Hi,
Starting a couple days ago the camera app on my HTC One will not work. I keep getting the error "unable to start the camera." I have a stock build, recently (about a week ago) upgraded to 4.3.
Now, I have determined that it is not simply the main camera app that is not working as no app that uses the camera (snapchat etc.) work either.
I have tried many things to fix this issue so far, rebooting, clearing the cache, doing a full factory reset, attempting to open in safe mode. I have come to the conclusion that since none of these attempts worked that this either has to be an operating system/4.3 build issue (although I'm not sure this makes sense as I had a working camera for many days after upgrading and the factory reset did not help) or this is a hardware issue.
Has anyone else encountered this or have any suggestions? I have read a couple scarce threads where others had this issue but a soft reset usually solved it. My problem seems to be a lot more severe unfortunately.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
Are you fully stock?
However, if a factory reset haven't help you, you can only send to the warranty...
Hello All,
I received the Lollipop OTA about a week ago and since then my phone has been randomly restarting on its own and then proceeding to perform some sort of process once it starts.
It says something along the lines of "Optimizing Apps 1of 119" and this process takes a while. I have tried clearing the cache but it doesn't seem to help.
Any ideas of whats happening, solutions ?
Thanks,
Pete
I can confirm the problem. Having the same issue where apps are optimized on every power on.
When my nexus 7 updated to 5.0 it did this a few times. Then mysteriously stopped doing it after a week or two.
Whenever Android boots and starts with "Optimizing App # of #" it usually means your ART cache got wiped for whatever reason (corrupted maybe). This is the same effect as if you wiped the caches in TWRP. It takes a long time because ART caches are substantially larger than Dalvik caches.
Try to plug the cable off before turning on the phone. Looks like a serious bug but that helped in my case.
I performed a factory reset last night seems to be much better so far, I will report if the issue starts up again !!
Pete
Which lollipop update did u do, i mean the brazil retail one or the europe one??
Cos i faced this issue a lot in brazil retail update, yet to try europe update....
had the GB OTA update and can attest to the annoying android updating with each phone restart, fortunately I have not had any random rebooting issues as reported by others
Jim
jfran said:
had the GB OTA update and can attest to the annoying android updating with each phone restart, fortunately I have not had any random rebooting issues as reported by others
Jim
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But you do have annoying apps update at each restart right??
Yes i have the annoying android updating with each restart
I have experienced these random reboots and I have also noticed that I get an error when taking screenshots where it says that either the storage is full or the app doesn't allow it. I have at least 3gb left and I have tried it across the system and it doesn't work. I am on the retail US version for XT1053
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I have also some optimising situations on the restarts. Someone know what can fix or raise this situation?
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the android updating stopped, not sure if it was clearing the gallery data (2GB) the helped, or booting it safe mode, anyway boot time is now back to normal
Mine only gets into the process of optimizing apps when it's connected to the power source (PC via usb or directly to the power outlet). I just have to remember to unplug before switching off the phone.
It doesn't restart on its own.
Apart from missing lots of features after the Lollipop update, I also have the optimizing problem, it takes 30min and is extremely annoying, happened 5 times already, one time was a random reboot.
Any idea how to fix it? I do not consider a factory reset a solution. Motorola has spend much time and effort in upgrading while keeping all existing settings and app configs and app data. If I knew I would need a reset I would not have "upgraded" (def would have stayed with 4.4.4 had I known some pratical features are missing, the change log and all tech sites are waay to optimistic about the Lollipop updates!).
same here.
unrooted stock Rogers/Fido version
pasta1234 said:
I performed a factory reset last night seems to be much better so far, I will report if the issue starts up again !!
Pete
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My sister in law had the same experience.. After the 5.1 update on her XT1053 Dev Edition, she kept getting the "optimizing app xx of yy" on reboot... After a factory reset, and setting up from scratch, she is back to working fine.
Friend of mine had the same experience with his XT1053... factory reset and setup from scratch fixed it.
I received the OTA two weeks ago (retail.en.gb), after some days i had a reboot and the optimization of 130apps
So i decided to do a factory reset and install just few application.
Tonight i forgot to put the phone on charge and this morning i had again reboot and optimizaion, just 80 apps bat took 10minutes!
I hope someone found a fix for this annoing issue
worst phone ever, it is very frustrating,should i upgrade to android M ?
Try encrypting then factory reset.
