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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.

[psa] leaving recovery on too long results in hard brick

THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY ME, AND JOKERSAX HAS TOLD ME ABOUT TWO OTHER DEVS WHO HAVE HAD SIMILAR RESULTS
This is a public service announcement saying that if you leave recovery (I left TWRP on overnight while restoring a nandroid) on too long, under certain circumstances not yet completely determined may lead your device to a hard brick. This has happened to 3 people so far, and want to avoid anymore issues with this.​
For more details on what happened I was flashing a V5 test build of my rom im working on adding aroma too where I got another syntax error to fix. It was about 11:30 at night, so I just started restoring from a nandroid, threw the phone upside down, and knocked out. When I woke up the next morning I checked the device and it was off in recharge mode- nothing too big. I then tried to boot and it ended up flashing the notification light and softkeys repeatedly, and did nothing else. I was able to get it into download mode, but LGNPST kept timing out. Then after trying several times with it timing out it wouldnt get into download mode. I then tried to just get anything to light up, and left it on the charger for several hours, and then gave up that my device was hard bricked. No data remained. I had to go to best buy and wait about an hour and a half for them to get me a new device. I hope everyone can avoid this happening to their device. It is a slow, but sure death reported by a few people.​

And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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If youre phone boots it will be fine. I left it for about 8 hours or so.

You should make this a sticky

Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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This must be what happened to my first LGOG, I feel asleep running a backup. When I woke up it wouldn't boot. Thank goodness for Geek Squad coverage.

Does anyone know if this problem exists with clockwork too? I already fried a phone just making a simple backup using TWRP.
I'm using CWM now and made a backup and flashed a rom and my phone survived.
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toprock23 said:
Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Any time I boot to recovery my phone heats up =p
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My phone also gets really got while in recovery mine also overheated exactly like the OP but mine came back to life I left it alone for a few hours then put it on the charger and finally got into download mode then recovery and restore. We definitely need to do something like timeout where after 10 minute the phone shuts off or something. Not sure it is possible but I like ranting lol
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We need to fix recovery
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Thanks for the info! I used to leave backups running overnight all the time with my previous devices. Good thing I haven't with this one.
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Only thing that could heat up the phone like that is the cpu core running at max.or spiking to max very very rapidly. Basically the soc with all the chipsests are not going into a sleep mode. I can see why all the data was gone and or damaged. I've seen something like this with other electronics.
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I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.

evodev said:
I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.
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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.

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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.
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I have heat up while playing games or streaming music, or leaving it at the lockscreen too long. Maybe undervolting it can fix it? IDR if joker's test kernel added it or not.

Happened to me to. But mine was adb push file to sdcard and lost power due to usb low charge and recovery turning phone into a glass top stove
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Mine overheats after playing Beach Buggy Blitz for five minutes, in recovery. Too often really :/

These are reasons I always finish what I'm working on before I sleep! It drives my girlfriend nuts ha ha. But yes, the phone does get hot rapidly in recovery hotter than I have ever gotten it running any game or app
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well TWRP 4.2 is out now, maybe itll fix our little problem.

Phone getting hot when using gps and mobile data

I have noticed this issue since 4.1.2 update on att. My phone is not rooted and completely stock.
When i use my s3 for navigation using google maps, the n in just 5 mins or so, my phone becomes really warm to hold..
When i first noticed this, i took off the case so that the phone could cool off...
This was not the issue with 4.1.1 firmware.
Anyone else has noticed this? Better yet found a solution?
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Just yesterday after I used Google Navigation the phone did get quite warm. Soon after it cools down but it does somewhat overheat when Google Maps/Navigation is used.

I have noticed the same thing. I use GPS a lot for work and it never got that hot with 4.1.1. Mine doesn't just get a little warm, it gets hot to the point I think it could get damaged.
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As far as I know cpu hogging applications like navigation in Google maps usually make your phone quite hot.... and using mobile data always makes your phone hot... It's not a problem at all if you give your phone some time to cool down.

You have almost a 2ghz dual core cpu in between some plastic. It's going to get real hot sometimes. If you're not upping voltage you will be fine with.
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May82 said:
I have noticed the same thing. I use GPS a lot for work and it never got that hot with 4.1.1. Mine doesn't just get a little warm, it gets hot to the point I think it could get damaged.
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My only question is whether this is due to the 4.1.2 update or the new maps updates. Both came out fairly recently. If it was the 4.1.2 update then it seems that for the step forward, they broke things.

