I have a problem with the Acer "apps" on my a500.
when I launch the eReading, Games, Social and Multimedia shortcuts I get a force close on the process "ApinAp (process android com.acer.app)" I have tried to clear data in "ApinAp" but it did not help... it worked when I bought my A500 a week ago.
but I don't know when it stopped working.
if anyone have a solution or a good idea to try please don't hesitate to answer ;-)
Reset it. There's probably a bad app having it's way with your tablet and causing the instability. If it continues to happen on stock, send it back.
Start installing your apps back one by one with time in between to test. Eventually you'll be able to track down the one app you shouldn't be using.
I have the same problem. After rooting, I restored *a lot* of the backups from my 2.2 phone. I uninstalled some because they didn't play nice with honeycomb, but I still haven't been able to find the culprit. Also, restoring the backup from their original, pristine condition did not help. I would really appreciate it if anyone knows which app(s) is/are responsible for this.
Biologos said:
I would really appreciate it if anyone knows which app(s) is/are responsible for this.
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Ideally, you should post all the apps you've installed so anyone coming across this thread can scan what you have and have the chance to see an app that is knowingly bad.
You should always restore to a factory state to make sure it *is* a bad app though. That's the only way to verify if it's Honeycomb or a tablet hardware issue as being the cause rather than a rogue application.
Also, don't install *questionable* apps from *shady* sources. Eventually, this kind of thing will happen.
Well, I have installed lots of free apps, so it would take a while to post them all here. I have removed a few but it didn't help. It could be anything, of course, but I suspect it must be one that has root access. When I tried freezing a few likely culprits, it didn't change anything though.
Do you by any chance use morelocale 2?
I had some force closes and it was because my tablet was using a language that it didn't like (together with my Contacts) so I had to change some settings (use different locale or delete any custom characters from my contact list) and it worked.
I have the same problem. I restored apps from the android market because I couldn't figure out how to make market enabler work in the beginning. Ever since all the native apps are force-closing.
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Do you by any chance use morelocale 2?
I had some force closes and it was because my tablet was using a language that it didn't like (together with my Contacts) so I had to change some settings (use different locale or delete any custom characters from my contact list) and it worked.
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I have removed morelocale2 and the problem persists. However, Even after removing it, the added localisations seem to persist (for example, market is still translated to greek). Does anybody know of a method to completely remove its effects?
Removing locale won't disable it's effects. You can set it and them remove it and the settings will remain as you've set it.
You should reinstall it and then set it back to default settings and see if that helps you problem. My problem was an unsupported language that I've set in it and that caused crashes.
I redownloaded it and reset the settings to English (US). When I did that, the apinap force close message reappeared, so there must be some connection. Then, to make sure, I rebooted and tried the apps. Even though the new/old localisation was working as expected, the acer apps still force close, giving the same error as before.
Odd. Did you enter the info (in morelocale) manually or did you use the two selection buttons and pick the language from there?
I just picked it from the selection list.
Then it's not the same as my problem. But I still suspect that it has something to do with locale.
Do you have any custom characters under your contacts. Because that can cause problems (I've stumbled upon it when I was looking if anyone is experiencing the same crashes as I was).
If you do have them (any greek lethers and such) then try disabling google sync and wiping contacts and see if that helps. If it does than it's your contacts (some people reported that some unsupported characters and multiple notes could cause crashes on tablets).
If it still crashes then just enable sync again and restore the contacts.
I don't know what else you could do if you still experience crashes after that except a hard reset to check if that helps.
Thanks mate, I tried this too. In fact, I also removed everything with any Greek character at all. No luck at all, so I will give it a rest. I will just keep the apps in case they are needed for the 3.1 update.
I never used titanium backup, but if anyone is restoring a full backup set from this application and any honeycomb only settings gets deleted or written over by 2.2 information, you will probably have a crash..
just like flash 10.3 has 2 different libraries loaded, one for 2.2 and one for 3.0 , but only installed one of them, your device with flash will FC, when flash suddenly uses 2.2 libraries.. so not all backups and apps can be easily restored..
you will need to test the apps backed up, and avoid restoring any system settings.
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Anyone else having these problems?
Starting Download...
When you try to download from the Market, it hangs at "Starting Download..." and stays there for days? When you try to open Gtalk it perhaps immediately force-closes?
I was trying to find the solution to this for about four or five days - in the end, I had to do a factory reset. Google is (mostly) unresponsive about this problem.
