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Hey guys,
So I just bought a 2month used Infuse 4G originally locked to AT&T.
I've been noticing some issues and will try to explain it as clear as I can. Supposedly the person I bought it from said it was an OS issue...Hope you all can shed some light!
So pretend you're using your lovely android Infuse 4G and you're texting. All of a sudden you find yourself at the home screen, interrupted from your messaging. A couple of "huh's?" and "...wtf"'s you resume re-typing your text message.
Later you're on the highway driving to a new joint. The GPS signal has finally locked and you're cruising. All of a sudden, your GPS asks you if you want to end navigation. You look at your phone as if its a zombie and you quickly tap the 'cancel' option. Moments later, you notice the phone is back at the home screen and Google maps navigation is running in the background. You bring it back up. A few minutes later, the menus at the bottom come up. You tap the screen to make it go away and keep driving. This happens many more times while you drive even though you've already taken off the phone case.
So it seems like a ghost is touching the capacitive buttons. Not just one of those, ALL of them (Menus, home, search, back) while using the phone. It's not very frequent, but its enough to be aggravating.
Please advise, thanks!
Is there a case or screen protector on the phone? if so try removing and see if the problem persists
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No offense but maybe when you hold your phone in landscape mode your palm touches them. Happens to me all the time.
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Most likley a kernel issue.Go to your about section and check your kernel and rom version....if your already on a custom rom/kernel, then you might have to Odin back to stock.
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aznacid said:
Hey guys,
So I just bought a 2month used Infuse 4G originally locked to AT&T.
I've been noticing some issues and will try to explain it as clear as I can. Supposedly the person I bought it from said it was an OS issue...Hope you all can shed some light!
So pretend you're using your lovely android Infuse 4G and you're texting. All of a sudden you find yourself at the home screen, interrupted from your messaging. A couple of "huh's?" and "...wtf"'s you resume re-typing your text message.
Later you're on the highway driving to a new joint. The GPS signal has finally locked and you're cruising. All of a sudden, your GPS asks you if you want to end navigation. You look at your phone as if its a zombie and you quickly tap the 'cancel' option. Moments later, you notice the phone is back at the home screen and Google maps navigation is running in the background. You bring it back up. A few minutes later, the menus at the bottom come up. You tap the screen to make it go away and keep driving. This happens many more times while you drive even though you've already taken off the phone case.
So it seems like a ghost is touching the capacitive buttons. Not just one of those, ALL of them (Menus, home, search, back) while using the phone. It's not very frequent, but its enough to be aggravating.
Please advise, thanks!
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It's not an O/S issue .... well, it may be on YOUR device but not a general issue. If you do an Odin full restore to stock and still have the problem you now know why the guy sold it after 2 months.
00mred00 said:
Is there a case or screen protector on the phone? if so try removing and see if the problem persists
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There is and I've tried removing it. Not the problem, but thanks!
joshf2 said:
No offense but maybe when you hold your phone in landscape mode your palm touches them. Happens to me all the time.
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None taken! I've actually left the phone w.o a case on a table. Its pretty scary to see your phone randomly show the menu from the home screen as if you pressed the button and then close that menu itself as if you were to press the back button...
Aussti said:
Most likley a kernel issue.Go to your about section and check your kernel and rom version....if your already on a custom rom/kernel, then you might have to Odin back to stock.
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Firmware 2.2.1
Baseband I997UCKE3
Kernel 2.6.32.9
Buil FROYO.UCKE3
I hope its a kernel issue and not a physical....
MisterEdF said:
It's not an O/S issue .... well, it may be on YOUR device but not a general issue. If you do an Odin full restore to stock and still have the problem you now know why the guy sold it after 2 months.
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Not sure what an Odin full restore is, but i'll look into it and give it a shot. Not surprisingly, my Infuse 4G is also among the few that have a GPS signal issue. The phone locks after 30 mins if Im lucky...
