Hi folks,
This is something that happened to me this past weekend I wanted to share.
I use glance view on my S4 and find it useful on occasion. I also have long-press back as a kill switch for misbehaving apps. This function is added through the Wanam xposed module.
I accidentally pressed the kill function while the glance view was activated. I know this because I saw the SuperSU toast come up showing I had killed the glance process. Ok, no problem, I thought. It'll re-start by itself or maybe after I reboot. No way killing a process would affect its ability to be restarted FOREVER.
Wrong. It NEVER came back despite trying so many things. Rebooting, clearing cache and dalvik, activating/deactivating it through settings. Ridiculously frustrating. I could see the process running prior to this incident by looking at the Greenify list of background apps running (GlanceViewMk). It never reappeared. My searching showed that some other task killers would kill the function. But I do not have any other task killers running, and it is not on my Greenify hibernated list.
Oddly, the tutorial glanceview would work just fine sometimes. Just could not get it to work in real life! Clearly the tutorial runs a different process from the system glanceview. And yes, it was lying flat and undisturbed when I would try to activate it.
In the end, I had to resort to restoring the system partition from an older TWRP backup. Could not figure out any way to run/restart the glanceviewmk process directly. Just good luck I had an older nandroid saved.
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As my title states, no idea what happened to my settings menu.
I'm "stock" rooted. (Did it back in December with odin flash - 4.3)
Firewalled, Greenified, and TitaniumBackup to Freeze useless apps.
Everything has been great, then all of a sudden I was getting 3 errrors.
Google Text to Speech, Maps and Settings all quit working. (The whole, unfortunately *blank* has stopped working)
I removed Text to Speech, but Settings still crashes and refuses to work and now Maps took it's place (T2S).
Removed Maps and still Settings does not work and will randomly crash in the background.
I have done nothing new from what I described I have already done above.
Nothing was newly frozen. I have never uninstall any stock apps, just freeze them.
Last thing I uninstalled was a GoSMS theme I no longer use. Uninstalled it through ROM Toolbox Pro as I saw it was running in the background.
Everything else appears to be working fine. Camera, Chrome, Texting, Calling and my various daily apps.
Just something with the settings "app" has gone all wrong.
It also appears it's not the entire settings. Like if I go to about phone, it's all good. If I go to display part of the settings, *crash*
Two other odd issues pertaining to this as well:
My assistive light widget no longer works. So I know this happened within a 24 hour period as I use that light nearly every day.
And when you get into the settings part of the phone, all the text / font is screwed up. (Pic attached to see what I'm talking about)
Assistive light widget shows the same messed up text as well.
Data corruption. It will spread. The easiest and most successful solution is to wipe data, system, cache, and Dalvik cache, then re-flash the stock firmware, then re-root.
If you don't want it that successful you can do the wipes and restore a backup, but there is always a chance that there was corruption saved in the last backup and in a few days it will be as it is now.
What caused the corruption? It could be anything from a bad USB cable to a nearby flash of lightening, but more likely it's whatever you do that you need root for.
Frank
I would believe that was the issue if it was more wide spread.
Or I was having stability issues in daily usage.
The phone only gets charged via usb, I have not hooked it up to a computer for some time.
No storms or surges recently either.
As far as root usings, nothing has changed or updated recently. And none of what I do hard changes anything.
Reflash. Much faster and easier than wracking your brain trying to track down what exactly little thing went wrong.
After rooting, and uninstalling a massive amount of lg bloatware, I decided to switch to the android runtime (ART) before I installed all my apps. Once it rebooted and compiled all the apps, the settings would no longer function. My guess is it compiled wrong. Perhaps due to the missing lg crap that it linked to.
With the settings not functioning, I could not use the phone really. Could not even get it to connect to my computer. So my only option was to try a factory reset. This just made things worse. The settings app would still not work, but now I can't even get past the error, because it has to load as part of the setup. It was functionally bust. I had to bring it back to verizon and they replaced it.
I want to use ART, so my question is this; Do the missing apps that settings refers to affect it's ability to compile? should I switch to ART before deleting bloatware? Has anyone used ART successfully, and if so, did you delete lg's crap first?
voldrix said:
After rooting, and uninstalling a massive amount of lg bloatware, I decided to switch to the android runtime (ART) before I installed all my apps. Once it rebooted and compiled all the apps, the settings would no longer function. My guess is it compiled wrong. Perhaps due to the missing lg crap that it linked to.
With the settings not functioning, I could not use the phone really. Could not even get it to connect to my computer. So my only option was to try a factory reset. This just made things worse. The settings app would still not work, but now I can't even get past the error, because it has to load as part of the setup. It was functionally bust. I had to bring it back to verizon and they replaced it.
I want to use ART, so my question is this; Do the missing apps that settings refers to affect it's ability to compile? should I switch to ART before deleting bloatware? Has anyone used ART successfully, and if so, did you delete lg's crap first?
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I used art for a while, but I stopped because in using xposed. I uninstalled a lot of apps and I had no issues. What model are you using?
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Tried Again
Verizon model: VS985 4G
So I went at it again with my new phone. Seems to have worked this time. Everything running smoothly on ART.
The play store wouldn't download anything, but I realized that was a dependency issue. It needs download manager. Reinstalled that, and everything seems fine. Not sure what went wrong last time.
I am getting random shutdowns though. Frozen shutdowns, where power wont restore until the battery has been pulled. I don't know if the issue is related.