Things I tried:
Toggling Wifi (nothing)
Changing google acct password so the Market has to ask for it again, perhaps resetting something? (didn't work)
Clearing data, cache, the whole shebang from Gtalk, Market, Gapps (no juice)
Couple of restarts (noooope)
Starting downloads and then killing the Market app - still nothing, and done mostly as a last resort.
Possible causes:
It was not tied to rooting the device - what I think happened was when I went to purchase Root Explorer, I had to create a Google Checkout subaccount, and then I was able to grab it...but after that, I could not install any apps from the Market. It seems like internationally this issue is tied to being @googlemail vs @gmail, but that wasn't my case. I've since restored Vb to her former glory, but it was tedious...factory resets suck and I hope I never have to do another one.
What I've done to keep this from happening in the future:
ROM Manager and Clockwork Recovery. I had backups of my apps and data on my computer of course, but this is soooo much easier.
I'll definitely let you know if it ends up flailing out on me again, but so far I haven't had any problems. If you have an app to back up your stuff, or if you want to just do it manually, do that and then selectively restore things after the factory reset. I actually had so few apps that I ended up just re-downloading them from the Market and everything is working smoothly, but that might be a hassle for others.
I had this problem back on my G1 but that was because I removed the IM.apk package not knowing what the result would be. I got it reinstalled and all was well. I've not run into this issue yet with my Vibrant nor do I know anyone else who has.
Had the same issue and found a way to fix it.
Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Filter -> All -> Download Manager -> Clear Data
Should work. Worked twice for me. I think this is a Vibrant issue
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I think this is a Vibrant issue
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Not so, fortunately or unfortunately. People have been having this issue for over a year and a half, and different things fix it for different people.
I've had my Note for almost 3 weeks and have been fiddling around installing and uninstalling stuff both from the Market and also from Samsung. Today I found an app listed as installed on my device and linked to the Market and I have no idea what it is, how or got there or how to remove it. I think it might be a Korean keyboard, at a guess, but I certainly didn't knowingly install it and I want it gone from my list of apps in the Market. The option to uninstall from within the Market is not offered.
https://market.android.com/details?...1bmcuc2VjLmFuZHJvaWQuaW5wdXRtZXRob2QuYXh0OSJd
It's possible it got linked to the Market when I used Titanium Backup, in the hope of improving administration of my device, but maybe my enthusiasm has backfired on me. Trouble is, since the app is entirely described in foreign characters I don't know where or how to find it using Titanium or anything else in the hope of remedying my apparent error. Any ideas? Thanks.
I might add that I even factory wiped my device, and after initially syncing my account again this wretched thing was once again listed as installed in the Market.
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I've had my Note for almost 3 weeks and have been fiddling around installing and uninstalling stuff both from the Market and also from Samsung. Today I found an app listed as installed on my device and linked to the Market and I have no idea what it is, how or got there or how to remove it. I think it might be a Korean keyboard, at a guess, but I certainly didn't knowingly install it and I want it gone from my list of apps in the Market. The option to uninstall from within the Market is not offered.
https://market.android.com/details?...1bmcuc2VjLmFuZHJvaWQuaW5wdXRtZXRob2QuYXh0OSJd
It's possible it got linked to the Market when I used Titanium Backup, in the hope of improving administration of my device, but maybe my enthusiasm has backfired on me. Trouble is, since the app is entirely described in foreign characters I don't know where or how to find it using Titanium or anything else in the hope of remedying my apparent error. Any ideas? Thanks.
I might add that I even factory wiped my device, and after initially syncing my account again this wretched thing was once again listed as installed in the Market.
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Heaven, Earth is a Hangul input method.
※ How to Install
1. Marketplace> "Heaven, Earth, Samsung IME" search> download and install it.
2. Select Menu> Settings> Language and Keyboard> Samsung keypad to select it.
3. Press and hold in the text input window> Input Method> "Samsung Keypad" to select.
Target Model: Nexus S
You can copy the characters to find it. Between root explorer and titanium backup you should be able to eliminate it. Knowing that it is a keyboard you should be able to locate the files and remove the appropriate ones. I was able to locate this in the market. The app name is 삼성 천지인 입력기(Nexus S전용). Use this name in your searches by copying and pasting.
Thanks for the detailed reply. It seems that Appbrain has a better description for it than the Market. It is the "Samsung Keypad". I've now located it with Titanium and unlinked it from the Market, which is all I really wanted to do, as I did not like seeing it listed when I was checking through my installed apps list.
At least it isn't some malicious app that sneaked onto my device through any of my butter-fingered fumblings.
Does anyone know how can I uninstall the default applications like browser,video player,photo viewer..etc on a Archos 70 Internet Tablet?Has already someone tried this before?
