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After factory reset, major crashing and missing apps

jns0010

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Hi.

I recently purchased a Samsung Exhilarate, and it was working great. I installed Contacts+, but mistakenly uninstalled the Contacts app, which it requires. In an effort to reinstall it, I did a factory reset.

After the reset, various apps started crashing on boot and throughout use: Contacts, Messaging, Phone, gapps. I've done resets both through the Settings menu and through the recovery screen. The most recent reset also seems to have removed the Contacts and Phone apps completely, rendering the phone basically useless.

I've rooted it, and have Titanium Backups of everything from before the first reset, though restoring that backup at first didn't fix the crashing problem. I don't currently have my Google Account sync'd to the phone.

Is there a way to wipe it all clean and totally reinstall the OS, or have I simply bricked it and have to do without a phone until they send a replacement?
 
Factory resets only wipe your data partition. They do not reinstall anything.


You're going to have to find a stock ROM to flash if available for your device
 
Dont know much about your phone but if you do have the apps backed up through titanium backup then you have to reinstall them as system apps that way they wont get deleted when you factory reset. I believe you are restoring them as user apps which is why they dissappear after you reset the phone. But like i said i dont know anything about your phpne, you have to find the forums in here for it or hope a moderater moves your thread to the correct area where you will be able to find more on possibly reinstalling the OS from scratch of its available to your phone and carrier
 
I would Google "xda (device name)" and see if they have a developer forum for your phone. If so, that's usually where people get stock ROMs from.
 
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