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My only question is whether this is due to the 4.1.2 update or the new maps updates. Both came out fairly recently. If it was the 4.1.2 update then it seems that for the step forward, they broke things.
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Mostlikely it's 4.1.2 update... because if it was google maps issue then we would have heard lotsa noise by now....
Do ppl on sprint or t-mobile also have this issue?
I have almost stopped using my phone as gps as I am afraid it will get damaged with heat.
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I will try navfree tomorrow and report is it still heats up my phone.
If it does then issue is with 4.1.2 update, else with google maps update.
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Ok, I used navfree and noticed that the phone still got warm... so it must be the latest 4.1.2 firmware
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Bumping...
Is there anyone whose phone does not get very warm when using gps?
Is there a way to cold boot s3 to see if that resolves the issue?
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Phone Over Heating Issues

I have an issue with my phone overheating. Meaning my battery gets ridiculously hot. Its hot the the touch especially during use of my data or heavy use in general. I know it's not a ROM issue nor is it a kernel issue. Why? Because I have gone back to stock and it actually gets hotter.
Would simply replacing the battery with another OEM battery fix this issue? Or can it simply be the hardware? Or could it both? Would it be worth a shot to replace just the battery? I wish I took the time to take it into T-Mobile when I first bought the phone, but I assumed it was because it was stock. (Dumb decision, I know). Any insight would be appreciated.
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get a battery and phone temp app and report how hot it actually gets. Maybe get a case if its not abnormal type of hot. I live in Phoenix AZ and it gets up to 118° here and I'm outside using my phone mostly if in shade and I've seen my phone get to 124° granted it wasn't good and I wish that didn't happen, no harm was done.
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mt3g said:
get a battery and phone temp app and report how hot it actually gets. Maybe get a case if its not abnormal type of hot. I live in Phoenix AZ and it gets up to 118° here and I'm outside using my phone mostly if in shade and I've seen my phone get to 124° granted it wasn't good and I wish that didn't happen, no harm was done.
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KTweaker app shows the phone heating up to 56*C so that was my main concern. What app do you use?
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That really high if you aren't effected by sun light and external heat. Maybe get a new battery. Amazon has em cheap.
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Try flashing a different modem. Especially if you are using baseband UVDMD5. Try LJC or LJA.
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I will try that out and let you guys know how my phone reacts to them. Thanks Doc.
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Can someone shed some light on why the latest CWM recovery has "fix permissions" removed in advanced settings? Is it not necessary for that anymore? Lol. Confused..
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Judging from past experience, are you shore it is the battery? It is actually extremely common for the phones proccessor to react differently to different roms and heap up which will cause the entire back of your phone to be hot to the touch. The proccessor is located right below the battery compartment. If this is the case I would first try flashing a different kernal and also check to see if your proccessor is overclocked and perhaps lowering the maximum mhz. Usually around 1096 is a pretty good low speed that will still keep your phone fast in my oppinion. See if that helps you. If it is the battery, the only real cause might be a defective battery in which I would stop using immediately since it may cause damage to your phone.

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Judging from past experience, are you shore it is the battery? It is actually extremely common for the phones proccessor to react differently to different roms and heap up which will cause the entire back of your phone to be hot to the touch. The proccessor is located right below the battery compartment. If this is the case I would first try flashing a different kernal and also check to see if your proccessor is overclocked and perhaps lowering the maximum mhz. Usually around 1096 is a pretty good low speed that will still keep your phone fast in my oppinion. See if that helps you. If it is the battery, the only real cause might be a defective battery in which I would stop using immediately since it may cause damage to your phone.
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I've tried different kernels and the best kernel that works for me is Ktoonez. I actually have it under 1.5ghz. Like I said, even being stock the battery seems to get really hot. I'm going to purchase a battery and see if that changes anything.
But since I did change my modem as well it seems to keep the phone a little more cool. Just using the phone can get really hot to the touch even with my otter box on it.
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Personallyc I think cases only increase the temp, not decrease. Only if it were aluminum or made of some other heat sink type metal will it actually help with dissipating heat.
If the modem helped a little, try flashing the LJC firmware from the dev section. There is a thread there with this firmware in recovery flashable form. Wont affect your current rom or setup.
It could be your battery, but I'm just not so sure it really is. These phones can get hot, that's pretty normal.
Also check in settings on what uses the battery the most. Perhaps a service is getting hung and sticking at full throttle!
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Personallyc I think cases only increase the temp, not decrease. Only if it were aluminum or made of some other heat sink type metal will it actually help with dissipating heat.
If the modem helped a little, try flashing the LJC firmware from the dev section. There is a thread there with this firmware in recovery flashable form. Wont affect your current rom or setup.
It could be your battery, but I'm just not so sure it really is. These phones can get hot, that's pretty normal.
Also check in settings on what uses the battery the most. Perhaps a service is getting hung and sticking at full throttle!
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So I flash the: OTA_T999_UVDJLA_UVDJLC in the recovery right over the current ROM and I shouldn't have any problems? (Obviously make a back up before flash?)
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krntehknik303 said:
So I flash the: OTA_T999_UVDJLA_UVDJLC in the recovery right over the current ROM and I shouldn't have any problems? (Obviously make a back up before flash?)
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No, not the OTA. This is the thread I was referring to. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2282603
It is primarily for the MD5 firmware, but the LJC firmware is also available there as well. This is the direct link to the download for LJC: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/173554095/T999 Devel/T999UVDLJC_firmware.zip
Read that thread though so you have a better understanding of what you are flashing. This does include the LJC modem, just so you know.
An as always, yes make a backup, just in case!

I already have the LJC modem flashed. It shouldn't be a problem, I'm assuming? Thanks for your help in giving me the direct links.
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Yup, you will be fine. Itll reflash the modem, but its not a big deal.
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Flashed this and phone doesn't get crazy hot anymore. And removed the case as well! Thanks!
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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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