Can't Access Application Manager - Settings Stopped Working

**moemo916** · 11-21-2012, 10:30 PM

I am trying to delete/look at my applications on my phone but when I try to go to the Application Manager screen it opens up, freezes then shutdowns.

Settings>Application manager then I get "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped."

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you fix it?

**GSDer** · 11-23-2012, 01:55 PM

I haven't seen that problem posted before, so I can only give you the standard suggestions:
1. Restart the phone
2. Power off and remove the battery
3. Perform a factory reset
Is your phone rooted? Have you installed an alternate launcher? The service that's crashing is a system service so it's unlikely that an application has corrupted it, but a launcher might be the culprit.

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**moemo916** · 11-24-2012, 04:41 PM

Actually I found the problem. It was one of the recent applications I downloaded.

Prior to finding the problem though I did steps 1 and 2; it didn't work. Thanks for the reply though!

**GSDer** · 11-25-2012, 06:42 PM

Glad you figured it out - it may help someone else if you list what application was causing that problem.

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**Hubs27** · 11-26-2012, 02:14 AM

Same thing with me on Samsung GT-I9300 with Android 4.1.1
I came across this problem 2 times.
The first time it happened when I installed a game "Waking Mars". The game was working fine, I played for around 20 minutes and then wanted to check free storage left after installing. But when I opened Application manager swiping was very laggy and after a few (5-10) secs it crashed with "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped" error or just closed. At that time I didn't know that it was because of "Waking Mars" and started to delete unnecessery applications I installed that day and yesterday, but problem vanished only after uninstalling "Waking Mars". Also, while this app was installed, phone's screen was glitchy and became bleached (the glitch disappeared after rebooting), like when "Natural" screen mode is activated, but it wasn't. When I had tried to install the game again, the problem came back.
The second time it was because of "Galaxy On Fire 2" installed. Same problems appeared: crashing Application manager and glitchy screen.
Both games contained their data in ".apk" file, but another Waking Mars version with separate data (cache) caused the same problem too.
For those of you who wanna check if the game works fine on your device, check these .apk's:

(Galaxy S3\S2\Note)
By the way, funny thing is that both games are about space

P.S.: Sorry for my English, it isn't my native language.

**zentenario** · 11-29-2012, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by moemo916

Actually I found the problem. It was one of the recent applications I downloaded.

Prior to finding the problem though I did steps 1 and 2; it didn't work. Thanks for the reply though!

Hi moemo916, could you be so kind to tell me what app are talking about -causing that issue? I'm facing the same problem too and have none of apps mentioned by Hubs27 here below