please help...

[dvsdave214]

I recently tried to run ART instead of delvik and now my phone freezes just after the Samsung and Verizon boot screens. The screen reads "Android is upgrading... optimizing app 1 of 1". The phone will stay on this screen until the battery goes dead. I've already tried recovery mode and wiping the cache partition, but to no avail. Any advice or guidance to help me get my phone back in working order would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jagrave]

I recently tried to run ART instead of delvik and now my phone freezes just after the Samsung and Verizon boot screens. The screen reads "Android is upgrading... optimizing app 1 of 1". The phone will stay on this screen until the battery goes dead. I've already tried recovery mode and wiping the cache partition, but to no avail. Any advice or guidance to help me get my phone back in working order would be greatly appreciated.

Reinstall whatever ROM you were on. That's the only thing that worked for me. There might be another solution, but this is what I used to work. I did everything you did and it still wouldn't boot until I did a clean flash of my ROM. Hope this helps.

 

[dvsdave214]

flash rom = factory reset?

Reinstall whatever ROM you were on. That's the only thing that worked for me. There might be another solution, but this is what I used to work. I did everything you did and it still wouldn't boot until I did a clean flash of my ROM. Hope this helps.

Thanks jagrave! I guess I neglected to mention that my s5 is completely stock, so I don't have a custom ROM. Will a factory reset do the same thing?

 

[BigBot96]

Thanks jagrave! I guess I neglected to mention that my s5 is completely stock, so I don't have a custom ROM. Will a factory reset do the same thing?

Yes a factory reset from recovery will set it all back to stock/normal, including which runtime your using back to stock dalvik.