Hello everyone,
I have been having this problem for a few weeks now, and it has gotten to the point where I think something is SERIOUSLY wrong with my phone.
I have a 512gb UNLOCKED N960U1. Never rooted. I'm a little OCD with my app arrangement so i have every app on my phone in folders so i dont have to get a finger hernia scrolling through everything.
My problem is that I use low-power mode often. I also like to turn in on while driving, and charge my phone in the car that way. Lately when coming OUT of low-power mode, I've found that my apps have DUPLICATED. Every. Single. One. Doesn't matter if the phone is charging, or not. They duplicate, BOTH APPS OPEN, and I have to uninstall the second ones with no data loss to the original(?) one.
I also like to change my themes weekly. Thats what originally started the problems. Recently, after switching a theme out again, I found that the phone had emptied out my folders into a giant CF in my app drawer. Thinking "at least its not old school Samsung LAG", I just put them BACK. No biggie.
NO GO. I did that THREE SEPARATE TIMES. I have 425+ apps on my phone. Sometimes SOME of the apps will be removed from the folders, sometimes ALL of the apps.
The breaking point for me was when I took it off of low-power mode as I was leaving the car, and the apps spread back out, and SOME WEREN'T EVEN SHOWING. Furious, I knew I was going to use my tapatalk app to get onto XDA to ask for help or guidance. Tapatalk Pro is on my phone, but WAS NOT SHOWING IN THE APP DRAWER. So i searched for it instead. It came up in the SEARCH, but not alphabetically where it SHOULD be. Now when you find an app by searching, if the app comes up, you can long press it and it will give you the option to "locate" where the app is store on your phone (folder, which screen, etc.) When that was done, the phone froze briefly, and then did nothing.
Im at my wit's end on this issue. The most horrible part is that I can't find ANYONE who is having this issue other than me. Phone has not been dropped, no cracks, nothing.
What the hell is wrong with my phone??
This is the most horrific problem I've ever read on XDA is all my time here. Sorry that I don't have a solution to your problem, but just reading through your post is terrifying.
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I think a logcat and developer tools may help. Have you tried Samsung service since you can easily replicate the problem in front of them?
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Are you using 3rd party launcher? If you don't use low power mode does it still happen. What are using to change themes?
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Are you using 3rd party launcher? If you don't use low power mode does it still happen. What are using to change themes?
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No third party launcher. I use the standard, built in theme options when I switch themes, and the themes are downloaded from the Samsung theme app/store/part.
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Paras Lehana said:
I think a logcat and developer tools may help. Have you tried Samsung service since you can easily replicate the problem in front of them?
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Samsung service?
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Samsung Service Center*
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I would just backup the device and factory reset.
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I would just backup the device and factory reset.
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Yes that's the last thing I would do. I couldn't live without knowing the reason. [emoji6]
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I would just backup the device and factory reset.
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Unfortunately thats exactly what I did. I started putting my apps in folders as everything was downloading. I also began to get rid of apps because I figured that definitely didn't help.
By the time the phone finished downloading all my backup'd apps, the two apps I deleted were BACK, and the apps came out of the folders I had just put in. Back to the same situation. :silly::crying:
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Unfortunately thats exactly what I did. I started putting my apps in folders as everything was downloading. I also began to get rid of apps because I figured that definitely didn't help.
By the time the phone finished downloading all my backup'd apps, the two apps I deleted were BACK, and the apps came out of the folders I had just put in. Back to the same situation. :silly::crying:
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What are those apps?
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Slicc98 said:
Unfortunately thats exactly what I did. I started putting my apps in folders as everything was downloading. I also began to get rid of apps because I figured that definitely didn't help.
By the time the phone finished downloading all my backup'd apps, the two apps I deleted were BACK, and the apps came out of the folders I had just put in. Back to the same situation. :silly::crying:
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Since what you're experiencing is most likely a software issue, you may want to factory reset and try not restoring any of your backed up apps, just manually install the basic ones and see how it behaves for a few hours.
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What are those apps?
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Just random apps. No category to put them in
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How are you still sane from this? I'm sorry I can't provide a solution.
Call Samsung stars. Personally I would factory reset and install apps one by one.
