I have a problem with my boyfriends Xperia S.
Starting today, it is impossible to enable GPS, trying to do so causes whatever app I try with to force close.
For example, if I try to enable it via Notification Bar Toggles, systemui.apk force closes. If I try to enable it via settings, settings.apk force closes and if I try via any third party app or widget, that app force closes as well.
GPS is the only thing that is not working correctly, everything else like WIFI or data etc. still works.
The phone currently runs Android 4.1 on a custom rom. I already tried to reflash the rom, it didn't help.
What else could I try and what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance!
Have you made any changes to the SystemUI? Battery mods? etc? On some other Xperia phones, it seemed that caused this issue. A quick search didn't bring up anything specific. After you reflashed the rom - did you do a clean flash and try it before reinstalling any backups or other settings? Another rom is an option, worst case scenario.
es0tericcha0s said:
Have you made any changes to the SystemUI? Battery mods? etc? On some other Xperia phones, it seemed that caused this issue. A quick search didn't bring up anything specific. After you reflashed the rom - did you do a clean flash and try it before reinstalling any backups or other settings? Another rom is an option, worst case scenario.
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Thank you for your answer.
There hasn't been any change to the phone for almost a year now, and not even a new installed app for about a month.
I also searched but the only thing close was a thread about an xperia mini, but there reflashing seemed to have helped.
I wiped everything and tried on fresh install but it still force closes anything. Almost as if the apps just couldn't find the gps. Is there any apk that belongs to gps or something similar that could be missing? Maybe deleted? I took a quick look at system/app before reflashing the rom but the only thing gps related there was 'gpssatilitenotification.apk'. Tried wiping the data and cache of that but that did not change anything, still, a reflash should have solved that
Changing the rom would really have to be the last resort. But the phone ran on that rom for about 1 year and a half without any problem so I think the issue is not rom related, but of course i could be wrong.
That is very strange. You don't necessarily have to change roms permanently, but testing another one real quick will be an easy way to tell if the issue is hardware or software related. As you noted, the issue happens immediately, so won't take long to test.
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Have you made any changes to the SystemUI? Battery mods? etc? On some other Xperia phones, it seemed that caused this issue. A quick search didn't bring up anything specific. After you reflashed the rom - did you do a clean flash and try it before reinstalling any backups or other settings? Another rom is an option, worst case scenario.
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es0tericcha0s said:
That is very strange. You don't necessarily have to change roms permanently, but testing another one real quick will be an easy way to tell if the issue is hardware or software related. As you noted, the issue happens immediately, so won't take long to test.
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Alright, I'll try to change the rom tomorrow and see if it changes anything. I'll report back, thanks for your help.
No problem. Good luck. Just remember to do a nandroid so you can just roll back if that one doesn't work either.
es0tericcha0s said:
No problem. Good luck. Just remember to do a nandroid so you can just roll back if that one doesn't work either.
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I reflashed the stock rom, and the same thing is happening.
If it's not rom related, it might be hardware.
Maybe the gps sensor is broken or anything?
Is that really how the system would react to a hardware damage? I searched but couldn't find anything on the topic.
I would have imagined if it was broken, it would just say 'turning on' with nothing actually happening, but the apps are force closing.
Myself, I would try one last thing: flash a CM based rom or something non stock. If it fails there too, then probably a lost cause. I do repairs for a living and have never seen that happen. Phones are crazy things...see something new every day. Any chance of liquid damage? Sweat? Drink? etc?
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Myself, I would try one last thing: flash a CM based rom or something non stock. If it fails there too, then probably a lost cause. I do repairs for a living and have never seen that happen. Phones are crazy things...see something new every day. Any chance of liquid damage? Sweat? Drink? etc?
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I can't flash CM because the bootloader is not unlockable.
Liquid damage is highly unlikely. Also no drops or anything, it's really weird.
I wish I knew how this happened, it was from one day to the next all of a sudden, but I can't really figure it out.
Anyway, thanks for your help. If I should find out anything else, I'll post it here.
Locked bootloader? Ugh. Hate when they do that. My last phone was a Sony phone. It was unlocked, but pretty much every other variant wasn't so the development was weak compared to other similar quality phones. But yea, unfortunately, stuff just goes bad. :/ I hope there's another solution, but not sure I would hold my breath as it's such a unique problem. I read the forums ALL the time as well as experimenting heavily with my phone and fixing, rooting, etc other people's stuff and haven't seen anything I can think of that would cause this. Not saying there isn't an answer, but if there is, I would imagine it's rather obscure.
Just for the heck of it, searched for: GPS apps crash system - and found other phones that have suffered from this, such as Blackberries:
https://supportforums.blackberry.co...s-with-any-application-using-gps/td-p/1454003
Just thought of another thing, maybe you can plug it into the computer and get a logcat running, then make the phone crash and the logcat should catch what fails before it crashes. Now the logcats are confusing to read if you aren't used to them (I'm learning slowly). You could also try to run it from the phone if you don't want to use the computer with something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jtb.alogrec as it saves it continuously to the phone's storage.
es0tericcha0s said:
Locked bootloader? Ugh. Hate when they do that. My last phone was a Sony phone. It was unlocked, but pretty much every other variant wasn't so the development was weak compared to other similar quality phones. But yea, unfortunately, stuff just goes bad. :/ I hope there's another solution, but not sure I would hold my breath as it's such a unique problem. I read the forums ALL the time as well as experimenting heavily with my phone and fixing, rooting, etc other people's stuff and haven't seen anything I can think of that would cause this. Not saying there isn't an answer, but if there is, I would imagine it's rather obscure.
