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I am totally new heree and not sure if this is the right place to post this. Please bear with me.
I updated my G2X when the Gingerbread version first came out. I just noticed that it still automatically rebooted itself twice last night while I was reading. The G2X was right nest to me and I heard the T-Mobile tone while it rebooted. Has anyone experienced this? I thought this update shall fix this bugging issue. I also notice the battery drains faster. Anyone knows how to root it after gingerbread update? Thanks.
traveljazz said:
I am totally new heree and not sure if this is the right place to post this. Please bear with me.
I updated my G2X when the Gingerbread version first came out. I just noticed that it still automatically rebooted itself twice last night while I was reading. The G2X was right nest to me and I heard the T-Mobile tone while it rebooted. Has anyone experienced this? I thought this update shall fix this bugging issue. I also notice the battery drains faster. Anyone knows how to root it after gingerbread update? Thanks.
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A factory reset after I did the update has helped me avoid all issues.
tmo will replace it. you just need to speak with them and not the first person you get. The first person I think are outsorced and they will transfer you to tmo tech guys.
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tmo will replace it. you just need to speak with them and not the first person you get. The first person I think are outsorced and they will transfer you to tmo tech guys.
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you mean calling customer service? or in store?
Yea get that ***** replaced. there are good ones out there you just need to find it..
Factory reset after the update fixed it for me to.
jabhome said:
A factory reset after I did the update has helped me avoid all issues.
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Yup, go to the privacy menu and use the option.
The simple act of doing a reset does a lot for a smart phone.
I had an Iphone 3g where after 4.2.1 the solution to speed was to do 2 factory resets in a row.
Some people will return a laptop because they don't want to do a reboot.
------------After the reset, go to the marketplace and the first thing install the T-Mobile My Account app. The original version is problematic and can lead to buggieness
tombaker1 said:
Yup, go to the privacy menu and use the option.
The simple act of doing a reset does a lot for a smart phone.
I had an Iphone 3g where after 4.2.1 the solution to speed was to do 2 factory resets in a row.
Some people will return a laptop because they don't want to do a reboot.
------------After the reset, go to the marketplace and the first thing install the T-Mobile My Account app. The original version is problematic and can lead to buggieness
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If you return a phone to Tmobile before doing a factory reset to see if it solves your problem then you simply don't value your time. A factory reset takes all but five minutes. If you call Tmobile you will have to wait for them to ship you a phone, and when it arrives it will be in "factory reset" condition anyway. If you go to a retailer and pick a replacement up, it too will be in the same condition. So if you are going to get a reset replacement, everyone would be wise to try a reset before rushing to Tmobile.
I had the same problems with GB after the update- I didnt do a factory reset though.
Moved to Eagles Blood and seems like a much more stable and cleaner rom- havent tested enough to see if it reboots or not though.
To root, flash clockwork mod recovery using nvflash and install a rooted rom. There's a rooted version of gb stock out there, or you could be adventurous and install one of the many custom ones we have.
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Return your broken phone ASAP. Phones should not randomly turn off or reboot. It is broken. Do not try to fix a broken phone on your own. It will result in nothing but headaches. Take it back now!
Yeah my replacement phone still randomly dies, I'll come back in a few hours and have to do a battery pull. It doesn't reboot like the old one but it does die more.
Should I get the replacement replaced?
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I had the same problems with GB after the update- I didnt do a factory reset though.
Moved to Eagles Blood and seems like a much more stable and cleaner rom- havent tested enough to see if it reboots or not though.
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I ran Xboarders OTA GB with no tweaks since it came out. I then switched to EB 1.07 and had a ton of issues. I then returns to Xboarders OTA tweak and it was flawless. Now I am on to Weapon G2x.
Like I said, I really think a good scrub down and wipe, i.e. factory reset does wonders, at least folks should give it a try.
I absolutely agree that theres a good, actually great batch out there, I have NEVER had a single issue with my phone and its bone stock on 2.2.
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so are you doing this in the store? or calling customer service?
So auto reboot issue is the only issue you people are facing in this mobile phone?