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Call Samsung stars. Personally I would factory reset and install apps one by one.
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For 435 apps?
I'm reviving this thread because the problem continued on the the Note 10.
...then the Note 20U...
Now I'm too scared to try it on my Z Fold 3.
This is a SOFTWARE issue...not a specific phone or app issue.
Related
Has anyone gotten this game to load? I'll touch the icon to launch the game, it'll sit there for a minute and then exit back to the home screen. No error message or anything. I sent a customer support email to Square Enix, but who knows how long that will take. Thought maybe someone here knew of the problem and how to fix it.
Thanks in advance!
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baldwyn said:
Has anyone gotten this game to load? I'll touch the icon to launch the game, it'll sit there for a minute and then exit back to the home screen. No error message or anything. I sent a customer support email to Square Enix, but who knows how long that will take. Thought maybe someone here knew of the problem and how to fix it.
Thanks in advance!
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Do you have xposed framework installed on your device?
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I have exposed. Is there a module that could help? I bought the game but would like to copy it to another device without downloading it again.
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I have exposed. Is there a module that could help? I bought the game but would like to copy it to another device without downloading it again.
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Exposed is actually the problem. The newer square Enix games check for it and don't work if it is found. Not really sure why they do, but it started with version 1.0.3 of final fantasy dimensions, and it is also present in all versions of IV and V. You have to disable all modules and reboot for it to work.
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KeylanHalfdan said:
Exposed is actually the problem. The newer square Enix games check for it and don't work if it is found. Not really sure why they do, but it started with version 1.0.3 of final fantasy dimensions, and it is also present in all versions of IV and V. You have to disable all modules and reboot for it to work.
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I actually want to get the game on another device without re-downloading it. I bought the game on my phone because that's the only way I could get it charged to my AT&T phone bill, but I really wanted it to play on my Nexus 7 tablet. I just can't download the whole game again because my wifi sucks at my house. I don't have xposed on the Nexus, but I have Titanium Backup. I transferred the 3 TiBu files from my phone to my tablet and even the obb folder and put it in the obb folder under Android. I then ran Restore App + Data on the tablet. Now, whenever I tap the FFV icon on the tablet, it just hangs for a second and then goes straight to the home screen. I've used TiBu many times before and the method I just described has worked for every other app I've transferred from my phone to my tablet. I'm just confounded why it won't work with this app. Any other suggestions? You've already been a big help!
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baldwyn said:
I actually want to get the game on another device without re-downloading it. I bought the game on my phone because that's the only way I could get it charged to my AT&T phone bill, but I really wanted it to play on my Nexus 7 tablet. I just can't download the whole game again because my wifi sucks at my house. I don't have xposed on the Nexus, but I have Titanium Backup. I transferred the 3 TiBu files from my phone to my tablet and even the obb folder and put it in the obb folder under Android. I then ran Restore App + Data on the tablet. Now, whenever I tap the FFV icon on the tablet, it just hangs for a second and then goes straight to the home screen. I've used TiBu many times before and the method I just described has worked for every other app I've transferred from my phone to my tablet. I'm just confounded why it won't work with this app. Any other suggestions? You've already been a big help!
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I think it has to do with the extra data the apply needs to download on first run. Titanium backup will backup the apk and save data, but it doesn't backup the usually 100+mb obb file stored on the sd card.
You could copy the file from:
sdcard/Android/obb/ com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFV_GP
to your computer and then transfer it to your other device and it should work.
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I did that. I have the folder: com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFV_GP in Android/obb and in that folder contains the 140.43MB file: main.105.com.square_enix.android_Google play.FFV_GP.obb. I also have the apk.gz, properties and tar.gz files in the TiBu folder. I then ran Restore App+Data in TiBu. It then goes through the install process and then when it's finished, I hit Open, the screen goes blank for a minute and then exits to home.
Like I said, I've done this with many games and apps before and it's never given me problems like this stupid game is right now. Who would've thought it would be so hard to try to relive a small piece of my childhood?
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anyone find a fix for this yet? i'm having the same problem. Just opens black screen n exits.
shadowhero said:
anyone find a fix for this yet? i'm having the same problem. Just opens black screen n exits.
