I recently factory reset and deleted the superuser apk from the system app directory because I was contemplating exchanging for the galaxy nexus (how could i, i know...). I then rerooted my phone and it appeared to work fine.
Anyways, if I do a google search either through the search hardware key or the widget app, and then open a page and then push the back key it brings me back to the search app not the search results page. Its actually quite annoying and I swear it was not like this before (because it would have drove me crazy then as well.)
Any clue on how to fix this, or should I just try another factory reset and hope it sorts things out?
No clue what it was but did a factory reset and now it works fine. Loving the razr.
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I just recently got the vibrant and got the OTA the same day, the gallery freezes about half the time, and about half of the time that it freezes i have to pull the battery, i cant get to task manager or put the phone to sleep and wake it up.
I searched google and there are alot of links regarding it but i didnt find any that gave any ideas to fix it.
I searched this forum and nothing came up. Anyway, I have a class 6 card, the gallery on my nexus is very quick and has never frozen, so it is definitely the phone.
In my experience with the g1, MT3g, N1 and now this vibrant, any time ive received an OTA it has come with costs, it always brings fixes and features but also causes new problems, large and small. So I dont doubt what I found while searching, that the gallery issue is a result of the recent OTA for the GPS fix. Anyway, its kind of silly that this awesome, technologically advanced device freezes when you open up one of the native apps. But can we do anything about it? And if not, is it likely that Samsung will address it in another OTA? thanks
edit: ive also just recently had my phone just turn off every day or so, and it wont power back on until i pull the battery. Maybe these 2 issues mean i have a defective device? Or is this par for the course with the tmobile galaxy s?
Overclock your phone to only run at 800-1000MHz. It completely solved this for me, 400-1000MHz still hiccups.
thank you, yet another reason to root i suppose...
So no way to fix that with stock phone? =(
heygrl said:
Overclock your phone to only run at 800-1000MHz. It completely solved this for me, 400-1000MHz still hiccups.
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overclock huh,, i never tried i am there is a link here let me go look or how did u do it
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That is odd, I've never had my gallery freeze or my phone reboot... Are you sure you don't have some rogue app? Perhaps you should factory reset and start fresh? Do you have any "junk" apps on your phone (stupid apps)?
I had a freeze on opening gallery right after the JI6 was released. I think it was trying to recreate the thumbnails from scratch and download pics from my Picasa acct.
Happened one time only and I actually had to pull the battery since it went unresponsive. Never had a problem after that.
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perhaps unmount and remount the INTERNAL memory card. I've done this before just because I saw it as a suggestion and it recreated my gallery.
I having the same issue. I am ready to delete it and use a different app. Is that possible?
acjames said:
I having the same issue. I am ready to delete it and use a different app. Is that possible?
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If you're rooted you can probably remove it.
I have tried factory reset so I don't think its a rogue app. I got the ota the day I got the phone so I can't compare before and after. If some people aren't having the issue period maybe a warranty replacement would resolve it. Of course, if we do end up getting froyo maybe that's something that will improve. Love the phone either way, I just get fed up with stuff like gallery freeze, random reboot, GPS issues, etc... stuff that i would think shouldn't get past product testing.
OP, this is discussed at the thread below. (use the search next time)
You are not the only one having this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805784
Quick Summary:
- Even with the removable card blank, the Gallery still have the same issues.
- I did a complete wipe and still have the same issues.
- I cleared data through System Settings which recreated thumbnails and other data, still have the same issues.
androidmonkey said:
OP, this is discussed at the thread below. (use the search next time)
You are not the only one having this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805784
Quick Summary:
- Even with the removable card blank, the Gallery still have the same issues.
- I did a complete wipe and still have the same issues.
- I cleared data through System Settings which recreated thumbnails and other data, still have the same issues.
