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OK, so, i know the topic sounds confusing. But my wife's mytouch 4g's battery died the other day. so, we charge it up then turn it on only to find out that every widget, every app, etc is gone from the screen. all that is left is the live wallpaper. apps and everything are still on the phone but all the links to the apps and various widgets are gone. just blank live wall paper screens. so, she manually puts everything back like it used to be, rebooted the phone and now everything is gone again. WTF? anyone know why it is doing this and how to make it not happen? she is against installing any custom ROMs (i'm working on bringing her to the dark side of android). thanks for the help.
jeebugorn said:
OK, so, i know the topic sounds confusing. But my wife's mytouch 4g's battery died the other day. so, we charge it up then turn it on only to find out that every widget, every app, etc is gone from the screen. all that is left is the live wallpaper. apps and everything are still on the phone but all the links to the apps and various widgets are gone. just blank live wall paper screens. so, she manually puts everything back like it used to be, rebooted the phone and now everything is gone again. WTF? anyone know why it is doing this and how to make it not happen? she is against installing any custom ROMs (i'm working on bringing her to the dark side of android). thanks for the help.
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The first thing you should try before you do anything else is a factory reset. This sounds like a pretty weird software bug. If it continues, call T-mobile and have them send a replacement.
Is this her first Android? Is she restoring data and settings from another phone through the use of MyBackUp or similar programs? Sometimes using these programs to restore data can cause strange behavior like this, especially if that data is coming from a different device.
On first boot after the factory reset let the phone sit for a solid 5 minutes before setting up. There is first boot "thinking" going on...
EDIT - if you lucked out and got the "good" screen and don't want to warranty replace it you could always root and use the stock nandroid restore found somewhere in the mytouch 4g development section. I'm fairly certain that a factory reset will solve your problems though.
that happen to me.... power the handheld down and let it sit a good few minutes and then boot it back up... all the homes screens should be back to normal.
idk whats up maybe its a bad batch of MyTouchs T-mo recently recieved but i had to send mine back as it kept rebooting itself multiple times a day
So I moved some crap from system app (Bloatware) to my sdcard and rebooted and now I'm stuck at system checking.
Am I sol?
Did you do a backup first?
Nope of course not ROFL.
Okay I'm good it booted. What a scare!
"System Checking" means "you're screwed" in Korean. The phone will either reboot itself back to stock or you'll have to do a hard reset to revive it. It's happened to me three times.
yeah happened to me yesterday and ended up with a factory reset phone.
i wish someone would shed some light on this and the conditions by which it happens. This phone is full of mysteries from random reboots to factory resets.
I just wiped and installed EagleBlood, hoping it will do better (at least until CM7 is in good working order).
I thinks it's a corruption issue. Two times I was playing with settings (Bluetooth profiles, changing icons) and the phone started acting weird and I got "System Checking..." when I restarted it. The good news is that I can now completely load my apps and configurations in less than an hour.
happened to me yesterday, but I didn't let to finishing "checking". I pull the battery out and restarted the system. No factory reset or anything. the system booted nicely the second time. so next time you might want to do the same
Happened to me last week, and I wound up having to do a reset.
ikithme said:
So I moved some crap from system app (Bloatware) to my sdcard and rebooted and now I'm stuck at system checking.
Am I sol?
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Glad to hear t booted.
What apps did you move?
this happened to me yesterday. not rooted. my phone did a random reboot earlier in the day and i noticed one of my alarms didnt go off so i powered down, turned back on and it gave me the system checking message. after like 3 mins it booted up fine.
uploder said:
this happened to me yesterday. not rooted. my phone did a random reboot earlier in the day and i noticed one of my alarms didnt go off so i powered down, turned back on and it gave me the system checking message. after like 3 mins it booted up fine.
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I haven't seen this not to say it hasn't happened without me knowing but my guess is if the phone reboots or crashes and then at startup it notices a filesystem error or some corruption is when it throws that up. If it can fix it, it does (people who reboot fine) and when it can't you're hosed.