I had a bunch of freezes when I was running art. All requires a battery pull. I am back to dalvik and getting significantly better battery life and no more freezing.
tehpud said:
I had a bunch of freezes when I was running art. All requires a battery pull. I am back to dalvik and getting significantly better battery life and no more freezing.
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I'm currently running ART on my VS985. Also getting the random freezes. Battery life hit appears to be tied, at least for me, with the Phone.apk. The dialer barely ever works, and my battery graph shows its frozen butt to be a hog. Actually have to voice dial through Google Now to call anyone :silly:
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I'm currently running ART on my VS985. Also getting the random freezes. Battery life hit appears to be tied, at least for me, with the Phone.apk. The dialer barely ever works, and my battery graph shows its frozen butt to be a hog. Actually have to voice dial through Google Now to call anyone :silly:
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http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-lg-g3-has-problems-art-think-twice-switching-runtimes
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I'm currently running ART on my VS985. Also getting the random freezes. Battery life hit appears to be tied, at least for me, with the Phone.apk. The dialer barely ever works, and my battery graph shows its frozen butt to be a hog. Actually have to voice dial through Google Now to call anyone :silly:
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Something tells me that ART is not worth the problems you are having and should just go back to Dalvik?
Problems not just in ART
So I did a factory reflash of my original firmware. This time I stuck with Dalvek to try to avoid problems. But Apps were downloading very slowly from the play store, so I went to settings, app manager, and cleared the data for the play store. Apps downloaded better. But after a reboot, the settings app wont work, crashes every time something tries to load it. And with that the case, I cannot even get it connected to my computer.
the last time this happened - not only to me - not even a factory reset fixed it.
at least it isn't shutting down randomly anymore... I guess.
This is by far the most buggy phone I've ever had. And the model I have, the VS985, is one that has yet to have the bootloader unlocked.
Anyone been able to fix a broken settings app without reflashing the whole rom?
As title says. VERY annoying; sometimes this widget just stops updating time. And I see from "running services" that "com.android.app.keyguard" is "restarting...". Forever.
This happens a lot after long sessions of use or after a lot of time that phone is charging.
Tried EVERYTHING to fix it and no, I don't want to use another widget. However, other clock widgets have no problems at all. Only the stock one, apparently, doesn't restart after it gets killed (which I don't understand too since I have a lot of free ram at any moment).
I'm on stock rom, I9195 variant, 4.2.2, rooted and busybox/xposed installed.
The fastest way I found to manually restart t
his widget is maximize it. After that, next time I turn on the screen, it shows correct time and updates itself
w/out problems for a few minutes/hours, then problem occurs again.
PLEASE help.
No one?
Solved. It was somehow related to greenify, maybe because of restored data from titanium backup. Reinstalled everything without TiBu, now everything is fine. Weird since everything else was working fine...
Having a bit of an issue with the auto rotation on my OP3 where the screen snaps back into portrait after being rotated either by me or by an app, then locks the device. (if the lockscreen is activated) most apps respond by crashing once this happens.
I've dug all through my settings and come up empty on finding something that could be responsible. So I'm thinking it must be an app, or Xposed module, but again dug through everyone's who could possibly have setting that could do it, again came up empty.
So I'm really frustrated by now and wondering if anyone else has seen behavior like this, or knows what could be the cause.
I'm on the Resurrection Remix OS and as mentioned Xposed is installed. I'd be happy to post a txt of all my apps if someone is interested.
Thanks in advance, Idk what else to do but wipe it.
So figured I'd at least ask you guys before I do, just in case.
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Guess I can add no recents menu to the list of effected. Plus now that I have that "on button push" ability to trigger this, I see it's actually resetting the system UI. It seems to crash then reload immediately, triggering the screen back to portrait and the system bar up top to redisplay (usually hidden).
I see a factory reset in my near future...
Well that's got to be a first, seems all I had to do to fix it was threaten to wipe it and it fixed its self!?
Seriously I haven't done anything since I posted this at lunch today, except start a Titanium backup, (which is still running) and as soon as I get home ready to delete it, I opened it up to a landscape view that wasn't durping out. How bazaar... Not sure now if I can trust it to behave or maybe I should wipe it anyway to be sure...
Over the past week to 10 days I have noticed that the time is incorrect in the status bar of the phone. Searching around I see that this could be related to having the option to automatically set the time enabled. I disabled the automatic time and that does fix the problem. However, this seems odd as it was working previously. Also it seems that the problem is only in the statusbar. When I access the lockscreen or the ambient display the time there always seems to be correct even with automatic time setting enabled.
I've also noticed that my imap-based email does not seem to be updating as quickly as it should. When accessing aquamail the message list is stale until I refresh. It is almost like battery optimization has been enabled for everything.
I will note that my phone is running on Verizon, does not have greenify or any other doze helper apps installed. However, I am using nova launcher instead of the pixel launcher.
Is anyone else having this problem or have a fix other than turning off the automatically set the time? I was thinking about a factory reset but think I will wait on the Feb security fix release first to see if that makes any difference.
Any ideas?
FYI that I have factory reset the phone and that seems to resolved all of my problems. I had installed greenify at one time and run the adb commands to get it working since the phone is not rooted. I had deinstalled greenify but did not "undo" the adb commands. Perhaps they were still in place causing problems, I don't really know. But a factory reset has fixed all issues.