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iphone, do they get forceclose?

Just wondering, since iOS is a much more closed echosystem. Do they get forcecloses (or whatever they call them) with their apps.
Recently I've gotten a few forceclose when trying to use the Navigate app. It annoyed me, since this is a google product running on a google phone. Just had me wondering if iPhone has same issues?

Jamolah said:
Just wondering, since iOS is a much more closed echosystem. Do they get forcecloses (or whatever they call them) with their apps.
Recently I've gotten a few forceclose when trying to use the Navigate app. It annoyed me, since this is a google product running on a google phone. Just had me wondering if iPhone has same issues?
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Really? I think your Navigate app sent you to the wrong forum?

I used to have an iPhone. I had about the same number of force closes on it as I have my skyrocket which is to say very few.
My android tablet however gets a ton of force closes. I suppose it depends on which android device.
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btm fdr said:
Really? I think your Navigate app sent you to the wrong forum?
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bhahahaha... Okay nicely done.
I didn't know where else to post this.

IPhone apps just close. You do not get an error message.
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Ask em in the apple forums.....sorry I couldn't resist.:thumbup:
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Obviously being on a ICS leak the past month one would expect more FC but I will say my iPhone did have less issues with apps crashing on a whole. But some apps would have issues. I would say apple tends to have issues more with individual apps than general issues like I get with Droid. One is really not better than the other in this case. As usual, its more of the app programmers than the OS that will cause these issues.
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I had a iphone 4 that I got pissed off at and force closed it in a door.

tjsooley said:
I had a iphone 4 that I got pissed off at and force closed it in a door.
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I wish I could +1000 that... but I can't. So here's a thanks.
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The apps crash every now and then, but I attributed it to jailbreak tweaks. I can't remember it ever really crashing when it was stock. Maybe once or twice.

A good deal of force closes are caused by the user. No properly knowing how to use the device. And there are ways to fix force closes. Unless its an actuall problem with an app. Just invloves some reading

I had a friend whose first gen iphone froze up completely and he had to wait for the battery to die before he could use it again.

I'm on stock Rogers ROM (I'm not even rooted). And I've gotten forcecloses for trying to go to the home screen (home.android), navigate app, the dialer once or twice force closed, the SMS app. These are suppose to be the stable core apps, I was just surprised that they forceclosed.
I was just curious if iOS had the same problems for their core apps?

iOS apps don't throw an error on the screen when they have a problem, they simply close. Apple likes a polite crash instead of supplying a useful message stating the app you have might be a pile of crap.
You would be shocked at how many iPhone users don't realize just how often their apps die.
I hear a lot of them brush it off as them accidentally hitting the home button or something similar. That's when I give my signature response... "It crashed you moron."
My wife has an iPhone 4 and she was shocked when I pointed out that her apps had in fact crashed.
Sheep will be sheep I guess.

On Android developers also have to make their apps work on several operating systems and hundreds of phones. Apple has to make work on one phone...
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NightHawkUndead said:
On Android developers also have to make their apps work on several operating systems and hundreds of phones. Apple has to make work on one phone...
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More like 4 phones (3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S), two different screen resolutions and 3 major versions of iOS.
Some people still use a 3G and a lot of people still have a 3GS, myself included.
Apps are not 100% compatible between them and the 3G only supports iOS 3.1.3 and below.
The 3GS runs 5.1, but it's slow as mud.

NightHawkUndead said:
On Android developers also have to make their apps work on several operating systems and hundreds of phones. Apple has to make work on one phone...
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This is not my first Android phone, but I'm just surprised that some of the core apps (mentioned in my previous post, dialer, home screen, stock SMS) forceclosed.

I knew foreclosing was a huge issue but didn't know it was hitting phones!!!!
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rjohnstone said:
More like 4 phones (3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S), two different screen resolutions and 3 major versions of iOS.
Some people still use a 3G and a lot of people still have a 3GS, myself included.
Apps are not 100% compatible between them and the 3G only supports iOS 3.1.3 and below.
The 3GS runs 5.1, but it's slow as mud.
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One phone or four phones. I was being sarcastic saying one. They are still closed source crap operating systems. My point is that its harder to make an app on android than apple, because of the variations of Android devices.
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Cant download roms..?

