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erician

erician

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Now all four of my browsers - the Virgin browser, chrome, dolphin, firefox - are crashing and grinding themselves to a near hault, no matter that i should have ample free space and have uninstalled/reinstalled apps or updates

Mosf everything else is running fine

Short of throwing the phone into traffic, any suggestions?

LG Volt 4.4.2
 
erician said:
Now all four of my browsers - the Virgin browser, chrome, dolphin, firefox - are crashing and grinding themselves to a near hault, no matter that i should have ample free space and have uninstalled/reinstalled apps or updates

Mosf everything else is running fine

Short of throwing the phone into traffic, any suggestions?

LG Volt 4.4.2
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Clear app cache, clear system cache from recovery. Are you throttled?
 
Clear app cache, clear system cache from recovery. Are you throttled?

Virtually nothing in app caches (eg, 12.00B), system cache cleared (often) but don't understand "recovery" (you mean "clear after app crash"?), nor do i understand "throttled"

Thx and standing by...

P.s., Keyboard, paste, cut copy functions barely operable
 
erician said:
Clear app cache, clear system cache from recovery. Are you throttled?

Virtually nothing in app caches (eg, 12.00B), system cache cleared (often) but don't understand "recovery" (you mean "clear after app crash"?), nor do i understand "throttled"

Thx and standing by...

P.s., Keyboard, paste, cut copy functions barely operable
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Recovery: turn off phone, hold vol down and power until 'factory reset' message appears (don't worry, it's not doing it). Once recovery loads, there will be a clear cache option.

Throttled: have you used all your data for the month.

Sounds like you might just need to factory reset, or reinstall the problem apps.
 
If you have four different browsers all showing the same problem, it really does sound like your problem is more likely tied to online access, four different apps failing the same way is very unlikely. As bg4m3r referred to, it sounds more of an issue of your broadband connection being throttled, or there's a problem with your home WiFi. If you have a computer, laptop, or another phone or tablet using the same home network, is online access on other devices OK? Trying to determine if your problem is actually with your phone or your Internet access.
 
bg4m3r said:
Recovery: turn off phone, hold vol down and power until 'factory reset' message appears (don't worry, it's not doing it). Once recovery loads, there will be a clear cache option.

Throttled: have you used all your data for the month.

Sounds like you might just need to factory reset, or reinstall the problem app
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Since vol down/power/reboot (which the display then defaulted to selecting from a list of 1/2 doz options), seems to be running wuite well (THANK YOU!), but I don't recall seeing any cache clearing options...should i redo the process or just wait n see or go ahead to see if i can't get still better performance outta this wonder of modern technology?

Sir, thanks, I was stressin
 
You might have just has a process locked up on you. The reboot must have cleared it. You certainly can reboot into recovery and clear the cache, but if it's working now, it might not be necessary.

This is what you should have seen, BTW.

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lunatic59 said:
You might have just has a process locked up on you. The reboot must have cleared it. You certainly can reboot into recovery and clear the cache, but if it's working now, it might not be necessary.

This is what you should have seen, BTW.

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Yes, exactly what i saw

And what do i know, but a simple reboot seemed a likely remedy
 
So is it your opinion that I should clear partition as part of the maintenance procedure?

Not sure what you meant by pushing button too quickly
 
Sorry, if you get into recovery, then pressing the vol. buttons and power are the way to navigate the menus. If you pressed a button accidentally as it entered recovery mode, you could go right to a sub-menu. It's pretty easy to do and then you wouldn't see the wipe cache option.

Clearing the cache is the chicken soup of Android remedies ... it might not help, but it coidn't hoit. ;)

Some people make clearing the cache a part of their regular maintenance. Some never do. I'm in the second camp, but there's nothing wrong with doing it.
 

Some people make clearing the cache a part of their regular maintenance. Some never do. I'm in the second camp, but there's nothing wrong with doing it.

I do this once or twice a year, IF, and usually only IF, the phone seems to be "locking up" waiting for an app to quit doing something.... if that process causes it to "pause for more than 15 seconds", then I clear the cache partition. and all is well again.
 
lunatic59 said:
Sorry, if you get into recovery, then pressing the vol. buttons and power are the way to navigate the menus. If you pressed a button accidentally as it entered recovery mode, you could go right to a sub-menu. It's pretty easy to do and then you wouldn't see the wipe cache option.

Clearing the cache is the chicken soup of Android remedies ... it might not help, but it coidn't hoit. ;)

Some people make clearing the cache a part of their regular maintenance. Some never do. I'm in the second camp, but there's nothing wrong with doing it.
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call me "campmate", like daily
 
Even though you appear to have your issue resolved here, I just wanted to suggest another great browser worth looking into for its lightweight, and IMMENSE flexibility.
Try UC Browser in the playstore. I run it alongside of Firefox, Opera and Opera Lite... and it's my favorite. It even has its own unique plugins, one which I use extensively which makes it a fully-functioning Facebook app which is more customizable (both visually and functionally) and keeps your messaging inboard unlike the newest FB app generation.

I use Opera Lite as my quick'n'dirty for research (to store my crazy tab-bout collection for return referencing) Other than that, UC is my go-to, and I revert to one of the Operas or FireFox when I find its limitation on certain (very few) pages.
And yes, it has adblock plugin as well, among others! ;-)

Thanks bigamer and lunatic for teaching me something new. I've been using android for so long, and yet I'm only just recently really trying to dig into android!
 
Thanks all for your help, but...

My volt 4.4.2 is oh so screwing up (some more):

As per Your suggestions, I've cleared the partition's cache (and rebooted) several times now as that seems to remedy crashes, but just for a little while (thus the "several times" part)


This getting REALLY knarly...what to do!!!!!!!?
 
Another new symptom: on youtube app, a "there was a problem loading video...tap to retry" message came up, OVER the playing video...what the...!!!?
 
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