Think of it like if you have a desktop and you pull the cord. It will try to recover but depending on the state it was in it might not be able to.
ikithme said:
So I moved some crap from system app (Bloatware) to my sdcard and rebooted and now I'm stuck at system checking.
Am I sol?
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my phone only did that after i did super one click and i figured it just verified new files or something. im still up and running great. i have 5 backups. can never be too careful
I notice mine does system checking if I forget to mount the /system filesystem back to read only before a reboot!
Happened to me last night, except i was not so lucky. the phone kept rebooting and never get to pass the LG start up screen. Tried the hard key reset and it showed a message of "S/W Upgrade, Please Wait"
Phone t-mobile, they're gonna send me a replacement phone, less the back cover. As soon as the new phone was on its way, I tried to hard key flash again and this time it worked.
But, I am still gonna return this POS and hope the new one can perform better.
Had this happen this morning. I had used the Quick Boot app to reboot my phone, and after it reset I had "system checking" for a few minutes, followed by an infinite bootloop!
Fortunately I had installed ClockworkMod Recovery yesterday and made a nandroid backup, so after restoring that I was back in business.
I will no longer use Quick Boot though. It seems to shutdown the phone unsafely.
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I've been searching this form for an hour or two now and still haven't found my issue, so here goes.
Just got an HTC Inspire 4G off of ebay and it arrived today.
The seller had mentioned that the phone was freezing / rebooting, but I figured.. that's because he's not running cm7, right?
Charged and booted up the phone and it turns out that the problem was a little worse than I first expected. I only experienced occasional freezing, and it only rebooted once, but there is a worse problem.
The phone loaded up fine, looked good, but tapping around on the home screen I got messages alerting me that system apps (htc sense, launcher, and even com.android.phone) had stopped responding or had shut down.
I hit the menu and go to settings. I scroll down the list and the entire list goes black. I hit home and it goes to a home screen, but with no launcher or icons. Basically, every few taps, the interface goes out. If you are on a menu it blacks out, if you are at home or press home after the menu blacks out you will get anywhere from pieces of icons / widgets to just a blank desktop. The live wallpaper even keeps going, but all of the interactive stuff quits. The disappearing menus didn't usually give app closed messages, they just went black. The home screen only gave app closed messages sometimes.
I thought this was a software problem, so I managed to root the phone and flash cm7. Everything booted good, but it still had the same problem of weird disappearing menus and home interfaces. I went ahead and flashed gapps and got the little intro thing about setting up my Inspire 4g that starts when you first boot your phone. I clicked through that but when it gets to connect wifi, the phone entirely freezes and I have to pull the battery.
I flashed inspiremod and nothing changed, tho that's for something else, so I'm not sure that's entirely relevant, but I was trying everything I could think of.
I'm definitely no expert on hardware, but it almost sounds like a ram problem, like it doesn't have enough to keep all of the interface going all the time and shuts it down or shuts parts of it down to work.. but I don't want to believe that. I'm really hoping that it's a software problem.
I got the phone at a good price and it came with an otterbox, so I won't be too disappointed if I can't get it fully functional, but it would still be a bummer.
Any help / advice / suggestions appreciated. Thanks, guys!
EDIT: I cleared the cache / dalvik cache before flashing / reflashing cm7, which I did once or twice
EDIT 2: Now if I leave it on the intro screen where it freezes it reboots after a minute or so. Gonna try flashing a different mod.. see if that helps.
That was a long post. But it was good, you gave a lot of info.
The cm7 zip that you downloaded, check the md5 checksum, make sureit matches whatever is in the op (first page) or wherever the md5 is, maybe where you downloaded it from. If it doesn't, download again.
Then,
from recovery,
Wipe data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions(except sd card)
Flash zip/rom.
Check if it works. If not, try using it without the sd card. If not, come back and report.
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Thanks for the reply and suggestions.
I check the md5, and it's good. I just did a factory reset and wiped cache and dalvik.. I'm unsure what you mean by format all partitions except sd card. I don't think I know how to do this with clockworkmod.
