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[Q] Dexter Mod1.2

I am running Dexter 1.1 and I want to put 1.2 on but I no longer have a wipe, clear data option or I can no longer find it. Will doing a reset serve the same purpose? I do not want to get the loop when rebooting that some have had.

Turn your a7 off. Then push the power button to turn you a7 on. Then quickly let go of the power and then press and hold it again. A message will apper saying hold power button for 5 seconds to enter Recovery mode. There you will have the option to wipe/clear data. Continue your 1.2 update instal.

Dexter mod 1.2
Thank you for the excellent help. That did work but now I cannot sign into my google account. Will I be able to get to the market?

Something is odd today, I did an update and have also lost the ability to login or add my google account to the device. Not sure but, it seems like something related to authentication has changed.

google account
I have no trouble logging into my gmail account it will not let me into the market.

fatate said:
Thank you for the excellent help. That did work but now I cannot sign into my google account. Will I be able to get to the market?
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Answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955859

Apps redownload themselves

Everytime I hard reset my phone, my applications redownload on their own. I do not want this. I uncheck the back up my data option under privacy and it still happens. How can I stop this?

Uncheck under privacy, force a sync, and try again.
If that doesnt work, then when you hard reset and after you do the INITIAL login to your account, you should see an option that says "backup my apps" or whatever........uncheck that. It wont download them but I'm not sure if you will see all of your apps in the market list.

Coderedpl said:
Uncheck under privacy, force a sync, and try again.
If that doesnt work, then when you hard reset and after you do the INITIAL login to your account, you should see an option that says "backup my apps" or whatever........uncheck that. It wont download them but I'm not sure if you will see all of your apps in the market list.
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I have done both of those and still. I get the same results. I am pretty sure I have tried to do this every way possible.

Skip your gmail account log in until you turn off mobile data, then turn off sync and uncheck it in privacy setting then go log in. See if that works

Get a new gmail account or simply don't log in
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I skipped the setup process then went in and did it, that seemed to work. Thanks guys

Another way is when you click set up Google account and are at the page where you type in your email and password just press the menu button and hit disable restore.
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stayin100 said:
Skip your gmail account log in until you turn off mobile data, then turn off sync and uncheck it in privacy setting then go log in. See if that works
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I decided I wanted to turn off the auto-restore as I'm going to be using titanium backup from now on and I came around the same problem as the OP. Every way I tried to leave it off, didn't work. I used all different ways of wiping, factory reset and such.
^^^that is THE ONLY way it seems to work. The only apps you will see in the market are the ones you purchased, and those will not download. Thanks for the tip

Ubermicro13 said:
Another way is when you click set up Google account and are at the page where you type in your email and password just press the menu button and hit disable restore.
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I am so surprised that I have never seen this. Thanks

Also it seems that if you skip the process, add your account and disable the auto-restore, and then you re-wipe and and still uncheck backup data, it will restore your apps again. So you have to skip everytime.

Unable to download from Android Market Place

Hi,
I am unable to download anything from Market Place.
Whenever I want to download anything from Market Place, the tab will show "Download".
However, even when I press download, I was always prompted the error message, "Error proccessing purchase". I would like to state that I am downloading free app, not paid app.
I have to do a workaround, by going to web-based Market Place to "Install" the app.
Afterwhich, when I go back to my Market Place, the same app which I had problem downloading would be shown "Install", instead of "Download".
And when I click on "install", the download will go through with nowproblem.
At the same time, I have no problem updating all my exisitng apps.
I have tried clearing the data, but the problem still persist.
May I know what would happen if I do a factory reset?
Can I do a Titanium Backup and do a factory reset after that?
And if a factory reset, doesn't help, I'll just restore my system data.
Thanks guys, hope someone can help.

Are you on the stock Rom?

This has happened to me also, a solution (that didn't work for me) was to remove your google account, clear the cache and market data, then re-add your google account. I still have the problem but I have a google account and a google apps account, when the downloads don't work on my google account, I just use my google apps account.

I had this happen too, I did the same as the above post^

The market has been acting up the last few days...I guess they are getting ready for the ICS release...coming in the next few weeks...

mingocr83 said:
The market has been acting up the last few days...I guess they are getting ready for the ICS release...coming in the next few weeks...
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I've not noticed any problems lately (beyond the usual having to refresh a few times to get a page to load, and having to power cycle or disconnect and reconnect wifi to get an app to start installing).

I had this exact issue about 5 weeks ago.
After exchanging emails with Google Tech folks, it was determined that my Google Talk account had logged out.
They said that your market is tied to your google talk account.
I went through, deleted everything, re-added my google account, and made sure the GTalk was working, and bam, market began working.
I have a google apps account too.

Thanks guys for the response.
I tried removing my google account, cleared the cache and data, and re-added my google account, it still failed to work.
This is really frustrating. However, I was able to download Angry Bird Rios just now.
The funny thing was, the tab was showing "Install", instead of the usual "Free".
I am thinking that the probable reason why it was showing "Install", instead of "Free" was because I used to have this game in my account.

eyz said:
I am thinking that the probable reason why it was showing "Install", instead of "Free" was because I used to have this game in my account.
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Correct.

knoxploration said:
Correct.
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but i am still getting nowhere with all the solutions provided.
jus tried to log in the my google talk account, it's still the same.
now i am seeing viber with the "Install" tab on my Market, whereas the rest of the other apps are showing "Free".

