How to fix the "The application has stopped" error

Sometimes I see messages that make my anger level rise to infinity ... That message is: «The application has stopped«.

How many times may this warning have appeared on the screen of our smartphone ending with a stroke of the pen with our progress in the game of the day, or in the video we were watching or in any application of our smartphone, and take us to an unwanted state.

But do not be invaded by anger, we are going to show several ways and ways to try solve it and be able to continue using our phone without further problems.

Error The application has been stopped

The first thing we are going to do is try to explain why this error appears. These unexpected application closures within Android they basically occur because there are problems within the application code and therefore it causes them to fail.

For one thing or another, almost any application ends up crashing at some point and on any mobile. It is possible that while using your terminal you have seen on occasion that an application crashes and the fatal message appears.

There is no single solution, nor is there a definitive one That solves the problem forever, but we can take a series of measures that help solve this problem, and here we are going to show some of them.

Clear app cache and data

Clear Android cache to avoid unexpected closings

One of the first things we must do to fix this issue is clear app cache and data specifically that it has had the unexpected failure. This is usually the most effective solution to this problem, so you should do the following:

  1. Access the "Settings" and "Applications manager" menu.
  2. Go to the category tab «All» and look for the specific application that has failed.
  3. Once inside, look for the buttons "delete data" y "Clear cache".

Uninstall the app

Uninstall application so it does not crash

Another way to try to reach the solution and try to fix the unexpected closure of any of the applications is uninstall it. To delete an application just go to the home screen where its icon appears, leave it pressed and depending on the interface of your mobile you must click on uninstall, or drag it to the garbage can that will appear on the screen (up or down).

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You can also do it through settings / app manager / all apps. Enter the specific app and uninstall it from there.

Another way to uninstall is to open the Play Store application, look for the one that is giving us the problem, click on the uninstall button, and that's it.

Restart your phone

Another way to try to solve this problem is reset the mobile. A very useful and effective process when we have had the phone on for a long time. A soft reset, restarting it is also called this way, It will cause the open processes and possible conflicts that were in execution to cease for the moment.

This process will not remove anything. There are models of smartphones, of the Samsung brand, in which you can schedule these reboots periodically to alleviate its processes and background executions that may affect our device. This will help the slowest to solve problems with applications, connections, audios or emails, for example.

Restart Android to fix app stopped error

This functionality is hidden under the Maintenance section of the device, in the Settings screen. It is hidden under the three points located in the upper right, and therefore it can be complicated if you do not know it, so if you own a Samsung do not hesitate to activate it.

This option is only available on devices released after 2015 and that arrived with at least Android 5.0 out of the box. The steps you must follow to activate this option are:

  1. Go to the Settings menu, and go to Device maintenance.
  2. Click on the three dots in the upper right (called a hamburger).
  3. Now move the button from Off to On
  4. By default, the automatic reboot mode can be set to take place at 3 a.m. on Mondays, but you can change the day and time the device reboots.

Once you activate it, your smartphone or tablet will restart weekly at the defined time and days. The best time may be at dawn, as you ensure that when you wake up your smartphone will work quickly.

Hard Reset or Factory Reset

The term hard reset or factory reset Android refers to a reset of the firmware status as it was when it left the factory. That is, without any additional configuration or third-party applications that have not been installed by the manufacturer.

How to do a hard reset to resolve any errors

When executing a hard reset in your Android you are eliminating all the data, configurations and apps that you have been introducing since you turned it on for the first time, so you will also eliminate that fault that is causing problems and that has probably been caused by an incompatibility in the programming of an app or in some configuration that conflicts with the system.

Once the hard reset has been executed, your smartphone will run a clean version of the latest operating system you have installed.

The easiest way to do it is from the Settings menu option of the device itself.

To do this, access the menu Settings and click on the section Backup copy. At the end of this screen you will find the option Factory data reset. Clicking on this option will display a second verification screen that tells you that all the data and settings on your device will be lost, including photos, videos, music, etc.

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Click on the Reset phone button and the device will start the process by which everything that does not correspond to the initial configuration of your device is erased.

If your smartphone or tablet has a microSD card, its content will not be deleted Unless you expressly indicate it, you can keep your personal files there and what you do not want to lose. Or upload it previously to the cloud to avoid undesirable losses.

After a few minutes, you should be patient and do not panic as sometimes it takes a while, the terminal will restart and you will have to reconfigure it with your user accounts, just as you did the first time you turned it on. If you have a backup made, you can run it and you will have your mobile again as before, but without those annoying failures.

If the reason for the unstable behavior of your device was a software incompatibility with an app or configuration, it will have disappeared and your smartphone will work correctly again.

However, we do not recommend doing this format unless it is urgent, since as we mentioned you will lose all the data and files of the mobile that do not have a backup copy.


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