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About 2 weeks ago, my camera simply stopped working. Any app that uses the camera simply opens to a black screen and then becomes unresponsive.
I've tried a full factory reset to no avail. Before sending the camera for repair, is there anything else I can try. I did check the forum and elsewhere to see if this was a known issue with the DHD or an individual firmware vesion, but nothing obvious.
I'm running 1.72.405.3
Thanks for any pointers
Daz
Hi Daz,
It does sound like your camera's sensor has failed. I had a similar issue with my HTC Hero when I got that many moons ago. This would be covered by the manufacturers warranty so you'd be entitled to a replacement or repair.
Did the camera only fail once the update had been applied? As i think and i'm not 100% but i think that the cam is one of the things which the update is for, maybe you could try a custom rom to see if the update has caused it, I can't see why but it could be.
My Hero's camera would not work with anything over 1.5, any custom rom or even the stock 2.1 update would cause my phone to reboot after every second usage of the phones camera, it was very annoying and because it was a persistent problem which was no fault of my own, i didn't pay for the replacement, so maybe look into it, it may save you a few bob getting it fixed, unless your getting it for free.
Just a thought.
To be honest it could well have been after an update, I just can't tie the two events together in my head.
The phone will be fixed for free as it's still under warrantee, I was just wondering if there was anything I could do to avoid having to send it away for what could be weeks. I do suspect it's a hardware issue so prob best just to let HTC deal with it and send me back a working phone.
Thanks all.
Daz
I also have this problem, any updates on the issue? I really don't want to be without my phone for weeks! The camera only stopped working after I flashed from Leedroid 1.2 to cyanogenmod 6.1.3 then flashed back to Leedroid
Hi,
I'm afraid I don't know just yet. I sent the phone away for repair and it's still being worked on. I'll let you know what they said when I get it back.
Daz
I'm running stock rooted 5.0 on the ASUS_Z008D model of the zenphone 2.
This was originally my girlfriends phone, and she used it about 2 months before I started using it. At the end of those months before I took it, the camera completely stopped working. I looked up the few ways to fix it on google but none of the fixes I found worked. I think it's a hardware problem, but I have no idea truthfully. It always says it's running under another app. I have tried disabling and reenabling it, but nope. Nothing.
That isn't as important as the updates caused. I'm stock rooted, but I've had no problems at all updating the OTA updates ASUS sent out. After the latest one a few weeks ago, the phone finally started having problems that annoy me. Often at times, I send or get sent messages from other people, but the phone never receives or sends them. I've tested this using my siblings or freinds' phones right next to me, textng myself, and I never receive them at all. No delays, just never receive them.
Next, the update caused the phone to have a bunch of random reboots, and constant signal deaths. The phone will constantly completely lose signal, and take a few seconds, maybe a minute or two to reconnect. This usually comes with one to three reboots everyday.
Anyone else experience this or am I alone here? I'm thankful for this phone being awesome for budget price, and the fact it's not mine. (I'll be upgrading to the N 5X on release) But I still wanna know if I can fix this phone to save as a backup.
Taco_Human said:
I'm running stock rooted 5.0 on the ASUS_Z008D model of the zenphone 2.
This was originally my girlfriends phone, and she used it about 2 months before I started using it. At the end of those months before I took it, the camera completely stopped working. I looked up the few ways to fix it on google but none of the fixes I found worked. I think it's a hardware problem, but I have no idea truthfully. It always says it's running under another app. I have tried disabling and reenabling it, but nope. Nothing.
That isn't as important as the updates caused. I'm stock rooted, but I've had no problems at all updating the OTA updates ASUS sent out. After the latest one a few weeks ago, the phone finally started having problems that annoy me. Often at times, I send or get sent messages from other people, but the phone never receives or sends them. I've tested this using my siblings or freinds' phones right next to me, textng myself, and I never receive them at all. No delays, just never receive them.
Next, the update caused the phone to have a bunch of random reboots, and constant signal deaths. The phone will constantly completely lose signal, and take a few seconds, maybe a minute or two to reconnect. This usually comes with one to three reboots everyday.
Anyone else experience this or am I alone here? I'm thankful for this phone being awesome for budget price, and the fact it's not mine. (I'll be upgrading to the N 5X on release) But I still wanna know if I can fix this phone to save as a backup.