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Wow i am so sick of reading some loser tell somebody to "search next time". You'll be so very relieved to know that I actually did search, and all i found out is that you dont have any friends. But honestly I did find your thread, however it didnt seem to me to be on point with what i wanted to ask specifically. Your post says that "watchdog" told you your gallery is a "resource hog" and that you have to kill it. I dont know what watchdog is, nothing told me anything i just cant get into my gallery app very often, so that didnt seem applicable. Also, i got ji6 the day i got my phone so putting the gallery issue in the context you did ("since ji6 update") didnt mean anything to me, i dont anything about this phone pre-ji6 update. All I know is that my gallery app sucks, your thread was a bit technical for me to be able to apply to my particular issue
Anyway, now my gallery freezes every single time i initially try to open it, i have had to pull the battery 6 times in a row, it works after the pull. This has been my favorite android phone (of 4) but now i just want to set it on fire and run over it with my car. I guess Samsung and Android arent interested in making their $600 products work, does anybody know how i can fix my phone so that it does what it is supposed to? Also im not rooted which i assume probably makes it impossible for me to fix? thanks for any help.
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Wow i am so sick of reading some loser tell somebody to "search next time". You'll be so very relieved to know that I actually did search, and all i found out is that you dont have any friends.
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So I was all rooted. I had Go Launcher, Market, and Swiftkey all working awesomely. My NT life was good. Then Swiftkey started throwing up errors. So I went to Any Cut to find a shortcut to Swiftkey's settings. There was like 8 settings under activities but not a specific Swiftkey settings. So I created shortcuts to the 8 settings and thought I would try them all and maybe one was for swiftkey.
When I clicked on the second settings shortcut the NT through up an error that stated there was an authorization error and the tablet would reset. When the tablet restarted it forced a wipe to factory settings. I thought...that sucks...but whatever I'll start over.
When the tablet had finished and restarted It started to go through the setup screens as one might expect. However, Swiftkey is apparently still selected as the keyboard and the NT keeps giving the Swiftkey force close errors. I can't enter in my registration info because I haven't an effin' keyboard. I didn't have usb debugging turned on so I don't think I can use adb to remove swiftkey. Although, I've never really used ADB unless I'm rooting and following very specific instructions from one of these forums.
Is there a way to bypass the initial registration and sign in crud so I can install root explorer and remove Swiftkey?
Sorry for the long story. Hopefully someone will have a suggestion on how to fix this.
Thanks in advance.
tldr- NT hard reset and now stuck without keyboard because Swiftkey was still selected and Swift key won't work during initial registration....argh!
Tip the screen corners starting top left in clockwise motion.
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Factory_Mode/Skip_Out_of_Box_Experience
This has worked for people to skip registering their device good luck god bless.
I did test this method when i got t the last prompt to skip Oobe(out of the box experience) I did get a force close error. However I just reopened the menu by hitting the volume up and the lower right portion of the screen. The Oobe button came back up and i clicked it with success, bypassing the registration.
Well I was able to bypass the Nook Experience BS...Thanks for the tip! But I still didn't have a keyboard to download any apps from the browser. So I created an epub file with Callibre that contained web addresses of all the software I needed to get rid of Swiftkey from system/app. I then transfered the epub to the nook...opened it with Nook's reader....selected a web address....and did a google lookup from within the reader. I was able to download and install what I needed, and it worked. All Better.
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Well I was able to bypass the Nook Experience BS...Thanks for the tip! But I still didn't have a keyboard to download any apps from the browser. So I created an epub file with Callibre that contained web addresses of all the software I needed to get rid of Swiftkey from system/app. I then transfered the epub to the nook...opened it with Nook's reader....selected a web address....and did a google lookup from within the reader. I was able to download and install what I needed, and it worked. All Better.
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I think what you did is really smart( never mind the semi brick part) and important. This could help out a lot of people that lose keyboard access or other issues that occur. Using the nook reader with google search was a great way around your problem.
SwiftKey force closes on me randomly and will not stop until I re-run the apk inside /System/App again but after that it works fine for awhile. I wonder if it's just SwiftKey because I haven't tried any other keyboards yet
I've noticed several keyboards don't stick after a reboot. Thickbuttons and Hackers seems to be the only 2 I've tried that do stick.
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I think what you did is really smart( never mind the semi brick part) and important.
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The scary part was that the NT forced a random wipe on it's own after a quick error about "authorization."
Sorry didn't know about the authentification error and I was joking about the semi brick part. I just thought your recovery method could help somebody out of semi brick hell.
