Hi,
all seemed fine with my new, one week old One V. Till I installed GTA III. First the installer stuck while downloading the datafies. I canceled the download, restartet GTA III, but instead of completing the broken datafiles download (or re-downloading) it just startet the game and crashed the whole phone in the intro animation, that was without sound. I removed and reinstalled it, the download now finished, I could get the intro with sound, but it crashed the phone at the same moment. Since then my phone behaves like it would be very sick or hate me ;-/. After this crash it startet looping the reboot. It would boot, ask me for my SIMs PIN code, then be ok for a short time, then reboot again. This time it would boot into the desktop without asking me for the PIN. All seemed ok, but HTC's audio player forgot all the files I played (Last Played) and did not find any audio files (I have them on /sdcard/Music). It did not find them after several reboots, some of which were initiated by the phone all by itself. I then erased all the caches rebooted twice and it found the files along with the Last Played list. All seemed fine again, except the vibration of the tactile feedback would be less sharp and more wobbely. But only sometimes. Sometimes it was sharp. But besides that, all seemed to have healed itself and I could use the phone, maybe a bit slower, or maybe Avast and some tasker like app, I have running, made it a tad slower.
Then I installed yesterday's (today's ?) HTC update. Since that the phone reboots after two minutes. When I start the Preferences/Applications it takes ages to scan and most of the programs appear with their internal (com.foobar.someandroidapp) name. Just in order to change after a minute or so to their original name. Elixir2 crashes sporadically during use. Again I get the reboots without asking me for PIN.
Also, when I switch it off it shows the orange light for a minute, or so, instead of the green, though the phone is fully charged. It did not do this before. Oh, and in the meanwhile the HTC audio player forgets the MP3 files again I have on /sdcard/Music. Got no idea, what to do, since removing and reinserting the SD card did not help.
Also, I have the feeling, that something in the list of installed apps in the app-database crashes it. Where can I find it?
I can not even reset to factory defaults. At least I tried. It said it's doing it, then rebooted and all my stuff was there again (ie no reset).
It's crap! I need my phone's camera the next days because of some big Open Air event I am on.
See here for a little video about what happens... You need to download the vid (ca 80MB) and turn it around 90 degrees, sorry.
zmix said:
Hi,
all seemed fine with my new, one week old One V. Till I installed GTA III. First the installer stuck while downloading the datafies. I canceled the download, restartet GTA III, but instead of completing the broken datafiles download (or re-downloading) it just startet the game and crashed the whole phone in the intro animation, that was without sound. I removed and reinstalled it, the download now finished, I could get the intro with sound, but it crashed the phone at the same moment. Since then my phone behaves like it would be very sick or hate me ;-/. After this crash it startet looping the reboot. It would boot, ask me for my SIMs PIN code, then be ok for a short time, then reboot again. This time it would boot into the desktop without asking me for the PIN. All seemed ok, but HTC's audio player forgot all the files I played (Last Played) and did not find any audio files (I have them on /sdcard/Music). It did not find them after several reboots, some of which were initiated by the phone all by itself. I then erased all the caches rebooted twice and it found the files along with the Last Played list. All seemed fine again, except the vibration of the tactile feedback would be less sharp and more wobbely. But only sometimes. Sometimes it was sharp. But besides that, all seemed to have healed itself and I could use the phone, maybe a bit slower, or maybe Avast and some tasker like app, I have running, made it a tad slower.
Then I installed yesterday's (today's ?) HTC update. Since that the phone reboots after two minutes. When I start the Preferences/Applications it takes ages to scan and most of the programs appear with their internal (com.foobar.someandroidapp) name. Just in order to change after a minute or so to their original name. Elixir2 crashes sporadically during use. Again I get the reboots without asking me for PIN.
Also, when I switch it off it shows the orange light for a minute, or so, instead of the green, though the phone is fully charged. It did not do this before. Oh, and in the meanwhile the HTC audio player forgets the MP3 files again I have on /sdcard/Music. Got no idea, what to do, since removing and reinserting the SD card did not help.
Also, I have the feeling, that something in the list of installed apps in the app-database crashes it. Where can I find it?
I can not even reset to factory defaults. At least I tried. It said it's doing it, then rebooted and all my stuff was there again (ie no reset).
It's crap! I need my phone's camera the next days because of some big Open Air event I am on.
