I have a replacement phone that was sent to me because my original phone suffered from random shutdowns (on both the stock, but rooted ROM and on custom ROMS) and was within the affected IMEI range. When I got it on Friday I immediately flashed Cog 4.0 and then 4.1 on it. Woke up Saturday morning and it had shutdown during the night. Restarted and it shutdown again within 10 minutes. Restarted and about 3 hours later it shutdown again. Restarted and it shutdown again within the hour. Four random shutdowns in less than 18 hours when I had only 4 shutdowns in 2 months on my original phone. Upon checking, the replacement phone is also in the same IMEI range. Grrr.
Decided it was going back, called AT$T and arranged for another replacement to be sent and voiced my displeasure that they would send a phone within the same IMEI range. I Odin'ed the replacement back to stock and did the Kies update to 2.2 just for fun. The phone was up and running for 24 hours on stock Froyo without a single random shutdown. This morning I flashed Andromeda on it, again, just for fun and because I wanted to test the GPS compared to Cog 4.1. The Andromeda GPS is amazing, locks in less than 10 seconds, sees more birds, gets closer accuracy and holds lock better. Unfortunately, the phone had a random shutdown within an hour. Restarted and it shutdown again within 10 minutes.
Two different custom ROMs, same problem with random shutdowns. Not sure what the relevancy is, but there's obviously something not right if I can go 24+ hours without a shutdown on the stock, unrooted ROM and no more than an hour on a custom rooted ROM.
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So over the last few days my phone seems to have settled into some sort of weird pattern with reboots. Although there are outliers, in general it always seems to reboot between 19-24h of uptime and nearly always at like 45 or 50 mins past the hour. It's the most bizarre thing in the world and why I think there's some funky software doing it. I don't have true random reboots, but I can't figure out what it is that is doing this. Very odd.
In all cases my phone is sitting with the screen off (I've NEVER had a reboot while using the phone/screen on) but it doesn't matter what radios are on, WiFi, BT, GPS (can be off or on).
Last time I ran "CatLog" a logging app from Market and had it write to SD logs and a reboot happened but it only by default writes every 200 lines so the last line in the file was probably not the last line in the log. I'm going to try again later and set it to write every line or few lines so I can see the last entry in the log before a reboot. Might shine some light on it.
Just find it very strange since it's a very stable and capable phone for about 18hrs and then it just craps on itself. Very strange.
finally. I too just think it is some weird software or driver bug because I was running EB 1.0.4 FINE for like 3-4 days and loving it... then it started resetting almost hourly. I didn't install any other apps past my initial normal set of apps.
Even CM7, seems like it is fine for a few days, then gets crazy. As long as I put a new nightly rom on it every day, it's good.
I didn't have any issues with stock though and didn't seem to have issues with CM7 for a while until lately.
The leaked GB rom causes lockups immediately out of the gate seemed hourly.
I use CM7 as my main daily driver now but I think you are on to something. We are talking about the Screen of Death right? I don't think mine ever reboots, but gets stuck at the lockscreen where the the display comes up, swiping to unlock vibrates then the phone but doesn't change screens to desktop. The buttons and click/drag widgets work even though you are looking the lockscreen.
I've never had my phone powered off in my pocket or noticed it "rebooting". Mine just has the SoD that seems to follow your pattern idea. They may be related. Stock roms may reset once it locks up, where CM7 just keeps running in its locked state.
I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.
I just hope that update gets here sooner than later.
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I dunno. The tmobile jingle is pretty loud and I never hear it. CM7 has a silent one so possibly there but I dunno.
I use my phone pretty often and never had the suspicious that it reboots. My phone stays very cool during my usage compared to my nexus and other phones
My uptime was 4 hours since I reset it last. I'll monitor it with results. It'll be hard not to flash but I'll keep track and see how far I can keep it online.
i have not had any reboots or waking up to a dead phone ....with the only fix is a battery pull.... ever since I started.
1) my over night charging / long term charging to 100%... only on the LG charger that it came with. Only short term...maybe. less than an hour and not to a 100% charge on a non LG charger (car charger etc...)
2) I restart my G2x every morning when I take it off the LG charger..(after I take it off..I did it once while on the charger and had an issue... (there is definitely an issue related to when it charges to/ around 100% charge)
Just my 2 cents.
Pattern to my reboots - do yours have a pattern?
Hold Power and volume up simultaneously for about 10 seconds.
I've had my phone since Friday, but the only time I had the rebooting problem was this past Saturday when it rebooted four times within 15 minutes or so. Before the rebooting began, the phone had slowed down to a crawl, so I went ahead and rebooted it. After that, I sat it down and watched it reboot a few times on its own. Luckily my iPhone 4 owning co-worker was completely unaware of this issue since we tease and bicker with each other every day over Android and iOS .
mobilehavoc said:
I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.
