How to Fix “Unfortunately the Process.com.android.phone Has Stopped”
If you are seeing the error message “Unfortunately the process.com.android.phone has stopped” after you installed a new ROM or updated your firmware, there is actually a couple of ways to fix it.
The error message is triggered by the phone or SIM toolkit application. So, if you are constantly getting the “Unfortunately the process.com.android.phone has stopped” error, here are ways to fix your device:
Method 1: Reboot Your Phone
The first thing you should try is rebooting your phone. This can often solve minor issues on an Android phone.
To do this, press and hold the power button until the power menu appears.
Select “Restart” and wait for your phone to reboot.
Method 2: Clear App Cache and Data
Sometimes clearing the app cache and data can help fix this issue. To access this option:
- go to Settings, select Device
- Then, select Apps or Application Manager or App Manager, depending on the Android model you have.
- Choose the app for which you want to clear the app data and cache
- Click on the “Clear Data” button under the “Storage” section and then click on the “Clear Cache” button under the “Cache” section.
- Once you are done, restart your phone so that the changes take effect.
If the problem persists, repeat the steps and include “Clear Data” in your actions. Reboot your phone for the changes to take effect.
Method 3: Clear Cache and Data of the SIM Toolkit
This error is often caused by either a phone or SIM toolkit application, so clearing out the SIM toolkit data and cache can help fix it. Repeat the steps shown above. But this time, choose SIM toolkit from the list of apps under the All tab.
To do this:
- go to the “Settings”
- select the “Apps” option
- Tap on “Sim Toolkit”
- then tap on “Clear Data” and “Clear Cache” under the “Storage” section
- restart your phone and check if the error is resolved.
Method 4: Do a Factory Reset
As a last resort, backup your data and perform a Factory Reset. To do this, shut down your device normally. Next, hold down the Volume Up, Home and Power keys altogether until the phone vibrates. Once it vibrates, let go of the Power key but keep your fingers pressed on the rest. However, once you see the Android logo, let go. From there, backup and do a Factory Reset.
Method 5: Disable Automatic Updated Option
Turning off the Automatic Updated option can also help fix this error. To do this
- go to the “Play Store” on your phone
- click on the “Menu” icon
- select “Settings”
- click on “Auto-update apps”
- select the “Do not auto-update apps” option
- restart your phone
We hope these five methods help you fix the “Unfortunately the Process.com.android.phone Has Stopped” error on your phone.
There is no phone app on a tablet mate!
I bought an Android tablet with no phone function, sot I have no Telephone app to mess with. Furthermore, when I first started it the tablet let me into Google Play Store, once. I had to uninstall the 4.4.2.. version and install the 4.2.2. version of Play to get in. Oddly, the Android system running is 4.4.2. Why do sellers modify Android? Yeah, to put adware on it. Oh, how do I solve “phone has stopped”?
I have a ZTE ZMax Pro and after an Android update, the Phone dial pad
didn’t work. Everything else worked fine. I could get calls but not make
them. The dial pad disappeared each time I opened it.
I tired
everything from going to Safe Mode, to deleting voicemails and all my
apps. What did work was something dumb. … I changed the time from
standard to military (24 hour) and BAM! My phone worked again.
I
literally was at the end of solutions that this page suggested.
Solution 5 worked for me. I almost gave up and I didn’t want to factory
reset it.
Solution 5: Change Date/Time format
Weirdly, many Samsung Galaxy smartphone users have fixed this contacts
app automatically closing issue by simply editing the time format from
the date & time settings. Here is how you can do that:
Go to Settings >> Data & time
Tap on “Use 24 hour format” or uncheck it if already is
Now also choose a different date format
Try opening the contacts app and dialer and check for the error.
Unfortunately the Process.com.android.phone Has stooped working: it is mostly happen when your phone memory get low mean do not have space in phone memory, simply transfer your data from phone to your SD card and restart your Android device. it worked for me, hope it work for you as well.
If uve tried everything and ur phone stills shows that error especially when u want to recieve a phone call…..go to settings….go to all……scroll down to accessibility….. Deactivate everything dere….lyk du battery saver…cm security…..den try calling ur phone check if u can pick it now…worked perfectly for my tecno h7…….nd if it dosent work flash ur fone carefully install few apps nd keep checking until u activate something or install an app dah makes ur fone give you that error…den deactivate d setting or uninstall d app….
my phone is when i touch message it open contact or phonebook
does not help 🙁
The only solution I found was to reset the phone. I tried to back-up my contacts and apps in google. After the reset, google restored most of the apps and contacts, however, I lost all messages, photos and notes. Sucks…
What other processes could com.android.phone refer to?
I have a tablet and it gives me this error every second no matter how many times I push okay.
My tablet is already screwed so I already tried factory reset and I
cannot flash as I have tried 3 top roms and my tablets factory ROM and
it just wont do it so I JUST WANT TO KNOW how do I remove it or what app
do I remove to get rid of it?
I found a fix for those of us who still couldn’t fix this issue agree the helpful comments above. Some people can’t clear the cache or data from the phone app because of the error message. So this is what I did and it finally fixed it after 3 days of over thinking and software trouble shooting. Turn the device on and when you see the error message just hit OK…try to get through the initial set up (you can just go last the WiFi and Google setup of you’d like) by hitting the NEXT or OK keys between the error message pop-up…its hard but time it just right, you’ll get it. Now you’ll eventually be at the home screen. Now, keep hitting OK on the error message just like you have been…over and over…eventually after 30 to maybe 50 or so times (I noticed it varies for some reason…) the message will stop! BUT don’t be fooled, it will come back. So while the message has went away, THEN proceed to take the following steps.
1.) Goto Apps, then find Settings
2.) Scroll down to Apps in the Settings mente
3.) Swipe over to the last tab, ALL (you won’t find the app we’re looking for under Downloaded or Running.)
4.) Find the Phone app and select it. Now, since the error message isn’t popping up, you’ll notice you can actually hit Clear Cache and then Clear Data and it’ll actually do something this time.
5.) After hitting clear cache and clear Data, go back to the list that you found the Phone app in and scroll on down to SIM Toolkit and do the same thing (clear cache, clear Data). I don’t know if this is necessary but these are the steps I took and doing the SIM Toolkit as well won’t harm anything.
6.) Now you can connect to your WiFi and set up your Google by going to Settings-WiFi and Settings-Accounts-Google-Add Account.
I hope this helps someone because I thought my phone was doomed and some of talks comments helped me figure this out so.THANK YOU TO EVERYONE.