Background: I'm on a Pixel 3a running the January update (QQ1A.200105.002). Unlocked, stock, rooted with Magisk v20.2. Only using 3 Magisk modules (systemless hosts enabled for ad blocking, YouTube Vanced, and a custom font).
What happened: While cleaning my screen with a microfiber after work a few nights ago, I accidentally launched the SystemUI Tuner. I had created a gesture within Nova Launcher to access the SystemUI Tuner. It launched and toggled the "plugins" setting on & off. Afterward, I cursed myself for not disabling that gesture after I was done with the tuner, and I went to the homescreen. My wallpaper was gone and the background on my homescreen was black. Also, my 2 button gesture navigation was not present and my status bar was gone. I rebooted. This is when I found myself in a bootloop at the "Pixel is starting..." screen (a screen I had never seen prior to this).
Attempts to fix: Through a tip from another user I was able to get back into the phone by disabling my PIN screen lock security via adb. I did this by launching Settings via abd with:
Code:
adb shell am start -a android.settings.SETTINGS
Then I disabled all lockscreen security. I also was able to backup all data on internal storage. The phone boots (sort of) now, albeit without many SystemUI elements (e.g, no gesture navigation, status bar, notification panel, wallpaper, etc.). Still shows the "Pixel is starting" boot screen beforehand. It's unusable as a daily, but I really don't want to wipe and set up all over again if possible. Does anyone know where in /system the settings data for the System UI Tuner is stored? Another user suggested I look for: data/data/com.android.sytstemui.tuner. That directory does not exist, unfortunately. The user experienced this same series of events (i.e., toggled SystemUI Tuner "plugins" and ended up with no wallpaper at the "Pixel is starting" loop). This user tried sideloading the corresponding OTA image, flashing a full system image with "-w" removed to save data, safe mode. Nothing seemed to help. Before I spend hours setting up my phone after a clean install, does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
i95swervin said:
Just wipe data. Doesn't take that long to set stuff back up.
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That's all kind of relative to your set-up and how busy you are... I'm an RN with a little kid at home school. Time is priceless. Maybe I should post in the general Q&A and see if anyone knows where that directory might be hiding.
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I mean... You knew the deal tinkering with your phone in the first place. It really doesn't take that long and I find myself pretty damn busy all the time. Good luck on your Easter egg hunt finding the directory.
Btw thanks for being front line as a RN during these wild times.
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Oh I definitely understand the risk, and I'm more than willing to flash clean and set up again. I was really just posting a last ditch effort to see if I could avoid it. Clearly, a full wipe is in my not so distant future. Thanks for your kind words.
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You know how when you first set up the phone, let's you swipe up on the lockscreen to start right away, or down to "tune a few things first?" Well my phone repeatedly keeps doing that any time the lockscreen comes up, like whenever I turn it on or when the phone sort of crashes. When it happens, I have to wait for No Lock to disable the screen again, because if I use either option, the animation freezes half way through the unlocking and the phone crashes, going to a black screen and I have to turn it off to get it to work.
I thought it might be due to system apps I froze with bloat freezer, so I unfroze them one by one and did resets, to see if that solved it. I did this until everything was unfrozen, to no avail. I thought maybe it was due to a glitch in the extended controls widget I used to disable the lock screen, so I switchedto no lock; same problem. I don't knowb what else to do. Any ideas?
God I hate samsung and their glitch riddled android hacks. They improve literally nothing from stock android, its just glitchy hacks and downgrades.*prays for the next nexus to have a hard keyboard.*
Just fixed the same issue with my sk4g. I tried installing with terminal and various install apps, no dice. There is a workaround until you get the apks back in place. Turn on the pattern lock and set it. When the curtain lock comes up DO NOT SLIDE IT, just open the screen and the pattern lock should pop up. First install Systemapp Remover, if not done already. Download the dump in development section and pull the apks from the app folder. The two apks causing the error are PhoneSetupWizard.apk and Learn.apk(maybe not learn but i did both to be sure also copy/paste the .odex files). Make sure neither can be seen in the system app list in Systemapp remover, if they are there uninstall them. Take the apks from the dump and copy/paste them to SysteAppBackup folder on the sdcard. Go to the restore menu in Systemapp remover and tap to restore each apk. Reboot and all should be well. Thanks to the kind people of xda for this, not me.
edit>>> Run the setup wizard and uncheck the data options to stop maps from running all the time for no reason.
