Tablet woes only temporary
 

My jelly bean tablet has been misbehaving recently, google full-page adverts, facebook small panel adverts, and finally a message came up which said com.android.server fail. The message wouldn't cancel, just kept on repeating.

For a while resetting the tablet with the standard android long press on the hardware on/off button got me out of it, but the message came more frequently until it was only seconds after recovery that it crashed again.

Luckily there was just time to turn off wifi, so I stayed local and had a look for the cause. Tried lots of things like stop all tasks, total clean and anti-virus check but with no success.

Finally I did a factory reset. Miraculous! Back to working as nomal, just had to download all my apps again and set up my bookmarks.

Data just reappeared, no problem, google had clouded it for me and back it all came, photos, olders, files, the lot.

I am well impressed. It's like having a brand new machine!

Praise the cloud.

. . . and all the people's data it says it will probably not own.

The popups probably came in one of the downloaded apps. Some of them add an unrequested add popup app as well, can be difficult to get rid of.

Thanks Avtrician, yes, very definitely app and app update related.

Have found an app called AirPush Detector which finds and uninstalls ad apps, hopefully that will help in future.

I have uninstalled Giggle Playstore completely and set my tab not to automatically update anything of any sort. On the rare occasions I might want a new app it doesn't take any time to reinstall Playstore - and take it off again afterwards.

Good little devices but you have to show 'em who is master.

How'd you do that? I can't; the only option is to "uninstall the updates to this Android System app".

Are you rooted?

...and how do you get it back again without Playstore to do the fetching?