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[Q] 2 Apps constantly Force Closing only when Rooted.

Let me start off by saying Im not a n00b at this stuff by any means...I did however decide to go cell phoneless for a couple years, so Ill admit Im probably way behind on everything, but I usually dont have any problems. I got my S5 brand new around Christmas, it had 4.4.4 already loaded on it. I decided instead of going crazy like I did with my GS2 and Vibrant, wanting to customize every aspect of it, Id keep it simple, root it, debloat it myself and be done with it. I rooted it no problem, but everytime I rebooted my phone Google Maps and S Health would force close repetitively, until I went into the priv-app folder and reinstalled Health Services and same with Google Maps. Theyd work fine until I rebooted then it was a rinse was repeat situation every time. I updated to Lollipop through Odin, Rooted it, same issue, same 2 apps. While its not The worst problem to have, it is very tedious. So for the time being, Im unrooted, and I really hate the 734 apps sprint preloads on their phones, and Id like to change a couple things in the build.prop, but Im going with the less annoying option for now. Anyone else have a similar or even the same issue?
Also I guess I should mention Ive tried doing a full Factory Reset, wiped cache and dalvik, and before I have time to login to sync my accounts to my phone, if its rooted they force close over and over.

tommy p said:
Anyone else have a similar or even the same issue?
Also I guess I should mention Ive tried doing a full Factory Reset, wiped cache and dalvik, and before I have time to login to sync my accounts to my phone, if its rooted they force close over and over.
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Is this when you are simply rooted? Or after you have debloated? If so, maybe you removed or disabled something important.
I have tried to keep it simple so far as well. I updated to Lollipop OTA. Even though I took the normal OTA update something about the phone was not right. Maybe some old settings or data causing problems. I did a full data wipe and then flashed this stock ROM. It is Deodexed and has a few things removed, but it mostly stock. I also ran the Debload tool included in that thread to rid myself of all of the Sprint apps. The phone has been super stable and smooth.

This happens once its rooted before I remove anything. I learned a long time ago to be careful what I remove, lol. But like I said, once the phone boots up before I even have the chance to set it up S Health and Google Maps force close and continue to do so until I go into the folder I believe its /system/priv-apps/ and reinstall the Health Service and same with Google Maps. and Ive wiped the phone clean, clearing it of any settings. I knew it wouldnt work, but figured I had tried everything else, but I even tried moving them to my external sd. I guess its just one of those things, Ill either figure it out or just keep it unrooted for a while.
That doesnt mean if someone has any ideas I dont want to hear them though.

Help! Apps constantly crashing. have to reboot phone multiple times a day

Hello all,
Having a problem with my unmodded XT926. Apps are crashing frequently during the day. Phone is usable but I get messages saying that Google Play has stopped working or Fleksy has stopped working. Keyboard app stops working multiple times a day. At first I was using the native keyboard app, but for the last three days I switched to Fleksy to see if that worked better but no dice. When the keyboard app crashes, I have to force reboot the phone. Do I need to reload firmware or something to get my phone stable again?
Phone has never been rooted (company phone). All I've ever done was disable some apps listed on the Xt926 Bloatware post on this forum and played around with Nova Launcher and Tasker.
XT926
KK4.4.2
182.46.15
kernel 3.4.42-gbd361ac
kernel date Jul 29, 2014
Any help/guidance is appreciated. Thanks in Advance

Boot into recovery and wipe cache. That has helped me in the past

Guapo613 said:
Boot into recovery and wipe cache. That has helped me in the past
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it has not resolved my problem.

You can always try to enable certain things that you have previously disabled to see if that helps. I'm not sure what you have disabled but what works for some, may not work for you.
Since your rooted, you can also use Titanium Backup to freeze apps.
Are you familiar with RSD Lite?

Guapo613 said:
You can always try to enable certain things that you have previously disabled to see if that helps. I'm not sure what you have disabled but what works for some, may not work for you.
Since your rooted, you can also use Titanium Backup to freeze apps.
Are you familiar with RSD Lite?
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The app crashes were happening prior to me disabling programs. I have tried enabling everything again and the results are the same. Most of what I disabled are the bloatware apps (Amazon, MC3, Real Racing, Spotify, etc.)
I am not rooted.
Have never used RSD Lite but will look into it.

You can try going into the "Apps" menu in settings and clearing the caches for individual apps. Some of them get quite large, and the cache only stores temporary data for reasons of convenience.
You can uninstall apps you don't really need (some of them run in the background and use up memory, look in "Running" apps in the system-apps listing).
Tasker is always running in the background; do you really need it?
You can try going into developer options (go into "About phone" in settings, then tap the build number many times) and reducing the background process limit.
If all else fails, you can do a factory data reset, or even more drastic, you can reflash the stock firmware.
Also bear in mind that this is an old device, and current apps expect devices with more memory and faster processors. Every time an app is updated with more features, it uses more memory on your phone and makes it run slower.

