Hi Guys!
I started to experiencing strange behaviours and freezes on my galaxy nexus in the last two months but its just worse and worse. This is why I'd like to ask, maybe someone already having same problems... The first strange thing happened during I used a web browser (boat browser) some part of the web content was blurry or vertically / horizontally stretched. The degree of stretching was depending on the scrolling or/and zooming. So its something if we divide the screen to (approx) 5x10 square - like mosaic- and the content of some squares was stretched but there is also the content of the webpage just not on the right place/size.. So i can't use the browser like this, after a minute or two its typically closed without any error message, I just got back the launcher... I did not care with this problem because it was only with heavy websites.. -Was look like the phone has not enough memory- But Unfortunately later my phone started to crash very randomly, mostly durring browse.. but somtimes just when i turn on the screen to watch the time, or started my mailbox. The freezes always the same: For approx 10 sec the phone stops not react to anything on the touchscreen and not the hw buttons. after this 10 sec the screen becomes lighter (ithink like maximum brightness) and few horizontal line appearing on the screen. If i wait more 30 sec the brightness level starts to fade except the horisontal line on the screen... As the screen fedes into dark (like brightnes slevel is 1-2%) always became blurry and hardly lost the saturation. I always have to take down the battery.. Wait with it few sec, put back, and reboot the phone... If I dont wait, typically the boot sequence also freezes on the same way (during the logo animation)... When the phone boots up usually works one day long... but maybe just few hour until the next freeze... awkward thing, my phone is already rooted so i dont think i have any guarantee...
Important parameters:
The problem started with android version: 4.2 but 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 the same.
I have: GSM MODEL (YAKJU-MAGURO)
The phone one year old, I never tried to overclock!!!
After I update to 4.2 I needed to use SuperSu because the old superuser no longer worked.
I was thinking on its some problem with supersu? but actually apps freezes on the phone that never needed any root access..
I already tried:
Format the cache
wipe dalvik cache/battery stats
Fix permissions
uninstall and reinstall SuperSu
Now I ran out from ideas. I affraid its a hw problem maybe with the RAM.. I open to try any idea
Thank you in advance
Greets: Karoly
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Hi everyone, after hours of fiddling around with my phone and trying to figure this thing out by reading through many many forums, nothing seems to help. So out of pure frustration I decided to start a new thread (Which was my last resort)
My phone has a whole slew of problems:
First of all, I basically have no home screen. It's just a black screen accompanied by the two 'Contacts' and 'Calender" buttons on the bottom. After reading through the forums I figured it most-likely was a TouchFlo 3D issue that needs to be addressed by restarting/starting up the TL3D program. Great right? No... The damn thing won't even load when I push the Settings icon.
long story short:
-manilla.exe cpu usage is 80%-95%
-phone won't completely lock, backlight turns on with the slightest movements/bumps
-active sync wont detect phone (can't access connection settings in phone)
-phone will occasionally freeze and won't turn on unless I remove battery and restart it.
-hard reset wont work (using keystroke method, also last resort)
-lag lag lag lag lag lag ....L...A....AGGG..G
-Very low volume when engaged in a phone call (transmitting and receiving volume)
Keep in mind I can't get into settings.
Also, no new programs installed recently in case you guys were wondering.
Those are the only issues that come to mind... help??!!??!! Thank you in advance
try reflashing your rom fresh and then getting a new launcher and overclocking your min and max cpu a bit might help out
Since some days, I have a problem with my Galaxy Nexus (GSM).
While using it the Screen turns full brightness for a fraction of a second and then turn black. The software still runs, and i can use the touchscreen aswell as the buttons. (sound still plays and so on). But the screen stays black... I have to remove the battery to reboot the device to get it working again...
The thing happens randomly, sometimes while navigating with google maps, sometimes while playing angry birds...
I have the original 4.2.1. image (but rooted).
Does anyone else face the same problem / know what to do?
I found two guys on a german forum that have the same problem, but the thread is a littlebit old and they did not figure out what caused it / haven´t found a solution.
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Since some days, I have a problem with my Galaxy Nexus (GSM).
