Android phone reboots on uninstall
I am developing an app and when I uninstall the phone kind of semi-reboots.
This is my old post:
I have a strange problem with my phone. I am using SAMSUNG GALAXY 5 (GT-I5500) with Android 2.2 on it (not rooted).
I am an android developer and I have been doing pretty advanced apps. However, sometimes when I am testing and installing an application the phone reboots.
I'm starting it trough Eclipse but I do not know what exactly what causes the phone to reboot.
It is not heat for sure, as I keep my phone cool enough.
It is not from the app source itself as the phone doesn't reboot while I am using the application but on installing time
It is not storage I think, because I have 26 MB internal and 1GB external memory free and the app is no more than 2 MB.
So my question is what could cause the phone to reboot?
In this context I define "reboot" as the phone showing the initial SAMSUNG screen, like normal booting but without the prompt for PIN. This is why I conclude it is something like semi-reboot or I do not exactly know.
Answer
Having experienced the same problem, I found that deleting dalvik cache and formatting cache partition helped - I can't tell which one of those two did the trick, but I can now happily uninstall apps again, without the device spontaneously rebooting. Both operations I was able to perform in recovery mode, using ClockWorkMod rescue system, and they are non-destructive. No actual data or apps are lost, only next reboot takes longer, due to dalvik cache being rebuilt.
Today, close to a month later, that problem showed again, so I was able to test which of those two action fixes it. Turns out it was erasing the cache. Dalvik cache was left alone, deletion was possible afterwars nevertheless.