Help!! lost notification bar - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Firstly I'm in over my head. I tried to install the Touch Wiz Control Panel that's in the notification bar and Now I have no notification bar. I followed these instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103126
I'm not sure what went wrong. My phone isn't rooted and now I can't fix it. any suggestions on how I can take it off since the install failed?

jasperfect said:
Firstly I'm in over my head. I tried to install the Touch Wiz Control Panel that's in the notification bar and Now I have no notification bar. I followed these instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103126
I'm not sure what went wrong. My phone isn't rooted and now I can't fix it. any suggestions on how I can take it off since the install failed?
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That it's for a specific Rom... that's probably where you went wrong. I would back up everything I could, and do a factory reset then restore backups. Since your not rooted, your options are reduced. Go sms pro comes to mind to backup your texts, I think there are some other options in the play store that also work without root...
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[Q] Missing Notification Bar on Droid X

Hey all, this is my first post. I have a Droid X that has been running with Launcher Pro Plus for the past few months.
I rooted my phone the other day and everything was going fine. I downloaded Titanium Backup, ShootMe, and then Metamorph.
I've been checking out droidpirate.com and downloaded a few different notification bar color schemes, which were working fine. Today I downloaded another and decided I wanted to change it, so I switched to a new one through Metamorph, applied it, and rebooted my phone. Upon restart it was still the same color as before, so I applied again and before I could restart it gave me an error message that the status/notification bar (not sure which it said at the time) had crashed.
I restarted it, and ever since then I've had no notification bar. I've tried reapplying the color schemes in Metamorph and restarting after, but nothing has changed.
I've gone to the Launcher Pro settings and toggled on and off the "hide notification bar" setting which hasn't changed anything. I've restored my backup in Titanium Backup and it is still the same. I'm not sure what else to do at this point.
What do you all suggest? It really sucks to not see my battery meter, time, etc. when I open my phone. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
bump, if there is a better thread this should be in then my bad, just let me know which
bump? any help is greatly appreciated
bump, this will probably be the last one.
You try reflashing the rom?
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mudkipz said:
You try reflashing the rom?
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How would I go about doing that?
notify bar problem with you try to install some custom themes without dudexed the rom. for this case you may install dudex files for you device. please go to your device board for this.
Wipe your phone and flash the same ROM again. Problem solved
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SupremeRadicals said:
Wipe your phone and flash the same ROM again. Problem solved
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What exactly is meant by "flash the same ROM again"? Sorry, I'm pretty new to all of this.

[Q] Problems with Softkeys after Twisted_Asanti_pre-BUILD1

Hello everyone,
it is not allowed to me to post direkly to the right tread (10 posts minimum:angel. So I take this way in hope you can help me. I tried pwnyourace's "asanti_c-user-4.0.4-7.7.1Q-6_SPR-125_ASA-14". Flashing works fine without any errors. After booting the first time the softkeys and the upper pull down bar are not present. It seems I did something wrong. I did it this way:
Basis was Version 77.6.36, rooted
boot into recovery
fullwipe
install zip-file
(once with wipe devlic cache and once without)
reboot
I tried somedays befor Rangerbry's "Battery 1% - Notification Toggles For a Stock Phone" with the same result.
Thanks for any help!!
What do you mean 'fullwipe'? Are you doing a 'factory reset' after you flash the ROM?
arrrghhh said:
What do you mean 'fullwipe'? Are you doing a 'factory reset' after you flash the ROM?
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No I did the factory reset befor I'd flash the ROM
i also have the same problem. seeing as though its happened with a couple different mods ive tried i suspect its a systemui thing
oliverpuczyk2 said:
i also have the same problem. seeing as though its happened with a couple different mods ive tried i suspect its a systemui thing
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But I did not understand why this happen. When the complete Flash is fresh, why there are differences between the results? It would be better to discuss this in the concerning thred, but I need 7 more posts to legitimate
So lets discuss this here. I have seen that there are more users with the same problem.
In some cm10 releases especially for devices with softkeys there is an "expanded desktop" option, that can be enabled in bowerbutton menu.
When enabling this option the desktop behaves exactly as described - softkey and status bars dissapear for a bigger screen.
Seems you hit the same system-ui by mistake.
Btw you can test this functionality by using SkrilaxCZ's CM10 built, as it provides this feature.
motorowner said:
In some cm10 releases especially for devices with softkeys there is an "expanded desktop" option, that can be enabled in bowerbutton menu.
When enabling this option the desktop behaves exactly as described - softkey and status bars dissapear for a bigger screen.
Seems you hit the same system-ui by mistake.
Btw you can test this functionality by using SkrilaxCZ's CM10 built, as it provides this feature.
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The system-ui is in the kernel? When I restore my backup the Softkeys works fine!
Is there any possibility to go back in Menu without Sotkeys?
kaot5 said:
The system-ui is in the kernel? When I restore my backup the Softkeys works fine!
Is there any possibility to go back in Menu without Sotkeys?
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Now I know what the system-ui is. But I tried Rangerbry's "Battery 1% - Notification Toggles For a Stock Phone" with the same result. and why work my Softkeys when I restore the backup of my Stock?
Now everything works fine. Install Stock from rangerbry. Than Twisted_Asanti... than Rangerbry's "Battery 1% - Notification Toggles For a Stock Phone". :good:
Now I'm on ASA14 with the modified Softkey's (feels like heaven)
It seems that something was bricked. Thx to all
kaot5 said:
Now everything works fine. Install Stock from rangerbry. Than Twisted_Asanti... than Rangerbry's "Battery 1% - Notification Toggles For a Stock Phone". :good:
Now I'm on ASA14 with the modified Softkey's (feels like heaven)
It seems that something was bricked. Thx to all
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Don't forget to to unhook the USB cable while do all this. It seems that was the main reason for my bucks.

