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Apps wont delete/Factory reset NOT working!

Just bought a Verizon tab on Sunday. It is still stock, not rooted. Was using Launcher Pro and Dolphin HD. Was running well, until earlier tonight, when random apps started force closing then I noticed that several apps that I had downloaded before, and I had then deleted, were now showing back up installed. I have deleted them all since several times from Market and or Astro. I have also changed the wallpaper, and after a reboot, all settings would revert, bringing back the deleted apps and the old wallpaper.
Finally after numerous reboots, I decided to do a factory reset, and it is NOT working. It runs though the process, but when it boots back up, it still shows the old deleted apps and old wallpaper. PLEASE HELP!

Nobody? Seems like I got a lemon. I am going to take it back to Best Buy for an exchange.

Sounds like something funky is happening with your google backup/restore (assuming you have that enabled). Try turning it off and starting over from there.

Never had that enabled originally. Tried enabling and then undoing. No matter what I did it wouldn't work right. I took it back to Best Buy and exchanged it. Typing on the new one now. Hopefully all's good with this one.
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[Q] My magazine notification issue

Hi everyone,
I've been running my Note 3 with Nova Prime for the last week now and it's been great. I was able to get rid of the swipe up gesture to open My magazine. However, recently (in the last 24 hrs or so) I am randomly getting a popup notification "Unfortunately. My Magazine Here and Now has Stopped". As far as I can tell, I've gotten about 5 times now. I just press okay and it goes away, but its a little annoying because it never did this. I've tried clearing cache, restarting the phone, but it keeps coming back.
Is anyone having this issue? Did I perhaps change a setting that I shouldn't have? Or, did my phone get OTA update that I didn't know about?
Sorry, new to Android.
Thanks in advance.

Madcatz09123 said:
Hi everyone,
I've been running my Note 3 with Nova Prime for the last week now and it's been great. I was able to get rid of the swipe up gesture to open My magazine. However, recently (in the last 24 hrs or so) I am randomly getting a popup notification "Unfortunately. My Magazine Here and Now has Stopped". As far as I can tell, I've gotten about 5 times now. I just press okay and it goes away, but its a little annoying because it never did this. I've tried clearing cache, restarting the phone, but it keeps coming back.
Is anyone having this issue? Did I perhaps change a setting that I shouldn't have? Or, did my phone get OTA update that I didn't know about?
Sorry, new to Android.
Thanks in advance.
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Yes, this is happening to mine too. I'm also running Nova so I wonder if that has something to do with the error.

andocore said:
Yes, this is happening to mine too. I'm also running Nova so I wonder if that has something to do with the error.
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Nova isn't the problem, I'm running TouchWiz and I'm getting the error as well.

Symmetric said:
Nova isn't the problem, I'm running TouchWiz and I'm getting the error as well.
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Were you always getting the error?

+1 for getting this error. I am running nova but the error pops up while browsing the gallery and also in a few apps. It makes the phone unresponsive for about 5 sec and then I get the notification.

I am getting this error message as well... anybody found solution to fix this? at least I would like to know what is causing this issue...
Thanks in advance!

Having the same issue
I am having the same issue as well. Can't even uninstall or disable that app.

It's start to happening to me as well and it's annoying. I never root my phone or anything. How to fix this or completely remove it? Thanks

My phone also locks up for a few seconds before it displays the notification. I getting annoying too as is happening about 4-5 times a day now while in different apps. Last night or was in waze and this morning it was in calendar.
I'm thinking of restoring my phone but I really don't want to.
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Having Same Issue
I have cleared the cache and force stopped the app and still get the notification . Just started a few days ago.

I too have tried to narrow down the issue in application manager, with no luck. Really frustrating!

The solution
Uninstall FlipBoard. This worked for me. If Flip Board cannot be uninstalled, the remove the latest update.

AngeloFleming said:
Uninstall FlipBoard. This worked for me. If Flip Board cannot be uninstalled, the remove the latest update.
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I uninstalled FlipBoard and the error continued, it happens to me about 2 times per hour. Then the next time I rebooted my Note3, Flipboard updated itself again.