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I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.
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I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.
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What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?
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What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?
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Everything other than smart share, tegra zone and qik. Of course have nova and need for speed also.
Oh also have car home froze..
Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).
player911 said:
Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).
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Yes I know the battery driver is part of the problem as can be seen on CM7 builds but what's odd is my time varies so for a long time it would reboot every 17-20 hours, now all of a sudden it goes to 36 hours before it usually reboots. Looking at logs it doesn't appear to throw any major errors before a reboot which implies that it's a a kernel panic or low-level fault. At this point I've given up on trying to find the issue since it's been repeated over and over that T-Mo and LG are releasing an update. Might as well enjoy the phone and wait for that to come out
Amen. Just keep flashing CM nightlies and you'll never worry about it.
I have had my white Skyrocket just a day short of 1 week. Today is the first day it has just randomly shut off and three times so far. Has anyone else experienced this? I was talking on it for about an hour with 90% charge, ended the call, set it down, and picked it up 30 mins. later and it was off. When I woke up this morning I watched some Youtube, checked some emails, and 10 mins. later off again. I had to take out the battery and turn it on. I'm rooted with the ICS rom.
Try flashing the stock kernel and see if it persists.
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Most likely it's the Kernel. Flash stock-ish kernel and that should fix the issue.
I will give that a try then.....thanks
Did it work?
I also have the same issue. Rooted with Sky ICS 2.3.6 and my phone just randomly turns off from time to time. I'll be use it and then it turns off and the power button doesn't work. Have to take it out of my Otter Box Defender case, take the battery cover off and pull the battery and put everything back together.
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket
Sky ICS 2.3.6 ROM
CPU OC Kernel
YES! I'm on my 2nd SR, since release for same reason.
My first Skyrocket began repeatedly restarting, a few days after purchase. I thought I had the problem solved, after attributing the issue to an extra 16gb micro sd card, I took from my t-mobile Galaxy S 4G. But now my new Skyrocket, less than a week old, began the same **** 2 days ago - ALSO, after installing an extra 4gb card i had. WTF? The screen suddenly flashes white and the phone starts a continual process of restarting, until I'm able to get it to factory reset.
Well I flashed back to the "stockish" Kernal and i have not had a single random power off in over a week. Thanks.
I recommend using the CM7 + KA_G CM7 kernel. Its awesome. Way better then stock + I don't experience random sleep of death like I do with regular rom + DA_G overclock kernel.
Thanks for reply. It's been fine since my previous post, before which, it took 4 to 5 hours for me to get it to remain on, long enough to complete a factory reset.
Additionally, I'm wondering if downloading/installing "warez" for extended periods, most of which I'll just uninstal (tech addiction), could be reason for the shut downs??
I never had this problem with my first phone.
But my replacement phone has powered off a few times. It does have an SD card installed.
A couple times while unplugging/removing it from my car dock (3rd party charger). It just powers off. And I have to manually power it back on again.
And several times while plopping it lightly down on the table or pressing/holding the phone in a weird way.
Also once or twice while ending a phone call.
I'll prolly take it back soon. I'm outside of 30 days though, so I'm in no rush as I'll just get a refurbed phone I'm sure, and have to take my chances on getting one with a crap screen. While my current phone has a perfect screen (no vertical lines or blobs).
I've had the problem with custom ROM's, kernels and also on more than one reflash of stock ROM/Kernel.
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I never had this problem with my first phone.
But my replacement phone has powered off a few times. It does have an SD card installed.
A couple times while unplugging/removing it from my car dock (3rd party charger). It just powers off. And I have to manually power it back on again.
And several times while plopping it lightly down on the table or pressing/holding the phone in a weird way.
Also once or twice while ending a phone call.
I'll prolly take it back soon. I'm outside of 30 days though, so I'm in no rush as I'll just get a refurbed phone I'm sure, and have to take my chances on getting one with a crap screen. While my current phone has a perfect screen (no vertical lines or blobs).
I've had the problem with custom ROM's, kernels and also on more than one reflash of stock ROM/Kernel.
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Trade phones? Mine has lines, but it probably has the best hardware out of all skyrockets.
1.89GHz stable, no problems with any ROM's, no SoD problems, nothing.