Just for the heck of it, searched for: GPS apps crash system - and found other phones that have suffered from this, such as Blackberries:
https://supportforums.blackberry.co...s-with-any-application-using-gps/td-p/1454003
Just thought of another thing, maybe you can plug it into the computer and get a logcat running, then make the phone crash and the logcat should catch what fails before it crashes. Now the logcats are confusing to read if you aren't used to them (I'm learning slowly). You could also try to run it from the phone if you don't want to use the computer with something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jtb.alogrec as it saves it continuously to the phone's storage.
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Hm I attached the screenshot of the logcat while the systemui force closes when using the notification toggle for gps. I really can't read any of that though
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Well I'll keep on trying, but I don't really know what else i could try anymore.
But thank you for all the help!
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Hm I attached the screenshot of the logcat while the systemui force closes when using the notification toggle for gps. I really can't read any of that though
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Well I'll keep on trying, but I don't really know what else i could try anymore.
But thank you for all the help!
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The log should be in a .txt format. You would want to upload that or to paste it @ pastebin.org and copy the link here.
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Hey, just wondered if there was a way to unlock the mobile hotspot feature (without paying ATT obviously) without flashing a ROM. I have no problem with rooting, which I feel should allow override access for however ATT locks it. But, this was not the case with my old phone (Samsung Captivate). With that, I was only free to us the hotspot once flashing certain ROMs. Any advice? Thanks.
i'm pretty sure that is not possible without a custom rom
again .... you are in the wrong section with these questions. That is what the Q&A section is for.
justlaxin13 said:
Hey, just wondered if there was a way to unlock the mobile hotspot feature (without paying ATT obviously) without flashing a ROM. I have no problem with rooting, which I feel should allow override access for however ATT locks it. But, this was not the case with my old phone (Samsung Captivate). With that, I was only free to us the hotspot once flashing certain ROMs. Any advice? Thanks.
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kinda weird that you wouldn't mind rooting, but you would mind flashing a custom rom.
I know it's odd, but for now, lame though it may be, I kinda like the newest iteration of TW. Part of that is because there are some native apps (like quickoffice) that came with the phone that i use all the time and don't want to lose them with a custom ROM
@justlaxin13: It's possible and quite easy to do. All you have to do is root your phone by following jivy26 directions here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285894
then get Titanium Backup (Paid version allows freezing of apps) open it, and uninstall Tethering Manager, reboot phone, and you should be good to go.
It worked for me, and I'm on Stock Rom, that's rooted, tooted, and free of all AT&T crapware!!! :-D
justlaxin13 said:
I know it's odd, but for now, lame though it may be, I kinda like the newest iteration of TW. Part of that is because there are some native apps (like quickoffice) that came with the phone that i use all the time and don't want to lose them with a custom ROM
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All of our custom ROMs right now except for Perception and CM7/MIUI are derived from I777 stock - so they'll have the same TW version.
And I think most of them (except maybe S8) still have Quickoffice. Worst case you can pull the APK from a ROM that has it.
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All of our custom ROMs right now except for Perception and CM7/MIUI are derived from I777 stock - so they'll have the same TW version.
And I think most of them (except maybe S8) still have Quickoffice. Worst case you can pull the APK from a ROM that has it.
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thanks, I've been wondering much the same, whetehr flashing a custom rom would lose me access to Touchwiz and/or quickoffice. In particular I'm considering CyanogenMod and Unnamed, are both of these in the "include TW and QO" category?
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thanks, I've been wondering much the same, whetehr flashing a custom rom would lose me access to Touchwiz and/or quickoffice. In particular I'm considering CyanogenMod and Unnamed, are both of these in the "include TW and QO" category?
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Cyanogenmod is the exception - it's AOSP-based. CM7 and MIUI are the only ROMs that lose Touchwiz.
I think Unnamed has QO - if it doesn't, worst case pull the APK from stock and readd it to /system/app
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@justlaxin13: It's possible and quite easy to do. All you have to do is root your phone by following jivy26 directions here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285894
then get Titanium Backup (Paid version allows freezing of apps) open it, and uninstall Tethering Manager, reboot phone, and you should be good to go.
It worked for me, and I'm on Stock Rom, that's rooted, tooted, and free of all AT&T crapware!!! :-D
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Thanks, that worked for me. I'm rooted and still on the stock ROM. By the way, don't need the paid version of Titanium Backup, the free version worked just fine. I backed it up (just in case) and uninstalled it. Worked without a reboot even. Rebooted to be sure, and it still works. Thanks!
Just ran a speed test and was a bit surprised. '4g' in my area isn't the greatest, at least I thought.
But I ran a speedtest on my asus transformer while connected to my phone's hotspot.
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Then immediately shut off the hotspot and ran it on my phone.
How can a device on the hotspot pull faster speeds than the device itself?
The asus is 100% stock, currently, and my sgh II is stock, at least for the next hour, with only entropy512's kernel, dd11032011, and unmodified apn settings.