I'm not exactly sure why but I haven't had the issue for about a day now. Fingers crossed.
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Same issue here. This is the crap that annoys the hell outta me. Why cant I remove this or disable it at the least. Flipboard cant be uninstalled. I removed the latest updates still the same issue. Turn off auto updating will stop the app from auto updating. Ive disabled auto updates for now, not confident that will cure the issue...

I'm having this issue as well. It's weird that it's happening even when launch the dialer to call someone. It freezes for around 5 seconds, and displays the error message.

Me too
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So after being error-free for about 4 days, it's back. I've gotten the error four times already today, three of them while running waze on my way to work. Doesn't really make sense since I wasn't even handling the phone at the time.
Has anybody tried rooting their phone and removing all the magazine stuff with titanium backup?
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Same problem here...new to Android
Hello. I am having the same problem here as well. I have only download a few things before I started having this crash. In fact, my phone seem to be pretty unstable with numerous things crashing, including the camera app, as well as some other camera apps. I don't really think I have installed too much, or anything crazy, but then I am just starting with Andoid, so not really sure. Just came from iPhone. Want to root...just not sure what I am doing yet. But if it will help get rid of this problem, I am game...but this is pretty uncool. Will I loose my S Pen Air Command on my Note 3? I have read conflicting reports.
Thanks!!
If anybody has any new developments, please post.
Thanks!!

I found something that works
If you open up that magazine app by swiping up, then click on the 3 lines, then uncheck every thing except social.
That worked for me!

[Q] Nexus 4, Force close loop on all apps, Help?

Last night my phone was working perfectly and i didnt install any new apps yesterday so i dont know what caused this to happen...
At about 6am today i turned on my phone. it was all fine until i unlocked it. When i put in my pattern it unlocked and it showed a few of my icons for about half a second and then it came up with an error message saying that the launcher had crashed so i pressed "ok" and it came up again so i pressed "report" and then it said "market feedback agent has stopped" and went back to the launcher and came up with the first error again.
i was just thinking about a way of getting around all the errors to install a new launcher so then i could use my phone. i plugged in my earphones and used the button to start playing my music, then i unlocked my phone and quickly opened skype before the error came up again and then i went in my notifications and i could open Play Music from the notification, i had a notification for an app update so i clicked it and it opened the play store so i installed "go launcher ex" i tried going into my recent apps to change my song but it said "system ui" had crashed, i tried to get into my settings but that crashed too, i worked out that it was most of the stock apps and a few others like bbm that werent working.
device specifications:
Nexus 4
Android 4.3
Rooted
Stock rom
Stock kernal
I dont know what to do without losing everything? thank you for any help

rebooted already? This usually fixes a lot of probs.
cheers

This is happening to me to. I fix it by clearing the ram or closing all open apps. But it happens like once daily now. Any long term solutions?
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DrHero said:
This is happening to me to. I fix it by clearing the ram or closing all open apps. But it happens like once daily now. Any long term solutions?
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same issue as here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513412
just different description... Just cleared google service framework data... will check back in on that thread after tomorrow morning and let you know if it works.

Same here. Bone stock and I don't even shut the phone off but overnight something happens to it and all apps crash. It sucks because it was my morning alarm but the clock app crashes without sounding the alarm.
If I reboot it will work perfect till the next morning, then all over again. Wiped and it still does it. Called it in and Google wasn't aware of anything so if you get this make sure and call Google so they know its widespread.

I cleared services framework and it solved it. So far, 2 days without infinite force closes
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Same thing happened to me today. I rebooted into recovery, cleared cache, clear dalvik cache and reboot. Been fine since.

daewond3r said:
Same thing happened to me today. I rebooted into recovery, cleared cache, clear dalvik cache and reboot. Been fine since.
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That did not fix it for me.
I got the infinite loop the next morning.

i tried re-booting but nothing happened, i had to go into recovery mode and reset my phone. now i wish i made a backup.