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JK lol, I love my phone. <3
I have had my Motorola Atrix 4G since June 2011. Up until March of this year, the only problem I ever had was that sometimes when using the keyboard on screen, ghost hits / taps would activate the letter "q", somewhat annoying but I could live with it. Since March, the phone started randomly shutting itself off and powering itself back on - power cycling. No rhyme or reason, sometimes it would be hot, sometimes cool, sometimes being used, sometimes sitting idle. Anywhere from every five minutes to once an hour. The warranty period with ATT had ended about two weeks prior to this starting, but it was still covered under Motorola's one year warranty. So the dance with Motorola began. First they had me perform a factory reset. Still power cycled. Then they had me send it in for repair. Received it back after 10 days. Still power cycled. Then they sent me a new battery (may have been refurbished). It still power cycled. Then they had me send it back in so that a senior tech could look at it. Received it back. Power cycled in the first twenty minutes. Then they sent me a new (refurbed) handset. Received it two days ago. After an hour and twenty minutes, it power cycled. Continues to randomly power cycle. I have tried it with the two different batteries, I have attempted a factory reset on the newer phone and have had no luck. I contacted them today, they are going to switch the phone for an Atrix 2. I am at my wits end dealing with the phone. Has anyone else out there experienced anything like this? Also, what is the normal operational temperature that the phone should get to? I have seen the phone reach as high as 107 degrees.
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[Since March, the phone started randomly shutting itself off and powering itself back on - power cycling. No rhyme or reason, sometimes it would be hot, sometimes cool, sometimes being used, sometimes sitting idle. Anywhere from every five minutes to once an hour.[/QUOTE]
I'm having the same issue. It's not as frequent, between 1 and 3 times per day, but it still doesn't seem to have a pattern. The only thing I can think of is it has to do with data because several of the crashes occurred when a webpage failed to load or Google Maps was hanging, but that could just be a symptom not a cause.
I did a factory reset and while I was downloading my apps and syncing contacts, it cycled. So I'm considering rooting and putting CM7 on there, but last time I tried to root an Atrix 4G it bricked, so I'm a bit hesitant. Any suggestions or new information?
I've been running CM 10 on my phone without issue (besides the whole touchscreen thing that wasn't a big problem for me) for several months.
I went to cm10.1 last week and my phone started having graphical artifacts on occasion (like an overheating gfx card) and eventually started shutting off randomly and restarting with 50% less battery than it had. I did a full wipe and put back on CM10, but it's still doing it, and has gotten progressively worse.
For the past couple of days my phone would work for about an hour, and then shut off and either come back on with 50% less battery, or not at all until I plugged it in for several hours (even if it had just been plugged in all night). Now, my phone has been plugged in for 24 hours and I can't get it to turn on at all. I've held the power button for 30 seconds, held power+down, etc.
When it was on it's last legs I wanted to do S-OFF and then go to stock so I could do the warranty, but the S-OFF process hanged when trying to push the first file.
Any help?
Thanks
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I've been running CM 10 on my phone without issue (besides the whole touchscreen thing that wasn't a big problem for me) for several months.
I went to cm10.1 last week and my phone started having graphical artifacts on occasion (like an overheating gfx card) and eventually started shutting off randomly and restarting with 50% less battery than it had. I did a full wipe and put back on CM10, but it's still doing it, and has gotten progressively worse.
For the past couple of days my phone would work for about an hour, and then shut off and either come back on with 50% less battery, or not at all until I plugged it in for several hours (even if it had just been plugged in all night). Now, my phone has been plugged in for 24 hours and I can't get it to turn on at all. I've held the power button for 30 seconds, held power+down, etc.
When it was on it's last legs I wanted to do S-OFF and then go to stock so I could do the warranty, but the S-OFF process hanged when trying to push the first file.
Any help?
Thanks
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If it won't power on, screen won't turn on, power led doesn't light up even when plugged in, it's bricked. Sounds like you've got some serious hardware issues.
So 1 year ago my J7 2016 (Exynos7870, J710MN variant) started having problems, the random reboot. So I installed a new ROM (HavocOS) and the problem seemed to go away but it didn't, after some time the intervals between the random reboots were gradually getting shorter so I flashed another ROM (BlackBird OS) and the interval between reboots was once again around 3 hours, but it still kept getting shorter. Now I installed the Klaxosaur ROM and after 19 days it was rebooting very frequently, like a reboot every 10 minutes, so I reinstalled Klaxosaur and the delay is longer again (still around 3 hours). Now, one important thing is that the reboots don't happen on recovery mode or when I'm playing games, I installed a Wake Lock app but it didn't seem to work (maybe it's because the APP didn't work but that might be the fix?) Please help! I'll soon get a new smartphone but I really love my J7.
Could be a sign of your battery dying.
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Could be a sign of your battery dying.
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I don't think it is because it works just fine on games (when CPU is being used) and I already got a new battery and this didn't change. Also if I let my phone stay on the recovery mode for 10 hours with the screen on it doesn't reboot...