It just started one day a few weeks ago. When I would turn the phone on or restart it, as soon as I swiped the screen the first time, it would say "Unfortunately, TouchWiz Home has stopped." Then I would hit "OK" and the phone would work fine.
Last night I got fed up with this issue and researched the problem. Clear the cache and data for TouchWiz Home, they said. I did that. I lost all my icons, but no change otherwise. Then I cleared the cache partition. Nothing. Then I uninstalled Facebook Messenger. Nada. I even tried booting it without the SD card.
Then I installed Nova Launcher. That's when it started getting interesting. "Unfortunately, Nova Launcher has stopped." So I tried Google Now. "Unfortunately, Google app has stopped." Same for TouchWiz Easy Home.
Bottom line, every time I start the phone, the launcher crashes, but then the phone works fine. Only other thing I've noticed is that no matter how many times I try to put a widget on the screen, it never stays past a power cycle.
And I have no idea why this happened in the first place. The last time the phone updated the security patch was 12/1/15. The last time the phone updated the kernel was 12/14/15. But this started MUCH more recently, only a month or so ago.
I really don't want to factory reset my phone; it took me FOREVER to get it configured right. I'm now looking for ANY ideas.
Android version 5.1.1
05-07-2016 10:23 PM