EDIT: Upon reboot this no longer works. Removing until the culprit can be tracked down.
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Has anyone found a solution to the download loops? I'm sick of them now as I cannot use any purchased apps..
I purchase apps from the store and they get stuck in a download loop.
There has to be a solution for this. I've tried clearing the cache etc for the market, download and gmail AND have rebooted and cleared the dalvik cache etc to find nothing works...
Sometimes cancel the download then hit install again..this wor for me...let it alone then..for big ones I do this and leave it alone..for smaller files as soon as I hit install..it already downloaded just did not install for some reason.
Happens to me often. If it gets hung up hit the back button and go to my apps in market go to the bottom of your apps on the left where it shows apps waiting to install and click on it. accept the permissions and install works every time for me
v0kal said:
Happens to me often. If it gets hung up hit the back button and go to my apps in market go to the bottom of your apps on the left where it shows apps waiting to install and click on it. accept the permissions and install works every time for me
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Not for me. I've tried clearing all the cache's, even booting into CWM and clearing the cache and dalvik.
Still nothing..
If you click install and nothing happens, power the tablet off (hold in the power button til the menu pops up, then select to power off). When you restart and go back into market, the app will install correctly.
*Don't* cancel and try again. While this will usually, eventually work, it will also often result in apps not appearing in the My Apps list, or appearing as uninstalled when they're already installed.
If the powering off trick doesn't work, you've probably already upset market to the point where it is corrupted by doing repeat installs. I had the exact same problem myself, and after wiping my tablet and starting from scratch, all is fine with the powering off method. I still get ~50% of my app installs doing nothing initially, but 100% (20-ish apps) have then correctly installed after a power cycle.
All this said, it is a really, *really* annoying bug that I hope Google fixes soon.
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If you click install and nothing happens, power the tablet off (hold in the power button til the menu pops up, then select to power off). When you restart and go back into market, the app will install correctly.
*Don't* cancel and try again. While this will usually, eventually work, it will also often result in apps not appearing in the My Apps list, or appearing as uninstalled when they're already installed.
If the powering off trick doesn't work, you've probably already upset market to the point where it is corrupted by doing repeat installs. I had the exact same problem myself, and after wiping my tablet and starting from scratch, all is fine with the powering off method. I still get ~50% of my app installs doing nothing initially, but 100% (20-ish apps) have then correctly installed after a power cycle.
All this said, it is a really, *really* annoying bug that I hope Google fixes soon.
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Didn't work. However I upgraded to Prime 1.5 and all my problems went away
Hi,
I am facing a bizarre problem with booting the Note, it boots until it reaches to the scanning of sd card and freeze then reboot automatically.
thought first from some of apps, delete the latest but no effect.
then I noticed that it dose that when it scan the sd and sychronize with google. so I turned the phone to flight mode, after scanning over turn it back to normal mode and every thing was ok!
so dose any one know what is the problem? and how can I solve it?
I would suspect a bad media file, maybe a jpg. Try putting a .nomedia file in each of the top-level directories that have any media under them. If that fixes it, remove the .nomedia files one at time, rescanning after each, to find out where the culprit is.
I will try it.
thanks
I was going to try checking the media.
but I did an upgrad to the gtask app. run out of data coverage and it malfunctioned.
so I uninstall it. done first reboot, every thing was ok!
done some reboots, the same thing rebooted fine with no problems!
it seems that gtask was the resone.
any way I do need it so for know I will use it and turn on airplane profile when rebooting.
I'm starting to think I might have something wrong with my Note. From time to time I'll turn on the screen and go to do something, but it'll freeze, then go black and make the chimes sound it does when booting up. At first I thought touchwiz was restarting since it doesn't always make the chime sound, but now I'm pretty sure it's doing a full reboot.
Yesterday I got the freakout reboot, but this time it booted up into Safe Mode! I didn't even know there was such a thing on Android, but see the attached screenshot. It clearly says Safe Mode in the bottom left corner, and it deleted several widgets from my home screens, and in my app drawer it removed most of the apps from the folders I'd created, but left the folders.
Rebooting took the device out of safe mode, but didn't fix my foldered icons or home screen widgets. Pretty annoying.
Anyone else had any Safe Mode experiences? Any idea what might cause a spontaneous reboot into it?
Since you have AT & T in your profile, could it be that you're posting in the wrong thread?
If you have AT&T Galaxy Note I717, you should go here for assistance:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1494
Restart your phone. . My little boy managed to put my note into safe mode (dont ask me how cos i cant work it out how he did it) turning off the phone and restarting puts the phone back to normal
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You enter safe mode buy touching the menu button while the phone boots. If you are not touching menu, then some ap/ software is causing this. Try a factory reset to see if that resolves the problem.
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Since you have AT & T in your profile, could it be that you're posting in the wrong thread?
If you have AT&T Galaxy Note I717, you should go here for assistance:
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No, I have the international Note. I did just buy an AT&T version, too, but haven't started using it.
I did reboot back into normal mode already. I was mainly wondering if booting into safe mode was responsible for removing all of my aftermarket widgets, non-stock app links in the bottom quicklaunch section, and taking everything out of the folders in my app drawer except for the stock apps. I guess I'll start removing apps and hopefully the problem will go away. The spontaneous reboot happens probably once every other day on average, but just to safe mode that once so far.
my phone used to go into reboot loops often and also very predictable. widgets would not load properly too.
