I have had my evo since pretty much the launch date (maybe about a week after) and recently for some reason I can't go 15 mins using it without it resetting and going into a reset loop. The phone never runs hot until it starts to reboot and after a few reboots is extremely hot. I've tried just about anything and everything to fix this but its a no go just wondering if anyone knows any way I can actually get a replacement or if anyone else has had this problem.
Edit : Did a bad job searching but found another thread about the same problem. Sorry for the extra one.
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So... maybe someone else can help me out here. My phone started doing this really cool thing about a week ago where it will just shut off out the blue. I've been scouring Google for similar problems, but cannot find anything. Lots of people complaining about reboots or sleep of death, but not hard shut downs. I don't have to pull the battery to reboot or anything, and it's not restarting, it just shuts off.
Sometimes it will only do it once or twice a day, other times it will do it 5+ times an hour. There seems to be no pattern to it either. Sometimes I will just pick up my phone and its off. Sometimes I will be listening to music with it in my pocket and it goes out. Quite a few times I've been texting or something and watched it just shut off.
It was right around when I flashed AOKP M5, so I assumed it might be that. I tried a new kernel first, which didn't help. Today I flashed MIUI, hoping it would fix my problem, but nope. Still getting reboots. So it does not seem ROM related.
Anything else I should try before trying to get my phone replaced? Who would the warranty even be through. I bought the phone from Amazon wireless. Them? Verizon? Samsung?
go back to complete stock, then see if the problem occurs
Maybe try using the samsung stock rom, without root. If you still have the problem, I think you should contact amazon. Be sure to reset the flash counter before you send it away
Sent from my GT-9100 using ICS Remix pro AOKP
There isn't a flash counter on the GNex.
Hey Guys, I have been beating my head against a brick wall trying to fix my phone.
Yesterday I was on a call with someone and suddenly I lost service (not uncommon for where I was since I have weak service there), but this time the phone was frozen. The dialer screen was on but was frozen. My phone would not react to anything. So naturally I pulled the battery and rebooted the phone. The phone started up as normally it would but then after 5 minutes of the phone running it froze again. During those five minutes I never received any cell signal.
The most recent "work" I had done on my phone was change the kernel to the AK Kernel on the guide here. This was done 3 days before anything started happening. I tried a new kernel because ever since upgrading to Paranoid 3.0 my phone was acting slow and occasionally I would get a screen of death typically about once a day. The 3 days that I had the new kernel, everything was working great (phone was faster, responsive and no SOD).
I tried restoring a nandroid before upgrading the kernel and it made no difference. Ever since the first time my phone down freezes after 3-5 mins after booting up. Nothing that I have tried has fixed the issue.
I have done a clean install, tried locking and re-rooting, tried a different kernel. All to no avail. Please help I am thinking there is something seriously wrong and may need to take it back to verizon. I am trying to restore my device to stock but am unable to do so. I have been using this guide: Restore to Stock. Any suggestions to make it "clean" enough to get verizon to replace it?
I'm going through withdrawals, please help!
Could not fix it, so I contacted tech support and explained everything that I did to try to fix and they just sent me a warranty replacement. I hope that it was a device error and not something that was caused by other ROMs or Kernels.
Last night something made my screen turn on and stay on until my battery died. Now if this wasn't strange enough, when I finally got enough charge in it to boot it up, com.android.phone started crashing which means I haven't had service all day. Google calendar has been crashing as well if it helps, but everything else has been fine including wifi. I've restarted my phone several times throughout the day and even reflashed the radios, all to no avail. Does anybody know a fix? I'm running lifeless v12 rooted and unlocked, let me know if you need to know more and I'll gladly provide it.
p.s. ever since this morning my battery percentage has been going up by a couple % every little while before it goes back down. Not sure if it's related in anyway but I'm not really complaining.
Hard reset would be the best option. Then just leave it for like a day to make sure it is working.
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda premium
Sorry but what is a hard reset in terms of android? Is it just a Factory data reset? Thanks for the response btw.
Well I did the factory reset and that fixed it. I had to do that from recovery though since settings crashed when ever I tried applying the reset.... Thanks again for the help!
So I've had my GS3 since launch, about 14 months. Up until Monday, everything was working fine and I had been through a dozen ROMS. Sometimes things would get buggy, I'd flash a new ROM and it would all be great again.
On Tuesday I noticed that when I'd go to use my phone it would not wake up and need a hard reset. As I went through my day I noticed it would randomly freeze to black while being used and require a hard reset to get going again. It probably went through 20 random resets throughout the day until I had a chance to flash a ROM in the evening, thinking everything would be fine.
Flashed the new ROM, noticed almost immediately the freezes were still going on, tried searching various forums for a fix and couldn't find anything that sounded like this problem. I did check through the Ultimate GS3 freezing thread and Ultimate GS3 Sudden Death threads, but neither seemed to have the same problem. Finally I decided to try the dummy file generator described in the freezing thread and after a while it gave a FC. I tried to run it again and it would not run properly, I cleared the data/cache for the program and was trying to try again when the phone froze for the last time.
It is now bricked, it will not hard reset, respond to battery pulls, respond when charging, boot to recovery, nothing. Can't be detected when plugged in to a computer and I will be taking it in today to see if it can be repaired out of warranty. I doubt anyone here can help with fixing the phone, I just thought I should post this so other people might find it if they suffer the same symptoms and can share similar experiences.
Alright guys, basically whats happening to my phone is that I would just have my phone randomly surfing the web or checking Facebook then out of nowhere it just randomly reboots. Most of the time it ges stuck on the Google screen and I had to do a battery pull and retry and after a while of repeating that it finally would load properly. .Also my phone would say that its charging even when the charger isn't even in and even it reboots sometimes it shows the charging screen when i haven't even plugged the charger in
If you guys can solve this wouthout favtory reseting that would be great !
DETAILS
-Not rooted in anyway
- Android 4.2.1
- Got it about 7 or 8 months ago
- this happened before but it would just reboot it wouldnt do anything else, I reseted it and it went away but now its back and its worse.
Any answer would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
Sorry to say but when your phone is to the point where it has issues that seem to be system deep, the only thing you can do that is almost guaranteed to fix it is flash the factory image to your device. This is different that doing a factory reset which doesnt really do a full system wipe and reload as far as I know. Instructions can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Note that you will need to backup everything off your storage (files/pictures/music/etc.). This will wipe your device clean.
Lastly, if your device thinks it is charging when its not, you could have a bad port. Hopefully its just the system though which can be fixed with the above suggestions. If not, you might need to have it fixed if possible. But it sounds like a system issue.