Returned phone . New works flawlessly. Tmo is aware of the issue. When u call you will talk first with an outsourced person. Get past them they will transfer u to tmo who will pretty much no questions asked process ur return
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Mine is still rebooting and having problems, i factory reset twice and still having issues. What should i do now?
same problem with my g2x and my wifes g2x...is there a solution for this?
I bought from ebay after reading reviews that the phone works find after gb update.....that means going back to tmobile is not an option for me
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Mine is still rebooting and having problems, i factory reset twice and still having issues. What should i do now?
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Purchase at eBay does not affect 1-year warranty.
Rooted with Altered Beast just a few days ago. Flashed Gummy Charged 1.9.1. No issues until I downloaded the wifitether app. After a reboot shortly after using the wifitether app my 3G/4G (data) has completely gone away. I have wiped/flashed lots of times. My boot animation seems to have an issue as well. Kinda flashes in and out almost like it is getting stuck. I also tried a reflash of ABeast through Odin as well. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm going to try to go back to stock. I'll let you know what happens.
I made it back to stock, but no success in getting data back. Any suggestions?
Gonna go out on a limb here and say that Verizon noticed u trying to use it and cut your data...... or u just have moblie data turned completely off? Either way id takebit to Verizon, could just be a bad similar card
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say that Verizon noticed u trying to use it and cut your data...... or u just have moblie data turned completely off? Either way id takebit to Verizon, could just be a bad similar card
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doubt it unless your using retardedly high amounts of data and even then they would probably just throttle you... but yeah toggling data a few times sometimes may work
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Rooted with Altered Beast just a few days ago. Flashed Gummy Charged 1.9.1. No issues until I downloaded the wifitether app. After a reboot shortly after using the wifitether app my 3G/4G (data) has completely gone away. I have wiped/flashed lots of times. My boot animation seems to have an issue as well. Kinda flashes in and out almost like it is getting stuck. I also tried a reflash of ABeast through Odin as well. Anyone have any ideas?
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I made it back to stock, but no success in getting data back. Any suggestions?
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i always wonder why people flash Altered Beast still, only cuz its so dated... anyway you got back to stock, now have you tried odining different modems? or even flashing a different rom? either a froyo one or GB...
Id odin a new modem try this its ep1q just odin in pda http://www.mediafire.com/?96cc17rha8a7o1a if it works Id go to ep1w. Also when you got to stock did it say missing sim and not let you activate your phone and did you remove your sim?? If your able to activate its not your sim card it could be the modems. As for the altered beast I only started flashing about a month ago and there are so many threads about how to get cwm... I (being paranoid) read posts for a full week before flashing. What I realized is there should be an updated sticky on the most updated ways to get to root and rom. Now that I know what im doing (kinda) I can read the posts and know whats what..when your new to this its damn confusing. An altered beast was the first link I came to when researching.
It was def. the sim card. Took it to VZ today and had it replaced. Not sure what killed it though?
so yesterday my unlocked T-Mobile HTC One S got bricked, before you ask i never touched the ROM of the device, it was pure stock HTC One S with a lot of apps.
basically it entered into a strange loop: first the T-Mobile greeting message appeared and then the HTC One S logo, over and over and over again. the only thing that i could do was to power button + volume down and do a factory reset.
This happened one day after i updated its firmware OTA, and in the same day that i downloaded a free app called AutomateIt.
i'm only upset about the fact that i lost the pictures and vids that i took in the 6 weeks owning it, but i am worried that if it did this once, it could do it again so i need to know if this is something common to Androids, my One S or something else.
Very strange!!!
Root the phone and make a nandroid backup. Stock Rom's sucks!!!
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so yesterday my unlocked T-Mobile HTC One S got bricked, before you ask i never touched the ROM of the device, it was pure stock HTC One S with a lot of apps.
basically it entered into a strange loop: first the T-Mobile greeting message appeared and then the HTC One S logo, over and over and over again. the only thing that i could do was to power button + volume down and do a factory reset.
This happened one day after i updated its firmware OTA, and in the same day that i downloaded a free app called AutomateIt.
i'm only upset about the fact that i lost the pictures and vids that i took in the 6 weeks owning it, but i am worried that if it did this once, it could do it again so i need to know if this is something common to Androids, my One S or something else.
