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PSA: Do NOT update these themes!

(Topic created on: 07-12-2019 08:38 AM)
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BDTech
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Galaxy S

As if Samsung couldn't break these themes any more, now they break your phone! Yayy...

After I updated the themes and then reapplied them. I pressed the power button then pressed it again to see the lockscreen andddd...... that's when my phone went into an eternal limbo. The screen was black and the only thing I could see was the status bar kept popping in and going away until the phone eventually turned itself off. The phone rebooted itself enough times to the point where it went into a weird recovery screen where it gave me three options, one of which was to go into safe mode. So I did and holy crap, it fixed my phone!

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From there I experimented with different themes, those worked perfectly fine. So it seems that the only logical conclusion here is... The themes that Samsung makes are broken! So now I have to use the default theme until they fix them if I want a usable phone.

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Galaxy S
Samsung "themes" are overpriced crap! They are hardly ever updated & don't actually Theme anything.... Synergy + Subs Lite +Substratum Themes FTW 🏆
CHMultimedia
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Galaxy S
Those are free themes directly from Samsung FYI
BDTech
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Galaxy S

Yeah they're kind of bad lol. Keep in mind that Samsung themes still work for me, it's just the 6 or so themes made by Samsung that are bugged. What's funny is that the new update didn't even fix the issues that the themes used to have, text is still hard to read on My files...

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BDTech
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Galaxy S

A part of me thinks that this issue could be from the June patch like other people reported, but I only had this issue with these specific themes so I really can't say... Either way, if you know anyone who's having boot loops on their S10 just suggest them to go into safe mode before they try a factory reset, it automatically re-applied the default theme for me which saved me the hassle of doing a factory reset on the phone.

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