Hey guys, any help would be appreciated!
Alright, I will try to explain it simply and clean. Basically, the thing is when I first got my LG G2 (kitkat), I rooted it and installed some mods. One of them was G2 tweaksbox xposed module. With that module, you can hide "clear all" and "task manager" button from recents. But the thing is, after I re-flashed my ROM (absolutely full wipe, nothing left), weird thing happened since. You all know that animation when going to recents from an app in jelly bean and kitkat and now, it's kinda bugged. The animation is a little bit off graphically. Basically, the animation reads navigation bar like it's a little bit bigger than it should be and it looks kinda weird, like it first goes a little bit more bottom and gets back up making it look graphically bad. Everything shows that nav bar is stock size, even tried many mods that make it stock and yeah, basically it is stock but even some apps still read it like it's wrong. That animation is fixable if I hide that buttons in recents again, but it bugs me that even after 3 months of MANY wipes and all the crap it's still like that, I just can't make it fully stock if I would want to.
So my question is, is something from xposed or anything like that left in phone even after going through FULL wipes many many, like maaany times? Did I miss something? If so, can I do something like manual cleaning so phone will finally be 100% stock again? I call it "memory effect", sort of like phone still reads it like there's an xposed module partially and it just can't get a rid of that.
So, I would really appreciate if you read this fully and try to help me. Thanks!
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Wiping cache (dalvik), data and system partitions should do the trick. Some apps use the internal storage /sdcard to store data too.
It's pretty easy to go back to full stock on a Nexus device but you should ask in your device forum to get further assistance.
Primokorn said:
Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
To better assist you, please post your device model number and carrier.
Wiping cache (dalvik), data and system partitions should do the trick. Some apps use the internal storage /sdcard to store data too.
It's pretty easy to go back to full stock on a Nexus device but you should ask in your device forum to get further assistance.
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Thanks. Already posted the thread in the device help section and got some responses.
Thanks again.
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Hi All, Help needed. My Sensation XE phone updated to ICS a few days ago, stock unrooted. Since the update I can't add any widgets to the home screen, and have difficulty adding Apps too .
If I long hold on home screen space, I can choose an App or widget but once selected I get thrown out to the centre home screen without success (even if I was on a different screen).
I am able to pin an App from the App drawer route, but can't get widgets from any method. Existing widgets work fine, but can't add any new ones, not even HTC ones.
I raised a support query with HTC, they said it is a "software glitch", and to do a factory reset. I really don't want to do this, I don't want to go through setting everything up again. And as I'm NOT rooted will lose App and game data. As I have a stock unrooted phone I'm not even convinced a reset will solve the problem.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to solve this or a work around?
1) Root the phone. It's super easy and you'll end up with the ability to back up all your stuff.
but if that's not for you...
2) Get a different launcher. (ADW is nice. Go Launcher is popular. Both are available on the market. Both are free.)
You'd have to reset up your home screens, but all of your data and system settings could be uneffected. And I'd bet that your problem goes away with a new launcher.
I may be forced to root, but not ready to go down that road yet. I like the simplicity and security of stock. And if things are going wrong with a stock phone I don't really want to venture into more complexity.
I may try another launcher but again I actually like Sense UI.
I thought there could be a service or program I could restart that would solve my problem. I get the feeling HTC customer service just get everyone to reset at the first sign of trouble.
allupnow said:
I get the feeling HTC customer service just get everyone to reset at the first sign of trouble.
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There's a very good reason that you get that feeling
Factory resetting will fix 99% of software issues that the average dolt causes by doing something goofy. So they recommend it as the go to solution.
Try this.
Go to the settings. Select apps, then "All" instead of 'downloaded'. Find the launcher and clear the settings. If it works it'll clear off all your home screens. But it should reset the application so it'll work like the first day. You won't lose data or anything, just the placement of your icons. I don't know if it'll work without root though.
As for rooting, you can root the phone and keep the stock ROM. You don't have to change anything or install different ROM's. You'd just have the ability to tweak more of the stock ROM if you needed to, and the ability to fix more problems that you're locked out of now .
And there's a chance that wiping the dalvik and cache once you're rooted would fix the problem you're having with the launcher if the 'clear settings' option doesn't work.
hey, 1. confirm that your ROM originally includes those widgets...
2. go to setting-apps-all-htc sense-clean cache-reboot...
Thanks for your help guys. I found the problem which was a troublesome app that worked fine under gingerbread, but not happy with ics. Quickest. Removed it and problem went away.
