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Partial Factory Resets?

So the past 2 days I've had an interesting problem, with even more interesting results.
Both mornings I've tried to use my GPS and it just hangs on trying to connect to it. The GPS says it's on, and I can toggle it off and back on again but it never finds any sats.
Yesterday I reboot the phone and it takes a while to boot the phone back up (most like the first time you boot after a fresh install), and when the phone came back online the GPS worked but all my bluetooth pairings were gone.
Today I have the same GPS problem so I reboot again, and again it takes a while to boot and so far I still have my bluetooth pairings, but I've been unable to connect to the devices, all my sound settings are back to the defaults, when I hold down the power button now the only option I have is Power Off, nothing else, when my screen times out and I hit power to bring it back on it goes right back to wherever I was, I don't see the lock screen anymore. And to top it all off my home button and my search button do not work.
What a mess, this phone is getting worse by the day, I'm actually starting to regret the purchase. I guess it's time to call it in and see what they say.
Edit: Forgot to add all my SMS messages were deleted as well.

Rooted? Have you done anything to it? That's definitely not normal but I guess you know that

Ya it's rooted and has nvflashed clockworkmod recovery installed. Rooted the day I got the phone and clockworkmod recovery has been installed for about a week.
I just tried clearing the cache partition, wiping Dalvik Cache, fixing permissions, and no change. Running a full backup via Titanium Backup now before I try a factory reset to see if that fixes it.
If that doesn't do it I'll try restoring a backup image from last week.

gohawks1 said:
Ya it's rooted and has nvflashed clockworkmod recovery installed. Rooted the day I got the phone and clockworkmod recovery has been installed for about a week.
I just tried clearing the cache partition, wiping Dalvik Cache, fixing permissions, and no change. Running a full backup via Titanium Backup now before I try a factory reset to see if that fixes it.
If that doesn't do it I'll try restoring a backup image from last week.
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I would guess it's not the phone but the CWM made the mess. You probably want to try factory reset.

My Bluetooth settings and profiles randomly appear and disappear and I'm bone stock.

Well, factory reset got all my buttons working again, and my screen locks again. Since I'm back to stock now and have to re-setup everything now I think I'll go try out the Eaglesblood ROM and see how that goes.

[Q]Phone rebooting (PAC ROM)

I'm on the PAC ROM. Always worked great, with some minor issues. Today, I received a message on Whatsapp and, suddenly, trying to open it, both from the notification drawer and from the app drawer, caused phone to reboot. I tried killing the process from settings, it rebooted before loading all the running apps. After that, I've not been able to run anything without causing a reboot. Why is that and how can it be solved?
EDIT: I understood it is Smart App Protector's fault: every app works fine except that and all the locked apps. Trying to uninstall or stop it causes the phone to reboot, as well. Any idea on how to solve this?

Try wipe data/factory reset.
if the problem remains unsolved:
re-flash your rom (clean flash).
you can backup your data through recovery.
regards

ASMI1 said:
Try wipe data/factory reset.
if the problem remains unsolved:
re-flash your rom (clean flash).
you can backup your data through recovery.
regards
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Thank you very much, it works now. But Google Play is stuck on the loading screen... Any solution to avoid reflashing?
EDIT: Nevermind, it is magically running again.

Pkmns said:
Thank you very much, it works now. But Google Play is stuck on the loading screen... Any solution to avoid reflashing?
EDIT: Nevermind, it is magically running again.
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Yup, this is because Google play have to update itself and change interface directly after each data wipe
best regards

[Q] Factory Reset Did Not Wipe Anyhing

I'm trying to remove apps that's on this phone (GT-S7500) because some of the apps always force close and not working. Firstly, I tried uninstall the apps one by one, all went good until I rebooted the device, all of the apps are back again. Second, went to privacy>erase everything including SD card content, device rebooted and went straight to recovery. It was weird because normally it will reboot itself straight to home screen. So I select the option factory reset/wipe data, after that wipe cache partition and reboot. Device does not reboot but turned off completely (weird again) Turned it back on, and only saw that none of the apps were removed. Even the wallpaper are still the same. Next thing I do is manually boot into recovery menu and factory reset again, still the same thing, (device turned off without rebooting itself, turned it back on and everything was still the same) after few tries again, I finally decided to flash a stock rom with ODIN. Flashing was successful ODIN shows PASS, waiting device reboot but it shut off completely again. turned it back on, but nothing changes. wallpaper are still the same and every single downloaded apps were still there. Went to settings> about device only to found that it wasn't the same rom that I've flashed earlier using ODIN.(flashed 2-3 times again, results still the same) Very confused right now, suspected that the internal SD card was corrupted/damaged. Does anyone experiencing such thing on your galaxy ace plus? searched on xda forums and found that this issue was also happening on few other devices. This is not my phone, just helping a customer. Thank You.

After flashing stock rom
Go to recovery (stock of course)
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache
Reboot
Sent from my Gt-S7500

[Q] Internal Storage Corrupt

I installed TWRP to install a different kernel.
It installed and offered to wipe Dalvik Cache, which I thought would be a good idea. It then seemed to get stuck doing this, so eventually I turned off and rebooted.
It rebooted fine, but the internal memory seems to be unreadable and Google Play seems to constantly crash.
I thought the quickest way to start again was to oem lock and unlock again. It then seemed to get stuck booting up.
I got back into TWRP and did a data reset, which is now allowing me to boot again, but I still have no Internal Storage and Google Play still FC's.
I'm currently trying the Nexus 5 Multi Tool to reset back to original state (flash back stock ROM)
It's got 30 minutes to go, downloading the ROM... so I thought I would ask if anyone had any ideas for me?
Thanks.

Android is starting... Optimizing apps x of y Bootloop? (Help plz)

So I'm running Sultan's CM 13 rom and my phone just randomly turned off while I was using it (on charge), and when it rebooted, it said that it was optimizing apps. I decided to leave the phone on charge and do something else, and when I come back, it restarts again and does the optimizing apps thing again. I can't even boot into safe mode either, if you were going to tell me to. I've tried wiping the Dalvik-Cache and Cache from TWRP, but nothing's happened.
Should I just factory reset my phone at this point?

Just try to clean flash Sultan CM13.

ramhawk123 said:
So I'm running Sultan's CM 13 rom and my phone just randomly turned off while I was using it (on charge), and when it rebooted, it said that it was optimizing apps. I decided to leave the phone on charge and do something else, and when I come back, it restarts again and does the optimizing apps thing again. I can't even boot into safe mode either, if you were going to tell me to. I've tried wiping the Dalvik-Cache and Cache from TWRP, but nothing's happened.
Should I just factory reset my phone at this point?
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Same here mate..
Always nandroid back up..
Go to safe mode then reboot..
This is a problem before mate..