[Q] Phone reset itself?! - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So, I was driving along using Google Maps & my phone started going haywire - giving errors like, "android.phone is not responding" with the only option being force close. It was in an endless loop & I couldn't power down. I yanked the battery & when the phone came back, it had done a factory reset - it welcomed me to the phone, all my apps are gone, everything's no longer set up.....
I never did get around to doing a backup - wasn't even sure if the whole "nandroid backup" scene worked with this phone & hadn't figured it out yet.....
Am I boned? Any ideas on what I could possibly do to fake it out into loading back up with all my "stuff"? Seems crazy that everything would wipe in an instant like that - seems like it's all got to be there somewhere........ The only T-Mobile store listed near me is a radio shack & I don't have much hope that they'd be able to help.......
Thanks in advance!!

never mind...
I decided it'd be easier to just reinstall everything than to try to figure out how to get back to where I was - wasn't as bad as I was fearing. I wonder if I've got some bad memory - when I connected via USB to my PC, it tells me there's some issues on the storage & suggests I do a "scan & fix".........

Thank god my phone didn't delete all my apps but it did delete and reset all my shortcuts to the default.
All my apps were still there and my wallpaper image was still there but all the shortcuts were there exactly like when I got the phone. I have no idea what the hell happened.

this happened to me too, i was super pissed...i had really important info in texts and they all went bye bye. only happened once about a week or 2 ago and i'm crossing my fingers it never happens again
plus i have to beat angry birds all over!!!

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Touchflo 3d not autolaunching after reset at times.

