So as the title states, my Epic has been plagued by random reboots since installing EG22. The unit was a new replacement, not a refurbished replacement that tech support normally gives. I've had it all of four weeks now. It ran EF02 pretty perfectly. I have tried reloading EC05 (with ODIN) then loading EG22, and no dice. Before I flash EG22 I wipe the phone, cache, and dalvik 3 times. I've also redownloaded and hash checked the EG22 update I use (using the stock/deodexed EG22 update.zip from the development forum). Still no improvement, the phone will randomly reboot every 1-2 hours. Any advice on what I could try next is appreciated.
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UPDATE: also I cannot get into the "SYSTEM UPDATES" menu in the Settings/About Phone menu. Each time I try I get a forced close then a system reboot. Could the phone just not like EG22?
I have experienced reboots on both EE03 and EF02. I haven't tried EG22 as of yet. I hae never had it happen on EC05. I figure I'll just wait until the release because my phone just doesn't like the beta/leaked stuff.
Any test software has a chance that it will not work 100%
All Gingerbread leaks crash and reboot in low signal areas. I am assuming this is one of the reasons official hasn't been released yet.
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Ok, but one I have an airave about 12 ft away from my phone so I get a great signal. And two, I'm still getting FC's when I try to enter the system updates menu. So I still think it could be something wrong with my phone.
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Ok, but one I have an airave about 12 ft away from my phone so I get a great signal. And two, I'm still getting FC's when I try to enter the system updates menu. So I still think it could be something wrong with my phone.
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How did you install EG22? If you did it through CWM it could have just been a bad flash. For the system menu problem. The crashes occur for me too, like above post low signal areas are not a gb leaks friend.
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I have been flashing zip versions thru CMW. I'll look up an ODIN-able EG22 tar or md5 and try it that way. But I will ODIN back to EC05 (with repartition to wipe the phone) then update to EG22. I'll let you all know.
As far a signal goes though, I'm getting full bars right now because my Airrave is so close to me.
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I have been flashing zip versions thru CMW. I'll look up an ODIN-able EG22 tar or md5 and try it that way. But I will ODIN back to EC05 (with repartition to wipe the phone) then update to EG22. I'll let you all know.
As far a signal goes though, I'm getting full bars right now because my Airrave is so close to me.
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You are right, that shouldn't happen with an Airave. A reflash may fix the issues you are having. Also don't use any CPU managers like SetCPU or Voltage Control on GB until source code and custom kernels show up.
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Yup. That was it. Bad flash. This time I d/l'ed a .tar version of EG22 to flash with ODIN. Much better than before. No more FC's from the system menu and its been running 8 hours straight with no reboots. Muchas garcias.
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Glad to help.
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Spoke too soon. I've had two random reboots, one yesterday, one today. So it definitely fits with what all y'all said that leaked GB ROMs tend to crash. Still not as bad as before, and I no longer get the FC's from the system updates menu.
I had one last night and one tonight at my house which I get a crap signal at in what Sprint describes as an "excellent coverage area" No other problems anywhere else.
I've had my first random reboot. Phone was WIFI connected, and forced roaming (Sprint has a tower down in my area, going on 7 days now). It was in the middle of a content update for an application I run, so I'm wondering if there is a memory leak for the network user or kernel space.
Does anyone know of an application that will keep a log of memory usage to track if a process is not releasing its resources?
Yup, same here. About once every two days I get a reboot. I haven't been able to connect anything I'm doing to the reboots, and it usually does it while the phone is just sitting.
Trouble is, Gingerbread is soooo much better than Froyo I don't want to go back
I really think it is the modem crashing.
You may want to try another modem.
also, i realised that on my wife's epic with eg22, it rebooted about 5 times a day, most of the time, it was right after using the slide out keyboard.
i deleted the keyboard counter slide apk thingy, since then, 1 reboot a day.
not great, but definitely better than 5.
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I really think it is the modem crashing.
You may want to try another modem.
also, i realised that on my wife's epic with eg22, it rebooted about 5 times a day, most of the time, it was right after using the slide out keyboard.
i deleted the keyboard counter slide apk thingy, since then, 1 reboot a day.
not great, but definitely better than 5.
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Are you sure it is not a loose battery connection? My phone would do that with the extended battery and case. Had to put a little piece of thick paper in there to hold it tighter.
Definitely was the modem. I flashed the EE02 modem & now no random reboots. Signal(s) & battery life have gotten better too. I would have flashed the EF02/EF10 modem but that downgrade notice is oh so damn annoying!
Me and my friend have the same issue on our Epics OP, Its annoying but Im dealing with it cause these roms are so much better than pre eg22.
