Can I Just Reinstall F-Droid?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com⁩ to ⁨askandroid@lemdro.id⁩

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F-Droid has been giving me some issues for a few days (that I've noticed). It crashes immediately upon opening. Sometimes I will see it open for less than one second before it crashes, but usually it just goes right to a crash submittal screen. I want to reinstall it, but am unsure how to handle all my apps. Will it just pick them back up? I don't really know how to troubleshoot this, I am open to alternative paths!

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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Try turning Bluetooth off.

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Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I believe it would pick all of them back up. I use a different f-droid client (droidify) and can see all my apps in both

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actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Go into Android app settings, find F-droid, and clear all data + cache. That will reset the F-droid config.

If it’s a config error, clearing app data should get it to start again, and it’ll still see the apps you have installed.

If that does NOT fix the problem, the problem is probably the app itself, and not the configuration. Manually download and install a previous version of F-droid, and turn off auto update.

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