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Strange thing just happened no idea why.

Ive been running cm6 on my n1 for a month or so now and yesterday something very odd happened.
My phone was being sluggish and it was stuck on gprs in an area i always get full 3g. So i rebooted and i noticed maps decied to uninstall it self. So i go to the market and install it again and it tells me its already installed and its gonna overwrite the previous data. Then i noticed swype was gone so i go to reinstall it and again it tells me its already there and i install anyway. I try to type something with swype now reinstalled and the keyboard pops up but when i type something it just slides back down. So i reboot again and more apps are missing. So i go to the market and it fc's. then almost everything i try to do fc's on me. I tell my friend and he jokes you got a virus. So since im gonna reflash anyway i download the antivirus free app and it tells me everything is infected or whatever. So whatever i just reflash cm6 and install my apps and the only app antivirus flags is android wifi tether which i got from code.google. Anyway i reflash and just dont install wifi tether and all has been well.
Does anyone know wtf just happened? I know everyone says theres no suck thing as a virus on android and i know that the antivirus app is also questionable but i have no idea what just happened. I havent installed or done anything different than i usually do. I would really like a logical explanation of what happened.

Your apps were just taking a while to load. I've seen it happen before. I've opened my app drawer, and watched my apps slowly appear, one by one, at 5 to 10 second intervals...
Might be time to wipe?
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Can an App screw up your phone?

I am running a Custom ROM for a while and everything had been going smoothly. Last night I installed the Beta Version of Norton Utilities which I found on the Market and my phone started locking up and having Forced Closures. Though it might have been something all the sudden occurring in the ROM or the Kernel that caused this I don't think it was so I was wondering can an App mess up your phone?
Thanks

Get rid of app. See what happens

mcord11758 said:
Get rid of app. See what happens
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I tried to uninstall it but I not 100% sure it did. I use Tibackup and it would lockup when I did uninstall. I did a Force Close and Reboot and though it don't see the App listed anymore I am not 100% sure if everything from the App was removed. I then tried to Restore my Data and Apps with Full Tibackup Restore and my phone went into Reboot Loop.

RonH54 said:
I tried to uninstall it but I not 100% sure it did. I use Tibackup and it would lockup when I did uninstall. I did a Force Close and Reboot and though it don't see the App listed anymore I am not 100% sure if everything from the App was removed.
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Go to market, search app, see if out says installed

It not that big of deal since I had everything backed up I just Wiped all my Data,Davik and reflashed ROM and restored and I am bak up and running I just was wondering if anyone had ever seen an App just "attack" a phone?

RonH54 said:
It not that big of deal since I had everything backed up I just Wiped all my Data,Davik and reflashed ROM and restored and I am bak up and running I just was wondering if anyone had ever seen an App just "attack" a phone?
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Yes although I forget the app

I am sure a lot of this had to do with me having a Custom Rom and testing a "Beta" App. I should have known better esp. since it was "Norton's Product" and the experiences I have had with them on a PC and how they truly "invade" a system.....

its Norton.....theres your problem

Pirateghost said:
its Norton.....theres your problem
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Plus a billion! I know how hard it is to scrub Norton off my computer, I wouldn't let it anywhere near my phone.
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Norton
Where was time when Norton was king. Symantec was the downfall of Norton.

Thanks for your post........as I hear more about viruses and smartphones, I have been wondering if I need some kind of protection? Maybe not.......

i have yet to find an antivirus program that wasn't more of a virus than the viruses it protects against. i refuse to run them on my home computer or my phone. they screw things up and give you more popup windows than the internet did a couple of years ago before browsers started blocking them. but that is just me do what you must to keep your stuff safe. as for the app wrecking android i had one on my backflip that was causing havoc but i too forget what it was.

I was a Big Norton's fan on my PC back when Norton's first appeared but as the more and more things Norton/Symantec added the worse the product got it was like the Protection it provided was worse than having a Virus. The only thing I am running on my phone that seems to add some protection is the app called 'Lookout". I started using this app as I way to find my phone if I missed placed it. I guess they have updated it because I notice now that when I add a new app Lookout does some sort of scan and it says that the new app is safe. I don't know what it is looking at when it does the Scan since I didn't make any setting changes to evoke this Scan. BTW I am using Free Lookout version.

mark1962nc said:
Thanks for your post........as I hear more about viruses and smartphones, I have been wondering if I need some kind of protection? Maybe not.......
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When you see the first post or internet article claiming that smart phones are getting infected THEN I'd worry. Until then, just don't load anything you don't know where it came from.

Pirateghost said:
its Norton.....theres your problem
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LOL stole the words right out of my mouth!
I know were getting close to needing AV for our phones - but the day I install Norton on a LINUX device - I will commit seppuku.

[Q] Please help!!! PIN code suddenly changed!!

So I used this pin code for about 3 weeks now..
what i did was, I downloaded dungeon defender because it was free..
and it told me to do a reboot after install so i did.
when i finished rebooting my pin would not be accepted..
and also even if i fail a lot, it keeps telling me to try again after 30sec
rather than entering you google account.....
Im running darky 9.5..
SHould i do a hard reset? or reflash?
any other solutions?
please help...