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Different TCP buffer settings (although on my kernel, yours should be nice and big), also, the speedtest app seems to randomly freak out and pick the wrong servers.
Gotcha. I'll try pinning it down but it's most likely nothing. I don't 'feel' the speed difference between this and other 4g phones.
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The real way to unlock hotspot on lg g2
To make these procedures you must be extra root so I am using the paid version of the application
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I hope they work
My totally stock (not rooted, never been near ODIN) S3 is suffering from a memory leak/issue that's requiring me to reboot my phone every 24 hours or so. I'm wondering if anyone else has faced this issue, or if anyone with any technical knowledge has any suggestions for how to fix it?
After 24 hours, this is what Applications Manager / Running looks like:
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See all those processes in a start of Restarting...?
Looking at "Cached Processes" will show only 1, maybe 2 processes. Returning to the homescreen is slow and has redraw issues.
As soon as I restart the phone, no processes are restarting anymore, and the list of cached processes has 10-15 items in it.
The symptoms to me scream "memory leak!" but I'm not sure how to progress to debug what's causing the issue. I have installed Terminal Emulator and also connected to the phone via ADB, but there's nothing terrible I can see in the list of processes that are taking up lots of memory. I can't see anything bad in logcat, but cat /proc/meminfo shows that I'm running out of memory.
Can anyone with a good understanding of Linux/Android provide suggestions on how I can debug what is taking up all the memory? There must be some tools via ADB or shell commands I can run to get a better understanding of what's going on.
I'm also curious to hear if anyone else is running into this issue. If it's just me, it could well be an app that I have installed causing the problem.
Thanks!
- muppet
Probably a software bug, 4.1.2 is out, why not update? It works wonders for me.
muppetmania said:
My totally stock (not rooted, never been near ODIN) S3 is suffering from a memory leak/issue that's requiring me to reboot my phone every 24 hours or so. I'm wondering if anyone else has faced this issue, or if anyone with any technical knowledge has any suggestions for how to fix it?
After 24 hours, this is what Applications Manager / Running looks like:
See all those processes in a start of Restarting...?
Looking at "Cached Processes" will show only 1, maybe 2 processes. Returning to the homescreen is slow and has redraw issues.
As soon as I restart the phone, no processes are restarting anymore, and the list of cached processes has 10-15 items in it.
The symptoms to me scream "memory leak!" but I'm not sure how to progress to debug what's causing the issue. I have installed Terminal Emulator and also connected to the phone via ADB, but there's nothing terrible I can see in the list of processes that are taking up lots of memory. I can't see anything bad in logcat, but cat /proc/meminfo shows that I'm running out of memory.
Can anyone with a good understanding of Linux/Android provide suggestions on how I can debug what is taking up all the memory? There must be some tools via ADB or shell commands I can run to get a better understanding of what's going on.
I'm also curious to hear if anyone else is running into this issue. If it's just me, it could well be an app that I have installed causing the problem.
Thanks!
- muppet
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Even I'm also facing the same problem since 4.1.1 upgrade. .. I tried all solutions by googling but nothing worked. Currently I'm restarting my device everyday. ... also patiently waiting for 4.1.2 update hoping that out will solve this memory leak issue.
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xSpeced said:
Probably a software bug, 4.1.2 is out, why not update? It works wonders for me.
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Because I am keen to find the cause, not just hope it might be fixed in a later version
asdf20 said:
Even I'm also facing the same problem since 4.1.1 upgrade. .. I tried all solutions by googling but nothing worked. Currently I'm restarting my device everyday. ... also patiently waiting for 4.1.2 update hoping that out will solve this memory leak issue.
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Thanks for replying - good to know I'm not going insane here
I experienced the same issue with stock unrooted 4.1.1. The problem is caused by some of the Samsung bloatware that ships with the phone as standard, this stuff is always running and cannot be stopped without rooting. I rooted and disabled a ton of it with Titanium Backup and all the memory issues I had were solved and as a side effect the phone is a lot less laggy. I highly recommend rooting anyway, it gives many advantages with one of the most important ones being the ability to control exactly what runs on your phone and when.
phobox360 said:
I experienced the same issue with stock unrooted 4.1.1. The problem is caused by some of the Samsung bloatware that ships with the phone as standard, this stuff is always running and cannot be stopped without rooting. I rooted and disabled a ton of it with Titanium Backup and all the memory issues I had were solved and as a side effect the phone is a lot less laggy. I highly recommend rooting anyway, it gives many advantages with one of the most important ones being the ability to control exactly what runs on your phone and when.
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Yes I'm familiar with rooting + more (If you look at my history you'll notice I released a few kernels for the Xperia Ray that I compiled. )
I'm trying to figure out exactly what programs/processes are the problem. Can you give me a list of those you disabled? Was there any particular one you disabled that seemed to fix the problem?
Thanks!
--muppet
phobox360 said:
I experienced the same issue with stock unrooted 4.1.1. The problem is caused by some of the Samsung bloatware that ships with the phone as standard, this stuff is always running and cannot be stopped without rooting. I rooted and disabled a ton of it with Titanium Backup and all the memory issues I had were solved and as a side effect the phone is a lot less laggy. I highly recommend rooting anyway, it gives many advantages with one of the most important ones being the ability to control exactly what runs on your phone and when.