Samsung Grand 2 Kitkat Update disappear the brightness adjeustmen Panel

Hello XDA Developer,
After Samsung Grand 2 Kitkat Update disappear the brightness adjeustment Panel . Is any way to resolve as get back my brightness adjeustment panel back even i checked or select the notification panel from setting it still not showing in shortcut it so panic to all time to go setting and make brightness balancing.
rshinde89 said:
Hello XDA Developer,
After Samsung Grand 2 Kitkat Update disappear the brightness adjeustment Panel . Is any way to resolve as get back my brightness adjeustment panel back even i checked or select the notification panel from setting it still not showing in shortcut it so panic to all time to go setting and make brightness balancing.
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Try the following"
- fully wiping out your phone (factory reset). Make sure you use stock recovery, not CWM.
- reinstalling stock Samsung KitKat again.
- removing ANY mods done to your phone and disabling Xposed mods.
- installing a KitKat custom ROM then going back to stock if this isn't fixed.
If all steps fail, reply and be ready to root your phone if you didn't.
Thank 4 help
WaseemAlkurdi said:
Try the following"
- fully wiping out your phone (factory reset). Make sure you use stock recovery, not CWM.
- reinstalling stock Samsung KitKat again.
- removing ANY mods done to your phone and disabling Xposed mods.
- installing a KitKat custom ROM then going back to stock if this isn't fixed.
If all steps fail, reply and be ready to root your phone if you didn't.
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Thank you a lot man.
It waork after factory reset.
Thank you so much also thank you for this XDA forum...

[Q] Navigation Bar Disappeared? Wtf?

Hey!
I recently flashed a .zip file I downloaded from official Cm website, it was a hammerhead M release.
Everything seemed fine, except for my navigation bar and status bar disappeared?
What the heck?
How Do I fix it?
Need quick reply.
Thanks!
Do you get a systemui force close message? Did you follow the flashing procedure properly?
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Nandroid backup?
Than give it a try with a different release, maybe that one in particular is defective or damage.
Does it have an expanded desktop option? Haven't used CM in a while.

Rooting LG Lucky (LGL16C)

