I have created a problem with my T-989, mostly because I am an ignoramus.
When I bought my S2 in Nov2011 (my first smart phone), I got it from a guy who bought it for his son, but his son decided he wanted an iPhone instead, so it was brand new BUT already rooted (juggernaut v3.1, clockworkmod recovery). Which was cool, except the resulting gaps in my understanding allowed me to become the bull in my own china shop.
I didn't know what the Kies and Kies Air apps did, and I assumed it was just more bloatware, so I used the bloatware removal and backup tool to uninstall them and store them away.
I noticed a few things over time. One thing was that my apps were updating, but I wasn't receiving updates to my gingerbread 2.3.5. I thought maybe this was because my phone was rooted? Something else is that if you don't use something for a long time, often you go back to it and it doesn't work anymore. (You can probably tell where I'm going with this.) When I realized that Kies was the app that updates the phone's operating system, I went back to try to restore Kies, and found that the bloatware removal app could find nothing anymore. I actually tried using File Explorer (with superuser permissions) to try to search for the .apk with no luck. I've tried searching at various times online for a Kies .apk file, but I haven't been able to come up with anything that worked anywhere.
Until recently, my phone worked perfectly, so even though I knew I had a problem, I wasn't too worried. However, this last week, the bottom icon bar quit working! My phone is well protected with one of those D30 covers, and I haven't dropped my phone in a long time. So, I suspect this is an OS software glitch, not a hardware problem, and I bet that if I can solve the Kies problem I've created and update the phone's operating system (finally) to the current ICS, then that alone might restore the bottom navigation. Right now, the only way to get back to the home screen is to reboot the phone! Other than that, everything still works perfectly, but the lack of navigation is crippling.
I'm not a hacker, but I'm pretty good at solving lots of techie problems with regular computers, but I just haven't gotten up to speed with troubleshooting my phone at all. I need someone to help get me on track. Please help!
When I bought my S2 in Nov2011 (my first smart phone), I got it from a guy who bought it for his son, but his son decided he wanted an iPhone instead, so it was brand new BUT already rooted (juggernaut v3.1, clockworkmod recovery). Which was cool, except the resulting gaps in my understanding allowed me to become the bull in my own china shop.
I didn't know what the Kies and Kies Air apps did, and I assumed it was just more bloatware, so I used the bloatware removal and backup tool to uninstall them and store them away.
I noticed a few things over time. One thing was that my apps were updating, but I wasn't receiving updates to my gingerbread 2.3.5. I thought maybe this was because my phone was rooted? Something else is that if you don't use something for a long time, often you go back to it and it doesn't work anymore. (You can probably tell where I'm going with this.) When I realized that Kies was the app that updates the phone's operating system, I went back to try to restore Kies, and found that the bloatware removal app could find nothing anymore. I actually tried using File Explorer (with superuser permissions) to try to search for the .apk with no luck. I've tried searching at various times online for a Kies .apk file, but I haven't been able to come up with anything that worked anywhere.
Until recently, my phone worked perfectly, so even though I knew I had a problem, I wasn't too worried. However, this last week, the bottom icon bar quit working! My phone is well protected with one of those D30 covers, and I haven't dropped my phone in a long time. So, I suspect this is an OS software glitch, not a hardware problem, and I bet that if I can solve the Kies problem I've created and update the phone's operating system (finally) to the current ICS, then that alone might restore the bottom navigation. Right now, the only way to get back to the home screen is to reboot the phone! Other than that, everything still works perfectly, but the lack of navigation is crippling.
I'm not a hacker, but I'm pretty good at solving lots of techie problems with regular computers, but I just haven't gotten up to speed with troubleshooting my phone at all. I need someone to help get me on track. Please help!