Is anyone else having the problem where after a soft reset(or a manual shutdown/restart) touchflo3d doesn't autostart?
It happens to me about 50% of the times I reset, but I jus thave to switch it off again and on again and usually it works fine.
Totally different, but I have this sometimes with Touch Flo 2D on my TyTn II. I usually get it if I've installed to much, It always launches if I haven't got the Micro SD card in though.
I've had this happening to me since I got it, and after a few hard resets it still happens... Seemingly at an increasing frequency too.
Yup, I'm experiencing the same problem.
It's really annoying, and more people are having this issue.
There's already a thread about this.
What works for me most of the time is this:
- Disable TF3D in settings.
- Soft reset device with power button
- Enable TF3D again
- Sometimes TF3D starts now, but if not reset again.
I can't wait for a more stable and fast cooked rom
Hope this helps
Oh Sorry, I couldn't find the other thread. I just keep resetting and hopee it randomly decides to starts. Love this phone, just a few things that really annoy me
The inability to find a way to make it autolock(not standby) after X seconds for example. If anyone can help with that, I'd greatly appreciate it.
aiaob said:
Oh Sorry, I couldn't find the other thread. I just keep resetting and hopee it randomly decides to starts. Love this phone, just a few things that really annoy me
The inability to find a way to make it autolock(not standby) after X seconds for example. If anyone can help with that, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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DId you install any apps?
These kind of problems are mostly caused when 2 programs interfere with eachother. Teh reason why one time it does start up and the other time it doesn't is the sequence of programs starting up. Most of the time touch flow 3d will start later (because it's so big)
i have had this happen a couple of times as well.
quarintus said:
DId you install any apps?
These kind of problems are mostly caused when 2 programs interfere with eachother. Teh reason why one time it does start up and the other time it doesn't is the sequence of programs starting up. Most of the time touch flow 3d will start later (because it's so big)
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I doubt it's caused by that. I've hard reset it installed core and tomtoma nd had it happen..
and I'm sure it's not just slow to start up, I've tried making calls and simply leaving it for 10 minutes and it still doesnt start up.
It only started haooening to me after I instaled software.
I guess the best thing to do right now, is to install all software with touchflo disabled, then reboot completly the device to finalize the instaltion, and then reboot it again. Now you can reactivate Touchflo again.
This "trick" has worked perfectly on my Pro 2
HastaSSSS
disable startup
Many programs that you install will leave a startup file in the windows\startup directory. Try cutting and pasting them to some temporary directory. I did that with poutlook and slovoed and the problem has gone away for me, without in any way impairing my calendar/contacts or slovoed functioning.
I got the same problem too.. soft resetting a few times do it or disable/re-enable on Personal-Today Items screen
Kinda annoying
Same problem here. Spoke to HTC today and tol them there were more people having this problem. Mine is so serious that it won't start at all! HTC says I was the first and ONLY one in the world with this problem. They told me that if there were more people having this issue they should CALL HTC. It's free to call them... please do so in finding a solution!
Thanks!
I am suffering under the same issue! It is really annoying! HTC should immediately sovle this problem!
Sounds a bit like my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3950507
I copied manila.exe from windows to my start-up folder, now it works fine.
yeah i have the same problem its really annoying. it works about 90% of the time now when i copied the manilla.exe to start up folder. before that i tried to put the phone in airplane mode before booting but that worked like half of the time.
Schijthoos said:
I copied manila.exe from windows to my start-up folder, now it works fine.
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Does the time on the tf3d homescreen update ok when you use the manila.exe shortcut?
touch flor not loading
My phone is hanging again. I can't get it to load Touch Flo 3D. I get this message that it's trying to activate handsfree network and then it says connected and reboots and goes through the same thing 2 or 3 times. I hard reset back in Dec cause of this and then the same thing happened again about a month ago and out of the blue it loaded touch flo and fixed itself.
