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What temps are u guys running at? My phone never goes below 120°F (51°C) which seems kinda hot...isn't overclocked or anything. Thanks.
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Troll 7S said:
What temps are u guys running at? My phone never goes below 120°F (51°C) which seems kinda hot...isn't overclocked or anything. Thanks.
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120°F / 51° C seems very hot to me. My Gnex is on 84°F / 29°C. Even after playing high performance games it doesn´t heat up more than to 111°F / 44°C
What Rom / Kernel / Build are you running?

I'm running the latest Vicious/CM10 w/latest Franco but I've tried several other ROMs...none of my other gnex's ran this hot...it will go up to 160 with the slightest task to the point where it is uncomfortable to touch on the upper part of the screen.
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Troll 7S said:
I'm running the latest Vicious/CM10 w/latest Franco but I've tried several other ROMs...none of my other gnex's ran this hot...it will go up to 160 with the slightest task to the point where it is uncomfortable to touch on the upper part of the screen.
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maybe try the paranaoid android rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619582. there are a few reports about overheating with the stock CM10 kernel, but works perfectly for me. solutions there are switching to trinity kernel or franco as well. but mainly the overheating shoult result from a bad kernel.
If you don´t want to put on another rom, maybe switch back to an older / stable version of francos.

I don't think it is a kernel issue because I just got this replacement...(have had 6 gnex's...long story) was running the exact setup...never had any heat issues until this one. Even when it was bone stock I noticed the upper part of the screen was hot to the touch.
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Troll 7S said:
I don't think it is a kernel issue because I just got this replacement...(have had 6 gnex's...long story) was running the exact setup...never had any heat issues until this one. Even when it was bone stock I noticed the upper part of the screen was hot to the touch.
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then give back to your reseller. sounds like a factory problem then. phone shouldn´t heat up this much. not even it´s uncortable it may crash your phone (or parts of it) in the long run.

That's what I was thinking unfortunately...on to gnex number 7 I guess
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yeah unfortunately maufacturing standarts for the GNex are way below than these for samsungs own devices. but better exchange it now then beeing said it´s your fold if the cpu melts or something

Ya that's too bad...calling Verizon first thing in the morning thanks.
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i feel like you two don't know what you are talking about and idk wtf you are doing to your phone that you've had to return 6 of them? derp but, that's besides the point
now the issue at hand, i've had over heating since jelly bean on custom roms which has shut my phone down ... it seems to be a kernel issue as far as i can tell ... i'd recommend trinity's TNP1344-307-JB-STABLE35 http://goo.gl/jry8c
if the problem persists go back to stock ... and quit sending your phones back you are the reason why carriers don't want people to unlock their bootloaders

50°c is normal operating temp, the gnex has a thermal throttle that kicks in at around 75°c, then it scales down the cpu. You also have to consider the ambient temperature outside. Its 95°- 100°f here during the day, of course your phone will run a little hotter when its hot outside. Just use your phone
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Just dip ya phone in water, that should stop it getting to hot :cyclops:

Most of the phones I sent back I did not modify at all...asurion sent me 5 defective devices that all had hardware issues...(faulty screen, broken buttons, no radio, DOA, etc...probably refurbs), they then reimbursed me for buying a new phone through Verizon and it does not have any of those issues. I tried Trinity and it is running slightly cooler now. As for me not knowing what I'm talking about, that is why I asked in the first place. I didn't know what the average running temp. is.
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Just flash back to stock and see if you still have the overheating. If nothing changes you have a defective phone. I don't think my gnex has ever reached 120° F even with some mild overclocking and heavy use.

First hiccup in two months with my Note2!

Well, it happened, I experienced the first real freezing up yesterday. Everything just became un responsive while on a call, trying to end a call, the person I called couldn't hear me but I showed 3 bars of signal then the dialer froze up and I had to pull the battery out to restart the device. Same exact thing happened on my Mom's note2 today. I can't believe anything could cause this phone to stutter so badly. My phone is stock rooted T Mobile ROM. My mom's is totally stock.
I know all electronics can have the occasional hiccup. Anyone else have this happen? Don't get me wrong, I totally love this phone, gps is solid, navigation got me to a location in an unfamiliar area when I was a bit lost. Google maps had one place on the wrong side of the street 800 ft from it's actual location but I can't be certain if it was a clear night. There was rain in the area.
As I said first hiccup in two months.
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I would say it was a good run!
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Me to last couple of days I've got a freeze or to weird because its never happend.

