I experienced a SLEW of random reboots last night one after the other while charging. However they didnt seem to be actual reboots, the phone would stop responding, the samsung logo would start up and bam, your back on lockscreen, less than 15 seconds. This seemed to happen when I would use s pen, and only happened while charging....
Anyone else experiencing random reboots like this? Also what are those short reboots? Ive never seen the phone...or any other phone do those short duration reboots.
Also im on stock not rooted
I wiped everything ,factory reset, and reflashed stock image. Havent had one yet. Also installed a logger to watch for reboots while im asleep.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
I have not experienced this. Hope the reflash fixes it!
I've experienced a few of these. However I think they are reboots, that's just how fast this thing boots up.
So far my logger hasnt shown anym9re reboots. So it kay have been a bad app messing with the system. L et s see if two more days go by without one.
Also if the cache fills up would that trigger reboots/problems?
Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
Ive had 2 reboots. Both times when hooked up to my computer. Once changing from ptp to mtp and the other moment after unplugging from the computer. I just did a factory reset in hopes of curing this.
Thats exactly what happened to me...only when either plugged into charger or to computer
Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
Related
Okay so ive been running jmt v8 for about a week on my phone and everything was running great. Then yesterday morning my phone became very slow and unusable. Then i started getting the error message acore system has stopped working and the phone would randomly restart and then it would start vibrating then stop then vibrate again and so on. So i insalled a new rom and i stopped getting the core system has stopped error but i am still getting the random reboots. And the screen also wakes up by itself. Please any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2
I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
Justananomaly said:
I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's exactly my problem but are you sure this company is reliable?
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2
And can you also give me the link to the exact thing you ordered because i couldn't find it on their site, thanks !
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-power-button-repair/
And yes, I was sceptical too. Josh, the owner, is reachable by email and answers pretty quickly and did an amazing job repairing my phone.
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
Dennisalex said:
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can boot into recovery but its tricky because I have to press the buttons perfect or it'll just reboot. I believe the problem is with the power button and ill probably get it replaced.
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2
I have same problem last month, send the rooted phone to Samsung. After 15 days .I get back my phone for free.
I hope this can help you.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2
For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
playya said:
For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks I will be trying this out.
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2
hey guys. after the ics update my phone started to lock up and its not rooted. now all of a sudden when i put the battery in it it vibrates once then starts to load and gets about half way and stops. then it turns off and just vibrates a few seconds and vibrates but the screen never shows anything. tryed using just a usb with the battery out and it skips the load screen and automatically starts vibrate looping. the power button seems stuck but i dont think i can fix it any ideas?
Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
sparkie6point0 said:
Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You may have to run fix permissions in recovery are you rooted
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2
Warranty exchange it. Known problem
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app
Same problem
And the vest part is that i can't replace it cause i live in India
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app
Damn! Just found this thread...sounds like what my phone started doing today!!
I was clicking around on gmail, then back to home screen, the camera FLASHED all by itself without me doing anything, then started the boot loop thing. Clicking the power button only made it worse. Finally was able to get into recovery via TWRP...but that was weird too. I did a factory reset/wipe and was going to reinstall The Sith ROM that I was running, but it just rebooted and loaded up The Sith anyway and it should have been cleared. I then tried to restore back to Beastmade ROM, restore was very quick and said successful but it booted back to Sith.
Now the power button is hyper sensitive! All I have to do is brush the power button and it will light up the screen. Touch it too long and it will bring up the boot menu. I'm afraid to actually CLICK the button as it might go haywire again.
WTF is going on!? This all seems really odd that it's going down with some of these new ROMs being released. I wasn't even touching the power button when all this started. The weird clicks and flashes didn't sound good when it was all going on.
Has anyone tried flashing back to and OLD rom to see if it will fix it?
change settings to interactive/deadline
I was going to update to latest AOKP, I selected reboot to recovery, phone turned off and never turned back on. I can't get into recovery mode either this is very odd any ideas?
This is very strange because this should not cause a hard brick... when I selected reboot to recovery it seemed like it froze for a second, but though it was just in the middle of restarting, then it just shut off. Why would that cause this, only thing I can think is maybe my battery drained... I have it hooked up to a charger right now. But like I said I can't get the phone to do anything.
Same thing happened to me with Galaxy Note from AT&T, I've been looking in several forums about this, but since the phone is not even charging the battery or booting, I'm loosing hope.
This suck ass
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app
Ok here's the deal, I have my device about 3 months and never had a problem. Since last week my phone kept turning off when I'm on the home screen, restarts when screen is off. So I was advice to try and hard reset my device which I did bunch of times and problems still continues. I did not install any apps when I hard reset it and I don't know what to do????
tsanchez31 said:
Ok here's the deal, I have my device about 3 months and never had a problem. Since last week my phone kept turning off when I'm on the home screen, restarts when screen is off. So I was advice to try and hard reset my device which I did bunch of times and problems still continues. I did not install any apps when I hard reset it and I don't know what to do????
