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Phone keeps powering down?

So my just powers off, doesn't matter what state the battery in. It does not reboot. It just turns off. I have no idea what is causing this and I have been running this setup for awhile now without problems.
ROM: BAMF Stripped 1.7
Kernel: leanKernel 1.92x
Any ideas?

engagedtosmile said:
So my just powers off, doesn't matter what state the battery in. It does not reboot. It just turns off. I have no idea what is causing this and I have been running this setup for awhile now without problems.
ROM: BAMF Stripped 1.7
Kernel: leanKernel 1.92x
Any ideas?
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You're burning up the CPU from overclocking it?
Asside from that obvious first, thought. I'm leaning more and more towards the fact that these sd cards are having issues wiping the info off of them. You know, the one that comes with the phone that's 32GB.
I've noticed that with mine I keep having issues seeing partitions and wiping old information off of the sdcard for that matter.
I won't delve to much in to details but I know for a fact that a couple of times that I've told my phone to wipe info from the sdcard, it leaves stuff behind and i tshows when I boot up in to my freshly installed ROM what ever it may be at the time.
I've even gone as far as booting in to gparted only to see that it doesn't see the partition...

thewebsiteisdown said:
You're burning up the CPU from overclocking it?
Asside from that obvious first, thought. I'm leaning more and more towards the fact that these sd cards are having issues wiping the info off of them. You know, the one that comes with the phone that's 32GB.
I've noticed that with mine I keep having issues seeing partitions and wiping old information off of the sdcard for that matter.
I won't delve to much in to details but I know for a fact that a couple of times that I've told my phone to wipe info from the sdcard, it leaves stuff behind and i tshows when I boot up in to my freshly installed ROM what ever it may be at the time.
I've even gone as far as booting in to gparted only to see that it doesn't see the partition...
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I have caught it saying that the SD card was inaccessible but I don't see why that would make it power down. I lowered the overclock back down to 1.4ghz to see if it helps.

Just curious.. but are you running the "new" radio that came out with the OTA update? (Obviously not the official OTA, but the leaked version? and no I don't mean GB radio).
Hubby's phone started doing this after he got the OTA. I wasn't even rooted at the time but the new radio started causing his phone to shut down. Mine which was rooted and had received the leaked and rooted version of the OTA was rebooting at random times throughout the day.
This weekend I flashed them both back to the previous radio (Combo #2 in the obligatory radio post) and they've been running ever since with no shutdowns or reboots.

engagedtosmile said:
I have caught it saying that the SD card was inaccessible but I don't see why that would make it power down. I lowered the overclock back down to 1.4ghz to see if it helps.
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I have mine set to 1.4. There's no reason besides for epenus to really go over that IMO. You don't want to burn the CPU up. Even at 1.4 you need to find out if it likes to be undervolted or uber undervolted as well. Mine was happy with uber undervolt then on the next couple kernels that came out that changed to the undervolted so..
That part is a crap shoot. The sd card is deffinately causing some funky behavior IMO. Probably not shutting down like you said but funky things none the less and I really wish I could get a better handle on it.
I had a program the other day on my computer that seen the partitions fine and now none of them do that I try. I don't know if I'm using the wrong app now or what...
I'm busy getting ready to move in to a house right now though so I'll get to it more later I suppose for now I'm chilling on GB.
I agree with Sam as well a little I suppose but Sam, factory resetting the phone is supposed to fix the new ota update issue or atleast it did for my wifes phone. That was per HTC's advice that we tried that with hers and hers is unrooted not even touched and it stopped it so..
Some people say it didn't work for them but that's neither here nor there..

thewebsiteisdown said:
I have mine set to 1.4. There's no reason besides for epenus to really go over that IMO. You don't want to burn the CPU up. Even at 1.4 you need to find out if it likes to be undervolted or uber undervolted as well. Mine was happy with uber undervolt then on the next couple kernels that came out that changed to the undervolted so..
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I play a lot of PSX on my phone and the few FPS helps sometime. Also helps with the audio becoming choppy.
And yes, this is the leaked radio but I have been using it since day one. I lowered it to 1.4ghz and I think was it. The rise in temperature outside probably wasn't helping.

engagedtosmile said:
I play a lot of PSX on my phone and the few FPS helps sometime. Also helps with the audio becoming choppy.
And yes, this is the leaked radio but I have been using it since day one. I lowered it to 1.4ghz and I think was it. The rise in temperature outside probably wasn't helping.
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Sweet glad I could help. You should thank me and Samxxx .

thewebsiteisdown said:
Sweet glad I could help. You should thank me and Samxxx .
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It happened again last night so it wasn't the OC afterall, I am on the stock radio now.

