Hi Guys,
I have a very very annoying problem I need help with which is,
Almost at anytime I hit the home button regardless of where I'm, it asks me to choose either Home Touchwiz, Easy Home Touchwiz or Knox.
I always choose Home Touchwiz and I choose the option ALWAYS, then another small window pop up asking me to go to the task manager to clean the defaults for that app which I did ten's of times but no change.
I almost get the same message when ever I hit the home button to go back to home screen.
I have S4 LTE android 4.3 XSS
I'm not rooted and on original rom.
thank you for helping
I think u can do a factory reset (make a SD Internal memory backup before):
From your home screen press the apps icon in the lower right corner.
Find and press the settings icon.
In the upper end of the screen press the accounts tab.
In the bottom of the next screen press the Backup and reset button.
Press the factory data reset.
Read the info on your cell phone screen and hit Reset device.
Joku1981 said:
I think u can do a factory reset (make a SD Internal memory backup before):
From your home screen press the apps icon in the lower right corner.
Find and press the settings icon.
In the upper end of the screen press the accounts tab.
In the bottom of the next screen press the Backup and reset button.
Press the factory data reset.
Read the info on your cell phone screen and hit Reset device.
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Well, it seems that it has helped me, only thing is, when I saw the backup was checked, i thought back will be made first!
It didn't!
I could only restore my home screen and SMS logs!
that was my mistake so thank you for the help.
cheers man
To me, it looks like your clearing the default choice, which would then ask you to set default again.
S4 victim
theunderling said:
To me, it looks like your clearing the default choice, which would then ask you to set default again.
S4 victim
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Eventually, I understood that but whether I did it or not, the result is the same. I keep getting that screen.
not anymore :cyclops:
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Hi pls help,
Just got an At&T Fuze......its got couple of inbuilt themes but when I apply it doesn't change......i tried all of those but it remains d same.......do i need to unlock something or some problem with my fone???
Any help is appreciated.......thanks in advance....
Get TF3D
I'm assuming you mean the TouchFlo 3D theme and not the windows theme?
You need to download and install TF3D found in this section. Then find a theme, there are plenty posted on here as well.
No by theme i mean the actual theme........taskbar....the bottom bar...menu...etc.....it just remains the same even after applying new theme.....is it some problem with my fone??
pls help
Are you clicking the "ok" in the top right after you select the theme? I just got a Fuze yesterday and no problems switching themes here...
Try what Maxxpower just said.
If it's not that then I doubt there's a problem with the handset... just the software. Try reflashing it with a rom or something?
I had that problem with my fuze too, something messed up during the initial setup and the top and bottom bars were green and never changed with any theme.. may not be the answer your looking for, but a hard reset fixed it for me.
Hard Reset:
Take off back cover, remove stylus.. find red "reset button".
Hold down Volume Down and Main Circle Button... press red reset button with stylus at same time. Release reset button keep volume down and main button pressed.
Wait for some text to come up on screen, press volume up to continue, press volume up to reboot.
Just incase OP didn't know =]
brummiesteven said:
Hard Reset:
Take off back cover, remove stylus.. find red "reset button".
Hold down Volume Down and Main Circle Button... press red reset button with stylus at same time. Release reset button keep volume down and main button pressed.
Wait for some text to come up on screen, press volume up to continue, press volume up to reboot.
Just incase OP didn't know =]
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Or just go to Start>Settings>System>Clear Storage> Type 1234 and click yes
lol. Wasn't that easier? haha it's just another method. I prefer the above method when you can't access the device at all. This one is much smoother and faster since you only have to type instead of opening and clicking and holding. Just my opinion
thanks a ton guys!! i will try a hard reset and hope it works.........
Kraize said:
Or just go to Start>Settings>System>Clear Storage> Type 1234 and click yes
lol. Wasn't that easier? haha it's just another method. I prefer the above method when you can't access the device at all. This one is much smoother and faster since you only have to type instead of opening and clicking and holding. Just my opinion
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haha! Thanks for mentioning that
I had no idea that this method was the same was a hard reset
HTC TOUCH HDThe device stuck in animated gif. Try to do hardreset, first become bootloaderscreen and then a message "No image file"
Please Help
What a hell of a job with these small buttons!
Thanks in advance!
this way
On a powered off phone hold down the volume down and the volume up button and power on at the same time. After a couble of secunds you will get a warning... You can now let go of the buttoms. if you want to proceed with the hard-reset you press wolume up buttom otherwise you press something else..
Rememeger you will delete all you data by hard-resseting your phone
luckyuser said:
HTC TOUCH HDThe device stuck in animated gif. Try to do hardreset, first become bootloaderscreen and then a message "No image file"
Please Help
What a hell of a job with these small buttons!
