Help HELP. My notification bar is gone...

Jpeluso8 · Mar 19, 2012

My phone worked fine. It is a Droid X. I did a corporate sync the other day, and it caused the notification bar at the top of the phone to disappear. You know, that bar that shows you icons for your battery life, if you have a text msg, or email, etc. Its gone.

Of course verizon and motorola tech support couldnt help. What I do know, is if I power off the phone, the notification bar comes back, but only for a little while. Then goes away again. Anyone know how to fix this??

Thanks!

Savagerun · Mar 19, 2012

Did you try rebooting your phone? If that doesn't work try wiping cache partition in stock recovery. To do that power off your phone and press your hardkey home button and hold it in. Then press and hold in the power button and continue holding both buttons in till you see a triangle on the screen then release the buttons. Next press both volume buttons in at the same time. That will get you in stock recovery. Then scroll down with your volume button to where it says wipe cache partition and select it with your power button. Then select yes to wipe cache. Once cache wipe is complete just select reboot system.

Jpeluso8 · Mar 19, 2012

Savagerun said:
Did you try rebooting your phone? If that doesn't work try wiping cache partition in stock recovery. To do that power off your phone and press your hardkey home button and hold it in. Then press and hold in the power button and continue holding both buttons in till you see a triangle on the screen then release the buttons. Next press both volume buttons in at the same time. That will get you in stock recovery. Then scroll down with your volume button to where it says wipe cache partition and select it with your power button. Then select yes to wipe cache. Once cache wipe is complete just select reboot system.

Is wiping the cache partition the same thing as a hard reset? I do not want to lose my contacts / apps / etc.. takes forever to get all that stuff back on the phone and properly functioning.

viebroccoli · Mar 19, 2012

Jpeluso8 said:
Is wiping the cache partition the same thing as a hard reset? I do not want to lose my contacts / apps / etc.. takes forever to get all that stuff back on the phone and properly functioning.

I think you meant "factory reset," rather than a "hard reset." A hard reset would never erase your contacts, apps, etc, while a factory reset would. And no, wiping cache is not the same thing as a factory reset. "Wiping cache" is erasing all cache memory, whereas a factory reset would be erasing all internal memory. It's healthy to erase cache every now and then, as doing so deletes unnecessary information from your phone, and allows your RAM to not work on unnecessary tasks.

Personally, I would try a hard reset first (turn off phone, remove battery, put battery back in place, reboot). If your notification bar still isn't present after a hard reset, move on to wiping your cache (after wiping cache, you should notice more responsive performance!).

Jpeluso8 · Mar 19, 2012

Ok I am trying it.

FYI: I have done the hard reset a couple times. It will bring the notification bar back, then after about an hour of use, the bar disappears again..weird I know.

VoidedSaint · Mar 19, 2012

are you using the stock launcher? or adw? lpp? golauncher? are you rooted? if your rooted what rom are you running, if you are running one?

the systemui.apk failing can happen, especially when something new has to alter things to it.

its not likely but it is possible

Jpeluso8 · Mar 19, 2012

VoidedSaint said:
are you using the stock launcher? or adw? lpp? golauncher? are you rooted? if your rooted what rom are you running, if you are running one?

the systemui.apk failing can happen, especially when something new has to alter things to it.

its not likely but it is possible

Im using golauncher. Not rooted

New Rising · Mar 19, 2012

Jpeluso8 said:
Im using golauncher. Not rooted

In Go Launcher go to preferences>screen settings>make sure the status bar is checked

Hrethgir · Mar 19, 2012

Also, in the Go Launcher preferences, check the gesture settings and make sure you don't have one of them set to Hide Taskbar. Really hope we got to him to try this simple stuff before he does a factory reset.

Jpeluso8 · Mar 19, 2012

All of the above is set to the correct settings ..and has been

Talfrund · Apr 4, 2012

I am having the exact same issue. Droid X, no custom launcher, no custom ROM. Everything works fine until I add a corporate sync account. Once I add a corporate sync account, my notification bar will disappear in 15-30 minutes and the incoming call notification is gone - no green slider, no red slider, and no caller ID.

It also kills my battery life. I used to be able to go 18 hours without charging, now I have to charge it after 6 hours. We used to use TouchDown before we changed email systems, and I had no problems with TouchDown.

Rebooting the phone solves it for about 20 minutes, then the same problem shows back up.

Since I have a World of Warcraft and a Gmail authenticator on this phone, I'd rather avoid the hassle of a factory reset. Any other ideas?

Jpeluso8 · Apr 4, 2012

Talfrund said:
I am having the exact same issue. Droid X, no custom launcher, no custom ROM. Everything works fine until I add a corporate sync account. Once I add a corporate sync account, my notification bar will disappear in 15-30 minutes and the incoming call notification is gone - no green slider, no red slider, and no caller ID.

It also kills my battery life. I used to be able to go 18 hours without charging, now I have to charge it after 6 hours. We used to use TouchDown before we changed email systems, and I had no problems with TouchDown.

Rebooting the phone solves it for about 20 minutes, then the same problem shows back up.

Since I have a World of Warcraft and a Gmail authenticator on this phone, I'd rather avoid the hassle of a factory reset. Any other ideas?

If you figure it out please let me know...

Talfrund · Apr 4, 2012

Jpeluso8 said:
If you figure it out please let me know...

I tried wiping the cache, no luck. I ended up deleting the corporate sync account, which solved the problem of the notifications bug, but leaves me without access to work emails, so definitely not the solution I really need.

wisper7 · Apr 11, 2012

I have this problem, but I deleted my Go Launcher programs (which I think created this problem). I was not using them, as far as I know, but now my status bar disapears WHEN I get a notification. How do I fix or restore the old notification program?

wisper7 · Apr 11, 2012

Also, when I try to go to the status bar application (I assume the is the one that continues to crash) it has only the option 'force quit' ungreyed, but clicking it gives me the warning message, and when I hit ok nothing happens. It just continues to run.

heavyarms · Apr 16, 2012

I'm having the exact same issue on my Droid X, I'm not running any launcher apps just basic Gmail. I havent changed anything on the phone lately, the issue just started a couple days ago out of the blue. When I turn the phone on the notification bar shows up for a few minutes then dissappears. I still get a audio notificaiton that I have a new email or text but have no idea what it is and have to go hunt to figure out if it was an email or a text. When I get phone calls I dont get the usual display when option to answer, I have to drill down to contacts to answer the call. This is really frustrating and really is hurting my ability to use my phone.

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