I dont have any random reboots but I get a random double vibrate. I have no idea where that is coming from
I've had two random boots since I've odin'd from EC05.. though I feel it was memory leak,and the phone just shutdown without sufficcient ram.
SchizioPunk's Epic Experience 2.1 Eclair -> Odin to EC05 Froyo. Rooted. Bloatware Removed. Voodoo Sound V9 Module Loaded. TouchWiz4. Enjoying my Customized Stock Experience.
Yeah well I tried the EH06 modem and it broke the 4G (amongst other things). So I got ol' reliable EE03 to fall back on.
I tried to post this in diglez ei22 bug thread but it denied me the ability to post in that thread.
So I had a couple of the issues that sum of us had and I did what you all did.. Reflashed etc.. I am running the preroot deo'd gps fix no ciq rom with the ei22 modem and I thought everything was OK. But then I went to run the sixaxis compatibility app(this was the biggest reason I jumped on this rom since sfr1. 2 on ec05 with tz kernal was not compatible with sixaxis syncing, and I keep reading how people on bonzi and cm7 have got it to work) the screen goes black and makes the power off sound and appears to be frozen for like 20sec with the four lit up keys on. Then it vibrates and loads the home screen. Just wanted to share this wired issue. And if any knows how to get the sixaxis synced to my phone please pm or make a tutorial cause I know there are others that want this to work and are prob stuck like me.
.?? Update.????.
Works now. On acs ics v4 samurai v3
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The reason I say so is due to the fact that I can play the game for 15 minutes and after that it closes the game without warning and no signs of FC, what gives? No matter if I play it on 3G or WiFi.
P.S. I used to play it on the OG EVO and it played nicely of course using Chainfire.
It's not just that game. Many games crash on this phone; Google around for the issue and you'll see it. At this point, your best bet is to get in touch with the Order and Chaos folks and have them use MediaStream instead of SoundPool, or lower the number of streams to 4. I have no idea what any of this actually means, but that's how another game dew claims to have fixed it.
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It's not just that game. Many games crash on this phone; Google around for the issue and you'll see it. At this point, your best bet is to get in touch with the Order and Chaos folks and have them use MediaStream instead of SoundPool, or lower the number of streams to 4. I have no idea what any of this actually means, but that's how another game dew claims to have fixed it.
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I'm gonna have to do some research about that, I know for fact that Gameloft won't listen to one complain. I'm sure they know what's going on but who knows what they will do about it to get it fix, unless there is a cracked .apk file of that game going around with a fix ...
P.S. Maybe a workaround could be implementing an option to turn the sound and music off ...
The bug can be has been explained in detail here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17623
The workaround is an app by Tegrak i think its called 2nd core but none of the kernels for the epic touch have the needed stuff in them to make it work. Basically you can turn off one of the cores with the app to alleviate the problem.
Actually this is no longer an issue if you update to EK02, I have not had this 15 minute shutoff problem since updating.
I updated my Sprint GS3 to LG2 this morning and re-rooted it, the re-root took two times cuz I wasn't following the instructions closely, but it was rooted now. However, my phone is laggy somewhat right now, like scrolling the home pages, dialing, especially when playing the game Dead Trigger, it took much longer to get into the game and the game wasnt running smooth at all.
I'm wondering what happened and how to solve this?
Thanks,
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I updated my Sprint GS3 to LG2 this morning and re-rooted it, the re-root took two times cuz I wasn't following the instructions closely, but it was rooted now. However, my phone is laggy somewhat right now, like scrolling the home pages, dialing, especially when playing the game Dead Trigger, it took much longer to get into the game and the game wasnt running smooth at all.
I'm wondering what happened and how to solve this?
Thanks,
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Did you mean you updated to LG8? Which baseband/modem were you on before?
I was on LF9 and I am on LG2 now.
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Flashing a new radio shouldn't make your phone laggy. Try rebooting to recovery and wipe cache/dalvik. That might solve your problem. Also, in settings-->developer settings, change the animation scales from 1x to 0.5x
It usually only happens when playing a bigger game like Real Racing 3 or Heroes of Order & Chaos. The screen will stop receiving any input for a second or two, then be fine. It's happened since I was unrooted on stock, and on every ROM since after I rooted, so I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with that. Is it a hardware problem or a security thing or what?
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It usually only happens when playing a bigger game like Real Racing 3 or Heroes of Order & Chaos.
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Then it isn't random. Your phone is either overheating to the point of forcing a reboot or running out of ram and triggering a reboot.
You mean a screen reboot? Overheating is actually probably causing it. It doesn't reboot the phone or anything, I just am unable to use the screen for a second. I'll try to keep the phone cool now.
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