Questions tagged [crashes]
Use this tag if you have an issue related with an application or part of the operating system, that ceases to function properly leading to a freeze or a "force close" message.
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My device is getting slow, apps start misbehaving/crashing. What can I do?
Everything was working fine for a long time. But suddenly the device is getting slower than usual (e.g. apps react slowly when starting an action -- like the RSS reader takes "ages" to open an article)...
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Android device crash logs?
I've been having issues* with my Samsung Galaxy S4 (Rooted, Echoe rom, SCH-i545, 4.4.2) lately and have been trying to figure out why. Problem is, it seems like neither alogcat nor adb can show, that ...
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Settings app: 'Unfortunately, Settings has stopped.'
I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Cyanogenmod 11 11-20140225-SNAPSHOT-InstallerXNPQ09P-maguro Android 4.4.2 KitKat with CWM 6.0.4.7. It's a stable installer build.
For a while now I have been ...
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Camera doesn't work on Nexus 5 running Android L
The camera on the Nexus 5 has stopped working. Coming from a reboot, I can open the camera app, see the camera is working, but as soon as I click to take a picture (or video), the app crashes (tried ...
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Cyanogen dialer not working after flashing C-apps bundle
Recently I installed CyanogenMod on my phone. I also decided to flash Cyanogen's new C-apps bundle.
After I did that, the new Cyanogen dialer keeps crashing whenever I try to make or receive calls. ...
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LowMemoryKiller is killing loads of system apps and forcing user space death, but "free" says there's plenty of memory
For some time I've had a problem, where crucial system processes were being force killed by LowmemoryKiller/OOM.
Following help, I added a 500 MB swap file working natively a couple of days ago to ...
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How to SUPPRESS "Unfortunately [app] has stopped" messages?
I'm not trying to fix this error for any particular app. I'm just trying to fully suppress it globally because it's completely useless and very distracting to me whenever it occurs.
How can I make my ...
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Why does this string of LTR and RTL markers cause Android devices to 'hang'?
I received this innocent-looking message forwarded from my brother on Whatsapp claiming that it could 'hang' my phone.
And sure enough... touching it would make my Android Samsung J2 running Android ...
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Google Play Services crashing constantly
My wife has a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, she didn't install any new apps on the phone today or yesterday, but now her Google Play services is crashing constantly (like every 5-10 seconds).
We tried the ...
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Android crashes after update unless I put another memory card
I have HTC Desire HD and installed an official update of the system: Android 2.3.5, HTC Sense 3.0, system 3.12.405.1.
After the update my phone runs very slowly and reboots every 2 minutes. If I ...
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Is SD card damaged
I bought 32GB SanDisk class 10/UHS1 SD card from Flipkart.com
Many times it fails to load all apps from SD card and many time it simply says in notifications "Damaged SD card", or suddenly notifies "...
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Need help understanding logs to find the cause of random reboots on android device
Can someone help me read these logs? This is the only error that I have seen pop up repeatedly in multiple logcats.
Logs:
05-20 19:14:50.604 12571 12571 E lhd : <McuCrash HwException="...
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How can Android run a disabled application?
I have just run into a situation described in this blog:
Can any one explain this to me? How can Android run a disabled application? What good do we have from marking applications as disabled, if ...
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Google Play Services and Play Store crashing
I have very little internal memory (user memory 150mb), so after the auto update of Play Service and the Play Store, I took a back up (using ES File Explorer). I have root access, so I pasted those ...
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Galaxy S3 Error/Crash Log Location
Is there an error log or crash log file anywhere on the Galaxy S3?
My phone is constantly crashing (rebooting or totally freezing requiring a battery pull) at least 4-5 time a day. I've attached the ...
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Gmail, Inbox, Messaging, Messenger work until try to open conversation -- crash
Phone: stock 5.0.2 Moto E 2015
Randomly one day about 2 weeks ago I started getting popup notifications like:
Unfortunately, Keep has stopped.
Same for Pocket, and Google Play Newsstand. Like, ...
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Reboot encrypted phone without having to enter password and PIN after crash
Last week my phone crashed when using Amaze File Manager. This Xperia Z1 Compact phone with Android 5.1 is encrypted. It rebooted automatically. I see the encryption lock and expect a password request....
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Apps crashing after updating Lenovo A2010 to Android 5.1 Lollipop
I updated my Lenovo A2010-a to the latest version (Android 5.1): I just clicked on a message that says "You have a new update. Update has downloaded and can be installed" then it opened a ...
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New LG G3 randomly crash
I have bought a new LG G3 (D855, 16GB Flash, 2GB RAM), and rooted and flashed CM12.1 on it.
The phone works great (somewhat), but sometimes the screen turns itself off and the phone gets stuck in ...
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retrieve logcat after a system crash
Is it possible to retrieve a logcat from before a system crash after the phone recovers? I.e. my phone is running normally, then it crashes and reboots, and I want to view the logs when it recovers ...
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How to find logs of unhandled exceptions in Android?
In Windows, when an application crashes because of an unhandled exception, there is a place called Event Viewer that gives a good amount of informative data about the process being crashed down.
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Multiple "kworker" are hogging CPU. Possible virus?
I read that it is used on the computer.
It has been coming up on my Samsung Galaxy S2. It is on at least 3 times at once and up to 7 or 8 at once. They are called kworker/0:1 through kworker/0:4 and/...