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Try to clean up the application cache, and check the installed applications.

Im un rooted, and just started getting random reboots
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mingkee said:
Try to clean up the application cache, and check the installed applications.
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How do we clean up application cache?
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predation said:
How do we clean up application cache?
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App Cache cleaner from the Play Store.
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blaxican25 said:
Me to last couple of days I've got a freeze or to weird because its never happend.
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Could you please say it again? I couldn't understand if you have a problem with your phone or not.

Sounds like a common application that is installed on both your and your Mom's Note IIs experienced a small problem. Check Notifications to see what may have updated on both phones.

Its really hard to know what causes the freezing as we install different apps everyday. It can be from some apps we just installed or from something else. Luckily for me, I haven't had anything like that since I got this in Oct. 2012. I rooted mine in December but with stock ROM and still perform as great as before.
I usually restart my phone weekly. Its just like something that I used to do in all my old phones. Maybe it helps freeing up some memory.

Some of you root the phone only to keep the stock ROM and stock Kernel, etc.
The phone really does not need it.
Unless you are looking to modify the unit by over clocking it and changing the stock ROM to something exotic, there is no need to root the Note II.
When you flash changes to the unit, there are going to be bugs and other things that pop up now and then.
I have a Sensation runing Sense 4.1, Android 4.0.1, overclocked to 1.83 Mhz, with all types of tweaks. The Note II blows it away in every way, stock.
I will not root it until there is something worth flashing.
The phone just came out a few months ago.
I am sure there is a nice ROM caming down the pipe.
I will be waiting.

I really hope I don't run into this issue with the freezing! I got the phone on release day in store and haven't had any issues thus far.
C.S.

maybe try rebooting every once in a while.... keeps things fresh... i reboot at least once a day.

So tired of this.

How many of you were trying to use your rooted stock galaxy s3, and when you were using it, it froze, resulting in a battery pull? I am sick of this. Either after writing a long post, message, or status and it freezes and losing it all, or just now, when I was downloading the MOAR ROM (800 mb), it took an hour and thirty mins, and then at 94% it froze. I returned a galaxy s3 STOCK NOT ROOTED for this same problem, and got another and it still does it. How many of you have the same problem? This is one of the few reasons I wish I havent gotten this phone. Do not get me wrong, I love this phone and all its features, but there are these few tiny things that make me really mad that is does it, that makes me regret it too.
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I had this issue.
Download Fast Force Close from the market.
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ubigred said:
I had this issue.
Download Fast Force Close from the market.
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Oh okay. Thank you. I just find it very annoying. Wanted to see if other people had problems like this.
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I can say I'm not experiencing this. Rock solid, could be the Rom you're on, or kernel. Any oc or uv?
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Can't say I ever had this problem...

socos25 said:
I can say I'm not experiencing this. Rock solid, could be the Rom you're on, or kernel. Any oc or uv?
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First phone it happened on stock rom rooted/not rooted (happened on both) and it happens on stock rom rooted on 2nd phone. I dont mess with kernals or CPU or Overclocking/ anythinf like that because i am scared of breaking my phone. So it has been bone stock other than root
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Can't say I ever had this problem...
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Neither have I, I was having overheating issues but found a way around it. Hope a solution comes your way. This does remind of the bad chip issues the orig tmobile galaxys were having tho
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Tell us the full story. It's your phone refurb?
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My phone froze once. I've had it for 9 months. I'd start looking at things like a badly written app or an issue with the SD card if I were you. BTW, you should be able to force a reboot by just holding the power button for 10 seconds.

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Tell us the full story. It's your phone refurb?
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First phone was brand new, this one is refurbished.
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Jataadroid said:
Neither have I, I was having overheating issues but found a way around it. Hope a solution comes your way. This does remind of the bad chip issues the orig tmobile galaxys were having tho
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My first one over heated bad. Take it to sprint and they can fix it. Helped me. It was my first big smartphone and I thought it was normal.
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Have never once had this problem on my GS3. Day one purchase too. Sorry to hear that.
I've had freezes due to custom kernel overclocking and undervolt testing, but once I found the right settings, I haven't had a single freeze...and it's been months.
Phone has ran its longest at 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours.

