Hi!
I just got my SK4G the other week, and migrated over from a Motorola Milestone. I was using the brilliant 'Tasker' App on my Milestone, and when it came to getting the SK4G, I backed up my tasks and profiles, and am using the same SD card with the Sidekick.
My problem is that while all of the profiles I had set up are working fine, I am unable to create new ones because of the app continuously force closing. Whenever I try to set up a task, as soon as I get to the dialog to choose what actions to run, I get a short vibration, a pause, and then three quick vibrations followed by a force close. The rest of the app functions fine, and the tasks I'd already set up work perfectly.
I have tried:
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app,
Removing my backed up preferences and creating tasks on default settings,
Using a task killer to free up RAM,
Rebooting,
Waiting a few days and trying again,
although nothing is working. I am still unable to use the app, as this unexplainable force closes prevent me from doing anything.
I know what you're thinking, "Go ask the Tasker forums!" but I just thought I would try here, seeing as it's a fairly popular app and the phone is only new I think I would have better chance finding someone who also uses the app on SK4G and might be able to enlighten me or tell me they have the same problem.
So, anyone got any ideas? Anyone using Tasker without problems on SK4G?
When you tried to install it on your SK4g, did you download it from the Market or did you just install the APK from your old phone?
I downloaded it from the market again, although its not impossible that there could have been some app files left behind on the sd card. Do you know what they would look like?
Thanks for helping!
Also, I'm just headed to bed, so don't expect another reply immediately
I've got Tasker working just fine here, that might just be some part of having the old files on your phone. Can you pull off everything that you copied over and try to redownload it from Market to see if that works without an FC?
I'm cleaning out my SD card now, getting rid of any extra Tasker files, and going to try that, although I can't actually uninstall the app. I do it via the market and it still shows up and I can still open it... This is with the SD card mounted and unavailable...
why can't you uninstall it? you should be able to just click uninstall in the applications list? it isn't a system app so there shouldn't be a problem there. also, why is your sdcard mounted but unavailable? that's just confusing. maybe that's why it can't uninstall? if it's installed to your sdcard, maybe it can't get to the application to uninstall it?
Sorry, by 'mounted' I meant to say that I was using the usb mass storage so the SD card was unavailable.
I ended up working out that I had given Tasker some kind of permissions in security settings, and had to disable that to uninstall.
Went through with uninstall, formatted my SD card and tried from scratch with Tasker again. No luck. Have now restored my profiles so I can keep using them until I sort it out.
huh. that's weird. and you reinstalled from market, not from an apk?
Yep! nothing makes sense!
Have you been able to completely uninstall it from your phone through settings?
I did completely uninstall, yes. I then re-downloaded from the market and I'm getting the same thing.
and what exactly are you doing in tasker when it force closes?
I get FC whenever I try to click the + button to add an action to a task.
I also asked the Tasker forums/google groups thing, and they told me to install a beta version, and I have and it fixed everything
So if anyone else has been having these problems just grab the latest beta of Tasker from here:
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/beta.html
The reson it fc is cuz u r stopping processes which are need to run for the device to work.......Well I will be honest with you,if ur talking about a task killer....ITS POINT LESS....unless u are a dev and plane to us ur phone for deving....because no matter how much ur stop things well they will just start runing againg and well the appes are waste of space if u want to spot app, go to mune,then apps, manage apps and stop the ones u don't want....
No, Tasker is something completely different - it lets you automate lots of Android things
My problem started when I decided to test out the "backup" and "restore" feature Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit with my unrooted phone (will be rooted soon). It did back up and restore everything I wanted more or less but now it seems that whenever I launch Play Store, sync my Gmail account or even downloading/saving a simple picture to sd card on a browser, that app crashes with the "Unfortunantely <app> has stopped" with "report" and "ok" as the buttons.
I tried clearing cache, clearing data and force closing the app and rerunning it but it will eventually crash again. One thing to note however, is that Play Store only crashes if there there is an app download in progress, which incidentetly does not start, Gmail crashes when it tries syncing and the browser (Chrome included) crashes whenever downloading a file.
I also noticed that when I select "report" when the app crashes and look at the system data that will be included, they all appear to be quite simlar, which means the problems might be related
So how do I fix this problem?
*UPDATE*
I finally fixed the problem by force stopping and clear data/cache for any apps that had to do with downloading, Play Store, media storage, Google services or Gmail, followed by a quick restart. I probably overdid it but anyways, it worked for me and I hope that if anyone has a similar problem, here is the solution
Hey guys I've disabled most of the stock apps I don't need but when I disable email (I use inbox) I periodically get an email app force close message maybe a few times a day.
Anyone know a way around this??
i also disabled the email app and exchange service, have the same issue. there is obviously another app that is trying to open/use the email app causing the force close.
Might as well just leave it be. The only (untested) way for the notifications not to show up is having root and freezing the app.
OK I thought as much.
I reset my phone, then it started going crazzy. Everytime i try to use internet, com.Android.systemUI (ver 2.1.4) starts downloading random apps and also ads pops up, then can't use anything unless ads goes off after a while. I don't think it is a build in program. How did i get this? I cant even unistall! And same thing repeats after reseting again.
Hate part is, it's so frequent.
Need some advice. Plz!.
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When I click on the phone app it freezes and gives me an error for contacts. Ask to restart contacts and it opens fine. I've installed. Cleared cache among other things still can't get phone to act right