[geeks] Open appeal to all Androiderati

[Phil Stracchino]

On 11/04/14 22:17, Michael Parson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>> I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 running Kit Kat (4.4.2).  It's rooted
>> using the towelroot exploit in order for a few things like Root
>> Explorer and Titanium Backup to work.  Sometime not that long after
>> rooting it, it "forgot" its home screen wallpaper, and now every time
>> it goes into powersave mode, it forgets the home screen wallpaper
>> again and reverts to just a blank blue desktop.  I can sometimes
>> get it to keep a desktop for a while by setting the wallpaper and
>> then immediately rebooting it.  The _*lock*_ screen is completely
>> unaffected and retains its setting perfectly.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas or hints?
> 
> Could be a corrupt preferences database... have you tried doing a
> 'factory wipe' on it?  If you don't want the nuclear option... maybe
> digging around in the apps and find whatever looks like it might be the
> 'app' that provides that functionality and wipe its data.  You might
> have to reset more than just the wallpaper at that point, but it might
> also start saving it from that point forward.

Samsung support had me wipe the cache already.  That didn't help.

Unfortunately I had to contact them via live chat on the phone itself
because their web site doesn't work in any of my browsers.  Gotta wonder
how they managed to make it *that* broken.


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