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There is, I believe, a problem with the firmware on my Samsung Infuse phone that causes programs that have been installed, uninstalled, and installed again to be unable to save settings associated with the program. Is there a way to fix this without resorting to a hard reset? A hard reset is really a lot of work! Surely there is some way to fix this issue!

Try clearing Cache on CMW recovery.
To go into recovery:
If you are on a custom rom with extended power menu just select recovery then clear cache. Advanced clear dalvik cache.
If you are on stock rom or dont have extended power menum turn off the phone then hold volume up and down and hold also the power button, 5 second or so after the Samsung logo appears release the power button but keep vol up and down pressed then about 5 secs later release them also, that will get you to android recovery. Clear cache there.

or download a custom rom..
they're so much better then stock ROMS.
but i would think you'd have to do a reset.
use odin its not that much work you do like 4 clicks and you just wait 2 mins and your phones reset to stock again.

jrjmpls said:
There is, I believe, a problem with the firmware on my Samsung Infuse phone that causes programs that have been installed, uninstalled, and installed again to be unable to save settings associated with the program. Is there a way to fix this without resorting to a hard reset? A hard reset is really a lot of work! Surely there is some way to fix this issue!
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i'm not sure if i understood your problem correctly.
some programs may not install properly on the phone.
in those case, go to settings/manage application/
go to sd card and list them
try moving the trouble some ones to the phone.
if you do a reset on stock rom, take out the external sd card first or it will erase that too

Media Still scanning

My phone got crazy yesterday:
i don't know exactly when it started but when i start my phone up it says Media Scanning.
Then it says media scanned and then it goes like showing on the screenshot attached for hours, even after restarting.
I am not rooted and on gingerbread 2.3.5
Thanks for any help!

I decided to restore the phone but when i want to do that it wants a samsung account password which i forgot.
I tried also hard reset with dialing *2767*3855#. phone tried to shut down but didnt do it can i restore another way?
I also saw a video on youtube for gs2 with said that i have to press vol up home and power when the phone is ON until it reboots to android system recovery. then do factory reset there.
But will it work on our phone without root ?
Please help my phone starts annoying me

Deadfreak said:
I decided to restore the phone but when i want to do that it wants a samsung account password which i forgot.
I tried also hard reset with dialing *2767*3855#. phone tried to shut down but didnt do it can i restore another way?
I also saw a video on youtube for gs2 with said that i have to press vol up home and power when the phone is ON until it reboots to android system recovery. then do factory reset there.
But will it work on our phone without root ?
Please help my phone starts annoying me
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Yes buddy. You can reboot your phone to Stock recovery (as you said you are not rooted and i hope u have not installed CWM). Switch off ur phone and switch on. When samsung logo appears, just press menu key+Volume up button. It will boot into recovery mode. From there you can wipe data/Factory reset your phone.

thanks for this tipp helped me out but do you know why the media kept scanning

At my girlfriend it was a sign before her her microsd goes defective......
Sent from my GT-I9103 using xda app-developers app

Help, galaxy s2x doesnt shut off completly

I was having problems with the GPS on my Koodo Galaxy S2X phone that I decided to do a factory reset on it.
The reset worked fine and then I reinstalled all my apps, all good.
except that now when I want to restart or power off the unit, it gets stuck somewhere and the hard buttons stay lit and I have to remove the battery to turn it off.
If I keep the power button pressed long enough it will reboot.
Any ideas how I can solve this?
I thought of doing a new factory reset just in case something went awol in the previous one but in the screen to do the factory reset after pressing the button "ERASE" nothing happens.
If I select to format the USB drive, a message does come up saying that its formating and then nothing.
The unit is not locked because I can continue to use it normaly. And no reset is done.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The unit is rooted but has the stock koodo ics 4.0.4 in it.
Could this have something to do with the root?
Any help would be appreciated.

ZeMartelo said:
I was having problems with the GPS on my Koodo Galaxy S2X phone that I decided to do a factory reset on it.
The reset worked fine and then I reinstalled all my apps, all good.
except that now when I want to restart or power off the unit, it gets stuck somewhere and the hard buttons stay lit and I have to remove the battery to turn it off.
If I keep the power button pressed long enough it will reboot.
Any ideas how I can solve this?
I thought of doing a new factory reset just in case something went awol in the previous one but in the screen to do the factory reset after pressing the button "ERASE" nothing happens.
If I select to format the USB drive, a message does come up saying that its formating and then nothing.
The unit is not locked because I can continue to use it normaly. And no reset is done.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The unit is rooted but has the stock koodo ics 4.0.4 in it.
Could this have something to do with the root?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Ever find an answear to your problem? Having the same issue. For now I am simply not shuting down my phone because I am sure that pulling out the battery in the midst of a shutdown if probably not good for it.

eugkra33 said:
Ever find an answear to your problem? Having the same issue. For now I am simply not shuting down my phone because I am sure that pulling out the battery in the midst of a shutdown if probably not good for it.
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I solved my problem by installing a new ROM (koodo v3 rom) but after doing that I think if I just had used the SUPERWIPE script might have been enough to reset the device.
At least the GPS works great now with this ROM.

