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[Q] Help - Frozen Apps - Samsung Galaxy Ace

I have my rooted Samsung Galaxy Ace for a month now. I used Bloat Freezer to freeze unused apps including the default home launcher. This morning, I had some software/network problem so I formatted the phone hoping to fix it. I did not know that the apps would still be frozen, hence, I have no home launcher now. Cannot do anything much since the menu won't show up. SMS still comes through and I can access them when they show up in the notification bar. so technically, its not really bricked.
any suggestions on how to un-freeze the home launcher? or install a 3rd party home launcher by pc?
I have also tried updating the firmware but samsung kies does not recognize any problem with it.
thanks in advance,.

What about the 3 button trick to get into recovery or download mode, maybe some way to fix it that way, all I know maybe you can do something going through Samsung Kies software and see if you can restore your phone there.

Shoot me, the developer an email and as long as you can get a root shell through adb we can defrost everything.

jeffdijkstra said:
What about the 3 button trick to get into recovery or download mode, maybe some way to fix it that way, all I know maybe you can do something going through Samsung Kies software and see if you can restore your phone there.
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the recovery mode only does the same as the factory reset, with the apps still frozen.
fixed it though, thankfully i had the copy of widget locker in my email. bluetooth-ed it to my phone (which still has an active notification bar) then i had access to my apps using the lockscreen.
thanks!

[Q] Problems With Google Play And Random Freezes

Hi My Tab has exact ally the same software it came with except the launcher has changed to nova launcher, there is a problem when I go in to google play it loads then I tap the search button Then BOOM, (UNFORTUNATELY GOOGLE PLAY STORE HAS STOPPED.) I have cleared the catch and data uninstalled updates forced stopped, still the same will I have to do a factory reset?
Also I have not seen this happen but Sometimes you come back to the tablet press the power button nothing happens then you have to hold it down for 20sec so It must freeze when it is Idle Please Help or find the source of the problem thanks (Also If you want me to follow instructions, bare in mind I'm on a mac thanks!)

Do a factory reset and see if it fixes it. It sounds like something may be wrong when you installed an app somewhere. How did you get nova launcher on there? Sideload?
As for the freezing, is it when you charge it or simply when you leave it and come back to it later? Might be a sleep of death problem. Happened to my transformer a bunch.

Apex Launcher crash/Jelly Bean OS

Hi all,
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S from somebody who has had it rooted and is running Jelly Bean with apex launcher.
I recently changed my email settings so that I could access all my emails (not just the ones in the past day or two) and a couple of days later I've changed my mind because it's not necessary to clog my phone up with all my old unread emails. I tried to change the settings back to sync only to the last two weeks. The email crashed, and since then, it cannot start up without apex launcher crashing and everything else crashing. I've tried a soft reboot but this doesn't seem to be fixing the problem and I wanted to remove my email account and re-add it to see if this helps but I can't get into the app or even switch the phone on without apex crashing.
I'm new to all this stuff so does anyone have any advice on what I should do? Should I factory re-set it?
Any help would be much appreciated!

mm1003 said:
Hi all,
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S from somebody who has had it rooted and is running Jelly Bean with apex launcher.
I recently changed my email settings so that I could access all my emails (not just the ones in the past day or two) and a couple of days later I've changed my mind because it's not necessary to clog my phone up with all my old unread emails. I tried to change the settings back to sync only to the last two weeks. The email crashed, and since then, it cannot start up without apex launcher crashing and everything else crashing. I've tried a soft reboot but this doesn't seem to be fixing the problem and I wanted to remove my email account and re-add it to see if this helps but I can't get into the app or even switch the phone on without apex crashing.
I'm new to all this stuff so does anyone have any advice on what I should do? Should I factory re-set it?
Any help would be much appreciated!
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Try uninstalling Apex, then fixing email app (Gmail?) and then reinstalling Apex.
If you want to use an aftermarket launcher, I recommend Go Launcher
Hope it helps

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Try uninstalling Apex, then fixing email app (Gmail?) and then reinstalling Apex.
If you want to use an aftermarket launcher, I recommend Go Launcher
Hope it helps
Ah great thanks!
It's my hotmail account synced with the email app..
So if I uninstall apex launcher I can still start the phone up and edit apps etc?