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If Samsung bloatware is the culprit, then why it sows more memory when booted? Please note that same number of processes (which you are calling as bloatware) are running irrespective of whether the phone is booted freshly or used for sometime... the problem is with memory leak which this ROM is unable to manage.
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If Samsung bloatware is the culprit, then why it sows more memory when booted? Please note that same number of processes (which you are calling as bloatware) are running irrespective of whether the phone is booted freshly or used for sometime... the problem is with memory leak which this ROM is unable to manage.
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We're not entirely certain how Samsung apps (especially ones that aren't disable-able typically) are interacting with the system; so we can't really be certain of this. Android also does tend to hide some stuff from the services screen.
Anyway, I have a friend with this problem and we can't really find a reason for it; might go about disabling as much as we can (without root I mean) and see if we have any luck. On a sidenote, two others with identical phone/carrier/rom combinations without an issue.
The problem seems to be that some of the Samsung system processes tend to leak ram after some time. Which ones specifically is somewhat unclear, however I've had good results by disabling the kies process from running. Kies exists as both an android apk and an actual daemon process run during startup from init.rc. Disabling the apk and changing the permissions on the daemon so it cannot execute are quite effective methods of stopping it. I also disabled things like S Suggest, Video Hub and a whole bunch of others. Anything useful such as the fm radio, S Calendar, S Memo etc I leave enabled. I can give an exact list of things I've disabled if you like.
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phobox360 said:
The problem seems to be that some of the Samsung system processes tend to leak ram after some time. Which ones specifically is somewhat unclear, however I've had good results by disabling the kies process from running. Kies exists as both an android apk and an actual daemon process run during startup from init.rc. Disabling the apk and changing the permissions on the daemon so it cannot execute are quite effective methods of stopping it. I also disabled things like S Suggest, Video Hub and a whole bunch of others. Anything useful such as the fm radio, S Calendar, S Memo etc I leave enabled. I can give an exact list of things I've disabled if you like.
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I tried but couldn't find any process related to kies.... I've also disabled things like s suggest etc. But still experiencing memory leak. .. can you give me the list which you disabled on your phone?
I'm on stock and unrooted..
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The kies daemon is called kiesexe and is located in /system/bin. Disable it by removing it's execute permission, then disable the kies related apk's and reboot. I shall post a list soon when I'm back home.
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phobox360 said:
The kies daemon is called kiesexe and is located in /system/bin. Disable it by removing it's execute permission, then disable the kies related apk's and reboot. I shall post a list soon when I'm back home.
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This requires root though, and I don't want to root my phone (I know, call me crazy)
Also, from what I've seen kies daemon doesn't actually take up any memory, just leaves a lot of processes behind (that all share the same segment of shared memory)
You cannot claim that a phone is totally stock, and then post a picture including processes like winamp, facebook, etc. Stock means its only running the software that it would be running after a fresh wipe.
I never had this problem under 4.1.1, so its either
* A kernel fault in the stock firmware itself
* A faulty application you have downloaded
* A leaking service process that won't appear on the running processes list.
Okay, 2nd person on a i9300T stock ROM (there aren't that many after all) with this horrible leak (one of the previously okay people I mentioned). Looks like the early jellybean builds just suck (well, more than we originally thought).
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You cannot claim that a phone is totally stock, and then post a picture including processes like winamp, facebook, etc. Stock means its only running the software that it would be running after a fresh wipe.
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Sorry but I disagree with you. Stock to me, and I think most people, means the stock ROM that it came with, no mods, not rooted etc. Otherwise where do you draw the line? Is it still stock by your definition if I've taken 5000 photos and put 2000 contacts in the phone? Synced it with 50 Gmail accounts?
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I never had this problem under 4.1.1, so its either
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Oh, you've never had the problem? Why are you replying?
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* A kernel fault in the stock firmware itself
* A faulty application you have downloaded
* A leaking service process that won't appear on the running processes list.
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Yes, I'm aware of that. What I'm trying to track down is which one of those it is though. So I'm asking people what do they suggest so I can do that.
I'm fairly sure it's not going to be an app - apps run within the VM so killing them off would release all that memory. Much more likely is that it's a native ARM process (kiesexec for example) that's at fault. It could be an app I've downloaded though, there's no doubt about that.
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Okay, 2nd person on a i9300T stock ROM (there aren't that many after all) with this horrible leak (one of the previously okay people I mentioned). Looks like the early jellybean builds just suck (well, more than we originally thought).
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Any suggestions on how to debug it? Without root there's still a number of nodes in /proc I'm able to read from - suggestions for where to look to debug some more?
Cheers!
(a noob here)
a reset may help
Still, if you can't fix it , take it to Samsung for a new one.
Mitch_Faiz_555 said:
(a noob here)
a reset may help
Still, if you can't fix it , take it to Samsung for a new one.
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Thanks for the reply, but I'm after advice for how to debug the issue. Not suggestions on how to fix it, what to do etc
I hoepd a couple of experienced devs might be able to suggest what things to look at (dmesg, vmstat, last_kmsg etc)
Please, no more replies of "I don't have it, reset it, flash the latest fw"
I want to understand what the problem is!
Cheers,
muppet
muppetmania said:
Sorry but I disagree with you. Stock to me, and I think most people, means the stock ROM that it came with, no mods, not rooted etc. Otherwise where do you draw the line? Is it still stock by your definition if I've taken 5000 photos and put 2000 contacts in the phone? Synced it with 50 Gmail accounts?
