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[Q] Weird issue

Hi everyone,
I searched before I posted, but couldn't find a similar issue.
I'm running Cognition 3.04, and touch input seems to freeze up. If I let the screen go to 'sleep' and unlock the phone it will work for a few seconds, then start freezing again. Sometimes I can just wait a couple seconds and it will accept input. Even after a reboot, it will start this behavior after a few minutes.
The issue goes away when I go back to stock 2.1, though.
I realize the obvious solution is to stay with stock, but I was just curious if anyone else had experienced this and knew of a better solution (who wants to be on stock).
Thanks in advance.

That has happened to me before. Went away with a fresh flash and wipe of cache.

canadaboy37 said:
Hi everyone,
I searched before I posted, but couldn't find a similar issue.
I'm running Cognition 3.04, and touch input seems to freeze up. If I let the screen go to 'sleep' and unlock the phone it will work for a few seconds, then start freezing again. Sometimes I can just wait a couple seconds and it will accept input. Even after a reboot, it will start this behavior after a few minutes.
The issue goes away when I go back to stock 2.1, though.
I realize the obvious solution is to stay with stock, but I was just curious if anyone else had experienced this and knew of a better solution (who wants to be on stock).
Thanks in advance.
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You didn't restore system data when you flashed this, did you?

canadaboy37 said:
Hi everyone,
I searched before I posted, but couldn't find a similar issue.
I'm running Cognition 3.04, and touch input seems to freeze up. If I let the screen go to 'sleep' and unlock the phone it will work for a few seconds, then start freezing again. Sometimes I can just wait a couple seconds and it will accept input. Even after a reboot, it will start this behavior after a few minutes.
The issue goes away when I go back to stock 2.1, though.
Thanks in advance.
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Do you have any over/underclock settings applied? Are there are any voltage settings that you find?

cappysw10 said:
You didn't restore system data when you flashed this, did you?
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The first time I flashed, I did that which I later realized to be a huge mistake. When this issue started, I flashed back to stock did a master clear and reflashed Cog, but the issue remains. Is there some step I missed in clearing out the old stuff?

This happens to me in swype occasionally. Super annoying bc it thinks I am taking my finger off the screen when I am not causing swype to be worthless. after a reboot it goes away
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trekie86 said:
Do you have any over/underclock settings applied? Are there are any voltage settings that you find?
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I haven't played with anything other than flashing Cognition onto the phone.
I'm going to try going through the whole thing again, but this time not reinstalling any old apps/data through Titanium Backup. I'll set everything from scratch and see if that makes a difference.

GTalk Won't Open Anymore...

I have a weird problem with my GF's inspire where her GTalk won't open anymore. If you click on the app the screen just flashes and boom your back at the home screen screen.
We've cleared the cache and stuff so that's all greyed out now. You can force stop, but that doesn't seem to actually well fix anything. She also doesn't appear to have low amounts of space either.
She's currently running the stock Gingerbread 2.3.3 ROM, and she didn't have this problem till just this week.
Any ideas?

Vanillalite said:
I have a weird problem with my GF's inspire where her GTalk won't open anymore. If you click on the app the screen just flashes and boom your back at the home screen screen.
We've cleared the cache and stuff so that's all greyed out now. You can force stop, but that doesn't seem to actually well fix anything. She also doesn't appear to have low amounts of space either.
She's currently running the stock Gingerbread 2.3.3 ROM, and she didn't have this problem till just this week.
Any ideas?
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Is her phone rooted?

She hasn't rooted her phone yet no.

Sounds silly I know, but she has tried rebooting phone with "FastBoot" turned off? It can be found in the main settings under the "power" section.

Agoattamer said:
Sounds silly I know, but she has tried rebooting phone with "FastBoot" turned off? It can be found in the main settings under the "power" section.
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Actually I saw this recommended when I was Googling for a fix, but I forgot to try it when I was hanging out with her last night. I'll try it tonight and post back with results thanks!

Okay turning that off seems to have fixed at least the GTalk issue with her phone anyways. Thanks XDA people!

Screen flicker?

Anyone else have a screen flicker before phone times out into sleep mode? When the screen is already dark, there's a multi-colored box in the bottom quarter. WTF?

