I was just wandering around in a store, not using my phone at all. It was in my pocket. The vibrate went off, like there was a notification. I took it out of my pocket and the screen was already on. It had a dialog box that said "Android update applied" and an OK button. I hit OK and the phone went to the home screen and nothing seems different. It didn't reboot or anything, and i had not previously received any notice that there was an update to apply. The whole thing felt unusual.
I had gotten the OTA ICS update a few days ago. Like many, i have had awful battery life, screen running hotter than normal, and wifi hanging. When I saw "Android update applied", I got my hopes up that it would address some of these issues, but its still too soon to tell.
Does anyone know what "Android update applied" actually did to my phone or where it came from? Since it didn't behave like a normal OTA update, I'm not really sure what is going on.
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I was just wandering around in a store, not using my phone at all. It was in my pocket. The vibrate went off, like there was a notification. I took it out of my pocket and the screen was already on. It had a dialog box that said "Android update applied" and an OK button. I hit OK and the phone went to the home screen and nothing seems different. It didn't reboot or anything, and i had not previously received any notice that there was an update to apply. The whole thing felt unusual.
I had gotten the OTA ICS update a few days ago. Like many, i have had awful battery life, screen running hotter than normal, and wifi hanging. When I saw "Android update applied", I got my hopes up that it would address some of these issues, but its still too soon to tell.
Does anyone know what "Android update applied" actually did to my phone or where it came from? Since it didn't behave like a normal OTA update, I'm not really sure what is going on.
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Either the PRL was updated, or that lawsuit that Google's involved in with Apple about local phone search? The update might've disabled local phone search.
How can i check if the PRL was updated?
I didn't update it (or anything) manually, though.
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after searching the forums, i'm kind of surprised that nobody has brought to the attention any bugs that were caused after the OTA update. here's my problem:
after purchasing the htc evo and applying the OTA update, i have been having a few issues with the phone:
1 - home screen notification bar does not work. unable to slide the notification bar down with the phone is upright. it does, however, work in landscape mode. the only way to open the notification bar is to tap the menu button and select notifications.
2 - when opening the camera or camcorder and tapping the arrow on the left side of the screen in landscape mode to change the camera settings i notice extreme lag. i haven't found a way around this yet either.
i did try a hard reset with both of the issues but no luck.
i did notice that these issues did not exists before applying the OTA update. i contacted sprint and they played dumb and told me to take it back to the sprint store where i purchased the phone and have them look at it. they seem to believe that it is also an OTA update bug. being that i have 30 days to return the phone(they are currently out of stock)i told them that i would wait until the 2.2 froyo update on june 23rd and see if that fixes the issue. however i have done a lot of searching on the internet and only came across a few other forums(none in xda-developers) where people were describing the same issues that i am having, and after everyone has contacted htc as well(including myself) we have not yet gotten any response from them. i will post any news i hear from them as soon as i do.
also there is an issue i believe everyone to be having even after the OTA update which is that apps begin to run in the background even after force closing them and killing the process using any task manager. if anyone has any current fixes please post them and help us all out. i do believe the first 2 issues that i described are pretty wide spread, but i'm assuming that they are new to the android OS and really aren't aware of how to use the notification bar or know how it works. thanks everyone
I gotta say... I held off on the OTA update - threatened to walk out of the store without buying - the Shack guy relented and let me have the phone without the OTA update.
After researching it - but without experiencing the SD card issues... I was drunk and did the OTA update (and PRL update).
Since then - I swear the 3G signal has sucked. It was IDEAL and rock solid in the same geographic area before.
Before OTA update... regularly getting 1200kbps down and 1000 kbps up 3G
After - 800kbps ish down and 800kbps ish up...
The embarasing thing - is that an iphone 3gs guy is sitting next to me pulling down 1400kbps to my 800...
Having to power up 4G to blast him away with 4000kbps sucked...
Is it paranoid of me to think that Sprint would want me to use 4G instead and would intentionally throttle/limit 3G to get me to stay 4G which might be cheaper for them?
recap:
After OTA and PRL update
-about a 40% drop in 3G speeds
-have had a few 3G dropouts that I didn't seem to have for the first few days before OTA and PRL update.
Is it just me or anyone else?
Sorry- but no lags on camera options.
I do seem to see more progrs running in background... which pisses me off since they are ones I will NEVER use.
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I gotta say... I held off on the OTA update - threatened to walk out of the store without buying - the Shack guy relented and let me have the phone without the OTA update.
