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Is this par for the course?

So picked this phone up yesterday and so far the major issues i've come across are:
Random touch screen issue - I'll use the phone normally for a while but sometimes when i'm playing a game (NOVA... which i deleted now) or strolling through a menu (happened in olive tree reader and the amazon store) a small area of the screen will spaz out... it's also happened on the stock lock screen and then persisted a few seconds after I rebooted to get rid of the issue. It's annoying because just as soon as I'm ready to chalk it up as a fluke or some random app issue... it shows up again somewhere else. Now.. this isn't during "one handed operation".. the device is in my left hand.. no fingers on the screen... using my right index finger to do the navigating.
Quite a few apps just don't work - all of my gameloft stuff, Age of Zombies, the video creator app (Samsung... your own freeking app?!?), and a handfull of others either crash immediately, don't start, or crash after seemingly opening just fine. Sidenote... so after a night off it's feet Age of Zombies is working this morning.
signal issues - the reception on this phone it utterly attrocious. I'll go from 5 bars (never the full 6) down to 2 without moving... which means it's a grip issue. I've cupped the bottom portion of the phone (around where the capacitive buttons and the back "lip" are) and watch my signal degrade while removing my hands brings that signal right back... also.. i'm ONE ROOM over from my wireless router and the signal hovers around none to 2 bars on the wifi indicator... HOWEVER... now that I'm at work.. i'm on my corporate wifi.. great reception... cell strength? 5 or 6 bars.... what the feezy.
So.. in a nutshell are these issues normal? should I return this for another unit? I absolutely LOVE this phone... as a pda. It's fast, i dig the large screen, i heart android and touchwiz is actually kinda cool so i may not root this thing with all that said it's just been a little unreliable and I need to be sure that this device will work when i need it to.
Thanks for the input guys.

Reception is a known problem that sprint has acknowledged, they say they are working on a fix.
The screen spazzes out when charging, if it is spazzing out at other times your phone is not normal.
Apps crash sometimes when I start then, but restarting the app usually works fine.
All mobile OS's are beta because they are young. In the 90s windows was even more unstable, and became more stable with time.
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Ok.. so the only REAL issue i have is the crashing apps... which will hopefully get better over time then?
Your response was helpful! Thanks for taking the time to address my concerns

The screen spazz thing ( if not on stock charger ) is enough to make me go in and exchange it. Mine has none of the probs you have

btate0121 said:
Ok.. so the only REAL issue i have is the crashing apps... which will hopefully get better over time then?
Your response was helpful! Thanks for taking the time to address my concerns
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If you have probs with apps crashing, try a factory restore. Also check when the app was last updated by the dev, it may just be out of date and written for 2.1
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If you have probs with apps crashing, try a factory restore. Also check when the app was last updated by the dev, it may just be out of date and written for 2.1
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It's not likely to be an outdated app, these were all apps I was using (successfully) on my G2x, until I sold it and bought the GS2 the same day.
I'm glad to know these are KNOWN issues that either have reasonable workarounds or are being worked on. I can deal without games, all of my essentials (productivity apps) are working. Thanks people.

ilostmypistons said:
The screen spazz thing ( if not on stock charger ) is enough to make me go in and exchange it. Mine has none of the probs you have
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oh yeah... also, heading to the local sprint store in a minute to test out this theory.. i do remember that i was charging while playing deathworms when it spazzed on me... the lock screen as well, but whenever i messed with the in store demo units... no problems. I may get an exchange anyway though. Thanks!

[Q] EI22 Constant Beeping?

I'm on EI22, stock ROM with mkasic's keyfix kernel.
This morning I woke up and headed to the room where my phone is...to hear constant repeating beeping. It was like 6 very fast beeps, nothing for a second, then 6 more beeps. Over and over again. I had my volume on the lowest notch, so luckily it didn't wake up the whole house! I believe it has most likely been beeping for hours.
I found a thread with a similar report on the i9000 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052796 and another thread on the captivate. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this since the GB update, or even before that. We've got 2 epics in the house and I've never run across it before so I'm thinking it was introduced to our phone in EI22.
As soon as I powered on the screen and pulled down the notification bar it stopped.
I have been able to replicate it by leaving unread e-mails in my notification bar, powering off and back on. Basically as soon as it boots and the media scanner starts running the beeping starts. It will continue forever until I unlock the screen and pull down notifications.

