Have Anyone Had An App That Once You Open The App Your Phone Just Vibrates Then Freezes? I Tried Opening My Ebay App but it causes my phone to freeze to the point where I had to pull the battery, then after placing the battery back in and rebooting the phone, the phone would freeze again seconds after reboot making the phone unusable on UVDLI8. I Restored my Phone To an Earlier backup to UVDLI6 which worked until I tried to open the Ebay App and it caused the same problems again.
Xda app did this once to me. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it now it works perfect.
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Thanks Alot That Did It..
Freezing phone requiring reboot and/or battery pulls is NOT bricking.
Soft brick: is where you can not boot into rom or recovery state, and requires a jig or other form to boot into recovery or odin.
Hard brick, usually means something is fried and/or damaged tobthe point of needing special equipment to fix, if it is repairable at all.
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There is a big difference between your phone freezing and a brick. Lol
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Sounds like you are experiencing a bug in the jb builds. Im guessing you just flashed one of the roms in development? Or if you restored the apps from a backup try doing fresh installs instead.
This was a big issue with UVDLH3. You have to wipe data/factory reset at the least. Otherwise you're very likely going to have some bugs. Dont restore apps or data from backups. Redownload the rom too as a bad dl can cause problems.
If this doesn't help then do this.
Odin UVALH2 (use root66 version to keep root)
Then flash UVDLI8 or other jb leak from sammobile or samsung-updates.com (use mobole odin pro or voodoo ota rootkeeper to keep root)
Then flash a jb rom based on the same leak you used above.
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The wife did an Ota upgrade to Gingerbread battery sucked, so I did a factory reset. It was working OK for a couple of weeks until yesterday. It freezes about 20 times a day. It's stock and it just started happening yesterday.
I'm thinking of just rooting it and flashing cleanGB.
Any chance this is a hardware problem and would be dangerous to flash at this point?
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badkarmah187 said:
The wife did an Ota upgrade to Gingerbread battery sucked, so I did a factory reset. It was working OK for a couple of weeks until yesterday. It freezes about 20 times a day. It's stock and it just started happening yesterday.
I'm thinking of just rooting it and flashing cleanGB.
Any chance this is a hardware problem and would be dangerous to flash at this point?
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Try to pin point exactly what you was doing when this first happened. Such as what apps you've installed. Got this tip from a fellow XDA member. Might help! If it is an app causing this issue, then just un-install it.
Question...was your wife's Epic stock before you did the OTA?
I don't think it's a hardware issue. You should be ok if you reset the phone bringing it back to a good working state then root, flash ACS recovery or clock work, flash a clean GB Rom ei22 based, or a rom of your choice.
Also, try rooting and installing cwm. Do a full backup, then wipe the cache 3x. If this doesn't make stable, do a full titanium backup and flash cleangb. You can then restore missing apps and data. Careful not to do a full restore, cause you will get the bloat that is removed like ciq.
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To determine if it is hardware or software you can try either flashing a custom ROM and see if that helps or Odin back to EC05 and let it OTA again in case something didn't go right with the update.
Hi Guys, thanks for the relies.
Yes the phone was and still is completely stock.
My intention was to root and put cleanGB, but I didn't have enough time last night because I ran into problems with the usb not being recognized w/ my laptop.
I ended up trying to root the phone with QBking77 Youtube tutuorial for the EI22 based phones, but ran into a problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE&feature=relmfu
It verified the file kernel-GB-3a.tar.md5 put failed to flash it. I ran out of time and didn't get a chance to use another cable.
I ended up just a stock factory wipe. It's not freezing anymore.
My wife has a rooted SSGSII with the stock rom. I have the same phone but have a custom rom. She has alot of weird issues like sometimes freezes when a call comes in, her time in the system bar is often incorrect. She uses Magic Locker and sometimes her time in Magic Locker doesn't match the system time or they may both be off. I wonder if anyone has had this kind of issue. We have replaced the SIM card already. She used Titanium Backup to bring back her apps from her old Droid after rooting. I don't have any of these problems at all but she has crazy issues like this. Any thought about what might be contributing to these issues?
I've never experienced this before, but I have had major issues with titanium backup to the point that I no longer use it. Have you tried reflashing without using titanium?
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No. We didn't flash her device. We just used TB to restore some of her apps after she rooted it. TB website said it would be OK to use it with a Stock Rom.
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i would assume TB meant it would be okay if it was from the same device... its not best when you're restoring apps from a completely different phone. I you sure its completely stock? i would just go ahead and flash a custom rom.
Thanks for the help. Think I will flash a custom rom and see if that helps the issue.
Often times if you use TB to restore apps and previous app data, this will happen. Couple options. Try restoring just the app without the data, or use ODIN to flash a clean stock, then re-root and start over. A clean can resolve a lot of issues. I ODIN my phone at least once a month regardless.
