So my Epic is doing someting strange. Whenever I leave my house and any other place where I connect to wifi, my Epic partially crashes. I get the "buzz...buzz, buzz, buzz" which indicates an FC, but my screen goes black and I hear the startup sound and my phone will reset to the home screen within a few seconds. It will continue to do this while I'm out of wifi range, unless I turn off the wifi radio. I can turn the wifi radio back on right after I turn it off and not have a problem. Its like the phone crashes because I move outside wifi coverage. The steps I have taken to solve the issue include:
flashing from EC05 (which I was on) to EF02 - no effect
re-flashing to EC05 - no effect
wiping the phone through CWM and flashing EF02 Plus - no effect
flashing the radio from EC05 to EF02 (no effect), then to EF10 no effect
Currently I am on EF02 stock with the EC05 radio. I've had this Epic for 8 days as my last one I dropped to the ground and that killed it so Sprint gave me this new one, and I do mean NEW ONE because the repair center was out of the refurbished replacements they give for phone repair exchanges. Any advice, tricks, omens, or portents are welcome as I am tired of my Epic crashing.
radugb out
u need to use something stable e.g. EC05 based rom. but from the quick read of your OP it sounds like a kernel panic which will reset the phone. not much u can do on a test rom.
edit: one other thing. u have been posting in the wrong section. take this stuff over to the Q&A and u will get more help faster.
Duly noted. I've reposted in the Q&A section. Also to note, my Epic was behaving this way from the day after I brought it home, when it was loaded with EC05 stock to begin with. I'm beginning to think its a defect in the phone's hardware. Also, I use a Airave femtocell at my house. Could the phone be crashing because it is searching for that airave's MSID and not finding it?
Moved to proper forum
radugb said:
So my Epic is doing someting strange. Whenever I leave my house and any other place where I connect to wifi, my Epic partially crashes. I get the "buzz...buzz, buzz, buzz" which indicates an FC, but my screen goes black and I hear the startup sound and my phone will reset to the home screen within a few seconds. It will continue to do this while I'm out of wifi range, unless I turn off the wifi radio. I can turn the wifi radio back on right after I turn it off and not have a problem. Its like the phone crashes because I move outside wifi coverage. The steps I have taken to solve the issue include:
flashing from EC05 (which I was on) to EF02 - no effect
re-flashing to EC05 - no effect
wiping the phone through CWM and flashing EF02 Plus - no effect
flashing the radio from EC05 to EF02 (no effect), then to EF10 no effect
Currently I am on EF02 stock with the EC05 radio. I've had this Epic for 8 days as my last one I dropped to the ground and that killed it so Sprint gave me this new one, and I do mean NEW ONE because the repair center was out of the refurbished replacements they give for phone repair exchanges. Any advice, tricks, omens, or portents are welcome as I am tired of my Epic crashing.
radugb out
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Mine started doing this the other day for some reason. But it never reboots. I end up having to pull the battery.
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I have searched around, but found nothing that resembles my issue.
I keep having this weird tone occurring, usually in the middle of the night. It is the same sound that you hear when the phone is coming out of airplane mode, but it is doing it all by itself. 3G and alarm icon disappear and reappear. You think re-Odin'ing DK28 might help since it seems that it might be tied to the radio? Anyone else run into this?
I team across this as well but when I got my Epic from sprint. When dk18 came out it helped but since dk28 it stopped. Its your phone loosing a signal all together then getting it back. Most likely its the towers in your area and not something you can fix. Have you done a prl update Lately?
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I have tried updating the PRL and it seems to help for a while, but it always comes back. My wife has an Evo and doesn't have this problem.
I would be willing to settle for muting the notification since it mostly happens while plugged in at night and it wakes us up, but I can't find that sound file. Any ideas where it is? I lieu of deleting it, I could just rename it and replace it with a silent file.
It would seem that i am not the on;y one with issues concerning CM7 update 2.3.5
MY issues revolve around wifi, and the mechanizim used to overclock the kernal.
For the wifi it to put it simply 'has more back N forth than a female on that time' meaning at times it acts fine. Others it connects and reconnects rapidly and continously to point where there is no use to it.