See here for a little video about what happens... You need to download the vid (ca 80MB) and turn it around 90 degrees, sorry.
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here is what to do:
format the sdcard
factory reset your phone
Thanks, 1ceb0x, this is what I did. It all went fine. I have now applied the firmware update to 2.08.401.2, that got sent out these days. Seems to work out nicely.
What can I do, that I do not have to reformat in the future? Are there any utilities, that do snapshots of the system over time? Like Time-Machine for OS X does?
It's happening again. This is still the stock ROM, with the official (or was that two cuh?) update(s) a week ago.
I did not install any utilities, from which I think, they could go deeper into the system, like Avira and Automagic. I need a way to analyze, what my system is doing.
Oh, and it is reproducable: Mounting the phone as USB drive on a computer and, after work has been done, unmounting it on the computer, changing the USB mode on the phone. Now it starts. CPU seems to be up to 100% (UI becomes sluggish), apps behave strange (hadphone was in, speaker sounded, today appstore does not install apps, does not even connect, X-plore leaves a notification on screen after I quit, etc.). I had it two days ago, but the I rebooted a few ties, switched it off, took it from the USB cable and used it a little bit from battery. After this all was fine. But now that does not seem to help either.
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It's happening again. This is still the stock ROM, with the official (or was that two cuh?) update(s) a week ago.
I did not install any utilities, from which I think, they could go deeper into the system, like Avira and Automagic. I need a way to analyze, what my system is doing.
Oh, and it is reproducable: Mounting the phone as USB drive on a computer and, after work has been done, unmounting it on the computer, changing the USB mode on the phone. Now it starts. CPU seems to be up to 100% (UI becomes sluggish), apps behave strange (hadphone was in, speaker sounded, today appstore does not install apps, does not even connect, X-plore leaves a notification on screen after I quit, etc.). I had it two days ago, but the I rebooted a few ties, switched it off, took it from the USB cable and used it a little bit from battery. After this all was fine. But now that does not seem to help either.
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Wow, that's an amaizing type of error, I can assume a tad sdcard error, but I'm not sure of that.
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Wow, that's an amaizing type of error, I can assume a tad sdcard error, but I'm not sure of that.
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Szia
Yes, that's what I thought, too. I checked the file-system, I also ran a bad-blocks check, though, I am not sure, whether the utlity can do that reliably for an SDcard (since it has been written for a magnetic hard-disk). SDcards have a different technology. I got no reports about failures.
Now, that I hooked the phone to the debugger, I see the watchdog kicking in, but the traces.txt is being written to a directory, only root can access (and I am not). So I am still in the dark. Reports on the net have shown certain Sense devices to hace similare problems, with either too many apps installed onto SD or too many MP3s. The bugs are different. In the latter, the audio-player app of HTC is at fault, this seems to have been confirmed by HTC. Not sure, which Sense version, though, the phone was running ICS, but not a One series.
I'll hunt for the bug for a few more days, then I am going to root, custom kernel and custom ROM. Only convern I have with this, that I do not want to lose anything Sense related, because I love it so far. Ideal would be a ROM, that ported the S or X Sense, since those have more home-screens.
Yep usually clearing your caches returning your phone to factory mode should work, if not use the back nandroid.
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I'm running DeFroST 6.1a, stock DF kernel, and radio 5.11.05.14. Please bear with me because this might be a little long, as I try to explain everything I have done which landed me into a somewhat sticky situation.
A few weeks ago, I flashed the JAMT theme by ClassicalGas, and what I noted was the sudden loss of LED notification (and I don't seem to be the only one, actually). So I poke around, search the forum, and one user said he had gotten the LED notifications to work again by extracting the theme files from the JAMT framework-res.apk into the DF's framework-res and flashing the whole DF again.
I decided to try my hand at it, did a NAND, wiped, then flashed the "modified" DF - which caused my phone to be stuck in a bootloop. No biggie, just have to restore my NAND. I wipe, then when I'm about to restore my NAND, I get hit with
Code:
Error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb!
Which, after some googling, could mean a couple of things, like the checksum is wrong, or battery is low, etc. But before I do anything, I hit the wrong button in recovery, then my ROM boots up (wiped). The first thing I realize during the starting phone set up application is that about half of my screen is not responding, but once I get out of the initial set-up, all functionality returns
I power down, charge my phone a good bit, _wiped_, then I did a NAND restore , without any problems this time, restoring my original problem free-state, and everything seemed fine
A couple of days later, on vacation, I was playing a Tower Defence game on my phone, and the whole thing froze on me. I popped out the battery. This is real strange because that game had always worked fine before.