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Lol, the guy at BB hit update and it started to download and i just said nope, and reached over and hit cancel lol. He just stood there for a second then continued with activating the phone.
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after searching the forums, i'm kind of surprised that nobody has brought to the attention any bugs that were caused after the OTA update. here's my problem:
after purchasing the htc evo and applying the OTA update, i have been having a few issues with the phone:
1 - home screen notification bar does not work. unable to slide the notification bar down with the phone is upright. it does, however, work in landscape mode. the only way to open the notification bar is to tap the menu button and select notifications.
2 - when opening the camera or camcorder and tapping the arrow on the left side of the screen in landscape mode to change the camera settings i notice extreme lag. i haven't found a way around this yet either.
i did try a hard reset with both of the issues but no luck.
i did notice that these issues did not exists before applying the OTA update. i contacted sprint and they played dumb and told me to take it back to the sprint store where i purchased the phone and have them look at it. they seem to believe that it is also an OTA update bug. being that i have 30 days to return the phone(they are currently out of stock)i told them that i would wait until the 2.2 froyo update on june 23rd and see if that fixes the issue. however i have done a lot of searching on the internet and only came across a few other forums(none in xda-developers) where people were describing the same issues that i am having, and after everyone has contacted htc as well(including myself) we have not yet gotten any response from them. i will post any news i hear from them as soon as i do.
also there is an issue i believe everyone to be having even after the OTA update which is that apps begin to run in the background even after force closing them and killing the process using any task manager. if anyone has any current fixes please post them and help us all out. i do believe the first 2 issues that i described are pretty wide spread, but i'm assuming that they are new to the android OS and really aren't aware of how to use the notification bar or know how it works. thanks everyone
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UPDATE:
after no response from htc and still waiting for the sprint store near my house to get a new batch of evos in stock, i decided to flash my phone with the original stock rom and radio RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253. shortly after a slight scare(downloading htc sync after installing the ruu in order to flash the stock rom, i began the flash process only to be notified that a the usb debugging driver was being installed and my computer needed to be rebooted to finish and i thought that i bricked my evo because of the messages saying 'do not interrupt' and the fact that that my phone was stuck on the boot screen until i rebooted it and booted right into the bootloader so i just ran the ruu installer again)
after flashing back to stock which the helpless employees at the sprint thought that the ota update was the issue as well as i did, i immediately checked to see if my notification bar was working. NO GOOD. i've tried the OTA update again and checked to see if the notification bar worked now. NO GOOD.
conclusion:
either one of 2 things have happened here;
1 - my htc evo is defective and has hardware issues(which weren't there before the initial OTA update) or;
2 - the OTA update has caused some sort of bug/glitch in the internal RAM which i am not too familiar with
i'm gonna start calling sprint stores first thing in the morning to see who has an evo in stock because i just because after being a dedicated android fan ever since the g1's release with t-mobile, i just can't live without my notification bar.
everyone feel free to comment if you have experienced this issue and i will keep everyone updated with what happens with the phone between now and tomorrow
Im having the exact issues the OP has. I too have the update installed. My friends task bar works, he did the OTA right in front of me and his task bar still works after. So seems to be. Select few.
When playings jewels and the phone is upright, the top row of jewels is untouchable, same reason why the task bar isnt working.
Still not a deal breaker, phone rocks regardless.
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UPDATE:
after no response from htc and still waiting for the sprint store near my house to get a new batch of evos in stock, i decided to flash my phone with the original stock rom and radio RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253. shortly after a slight scare(downloading htc sync after installing the ruu in order to flash the stock rom, i began the flash process only to be notified that a the usb debugging driver was being installed and my computer needed to be rebooted to finish and i thought that i bricked my evo because of the messages saying 'do not interrupt' and the fact that that my phone was stuck on the boot screen until i rebooted it and booted right into the bootloader so i just ran the ruu installer again)
after flashing back to stock which the helpless employees at the sprint thought that the ota update was the issue as well as i did, i immediately checked to see if my notification bar was working. NO GOOD. i've tried the OTA update again and checked to see if the notification bar worked now. NO GOOD.
conclusion:
either one of 2 things have happened here;
1 - my htc evo is defective and has hardware issues(which weren't there before the initial OTA update) or;
2 - the OTA update has caused some sort of bug/glitch in the internal RAM which i am not too familiar with
i'm gonna start calling sprint stores first thing in the morning to see who has an evo in stock because i just because after being a dedicated android fan ever since the g1's release with t-mobile, i just can't live without my notification bar.
everyone feel free to comment if you have experienced this issue and i will keep everyone updated with what happens with the phone between now and tomorrow
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I have a problem opening my camera and camcorder. Nether will open, I soft reset and still they will not open.
