Galaxy S4 Google Play edition - official Android 4.4 Kit Kat is rolling out now

[Alexey Groutso]

Every time I start the phone I get com.android.phone failure message! Anyone else with the same issue?

Yes I'm also getting "Unfortunately, process com.android.phone has stopped." message every time I boot up the phone. Tried factory reset and problem is still there. As well as that boot up is much slower and as it boots up there is noticeable screen lag for a few minutes. This never happened on 4.3.

This is really bad because I bought this phone in US 2 month ago and live in NZ so returning it for warranty will be a huge problem.

 

[jd914]

Yes I'm also getting "Unfortunately, process com.android.phone has stopped." message every time I boot up the phone. Tried factory reset and problem is still there. As well as that boot up is much slower and as it boots up there is noticeable screen lag for a few minutes. This never happened on 4.3.

This is really bad because I bought this phone in US 2 month ago and live in NZ so returning it for warranty will be a huge problem.

I also notice my device has lag on boot up animation. Also widgets take longer than usual to load.

 

[JoeMcJoe]

Another hidden gimped feature... The front facing camera has been downgraded from a maximum resolution of 1920x1080 (full HD) to an inexplicable 640x480 (f'n VGA???)

This entire "update" has been an unmitigated disaster, how can I go back to 4.3?

Crazy isn't it? So bad.

 

[Alexey Groutso]

Every time I start the phone I get com.android.phone failure message! Anyone else with the same issue?.

Ok I fixed it. In the end I had to factory reset my phone. After that was done my phone booted up and showed this error again. However once I've set up my account and waited until all apps have downloaded and restored I rebooted my phone and the problem seem to have disappeared.

 

[Alexey Groutso]

I also notice my device has lag on boot up animation. Also widgets take longer than usual to load.

Ok I fixed it. In the end I had to factory reset my phone. After that was done my phone booted up and showed this error again. However once I've set up my account and waited until all apps have downloaded and restored I rebooted my phone and the problem seem to have disappeared. It's still a little laggy on the start up but not as bad as it was before factory reset.

 

[Xceptiona1]

I was excited to see the update on my phone, but couldn't download it at work (no wifi). Hopped on the forums and I'm now thinking I should hold off, especially for the sd access. I use syncme app to copy documents and music from my PC to the SDcard of my phone via wifi. Sounds like that won't be working any longer.

 

[shahramv]

Yes I'm also getting "Unfortunately, process com.android.phone has stopped." message every time I boot up the phone. Tried factory reset and problem is still there. As well as that boot up is much slower and as it boots up there is noticeable screen lag for a few minutes. This never happened on 4.3.

This is really bad because I bought this phone in US 2 month ago and live in NZ so returning it for warranty will be a huge problem.

Hi,

You can fix that problem by going to seetings --> Apps and click on the menu on top right corner and reset app preferences.

That should take care of that problem.

 

[Alexey Groutso]

Hi,

You can fix that problem by going to seetings --> Apps and click on the menu on top right corner and reset app preferences.

That should take care of that problem.

Thanks, wished I knew that before I reset my phone. Oh well everything has been restored now.

 

[jonnyships]

Apps just need to be updated

 

[jonnyships]

Regarding the SD Card issue. It seems you CAN write to the SD Card IF you go into the app's Android dir (in FX File Explorer's case, Android/data/nextapp.fx/) you can write/delete to your heart's content

 

[JoeMcJoe]

Play Music can now store mp3s to the SD card, its an option in that apps menu. There is something.

 

[jonnyships]

Yup, that what gave me the idea to look in the Android folder on my sdcard. Looks like one got put there with all the apps with the EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.

I haven't tried any other file explorers, only FX but it should work with any app. I tried with PocketCast, doesn't work with them. Maybe it requires another permission that FX has but PocketCast doesn't?

 

[Google_Superuser]

Play Music can now store mp3s to the SD card, its an option in that apps menu. There is something.

I'm pretty happy about this since it's basically the only reason I need an SDcard on my phone.

 

[journeyman63]

Ok I fixed it. In the end I had to factory reset my phone. After that was done my phone booted up and showed this error again. However once I've set up my account and waited until all apps have downloaded and restored I rebooted my phone and the problem seem to have disappeared. It's still a little laggy on the start up but not as bad as it was before factory reset.

I was having the same problem and was able to fix it using the same method you note here. Thanks for the post on your experience. It was of great help!

 

[John Cunningham3]

False alarm ir blaster works. Samsung just switched it over to the new kit kat api and removed support for their old touchwiz specific implementation.

how did you get the IR Blaster to work??

 

[countjothula]

Dang. I'm experiencing the same. Got ota update and now I can't even edit files or save anything to sd. Hoping for a fix quickly.