Freezing/Reboots and CWM? - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

ever since i got the Bell S3 i have always had this problem. Phone is fine but sometime the screen will turn on randomly and will be frozen for a couple of minutes. Its rare that it happens and its quite random but it looks like touchwiz crashes and it needs a minute or so to bring it back, the phone itself does not restart it like its just touchwiz.
The screen become totally unresponsive when this happens and i can't seem to figure out what could be causing it, don't have Any weird startup apps running, i have seen it happen with just the music player open.
The other thing is CWM I have been using Team Epic's recovery for a while now and been trying to upgrade to official CWM but ROM Manager does not see my device since its the M series and was able to flash via Odin but ROM manager still prompts that it needs a official CWM recovery.
Also any fix on the date stamp, minor issue and was the reason i held off upgrading to official CWM this long.

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[Q] Problems with 1.35.531?

The other day my wife's slide received an OTA update to 1.35.531, but since she installed that, here phone keeps doing a "soft reset" of sorts. Basically what ever app she's in will close and the launcher will restart, as will the radio, cutting off any downloads and ending any calls she's on. Has any one else had these issues and know of a fix. My only thought is to do a complete reflash, but I'd rather not do that. Her phone isn't rooted nor does it have any custom kernels or anything, just the stock ROM.

[Q] CM10.1 Nightly Softkeys not working and often reboots

I'm on CM10.1-20130526 Nightly. Often times, the softkeys (the ones at the bottom of the phone) don't work. This requires me to reboot the phone in order to get it to work. Also, the phone reboots (on its own) several times during the day (upwards of 3 times a day). Is there any way to fix these problems? Thanks.
thatlaoboi said:
I'm on CM10.1-20130526 Nightly. Often times, the softkeys (the ones at the bottom of the phone) don't work. This requires me to reboot the phone in order to get it to work. Also, the phone reboots (on its own) several times during the day (upwards of 3 times a day). Is there any way to fix these problems? Thanks.
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Software keys is not a common issue so maybe you should change roms. The reboots are common with cm 10.1 builds since they are in testing phase still. A new RC3 build should be out late tonight or tomorrow at the latest maybe you should try that. Also did you use the odin update firmware it really helped with the reboots and screens of death for a lot of people. It just udgrade your firmware and radio to the newest available for this phone here is odin and the uvmc6 tar file if you need it. First hook phone up in download mode make sure odin sees it in (yellow) box for whatever port it's hooked up too. Then place tar file in PDA section and hit start. Once finished it should say PASS in (Blue) box. After phone reboots unplug from computer. This will not erase anything on your phone at all. It just upgrades it.
UVMC6 TAR
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ccjzq3rkt3ylfg/UVMC6.aio.tar.md5
ODIN
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lczw3kg1s02g3ol/Odin3_v1.85.zip
soft keys and slow down to reboot
running new firmware and radio doesn't fix the soft key issue. It seems very random and rebooting doesn't always fix it. I've switched to uber stable 2.0 rc1 kernel and it hasn't happened for a day now. Still having what might be memory issues as the phone slows down to not doing anything then reboots. If I manage to look at the memory usage before it is unusable there is 30mb available which is almost nothing but it is still some. So is the slow down and reboot related to an inability to run the process to free up memory? I'm not sure since I'm not 100% familiar with the "garbage collection (.Net terminology, I know android has something similar for activities I think)" of android. The slow down/reboot seems to speed up with the number apps opened/activities started over time.
The only thing that fixed the SOD for me was using a different kernel than the cm10.1 kernel.
Update: just took a while but still have issues with soft keys and rr

[Q] Recovering Text Messages via TWRP / Phone stuck at Android 4G screen

Hi all. My finicky T989 is stuck at the Android 4G screen and will not boot past it. Some background on the phone, about a year ago it was dropped in water. Immediately place in rice and after a couple of days it worked fine, with a few odd quirks. Initially the camera LED stayed on all the time, so i didn't use the phone for a couple pf months and when I went back to it, it worked fine. It doesn't like any roms other than TouchWiz, CM or AOKP versions give me all sorts of errors when running, normally I cannot access any of the phones memory.
So.....on to my current issue. The phone has been running fine, but last week told me the headphones were plugged in when they were not. I rebooted to see if it would fix the issue, but the phone is stuck on the Android 4G screen. I can access recovery (TWRP) and download mode, I have reflashed the installed ROM, which is a stock rom titled "UVMC6_HERCULES_TR_STOCK_-IQ_RIPPL-H20" and the phone still sticks at the 4G screen.
I have a backup, but it's a couple of months old. This is my wifes phone, so the lost apps are no big deal, she doesn't use too many to begin with. The big loss are the text messages. Since I can still access recovery and download mode, is there any way to pull the messages from there? My TWRP version is 2.6.0.0. I've tried to backup the data portion of my current rom, to save the messages, but it fails.
twism50 said:
Hi all. My finicky T989 is stuck at the Android 4G screen and will not boot past it. Some background on the phone, about a year ago it was dropped in water. Immediately place in rice and after a couple of days it worked fine, with a few odd quirks. Initially the camera LED stayed on all the time, so i didn't use the phone for a couple pf months and when I went back to it, it worked fine. It doesn't like any roms other than TouchWiz, CM or AOKP versions give me all sorts of errors when running, normally I cannot access any of the phones memory.
So.....on to my current issue. The phone has been running fine, but last week told me the headphones were plugged in when they were not. I rebooted to see if it would fix the issue, but the phone is stuck on the Android 4G screen. I can access recovery (TWRP) and download mode, I have reflashed the installed ROM, which is a stock rom titled "UVMC6_HERCULES_TR_STOCK_-IQ_RIPPL-H20" and the phone still sticks at the 4G screen.
I have a backup, but it's a couple of months old. This is my wifes phone, so the lost apps are no big deal, she doesn't use too many to begin with. The big loss are the text messages. Since I can still access recovery and download mode, is there any way to pull the messages from there? My TWRP version is 2.6.0.0. I've tried to backup the data portion of my current rom, to save the messages, but it fails.
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It looks like its stored in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I just tested TWRP's Advanced / File manager on my t889 and i was able to copy it to my external SD
Hope that helps ya out man. If so, dont forget to hit thanks
http://minhdanh2002.blogspot.com/2012/02/raw-access-to-sms-database-on-android.html
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twism50 said:
Hi all. My finicky T989 is stuck at the Android 4G screen and will not boot past it. Some background on the phone, about a year ago it was dropped in water. Immediately place in rice and after a couple of days it worked fine, with a few odd quirks. Initially the camera LED stayed on all the time, so i didn't use the phone for a couple pf months and when I went back to it, it worked fine. It doesn't like any roms other than TouchWiz, CM or AOKP versions give me all sorts of errors when running, normally I cannot access any of the phones memory.
So.....on to my current issue. The phone has been running fine, but last week told me the headphones were plugged in when they were not. I rebooted to see if it would fix the issue, but the phone is stuck on the Android 4G screen. I can access recovery (TWRP) and download mode, I have reflashed the installed ROM, which is a stock rom titled "UVMC6_HERCULES_TR_STOCK_-IQ_RIPPL-H20" and the phone still sticks at the 4G screen.
I have a backup, but it's a couple of months old. This is my wifes phone, so the lost apps are no big deal, she doesn't use too many to begin with. The big loss are the text messages. Since I can still access recovery and download mode, is there any way to pull the messages from there? My TWRP version is 2.6.0.0. I've tried to backup the data portion of my current rom, to recover the messages, but it fails.
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Hey! How was it going on finally? Did you try pyraxiate's suggestion?
If it works for you please let me know coz I don't want to try the complicated method that turns out not applicable.

