For the past few months, I have been living with an issue on my Nexus 7 (2013) that I've been too lazy to try and fix. Its now ticked me off enough that I'm doing some research into this.
I have been having this weird issue with Chrome on my N7, whenever I go to Wikipedia, Chrome freezes. I get the error that chrome has taken too long and if I would like to end it, or wait. It takes probably 2-3 of the "Wait" taps for it to finally start responding again. Its only wikipedia that this happens on, as I haven't seen it happen on any other site.
I'm currently running stock 5.0.2 with no root, but this has also occured on kitkat, and with custom ROMS like CM. I also have a Galaxy S3, and Chrome is fine on that for wikipedia, so this is just on my Nexus 7.
Today, I decided to try something, so I reset my Chrome install, and re-launched it without logging into my gmail account, and it seems to have solved the issue. (It does freeze, but only for a second or two, and then its fine). So, it looks like its something within my profile that reacts badly with wikipedia and my nexus 7. So, my question is, where do I look next? Should I go to my google dashboard and clear all Chrome sync? Would I lose my bookmarks if I do that? Thoughts?
How about trying to
1. Install chrome beta to see what happens.
2. Clear the app cache
3. Clear /cache and /dalvic-cache
I also had similar problem on CM12, and seems to be solved by installing chrome as a system app, but you are on stock...
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One more thing:
http://lifehacker.com/speed-up-chrome-for-android-with-this-settings-tweak-1555623190
This might help.
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Since I can't drop post yet in Dev yet I'll have to post here
On Jandycane 1.3 and for the most part things are extremely smooth, light years ahead of the ICS builds.
The two issues I see are Google Search force closes if I try to enable Google Now. Going into apps and killing Google Search and then clearing it's data reset back to it's initial state and I can then choose not to enable Google Now and the messages go away.
On the latest build I get a force close when I go into Chrome Settings, not sure if anyone else is seeing this or if it worked in previous versions.
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Since I can't drop post yet in Dev yet I'll have to post here
On Jandycane 1.3 and for the most part things are extremely smooth, light years ahead of the ICS builds.
The two issues I see are Google Search force closes if I try to enable Google Now. Going into apps and killing Google Search and then clearing it's data reset back to it's initial state and I can then choose not to enable Google Now and the messages go away.
On the latest build I get a force close when I go into Chrome Settings, not sure if anyone else is seeing this or if it worked in previous versions.
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Agreed. I am also getting a force close from the Chrome setting but I had the same issue on the 1.2 build as well. As for Google Now, I have cleared the defaults and all data for the search app which does temporarily fix the force closing problem, but when I reboot the first thing to pop up is a Google Search force close.
After clearing data, run Google again and this time select 'No,maybe later' instead of 'Yes,I'm in'.
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AT&T S3 rooted but stock ROM. Ever since I loaded Dolphin a few months ago, sometimes Dolphin starts failing to load a page when you click on a Google search result. I'm guessing it may not be specific to Google but simply specific to any link to a site that does a subsequent redirect (since search result links go to Google then redirect.) If I recall a restart clears things up. But once it starts doing it, the only way I can get a result link to not bring up a blank page is to open it in a new tab.
Anyone experienced this or have any ideas as to a solution?
Have you tried another browser to be sure it's not dolphin having issues?
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Ya try the same lunks in stock browser or chrome or what ever u choose. If they work there clear the app cha he for dolphin. Maybe uninstall and reinstall as well
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It has something to do with cache, history, etc. As when I clear everything it works again but then does it again. This is with only 2 or 3 tabs open. It only happens with Google results links (iow, happens with redirect links.) I tried re-install. It only happens with Dolphin. Don't get this issue with Dolphin on my Nexus 7, only my Galaxy S3. Seen at least one other person have this issue but it seems somewhat rare.
I noticed I have it set to cache to SD card. Turned that off. Will see if it makes a difference.
My Nexus 7 2013 or FHD or whatever has been working great since day one. I was just now listing to some music, and put it on pause to speak with a co-worker. I just came back to my desk with the Nexus boot up logo showing. It took a very long time (3-5 minutes) for it to finish booting up.
After unlocking the tablet I'm greeted with "Google Play Services stopped working." Instead of loading NovaLauncher right away it it asks me if I want to launch the default launcher or NovaLauncher. Selecting Nova greets me with the default NovaLauncher layout--all of my icons and folders have been lost to the default. And I no longer have a PIN set or anything.
Poking around further it seems several other things have lost data. Swiftkey wants me to re-download the English layout and complete setup. All of the stock system apps want updates. And I keep getting pop ups saying Google Play Services has crashed.
What's really odd is when I want to bring this up on another forum someone else posted a very similar experience:
The Nexus 7 is great but my experience was short lived.
I don't know if it was a bad tablet or bad encryption but something seriously broke. I wanted to add my company email to my tablet and part of that process involves enabling encryption on my device. Everything was fine and running well, until I plugged it in for the night. At some point my Nexus rebooted and it was at the pre OS screen asking for encryption credentials. I thought that was weird but entered my info. It chugs along fine until it loads my lock screen where I immediately notice it no longer was asking for a PIN and my background changed back to the default. I go to my home screen and noticed my widgets weren't loading and I started getting error messages saying Currents and Play Store stopped responding. I try and access those apps but they go straight to a crash message.
I go ahead and factory reset it and when I tried to reapply the encryption it would go through the motions but it would never encrypt. I thought it was a bad reset and reset it again. Now it just hangs where it says Google and never boots up.
I ended up calling Google Support and I'm getting my Nexus replaced. Has anyone else experienced anything like this before?
