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Hard reset tutorial!

Hi everybody!
I'm very new to HTC and WM6.1 but I know hard reset is not that complex.
Anyway I saw two video-tutorials.
In the first the guy only pressed the two buttons and then followed the on screen indications, in the other video the guy used the stylus and the two buttons, but the result lookes the same... are there any differences?
Thanks a lot! (I don't want to destroy my Kaiser )

LINUZ90 said:
Hi everybody!
I'm very new to HTC and WM6.1 but I know hard reset is not that complex.
Anyway I saw two video-tutorials.
In the first the guy only pressed the two buttons and then followed the on screen indications, in the other video the guy used the stylus and the two buttons, but the result lookes the same... are there any differences?
Thanks a lot! (I don't want to destroy my Kaiser )
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Search and ye shall receive, all answers to most questions can be found in the Kaiser wiki, including this one.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Kaiser_Resets
You can also do a software generated hard reset by pressing" clear storage " in your program menu.

Ok thanks a lot!
I read somewhere that a hard reset made without the stylus and the two buttons (the "hardware" way to do it) is not safe.
Bye!

To hard reset, make sure you've backed up all the files you want using your Sprite back-up.
Then hold down the two buttons, (one above the explorer symbol and the other above the envolope symbol) Hold these down and stick stylus in the reset whole right and above usb port, and hold for about 3 -5 seconds (not just push and release) Hold until screen comes on white with blue lettering saying-
"This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to manufacturer default. Press send to restore manufacturer default, or press other keys to cancel."
to start the reset you just hit the green phone symbol, it will do some seleteing , then ask you to hit ok to boot (or something along those lines) and you just hit the green phone symbol again.
just email me at [email protected] if you have any other questions.

Thanks for the support!!
I did it! All right!

Good to see you got help here, but I must shoot in here that you really should open youre user manual wich the phone came whit. If you dont have that this is wery wery well described in wiki and +50 other treads in there. I am not trying to be a complete d**k here, but its sad to see the quality of this board has fallen so much that this isnt a 13+ flame tread; in before lock ect. lol.
Seriously, you should make a bether effort.
Its actually harder to google this problem and not get a solution than getting the answer youreself.
Google: Hard Reset Kaiser
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And just to spoonfeed a bit more i made this........ "not for you but while another user was being uncomprehendably unsearchable"
raiisak: Your spot on far too many people are now posting new threadz that could have eazily been resolved by the most knowlegeable member of the forum the search

LINUZ90 said:
Ok thanks a lot!
I read somewhere that a hard reset made without the stylus and the two buttons (the "hardware" way to do it) is not safe.
Bye!
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Do you mean not safe as in playing Dance Dance Revolution with a rattlesnake?
oooh that picture freaks me out.

I'm sorry guys I didn't think about the user manual, and with Google you must know that sometimes you find very "generic" guides that can lead you to fail. I just wanted the help of some experts, but you're right, hard-reset is soo easy... Next time I'll search better! Thank you again..
Bye!
P.S. Sorry for bad English... I'm Italian Bye!

Galaxy Note 8 pop up ads

Beginning this morning I started receiving full screen pop up ads every 60 seconds. Its been continuous for the last 6 hours. They pop up regardless of any ap I may be using at the time. A few ad examples are attached. My Note 8 is Model SM-950U1, version 4.4.78
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Factory reset

I was having similar issue some days back. Please go to settings>Apps and check if there is any application installed at the end of list with no name. Uninstall that one and see if that fixes your problem.

An app u recently installed.. Or visited.. It happened to me.. I l
Cleaned uo history in browser and went through apps

Solved
In my case it was a Call Recorder that I downloaded yesterday. I didn't like it so I uninstalled it about an hour later. However, it seems to have left one program behind, called Phone Services. I uninstalled it today and at the beginning of the uninstall, I got an error message that warned phone services was needed by call recorder. All was well after I uninstalled phone services. Thanks for all the inputs. I appreciate them.

Good you could find the culprit

vince220 said:
Beginning this morning I started receiving full screen pop up ads every 60 seconds. Its been continuous for the last 6 hours. They pop up regardless of any ap I may be using at the time. A few ad examples are attached. My Note 8 is Model SM-950U1, version 4.4.78
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I have helped people with this before and had a few of these on my note. First, diagnostics.
1. Hold down your power button to bring up your power menu.
2. Hold down on the Power Off icon and it will prompt you to restart your phone in safe mode. Do so and see if the problem goes away.
3-A. If it persists, then you may need to go to your samsung internet browser and clear out all website data.
3-B if the problem stops. Then its a 3rd party app and I would need more information to help you track it down. PM me with your results or questions.

