So my problem seems quiet simple to solve but i can assure you i have tried everything to make my phone work normal again.
Here is everything i have done with my phone so far:
• Rooted
• Flashed Ressurection OS
• Installed costum bootanimation
So long story short, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Alpha) had (since i bought it) a battery problem. At first i thougt it was because of my phone having an Amoled screen that it would consume a lot of energy. I didn't really pay much attention to it but by the time goes, it became worse.
My phone would go from 100% to 40-30% in 15 minutes and shut down instantly with a black screen. At that moment i started realising something wasn't right. So i did some research on how to fix it but i wasn't really finding answers on my questions.
About a week after that i found something saying i could fix it by rooting my phone. Obviously, i did, and i even rooted a costum rom because, why not
next thing i did was install a costum bootanimation and i was really happy with the results.
Finally i installed this app wich apparently removed the batterystats.bin file and would reset the battery's information. I followed all the instructions carefully and did what was recomended
(charge to 100%... etc..), but that is when everything went wrong.
As the instructions said, i had to reboot.
when i did that, the phone didn't turn on automomatically. So i waited a little longer, nothing happens. So i decided to turn it on. And everything seemed working fine. untill the phone shuts down.
Then it would show the charging logo for a fraction of a second and would boot up. as soon as the booting finished it would turn off and do everything all over again with no end. The most annoying part is that the phone doesn't charge because its losing it while booting.
I really need my phone back.
I hope someone can help me out with this
rooterwithaproblem said:
So my problem seems quiet simple to solve but i can assure you i have tried everything to make my phone work normal again.
Here is everything i have done with my phone so far:
• Rooted
• Flashed Ressurection OS
• Installed costum bootanimation
So long story short, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Alpha) had (since i bought it) a battery problem. At first i thougt it was because of my phone having an Amoled screen that it would consume a lot of energy. I didn't really pay much attention to it but by the time goes, it became worse.
My phone would go from 100% to 40-30% in 15 minutes and shut down instantly with a black screen. At that moment i started realising something wasn't right. So i did some research on how to fix it but i wasn't really finding answers on my questions.
About a week after that i found something saying i could fix it by rooting my phone. Obviously, i did, and i even rooted a costum rom because, why not
next thing i did was install a costum bootanimation and i was really happy with the results.
Finally i installed this app wich apparently removed the batterystats.bin file and would reset the battery's information. I followed all the instructions carefully and did what was recomended
(charge to 100%... etc..), but that is when everything went wrong.
As the instructions said, i had to reboot.
when i did that, the phone didn't turn on automomatically. So i waited a little longer, nothing happens. So i decided to turn it on. And everything seemed working fine. untill the phone shuts down.
Then it would show the charging logo for a fraction of a second and would boot up. as soon as the booting finished it would turn off and do everything all over again with no end. The most annoying part is that the phone doesn't charge because its losing it while booting.
I really need my phone back.
I hope someone can help me out with this
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When you installed the new boot animation, I'm assuming that you successfully rebooted the device at least once to test the boot animation before this issue started?
If you have a removable battery, try removing the battery and waiting 30 minutes then re-insert the battery and try booting it.
You may have to charge the battery with some kind of external charger to do the following suggestions. Try to fix this without having to wipe or reflash the device, save those options as last resort.
You can try booting to recovery and flashing the stock boot animation or use adb push to place a copy of the stock boot animation back to its location. Wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache then reboot.
Boot to custom recovery and select the "wipe" option, then select the "advanced wipe" option, then select system, data, cache and dalvik/ART cache partitions, then wipe those partitions. Then go back to home screen in recovery, then reflash your ROM and Gapps the way you did the first time. This will wipe all of your data but might fix the issue.
Finally, you can boot to download mode and flash the stock firmware for your model number via Odin.
On a side note, the amount of battery drain you were experiencing brings one question to mind.