Ive been a proud note tab10.1 owner for a couple weeks I rooted it right away and have barely put it down. One thing thats drivin me crazy is im unable to download roms directly to the tab. Is there something im missing or a trick to get them to download? I have really good wifi and have tried many other reliable wifis so its not an internet issue. I know I can transfer from my pc but a lot of the time im not near it. Any helps appreciated. edit: Guess im gonna just send it back and get a win 8 laptop. Farewell
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I think you have to go to advanced wifi settings and select never stop wifi while sleeping. I'm not sure, but its possible that if the device goes to sleep while downloading large files the wifi is stopped after entering sleep mode and if the download is not finished by then...
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Rooting destroyed my two Macbooks

So I rooted and flashed Roms on a macbook by connecting my N5 via USB. Now my first macbooks data is corrupted. I thought this might be the fact the macbook is 4 years old. So then I try my Dads macbook pro because my phone isn't performing as well and keeps freezing and going into a bootloop. So I connected it to the pro and then about 45 min later, the macbook pro doesn't even turn on. Does anyone know anything about this? Do I have a virus on my phone possibly?
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Its not a virus. Viruses cannot cause devices to not turn on.
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What do you think caused both macbooks to have their data corrupted? I plugged in my nexus and both got fried. Now my dad is pissed and I need to explain to him it wasn't because I tried rooting and unrooting on the macbook
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Yeah there's no way that running a couple of terminal commands from a Mac to a phone can do any of this.
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In order for anyone to help, you must be more specific in the steps you took prior to developing the problem.
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Not sure if trolling or serious.
Unless you ran destructive commands using root, there's no way this happened.
What commands did you run? What tools did you use? Did you use a toolkit from the forums or did you download one from a random website?
Other than that you sound like a sheep, should have stuck to iPhones kid.
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freshlysqueezed said:
In order for anyone to help, you must be more specific in the steps you took prior to developing the problem.
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Sorry I was just being vague figuring someone else might have had the same problem. But first off I rooted and flash Franco first on my macbook. And everything seemed to work fine. Then after trying to flash PSX ROM, my phone started to run into problems. Like the first one was that something like the UID? had a problem with the system. So then I tried undoing the ROM and putting on cataclysm. This is when my Mac started to really get slow. My Mac just started crashing and so then I tried to flash the stock image because coincidentally my phone was rebooting like crazy and also crashing when trying to open certain apps or trying to do things to fast. While doing this my mac crashed when I was in the final stage of flashing my stock. So some kind guy on here helped me put everything back to stock. He also helped me root and flash Franco and cataclysm ROM. (Now started from when flashing the stock image on the phone successfully, I was using my dads macbook pro since my macbook didn't even boot up and was stuck on the apple logo) so after flashing everything my phone kept on getting into bootloops. So I tried putting everything back to normal, but then my macbook got unbelievably slow. So tried restarting it and then that macbook got stuck on the apple logo. I don't know what the hell is going on. Even as I'm typing this, my nexus 5 typing is laggi g like crazy!?!
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choboii said:
What do you think caused both macbooks to have their data corrupted? I plugged in my nexus and both got fried. Now my dad is pissed and I need to explain to him it wasn't because I tried rooting and unrooting on the macbook
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Give us more info about exactly what you did, what commands you ran etc.
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That's not what we meant by steps you took.
We want to know if you used command lines and what commands you typed in.
Or if you used a toolkit program on your macs.
Otherwise no one can help or will have the patience.
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OK really OP, it sounds like you didn't know what you were doing. First, wipe your Nexus 5 clean so you fix the lag and go back to stock. Then, figure out what you spilled on your macbook's to break them because obviously, it wasn't the terminal commands. If you really can't figure this out, head the Apple Genius bar, because we're not there with you to diagnose the problem. It wasn't the ROM or rooting, its something else. Sorry.
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I was the one that got him set up using ADB/Fastboot on his Mac. I have to say, I'm pretty miffed at this. I've got an 08' MBP that I've been using to mod my phones and I've never ran into any sort of issue with the MBP itself. This is odd...
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No, he's not trolling. I stepped him through step by step how to get ADB/Fastboot working on a Mac and restoring back to a factory image in Hangouts the other night. I just don't understand how he could have toasted 2 computers modding a phone...

0dBu said:
Yup. Pretty confused here. I'm not sure I could toast my Mac with shell commands even if I wanted to. There has to be something more at play here.
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Sounds like one of those 'I couldn't find the kit, file, etc so I looked elsewhere (not on xda) online and found it but couldn't download it until I clicked on the ad first but that file didn't work it only broke my laptop so I decided to do it again since it didn't work the first time'
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Hey guys, first off I am not trolling. Secondly I did not spill anything on the macbook. But i just went out and bought a new macbook. Also I unflashed my Nexus so it is back to stock except for the fact that the bootloader is unlocked still. So now a new problem has arisen. my phone is still rebooting and draining a ton of battery because of it. I think i might just have a defective device. I'm going to contact google about this because no one seems to be having this problem. And I'm on stock now so I'm at a loss now
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anactoraaron said:
Sounds like one of those 'I couldn't find the kit, file, etc so I looked elsewhere (not on xda) online and found it but couldn't download it until I clicked on the ad first but that file didn't work it only broke my laptop so I decided to do it again since it didn't work the first time'
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I'm not sure what's going on. I literally stepped him through setting up ADB and Fastboot on a Mac, even had him send me screencaps and we had it working fine, so I have no idea what's going on. Cut the dude some slack.

To fix your macs is easy bro just hold the option key down when booting. Select recovery on the gray screen, that should fix your macs. For the phone: always do a cache and dalvik erase.

lol
i never understood why people used macbooks to root androids so this is kinda funny to me

dwreck420 said:
i never understood why people used macbooks to root androids so this is kinda funny to me
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there are many that do, it's just that you gotta make sure you know what you are doing lol.

dwreck420 said:
i never understood why people used macbooks to root androids so this is kinda funny to me
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Why not? You can build Android natively on a Mac as its Unix based. Second best option besides a Linux Distro, and a hell of a lot better than Windows. No driver issues, etc...
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dwreck420 said:
i never understood why people used macbooks to root androids so this is kinda funny to me
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OS X is based on FreeBSD and shares unix ancestry with the Linux-based Android OS. In reality its much "funnier" to be modding on Windows.
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[Q] Apps not installing?

I have a Surface2 RT and whenever I try to download apps on the market then just hang under pending. Any idea why this is happening?

Same here. Internet works flawlessly...
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Now it just randomly works for me. Sometimes the downloads will fly other time it will take ages. I think I should have just saved for the pro :/ ah well

truthkillszz said:
Now it just randomly works for me. Sometimes the downloads will fly other time it will take ages. I think I should have just saved for the pro :/ ah well
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I get it on windows 8 on my laptop and desktop PC's too :/

SixSixSevenSeven said:
I get it on windows 8 on my laptop and desktop PC's too :/
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Ouch Microsoft needs to make a ton of changes if they want to become a serious contender in mobileOS. The only thing that pushed me to buy the surface over a Galaxy Note 10.1 (2013) is Microsoft Office since I'm a student.
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truthkillszz said:
Ouch Microsoft needs to make a ton of changes if they want to become a serious contender in mobileOS. The only thing that pushed me to buy the surface over a Galaxy Note 10.1 (2013) is Microsoft Office since I'm a student.
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Well in my case its network related. My download speed rarely (if ever) peaks above 200kb/s and the ping times to the microsoft store are terrible, it seems to be incredibly sensitive to connection timeouts.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Well in my case its network related. My download speed rarely (if ever) peaks above 200kb/s and the ping times to the microsoft store are terrible, it seems to be incredibly sensitive to connection timeouts.
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Ouch. That's not my case though and still sometimes the store will move at a snails pace meanwhile everything else I do is blazing fast.

You guys tried googling it? I found an answer somewhere involving troubleshooting the Windows Update service and clearing store cache.
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Orange Network Bars! HELP

I decided to root my handset yesterday, all went well and that handset has been rooted successfully. I've kept it entirely stock, no ROM or kernels. I am experiencing what seems to be a connectivity issue. If I connect to WiFi my signal bars turn white, indicating a connection to the Google servers however, when I disconnect my signal bars turn orange.....full HSDPA signal but are orange.....stranger still that I am actually able to connect to the internet with no issues. I've searched and people are saying that the orange signal bars indicate no connection to Google servers and in turn this means no internet connection? Does anybody know of a fix or have an explanation? All was well before I rooted and unlocked the boot loader.
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Rooting can't cause this. Can you receive gmail?

That's exactly what I thought! I've rooted handsets before and never had an issue connecting to Google servers etc. Yeah I can receive gmail, but I need to do it manually, it doesn't seem to be pushed through like before. I thought at first it was an issue with the APN but I've checked and reset it to default, still getting these damn orange bars. The arrows at the side suggest I am sending/receiving data though......I've attached a PIC.
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I thought the orange bars there indicate that you're roaming.

Orange bars means that its not connected to Google servers.
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Orange means you are not connected to the internet.
Try reset your wireless router/setting.

gamepois0n said:
Orange means you are not connected to the internet.
Try reset your wireless router/setting.
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Orange bars means that you are not connected to Google servers and cant receive notifications, it does not necessarily mean that you are not connected to the internet.
Try doing a factory reset.

go to accounts
remove your google account
once u do it may ask to enter a backup account
re enter your google credentials
reboot

chaco81 said:
go to accounts
remove your google account
once u do it may ask to enter a backup account
re enter your google credentials
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If Chaco81's solution works, please let me know.
As several others have mentioned to you, it means you are not connected to Google services. This happens to me randomly, and I have yet to find a solution. Sometimes I just wait it out, and it magically starts working again after a few minutes. Sometimes I reboot, and that seems to work 75% of the time, but because it isn't 100%, it makes me think it's no different than waiting it out, it just makes me feel like I'm doing something. This has happened to me on various ROMs (including stock) on my Nexus 4, Moto X, and Nexus 5. It is very frustrating, and I can't seem to locate a cause or a fool-proof solution other than waiting.
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richard_cantwell said:
Orange bars means that you are not connected to Google servers and cant receive notifications, it does not necessarily mean that you are not connected to the internet.
Try doing a factory reset.
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I highly discourage doing a factory reset for this problem, especially if you have no backup program like Helium or Titanium. I have never had to do a factory reset for this problem to correct itself, and seeing as it happens to me randomly no matter the device or ROM (and I always do a full wipe moving between ROMS), I do not think this is actually a solution. I think this is just like what I consider rebooting, it doesn't fix the problem, it just adds time in between the problem starting and the problem stopping naturally. Even if it is a 100% sure-fire fix, it will take much longer to reset and fix everything back to how you want it than to just wait it out.

craigbailey1986 said:
Orange bars means that its not connected to Google servers.
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Easiest way to fix it is to get on a WiFi connection. Once it connects to WiFi Google will sync and then turn off WiFi and you will have white bars. This tends to happen to me when my data coverage is low and speeds are down. I don't think the slow speed is able to reach Google servers thru the downlink. Just my thought but I have no clue.
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jaimeletelierhay said:
That's exactly what I thought! I've rooted handsets before and never had an issue connecting to Google servers etc. Yeah I can receive gmail, but I need to do it manually, it doesn't seem to be pushed through like before. I thought at first it was an issue with the APN but I've checked and reset it to default, still getting these damn orange bars. The arrows at the side suggest I am sending/receiving data though......I've attached a PIC.
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From the look of your notification shade, you are obviously not using the stock ROM. What else has been done to your device?
Without more info on your phone, its tough to give solutions.
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It is completely stock ROM with xposed and gravitybox installed. Apart from that, its pure stock. Even at that the only things I have activated with gravitybox is the notification shade and circle battery mod. Nothing has been touched in way of kernels, radios, WiFi, telephony tweaks etc. Really don't fancy having to reset my device entirely, thanks for the suggestion but I'm not planning on restoring it back and setting it up all over again. As for the WiFi suggestion, it worked for 3min 27sec (yes I timed it) but then, low and behold, the orange bars were back. I've been reading on some Google forums that its an issue in 4.4.2 but it was working fine prior to me rooting. I even put it in to safe mode to see if it was an installed app that was affecting it but that turned up nothing.
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^ OK thanks for clarifying. There are many potential reasons for this issue, so it is hard to track down.
Do you have other android devices? Do those work without issue, in your area, over your cellular connection?
If so, the problem isnt related to your Google account, or your cellular carrier, and must be device related.
If its device related, don't do a factory reset. Instead back up everything you care about and flash a factory image.
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The signal actually came back and turned white for the rest of the day. Then it dropped out to orange again. Think I'll hang on to things the way they are right now and persevere with it and hope that 4.4.3 comes with a fix. Thanks.
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I'm getting the same thing on Sprint too. I wonder if it is a DNS thing?
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MrObvious said:
I'm getting the same thing on Sprint too. I wonder if it is a DNS thing?
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I'm on T-Mobile UK, well EE, as it's now known. The issue doesn't SEEM to be affecting things but I honestly can't be sure. In saying that I'm having to manually refresh my gmail and Google now notifications aren't displayed as often as before. There seems to be a few posts online about people with similar issues so there's every chance it is a DNS issue.
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not sure if this is a cell phone thing because I also get this on my 2013 nexus 7 wifi only and my N5 on T-Mobile. But I still have internet and notifications. I'm starting to think its just google running some kind of maintenance...

boxcar8028 said:
not sure if this is a cell phone thing because I also get this on my 2013 nexus 7 wifi only and my N5 on T-Mobile. But I still have internet and notifications. I'm starting to think its just google running some kind of maintenance...
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That's interesting......its only been over the past few days. Maybe prepping for the 4.4.3 release, but then again, that's more than likely wishful thinking. Odd how you get it on ur nexus 7 as well as ur nexus 5 on t-mobile
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jaimeletelierhay said:
That's interesting......its only been over the past few days. Maybe prepping for the 4.4.3 release, but then again, that's more than likely wishful thinking. Odd how you get it on ur nexus 7 as well as ur nexus 5 on t-mobile
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yeah, Im running CM11 and stock 4.4.2 rooted, unlocked and with run time ART on N7 and N5. I see this on both ROMs. On stock the icons turns orange for cell and wifi. But on CM11 the wifi icon would change to have a line running through it. I think its the same but with different icons. Both would act the same but both seems to have no advert effect for me tho.