I was running the stock 1.26 version and it was perfect. No flickering, very smooth, but the phone kept bugging me for the update, so I updated it. Update went smooth, but now I have that terrible screen flicker, it's by far not as smooth... so if you have no problems with 1.26, don't update. I'll revert to 1.26 and hope that it goes back to being as flawless as it was before.
Edit: Just noticed that wireless connections are much worse as well with this update. At the moment I can only use WiFi and even that doesn't work properly for some reason (i.e. can surf but can't get to beta.swype.com - but I can get there on my desktop using the same WLAN). All borked...
You are one of the only people who has said this about the 1.28 update. Also you can't revert unless you get a new phone with 1.26 as your HBOOT was updated when you installed this update.
Yes, I just noticed that . So until 3 come up with a better update, I'm stuck with this junk Should have stuck to my usual motto: Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
Updated mine on the day I got the phone not noticed any screen flicker at all and I have been looking for it. Dont use Wifi as the 3's 3G is plenty fast enough and I have all you can eat data so can't comment on that. Data connection is FAR more stable than on the ONE S which I swapped it for.
I don't know but this update has royally screwed my phone. Each time the alarm is supposed to go off, the phone reboots (no matter which alarm app I use). I also get reboots for random other apps.
For me it's just a real PITA and at the moment, I would consider the phone unreliable at best. I'll try flashing the 1.28 from Three again but I'm not holding my breath
Just wish I could go back to 1.26.
Edit: I just flashed Energy ROM and the phone still reboots when using Alarm Clock Extreme. It's just sooooooooo annoying!
Isn't there any way to go back to 1.26?
Edit2: After the phone just rebooted, it rebooted again when I was just looking at the notification screen.
Is it a problem with Three UK if the phone has been unlocked? I feel very much inclined to return the phone and get a replacement... phone is unsuable at the moment as a smartphone...
Edit 3: I can't even re-flash it... updater says "can't update this". Oh gosh, Three, please make it fast to the next update.
Hi guys, this problem just started to occur. I heard a notification sound from my phone which should have been the email tone but I was busy so i didn't check it. I noticed the sound was a little cut off at the end though. Then almost immediately afterwards, I got the sound for a new SMS. Then I checked my phone but I couldn't see any emails from before although there was a new SMS. When I tried to open the message, it would go into the Messaging app but then it would get stuck on a loading screen when I try to actually enter the message. When I go back to the main messaging screen, I can still see all my past messages, but each time I try to go into one, it'd get stuck on the loading screen. Eventually after maybe 3 minutes it finally went into the newest message i got, but when i tried to send a reply it would act like nothing's happened. The message i typed just disappeared. When I went back to the main messaging screen, I was able to see my message in the previews, but when i go back into that conversation, it would be stuck on the loading screen and now nothing is loading. This is really annoying. I haven't really used my phone in the last 6 hours and before that everything worked perfectly.
On another note, I'm noticing that during the night, my phone uses up about 30% of the battery just on idle. I have wi-fi turned on but is this normal? I only slept for 6 hours...by the way, the battery charging all seemed normal before but now I just plugged in my phone about 1.5 hours ago and it's only increased by about 3 percent...
My phone is not rooted and has been updated recently to the latest version. I also have Lookout Security installed. Any help would really be appreciated!
Update: I just noticed that my phone was blinking red and green one after another. After checking it seems to indicated that it's because it is overheating so i've now disconnected the charger and turned it off. But i can't think why it would be overheating. It's placed on a wooden table away from sunlight and any heat sources and like i mentioned earlier, I haven't really touched it in the last 6 hours so I was definitely not using anything intensive.
Did restarting fix the messaging problem ?
What apps have the highest % for battery use ?
Well, your phone probably was doing something intensive.
Maybe your antivirus was upset by the email or message.
@PhoenixFx: Yeah i did restart the phone which didn't help. I even turned the phone off for 30 minutes which cooled it down but as soon as i turned it back on, it started to get hot again. Whilst it was turned off i had it charging and then when it came back on i noticed the battery percentage increased much more so the battery was definitely fine. The process which used the most power was Viber which was at 9%, there were a couple of other processes but they were all under 5%. I even uninstalled Viber which didn't help. Looking at all the processes that were running, I couldn't see anything that was abnormal.
Well, your phone probably was doing something intensive.
