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Help Several Android issues

Hi All,

I had some issues with the battery and storage before, that I did not pay much attention to. Today, my phone reached 3% of charging and just restarted. After the restart, I have the following issues:

  1. The lock screen do not work, although the password option is set, and it was working before.
  2. The home and App overview buttons are not working (software ones). Only the back button is working.
  3. I can not download anything from the Google play store (always pending).
  4. If I set a wallpaper, this setting disappears after restarting.
I have restarted the phone several times, with no luck. Afterwards, I have deleted many files, apps, and apps data (including that of Google play and Google play services), and I got about 1.5 GB free storage. However, all the above issues are still there, although the phone just became slightly faster than before.

Please kindly help to solve those issues.

Thanks in advance.



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Wear OS "Application on phone not found"

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