I then try a bit of Zenonia. At certain points, my phone freezes up. Characters on screen, monsters, etc are all still moving around mind you. All EXCEPT me. There seems to be no response from touch whatsoever. I get a little frustrated and press the "home" button as well as the "power" button.
After some waiting, my phone screen goes off. I find out that it has went back to the lock screen, and when I unlock, its back to the home screen, with Zenonia still running in the background.
I inferred that my phone's response has been super delayed for some reason. It happens for over a week, sometimes, seemingly to resolve itself after a good wait, and sometimes never (which requires me to pop out the battery). Sometimes, it "hangs" so badly that my phone itself began force restart. Also, out of all the times it restarted, there was _once_ it was stuck in the bootanimation.
And I also have noticed, if my phone has been on the whole day, at night, my SMS app (stock) seems to move very slowly - in terms of when I type out my reply, the phone seems to lag behind and cannot keep up with my usual typing speed. Even pressing the "reply area" requires me to wait for some time until the keyboard pops out (not stock, but never had problems with it before).
Sometimes, unlocking the phone when I last left it as the SMS screen would also cause some lag when I unlock. Reboots from the power menu seems to clear it up (until the next time it happens again).
Last night I tried some Kongregate Arcade, which needed flash. At some point of playing, whenever I was about to receive an SMS, the phone seem to _not_ response to my touch once again, while baddies on the flash game still continued to move around and hit me.
At first I thought it might have been a problem with SetCPU's governor (does interactive cause problems? Regardless, SetCPU was not a problem before the NAND). No matter, I changed the governor of my screen off AND my "normal" profile, but still no dice.
Also, could it be a memory issue? I doubt it, I hadn't installed anything else before and after the NAND, and I manually clear any unwanted running processes (and I have been, since I've gotten the phone).
So, dear XDA, what exactly is wrong with my phone? I hope its not hardware, and I'm hoping that flashing a new ROM might help, but I haven't done so until I have heard some opinions :/
P/S: Probably at wit's end here...
Edit: I'm not sure if its related, but once when I pressed the home button when all forms of input didn't work (buttons, touch screen) when I was playing Zenonia, Launcher Pro was "about" to FC, giving me the option to kill it or to wait.
le bump with a summarized, easy on the eyes version.
1 )Bad attempt at theming DF 6.1a leads to bootloop.
2 )Wiped in preparation to restore nandroid, but accidentally boot up the device instead (boots to a "wiped" Defrost without all the bells and whistles). Top half of screen during the google account setup, wifi setup, time zone set up not responding. Problem goes away after exiting set up.
3 ) Wipe again in recovery, tried to restore NAND once more, but "Error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb!"
4 ) Power down, charge phone, successfully restored NAND.
5 ) Phone is fine until I play games (which worked fine before). Some games totally freeze up the phone, while others are still running (monsters moving on screen and attack my unmoving character), but all forms of input is not recognized (button pressing, touch screen pressing, etc).
6) These "half-freezes" (inputs do not work, but the game still is running) also occur when playing flash games, right around the time I'm about to receive an SMS.
6 ) Whatever commands I pressed while the phone was "frozen" registers when the phone "unfreezes".
7 ) Sometimes freezes cause the phone to reboot, sometimes have to pull out the battery.
8 ) If phone has been on the whole day (regardless of heavy or light usage), stock SMS app seems to slow down and become unresponsive around late evening. A reboot fixes this.
9 ) Once, launcher pro was not responding, and I was given the choice to wait or kill it, when the phone recovered from a "half-freeze" (unrelated?)
Not a setcpu problem, because I have been using the same profiles since I got the phone, but I did play around with the governors to see if that changed anything.
Not a memory issue, because I dont install much, and I regularly manually kill unwanted processes.
Not sure why your phone acts like this and don't know a simple solution. But before tracking down the error, it's mostly and surely faster to install another ROM or just reflash this ROM and only install the apps you want to try - saves you some headaches... Also try to repartition/reformat your sdcard. I too had some issues with lagging system but i was only able to resolve it by flashing another ROM. I don't think it's an hardware related issue though...
Thanks for the response
Just flashed a new ROM. Gonna poke around and see what happens. Will report back.