Maybe your antivirus was upset by the email or message.
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That could be but I don't see why it would. The message was just a regular text message.
Anyways, I have now done a factory reset and it seems to be fine again. But if anyone has ever come across this or know the solution, please let us know so if it happens again, I'll know what to do and it would also help others who experiences the same thing. By the way, how much SHOULD the battery drain overnight with the wifi turned on?
You may have gotten a virus. I got a gmail virus that wiped a lot of my emails and wouldnt let me receive. I know this is about messaging but they are made by google so it is a possibility. I suggest a full restore and to run a virus scan with one of the play store's antiviruses.
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I had the same problem with the messages. They wouldn't open or they would take a lifetime to load and open. Resetting and **** wouldnt work so I did a re-install of my ROM, wouldnt work, so I did factory wipe and started fresh. So far so good.
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I had the same problem with the messages. They wouldn't open or they would take a lifetime to load and open. Resetting and **** wouldnt work so I did a re-install of my ROM, wouldnt work, so I did factory wipe and started fresh. So far so good.
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Yeah I'm not having any issues so far. Of course, it could've been a virus but I scanned my phone regularly with Lookout and also when it happened. Very weird. Anyways, if it happens again, I'll post back. Certainly hope not, this was the second time in a month I had to do a factory reset (last time was when I updated to Sense 4.1 and for some reason it wiped my phone and didn't even do the update. I had to make it download the update again for it to install...)
Ok, it's just happened again. First i heard the notification sound for an email, but then when i turned on the screen, i couldn't see any notifications. Now when i go into my SMS, they take forever (literally) to load. This is really getting pathetic. The amount of problems i've had with this phone, not to mention the constant "loading" screen when i press the home key. FFS, i never had this many problems with my old iPhone 3GS.
Update: I've just done a scan with AVG and Lookout and both turned up nothing. Most likely that this is not a virus related issue then.
this is happening on the stock 2.17 firmware also
no notifications, if you look in the messaging app, new messages are there
i cant understand how htc cant fix this? its been present from 1.28 fw
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You may have gotten a virus. I got a gmail virus that wiped a lot of my emails and wouldnt let me receive. I know this is about messaging but they are made by google so it is a possibility. I suggest a full restore and to run a virus scan with one of the play store's antiviruses.
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a gmail virus? care to explain a bit more, like the name of it etc? i did have some problems where it wouldn't sync with the latest version but is now working ok..
If you text a hell of a lot like I do then the problem is the phone is trying to load all of the message threads as fast as possible. Which uses a **** ton of your RAM, hence the 3 minute wait. I current have the HTC one x+ but the phones are basically the same. Here's what i did for the same exact issues.
For constant overheating:
1.Let your phone die.
2.Put your phone in your freezer and let it sit for a few minutes until its pretty cold.
3.Fully charge your phone
4.If you havnt already done so, download the latest update for your phone
5.Turn on and keep the battery saver option on. You do not have to keep the brightness low though
For messaging issues:
Go in your messages and delete all of your old threads to people whom you no longer converse with.
This is the second time I have experienced this. While driving today using my phone for navigation all of the sudden the voice cuts. I look and the phone says powering off. It takes a few minutes and then reboots to a screen that says it is updating android and not to power off the phone. I kind of knew where I was going but if I did not I would have had to pull over the 15 minutes it took to do this and then check every app I have for lollipop compatibility after.
The update had been bugging me for a couple weeks to install it just like the previous update a couple months back. Each time I hit the home button to get around it without setting a time. Both times however my phone randomly started to auto-install the system update after I ignored it enough times.
Is there a way to prevent these auto forced updates once the OTA update has downloaded itself? Of all the android phones I have had none have ever auto updated the android version without asking permission first.
Am I the only one to experience this or am I doing something wrong?
Ok, so like the title says, every 3-4 days I must reboot my phone.
When I play games, the game icon will show up in the lower right corner, I have everything for the game stuff turned off. I can click on the icon and it will ask me to turn on. I back out and it's gone for a few minutes. Mostly until I swipe back, then it will reappear. I can reboot the phone and it will work fine again for a another 3-4 days.
There are other instances that force me to reboot as well, one happened last night. I was scrolling through a local news app and the touch stopped working. I could not scroll up or down, and swiping back did not work. I had to lock the phone and just as the screen went dark, the phone scrolled in the directions I did and it backed out. This only happened when I hit the lock screen.
Is there a fix for this? Has anyone else experienced this?
