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[Q] I need a little expert help in Newbie Language. . .please

I have had this Samsung Vibrant for a couple months. I have a good number of apps and did the one click lag fix sometime ago. Recently, I had experienced a bunch of force closes and overall bugginess. My Pure Calendar widget stopped loading. I emailed the developer. He had me send him the change log and responded to me that my phone had a bunch of problems.
He said that I should have wiped the phone before the lag fix. And that he can't help me until i wipe it.
Here's where I need help. . .How do wipe the phone but back it up in a way where I can get all of my apps and settings back?
Can you give me a step-by-step in "newbie language"?
After I wipe it, i will use the lag-fix and then restore the settings and apps, if that's the way I should do it (once again, what do you think?).
Sorry if I broke any forum rules or ettiquite. If I did, it was unintentional. I just need the help. Thanks in advance!

Generally the first step is to uninstall the lag fix. That may actually fix your problem since the earlier lag fixes were prone to degradation over time. I don't know which lag fix you installed and uninstalling it will take some research on your part.
After uninstalling the lag fix I would try flashing one of the newer roms that fix a lot of bugs and do not need a lagfix. Again, that will take some research on your part. Check out the bible in the development section.

Thanks for the reply, snowdogging.
I did uninstall it (v1). There is an option on the app that I used.
All I want to do is back-up, wipe, get back to original condition, and then restore my apps and settings.

It is not that hard to do with android but you can expect to lose some information. What I usually do is do a Titanium Backup of all my user applications. I then use SMS Backup+ to dump all of my text messages to Gmail. I am rooted so I use SU Explorer to make sure that all of my pictures and other important data is moved to my external SD card.
And then cross my fingers and use Odin to flash the latest rom that I think is worthwhile.
After a successful flash I do all of the first paragraph in reverse to restore my stuff. It is time consuming. As an example, the first time while learning took about 5 hours, while now I can probably do it in one.
Just make sure you can get into download mode while at the powered off green battery indicator BEFORE using ODIN and you should be OK to experiment. I have crashed ODIN and a bunch of other stupid stuff and am still on my original vibrant.

[Q] com.google.process.gapps force close EVO

Question, Im getting alot of "com.google.process.gapps" force closes on my EVO since I restored a few apps thru Titanium Backup. I rooted about a week ago and never had any issues with this. The only apps that I restored was angry birds and a to-do-list app along with all the data that came with the apps. I have tried cleaning caches and restarting the phone and nothing seems to work... what would you suggest? I seen a few threads when i searched - but they were for the G1 and the Captivate, nothing for the EVO... any help would be appriciated...
TIA
JS3

Did u flash any Rom or Theme??

nope, I rooted and am still using the stock ROM... I was going to flash Frost or some thing, but I want to make sure this doesnt carry over to the flashed ROM, or if there is a fix...I would prefere to fix it...
I am also getting a force close on the phone process.... when some one calls me and I ignore the call it force closes the process for the phone as well...

Try reinstalling the gapps.apk. One of them must of been corrupted by the data you restored.

do you know where I can find that at? I have never heard of it...

Also the thing that is confusing, is I can still access my market, maps, latitude, people, gmail... etc
If the apk or files were corrupted, I wouldnt be able to access those apps... i will try to reinstall the apk, but I would like to know what I did to make this error happen, so I know not to do it again...

one thing I think it could have been was there were two "people" files in my Titanium Back up... One was up near the top it said "People 1.00" and then there was one near the bottom with a line thru it that said "People 1.1.1" or some thing to that effect... I deleted the one at the bottom with the line thru it cause I thought I didnt need it any more... could this be wahts up with this error?
I can still access People thru the People widget, but some times it takes abnormally longer to load my list of contacts...
I can also still access Market, Gmail, Maps, Latitude...
I just clciked on Talk and it seems to be the problem, every time I click Talk it brings up the force close issue...
should I just reinstall the Talk.apk?
I also get "com.android.phone" force close when I decline a call...
when I went into my ROM manager, I clicked the "fix permissions" and it says "error occurred while attempting to run privlaged commands"
Any info on any of this would be great...

Anyone out there
Sent from my EVO while tethered into the Matrix thru Wifi...