Issue resolved - uninstalling certain applications was the solution!
allupnow said:
Thanks for your help guys. I found the problem which was a troublesome app that worked fine under gingerbread, but not happy with ics. Quickest. Removed it and problem went away.
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While I tried almost all the solutions mentioned above, this solution worked for me. I removed all the previously installed applications, that were installed before moving over ICS. Somehow, I couldn't narrow down to the exact application that was causing the problem.
Uninstalling these applications resolved the issue and now I am able to add widgets to HomeScreen.
Thank you very much all of you for your help and suggestions.
Hello! I'm running KK 4.4, rooted and unlocked. I recently had installed a couple of mods, most notably this mod to give me a battery percentage number. Well I installed the back-to-stock files provided by those developers in anticipation of installing Xposed. But inbetween, I noticed that my notification drawer didn't have a complete gray bar across the top (see screenshot, and picture of what it should look like).
After installing Xposed and GravityBox for KK, I tried using the notification drawer color fill option to see if that would correct or override it, but that completely filled the drawer, hiding everything in it. I could still click buttons, but could not see them. So I reversed that, but still have the gap in the bar. Edit: Seems I had to choose "underlay" as an option for the color fill, so it's unrelated/not an issue as far as that goes.
It seems like a minor thing, but given how the color fill reacted in addition to now having this gap, I'm worried that there may be other issues I could run into. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how I could fix this, hopefully without reinstalling the OS?
Edit: Attached another screenshot better illustrating what's happening.
I'm having the same issues running franco kernel. Any help would be appreciated. Dirty flash does nothing for me.
EDIT: I was able to solve this by flashing this battery percent mod, you might want to give it a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559270
chickenrancher said:
I'm having the same issues running franco kernel. Any help would be appreciated. Dirty flash does nothing for me.
EDIT: I was able to solve this by flashing this battery percent mod, you might want to give it a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559270
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Thanks, but I just came back to say that I completely wiped the phone and put a stock ROM back on.
My phone learned a new trick last week: launch an app, and the screen turns dead black after the app's splash loading screen.
It doesn't happen with every app or every time certain apps are launched, but if it is going to happen, it is always just after an app loading screen and before the app itself would be displayed. It never happens on a system or preference screen, or in an app without a splash animation.
Button back-lighting, volume control, and haptic seem to remain active and respond as normal, but the app seems to be locked into the foreground with a black screen, and can't seem to do anything to stop it but reboot the phone via power button hold.
I'm running CM 12.1 nightlies on a Verizon S3. I've been updating the CM nightlies, well, nightly since last week in hopes a fix would be included in one of them, but I'm not sure this is a ROM issue. I've also wiped Dalvik/Cache several times, with and without a ROM update. I saw black screens on some phones were caused by theme window animations, so I've disabled these in CM, but hasn't made a difference.
Just a guess on my part, but if the nightlies do not fix this you may end up needing to do a clean flash. Hopefully you do not have to go as far as formatting /system.
dawgdoc said:
Just a guess on my part, but if the nightlies do not fix this you may end up needing to do a clean flash. Hopefully you do not have to go as far as formatting /system.
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Thanks, but wouldn't a "clean flash" require wiping `system`?
I'm wondering whether this is possibly a hardware problem too: this phone's been pretty beaten up, not sure how to determine that though.
deesto-xda said:
Thanks, but wouldn't a "clean flash" require wiping `system`?
I'm wondering whether this is possibly a hardware problem too: this phone's been pretty beaten up, not sure how to determine that though.
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I'd wipe everything, including system and your internal SD card, then you'll know for sure if it's hardware related or not.
deesto-xda said:
Thanks, but wouldn't a "clean flash" require wiping `system`?
I'm wondering whether this is possibly a hardware problem too: this phone's been pretty beaten up, not sure how to determine that though.
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Yeah, I was thinking internal sdcard, like @BadUsername said.
I have a Lenovo A606 phone with me that was preloaded with Android KitKat. I'm still new to the technical part of Android, so I decided to explore my phone by rooting it with Kingroot, which allowed me to access the system drive to remove bloatware and etc. The phone also came with a crappy launcher, so I decided to replace the launcher with Google Now Launcher and then remove the original launcher so that the RAM and processor is not choked on any background processes. This, with an intention to give my phone the stock look.