Oh, you've never had the problem? Why are you replying?
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Stock means Factory Configuration.
not "Oh i have facebook and yada bullcrap 123 installed but its stock"
This is my first attempt at compiling cyanogenmod for my own phone. So far it works OK for me so I decided to share:
WARNING:
As of 20141223 you will need HBOOT version 3.19.000 to be able to use this. in order to get it install the latest firmware from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696282
WARNING:
This is an ALPHA built, in other words too many things are broken and expect things to suddenly stop working. Make sure you know how to recover your phone in case anything breaks. If you have a grain of doubt that you may not be able to recover DO NOT PROCEED. and in the end of everything: I do not take any responsibility for anything that may or may not happen to your phone. You are flashing at your own risk not mine.
Requirements:
1. Custom recovery (I used TWRP)
2. Latest firmware version 3.19.000
Files that you need:
CM12 built: http://devbro.com/android/cm-12-20141223-UNOFFICIAL-m8.zip Last stable built with no issues for camera and bluetooth is 20141218
GAPPS: http://d-h.st/YQG
SUPERSU: http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu -- no longer needed
Steps:
0. Create a small temple using your favorite objects and pray to your favorite God or Gods for a successful outcome. I did about 2 hours of praying to Eutykhia. I suggest the same to you.
1. Back up your stuff using Titanium backup
2. Go into recovery
2.1 Do one last nandroid backup here of System, Boot, Recovery and Data
3. Wipe Data, System, Cache, Dalvik
4. install CM12 and GAPPS
5. restart upon completion
Things that do not work:
1. Titanium back up and apps that depend on root may hang. Flash SUPERSU from RECOVERY and it should fix it. Fixed as of 20141220
2. Camera does not work.
3. Bluetooth may not see new devices. Restart before adding each individual device.
4. If Calendar is not syncing install the Google Calendar from the Store
5. Apollo(music player) Keeps on crashing. I used Play Music(google music) to play my musics and it works ok so far. fixed as of 2014-12-06 build. Apollo no longer exists but a new music app that works just fine with nuplayer
6. Probably other stuff that I have not come across yet.
7. I have not been able to get the swype gesture on the keyboard. If you know why please tell us.
If you have suggestions:
Simply post it in the forum and I see What I can do about it. If there are
My mods to this code:
1. I had edited the platform.xml to allow write access to sdcard (aka sdfix)
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Looks like you may have fixed more than Apollo in that last build. Camera, calender, and multiple bluetooth pairing worked out-of-the-box. Runs good. Only crash I've encounter so far is in trying to access the in-built Superuser settings, but it's redundant if you use the SuperSU app anyway.
Good job!
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Looks like you may have fixed more than Apollo in that last build. Camera, calender, and multiple bluetooth pairing worked out-of-the-box. Runs good. Only crash I've encounter so far is in trying to access the in-built Superuser settings, but it's redundant if you use the SuperSU app anyway.
Good job!
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For the 2014-12-06 build I got a few more of the drm blobs. Still missing two blobs thought.
Hey, First - Thank You for this ROM it's a great start !
I have been using it since you released it and I just wanted to give my two cents. For being an Alpha build, mostly everything works. I have noticed few bugs but the most annoying one for me is when I'm playing music. 1) I would use Play Music and at first it worked fine but as of today, for some reason, it would play for the first 10 seconds and than it would go off. The music ticker would be increasing but the sound would not play. I would have to skip ahead a track than go back to have it play fully. 2) I also rooted and flashed the ROM on to my coworkers phone and for some reason, his mobile Data wouldn't work yet Wi-Fi works perfectly fine. 3) Something else that I noticed was that, when closing apps, more often than not, after hitting the "close all" tap, I would open the recent apps again and I would have a application running which was closed. 4) I would also get a FC when trying to change the settings in the Messenger app. It's not that important but I thought that I should mention it anyway.
That's all I have at the moment, Thank You again for your hard work.
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Hey, First - Thank You for this ROM it's a great start !
I have been using it since you released it and I just wanted to give my two cents. For being an Alpha build, mostly everything works. I have noticed few bugs but the most annoying one for me is when I'm playing music. 1) I would use Play Music and at first it worked fine but as of today, for some reason, it would play for the first 10 seconds and than it would go off. The music ticker would be increasing but the sound would not play. I would have to skip ahead a track than go back to have it play fully. 2) I also rooted and flashed the ROM on to my coworkers phone and for some reason, his mobile Data wouldn't work yet Wi-Fi works perfectly fine. 3) Something else that I noticed was that, when closing apps, more often than not, after hitting the "close all" tap, I would open the recent apps again and I would have a application running which was closed. 4) I would also get a FC when trying to change the settings in the Messenger app. It's not that important but I thought that I should mention it anyway.
That's all I have at the moment, Thank You again for your hard work.