Okay, so I recently brought this tablet only last week and up until a week it randomly started freezing on different apps and force closing them! So I ended up checking to see if it was a software bug and checked if the tablet needed an update but no luck there as the tablet kept giving me an error unable to download latest update for no reason at all! So I decided to use sammobile which I have used before in the past for my Samsung s6 so I know how it works and I found the latest update for my tablet on o2 as it's locked to o2 and I realised my tablet was on an older firmware so I downloaded and flashed the new firmware. Once it was done it loaded up as normal I signed in to all my apps and for a couple of hours it was fine until I suddenly placed it down to charge and it randomly rebooted for no reason so I picked it up to check it and now sometimes when I open up Facebook or app store or anything really sometimes they work and sometimes they say they have stopped! For example "unfortunately Google play store has stopped" and once one of them says it's stopped the rest stasrt randomly popping up saying they have stopped and I can't literally touch the tablet because it keeps popping up so I have to reboot the tablet! I have tried factory resetting with no luck it works for a while after resetting but starts again! PLEASE HELP! I ONLY RECNTLY BROUGHT THIS NEW!!! SO SHOULDNT HAVE ISSUES!
danielfrancisarthurs said:
Okay, so I recently brought this tablet only last week and up until a week it randomly started freezing on different apps and force closing them! So I ended up checking to see if it was a software bug and checked if the tablet needed an update but no luck there as the tablet kept giving me an error unable to download latest update for no reason at all! So I decided to use sammobile which I have used before in the past for my Samsung s6 so I know how it works and I found the latest update for my tablet on o2 as it's locked to o2 and I realised my tablet was on an older firmware so I downloaded and flashed the new firmware. Once it was done it loaded up as normal I signed in to all my apps and for a couple of hours it was fine until I suddenly placed it down to charge and it randomly rebooted for no reason so I picked it up to check it and now sometimes when I open up Facebook or app store or anything really sometimes they work and sometimes they say they have stopped! For example "unfortunately Google play store has stopped" and once one of them says it's stopped the rest stasrt randomly popping up saying they have stopped and I can't literally touch the tablet because it keeps popping up so I have to reboot the tablet! I have tried factory resetting with no luck it works for a while after resetting but starts again! PLEASE HELP! I ONLY RECNTLY BROUGHT THIS NEW!!! SO SHOULDNT HAVE ISSUES!
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Maybe a FullWipe could help and re-installing the original Samsung Rom. So you could try to flash the TWRP-Recovery from where you can go ahead:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tab-s2/development/recovery-twrp-2-8-7-x-lollipop-5-1-1-t3205686
Thanks every thing is sorted now apart from I get an error when checking for updates it tells me there is a network or server error? I have tried factory resetting and wiping again but can't sort it!
Never experienced this. Sorry
Do you have a SIM card inserted?
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Do you have a SIM card inserted?
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Yes I have my sim card inside
Try your updates without inserted SIM.
I've been getting occasional reboots every couple of days. I wasn't too bother by that, but since I installed the latest security update 2 days ago, my phone has been rebooting constantly. I think today I've had it happened close to 10 times.
I've cleared the device cache which didn't help.
Will try doing a hard reset soon.
Anyone else have had this issue and may be able to point out some options to try?
I'm wondering if this was update related or could it actually be hardware?
aarick said:
I've been getting occasional reboots every couple of days. I wasn't too bother by that, but since I installed the latest security update 2 days ago, my phone has been rebooting constantly. I think today I've had it happened close to 10 times.
I've cleared the device cache which didn't help.
Will try doing a hard reset soon.
Anyone else have had this issue and may be able to point out some options to try?
I'm wondering if this was update related or could it actually be hardware?
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I would guess software - it's painful, but back up what you have - and write down all the apps you have. Then uninstall them one every other day, in order of least important apps to you. When the problem goes away, you have found the app causing the issue. If not and you run out of apps, then do a hard reset. Don't reinstall everything at once. Start installing apps, only a couple every other day or so. If the problem comes back then you know which apps...
- R. Kruse Ludington
Galaxy Note 8
Hi. So, I wake up in the morning to find that my phone was in recovery mode saying something along the lines of:
"Your device may be corrupt. If you keep facing this issue, you may need to factory reset your phone."
I restarted my phone only for it to restart (automatically) within a few seconds. This happened about 5 times. Then, finally, I decided to do a factory reset. After performing a hard reset, my device started working fine but only for a few minutes. I was setting up my applications and adding my Google accounts to the device when the phone restarted, again. I started looking around on XDA and other forums for anyone else facing the same problem. I went to Google Issue Tracker where I saw the same issue opened for today; however, that was on a Pixel 6. I tried sideloading an OTA image (from Google's website) and that was successful but I still kept facing the same problem. I performed a hard reset again and didn't download any applications and didn't do any additional settings. The phone worked fine for around 4-5 hours, so I decided to set it up with my applications and settings. As soon as I did that, my phone started restarting again.
Please help!
Details:
Device: Google Pixel 4a (5G)
Software: Android 13 (April 2023 Update)
Thanks in advance!
Facing exactly the same situation and it start happening today.
Appreciate any suggestions
Hammad975 said:
Facing exactly the same situation and it start happening today.
Appreciate any suggestions
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Are you Pakistani? If so, do you have any banking applications or any Pakistani app installed for that matter? Try hard resetting your phone and install each application you want one by one. You'll know when the problematic application is installed so you can uninstall it to get rid of your issue. It was a banking application for me :/
dv_007 said:
Are you Pakistani? If so, do you have any banking applications or any Pakistani app installed for that matter? Try hard resetting your phone and install each application you want one by one. You'll know when the problematic application is installed so you can uninstall it to get rid of your issue. It was a banking application for me :/
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Yes, i am from Pakistan.
Appreciate your response, will do that.