I've had my Verizon Galaxy Nexus since launch day with 0 issues until yesterday -- completely stock, not rooted. I woke up, it was charging overnight and the power button wouldn't wake it up. After battery pull it came back, and I confirmed that the battery was full.
This morning I woke up, woke the screen up to check something and it was ok. A few minutes later I unplugged it from the charger, the notification light was blinking so I pressed the power button and nothing. It wouldn't come back until I pulled the battery again.
I found this link and tried to clear data for System UI -- and noticed that most apps including System UI say "Computing..." forever for storage and cache sizes in the App Info page, making it impossible to clear data. Some, not all, have a total size listed in the application list, but when you tap on them for the full info everything says "Computing..." forever.
I also tried to uninstall an app (Dead Pixel Test, it was one of the apps with the missing storage info) and it took 10+ minutes to uninstall.
Don't know what to do besides a factory reset, but I don't want to blindly reset without figuring out what caused it in the first place -- I obviously don't want to lose my app data and settings and have to do it again in a few months.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas on what I can do short of a factory reset?
Baris
Found the culprit!
In case anyone finds this looking for a solution to the same issue, I found the culprit, it was Google Currents. It had left thousands and thousands of cache files on the sdcard, and the GNex was battling through them every time it wanted to do anything with storage. Uninstalling it wasn't enough, I had to delete the tons of files left in /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.currents manually. Now uninstalls and App Info pages work just fine.
I'm trying to get my calendar(s) working and ran, face-first into the "computing..." loop. I do have Currents installed, though I never use it (it is horrible).
the number and density of the files it creates is stunning. I'm deleting these folders a dozen or so at a time and, well, this is gonna take a while, but I do hope it clears up the issues with App Info as you've indicated.
Thanks for the tip.
For the record, using a combination of Astro, ES File Explorer, most of my battery, time, patience, cursing, and venting, I solved the issue.
Completely removing all of the cache from the SD allowed me to remove the Google Currents app.
Removing the Currents app let me clear the data on both the Calendar Storage and Calendar app.
Clearing the data and re-syncing led to my calendar working again with all (8-9) calendars I have.
Thanks to the OP for this excellent suggestion!
Boo to Google Currents for being terrible on Android (and iOS)
Same issue with TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor also generates 100s or 1000s of files and causes the same problem - clearing Cache fixes it
Ok so a few times I've used the picture frame widgets which I think is from gallery, but it drops my fps in half when it's active. Even after removing it from my home screen it's still dragging performance down. I tried to clear gallery data but it didn't work. Restarted my phone, cleared ram, and I'm not sure how this is happening. It only starts and won't go away until factory reset which I don't want.
In application manager the only things I could find possibly related to it is media storage and settings storage
I am having issues with my Clock-Weather widget which is giving me an hour less. I read somewhere that clearing the cache of the clock and weather app and widget would help..so I did, and restarted the phone.
Since then, my phone has been painfully slow. Like freezing and stuff. Slow turning on, delays and stuff. I don't get it. Any help here?
My drains 25% in night in 9 hrs!
The battery was drained by google app!
What should i do?
I'm not in beta version of that app or of any app!
I have uninstalled the app(Updates) and again installed (Update) it.
And now the battery usage of that app isn't showing any more!(Usage was removed after uninstalling.
Anyone having same problem?
will that happen again?
help please
Must be a bug or something. Try to restrict its background data first. Erase your cache and a hard reboot.
Dchoi229 said:
Must be a bug or something. Try to restrict its background data first. Erase your cache and a hard reboot.
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Done erasing data and cache and also uninstalled and reinstalled.
It's not causing problem again.
I'm just asking if someone had similar problem.
Everyday at least 1-2 times a day system UI stop working and crashes, any ideas on why, and how to fix?
Check for memory leaks.
Clear system cache.
Probably a 3rd party app causing this... look for high memory or battery usage.
Any changes made before this started?
Try uninstalling updated system apps to factory load.
Try safe mode until it crashes or doesn't.
If it doesn't crash it's a 3rd party app.
Malware is another possibility.
Try a factory reset, the see if crashes on base load, if not then be careful what you install.
If new and doing it since bought consider returning it, not normal operation ie unstable.