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Shadow Assassin said:
I have helped people with this before and had a few of these on my note. First, diagnostics.
1. Hold down your power button to bring up your power menu.
2. Hold down on the Power Off icon and it will prompt you to restart your phone in safe mode. Do so and see if the problem goes away.
3-A. If it persists, then you may need to go to your samsung internet browser and clear out all website data.
3-B if the problem stops. Then its a 3rd party app and I would need more information to help you track it down. PM me with your results or questions.
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Hello Shadow Assassin, Please see my post #5 describing what I found. I sure do thank you for the steps you outlined above and will file them away. Good stuff.

Notification Bar Bug: Keeps going semi- transparent

Please I need help if possible.
I've had my Samsung S10 for a month, and it's been great but i've a new problem and I can't seem to figure out why it is happening. See the picture below.
The notification bar keeps turning semi-transparent/blurred. Why is this happening, i've uninstalled up, it's the same on Nova Launcher & TouchWiz.
It's not clear why this is happening. I've reset wallpapers etc, but can't fix it.
When I reboot the phone it disappears, but either within a few mins or hours it reappears and seriously devalues the home screen.
Please help. How can i rectify this?
Any help is much appreciated.
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have you tried to use the default theme?
do you use good lock, if so- what good lock apps do you use?

I made lock screen notification background 100% transparent, that helped.

hi
thx to both you.
I've somehow fixed it and used partly your ideas.
I removed apps one by one and rebooted countless times, but no lucks.
Also then changed settins and rebooted many times.
I changed some notificaition settings too, and rebooted.
However, I've no idea what it is that helped to sort it out.
I know there are others with this problem, I think it is do with Good Lock and Edge Lighting+, i've not readded Good Lock.
Thx to all, if anyone else has this problem then post here and I'll try to help you.
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed: Again thx to those who replied to my request above.

Darn!
I think i spoke too soon! The problem reoccurred a day later
So having done also soft reboots, I don't believe it's the apps.
BUT what is the cause of that problem I can't fathom.
So sadly I have done a full factory reset! which is poor.
Hopefully that's the full end of it.
If anyone does figure out the reason for why this occurs, please post it here for all. thx

Hey.
I might have found the solution for that, without restarting the phone.
Got the S10+ few weeks ago and had the same issue with the status/notification bar going semi-trans (blurry).
I have fingerprint and pattern set as unlock options. The status bar goes fully transparent again when unlocking the phone with the pattern.
Now, still not sure what's causing this 'issue' but at least the solution was found (and it's not to restart the phone).
Hope this is going to work for you as well.
Cheers

Had the same issue, sent it to service so they could fix this...not sure if it's a phone problem or software, but I tried everything. Don't use Good Lock, nor any dubious third party apps. At one point, the screen started to flicker on lock screen, quite peculiar. But the blur effect really bugged me, sometimes it appeared in a couple of minutes, hours or even days, randomly. Is Samsung aware of this issue?

iggyp44 - Hi, thx for that, but I found the only solution was to do a hard reset, which I sadly did. Never reappeared since then.
Axys72 - I've sent a message on this to Samsung, that's all i know if they are aware or care.
Seems like a few of us have had this problem, so hopefully they will work on it to sort it out.
Only solution for me was a hard reset.

I've had the same issue... My suspection for what causing it: when I using galaxy buds and receive a massage via fb massenger... So far I noticed that twice, but I'm not sure if this really is the cause... Looking forward for solution, it's driving me somewhat crazy ?
Gregor

Turn off the fingerprint unlock animation. That's what's causing it.
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Turn off the fingerprint unlock animation. That's the cause

S10+ notification turns green
Since 1 week when I pull down my phone notification bar the overlay use to be in black but now it have turned greenish.
I tried settings reset and also hard reset it's the same
Rest the entire phone works fine
Can anybody suggest what could be an issue

Split Screen to Split Top

Please bear with me if this seems like the dumbest post in the world.
Ok, so right up until a few weeks ago, i loved the split screen feature on my phone. It was as easy as hitting the square button on the bottom, choosing split screen on one app, app folds itself up creating a space below, and then selecting another app to share the screen with. Easy peezee. Could have a video playing in VLC while perusing rss feeds in Newsfold, either on top of one another in portrait mode or side by side in landscape etc. Even my long dead grandmama could do this.
Fast forward to one day last month, i download some usual pixel update prompted by phone, only to discover my oft used split screen is now no more, but now "split top". It doesn't split the screen like it used to do, and i can't figure out how this split top thing is supposed to work. Plus it always says "Pixel Launcher keeps stopping" after several attempts to use the split top function, which is indicating that Pixel Launcher has crashed. But i din't use Pixel Launcher or have it as my default, i've always used Nova Launcher.
Basically i was doing just fine until whatever this update (which i am assuming is 12L) that has ruined split screen for me.
Is there a way to go back to the old split screen way? Or, how the heck do you split screen with this "split top"? I searched around the web and can't seem to find a solution.
I'm really not enjoying my device or being as productive as i used to be.