I had the same issue, and the only way I was able to fix it was with a factory reset. I backed up all of my non-system apps with Titanium Backup, then wiped my data. When going back to restore apps and data, just let the Market re-download any apps you have backed up to your account, and use Titanium Backup only to restore the missing apps and data.

That would be my next suggestion. Complete backup, wipe, and reinstall. Once reinstalled, be careful not to click install more than once on an app -- this seems (to me) to cause instability. If an app doesn't start installing a few seconds after you hit the install button, disconnect and reconnect your wifi. If that doesn't clear it (although it always does, for me) an alternate method is to completely cold-boot the tablet.

Gmail suddenly crashes, cannot clear data

Tonight I was in the gmail app doing a search through my work inbox. It showed me some results, but that wasn't old enough so I said "Load more". Repeated that step a few times and suddenly gmail crashed out ("Unfortunately, Gmail has stopped working"). Relaunching it ever-so-briefly makes the list of mail messages appear but then crashes again.
I completely powered off and rebooted - same thing happened when I opened gmail again.
I went into Settings -> Apps, selected Gmail and went to storage. Cleared the cache and then tried opening it -> same result.
Clear Cache, reboot before opening -> same result.
The Clear Data button appears enabled in the same green color as Clear Cache, however nothing happens when I click it. Clear Cache gets a shadow / ripple effect where I click it. Nothing like that on Clear Data, it's like it doesn't recognize it is "touchable".
I also note that when I go into the Gmail app (before going into the separate screen where Clear Data / Clear Cache are), that the Disable button and Force Stop buttons are both greyed out / disabled.
From the home screen, I tapped the button to bring up the list of open windows/apps and swiped Gmail off to close it that way, but again no change in behavior.
Phone is stock ROM. I did unlock the bootloader in anticipation of rooting it, but I ended up never going that next step and have just been taking the OTAs since then (am currently on 6.0.1, January 1 security patch level).
Any other ideas?
Thanks

try removing your work account from the device.

OK, doing it that way seemed to clear it up. I've re-added the account and it has now sync'd, things seem to be back to normal. That was annoying. Any ideas why the clear data doesn't do anything?

Not one that I have a real explanation for. Glad it's back up and running though.
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Same here on pure nexus 9 , have tried reboot, , remove cache/date, re-install, ti-back recovery.
Still crash after in gamil app "search".
Then I removing the google working account and re-add it, still the same, now try to reboot without google account then re-add after boot again

Hello everyone!
Here is what I did as follows.
First of all, the data cannot be cleared, which will induce this issue with the 'crashing' app.
What could help is updating the application. It works perfectly for me (even without removing my account)
I hope this will be useful and help for your problem with Gmail!
Cheers!

WOW! PlayStore won't connect, can't login! First time ever!!!! How can I ??

This is insane!
I go to playstore to check updates. It says "Error checking updates". I repeat the process and get frustrated. I clear data on playstore and go to add my account again only it brings up the side menu and when I move that out of the way, it says "try again". I hit that button and the menu slides back out! And I repeat this process and get frustrated.
So I did all the cache clearing, data clearing stuff for play, play services. I have no download manager. And still this problem.
I did not and will not remove and try to add my google account again because then I might lose access to my contacts. In fact, I haven't even checked if they still sync. If they don't, I suppose I could do that.
Other than that, what can I do?
This is the craziest thing I've ever seen.

reilus said:
This is insane!
I go to playstore to check updates. It says "Error checking updates". I repeat the process and get frustrated. I clear data on playstore and go to add my account again only it brings up the side menu and when I move that out of the way, it says "try again". I hit that button and the menu slides back out! And I repeat this process and get frustrated.
So I did all the cache clearing, data clearing stuff for play, play services. I have no download manager. And still this problem.
I did not and will not remove and try to add my google account again because then I might lose access to my contacts. In fact, I haven't even checked if they still sync. If they don't, I suppose I could do that.
Other than that, what can I do?
This is the craziest thing I've ever seen.
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Lol hello again sir
Go to www.gooogle.com/contacts
From any web browser, are your contacts in place?
Guessing you haven't but reboot your phone, cycle your WiFi and see if anything prompts you to sign in or sync.
Then go to settings/ accounts / Google and make sure it's allowed and syncing, check both sync and Google
Re-open Google play and see if it's working.

Oh and perhaps change WiFi to another or test on mobile data if you don't have a second signal to use.

=) Thanx for your help. I can get contacts in a browser. I rebooted a couple times, did wifi and mobile, and nothing. It syncs everything in the account as well. I just can't use play store. I cleared data and cache on playstore and services. And I can access play from a browser; so I didn't get banned or something. It's specific to this phone, it occurred sometime after the update to the latest firmware. I'm not sure if it's related.

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=) Thanx for your help. I can get contacts in a browser. I rebooted a couple times, did wifi and mobile, and nothing. It syncs everything in the account as well. I just can't use play store. I cleared data and cache on playstore and services. And I can access play from a browser; so I didn't get banned or something. It's specific to this phone, it occurred sometime after the update to the latest firmware. I'm not sure if it's related.
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Only thing I can think of would be to wipe all play services, store then reinstall.
This has happened before?

First time.... What is the best way to restore this stuff on the stock ROM w/o factory reset?

reilus said:
First time.... What is the best way to restore this stuff on the stock ROM w/o factory reset?
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So you can usually clear data on all Google services.
But if that doesn't work then boot to recovery and just wipe system, not the whole phone.
This will mean you have to set up your phone again but your storage will remain unaffected. So images, files, music won't be touched