My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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Mine does not reboot or shutdown on it own, not once... I have to reboot every so often to keep it functional.
@thepersona My phone doesn't auto reboot either. I'd say do a backup and run https://flash.android.com/welcome to fully Factory Reset the phone and see if that helps (Mine upgraded just fine, but my parents both failed the Dec update and had random issues requiring the use of the Android Flash Tool).
Like the OP I do have to reboot my phone about every 3-4 days, but I don't attribute that just to Google Android, coders have become lax on how tight they keep their code, and I say that because in Windows 10 and Windows 11 you have to reboot every few days as well or see an increase in weird issues.
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@thepersona Mine upgraded just fine, but my parents both failed the Dec update and had random issues requiring the use of the Android Flash Tool).
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Just to clarify this, most carriers prevented the December update from releasing as Google has asked them to prevent it from going through, primarily due to an issue with calls dropping.
I always manually update my phone, however, I noticed the call dropping bug one day for about an hour straight.
But aside from this meaningless info, I agree with what you said: Attempt a factory reset and see what happens. I turn my phone off every night and charge it, so I don't notice any issues similar to what OP has mentioned.
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My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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Yeah mine did that it would randomly restart once a week no matter what I was doing but I did a factory reset and it hasn't happened since!
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Yeah mine did that it would randomly restart once a week no matter what I was doing but I did a factory reset and it hasn't happened since!
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In your case, was it just a restart? Because mine literally powers off It doesn't reboot again. It shuts down in the middle of the night and I wouldn't know until I wake up when using my phone to figure out it won't turn on. I almost missed work on several occasions because of this lol
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In your case, was it just a restart? Because mine literally powers off It doesn't reboot again. It shuts down in the middle of the night and I wouldn't know until I wake up when using my phone to figure out it won't turn on. I almost missed work on several occasions because of this lol
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Yeah I was lucky and it was only once a week which was tolerable!
Something is definitely not right, hopefully is not a dodgy app but that would be preferable than something unfixable.
Ok guys you are missing my point and question. I DO NOT have the random reboots most have, but I have other issues that no one seem to have. Example, I listen to Spotify over night, I fall asleep to music, but 2 days ago it would randomly pause. At first I thought it was do not disturb that I just turned on, on my watch. It was not. Then I thought I may have been hitting my watch, I took it off and it still paused. I rebooted my phone and it's been fine since, no random pauses. Another example is, I play a game but I have the game dashboard turned off, but there times where the icon will pop up in the lower right. When I go into the settings for it, it shows it's off. When I go back to the game the icon is gone for a few minutes then it reappears. The only way for me to get it to stop showing for a few days is to reboot my phone.
I know you shouldn't have to reboot your phone every few days, and by few I mean sometimes it's 3-4 times a week. That tells me something is wrong.
Are you on the November or December update?
If November, I would try the December one.
Rooted or not rooted?
Either way, I would try a factory refresh and don't restore your apps from backup. Manually install only your most critical apps and see if you have the problem. Even better would be not install any additional apps at all and see if the problem happens. If it doesn't happen, install another small group of your most important apps and test again for long enough. Etc.
If you try thre update and/or factory reset, you could try restoring your cloud backup as normal and see if you have any problems still, but if you do, be prepared to factory reset and try like I mentioned in the above paragraph.
Until you can narrow down if the phone has this problem on the December update before you even change settings and add your favorite apps, then you won't know if it's the phone itself (possibly hardware problem), an app you have installed, a problem particular to a combination of factors including if you're on the November update, or what.
Good luck! Please let us know what happens.
I can tell you that until I updated to the December update I had the kinds of issues you had, where my P6P would malfunction (scrolling, just freezing) and I had to reboot the device. That was the first 6 weeks of using it. But when I updated to the December build, the issues for the most part went away. Hopefully you are on November and can update to December or wait until the January update drops. But I can say that I almost considered returning the phone due to the bugs until the December update resolved everything and it was like a new phone!
Good luck.
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I can tell you that until I updated to the December update I had the kinds of issues you had, where my P6P would malfunction (scrolling, just freezing) and I had to reboot the device. That was the first 6 weeks of using it. But when I updated to the December build, the issues for the most part went away. Hopefully you are on November and can update to December or wait until the January update drops. But I can say that I almost considered returning the phone due to the bugs until the December update resolved everything and it was like a new phone!
Good luck.
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Awesome!!! This is the kind of news I like to hear..... Just waiting for att to send it through. I checked this morning as my work Verizon Samsung phone got an update.