Started up without sd card and it still has the same problem. Looks great until I touch the screen, then everything disappears except the wallpaper.
Reboot in recovery and do it from there. You'll find format all partitions at the bottom... well, maybe. Cwm has an option to reboot in recovery, and I think if you press and hold the power button, select reboot and it will also ask you if you wantto boot into recovery. Cant remember if cm7 has it, it should.
After you wiped those, flash the rom. Stay in recovery and search for fix.permissions. Reboot.
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Just did that and re-flashed cm7, but the phone was still having the same problems.
I then repeated the process with a MIUI ICS rom and it seemingly worked for a little bit. I got a "Maps has stopped working" message, but I was able to slide back and forth through the home screens, and the menu came up. After I tapped though the menu a bit it started being weird again, but with MIUI the weirdness is different. It looked like the screen was divided up into 20 something smaller screens tiled across the display with messed up looking bits of screen in them.. weird..
If you are wiping correctly then I am out of ideas. I would say try a GB rom, however that is a strange issue and just might be a hardware problem. Tough, Im not sure.
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I've tried cm7, which is 2.3, and I've tried a 4.0.4 MIUI build and one other sense rom that didn't work well at all.
I'm wiping and flashing the same as I did on my LG p509, which works beautifully with cm7.
If it is hardware, hopefully it's something simple like the battery, and not bad RAM or anything serious..
Maybe if I keep at it I'll get it.
Thanks for all the suggestions!
Np. Keep us updated.
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I ordered a new battery for it, and that fixed the random reboots, which had been occurring more frequently, but the other problems were still there.
I flashed and re flashed and formatted and reinstalled a bunch, but still no luck. I then decided that I might take it by the local cell phone repair shop and see if they could fix it.
In preparation, I used aahk to flash the stock ruu with everything how it was when I got it. After booting it up, it seemed to be working ok.
I still get the occasional menu glitch, but it's so infrequent it's not an issue.
The phone still freezes up quite a bit when I'm using it, but it's nearly a useable device now!
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I ordered a new battery for it, and that fixed the random reboots, which had been occurring more frequently, but the other problems were still there.
I flashed and re flashed and formatted and reinstalled a bunch, but still no luck. I then decided that I might take it by the local cell phone repair shop and see if they could fix it.
In preparation, I used aahk to flash the stock ruu with everything how it was when I got it. After booting it up, it seemed to be working ok.
I still get the occasional menu glitch, but it's so infrequent it's not an issue.
The phone still freezes up quite a bit when I'm using it, but it's nearly a useable device now!
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Have you tried changing out the sd card? Having a bad sd card can cause all inds of odd issues
I booted it without an sd card before and couldn't tell the difference, but it had a lot more issues than just freezing then.
I haven't tried it since those other issues have stopped. I'll try that when I get home from work.
When my Archos FamilyPad 2 first arrived I was so excited. It was a pre-owned one that I got from Amazon. I took it out and the battery was dead. So I plugged it up to charge for about 15 minutes before I turned it on with the charger still intact. Alright. Everything was fine as I saw the previous owners apps and games on the home page. First thing I did was performed a factory reset from the settings menu. I noticed that the developers option had already been turned on. So I was thinking I would have to tap the build number after the factory reset to get the developers option back on. To my surprise it was already cooked into the OS for some reason. So I started tinkering with it while everything was starting to update. The only way I know how to root is through KingRoot. So that's what I always use to root my devices. The root was successful as it is about 75% of the time with KingRoot. Everything checked out with Root Checker and root was properly installed by KingRoot. Then I got superuser access and granted all permissions. Got BusyBox in and xposed framework. I overclocked it to see what it would do. It ran pretty decent for a duo core with 1 GB of RAM. So I began to start messing with the LCD display and density to make the resolution a bit better and sharper. And it worked. Changed the system font with Font Master. And changed the things that needed to be changed for the system to read it as running Android 6.0.1. So then I wanted to cut the boot time in half by turning off the boot animations. Reboot and yes it did work. I then started to wonder how customized boot animations would look. The .IMG boot animation that I wanted to see is the new Android boot up logo. So I restarted the tablet without turning the boot animations back on. So it started doing a boot loop at that point. So I went into Recovery Mode to try to do a hard reset and I rebooted it again. It can never get past the initial Archos logo now. Even after a hard reset. I don't know how to take the battery out. So I let the battery drain. I thought it may be the same as taking the battery out and resetting it. Well it still just shows the first Archos logo and then the screen goes blank and never gets to the lock screen anymore. Does anyone know a solution to this? Or is it over for this Archos FamilyPad?