While using it the Screen turns full brightness for a fraction of a second and then turn black. The software still runs, and i can use the touchscreen aswell as the buttons. (sound still plays and so on). But the screen stays black... I have to remove the battery to reboot the device to get it working again...
The thing happens randomly, sometimes while navigating with google maps, sometimes while playing angry birds...
I have the original 4.2.1. image (but rooted).
Does anyone else face the same problem / know what to do?
I found two guys on a german forum that have the same problem, but the thread is a littlebit old and they did not figure out what caused it / haven´t found a solution.
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It may be http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40019
Workaround works fine.
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Hey all,
So I'm posting this thread regarding a couple pretty weird glitches and bugs occurring on my G3, 3 specific ones.
The first: (Probably the least serious but still REALLY annoying) At EXACTLY 12:00AM every night no matter what timezone I set the phone to (I'm in AU on the AEST GMT+10 timezone but it does this at the same time on any timezone) the phone will switch it's WiFi off automatically without warning, reason or explanation. It just goes off and then I have to manually turn it back on. Sure I could use an app such as Tasker or AutomateIt to turn it back on but I don't see why this is occurring in the first place?
The second issue (Most recent): Lately after updating to the V20E firmware for my D855 I've noticed that a graphical glitch (Specifically related to the colour Blue) occurs when there are fast moving elements on my phone's screen (Such as when I move a chat head around on my phone from Messenger, or when I'm scrolling Facebook or my App Drawer fast, there's just a blue box around whatever object/s appear to be moving on my phone's screen. I've not dropped the phone at all, and it has only been present since updating from the V20D ROM. Not sure what could be causing it.
The third and by far the MOST ANNOYING of the issues I'm having, is that for no apparent reason, whenever I am listening to Music with the stock Music player, and I lock the screen (The screen goes off) about 5 seconds later weird stuff starts to happen..
The song will pause, play or even stop completely, seemingly on its own. The "phone" will change songs, artists and sometimes complete albums and playlists completely by itself, with me doing nothing but staring at the lock screen (It keeps doing it until I re-enter the Music app, then when I lock the phone the whole cycle just repeats itself.)
I've done some looking around and careful observations on the phone itself, and it seems that before the weird stuff starts happening to my music, the phone opens Voice Mate by itself, and then if I'm not present, it apparently closes it and then that's when the stuff happens. I've tried everything I can on a non-rooted phone to stop this. I've tried re-installing the Music app, Uninstalling all updates to the Voice Mate and it's packages to the factory version, force-stopping Voice Mate, everything and no matter what I do the phone still opens Voice Mate and the weird stuff starts happening (It's like it's taking commands from Voice Mate to do something but I'm not even doing anything ) It's been doing this since I got my phone when it came with Android KitKat 4.4 (I was on the D10M ROM until I moved to the D20D Android L ROM) and I moved ROMs doing a completely fresh start ( I factory wiped the phone and then upgraded via a CSE flash and put all my stuff back on it manually) and I would've thought a completely fresh start would have fixed it but apparently not... Either it's a bug that's been present for a while, or it's something deeper than the ROM.
So yeah some pretty weird issues, if someone knows what could be causing them, please let me know, especially if you know a way to solve them.
Cheers guys.
I'm having a very similar problem with regards to #1 but it's doing it with Bluetooth for me!
At midnight on the dot, it will disconnect my connected Bluetooth devices. It doesn't shut Bluetooth off, it just drops the connection. I posted about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/bluetooth-disconnects-midnight-t2973187
Your phone sound possessed! Call 1-800-Exorcism now.
You right, weird/unusual.
Hi,Guys...
Two days ago I was interested on a thread in Reddit, since it cant be accessed freely in my country so I choose to try it with VPN.
Then I installed alot of VPN apps and I just realized everything was turning ON at the same time and my phone start to laggy then freeze/stuck. Can't do a thing like moving screen or pressing button which force me to restart the phone.
After the phone reboot I uninstalled all of the VPN that I've been downloaded.
