Why is my system UI continuously crashing?

floluxes

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system ui keeps crashing - no wallpaper

Hello,
I have a quite serious problem, I'm afraid. I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and yesterday I downloaded the app GIF Livewallpaper Maker(Free), an app that lets you use gifs as wallpaper for your phone. However I didn't like the way the background looked, so I went and uninstalled it, BUT I forgot to change the wallpaper back to a still picture before doing so. The result was that the background disappeared completely, it's black. That wouldn't be a problem, but it seems like this altered something, so now a message that says "unfortunately the process com.android.systemui has stopped" pops up literally every two seconds. Even if I try to add a wallpaper in between the pop ups, I can't. It won't let me click anything, not even the return, options and home buttons work. The only thing I can do is turn off the phone. I tried wiping the data and doing a hard reset; I figured I would lose my data but at least it'd revert to the default background. Everything went back as it was when I bought the phone but the wallpaper! It's still black, and the error message keeps coming up and I can't do anything! I also tried wiping the cache, but it did nothing!
Is there a way to fix this, or do I have to go to Customer Service to have it fixed? Do you think they'd be able to fix it? I need my phone for work!
Thank you very much!
 

Golfdriver97

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Re: system ui keeps crashing - no wallpaper

Welcome to the forums. If you take it to Customer Service, they will probably just reflash the ROM. If you are still under warranty, I would have them do it (it isn't hard but if something goes wrong, they did it, not you).
 

AntwonJenkins

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THIS EXACTLY IS MY PROBLEM! Had it happen once and the only thing I could figure to do was Factory Reset and reflash firmware via Odin. Only last time I was able to plug in my phone prior to wiping and backup everything off the internal storage. THIS TIME however NOTHING shows up when I plug it into my computer. I really would like to preserve the pics I took on Halloween but am fearing I may have to wipe everything again. :(
 

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