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Do you have xposed installed?
Fix I found for it to work
I have had the same problem stated, Xposed installed and FFV black screen and returning to home screen.
Xposed is the problem, the fix I found is to move Xposed as a system app and any modules.
Works for me.
Had the same problem. The game worked fine stock ROM but stopped working i flashed the ARHD custom ROM for HOX+ loaded with exposed. Coudn't fix the issue. Now playing it on my DHD.
so, my front soft keys somehow disappeared, and I cant get them back; in the settings menu, there is no longer an option for them, and I have no clue how they went away...
any suggestions?
I uninstalled xposed framework, and gravity box, in case that was the issue,and have rebooted many times, but still not there..
thanks!
Not sure if you can or if it would help but did you try another launcher? Maybe a reset but not sure if that would even work.
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Is your expanded desktop on from xposed?
Try factory reset as your last resort. Did you mess around turning them off with xposed?
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-tried a different launcher, and it didnt work
-re-installed xposed, and gravity box, and made sure expanded desktop was OFF, and it didnt work
-rooting had nothing to do with it, as I rooted a week ago, and everything was fine until last night
thanks so much!
This is one of the reasons I've been leaving my Flex stock til we get a recovery. I know with the G2, zips were made to shrink the keys. Not sure if you could even get them back if you had a zip like that. Maybe you can search G2 threads and find a way. Sorry I can't help ya.
yeah, I even did a factory reset just now, and they are still not there; even in the settings menu, the "front screen buttons" entry is gone..
I guess I'll take it back to T-mobile today and tell them I want it replaced..its only 11 days since I got it, so it shouldnt matter..
I cant imagine rooting had anything to do with it, since I rooted a week ago, and its worked perfectly until it just went out last night
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yeah, I even did a factory reset just now, and they are still not there; even in the settings menu, the "front screen buttons" entry is gone..
I guess I'll take it back to T-mobile today and tell them I want it replaced..its only 11 days since I got it, so it shouldnt matter..
I cant imagine rooting had anything to do with it, since I rooted a week ago, and its worked perfectly until it just went out last night
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Before you do that you should try restoring with wolfgart's thread downloads. If you're going to be changing stuff, its good to know how to fix a brick.
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will0899 said:
Before you do that you should try restoring with wolfgart's thread downloads. If you're going to be changing stuff, its good to know how to fix a brick.
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good advice; but frankly, after only 11 days, I dont even want to mess around with that.
plus, I am not sure if there is even a complete restore for Tmobile version yet
Can you pull your build.prop via adb and enable the software keys like that and push it back?
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Bladerunner1825us said:
Can you pull your build.prop via adb and enable the software keys like that and push it back?
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i thought about doing that, actually, but it was alot easier to just return it and get a new one today.
If it happens again, which it better not, I will try that.
I think Gravity Box was the culprit, after reading through the 500+ pages of that thread; it seems to play havoc at times with soft keys, so users beware..
That was one of the reasons why i was debating on getting this phone. Nothing beats a physical button.(that works...)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2660605
Maybe your case?
thanks, I exchanged my phone yesterday for a new one, but I will remember this going forward..
Lately anytime I select text in an app (browser, gmail, etc) the application crashes. I am totally stock and unrooted. WTF??
Whoa... that's super weird!
Factory reset. That would be my first move.
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Trevor_g said:
Whoa... that's super weird!
Factory reset. That would be my first move.
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Yes, that is a good possible solution but also one I try to put off. Re installing and re configuring is an ordeal. I also cannot recount the number of times I went that route and the problem persisted. That's why I post here first. That said, it might be the only option left now. Thanks.
I hear ya. It's a pain to do that for sure. Definitely a strange problem however... let us know if you find a solution other than factory reset.
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Trevor_g said:
I hear ya. It's a pain to do that for sure. Definitely a strange problem however... let us know if you find a solution other than factory reset.
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Just did a quick check and after some weeks of consistent problem it looks like it may be gone. Strange. Maybe an update to some app that runs resident like Lastpass or something.
Hi guys.
I'm getting trouble since I got this S10+
I'm. Coming from S9+ and everything there was smooth as butter.
