Are you able to connect via adb now? This solves the problem:
adb shell pm clear com.oculus.vrshell
Are you able to connect via adb now? This solves the problem:
adb shell pm clear com.oculus.vrshell
I also couldn't open apps, nor send error reports or authorise new computers for ADB. I was fully locked out. I could see all of my apps in the navigator and switch home environments but I couldn't open any app at all. It wouldn't even enter some loading screen or so. It just wouldn't do anything when pressing the app icons. I couldn't enter settings either.
All of this also after multiple reboots, even hard reboot. Nada. Luckily I had an authorised ADB connection that I had set up prior and with the command above everything is fine again.
What made this happen in the first place was a freeze during the loading of an app immediately after a reboot (so I suppose that both the memory and cpu was quite taxed). It froze for 10s and just powered off. After that it found itself in that weird state.
Quest 3 512GB. v83.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
It seems to me that Meta HorizonOS provides far fewer tools (more high level than ADB) for management and visibility to problems of misbehaving apps than current Android phones, for instance. For me it kind of hardens back to the control I recall having back in Android 6 or before.
I really wish Meta all the luck in improving the durability of this Android OS variant without hobbling it! They're definitely going to have some stiff competition from Android XR and Steam Frame in the near future.
I guess you and I will try to help Meta in the PTC while these other unhelpful posters just assume and harass.
Thanks again
I really appreciate that you're the first person with an actual constructive suggestion! Thank you!
I've used ADB with many Android phones in the past and was able to use ADB to make the headset responsive again. I hadn't gone that deep with HorizonOS until now but was fully prepared to do so.
In my original post I was trying to keep my report very detailed and high level.
Other than your help, I'm disappointed in the responses above just making unhelpful comments, assumptions and accusations.
Thanks again.
