1. Press & hold the Power button.
2. Touch & hold
Power off
. Then touch
OK
to restart in safe mode.
When it restarts, you'll see
Safe mode
across the bottom of the home screen and widgets
will be disabled.
3. Use your phone and see if the problem has gone away. Remember, you won’t be able to
use any downloaded apps.
If the problem goes away:
1. To exit safe mode, restart your phone.
2. One by one, uninstall recently downloaded apps. After each removal, restart your phone.
See whether removing that app solved the problem.
3. Once you delete the problematic app, you can
the other apps you removed during
testing.
If the problem doesn't go away:
issues.
Clear app's cache or data
Clearing the cache and data can free up phone memory, improve performance, and fix some
problems with apps and web pages.
1. Touch & hold the app icon, then touch .
2. Do one of the following:
•
To free up space by removing temporary files, touch
Storage
>
Clear cache
. Over
time, the cache builds up again, so repeat if a problem occurs.
•
If problems still occur, then delete all data saved in the app by touching
Storage
>
Clear storage
. Be careful - there’s no way to undo this.
Force stop apps
Force stop an app only if it seems to be causing a problem. To completely shut down an app,
including any background services:
1. Touch & hold the app icon, then touch .
2. Touch
Force stop
.
Delete apps you installed
You can delete (uninstall) apps that you downloaded. For many
disable but not delete them.
1. Touch & hold the app's icon.
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