In S10 too, but there is a strange behavior.
I turn AutoSync off and after a while it's on again.
Checked Bixby routines, tried to catch some logs, but nothing.
Do you guys have any clue what could be turning it on?
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Try Good Lock's NiceCatch app.
Have you check Samsung Cloud and other accounts too?
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Try Good Lock's NiceCatch app.
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I've tried and it doesn't show much about who is changing this config.
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wuub said:
Have you check Samsung Cloud and other accounts too?
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Can they force to enable the sync?
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Tried to remove all apps with access to sync.
Still same issue
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filipefumaux said:
Tried to remove all apps with access to sync.
Still same issue
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Clean cache/dalvik ?
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Clean cache/dalvik ?
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Tried too. I gave up and reinstall everything.
I don't know if some dirty code came when I used Smart Switch.
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filipefumaux said:
Tried too. I gave up and reinstall everything.
I don't know if some dirty code came when I used Smart Switch.
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I was gonna suggest this next .
filipefumaux said:
Tried too. I gave up and reinstall everything.
I don't know if some dirty code came when I used Smart Switch.
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Is it better now ?
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Is it better now ?
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Yes it is. Actually it wasn't reinstalling. I've done a factory reset and didn't use Smart Switch. Reinstalled everything through Google.
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And it's back.
I've noticed the Sync been turned on yesterday.
I installed 4 new apps:
Good Lock 2019
Task changer, for good lock
Whatsapp plus
Outlook
This is really annoying me a lot
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I just realized that this behavior is also happening on my S9.
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filipefumaux said:
I just realized that this behavior is also happening on my S9.
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Have you tried an app like battery+ to check what is always on ?
Yes, I'll install again and check.
This issue is making me a permission check freak and I start to realize many apps have too many permission where they shouldn't. e.g. ES File having the permission to change the sync
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Have you tried AdHell?
It has the app components feature which is basically not only removing the permission but disabling access to the function all together.
Got to be careful with it, but I had some apps that have absolutely no reasons to access my phone state, GPS and storage for example.
How do I stop my phone from opening an app when I get a notification in it. Example; I get a notification that I have a new post in Instagram. When I unlock my phone, it'll go directly to that post. Itll do it also if I get a notification while on the phone in a call. Soon as I take the phone away from my ear, it'll go to that notification.
I have a carrier Verizon Note 9, with 9.0, not rooted.
Anyone?
Are you sure you don't click the notification or screen before unlocking the phone?
This is an android feature i.e. it will land up on the app when you click a notification on lock screen. Obviously you have to go through the lock screen.
If this is not the case, I think you have to debug via logcat.
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Do you have/ wear galaxy watch and or have the gear app installed?
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Do you have/ wear galaxy watch and or have the gear app installed?
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Good one. Also check apps having notification access. Disable them one by one and check.
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Do you have/ wear galaxy watch and or have the gear app installed?
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I actually do have my S3 Frontier connected. That makes a difference?
Paras Lehana said:
Good one. Also check apps having notification access. Disable them one by one and check.
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By doing so, won't I be disabling notifications I'll get on my watch?
Kamau54 said:
By doing so, won't I be disabling notifications I'll get on my watch?
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First confirm if that solves the problem. We need to find the cause first.
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First confirm if that solves the problem. We need to find the cause first.
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You both may have put me on the right path.
When I went to start disabling apps, I noticed this option in the Gear options. I turned it off, as it must have been on by default. I'll see what happens now.
Kamau54 said:
You both may have put me on the right path.
When I went to start disabling apps, I noticed this option in the Gear options. I turned it off, as it must have been on by default. I'll see what happens now.
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Oh, how could I forget this. It's introduced in the new update I guess. Really annoying feature. You're safe to disable it.
Glad it helped.
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Oh, how could I forget this. It's introduced in the new update I guess. Really annoying feature. You're safe to disable it.
Glad it helped.
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Thanks. I've already confirmed that was it too. But I never thought to check the Gear for the problem. It did occur to me though that it happened everytime I got a notification on my watch that the same app would open on my phone.
Again, Thank You.
When I read your problem that was the first thing I thought causing it, cause I recently bought a galaxY watch and set it up