Figured it out - had no notification sound set, so apparently it defaults to constant repetitive beeping...lol
Once I set a notification sound all was well.
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rocket321 said:
Figured it out - had no notification sound set, so apparently it defaults to constant repetitive beeping...lol
Once I set a notification sound all was well.
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good to know. Thanks.

[Q] Screen not Turning off

Recently on a few roms I've seen my phone wake itself. Not entirely sure how.. And not to mention, it does this when I'm sleeping. So basically my phone will die within hours as my phone stays on and the screen burns in
Unfortunately I have a 30 second time out and it does not shut off my screen. It stays on entirely.
I need help to fix this issue, I have not recently installed anything I normally don't install things and haven't flashed any kernel or mod that should affect it. I did flash a Beats mod by rocko but I highly doubt that is causing the issue.
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withbloodskies said:
Recently on a few roms I've seen my phone wake itself. Not entirely sure how.. And not to mention, it does this when I'm sleeping. So basically my phone will die within hours as my phone stays on and the screen burns in
Unfortunately I have a 30 second time out and it does not shut off my screen. It stays on entirely.
I need help to fix this issue, I have not recently installed anything I normally don't install things and haven't flashed any kernel or mod that should affect it. I did flash a Beats mod by rocko but I highly doubt that is causing the issue.
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It sounds like some app is waking it up and then holding a wake lock. You will have to experiment and uninstall apps to see which app is doing it. Do you remember installing a certain app right before it starts doing it. More than likley it will be one of the apps on the running menu under manage applicarions.

cmlusco said:
It sounds like some app is waking it up and then holding a wake lock. You will have to experiment and uninstall apps to see which app is doing it. Do you remember installing a certain app right before it starts doing it. More than likley it will be one of the apps on the running menu under manage applicarions.
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Exactly this, apparently Doubletwist was the culprit. Shame too.. its never done that to me before, I like using my phone as a media server to use on my xbox/surround sound system
Thanks though, appreciate it.
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I use better battery stats to find wakelocks. Sounds like yours was any easy find but some can be really sneaky.
I know Songbird has a ton of addons, maybe give it a look and see if it can do what doubletwist does.

In a related note....my screen timeout wouldn't work one day. No matter what I set it to, the phone would never timeout/display-off automatically. I just ran 'Fix Permissions' and issue fixed itself.

I'll have to try it, songbird is sick. I am in love with that audio player.
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Thanks.
cmlusco said:
It sounds like some app is waking it up and then holding a wake lock. You will have to experiment and uninstall apps to see which app is doing it. Do you remember installing a certain app right before it starts doing it. More than likley it will be one of the apps on the running menu under manage applicarions.
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Precisely, in my case it was skype keeping my phone awake.

withbloodskies said:
Recently on a few roms I've seen my phone wake itself. Not entirely sure how.. And not to mention, it does this when I'm sleeping. So basically my phone will die within hours as my phone stays on and the screen burns in
Unfortunately I have a 30 second time out and it does not shut off my screen. It stays on entirely.
I need help to fix this issue, I have not recently installed anything I normally don't install things and haven't flashed any kernel or mod that should affect it. I did flash a Beats mod by rocko but I highly doubt that is causing the issue.
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You probably have an issue with Screen Wakelock(a.k.a FULL_WAKE_LOCK) , which is used by third-party apps to control the screen.
There is an app which is specially developed for solving "wakelock" issues, It is called "Wakelock detector" freely available at GooglePlay.
Or you can just type "Wakelock" at GooglePlay
Here is XDA thread; Xda Wakelock detector

Perhaps this can help as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1878828
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Wow. Digging up an old post and the op has switched phones.
This information could still be useful to someone.
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Music stops playing

