I was messing with some Xposed modules that tweaked the appearance of the notification bar, and after disabling and uninstalling them I did a reboot. When the phone reboots and the system loads, I get the message that System UI has stopped working, over and over. The edge bar still works and the phone is blinking to let me know of messages, and the AOD is functional. So the underlying system processes are working, it's just the UI which makes it impossible to do anything.
Any suggestions other than wiping and flashing all over? Is there any way o could somehow push the original system UI apk to the phone to see if that would help? TIA.
Amusingly, I got in my car to head to work, I watched as the phone connected via Bluetooth to the car and started playing music from Spotify (despite the UI failures).
What kills me is that I can pull out the edge panel, where of course I have Flashfire, Xposed Installer, Root Explorer, TiBu, etc. Can't launch any of them though.
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Hey Guys,
I just recently got my Nexus 4, and began to do some work on it. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed PhilZ Touch recovery, rooted, and got Xposed framework, all on stock ROM and Kernel. I began to restore all my apps, data, files, etc.. and just finished. But I noticed something that I cant remember if it happened right out of the box: when I proceed to expand my notifications, my device vibrates a short but noticeable vibrate. I have full control over vibration, sound, etc.. elsewhere, except in the notification shade with these expanding notifications. I have gone through ROM settings, Kernel Settings, Gravity Box, etc and cant see if this is something I did or if this is how its always been, and if so, how to disable it. Thanks in advance guys.
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Hey Guys,
I tried booting into safe mode and checking, and it seemed that it still happened, although all my Xposed tweaks were still visibly there. This means it isnt an app, but could possibly be GravityBox, Xuimod or tweakbox. I will start disabling these modules to see if it fixes the problems.
Update on Notification Expand/Collapse Vibration
Alright. I made a nandroid to preserve my device in its current state, and proceeded to disable all xposed modules and rebooted. My device continued to vibrate when notifications were expanded/collapsed, and so with all modules disabled, I booted into safe mode to disable all user apps, essentially making my device pure stock. This did not change anything, and I still receive vibrations. Although I did notice that it only happens when I expand/collapse with one finger. When two are used, there is no vibration. I am at a loss of idea's now for trying to fix the one finger expand/collapse vibration. Is this a stock thing? Is it supposed to be like this? Thanks.
Upon further investigation, I can safely conclude that it is a stock "feature". Thanks again everybody.
You know I can't say I ever noticed the vibrate. It's that insignificant why did you go through all that.
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I guess its because I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something I did wrong or anything like that. It's my OCD
Starting today I at times get some melody that sounds a bit like that Samsung bootup sound, but longer, maybe 10 seconds - and it keeps getting repeated, killing my nerves.
Went into application manager, but wasn't able to identify the culprit, and to my annoyance I wasn't even able to stop it at all (except for by reboot)! Battery stats showed a lot of drain by media server, but it wasn't in the process list. A friend suspected Timely to be the cause of it, but uninstalling that alarm and clock app didn't stop the melody. After another reboot the tablet remained silent - until a minute ago, when I plugged the power plug into its jack. [emoji35]
Anybody here having a hint for me? I'd really appreciate!
SM-T530, Original firmware, rooted
Your tab is haunted. ......lel
Just kidding not sure what could be making that. Do you have any sort system sounds enabled? Try leaving System Sounds off and media and notifications on, and so on so at least you get an idea of where its coming from
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Hm. Muting notifications makes the sound go away, muting system sounds doesn't.
Is there some tool like lsof for Android?
Silly question, of course it's available.
But - the output doesn't show ogg/wav/mp3
Any hints what to look for?
sounds like an app is trying to push through a notification that might not be coming through. I would try (i know its a pain) deleting and re installing some of the apps that you may have installed around the time the noise started occurring. I had turned off notifications for an app that still managed to do a pop up notification for a game i play (settings still showed notifications off). I had to force stop and wipe the cache and it never did it again.
Hm. Do you think wiping the whole system cache will do as well?
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Hm. Do you think wiping the whole system cache will do as well?
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It's worth a shot. You could also just do factory reset
I had a similar problem and it was the Yahoo! mail app, which was configured to play a notification sound when messages were received, but not to show anything in the status bar, which was making me crazy because I did not know why the device was playing a sound without nothing visibly happening. Hope it'll help. Cheers!
So, I have a very curious problem with my phone. Sometimes, randomly, usually when playing video, my navbar and statusbar disappear completely, and then everything just goes to black, my wallpaper comes up, and then my lockscreen. The phone just locks itself. I use fingerprint, but I need to enter the code to "enable fingerprint". I'm guessing System UI is crashing, but why?
I used to be on stock ROM (Marshmallow), stock kernel, rooted, and had Xposed installed. I had a ton of Xposed modules installed and frankly, I thought one of the modules was the problem. My phone would, as I described lock itself while doing somthing. It seemed to be random, but happened the most while watching videos on YouTube. Sometimes this would happen 4-5 times, and I'd find my wallpaper replaced with the factory default one.