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.
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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.
Very strange one... My wife's VZW Pixel (I have one too) suddenly experience a bunch of changes that we can't find the trigger for. I just spent a hour troubleshooting every possible thing and I am stumped...hoping for some guidance.
Known facts
1. She changed nothing
2. At least one app (siwftkey) auto-updated... I uninstalled it but that didn't fix it
3. She was on the December patch when this happened. I updated to Jan but that did nothing.
4. Device is stock, unrooted with Nova launcher (I tried the pixel launcher and the same issues appear)
Symptoms:
1. Home and recents buttons do not work on any screen... Back button still works
2. No notifications appear on the NAV bar and nothing appears when you swipe down. Sound notifications do work however. No apps are blocking notifications and the individual app notifications are set up properly
3. Double press the power button no longer goes to camera even though that gesture is toggled on
Factory reset is my next step but I am traveling right now and she will need me to set everything back up so I am hoping there might be a fix short of a full reset.
And suggestions greatly appreciated.
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tfly212 said:
Very strange one... My wife's VZW Pixel (I have one too) suddenly experience a bunch of changes that we can't find the trigger for. I just spent a hour troubleshooting every possible thing and I am stumped...hoping for some guidance.
Known facts
1. She changed nothing
2. At least one app (siwftkey) auto-updated... I uninstalled it but that didn't fix it
3. She was on the December patch when this happened. I updated to Jan but that did nothing.
4. Device is stock, unrooted with Nova launcher (I tried the pixel launcher and the same issues appear)
Symptoms:
1. Home and recents buttons do not work on any screen... Back button still works
2. No notifications appear on the NAV bar and nothing appears when you swipe down. Sound notifications do work however. No apps are blocking notifications and the individual app notifications are set up properly
3. Double press the power button no longer goes to camera even though that gesture is toggled on
Factory reset is my next step but I am traveling right now and she will need me to set everything back up so I am hoping there might be a fix short of a full reset.
And suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Last resort, you can backup apps and data using Helium, then factory reset it. Then restore with Helium. To use Helium, you'll need a PC though.
Any other results on this?? My pixel just hit the same problem! It is in an area that has no internet so it is causing all sorts of issues. I don't know if the two are related at all.
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Any other results on this?? My pixel just hit the same problem! It is in an area that has no internet so it is causing all sorts of issues. I don't know if the two are related at all.
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Unfortunately not... Did a factory reset and that cured it. Not one issue since then. Must have been so random app she downloaded that created a conflict.
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Happens with me today. I was messing around with the device and when I clicked in a YouTube video link on notification shade the device suddenly soft reboot.
Since them, home and recentes buttons won't perform their actions. They still vibrate and home button animates on touch. Status bar shows none notification, even I knowing they are arriving via notification sound and quick settings shade won't pull down completely. My tiles was rearranged as well. No mobile connection either.
I'm running lattes official Oreo. Never unlocked and never rooted my pixel XL 128.
For me a factory reset through settings did the trick.
Would be very good if Google could light us about this issue. No rouge apps on my device. In fact I'm using a few
his is an Android issue.
Step instructions:
- Download Nova Launcher. If you cannot from the google play store, search for it on Chrome and download an apk version
- Install it (you may get a pop up advising you need to let apps installed from chrome, go to settings and allow it)
- Once installed, click on Open. This should launch the Nova Launcher
- Long press anywhere on the screen
- Choose Widgets.