Einsteindks said:
Anyone else have a screen flicker before phone times out into sleep mode? When the screen is already dark, there's a multi-colored box in the bottom quarter. WTF?
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Negative. Sounds like sometime is buggy in the fw, or possibly damaged screen/flex cable thats capturing raw data instead of the signal being sent to it. I work in a cell repair shop, and it's quite amusing when iphones do it.
Have you tried booting into safemode and seeing if it still does it?

TKTAB911 said:
Negative. Sounds like sometime is buggy in the fw, or possibly damaged screen/flex cable thats capturing raw data instead of the signal being sent to it. I work in a cell repair shop, and it's quite amusing when iphones do it.
Have you tried booting into safemode and seeing if it still does it?
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My first guest was something funky in the FW as well. I have a fresh clean backup of the OS, and will try flashing that tomorrow. The display has been replaced, and the cable definitely attached securely. I'll save the safe mode option to last.

Einsteindks said:
My first guest was something funky in the FW as well. I have a fresh clean backup of the OS, and will try flashing that tomorrow. The display has been replaced, and the cable definitely attached securely. I'll save the safe mode option to last.
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Just out of curiosity why would you revert to a backed up OS before trying safe mode when it's as simple as a couple button clicks and easily restored to default boot-up. Time to safe-boot, test, and restart would probably be shorter than time spent to revert to an older backup, but your call there captain. Hope it's just a FW issue, should keep me the thread up to date if you do find a solution though

TKTAB911 said:
Just out of curiosity why would you revert to a backed up OS before trying safe mode when it's as simple as a couple button clicks and easily restored to default boot-up. Time to safe-boot, test, and restart would probably be shorter than time spent to revert to an older backup, but your call there captain. Hope it's just a FW issue, should keep me the thread up to date if you do find a solution though
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I guess I knew a lot less about safe mode and I thought. Could this be something to deal with the dream state option of this phone sleep mode? I'll probably give safe mode a try when I get home.

Ok, in safemode, MotoLauncher was in perpetual FC action, I couldn't do anything. I've recently noticed that some settings in Lux auto brightness were changed. Put it back into normal mode, flashed a clean, fresh backup of the OS. All seems fine, now.

Einsteindks said:
Ok, in safemode, MotoLauncher was in perpetual FC action, I couldn't do anything. I've recently noticed that some settings in Lux auto brightness were changed. Put it back into normal mode, flashed a clean, fresh backup of the OS. All seems fine, now.
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Oh well I'm glad you figured it out. The default launcher shouldn't FC anyways, especially under safe-mode, but it's an easy way to figure out that a faulty OS may be the cause.

TKTAB911 said:
Oh well I'm glad you figured it out. The default launcher shouldn't FC anyways, especially under safe-mode, but it's an easy way to figure out that a faulty OS may be the cause.
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As a follow up, the (red) flicker does come back after a short while. I have suspicions because I noticed with sub-zero Lux settings, it happens, and with dialing it up past zero things calm down, but not 100%. Yeah, I was shocked about the stock launcher perpetually FCing. I haven't checked it with a wholly clean re-install of the system only...project for a rainy day. I did check it after making the stock launcher the launcher of choice, still FCing.
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[Q] 5113 Locking up and Strange Behavior

My neighbor's 5113 is having some strange issues I hope I can get some insight on. I've worked with a lot of Samsung phones and am very familiar with flashing, Odin, etc but have not worked with a tablet before.
First, it has 4.2.2 on it. I tried the stock software update function and it says it's up to date. Is that true? Is 4.2.2 the latest official for this device?
Second, It's having lock up issues (see below) so I thought I would "Clear Cache" in stock recovery. It starts going through the process and then errors out. It just flashes ERROR and then goes back to the stock recovery screen. I've never seen that before. Any ideas?
Lastly and most importantly, it locks up regularly. It will lock up with the screen on (although it seems to take longer to lock up with the screen on with some motion.) When the screen goes off it will lock up quickly, normally within 5 minutes and it even locks up when charging up. The charging animation stops and you have to hold the power button for 10 seconds to get it to come back to life. It's very strange. It even seems to freeze when it's off. It won't just start by pushing the power button for a couple of seconds, you have to hold it for 10 seconds until the charging animation pops up and then push the power button for a couple of seconds.
I haven't reset to factory specs because she has a ton of info on the thing and I'm afraid if it errors out clearing cache, what might it do if I try a factory reset?
Thoughts?
Thanks for the help.
UPDATE: I did a factory reset via stock recovery and it did delete all the data. It still will not let me clear cache though. It still locks up whenever the screen goes dark. It will lock up in just a couple of minutes.
Very frustrating.