[Q] Sudden death from the newest stock?

I had liquid smooth installed on this phone with cwm before and it crashed and I managed to set my phone back to the newest version but it had no keyboard and it crashed randomly and the bootloader sometimes wouldn't work properly.
Now I finally used kies to recover my phone to stock tmobile rom but the bootloader will sometimes crash during and my phone dies about 15 times a day and sometimes it's when I'm trying to open an application and other times it's simply at lockscreen or in my pocket. What can I do to fix?
Please do a factory reset. After that, observe for few days until you can make sure the issue is not repeating. Do Not Restore any apps or backups.
If it does repeat, Re-Flash Stock firmware using Kies.
Perseus71 said:
Please do a factory reset. After that, observe for few days until you can make sure the issue is not repeating. Do Not Restore any apps or backups.
If it does repeat, Re-Flash Stock firmware using Kies.
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I tried the factory reset as well as dalvik cache wipe and within a couple hours without installing anything it was still crashing already. After a day I tried reinstalling using kies and it had less frequent crashes but they kept getting more and more frequent so now it is bad once again.
Even the bootloading screen crashes half the time after 6 or so seconds.
At first I thought maybe it's my power button that is a little funky because sometimes I press it and it double presses instead and then lightly tapping it can bring up the option to turn off phone, but I've seen my phone crash just from opening the messaging app and so I'm convinced it's some other issue.
Any other advice? I was thinking of install a custom rom from a 4.2 version of android just because 4.3 seems to be failing with both roms I've tried
Check if your power button is really flasky. Could be hardware issue based on what you have described.

N7100 keeps freezing

I've recently started having trouble with my N7100 freezing/locking up.
I bought it shortly after launch, so it's a little over 1 1/2 years old. I had flashed one of the first rooted 4.1.2 firmware that was available, and never bothered updating because it was stable and got great battery life and I didn't feel like dealing with ROM stuff. But recently with the official 4.4.2, I decided to finally update, and decided on trying out DN3. So I flashed the latest TWRP, did the usual backing every thing up, flashed the MJ5 bootloader, and flashed it. It kept bootlooping, so I figured something went wrong, so I restored my 4.1.2 backup. This was where the freezing began. It was to the point where I couldn't use it. Tried rebooting a few times, but every time it would freeze as soon as it booted or shortly after. I assumed something just went wrong with the backup, so I tried flashing DN3 again. This time it booted successfully, but would occasionally freeze, most often when loading an app, but sometimes just randomly. After a couple days it seemed to subside. Then I decided to try out OmniRom. Same thing -- it would occasionally freeze up, then after a while would be fine. (Note: these were both clean installs.) Seems like every time I'd flash an updated version of Omni, the freezing issue would flare back up. Just now, I flashed the latest homemade build, and the freezing was really bad again, to the point where I can't even use it. Sometimes it'll freeze the instant it finishes booting, sometimes it'll freeze a few seconds after, sometimes it'll finish booting and will be fine until I load an app, then would freeze, and sometimes it would be fine for a couple minutes and the just freeze randomly. What's odd about it is that the screen is still responding to touch. Every thing's locked up, but when I touch the screen, the capacitive buttons light up as though it's still working fine, but nothing else works. I've even had a couple times where I let it sit for about 10 minutes and then it started responding again.
What's really frustrating is that I can't find a common cause here.Started on 4.1.2 (which had never had any issues beforehand), continues on a clean install of DN3, and continues on a clean install of OmniRom. Disabling Xposed and removing my SD card had no effect. It boots fine into recovery and download modes.
Does anyone know what the issue could be here?
EDIT: And now I've done a complete wipe, again, and reflashed DN3, again, and it appears to be working fine. Go figure.
It's not suddenly death?
see this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2093599
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