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When my Archos FamilyPad 2 first arrived I was so excited. It was a pre-owned one that I got from Amazon. I took it out and the battery was dead. So I plugged it up to charge for about 15 minutes before I turned it on with the charger still intact. Alright. Everything was fine as I saw the previous owners apps and games on the home page. First thing I did was performed a factory reset from the settings menu. I noticed that the developers option had already been turned on. So I was thinking I would have to tap the build number after the factory reset to get the developers option back on. To my surprise it was already cooked into the OS for some reason. So I started tinkering with it while everything was starting to update. The only way I know how to root is through KingRoot. So that's what I always use to root my devices. The root was successful as it is about 75% of the time with KingRoot. Everything checked out with Root Checker and root was properly installed by KingRoot. Then I got superuser access and granted all permissions. Got BusyBox in and xposed framework. I overclocked it to see what it would do. It ran pretty decent for a duo core with 1 GB of RAM. So I began to start messing with the LCD display and density to make the resolution a bit better and sharper. And it worked. Changed the system font with Font Master. And changed the things that needed to be changed for the system to read it as running Android 6.0.1. So then I wanted to cut the boot time in half by turning off the boot animations. Reboot and yes it did work. I then started to wonder how customized boot animations would look. The .IMG boot animation that I wanted to see is the new Android boot up logo. So I restarted the tablet without turning the boot animations back on. So it started doing a boot loop at that point. So I went into Recovery Mode to try to do a hard reset and I rebooted it again. It can never get past the initial Archos logo now. Even after a hard reset. I don't know how to take the battery out. So I let the battery drain. I thought it may be the same as taking the battery out and resetting it. Well it still just shows the first Archos logo and then the screen goes blank and never gets to the lock screen anymore. Does anyone know a solution to this? Or is it over for this Archos FamilyPad?
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So I bought the S6, new, never been opened, sealed etc, let it charge the proceeded to turn it on. Then comes the welcome bit and startup, this is where it went tits up. Apparently everything stopped responding, google maps stopped responding, voice commands stopped responding, etc. Thought nothing of it, skipped through everything, got into home screen and then "Touchwiz has stopped responding". So naturally I though oh dear. Oh, it also started restarting on it's own randomly as well, I tried booting in safe mode, disabling things, that didn't work, sometimes it would even get in a bootloop, loop 3 times and then start.
I tried updating it, didn't work, tried flashing it with "G920FXXU3QOLD_G920FH3G3QOJ1_G920FXXU3QOJB_HOME", problems still persist. It's currently on 5.1.1, it wont update in settings, just starts downloading more than 1.2gb's of downloads then says "Software update has stopped responding".
Tried samsungs live chat, was awful, they didn't present any useful information.
I'm wondering if it's just 5.1.1 being awful, because when I boot to the system recovery menu thing where it has the blue screen with android logo, then has yellow exclamation mark, that doesn't reboot on it's own at all. Never reboots in download mode either. Phone is not rooted, knox hasn't been tripped or anything, so I'm left clueless. What do I do? Bought this phone, what, 4 days ago ish. Came here yesterday. My question is, if I flash it with idk, a 6.0.1 update in odin or something, will that fix the problems?
Hi,
It seems to me that you have a defective device, you can either try reflashing the stock firmware and then factory resetting, I believe that it really is a software issue, but as it's brand new (as you stated), you can return it to the store and get another one.
There are quite a few guides to flashing stock firmware back, hope you can do it .
All the best,
~Lord
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