Did you have Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, KiK or any other social media/texting apps installed? If so, that explains the excessive battery usage, especially Facebook and Facebook Messenger. A workaround to the drain caused by these two apps is to uninstall them both and use your mobile browser to view Facebook and your Facebook messages instead. This gets rid of the constant drain of these two apps and also frees up internal storage.
Here is how to set this up to use your browser instead.
Go to Facebook in your browser, get logged in, if you have the option to remember your login information, do it. Then, tap the menu button in your browser, if you have the option to "add to homescreen", select it, if you don't have that option, select the option to create a bookmark instead, then go to your widget settings and add that bookmark to your homescreen as a widget, this allows you to tap it to open Facebook whenever you want just like the app.
Then, in Facebook settings, go to your notifications settings, set it to give you all of your notifications via text or via your Gmail account, if you choose to use Gmail, this will send your notifications to your Gmail app on your device. You will also have to go to your Gmail app then open its settings and set it to give you a notification when an email comes in, this will allow you to still recieve your Facebook and messenger notifications the same as you would if you had the apps. Facebook will end your notifications to Gmail and Gmail will give you a notification in your device's status bar, the two work together.
This setup will allow you to view Facebook the same as the app would without using nearly as much battery as the Facebook app uses.
To view and reply to your Facebook messages, when you are viewing Facebook in your browser, tap the menu button in browser. Then select the "desktop site" option, when it re-loads the page, select the messenger icon at the top of your Facebook page, then you can read and reply to your messages the same as you would in Facebook Messenger but without using nearly as much battery as Facebook Messenger. If you want to make it more convenient than that, you might even be able to find a way to create an another bookmark just for the messages page like you did for the Facebook page and then set this bookmark to automatically load with the "desktop site", this will eliminate the need to select "desktop site" every time you want to check your messages.
If you do it right, you will have two bookmarks on homescreen, one to replace the Facebook app and one to replace Facebook Messenger, all of the same functionality with two less apps installed and two less apps draining battery. You'll have to play with a while to get used to it and set up the way you need it but I suggest you try something like this instead of those apps.
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When you installed the new boot animation, I'm assuming that you successfully rebooted the device at least once to test the boot animation before this issue started?
If you have a removable battery, try removing the battery and waiting 30 minutes then re-insert the battery and try booting it.
You may have to charge the battery with some kind of external charger to do the following suggestions. Try to fix this without having to wipe or reflash the device, save those options as last resort.
You can try booting to recovery and flashing the stock boot animation or use adb push to place a copy of the stock boot animation back to its location. Wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache then reboot.
Boot to custom recovery and select the "wipe" option, then select the "advanced wipe" option, then select system, data, cache and dalvik/ART cache partitions, then wipe those partitions. Then go back to home screen in recovery, then reflash your ROM and Gapps the way you did the first time. This will wipe all of your data but might fix the issue.
Finally, you can boot to download mode and flash the stock firmware for your model number via Odin.
On a side note, the amount of battery drain you were experiencing brings one question to mind.
Did you have Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, KiK or any other social media/texting apps installed? If so, that explains the excessive battery usage, especially Facebook and Facebook Messenger. A workaround to the drain caused by these two apps is to uninstall them both and use your mobile browser to view Facebook and your Facebook messages instead. This gets rid of the constant drain of these two apps and also frees up internal storage.
Here is how to set this up to use your browser instead.
Go to Facebook in your browser, get logged in, if you have the option to remember your login information, do it. Then, tap the menu button in your browser, if you have the option to "add to homescreen", select it, if you don't have that option, select the option to create a bookmark instead, then go to your widget settings and add that bookmark to your homescreen as a widget, this allows you to tap it to open Facebook whenever you want just like the app.
Then, in Facebook settings, go to your notifications settings, set it to give you all of your notifications via text or via your Gmail account, if you choose to use Gmail, this will send your notifications to your Gmail app on your device. You will also have to go to your Gmail app then open its settings and set it to give you a notification when an email comes in, this will allow you to still recieve your Facebook and messenger notifications the same as you would if you had the apps. Facebook will end your notifications to Gmail and Gmail will give you a notification in your device's status bar, the two work together.
