My G Flex 2 is rooted and I have uninstalled or frozen all of the AT&T and quite a few of the LG apps that were present on the phone. I followed a 'safe to freeze' list I found online and the phone is running perfectly, battery life is stellar.
I did notice though that I can no longer automatically answer the phone by bringing it up to my ear. I checked the Gestures section and found some missing options (see screenshot). What could cause this? Did I disable something I shouldn't have?
I've tried to find an 'Answer Me' APK online so I can simply reinstall this feature but was unsuccessful. Might anyone either have the APK to share or guide me in unfreezing something that I froze in error?
Thanks folks
The answer me app has a red phone icon, it should be at the top of Titanium backup's list, so it's pretty hard to miss...If it's not there because you uninstalled it, you could just reflash the system image for your version...
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I think I killed my phone hahaha! Right when I need it for job interviews :silly:
So I rooted my phone, installed Titanium backup to uninstall useless applications on my LG optimus one (LGP500H). Started backing up everything and removing one application at a time, being careful. When I got to "Nuance", I thought it was a useless program for voice control, so I backed it up then uninstalled. Then before it finished (Or after, I don't know), "force close" messages kept looping and I couldn't get out. So I restarted my phone (managed to do this between two "force close" messages).
Surprise, my phone reboots, but to a black screen with only the notification area up top. When I lock then unlock the screen, I see my background, then I swipe to unlock the screen and it goes back to that black screen. Even the "Search" hard button does not show up anything. So all I can do is check my notifications, turn on/off the wireless, gps, data, sound. Nothing else.
So I decided it was time to install CyanogenMod, but found out you absolutely need to install ClockworkMod to reboot in recovery mode. So I'm stuck. Can't do anything, can't find on google how to flash CM without ClockworkMod, no idea what is the problem.
I even tried to reset to factory default, I get past the configuration screens to choose the language and the time, then it goes back to the black screen. So I need to completely wipe my phone and replace it with cyanogen mod, I think it's past trying to recover anything.
I saw one other guy with that problem on google and nobody really answered.
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I think maybe I just found out that I might have deleted the home screen somehow? although I didn't delete anything that I wasn't sure of.
If anybody else has this problem and can't get an answer like me, I figured out the solution.
Send a message text to your phone from a friend's phone with a link to the market for any application. Then find Titanium backup and install it. you will be able to run it from the notification area, then find your backups, and reinstall them. Boo-yah!
Hi All, I'd had my Xoom since release but a while ago it fell by the wayside, I recently picked it up again an spent this evening fiddling with it.
I manage to install Omni 4.4.4 and have the ElementalX 2.1 kernel so I can overclock it.
All seems fine except for a few minor things that are bugging me. On the home screen there is a white bar at the top, if I press the on the right of this bar it says 'App isn't installed' If I click the left side of it it brings up a google search bar. Any idea why it says App isn't installed on the right?
As well as that on the search bar I used to be able to press the microphone and speak what I wanted to search. This no long happens it doesn't do anything when I click the microphone.
Is there a way to delete the apps it won;t let you delete in the normal way. I'm a bit OCD about icon and I have Icons for 'Phone' and 'Messages' That is obviously not required on my tablet and weren't there with the OEM software.
Any other hints of tips for a noob?
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Hi All, I'd had my Xoom since release but a while ago it fell by the wayside, I recently picked it up again an spent this evening fiddling with it.
I manage to install Omni 4.4.4 and have the ElementalX 2.1 kernel so I can overclock it.
All seems fine except for a few minor things that are bugging me. On the home screen there is a white bar at the top, if I press the on the right of this bar it says 'App isn't installed' If I click the left side of it it brings up a google search bar. Any idea why it says App isn't installed on the right?
As well as that on the search bar I used to be able to press the microphone and speak what I wanted to search. This no long happens it doesn't do anything when I click the microphone.