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Thank you so much for the info I will update the thread with these bugs. Here are a few things:
1. for the music player problem go to settings->development options->switch the music option from "nuplayer" to "awesome player"
2. I have no encountered this problem. did you check the APN settings and made sure that network data is enabled?
3. I do sometimes run into this problem
4. Are you using the default messenger app? I use textra which is very similar in look and feel and so far no breakage.
I have been trying to compile a new version but for the past 2 days the latest code off the branch keeps of failing the build at different points. If I get to fix the errors I will try again to upload a new build.
devbro said:
Thank you so much for the info I will update the thread with these bugs. Here are a few things:
1. for the music player problem go to settings->development options->switch the music option from "nuplayer" to "awesome player"
2. I have no encountered this problem. did you check the APN settings and made sure that network data is enabled?
3. I do sometimes run into this problem
4. Are you using the default messenger app? I use textra which is very similar in look and feel and so far no breakage.
I have been trying to compile a new version but for the past 2 days the latest code off the branch keeps of failing the build at different points. If I get to fix the errors I will try again to upload a new build.
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OK so,
1) I had it checked on and now I unchecked it, I will use it as normal and proceed with an update.
2) I'll be honest, he was being an annoyance so I did not check his APN though you are probably right.
3) I am using the stock messenger app. I had the Google application on here but I was receiving and "message not sent" error for some odd reason.
PS: That was a fast reply, good stuff. :good:
Just an update on the Music bug, I unchecked the box as before and after nearly a 24 hour testing period, I have encountered the bug a few times but not a much as before. I would say that I would have to apply the walk around (Changing the track and than going back to what I actually want to listen too) around five times. That is way less than before, so it did address the bug but it did not kill it.
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Just an update on the Music bug, I unchecked the box as before and after nearly a 24 hour testing period, I have encountered the bug a few times but not a much as before. I would say that I would have to apply the walk around (Changing the track and than going back to what I actually want to listen too) around five times. That is way less than before, so it did address the bug but it did not kill it.
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Have you tried other other music players such as play music? I want to know if the bug is exclusive to Apollo or not.
I did have the problem at the beginning and simply seeking the music it helped. I have not encounter that problem for sometime. Plus I have been using a bluetooth headphones so that may have something to do with my case.
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Have you tried other other music players such as play music? I want to know if the bug is exclusive to Apollo or not.
I did have the problem at the beginning and simply seeking the music it helped. I have not encounter that problem for sometime. Plus I have been using a bluetooth headphones so that may have something to do with my case.
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I have used Apollo and Play music. Play music is the main one used. On another note, my mobile data also broke just know. I am not sure why so i had to revert to my backed up ROM
Works great so far. Only issue I am getting g is that the screen won't turn off during call. The audio issue happened once and it worked later don't know why. My cars bluetooth works and controls audio but won't get the text messenges. Besides that feels great for being alpha. No crashes so far.
I finally managed to build the source code again. I hope you all like this one.
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I finally managed to build the source code again. I hope you all like this one.
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404 not found
joker96 said:
404 not found
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Looks like he left out a 1:
http://devbro.com/android/cm-12-20141215-UNOFFICIAL-m8.zip
devbro said:
I finally managed to build the source code again. I hope you all like this one.
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Where did the flashlight toggle go?
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404 not found
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I fixed the link. I intentionally killed the linked as the build was not able to boot. I replaced the boot.img with an older one and now it works just fine.
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I fixed the link. I intentionally killed the linked as the build was not able to boot. I replaced the boot.img with an older one and now it works just fine.
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Camera/flashlight are not working. The camera apps are crashing and the flashlight apps I've tried are not detecting an LED light.
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Camera/flashlight are not working. The camera apps are crashing and the flashlight apps I've tried are not detecting an LED light.
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I uploaded a new built of for today so please re-download the file. The old file had a problem and I intentionally made the link 404 to prevent others from downloading the bad file.
As for Camera app problem it is a known issue with but using the google camera instead of the stock camera should fix this issue.
As for Flash-light app, I used it from the quick setting and it worked just fine for me.
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I uploaded a new built of for today so please re-download the file. The old file had a problem and I intentionally made the link 404 to prevent others from downloading the bad file.
As for Camera app problem it is a known issue with but using the google camera instead of the stock camera should fix this issue.
As for Flash-light app, I used it from the quick setting and it worked just fine for me.
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I'll try re-downloading. With the build I got, not even the Google camera was working.
*Update: That did it. Works great now.
Just a quick update for those using this. I have created a new built for 20141223 but so far i cannot get it to flash on my phone. Something to do with incompatibility between recovery versions. If i get to fix it i will post further updates.
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Are you only using the CWM recovery? I've flashed the last 2 versions of this with TWRP. Care to put up a link?
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Just a quick update for those using this. I have created a new built for 20141223 but so far i cannot get it to flash on my phone. Something to do with incompatibility between recovery versions. If i get to fix it i will post further updates.
Sent from my One M8 using XDA Free mobile app
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I also use twrp if you want i will put a link and you can try at your own risk.
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Had the phone for 2 days, and it has crashed at least twice so far... (device reboots randomly)
Has anyone else experienced crashing on their device yet?
xT29c said:
Had the phone for 2 days, and it has crashed at least twice so far... (device reboots randomly)
Has anyone else experienced crashing on their device yet?
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Obviously not supposed to happen. Updated to latest rom ? Rouge third party apps installed ? If not, send a report to Huawei using their "Hicare" app and it should be sorted with rom updates.
Hope you didn't restore an old backup on ur new phone.
I did not restore any backups on it. I am thinking it is the SD card.... how likely is that?