I recently flashed Lineage OS 14.1 and ElementalX kernel, re-installed Xposed (though an incomplete version, the one made by the PurifyOS team) and enabled only 1 very minor module (Android Phone Vibrator). I was very unpleasantly surprised to see the same thing happening, yet again. Not necessarily after enabling the Xposed module . It only happened twice so far, (while using WhatsApp) but the symptoms are the same. My navbar and statusbar disappear, although this time the screen freezes, instead of turning off completely. I can still turn off the screen and open the power menu using the power button.
I can provide logs, or any other info necesarry really, but it's really hard for me to catch logs, because I can't reproduce the error. It's really driving me insane. Please, help me..
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So, I have a very curious problem with my phone. Sometimes, randomly, usually when playing video, my navbar and statusbar disappear completely, and then everything just goes to black, my wallpaper comes up, and then my lockscreen. The phone just locks itself. I use fingerprint, but I need to enter the code to "enable fingerprint". I'm guessing System UI is crashing, but why?
I used to be on stock ROM (Marshmallow), stock kernel, rooted, and had Xposed installed. I had a ton of Xposed modules installed and frankly, I thought one of the modules was the problem. My phone would, as I described lock itself while doing somthing. It seemed to be random, but happened the most while watching videos on YouTube. Sometimes this would happen 4-5 times, and I'd find my wallpaper replaced with the factory default one.
I recently flashed Lineage OS 14.1 and ElementalX kernel, re-installed Xposed (though an incomplete version, the one made by the PurifyOS team) and enabled only 1 very minor module (Android Phone Vibrator). I was very unpleasantly surprised to see the same thing happening, yet again. Not necessarily after enabling the Xposed module . It only happened twice so far, (while using WhatsApp) but the symptoms are the same. My navbar and statusbar disappear, although this time the screen freezes, instead of turning off completely. I can still turn off the screen and open the power menu using the power button.
I can provide logs, or any other info necesarry really, but it's really hard for me to catch logs, because I can't reproduce the error. It's really driving me insane. Please, help me..
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Tried in safe mode?
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Tried in safe mode?
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Well, that's pretty hard to do, since these "lockups" happen with long intervals not really consistently, so it'd be really hard to disable everything I installed and use my phone for a few weeks in that state.
@MMMedic Did you resolve your problem?
My Moto G4 Plus has started doing the same thing as you described, even down to changing the wallpaper.
My phone isn't rooted and I'm just using the stock Android.
I'm not sure what to do to fix it.
I think resetting your phone and start a fresh without restoring a backup and install only the apps you need would fix your issues..
I rooted my Galaxy S4 SCH-I545 yesterday using kingoroot and all was going well. This morning I was using a root utility app to uninstall unwanted system apps. I went down the entire list removing unwanted apps (making sure not to delete any system processes or system apps, or at least I thought) and when I got to the bottom of the list to the last app I wanted removed, I hit "Reboot Now"
Unfortunately, now the phone won't boot past the red "Verizon" screen. It stays on there for about 30 seconds and then gives me the error: "Process system isn't responding. Do you want to close it? -Wait -Ok"
It doesn't matter which option I choose, the phone goes into a black screen with the top bar (battery, cell signal, time). After a minute or two, the phone reboots and goes through this same process over again.
I deleted a few samsung apps which I'm afraid one of them is causing this problem, but I honestly have no idea. I'm a total rookie at this.
Can anyone help me out? Did I delete/uninstall something important? What steps can I take to fix this?
Thank you!
Edit: Strangely enough, the phone wouldn't reboot so I removed the battery for a few minutes and tried again. The second time I did this It booted up properly. Not even sure how thats possible... Is there any way I can avoid this happening in the future?
Yes. Disable things rather than removing them. In a disabled state they do take up space in /system, but they're not running so they don't consume any resources. However, with an AT&T or Verizon device disabling apps is of limited effectiveness because the carrier apps don't like being disabled.
TL; DR: Disable first, and only delete if you can't disable.
I seem to have run into a weird issue I cannot find anything about. I'm using the v20 with LOS16 with Magisk and Gamma Kernel 5.0.1. This is the second time this issue has occured, as I previously had to wipe the phone and start fresh a few days ago (was using GKv88 with Second Screen then).
Half of the phone basically just stops working. Mobile Data will disable itself and not turn back on, the status bar shows no notifications (though I do hear the sounds), and the task button stops responding. I tap it, it flashes like it recognizes my tapping, but it does nothing.
The only installed modules are Viper4Android, BusyBox NDK, and Energized Protection.
Edit: Fingerprint reader no longer working as well.
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I seem to have run into a weird issue I cannot find anything about. I'm using the v20 with LOS16 with Magisk and Gamma Kernel 5.0.1. This is the second time this issue has occured, as I previously had to wipe the phone and start fresh a few days ago (was using GKv88 with Second Screen then).
Half of the phone basically just stops working. Mobile Data will disable itself and not turn back on, the status bar shows no notifications (though I do hear the sounds), and the task button stops responding. I tap it, it flashes like it recognizes my tapping, but it does nothing.
The only installed modules are Viper4Android, BusyBox NDK, and Energized Protection.
Edit: Fingerprint reader no longer working as well.
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You'll probably find solutions in the Los 16 & gamma kernel threads
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