play keeps rebooting randomly - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey lads.
Can anyone tell me why my Xperia play keeps randomly rebooting?it happens nearly everyday and usually happens when I close a program while closing the slider at the same time.it's like switching from landscape to portrait while opening or closing a program is too much
Is it possible that I need more ram.50% of my ram is free so I'm not sure.does anyone else have this problem?

I have exactly the same problem. My Xperia Play is constantly rebooting when I close the slider, and like you say, it seems to have something to do with overloading the phone's memory. If I have the phone in portrait and then close it and turn it to landscape (as you would naturally do when moving from a using the gamepad to using the phone normally) it reboots more often than not.
Worryingly, it even does this during the boot up sequence (when you see the Sony Ericsson logo) if I open and close the slider a few times. So that would suggest to me it's not a RAM issue...as during the boot sequence, no apps will be loaded into memory?
I know someone else who has a XP and they've experienced the same issue.
No idea why this should happen, perhaps it will be solved with 4.0?

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[Q] Phone Keeps Crashing

My xperia play keeps crashing unexpectedly. It locks ups showing what I was looking at for about five seconds then reboots itself. It usually happens when I'm touching the screen whether its typing or scrolling the screen it does seem to matter. I've tried using factory restore but with no other apps than the stock ones it still will crash. The phone crashes about six times a day average. What could be causing this?
594rk said:
My xperia play keeps crashing unexpectedly. It locks ups showing what I was looking at for about five seconds then reboots itself. It usually happens when I'm touching the screen whether its typing or scrolling the screen it does seem to matter. I've tried using factory restore but with no other apps than the stock ones it still will crash. The phone crashes about six times a day average. What could be causing this?
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Are you overclocking?
AndroHero said:
Are you overclocking?
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No, my bootloader is locked and I am also not rooted.
We're currently rolling out a new software 4.0.2.A.0.62 which will improve the memory management to avoid reboots. Check with PC Companion if you can get it. It not, wait for it. I believe this is what you need. A lot of users have already got it and we're rolling it out for more kits every day. I'm however not able to tell when certain markets or kits will get it.
-Markus
Sony Ericsson Answers Team

[Q] CM10 - Having trouble with certain games booting

I flashed CM10 to my S3 a couple days ago, and I haven't been able to load certain games since then.
Sometimes I can get them to load if I mess around with the recent apps and locking/unlocking the screen, but sometimes they just won't work. For example, I installed PewPew the other day, and whenever I try to launch it, the music plays, but I just get a black screen. If I feel around on the screen the haptic feedback shows that I'm interacting with the game, it's just not showing me any image.
Another example is Minecraft: Pocket Edition. If I launch it, once again I can interact but it won't show me any images, but in this case if I lock and unlock my phone I can get it to start working as normal.
Anyone have any ideas as to how I could fix this?
Ashanmaril said:
I flashed CM10 to my S3 a couple days ago, and I haven't been able to load certain games since then.
Sometimes I can get them to load if I mess around with the recent apps and locking/unlocking the screen, but sometimes they just won't work. For example, I installed PewPew the other day, and whenever I try to launch it, the music plays, but I just get a black screen. If I feel around on the screen the haptic feedback shows that I'm interacting with the game, it's just not showing me any image.
Another example is Minecraft: Pocket Edition. If I launch it, once again I can interact but it won't show me any images, but in this case if I lock and unlock my phone I can get it to start working as normal.
Anyone have any ideas as to how I could fix this?
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I guess first thing is first.
Did you full wipe when you flashed cm10?
How did you get the games? From market or restoring from a backup?
Are you under volted?
There are a lot of reasons for apps to cause issues, breast thong is to clear app data and try it again. If that doesn't work than a fresh ROM flash might be in order.
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Apps restarting randomly

Hey guys, over the past 5 days of using this phone I have noticed a few odd things. One that is really annoying is some apps just close and open again. Not an Android force close, there is no notification, the app just stops and instantly restarts. Apps this happens the most with is The Chive and Gmail. I've used a lot of other apps but these two are the worst. And Gmail is an important app, I use it a lot.
Has anyone else had this issue? Any ideas what could be causing this? Along with the poor battery, this is making a great piece of hardware unusable. Any info on this would be appreciated.
Cheer's!!!
I haven't noticed your issues, but I have had very inconsistent results with video streaming apps from TV and cable networks and my cable provider (xfinity from comcast in the US) that range from force closing to just not being to load videos.
deucalion0 said:
Hey guys, over the past 5 days of using this phone I have noticed a few odd things. One that is really annoying is some apps just close and open again. Not an Android force close, there is no notification, the app just stops and instantly restarts. Apps this happens the most with is The Chive and Gmail. I've used a lot of other apps but these two are the worst. And Gmail is an important app, I use it a lot.
Has anyone else had this issue? Any ideas what could be causing this? Along with the poor battery, this is making a great piece of hardware unusable. Any info on this would be appreciated.
Cheer's!!!
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Has never happened to me in Gmail. I use it a lot with 3 different accounts. But force closes are closely related to memory leaks that are very abundant in 5.0. But since others dont seem to be experiencing this issue, I'd recommend a flash of the latest firmware and a complete wipe (if possible). Do you have any memory manager apps? If so that could be an issue too.
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hkdmjack said:
I haven't noticed your issues, but I have had very inconsistent results with video streaming apps from TV and cable networks and my cable provider (xfinity from comcast in the US) that range from force closing to just not being to load videos.
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Yeah I've had odd reactions with videos too including lags which shouldn't happen - given the hardware specs.
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One that is really annoying is some apps just close and open again. Not an Android force close, there is no notification, the app just stops and instantly restarts.
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Having the same issue. looks like it happens like once every 30 minutes to me, no matter the app. going to wipe data and do a firmware update, let's see how it goes.
I have this issue (crashing apps randomly /w no error) in particular music apps like DI.FM, Google Music, and Audible while driving. The phone is not (directly) in use by me as I use a 3.5mm or Bluetooth an initially pressing the pay button before starting my trip. This is frustrating because it randomly crashes (no notification) while I am busy driving and I have to pull to the side of the road and start it again (safety). Sometimes the crashing will not happen for hours at a time (and I enjoy the audio), other times it happens every few minutes (and I get fed up and give up on the phone wanting to put it under the tire).
I was trying to find a good way to log the error but I am too inexperienced and just go frustrated after a while as I could not find a way to log it while it was in use (playing audio) during my transit.

Phone reboots during games

The phone randomly reboots when I play HayDay. I thought that there may be a problem with the phone's gpu but I haven't encountered any problems with any other games. Has anyone experienced some similar problem? Any suggestions?
Hmm it may be an software glitch if anything. I know sometimes while playing Spotify and doing other things for some odd reason the system basically crashes and does a soft reboot (goes black and goes back to lock screen and requires me to input pass code). Maybe a similar thing happens with that particular app.

restarts when watching full screen content(twitch,yt,etc) on apps and swiping down notifications(one ui 4)

the phone just straight up crashes and restarts when I'm watching anything(twitch,yt etc) and swipe down to open notification panel....this happens a lot but not all the time
thats not even the biigest problem...whenever the phone crashes/restarts some apps just dont open amd stay on the apps splash screen like instagram , galaxy store, pokemon go etc. they just stay stuck on the splash screen and refuse to open until i manually restart the phone again
is the problem just happening with me ?
have anyone else experienced anything similar?
thats not the biggest issue...the biggest issue I've been facing the beta ithes that whenever

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