Has the little green android inside my phone become self-aware?
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I know this is going to sound crazy, but it has happened twice now in the last week.
I'm on cyan 3.9.11.2, but I don't know if this is ROM-related as nobody else has reported it.
Here's what happened:
A few days ago I updated from 3.6.x to 3.9.11.2.
I was having some FCs, so I wiped and re-updated. I did not restore my market database (or any app data for that matter).
Shortly thereafter, I went to a meeting and left my phone at my desk. When I returned, I saw that about 6 applications were in various stages of download. A couple had failed ("exclamation point" icon in the task drawer), a couple had succeeded ("checkbox" icon in the task drawer) and a couple were stuck on "starting download..." in "my downloads."
All of these were apps that I'd previously downloaded at some point in my life, but again, I wiped the phone, so there shouldn't have been anything pending.
This is alarming in its own right, but especially so since it seems to have bypassed the screen where I would have had the opportunity to cancel a download based on the permissions an app was requesting. If this can happen, that's a big security issue.
At least I was notified that this had happened by way of the messages in the task drawer. But yikes! I chalked it up to some weirdness, canceled the pending downloads, uninstalled the apps that installed themselves and forgot about it. Again, they were all things I'd downloaded at one point or another, so I thought maybe they were things that had gotten "stuck" and I'd canceled and now they were coming back. With the wipe that seemed unlikely, but I know some market data lives server-side (it remembers what I've purchased in the past, for example).
A few days later (last night), it happened again. I awoke this morning and found that my phone had downloaded a few apps that I'd had installed in the past (pre-wipe). Whereas at my desk, I suppose it is possible that some co-worker messed with my phone, I'm pretty sure that this is not what happened last night. My wife was sleeping the whole time and my cats seem to be an unlikely possibility, so unless someone broke in and started some downloads, I have to assume that the phone started them itself.
So, um, wtf? Any ideas? This is really bizarre.
mlevin said:
Has the little green android inside my phone become self-aware?
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It's a not uncommon bug of the Android Market. Probably related to the backend. I've had it install apps unasked once on a reboot.
jashsu said:
It's a not uncommon bug of the Android Market. Probably related to the backend. I've had it install apps unasked once on a reboot.
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Woah, really? It is freaking me out. I follow the XDA forums pretty regularly and haven't heard anyone mention it so far.
I don't suppose you know of any threads where it is discussed, do you?
Anyway, I'm glad it is not just me. But it sure is weird.
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I don't know exactly when this started happening (sometime in the past week or so), but very often when I want to download an app from the market (new or update), it will hang at "Starting download...," but won't show a % or any x/xxxx downloaded. Just the scrolling diagonal stripes. Sometimes I have to go back to the homescreen and wait, other times I have to just cancel it and try again.
Even after that, sometimes after the download is complete, it gets stuck at "Installing" and I'll have to start over again. Other times I leave it alone, and it actually finishes while still saying "Installing."
I'm running stock RUU 2.27.651.5 rooted, the only "tweak" I've done is removed some apks/odex files like Nascar, Peep, etc. Anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
This happens to mine as well. I have the latest OTA update and no root so you are not alone.
Keep an eye on it...the last time that happened with mine, the market had download problems.
when this has happened to me- (been rooted and non-rooted) I've tried to reboot phone and disable/re-enable mobile network.
Another thing I have noticed is one or twice when it looks like it is stuck, it is really doing something else in the background, too. I was thinking that my email or something else was being sync'ed or seomething..
This hasn't happened for a couple of weeks- at least for me.
Mine does it all the time, especially on wifi.. I just deal with it but it is a pain
I have this problem as well. In addition, the Market takes a VERY long time to load and the Downloads takes even longer. My wife has a Samsung Moment and she has also noticed a Market slow down since upgrading to 2.1.
I thought there wa something wrong with my phone but I guess it's a larger issue. Sure makes it pain to install apps while ROM-hopping.
Hi Guys,
Could someone tell me why my 2 weeks old Galaxy S (Service Provider: Bell) turns it self off out of the blue?
It happend twice already, the phone was on my pocket, I pushed the on/off side botton and nothing happens, the screen is pitch black!!
This is an irritating issue as I'm forced to physically take out the phone from the case and remove the battery and put it back on to turn on the phone.
Does anybody whats causing this issue? and how to fix it ?
Your help is much appreciated!
Cheers
Also, I was wondering if I do a factory reset to try solving the random shutting down problem, will I have to re-purchase all the apps I bought from the Market?
Send for warranty is needed I think
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Essayli said:
Also, I was wondering if I do a factory reset to try solving the random shutting down problem, will I have to re-purchase all the apps I bought from the Market?
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No, the info that you purchased the apps is stored in your Google account. So if you use the same Google account as you're using now as your primary account after reset, you can download all those apps for free. (Primary account is the Google account you first associated with the device.)
i had the same problem with 3 different bell vibrants. About 6 days ago, i bought a new sim card from bell for $5, and it has not happened since. I bought my phone from Bestbuy, but bought my new sim card from Bell store because perhaps the bestbuy sim cards are outdated. Hopefully it stays ok.