Never had this problem. Rooted since 2nd week in July.

No issues here either; rooted and blue-tified not long after getting it 6/21.

My first phone I had was a dud. The screen would flicker and freeze up. The only way it would fix itself was a battery pull. But it would start doing the same thing within a few minutes. I got my replacement and haven't had problems since. Maybe it's possible you got another dud? There worse thing that can happen is you get another bad phone, or you get a good one. If you'd get another bad one you could just see if they'll let you upgrade to a new phone early. Have a buddy who just that same thing, not with a s3 though.
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Overheating means one of two things.
1. You phone is in an extremely marginal signal location and keeps switching between cells. Lots of radio activity at full power will heat up the phone.
2. An app is using lots of CPU power and/or data and may be "running away".
You should be able to get some clues on this by looking at battery stats to see what's using the most power.

freeza said:
Have never once had this problem on my GS3. Day one purchase too. Sorry to hear that.
I've had freezes due to custom kernel overclocking and undervolt testing, but once I found the right settings, I haven't had a single freeze...and it's been months.
Phone has ran its longest at 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours.
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kennyglass123 said:
Never had this problem. Rooted since 2nd week in July.
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No issues here either; rooted and blue-tified not long after getting it 6/21.
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godbilla said:
My first phone I had was a dud. The screen would flicker and freeze up. The only way it would fix itself was a battery pull. But it would start doing the same thing within a few minutes. I got my replacement and haven't had problems since. Maybe it's possible you got another dud? There worse thing that can happen is you get another bad phone, or you get a good one. If you'd get another bad one you could just see if they'll let you upgrade to a new phone early. Have a buddy who just that same thing, not with a s3 though.
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I always thought it was something I did, but I took my first one in and it froze and heated up, now this one just freezes. I don't wanna take the 2nd one in because that is just extra work for sprint and I can deal with it. If my computer worked or I could download the moar rom (or any for that matter) without it freezing or restarting the download I wouldn't have this problem. Oh well. Nothing I can't deal with. Heck, it is a great phone.!
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Whiplashh said:
How many of you were trying to use your rooted stock galaxy s3, and when you were using it, it froze, resulting in a battery pull? I am sick of this. Either after writing a long post, message, or status and it freezes and losing it all, or just now, when I was downloading the MOAR ROM (800 mb), it took an hour and thirty mins, and then at 94% it froze. I returned a galaxy s3 STOCK NOT ROOTED for this same problem, and got another and it still does it. How many of you have the same problem? This is one of the few reasons I wish I havent gotten this phone. Do not get me wrong, I love this phone and all its features, but there are these few tiny things that make me really mad that is does it, that makes me regret it too.
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Must be some rogue app you install consistently.

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Must be some rogue app you install consistently.
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I wonder what it could be though? I mean all I have are top notch apps that are like in the top 100 on play store. I don't download from play store without reading reviews.
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Whiplashh said:
I wonder what it could be though? I mean all I have are top notch apps that are like in the top 100 on play store. I don't download from play store without reading reviews.
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Hard to tell. Perhaps someone here knows a diagnostic to tell which app freezes the phone.
But it's most likely something that runs as a service (under Settings/Apps/Running), probably something you yourself installed. I'd start there first. If you have a quick and reliable way to determine if it will lock up (like running some stress test, maybe a benchmark), perhaps you could "freeze" some of those apps in Titanium Backup and find out which app is responsible.

Anyone else have heating issues on their T999L?

I noticed after the 4.3 update my T999L gets hot really fast. Like 15 - 20 minutes on YouTube and boom, its hot. Especially during gaming. Now I know all Android phones may get a little warm after being used heavily over a long period but damn, my S3 LTE is like burning. I don't know what it is. I've done multiple factory resets, I've turned off the LTE and just used HSPA+...it still doesn't make a difference but I did notice when I'm using LTE it burns up a lot quicker. Not sure what the temps were but it would be so hot I'd turn the phone off and pull the battery just to be safe my phone doesn't blow up or melt or something.
I have unlimited data so I rely on the T-Mobile network. No Wi-Fi at my house right now.
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Please flash prior modem for your specific device.