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Did you let the phone die? the phone don't like to do that. Get Dropbox or Google+ that will sync your pictures online.
The same happened with my stock htc one s 4.0.4 twice! I figured out that when you have more than 15-20 saved wlans, you have connected to in the past, in your wifi-list your phone ends up in a bootloop. I didn't manage to rescue any data even not with adb.. clearing the cache and so on. probably you used any automatic wifi functionality from automatelt.
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The same happened with my stock htc one s 4.0.4 twice! I figured out that when you have more than 15-20 saved wlans, you have connected to in the past, in your wifi-list your phone ends up in a bootloop. I didn't manage to rescue any data even not with adb.. clearing the cache and so on. probably you used any automatic wifi functionality from automatelt.
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now thats interesting, my phone is also 4.0.4, and yes i did have ~20 saved WLAN's, i can't figure how wlan would have any connection to a bootloop, but then again i dont know anything about programming.
so you always delete the wlans once you are done using them? after you found out did it brick again?
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now thats interesting, my phone is also 4.0.4, and yes i did have ~20 saved WLAN's, i can't figure how wlan would have any connection to a bootloop, but then again i dont know anything about programming.
so you always delete the wlans once you are done using them? after you found out did it brick again?
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yes, I take care that I don't have more than 5-10 in my list. since that it didn't brick again. but a few days ago I had ~10 in my list and it suddenly restarted again while I was in the wifi list screen and I was like pleeeaassse no bootloop! but fortunately it was no bootloop but my whole wifi list was reset. it must be an error in htc's software.. so we can only wait for updates..
I've had this happen with other Android devices, it's generally some rogue app that screws up the device and only a factory reset will clear it. I've never had more than 3 or 4 wifi points saved so can't comment on that as a possible cause.
It's not 'bricked' by the way, just slightly fubar'd
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The same happened with my stock htc one s 4.0.4 twice! I figured out that when you have more than 15-20 saved wlans, you have connected to in the past, in your wifi-list your phone ends up in a bootloop. I didn't manage to rescue any data even not with adb.. clearing the cache and so on. probably you used any automatic wifi functionality from automatelt.
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You are not the only one. I also encountered the same thing because of too much wlan connections and the only thing i could do is run into bootloader and restore factory settings, since i don't have a nandroid backup because i'm not rooted.. fortunately i synced my pictures thru dropbox, and a backup of sms in gmail.. but i don't know why it is happening to us, so this issue isn't an individual case..
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I never had a random reboot on ICS now on JB I'm having it at least once a week...not a lot, I know but still something is not right. The last time this happened I tried looking further into it and the only thing I see that may be causing the issue is signal loss. I am 100% stock and have maybe 25 downloaded apps, if that. Is there an app for STOCK that will backup some of my data? I really don't think a factory reset will help but I'll give it a shot. Any other ideas? I freaking love this phone and this is my only complaint....would love to fix the problem. Thanks.
Here's a shot of the signal before the reboot.
Is it worth trying a factory reset? I feel the chances of it doing any good are very slim. Switch to a different modem?
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I'm having the same issue, and a reset did not help.
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Thanks for the reply. As long as it does not get worse it's not a huge deal. Maybe the next update will fix it?
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Not sure what the right word is (hotboot?) but today my phone rebooted (not fully) while I was using it. No fc's or freeze ups, just the reboot. I'm currently on the no wipe leak which ended up being the official ota.... Since the no wipe was modified would it make any sense to install the full wipe version to see if the problem is resolved?
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Flashed full wipe via Odin. In case anyone else has this problem I will post back with results in a week or so.
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I'm having the same issue. It seems that something is causing JellyBean-enabled SGS3's to just jump into "interrupt heaven". It's always a quick boot, never resets the "Up time" counter, and only takes a few seconds to get back to normal, but it's a real pain in the arse!
Any ideas what the culprit is, guys? I'm running a newly replaced (ordered it on January 2nd and the first thing it does was download and upgrade to JellyBean "VRBLK3" before I could even start get it loaded, basically as soon as I activated the phone, it started to download the OTA before I could even get to anything else). I know in my case I have a couple of mods installed - maybe one or more of these is common amongst those of us having issues? I have the "4x5 scrolling" mod and the "BLK3 Logo fix" mod that removes the stupid VZW drum-beating and pulsating display on boot-up. Other than that, my phone is rooted (using method involving loading the older ICS bootchain so you can install the latest CWM recovery), has CWM Touch 6.0.2.3 and that's about it, other than your usual rooted toolkit programs. Anything common to the rest of you?