Happened again with stock radio, I'm out of ideas as to what is causing it.

engagedtosmile said:
Happened again with stock radio, I'm out of ideas as to what is causing it.
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Mine did this a couple times. I read some stats and realized it was reading the battery as dead when it would happen. So I took the battery out and made sure it was in firmly and correctly, made sure the battery door was on tight and it never happened again.

Is the phone actually powering off or is it just not waking up? If its not waking up then its just undervolted to much. I would try another kernel that's not as undervolted.
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dlongb13 said:
Is the phone actually powering off or is it just not waking up? If its not waking up then its just undervolted to much. I would try another kernel that's not as undervolted.
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Powers off completely.
I think I found the issue, it's the hardware. If I put any pressure on it or if it bends a little, it will power off like its shorting out. (Happens mostly in my pocket while sitting.) Going to talk to verizon about it.

Bad thing is you don't like to use the thank you button so I won't be helping you any more at this point.

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Bad thing is you don't like to use the thank you button so I won't be helping you any more at this point.
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lol okay.
heres your thanks.
Thanks.

My phone seems to be having a similar issue. I'm running BamfGingerRemix 2.1, the MR2 radio, with Nerozehl's Dream Kernel, overclocked to 1.4Ghz, and with swap enabled. The low clock speed is 368.
I have no idea what is causing it, but I'm pretty sure the phone is actually off. I have to do a battery pull before I can get it to boot. This has happened 3 times over the past 3 days. If it happens again, I'm going to call myself from my roommate's phone to see if it is truly off.
I know it isn't from the battery being too low because last night after I got it rebooted, the battery was at 99% (it was on the charger when I tried to wake it). I'm hoping this isn't a sign of something bad coming to my phone.

I've heard some people call this the sleep of death? I'm on aosp (both cm7 and OMFGB) and I've seen this a few times. Werid eh?
Edit: I'm on the 402w1 radio
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My phone would also not wake up a few times when I was running various BAMF Roms - I should note that I have only run their ROMs since rooting the phone. It seemed to happen a few minutes after sending a text, not every time but randomly. I haven't changed any of the defaults regarding overclocking, so it would seem strange if that was the reason. I also don't know if it was off, or if it just wouldn't wake up because I had to pull the battery to get it running again.
However, I have been running the newest 3.0 RC3 for a couple of days and haven't seen it happen at all.

[Q] Why does my G2x keep shutting off randomly?

I've only had the phone for less than 24 hours and I'm ready to send it back. Someone help me out please.
My phone keeps shutting down randomly. I rooted, installed CWM (Yes the nvFlash), Installed Evils ROM from the dev section.
The phone shut down right before bed last night and it must have done it sometime through the night because I had to restart it in the morning. Today it turned off a couple of times and my logical thought was that it was the ROM.
I switched over to EaglesBlood 1.0.5 hoping it would be a little more stable. It took a little longer, but it still shut completely off.
Nevermind the battery life I just want it to stay on. I'm no genius, but I'm pretty decent with ADB and terminal if I can fix it. Let me know if I'm overlooking something.

this phone has several issues. check the rest of the forums. what you are experiencing is one of them and it only gets worse from here.....

unclemik9 said:
this phone has several issues. check the rest of the forums. what you are experiencing is one of them and it only gets worse from here.....
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I've read most of the issues. I was hoping there was a way to fix it. I talked to a customer service rep at the Tmo store today. He said there is supposed to be an update released by the end of the month.
I rooted so I never have to worry about releases. Usually Cyanogen and his team are all over this kind of stuff. (Cue G1)
I really wanna know why it's doing it and how to fix it.

You by chance have an app that flashes the home buttons as a notification? When I deleted that, my random shut offs dropped...
Is it shut down? Or is the screen black? I get the occasional black screen... if you hit the power button the screen gets a little brighter... if it's that you can just do a hard reboot, power+volume up
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Still not working

Okay I think this will help out. I'm been trying different ROM's for a couple of weeks now in an effort to get this to stop this is what's happening.
1. The phone shuts off completely and you need to pull the battery out to get it to turn on with the power button.
2. The phone turns off during a call or during use and starts up again with the boot animation.
3. Shuts off while charging in the middle of the night or while on the car charger.
What app needs deleted or removed? How do I do it? I'd like to post the solution up for anyone having this same problem.
BobbyDukes707 said:
You by chance have an app that flashes the home buttons as a notification? When I deleted that, my random shut offs dropped...
Is it shut down? Or is the screen black? I get the occasional black screen... if you hit the power button the screen gets a little brighter... if it's that you can just do a hard reboot, power+volume up
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Download this Rom. It is based off of the GB update from LG and lets you keep root. It may solve your problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158513

pdxmatts said:
Download this Rom. It is based off of the GB update from LG and lets you keep root. It may solve your problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158513
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I'm flashing this ROM now. I'll try running it for a few days and see if I get any improvements.
I hit the thanks button. I'll post what happens.