Is there a way to delete the apps it won;t let you delete in the normal way. I'm a bit OCD about icon and I have Icons for 'Phone' and 'Messages' That is obviously not required on my tablet and weren't there with the OEM software.
Any other hints of tips for a noob?
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The "app not installed" go to the play store and download "Google search"
Via normal app settings you can not uninstall system apps. So the normal way wouldn't work for phone and messages. However that Rom comes pre rooted so using a root enabled file explorer you can navigate to /system/app or /system/priv-app (depending on the application) and simple delete the app then reboot the tablet for the changes to take effect.
Or If you'd like you can use an app called titanium restore which has the ability to remove/uninstall ANY application
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Hey all,
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the lollipop update that just got to our Verizon variants of the One M8. My phone is completely stock, has never been rooted or s-off. I got the lollipop OTA update yesterday and after 45 mins of installing I couldn't wait to see how lollipop would improve my user experience on my phone. Short answer: it didn't AT ALL. The long answer is written out below.
1. Notifications
I don't really like the lollipop update to the notifications bar (1 swipe for notifications, 2 for settings) but its really just personal preference. However, with the update, you can no longer check your notifications directly from the lockscreen. You can't even see the icons of the new notifications at the top without unlocking your phone.
2. Lock Screen
Lock screen widgets are gone with the update. You also no longer have the option of swiping to the left for BlinkFeed, now its just a straight unlock that brings you to the page you last had open. No way to get to the homescreen directly like earlier. Now what the update did that really pisses me off is that you can no longer control your music from the lockscreen. With KitKat, you could skip tracks, and pause the song directly from the lockscreen. Now with the update you can't do any of those. You can't even swipe down from the lockscreen to see the media playing. Literally all you get is the album image of the song playing on your lockscreen. Yeah, just the image, you don't even get to see the name of the song playing.
3. Longer Boot Time
The boot time is longer now. Also once I get past the HTC and Verizon logo's while booting I get a dialogue box that says "Android is upgrading" before it goes to my homescreen. I'm not sure if this the case with everyone but it has happened to me everytime I reboot.
4. Just general unpleasantness
Recent apps takes longer to show all apps (I use grid view). Its quite minor and only noticeable if you compare it with a phone on KitKat but its still annoying. The Google Play Services update was also really annoying and it made my phone hang while it updated. The update also removed the World Clock Globe feature which was kinda cool, especially when I traveled. Again this is minor, but the update should improve the user experience not remove existing features.
Anyways, this is just my take on the lollipop update and it could be different for everyone. I, for one, am seriously considering downgrading back to KitKat (if its possible yet). I really hate it when an update takes my device in the backwards direction.
What did you guys think of the update?
I haven't had any issues with Lollipop on my M8. I've been running Lollipop on my Nexus 7 for months, so I'm already used to it. After getting familiar with it, I prefer it to KK. The slow boot time is probably due to the fact you has "fast boot" enabled on the previous version of Android. HTC has removed it from Lollipop.
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Going to Sound & Notification > When Device is Locked > Show all notifications fixes the notification grievances that I had listed.
just_lou,
I don't think FastBoot is the issue. I had it disabled when I was running KitKat. The issue is the dialogue box of "Android is Upgrading" that still shows up (I just rebooted to see if it shows and it did). I'm not sure if this will go away after a while or not.
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Going to Sound & Notification > When Device is Locked > Show all notifications fixes the notification grievances that I had listed.
just_lou,
I don't think FastBoot is the issue. I had it disabled when I was running KitKat. The issue is the dialogue box of "Android is Upgrading" that still shows up (I just rebooted to see if it shows and it did). I'm not sure if this will go away after a while or not.
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If you are showing this repeated it means you either have an app installed that isn't art capable or your cache is corrupt. Backup and factory reset. You should not see that message on every boot.
Still think 4.4.4 is wayyyyy smoother than 5.0. Visually.... 5.0 is nice but its only a few you touches. I'm not impressed. Waste of an update. I'm on 5.0 ROMs which help but I miss my 4.4.4 snappiness lol.