Oh, by the way - I've already tried reformatting the cache, blowing away the dalvik cache and even a complete factory reset, which seems to make it less jumpy, but it always comes back within a day or two if not just a few hours.
I had the same problem with mine rebooting when I had very bad signal. Last Friday I did a factory reset then Odin to 4.0.4 and let the phone update to 4.1.1 and the problem seems to have gone away. I am not willing to call it cured yet, but it hasn't rebooted since. This went from where I was rebooting constantly all day long at work and when on the road in bad signal areas.
So far so good.
By the way, I looked EVERYWHERE and couldn't find anyone complaining of this earlier so I figured it had to be a bad download of the update.
It's something in Jelly Bean update itself. I tried booting my phone in "Safe Mode" - which only loads factory programs, and it still happens. I sure wish I could put a finger on anything in the way of a pattern, but - so far there's nothing I can single out that seems to make any difference. I'll do the system/factory reset and re-install everything one more time just to see if it helps.
Weird...
Factory reset (and everything else) - it still reboots
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It's something in Jelly Bean update itself. I tried booting my phone in "Safe Mode" - which only loads factory programs, and it still happens. I sure wish I could put a finger on anything in the way of a pattern, but - so far there's nothing I can single out that seems to make any difference. I'll do the system/factory reset and re-install everything one more time just to see if it helps.
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Well, something in a factory reset helps, but it doesn't last. First, just to be thorough, I used "ROM Manager" to 'fix permissions', then I did a complete flush of the system, removed the micro-SDXC card, did a format of the cache partition, flushed the Dalvik cache, then did a factory reset and reinstalled everything. I seemed to help for a while, but eventually it started to reboot randomly - sometimes when it was just sitting idle not even being used at all.
That indicates to me there's something funky in the JB (VRBLK3) firmware, especially since I was seeing reboots even while I was booted in safe mode, where nothing loads except factory-installed programs.
Fortunately, it never reboots while it's in recovery or download mode... :silly:
Ah, I forgot to note: this is the second phone that acts exactly the same way with the VRBLK3 (Jelly Bean) ROM update. Symptoms of the problem are identical, down to the spontaneous combustion that started this thread. Mine's not "in pocket" as per the OP, but - I don't think that has anything to do with it.
ratledge said:
Well, something in a factory reset helps, but it doesn't last. First, just to be thorough, I used "ROM Manager" to 'fix permissions', then I did a complete flush of the system, removed the micro-SDXC card, did a format of the cache partition, flushed the Dalvik cache, then did a factory reset and reinstalled everything. I seemed to help for a while, but eventually it started to reboot randomly - sometimes when it was just sitting idle not even being used at all.
That indicates to me there's something funky in the JB (VRBLK3) firmware, especially since I was seeing reboots even while I was booted in safe mode, where nothing loads except factory-installed programs.
Fortunately, it never reboots while it's in recovery or download mode... :silly:
Ah, I forgot to note: this is the second phone that acts exactly the same way with the VRBLK3 (Jelly Bean) ROM update. Symptoms of the problem are identical, down to the spontaneous combustion that started this thread. Mine's not "in pocket" as per the OP, but - I don't think that has anything to do with it.
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Thanks for thoroughly trying different things to try and figure out the issue. Your problem seems worse than mine... I was getting reboots every few days. All day today was fine after installing full wipe but that's not a thorough test for what I was experiencing.
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Ryno77 said:
Thanks for thoroughly trying different things to try and figure out the issue. Your problem seems worse than mine... I was getting reboots every few days. All day today was fine after installing full wipe but that's not a thorough test for what I was experiencing.
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You could also try getting a new sim from Verizon to see if that helps with connectivity to towers. You've already Odin flashed stock images and wiped pretty much everything significant at that.
New SIM?
SlimSnoopOS said:
You could also try getting a new sim from Verizon to see if that helps with connectivity to towers. You've already Odin flashed stock images and wiped pretty much everything significant at that.