I am getting the same problem with my G2x randomly and whiles its charging and I have tried roms CM7 Nightly, EaglesBlood, Trigger, and MIUI but all start shutting off sooner or later. Tell me if that rom fixes yours.
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It's a hardware problem unfortuantely

strung said:
It's a hardware problem unfortuantely
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So should I send for another phone? Or try fixing this one?

strung said:
It's a hardware problem unfortuantely
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not necessarily. never had a single reboot until the new baseband and rom combo I am running now. now i seem to lock up every time i take the phone off a full charge in the morning.

Another company to add to the "I will never buy a phone from this manufacturer again" category.

Kevc44485 said:
Another company to add to the "I will never buy a phone from this manufacturer again" category.
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If you added a company for every time they had a flawed product, you'd end up making your own electronics.
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S.o.d(screen of death)

So I just got my g2x, rooted,nv and cwm. Flashed cm7 and I keep getting s.o.d(screen of death). I thought was rom problem so I.changed rom and im on xdblasters 1.1.0 and keep on getting them. Any solution orhelp would be appreciated.
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Not sure I know of a rom for g2x called xdblasters.
Also, what kernal are you using? Are you overclocking or undervolting? Are you using setcpu or pimpmycpu? What is your max and min cpu settings? When you flashed, what was your procedure for wiping? Did you fix permissions after flashing? Did you use a program to restore apps? Did you use that program to restore system settings? Did you choose to restore apps and settings from google account?
The answers to all of these questions could help determine what you've got going on.

I apologize, its x boarders. And well I am using fauxs newest kernel currently using 1.1 overclock but it would also happen while at stock cpu with previous rom.i don't restore with google but I use titanium backup for batch. When I do new roms I always follow the clean slate rule;Wipe data,cache,dalvik,bat stats. occasionally I forget fixing permissions but I do when I get alot of force closes.
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I didnt' see you mention formatting /system under mounts and storage. This is a critical step.
If it were me, I would try to keep everything as basic as I could each step of the way so that i could try to pinpoint the issue. Start by wiping everything (including sd card...just backup your user added stuff to your pc) and install a stock rom/kernal. See if it occurs stock...who knows? It's possible your phone is bad. Then if it doesn't misbehave with stock, then I would wipe everything again, including sd cards (interal and external), and flash cm7 (keeping cm7 kernal). I would try manually installing apps again, rather than using titanium backup or google restore. Just hook up to wi-fi (so you don't waste your data mileage) and go to market/myapps and redownload (hopefully you have a list of what you have).
But something to point out. On my phone, when I use CM7 (with stock kernal), I have to increase my minimum cpu frequency to either 312 or 456 instead of the default 216....216 seems to cause my phone to get stuck with the black screen also. The same thing happens when I run an undervolt kernal. So I've learned that my phone simply doesn't like undervolting, overclocking, or lettign the cpu run lower than 400MHz. Maybe that might help you out.

i was about to back up my sd and reformat it for that reason.I already tried formatting eemc mount or internal mem, and nothing. I also stopped using uv kernels and i kept my cpu min at 506 to keep it from doing, but with no result.I just flashed the newest release of xboarders 1.1.1 and i already got 3 sod while the rom is stock with nothing added. I am starting to think phone is bad. I bought the phone on Craigslist, so i might be S.O.L. i Appreciate

what should my mounts look like when i do a system format?

thrashingdeth said:
i was about to back up my sd and reformat it for that reason.I already tried formatting eemc mount or internal mem, and nothing. I also stopped using uv kernels and i kept my cpu min at 506 to keep it from doing, but with no result.I just flashed the newest release of xboarders 1.1.1 and i already got 3 sod while the rom is stock with nothing added. I am starting to think phone is bad. I bought the phone on Craigslist, so i might be S.O.L. i Appreciate
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I just traded my sensation for a g2x off CL, sure glad mines had no reboots or sod, actually the best g2x if had out of my 4..