No need to say sorry. I knew you were joking. And hopefully, it will help someone else.
I've just had the weirdest bug experience ever. Or at least it was to me. Maybe its a known bug, but I can't find any references to it anywhere. (I don't really know what to search for to see if others have mentioned it or not)
I was trying to get back to the home screen, so pushed back repeatedly and very quickly. Suddenly all I could see was the wallpaper. I assumed the launcher was reloading. Imagine my surprise when instead I'm greeted with the Android language selection.
I was afraid if I selected anything it might wipe my phone, assuming it hadn't already, so did a reboot. Same thing. So, in dismay I proceeded to setup the phone. When I finished, everything back to normal. No applications missing, no contacts or messages gone.
The Samsung backup wasn't even responsible. It returned "no data" (presumably because all the data it had was already on the phone).
Anyone else experience this? Or hear of a similar bug. The only permanent effect it seems to have had was wiping half my Chrome bookmarks. I can certainly live with that. I can't be sure the phone did it, but I think its too much of a coincidence to be anything else.
First off I would like to say that I just joined and with some forums you re supposed to do an intro when joining. I couldn't find an into section so please tell me if I should do one.
Anyway
Ok so ever since I got the side loaded JB on Christmas, I have had this weird Google drive problem. All of the text in my documents come out huge! The picture is of 12pt font. It is so big that it makes it unusable because you can't read and edit well. I know that selecting open in browser makes the text smaller, but that is annoying too because there are no features on the editor that way and it is kinds cumbersome. I use Google drive alot for documents so this issue is very frustrating. I have since updated to the new jb as well as wiped both caches and did a factory data reset and it is still the same. The only thing I haven't tried is doing an rsd sbf flash of the stock firmware but I would rather not have to do that. I have also tried reinstalling the app and clearing it's data and cache a million times with so no success. Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions on what I should do? I am rooted if that helps. Thanks for any help. Hate to come out and ask a question on my first post but..... I did
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The screenshot won't upload, but I assure you. The font is big!
OK, so I did a ton on work on trying to solve the problem today to no avail. I reflashed JB from RSD lite as well as wiping cache and dalvick cache many times along the way and a zillion factory resets. I even synced the phone with a new Google account and downloaded drive from that account and still the same error. I am baffled. I effectively have created a new phone software wise yet it still is messed up. I think i am going to take it to Verizon and see if they can fix it. I don't know how they would... you think if I blame it on Christmas jb (which is what caused it) they will give me a new phone?
Im new to my s4 and need some help!
So because of the memory problems with the s4 i decided to root my s4 and dlt unneeded apps
it was working fine
but i noticed my weather meter in the drop down menu disappeared i wanted it back
so i hard reseted my phone to no avail and i still didnt get my old pre installed apps back
so basically
How do i get my temp meter back in the drop menu?
why isnt hard resetting bring all old apps back?
Theres a lot of missing information in your post, but I'll take a swing at what I think you're getting at.
If you're talking about weather in your notification pull down, then what you're probably looking for is Google Now. Open Google Now (click the search field) go through the setup, and weather info should appear eventually.
If that's not it, how did you "hard reset" and what was the exact procedure you used to root?
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Theres a lot of missing information in your post, but I'll take a swing at what I think you're getting at.
If you're talking about weather in your notification pull down, then what you're probably looking for is Google Now. Open Google Now (click the search field) go through the setup, and weather info should appear eventually.
If that's not it, how did you "hard reset" and what was the exact procedure you used to root?
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okay i fixed the weather meter but its just the hard reset is bugging me right now my phone isn't rooted i hard reseted it, but after i restored it the apps i deleted Im new to my s4 and need some help!
So because of the memory problems with the s4 i decided to root my s4 and dlt unneeded apps
it was working fine
but i noticed my weather meter in the drop down menu disappeared i wanted it back
so i hard reseted my phone to no avail and i still didnt get my old pre installed apps back
so basically
How do i get my temp meter back in the drop menu?
why isn't hard resetting bring all old apps back? restored thing is i can re install them from the store. i used the motochopper root. im just wondering why it didnt reinstall them
any thoughts on why?