A couple of months back I decided to factory reset my phone and guess what. After that, my phone became launcherless, if that's even a word. Now, the phone just boots into a white screen that says initializing, please don't turn off device. This can take forever as I'm pretty sure what the software is trying to do, which is load the default launcher which is now missing.
Some of the solutions I've looked around the web is installing a custom rom to the phone. But the phone now pretty much is useless as it does not allow me to do anything. Not even getting to the settings page because the notification bar does not have a direct button to settings but has options to toggle wifi, bluetooth and so on. It allows me to drag and drop files via the PC but that doesn't do much. I've tried some adb techniques, all of which failed because of one error which is "error: closed". Anyways, I'm not that savvy with that.
With all due respect, if there's anyone out there who can help me get through this problem by all means, not even running its stock rom or maybe run another similar rom. Oh, and btw, it's running android stock recovery. Your help is much appreciated and your help explained detailed and listed step by step would be even more great! Thanks!
siva992 said:
I have a Lenovo A606 phone with me that was preloaded with Android KitKat. I'm still new to the technical part of Android, so I decided to explore my phone by rooting it with Kingroot, which allowed me to access the system drive to remove bloatware and etc. The phone also came with a crappy launcher, so I decided to replace the launcher with Google Now Launcher and then remove the original launcher so that the RAM and processor is not choked on any background processes. This, with an intention to give my phone the stock look.
A couple of months back I decided to factory reset my phone and guess what. After that, my phone became launcherless, if that's even a word. Now, the phone just boots into a white screen that says initializing, please don't turn off device. This can take forever as I'm pretty sure what the software is trying to do, which is load the default launcher which is now missing.
Some of the solutions I've looked around the web is installing a custom rom to the phone. But the phone now pretty much is useless as it does not allow me to do anything. Not even getting to the settings page because the notification bar does not have a direct button to settings but has options to toggle wifi, bluetooth and so on. It allows me to drag and drop files via the PC but that doesn't do much. I've tried some adb techniques, all of which failed because of one error which is "error: closed". Anyways, I'm not that savvy with that.
With all due respect, if there's anyone out there who can help me get through this problem by all means, not even running its stock rom or maybe run another similar rom. Oh, and btw, it's running android stock recovery. Your help is much appreciated and your help explained detailed and listed step by step would be even more great! Thanks!
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I couldn't find much information about your device here. Try posting your query in
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I got myself in a bit of a pickle, I flashed Resurrection Remix 7.0.2 onto my Samsung Galaxy S5 yesterday for the first time (well actually, several times because I have no idea what I'm doing and soft-bricked my device more than once during the process) but what ended up happening was I got the phone set up how I liked it and then while playing around in display settings I turned on screen curtain, which makes the screen go black while the device still functions like normal.
I don't want to have to reflash it after I finally got it set up (although if I have to, I will), I saw a way to fix this for Lineageos through ADB and the vi editor. I Don't have enough posts yet as I am a new user (reddit /r/LineageOS/comments/90d0ku/lineageos_151_solved_accidentally_setting_screen/), the only problem is that I don't know what i would need to do in there for RR, so if anyone could help me out here I would appreciate it, thx.
MasterofAll43 said:
I got myself in a bit of a pickle, I flashed Resurrection Remix 7.0.2 onto my Samsung Galaxy S5 yesterday for the first time (well actually, several times because I have no idea what I'm doing and soft-bricked my device more than once during the process) but what ended up happening was I got the phone set up how I liked it and then while playing around in display settings I turned on screen curtain, which makes the screen go black while the device still functions like normal.
I don't want to have to reflash it after I finally got it set up (although if I have to, I will), I saw a way to fix this for Lineageos through ADB and the vi editor. I Don't have enough posts yet as I am a new user (reddit /r/LineageOS/comments/90d0ku/lineageos_151_solved_accidentally_setting_screen/), the only problem is that I don't know what i would need to do in there for RR, so if anyone could help me out here I would appreciate it, thx.
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Go to system settings>apps, then look for the settings app, then open its app info page and select the storage option, then clear its data and cache then reboot the device. This should reset all of your settings and allow you to set everything back the way you want.
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Droidriven said:
Go to system settings>apps, then look for the settings app, then open its app info page and select the storage option, then clear its data and cache then reboot the device. This should reset all of your settings and allow you to set everything back the way you want.
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The issue was that I wasn't able to see anything on the screen to even know what I was pressing, I did manage to get it figured out though, I had to use ADB and a computer. The file system settings path is exactly the same as for Lineageos.
I appreciate you actually replying though.