkyrom HD something gingerbread-style.
so it was rooted and all that stuff.
it worked pretty fast and it was stable and it looked sleak.
Last year in November i put Ressurrection remix 3.x (dont know which version of it) on my phone.
It had a lot of crashes, freezes and while playing ingress it always drained around 20% of the battery within 10-20minutes.
So i stopped it. I put the last version of it 3.1.3. of it onto my phone with a full wipe, cache partition, factory reset onto my phones and the problems went keep going.
As an example:
-I couldnt access options where i can select ringtones or to see what is on the sd. it crashed and went back to the "main screen".
-Yesterday i tried around 15 roms, and nearly everything except militant rom keep crashing while iam installing them.
-Sometimes it crashes already while iam installing the rom, sometimes its after a couple of hours, that i cant access the rom any more.
-The newest problem is, that sometimes the power button doesnt respond, when i push it (in jelly bam)
Please explain, what iam missing or is my phone just broke?
It never fell down, no water or anything freaking other things.
I hope you can help me.
should i send it back or what is wrong?
i dnt knw bt samsung.. bt may b it happens coz of when ur changing ur rom gb to i cs or jb whole operating system is diff so u hav to format ur sd card to make it working.
Try that way too
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Try changing kernel
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i dnt knw bt samsung.. bt may b it happens coz of when ur changing ur rom gb to i cs or jb whole operating system is diff so u hav to format ur sd card to make it working.
Try that way too
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so what do i have to do to make it work flawlessly?
i cant boot it right now without the power plug.... and the battery is at 90%....
so something is completely broken within the system....
jootanen said:
Try changing kernel
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i thought the kernel is already included when you're installing one of the roms?
which one should i take?
or how wipe the whole system to have it like "out of the box"?
flash a stock ROM and see how it behaves.
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Sakujou_Kei said:
i thought the kernel is already included when you're installing one of the roms?
which one should i take?
or how wipe the whole system to have it like "out of the box"?
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if you are rooted, you can try flashing NeatROM lite 4.2 based on LS8 and see how it behaves else flash official JB 4.1.2 using odin.
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if you are rooted, you can try flashing NeatROM lite 4.2 based on LS8 and see how it behaves else flash official JB 4.1.2 using odin.
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ok, ill try that right now..
if not using odin and try to do something with my nand???
after cleaning and putting a stock rom on it and afterwards rooting it with cwm still the same problem: boot loop or while the first installation, it crashes.
so what to do?
just hang around with the stupid official one?
If you did everything from Factory reset to changing kernel, and everything is still bad like that. I think that there's something with your phone's hardware.
Sakujou_Kei said:
ok, ill try that right now..
if not using odin and try to do something with my nand???
after cleaning and putting a stock rom on it and afterwards rooting it with cwm still the same problem: boot loop or while the first installation, it crashes.
so what to do?
just hang around with the stupid official one?
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after flashing the ROM via odin, reboot into recovery, wip/factory reset and then go in to mount & storage, make sure system, data and sd cards (internal & external if any) are all mounted if not mount it and reboot.
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after flashing the ROM via odin, reboot into recovery, wip/factory reset and then go in to mount & storage, make sure system, data and sd cards (internal & external if any) are all mounted if not mount it and reboot.
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well, i tried that. still nothing. it crashes or i have a bootloop.
so whats up with this phone?
so except the stock rom, where i can boot into it, all custom firmwares just crash or work for a while and then they'll crash.
i dont get this.
it started just days ago, now i dont even can use anything....
Sakujou_Kei said:
well, i tried that. still nothing. it crashes or i have a bootloop.
so whats up with this phone?
so except the stock rom, where i can boot into it, all custom firmwares just crash or work for a while and then they'll crash.
i dont get this.
it started just days ago, now i dont even can use anything....
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just as an example, when i tried to put on the neatrom-lite on my phone, it crashes while iam selecting the country. and this is just 2-3seconds after booting into the fresh and new system.
something is completely ****ed up....
so right now, i have the militant rom on my phone, got booted up, but the power button doesnt work.... when the phone is on...
so everytime, when i want to switch of the screen, i have to wait, or take of the battery. and switching on is only possible with the home button.
whats wrong?
Given you have the same problems on stock, hardware problem. Back to stock, reset counter, send it in for warranty service (if you have warranty), if not, take it to local mobile repair shops.
reseting the counter... with stock? how to do that? i thought this is only possible with root? and i thought, as soon as i root, there is something already on the counter?
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reseting the counter... with stock? how to do that? i thought this is only possible with root? and i thought, as soon as i root, there is something already on the counter?
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You have two option. Either flash a custom kernel (siyah, for example), then reset the counter using triangle away app. Then flash a stock firmware using odin. This wont increase the counter.
Or, if you have a USB jig, flash an older bootloader (have to careful here), then simply plug in the jig.
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hey, i got the problem:
i transferred a few files between the sd card and the internal storage of my device, and i realised, that the device is not able to fully transfer the files. it says after 40-50% that its done. is there a flash the roms via ODIN? or how to do that? just put the rom.zip as PDA?
Sakujou_Kei said:
hey, i got the problem:
i transferred a few files between the sd card and the internal storage of my device, and i realised, that the device is not able to fully transfer the files. it says after 40-50% that its done. is there a flash the roms via ODIN? or how to do that? just put the rom.zip as PDA?
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Unzip first.
I'd advice you to read about flashing with odin and watch a couple of videos on youtube before you put yourself up to it or else you're gonna have a bad flash, and that means trouble.
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Hello,
Today I was charging my phone via USB and suddenly my phone restarted, Since then the phone keeps restarting as soon as it reaches the home screen (waits for all the widgets to load) then restarts again.
I am now making a nandroid backup.
Anybody else facing the problem?
Possible fixes?
Thanks
You tried pulling the battery? Or, wipe cache and dalvik cache from recovery?
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You tried pulling the battery? Or, wipe cache and dalvik cache from recovery?
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Tried all those and only then I posted here. I don't want to flash a new ROM now. :/ Had everything setup to my liking.
Can you do a logcat while booting your phone, including the reboot?
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Can you do a logcat while booting your phone, including the reboot?
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Sorry, I got frustrated and now flashing a new ROM.
That's fine then, definitely the best choice...
Random reboots are mostly accredited to kernel and not ROM. (however possible in ROM as well).
First thing you should do next time if such thing happens is to flash stock boot or use a different boot then u are currently using.
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Random reboots are mostly accredited to kernel and not ROM. (however possible in ROM as well).
First thing you should do next time if such thing happens is to flash stock boot or use a different boot then u are currently using.
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That's fine then, definitely the best choice...
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I did the same, Returned to full stock. But then the problem occurred again after I finished setting up all my apps. Also I found out what the problem was.
The issue is with the latest update of DoubleTwist Music Player App. As soon as I installed that app and opened it, My phone froze and then the restarting issue started. Then I removed the app apk from Recovery and now it works fine.
So anyone having this issue try the above solution.