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Strange things (random reboots and others) on note 4

Hi guys,
I have a problem as I post a thread. I have recently owned a note 4. Before changing phone, I decided to configure all the note 4 settings and apps, root, install twrp and SD fix. All worked fine. So i did a nandroid backup with the app "online nandroid backup". After that, I transfered my sim from my xiaomi Redmi 1 to the note 4, and I continued doing other things :
- 15th july: I put the sim to the note 4.
- 16th july: I messed up my phone because i accidentaly deleted the google framework odex file. So i wanted to restore the nandroid backup done by the app "online nandroid backup" when I finished configuring my note 4 but it failed. So I re flashed stock rom, re rooted and restored backup from titanium backup.
- 17th july: I installed an apk of nova launcher and configured it. Trust me, it is not the prime version I pay the developer me! I installed the apk from internet instead of the app itself from the play store because I never download from play store.
- 18th july: I found that because I also restored the system data with titanium backup, the private mode didn't work, so I factory reset my phone with twrp and I restored only user app and data backup. I did a nandroid backup after that.
- 19th july: I messed up (again) with tasker and so I hadn't notification sound. I decided to re flash the stock rom but didn't work. After that, I left my home without my phone for 2h and when I came back, I sSAW THE FIRST RANDOM REBOOT.
- 20th july: To solve the sound problem, I decided to restore the nandroid backup. It works: the sound came back! But I saw again a random reboot.
The random reboots appear only two or three times per week: indeed, I remembered the other random reboots appeared on the 25th of July and on the 27th July.
The random reboots are special I think because they appear at any time: it appeared when I use the phone or when I don't use it. Moreover we can see the Samsung logo at the minimum brightness and it is infinite: I need to remove the battery to make it restart.
To solve the problem, I first thought that it was a problem from restoring any backup from titanium backup. So I factory reseted the phone using twrp to keep root and internal storage. Then I reinstalled the apps with the official Google backup and restore tool. But as I can see, the random reboots are still here because on the 27th July, as I said, a random reboot appeared.
- 28th July (so today): I removed nova launcher, then shutdown my phone and pull out the battery. When I reinsert it, the phone takes a long time to switch on. Finally, it said system is not responding and reboot and the message re appeared, and reboot... I must remove the battery and reinsert it to restart the phone correctly: the message doesn't appeared. I tried removing the battery one more time to see if the message apprear when I pull out the battery but it didn't appear. However, there are no reboot since, but I think it is because it appeared tomorrow (27th july), and I have to wait to see if the reboots are still here, but I think yes because of this strange message. Or it may be a pure coincidence?
Please help me with all this strange events! I said all I know!

Finally I solved it by deleting nova launcher. And the pop up is only a simple coincidence!

Issues After Root - Rotation and Encryption

Howdy,
I got a new Note 4 from Bell Mobility about a month ago...
I updated the software, rooted it and installed the Wanam modified Xposed framework.
I have lost the automatic rotation, except for the built in camera software. Nothing else will auto-rotate. Checked the gyroscope and checked a few 'leveler' applications - all tests pass. Oddly I noticed the camera software still auto-rotates, no idea why it is special.
I tried the Wanam Xposed module to 'Enable all rotation angles' it has made no difference. With screen rotation software, currently have "Rotation - Orientation Manager by Pranav Pandey" installed. Auto-Rotate On and Forced Auto-Rotate neither option will rotate the screen when I turn my phone. If I choose Forced Landscape, it will go into Landscape mode. The only way to return to Portrait though is to use one of the Force Portrait options though.
My other issue is with turning on Device Encryption... Using SuperSU Pro for su..
If I just go through the prompts without changing anything, it reboots but doesn't encrypt.
First I tried installing as a system app so I could use the Disable function in the Android Application Manager, as I did with my Note 2, SuperSU tells me "Not (currently) available in system-less root mode".
If I turn off "Enable Superuser" in SuperSU, encryption enables properly, but I am unable to turn the "Enable Superuser" again, it says it has to update, but the fails. Suggests a reboot and try again. Sadly, this did not help.
I had success with one of the exploit root methods, KingRoot. While this worked when my phone was encrypted, it wasn't stable and kept popping up stuff. I tried to replace it with SuperSU, there are a few guides written to do just that, but they all indicate that it is very hard to get rid of, regardless, none of the guides worked for me. I ended up resetting the phone and starting over...
I tried the CLI command to start the device encryption from a # prompt..
vdc cryptfs enablecrypto inplace password 1234567890abcdef
The phone rebooted a couple times, but took a very long time (hour plus) to come back to the Android Lock-Screen.. But still a non-encrypted device. If I intrupted the process because I thought it had crashed, it started up and immediately told me something when wrong with the encryption and I need to use Recovery to reset the device..
As for root methods, I was using the CF-Auto-Root at first, trying to look for solutions to both issues, I tried a few ways of getting SuperSU installed.. The last time I reset I tried the "SkipSoft Unified Android Toolkit" method. 'Grasping at straws' to get SuperSU installed into /system so can use the Applicaiton Manager to disable and enable it...
My mobile's specifics, if it matters..
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Model number - SM-N910W8
Android Version 5.1.1
Baseband version - N910W8VLU1COK3
Build number - LMY47X.N910W8VLU1COK3
Currently have the Team Win Recovery Project v2.8.7.0 recovery software installed.
I am looking for suggestions for both issues, but really want to avoid resetting the phone if I can at all possible... Yes, I have Titanium Backup Pro installed, but have never actually gotten a restore to properly restore all my applications and data... I rely on it now just for the Uninstall and Freeze features.

