Most of the apps crashing after editing platform.xml

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I tried making writing to SD possible, so I edited platform.xml to add <group gid=”media_rw” /> to “WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE“.

When I rebooted everything started crashing. I cannot open any apps. It says it connects to Wi-Fi but cannot access the internet.

I tried:

Restoring original platform.xml - nothing good.
NAND backup -> restore to previous backup -> copy .xml from there and restore it - nothing good again.
Dirty flash the ROM which made me unable to even go to Recovery - had to re-flash TWRP.
Backup all apps via ADB and restore them on my previous backup, but all the settings are messed up.

Is there anything I can do to fix the platform.xml issue? What could be causing everything to crash like that? I restored the .xml, so why is it still broken?

What kind of logs? System? Boot? I doubt app specific logs would be of any use — TensE, Aug 03 '15 at 02:38
Those Xml files are deep within the system anyway go into twrp then go into the mount menu. Next mount the system as read/write. Use the file explorer put the correct folder factory reset. — Bo Lawson, Aug 03 '15 at 03:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '15 at 21:31

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Ended up resolving the issue by doing a factory reset and restoring all the apps from an old backup. Some loss but everything works at least.

answered Aug 03 '15 at 21:31

TensE

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Most of the apps crashing after editing platform.xml

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