Did you enter your google account and reset your pin?
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That's odd. That usually only happens if you make changes to the framework with a PIN enabled.
Are you sure you didn't also happen to modify the framework (theming, no-clock, other flashable mods) with a PIN enabled?
The only way that I've dealt with it is basically reflash, and don't enable a PIN lock until you're totally done with your modifications.
If not that's very surprising, and makes me think twice about a PIN.

first it never asked for a google account.... im on my 240 try...
one thing i noticed is that when i get it wrong 5 times.
it says "you have incorrectly drawn your unlock pattern 240 times. Please try again in 30 seconds."
why does it say pattern?
and fyi i never did any modifications with the pin... i dont even know how to do it...
and does reflashing erase all the data?

i just reflashed.
it didn't help anything.. the pin is still there. I still dont know the password.
is there a way to figure out the pin? like plug it in a computer and it tells you or something?

Did you do a master clear through Odin?
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m3thods said:
Did you do a master clear through Odin?
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no i have not yet tried that...
is that the only way? because i really want to save my data....
but still thanks for the reply..

One more thing you can try is a hard factory reset (it's accessible through CWM). tbh I can't remember if it wipes all of your data. I don't think it does but don't quote me on that.
That will allow you to get into your phone temporarily. But you'll still run into the problem, so a master clear is in your future.
What data did you want to save?
You can use "SMS Backup" or "Backup to Gmail" to save your SMS/MMS/Call logs when you get back into your phone then wipe everything else.

I just wanted to get my app data.
Anyway I did a factory reset and it sort of solved the problem.
I'm not using a password now...
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have you tried rebooting the phone? i think when it happened to me the problem would come back after a reboot. if not then problem fixed!

m3thods said:
have you tried rebooting the phone? i think when it happened to me the problem would come back after a reboot. if not then problem fixed!
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That didn't work...
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Sorry I don't think I was clear. I meant have you tried rebooting to see if your pin lock cones back?
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That didn't work...
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Can you use adb on the phone? You could pull data or do something with the framework
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Media scanning fails, reboots phone constantly

Just installed launcher pro on my mom's cappy, now the phone reboots whenever media scanning is initialized. Any help? I'm not near a computer right now
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that's odd man.. I use launcher pro and I've never had that happen. Have you tried uninstalling it and installing it again?

Coreym said:
that's odd man.. I use launcher pro and I've never had that happen. Have you tried uninstalling it and installing it again?
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I can't get to it, the phone shuts down too quick. I think it might be something with the android system itself, but I haven't done anything to it
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does she have a micro sd, or an externel sd card.. try taking that out and powering it up.. see if it will get past the media scan?
..also, can you get to recovery? might be able to wipe data from there and reboot??

No micro sd card, she's still under warranty so we'll take it back tomorrow, but it'll already be our second return (first bricked while updating software). I have an epic 4g and nothing like this has ever happened before
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oops.

I need some help guys. Does any one have the com.lgsystemservice apk? I was removing some bloat ware and I accidentally removed this last night. My phone is not properly so if only one could help me with this I would be very greatful. For example when texting or just trying to type something it laying very bad or won't work at all. Thank you.
P.s. I tried searching for apk file my self and no luck.

I don't even see that in my system apps.
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First off which variant do you have? Second I only see com.lgesystemservice.core.jar and com.lgesystemservice.core.odex which are part of the framework on the T-Mobile D959 variant.

Thank you for your relies, i have d959. The only thing that is not right is the keyboard. There is a terrible lag when comes texting. Other than thatthe phone seems to be working.

And the led light is flashing from green to blue

Please proofread your posts. I also have the d959 i dont find it in titatium. How where you deleting the bloat?
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I used nobloat free

ok i am home now... before i was using my damaged g flex lol.
ok ill explain again but this time ill be more clear.
i am on tmobile and phone is D959
last night i was trying to delete some bloat ware using nobloat free from the market. i must have deleted something i should have because i was getting a pop up saying "unfortunately, com.lge.systemservice has stopped" i would tap ok and it would pop up again over and over again and i couldnt do anything so i had to force shut down the phone by holding the power button for about 10secs. once it powered on it poped up again but this time it was just once. after that i thought the phone was working correclty until i needed to send a text message, i saw that when i went to text a word there was a bad lag before the letter showed up. it seems that that is the worst thing that is wrong with the phone. i also notice that there is a lag when it comes to changing the volume setting from silent to vibrate to ringer.

i am woundering if i unroot and do a factory reset if that will fix my problem or if there is a way to download the stock rom so i can go back to stock if that makes sense.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644083
Follow this guide. You'll be fixed right up and even keep all your data. This will restore your phone to stock, then reroot and try again. I suggest freezing apps n the future so all you would need is to unfreeze if you mess up.
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Thank you bro, I will try me best to do this lol. I just gotta ask because everyone is telling me to do this but to do a factory reset. I think if I do this it won't fix the problem. But can someone just tell me what it would do. Thanks.