Formatted the SD card, and still crashed. I'm on my 4th crash so far. Phone is unusable to me until this is fixed.
Is there any app that will display crash reports? I want to pinpoint why this is happening.
I would appreciate any feedback on this matter rather than being ignored
my phone crashed again
I have formatted my SD card, wiped my phone, and changed launchers. Phone still crashes.
What do I do?
Has anyone else experienced a crash at all with this phone?
I need your guys’ help.
Nothing seems to be a direct cause of the crashing. The only thing that I’ve noticed is when I go to unlock the phone that’s when the crashing will happen but I’m never able to re-create the crash when I want it’s always sporadic and an indefinite amount of time can go by between the next crash.
UPDATE: Looks like I’m not the only one who is experiencing crashing with their device. The crashing is random and maybe your phone will crash overnight and you don’t know that it was power cycled. I advise everyone to keep an eye on their device to see if it power cycled without you knowing or more obviously when you’re using it in front of your face and you see the wall a logo pop up out of nowhere this device seems to be glitched and needs to be patched as soon as possible again I welcome anyone to share their feedback or stories with this phone crashing is been pretty quiet.
xT29c said:
I would appreciate any feedback on this matter rather than being ignored
my phone crashed again
I have formatted my SD card, wiped my phone, and changed launchers. Phone still crashes.
What do I do?
Has anyone else experienced a crash at all with this phone?
I need your guys’ help.
Nothing seems to be a direct cause of the crashing. The only thing that I’ve noticed is when I go to unlock the phone that’s when the crashing will happen but I’m never able to re-create the crash when I want it’s always sporadic and an indefinite amount of time can go by between the next crash.
UPDATE: Looks like I’m not the only one who is experiencing crashing with their device. The crashing is random and maybe your phone will crash overnight and you don’t know that it was power cycled. I advise everyone to keep an eye on their device to see if it power cycled without you knowing or more obviously when you’re using it in front of your face and you see the wall a logo pop up out of nowhere this device seems to be glitched and needs to be patched as soon as possible again I welcome anyone to share their feedback or stories with this phone crashing is been pretty quiet.
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No crash here, I have been using the Mate 10 heavily, tried everything not one crash yet. But dang this thing has a lot of features when you want to turn off one features it is really hard to know where to look for it. Just need to learn and know where to find the settings.
Someone here too has that problem: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/how-to/crash-t3700732
jvidia said:
Someone here too has that problem: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/how-to/crash-t3700732
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Try factory reseting it, sometimes most of those crashes happens when you try to download Apk to get apps for free, so install them 1 by one to see which app is causing it. But definitely factory reset first and try replicating it after a reset.
rjan22 said:
Try factory reseting it, sometimes most of those crashes happens when you try to download Apk to get apps for free, so install them 1 by one to see which app is causing it. But definitely factory reset first and try replicating it after a reset.
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I have already stated that I did that, and formatted my SD card on-top of that.
Crashes still happen. The same APPS I had on my Mate 8, I have on my Mate 10.
Mate 8 never crashed.
No, have not had any random reboots. To be fair I have had some apps hang for quite a while ending up in me rebooting it myself.
But not to the point there the phone is completely hung like windows blue screen.
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Maybe you guys didn't think of it but this phone has android oreo so maybe some compatibility with old applications you are using or restoring?
xT29c said:
I have already stated that I did that, and formatted my SD card on-top of that.
Crashes still happen. The same APPS I had on my Mate 8, I have on my Mate 10.
Mate 8 never crashed.
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Am on .115 (636) ALP-L29, i never experience eandom reboots,
But i do face hiccups, as i explained in other thread. If i lock my phone during gaming, it sometimes get hard to unlocked. I know it unlocked from the sound, but screen remain black,
If i swipe the home button, fortunately it goes to recent task. And i can close the game. Other apps run normally,
So i guess its the game that doesnt like being suspended.
And yes, i think Oreo play hand here too. Some app act funny or malfunction/crashing. Name it : ES Explorer during space analyze. PS Touch transform function wont work. Etc
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I lost count on how many times my phone is crashed. I've never experience an android phone this unstable before. It's quite disappointing and if I could easily return it I would. This is the firmware version that I'm on. The model number is ALP-AL 00.
the last crash I had was earlier this morning. I was talking to my friend on Google hangouts, I then received a call on WhatsApp, I unlocked my phone to try to deny that call on WhatsApp, and was greeted by the ever so familiar while a logo, showing me that had crashed once again.
I don't know how many users on this form have the Chinese model like I do but this crashing is rage inducing and disappointing at the same time I just hope someone can help me or that Huawei can patch it because I did spend a lot of money on this phone I do like Huawei and their devices.
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I lost count on how many times my phone is crashed. I've never experience an android phone this unstable before. It's quite disappointing and if I could easily return it I would. This is the firmware version that I'm on. The model number is ALP-AL 00.
the last crash I had was earlier this morning. I was talking to my friend on Google hangouts, I then received a call on WhatsApp, I unlocked my phone to try to deny that call on WhatsApp, and was greeted by the ever so familiar while a logo, showing me that had crashed once again.
I don't know how many users on this form have the Chinese model like I do but this crashing is rage inducing and disappointing at the same time I just hope someone can help me or that Huawei can patch it because I did spend a lot of money on this phone I do like Huawei and their devices.