This setup will allow you to view Facebook the same as the app would without using nearly as much battery as the Facebook app uses.
To view and reply to your Facebook messages, when you are viewing Facebook in your browser, tap the menu button in browser. Then select the "desktop site" option, when it re-loads the page, select the messenger icon at the top of your Facebook page, then you can read and reply to your messages the same as you would in Facebook Messenger but without using nearly as much battery as Facebook Messenger. If you want to make it more convenient than that, you might even be able to find a way to create an another bookmark just for the messages page like you did for the Facebook page and then set this bookmark to automatically load with the "desktop site", this will eliminate the need to select "desktop site" every time you want to check your messages.
If you do it right, you will have two bookmarks on homescreen, one to replace the Facebook app and one to replace Facebook Messenger, all of the same functionality with two less apps installed and two less apps draining battery. You'll have to play with a while to get used to it and set up the way you need it but I suggest you try something like this instead of those apps.
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Alright, so i have tried every single method and read very carefully what to do. Still the same problem, i didn't use facebook or facebook messenger.
Is there any way possible that:
removing the old "lpm" file in "/system/bin"
and creating another file with the same name, open it as text, and writing:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 40 (it will so nothing for 40 sec then reboot)
/system/bin/reboot
will work? (i want to be sure if this is not going to do anything bad)
Thank you foe your help i really apreciate it
I am having the same issue. Originally the phone would charge in a powered off state and just the green battery would show up briefly...when fully charged it would pop back up indicating so. Now, as soon as I plug in the wall charger or the USB to the computer, it reboots and powers on. All I have done is enable the on-board battery saver. I would prefer to charge it overnight in a powered off state so I don't get notifications...I could put it on silent, but it should charge while off. If I shut it down while charging, it immediately reboots.
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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.
UPDATE:
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.
tmtmaats said:
UPDATE:
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.
dottat said:
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.
dottat said:
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.
This thread was originally titled "System wide problems", please see the reply for the solution.
Original post:
"Hi all,
Been forever since I've made a post to XDA, but I have a problem I'm not able to solve without taking an inconvenient plunge. I should mention that my phone was 100% fine yesterday evening, but since I was asleep last night it seems to have run out of battery, so this morning I charged it a bit, then I turned it on to a world of problems.
Ok, so let me run through a list of just a handful of the problems I'm having right now...
Totally stock (not rooted) Nexus 5 running Android 6.0.1 (Security: 1 March 2016)
1. Home and App switch soft keys don't work
2. Notifcations are not working at all
3. Notification shade wont pull down
4. Widgets cannot, and will not load
5. Cannot get into Developer options "Developer options are not available for this user"
Seems I'm not the only one to experience the strange bug, some folks over at Android Central were experiencing the exact same thing toward the end of last year.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/an...me-button-not-working-many-more-problems.html
Some people to have resolved this issue using "adb shell am start -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity" but I cannot get into Developer options to turn on USB Debugging (unless I don't need to?)
What I've tried already...
1. Cleared all Google App data "CLEAR ALL DATA"
2. Tried to make another user, just flashes and goes back to "Opula" my main and broken user profile, never creates the other profile, same thing happens when I press on Guest too
3. Safe mode, but the problem persists there too
4. Virus scan, turned up a whole lot of nothing
I'm now at the point where I'm thinking I'm going to have to do a Factory data reset (the "inconvenient plunge"), even though I think I've backed everything up the "Touch to sync" option on my Account > Google doesn't do anything, neither does the "Sync now" from the drop down menu. So despite having explored my Google account on my desktop I cannot see if it has backed up my Apps and App data, but it seems to have backed up my contacts and such.
I'm going to get a third party app to back up as stuff as I possibly can as well, but even Helium is useless now since I cannot get into the Developer options so enable USB debugging.
