If the process com.android.phone repeatedly force closes...

[thevoiceless]

Hopefully anyone else that might be having this problem can find this thread, because there are tons of them but none suggested what worked for me:

Info:
HTC Incredible, 2.3.4, rooted but stock with crap apps removed

After attempting to clear the dialer storage (trying to delete all of my texts because my phone will lock up when trying to delete large threads, but that's a different issue), the process com.android.phone started force closing repeatedly. I tried clearing the data for the phone app, but pretty much everything crashed when I tried to (phone froze, notification bar disappeared, etc.). I tried toggling airplane mode and mobile network/data, but the options were greyed out. I tried rebooting and soft resets.
What finally worked was running "Fix Permissions" via ROM Manager (I assume it would work via CWM as well). The whole process froze eventually, with the notification bar disappearing and all that again, but the force close dialogs had stopped. I rebooted my phone and all is back to normal.

Hope this helps someone.

 

[hollow1]

Your post does help.
I deleted phone stock app, because I have that dialer from go devs already...and the message pop up eventually.

Fix permission in recovery of CWM does work. Message gone ! But cannot call lolz....

 

[rener78]

I had the same problem with all of my custom roms I was trying on my Nexus S and I found the exact problem (after months) and how to fix it...pretty easy

The problem is the Stk.apk, just remove the Stk.apk from the rom (in the .zip file) or easier than going thru Winzip, just flash the rom do the setup and with ( I use Root Uninstaller ) remove it from system/app and you'll get rid of the problem

Enjoy

 

[lumin8]

I tried all the solutions recommended and nothing worked. I called in to sprint and all i had to do was go to the dial pad and dial ##72786#
Hope that helps if anybody else is running into this problem.