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Help How to get back the 'personal message' lock-screen widget?

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DanielFFF

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My Galaxy S4 (rooted; stock KitKat 4.4.2) had a problem with spontaneous reboots, and none of the suggested solutions I found from Googling had fixed it. So I started uninstalling apps I thought I didn't need (some of the 'bloatware' that comes with KitKat). But after uninstalling lots of stuff, I found that my customised lock-screen 'personal message' had disappeared, along with the clock and date.

When I went into the lockscreen settings, I could still select between 'clock' and 'personal message', but the latter did not display any message or time/date. 'Clock' would display the clock, but nothing more.

Having selected 'personal message', I could then get into the widget edit mode and my personal message would be displayed in the edit screen (though its font didn't change with the font selections), but no matter what I did in the edit screen, the message and clock/date would not appear in the lock-screen.

What have I broken, and how do I fix it? Any help would be much appreciated. I've Googled extensively, but haven't found any reference to this specific problem.

Regards, Daniel
(Gerroa, Australia)
 
Did you make a backup? If you have a custom recovery installed that is (which you should since you're rooted). If you didn't make a backup then you could either flash stock Samsung firmware or install a custom recovery and find a flashable stock rom.
 
Blu8 said:
Did you make a backup? If you have a custom recovery installed that is (which you should since you're rooted). If you didn't make a backup then you could either flash stock Samsung firmware or install a custom recovery and find a flashable stock rom.
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Yes, I did make a nandroid backup from CWM recovery, but when I went to restore it, either (depending on which backup I chose) the md5 checksum failed, or after restoring and rebooting, it went into an endless loop of error messages like "Unfortunately, Google Services Framework has stopped" and lots of others. As soon as I dismissed one error message, another instantly appeared, so I couldn't use the phone at all.
Eventually I reflashed a stock KitKat ROM, and then restored some of my apps from a Titanium backup, but the problem remains. It seems a factory reset and reflash doesn't overwrite everything!
Daniel
 
You might be looking at a corrupted backup then. Either way, since that's out you're probably looking at flashing stock firmware and then rooting again
 
Blu8 said:
You might be looking at a corrupted backup then. Either way, since that's out you're probably looking at flashing stock firmware and then rooting again
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As mentioned, I've already reflashed a stock ROM, and didn't need to re-root, as the root survived the reflash.
Or maybe the stock reflash (using Odin 3.10.6) didn't work properly (Odin reported 'Pass', but it did seem awfully quick - just several seconds!)
Daniel
 
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