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I don't have encryption but I do have an exchange account added. There wasn't any remote wipe or anything. I haven't tried a factory reset yet but we'll see if I have the same issues the other person was having.
It's a little concerning to see someone else have almost the exact same thing happen. Makes me worried there's some defective memory out there. Has anyone else heard of this happening?
I've had some really strange experiences the last couple of days with my N7 as well. Bear with me as i try to explain.
I picked up my N7 after work yesterday and noticed the Fandango app had an update waiting. I tapped 'Update', and then went to check something in the Play app settings, and noticed the version was 4.2.9. When the Fandango app finished updating, i opened it up to check out some showtimes. After that i went back to the Play app, into the settings again, and noticed that the app version had been bumped up to 4.3.1. When i tapped the home button, the N7 locked up, and i couldn't do anything at all. I powered it down and attempted to reboot, but no luck. I could get as far as the boot animation, but no further, no matter how long i let it run, or how many times i attempted to reboot. The only thing that worked was to completely wipe everything via fastboot, reinstall 4.3, and start from scratch. I thought my problems were solved, as everything seemed to work fine once i got everything re-installed and configured again.
Until i came home from work today, that is.
Upon arriving home, i unlocked my N7 and was greeted by several dialog boxes indicating that both the stock calendar app and Currents had crashed. Neither app could be opened, as they'd immediately crash, and the stock launcher would also crash, even though i use Nova Launcher. I thought maybe uninstalling/reinstalling updates for Calendar, would help, but the Play Store would crash immediately and could not be launched. I went into settings>apps and tried uninstalling updates and clearing data for all three apps, but only the Play Store app seemed to benefit from this. Nothing seems to help Calendar or Currents. They won't sync or open, and i've also just noticed that the Gallery immediately force closes when i try to launch that, too. My Google Voice app, which i used last night with no problems whatsoever, had lost all its data and had to be reconfigured from scratch. I'm still going through the rest of my apps one at a time to see if there are problems with any of them, but so far all other Google apps are working properly.
I'm perplexed as to what the problem is. Software issue? Hardware issue? In any case, i'm calling Google Support to ask for a replacement, just to be safe. I'm hoping that the N7 i have now is just a lemon, and not indicative of more widespread problems.
I bought two, one works flawlessly (knock on wood) and the other one **** the bed after three days of use. I am returning it for a new one.
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I'm all setup to return this one, and not a moment too soon as it's acting even wonkier now. DashClock force closes, and i'm finding some apps have had their data erased, while others are working normally. Hopefully the replacement works as it's supposed to, because i'll be really annoyed if i have to go through three or four tablets before i get one that works.
I just had almost the exact same issue, opened SoundHound premium and the nexus 7(2103) crashed.
After like 5mins it boots up, with my google account deleted (with it all my paid apps), all the google apps updates and google services crashing.
and above all extremely slow.
I'm now re-registering my account, to see if ir returns to normal.
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roy8000 said:
I just had almost the exact same issue, opened SoundHound premium and the nexus 7(2103) crashed.
After like 5mins it boots up, with my google account deleted (with it all my paid apps), all the google apps updates and google services crashing.
and above all extremely slow.
I'm now re-registering my account, to see if ir returns to normal.
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Did you have an exchange account set up on the Nexus?
After this happened to me I wiped everything (I wanted to unlock the bootloader anyways) and things are going fine. If it happens again I'm going to exchange it.
Don't know if anyone else is having this problem but it seems like my apps are constantly refreshing. While I'm in them. It's becoming a real annoyance and I can't figure out why. I'm unrooter, ATT and running TWRP. I've tried restarting and clearing the cache. I don't know how to really explain what's happening but a couple of examples are:
I was in kik. Typing a message, keyboard closes and app goes back to conversations page. Kept doing it, same in snapchat or in chrome page keeps refreshing. Same thing as when i was using the android central app. It just kept refreshing. I know android system webview or whatever it's called was causing some issues so I uninstalled updates on that but it didn't help.
Anyone have any suggestions.
It seems to be slightly worse on wifi. Don't know if that helps at all
Disregard, troubleshot it to ****ty internet connection.
I was having issues with Snapchat yesterday as soon as i open the app it stop working but looked online and found it was a global issue with Snapchat however today Facebook is constantly crashing exactly the same way with the error Facebook has stopped working when trying to open the app, can't find any issue with this online, I've cleared the cache for the app, reinstalled it to no avail, rebooted the phone still the same issue, is anyone else having app crashes on their pixel 2 xl? Nothing has changed on my phone since these issues cropped, haven't installed any apps for a while.
I believe facebook crashing is facebook its issue not Android problem.
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I believe facebook crashing is facebook its issue not Android problem.
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Yeah it looks like that i just can't understand why, i haven't updated the app in a while and it's been fine, also my partner isn't having any problems on her pixel 2 same version of Facebook so can't get my head around why it's crashing on mine.
GF is having same issue on her iPhone. FB issue I think, server side. It looks like it's trying to load data or something and just closes
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GF is having same issue on her iPhone. FB issue I think, server side. It looks like it's trying to load data or something and just closes
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Yeah that's exactly what is happening, not my phone then, wth is going on with the social networks lately, Snapchat yesterday and Facebook today.
same facebook crashing
yep, crashes immediately
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actually not such a bad thing, wasting too much time on facebook need to get back to productivity
I have a fix for you, get rid of that bloat infested, disease filled, resource hogging, data stealing app and use one of the many alternatives, I personally use Maki.
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It's working now must have been a long Facebook server issue yesterday for some people