can't enable cellular data - Home , recent apps button stopped working

[Priderock]

Nexus 6 - stock Android
Android 7.0
Not rooted

Rebooted the phone when the phone seemed hung up. The notifications, home and recent buttons (The circle and square buttons) stopped working after the reboot. Only back button is working. The notifications don't work too. I can't enable the cellular data as well, and Google ID doesn't sync. In short only voice features (calling & text) work.

Interesting,but may not be notable ,is when the phone was rebooted and these functions we're lost, vibrate on key press was enabled.(which wasn't the case before)

I gather through threads here that some have successfully restored home and recent apps buttons as well as notifications by running setup wizard through Nova Launcher. But unfortunately I don't see the SetupWizardUpgradeActivity or setupTestActivity under setupWizard, when I tried to use Nova Launcher.

Has any one seen same/ similar issues with Nexus or other Android devices ?

Complete reset seems to be only other option. I am trying to avoid a complete reset if possible. ( I can't backup to restore after reset due to sync issue - device stopped sync)



Appreciate any help.

 

[harihacker]

Wrong section. This is Pixel XL thread.

 

[Priderock]

Understood. I see a number of pixel device owners reporting similar issues. (It looks like more of a SW issue than HW related). The Nexus 6 threads aren't that active and was hoping to get help from Pixel users if they saw and fixed similar issues.

 

[parrotgeek1]

I think it's called SetupExitActivity. It has no title, at the very bottom