But this time it's been a couple days and my phone is so slow it's crazy. It's been trying to remove one program for 20 minutes. I thought removing a few programs might help instead of doing another hard reset but it looks like i'm gonna have to do one more.. I haven't added anything new lately. And I even got a message saying your phone can not boot up because of a program from an untrusted source or something else and it wants me to hard reset. It says press volume up to reset or any key to continue and then it goes to that hands activation screen.
Iv'e tried enableing and disabling bluetooth. Sprint store said I have a bad phone cause of that hands free actication message I keep getting and they want to order me aother phone but it's going to be a refurb so I guess i'll hard reset.. Something is causeing it to hang and not load and I don't know what it is.. But I came here and I tired puttingmy phone in airplane mode and rebooted nothng. I have unchecked and checked touch flo and rebooted..
But I went to windows and saw manilla.exe cause you guys said copy it to start up and I clicked on it and I saw my background and clock again but I don't think Touch Flo fully loaded and my task manager wasn't at the top and I ran clean ram cause it was still slow and it said it freed up 32mb but then my screen went black again. I put it in airplane mode once more and took out the battery. But when I never pasted the manila to start up should I do that? I just clicked on it and saw where my clock and background were back but my clock was off by like 15-20 minutes.. I'm sure I'll probablyt have to hard reset but wanted to ask around a couple more times before doing one.. Rose
I was sitting in my den and my friend said he texted me but I didn't get it. I went to check my phone and it seemed ok but no text. I then went to make a phone call and it hung. I went to turn it to airplane mode and it froze. When I restarted it, now I get the black screen with the top and bottom menu bar but no touchflo 3d loading. I get some weird hands free activation message and then it says successful and reboots my phone. When the phone starts back up it is in the same condition without touchflo 3d and the reboot loop continues unless I click cancel.
If I run manilla.exe it will boot up and my today screen will come back but it is SLOW and it doesn't seem to have completely loaded.
WTF happened and how do I fix this?
Same thing happened to me.. Touchflo wouldn't load phone was so slow hands free message kept coming and saying connected and rebooting. I did a hard reset and was good for a couple months then out of the blue on day it did it again. I turned off phone and left battery off overnight and just got lucky and the next day as I was getting in my car it came back on.
But then a few weeks later it did it again and I took it to a Sprint store. I was told that the handsfree activation is something that only happens once when you 1st get a new phone and they said my phone was defective. They were going to order me another one but it was going to be refurbed so I never picked up and just dealt with a hard reset once again. Don't know what causes this but I've had my phone reset for over a week and I just now tonight started putting apps back on cause I was afraid ut had to do with something I installed I really don't know what causes it.. But my touchflo wouldn't load at all compeltely black screen no today screen at all and boy was my phone slow. I went to windows and clicked on manilla.exe also and saw my today screen but it was still slow and not completely loading up to touchflo like you said. And then I read about putting it in airplane mode turning off BT nothing worked for me this last time so I did a heard reset again..
Maybe someone else knows what causes this but I'm leary and am not going to put everything back on my phone that was on there but I've put most everything back.. Sorry I wasn't much help but same thing for me hands free siad connected and would reboot and over and over.. I kind of want an Android phone now and I don't think Sprint should of offered me a refurb when I just bought this in Sept and it's an expensive phone. But oh well things happen.. Good Luck!
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I was sitting in my den and my friend said he texted me but I didn't get it. I went to check my phone and it seemed ok but no text. I then went to make a phone call and it hung. I went to turn it to airplane mode and it froze. When I restarted it, now I get the black screen with the top and bottom menu bar but no touchflo 3d loading. I get some weird hands free activation message and then it says successful and reboots my phone. When the phone starts back up it is in the same condition without touchflo 3d and the reboot loop continues unless I click cancel.
If I run manilla.exe it will boot up and my today screen will come back but it is SLOW and it doesn't seem to have completely loaded.
WTF happened and how do I fix this?
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[Q] [q] galaxy nexus most annoying problem