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Mate, if there is a problem, unroot the phone and RMA it with the warranty... That warranty is there for a reason...
i've been facing touch issues for the last 3/4 months...
it's very annoying..sometimes lock and unlock makes it normals...but after like 10 minutes i t happens again..i looked up in the sony xperia sites and some people were also complaining about the issue but no reply from sony officials.i thought it was a software problem as some of the other consumers also have this touch issue so i decided to go back to oreo from the latest update..
but the problem stills exists even after flashing back to oreo.
anyone have any idea about this issue?
You wrote quite a few words, but you failed to describe the issue itself.
So, what is the problem?
MichaelMeier said:
You wrote quite a few words, but you failed to describe the issue itself.
So, what is the problem?
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suppose i'm playing games for around 10 minutes
suddenly if i touch in the middle of the creen it registers at the corner
if i touchat corner it registers elsewhere
when i close the game and swipe on menu
it pulls down the notification bar
even closing the game becomes hard as it continuously registering falut touches
murshed.hasan said:
suppose i'm playing games for around 10 minutes
suddenly if i touch in the middle of the creen it registers at the corner
if i touchat corner it registers elsewhere
when i close the game and swipe on menu
it pulls down the notification bar
even closing the game becomes hard as it continuously registering falut touches
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Maybe hardware damage?
Maybe heat?
murshed.hasan said:
suppose i'm playing games for around 10 minutes
suddenly if i touch in the middle of the creen it registers at the corner
if i touchat corner it registers elsewhere
when i close the game and swipe on menu
it pulls down the notification bar
even closing the game becomes hard as it continuously registering falut touches
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I have experienced these same issues from time to time. I don't have a fix for it other than to restart your phone. That seems to fix the problem for a while.
One other thing I have done is to just close out of everything, lock the screen then rub it against my shirt to clean the screen a bit. These aren't very scientific approaches but it does seem to work in my case.
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I have experienced these same issues from time to time. I don't have a fix for it other than to restart your phone. That seems to fix the problem for a while.
One other thing I have done is to just close out of everything, lock the screen then rub it against my shirt to clean the screen a bit. These aren't very scientific approaches but it does seem to work in my case.
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i do the exact same thing.lock my phone then rub it on my clothes and unlock
it fixes the problem for a while
I have it too. Usually turninhg the phone on and off again works. But it's quite annoying
Having the same issue!
When touching in the bottom half of the screen (for example when typing on the keyboard), it starts to pull down my notification bar.
Also happened yesterday: was typing sth in WhtasApp, and suddenly I got asked, if i really want to start a phone call. The button for this action is on a upper area, of the screen.
I think it started with a update, a while ago. Cant really say wich one.
For me, it works to lock and unlock the screen. The issue is gone for at least 10 minutes. So i think its a software bug. I am hopeing best for the future android 10 update in Q1 2020.
But for me, such software bugs should not occour. And its weak from sony, they dont release a patch to fix it. Probably my last sony phone...
1fsaf said:
Having the same issue!
When touching in the bottom half of the screen (for example when typing on the keyboard), it starts to pull down my notification bar.
Also happened yesterday: was typing sth in WhtasApp, and suddenly I got asked, if i really want to start a phone call. The button for this action is on a upper area, of the screen.
I think it started with a update, a while ago. Cant really say wich one.
For me, it works to lock and unlock the screen. The issue is gone for at least 10 minutes. So i think its a software bug. I am hopeing best for the future android 10 update in Q1 2020.
But for me, such software bugs should not occour. And its weak from sony, they dont release a patch to fix it. Probably my last sony phone...
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i also think it is a software bug but i went back to oreo after this problem but the problem still exists.i don't really know what to do and sony didn't even release a statement regarding this issue.
murshed.hasan said:
i also think it is a software bug but i went back to oreo after this problem but the problem still exists.i don't really know what to do and sony didn't even release a statement regarding this issue.
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I assume the problem is in the firmware of the touch screen.
A small OS operating with the kernel touch driver
And I assume you can't downgrade it, unless you allow it in the kernel(defconfig)
I have a same problem. When I tap the lower part of screen, it starts to pull down the notification bar.
Same touch issue + accelerometer
I've had the same issue with the touchscreen - inputs along the bottom half pull the notification shade down. Also, my accelerometer fails the xperia test in the support app. Can anyone provide experience with Sony warranty claims? I sent my device in for repair and they literally just sent it back with no comments or remarks on the device or issues : /
Dont think the problem is Software related but Hardware. mine is like that since it got underwatter. problem is that changing the LCD panel can or not fix the issue, the investment alone of the panel 100€ and the hand work 75-100€ is nearly a 2/3 of a new one to not surely fix the problem. What I mean is, without a oficial stand from sony itself we cannot trust/invest money trying to fix and thats a shame.