Can anyone verify that the method posted by Unjustified Dev in this thread will work the the indicated phone model?
Rooted LG Lucky
I rooted using kingroot version 4.8.0 I could use the stock Rom have no download if anyone could help thanks. Its a straight talk lg lucky running 4.4.2 kitkat I'm no computer whiz and I couldn't figure out how or what I needed phone works fine . now I just want to be able to do a factory reset safely if need be only deleted stock apps that I don't use nothing important I hope.
boct1584 said:
Can anyone verify that the method posted by Unjustified Dev in this thread will work the the indicated phone model?
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I have obtained root on the device today. Ive read that some were able to do it with kingroot on the older versions but all have had no luck on the version with software version L16CV11a and build number KOT49I.L16CV11a. Well i managed to root it today with a certain methid...will post up a guide later after ive written it out...may see if i can further the progress now that ive rooted it.
STOCK firmware??
i got an lg lucky and its stuck in bootloop does anyone know how i could get stock firmware to flash? it goes to factory reset menu but freezes as soon as it starts to do its thing... maybe not fixable??
bonnis.phone said:
i got an lg lucky and its stuck in bootloop does anyone know how i could get stock firmware to flash? it goes to factory reset menu but freezes as soon as it starts to do its thing... maybe not fixable??
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Depends on if yourlucky was rooted and if you deleted files you should have
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REV3NT3CH said:
I have obtained root on the device today. Ive read that some were able to do it with kingroot on the older versions but all have had no luck on the version with software version L16CV11a and build number KOT49I.L16CV11a. Well i managed to root it today with a certain methid...will post up a guide later after ive written it out...may see if i can further the progress now that ive rooted it.
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I have the newer Model LGL16C/4.4.2/Baseband version M8610B-AAAANAZM-1.0.6060/Kernel version 3.4.0+/Build KOT49I.L16CV11a/Software version L16CV11a/"Lucky". Service provider is Tracfone, aka Crapfone. Attempts to root with Kingroot as well as Kingoroot failed, including several apps which claim to root your phone. I paid less than $10 US dollars for this phone and rooting it isn't high on my priority list, however rooting the damn thing has presented a bit of a challenge.
A working guide to rooting this phone would be great.
2k73 said:
I have the newer Model LGL16C/4.4.2/Baseband version M8610B-AAAANAZM-1.0.6060/Kernel version 3.4.0+/Build KOT49I.L16CV11a/Software version L16CV11a/"Lucky". Service provider is Tracfone, aka Crapfone. Attempts to root with Kingroot as well as Kingoroot failed, including several apps which claim to root your phone. I paid less than $10 US dollars for this phone and rooting it isn't high on my priority list, however rooting the damn thing has presented a bit of a challenge.
A working guide to rooting this phone would be great.
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Give me a few days to write it out...basically if you have the knowledge...what I did was run kingroot while plugged into PC...was a tad tricky but I'll get further into it later...took a few tries
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REV3NT3CH said:
Give me a few days to write it out...basically if you have the knowledge...what I did was run kingroot while plugged into PC...was a tad tricky but I'll get further into it later...took a few tries
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Hey mate,
I hate to be like a noodge, but would you be able to explain how you rooted? Would be so much appreciated.
REV3NT3CH said:
Give me a few days to write it out...basically if you have the knowledge...what I did was run kingroot while plugged into PC...was a tad tricky but I'll get further into it later...took a few tries
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
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PizzaMaster said:
Hey mate,
I hate to be like a noodge, but would you be able to explain how you rooted? Would be so much appreciated.
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Hey so i spent forever trying ro find a root that would work on this. Or a custom ROM anything really. Try going into McAfee Security, setting up an account, go to settings and disable the lock down device option. That was the problem for me at least McAfee was blocking any root from installing. From there i rooted my lucky with kingroot one click root. Hope this helps!
The Easiest Way To Root Your LG Lucky Without a PC
Easy way to install SuperSU on your LG Lucky
Just follow directions
Use KingRoot 4.5.0 app - google KingRoot apk all versions. Download and install apk.
Google replace kingroot with supersu. There will be a few sites popup, Mediafire is where the original .zip file is hosted. You can even search "how to replace/remove kingroot with supersu" here on XDA for more info.
Once you have downloaded the .zip file be sure to extract it to your INTERNAL sd, the script in the zip will not work from your external sd.
Open the extracted file and copy the mrw file to the internal storage, the path should look like /storage/emulated/0/mrw.
Now go to the play store, download and install Terminal Emulator. I use the one by Jack Palevich as it is only 551kb and easy to use.
