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system insability sensation XE

Hi!
i've got a stock XE (not root, no custom recovery, no CFW) with android 4.0.3 and the phone reboots everytime i go back to home with the home button ;(
any suggestions?
thanks

This is some common steps to see if you can fix it.
First if you have a lot of text messages delete them.
Second if you have a lot of calls in your call history delete your call history.
Third download App Cache Cleaner from the Play Store and use it to delete all the app cache on your device.
The above steps are to free up space on your device to gain resources. You can also uninstall any apps that you just do not use are need to free up space. Without having the proper amount of resources available on a device it can start to perform oddly.
Give the device some time after doing these steps to see if they elimanate the problem. If they do not thengo to System/Privacy and make sure you have a check beside "Backup my settings" and the go to Settings/Storage and scroll to the bottom and select "Factory data reset" bit make sure you remember your gmail account and password cause you will need it to re sync your contacts and settings after the reset.

T-Macgnolia said:
This is some common steps to see if you can fix it.
First if you have a lot of text messages delete them.
Second if you have a lot of calls in your call history delete your call history.
Third download App Cache Cleaner from the Play Store and use it to delete all the app cache on your device.
The above steps are to free up space on your device to gain resources. You can also uninstall any apps that you just do not use are need to free up space. Without having the proper amount of resources available on a device it can start to perform oddly.
Give the device some time after doing these steps to see if they elimanate the problem. If they do not thengo to System/Privacy and make sure you have a check beside "Backup my settings" and the go to Settings/Storage and scroll to the bottom and select "Factory data reset" bit make sure you remember your gmail account and password cause you will need it to re sync your contacts and settings after the reset.
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thank for your reply, i'll try it as soon as possible!

[Q] Factory reset to some apps at fix permissions... Is possible?

Hi developers!
My phone since always, has (or had?) a little issue: the phone shuts down at taking a photo with flash.
(issue since having stock ROM until nowadays (vipers ROM)).
So, I tried the famous "Safe mode" (push volume down at startup)... all normal, the phone doesn't shuts down at taking a photo with flash.
Then I fixed permissions (through CWM recovery) (a trick that I've seen on the web, that improves performance)
Now my phone starts fastly (than before), but some apps performed an own "factory reset"
ergo, I open facebook and it opens like a fresh install!
Apps like: facebook, swiftkey, outlook and others that I don't remember.
My question is: ¿is normal that some apps perform an own factory reset at applying "fix permissions" and/or entering to safe mode?

padre629 said:
Hi developers!
My phone since always, has (or had?) a little issue: the phone shuts down at taking a photo with flash.
(issue since having stock ROM until nowadays (vipers ROM)).
So, I tried the famous "Safe mode" (push volume down at startup)... all normal, the phone doesn't shuts down at taking a photo with flash.
Then I fixed permissions (through CWM recovery) (a trick that I've seen on the web, that improves performance)
Now my phone starts fastly (than before), but some apps performed an own "factory reset"
ergo, I open facebook and it opens like a fresh install!
Apps like: facebook, swiftkey, outlook and others that I don't remember.
My question is: ¿is normal that some apps perform an own factory reset at applying "fix permissions" and/or entering to safe mode?
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I wouldn't advise 'Fix Permissions' if you've not done a clean install. The data directory has specific permissions.
A good example is a sense based ROM. If you run fix permissions on a sense ROM, you won't see contact images anymore.
You'll have to repair the permissions in /data, live with setting up the applications again or do a factory reset to avoid possible issues.

[Q] com.android.phone stopped working after Titanium Backup restore

Hello,
I just got a Nexus 5 phone. Following the instructions in this forum, I was able to unlock the bootloader, get a TWRP Recovery and root the phone. Everything went fine. Then it was time to transfer my apps and data from my old Sony Xperia S. With Titanium Backup Pro on both devices, I made a backup of all apps + system data. Everything ok till that too. Then I restored this backup in Nexus 5. Everything seemed fine, all of the apps were in the app drawer, the ones I opened worked just fine.
But after the first reboot, I get an annoying "Unfortunately process com.android.phone has stopped working" when the home screen loads. No matter what option I choose (Ok or Report), this dialog box just pops up again and again. In the milliseconds between two of this dialog boxes, I can unlock the lockscreen and browse normally (apart from the annoying little box that pops up all the time, of course).
So, what's the best option in this case? Will the factory reset from Android itself solve it, do I need to use the Custom Recovery or can I just go straight to flashing the factory image?
Cheers,

never restore system apps or system data with titanium backup, or this will happen. you can try wiping data in your recovery, that should fix it, but it will wipe your phone clean.

You can't restore system data. You can't even do this from one rom to another let alone different phones
In titanium untick "system" in the edit filters screen.
Then go to the restore screen and select restore missing apps and data.
Then go through each one double checking there are no system apps there and if there are, untick them.
..and yes, you must factory reset now
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Guess that's what happens when you trust some Lifehacker article without enough knowledge. It was the system data, then. I unticked every app I hadn't installed by myself.
Concerning the Wipe option, I understand that by wiping the phone clean, that means even the apps that came pre-installed, correct? Chrome, Google Play, the Camera app, the phone app, etc?

No just your apps and your app data and system data
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Thanks a lot for the quick answers. :good:
I'll wipe the phone and get back here later to report if everything went well.
Cheers,

Updating, in case somebody goes through the same problem: the factory reset was extremely fast and solved everything. Funny thing is, when I got home and checked the phone, the angry little box wasn't showing anymore. Don't know what happened, but did the reset anyway to be sure.
Thanks again to rootSu and simms22. :good:

Just go settings /apps /all and clear data in contacts and contact storage
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[SOLVED] Limited functionality

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.

Phone starts up whenever charger is plugged in

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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Droidriven said:
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.