The issues is happening in my phone too, yesterday sony bring the android 10 update, and i think its fixed, because after i updating the phone, im not experiencing that issues anymore
Fikri Nouval said:
The issues is happening in my phone too, yesterday sony bring the android 10 update, and i think its fixed, because after i updating the phone, im not experiencing that issues anymore
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let's just hope that they fixed it.i haven't received the update yet
let's see
Fikri Nouval said:
The issues is happening in my phone too, yesterday sony bring the android 10 update, and i think its fixed, because after i updating the phone, im not experiencing that issues anymore
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Is it really fixed?
That would be awesome.
I still have touch problem on Android 10, not fixed
Did anybody solved this problem? if does how? what was replaced?
android 10 didnt, with make me 80% sure it is Hardware.
Fikri Nouval said:
The issues is happening in my phone too, yesterday sony bring the android 10 update, and i think its fixed, because after i updating the phone, im not experiencing that issues anymore
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does android 10 really fix it? I still don't receive any update and not so very keen to update, but if it really fix the touch issue then I will do it with newflasher in no time
same exact problem here
Well, I had the 6 Pro for about 36 hours. It kept rebooting randomly, even after a factory reset, so it's going back for an exchange.
Has anyone else had this issue?
skyman631 said:
Well, I had the 6 Pro for about 36 hours. It kept rebooting randomly, even after a factory reset, so it's going back for an exchange.
Has anyone else had this issue?
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No definately not, here the worst I have experienced is some app crashes, they probably aint android 12 ready, and some pretty big lag moments
I don't have any issues. Do you have the November update yet?
For some strange reason, I noticed exactly this aswell (one time, this morning). I was working out and my phone laid on the table, when I saw it lit up because it restarted for no reason.
I guess it's a software bug.
And no, there was no automatic system update - I checked, I'm still running the old version.
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I don't have any issues. Do you have the November update yet?
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Is there a bugfix list of any sort about the most recent sytsem update?
I tried to find one, but as of now I have been unsuccessful.
No, nothing at all either. Mine also installed silently at some point. I recall a notification asked for a reboot yesterday morning.
No, not had one random reboot since I got it on Tuesday.
Nothing here either. Good luck!
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I don't have any issues. Do you have the November update yet?
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I had the November update and all apps had been updated as well. It would freeze and then reboot.
I did a factory reset and did not restore any of my apps, just ran it with the factory apps, and it still did it. Since no one else is having the issue, I'm feeling confident it was a bad unit. I had the 128 gb version.
It's back to the pixel 5 for another week or so. I had to exchange that after I got it too because of a bad proximity sensor. Either I just have really bad luck or Google needs to tweak their quality control department.
Weird unexplainable OS crashes like that are usually due to faulty hardware, potentially RAM
If you're having issues, do yourself a favor and keep an itemized list (on your device, word doc on pc, somewhere) and notate the following for each occurrence:
-date / time
-the fault (self reboot, major lag, over heated, fast battery discharge, etc.)
-what you had to do to clear it (rebooted, closed app, powered off/on, etc.)
When talking with Google about a replacement, having THIS information ready to read off will make it extremely hard from them to give you any grief about you needing a warranty replacement.
An itemized list of faults is MUCH better evidence that you need a replacement than "well, it rebooted a few times last month"
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Weird unexplainable OS crashes like that are usually due to faulty hardware, potentially RAM
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I am inclined to agree here, but my years of working with Windows and Android incl. rooting and using custom roms and kernels want to disagree here. There can be half a gazillion software based reasons for an OS crash, especially with a buggy release like Android 12. Not sure if you participated the beta, but it reminded me of Windows 11. There was a buggy beta build with about 100 bugs, they fixed 20, called it a day and released it. Now we new P6 owners can play beta testers Volume 2 for Google.
One very important thing here is also: Did you guys set up your phone "clean" or did you copy over your old phone by cable or did you use backup?
Any of these things can cause issues.
I, for example, used a cable to transfer all file and apps from my P4 XL to my P6 Pro. It's possible that this is the rootcause for some issues, or maybe it's not. Maybe there are even problems that occur only if you transfer your files from specific phone models to this one, you never know.