The problem as per me is a buggy apps 2 sd move occurring in the phone (reproducible event every single time i recreate that situation).
Solution that i found the hard way after a lot of trial and error and a lot of frustration (needing to repeatedly reload all my apps) was to go into application manager and delete any apps that are present but blanked out without logos. They are always some apps that have been moved to sd card improperly by the phone.
Sometimes when you try to move many apps fast to sd card in sequence then the move isnt done properly and you get application manager showing the app size as 4kb or 8kb or 12kb etc when the actual app size is many times that or even several hundred kbs or mbs. you will need to uninstall all these apps and reinstal them slowly one by one instead of autoupdating market apps which just recereates the problem if the app has already been moved to sd card.
Also another reason not to auto audate apps that have been moved to sd card is that sometimes when you have many apps then this auto update feature when moving it to sd card does it improperly and previous properly installed app after the autoupdate will cause the device to crash because the sd move is buggy and when you go through application manager then the app size show is at variance with actual size and usually just shows 4kb 8kb or 12kb etc instead of usual size. You will then need to uninstal these apps and start all over again.
Since manually moving apps to sd one by one and removing autoupdate for these apps i havent had issues usually.
Once the phone even got stuck on data signal only and would not let wifi on and when ever switched on it would immediately disable it autoatically. couldnt solve this by rebooting or deleting apps or firmware update (not rooted) and had to do a factory reset to sort the problem.
This is not an issue with sd card as even brand new sd cards cause the same issue again. The problem does not occur if all apps are on internal memory or sd card is removed. so guess it is an issue with phone being unable to properly work when many apps are trying to access info on card that it cant access because of improper transfer to sd card. phone then freezes and goes into reboot loops sometimes for 8hours at a go! only sorts itself when the apps are deleted and works ok when same apps are reinstalled properly.
ps: wondering what the safe mode does though and when it is useful to start in this mode? any pointers anyone.
once i accidentally removed the battery while the phone was on. When i put the battery back and restarted it, it booted in safe mode.
Mine just went into Safe Mode. I had rebooted the phone and put it in my pocket whilst it was rebooting. I rebooted normally and got it out of Safe Mode. There is one very annoying thing and one quite good thing that has resulted from this though.
Annoying thing: Many widgets now need putting back onto the home screens
Good thing: All Apps in the App Drawer are now in alphabetical order !!!!
Use app zorter from the market or clear data of touchwiz. All downloaded apps will be sorted automatically.
Well I had safe mode once after unexpected reboot. Still wondering what the reason was.
I have random rebooting issues with my Note as well. It hasn't always done this but it has been happening for the last few months and it'll generally happen once every couple of days. It does seem to be somehow related to moving apps around as mentioned in previous posts because I've had apps fail to move to SD a couple of times and it has rebooted once or twice whilst in the middle of trying to move an app to SD. It'll also sometimes reboot when auto-updating an app as I can hear the boot sound happening at times when I'm nowhere near the phone. I don't have any apps showing up with a dodgy icon at the moment but I have seen some stuff appear like that in the past and the only solution was to uninstall and reinstall the app; although that's only fixed the app in question, it's never solved the general rebooting issues. The phone will also sometimes lock up and reboot when trying to launch application (this seems to happen more often with newly installed apps at first launch, but that might just be a coincidence).
The only other odd thing I've noticed, which might well be completely unrelated, is that the shortcut for one particular app (the full version of "Where's My Water?") continually disappears from a folder of shortcuts on my main desktop screen. The app itself is usually still on the phone and will happily launch from the app drawer, but if I create a shortcut anywhere else it will always disappear again shortly afterwards and it's literally the only app this happens with. The only reason I mentioned this as possibly related is because the app has appeared with a bad icon once and had to be reinstalled again as if the phone had lost track of it on the SD card.
Anyway, I do get the feeling that the reboots are happening when the phone can't find something on SD storage, or when it can't get data on/off the card fast enough or whatever. God knows how you'd get to the bottom of this or solve it though; the ICS upgrade will probably force me to do a factory reset of my phone so I'm hoping the issue will just fix itself as part of that process otherwise I'll just need to put up with being annoyed at it.
So I had this lovely pop up on my phone last night. The message was "Unfortunately, S Health has stopped" along with the "OK" button. The kicker was that after clearing it, it would pop back up after a few seconds. I cleared the cache to no avail. I rebooted to just have it pop back up after it fully loaded all the apps. Battery pull rendered the same results.
My phone is all stock - with no crazy updates or recent app downloads that I could point to as potentially causing the issue.
I did find one resolution - I thought I'd mention it here in case others find themselves in this situation. Between clearing the pop up message - work your way to the Settings->Applications->Application Manager. From there - scroll down to S Health and once selected you can turn it off.
Now - I kind of liked having the pedometer - so I was trying to get it up and running again without doing a factor reset. I found that clearing the app data, deleting cache and uninstalling the update did the trick. I had to do it 2 times with reboots after clearing out all the data before it ultimately came back without issues. I had to recreate my profile again and historical data seems to have been lost.
I'm not sure if there might have been a better way to do it - but just thought I'd mention this issue here.
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.