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[Q] Help! Random Reboots

I am getting random reboots and I am unable to figure out what is causing the problem and I have not found any thread about random reboots with the Captivate.

haojan said:
I am getting random reboots and I am unable to figure out what is causing the problem and I have not found any thread about random reboots with the Captivate.
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Provide us with more information. Is your phone rooted, on a custom ROM maybe, what have you been doing to your phone, when did this start happening, etc.

History
I started with stock, rooted, non-market apps, unhelpful kernel v1.2, removed AT&T bloatware. LCD density @ 180. Tried One Click Lag Fix v1.0 and v2.2 and uninstalled. Juice Defender to manage 3G. Juice Plotter to track battery.
After messing around with it, I encountered a reset of the default launcher selection each time I long pressed the home button to bring up the recently used programs. I then did a hard reset and that fixed that problem. After the hard reset, my Captivate ran great! I found it responsive and fast enough without the need to try and apply any lagfix.
I then reinstalled my selected applications. My phone started to randomly reboot about once a day. I noticed Juice Plotter's data would be lost and it had to rebuild. It also happened to reboot on me once while I was using it. Other than that, it has not really affected my usability.

If it hasn't affected your usability, do you want to fix it?
If you do want to fix it, then the best way is to restore to Stock and add things slowly until you determine the problem. If you return to Stock and it still reboots, then you have a hardware issue.

It doesn't "quite" affect usability but it is not working "normally" either.
Was hoping to see if anyone else have experienced random reboots and how to troubleshoot it. If not, I will try out Odin one-click flash to stock...

Screen wont stay off?

Over the past day i have realised that the screen will not stay turned off!
This has only started recently and i am trying to eliminate hardware.
Once i turn it off the screen stays off for around 5secs then flicks back on permanently, i have eliminated a faulty button as it doesn't switch back off at any point?
I have uninstalled every app except default
I have wiped and reinstalled cm30 about 6 times!
Anyone have any clues? Really frustrating!

Try to do factory reset and back to stock.
And see if the problem is coming.
If not, then your custom rom might be the culprit.
keirmccann said:
Over the past day i have realised that the screen will not stay turned off!
This has only started recently and i am trying to eliminate hardware.
Once i turn it off the screen stays off for around 5secs then flicks back on permanently, i have eliminated a faulty button as it doesn't switch back off at any point?
I have uninstalled every app except default
I have wiped and reinstalled cm30 about 6 times!
Anyone have any clues? Really frustrating!
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Thanks, where can i download the full stock rom? Most seem updates?

keirmccann said:
Thanks, where can i download the full stock rom? Most seem updates?
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Here's a 2.3.1 blank nandroid image thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884093
There might be others in the development section.

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!

Anyone else with problems like this?

Recently put ViperXL on and took updates now its ViperXL 3.2.5, put kernel 3.4.10-ElementalX v5.0 vanilla on, flashed radio 2.41.,S-OFF.. Now the screen at times becomes unresponsive like when deleting apps,touch the app , it opens but it wont move or delete.IF I reboot, the screen behaves like it should for an unknown period then problem starts to repeat itself untill rebooting again. Another issue I noticed lately before flashing Viper is in TWRP , especially when rebooting, tapping the reboot button it wont respond for a short period,I might have to tap several times to get reboot to happen. I am wondering if I put too much on the system or might it be something internal?

leesumm said:
Recently put ViperXL on and took updates now its ViperXL 3.2.5, put kernel 3.4.10-ElementalX v5.0 vanilla on, flashed radio 2.41.,S-OFF.. Now the screen at times becomes unresponsive like when deleting apps,touch the app , it opens but it wont move or delete.IF I reboot, the screen behaves like it should for an unknown period then problem starts to repeat itself untill rebooting again. Another issue I noticed lately before flashing Viper is in TWRP , especially when rebooting, tapping the reboot button it wont respond for a short period,I might have to tap several times to get reboot to happen. I am wondering if I put too much on the system or might it be something internal?
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delay with twrp reboot is normal. issues with custom kernels are pretty common as you are pushing your phone beyond spec and making the phone do things it wasn't really designed to do. imo the screen freezing is due to s2w but i could be wrong. i think you can turn s2w off in elemental, try turning it off and see if you still get freezing.

could be.
DvineLord said:
delay with twrp reboot is normal. issues with custom kernels are pretty common as you are pushing your phone beyond spec and making the phone do things it wasn't really designed to do. imo the screen freezing is due to s2w but i could be wrong. i think you can turn s2w off in elemental, try turning it off and see if you still get freezing.
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This could be the trick. I tried this morning and so far today there hasn't been a hangup on apps. I tried a couple and everything as usual. But this has been a intermittent thing not knowing when or how it would happen.

Yeah I have found some of the Venom tweaks really affecting responsiveness. For example if you could figure power long press to turn on the flashlight it takes NOTABLY longer to wake the phone. I can see s2w having the same effect

Here I thought I was the only one experiencing this issue. I did a full wipe and format and flashed a bone stock (default configuration) flash of ViperXL to see if that would solve the issue. Screen issue doesn't occur as often as before bit it still happens. I found that if I block the light sensor, the screen begins to behave normally. I don't have a logcat yet but can upload if necessary.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app

same problem again.
leesumm said:
This could be the trick. I tried this morning and so far today there hasn't been a hangup on apps. I tried a couple and everything as usual. But this has been a intermittent thing not knowing when or how it would happen.
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I thought wrong , again, tried this morning just moving an app from home screen to second screen. It will open but unable to move it or delete it from the screen. Rebooted and seems everything is normal again.

Are you using 4x5 Rosie?
Sent from my VENOMized HoxL

area51avenger said:
Are you using 4x5 Rosie?
Sent from my VENOMized HoxL
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Not really sure, I can't find anything that 4x5 is enabled. S2W I disabled also, this is not a big problem just irritating some times. Things usually start working normal when I reboot system .

You could try increasing the voltage.

ken bentley said:
You could try increasing the voltage.
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At this point I am not sure I am that smart to be messing with volotage and such on the inside of this thing.

just stopped using a custom kernel. i stopped using them cause of freezing issues.

[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.