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t mobile galaxy s2 issues.

I have a T-mobile Samsung s2. The sucker keeps randomly freezing usually 10 to 30 seconds after reboot. Sometimes i can go for about 10 to 30 minutes without freezing, but...it always ends up freezing sooner or later(only thing I can do is hold the power button for 10 seconds and restart the device). I did the whole master reset and recover from stock to no avail. It keeps freezing. Second step was, I rooted and installed clockworkmod. Did a back up of my phone, and tried to install different roms. I tried jedi mind trick and cm10 hercules, but both of these get stuck on the start up screen. I restored my original back up image and now it boots but it keeps freezing like always. Is there something physically wrong with my device? any input would be appreciated.

The only other thing I'd try would to Odin back to stock then update with Kies; if u haven't all ready? If that doesn't work then without re rooting the phone call T mobile and tell them that after u updated the phone it keeps freezing on u. Hopes this helps and good luck!

[Q]Rogers Galaxy S3 constantly restarting even in recovery/download mode

So tonight out of the blue, my Rogers Galaxy S3 restarted itself. This isn't totally unusual, as sometimes this will happen once or twice a day, but never has it been too bad.
First off, I've been running Cyanogenmod 10.0, and again, has been relatively problem free. The first major issue I had was a week or so ago when I woke up to my phone having seemingly restored it's default settings on its own. Apps and all my other data were intact, but widgets, app settings, etc, were all cleared.
Now tonight, my phone can rarely boot into CM, and when it does, the power menu will appear shortly thereafter before restarting itself once again. If the phone is plugged in, I can't get anything other than the charge indicator to come on the screen for more than a second. The phone also does this when trying to boot into recovery mode or download mode.
I'm at a total loss as to what to do here, so I'm going to be leaving the phone off with the battery out over night. Appreciate any feedback in the meantime.

Also having a similar problem: phone boots up, will barely enter the bootloader/TWRP/boot animation for hyperdrive ROM. Also with rogers. I believe it might be SDS but I need to re install the stock firmware and can barely boot into the bootloader without the phone dying (battery is charged though). Any help greatly appreciated!
EDIT: managed to boot up for long enough to install "eMMC check" and apparently I have a 'sane chip'.

There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Domoo said:
There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Well, after pulling most of my hair out, that does seem to be the issue. Would explain why the power menu would come up the few times it did manage to boot. I managed to get it working for a while, but the button seems to be really delicate since picking my phone up and barely touching it reset it again.
I guess now I need a solution to the power button sticking, but at least it doesn't seem to be SDS.

Okay, that makes sense. When I leave the phone completely stable it's fine.
However, I have tried unrooting and reinstalling stock firmware. However, my system status in bootloader is still custom, when I boot up the rom I still have superuser installed. I tried installing two different stock firmwares for Rogers and the same problem. Any help would be great, I really want to send this in for warranty ASAP.
EDIT: After using ODIN to install stock rom, I still had Superuser. I installed SuperSU and then preformed it'sfull unroot. After that i cleared data and cache from stock recovery and the phone is now at original status and seems to not be randomly rebooting/dying. Weird.

[Q] my phone is continuously rebooting since I tried factory reset

yesterday my phone was having difficulties when I tried answering a call. Today since morning, it was going off when the display got dim. So, I switched it off. This evening, when I switched it on again, it was having the same problem. So, I decided to factory reset. When I tried factory reset, the android icon was on display and after sometime the phone was on a reboot loop. Its trying to reboot automatically till now and failing again and again. what do I do now?

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yesterday my phone was having difficulties when I tried answering a call. Today since morning, it was going off when the display got dim. So, I switched it off. This evening, when I switched it on again, it was having the same problem. So, I decided to factory reset. When I tried factory reset, the android icon was on display and after sometime the phone was on a reboot loop. Its trying to reboot automatically till now and failing again and again. what do I do now?
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Was your phone running a custom ROM, was it rooted or completely stock...Did you install or do anything to it previous to these weird occurences.
Try flashing your phone with a stock FTF or use Sony PC Companion to repair your phone (it will wipe completely and flash back the latest firmware for your device).
Good luck!

revolutionibus said:
yesterday my phone was having difficulties when I tried answering a call. Today since morning, it was going off when the display got dim. So, I switched it off. This evening, when I switched it on again, it was having the same problem. So, I decided to factory reset. When I tried factory reset, the android icon was on display and after sometime the phone was on a reboot loop. Its trying to reboot automatically till now and failing again and again. what do I do now?
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There's nothing else you can do except flash it....

signal lost an continuous rebooting
Hello guys, I realy need your help here.
Some days ago, out of nowhere my fone lost it's signal and started to reboot. The only way of stoping it is waiting while it drain 10% of my battery or more, or forcing shutdown by the OFF back button.
Does any one know what is happening?
I saw lots of posts about this trouble with xperia ZL and xperia Z, but I got no solution from this.
Thank you!