Then I look on my screen which is full of dulls cuz of use, so I wiped it with soft cloth (i like shiny screen), since the Ambient Display in ON, the screen was moved along with the wipe process which make the notification tile move up and down and the switch like Wifi,Mobile Data, DnD, etc get pressed randomly many times, then the phone freeze/stuck again.
I rebooted it, and when I'm about to use it like 5-10 seconds it freeze again but this time it had adjacent lines and have color like rainbow (i dont know what it called), and this is the beginning of the problem. It keep happening even now.
I can't use my phone for few minutes. Keep freezing/stuck sometimes it have lines sometimes dont.
Even if after I restart the phone and let it boot to homescreen, sometimes it would restart it by itself.
Is there anyone who ever face this kind of problem? I'm hoping this is not related to the hardware since until now this phone is not officialy released in my country so I dont know where I can bring this phone to get serviced.
Please for anyone who can tell me what to do to help bring my daily phone to be normal again.
Thanks in advanced. And sorry if my english is not that good.
bump. I have the same issue.
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bump. I have the same issue.
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Hi man,
Sorry to hear that you have the same problem as mine ? Did you fixed already ?
I fixed mine (I guess..it's been a week without problem) with someone help
Maybe you should try it yourself and hope the method will work with your 5x too :highfive:
Here it is the thread link https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/req-help-to-unbrick-t3251740
In case you have something to ask about the detailed process feel free to ask
I've gotten this problem since 20 days ago where my Google Maps get frozen in the middle of my trip. And I had reboot the device multiple times (4-5 times, sometimes skipping the LineageOS booting animation).
After fiddling over 2 weeks, I finally switched to LineageOS 17.0 now (previously using 15.1). The problem still persists.
The problem is : the screen froze, I seem able to tap something on screen but the display doesn't change anything despite my interaction with screen. This especially pronounced when I stop my screen interaction (i.e. not scrolling) on these apps
- Google chrome (say, reading any articles on web)
- Quora (especially when I about to scroll down on author bio)
- Google Sheets
- Maps
but this unresponsiveness doesn't appear at all when I:
- Play any kind of games
- watching YouTube (with the app)
In general, it seems anything that uses webview can cause the screen freezes if I leave it couple seconds. At first I thought changing from android webview to chrome webview implementation changes this. It doesn't.
The "cure" I found is simply turning the display off for 40 seconds ~ 75 seconds, and turning it back on, where I can interact with lock screen fine again. Any time lower than 40 seconds will simply show the frozen display again the time I turn the screen on.
Is it possible it's a hardware problem? (faulty RAM/storage) after using this for 2.5 years) Since full system wipe and re-install doesn't entirely solve the problem. The first time I encountered this is when I navigate with my Google Maps and the screen simply froze out during drive, and I had to restart the device multiple times, worrying that my device is broken. The next time I drive, I leave it only on Ambient Display and it didn't freeze at all.
So... any idea how to troubleshoot this?
It seems the problem is more severe than just Android.
Because even in TWRP, I noticed the display need to wait ~1 minute from the last time I turn off the display (push the power button) to reactivating it.
If I try to turn it on, the display will give black color, but I still can actually interact with the system.
ArcOnFire said:
I've gotten this problem since 20 days ago where my Google Maps get frozen in the middle of my trip. And I had reboot the device multiple times (4-5 times, sometimes skipping the LineageOS booting animation).
After fiddling over 2 weeks, I finally switched to LineageOS 17.0 now (previously using 15.1). The problem still persists.
The problem is : the screen froze, I seem able to tap something on screen but the display doesn't change anything despite my interaction with screen. This especially pronounced when I stop my screen interaction (i.e. not scrolling) on these apps
- Google chrome (say, reading any articles on web)
- Quora (especially when I about to scroll down on author bio)
- Google Sheets
- Maps
but this unresponsiveness doesn't appear at all when I:
- Play any kind of games
- watching YouTube (with the app)
In general, it seems anything that uses webview can cause the screen freezes if I leave it couple seconds. At first I thought changing from android webview to chrome webview implementation changes this. It doesn't.
The "cure" I found is simply turning the display off for 40 seconds ~ 75 seconds, and turning it back on, where I can interact with lock screen fine again. Any time lower than 40 seconds will simply show the frozen display again the time I turn the screen on.