For an update,
I also noticed that rotation works on the Lock Screen and in the camera applicaiton.
If I rotate my screen on the Lock Screen, the red handset picture and camera icons rotate.
If I rotate in the camera application, nothing changes position, but all the icons rotate as well.
I'm still completely stuck though, open to suggestions...

For rotation, it is likely caused because you removed the com.thingy.facebook system app. I tried removing it because I thought is was bloatware but read somewhere that messing around with it cause the auto rotate and pedometer to fail. I fixed it by reflashing the rom without data wipe then never removed it again. Page Manager is safe to remove though.

uchihakurtz said:
For rotation, it is likely caused because you removed the com.thingy.facebook system app. I tried removing it because I thought is was bloatware but read somewhere that messing around with it cause the auto rotate and pedometer to fail. I fixed it by reflashing the rom without data wipe then never removed it again. Page Manager is safe to remove though.
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Thank you,
I had it frozen for a while, completely uninstalled it, trying to see if lack of space was why I couldnt' get SuperSu to become a System App..
I will try to put the facebook app back to see if that helps. Hoping I don't need to do a ROM reset, but if that is what it takes.

kevinds said:
Thank you,
I had it frozen for a while, completely uninstalled it, trying to see if lack of space was why I couldnt' get SuperSu to become a System App..
I will try to put the facebook app back to see if that helps. Hoping I don't need to do a ROM reset, but if that is what it takes.
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Thank you http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=5047956
I tried installing FaceBook from the PlayStore, no change.. So I uninstalled it again.
Took a backup in Titanium Backup and in TWRP.
From the stock image, I extracted system.img.ext4 and used SkipSoft's application to make just this file Odin flashable..
Flashed it.. When I got back to Android, my phone hadn't reset (what I was going for ), rotation is working, SuperSU still giving root access
I went back into Titanium Backup, the freshly installed apps were listed on top, because there was no backup of them.
Froze each, one at a time and checked the rotation after each.. Froze all the apps with no backups, and rotation stayed working, which I thought was odd for what fixed it.
So.. The Facebook applications are all frozen, as they were before I erased them the first time, and rotation still works. Hurray..
Now for the device encryption, I will keep messing with it.. Trying FlashFire to mount System as RW and to write the newest version of SuperSU, hopefully it will install to System this time.
Thank you again.

kevinds said:
Thank you http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=5047956
I tried installing FaceBook from the PlayStore, no change.. So I uninstalled it again.
Took a backup in Titanium Backup and in TWRP.
From the stock image, I extracted system.img.ext4 and used SkipSoft's application to make just this file Odin flashable..
Flashed it.. When I got back to Android, my phone hadn't reset (what I was going for ), rotation is working, SuperSU still giving root access
I went back into Titanium Backup, the freshly installed apps were listed on top, because there was no backup of them.
Froze each, one at a time and checked the rotation after each.. Froze all the apps with no backups, and rotation stayed working, which I thought was odd for what fixed it.
So.. The Facebook applications are all frozen, as they were before I erased them the first time, and rotation still works. Hurray..
Now for the device encryption, I will keep messing with it.. Trying FlashFire to mount System as RW and to write the newest version of SuperSU, hopefully it will install to System this time.
Thank you again.
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This is amazing, can you please post the odin flashable file? I am having this exact problem right now because I removed it in TB. Is it just the facebook file that are flashed? Thanks so much in advance, you're saving my life here

Second Screen No Longer Offering Toggles as An Option

Not sure if this is related, but I rooted my phone yesterday, went through and formatted data, etc (twice since it needed to be done after a bootloader unlock and again when I installed supersu), set up my phone and restored data with the LG backup I made, and everything is working great. Only problem (that I've noticed so far) is that my second screen doesn't give quick toggles as an option. It was there before rooting so, again, not sure if it's related. Any way to get it back?