Whats the best way to repartition an SD? Instead of Gparted of course. I'm not on Linux (my ubuntu installation went bad).
There are definitely thread about this, but before I flashed DF 6.1a (coming from DF 6.0e), I switched my recovery to AmonRa, selected ext2 partition of 0mb (because I had a 256 partition before, and then I wanted a 512mb) and then partitioned it again with a 512mb.
Honestly, it doesn't sound like the best way to do it, but that was what some threads said.
EDIT: Phone seems fine now on GV 1.1 How could a nandroid affect the phone so badly? hrm.
Partitioning with AmonRa's recovery works perfectly fine for me. You just have to set the ext2 partition to the desired size (i use 1024 as recommended on other threads - at least for sense roms). Afterwards upgrade ext2 to etx3 and maybe ext3 to ext4 (i have done this).
I too had to throw away some nandroid backups and start clean. Don't know why. I thought it has something to do with my "experience"...
This is probably nothing but today I got a bigger flash drive so I cloned it and put it on aftv. I installed some cloud games (purpose of getting more space) then moved them to USB. I reboot because I find the availability size of the drives don't change unless you do. When the aftv booted normally I ever so briefly saw "installing new software" message appear. This only happens to me when installing a new ROM or when wiping data/clear cache etc.
The message was on screen like 3 seconds. I would've missed it if I weren't looking then everything was fine. Its not possible I had updates enabled because I'm meticulous about disabling them EVERYTIME I do anything, especially if I boot to recovery (which I didn't this time) needless to say I disabled them again to be safe.
Any theories on why this happened? I'm not nearly as concerned as I am curious. I mess around with this a lot but this is the first time I've seen the updating notification without there being a reason I could identify...thanks.
Happened again. I wasn't even trying to reproduce the above, just needed a reboot. This aftv is identical to my other in every way except this is wired and I use a powered hub.
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Happened again. I wasn't even trying to reproduce the above, just needed a reboot. This aftv is identical to my other in every way except this is wired and I use a powered hub.
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You could ignore it or you could try doing a factory reset.
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You could ignore it or you could try doing a factory reset.
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If you think its not a concern, I'm comfortable with it. I factory reset every couple of months anyway so I'll get to it eventually. Thanks.
I am not rooted and it has happened to me twice in the past two hours. Within minutes of opening SPMC both time, a message appears telling me I have software updates the first time I hit the home button and it went away so I went to check for updates and it said I had none. The second time I clicked to install, but nothing happened. I have rebooted and still nothing. Not sure whats causing it, but its clear that there is not really an update. am guessin its a bug. Gonna open SPMC and see it it happens again.
[Q] LS980-Cloudy G3 ROM- TWRP installed&accessible- [email protected] Android is Updating screen
Hello everyone,
I would like to say first of all to the community, thank you for SHARING KNOWLEDGE. That is the key to everyone's success.
Now down to the gritty. My, now, I guess, mess of a LS980. For starters, the phone was running I would say very well considering my abuse. Big overclocks, gaming hardcore, and pushing the storage space hard. I performed a very easy and simple rooting and recovery program installation. If I remember properly, it all started with an app/.apk that sparked my interest with making the phone mine, was Autorec? (red roundish logo?) In some time I decided to install my first aftermarket ROM. I chose and installed without any issues , Cloudys G3 ROM. I cannot however remember the version number. It is by no means recent. I think I installed it last September so maybe 1.0 or 1.2 (sorry so much bad luck with stuff recently) TWRP version 2.7.0.0 is my recovery, and its functional. Unfortunately I do NOT have my apps backed up. I have no space. (just managed to get about 7GB on this PC to try to back them up but there is not external back up option, UNLESS you are OTG cable equipped I am not )
Now, I think, (this has been the state of the phone for about 3 weeks now) this all started to go south when I saw there was a Dorimanx OTA app in the play store. I used his Kernel for as long as I have had the G3 ROM installed. With no problems. So I figure this would be easier for me than button mashing trying to get into recovery mode without popping my screen out the front. LOL Upon using the app, I was informed of an update, I read the included information, and generally knew the deal. I allowed the app to download what it needed and restart and install like a good little computer. And this is where it gets a little grey for me in terms of order and symptoms. I remember checking the status of the install and it read failed! I looked into the reason why, and I was just plain full of junk. I then uninstalled painfully a bunch of rarely if that, used apps and gained back about 2.2GB of space. I ran Dorimanxs app again and let it do its thing and reboot. And again it reported fail! I looked into it more and noticed there were newer Kernels than available on his inter-web. Alpha versions. I located them on my device and rebooted into TWRP mode and selected , then flashed his 10.4.1 Kernel. Everything went fine. Phone reboots, the LG logo is no longer animated, and takes a bit longer to actually boot into a GUI. But it was, luckily.