I haven't been getting those major crashes yet but after a while I can't open any apps or they "stop. " I think it has been happening ever since I returned to stock for the kit Kat update. Closing all the apps sometimes fixes it but that ruins my favorite part of the phone which is I can have all my stuff open all the time.
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I'm still having this problem. Did everyone else fix it or did it just go away?
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You guys should try fastboot flash system... I was getting these crashes awhile back and flashing the system.IMG solved it for me. You will not loose any data either
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Frequent Freezing and Reboots on 4APIA

On 10/17/16 I took the OTA to take me from the July Security patch to the September security patch, with build number G935TUVU4APIA.
With in the first day of the update I experienced the phone freezing on the home screen, then rebooting. Later on I found it had rebooted while in my pocket (prompted for pin and system up time was minutes). Ever since over past 6 days it has become frozen and rebooted multiple times a day. Anywhere 2 to 5 times a day doing various different things.
I have tried clearing all system and app cache since after the update. Unfortantely that has not helped at all. So what I would like to know is anyone else on this build experiencing these reboots, or was before and fixed it?
I'm trying to determine if its a bug with this build, cause I will be really annoyed if I have to go through the trouble of a factory reset, then find out it didn't help cause its an issue with this specific build. If some other stock people can confirm this build is not rebooting for them I will give factory reset a try.

AndroidPurity said:
On 10/17/16 I took the OTA to take me from the July Security patch to the September security patch, with build number G935TUVU4APIA.
With in the first day of the update I experienced the phone freezing on the home screen, then rebooting. Later on I found it had rebooted while in my pocket (prompted for pin and system up time was minutes). Ever since over past 6 days it has become frozen and rebooted multiple times a day. Anywhere 2 to 5 times a day doing various different things.
I have tried clearing all system and app cache since after the update. Unfortantely that has not helped at all. So what I would like to know is anyone else on this build experiencing these reboots, or was before and fixed it?
I'm trying to determine if its a bug with this build, cause I will be really annoyed if I have to go through the trouble of a factory reset, then find out it didn't help cause its an issue with this specific build. If some other stock people can confirm this build is not rebooting for them I will give factory reset a try.
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Idon't have this build installed yet but the previous one and had the same issue, turned out to be my alarm clock plus app causing it to reboot on an alarm.
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Shrubby said:
Idon't have this build installed yet but the previous one and had the same issue, turned out to be my alarm clock plus app causing it to reboot on an alarm.
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Dang that sucks, worse time for it to fail when its supposed to wake you up lol! Thanks or the suggestion but I don't think its app related since it happens on home screen, in app drawer, in chrome, and in my pocket with screen off. Unless its an app in the back ground. But I haven't installed any new in past 5 days apps that I would say are uncommon that aren't supported well.
Edit: I just checked. Since the OTA I did install 1 app the day after. The Nexia app for smart thermostat that came with my new furnace. I don't think thats it since I can recall at least 1 reboot after the OTA and before that app. But just in case I will uninstall that app for a couple days just to test. Thanks!

Shrubby said:
Idon't have this build installed yet but the previous one and had the same issue, turned out to be my alarm clock plus app causing it to reboot on an alarm.
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I use I cant wake up alarm clock and experience that too. I am rooted but still keep the alarm clock because it rearms on reboot and still works. so no biggie for me
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I had a serious freeze/lock up last night. I am on the same build and NOT rooted. I even tried holding down the power button and the phone was unresponsive. Cap. keys stayed lit the whole time. After holding down for 45 sec or so it finally relented and rebooted. But this combined with random heat surges/ups really have me pissed.

Had the same issue. On u firmware now cuz i couldnt take it. One thing that seemed to help some was removing the sd card and wiping cache then rebooting. I let it run for a few hours then put in sd card. Seemed to help alot

I'm back to follow up with the results from uninstalling the only app I installed since the update. It actually almost went 24 hours without a freeze and reboot. I was starting to think it actually was the culprit. But then I had 2 freezes and reboot today. ��
So I have switched back to my Nexus 6P for a while. Thanks to those who also reported the same issue! Since other people are reporting the same issue it seems to be a bug in this build unfortunately. So here is to Samsung pushing out a fix soon. Until then I will be using my 6P. If they haven't fixed it in a couple weeks then I will probably flash to the U firmware too. What variant is the U firmware from anyways? The unlocked North America variant?