Alright guys, basically whats happening to my phone is that I would just have my phone randomly surfing the web or checking Facebook then out of nowhere it just randomly reboots. Most of the time it ges stuck on the Google screen and I had to do a battery pull and retry and after a while of repeating that it finally would load properly. .Also my phone would say that its charging even when the charger isn't even in and even it reboots sometimes it shows the charging screen when i haven't even plugged the charger in
If you guys can solve this wouthout favtory reseting that would be great !
DETAILS
-Not rooted in anyway
- Android 4.2.1
- Got it about 7 or 8 months ago
- this happened before but it would just reboot it wouldnt do anything else, I reseted it and it went away but now its back and its worse.
Any answer would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
Sorry to say but when your phone is to the point where it has issues that seem to be system deep, the only thing you can do that is almost guaranteed to fix it is flash the factory image to your device. This is different that doing a factory reset which doesnt really do a full system wipe and reload as far as I know. Instructions can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Note that you will need to backup everything off your storage (files/pictures/music/etc.). This will wipe your device clean.
Lastly, if your device thinks it is charging when its not, you could have a bad port. Hopefully its just the system though which can be fixed with the above suggestions. If not, you might need to have it fixed if possible. But it sounds like a system issue.

[Q] Samsung Tab 3 Screen Issue after Rooting & Recovery

First of all, I deeply apologize if this kind of issue has been brought up before. But right now I'm in such a nervous wreck that I can barely search for similar topics for help.
Here is what happened. I tried to root my Android Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. 7 because I heard of all the good stories and satisfaction behind it. Shame on me, I really shouldn't have tried to do something like that when I have no experience with that type of stuff. So after following the instructions, I rooted my device. Then when I turned it back on, the first thing I noticed was:
- The startup had the Samsung logo on it, but there was no ''animation"
- The screen became VERY dim
- The colors were all strange
- There was slight flickering of the screen
I then went here because reportedly that will solve the screen issue, but after downloading the recovery file through zip, nothing's changed. I realized that you also need to download the RocketTab3.1.zip, but at this point, I'm so distraught over what's happened to my tablet that all I want is to unroot, and go back to the bright screen, and the way it was, even if it means that all my saved information will be erased.
I even tried to go to settings - reset to factory settings. All my saved info is gone (which at this point, I don't even care), and the tablet is just like how it was when I first received it - except it STILL has the screen problems.
Can someone please, please, help me? If I can get my tablet back to the condition is was before, I'm never going to try to root again. It's just not worth the anxiety I'm feeling right now..
ameva said:
First of all, I deeply apologize if this kind of issue has been brought up before. But right now I'm in such a nervous wreck that I can barely search for similar topics for help.
Here is what happened. I tried to root my Android Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. 7 because I heard of all the good stories and satisfaction behind it. Shame on me, I really shouldn't have tried to do something like that when I have no experience with that type of stuff. So after following the instructions, I rooted my device. Then when I turned it back on, the first thing I noticed was:
- The startup had the Samsung logo on it, but there was no ''animation"
- The screen became VERY dim
- The colors were all strange
- There was slight flickering of the screen
I then went here because reportedly that will solve the screen issue, but after downloading the recovery file through zip, nothing's changed. I realized that you also need to download the RocketTab3.1.zip, but at this point, I'm so distraught over what's happened to my tablet that all I want is to unroot, and go back to the bright screen, and the way it was, even if it means that all my saved information will be erased.
I even tried to go to settings - reset to factory settings. All my saved info is gone (which at this point, I don't even care), and the tablet is just like how it was when I first received it - except it STILL has the screen problems.
Can someone please, please, help me? If I can get my tablet back to the condition is was before, I'm never going to try to root again. It's just not worth the anxiety I'm feeling right now..
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Nevermind! I fixed my tablet by using Odin and a firmwire! Phew, I barely slept last night, and now my peace of mind is back. Sure, I have to reinstall my favorite apps, but you know what? I couldn't care less as long as my beautiful tablet is working as it should again.
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[Q] LS980-Cloudy G3 ROM- TWRP installed&accessible- [email protected] Android is Updating screen