Hello @LordLugard I just registered to reply here.
After wasting so much time trying to fix this bug on my end, and several factory resets where it didn't fail at the beginning but then it eventually did, I found the solution on another post of a different forum:
-Turn ON system animations.
That's it. That's how it got solved. If you turn them off, the new split screen doesn't work at all. I'm afraid this must be an Android 12.1 bug because I had the exact same bug in a Poco F2 Pro with Lineage 19.1 and Trebuchet as launcher, so it's not phone model specific, not ROM specific, and not even launcher specific.
I hope this helps someone

buggyupdate said:
Hello @LordLugard I just registered to reply here.
After wasting so much time trying to fix this bug on my end, and several factory resets where it didn't fail at the beginning but then it eventually did, I found the solution on another post of a different forum:
-Turn ON system animations.
That's it. That's how it got solved. If you turn them off, the new split screen doesn't work at all. I'm afraid this must be an Android 12.1 bug because I had the exact same bug in a Poco F2 Pro with Lineage 19.1 and Trebuchet as launcher, so it's not phone model specific, not ROM specific, and not even launcher specific.
I hope this helps someone
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Thanks for the reply.
Where would you "Turn ON system animations"?

I have it in:
"Settings/Accessibility/Text And Display/Remove Animations"
I had this switch on (meaning no animations), what caused split screen to crash. Turning it off solved it.

Hmmm, doesn't work for me. Mine was already in the "OFF" position.
What the heck was ever wrong with the old simple way? It just worked.
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Bummer, sorry that it didn't help. It just did for me.
I don't think so, but maybe you activated Developer options, and then changed the value of the animations scales?
Just to discard animation related settings.
I'm afraid I'm of no help beyond that

Well, what do you know...a bit of success.
Since time immemorial, i've always turned off animations in Developer Options to 0, as i do not care for all the fluffy visuals.
So on a whim i decided to tinker and set it to the lowest value, 0.5x, and that seems to work now. But the implementation is so much different than the old way, will take some getting used to. The old method was so much better.
Thanks for the input.

I'm glad it helped at the end!
I fully agree on everything, I don't want animations either, but we're stuck with them if we want split screen as long as they keep this bug...
Also not a fan of this new and worse split screen method. You press Home and both apps are gone.

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I'm glad it helped at the end!
I fully agree on everything, I don't want animations either, but we're stuck with them if we want split screen as long as they keep this bug...
Also not a fan of this new and worse split screen method. You press Home and both apps are gone.
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1,000% this. I'll be returning my brand-new Pixel 6 and returning to my old phone which will never even be eligible for A12

Question Why does the button to display all running apps not work when running 2 or 3 apps?

I'm a new Samsung S23+ owner. I bought my S23+ a week ago.
An odd behavior I've noticed is with the button to display all currently running apps. I don't know what it's called; it's on the bottom of the window next to the Home button. It looks like 3 vertical bars. Anyway, I've noticed that if I've only running two or three apps, pressing that button does nothing. I'm used to always seeing all running apps, when I press that button on my old S10. If I've got a half dozen apps running, then it works as I expect it to work. However, I always want it to work.
What's going on? Is there anything I can do about this?

Welcome to XDA.
Try clearing the system cache.
Try this, go to the Samsung Galaxy Store, download the Good Lock family of apps.
You'll especially want Quickstar and in this case Task Changer.
See if this helps.
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Rod F said:
I'm a new Samsung S23+ owner. I bought my S23+ a week ago.
An odd behavior I've noticed is with the button to display all currently running apps. I don't know what it's called; it's on the bottom of the window next to the Home button. It looks like 3 vertical bars. Anyway, I've noticed that if I've only running two or three apps, pressing that button does nothing. I'm used to always seeing all running apps, when I press that button on my old S10. If I've got a half dozen apps running, then it works as I expect it to work. However, I always want it to work.
What's going on? Is there anything I can do about this?
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Funny. It just happened to me for the first time rn (with 3 buttons gesture). I just had to press the home button then it was working again.

Morak75 said:
Funny. It just happened to me for the first time rn (with 3 buttons gesture). I just had to press the home button then it was working again.
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Sometimes there are weird glitches that don't really mean anything if they don't persist or reappear after a reboot or clearing the system cache.
After almost 3 years on the same load I saw the display page indicator displaying an extra "o+o" after the correct home and second page. There was nothing there as far as another page. Played with homepage settings and tried to delete the phantom page, cleared Samsung One UI Experience cache, still there. More curious than panicked. Finally clearing the system cache or the roboot got rid of the anomaly never to reappear.
It's when you see the noticable system lagging that you have a potentially severe problem that could quickly turn onto a crash even a boot loop. Often the only warning you get.

Morak75 said:
Funny. It just happened to me for the first time rn (with 3 buttons gesture). I just had to press the home button then it was working again.
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I haven't tried that. The next time I encounter that behavior, I'll try tapping the Home button, then the 3 buttons. Thank you1