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I am inclined to agree here, but my years of working with Windows and Android incl. rooting and using custom roms and kernels want to disagree here. There can be half a gazillion software based reasons for an OS crash, especially with a buggy release like Android 12. Not sure if you participated the beta, but it reminded me of Windows 11. There was a buggy beta build with about 100 bugs, they fixed 20, called it a day and released it. Now we new P6 owners can play beta testers Volume 2 for Google.
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Sure, but the OP stated the crashes are happening right after a factory reset, and anecdotal evidence on this thread suggests it's not widespread. It does point to some sort of hardware problem.
I'm having exactly the same issue!
I got the phone today and booted it up for the first time. I selected my language and as soon as I pressed get started it froze, then got stuck in a bootloop. I fixed that by factory resetting from within recovery.
Once I'd gotten through the setup it crashed again when I clicked on the apps button in the optional setup. Because of this I factory reset and set the phone up for a third time.
Third time I got through setup with know issues but the phone freezes/reboots roughly once every two hours. I've been searching all day to see if anyone else has mentioned this issue.
I guess this phone is going in for replacement. Does anyone happen to know how long that takes/ if I'm going to be without a device for long?
They told me 3-5 business days to get a replacement. I expect mine early next week.
skyman631 said:
They told me 3-5 business days to get a replacement. I expect mine early next week.
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Do you have to send the old device back first?
skyman631 said:
Well, I had the 6 Pro for about 36 hours. It kept rebooting randomly, even after a factory reset, so it's going back for an exchange.
Has anyone else had this issue?
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I just had 3 random reboots today. Phone just laid on the side of my table on my laptop, doing nothing. It was in the span of probably ~10 minutes each reboot. A strange observation I made - now that I removed my phone from the back of my laptop and laid it directly on the table, no more reboots. Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it has something to do with the magnets of my Laptop (has quite a lot inside). Not sure what to make of this. It kinda feels like a software buggy-thing, but it's odd that it sometimes just comees and goes. It also only appears to be in absolute idle. I had my phone working yesterday for about 12 hours, incl. using it constantly with navigation, and it never faltered for once. That's why I'd say it's a software thingy, if it had something to do with hardware, it would reboot/fail when under load. But it doesn't.
Had 4 total reboots as of now (had the phone since 27.10).
First reboot was yesterday (28.10) morning when working out, phone laid idle around, booted up.
And now again 3 reboots, morning, laid around, did nothing.
So I've had probably a dozen in two days. I take my phone out of my pocket and attempt a fingerprint unlock only to be told that my PIN is required after a restart. At first I wasn't sure if it was actually rebooting until last night. It prompted me for my pin and upon entering it, the screen locked up for about 20 seconds and it rebooted.
This morning I woke up and was yet again greeted with the "PIN required after restart" and less than 20 minutes later it was the same thing. Only once hav I witnessed the "G" boot animation, but everytime I see my UI loading. So I'm not sure if it's always a full reboot or some times it's just the UI crashing. Everything on my device is stock.
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So I've had probably a dozen in two days. I take my phone out of my pocket and attempt a fingerprint unlock only to be told that my PIN is required after a restart. At first I wasn't sure if it was actually rebooting until last night. It prompted me for my pin and upon entering it, the screen locked up for about 20 seconds and it rebooted.
This morning I woke up and was yet again greeted with the "PIN required after restart" and less than 20 minutes later it was the same thing. Only once hav I witnessed the "G" boot animation, but everytime I see my UI loading. So I'm not sure if it's always a full reboot or some times it's just the UI crashing. Everything on my device is stock.
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Did you transfer your old phone over with a cable, or backup, or did you start "fresh"?
Maybe we can narrow it down if it's software or hardware problem.
Morgrain said:
Did you transfer your old phone over with a cable, or backup, or did you start "fresh"?
Maybe we can narrow it down if it's software or hardware problem.
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I did a partial transfer. I was coming from an iphone 12 so I transferred photos and contacts only. And I transferred via cable.
Ok, so like the title says, every 3-4 days I must reboot my phone.
When I play games, the game icon will show up in the lower right corner, I have everything for the game stuff turned off. I can click on the icon and it will ask me to turn on. I back out and it's gone for a few minutes. Mostly until I swipe back, then it will reappear. I can reboot the phone and it will work fine again for a another 3-4 days.
There are other instances that force me to reboot as well, one happened last night. I was scrolling through a local news app and the touch stopped working. I could not scroll up or down, and swiping back did not work. I had to lock the phone and just as the screen went dark, the phone scrolled in the directions I did and it backed out. This only happened when I hit the lock screen.
Is there a fix for this? Has anyone else experienced this?