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Have you tried using the phone without the external card ?
I have not. Since day one I've had an SD card in the phone. I did try reformatting the SD card. To no avail.
Do you suggest I try to use the phone without an SD card inside?
xT29c said:
I have not. Since day one I've had an SD card in the phone. I did try reformatting the SD card. To no avail.
Do you suggest I try to use the phone without an SD card inside?
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Yes. Use without the SD card. Install apps on your phone.
Huawei has been releasing many updates for this phone. Already 118 and 119 exist. Hopefully one of the ones after 115 has fixed the issue.
i think u should blame the android oreo not the huawei itself, still the Oreo not stable android version, check in news how many bugs and problems for google self phone the pixel 2 using the Oreo , and many customers file too many complaints against google, each day new bug appear for the pixel 2 phone. i am sure if mate 10 have nougat pre-installed it will be bugs free and stable
Just got the mate 10! Absolute beast in the battery department! However, I too am experiencing some app crashes particularly FB and ig. Anyone noticed that when you drag icons around the homescreen the stuttering is insane!? I'm on .115 hopefully future updates will fix this issue. =(
Edit: It is the new Android 13 version
The new update from nov. 2022 (security), but also new features.
App-thema for icons.
Colors
Photopicker
New apps, need aproval to show status messages
New mediaplayer
Total size 2,34 GB (dutch version)
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Apart from the new features, I noticed:
The UI is smoother and more resposonsive
Google Lens keeps saying "Camera isn't working", whether I open it from Google app or from the camera app.
laska.levin said:
Apart from the new features, I noticed:
The UI is smoother and more resposonsive
Google Lens keeps saying "Camera isn't working", whether I open it from Google app or from the camera app.
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I just tried my Lens app and that has the same problem.
So it looks like a structoral problem.
Let's hope they can fix it in the next update/patch.
The update is now available in Hong Kong as well.
I received the update in Bulgaria two days ago and so far the phone is behaving perfectly fine, I also noticed the transitions are a bit smoother (not that it was sluggish before) and I also love the new theme colors. Regards
caponex said:
I received the update in Bulgaria two days ago and so far the phone is behaving perfectly fine, I also noticed the transitions are a bit smoother (not that it was sluggish before) and I also love the new theme colors. Regards
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Could you please check the Lens app from google and see if you get an error the moment you try to use the camera?
Someone else and myself do get an error.
elot01 said:
Could you please check the Lens app from google and see if you get an error the moment you try to use the camera?
Someone else and myself do get an error.
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I just installed this app and am also getting an error, the screen is black and there is a loading spinner for some time and then the error appears.
what's more, "Double tap to check phone" doesn't work either.
Also, after each restart, driving mode would lead your phone to Do not disturb mode, even if you had deleted that rule before.
double tap to check phone works if you enable it again in the special menu, i.e. you will find it already enabled so you will have to deselect and re-enable it, after which it will work as it should...until you turn off the phone...and then you are forced to redo this operation...
there are several bugs in this android 13...
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double tap to check phone works if you enable it again in the special menu, i.e. you will find it already enabled so you will have to deselect and re-enable it, after which it will work as it should...until you turn off the phone...and then you are forced to redo this operation...
there are several bugs in this android 13...
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Thanks mate, the method you provided does work.
elot01 said:
I just tried my Lens app and that has the same problem.
So it looks like a structoral problem.
Let's hope they can fix it in the next update/patch.
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Many things are not working, double tap, Lens, Split screen, Google photo scan, Google Authenticator, many apps that require accessibility access are no longer working. What boarders me most is that Casting is no longer working. I hope they address these issues soon. If someone has a work around, I'll be glad.
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Many things are not working, double tap, Lens, Split screen, Google photo scan, Google Authenticator, many apps that require accessibility access are no longer working. What boarders me most is that Casting is no longer working. I hope they address these issues soon. If someone has a work around, I'll be glad.
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as for me, one of my games got literally killed by the update (Touhou LostWord).
After updating it to Android 13, the game stopped working, at all! All attempts in fixing it, which include things like reinstalling the game, restarting the device, etc... just didn't work!
The game's customer service told me to reset my phone's cache partition, but Nokia just doesn't allow that, so I'm now very unhappy
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as for me, one of my games got literally killed by the update (Touhou LostWord).
After updating it to Android 13, the game stopped working, at all! All attempts in fixing it, which include things like reinstalling the game, restarting the device, etc... just didn't work!
The game's customer service told me to reset my phone's cache partition, but Nokia just doesn't allow that, so I'm now very unhappy
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AltFantasy said:
as for me, one of my games got literally killed by the update (Touhou LostWord).
After updating it to Android 13, the game stopped working, at all! All attempts in fixing it, which include things like reinstalling the game, restarting the device, etc... just didn't work!
The game's customer service told me to reset my phone's cache partition, but Nokia just doesn't allow that, so I'm now very unhappy
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I found out that if you side load app, it won't work unless you download it from Play Store, so don't use backed up apps. Accessibility access won't work unless you download it from Play Store. You can access Lens and Translate from Google Photos. Take a picture of what you want to search with Lens, open it with Photos app, you can use Lens from within the Photos app. I'll be glad if anyone has find any other features or solutions.
The latest update, v3.470, seems to have fixed those issues.
At least the Lens is working again.
Great to hear that.