[Q] Phone turns off automatically

I run a rooted SG S3 on stock 4.1.1 with an old 3.0.56 kt747 kernel
Until recently, I've been running this set up for years without any problems.
I've also updated fairly recent CWM along with the latest SU.
As the title states, my phone has been turning off automatically. After weeks of troubleshooting, I noticed a pattern.
When I press the power button, there are three different scenarios that happen.
The phone goes to sleep normally
The phone goes to sleep and immediately wakes up to the lock screen
The phone displays the shut off menu
If scenario 1 occurs, everything is fine and runs perfectly for an indefinite amount of time until i attempt to put the phone to sleep again.
but, if scenario 2 or 3 occurs, the phone automatically shuts down abruptly, within 1-5 seconds.
This problem still occurs even when I boot into safe mode, and I have eliminated the SD card as a suspect. Furthermore, booting the phone up has become extremely difficult. The boot would sometimes crash after the samsung logo, after the splash screen, or during the boot animation. It takes somewhere around 3-5 tries to fully boot up the phone.
Booting into CWM recovery is still possible, but even that sometimes crashes mid-way. I've also noticed that at certain times, when I click the power button to select an action in CWM, it actually double clicks (thankfully CWM is tolerant to that) and cancels the action I was trying to do. I've done some googling and found that an over sensitive power button is a common occurrence in this model, and while that may explain why the 3 different power button scenarios occur, it still doesn't explain the crash.
Finally, I seemed to have remedied the automatic shut off problem several times by wiping cache from CWM. When I first started having these problems and began troubleshooting, wiping the cache eliminated the problem for about a week before the problem came back. When it did, I uninstalled some apps and re-wiped the cache which eliminated the problem again for several days. However, these periods become shorter and shorter, and now wiping cache does not seem to help at all. I've also tried wiping the delvik cache, but it didn't help.
I'm stumped right now. Any suggestions would be appreciated before I try some more large-scale attempts such as resetting my phone or taking it apart. Thanks everyone!

This definitely fits more in your large-scale attempts category, but it is what I'd try.
I'd grab the stock 4.1.1 firmware from sammobile.com and Odin back to stock. You're fortunate to be on the old firmware, so you can Odin back to stock. When Odin completes successfully, pull battery don't let the phone reboot normally (untick auto reboot in Odin). Boot straight into the stock recovery and do a full wipe. Then reboot your phone normally.
Doing this will correct any problems that exist with your internal storage to the extent possible. If you've still got problems after doing this, it is probably a hardware issue.

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This definitely fits more in your large-scale attempts category, but it is what I'd try.
I'd grab the stock 4.1.1 firmware from sammobile.com and Odin back to stock. You're fortunate to be on the old firmware, so you can Odin back to stock. When Odin completes successfully, pull battery don't let the phone reboot normally (untick auto reboot in Odin). Boot straight into the stock recovery and do a full wipe. Then reboot your phone normally.
Doing this will correct any problems that exist with your internal storage to the extent possible. If you've still got problems after doing this, it is probably a hardware issue.
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Yeah, that's part of the reason why i didn't want to upgrade the bootloader for the newer firmwares. I messed around with my phone this morning and its been avoiding the problem ever since. Not exactly sure what I did though lol. Thanks for the reply, I'll try it if the problem comes back over the next few days.

Your phone isn't "crashing," your power button is malfunctioning. The fix is pretty easy. You will need to open your phone up and scrape it off (the phone can be turned on without it). There are youtube videos that show how to remove it.

Soft-Bricked M9

I've had an M9 for 2-3. After the first year I got my phone, I installed a custom recovery and rooted it but later uninstalled root and custom recovery. It has been fine ever since except recently. Last month, my phone randomly crashed for the first time and got stuck in the infinite bootloop. It was as if everytime it tries to boot up, it crashed during it. If I hit the power, vol up, and vol down button, I make it to the screen with the option to go into recovery, download, etc. But when I actually try to go into either bootloader, recovery, or download mode from that menu, it crashes and goes back to the white htc logo. I've have gotten the phone to bootup a couple times by leaving it in the freezer as it tries to boot up but after using it for 1-5 minutes, it crashes again. If I don't use the phone at all, then it usually wont crash. After a day or 2, the phone fixed itself. Then one morning, my notifications got stuck together and my screen became unresponsive. So I took my death sentence and restarted my phone and now my phone has been doing the same exact thing for a week. I don't know how to fix this problem because getting it crashes trying to go into recovery and trying to do a factory reset is risky since it could crash during the reset. If also manage to make it into safe mode thinking maybe an application or virus is causing this but the phone crashed in SAFE MODE so I don't know what the problem is. I doubt there is any saving this phone because is probably a hard ware problem but who knows. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you.

Flash back to stock. Stock firmware fixes all sorts of issues.