Hi there,
I've got an annoying issue with my S3 with any player I use. The music stops playing at some point. It could be either after 3 min or 27 min with headset plugged in or not.
I've checked everywhere and 've seen a lot of people with the same problem but none of them has a proper fix.
I am running stock JB, Canadian Bell version, no root, no flash or any of these.
I didn't activate any motion option or fancy way to stop the player. When I receive a notification of all kind while listening, the player just stops for half a sec and then resume, I believe it is the way it should work.
I would much appreciate some help coz it drives me crazy.
By the way, happy new Year!
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I have had a similar problem with my phone ever since I switched to JB. My problem was that once the screen turned off, the player would stop, or stop once the song ends and not start the next song. I did not have this problem with ICS.
For me, I was able to fix it by going into the music app setting and unchecking the box for the screen automatically turning off during music play. However, if I turn the screen off manually the music will stop again either right away or at the end of the song. For now I'm OK just leaving the screen on since I charge the phone when I'm streaming music in the car.
Idk if this will help you or not.
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had a friend that was using go locker, when the phone fell to sleep, within a few minutes the music would stop. disabling and renabling go locker fixed it. this phone was not rooted.

I tried disable/enable and uninstall /reinstall and no luck. But, I figured it out that it was due to Juice Defender settings and adjusted them and now Pandora will play when the screen is off.
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nurseshelly said:
I tried disable/enable and uninstall /reinstall and no luck. But, I figured it out that it was due to Juice Defender settings and adjusted them and now Pandora will play when the screen is off.
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Well you said you have no motions enabled but just throwing this out there you can turn over to mute/pause under motion control. I don't see how this could be a hardware problem so if you reinstalled stock it shouldn't be happening. If it's not your software then the only thing I could imagine is the encoding of your files. I know from experience that some MP4s from iTunes don't work. idk why.

Hi,
We guys don't seem to have same problem.
Music doesn't stop when screen's off. It just stops randomly.
Any other ideas?
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What are you playing music with? (I'm assuming whatever media player comes with stock, but I could be wrong.)
What else do you have running on your phone right now?

I first used the stock media player then tried winamp and now poweramp.
Same problem with any of these.
There is always a lot of apps running in background such as bloat, mail, fb, rss reader, games....
I don't use task killers. I have GSam battery monitor and juice defender.
But as far as I know they don't kill running apps, unless i'm mistaken.
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djakereur said:
I have[...]juice defender.
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I figured it out that it was due to Juice Defender settings and adjusted them
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I think we have an answer, folks.

I would suggest going back to basics. There might be some debris in your headphone jack that shorts the "Pause" action. I would blow some compressed air in there, just in case.
Also, didn't S Voice or something have a command to Pause/Play? Maybe you have that on and through casual conversation S Voice is picking it up as Pause?

Thanks for your advise.
Blew some air but just in case but nothing.
S Voice cmd isn't active, I had already turn that off.
I think I'll do a factory reset and see if it fixes it.
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djakereur said:
Thanks for your advise.
Blew some air but just in case but nothing.
S Voice cmd isn't active, I had already turn that off.
I think I'll do a factory reset and see if it fixes it.
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I have had this problem off and on ever since I got the phone. It usually happens when I am listening to music and listening to the coaching from my running app (Endomondo Pro). They both work fine for a while then randomly one or both will stop playing through the headphones. I have tried a factory reset multiple times and nothing completely stops this.

Ok
Basically I don't need to bother to do so. Coz to be honest it's a pain in the a.. to do it.
Don't know what to do to fix this.
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My PowerAmp developed a similar problem out of the blue just today or within the last few days.
JB 4.1.1 Ultimatum ROM.
Was working fine.
Then noticed it would stop playing after just five seconds, repeatedly.
I uninstalled.
Wiped Cache & Davlik.
Reinstalled and so far, so good. No more problems yet.
Pandora did not have any problems before or after.

Nope, n/m.
As soon as I hooked it up to my dock with DIY USB-OTG cable, PowerAmp started stopping/starting again.
Could be JB or any dozen other things, including my DIY cable.
I'll have to t/s some more.

djakereur said:
Don't know what to do to fix this.
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As I said here:
You are running JuiceDefender.
Someone else in the thread with the same problem was running JuiceDefender.
Said someone else was able to make the problem go away by tinkering with JuiceDefender settings.
Could that possibly be the source of the problem, and a possible solution?