Thats good news. So I wiped system and using xboarders 1.1.1 and so far since last night no sod. I hope it sticks.
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thrashingdeth said:
Thats good news. So I wiped system and using xboarders 1.1.1 and so far since last night no sod. I hope it sticks.
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Awesome, hope it stays good.

guess i spoke to soon. Was running fine all day till around 2 i installed setcpu and configured it. Or so i think, so i uninstalled and reset but when i am charging it it keeps turning off. AHHHH headache with this phone. When it runs, its smooth and so fast, i love it, but i dont know whats wrong with it.

I think I'm done with this. Can't figure out a away around this. Awesome phone but overwhelming problems. Appreciate the help everybody.
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have you tried a new battery? I believe most of the G2x problems are likely due to a bad batch of batteries.. why you ask I have come to this conclusion? If I OC heavily OR run the LED light when the battery gets low >30%, my phone will shut off. This would conclude the battery cannot supply the needed current for the phone at the lower battery levels... this is my particular battery but I wouldn't doubt there are worse batteries out there AND/OR reported battery levels that are much higher than actual and getting the same problem I have encountered. Food for thought.

Black6spdZ said:
have you tried a new battery? I believe most of the G2x problems are likely due to a bad batch of batteries.. why you ask I have come to this conclusion? If I OC heavily OR run the LED light when the battery gets low >30%, my phone will shut off. This would conclude the battery cannot supply the needed current for the phone at the lower battery levels... this is my particular battery but I wouldn't doubt there are worse batteries out there AND/OR reported battery levels that are much higher than actual and getting the same problem I have encountered. Food for thought.
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I agree with him... I had worst case of s.o.d with my g2x. Atleast 3 times a day I had to take battery out... but I solved it by doing the following
1. Increase min cpu speed 300 or more.
2. Discharging the phone completely and then recharging it completely.
I barely get s.o.d. may be once in 2 weeks. And whenever I do get em. I give my phone a discharge recharge cycle... then its good for next two weeks
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What "Screen of Death" are you guys referring to? Never experienced such a thing...
Phone wont wake? Or what? A quick google search for "android screen of death" and "g2x screen of death" revealed pretty much nothing.
Have you pulled a logcat?

I always fully charge and discharge battery for proper calibration. Doesn't seem to be helping in any matter. I also stopped using any CPU management because I thought that was.
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I agree with him... I had worst case of s.o.d with my g2x. Atleast 3 times a day I had to take battery out... but I solved it by doing the following
1. Increase min cpu speed 300 or more.
2. Discharging the phone completely and then recharging it completely.
I barely get s.o.d. may be once in 2 weeks. And whenever I do get em. I give my phone a discharge recharge cycle... then its good for next two weeks
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The problem is when phone sleeps and doesn't wake up. I have not pulled one, been thinking its hardware related.
AdamHart612 said:
What "Screen of Death" are you guys referring to? Never experienced such a thing...
Phone wont wake? Or what? A quick google search for "android screen of death" and "g2x screen of death" revealed pretty much nothing.
Have you pulled a logcat?
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Only happened. Twice today. Bahamas improvement I guess.
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Its hardware defect. No matter what ROM you put on the phone, it will continue. Youve gotta call TMO and get a replacement. Sorry if thats not what you wanted to hear.

I agree with the battery theory. I purchased two generic batteries from ebay and they last 3 times as long and have resolved many of the resetting and SOD issues that I was having. Also, updated ROMS seemed to help, and not letting it fall asleep while you are playing games or something memory intensive.

Well I bought a battery, hoping that helps a bit. So far its a lil better than usual. Using stock voltage kernel. When I get new battery I will test
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touch screen messing up when hot

Im having an issue when my phone gets hot the touch screen starts pushing everything im on vanilla new version i even flashed icbinb,octane and it still happens any ideas i tried diffrent setting in tegrak and same thing if i hit the power button when its messing up and i hit the power button to onlock the phone it will stop for a while then it starts up again any ideas would be appreciated

What do you mean by "pushing everything"?
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Its start pushing buttons everywhere on the screen like my finger is doing it

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Its start pushing buttons everywhere on the screen like my finger is doing it
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Are you over clocking? When did the problem start? What, if anything, did you do to the phone (flash from stock Froyo to another ROM, over clock, etc.) prior to the problem?