Anyone got any experience with this issue or how to resolve it?
Many thanks to everyone in advance."
Hi all,
Just wanted to update this thread to say that I did a factory reset and the phone is now fixed, but I wouldn't to give a more comprehensive account of the problems I was experiencing with the phone until I did the factory reset.
List of problems
Home and app-switch soft keys not working (back key is working)
Google Now 'on tap' not appearing (cause of home key)
Cannot see notifications just says "No notifications" (but the light and sound work fine when a notification is received)
Cannot pull down notification shade to toggle controls
Widgets cannot be added and will not load
Cannot pull down the immersive mode overlay
Google Backup not working (after 8+ days)
All types of syncing not working
Phone's storage doesn't appear on PC when plugged in via USB
Cannot access developer options (due to active profile level)
Cannot create or switch users
The best advice I can give to mitigate such an unusual problem (that appeared totally out of the blue on a cold boot) is use Google Backup services, keep on top of syncing, and manage your data via your Google account! Or as an alternative, manage and maintain manual backups.
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
BUMP
try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
It seems that you have several bugs and if they all start happening after you have installed the latest update, then expect a patch coming soon.
MINTED7 said:
try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
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I have actually done that. Found very limited success. I'm also finding very few results on this topic. Surely it's not just me though.
And I'm dreading the idea of a hard reset as I have many things on my phones, not all of which is sync'd to the cloud so it's a task to back things up appropriate. Specifically regarding "encrypted" apps like my password keeper app etc.
It would be great if there was a software application that allowed you to backup whatever is necessary to not lose data, then wipe the phone and instead of just simply restoring the full phone (which is likely to create the same problem one had before the hard reset), you could simply dump back in app data as needed. It would also help diagnose if the problem lies in a specific app's data.
High level overview of issues...
I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
[Solved]
I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
Samsung smart switch works wonders, the only thing that doesn't restore is passwords, you have to have and external SD card for it to work, or plug it in to a computer
talonpetty said:
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
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Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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norbarb said:
Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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That is not the issue. As mentioned, it's not just the clock it's multiple interfaces.
norbarb said:
Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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That is not the issue. As mentioned, it's not just the clock it's multiple apps/interfaces.
High level overview of issues...
I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
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I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.
Iv'e been having these issues for a few weeks now, maybe someone else had them too and can help with these...
1. There's a huge lag with the share menu on every app except for Google Photos. It takes about a minute to open and until it does the app just freezes. happens in Gallery, Facebook, Whatsapp and everywhere else.
2. There's also a huge lag when an app is trying to open another app. For example, if i click on a Youtube link in FB it would take about a minute to actually open the Youtube app. I tried changing the defaults in the settings but still nothing.
3. When i go to Settings, if i go to "Apps and Notifications", it takes about a minute for the menu to open. Once it does everything works ok but if i go into a certain app settings, and i hit "back" and it's supposed to go to the main apps menu, it lags again.
4. 90% of the time to "press power twice for camera" shortcut does not work. When i do it the phone vibrates like it always does but the Camera app doesn't open.
I am on 9.0.5, Magisk 19.1, XXX No Limits.
Things i tried:
- Reflashing the rom
- Uninstalling XXX and Magisk
- Wiping Cache in recovery
These didn't help much. I tried going to OB but i still had the problems so i went back to stable which wiped everything clean and solved the issues... until a few days later when they started again.
If anyone has any other suggestions, i would be happy to hear it. Thanks in advance!
If you did a clean flash and it reappeared, it's probably a rogue app. Do another and restore things one at a time until the problem recurs.
I'm also experiencing few bugs ever since switching to 905 on both slots, mostly WiFi issues and WhatsApp being very delaying with messages etc.
had the same setup as you thought I'll go use custom roms and it's the same on those, so I'm guessing it's 905 oos the bad Apple here
I confirm delay on Whatsup....
Can i revert to 9.0.3?
Did you try a Flash all by Fastboot?
You should have stayed with Oreo