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Well, unfortunately I've done that - twice in the past ten days, the latest one came Tuesday afternoon. No change, still just reboots while I'm not even using the phone, and it's not the phone, it's the software. I can't say for absolute certain that it is in the VRBLK3 / JB code, but I can say for sure it _is_ something I am running, but the fact that it does reboot in safe mode indicates it's not anything downloaded or added to the base system as shipped.
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It's something in Jelly Bean update itself. I tried booting my phone in "Safe Mode" - which only loads factory programs, and it still happens. I sure wish I could put a finger on anything in the way of a pattern, but - so far there's nothing I can single out that seems to make any difference. I'll do the system/factory reset and re-install everything one more time just to see if it helps.
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Irrelevant question -- can't help my curiosity. How is it that you're on your 6th GS3? You get a new one every month?
6 Pebble Blue 32MB phones in about 8 months
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Irrelevant question -- can't help my curiosity. How is it that you're on your 6th GS3? You get a new one every month?
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Heheh... Well, I got one on "day 1" by pre-ordering it from Verizon, after two months the power button fell off. They sent me a "CLN" one, it lasted ten days and started randomly rebooting (even if reloaded with 'virgin' unrooted OS), the third (another "CLN") was delivered with no power button and the volume rocker fell off while I was taking it out of the box. At that point, I got kind of pizzed and did the 'good customer for 10 years' and elevated it through three levels until I finally got them to ship me a brand new one. That one lasted two months until my wife left it on top of my car and I backed over it in my driveway. I used my Asurion (insurance) to get #5, which arrived rebooting from the moment I started it up. Within a few days after monkeying around with their tech support (they ain't the brightest bulbs - instructions include "remove the battery and dial yourself and hit the 'Send' key three times" - not kidding) I managed to get #6 shipped out, and it's first act of life was to suck down the VRBL3 (Jellybean) software update and I've mucked around with it for two weeks, tried loading it with various combinations of "No Wipe" and "Factory Reset" versions of VRBLK3, removed a bunch of programs I've had installed but never really used and it still just vibrates about once an hour (and it's totally random, sometimes lasts 6 hours, sometimes 6 minutes before rebooting), jumps to the "warm/quick start" and recycles without resetting the "time up" counter. I'm thinking it's something I fed it (i.e. a nasty program or interaction between programs) - but I've come up empty-handed so far as running it to ground.
Does anyone have any knowledge of known interactions or "bad programs" that just don't play well together under JB?
Sadly my friend, you need CLN #7. Nothing here is going to resolve that.
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Sadly my friend, you need CLN #7. Nothing here is going to resolve that.
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Well, normally - I would agree. But this makes three phones that act exactly the same in a row. The first of which was my 2nd "New" GS3, updated OTA to Jellybean - which immediately started the rolling reboots. The problem with the "CLN" phones are that they were all defective in one way or another, or they wouldn't be recertified. I don't really think VZW does a good job recertifying these phones, there are just too many of them coming out every single day, and - lord knows Asurion probably is behind that curve. :silly:
All three phones have been identical in their behavior - "down to the letter" since VRBLK3 was released. :fingers-crossed:
Question: now that I've used my insurance, do I _have_ to go back to Asurion for replacement, or since I'm still in my first year, will VerizonWireless entertain sending me another? It seems like reading the information that comes with the Asurion phones, they are the ones that are now guaranteeing my phone for a full year from the time it was sent (that would be this past Monday).
The phone has an Asurion sticker inside it, not a VZW one...
And the winner is: battery replacement. Every single VZW marked battery causes it to reboot, but a plain old Samsung battery (made in Korea - I've noticed almost all the VZW branded SKUs are made in China) works 100% and gives me an average of 12 hours moderate usage. The batteries I had from previous phones, VZW and Asurion all have the Verizon markings on them, and every single one of them causes it to reboot. This new one I got today straight from Samsung does not.
Curious, huh? I have one out of five batteries with VZW markings, and it does the same as the other four "made in China" ones. You've gotta wonder...
Glad you found a fix. Is it possible the new battery is slightly larger? Wondering if the old batteries were maybe a bit loose.