Never mind, figured it out. Occurred to me that I froze something called "Quick Tools" via Titanium Backup because I didn't recognize it and I didn't have a "run app" option. But tada, it's back now.

How to Un-silent System UI?

Hi, folks. Few days ago, I updated my MXP via ota, from 6.0.1 to 7.1.1. As this is my first experience with Nougat, I turned off a particular notification without caution, i forgot what it's about, by long pressing the notification and selected silence.
When I look at Settings > Notifications, it turns out that "System UI" was silenced. (attached screenshot 1)
I don't know how to un-silent it as there is no longer said notification for me to long press, and no option to select (in screenshot 2).
If I use a new user, there is an overwrite dnd option (screenshot 3), so I think this might just be affecting some user preference setting.
I would like to restore this if there is some way besides restoring a complete twrp backup. Clearing its cache didn't help, nor did restoring "System UI 7.1.1" via Titanium-nandroid of the twrp backup. Is it possible to do it through adb, or another method?

OTA Update failed... both unrooted and rooted!

Hi!
A couple weeks ago, I received an OTA update for my Moto G6+. Like most OTAs before, the phone downloaded it automatically but failed to install it. I was constantly getting a "Update unsucessful" error message every hour or so. Before, doing a factory reset would allow me to install the OTA , so I went through with it every two or three months, whenever there was an update available.
This time, however, I decided to root my phone. Why not. And I did! Magisk installed, Smali-patched to make fake GPS apps work fine, etc. I also unchecked the "Download updates" option in the Developer Options so I wouldn't get any updates (I can't install them, since the bootloader is unlocked now).
... but I still got one. And I'm still getting the same error every time the phone tries to install the update. So, my question is: is there any way to delete that update? I remember reading about a button combination during reboot that sent you to a menu with factory reset settings and all that, and going there would delete the OTA file from your device. I know I did it once. But I just can't find how to do it anymore!
Also, is there any way to prevent updates from being downloaded? I though that setting in the Developer Options would do the trick, but it clearly didn't.

JoeyRavn said:
Hi!
A couple weeks ago, I received an OTA update for my Moto G6+. Like most OTAs before, the phone downloaded it automatically but failed to install it. I was constantly getting a "Update unsucessful" error message every hour or so. Before, doing a factory reset would allow me to install the OTA , so I went through with it every two or three months, whenever there was an update available.
This time, however, I decided to root my phone. Why not. And I did! Magisk installed, Smali-patched to make fake GPS apps work fine, etc. I also unchecked the "Download updates" option in the Developer Options so I wouldn't get any updates (I can't install them, since the bootloader is unlocked now).
... but I still got one. And I'm still getting the same error every time the phone tries to install the update. So, my question is: is there any way to delete that update? I remember reading about a button combination during reboot that sent you to a menu with factory reset settings and all that, and going there would delete the OTA file from your device. I know I did it once. But I just can't find how to do it anymore!
Also, is there any way to prevent updates from being downloaded? I though that setting in the Developer Options would do the trick, but it clearly didn't.
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To enter fastboot mode just press and hold volume down button while your phone is rebooting. When it's turned off just press and hold volume down + power
The latest OTA updates do not download a .zip file and save it somewhere on your device. It's stored in a cloud.
To prevent your device from starting the update you have to freeze the "Motorola-Updateservices" app.
Therefor open a terminal app and type:
Code:
pm disable com.motorola.ccc.ota

WoKoschekk said:
To enter fastboot mode just press and hold volume down button while your phone is rebooting. When it's turned off just press and hold volume down + power
The latest OTA updates do not download a .zip file and save it somewhere on your device. It's stored in a cloud.
To prevent your device from starting the update you have to freeze the "Motorola-Updateservices" app.
Therefor open a terminal app and type:
Code:
pm disable com.motorola.ccc.ota
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Thanks. Let's see if that does the trick!