Open the terminal emulator and type "su" in order to grant super user permission to the emulator,
On the next line type "/system/bin/sh - /storage/emulated/0/mrw/root.sh" and press enter.
Now the script will run and open up SuperSU automatically. Install binary when prompted with the "normal" option. Choose yes when it asks if you want to delete other superuser apps. (this removes kingroot).
Before rebooting phone, go into the settings of SuperSU and enable pro mode, change icon if you wish, enable survival mode, enable su during boot. I think you have to restart app at this point, can't remember as I did this months ago. Then restart the SuperSU app, go back into settings to Install SuperSU into system. Reboot phone,
When phone reboots, this is when Kingroot is finally uninstalled. Your phone will still be rooted with SuperSU. At this point you may wish to update SuperSU as this is version 2.46 and the newest version is 2.71 Beta. You can get the newest version of SuperSU from the thread here on XDA.
(thanks MrWolf for the script to make the change and thank you Chainfire for SuperSU, FlashFire, CF.lumen, etc...)
LGL-16C successfully (so far) rooted using Kingoroot.exe (latest version). Had to change from mtp to camera on USB then was recognized. Have SuperSU 2.72, SuperSU Pro, BusyBox Pro, and Xposed installed with Xblast and Lucky Patcher running. No custom recovery or roms available and I have searched hi and lo. Was a Net10 $15 phone with nothing to lose, so...will try more stuff out another day and post again.
mikemc63 said:
LGL-16C successfully (so far) rooted using Kingoroot.exe (latest version). Had to change from mtp to camera on USB then was recognized. Have SuperSU 2.72, SuperSU Pro, BusyBox Pro, and Xposed installed with Xblast and Lucky Patcher running. No custom recovery or roms available and I have searched hi and lo. Was a Net10 $15 phone with nothing to lose, so...will try more stuff out another day and post again.
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Until any source is made there will be no recovery or ROM and tbh I don't have the time to dig into it currently.. The positive with rooting though is removing the bloat
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REV3NT3CH said:
Until any source is made there will be no recovery or ROM and tbh I don't have the time to dig into it currently.. The positive with rooting though is removing the bloat
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
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Hi. Could you tell me how you installed supersu after rooting with kingroot? Thanks
Well I have root and supersu installed but it won't update binary. Any help out there? Thanks
Hey everybody. I did it!! Just root with kingroot 4.5 and replace kinguser with super sume. Worked great. All kingroot stuff is gone!! Ive rebooted 3 times to make sure and all is good.
Well if anyone is interested in looking at the source code, lg support has downloads available for nearly every phone they've ever made.
http://opensource.lge.com/osList/list?m=Mc001&s=Sc002
The file for the LGL16C is on page 2. Every thing seems to be listed alphabetically so it's easy to locate.
I still have my lucky and actually use it often although I no longer have it activated.
@ cecnwv,
Thanks for the link. Using Ares 11 and got "IP banned for 6 hours,try again later" after dbl tppng yellow icon. I did something wrong. Not at my PC. (unfortunately)
Thanks for any enlightenment,
michaeltheclyde
Two 10a LGL16C Tracfones, one free (recon from Tf) and one new $14.95 @ eBay from Best Buy, rooted with everything that has Google in the name frozen (TB) but no image to restore. (twrp)
Has anyone made a complete backup of their system apps using Titanium Backup? Being that one can't use fastboot/download mode (this phone has it locked out and a special USB cable is required) so my backup options were limited. I thought I did a full backup with Titanium Backup, but apparently lost it as I only found a small partial one on my PC.
Issue is I had uninstalled some bloatware and integrated updates for a few apps. But after factory resetting the phone it is behaving a bit odd. The notification bar doesn't really work anymore (apps still able to use sound/vibration to make a notification, but nothing appears in the notification bar) and I am unable to call the phone because it never rings and it immediately goes to voice mail. So the phone app is borked too.
Plus soft button to the right of the home button (I forget what it's called) doesn't bring up the app history anymore so I can't close background apps. (the volume buttons also don't really do anything anymore. Normally using them causes the volume bar for ringtone to appear and if using a media app, the volume bar for media audio comes up instead. But now nothing happens).
The phone is in a pretty broken state and even doing app updates from Play Store doesn't work anymore. Was gonna try and look around if someone has some app/data backup of the system apps installed. This is a TracFone branded phone and is currently running Android 4.4.2 (Kernel version 3.4.0+). Which is the last Android update they made for this phone.
Perhaps there's a single service/app that is responsible for notifications/volume bar that is borked. But I have no idea which system app is broken so a full app restore is my next best option.
The first thing wrong I noticed after resetting it was that the intial setup screen would return everytime I rebooted the phone. (only way i could get that to stop was freezing it in Titanium Backup). So maybe related to that app somehow. I don't recall ever uninstalling/merging update data for that perticular app though so it's probably a side effect of a different app going haywire.