Okay well I have googled/searched XDA 'til I was green in the face... I still can't figure out how to fix this issue?
Just answer me this, If I do an entire factory reset - will I loose root?
I have wiped the cache thru recovery, Should I try wiping the delvic-cache also, before I factory reset to see if that works??
I can not find any where to download the "gapps.apk" anywhere, I found this one thread that told me to install these in this order:
1. TalkProvider.apk
2. GTalkService.apk
3. Talk.apk
but none of them worked... they wouldnt even install... it just kept saying install failed...so I found another thread with the 2.2 gtalk and it installed...but Im still getting the error...
I have been getting several other errors, like htc.bgp force close (or some thing like that) as well as com.android.phone force close...
So should I just do a NAND restore or should I do a factory reset instead? OR should I run the RUU and start over to root...??
I am at wits end here and am not getting anywhere with searching...
TIA

I would start with a NAND restore. (Hopefully you have one from before the problem started)
If that doesn't fix it, do a factory reset.
If that doesn't fix it, Factory reset and instal a custom ROM (Sprint Lovers is very close to stock if that's what you like)
I don't think running an RUU is necessary. Once you obtain full Root, you should be able to fix any problem with .apk's or programs on the phone.

Biggest Fro said:
I would start with a NAND restore. (Hopefully you have one from before the problem started)
If that doesn't fix it, do a factory reset.
If that doesn't fix it, Factory reset and instal a custom ROM (Sprint Lovers is very close to stock if that's what you like)
I don't think running an RUU is necessary. Once you obtain full Root, you should be able to fix any problem with .apk's or programs on the phone.
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Thanks for the input, I was beginning to think I was invisible... lol... I will try that and see what happens...

Well, I went ahead and tried one more thing before I did what you said to do and I think it worked... I went into my EVO while in Disk Drive mode and I cut my entire Titanium Backup folder out of the phone and copied it onto my Desk top. Then I went into my OLD EVO files from the end of the year and I copied the latest folder into my phone. I then went to Charge only, clicked TB and refreshed the app list... Then I was left with a ton of apps that were not installed on my phone. I then went thru each one and restored the ones that were still installed and deleted the ones that were not... (except for the stock apps that came with the phone), so far so good... I will test it more tonight and see whats up, have not gotten any force closes since I finished...
One thing I would like to know tho - where can I get the stock dialer.apk
Some how it got deleted off my new EVO and when I try to load up one of the htc.dialer.apk from my old EVO - the new one does not recognize it... I am currently useing "dialer one" from the market - but I would prefere to make my NAND back up of the Official stock ROM with all the stock apps...any ideas?
EDIT: Okay, fixed the com.google.process.apps issue but did not fix the other force closes... I guess I will have to try the steps above - and worse case - ill just run the RUU and start all over...

I had this problem once and it was related to a widget I downloaded that retrieved missed calls. Don't know if that helps.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

sw99 said:
I had this problem once and it was related to a widget I downloaded that retrieved missed calls. Don't know if that helps.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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But thats the thing - I didnt download anything - I restored two apps, one was opera mini with data and the other was spareparts... then I lost my htc dialer - so I installed Dialer one from the market... I dunno Im just gonna have to do the stpes above and if they dont work - Ill just wipe and run RUU and reroot... no biggie...

Okay I did a NAND restore... then I went thru and set up ALL my apps and settings again and then I did a fresh NAND Backup with clockwork first AND then Amon_Ra... all seemed well except, after I did the Clockwork Backup... I was getting "com.smithmicro.DM has stopped unexpectedly" so searched and read a little and it seemed to have some thing to do with the PRL/Profile updater... so i went into the settings and opened the app manager and cleared the "data" in com.smithmicro.DM and then I restarted the phone and that seemed to fix it... thanks for all the help...
JS3

[Q] Can't Root LG G2

Hello,
New to this forum and was wondering if anyone can help me out. Here's my back story. For some unknown reason my G2 did a factory restore while it was charging. So of course all of my photos, contacts, etc. that had not been backed up were lost. Now this is a company phone so I started the process of setting up my email, security, etc when I came across this forum and others that explained how to possibly restore lost data. Here is where I am running into issues.
I tried following some of the examples using various apps to restore, but since I can not use USB transfer, only MTP or PTP this caused issues. Before rooting I did some checks explained on this forum. One was using the 3845#*803# to check for root. Funny enough it showed my phone had been rooted, stating that su and busybox were installed. This was interesting since I had never actually installed these programs and never tried to root my phone before. I looked at my apps and did find su, I am guessing one of the restore programs loaded this. Anyway when I run root checker it states the device does not have root access. So after several factory resets thx to Homero2 "HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT UNROOTED" thread. I am back to were my phone now shows unrooted.
Now I am trying to root my phone to try and recover data. I am running into an issue here with binaries. I tried installing SuperSu and I am getting the following error "There is no SU binary installed". I also tried using Superuser and ran into the same issue. Any help resolving this would be much appreciated.
Here is my phone info:
LG G2
Android v. 4.4.2
Kernel v. 3.4.0
Build # KOT491.D803R20f
Software v. D803R20f

Search for stumproot. That will get you rooted.

