My G-Nex has been shutting off or rebooting randomly.
It started happening the other day. I'm on liquid smooth 1.4.
the resetting only happens when the screen is off, and never happens when the phone is plugged in.
any thoughts? ideas? need more info?
any help is much appreciated.
My guess would be a rom and/or kernel issue. Flash a different rom or go back to stock and see if the problem persists.
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It might just be the graphical shell crashing. Its happened to me before while listening to music and the music didn't stop.
WiredPirate said:
It might just be the graphical shell crashing. Its happened to me before while listening to music and the music didn't stop.
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hasn't happened to me when doing anything musical... any advice?
Just to clarify... phone is completely shutting off. When I hold the power button down it starts to boot up. No battery pull necessary
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i wiped all data and reinstalled liquid, and it happened again.
incredibly frustrating.
will now just go back to stock.
Just to update in case anyone cares... I have not experienced the issue since swapping my extended battery for the stock battery... which I tried before going back to stock.
So, at least for now, the battery appears to have been the issue. Question is why?
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I just had another crash replying to a post here using tapatalk. The keyboard had small pink corruptions as if video memory had an issue.
I pulled the battery for about 10 seconds, tried to turn it back on. No dice. I tried again except pulled the sim as well, that worked.
Maybe some of us having crashes are sim related?
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I've had to do a second battery pull today. Phone locks up then about 5 seconds later the display goes dark. Not fun.
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I froze twice in the past three days. I was using hand cent and browsing. The battery had to be pulled in order for restart.
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Yesterday I noticed GetJar was keeping the device awake (in battery stats), but otherwise it was responsive and all good. I uninstalled GetJar and rebooted for good measure. It powered down fine, but wouldn't power back up. I had to pull the battery.
My first 'battery pull' so far!
I had my first crash today while I was replying to an SMS message. The screen produced these broken specs of green.
I couldn't exit from the SMS, eventually the screen turned itself off and then nothing.
I had to perform a battery pull to fix.
When the phone booted back up ICS complained that the launcher had crashed.
Instead of clicking 'stop' I clicked 'wait'.
Phone returned to normal after that.
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Did you guys restore old apps/app data from your previous Android device? If so, factory reset and START FRESH.
I can't count the people I know that had issues all stubbornly because they refused to start fresh from a new device.
KWKSLVR said:
Did you guys restore old apps/app data from your previous Android device? If so, factory reset and START FRESH.
I can't count the people I know that had issues all stubbornly because they refused to start fresh from a new device.
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I didn't use a restore. I just added my Google account and let the phone download my apps that I more or less had from my Nexus One.
Is that OK to do?
Or should I have done something else??
Let me know, Thanks.
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C64c said:
I didn't use a restore. I just added my Google account and let the phone download my apps that I more or less had from my Nexus One.
Is that OK to do?
Or should I have done something else??
Let me know, Thanks.
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This is how it works. When you login all the apps install automatically.
I just noticed this morning that a bunch of apps I had uninstalled already on my GN automatically reinstalled. Odd right?
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If you have "force 2d rendering" checked in the developer settings, that will cause many issues.
brian85 said:
If you have "force 2d rendering" checked in the developer settings, that will cause many issues.
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I don't have this checked.
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I don't have any dev options on. I'm basically seeing what others are. Lockup, sometimes with screen corruption, then the display eventually goes black some short amount of time afterward. Battery pull required. I thought it may be heat related at one time but it has happened when the device was relatively cool. Seems like a software driver issue that can hopefully be addressed.
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I was running Paul's custom ROM for the past week or so. I plugged my phone in to a portable charger because the battery was low. This is not the first time I have used this charger on this phone. After a few minutes the phone rebooted. I found this odd so I tried to figure out what was going on. I unlocked the device and went into settings....phone rebooted again. I tried reflashing the MoDaCo ROM, reflashing the original ROM and resetting the device. It still does it. Im still new to Android platform (moving away from a shameful iPhone) so Im lost on what the problem could be. Any ideas?
did you undervolt and tick set on boot without testing voltages?
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did you undervolt and tick set on boot without testing voltages?
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No. I didn't change any of that. My phone is unusable
I think one of my apps is causing it. Is that possible even though I'm not running the app?
I have no idea. I think youre leaving out something.
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After i restore to factory everything works fine. It starts again (doesn't matter which ROM I'm using) when Google syncs the apps I've downloaded to the phone. It's stable right now until I figure out what the hell is going on.
I would say app but you said you wiped everything..
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I would say app but you said you wiped everything..
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Right. It works fine until Google starts to sync my data from my account. Is there a way to pinpoint which app is causing the damage?
Nevermind. It does it anyway. Hardware issue? Overheating issue?
I'm on ICS UVLE1 and it seems that I am suffering from a power off issue where the magenta T-Mobile box stays on and the phone never really shuts off. It says brightly lit and I have to force it to turn off by pressing the power button for 30 seconds. It just sucks. It happens whenever I want to reboot or power off my phone. It just never really shuts off or restarts.
I still can't seem to fix this problem and I'm just not enjoying my experience on ICS or maybe my Galaxy S2 is one of those bad apples. Sad to say, I guess my expectations were a little to high. :-/
I rooted and installed ICS mms gallery and calendar . I notice this issue you have l but it restart fine just lag on power off so I just hold power down no biggie
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I was going to complain about the same.
I've even tried reinstalling, wiping, etc. Also, time zone resets to zero. F'ing annoying.
I'm looking around to see if I find anything.