I installed the update and have been running it for the past four days with no problems to report thus far. If I get a reboot or any freezing I'll let you folks know. Perhaps try a factory reset.
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I get a reboot twice a day. Sometimes the phone will freeze while I'm scrolling through my internet browser or it will reboot if I'm using the SAMSUNG branded car charger and Google Maps at the same time. Other times it'll just randomly reboot out of nowhere.
This is extremely frustrating. T-Mobile recommended that I get an exchange and I did get an exchange and the same day it rebooted on me. I called complaining that it's not a hardware issue and they told me to exchange the phone again. Smh.
This sucks especially since I use GPS a lot. This phone was/is perfect before the update.
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OuncE718 said:
I get a reboot twice a day. Sometimes the phone will freeze while I'm scrolling through my internet browser or it will reboot if I'm using the SAMSUNG branded car charger and Google Maps at the same time. Other times it'll just randomly reboot out of nowhere.
This is extremely frustrating. T-Mobile recommended that I get an exchange and I did get an exchange and the same day it rebooted on me. I called complaining that it's not a hardware issue and they told me to exchange the phone again. Smh.
This sucks especially since I use GPS a lot. This phone was/is perfect before the update.
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Yeah... Carriers need to train their employees to be able to know how to tell the difference between a hardware and software issue. For example if a user reports something didn't happen until a recent update, then that should be an automatic sign to not waste that customers time with a pointless exchange.

Phone Freezing After 2 Weeks

I have had the phone for what will be 2 weeks tomorrow, I preordered it in and picked it up at a Sprint Store. I have had a new issue showing up the last couple of days. I will take out my phone and find that it is frozen. I will not respond to pressing the power or volume buttons. The most recent time this happened, I noticed that the light on the left hand top of the phone was lit purple, so it clearly was not off. I am not sure if that was true when this happened before. Anyway, the only thing to do at this point is to hold the power key down for about 10 seconds, which restarts the phone. It happened twice today, the first time when I got up in the morning and tried to wake up my phone, and then on the way home from work, I had my phone in my pocket while I was riding the subway and reading a paper, and when I took the phone out it had the same problem. This also happened I think one other time either yesterday or the day before.
Also, a few days earlier, the phone also froze when I was trying to do a camera burst by holding down the camera button. That time, it froze on the last image I had on the camera. That was when I found I could restart the phone by holding the button 10 seconds.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening and what I should do....before I bring it back to the Sprint Store, I mean.

I'm having the same issues too! Locks up at least once a day.

maltydog said:
I have had the phone for what will be 2 weeks tomorrow, I preordered it in and picked it up at a Sprint Store. I have had a new issue showing up the last couple of days. I will take out my phone and find that it is frozen. I will not respond to pressing the power or volume buttons. The most recent time this happened, I noticed that the light on the left hand top of the phone was lit purple, so it clearly was not off. I am not sure if that was true when this happened before. Anyway, the only thing to do at this point is to hold the power key down for about 10 seconds, which restarts the phone. It happened twice today, the first time when I got up in the morning and tried to wake up my phone, and then on the way home from work, I had my phone in my pocket while I was riding the subway and reading a paper, and when I took the phone out it had the same problem. This also happened I think one other time either yesterday or the day before.
Also, a few days earlier, the phone also froze when I was trying to do a camera burst by holding down the camera button. That time, it froze on the last image I had on the camera. That was when I found I could restart the phone by holding the button 10 seconds.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening and what I should do....before I bring it back to the Sprint Store, I mean.
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I did had a couple freezes early on, but haven't had any as of late. Question did you set the phone up with a back up, or did you do a clean install. In some other forums it was suggested to set the phone up from scratch with no back up or transferring data from another device.

swagglepuff said:
I did had a couple freezes early on, but haven't had any as of late. Question did you set the phone up with a back up, or did you do a clean install. In some other forums it was suggested to set the phone up from scratch with no back up or transferring data from another device.
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I got my data from Google. It hasn't frozen again in the last few days.