- Look for the Activities widget and hold and place it anywhere on the screen.
- Scroll down to Setup Wizard. There's two, one that's "Setup Wizard" and the other "SetupWizard" without a space. Choose the first. There should be an option under it called ".SetupWizardUpgradeActivity". It might be slightly different for you pending the version OS you have but that's what came up for me.
- Select that to create the widget shortcut then click to open.
- This will bring you to the setup wizard and then just click Next all the way through (turn off any preferences you may have in the past)
You can uninstall Nova Launcher afterwards if you want. You don't need to set it as default.
Perfect!!! Thanks.
I'm using the LG Aristo MS210 Android 7.0
I've rooted, flased custom recovery (Thanks to TWRP), recovered from several bricks -some were with the help of TWRP, most of the others were not-
I have Magisk Manager installed properly and successfully installed a module.
I've even successfully tested and installed several themes.
But yet, I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on with System UI Tuner. It's literally blank when I open it.
There's no icon next to 'System UI Tuner' inside settings. But if I switch to list mode, there's a wrench icon next to it.
What the hell is going on here?! I couldn't activate UI Tuner by touching and holding down on the wheel in the quick settings notification bar because no matter how long I hold down, it doesn't spin. I came across this glitch a whole different way.
ALSO, I was able to gain access to Night Mode! But not thanks to System UI Tuner in settings!
Night Mode works fully! If I'm able to use night mode, even if i went a really not System UI Tuning like way about it, and if UI Tuner shows up in settings but comes up blank when I click on it, there has to be some way to fix this or enable it one way or another right?? I mean, the fact that Night Mode was an option in the phone but not normally accessible at all should back that theory, I would assume so at least. Please, if anybody knows what this means, how to get System UI Tuner fully instead of only have 1/4 access to it, how to get the wheel to spin in quick settings, or have experienced this before leave a comment or message me! Thanks you guys!
I know this is late, but no.
We don't have access to system tuner at all.
You can use ADB commands to force some of the tuner options, but forcing the tuner into existence breaks your status bar something harsh.
I did the T-Mobile update that pushed to my phone, and because I was groggy and didn't bother researching it beforehand, my Substratum theming caused the phone to boot to a black screen with a persistent 'System UI has Stopped' message. I could see my Samsung Pay drag up and get to that, but other than that I couldn't access anything! I didn't have my phone remembering my computer, so I couldn't perform any ADB commands, safe mode and/or clearing cache via the recovery menu did not work, and a tip about removing SIM card also had no effect. These are all tricks I found on forums and this reddit thread.
I was just about to do a factory reset, and a thought occurred to me. I called upon Bixby (which I'm slowly finding more useful), and did a voice command to set the phone to Max Battery Saver Mode, which launches it's own minimalized UI! Then, because the settings and apps are also minimalized you can't access Substratum to untheme, but at least you're operable for the moment. But from a previous experience (I am using XDA user tytydraco's mod to remove the navigation bar and use LMT instead), I knew that coming out of Max Battery does a full/clean UI refresh (aka for the mod I used would not be loaded coming out of Max Battery saver until I did a restart). This allowed me to get a 'clean' UI load, and I unthemed with Substratum at that time. The only casualty was that I had to click on my widgets to reconfigure after I restarted, which took all of 1 minute, and resetting Accessibility settings for LMT use.
TL;DR: Switching first to Max Battery Saver mode then to Mid using Bixby saved me from having to do a factory reset, and let me get back into the OS to make the changes I needed to fix to avoid the 'System UI has stopped' loop. YMMV, but I hope this helps someone else while Googling how to fix similar issues!
Thanks....
Thanks Brother! I am in the same situation as yours, but even worse I cant access bixby unless i unlock the phone (UI says 'Bixby got an update, unlock and click the button again'). So I guess there is no other way than factory reset?