You cannot remove them because they are baked into the read only system image.
a) you can hide them, with the +rw rooting package: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=930197 but it doesn't give you more disk space
b) you can use custom roms like urukdroid
It's your choice.
there is no software which can disassemble the rom from archos to get those out of there?is there a kitchen for archos's rom's?
Nobody has ever written that kitchen software. But this is what Urukdroid was made for
If you are rooted, titanium backup could do the job
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On a related note: I have several apps installed for experimental purposes. I do not want these apps to be started (= become active) automatically.
The same goes for several standard apps. E.g., I often see tasks running for Gallery, Google services, Archos Firmware Update (pointless since I'm running UrukDroid).
Is there a way to prevent this?
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On a related note: I have several apps installed for experimental purposes. I do not want these apps to be started (= become active) automatically.
The same goes for several standard apps. E.g., I often see tasks running for Gallery, Google services, Archos Firmware Update (pointless since I'm running UrukDroid).
Is there a way to prevent this?
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Titanium Backup Pro.
Thanks for the suggestion.
As I understand it I can use this to freeze apps (make them temporarily unavailable). What I want is to just prevent automatically starting of an app, while the app is still available in the full app overview and can be started manually. Can this be done as well?
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Thanks for the suggestion.
As I understand it I can use this to freeze apps (make them temporarily unavailable). What I want is to just prevent automatically starting of an app, while the app is still available in the full app overview and can be started manually. Can this be done as well?
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Sorry, I misunderstood what you wanted to do and I don't know of anything that will do what you want.
Don.
@sciurius:
Android was designed as an OS for mobilephones and they had slow external memory when this started.
So one of the esignes of android is that every sw dev can decide how much of the software should be in memory as long as possible by implementing parts as a so called service.
These get started everytime the device is run.
Other programs get started because they where started by you often, or because they answer to some systemmessages
First get some infos about "Autostart Manager" Apps, some work without root.
Might be interesting to get some infos and you might be able to even write somekind of artikel.
This one is in german, but you just use google translate.
Hi
I use android assistant (available on the market) with an option which may prevent some apps to start
I rooted my GS5 recently and nothing went wrong but when I uninstalled a root app the short-cuts on my keyboard disappeared. By that I mean that my keys on my keyboard normally had short-cuts on them that could be activated by holding the key for 1 second but ever since I uninstalled the root app they disappeared and now I have to go to the other tab on the keyboard to use my short-cuts. Its not a huge deal but its something I got used to and now that its gone it feels weird not having the option. Btw the app I deleted was the one I had to install to get Xblast Tools and Wanam but I cant remember the name of the app. Any help would be appreciated
Restore your backup to fix everything with two or three clicks.
If you aren't making backups, now you know why you should start doing so. Root is very useful but also gives you the power to cause greater damage. You should for instance never delete an app, just rename it so that you can revert changes if you need to.
I have no idea what app you are alluding to. Perhaps someone else will recognize it. Or you could break down and do a search. No doubt if you try a handful of different keywords you would quickly identify the app that you want. It's a good habit to always search before posting a question anyway. Often it gives you an immediate answer. And at the least enables you to pose better informed questions.
HTH
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Hi All,
I have a tablet Tab A model SM-T515 LTE. It has the latest update but it's so slow it's pain to use it. Any suggestions how to make it a bit more usable?
Greetings.
I have a US SM-T515 with a similar issue. I actually logged in to seek a bare-bones ROM. I was able to improve it a lot, however. I started with standard troubleshooting, disabling all visual and system enhancements in the setings, but that made litle change.
Next, I accessed the "Google" tab in settings. I began to disable everything.
When I got to customizion services, i went down the list, disabling each item.
I got to Chrome and disabled that. The screen froze for a moment, and the window closed. Suddenly, there was a marked improvement in performance.
Next, I changed my default browser from Chrome to Firefox, just to be certain that using the browser might not re-enable this somehow, someday, like after an update.
The only issue I found is that now, when I try to access that Google tab in settings, the window flashes open, and closes. I believe something may be corrupt, and removing all Google applications, then re-installing them might fix that, but for now, everything that I want to work, works fine, so I am not touching it.
Good luck, and best wishes!
A sure fire way to speed everything is to degoogle with microg. I haven't tried it on my T510, but the rom I use here still seems peppy. Another thing to try is use a script to reorganize all the sql lite databases. Last resort before degoogle is to backup all your data with the help of Neo Backup and factory reset your device. Then restore the app backups, leaving out anything you can do without.