+1 for stumproot

Strange.... Company phone.... Rooted but not by me.... Mysterious reset....
Are you sure that no one is stealing your data or spying you? Programs like cerberus can be invisible if rooted and they can remote erase your data... And much more... I advise you to deep analize the situation..
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siggey said:
Strange.... Company phone.... Rooted but not by me.... Mysterious reset....
Are you sure that no one is stealing your data or spying you? Programs like cerberus can be invisible if rooted and they can remote erase your data... And much more... I advise you to deep analize the situation..
_____________________________________Read more write less and be smart
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I was thinking the same thing that there was likely some kind of phishing, virus, etc.. program on my phone, likely downloaded through an app. Corporate espionage, probably not likely, my company,maybe, but more than likely they would just fire me if they didn't like what I had on my phone.. Most likely someone trying to steal personal info. I am not sure what I can do at this point to analyse what and how was on my phone. I am still dealing with how to recover lost data.
Also I tried the StumpRoot. Wasn't too successful. First run through it said my phone was rooted. I rebooted and loaded su, removed stump and ran a couple different apps to try and recover data unsuccessfully. When I checked su and root checker it said my phone wasn't rooted. So I ran Stumproot multiple times unsuccessfully. It kept saying my device wasn't supported, or something along those lines, I kind of was nearing the end of my frustration line by that point. So I am back to Factory Stock and pretty much at a cross roads as to whether to continue down this road of data recovery. Being a company phone I am not really interested in leaving my phone rooted. I will definitely take a more proactive approach to syncing my data more often.
This site and forum are fantastic with more information then I could ever know what to do with. It's great having moderators and posters like yourself. TY :good:

I think I have maleware and a factory reset did nothing

So I think I may have gotten maleware from trying to update my pornhub app. Yea yea I know I know but its that time of the month for my wife and well the rest isnt needed lol. Honestly im not even sure if thats what caused it as ive had the app for about a year now and never had a problem. I did download some new keyboard & themes before all this started so those might be the culprit though I doubt it. Now all of a sudden the phone is installing so many random apps, multiple lock screens, is resetting itself, freezing, and acting all types of weird. Its not just porn related stuff its installing either im getting stuff for clash of clans, travelocity, money something, solitaire, etc. I was able to get it hooked up to my computer to try and manually remove stuff but im not finding certain apps like the travelocity & solitaire and going through phones app manager doesnt allow me to uninstall them even though they are present. I am also seeing little android icons next to some things which are named pornclub which is what makes me think it was the pornhub app.
Please for the love of everything help me get my phone back to working normally. Would flashing the phone work since a factory reset did nothing? I did put the phone in safe mode and was able to clear the cache of some of the apps which seemed to have taken them out but it did nothing for others even though there were no uninstall options.

Did you reset using stock recovery? Sometimes, stock recovery is needed to wipe data, cache.

Engriks Malware ?

Muintir said:
Would flashing the phone work since a factory reset did nothing? I did put the phone in safe mode and was able to clear the cache of some of the apps which seemed to have taken them out but it did nothing for others even though there were no uninstall options.
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Use the odin tool to reflash every thing. If it is a virus I'm 99% sure that'll get it.

Flashing with Odin will not always wipe the data partition; therefore, it is a good idea to perform a factory reset before booting the newly-installed rom for the first time.

audit13 said:
Did you reset using stock recovery? Sometimes, stock recovery is needed to wipe data, cache.
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Malware in system files >> you can't Remove it when you reset wipe data
Asadullah said:
Use the odin tool to reflash every thing. If it is a virus I'm 99% sure that'll get it.
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i want reflash my phone plz >> sgh-i337
audit13 said:
Flashing with Odin will not always wipe the data partition; therefore, it is a good idea to perform a factory reset before booting the newly-installed rom for the first time.
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i want reflash my phone plz >> sgh-i337
i want to repartition my phone to install a new rom for my device >> Samsung sgh-i337

Usually, partitioning is required if Odin can't pull the partition table from the phone.
Which bootloader is on the i337? Is the phone the att version of the s4?

Did you delete the folders on your phone's internal storage before you did a factory reset? Sometimes it doesn't delete everything.
I'd start by plugging the phone back into the computer, delete all the folders and files on the internal storage and do the factory reset again. See if that helps. I'd also make sure to not have the phone restore apps when you do the initial startup.