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I installed the 9.18.79 update on my rooted with stock rom razr maxx hd. The only change i made to stock apps was the sqlite tether mod hack. I used voodoo ota rootkeeper and it worked fine, so I still have root. I do not have unlocked bootloader. Anyway, after that update, it keeps freezing and restarting. Doesn't matter what app, every 5 min to half hour, even when i'm not using the fon it will restart. Very annoying! Is there a fix for this or a way to uninstall update?
If you unlocked your bootloader I would say a factory reset would be worth a try. This way your phone is refreshed to pure stock. You will lose root but with an unlocked bootloader that doesn't matter because getting root back is easy.
If your bootloader is still locked, a data reset will cause you to lose root (edit: after posting this i am second guessing if a data reset will lose root. It might not. It had been so long since i have done that i can't remember. Lol) and there is no confirmed way of getting it back. Of course, if your phone is basically unusable with constant reboots, I think I would rather have a working phone without root than what you are currently dealing with.
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It's not unlocked and the update fixed the exploit to unlock it I didn't think I needed it unlocked anyway. I just wish I knew if vzw or a dev will come out with a patch for this so called update.
Mine is doing just about the exact same thing. I upgraded it on Saturday and it has rebooted more times than I can count. I hogs battery now too. I could get an easy 3 days before, I am no power user, the last 2 days I've used over 50% battery and have not done a thing. I used the OTA rootkeeper as well to keep root. I hardly have any apps frozen with Titanium Backup, unfroze them all, I'm running Nova Launcher. Funny thing is I did the exact same thing on my wife's phone with no issues. Hers is rooted too, stock ROMs. I was totally happy with the stock ROM, so I have not ROM'd this phone yet, want to now cuz it sucks but going to have to wait until I can root again. I tried wiping cache in Titanium and a couple times in the stock recovery. Did nothing.
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Wife says she has had problems keeping her bluetooth connected in her car, she said it disconnects frequently now. She just has a stock Lexus radio which worked flawless. DAmn you Verizon, these phones were AWESOME prior to this update, burn in hell haha!
I wiped cache in stock recovery as well
Is there a way to sbf the original stock file back to the fon? I've used sbf on a number of droid x but thats been awhile.
I have the exact same problem as OP, but the period between reboots can be as high as 2-3 days. Anyone have any idea what is actually wrong? Did they program in a random reboot to make us want to upgrade to the Droid Maxx?
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If you unlocked your bootloader I would say a factory reset would be worth a try. This way your phone is refreshed to pure stock. You will lose root but with an unlocked bootloader that doesn't matter because getting root back is easy.
If your bootloader is still locked, a data reset will cause you to lose root (edit: after posting this i am second guessing if a data reset will lose root. It might not. It had been so long since i have done that i can't remember. Lol) and there is no confirmed way of getting it back. Of course, if your phone is basically unusable with constant reboots, I think I would rather have a working phone without root than what you are currently dealing with.
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No, a FDR does not remove root.
Glad I have not updated yet. Matter of fact I froze the updater so it won't update.
well if fdr won't lose root with locked bootloader, i might try that, tho i'm pretty sure it won't help.
Well, I just did the data reset. Didn't lose my root. Reinstalled all of my apps with Titanium and will see if the lockups go away and if the battery life gets back to where it was prior to the update.
Still freezes and reboots. I guess I'll start removing apps and widgets to try and pinpoint. This sucks, was such an awesome phone prior to this ghetto upgrade.
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Did fdr, still reboots.
I've deleted all widgets and still froze and rebooted. So, I ditched Nova launcher and went back to the stock launcher and so far so good. My wife runs the stock launcher and has had zero issues and I upgraded both phones at the same time. Both phones are rooted. I liked Nova a lot, but like stable phone better.
Will report back after more saddle time with stocker.
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Not the launcher locked up again. Gonna do the sbf I think, but not sure when I'm gonna have time in the next couple days. Bought the phone at BB because it was cheapest there and they basically said sorry no goon squad warranty nothing we can do. Gonna explore other options and call Verizon and ***** and see if I can get a warranty replacement somehow. Fingers crossed.
