Huawei contacts app stopper working after nougat upgrade

[AC Question]

I have just upgraded to nougat vie the official Huawei upgrade when made available for my Huawei Nova. After upgrade, contact app and dialer stopped working. Freezing at "updating contacts list" for many hours when attempting to display contacts, or crashing when starting dialer. Clearing cache and data of contacts app doesn't work, disabling all contacts sync doesn't help either. Deleting all accounts except Google and Facebook does not solve it too. Help, please. I would like to avoid factory reset, if possible.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Try wiping the cache partition: HUAWEI Nova - Recovery Mode - HardReset.info