Is it possible it's a hardware problem? (faulty RAM/storage) after using this for 2.5 years) Since full system wipe and re-install doesn't entirely solve the problem. The first time I encountered this is when I navigate with my Google Maps and the screen simply froze out during drive, and I had to restart the device multiple times, worrying that my device is broken. The next time I drive, I leave it only on Ambient Display and it didn't freeze at all.
So... any idea how to troubleshoot this?
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Can you enable "Show Tap" option in developer settings and see if theres any ghost touch happening, sometimes ghost touch can "freeze" the screen while you want to interact with it
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Can you enable "Show Tap" option in developer settings and see if theres any ghost touch happening, sometimes ghost touch can "freeze" the screen while you want to interact with it
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Thanks for responding.
I already enable "Show taps" on developer options. But the problem is that the screen freeze happened when there was no touch at all (i.e. I just looking at the screen, reading)
There's new observation I made today that : usually the screen doesn't want to immediately awaken when I just turn the screen off.
Today I tried to remove fingerprint from lock screen, the screen now is able to respond quickly again upon pressing power on button. It's still as responsive to power on when I add pattern to the device lock mechanism.
I'm not too sure whether this is OS level problem or even closer to hardware problem because this kind of unresponsiveness is also apparent even when I boot to TWRP.
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Thanks for responding.
I already enable "Show taps" on developer options. But the problem is that the screen freeze happened when there was no touch at all (i.e. I just looking at the screen, reading)
There's new observation I made today that : usually the screen doesn't want to immediately awaken when I just turn the screen off.
Today I tried to remove fingerprint from lock screen, the screen now is able to respond quickly again upon pressing power on button. It's still as responsive to power on when I add pattern to the device lock mechanism.
I'm not too sure whether this is OS level problem or even closer to hardware problem because this kind of unresponsiveness is also apparent even when I boot to TWRP.
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That is one big weird problem, i've never encounter something like that since i ever using a smartphones.
It does really sound like, it just a software problem. But if it also happen in TWRP, it doesn't look like it.
I also have installed LOS17 by Arian before too, and i dont have that problem.
Sorry man i have no idea nor expert about it
It could be your battery is dying?, if your battery cant give enough power to the screen already, screen gonna act like crazy i.e ghost touch etc.
I have a broken battery been using it for 2Year + because of the battery my screen has a problem too. I replaced it last december 2019 and everything went normal again.
Shimizux said:
That is one big weird problem, i've never encounter something like that since i ever using a smartphones.
It does really sound like, it just a software problem. But if it also happen in TWRP, it doesn't look like it.
I also have installed LOS17 by Arian before too, and i dont have that problem.
Sorry man i have no idea nor expert about it
It could be your battery is dying?, if your battery cant give enough power to the screen already, screen gonna act like crazy i.e ghost touch etc.
I have a broken battery been using it for 2Year + because of the battery my screen has a problem too. I replaced it last december 2019 and everything went normal again.
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I don't think it's a battery problem. I see that I can play game for 1hr+ fine. A game that require exact timing of 2 touches on top of that. So that ghost touch really doesn't appear.
But yeah, it's really 2 contrasting sign
- In one hand, it seems an OS problem because I can simulate an environment where the screen definitely won't be frozen for hours, while on specific other environment, the screen freeze can happen very quickly between release and re-occurence.
- On the other hand, the problem seem doesn't stop on OS level because it can be found in TWRP.
If I read an answer on Quora that shows GIF image on the section I read, the screen freeze 100% won't happen. I tried the same thing on imgur too, the screen freeze won't happen.
So it seems that as long as the screen is showing dynamic content, it won't freeze (that's why game and YouTube doesn't show this kind of problem, but reading a web full of text/static images can)
A bit of update : I have left my phone in off state for 4-5 days. And I have been using it again, albeit, less extensively since my main phone has changed to K20 Pro.
Long story short : I haven't encountered screen freeze again. But this is just after 2 days playing with less intensity.
I wonder what really went wrong.