The kernal running at full speed at all time no matter what i put the cpu settings is an issue since it feels like a how coal after and hour or so of continued use.
Also the super user keeps on malfunctioning so i had to bit my tongue and revert back to cm6 losing all my data since i could not back it up.
If any body had anser to these questions i would be happy to upgrade back to cm7
thank u
all on cm6 wifi works pefectly as before so it has to be something in the cm7 that causing the issue
CM7
I tried the CM7.1-RC1. It looks great, but it sucks battery like a starving vampire and Bluetooth is seriously screwed. I wiped it and went back to the rooted OTA 2.2.1 until I read those issues have been resolved.
So, I decided to overhaul my epic today, basically clean everything up and try and reset it back to a factory type state. I noticed that since i change my rom almost every week, alot of stuff gets left behind when i flash a new one, even after completely wiping data/cache/dalvek X3. In fact if i use a program like root explorer even after Odining my phone back to stock eclair i still am able to see folders and other random tweaks that are left from this GPS fix or that "theme change".
One of the things I noticed lately is that my notification light has basically stopped working all together. I'm certain it isnt a hardware issue as the light didnt just randomly stop all together, but rather happened after i went into a leaked gingerbread rom, i think EF02. I want to find a fix for this, and im sure there is something i can type into the terminal to calibrate the LED.
Also as a side question, is it possible to completely delete all the left over stuff from other roms? Ive tryed Odining back to eclair, tryed the silly hard-reset thing with the button on the back, tryed everything i can get my hands on. anyone have a clue?
No I don't think your led will require recalibration. Try downloading handcent and test the custom led settings (you have to set 100 red or 100 blue other settings won't get results. Besides the pink one which I think is a combination of 100 on two colors I can't remember which) and if this doesn't work you might have a hardware problem.
Edit: and for your other question wiping 3x in cwm should get the job done besides the modem. That you'll have to odin back.
Cd's or tapes?
metalblaster said:
So, I decided to overhaul my epic today, basically clean everything up and try and reset it back to a factory type state. I noticed that since i change my rom almost every week, alot of stuff gets left behind when i flash a new one, even after completely wiping data/cache/dalvek X3. In fact if i use a program like root explorer even after Odining my phone back to stock eclair i still am able to see folders and other random tweaks that are left from this GPS fix or that "theme change".
One of the things I noticed lately is that my notification light has basically stopped working all together. I'm certain it isnt a hardware issue as the light didnt just randomly stop all together, but rather happened after i went into a leaked gingerbread rom, i think EF02. I want to find a fix for this, and im sure there is something i can type into the terminal to calibrate the LED.
Also as a side question, is it possible to completely delete all the left over stuff from other roms? Ive tryed Odining back to eclair, tryed the silly hard-reset thing with the button on the back, tryed everything i can get my hands on. anyone have a clue?
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If said rom uses the Bonsai EF02 beta kernel, then that's your problem. Flashing chris41g's EG22 kernel should restore your LED.
I remember, my led stopped working, because I had it turned off in eclair, and when I upated to eb13, there was no longer a setting to toggle, so it was stuck off. Since then, I've rooted, and had to wipe data, which fixed it for me.
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I am currently having some data connectivity issues with my E4GT. I have been running the Blu Kuban rom for some time now and have been a huge fan of it, but now my phone is acting really weird (no fault to the rom at all). First my GPS wouldn't lock as I thought this was kernel related I re installed the Blu Kuban rom with both of the other kernels and still couldn't get a GPS lock. Since I use GPS daily for work I went back to my classic Epic Venum rom and the GPS worked albeit poorly, it got me through the day. When on this rom whenever I used data my phone would drop down to zero percent battery and power off, this seems to occur only over 4g/3g and not over wifi. I tried flashing multiple modems from EG30 to FI27 on a multitude of roms (both GB and ICS) and using desktop Odin, but I cannot figure out what is causing my phone to crash (which now occurs consistently). I tried installing new roms (currently on AOKP build 37) which works great until the data is used and then it crashes again. I don't think this is cause from any specific rom, and I am now fearing it is a hardware issue. To summarize GPS now works, using data causes my phone to crash regardless of the rom used. Just thought I would ask the community, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Update: I ended up restoring to stock to see if that would fix the problem and it didn't. So I took it to the Sprint store where they discovered I had a defective battery, and it just so happened that I bought the phone a year ago today so the new battery will be covered under warranty . I will update my status upon receiving the new battery, but I am feeling optimistic at this point.