My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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Mine does not reboot or shutdown on it own, not once... I have to reboot every so often to keep it functional.
@thepersona My phone doesn't auto reboot either. I'd say do a backup and run https://flash.android.com/welcome to fully Factory Reset the phone and see if that helps (Mine upgraded just fine, but my parents both failed the Dec update and had random issues requiring the use of the Android Flash Tool).
Like the OP I do have to reboot my phone about every 3-4 days, but I don't attribute that just to Google Android, coders have become lax on how tight they keep their code, and I say that because in Windows 10 and Windows 11 you have to reboot every few days as well or see an increase in weird issues.
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@thepersona Mine upgraded just fine, but my parents both failed the Dec update and had random issues requiring the use of the Android Flash Tool).
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Just to clarify this, most carriers prevented the December update from releasing as Google has asked them to prevent it from going through, primarily due to an issue with calls dropping.
I always manually update my phone, however, I noticed the call dropping bug one day for about an hour straight.
But aside from this meaningless info, I agree with what you said: Attempt a factory reset and see what happens. I turn my phone off every night and charge it, so I don't notice any issues similar to what OP has mentioned.
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My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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Yeah mine did that it would randomly restart once a week no matter what I was doing but I did a factory reset and it hasn't happened since!
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Yeah mine did that it would randomly restart once a week no matter what I was doing but I did a factory reset and it hasn't happened since!
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In your case, was it just a restart? Because mine literally powers off It doesn't reboot again. It shuts down in the middle of the night and I wouldn't know until I wake up when using my phone to figure out it won't turn on. I almost missed work on several occasions because of this lol
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In your case, was it just a restart? Because mine literally powers off It doesn't reboot again. It shuts down in the middle of the night and I wouldn't know until I wake up when using my phone to figure out it won't turn on. I almost missed work on several occasions because of this lol
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Yeah I was lucky and it was only once a week which was tolerable!
Something is definitely not right, hopefully is not a dodgy app but that would be preferable than something unfixable.
Ok guys you are missing my point and question. I DO NOT have the random reboots most have, but I have other issues that no one seem to have. Example, I listen to Spotify over night, I fall asleep to music, but 2 days ago it would randomly pause. At first I thought it was do not disturb that I just turned on, on my watch. It was not. Then I thought I may have been hitting my watch, I took it off and it still paused. I rebooted my phone and it's been fine since, no random pauses. Another example is, I play a game but I have the game dashboard turned off, but there times where the icon will pop up in the lower right. When I go into the settings for it, it shows it's off. When I go back to the game the icon is gone for a few minutes then it reappears. The only way for me to get it to stop showing for a few days is to reboot my phone.
I know you shouldn't have to reboot your phone every few days, and by few I mean sometimes it's 3-4 times a week. That tells me something is wrong.
Are you on the November or December update?
If November, I would try the December one.
Rooted or not rooted?
Either way, I would try a factory refresh and don't restore your apps from backup. Manually install only your most critical apps and see if you have the problem. Even better would be not install any additional apps at all and see if the problem happens. If it doesn't happen, install another small group of your most important apps and test again for long enough. Etc.
If you try thre update and/or factory reset, you could try restoring your cloud backup as normal and see if you have any problems still, but if you do, be prepared to factory reset and try like I mentioned in the above paragraph.
Until you can narrow down if the phone has this problem on the December update before you even change settings and add your favorite apps, then you won't know if it's the phone itself (possibly hardware problem), an app you have installed, a problem particular to a combination of factors including if you're on the November update, or what.
Good luck! Please let us know what happens.
I can tell you that until I updated to the December update I had the kinds of issues you had, where my P6P would malfunction (scrolling, just freezing) and I had to reboot the device. That was the first 6 weeks of using it. But when I updated to the December build, the issues for the most part went away. Hopefully you are on November and can update to December or wait until the January update drops. But I can say that I almost considered returning the phone due to the bugs until the December update resolved everything and it was like a new phone!
Good luck.
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I can tell you that until I updated to the December update I had the kinds of issues you had, where my P6P would malfunction (scrolling, just freezing) and I had to reboot the device. That was the first 6 weeks of using it. But when I updated to the December build, the issues for the most part went away. Hopefully you are on November and can update to December or wait until the January update drops. But I can say that I almost considered returning the phone due to the bugs until the December update resolved everything and it was like a new phone!
Good luck.
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Awesome!!! This is the kind of news I like to hear..... Just waiting for att to send it through. I checked this morning as my work Verizon Samsung phone got an update.