[Q] LS980-Cloudy G3 ROM- TWRP installed&accessible- [email protected] Android is Updating screen
Hello everyone,
I would like to say first of all to the community, thank you for SHARING KNOWLEDGE. That is the key to everyone's success.
Now down to the gritty. My, now, I guess, mess of a LS980. For starters, the phone was running I would say very well considering my abuse. Big overclocks, gaming hardcore, and pushing the storage space hard. I performed a very easy and simple rooting and recovery program installation. If I remember properly, it all started with an app/.apk that sparked my interest with making the phone mine, was Autorec? (red roundish logo?) In some time I decided to install my first aftermarket ROM. I chose and installed without any issues , Cloudys G3 ROM. I cannot however remember the version number. It is by no means recent. I think I installed it last September so maybe 1.0 or 1.2 (sorry so much bad luck with stuff recently) TWRP version 2.7.0.0 is my recovery, and its functional. Unfortunately I do NOT have my apps backed up. I have no space. (just managed to get about 7GB on this PC to try to back them up but there is not external back up option, UNLESS you are OTG cable equipped I am not )
Now, I think, (this has been the state of the phone for about 3 weeks now) this all started to go south when I saw there was a Dorimanx OTA app in the play store. I used his Kernel for as long as I have had the G3 ROM installed. With no problems. So I figure this would be easier for me than button mashing trying to get into recovery mode without popping my screen out the front. LOL Upon using the app, I was informed of an update, I read the included information, and generally knew the deal. I allowed the app to download what it needed and restart and install like a good little computer. And this is where it gets a little grey for me in terms of order and symptoms. I remember checking the status of the install and it read failed! I looked into the reason why, and I was just plain full of junk. I then uninstalled painfully a bunch of rarely if that, used apps and gained back about 2.2GB of space. I ran Dorimanxs app again and let it do its thing and reboot. And again it reported fail! I looked into it more and noticed there were newer Kernels than available on his inter-web. Alpha versions. I located them on my device and rebooted into TWRP mode and selected , then flashed his 10.4.1 Kernel. Everything went fine. Phone reboots, the LG logo is no longer animated, and takes a bit longer to actually boot into a GUI. But it was, luckily.
So now, the phone would be a usable thing for about 3 minutes tops, before a power off, to a reboot. Which at first I didnt notice to be a boot loop. My battery surprisingly went from full to about 6% in no more than 15-20 minutes. I noticed the battery was getting warm like I was running the CPUs maxed under a serious load for a good half hour. Around the range to make someone pull it out their pocket wondering wth? So after the next reboot, power cycle, I jumped back into TWRP mode, and dug around for what I thought was the culprit, Xposed. I was having the worst time with my phone after a major Xposed framework error. I picked up my phone one day and out of the blue the xda framework was telling me that there were so many errors with it and my apps that ran fine, not being installed or activated. Upon looking into it, it was removed from the phone. I belive the order was , stable, 2.5/ 2.6, then I tried the beta 2.7. and thats the version that eventually , either broke, or uninstalled, I think, during those frequent Crashes! I tried to install the previous versions, even going back to the versions that came out last year like 2.4 . But none would install. And the phone grew more unstable in terms of its cooperation with its software. My normal apps and games worked fine. The phone worked the same, the music player, but there were apps that only can work with xposed that I utilize constantly, that were kaput. So I left the phone off. For a while. I had/have no time and really no resources to research and rescue a sunken ship. I come back about two weeks to it and I take a look around in the phones storage and hunt for any kind of recovery and disabler. I found xposed's disabler and flashed it. Same luck as before. About 3 minutes on, then dump.
I dig some more and found a ccc71 back up folder with some hearty backups that I didn't know were still there (no wonder I was always loosing space) and found another xposed installer.zip . I figured well , it didn't make any sense trying to disable something that wasnt enabled in the first place. (thats why I walk away and come back . fresh mind to tackle what stumps me) So I flashed the installed zip and reboot. Same thing, but now it started to loop around one minute. I power down. Found the recovery.zip that was saved on the beater PC and adb pushed it over the the phone. Im not good enough to adb install it. So TWRP'd it and rebooted, and d'oh! Now we just have the motionless LG ball, but flashing blue and green LED. And after about 2 minutes it would black screen, but be on. Not hung or anything. I connected to the PC, it never finds the right stuff but I used adb to verify state. And it said device. It still could communicate and push. I had it dump its debug, surprise! as it flashes that crap as fast as it can up the screen. But Im a PC guy so it was a fun, pause/break over and over till I found something useful. I saw some things that I could recognize like, failed starts, and longer than normal (for a speedy experience) function or call times, but nothing that slapped me with a red flag.
And that ended that nights attempts to fix thanks to the slowest no ram having box I was using to try to learn how to have the debug save to a .txt file on my PC so I could take a good look at the results.
Upon reading forum after forum, I came to something that looked promising, telling me that, that particular boot issue was due to the wrong radio being installed. So I hunted, and hunted, and laaaaaged my arse off and finally found it. Great I thought. Powered up ten or twenty times, finally get into TWRP, tried to flash it. BBBBBAAAAAANNNNT! nope. Downloaded another copy of the file and tried it again. No luck. ( I must say not until roaming around in these forums tonight did anyone bother to mention that you dont flash that radio. You instead have to inject it via LGFlashTool, which I have used before, and its a pain in the butt.
But before I go any farther, make anymore mistakes. I need some help.. I would really LOVE to be able to flash this , slap that, curse its name then hug it and get her working, without having to ditch my 492 apps. If I would have to say goodbye to happy times, I would like to say good riddance to ugly and annoying G3 ROM. I like not flat UI. My phone was depressing me every time I had to do any navigating around inside it. So I would love to go back to KK Stock LG ROM if push came to shove. But if possible I would just like to "repair, and regain access into the phones GUI system". So I could backup my apps. And eventually labor back to OEM Kitkat.
I apologize for the length of the post. But I just dont see the point of ping ponging with partial exchanges of information. I hope I have made my situation clear, and someone knows of someway, I can get my GUI/phone working again. Thanks to all in advance.
"a non functional smartphone, is an oxymoron"
Upgrade twrp to the blastagator last and dirty flash the same version of cloudy g3. And backup everything on the cloud. Mega give you a lot of free space.
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strangely enough
siggey said:
Upgrade twrp to the blastagator last and dirty flash the same version of cloudy g3. And backup everything on the cloud. Mega give you a lot of free space.
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strange thing,
just about 5 minutes ago, the phone, which I left on sitting at the LG screen by accident yesterday after posting the above, changed screens and presented me with the Launcher selection screen.
I immediately noticed that it looked wrong. Like if the resolution was way off. Like an old low res screen, very dull, sort of blurred looking.
I figured what the heck and tapped the screen and it of course did not immediately respond. It took its sweet time , about 30 seconds to show a change. The menu disappeared and a error message along the lines of , android system UI has crashed.
That is not the message verbatim, it was gone to fast for me to take it all in. And now its sitting at the blank powered on and repeating blue/green LED.
I havent done as you suggested yet. I kept getting results from Norway and other places and didnt understand a thing. But I found a TWRP update from Dorimanx, there was a link to it. And now I have to find my version of the OS. And to be clear, were you suggesting doing a re install, basically a file overwrite? And if so, when doing something like that, do you wipe the Dalvik cache ? Or do you just "dirty flash" it?
Thank you ,
I think that your screen is overheated. Never let the phone in bootloop for long time, it can destroy the screen.
About the cache, is better to clean it, but if I remember well the rom installer alredy do this.
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Xperia M "Unfortunately, xxxx has stopped" for ALL apps CONSTANTLY