CryptZero said:
The app crashes were happening prior to me disabling programs. I have tried enabling everything again and the results are the same. Most of what I disabled are the bloatware apps (Amazon, MC3, Real Racing, Spotify, etc.)
I am not rooted.
Have never used RSD Lite but will look into it.
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Backup important data (pics, music etc.) and try a factory reset. This should cure all you problems.
If this process cures your phones problems, you can root your phone if you like. Look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr-hd/general/index-motorola-droid-razr-hd-2015-t3167557

Factory reset was done prior to my post on this board.
Don't think tasker is the problem. After the reset, I manually added apps one or two at a time... Tasker was the last one added, but crashes were happening before that.
Previously, I had been using tasker for about 6 months with no crashes at all.
Right now, I'm leaning toward flashing the firmware. My company has put a temporary ban on issuing droid phones due to that big exploit that was discovered a few weeks ago. I hate iPhones and am trying to keep this one running until they lift the ban.
Thanks for all the help so far. I'm open to trying anything to just get this phone back to a stable condition.
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so here is the latest.
Phone rebooted itself, after an app crash and is now stuck on the Droid Eye bootup screen thingy...
Force reboot doesn't fix it. Took it to Verizon store downstairs for sh*ts and giggles and they were no help. No surprise there!
Does this sound like a hardware issues to you guys?
Guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get an iPhone from my company as a replacement.. unless someone on here has some miracle suggestion.

It sounds more like a software issue to me.
I would see if you can get into fastboot or ADB and flash a fresh copy of the firmware before giving up entirely.

A full flashing of the firmware via RSD Lite will probably fix your issues

So I was able to Flash firmware to 183.46.15 and I also rooted the phone using sd_shadow instructions. Took me quite a while to actually download a working firmware file. The only working link I found was here: http://download1520.mediafire.com/rnbmstjwc1wg/du1p88ti1esd5fk/VZW_XT926_4.4.2-KDA20.62-15.1_1FF.xml.zip
I guess I'll see if the phone is any more stable over the next few days.
Thank you all for the suggestions. Much appreciated!

Was this ever resolved?

Galaxy S6 Samsung service problems

Hey! I have problem with my galaxy S6 and i've been surfing on google but can't find any discussion or thread about this so i started new. So the problem is that the Samsungs own Galaxy apps store is not working and the samsung account stuff either. It worked before but now its not. I can't download or update any apps from the Galaxy apps store. The app opens and works but installions not. I want to download camera add ons but when i press the install button it does nothing. It looks that it almost opens some kind of window but it disappears instantly. I have tried updating and clearing cache and all that stuff. I also can't log in to my samsung account trought the app or in the setting, it also does nothing. I have tried everything. Is there any other possibilities than just factoryresetting. Or would it be broken by the marchmallow update?

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Hey! I have problem with my galaxy S6 and i've been surfing on google but can't find any discussion or thread about this so i started new. So the problem is that the Samsungs own Galaxy apps store is not working and the samsung account stuff either. It worked before but now its not. I can't download or update any apps from the Galaxy apps store. The app opens and works but installions not. I want to download camera add ons but when i press the install button it does nothing. It looks that it almost opens some kind of window but it disappears instantly. I have tried updating and clearing cache and all that stuff. I also can't log in to my samsung account trought the app or in the setting, it also does nothing. I have tried everything. Is there any other possibilities than just factoryresetting. Or would it be broken by the marchmallow update?
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I use the Galaxy apps fine on marshmallow, if you've tried the usual like clearing the app cache and data then trying a factory reset or flash a firmware through odin or a new rom if you're rooted might be your next step

Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus Screen Timeout

Does anybody else have a problem with the screen timeout settings? It seems to remain the same 10-15 seconds no matter what I put it on. Even if I set it to 10 minutes

Good for your battery life! ?

Are you talking about the lock screen or the normal display after you unlock it. There is no way to change the timeout of the lock screen.

I get that too. It times out no matter what time I set it!
This is driving me crazy!!

joshlee80 said:
I get that too. It times out no matter what time I set it!
This is driving me crazy!!
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Might have something to do with face recognition. (Smart Stay) try messing with those settings too. I receive mine today so ill look into it too.

I'm having the same issue. Spent all night messing with every setting to no avail. Incredibly frustrating.

think its about smart stay, or did you use any battery saver that comes with the phone?

Does the same thing with smart stay on or off (unless you're staring right at the screen in good lighting), no battery saving modes used. On the phone with Samsung right now

[email protected] said:
Does the same thing with smart stay on or off (unless you're staring right at the screen in good lighting), no battery saving modes used. On the phone with Samsung right now
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Please let me know? I would like to find out what Samsung says!

