Dialer Apps crash after a few seconds, 4.4, almost new phone, no modifications As titled. Two week old Sony Z3 Compact, running 4.4. Not flashed/rooted. Plenty of apps installed. I'm very new to Android, so I have no idea how to go about troubleshooting this issue, and could use some advice. It's a new phone and I can't make calls. I'd like to avoid the wipe everything and start again approach I've seen elsewhere online.

Thanks
If you can, try to go to Settings -&gt; Applications -&gt; All
applications and find your Dialer app (usually called dialer). Then
delete data and reboot your phone. That should fix issues coming
directly from the dialer app itself.
If other applications like
Contacts or Messages (Hangouts) crash then some databases inside
your phone (eg. contacts.db) are corrupt or have wrong permissions
associated with them.


Rooting and then fixing permissions manually may solve the problem if the first option didn't do it.