So it's the modem update on the 4.3 that's causing my T999L to over heat?
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I was on CM10.2 on MB7 and updated to CM11 on MK4 without heat issues, even when gaming. But I am on WiFi almost exclusively when I am doing anything that might cause heat issues. Try Airplane mode and see if you still have issues.
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I can't do anything on my phone in airplane mode lol. Besides gaming but then I still expect a little heating because CPU still has to work. I play Zombies vs Plants 2 & Angry Birds Go.
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Yes I suspect the new Modem to be likely responsible. The 2 games you mentioned may make the phone warm but won't make them hot.
Edit - I guess if you played for quiet a while, they may make it hot...

Right, that's what I mean anything a little intense I expect some heating but YouTube and web browsing seems so basic for my phone to get so hot. Thanks for the response. Can you link me to the correct files? I have the LTE S3 on T-Mobile. I'm stock 4.3 no root. Is it still possible to flash the old modem through Odin still?
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If you are willing then you'd need to follow precise steps or end up with a expensive paperweight.
So if you want proceed, follow Post 2 of this thread
Follow the instructions to flash a custom Recovery with Odin. Once done, instead of Rooting with flashing SuperSU, you should flash a correct Modem for your phone from this thread first post. There are 2 modems for your phone.

Thank you.
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[Q] Is it possible to revert back to 4.3?

This KitKat update is complete crap, it's ruined a number of things on my device and added NOTHING. A week ago I was 100% satisfied with my Note 3, I could keep it forever on 4.3. Is it possible to go back? I'm stock, not-rooted.

If you took the ota, then no.
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I took it OTA, it gave me no choice. I kept postponing the installation and then it eventually forced me to reboot my phone and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

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If you took the ota, then no.
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Even if you use Odin to flash the 4.3 rom?
EDIT: yeah, according to a few posts in this thread -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671167&page=5 it appears nope.

Yeah I found out the hard way and tripped my knox trying to go back. ...I hear you I loved my phone way better before. .. Now I feel like I have a hd2 with all the bugs lol
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I honestly feel like buying another phone after updating to kitkat. I absolutely hate it. I can't wait until all the bugs are worked out so I can have a functional (for me) phone
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I honestly feel like buying another phone after updating to kitkat. I absolutely hate it. I can't wait until all the bugs are worked out so I can have a functional (for me) phone
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My battery life has literally been cut in HALF. And that's just the beginning of the issue. Complete crap.

hfuizo said:
My battery life has literally been cut in HALF. And that's just the beginning of the issue. Complete crap.
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Mine too. Normally my battery would be at 80% right now. Now it's at 35 after only 5 hours of being off the charger. With screen on time of 1 hour. Somebody help us
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After rooting my phone I found that the cpu min frequency was locking up at 1.95...And that is what is killing your battery... If you reboot it goes back
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I just switched to T Mo last week and got a new Note 3 and being stupid, I went for Kit Kat update right away, now after two Note 3's, i'm still having a shiaty time with my new phone, especially the battery life. This really, and utterly sucks!! can't even go back to 4.3 no matter what unless I exchange phone a 3rd time!!

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After rooting my phone I found that the cpu min frequency was locking up at 1.95...And that is what is killing your battery... If you reboot it goes back
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It goes back to what? To normal?

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It goes back to what? To normal?
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I've noticed a lot of different things with the processor. After on for a little while randomly some of the CPUs will activate did not sleep, normally cpu0 stays on all the time but cpu1-3 turn off to save battery, and at the same time the minimum frequency would get stuck at 1.95... When you reboot everything would reset back to the minimum of 300 mhz and the CPUs would sleep as normal
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Really glad I stayed on 4.3 after hearing a lot of these horror stories mentioned in several threads. I had no intention of taking the OTA or Odin anyways just because I read a couple weeks before on a site that kitkat 4.4.2 was messing with how it handles the external sdcard and apps.
There's mixed reports of good/bad battery life on 4.4.2 and if the new bootloader really makes a difference yet, all I can say to those that did jump the gun or didn't know any better is things will get better as devs iron out the bugs and create custom kernels/roms to help you guys out. Does it suck waiting for all this.. hell yes it does but we have all been there before and just know you are in the right place here at XDA because these devs and members are here to help us all out thru hard times.
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