So now, the phone would be a usable thing for about 3 minutes tops, before a power off, to a reboot. Which at first I didnt notice to be a boot loop. My battery surprisingly went from full to about 6% in no more than 15-20 minutes. I noticed the battery was getting warm like I was running the CPUs maxed under a serious load for a good half hour. Around the range to make someone pull it out their pocket wondering wth? So after the next reboot, power cycle, I jumped back into TWRP mode, and dug around for what I thought was the culprit, Xposed. I was having the worst time with my phone after a major Xposed framework error. I picked up my phone one day and out of the blue the xda framework was telling me that there were so many errors with it and my apps that ran fine, not being installed or activated. Upon looking into it, it was removed from the phone. I belive the order was , stable, 2.5/ 2.6, then I tried the beta 2.7. and thats the version that eventually , either broke, or uninstalled, I think, during those frequent Crashes! I tried to install the previous versions, even going back to the versions that came out last year like 2.4 . But none would install. And the phone grew more unstable in terms of its cooperation with its software. My normal apps and games worked fine. The phone worked the same, the music player, but there were apps that only can work with xposed that I utilize constantly, that were kaput. So I left the phone off. For a while. I had/have no time and really no resources to research and rescue a sunken ship. I come back about two weeks to it and I take a look around in the phones storage and hunt for any kind of recovery and disabler. I found xposed's disabler and flashed it. Same luck as before. About 3 minutes on, then dump.
I dig some more and found a ccc71 back up folder with some hearty backups that I didn't know were still there (no wonder I was always loosing space) and found another xposed installer.zip . I figured well , it didn't make any sense trying to disable something that wasnt enabled in the first place. (thats why I walk away and come back . fresh mind to tackle what stumps me) So I flashed the installed zip and reboot. Same thing, but now it started to loop around one minute. I power down. Found the recovery.zip that was saved on the beater PC and adb pushed it over the the phone. Im not good enough to adb install it. So TWRP'd it and rebooted, and d'oh! Now we just have the motionless LG ball, but flashing blue and green LED. And after about 2 minutes it would black screen, but be on. Not hung or anything. I connected to the PC, it never finds the right stuff but I used adb to verify state. And it said device. It still could communicate and push. I had it dump its debug, surprise! as it flashes that crap as fast as it can up the screen. But Im a PC guy so it was a fun, pause/break over and over till I found something useful. I saw some things that I could recognize like, failed starts, and longer than normal (for a speedy experience) function or call times, but nothing that slapped me with a red flag.
And that ended that nights attempts to fix thanks to the slowest no ram having box I was using to try to learn how to have the debug save to a .txt file on my PC so I could take a good look at the results.
Upon reading forum after forum, I came to something that looked promising, telling me that, that particular boot issue was due to the wrong radio being installed. So I hunted, and hunted, and laaaaaged my arse off and finally found it. Great I thought. Powered up ten or twenty times, finally get into TWRP, tried to flash it. BBBBBAAAAAANNNNT! nope. Downloaded another copy of the file and tried it again. No luck. ( I must say not until roaming around in these forums tonight did anyone bother to mention that you dont flash that radio. You instead have to inject it via LGFlashTool, which I have used before, and its a pain in the butt.
But before I go any farther, make anymore mistakes. I need some help.. I would really LOVE to be able to flash this , slap that, curse its name then hug it and get her working, without having to ditch my 492 apps. If I would have to say goodbye to happy times, I would like to say good riddance to ugly and annoying G3 ROM. I like not flat UI. My phone was depressing me every time I had to do any navigating around inside it. So I would love to go back to KK Stock LG ROM if push came to shove. But if possible I would just like to "repair, and regain access into the phones GUI system". So I could backup my apps. And eventually labor back to OEM Kitkat.
I apologize for the length of the post. But I just dont see the point of ping ponging with partial exchanges of information. I hope I have made my situation clear, and someone knows of someway, I can get my GUI/phone working again. Thanks to all in advance.