I would try flashing the stock firmware and see if that clears up the locking problem, after a day or so I would flash CM11 with gapps and take it from there.
After running stock rooted before flashing CM11 do a nandroid b/u just in case it acts up. CM11 IS SUPER stable, have run it on my P5113 for several years starting with cm10.
CM12 is still buggy don't trust it.
Pp.

PanchoPlanet said:
I would try flashing the stock firmware and see if that clears up the locking problem,
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Thank you very much PanchoPlanet. I factory reset and reloaded stock firmware several times but it would still lock up as soon as it went to sleep. And I still could not wipe cache. Very strange. I went so far as to not set up any accounts and make sure it didn't download any software updates to make sure it wasn't some update that was causing issues.
It would still lock up even when it was off and just supposed to be charging the battery! So I really think it's memory is trashed.
But I would be more than open to listen to any other ideas.
Thanks.

Maybe there could be other issues that you are not aware of, like the tab having been dropped or liquid damage or even voodoo, who knows.
Sometimes people don't disclose all the details.
Pp.

PanchoPlanet said:
Maybe there could be other issues that you are not aware of, like the tab having been dropped or liquid damage or even voodoo, who knows.
Sometimes people don't disclose all the details.
Pp.
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It looks to be in perfect shape. But in any event, if something like that happened then it's toast anyway.

Yeah, especially the voodoo. Lol.
Pp.

Cyanogen redirecting to home screen every 2-3 secs

I was accessing chrome and all of sudden everything got minimized to home screen. I tried killing apps, restarted mobile, power off phone and start but no luck.
From any app I am in, if the touch screen has no touch for 2-3 secs , then it Will bring me back to home screen. However I am able to download apps from play store by touching screen continuously.
I am on latest update of cyanogen provided by one plus one. Any help is highly appreciated.

Compscho said:
I was accessing chrome and all of sudden everything got minimized to home screen. I tried killing apps, restarted mobile, power off phone and start but no luck.
From any app I am in, if the touch screen has no touch for 2-3 secs , then it Will bring me back to home screen. However I am able to download apps from play store by touching screen continuously.
I am on latest update of cyanogen provided by one plus one. Any help is highly appreciated.
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Tried factory reset?

Factory reset worked for the day
Mr.Ak said:
Tried factory reset?
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Hi,
I tried factory reset (Without data). It only worked for the day. Today i realized that it has started doing the same thing again. After every 2-3 secs anything gets redirected to home screen. Battery doctor also is not killing apps and gets redirected to home screen. The mobile is not getting locked as well.
Regards,
Compscho

Compscho said:
Hi,
I tried factory reset (Without data). It only worked for the day. Today i realized that it has started doing the same thing again. After every 2-3 secs anything gets redirected to home screen. Battery doctor also is not killing apps and gets redirected to home screen. The mobile is not getting locked as well.
Regards,
Compscho
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You should not be using any apps like "Battery doctor", this might be the reason for this type of behaving of device.Please uninstall any other apps like this also.

Mr.Ak said:
You should not be using any apps like "Battery doctor", this might be the reason for this type of behaving of device.Please uninstall any other apps like this also.
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I installed security guard. Post that its working fine. But will definitely try to remove it as well as battery doctor and similar apps to see if there is an issue.
Thanks.

Issue still persist
Compscho said:
I installed security guard. Post that its working fine. But will definitely try to remove it as well as battery doctor and similar apps to see if there is an issue.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I uninstalled all optimizing app. However, the issue came back. Now it is not getting solved even after installing them back.
Do you think it is an hardware issue?

It may be an issue with compatibility because if you're still using the stock cyanogen OS
You will still be at android 5.1.1 and the current version is 7.2.
I may be wrong though so don't take my word for it