So I used the debloat thread to get rid of a lot of things (uninstalling stuff through adb shell). Only problem is I got an error randomly/occasionally that said "Galaxy apps has stopped..." and required me to press a button to get rid of the message. Things were fine so I lived with it, but recently I decided to try and uninstall some more stuff and hopefully get that message to go away.
Now my phone shows my background and says "Android is starting...". It just sits there with a loading bar moving.
I can swipe down the top of the screen and go into settings, then apps, and I can access all my apps, then view on Google Play store.. so I am able to open all my apps just fine, with a bunch of extra steps to get them open. I tested the alarm clock so I can wake up in the morning and it works fine also.
I tried booting into safe mode. I understand I may need to do a factory reset, but I was hoping to avoid going through that.
Any suggestions?
To add insult to injury as I sit here typing this the "Galaxy Apps has stopped" message popped up again! I wasn't even touching my phone lol.
Well, I figured that out.. I must have removed whatever Samsung uses as a launcher. I downloaded another launcher and instantly the "Android is starting" message went away.
Any way to get Samsung's launcher back? I kind of started to like it.. or is there another one you recommend I try?
Reload the firmware via odin
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Yesterday my phone ran out of battery and it took me a while to get back to my charger. I came back late and I put my phone to recharge over night. I wake up and start my phone and it's like it's never been used before. It has done some sort of reset by itself. All these help popups comes up about how to use slides and motion etc etc. My gmail account is not registered to my phone anymore. I go through my applications and now I start to realize that something is seriously wrong.
Some of my apps are missing on my home screen and when I look for them they seem to be uninstalled, so I try to install these apps again and get the "unknown error code during application install -24" error. This is the case for 3 of my paid applications. Portfolio stocks, swift key and maps with me.
I have more problems though, 50 % of all my apps that are still installed will not even start, like all of my games for example, Every time I try to start one of these I get "Unfortunately, application has stopped" This is also the case for some other apps like skype and spotify. Most of my apps have completely dropped the app settings and information. All my whats app conversations are gone for example and my number isn't even registered anymore.
Some apps still have the icon on my home screen but when I try to start these (like googles for example) it says "application not installed" even though the icon is there.
So as you can tell there some major problem has occurred when my phone turned itself of yesterday.
Now I'm afraid my phone ****ed itself up to much to actually be recovered with is a ***** but I'm wondering how the hell could this happen? What kind of information has deleted itself and why is this possible?
And is there anything you guys think I can do except resetting the whole device. My phone is not rooted and I regret not making backups.....
I have a galaxy s3 I9300 with android 4.1.2
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Victor
factory reset. don't know why it happened
Setup ROM slot 2 to have clean Amazon ROM, then did the HDXposed and Thor-Gapps patch to get Playstore working. Was working great.
Today, was about to read eBook, when I noticed I can't get access to Amazon any more. Instead of "<name>'s Kindle", it just says "My Kindle".
If I go into "My Account" in settings, I get a "this Kindle was not registered". However, touching the register button just blinks the screen. And needless to say none of the Amazon apps will open, or just shows the register button, which does nothing.
I can wipe the ROM and start over, but I'd like to do a little debugging first. So, what should I do? And is there a way to 'save' this Amazon reg info (Titanium? Nandroid? Other?) so I can just "restore" ? (kinda like those "rootsaver" apps, I imagine)
Found a way to fix it, strangely.
One night my HDX7 just acted REALLy REALLY slow. normally 30 fps game went to like 4 fps. Won't turn off. So I did the almost unthinkable... I held down the power button for 30 seconds to force a factory reboot.
After a few reboots... I was surprised to see it boot back into the launcher, not Amazon home. However, all of the apps that loads at boot have been disabled. No Xposed. In fact, some of the apps are gone too.
I tapped on "Home" (Carousel) expecting it to fail, but surprisingly, it worked, and it prompted me to register my device. So I did. I am back in! I'm in Amazon ecosystem again!
The only catch is I can't open Kindle reader directly from regular launcher. I had to launch carousel then pick a book. But otherwise Kindle works fine.
I quickly re-enabled Xposed, HDXposed, and the rest of the hacks and tweaks. I also had to redownload a few apps as somehow this reboot un-linked a few apps from the market, but otherwise, no big deal.
So there you go... if you lost reg, do the factory reboot, reg, then restart Xposed and HDXposed and the rest. And you should be up and running again. Sure beats redo the whole flash procedures.
Turns out this procedure doesn't do a full fix. Had multiple Play store errors. Ended up redoing the whole thing.
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The application manager will open, but as soon as I start scrolling I get a message that the application manager has stopped working and get kicked back to the home screen. I've tried powering down and restarting, and I uninstalled the last few apps I'd added in case one of them had anything to do with it, but I really need to change some app settings and I can't access them. I don't know how long it's been doing this because I don't access the application manager very often.
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The application manager will open, but as soon as I start scrolling I get a message that the application manager has stopped working and get kicked back to the home screen. I've tried powering down and restarting, and I uninstalled the last few apps I'd added in case one of them had anything to do with it, but I really need to change some app settings and I can't access them. I don't know how long it's been doing this because I don't access the application manager very often.
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You may try factory reset or flash stock kdz again.
I will make the long story short. Someone just removed most of my system apps via 3rd party app, then i factory reset it, in hope of my phone will get back to normal
but things go wrong, im stuck at EULA and whenever i press "i accept the terms" it keeps popping out "google play services has stopped" or "messages has stopped", and it gets back to EULA screen again. Any ideas? Help?
Sorry if my english is bad/im posting on the wrong section. Edit: i have no idea what system apps/core apps are missing.
So this is my old phone that my mom is using since January. Before giving it to her I did a factory reset, and it worked fine. Recently since the February security update the phone freezes when typing. It will open random apps, and requires a force restart to stop the freeze. When you go to clear the tasks in the manager and restart the phone, they are all there again open (Facebook, games, camera etc). Her Google maps app was running in the background when the window popped up saying "Process System is responding. Do you want to close it?". Neither button will work, it stays frozen on the screen. A hard restart brought the phone to bootmode. Should I run it in safe mode to see if it's an app or? Was wondering if anyone has had some similar experience.
Stock rom, no root.