They used smart tutor to access my phone and looked at all the settings. Said they would call me back when they have a solution. Didn't ever verbally confirm it as an issue, not holding out much hope

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They used smart tutor to access my phone and looked at all the settings. Said they would call me back when they have a solution. Didn't ever verbally confirm it as an issue, not holding out much hope
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just for your info, I did spoke to Samsung as well and I reset the phone as they told me to. They are thinking there is something contradiction between your old backup data and current. It actaully fixed the issue but now I found a dead pixel.... shoot. Now I will have to go to T-mobile for the replacement phone. Hope they accept it.

So did they just have you do a factory reset? Sorry to hear about the dead pixel what a bummer. Anything you could tell me about what they had you do would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

I'm glad its not just me, I'm going to factory reset to see what happens. I've been using a Stay Alive app in the meantime

Installed the T-Mobile software update, made no difference. So far the only thing that seems to work for me is a factory reset and to set it up as a new device; restoring any devices through Google seems to result in the same issue. Restoring data from devices linked to Samsung account (which I have to if I log into Samsung account while setting up for some reason) doesn't seem to matter one way or the other.
Mine is working for now going to start installing my apps and hope it continues to do so

[email protected] said:
Installed the T-Mobile software update, made no difference. So far the only thing that seems to work for me is a factory reset and to set it up as a new device; restoring any devices through Google seems to result in the same issue. Restoring data from devices linked to Samsung account (which I have to if I log into Samsung account while setting up for some reason) doesn't seem to matter one way or the other.
Mine is working for now going to start installing my apps and hope it continues to do so
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Hi, Thanks for the info. So which one did have an impact? Google backup or Samsung Cloud? I only restored phone number and picture from google and didn't even try Samsung cloud.

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Hi, Thanks for the info. So which one did have an impact? Google backup or Samsung Cloud? I only restored phone number and picture from google and didn't even try Samsung cloud.
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Samsung cloud seems to have no effect. Restoring app data (can add Google accounts etc. just do not restore data from any other devices when prompted) from any devices linked to my Google account causes the issue eveytime. Set up as a new device and manually selected apps to install from my list of apps in play store and all is well.
Hope this helps

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Samsung cloud seems to have no effect. Restoring app data (can add Google accounts etc. just do not restore data from any other devices when prompted) from any devices linked to my Google account causes the issue eveytime. Set up as a new device and manually selected apps to install from my list of apps in play store and all is well.
Hope this helps
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Thanks a lot! it helps! I am getting a warranty exchange for the dead pixel. You cannot get this exchange from Samsung directly but from the service provider.

[email protected] said:
Samsung cloud seems to have no effect. Restoring app data (can add Google accounts etc. just do not restore data from any other devices when prompted) from any devices linked to my Google account causes the issue eveytime. Set up as a new device and manually selected apps to install from my list of apps in play store and all is well.
Hope this helps
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Thank you so much, so much help. It worked

I find even playing games my phone goes onto lock mode if I'm not touching screen.
Annoying.

Sumsung Ace 2 (18160)

Although now old this phone is adequate for my needs. When it started to get extra sluggish I decided it was because of bloat ware that came from Google and Samsung. I replaced the os with the CyanogenMod 11-20141214 (Codina). It worked well and regained its original speed. This resulted in Android 4.4.4 kernel 3.0.101. I still have the CM11 file I used to do the Mod.
Unfortunately when I installed CM 11 I did not realise that I should not remove google play and google services and so I often got error messages, but I could live with them because I do not use the phone much. I only use the phone rarely but use Wechat occasionally.
In the last few weeks the os has deteriorated so that:
I can not install apk's from non google sites as I get a google services error.
Previously installed apps that require updates fail because of a parsing error that prevents their installation.
The Swift keyboard does not popup anymore so I can not type on the phone.
I think that the best thing would be to do a reset. Do you agree? When I did this some long time ago I recall that I needed the google apks to install otherwise I would not get the phone to work as if it was reset back to factory condition.
I also have a lot of apps on the phone that I would like to reinstall once the phone is reset. I would also like to ensure I do not lose the wechat settings and friend's contact details.
Unless of course I can avoid that hassle and correct the phone without a reset, what is the best way for me to go about reseting the phone to factory condition and then repopulating the phone with the current apps plus their settings and data, plus the missing apps from google?
Should I aim to continue to use the CM11 mod, or go for another Mod?

I hope someone will find the time to reply. In the meantime I have solved the back button and the swift keyboard. Both were sorted with the reinstall of the swift keyboard.
I am now hoping that I can install the essential google system apps and avoid having to do a reset. What is the best way to install google services and google play and to thus avoid error messages about them not being available?