Thanks in advance!
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I had some issues as well the first time I wanted to hard-reset my HD. But after several times, I got it. I laid down my HD, pressed the upper and lower volume button at the same time with my right hand, and pressed the power button at the same time with my left hand, and it will come.
Just try several times, and you'll get the same. But try to backup some part before if it's possible!
The one you've done (I guess) is the bootloader, which will appear when you press the volume down and power button at the same time.
GreenFrog
I have a Dutch device, so I don't know exactly how it's called in the English rom. But this is what I did:
Goto 'Settings' => 'System' and then something called 'Opslag wissen' in the Dutch rom. In english it would be something like 'Delete data'.
When you do that you are asked to enter "1234" and press the YES button. After that, the default settings are restored and all data is deleted.
Now this is my issue: I had installed several programs on the memory card and they are stil there, which is good. They even work after the reset, which is also good. But I can't put them in the programs menu or programs tab anymore, which is not good.
Does anyone know how to solve this? Or do I have to get rid of all the programs and reinstall them again?
Grtz,
Thijs
Re-install the applications..
Hey.. I think the easyest is to re-install the applications... Just because you choose to install them om the memorycard, the software stills place som files in windows system files...
backup
just to be sure i always have a map on external storage with all the cab files i installed. in case of hard reset ik can always reinstall everything whereever i am.
thijs84 said:
I have a Dutch device, so I don't know exactly how it's called in the English rom. But this is what I did:
Goto 'Settings' => 'System' and then something called 'Opslag wissen' in the Dutch rom. In english it would be something like 'Delete data'.
When you do that you are asked to enter "1234" and press the YES button. After that, the default settings are restored and all data is deleted.
Now this is my issue: I had installed several programs on the memory card and they are stil there, which is good. They even work after the reset, which is also good. But I can't put them in the programs menu or programs tab anymore, which is not good.
Does anyone know how to solve this? Or do I have to get rid of all the programs and reinstall them again?
Grtz,
Thijs
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you can re-create shortcuts in Programs folder with Resco Explorer just by tapping and holding down and then selecting "create shortcut". hope it helps
GreenFrog said:
I had some issues as well the first time I wanted to hard-reset my HD. But after several times, I got it. I laid down my HD, pressed the upper and lower volume button at the same time with my right hand, and pressed the power button at the same time with my left hand, and it will come.
Just try several times, and you'll get the same. But try to backup some part before if it's possible!
The one you've done (I guess) is the bootloader, which will appear when you press the volume down and power button at the same time.
GreenFrog
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@GreenFrog Thanks for the quick reply!
Now i know what I was doing wrong, I pressed the upper and lower volume button at the same time pressing the power button, but I'm instantly hold the powerbutton down, instead of pressing it one's!
But the mean problem for all this misery was a corrupted SD-Card (There were no more Apps installed, something had blow them away,the directory Programfiles was complet empty), the device couldn't start up Windows Mobile. When I remove the SD-card everything works fine again, except that i have to re-install all apps.This looks very strang to me, never had such an issue before!
the trick is to hold both the volume keys down and to press the power button just once. It will not work if you hold down the power button while the device is turning on.
Hope this helps
This also stumped me for a while.
The difference between going to the bootloader and doing a hard reset is that to do hard reset, you press BOTH the up and down side of the volume key whereas to go to bootloader, you press only the lower side of the volume key. In both cases, you press the power button.
Remember to do this after shutting down the device.
The approach of going into setting and do a clear storage is fine as long as the device is not frozen up yet.
Hope this makes it clearer for everyone.
skreis said:
you can re-create shortcuts in Programs folder with Resco Explorer just by tapping and holding down and then selecting "create shortcut". hope it helps
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You beat me to it, but yes, listen to the man, as he knows what he's talking bout
Ok...
On my last WM phone, the Motorola Q9c I was able to use the back button to go back to what every program I was using previously.
So, for example if I was in Opera and hit the Home button to go WM home screen, I could then press the back button and go right back to opera.
That's not the case on the Snap for me... anyone know of a hack/setting or something that will allow this?
It works for me... if i press the back button it goes the the screen/program i previously had opened
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It works for me... if i press the back button it goes the the screen/program i previously had opened
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Seriously? The back button is the one under the right soft key right?
So, if you are in say GoogleMaps and your phone either goes idle to the home screen and you hit that back button it takes you back to google maps?
Yes, just tested your google maps example seeing i never use that, but when i use the back button (the one left of the power/call end button) it goes from the home screen back to google maps.
Maybe it's a setting somewhere?
it works for me as well, seems like ur the only one here with that issue.
sorry man..only thing i can think of is possibly trying to uninstall and re-install ur new apps and see what that does..maybe even hardreset!
how do u hard-reset the Snap?