And as I said : we guys don't seem to have the same problem.
My player doesn't stop when screen goes black. My player stops randomly that's it.
He wanted to listen to internet radio while screen's off and just needed to set juice defender properly.
Anyway
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If a specific program you're using is causing a similar issue to the one you're experiencing with other users, is it not worth taking a similar approach to solving the problem? If you don't have a sense of what settings in that program might be causing issues, then just stop the program running for a while and see if the problem goes away.
Likewise, if it's something else on your phone causing issues, stop other programs you might be running from running one by one and see if/when the problem goes away.

djakereur said:
And as I said : we guys don't seem to have the same problem.
My player doesn't stop when screen goes black. My player stops randomly that's it.
He wanted to listen to internet radio while screen's off and just needed to set juice defender properly.
Anyway
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Umm, I am a she, not a he .
When I researched further, it was Juice Defender turning off the cellular raido that was causing the problem. The screen was a coincidence.
It wouldn't hurt to turn Juice Defender off and see if it still happens, just to rule that out. That way you would know for sure it is something else.
My set up is the same as yours, stock phone (can't remember if you are using ICS or JB), with Juice Defender and GSam Battery Monitor.
I ended up just turning Juice Defender off and putting it on power saving mode and honestly I haven't noticed a difference in performance, and I'm having better battery life than with Juice Defender. I'm getting average 23 hours on a charge and I'm using it a lot (although it does get charged in my car when I'm streaming music). With Juice Defender I was getting average 17 hours on a charge with using it a lot.

Sorry about that!
I did try that already but didn't change a thing.
I think I'll consider rooting it and flashing it.
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Random reboots - possibly BT 4.0 (Fitbit Flex) related?

I've had several random reboots since I got a Fitbit Flex on 5/3. It links to the phone via BT 4.0.
I run Perseus kernel, so it could be the newest update, but my wife runs full stock unrooted and said her phone restarted this weekend. She has a Fitbit Flex paired with her phone also.
Anybody else have a Fitbit Flex or other BT 4.0 device and getting random reboots?

No! but now that you say that. Glad I'm thinkin on getting the Jawbone up. In a week or so.
I would try that one and see if you get the same results. I'm quite sure they both do the same thing!!
Just my 2¢®
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Jrockttu said:
I've had several random reboots since I got a Fitbit Flex on 5/3. It links to the phone via BT 4.0.
I run Perseus kernel, so it could be the newest update, but my wife runs full stock unrooted and said her phone restarted this weekend. She has a Fitbit Flex paired with her phone also.
Anybody else have a Fitbit Flex or other BT 4.0 device and getting random reboots?
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Bajanman said:
No! but now that you say that. Glad I'm thinkin on getting the Jawbone up. In a week or so.
I would try that one and see if you get the same results. I'm quite sure they both do the same thing!!
Just my 2¢®
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I did a lot of research into these things, and I looked at the UP. A few things I didn't like about the UP: It's too thick all around, isn't comfortable to use while typing on a keyboard, have to take it off and plug it into your phone to sync, people lose the little cap on the device all the time. I'm happy with the Flex so far, just noticed this freezing and reboot the past few days (which could be kernel related, not ruling it out).
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At least 2 a day. It's hard to judge because I'll pull it out and notice that the keyboard has been reset to the Samsung default, which occurs after a reboot. I was using it today and it just froze up and restarted, stuck at the Samsung logo, and required a battery pull.

are you over clocked or underclocked? What perseus settings did you mess with?
Try flashing a different rom/kermel..

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are you over clocked or underclocked? What perseus settings did you mess with?
Try flashing a different rom/kermel..
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I've been on SKY ROM 8.2 for months and haven't had restarts. Always on the newest Perseus, currently 36.3. I don't change the settings.
I flashed Sean Z's stock modded ma4 kernel and still had reboots.
Think I might try going back to Perseus 35 to see how that works for me today.
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Well, I'm pretty certain that this is either Fitbit or bluetooth 4.0 related.
I tried several different remedies, and my phone was still frozen each morning when woke up. Finally, I disabled background BT 4.0 syncing in the Fitbit app, and have not had a freeze/reboot since then.
Anybody else have a Fitbit Flex or other BT 4.0 device and experience this same behavior?