"a non functional smartphone, is an oxymoron"
Upgrade twrp to the blastagator last and dirty flash the same version of cloudy g3. And backup everything on the cloud. Mega give you a lot of free space.
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strangely enough
siggey said:
Upgrade twrp to the blastagator last and dirty flash the same version of cloudy g3. And backup everything on the cloud. Mega give you a lot of free space.
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strange thing,
just about 5 minutes ago, the phone, which I left on sitting at the LG screen by accident yesterday after posting the above, changed screens and presented me with the Launcher selection screen.
I immediately noticed that it looked wrong. Like if the resolution was way off. Like an old low res screen, very dull, sort of blurred looking.
I figured what the heck and tapped the screen and it of course did not immediately respond. It took its sweet time , about 30 seconds to show a change. The menu disappeared and a error message along the lines of , android system UI has crashed.
That is not the message verbatim, it was gone to fast for me to take it all in. And now its sitting at the blank powered on and repeating blue/green LED.
I havent done as you suggested yet. I kept getting results from Norway and other places and didnt understand a thing. But I found a TWRP update from Dorimanx, there was a link to it. And now I have to find my version of the OS. And to be clear, were you suggesting doing a re install, basically a file overwrite? And if so, when doing something like that, do you wipe the Dalvik cache ? Or do you just "dirty flash" it?
Thank you ,
I think that your screen is overheated. Never let the phone in bootloop for long time, it can destroy the screen.
About the cache, is better to clean it, but if I remember well the rom installer alredy do this.
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Hi all, read many threads here and finally posting.
I have an xperia M (C1905 I think)
Short story:
As soon as I turn on this device within a few seconds I get the "Unfortunately, xxxx has stopped". I hit okay and within a second something else is stopped. This is repeated constantly for as long as I could tolerate waiting for. The odd occasion I have managed to get maybe 5 seconds between app crashing to navigate into the settings to try something out or check the album.
I am asking for help on what to do in order to access the files on the device. I really really want to save the images. I since has moved on to a Z and now a Z3 but at this moment I want to get the images. (Factory reset is thus out of the question). I rather leave the phone intact for years to pass until some technology makes it possible to retrieve the files.
Longer story:
I think this issue started occurring after an android update - which leads me to my conspiracy at the end of the post. Basically after an update I started noticing random apps being stopped/crashing without warning. Apps that weren't even being used. This happened maybe once a week, then a couple times a week. Seemed pretty random at first. Thus why I never took a moment to see the exponential trend and act fast to back up data. Over the course of a month probably, this just got worse to the point where an app of some sort is constantly crashing. It could be facebook, then gmail, then google, then a service, then homescreen blah blah anything and everything is crashing just so it can fill the screen. Multiple at a time. I hit ok and another appears or 5 more appear. Then I might get a glorious 4/5 seconds to browse the contents of the phone then boom another batch of crashes. The phone is completely useless right now, no way to navigate. Also, even with the phone turned on in safe mode or not, I cannot access the files whilst connected to my computer. The charging indicator shows up, computer recognises the device but on the odd occasion it does show up in "my computer" the folder does not open and the file explorer/documents just crashes. Xperia companion doesn't work either.
There was also an issue with charging/transferring media with the charge port. Bad connections but it was made better using the Sony original cable I have now. It charges alright now (instead of needing "the right" angle). Still, as far as I can remember data was hard to trasnfer, maybe I got 10 songs copied over before it stopped responding and had to cancel. All the files on the SD card I saved of course but the ones on internal storage are still there. I browsed the album for a few seconds and I just want to get them on my pc. I tried to copy to SD card but I can't perform that with the constant bombarding of crashing app error notifications that fill the screen. Also it seems like once the phone is on, I can navigate around (with the bombardment of crashing) but once the screen is allowed to time out it doesn't wake back with the power button. To mess with it again I have to pull the battery and put it back in. I have booted in safe mode to no avail, apps still keep crashing.
Please please help. I have USB debugging enabled if that helps? I just want to drag and drop my images and then the phone can sit in a draw. I am sure a factory reset would have it working back to normal but I can't lose the files.
Btw I think SONY is purposefully killing off these older devices. The phone worked flawlessly, yes it's older and not as fast but there was not a single issue (besides maybe the charge port wear). This issue with crashing is completely software related after an android update.
The phone is not rooted and no random software was installed (just social media and the like).