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Random restarting can happen with custom ROMs. It's happened to me with CM a while back. With you being on a custom ROM, that may be what is causing your issue.
Only way to really determine the cause is to view your logcat, which is tricky because it is cleared on a reboot. This app: aLogcat (free) might be useful. You can set it to save your logcats to your sdcard in intervals, that way it is persistant through a reboot.
You can monitor that and see what exactly is causing your issue.
You can also flash back to stock and see if the issue persists.
If you are running stock rom then your main board might be going bad. Someone sent me an article the other day about this happening to people. Apparently Samsung fixes it for free.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2
Hi, new here but I've been lurking for a while.
I followed Powerpoint's guide to instal CM10 on my KF2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2105077
Everything was running great and has been since I first loaded version 3 a few weeks ago, and last week i went to version 4 of powerpoint's rom with no problems. Then a couple days ago after i had been browsing the internet on it for maybe 30 minutes, I set it down and when i came back the screen was off and wouldn't turn back on. so i figured the battery was just dead, so i plugged it in to the wall charger. At first the charge/power light wouldn't come on at all. Then after several plugs and unplugs the orange light started to come on but would only stay illuminated for 30 seconds-ish. So I tried it on my phone charger and the orange light came on and stayed on, so i decided to let it charge overnight. The next morning the light was still glowing orange so I unplugged it and tried turning it on, but still nothing happens. But when I plugged it back in afterwards the light came on green. now it has been plugged in for almost a day with the green light on but it still wont turn on.
Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas what i can try? for obvious reasons i can't exactly ship it back to amazon lol
p.s. I have a final on friday and the text book for that class is on the kindle. So urgent responses will be greatly appreciated.
Nevermind guys, I figured it out. Power button for 20 and it booted right up
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
docnougat said:
Nevermind guys, I figured it out. Power button for 20 and it booted right up
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've had this a couple of times on both 10.1 ROMs. As you stated the only way I got it working was to hold the power button for 20 secs, then power on normally.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD
It just happened to me again, seems to be a recurring problem. Anyone have a clue what's causing this?
on a side note, perhaps this problem could be dealt with simply by installing a battery management app like juicedeffender. any thoughts?
docnougat said:
It just happened to me again, seems to be a recurring problem. Anyone have a clue what's causing this?
on a side note, perhaps this problem could be dealt with simply by installing a battery management app like juicedeffender. any thoughts?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow, for once I can completely and knowledgeably help with almost no guess work!
The issue is Sleep of Death.
The cause is unknown, and due to the nature of how to reset it, it's been difficult to get logs. It happened to FMK not too long ago and last I heard he was going to get the logs (to find what causes this) and get those to Hashcode to look at potential fixes.
It's not battery related....well in the sense that, if it happened, you reset the device, and looked at the battery, it should be at a similar level to what it was before.
TO FIX
You guys were right on fixing it mostly.
If you ever press power a few times and it won't turn it, don't bother fretting about it. Just do the hard reset, which is holding the button down for 10 seconds. After you do that the device will reset to the point where if you just press the power button once, it will boot up like normal.
I would hold it down for about 15 seconds just in case, or if you have headphones it, you can here when it does the reset and can get used to the timing.
I would say....in a few weeks with the device, I've had the issue around 5-6 times.
I've also NEVER had it happen while I'm doing things, so it hasn't caused issues besides making me a wait a bit before using the device, which is good. If it happened during doing things I would want this fixed ASAP, but so far, no major issues.
agreed, if it was happening while i was trying to do stuff it would be problem. As it is though, I just consider it a minor inconvenience. Glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing this though.
iytrix said:
Wow, for once I can completely and knowledgeably help with almost no guess work!
The issue is Sleep of Death.
The cause is unknown, and due to the nature of how to reset it, it's been difficult to get logs. It happened to FMK not too long ago and last I heard he was going to get the logs (to find what causes this) and get those to Hashcode to look at potential fixes.
It's not battery related....well in the sense that, if it happened, you reset the device, and looked at the battery, it should be at a similar level to what it was before.
TO FIX
You guys were right on fixing it mostly.
If you ever press power a few times and it won't turn it, don't bother fretting about it. Just do the hard reset, which is holding the button down for 10 seconds. After you do that the device will reset to the point where if you just press the power button once, it will boot up like normal.
I would hold it down for about 15 seconds just in case, or if you have headphones it, you can here when it does the reset and can get used to the timing.
I would say....in a few weeks with the device, I've had the issue around 5-6 times.