One thing i did notice was that when my phone would turn off by itself, it was always in an area where there was bad reception. Maybe a link.
I found that it happened when I installed a different launcher other than Touchwiz. I was using LauncherPro, uninstalled it and everything worked fine. I installed ADW and everything is fine so far.
I saw this thread yesterday and was thankful mine hadn't developed this issue. And then last night after about two hours idle time, my SGS switched itself off and the power button wouldn't respond at all. The only way to revive my beloved phone was to do a hard reset (i.e. removing the battery).
For what it's worth, the only "mods" I've made are installing a handful of apps. No new launcher, no custom ROMs etc.
I'm tempted to give Voda a ring and ask for a new SIM. But this really smells more like a hardware fault to me. A faulty SIM shouldn't result in a handset switching itself off, I'd think...
i'v encountered smailar problem , first i thought my phone turned itself off, later i suspected some apps i'v installed ( setCPU, autokiller etc), after while and digging, i found that i'v installed "Android Tweak" , it has an option to disable screen dim, and i'v used that option, so i changed it back and the problem is gone.
in Spain we have the same problem and no solution by now
http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=126937
Same thing happened to me last night. Maybe a bug with the date?
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Same thing happened to me last night. Maybe a bug with the date?
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Mine just died again ten minutes ago. I guess it's a possibility, but considering the number of bugs that we're all discovering with the hardware and software, I'm suspecting it's yet another dodgy batch of phones from Samsung.
I just bought two Galaxy S and I am having same problems with both. I called Belll and they said they never had this kind of problem before. I had installed few apps and thought may be those apps were causing the problem, but even after deleting the apps..phones are powering off itself...
Did any one find the solution yet??
Same problem here, and from what i am hearing is becoming frecuent among galaxy owners. Im amazed something this important hasnt made the news , i mean, its a huge malfunction issue .
I had the same issue.
I called up Samsung support and they asked me to do a phone reset. I didn't try that, but I upgraded the firmware and it's gone now. I suspect resetting the phone will also solve the issue.
This happened to me for the first time today as I woke up and it wasn't dark outside. When I looked to see what time it was my phone (that I use as an alarm) was off!!
This is the first blemish on an otherwise outstanding experience. But it is a major one. I will assume that it is somehow related to something I've installed. But I'm not looking forward to figuring it out, since I've got a lot of apps
lockpick said:
This happened to me for the first time today as I woke up and it wasn't dark outside. When I looked to see what time it was my phone (that I use as an alarm) was off!!
This is the first blemish on an otherwise outstanding experience. But it is a major one. I will assume that it is somehow related to something I've installed. But I'm not looking forward to figuring it out, since I've got a lot of apps
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Good luck. I did a factory restore the other day to see if that would help. It didn't. Like you I use my SGS as an alarm... I woke up two hours late this morning because my phone had switched itself off in the middle of the night.
I'm currently waiting for a replacement handset. I'm not holding my breath that the new hardware won't have exactly the same bug though...
Mine started doing this yesterday...same with a bunch of coworkers that have the same phone. We think it may be related to bad reception.
Sigh
My phone just started doing this in the last couple of days.
I've also noticed sometimes it gets into a state of continuously saying "usb debugging connected" and then "usb connected" and just continuously keeps displaying those even though it has no usb cable anywhere near it..
Havent flashed the phone for about a week now and it was fine for 3-4 days after the flash so no idea what is going on..
Anyone else seen those usb messages? They come and go.. but it seems when they come its usually when my phone turns off..
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My phone just started doing this in the last couple of days.
I've also noticed sometimes it gets into a state of continuously saying "usb debugging connected" and then "usb connected" and just continuously keeps displaying those even though it has no usb cable anywhere near it..
Havent flashed the phone for about a week now and it was fine for 3-4 days after the flash so no idea what is going on..
Anyone else seen those usb messages? They come and go.. but it seems when they come its usually when my phone turns off..
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I've not seen anything like that myself but then I have stuck with stock firmware.
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Mine started doing this yesterday...same with a bunch of coworkers that have the same phone. We think it may be related to bad reception.
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Thats funny...because the only time it has happened to me is at work, where the phone is struggling for reception. It has turned off a total of about 8 times over 1 month. It has never turned off anywhere else (except one other time i was getting bad reception in the forest, and a few minutes later it was off)...strange
I'm not seeing many recent posts related to market issues.
I've been using Cognition ROMS, 2.16 for quite a while, and past few days I'm no 2.2b8.1.
A common fix for market download problems has been stated to delete market cache. I ahve never had any cache, always 0, but I have deleted market data, and it seems to help.
But I'm finding it to need to be done almost every time I try to get anything from the market.
Symptoms often are one of two:
I see the download icon in the notification bar, but then it never installs
I don't see anything at all, and it never installs
What I"m curious about is anyone else seeing this problem who are on stock roms? Is it recurring as bad as I am experiencing?
ewingr said:
I'm not seeing many recent posts related to market issues.
I've been using Cognition ROMS, 2.16 for quite a while, and past few days I'm no 2.2b8.1.
A common fix for market download problems has been stated to delete market cache. I ahve never had any cache, always 0, but I have deleted market data, and it seems to help.
But I'm finding it to need to be done almost every time I try to get anything from the market.
Symptoms often are one of two:
I see the download icon in the notification bar, but then it never installs
I don't see anything at all, and it never installs
What I"m curious about is anyone else seeing this problem who are on stock roms? Is it recurring as bad as I am experiencing?
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I had this problem a couple of times a week ago or so, the last time I put my phone in flight mode, i hit force stop then delete market data in the applications manager, then I traveled down the road to till I was sure I would connect to a different cell tower and took my phone out of flight mode and attempted a new download from the market. Ever since I have not had a problem.
Again this was just an attempt I made to re register my phone to the network to see if that would fix the issue -- i don't really know if this is what fixed it for me or if it was something else -- all i can say is I have not had a problem for a week now since doing this.
I got it from AMAZON last week. First couple days it was great. I won't say it was better than my gf's iphone 4 but certainly it was close, considering I got it free.
Then yesterday the cell phone signaled a system update, downloaded, started to update, indicating "update fail, the system will reboot automatically". It never did....
I tried everything I can find, could not even get to the download mode. Actually can't get anything from the screen. I found in ATT only communities that apparently it is a common problem...
Luckily amazon is going to send me a new one... although I lost all my stuff...
Anyway, just give your guys a notice that don't do "system update" on your phone. It will brick it.. Is there anyway to update it though? I am not sure...
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I got it from AMAZON last week. First couple days it was great. I won't say it was better than my gf's iphone 4 but certainly it was close, considering I got it free.
Then yesterday the cell phone signaled a system update, downloaded, started to update, indicating "update fail, the system will reboot automatically". It never did....
I tried everything I can find, could not even get to the download mode. Actually can't get anything from the screen. I found in ATT only communities that apparently it is a common problem...
Luckily amazon is going to send me a new one... although I lost all my stuff...
Anyway, just give your guys a notice that don't do "system update" on your phone. It will brick it.. Is there anyway to update it though? I am not sure...
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Hello everyone, I have an issue, hopefully someone can hel me and it starts like this. I and everyone else have been waiting for months for a safe root method and a recovery system such as TWRP OR CWM just incase I fudge something up flashing custom roms so I can always go back to stock. I came across a safestrap article and decided it was something similar to what I was looking for. So I decided to root using the big K. I know not the best choice, you can boo me now.
After a successful root, I installed safestrap. Unfortunately safestrap kept crashing upon starting the app, I couldnt even get it to set up. thats fine, I was just going to unroot and keep on living life, but then I stumbled upon Xposed installer, that modified and tweaked like a custom rom but without all the risk according to a website. I said hey thats worth a try and I did. After the Xposed installer setup and a reboot, I wad looking for mods on the web and all of a sudden my apps and system files started crashing to the point that I could not use my phone. I immedeately uninstalled Xposed installer ss soon ad my phone stabalized and unrooted.
I thought everything was good, 4 hours later the apps and system files started crashing again, so I did a reboot and I noticed that custom with the lock came up on intial startup. though I was told I was unrooted by the K program and even double checked using a rootchecker app, which stated I had indeed an unrooted phone. I did another reboot and no custom or logo came out. At this point I just wanted a working phone and As much as I hated doing so I did a factory reset. This seemed to have fixed the problem, but 4 days later my phone randomly went into a bootloop. I couldnt get it to stop so I took out the battery and that did not fix it.It was strange becuase I thought it might have been unrelated since it wasnt doing this when I had the issue with Xposed installer.
After yet another factory reset my phone seems to be fine, its still too early to tell though since its only been about a day. I had the normal google playstore and gvoice app crashing...Sigh..the only thing different was that sometime yesterday after the second factory reset a notification popup of unfortunately a sytem file stopped working came up. I acknowledged it, but thankfully I havent gotten any problems. I forgot what the notification read. hopefully its not related to what happened the other day.I dont know if this is related to one another, but I did notice that before I rooted my android system had automatically upgraded. I looked for issues like this on the net and saw people where having random bootloops after system upgrades and that unchecking scanning for wifi fixed the problem. though I did this and it did not work, thats why I did the second factory reset.
Now Im asking for help if any further issues arise. I love my Note3 and at this point I just want a reliable working device. Im keeping my fingers crossed and hopefully that will be the end of it, but in case it started to act up again, what can I do? any information and help is greatly appreciated. thanks.
Never uninstall any Xposed app that changes system files without first reverting any changes you made with it. Some of them are permanent until they are turned off in the App. Then you can disable the module.
You may want to look into this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715
I cannot stress this enough.
READ READ READ.
Too many times have I seen someone read a line or 2 then rush right in ultimately turning their very nice phone into the most expensive paperweight one could own.
On that link I posted, read it until your eyes are bleeding if you truly need to start from scratch.
I am not joking here.
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Thanks man. it makes sense. I will look into it. you mentioned read. I have read what I thought was plenty, but always ideas and opinions differ, sometimes knowing too much and causing what they say decision paralysis. Because I still read about the Xposed experiences and different people go about it in a different way. but what you mentioned about reverting back makes alot of sense.