Sunday 17 July 2016

Phone erased itself (kind of) after reboot



This is quite unusual. Let me first say the device has been running completely stock (latest COS, cyanogen recovery, non-rooted) for the past year or so.

This is how it happened, I set up my alarms at night and went to bed, but then I remembered the device was running for 8 days straight and becoming somewhat sluggish so I decided to reboot it.
I pressed the power button, selected reboot, and pressed ok. As it was restarting, I went to sleep and never looked at the device.

The next day: launcher has been reset to trebuchet (from gplay launcher). ALL my apps were gone. All google apps and services were gone.
Only a handful of system apps remain. As if I've installed a cyanogenmod based rom without flashing gapps.
Dialer and SMS apps are there, but contacts are gone. My SMS messages show but the app force closes if I try to open any message.

Gallery app does show all my pictures so not everything seems to have gone.
Using the cyanogen file manager app, I can see that all my files are still there.

Any idea what's going on?
The only thing I can think of doing right now is factory reset using fastboot.



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