I picked up a Nexus S from the CPW a couple of days ago. I instantly upgraded it from 2.3.1 to 2.3.6 to compare it against my Galaxy S for speed (the difference is amazing - just goes to show how bad RFS actually is).
Everything installed OK except a couple of apps:
Facebook: App opens and requests login details. Enter details and get a little progress circle that starts at 12 o'clock and works it's way round, back to 12 o'clock. The screen changes to have the blue bar across the top and a white page with progress circle. It then sits there for ever more! Adding a widget to the launcher works as expected (and displays the news feed) but when clicked on, goes to the same blank page.
eBay: App opens. I sign in and it successfully displays the number of saved searches, reminders and messages. I can click on saved searches, it will display the list of searches, select a search and it'll display the list of items. Click on an item and it will display the item view. Click on the description and it'll go to a blank white page with 'item description at the top'! Occasionally it will display the description but most of the time it won't!
I've tried closing the apps and deleting to cache to no avail.
I've also upgraded the phone to 4.0.3 but that also results in exactly the same problems!
This has all been done using a WiFi connection (that works fine with the Galaxy S on stock 2.3.5), in aeroplane mode as the temporary SIM I've installed doesn't have data enabled. The same problems also happen when no SIM is installed.
All other apps function correctly.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks in advance.
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Okay I am having a consistent problem and am wondering if this is happening for anyone else...
If I Google search the color "black" and go to the Image results, I absolutely cannot tap of the images or the navigation for image pages. When I tap it, nothing happens at all, I cannot change result pages or open up larger images. This happens on Chrome and the stock browser.
I also had this problem before with Youtube, occassionally. Its very, very annoying..
Does this happen when the HOX is plugged in? I had a crappy charger that used to mess with my touch screen.
Although this could be a hardware problem. Try testing it in a multi touch testing app. See if there are any dead zones or something (unlikely, but worth a test)
I tried a testing app on your recommendation and it works perfectly fine there.
On the browser with Google image search, I can tap most of the webpage, such as the search bar, related searches, etc. The links that dont work are the actual images, which I can't load, and the numbers below the images for pages of results. In fact, when I tap the pages for results, the link changes color to indicate that I tapped it, but nothing happens at all.. it just.. does nothing. I found out that this works for any image search on google.
This also happened for me during a Youtube upload, it would not recognize any taps, but after I exited and came back later, the taps registered. Also happened under the settings menu.. I exited and then it worked again.
Which browser?
Is the browser in 'mobile' or 'desktop' mode?
Chrome and the stock browser. Mobile search too
my LG THRILL is doing the exact same thing tonite. WTH?
Not working here either.. Galaxy s2!
Same here, weird.
Anyone got a solution yet?
I would suggest a clean wipe..if rooted make sure to wipe all cache
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I have a Note Edge on Sprint. Model SM-N915P on Android 5.0.1. I have performed a factory reset to attempt to troubleshoot the issues. I have also been up and down the settings.
Since the update I have been running into a boat load of problems that aren't identified through all of my searches.
1) When ever I reboot (once a day) the YouTube app always starts and is running in the background.
2) I cannot get any weather information to show on my edge panel (it did show before the update).
3) I dont know if the last 10 years of working in IT has made me an idiot, but I can not for the life of me get my phone to tell me I have a voice mail waiting. The only identifier to a new voice mail is through the visual voice mail app that I do not wish to use. Just as an FYI this is also happening on my wife's Lg G3. The old school voice mail symbol that used to appear in the upper part of the screen is a no show.
4) While using The Amazon Music Player and connected to blue tooth in my car music will just stop playing.
5)My phone does not lock consistently. I do have screen time outs and auto lock set, however, the screen does not always require a password. It is random as to which apps will be open when the phone locks or does not lock.
6) Of course battery life sucks donkey balls.
This is all I can think of for now.
I would love for CM to be available for my device, but in the mean time I will take any advice to resolve these issues.
Just factory reset and clear the cache for tow week I use Russian 5.0.1 and everything's good
So I've just got a new Motorola Moto G and I'm having an issue which is really frustrating. The suggestion bar above the keyboard that gives you alternate word options for what you've typed isn't visible in Chrome. It appears in the messaging app, and in some others I've tested like Google Keep, but not in the web browser.
It was there when I powered on the phone for the first time, then it vanished. I couldn't work out how to get it back, so I did a factory reset. That fixed it for about thirty minutes, but now it's gone again.
I've also just noticed that after I finish typing something in Chrome and hit enter, the bar appears for a fraction of a second as the keyboard closes, leading me to believe it's there but isn't appearing on screen.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
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try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
It seems that you have several bugs and if they all start happening after you have installed the latest update, then expect a patch coming soon.
MINTED7 said:
try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
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I have actually done that. Found very limited success. I'm also finding very few results on this topic. Surely it's not just me though.
And I'm dreading the idea of a hard reset as I have many things on my phones, not all of which is sync'd to the cloud so it's a task to back things up appropriate. Specifically regarding "encrypted" apps like my password keeper app etc.
It would be great if there was a software application that allowed you to backup whatever is necessary to not lose data, then wipe the phone and instead of just simply restoring the full phone (which is likely to create the same problem one had before the hard reset), you could simply dump back in app data as needed. It would also help diagnose if the problem lies in a specific app's data.
High level overview of issues...
I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
[Solved]
I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
Samsung smart switch works wonders, the only thing that doesn't restore is passwords, you have to have and external SD card for it to work, or plug it in to a computer
talonpetty said:
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
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Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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norbarb said:
Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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That is not the issue. As mentioned, it's not just the clock it's multiple interfaces.
norbarb said:
Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
On Edge of Note
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That is not the issue. As mentioned, it's not just the clock it's multiple apps/interfaces.
High level overview of issues...
I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
[Solved]
I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.