I've just turned the phone on to try and uninstall Apex and I don't have that option, I can only force stop it? The disable option is also greyed out, and it doesn't come up with additional actions when I press the menu button

mm1003 said:
I've just turned the phone on to try and uninstall Apex and I don't have that option, I can only force stop it? The disable option is also greyed out, and it doesn't come up with additional actions when I press the menu button
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Do you have another launcher installed and set to default already? It might not let you uninstall if you haven't replaced it with something else.

Can't change wallpaper. Google search force close error pop up.

I can't change or even enter the wallpaper gallery due to a Google Search force close error.
If I press down on the homescreen and touch the wallpaper icon to change the wallpaper an error pop up immediately shows "Unfortunately Google search has stopped" with Report and OK buttons. (I have sent a report already).
Once you click either of the buttons it takes you back to the homescreen. If you try again the same thing happens.
Am I doing something wrong? Anyone else have this problem?

jezcgn said:
I can't change or even enter the wallpaper gallery due to a Google Search force close error.
If I press down on the homescreen and touch the wallpaper icon to change the wallpaper an error pop up immediately shows "Unfortunately Google search has stopped" with Report and OK buttons. (I have sent a report already).
Once you click either of the buttons it takes you back to the homescreen. If you try again the same thing happens.
Am I doing something wrong? Anyone else have this problem?
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Maybe just a glitch, try to reboot the phone and try again bro.

gee2012 said:
Maybe just a glitch, try to reboot the phone and try again bro.
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I've rebooted several times. Exactly the same thing happens.

Same issue. I have the LG G2 Verizon variant.
Sent from my VS980 4G using Tapatalk

Just to clarify, the OP has a Nexus 5? Or are you running the 4.4 launcher on a different phone?

Yadao said:
Just to clarify, the OP has a Nexus 5? Or are you running the 4.4 launcher on a different phone?
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I'm on a brand new Nexus 5- non rooted, straight out of the box. I'm using the native, unmodified 4.4 launcher on a Nexus 5.
I did a factory reset in the end.
I think the problem lies with the automatic backup and restore of apps by google play.
After a factory reset I let google restore the apps to my phone automatically all in one go. This caused the same problem again. I couldn't change the wallpaper or even enter the wallpaper gallery again > pop up error message "Google search has stopped working."
I then did another factory reset and DIDN't allow google to restore all my apps automatically. I painstakingly restored each app one by one checking each time if a certain app caused the problem. (Yes this took hours) I didn't get the problem again.
So I think it was caused by google play restoring all the apps in quick succession. It seems to be too much at once. It must have corrupted something.
Now the phone works ok and I can change the wallpapers and have access to the wallpaper gallery.

Hmm, I wonder if it was trying to restore Google Search from the Play store and that caused an issue somehow. Did you try clearing it's app data before doing the factory reset? I've heard that has been a fix for people running the 4.4 launcher on other phones who have been getting FC's.

Yadao said:
Hmm, I wonder if it was trying to restore Google Search from the Play store and that caused an issue somehow. Did you try clearing it's app data before doing the factory reset? I've heard that has been a fix for people running the 4.4 launcher on other phones who have been getting FC's.
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Thanks for the replies Yadao.
No, I cleared the Play store data and cache before the final factory reset. I think it did "restore" Google Voice search from my Galaxy Nexus. Perhaps it was that, that was causing a conflict.

jezcgn said:
I'm on a brand new Nexus 5- non rooted, straight out of the box. I'm using the native, unmodified 4.4 launcher on a Nexus 5.
I did a factory reset in the end.
I think the problem lies with the automatic backup and restore of apps by google play.
After a factory reset I let google restore the apps to my phone automatically all in one go. This caused the same problem again. I couldn't change the wallpaper or even enter the wallpaper gallery again > pop up error message "Google search has stopped working."
I then did another factory reset and DIDN't allow google to restore all my apps automatically. I painstakingly restored each app one by one checking each time if a certain app caused the problem. (Yes this took hours) I didn't get the problem again.
So I think it was caused by google play restoring all the apps in quick succession. It seems to be too much at once. It must have corrupted something.
Now the phone works ok and I can change the wallpapers and have access to the wallpaper gallery.
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hey guys how to fix it i have this trouble too ：好：

I accidently disabeled/deleted the Google app

so I am an Idiot,
I had this issue with my headphones on my phone that google would pop up on random times to ask me wether I needed help from the voice support thingy.
So I looked up some video's on how to fix it and most videos said to just disable/delete the google app from my phone in App manager.
Everything went OK but when I wanted to go to my home screen, an error popped up saying there was no home screen...
I'm like; 'What the hell?!?'
so I turned off my device completely just to discover it wouldn't boot up correctly when I started it again.
now I am stuck with only my bootloader and I can't get back to factory mode, I did not root my device for any of your interests
pls help someone who knows something that might help me