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If you are showing this repeated it means you either have an app installed that isn't art capable or your cache is corrupt. Backup and factory reset. You should not see that message on every boot.
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ok I thought it shouldn't appear every time. so I went ahead and factory reset my phone after checking to make sure a backup was present. the most recent backup was about an hour before I updated to Lollipop, so I thought it would be fine in terms of having all the essential data. I used HTC Backup for the process.
Now after the reset, HTC backup can't find the backup when I click "Restore from cloud". All I see is "none" under the "Restore from Backup" option. Now I know for a fact that the backup file is saved on the cloud, I used Google Drive.
Is the phone unable to read that backup because it was done when the phone was running KitKat? If so, then begins the long task of restoring everything one by one.....
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ok I thought it shouldn't appear every time. so I went ahead and factory reset my phone after checking to make sure a backup was present. the most recent backup was about an hour before I updated to Lollipop, so I thought it would be fine in terms of having all the essential data. I used HTC Backup for the process.
Now after the reset, HTC backup can't find the backup when I click "Restore from cloud". All I see is "none" under the "Restore from Backup" option. Now I know for a fact that the backup file is saved on the cloud, I used Google Drive.
Is the phone unable to read that backup because it was done when the phone was running KitKat? If so, then begins the long task of restoring everything one by one.....
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No that should not be an issue. I have used it forward and backwards. Open play and then go back to HTC backup. Possible it's not looking in your Google account at all yet.
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No that should not be an issue. I have used it forward and backwards. Open play and then go back to HTC backup. Possible it's not looking in your Google account at all yet.
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I opened the Play Store and tried again. Backup still didn't show up. Then I deleted all the accounts on the phone and re-logged in. Still didn't show up. I went ahead and did another factory reset, reinstalled the HTC backup apk, logged in and opened the play store and tried to restore again. HTC backup still didn't find my backup. Then I double checked to make sure that I was using the right account with which I had done the backup. After confirming that, I tried once again deleting all accounts and signing in again and still nothing.
Finally, I tried to sync the account manually and then try. Still nothing.
I have used HTC backup in the past, and it worked fine to restore everything. Just this time it isn't.
Is there anything else I can try?
You know you can swipe right when locked and screen off to get blinkfeed right? Just have to decide now before you turn on the screen if you are planning to go to blinkfeed I guess.
I get my audio controls for Spotify on the lock screen too... With controls to play, pause, next. Just double tap the screen.
The grid recent apps seems to take longer because it's multiple screens of recent apps.
Just a quick tip but you can access your pulldown quick settings menu with the double finger down swipe when the screen is on at the lock screen. Useful for switching to silent or airplane mode without unlocking or using the volume hardware rocker.
That being said, my battery life isn't so great anymore and my GPS is skewed now (I'm always about 30-45 degrees of in the direction I'm facing).
Instead of using that crap "blinkfeed" launcher use the Google Launcher form the play store.
Last few days I had Kingo SuperBattery app installed on my android tablet and last time I turned it on the touchscreen was VERY messed up. I had a Messenger chat-head and some other notifications but the device was very very slow and I couldn't click/touch anything properly and it looked like I had one of those viruses you get on the PC that make it slow as sh** no matter the hardware you have. It looked like somebody else was using my device and all the widgets and icons in my home-screen were trying to move themselves and other weird stuff like that. The first thing I did was to turn-off the wi-fi and it was quite difficult and it didn't even work. I tried using the Clean Master Antivirus app and start a scan and it did not find anything but I also did a phone boost with it. I didn't see any problems with the the device while in the CM Antivirus app, it was kinda like a way of taking a deep breath and then again the same stuff in the home-screen. I couldn't click/touch on the chat-head from messenger and something was always trying to open my notifications slide. The reason I used my tablet was actually because I was trying to fix my phone using my PC (bootloop issue) and the only way to get the .ftf (ROM file) in the sd-card was to use another device (I couldn't find an sd-adaptor) so I tried using my tablet :/ but then here is the "new" problem I'm telling you about ^^^^^^^^^^. I prayed to God at some point and things started getting easier :angel:. I managed to go to developer options and enable "Show Touches" and that's when I saw there was always a dot right above the notifications area (for those who don't know, the Show Touches setting shows a dot on every spot where there is touch). I opened the CM app again and found that the persistent touch-dot (if that is its name) disappeared. I kind of found some tricks to use the touchscreen properly after I realised how the problem works. And then I uninstalled the Kingo Battery Saving app and the problem was gone! :laugh:
Moral lesson: be careful with third-party, rooting, and suspicious looking apps.