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Often times if you use TB to restore apps and previous app data, this will happen. Couple options. Try restoring just the app without the data, or use ODIN to flash a clean stock, then re-root and start over. A clean can resolve a lot of issues. I ODIN my phone at least once a month regardless.
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Yeah but stock ics have glitches
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Hello. I currently have TWRP 2.5.0.0 recovery installed along with LiquidSmooth rom.
About a month ago i installed android tweaker pro (sorry i cant post the link to the app cause im a noob ) and enabled some of the settings. Now everytime i reboot my phone it gets stuck on the boot animation, and i have to pull the battery and turn it back on to make it boot properly. Sometimes i have to do this multiple times until it boots properly. I have tried uninstalling the app but that also hasnt fixed it. Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this without reflashing a rom? Also is it bad for the phone to pull the battery often?
Can you boot to recovery? Restore the backup you made before this started happening. Assuming you made a backup.
If not, go to download mode and Odin stock.
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Or tru a factoru reset first (you'd prob be forced to if you odin stock since you're on liquid smooth now) since uou have twrp it won't wipe you're internal sd, but it will wipe out your apps and some appdata, as well as your settings.
Nandroid backup first.
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wouldnt reflashing the rom be good enough?
chromium96 said:
wouldnt reflashing the rom be good enough?
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Agreed just reflash rom and relfash gapps should be fine.
chromium96 said:
wouldnt reflashing the rom be good enough?
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Not necessarily. If the problem is from some data left from a mod or app he tried, flashing the rom probably won't fix it. That would only be a fix by itself if the problem were somewhere on the system partition. So he would wind up factory resetting. I just suggested trying this first. But reflashing could be done first too, either way.
Plus 90% of boot issues are solved with a factory reset.
You guys are right though, in that it'll be better to try flashing the rom. Its probably a better first/second step than Odin flashing the stock firmware.
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Thanks for the replies everyone. My original question was is there a way to fix this without flashing a rom? Is pulling the battery every time I boot bad for the phone? I'm a bit scared of flashing roms so I want to avoid doing it if possible.
I gave you one option. Factory reset. Aside from that uour best and probably only other option is to flash the rom. Thats why they suggested it.
As for battery pulling, it shouldn't do much, but you can end up with corrupted files, and it is possible (though unlikely) that you could damage some hardware.
Its not recommended, but if you gotta do it......well, you gotta do it.
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KeyLemonPie said:
Thanks for the replies everyone. My original question was is there a way to fix this without flashing a rom? Is pulling the battery every time I boot bad for the phone? I'm a bit scared of flashing roms so I want to avoid doing it if possible.
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I don't think it's bad for your device, but do you honestly want to be pulling a battery everytime you boot your device?
Try the different options posted. You shouldn't be scared of flashing roms if you read directions carefully.
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I'm running LiquidSmooth ROM and even with a complete wipe and re-install of the ROM my phone will randomly lock up. Can't replicate it on demand and it could take a few days before it does it. Sometimes it happens a couple times a day, and sometimes it'll go a week without locking up. It always when the screen is off so I can't wake the phone up and have to pull the battery to get it back in a working state. Any ideas on what it could be? I'm open to any suggestions and will provide any info needed.
Open terminal emulator (get from store if you haven't already) and type this:
Getprop ro.bootloader
Tell us what it says.
It could be an app you are using causing issues.
Do you restore anything from backups? Titanium, nandroid or otherwise?
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Is this the first custom ROM you've flashed? How about the first 4.2 ROM? Did the others run fine?
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Open terminal emulator (get from store if you haven't already) and type this:
Getprop ro.bootloader
Tell us what it says.
It could be an app you are using causing issues.
Do you restore anything from backups? Titanium, nandroid or otherwise?
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T999UVDLJC - I restored some apps via titanium backup like google music and some other various apps, but I didn't restore the data with it; just the app. I thought it was due to using autostarts and maybe had an app/service stopped and was causing the issue, but after the wipe and reinstall of the ROM, I didn't re-install autostarts and it still happened.
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Is this the first custom ROM you've flashed? How about the first 4.2 ROM? Did the others run fine?
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I don't recall if it happened on the stock ROM as I didn't have it long enough for it to lock up. Actually, I take that back. It did lock up with the stock ROM, but was rooted. I've flash ROMs on previous phones I've owned, but this is the first custom ROM on this phone specifically. The stock ROM was 4.1 so yeah, this is the first 4.2.x ROM.
Sounds like you're restoring an incompatible app, or you didn't wipe data prior to changing roms.
Try flashing, but do not restore the apps. Reinstall them clean via the play store.
We're you restoring them as system apps, or user apps?
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Sorry for the long delay. I tried another ROM, pac man, and it locked up within 2 hours of using it and no apps installed yet (except for google apps). I was watching logcat today and I see a ton of messages saying "unknown permissions". I tried the fix permissions option from CWM, but I'm still seeing those messages in logcat. I'm going to leave my phone hooked up to my PC and logcat running hoping maybe I can catch the issue via logcat when it happens. If need be, I can save logcat to a file for review.