THANK you for any help!
Brad
Hey which rom are you using? do you have unlock your bootloader? if you are using stock rom and not unlock your phone bootloader then it can be resolve by using a software repair using sony pc companion.
I've been having an issue since at least January. I was hoping either the Feb or March update would fix it, but it hasn't. My Pixel 2 XL has been acting strangely, but only when driving. When I drive, the device will either soft boot (states that PIN is required after restart, but opening terminal and checking uptime shows it hasn't physically booted) or soft lock (black screen that won't come on until hard booted). When it happens, my music will stop and my car's screen will go black. After a period of time, it'll ask me to reconnect the phone, either due to the device being encrypted until the PIN is entered after the soft boot or because it's simple no longer responding in the case of a soft lock. I've tried:
Removing the bluetooth connection for the car
Removing all known cars from Android Auto
Clearing cache
Uninstalling a few driving-specific apps
I was hoping maybe someone had an idea of anything to try besides a factory reset. I really hate reconfiguring my device from scratch (or even from TiBu backups).
I ended up trying multiple different kernels (Elixir and Evira) with the same results, so I broke down and did a factory reset. I reloaded apps and data from Titanium Backup. I'm no longer having the soft boot issue, but a different one instead. Now, randomly, my phone seems to disconnect from Bluetooth, audio it was playing plays through the phone speaker, and my car's display blanks out. I noticed my watch also shows that it has been disconnected from my phone. After a few moments, Android Auto returns to my car's display, but upon selecting anything (for instance, the music I had been listening to), it shows that the device is not compatible.
If I check the phone at this point, every app that had been running has been stopped. My notification bar is empty, and it usually has a few permanent notifications. The phone hasn't hard or soft booted, as it doesn't request the "PIN after restart". It just killed literally everything that was running. I have set both Android Auto and my music apps to not be battery optimized, as I assumed that might have been a problem, but with no better results. If I unplug and plug back in the USB cable, the phone operates normally. I haven't had any especially long trips to see if the issue occurs a second time. I'm lucky enough that my trips to work take 8-10 minutes.
Has anyone seen this or have any suggestions on things to try?
Well, your first post sounds a little similar to this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/help/alert-using-adguard-private-dns-causes-t3896243 , Having tried dns.adguard.com private dns on my phone, that setting also survivied a factory reset. No idea about the second post. Shot in the dark.
cliff6056 said:
Well, your first post sounds a little similar to this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/help/alert-using-adguard-private-dns-causes-t3896243 , Having tried dns.adguard.com private dns on my phone, that setting also survivied a factory reset. No idea about the second post. Shot in the dark.
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It was similar, but I wasn't using Adguard. I had been using 1.1.1.1 for DNS, but when I stumbled on that post, I removed custom DNS settings without success. Thanks for the thought, though!
In all my years with Android, I haven't had such an infuriating issue. It's almost enough to make someone go to *gasp* iPhone! ... Not really.
For what it's worth, while you mention bluetooth audio and your watch disconnecting, of which I don't use either, I did have somewhat similar issues with Android Auto which it sounds like you also used as you mentioned plugging in. Sometimes AA was disconnecting, sometimes the phone not being recognised when plugged in. It's been a year so can't remember all the symptoms, but at the end of the day, it was the charging port that was malfunctioning, and which Google nicely replaced for me. This also caused adb and fastboot to be intermittent, and not see "devices" which also confirmed the charging/data port. Again, just another shot in the dark for you to consider.
Well, I went on vacation a few hundred miles away last week. On the way up, the phone freaked out repeatedly. I had my wife try to disable WiFi. Same issue. I had her try to disable Bluetooth. Same issue. Both disabled. Same issue. While at our resort, the phone freaked out a few times on the drive to breakfast (literally a 2 minute drive).
On the way back, I decided to disable Location services and revoke all Location permissions. I drove 50 miles with no problems. I had my wife enable Location and drove 30 miles. No problem. I had her tick on apps that I felt needed Location permission, one by one, every 10 miles. No problems at all. I ended up with all of the apps that I feel need Location turned on and haven't had a problem since. So something was choking on Location data, but unfortunately, I have no idea what app it was. I think it might have been Action Services, but I can't be sure. I'm just glad it's fixed, frankly.
I know this is an older post, but I wanted to get my "fix" posted, just in case someone else runs across a similar issue. At least they'd have something to try.