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Wow....really. Lol.
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have you tried formatting your sd card where the photos and downloads are kept? i had the same issue, albeit with the telus rom, and formatting the sd card worked for me.
aleks_ said:
I'm on ICS UVLE1 and it seems that I am suffering from a power off issue where the magenta T-Mobile box stays on and the phone never really shuts off. It says brightly lit and I have to force it to turn off by pressing the power button for 30 seconds. It just sucks. It happens whenever I want to reboot or power off my phone. It just never really shuts off or restarts.
I still can't seem to fix this problem and I'm just not enjoying my experience on ICS or maybe my Galaxy S2 is one of those bad apples. Sad to say, I guess my expectations were a little to high. :-/
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This issue has been addressed many times. Look for dark side cache wipe. Flash it. Then you should be good to go. It has to do with using cwm to flash roms. Don't use the wipe feature in it, flash either super wipe "everything" or cache wipe from TDJ.
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aleks_ said:
I'm on ICS UVLE1 and it seems that I am suffering from a power off issue where the magenta T-Mobile box stays on and the phone never really shuts off. It says brightly lit and I have to force it to turn off by pressing the power button for 30 seconds. It just sucks. It happens whenever I want to reboot or power off my phone. It just never really shuts off or restarts.
I still can't seem to fix this problem and I'm just not enjoying my experience on ICS or maybe my Galaxy S2 is one of those bad apples. Sad to say, I guess my expectations were a little to high. :-/
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I have the same issue!!
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This is a very well known issue. If you are unrooted, do a factory reset. If you are rooted, flash TDJs cache wipe.
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Would you happen to have a link for it?
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Also, the Dark something super wipe works wonders. Wipe, reinstall ROM, and you're ready to go.
In the Q& A forum, I posted the instructions. In the development section, you can find the Super Wipe.
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I was having this exact issue during shutdown and reboots. It went away after flashing TDJ's Darkside.Cache.Wipe.
I had the same issue, just reinstall it and you'll be fine.
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OK so my phone keeps shutting off..its doesn't reboot but it just shuts off ..i was on avatar ROM and it did it on that one and on jellybam 7.7 and same thing...but when i was on jellybam 7.6.2 it never shut off...just random reboots which was a known bug in the ROM...right now im on uber kernel and jellybam 7.7. Any help?...it usually happens when i disconnect my earphones and/or USB cable..
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I can't help you, but I'm just letting you know you're not alone. Mine did that a couple of times when I was on some CM 10.1 nightlies. The phone would just shut off. I thought maybe it was just a SOD on black screen, but one time I caught it flash the Samsung logo, and then shut off. I had to press and hold the power button to turn it back on. Strange indeed. I don't know what caused it, but I would like to know. I use my phone as my alarm, and if it would shut off during the night that would not be good for the morning.
You'd get much more input if you were on a Rom on xda.
This is why I won't use a few roms....jellybam, carbon....at least until there is a dev thread on it....and a couple others.
Just my two cents!
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I can't help you, but I'm just letting you know you're not alone. Mine did that a couple of times when I was on some CM 10.1 nightlies. The phone would just shut off. I thought maybe it was just a SOD on black screen, but one time I caught it flash the Samsung logo, and then shut off. I had to press and hold the power button to turn it back on. Strange indeed. I don't know what caused it, but I would like to know. I use my phone as my alarm, and if it would shut off during the night that would not be good for the morning.
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Exact same thing with me...even the logo every once in a while...I just factory restore to stock rom with no root and no problem so its something with the software
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It can be the software or the hardware. My phone keeps rebooting even though I reverted back to stock.
I'm getting the same issue with the random shutdowns. I'm on PAC-man rom. The few times I noticed that it happened was when the screen shutdown while an app was active.
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_eroz said:
I'm getting the same issue with the random shutdowns. I'm on PAC-man rom. The few times I noticed that it happened was when the screen shutdown while an app was active.
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When I was on Pac man I got allot of random reboots but that was a known problem so I grown to live it with but then when I got random shut downs that's when I got worried lol
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lilsaiful said:
It can be the software or the hardware. My phone keeps rebooting even though I reverted back to stock.
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I heard it could be something to do with the sd cards partitions...
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This happens on rc4 as well as 6/02, I will try the newest nightly later today. Both seemed fine for a couple hours then started randomly rebooting. I have no idea what is causing this because when I flash both I did a factory reset and system wipe just to be safe. Is there something that I'm missing here? I restore with titanium backup but only the apps, not system settings.
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How often do reboots occur? Can you boot up your device normally or does booting process stops on boot animation screen (and then reboot)?
Perhaps your problem is not that serious as mine but It looks like something close happened to me too. I got the same behavior after I flashed RC4....it just went worse when I tried to fix it by restoring backups, then reflashing stock bla bla. There are few more with similar problems. No solution so far...sorry battery replacement did the trick for one user but not for another...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2300768
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2306672
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252056
Only thing left is fixing permissions and not restore anything
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Happens with both my batteries, one is the stock battery. I can boot normally but sometimes I get reboots 5 or 6 times in a row before I can unlock.
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Right now running nightly 20130602 on my manta and RC4 on my maguro, no random reboots.. Its got be an app.
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Went ahead and clean flashed without restoring anything. It was a pain but better than having a phone that couldn't stay on. Still no idea what caused it.
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Having this issue on Droid 4 (maserati) as well. Backing up ROM and I'll deal with it when I get home, gonna try a clean install of 6/5/2013.