I have had a fitbit since Christmas, but only recently started having reboot/freezing issues. If I turn off my bluetooth at night, it is never frozen in the morning. Forgot last night and it was frozen this morning.
As for talk of the Jawbone Up, I had six of them over the course of about 5 months, would never recommend one. It will also catch on things since it doesn't link. It was a nice idea, just didn't seem executed very well.
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I have had a fitbit since Christmas, but only recently started having reboot/freezing issues. If I turn off my bluetooth at night, it is never frozen in the morning. Forgot last night and it was frozen this morning.
As for talk of the Jawbone Up, I had six of them over the course of about 5 months, would never recommend one. It will also catch on things since it doesn't link. It was a nice idea, just didn't seem executed very well.
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If you've had it since Christmas, I assume it's a One instead of a Flex? I see that the One has BT 4.0 syncing also. I think they just recently enabled the BT 4.0 syncing in an app update, so that may be why yours started freezing.
I recommend you try the same thing I did. Go into the device settings in the Fitbit app and disable background syncing. The app will still sync when you open it, but won't do it periodically overnight. I don't know if it's background syncing that causes an issue, or if it's the higher frequency of syncs when background sync is enabled that causes a higher probability of freezing.

Jrockttu said:
If you've had it since Christmas, I assume it's a One instead of a Flex? I see that the One has BT 4.0 syncing also. I think they just recently enabled the BT 4.0 syncing in an app update, so that may be why yours started freezing.
I recommend you try the same thing I did. Go into the device settings in the Fitbit app and disable background syncing. The app will still sync when you open it, but won't do it periodically overnight. I don't know if it's background syncing that causes an issue, or if it's the higher frequency of syncs when background sync is enabled that causes a higher probability of freezing.
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You are correct, I have the One, with problems starting with the latest update. I didn't have the lockups with the background synch before it.
It doesn't really bother me to much, just inconvenient to have to pull the cover and battery occasionally for a freeze.
I will try your suggestion though and disable background synch and see if it solves the problem. Thanks.
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Ive had the same problems ever since Ive gotten my fitbit flex as well, and Im on stock and have never rooted

Glad to see I'm not crazy. I'm 100% sure this is something to do with the Note II and Fitbit Flex. I updated the Fitbit app last week and noticed that day that my phone was unresponsive at work. I had to pull the battery and restart it, then I saw the Fitbit app had gone back to background updates when I updated it, causing the freeze.
Prior to that, it had been almost 2 months since my phone froze, corresponding exactly with when I turned off background sync.
What a bummer, because I like background sync. I'm not sure if this is caused by the Fitbit app (or service), or if it's the Note II's BT 4.0.

Same problem here with Fitbit Flex and G Note II on T-Mobile
I've been experiencing the same thing with my Flex and Note II on T-Mobile. Running Jedi Master 14.
Phone will lockup overnight, or at random times during the day.
Going to try and disable the background syncing and will report back.

Random reboots - Fitbit Flex and BT 4.0
I am also having random reboots. I originally thought it was my device and took it to the device support center three times. I finally determined it was one of my apps. After a little trial and error determined it was my Fitbit App. I haven't reinstalled it yet -- my phone hasn't rebooted in 5 days.
Does anyone know for sure if it's just turning off the background sync that resolves the issue? I use NFC and typically open and sync that way.

leecj02 said:
I am also having random reboots. I originally thought it was my device and took it to the device support center three times. I finally determined it was one of my apps. After a little trial and error determined it was my Fitbit App. I haven't reinstalled it yet -- my phone hasn't rebooted in 5 days.
Does anyone know for sure if it's just turning off the background sync that resolves the issue? I use NFC and typically open and sync that way.
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Sorry I didn't reply sooner. As soon as I disabled background sync, the problem went away. I actually did a market research study at their HQ in SF this week and shared my experience. They mentioned knowing about some problems with Samsung phones and that they are working on it.
Jeff

TahoeBigDawg said:
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. As soon as I disabled background sync, the problem went away. I actually did a market research study at their HQ in SF this week and shared my experience. They mentioned knowing about some problems with Samsung phones and that they are working on it.
Jeff
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Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply -- I was certainly missing my Fitbit app. I'll give it a go! Here's to no more random reboots :good:
I'll report back to also confirm for everyone.:fingers-crossed:

I can also confirm with absolute certainty that it's the background sync. I've always encountered random reboots or freezing daily when Fitbit background sync is enabled, and never experienced them when it's disabled.