Hi all, read many threads here and finally posting.
I have an xperia M (C1905 I think)
Short story:
As soon as I turn on this device within a few seconds I get the "Unfortunately, xxxx has stopped". I hit okay and within a second something else is stopped. This is repeated constantly for as long as I could tolerate waiting for. The odd occasion I have managed to get maybe 5 seconds between app crashing to navigate into the settings to try something out or check the album.
I am asking for help on what to do in order to access the files on the device. I really really want to save the images. I since has moved on to a Z and now a Z3 but at this moment I want to get the images. (Factory reset is thus out of the question). I rather leave the phone intact for years to pass until some technology makes it possible to retrieve the files.
Longer story:
I think this issue started occurring after an android update - which leads me to my conspiracy at the end of the post. Basically after an update I started noticing random apps being stopped/crashing without warning. Apps that weren't even being used. This happened maybe once a week, then a couple times a week. Seemed pretty random at first. Thus why I never took a moment to see the exponential trend and act fast to back up data. Over the course of a month probably, this just got worse to the point where an app of some sort is constantly crashing. It could be facebook, then gmail, then google, then a service, then homescreen blah blah anything and everything is crashing just so it can fill the screen. Multiple at a time. I hit ok and another appears or 5 more appear. Then I might get a glorious 4/5 seconds to browse the contents of the phone then boom another batch of crashes. The phone is completely useless right now, no way to navigate. Also, even with the phone turned on in safe mode or not, I cannot access the files whilst connected to my computer. The charging indicator shows up, computer recognises the device but on the odd occasion it does show up in "my computer" the folder does not open and the file explorer/documents just crashes. Xperia companion doesn't work either.
There was also an issue with charging/transferring media with the charge port. Bad connections but it was made better using the Sony original cable I have now. It charges alright now (instead of needing "the right" angle). Still, as far as I can remember data was hard to trasnfer, maybe I got 10 songs copied over before it stopped responding and had to cancel. All the files on the SD card I saved of course but the ones on internal storage are still there. I browsed the album for a few seconds and I just want to get them on my pc. I tried to copy to SD card but I can't perform that with the constant bombarding of crashing app error notifications that fill the screen. Also it seems like once the phone is on, I can navigate around (with the bombardment of crashing) but once the screen is allowed to time out it doesn't wake back with the power button. To mess with it again I have to pull the battery and put it back in. I have booted in safe mode to no avail, apps still keep crashing.
Please please help. I have USB debugging enabled if that helps? I just want to drag and drop my images and then the phone can sit in a draw. I am sure a factory reset would have it working back to normal but I can't lose the files.
Btw I think SONY is purposefully killing off these older devices. The phone worked flawlessly, yes it's older and not as fast but there was not a single issue (besides maybe the charge port wear). This issue with crashing is completely software related after an android update.
The phone is not rooted and no random software was installed (just social media and the like).
THANK you for any help!
Brad
Hey which rom are you using? do you have unlock your bootloader? if you are using stock rom and not unlock your phone bootloader then it can be resolve by using a software repair using sony pc companion.

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