Muintir said:
So I think I may have gotten maleware from trying to update my pornhub app. Yea yea I know I know but its that time of the month for my wife and well the rest isnt needed lol. Honestly im not even sure if thats what caused it as ive had the app for about a year now and never had a problem. I did download some new keyboard & themes before all this started so those might be the culprit though I doubt it. Now all of a sudden the phone is installing so many random apps, multiple lock screens, is resetting itself, freezing, and acting all types of weird. Its not just porn related stuff its installing either im getting stuff for clash of clans, travelocity, money something, solitaire, etc. I was able to get it hooked up to my computer to try and manually remove stuff but im not finding certain apps like the travelocity & solitaire and going through phones app manager doesnt allow me to uninstall them even though they are present. I am also seeing little android icons next to some things which are named pornclub which is what makes me think it was the pornhub app.
Please for the love of everything help me get my phone back to working normally. Would flashing the phone work since a factory reset did nothing? I did put the phone in safe mode and was able to clear the cache of some of the apps which seemed to have taken them out but it did nothing for others even though there were no uninstall options.
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Hi! I have too such problem. Only I don't know that my children set. The only way to get rid of a virus it to reinstall completely the Android. You need to pass in a subject about your phone and to esteem as to reinstall the Android.

Lenovo A6000 Google apps are not working.

Hey, I'm new here. Anyway, I own a Lenovo A6000 and I recently root it, I used King Root doing it without computer and it's been a day or two since that. It kept showing that some google.apps.something had stop working which I ignored because knowing my phone, it usually got glitchy like that and I didn't even bother asking my boyfriend about it. This morning I opened YouTube on my phone and at first it said that I didn't have a connection,which trust me I did. I tried Playstore, same thing. I decided it was time to clean the data and cache on both, Playstore remained the same when youtube would let me browse around it but not log in my gmail on it.
My boyfriend isn't here to help and it's kinda late so I can't call him for help so I decided to take matters in my own hands by factory resetting it. But I should've known better, it didn't even let me log in my gmail. I looked up how to remove the King Root aka unroot my phone and thankfully I did or so it said. I closed my phone again then did the whole factory reset just to get the same thing again. So I'm sitting here at almost 3 am not knowing what to do, please help!
Phone info: Lenovo A6000 Android 4.4.4 rom A6000_S025_151016

GreekQueen said:
Hey, I'm new here. Anyway, I own a Lenovo A6000 and I recently root it, I used King Root doing it without computer and it's been a day or two since that. It kept showing that some google.apps.something had stop working which I ignored because knowing my phone, it usually got glitchy like that and I didn't even bother asking my boyfriend about it. This morning I opened YouTube on my phone and at first it said that I didn't have a connection,which trust me I did. I tried Playstore, same thing. I decided it was time to clean the data and cache on both, Playstore remained the same when youtube would let me browse around it but not log in my gmail on it.
My boyfriend isn't here to help and it's kinda late so I can't call him for help so I decided to take matters in my own hands by factory resetting it. But I should've known better, it didn't even let me log in my gmail. I looked up how to remove the King Root aka unroot my phone and thankfully I did or so it said. I closed my phone again then did the whole factory reset just to get the same thing again. So I'm sitting here at almost 3 am not knowing what to do, please help!
Phone info: Lenovo A6000 Android 4.4.4 rom A6000_S025_151016
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First check if you have disabled background data in settings>>data usage>>restrict background data
If it doesnt help then wipe cache partition and dalvik cache by rebooting into recovery

sasukay said:
First check if you have disabled background data in settings>>data usage>>restrict background data
If it doesnt help then wipe cache partition and dalvik cache by rebooting into recovery
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I'm using wifi actually and I already tried to wipe the cache partition.

GreekQueen said:
I'm using wifi actually and I already tried to wipe the cache partition.
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Then I think you should flash other rom.
You can find a lot of them on this forum.
And there's one more thing you can do....wait for your boyfriend to come

sasukay said:
Then I think you should flash other rom.
You can find a lot of them on this forum.
And there's one more thing you can do....wait for your boyfriend to come
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I can't find one similar to mine is that a problem??? And my boyfriend might come next week, so not a solution.

iam using lenovo a 6000 plus .i install cm 13 on my phone but i dont want it so i like to install andriod 5.0.2 rom .my problem is which gapps to be used and i want the phone has factory reset.plz help me by replying fastly

Did u try installing the native/factory ROM ? I'm sure that will fix it.