[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Settings > Storage Crashing - LineageOS 16.0 - XDA App Notifications

You don't give any setup description which makes it difficult to troubleshoot. :eek:

Is your Galaxy S5 (model number?) and/or SD card encrypted? Can you acces the content of the card with the stock Files explorer and with other apps like Music? And take some photos saving them to the external SD card?

When you first installed LineageOS for setting up the Micro SD Card did you choose Portable storage (recommended) or Internal storage (a.k.a Adoptable storage)? See Micro SD Card as Internal Storage - Adoptable Storage for more info.

Did you try on a computer to backup the content of the card, format with the vfat FAT32 file system, copy a couple of files to it, turn off the S5, insert the SD card, boot & set as Portable storage when asked in the notification? Then tried to open those files & afterwards check Settings > Storage?

As [MENTION=7423542]dcarvil[/MENTION] wrote above using the device itself to format an SD card is foolproof as it will format to a file system that it can work with.

I always do that in devices that can do it like in my Nikon DSLRs for example after once being forced to use special recovery software on a card that was formatted in Windows. I do it even with brand new cards.

LineageOS stock Files explorer > navigate to the external SD card > 3-dots > Storage settings > use Format instead of Format as internal which will format the card with the vfat FAT32 file system which the S5 likes. All the data on the external SD card will be erased! A notification will ask what you want to do with the SD card: choose Portable storage.

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Attaching Logcat & XDA App

Posting a full logcat is very useful for troubleshooting but not a cropped one like you did as there are a lot of relevant information in the logcat about what is happening when it boots to System & in the 4-5 lines just above the error or the Beginning of crash message.

To make it short & relevant reboot & reproduce the problem then, for example, use the free, quick & easy SysLog to capture a logcat. It's Play Store page explains how to give the app the required permission via adb if you don't have root.

Or LineageOS Wiki - How to capture logs (logcat) without root using adb.

Then attach it to your post. You could upload it somewhere & post a link but then people delete those files & the logcats get lost for future readers.

Because you have less than 10 posts @ the present you can't post links or attach images & documents as per XDA's rules I think. You can post anything in the XDA Off-topic forum until you reach 10 posts: https://xdaforums.com/general/off-topic which is preferable or upload them somewhere and post a broken link with spaces like https ://forum.xda-developers .com & we will understand.

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As you can see in the XDA app screenshots attachment the BB Code

shown as CLICK TO SHOW CONTENT in a browser does not work so pasting a long log in a post clutters the thread when viewed in the XDA app or the XDA Labs app.

BTW the PM's, Quote & Mention notifications of both these XDA apps v1.1.6b do not work @ the present in Android 9.0 (on which LineageOS 16.0 is based) so to avoid using RAM, CPU & errors because they are trying to retrieve notifications, in their Settings disable Notification & also use Privacy Guard to set to Ignored both Start at power up & Run in background.

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[MENTION=5271336]CM17X[/MENTION] - I may have found a fix for your Pixel Launcher crashing problem but it depends on your replies to my questions in the post above.

[MENTION=3642277]skyrail01[/MENTION] - Did you try the suggestions about your WiFi hotspot problem? Some feedback would be appreciated. :cool:

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