Ok when i got the phone new it was doing it then i attempted to put gingerbread bootloaders in but i failed lol i had icbinb gb with no cwm and had the rainbow screen and the problem went away for a couple of weeks till i got the gingerbread bootloaders correct then i flash icbinb gb rom and it started doing it again

With oc and no oc uv and no uv it still does it

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Ok when i got the phone new it was doing it then i attempted to put gingerbread bootloaders in but i failed lol i had icbinb gb with no cwm and had the rainbow screen and the problem went away for a couple of weeks till i got the gingerbread bootloaders correct then i flash icbinb gb rom and it started doing it again
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If it was doing it when you first got the phone I'd say it's a hardware issue. Any chance you can flash it back to stock & return/exchange it?

No i got this phone from ebay a private seller

Sounds like an issue that software can't fix.
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Sounds like someone knowingly sold you a bum sgs4g...sucks. If it only happens when it gets hot then you need to keep it cool...screen brightness down, wifi off etc...I agree with the previous posts that it sounds like a hardware issue, if the battery is getting super hot you might get lucky with a new one that doesn't set off the crazy screen problem. Battery ain't cheap though....
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Sounds like someone knowingly sold you a bum sgs4g...sucks. If it only happens when it gets hot then you need to keep it cool...screen brightness down, wifi off etc...I agree with the previous posts that it sounds like a hardware issue, if the battery is getting super hot you might get lucky with a new one that doesn't set off the crazy screen problem. Battery ain't cheap though....
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He could also try replacing the screen. It would probably cost a lot in total.

I dont think its the battery cause i use my battery from the vibrant and same thing the battery dont get hot just the touch screen but like i said before when i flashed the wrong gb kernel the problem went away then I fixed the gb the right way with CWM and now the problem started again

Even if you don't have a warranty, Tmobile will still send a replacement, buy there will be a fee. This is a defect. You can go to Samsung directly if you get a bad rep.
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[Q] SGS 4G - Phone may be *soft bricked* or bricked, could use some help

Hello all, this would be my first post, and thread on XDA
Not sure how to start this really so let me start by telling you what I use
SGS 4G - Valhalla FINAL (ROM), Bhundven's Subtly Modified Stock with CWM5 + Voodoo Lagfix (Kernel), Lightning Zap & A.S shot v15 (Tweaks)
The Story:
So I was using my phone perfectly fine two nights ago, then yesterday morning the phone would not load into into the menu/home screen it would stay on the boot screen(not frozen but would just stay there..not sure how else to explain it) so I kept taking the battery in and out of the phone and finally got it to take me the home screen but the screen was now black, status bar was still there but black screen.. Out of frustration I put the phone into recovery mode, took out my SD Card and did a factory reset rebooted the phone, it did the same thing & took em more tries again to get into the home screen went back into recovery mode and tried a restore of my old Stock 2.3.6 rom since then it is now stuck on the normal boot screen and when I try to charge the phone itself the phones loading bar/circle freezes
Ive looked on XDA and about 3 other websites for help but I'm afraid now that I have bricked my phone, and am pretty frustrated since I want my phone back but am hoping I wont have to delete my photos inside my SD card. If I can get any help at all from anyone. I have looked into ODIN on youtube but all the phones are different and can't find one for the SGS 4G specifically and not sure how to use ODIN nor find the offical ROM of the SGS 4G in the first place.
Note:
On a side note I bought SetCPU, after pirating it for about 7-14 days since I felt I needed it and also bought tegrak Overclock to well..overclock but since then My phone has been very hot even though Ive set profiles on the phone,(one example- 200 MHZ when lockscreen is off is my highest priority but sometimes I could feel it going 1300 MHZ and I would have to manually turn it off myself, could it be I overheated and blow out the CPU while I slept? Also the profiles were checked to be set on boot. Set CPU worked perfect before I bought it thats when it started to overheat often.)
Hope this explained...alot..lol Thanks in Advance! & if you need anything else or have more question just ask.

use heimdall one click by bhundven http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 then root and finally if you want flash again the rom
BTW use Q/A next time

Thanks very much i'm going to try this now. And sorry about that hehe wasn't sure where to put it. Do you know why this could have happend? or its just random?

Setting the CPU to 200mhz is mostly likely where your problem came from... try not to set it lower than 800, 600 at lowest
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the problem also can be that you were using setcpu and tegrak at the same time

I see ok, I used Tegrak to give me a higher voltage (load some module) that allowed setcpu to go from 1000 MHZ max to 1050-1300 MHZ max without it I couldn't go past 1000 MHZ, I found this methoed on the forums in here I can link if needed. If that is the problem however then I will no re-install Tegrak.

Phone is now finally working I'm back on Stock GB, do I need to flash bootloaders too?
Thanks guys!!

If your phone booted then your boot loaders are good and no need to re-flash them
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