Go to recovery when turning device on and from there do a factory reset?

tislist said:
so I am an Idiot,
I had this issue with my headphones on my phone that google would pop up on random times to ask me wether I needed help from the voice support thingy.
So I looked up some video's on how to fix it and most videos said to just disable/delete the google app from my phone in App manager.
Everything went OK but when I wanted to go to my home screen, an error popped up saying there was no home screen...
I'm like; 'What the hell?!?'
so I turned off my device completely just to discover it wouldn't boot up correctly when I started it again.
now I am stuck with only my bootloader and I can't get back to factory mode, I did not root my device for any of your interests
pls help someone who knows something that might help me
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So you did something in settings, or are you rooted and used some app to delete stuff? The answer to your problems really depends on what you did.
As a quick fix, log into your Google account via a PC and find Nova Launch (or some reputable launcher) and push it to the phone, once it installed press Home and it should ask you to select your Home screen and make sure to tick "Always".
The real problem here is you tried to a fix a problem that didn't fixing, just a quick settings change... A quick thread started here would have probably got the quick answer of turning of Google Assistance Anywhere to fix the problem without messing anything up.

acejavelin said:
So you did something in settings, or are you rooted and used some app to delete stuff? The answer to your problems really depends on what you did.
As a quick fix, log into your Google account via a PC and find Nova Launch (or some reputable launcher) and push it to the phone, once it installed press Home and it should ask you to select your Home screen and make sure to tick "Always".
The real problem here is you tried to a fix a problem that didn't fixing, just a quick settings change... A quick thread started here would have probably got the quick answer of turning of Google Assistance Anywhere to fix the problem without messing anything up.
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Hi, I did not root my this device and did not delete the home screen from TWRP, just from the application manager. but it's more than just the home screen. I said I've tried to restart the device but when I was booting it up again, I only saw the Motorola logo loading for like 15 minutes.
It does connect to my PC and it recognizes the device, but I can't find it in File Explorer.
I might try to install Nova launcher, just to see if it works or not.
thanks for the reply though

tislist said:
Hi, I did not root my this device and did not delete the home screen from TWRP, just from the application manager. but it's more than just the home screen. I said I've tried to restart the device but when I was booting it up again, I only saw the Motorola logo loading for like 15 minutes.
It does connect to my PC and it recognizes the device, but I can't find it in File Explorer.
I might try to install Nova launcher, just to see if it works or not.
thanks for the reply though
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If your not rooted you couldn't have deleted the app needed, only disabled it. Pull down the notification shade twice (or with 2 fingers) and tap the settings gear, scroll to Apps, then scroll to the bottom where disabled apps would be listed and re-enable everything and reboot. If that still doesn't work, push Nova, and as a last resort you can perform a factory reset.

acejavelin said:
If your not rooted you couldn't have deleted the app needed, only disabled it. Pull down the notification shade twice (or with 2 fingers) and tap the settings gear, scroll to Apps, then scroll to the bottom where disabled apps would be listed and re-enable everything and reboot. If that still doesn't work, push Nova, and as a last resort you can perform a factory reset.
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I don't think u get what I'm saying, I can't boot up my phone so I can't swipe down and go to the settings. thus leaving me with a useless phone.

tislist said:
I don't think u get what I'm saying, I can't boot up my phone so I can't swipe down and go to the settings. thus leaving me with a useless phone.
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Then factory reset is your only option.

acejavelin said:
Then factory reset is your only option.
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When I do that, it does the same thing as if I didn't. I don't really know how to push applications from my PC to my phone. Maybe I can try to redownload the google app through pushing.

acejavelin said:
Then factory reset is your only option.
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never mind, I downloaded the Nova launcher on my phone just by going to the store on my PC and after it factory resetted, I got back my home screen, Thanks alot for the advice mate.

tislist said:
never mind, I downloaded the Nova launcher on my phone just by going to the store on my PC and after it factory resetted, I got back my home screen, Thanks alot for the advice mate.
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Glad you got it working but I am a little confused...
Either way, it's like a wise man once said "It doesn't matter if it's duct tape or tie wraps, fixed is fixed". :highfive: