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[SOLUTION] "Android.process.acore" FC problem? Yet another solution. (LCD Density)
Hey guys,
For the last 4 days straight I've been pulling my hair out like mad trying to figure out what on Earth was making my Contacts shortcut on my Galaxy S GT-I9000 go mental and tell me that Android.process.acore was dead and must close (on startup of Contacts.apk).
Like 95% of the freaks here, I mess with my Android ALL THE TIME. Adding new widgets, making things look better, customised to my personal taste - you know, we all do it. Now, 4 days ago, I changed a few things and started getting the Android.process.acore FC error whenever I tried to access my Contacts. After a bit of looking around google and XDA, it seemed that the one cause was from having synced your facebook contacts to your phone and having an incorrect birthday. Now, I don't remember syncing any new contacts as I've had problems in the past with the sync program (not related to this).
To rid of this problem, I read that backing up then deleting the Contacts.apk & ContactsStorage.apk cache would solve all my problems; well, it didn't. Even having an empty Contacts file would still bring up the FC error. So after a few dozen attempts, I reflashed back to a stock rom and low and behold, Contact.apk would load up. HORRAH. Thinking it was just Android being silly, I restored my NAND and go back into things. Contacts.apk still working, nice; I'll just restore my widgets and background etc.... BAM, Android.process.acore FC again, what the? Nothing would open that damn thing again.
Ok, Reflashed back to stock; this time, restored using Titanium Backup. Nice! Contacts are back and working; just setup my widgets and Background again... BAM, Android.process.acore DEAD.
Now, after trying each widget one by one to see which one was killing Android.process.acore, nothing changed... no widgets killed it... was still working....
HUH?
Ok, continue using Phone - BAM, dead!!! ARGGHH
Then I came up with an idea. I had been using LCD Density Change. Now, I've had it on a value of 200 for months now with no problems at all... what was my setting at the moment? 180.
Yes guys, CONTACTS.APK HATES a LCD Density value of 180!!!
Can anyone else replicate this problem at all? I haven't tried any other values yet to see what works/doesn't work.
I'm using the lastest LauncherPro Plus & LCD Density Changer 5.1.
Hope this helps some people
thanks for the post i also have the same problem on my captivate
Lcd den dosent work on froyo...
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Hana. Sorry. This happened to me ages ago and its a known problem which is even in lcd densitys faq. Contacts wont work below 200. I have since replaced my phone/contacts app with youlu free from market. Atakephone is also another good replacemnt
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okpc said:
Lcd den dosent work on froyo...
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5.1 works fine on froyo
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I can reproduce the problem on values 180 and 181 (haven't tried others yet). I don't have any problem though with a density value of 191 (my "default" density).
I suggest trying different values (maybe go lower, maybe go higher).
It is a well known problem that some apps FC on some specific density values. The "famous" FC is the FC-ing of the TWLauncher when you set it to a density of (I believe) 120 or lower. Please don't try this at home If you start up with that density and use TWLauncher as the default launcher all you can do is restore a nandroid or reflash the firmware. (that's why I explicitely advice in the help file of the Density Changer to first do a preview before saving the density as the system density)
@okpc Why would you say that? I also had some comments on the market saying that it doesn't work on Froyo. I never had any problem on any Samsung firmware Froyo version with it. Do you run a custom rom or kernel?
Note that different kernels can totally change the way rooting apps work on your device (and i mean totally). Or did you installed busybox? Note that all rooting methods install busybox by default except SuperOneClick... Second note: busybox installed by TitaniumBackup can't be used by other apps.
im getting this same issue but have not messed with the lcd density... i actually changed it to 225 to see if it would effect the contacts problem... but nah it didn't
i installed the contact.apk from sgs tools... but that didn't help still a FC when clicking it.
same problem on 180 density, but on 182 it working
DAMN IT. running KINGSROM HYBRID 3D and i have that problem. OVER AND OVER its acore acore acore acore FC FC FC FC. AAHH!!?!?!?!
difference between your problem and mine, mine keeps rebooting, and rebooting, and rebooting, never letting the home screen boot.
now i suggest, FCUK LCD CHANGER.
A few days ago my beautiful widgets weather icon stopped showing up. Do anyone know how to fix it?
Mine did the same and eventually reappeared. I tried removing and adding it again to the homescreen, switching skins and the like. Sorry, I can't remember the exact steps.
Painfullly sent from my Captivate
Ha e you been keeping it updated? I have never had this issue and have had it sense early days
Just download weather skins extract and put them into sdcard/data/beautifulwidgets/wskins.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LAOWVVA5
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A few days ago my beautiful widgets weather icon stopped showing up. Do anyone know how to fix it?
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Happened to me too. I just uninstalled and reinstalled and it came back.
Could be your using gps and somint went wrong did you try manualy typing your area .
That what happend to me a wile back
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If you are using Google as your weather source try changing to Accuweather. It seems Google is blocking to many requests from the same I.P. address and since your carrier often looks like 1 I.P. it may be blocking your update.
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Hi, has anyone had trouble with the weather app on the sensationXL,
where ever i go , the location on the home sceen weather app always states my location as the United Kingdom, and NOT the Town?
anyone got any ideas?
Mine is working correctly. Just opened it and for a moment it showed the weather for 'Lincoln' and then reloaded the weather for 'Mablethorpe'. Quite often the weather on the 'News and Weather' app shows 'Sorry Weather Currently Unavailable' but a manual refresh usually cures that.
My old HD Mini did have problems with the location in Mablethorpe, so I had to add it in manually and turn off the 'Current Location' feature, but the SensationXL has so far been faultless.
Refreshed it manually , and its set to refresth 'hourly' , then also tried trying powering down! When it restarts, its back to 'United Kingdom' as location??? besides that very pleased with Sensation XL
Do you know, after reading that I tried to get the HTC Sense page to load (which it still doesn't). One page suggested clearing the cache for HTC Hub and HTC Sense. I tried this, and then noticed that my Weather had set itself to United Kingdom. Aaarrggh! I tried various things which didn't seem to have any effect at all, but the final steps did seem to work.
Remove Weather/Clock widget.
Switch WiFi off.
Check that the settings in Location is set to use WiFi and GPS.
Turn the 'phone off (not restart).
Remove battery.
Wait 2 minutes.
Replace battery.
Switch 'phone on.
Wait 2 minutes.
Add Clock/Weather to screen.
Tick Use Current Location.
If weather location (still) incorrect:
Tap on weather.
Tap on 'more details online'. (This showed the weather for my 'Home' location even though the weather on the home screen was incorrect? I may have set this up earlier, but I don't remember doing so.)
Tap on 'Switch Location'.
Tap 'Add Location'.
Add a location (I used one near to me).
View that location.
Tap on 'Switch Location'.
Go back to your 'Home' location.
View that location.
Exit out of that and back to the weather widget.
Voila! Weather correct!
Don't touch any thing!
Hope it works for you too.
Well! After an hour, it started going back to United Kingdom.
Turning WiFi off seems to help, but it is still very temperamental, often swapping back and forth within a few seconds.
I have to agree with olyoh6696 that it must be something to do with HTC servers and not the 'phone itself.
For the time being I've installed the World Weather widget by Satok that I had on my Sony Arc. That seems stable, though no full screen animations.
Running a XL port, and recently noticed this problem when updating whether
Maybe htc accuweather servers are busy these few weeks with everyone so keen on checking the weather for snow!
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Where about u guys locate? I am in Slough and it works fine on my Sensation XL
united kingdom in weathet widget
Anybody solved this. It's driving me nuts. I've tried several widgets which work properly but I'd like to use HTC one. Shame HTC don't show any interest.
I think its more to do with server problems.
I downloaded several widgets that use AccuWeather, and they all have the same issue.
I don't think its up to HTC to do anything about it.
Contact AccuWeather, and let them know.
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had this for about 3 hours the day before yesterday. The only thing i had installed that day was chrome beta.
Uninstalled that, re-installed locations, cleared the data and cache for anything with a name that suggested it could have anything to do with Laputa, weather or any sort of location service, and then rebooted.
been fine ever since. I don't know what helped, but something did.
However, i did notice that when i selected the correct town manually, it was showing the same as the 'United Kingdom' was, so it seems like it was getting the right weather, but it couldn't resolve the correct name.
I suspect that Accuweather have updated their database again, and the htc locations stuff is using an old version. maybe clearing the data on everything and rebooting forced it to update?
I've had to install Fancy Widgets to 'fix' this. It will only work if the Geocoder is set to use GeoNames. If it is set to use Google or Weather Provider it will fail in a similar way to the HTC weather. HTC weather sometimes does work correctly, then sometimes not. Mostly, it seems not.
I wish I could find a simple fix for this, as I really like the HTC clock and weather animations. Perhaps it will be fixed in the ICS update?
Is it easy to uninstall 'Locations'?
mkstevo said:
I've had to install Fancy Widgets to 'fix' this. It will only work if the Geocoder is set to use GeoNames. If it is set to use Google or Weather Provider it will fail in a similar way to the HTC weather. HTC weather sometimes does work correctly, then sometimes not. Mostly, it seems not.
I wish I could find a simple fix for this, as I really like the HTC clock and weather animations. Perhaps it will be fixed in the ICS update?
Is it easy to uninstall 'Locations'?
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My HTC weather and clock widget seems to work fine most of the time. I guess I am one of the few lucky ones. We will wait to see what the ICS update brings.
Do you mean Locations, the app? Have you rooted your phone?
If you have just use any root exploring app (Es File Explorer, Root Explorer etc.) and go to /system/app locate the 'Location.apk' and delete it. You may want to delete Location widget apk too?
Once your phone has rebooted you should be fine. It won't be there anymore.
That's if you mean the Location app
benjamin.j.goodwin said:
We will wait to see what the ICS update brings.
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ICS won't fix it. It's at the data provider end rather than being on the phone.
Weather issue fixed
Hi
My weather application stopped updatind after I had unlocked the bootloader.
So I relocked bootloader and flashed stock rom. Weather updates is working all right now.
just installed ICS, weather stuck on United Kingdom.... Anybody any ideas, no amount of force closing and clearing data fixes it.
Turn on GPS and refresh, or wifi.
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My phone can not determine my location over WiFi or mobile internet. It does not work with the HTC weather widget on blinkfeed (just constantly shows no weather data available and annoys the **** out of me) Google maps or Google news and weather. All settings have been configured the only thing I haven't tried is GPS.
Im really annoyed as location apps were great on my s3 and my last HTC phone the hd2.
Anyone suggest what might be causing the problem? I wouldnt mind manually typing my location in but that doesn't alter (or at least I can not find a way to) the blinkfeed weather widget
Any help appreciated, I have had a good look through this forum so sorry if this is duplicated elsewhere.
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-josh- said:
My phone can not determine my location over WiFi or mobile internet. It does not work with the HTC weather widget on blinkfeed (just constantly shows no weather data available and annoys the **** out of me) Google maps or Google news and weather. All settings have been configured the only thing I haven't tried is GPS.
Im really annoyed as location apps were great on my s3 and my last HTC phone the hd2.
Anyone suggest what might be causing the problem? I wouldnt mind manually typing my location in but that doesn't alter (or at least I can not find a way to) the blinkfeed weather widget
Any help appreciated, I have had a good look through this forum so sorry if this is duplicated elsewhere.
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I did have a problem in the first 24 hours of use - no location showing. Eventually I checked all locations settings were <ON> and then ran maps. For the first time I saw the GPS icon flashing and I did get a location.
Hope that helps....
Yeah a hard reset sorted it. Don't know what happened the first time, all settings were exactly the same as the second time I set it up, weird.
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Afraid I have the same issue Anyone figure out how to fix this short of a hard reset?
lysergic said:
Afraid I have the same issue Anyone figure out how to fix this short of a hard reset?
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I had the same problem. Made sure location services were all checked and then just soft resetted and it finally appeared.
Disable the Fast Boot option in Settings. Then reboot.
Worked for me.
stratplayer said:
Disable the Fast Boot option in Settings. Then reboot.
Worked for me.
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I've tried all above, but no success.
It worked for 10+ days, then last 4 days I only get "MY LOCATION" or "CURRENT LOCATION" in BF or Weather app.
It was very good first ten days, and extremly precise. I'm still on .13 version.
Anybody still having this issue or similar??
It's a known Google problem with about 6 threads here discussing the problem. Google is working on a fix.
stratplayer said:
Disable the Fast Boot option in Settings. Then reboot.
Worked for me.
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Disabling Fast Boot worked for me too
My Blinkfeed only has United States option
Im in the UK and I am pretty sure my One is an import. It only has United States in the Blinkfeed drop down so I get no UK topics and services.
Does anyone know a solution?
Much appreciation
K
Hi,
I have a brandnew gear and S4on 4.3, both on stock and will all updates performed.
-weather widget on touchwiz homescreen, set on hourly update
-wifi and bluetooth tether on
-lockscreen set to automatic
I read all the posts about this problem and performed al possible solutions like restarting, force close all weather apps, providers and widgets etc etc but it will still only update when I turn the phone on.
Any thoughts?
Try going to gear manager, open my apps, then select apps, click settings on weather, and set auto refresh for 1 hour
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animatechnica said:
Try going to gear manager, open my apps, then select apps, click settings on weather, and set auto refresh for 1 hour
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Thanks for your reply but I already did all the obvious things.
eddepetsgear said:
Thanks for your reply but I already did all the obvious things.
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Under the phones location services, are you using wifi, gps, both, or is it off?
Do you have any google services frozen, or hibernated at all?
440bro said:
Under the phones location services, are you using wifi, gps, both, or is it off?
Do you have any google services frozen, or hibernated at all?
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Gps, wifi, bluetooth, bluetooth thethering, automatic lock with gear, widget on homescreen, set two locations and let hem scroll every 30s. Update is set on every hour.
Also did gear, weather provider, weather provider, weather widget and touchwiz reset,
And still the widget is not updating on the phone or watch automaticly.
I couldnt care less about the weather function but I hate it when I cant get something to work.
eddepetsgear said:
Hi,
I have a brandnew gear and S4on 4.3, both on stock and will all updates performed.
-weather widget on touchwiz homescreen, set on hourly update
-wifi and bluetooth tether on
-lockscreen set to automatic
I read all the posts about this problem and performed al possible solutions like restarting, force close all weather apps, providers and widgets etc etc but it will still only update when I turn the phone on.
Any thoughts?
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You do have the stock weather widget on one of the home screens of the phone right? I know with my Note 2 it will not update the widget on the Gear unless I also have the stock weather widget on the phone (I just put it on a screen I dont use)
Ok, nothing worked to get the weather updating on the gear. I tried all possible solutions, even reset phone and gear.
Yesterday i installed the ripped from S5 gear manager(see other topic)....and the weather is now updating like a charm.
And the funny thing is..it works with touchwiz and even with apex launcher...
Edit: sadly it already stopped updating the next morning.
I think I'm having the same problem. I updated my rom on March 9th, and I was initially happy because on my previous rom, I didn't have weather at all. I noticed after three days that the weather wasn't updating at all. It constantly said 27°C and sunny.
I know it is still receiving some information from the phone because when i changed the widget on the phone to display in farenhieght, the unit updated on the watch. Unfortunately, the weather information hasn't updated since March 9th. This is especially odd considering I updated to Null 23 this morning. It must have gotten the weather information from the phone after the new install from a complete wipe, but it only got old information.
The weather is updating just fine on my note 2. Anyone have any ideas?
Edit: I just tried the weather command on S-Voice, and it showed an updated weather list, but when I use the weather widget on the watch, it still shows the weather that hasn't been updated since March 9th.
I had same problem too. I tried almost everything, but no go. Weather does not update. So i think to try kind of extreme. I earlier used on my note 2 this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2584533 and there is flashable file called One Stop Shop V5. I don't use that rom any more but i think thats worth to try. I flashed that file, and surprise. Now the weather updates as it should. So this worked on my international Note 2 and it might not work on other models.