I've also NEVER had it happen while I'm doing things, so it hasn't caused issues besides making me a wait a bit before using the device, which is good. If it happened during doing things I would want this fixed ASAP, but so far, no major issues.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I wouldn't call it a fix. I would call that a workaround. We need a fix, and I think if anyone could get an effing log to hashcode of it happening, we could fix the problem. I think it is a kernel problem, what with the recent merges and such. I think something is incorrectly copying from kf1 to kf2... if anyone understands what I'm trying to say, it makes sense..
fmkilo said:
I wouldn't call it a fix. I would call that a workaround. We need a fix, and I think if anyone could get an effing log to hashcode of it happening, we could fix the problem. I think it is a kernel problem, what with the recent merges and such. I think something is incorrectly copying from kf1 to kf2... if anyone understands what I'm trying to say, it makes sense..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I wonder if pulling the log cat via adb would work, I.e. wait till it goes wrong' then connect it to a PC to pull the log. The issue is its very random and being at a PC to do it when it goes wrong could be tricky.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD
chronicfathead said:
I wonder if pulling the log cat via adb would work, I.e. wait till it goes wrong' then connect it to a PC to pull the log. The issue is its very random and being at a PC to do it when it goes wrong could be tricky.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire2 using Tapatalk HD
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
or you could have kmsg being written to a file during it...
the hard reset (power button for 20s) clears memory
Okay, I've had my S3 since July of 2012. It has worked perfectly up until about 3 weeks ago. It has just started rebooting randomly and it says it's not sending texts, but the people I'm texting say they receive the message that supposedly fails to send like 5 or 6 times. I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to find a solution online and couldn't find anything. I have flashed probably 15 different roms, including stock rooted. Now I am on complete stock unrooted with stock recovery and I'm having the same issues. I used odin to return to stock. I only have 4 apps installed aside from the bloatware that comes with the phone. I'm sure the texting issue is with T-mobile's service, but the rebooting can't be. It's random, but I can always tell when it's about to do it because the screen will come back on right after I lock it and a few seconds later it will reboot. I have also taken the phone apart to see if the power button is jammed and it wasn't. I removed the actual power button and put it back in just to be sure. The phone still reboots randomly. Is anyone else having this issue and if so have you found a way to stop it? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you for looking.
I guess nobody has had these issues.
Sounds like a defective phone.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
It would of been easier if you had warranty on to just return it instead of going through all that hassle.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app
I have the same issue, pretty sure its the power button sticking. I'm using the home button to wake it up and a widget on the lock screen to lock it for now until I send it in.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
It stopped. I don't know what it was, but I ran stock for a few days and it just quit. Didn't do anything, but flash it back to stock, It did it for a couple of more days after I flashed it back to stock and then it just randomly quit. It's been almost a full week now and no random reboots. If it starts happening again then I will probably just get a replacement. I do have the insurance through T-mobile, but I don't want to pay the deductible.
Could some dust etc. making power button stuck causing reboots? It could also be unstable rom. If you are oc/uv 'ing the phone that could also do that
Sent from S♣ with XDA App
I had a similar problem with my Amaze, turns out one of the connector pins to the battery was miss aligned and would on occasion cross the line and short. Luckily nothing catastrophic but the phone would just reboot, sometimes continuously. After I straightened it out, problem solved.
Evo4eva said:
Okay, I've had my S3 since July of 2012. It has worked perfectly up until about 3 weeks ago. It has just started rebooting randomly and it says it's not sending texts, but the people I'm texting say they receive the message that supposedly fails to send like 5 or 6 times. I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to find a solution online and couldn't find anything. I have flashed probably 15 different roms, including stock rooted. Now I am on complete stock unrooted with stock recovery and I'm having the same issues. I used odin to return to stock. I only have 4 apps installed aside from the bloatware that comes with the phone. I'm sure the texting issue is with T-mobile's service, but the rebooting can't be. It's random, but I can always tell when it's about to do it because the screen will come back on right after I lock it and a few seconds later it will reboot. I have also taken the phone apart to see if the power button is jammed and it wasn't. I removed the actual power button and put it back in just to be sure. The phone still reboots randomly. Is anyone else having this issue and if so have you found a way to stop it? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you for looking.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm actually having this exact same issue, as well as crashes which seem to happen when copy/pasting text. Reboots, spamming people supposedly failed messages, the works....
And I'm with Sprint.
This is the SECOND S3 that has done this to me. I returned my first one after being fed up with it, guessing it must have been a hardware problem since I couldn't find anyone else that had this issue.. but this one has done it too, so I just figured I had to accept it....
phsh I wouldn't accept a piece of hardware that acts like that... bug 'em til they fix it or get you something else like the s4
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Interesting to read this. I got my S3 in October, and it just started doing this. Twice it has simply rebooted, both times have been after I uninstalled an app. My phone is completely stock, unrooted. Never been rooted. I took it out of the box and updated it to JB and haven't done anything else. I'm not getting any messaging issues, just the reboots. I'm using Nova Prime, and uninstalling by dragging the icon to the trash can.
I'm not sure what caused mine to stop, but it did. It hasn't done it again since it stopped either. I flashed back to complete stock, unrooted and used triangle away. It was still doing it for maybe a week or two after that, but then it just stopped. It has been working fine ever since. That includes trying 4 or 5 different roms after it stopped just to see if it would do it again. Been running wicked on the same phone for months now without any of the issues I previously had. If your phone is doing this then I suggest either waiting to see if it stops on it's own like mine or get it replaced.