Stock/no root Tmo Note 3, with latest nk3 firmware update (ota) , WiFi won't turn on. In notification panel you tap WiFi button and it hangs partially green but not fully bright green, doesn't connect. In settings slide button is grayish but no connection, won't slide to off just sits there not connecting. A restart will put switch back to off, mobile network works fine just can't get WiFi to start.
Sometimes it works after phone sits for a while. Basic apps installed no facebook app or weird games.
This condition started recently out of nowhere, no problems after ota back in November, phone has same case since new back in Oct/2013 , phone has not been dropped or dunked in toilet.
No flashing or root attempts, download mode and stock recovery can be accessed. Not looking to flash custom ROM, rooting is a possible option if needed to solve issue.
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same here bro
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Stock/no root Tmo Note 3, with latest nk3 firmware update (ota) , WiFi won't turn on. In notification panel you tap WiFi button and it hangs partially green but not fully bright green, doesn't connect. In settings slide button is grayish but no connection, won't slide to off just sits there not connecting. A restart will put switch back to off, mobile network works fine just can't get WiFi to start.
Sometimes it works after phone sits for a while. Basic apps installed no facebook app or weird games.
This condition started recently out of nowhere, no problems after ota back in November, phone has same case since new back in Oct/2013 , phone has not been dropped or dunked in toilet.
No flashing or root attempts, download mode and stock recovery can be accessed. Not looking to flash custom ROM, rooting is a possible option if needed to solve issue.
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hey bro i have exactly the same problem , but my case is slightly different i am having this problem since i have rooted my phone now i just cant find any way to solve it , i just think its a hardware problem. if u come to find any solution plz dont forget to post it here. i am waiting for ur reply.
Will do that, been looking around but nothing yet, have read a bunch of stuff in Google, similar but not the same issue.
I'm suspecting the modem but have not attempted to flash or look for modem file yet.
Not sure if I'm going to find it here anyway, this Note 3 thread is the lamest thread here, I see a lot of questions asked here that go unanswered, I have asked questions in the past that got no response, and simply ones too.
I also follow the T-Mobile S4 thread and there you get a ton of activity but here, it's like pulling teeth.
Anyway I will post back for your sake if I figure out something.
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Tried reseting modem with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52735067
but still acting up now and then .
But toggling "airplane mode" on/off un-greys wifi button and it works smoothly.
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So, the device has always been stock, never been rooted or anything, never had any custom firmware on it? I am understanding this correctly? And that being the case, this means the device has also never had the data partition scrubbed?
Honestly, I would strongly recommend wiping the device and installing the NK3 firmware via odin. I'm not sure you are going to find a solution.
One thing you can do first, is root the device, and download the app "LogcatX".. open the app, run a logcat, then hit that wifi toggle. Save the logcat and post it here.
I highly doubt this is fixable without a re-install of the OS, however.
Good luck
I had considered root just for debloating purposes and re-flashin the firmware but with an update around the corner I can toggle airplane mode for a bit longer.
I like stock touchwiz and also need reliability from the phone so won't be considering a custom rom.
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Use Tweaked ROM. It's more reliable than stock.
Kind of funny, you mention you need reliability and because of that you won't root and install custom firmware. Yet, your device is bone stock and your WiFi is broken. Lol.
Think about it.
Wifi is just an extra, I rely more on my unlimited data plan and living in the metropolitan area LTE is always strong and plentiful. Wifi comes in handy when downloading huge files, pdf's and some large images (work related )
and using download boost. Wifi calling is handy also to have but haven't really needed it.
So it's nice to have working. But not the end of the world.
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