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Sounds like you're restoring an incompatible app, or you didn't wipe data prior to changing roms.
Try flashing, but do not restore the apps. Reinstall them clean via the play store.
We're you restoring them as system apps, or user apps?
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If you're still having problems with it, and especially if it happens on different roms, you should Odin flash the latest stock firmware (root66 ok), and wipe everything. Run clean and stock for a while. If it continues after this it's probably a hardware issue.
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It only happens when the phone is idle/sleeping (screen off, not being used). While actually using it, it never locks up. Do you happen to have a link to the stock rom/firmware handy? If not, I can search for it. Could I have rooted the phone incorrectly? Could it be an issue with the partitions? Any ideas on how to track down the hardware problem?
Also, I see what seems to be a lot of errors in logcat, but I don't know if these are legit or not.
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If you're still having problems with it, and especially if it happens on different roms, you should Odin flash the latest stock firmware (root66 ok), and wipe everything. Run clean and stock for a while. If it continues after this it's probably a hardware issue.
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It only happens when the phone is idle/sleeping (screen off, not being used). While actually using it, it never locks up. Do you happen to have a link to the stock rom/firmware handy? If not, I can search for it. Could I have rooted the phone incorrectly? Could it be an issue with the partitions? Any ideas on how to track down the hardware problem?
Also, I see what seems to be a lot of errors in logcat, but I don't know if these are legit or not.
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I honestly don't know a lot about non-touchwiz roms, but from all the bugs people mention it wouldn't surprise me at all to see a lot of errors in your logical.
You can find my firmware thread linked in my Sig, and stickied in development. It's probably not anything specific you did. It's hard to say for sure. If it's only happening while asleep, it may be the kernel. But still, I think flashing stock to test is the best option. If it stops happening you will know for sure it's not the hardware. Before trying to track it down, first determine if it's even likely.
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I honestly don't know a lot about non-touchwiz roms, but from all the bugs people mention it wouldn't surprise me at all to see a lot of errors in your logical.
You can find my firmware thread linked in my Sig, and stickied in development. It's probably not anything specific you did. It's hard to say for sure. If it's only happening while asleep, it may be the kernel. But still, I think flashing stock to test is the best option. If it stops happening you will know for sure it's not the hardware. Before trying to track it down, first determine if it's even likely.
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So, I downloaded the stock 4.3 OTA ROM and flashed it. All problems are solved. No issues, but now I'd like to try to re-root the phone and try again, but from what I've read you can't downgrade from 4.3.
running PAC ROM for the last few months, very few issues. yesterday, phone randomly reboots & stays in bootloop. I manually reboot into recovery, do a clean wipe & re-flash ROM. phone works fine until i try to restore apps/data via Titanium, the phone goes back into bootloop. figured i possibly waited too soon to restore my phone, so i held out until this morning. go to run Titanium & phone bootloops again. but this time when i reboot into recovery & try to do a factory reset, the phone reboots as soon as i select "Yes" & goes back into bootloop. Google produced nothing, help!!!! Thanks.
Reflash rom and try to determine which app youre restoring that may be causing the problem. Do you let apps auto update? Do you have backups set to rerun on a schedule?
You could also odin flash the official firmware and start over that way.
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Reflash rom and try to determine which app youre restoring that may be causing the problem. Do you let apps auto update? Do you have backups set to rerun on a schedule?
You could also odin flash the official firmware and start over that way.
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thanks for your response! I believe I found the culprint; a theme I downloaded yesterday. I was able to wipe everything except data & reboot, which caused the phone to "optomize" all of my apps. So far so good, but I'm not so sure if this is a temporary or permanent fix.
I dont auto update anything on my phone. Should I?
EDIT: spoke too soon, phone worked for about 2 hours & went into bootloop while idle. froze while deleting dalvik cache but rebooted & is back "optomizing apps". Looks like I may have to odin flash.
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thanks for your response! I believe I found the culprint; a theme I downloaded yesterday. I was able to wipe everything except data & reboot, which caused the phone to "optomize" all of my apps. So far so good, but I'm not so sure if this is a temporary or permanent fix.
I dont auto update anything on my phone. Should I?
EDIT: spoke too soon, phone worked for about 2 hours & went into bootloop while idle. froze while deleting dalvik cache but rebooted & is back "optomizing apps". Looks like I may have to odin flash.
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Dont auto update, I was just asking because if you did, it could point to a recently updated app as the problem.
It does sound to me like odin is your best option though.
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Wow armond, the EXACT same thing happened to be while running Illusion. I couldn't factory reset in recovery, b/c that led to a bootloop when i pressed "yes". I wiped, cache/dalvik and phone worked for a little, had a hot reboot, and bootlooped again. By any chance are you running Ktoonsez kt747 kernel? And i eventually got it fixed thanks to Doc through ODIN. Best of luck!