Galaxy s4 showing andoid is updating without running update

[bobstone]

Just the other day I had a weird thing happen. I rebooted my phone and when booting I saw Android is updating, followed by optimizing apps and starting apps. I had not run any update of any kind at all. The phone booted fine and ran fine afterwards. Now everytime I reboot the phone, I get the same message Android is updating then it says starting apps and then the phone boots up as normal. Anyone know why this is happening? Is this a problem? I had a similar thing happen on my tablet and when I ran a firmware update afterwards then started getting all kinds of errors.
If this is a problem how do I fix it? And with this happening should I not run any updates?
I am rooted and on stock firmware with no updates installed.

Thanks in advance everyone!

 

[reinaldistic]

This happens when cache is cleared, anytime you flash a ROM or kernel you are supposed to wipe cache and most packages will do this for you. Your tablet doing this after a firmware upgrade is normal, the errors weren't.

Now if your phone is doing it every reebot it probably means one of two things: 1 your system is wiping cache every shutdown for some reason or 2 your cache partition is corrupted.

If you are unrooted I recommend talking to Verizon (or whomever you purchased it from) about warranty, if its rooted I would try wiping cache and dalvik cache through your recovery (this will cause it to happen one more time but might prevent a second or third) and see if it keeps doing it after three reebots. If that doesn't work wipe everything (cache, dalvik cache, and user data) and reflash your ROM or another ROM. If that doesn't do it either unroot and talk to Verizon about warranty (after resetting the flash counter)

Sent from my SCH-I545 using xda app-developers app

 

[bobstone]

What's the right way to wipe the cache and dalvik then? Should I use titanium backup? Not sure how to do it from recovery on this phone. And will doing this have any side effects?
Thanks again
Also, I haven't flashed any roms or new kernels.

 

[bobstone]

Please, any and all responses and ideas. Im sure the last person that replied knows what he/she is talking about but I just need a lil more info...

Thanks again all!

Sent from my rooted Galaxy S4

 

[tech_head]

Depending on the release, MDk, ME7, MI1, MJ7 you may not be able to wipe the cache manually from the recovery menu.
Whn I was on ME7, no problem. Now that I'm on MI1, I can't do a manual wipe.