I can't get this to happen either. The home screen stays put.
to hardreset :
start > system tools > clear storage
at that point u should be prompted to enter "1234" to set the device back to its factory settings, basically out of box.
Even after a hard reset i am still having this problem.
It's really annoying... anyone have any idea/setting/regsitry hack?
I was sending a text message and when I tried to long press the 'm' key to type a question mark I realized all of my long press punctuation options are gone. Puzzled, I looked in the keyboard's settings for a solution but couldn't find anything. I find it much less convenient to have to press the Sym button every time I want to insert punctuation. Has anyone else experienced this?
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I was sending a text message and when I tried to long press the 'm' key to type a question mark I realized all of my long press punctuation options are gone. Puzzled, I looked in the keyboard's settings for a solution but couldn't find anything. I find it much less convenient to have to press the Sym button every time I want to insert punctuation. Has anyone else experienced this?
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1. Go to Apps - Settings - More - Application manager - All (last tab) and look for "Samsung Keyboard"/"Keyboard Samsung"
2. Click it, click button delete cache and delete data
3. Reboot ur phone
4. Tell us how works now
I've already tried that with no luck.
Nihilian said:
I've already tried that with no luck.
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1- Make a backup of ur Internal Memory
2- Do a factory reset:
- From your home screen press the apps icon in the lower right corner.
- Find and press the settings icon.
- In the upper end of the screen press the accounts tab.
- In the bottom of the next screen press the Backup and reset button.
- Press the factory data reset.
- Read the info on your cell phone screen and hit Reset device.
Joku1981 said:
1- Make a backup of ur Internal Memory
2- Do a factory reset:
- From your home screen press the apps icon in the lower right corner.
- Find and press the settings icon.
- In the upper end of the screen press the accounts tab.
- In the bottom of the next screen press the Backup and reset button.
- Press the factory data reset.
- Read the info on your cell phone screen and hit Reset device.
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Will this remove root access?
Nihilian said:
Will this remove root access?
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No
Ok I did a factory reset but my keyboard still isn't fixed. Now I'm starting to wonder if it even had that feature in the first place. It did, didn't it?
Nihilian said:
Ok I did a factory reset but my keyboard still isn't fixed. Now I'm starting to wonder if it even had that feature in the first place. It did, didn't it?
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Is grabing the key .
*EDIT: When i press "m" or other letter i haven't nothing sorry
That is so weird. I swear I could long press a letter and it would come up with a symbol. Oh well thanks for your help
For anyone interested, I did find an app that adds this feature onto your stock keyboard called Samsung Keyboard Alt Symbols, and it can be downloaded through the Xposed Installer.
Hi all,
My phone rebooted and I lost all custom settings (like text size, custom ringtone etc.), while retaining other apps data. This was simple to repair
Problem is, since then my "Home" button doesn't execute launcher anymore. If I long-press, it shows tasks list, so the button is working, but short press does.. nothing.
I installed Home2 Shortcut - doesn't work either.
Cleared TouchWiz settings - no change
Cleared "Application preferences" - no change
Installed Nova Launcher - works fine, but won't return to home screen on "Home" press.
I guess some simple setting got corrupted, but I've no idea where to look for that. I'd rather not reflash the phone just because of this one button, but it's quite nice to be able to go to Home screen
Any advice?
Try this:
1. Long-press home button and select the "cheese"
2. Go to the last tab called "Clear default Settings"
3. You will have there something called: TouchWiz Home. Clear it.
4. Go back to the start screen and long-press home button again.
Joku1981 said:
Try this:
1. Long-press home button and select the "cheese"
2. Go to the last tab called "Clear default Settings"
3. You will have there something called: TouchWiz Home. Clear it.
4. Go back to the start screen and long-press home button again.
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Thanks for suggestion, but I already tried that. Home button still doesn't react to short press.
Actually, it does react to short press - when I want to wake up the phone. But it doesn't run launcher.
I have exactly the same problem. Button physically works fine will click to show lock screen when off , double press for s voice ( when on ) and hold for task manager. it just wont single press to actually go home..grrrrrrrr
Stasheck said:
Thanks for suggestion, but I already tried that. Home button still doesn't react to short press.
Actually, it does react to short press - when I want to wake up the phone. But it doesn't run launcher.
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ok solution for me was a full master reset via recovery. All good now.
tinentiuk said:
I have exactly the same problem. Button physically works fine will click to show lock screen when off , double press for s voice ( when on ) and hold for task manager. it just wont single press to actually go home..grrrrrrrr
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Yeah, I figure a reset/reflash will do, but it's another couple hours (which I don't have ) to restore everything after that
I got the same problem
I was planning to upgrade firmware anyway though