maltydog said:
I have had the phone for what will be 2 weeks tomorrow, I preordered it in and picked it up at a Sprint Store. I have had a new issue showing up the last couple of days. I will take out my phone and find that it is frozen. I will not respond to pressing the power or volume buttons. The most recent time this happened, I noticed that the light on the left hand top of the phone was lit purple, so it clearly was not off. I am not sure if that was true when this happened before. Anyway, the only thing to do at this point is to hold the power key down for about 10 seconds, which restarts the phone. It happened twice today, the first time when I got up in the morning and tried to wake up my phone, and then on the way home from work, I had my phone in my pocket while I was riding the subway and reading a paper, and when I took the phone out it had the same problem. This also happened I think one other time either yesterday or the day before.
Also, a few days earlier, the phone also froze when I was trying to do a camera burst by holding down the camera button. That time, it froze on the last image I had on the camera. That was when I found I could restart the phone by holding the button 10 seconds.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening and what I should do....before I bring it back to the Sprint Store, I mean.
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My phone a few days ago was freezing constantly and stuttering. I went into safe mode and the phone was working fine. Nova kept saying it wasn't responding. So I deleted Nova, a few icon packs. The phone has been running smoothly. No issues at all. I have installed Lawnchair Launcher. Everything still running smoothly.

Another thing I have noticed is that things kind of just work themselves out with this device. I experienced a few freezes early on and some laggy moments. This last week the phone feels good, no freezes or anything.

There's a new update on the play store called "essential services" an entirely different thing from "essential resources". Since I am fortunate enough not have the freezing issue, can one of you guys see if this fixes it?

RoccoN4 said:
My phone a few days ago was freezing constantly and stuttering. I went into safe mode and the phone was working fine. Nova kept saying it wasn't responding. So I deleted Nova, a few icon packs. The phone has been running smoothly. No issues at all. I have installed Lawnchair Launcher. Everything still running smoothly.
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After a few quiet days, mine started freezing up again. I have been using Nova, so I decided to try the Lawnchair launcher, but that crashes every time I try to open it. So I am trying the default launcher, and I will see how it is.

maltydog said:
After a few quiet days, mine started freezing up again. I have been using Nova, so I decided to try the Lawnchair launcher, but that crashes every time I try to open it. So I am trying the default launcher, and I will see how it is.
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Did you try safemode? It shouldn't crash there. So it's an app. Not sure why Nova won't play well on my phone. Lawnchair is butter smooth for me. Tried the new Pixel 2 Launcher and that works great to.

My phone has frozen even in safe mode and I have only used the stock launcher. It seems to happen when cellular signal is very low. Doesn't seem to matter what app I have open, although I suspect the camera app is involved as it usually is when photos are being sent to cloud.

maltydog said:
After a few quiet days, mine started freezing up again. I have been using Nova, so I decided to try the Lawnchair launcher, but that crashes every time I try to open it. So I am trying the default launcher, and I will see how it is.
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Are you on the 81c firmware? That update was supposed to fix the freezing

flakko86 said:
Are you on the 81c firmware? That update was supposed to fix the freezing
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I'm on the latest firmware. I kid you not, after a few minutes running Nova, the stuttering and freezing starts. I keep testing every few days to see if the problem goes away. It's always there. I'm happy with Lawnchair for now

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Are you on the 81c firmware? That update was supposed to fix the freezing
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I got the phone from Sprint, and unfortunately, we have not gotten the update yet.

maltydog said:
I got the phone from Sprint, and unfortunately, we have not gotten the update yet.
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Sideload it, it's what I did
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jasonevil said:
Sideload it, it's what I did
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How did you side load it? I have tried the sim card trick and I can't get it to work.

swagglepuff said:
How did you side load it? I have tried the sim card trick and I can't get it to work.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74040767&postcount=11
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74040767&postcount=11
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Awesome, I can't wait to get home tonight!!!!!!!! Thank you

So... did the update solve the freezing issues? Thanks
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swagglepuff said:
Awesome, I can't wait to get home tonight!!!!!!!! Thank you
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So... did the update solve the freezing issues? Thanks

freccia said:
So... did the update solve the freezing issues? Thanks
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So... did the update solve the freezing issues? Thanks
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Haven't had any issues since the update.

Mine just froze this morning when I was waking it up, first time since the update.