EDIT:
Ok looks like I resolved the issue. I just removed the LGStartupWizard.apk then did a factory reset via Volume Down+Power button combo. It boots straight to home menu now and everything works. I guess the LG setup wizard thing got borked somehow. No more setup wizard but verious things like google account and whatnot can be configured manually via settings so no real loss.
All the missing things like the app history button, lock screen, notification bar, etc are now working as a result of resetting after removing LGSetupWizard.apk.
Apache Thunder said:
Has anyone made a complete backup of their system apps using Titanium Backup? Being that one can't use fastboot/download mode (this phone has it locked out and a special USB cable is required) so my backup options were limited. I thought I did a full backup with Titanium Backup, but apparently lost it as I only found a small partial one on my PC.
Issue is I had uninstalled some bloatware and integrated updates for a few apps. But after factory resetting the phone it is behaving a bit odd. The notification bar doesn't really work anymore (apps still able to use sound/vibration to make a notification, but nothing appears in the notification bar) and I am unable to call the phone because it never rings and it immediately goes to voice mail. So the phone app is borked too.
Plus soft button to the right of the home button (I forget what it's called) doesn't bring up the app history anymore so I can't close background apps. (the volume buttons also don't really do anything anymore. Normally using them causes the volume bar for ringtone to appear and if using a media app, the volume bar for media audio comes up instead. But now nothing happens).
The phone is in a pretty broken state and even doing app updates from Play Store doesn't work anymore. Was gonna try and look around if someone has some app/data backup of the system apps installed. This is a TracFone branded phone and is currently running Android 4.4.2 (Kernel version 3.4.0+). Which is the last Android update they made for this phone.
Perhaps there's a single service/app that is responsible for notifications/volume bar that is borked. But I have no idea which system app is broken so a full app restore is my next best option.
The first thing wrong I noticed after resetting it was that the intial setup screen would return everytime I rebooted the phone. (only way i could get that to stop was freezing it in Titanium Backup). So maybe related to that app somehow. I don't recall ever uninstalling/merging update data for that perticular app though so it's probably a side effect of a different app going haywire.
EDIT:
Ok looks like I resolved the issue. I just removed the LGStartupWizard.apk then did a factory reset via Volume Down+Power button combo. It boots straight to home menu now and everything works. I guess the LG setup wizard thing got borked somehow. No more setup wizard but verious things like google account and whatnot can be configured manually via settings so no real loss.
All the missing things like the app history button, lock screen, notification bar, etc are now working as a result of resetting after removing LGSetupWizard.apk.
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Awesome, this worked for me too, though the issue wasn't exactly the same. When I got the phone it had already been rooted with Kingo at some point and I noticed after resetting it that I had similar problems (it may have had the issues before the factory reset too, I just didn't notice one way or the other). Anyway, I was getting slightly different misbehavior. No recents key, yes, but also no response from the Home key. Pull-down notifications bar was mostly working, but with no visible notifications and I couldn't press the Setup "gear" in top right. My volume buttons and Play Store were fine, though, but I'd noticed that when I tried further factory resets (from the menu, not via hard reset) that it wasn't "really" resetting, as any downloaded files/etc. remained on the phone. I'd tried freezing LGSetupWizard already, but as you noted, that doesn't fix it for whatever reason. Deleting altogether does. Yay. I do wonder what the hell is happening during the root or reset that triggers this problem, though. It behaves as if Setup Wizard was just never completed, so you remain "locked out" of most of the same functions that are unavailable during setup normally. Oh well.
Anyway, as old ten-dollars-or-less type phones go, this isn't the worst I've ever used by a long shot. Heck, it's arguably better than a few other slightly bigger/newer/pricier crap-phones out there! (Looking at you, ZTE Legacy/Quest...) FWIW, I had "ripped" all of the APKs from /system/app and /priv-app for some reason back when I first got this thing, so if they'd be of use to anyone I'll be happy to upload all or individual files. Hell, if anyone can tell me how to do a full ROM dump I'd be happy to do that too, because there's definitely still no official stock image available online that I could find a trace of. (Granted, I don't know if there'd be any way to utilize a non-official backup image anyway or turn it into a flashable KDZ, but that's not my point...)
Thank you, I got my lucky rooted! I'm wondering if anyone ever found any custom ROMs or recoveries for this device. It seems like this was never popular for any of that, but thought I'd ask. Thanks.

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