ZeMartelo said:
I solved my problem by installing a new ROM (koodo v3 rom) but after doing that I think if I just had used the SUPERWIPE script might have been enough to reset the device.
At least the GPS works great now with this ROM.
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Hi,
I've the same problem at the moment with my new s2x. I've tried restoring to the my original rom and I've also tried a different rom (Koodo v4) and the phone still won't turn off properly (the bottom button lights keep lit).
I was wondering if anyone could help. How exactly do I work the SUPERWIPE and what exactly does it entail? Sorry I'm quite new to all this just bought my first android yesterday. Thanks.

Superwipe is run with TWS or clockwork. I dont know exactly what it does but it fixed my problem.

ZeMartelo said:
Superwipe is run with TWS or clockwork. I dont know exactly what it does but it fixed my problem.
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Thanks Martelo, I used Darkside superwipe (link here), reinstalled rom and it finally shuts off now.

Help: Nexus 5 Rebooting randomly and going into bootloops

16 GB black Nexus 5 on ART with stock recovery, stock kernel and rooted using CF's autoroot and bootloader unlocked. The phone was running perfectly for the past 3 months.
Now it has started to randomly reboot all the time and goes into bootloops which take a while to recover from. It seems that the power button is super sensitive. Even touching it mildly brings up the power off option. After reboot the phone went back to Dalvik runtime from ART.
I've been running Dalvik every since. I've uninstalled most apps. But the phone keeps on rebooting again and again just randomly in the middle of tasks. After this the phone goes into a boot loop until it boots successfully. It's almost impossible to use the phone right now, because the reboots just happen more and more frequently.
I've tried wiping the cache, uninstalling apps etc. Nothing has helped.
Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

iamjimmy said:
16 GB black Nexus 5 on ART with stock recovery, stock kernel and rooted using CF's autoroot and bootloader unlocked. The phone was running perfectly for the past 3 months.
Now it has started to randomly reboot all the time and goes into bootloops which take a while to recover from. It seems that the power button is super sensitive. Even touching it mildly brings up the power off option. After reboot the phone went back to Dalvik runtime from ART.
I've been running Dalvik every since. I've uninstalled most apps. But the phone keeps on rebooting again and again just randomly in the middle of tasks. After this the phone goes into a boot loop until it boots successfully. It's almost impossible to use the phone right now, because the reboots just happen more and more frequently.
I've tried wiping the cache, uninstalling apps etc. Nothing has helped.
Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.
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Sounds to me like a hardware issue-as if the button is partially depressed at all times. You could try popping the back off and blasting around the button with compressed air. Another option would be to RMA.

mrfeuss said:
Sounds to me like a hardware issue-as if the button is partially depressed at all times. You could try popping the back off and blasting around the button with compressed air. Another option would be to RMA.
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Thanks for the quick response. I don't want to mess around with the hardware of the phone. I think I will go the RMA route.
Do you have any suggestions in terms of the best way to backup the phone? Do you think a factory/data reset of the phone might help before RMAing?

I'd factory reset just as a precaution as your phone probably has some personal info on it

keepermike said:
I'd factory reset just as a precaution as your phone probably has some personal info on it
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Yes. I will definitely factory reset before RMA.
Any idea on the best way to backup the phone content? Should I flash all system files for factory reset or just use the phone's menu?
Thanks.

iamjimmy said:
Yes. I will definitely factory reset before RMA.
Any idea on the best way to backup the phone content? Should I flash all system files for factory reset or just use the phone's menu?
Thanks.
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Upload photos, music and videos to drive, dropbox or to your computer with usb. Then depending if you're rooted or not helium or titanium backup for app data. Me personally I'd just flash all files cause it doesn't take long to do so. Good luck and hopefully your new Nexus gives you better luck

[URGENT] Every reboot results in a factory reset

So today my droid started messing up, home and recents button didnt work. Google play store and whatnot couldnt access data, the signal status bar at the top was just grey.
So i factory reset it. During the reset it just sat there on the little screen with the spinning hexball thing for like an hour so i shut the phone off. Now every time the phone boots it just tries to wipe it again unless i go into the boot menu and hit normal boot.
Running stock rom and whatnot, but im rooted.
I know that theres a flag somewhere that it reads on boot saying to wipe it, but dang if i know what to change.
Thanks in advance

Well i unrooted my phone and tried to let it redo the factory reset again, and it still just wont do anything.

jombo2323 said:
home and recents button didnt work
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When this happens to me, it's because of a bad flash and a factory reset won't fix it. I would suggest reflashing stock...

coolloser said:
When this happens to me, it's because of a bad flash and a factory reset won't fix it. I would suggest reflashing stock...
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I dont have a custom recovery or an unlocked bootloader.
I managed to get the problem sorted out through some unrooting and some non stock system file deletion. Installed safestrap and got blurry hd running on it now.
Thanks.