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I'm having random freezes after the update. No reboots. I'm 100% stock. This is happening at least twice a day. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Is it the update because I never had this issue before the ota. It also seems to happen after or during a call.
mcaspe1, I feel your pain. There is a utility on here to go back to 9.16.6. I did that and my phone is back to being awesome. I also read a thread over on droidrzr or something like that where you can use RSD Lite to flash the new radios, which I did too. FYI I called Verizon this morning and the phone has a factory 1 year warranty. I *****ed about the battery life and the constant freezing and restarting with the new software and they are sending me a new phone. If you don't want to mess with the utility to get you back to the old stuff, which is SUPER EASY, then call Verizon and tell them the new update version you got sucks ass. It could not have been easier. Note, if you didn't do a factory reset they will tell you to do that first.
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mcaspe1, I feel your pain. There is a utility on here to go back to 9.16.6. I did that and my phone is back to being awesome. I also read a thread over on droidrzr or something like that where you can use RSD Lite to flash the new radios, which I did too. FYI I called Verizon this morning and the phone has a factory 1 year warranty. I *****ed about the battery life and the constant freezing and restarting with the new software and they are sending me a new phone. If you don't want to mess with the utility to get you back to the old stuff, which is SUPER EASY, then call Verizon and tell them the new update version you got sucks ass. It could not have been easier. Note, if you didn't do a factory reset they will tell you to do that first.
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Thanks for the info. I tried deleting a few apps which I thought could be causing it. If that doesn't work I'll definitely either flash back or call VZW. Thanks again.
Here's the link to the utility to get back to the old software and to root it, did it 3 times so far now! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2307439 I did options 1 & 3.
Here is the link to the instructions to install radios via RSD Lite: http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/22925-snatched-that-sheezy-soak-update/page-7#entry320685 Instructions are about halfway down, worked fine for me on the 9.16.6 to get the 15P radio.
Already got the notification from Verizon that my replacement shipped! I hope it still has 9.16.6 on it so I can unlock the bootloader after I see the shenanigans these new updates are doing to phones!
Before I started all of the flashing, I tried going back to stock launcher, unfreezing every app in Titanium Backup, killing every widget, clearing cache, and a factory data reset. I flashed back to 9.16.6 and it was all good for a few days, so took the update and it started locking up and rebooting again within 10 minutes of constant use. Must be something with the hardware that update doesn't agree with on some phones, because I think flashing the stock 9.16.6, then taking the update, and only installing tapatalk from the market and still having lockups, ruled out any apps I had running. The sucker would freeze when trying to set ringtones and check system versions and using chrome and tapatalk.
al2fast said:
Here's the link to the utility to get back to the old software and to root it, did it 3 times so far now! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2307439 I did options 1 & 3.
Here is the link to the instructions to install radios via RSD Lite: http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/22925-snatched-that-sheezy-soak-update/page-7#entry320685 Instructions are about halfway down, worked fine for me on the 9.16.6 to get the 15P radio.
Already got the notification from Verizon that my replacement shipped! I hope it still has 9.16.6 on it so I can unlock the bootloader after I see the shenanigans these new updates are doing to phones!
Before I started all of the flashing, I tried going back to stock launcher, unfreezing every app in Titanium Backup, killing every widget, clearing cache, and a factory data reset. I flashed back to 9.16.6 and it was all good for a few days, so took the update and it started locking up and rebooting again within 10 minutes of constant use. Must be something with the hardware that update doesn't agree with on some phones, because I think flashing the stock 9.16.6, then taking the update, and only installing tapatalk from the market and still having lockups, ruled out any apps I had running. The sucker would freeze when trying to set ringtones and check system versions and using chrome and tapatalk.
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Well, Just had another freeze and now I'm fed up. Nothing I've done has helped. I'll revert back so I can have a working phone. I called and have a replacement coming. Thanks for the info. I have posted on the Motorola owner's forum regarding this. They are now aware.
A fellow poster, "Bertil", on the Motorola owners website has indicated they believe that turning off smart actions and clearing the application will stop the screen freezes. Says its been a week without any problem. I figure I'll try it out until my replacement comes tomorrow. I'll report back.
Here is the link. https://forums.motorola.com/posts/dd28537543?page=2