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Last few days I had Kingo SuperBattery app installed on my android tablet and last time I turned it on the touchscreen was VERY messed up. I had a Messenger chat-head and some other notifications but the device was very very slow and I couldn't click/touch anything properly and it looked like I had one of those viruses you get on the PC that make it slow as sh** no matter the hardware you have. It looked like somebody else was using my device and all the widgets and icons in my home-screen were trying to move themselves and other weird stuff like that. The first thing I did was to turn-off the wi-fi and it was quite difficult and it didn't even work. I tried using the Clean Master Antivirus app and start a scan and it did not find anything but I also did a phone boost with it. I didn't see any problems with the the device while in the CM Antivirus app, it was kinda like a way of taking a deep breath and then again the same stuff in the home-screen. I couldn't click/touch on the chat-head from messenger and something was always trying to open my notifications slide. The reason I used my tablet was actually because I was trying to fix my phone using my PC (bootloop issue) and the only way to get the .ftf (ROM file) in the sd-card was to use another device (I couldn't find an sd-adaptor) so I tried using my tablet :/ but then here is the "new" problem I'm telling you about ^^^^^^^^^^. I prayed to God at some point and things started getting easier :angel:. I managed to go to developer options and enable "Show Touches" and that's when I saw there was always a dot right above the notifications area (for those who don't know, the Show Touches setting shows a dot on every spot where there is touch). I opened the CM app again and found that the persistent touch-dot (if that is its name) disappeared. I kind of found some tricks to use the touchscreen properly after I realised how the problem works. And then I uninstalled the Kingo Battery Saving app and the problem was gone! :laugh:
Moral lesson: be careful with third-party, rooting, and suspicious looking apps.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. I'm glad you resolved your issue so I'll close this up
Regards
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From the little I've been able to find so far, "App Stack" is something that is installed on only the Sprint variant of the Galaxy S8.
Beyond that, I can't find anything.
It IS an app that I can uninstall. It weighs in at 47.76MB, and appears useless to me. I'd prefer to dump it.
Oddly enough, it also has a 1x1 widget, but when I try to place it on my homescreen, nothing shows up.
Just wondering if anyone knows anything more concrete about it?
I uninstalled it, no worries. No clue what it is though...
Uninstaller!
So I put the widget on my home screen and it was blank for a while. Then all of the sudden when I came back to the home screen it started displaying ads for apps I did not have installed. Uninstall that ****!
App Stack is bloatware , its an app that lets you manage the install and uninstall of apps, so you can says its like an app manager...
How to uninstall?!
It doesn't show up in any lists of apps. It doesn't show up in notifications. But it puts notifications on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S7/ Sprint) and i can't block it from notifications or change its permissions or find it to uninstall it. It makes me feel incredibly insecure. I can't read bank statements on my phone until i can get this bloat GONE. PLEASE, somebody help me...
It's bloatware you CAN remove. My mom kept getting notifications from it although it didn't appear listed with her other apps. I searched for "app stack" on her Samsung Galaxy phone (results were the same whether the search was performed from Settings or the All Apps screen) where I found it and promptly uninstalled it.