Notification area, "home" and "recent" buttons not working

[splicehere]

(I'm running cuoco92 stable release, so I also posted in that thread. But maybe this section here is a better place for my problem)

Hi there!

Right after charging, the notification area and the "Home" and "Recent" buttons stopped working ("Back" still works). I also can't access the Settings>Users and Developer Options menus ("Developer options are not available for this user").

Most fixes I could find relate to other phones like Motorola and LG, but with the LeEco everything seems a little different. Those guides pretty much all tell the same thing:
1. Try a different user account (doesn't work, because I can't access it anymore) and
2. create an Activity Widget with Nova Launcher pointing to SetupWizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity (or com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity). It also can have slightly different names like TestActivity, SetupExitActivity, or WizardFullActivity.

Problem is: I can't find any of those. There's LeEco Setup Wizard/.EnableSetupWizardActivity but it just says "App isn't installed" when I click on the widget.

Wiping the cache partition and re-installing the ROM also didn't work. I really hope someone can help me with this, because I don't have time for a complete wipe right now...

 

[mjoach]

(I'm running cuoco92 stable release, so I also posted in that thread. But maybe this section here is a better place for my problem)

Hi there!

Right after charging, the notification area and the "Home" and "Recent" buttons stopped working ("Back" still works). I also can't access the Settings>Users and Developer Options menus ("Developer options are not available for this user").

Most fixes I could find relate to other phones like Motorola and LG, but with the LeEco everything seems a little different. Those guides pretty much all tell the same thing:
1. Try a different user account (doesn't work, because I can't access it anymore) and
2. create an Activity Widget with Nova Launcher pointing to SetupWizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity (or com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity). It also can have slightly different names like TestActivity, SetupExitActivity, or WizardFullActivity.

Problem is: I can't find any of those. There's LeEco Setup Wizard/.EnableSetupWizardActivity but it just says "App isn't installed" when I click on the widget.

Wiping the cache partition and re-installing the ROM also didn't work. I really hope someone can help me with this, because I don't have time for a complete wipe right now...

That's odd, the same thing happened to me 2 days ago on RevengeOS. I thought it must be a bug in ROS... Anyway, I was able to get the phone back along the lines you mention above. Through adb:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity

Or just launch a terminal app on the phone, type su and then:
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity

 

[splicehere]

That's odd, the same thing happened to me 2 days ago on RevengeOS. I thought it must be a bug in ROS... Anyway, I was able to get the phone back along the lines you mention above. Through adb:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity

Or just launch a terminal app on the phone, type su and then:
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity

Thanks for your suggestion!

Unfortunately, it went how I suspected it would. I'm getting:

Error Type 3
Error: Activity class {...} does not exist.​

So, this Setup Wizard is just not part of the ROM, it seems. There must be something equivalent in it somewhere, but where to find it?

I also tried:

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.letv.android.setupwizard/.EnableSetupWizardActivity​

and got "Error: Activity not started, unknown error code -2".
But i only guessed the package name since I have no idea how to find those names. I only know the folder structure is "/system/priv-app/letvsetupwizard/letvsetupwizard.apk" and it shows up in activities as "LeEco Setup Wizard/.EnableSetupWizardActivity".

The only other thing I could think of is to create a new user via terminal. Is that possible?

But yeah, I'm running out of options. Should've looked into TWRP backups sooner. Was just about done perfectly configuring everything...

 

[splicehere]

So, I got it working again, today!

First, I created a new user with

pm create-user User_Name​

and switched to the new user with

am switch-user User_ID​

and back again to my old user.
(This first step might be unnecessary, can't tell after the fact.)

That action restored seemingly everything but the soft buttons. I then used this command I found after some googling:

settings --user 0 put secure user_setup_complete 1​

and it restored everything else!

So, maybe this can be of help for someone in the future if everything else fails...