I didn't pay $434 for a phone that doesnt work properly/involves tweaking just to make simple features work...*sigh*
My fiance's charge keeps flashing low memory when he plays games or gets on internet. He had one before this one and never had a problem. Any ideas on how to fix?
Also whenever he takes a picture, his phone cuts off and it won't turn back on unless he pulls battery. I've seen threads on Verizon saying a lot of peoples do that... ANd hit reset. That worked for two minutes and it's back to doing it again. I know people on here are always helpful =] His phone is stock. He won't let me root it. He's scared something will happen! UGH.
Thanks​
missl843 said:
My fiance's charge keeps flashing low memory when he plays games or gets on internet. He had one before this one and never had a problem. Any ideas on how to fix?
Also whenever he takes a picture, his phone cuts off and it won't turn back on unless he pulls battery. I've seen threads on Verizon saying a lot of peoples do that... ANd hit reset. That worked for two minutes and it's back to doing it again. I know people on here are always helpful =] His phone is stock. He won't let me root it. He's scared something will happen! UGH.
Thanks​
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Tell him to quit being such a *****.
The device will shut down when taking a picture with flash when the battery is too low-power draw is greater than the battery can provide at that point.
Low memory-not much you can do about it until rooted. Cut down in some active processes.
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Lol thanks he had a full batt. I hate his laggggy phone. I might just take his phone while he's sleeping Nd work some magic.
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Use Titanium Backup PRO once you gain root to freeze bloatware apps that won't uninstall from the system. You'll gain a hell of a lot more memory by doing that.
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So, while I'm no expert I'm not new to rooting and flashing. Did it quite a bit on my older Droid Inc 1, and have performed a few on my new SG3.
I have 3 backed up ROMs on my SD, Synergy, Beans and CM10. I was running Synergy and decided to give CM10 another shot to see if I could figure out what was killing NFC. So, flashed it up with ROM Manager (Used Odin previously) and everything went swimmingly. ROM was running, NFC was working, all my apps were reinstalled, no problems.....
Decided to see if I could get Wallet working on this install, so flashed it in, made the changes to build.prop and rebooted.
Heeerreeee's where the trouble started. Part way through the reboot the phone just shut down. Completely. 100%. Dead.
I had 87% battery when I started so it 'shouldn't be a battery problem. No power, no LED when I plug in the charger, no vol-up, home, power to get into recovery.
One interesting thing did happen while I was trying to get the phone up, I removed the battery for a bit, and plugged the USB cable in and got a red charging light. Put the battery back in, light still there. 1 minute later, light goes off and still nothing happening with the phone at all.
Anyone have any ideas beyond all the stuff I've given a shot to?
Will it show up when plugged in on your CPU?
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nexus995743 said:
Will it show up when plugged in on your CPU?
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Unfortunately not. Only thing that seems to show up is in the device manager, a QHSUSB_DLOAD device that's banged.
Hmmmm
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nexus995743 said:
Hmmmm
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Well, I called Verizon and they've shipped me a replacement. I guess throwing all my bit and pieces into a new main body should work fine...
Oh no. Another one sending a phone back because of rooting. That's why they lock bootloaders.
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+1
Have you tried borrowing someone's battery to see if you can also least boot? I have four samsung batteries for the S3 and would consider sending it to you before getting a replacement. I think the cost of a battery is $3 on Amazon.
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The reasons were different but i had the same thing happen to me, my phone wouldn't boot, wouldn't show up in the computer. Nothing, i tried my wife's battery, no change there either. I left it on the charger overnight and tried turning it on in the morning and after messing with it it came back on. Haven't had an issue since. Don't know what caused it, the phone just freaked out, turned off and wouldn't turn back on.
You can also try the resistor trick to see if that will bring your phone back. Here is a cheap way to do it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/03/saving-a-bricked-phone-with-a-pencil-lead/ Otherwise you can go to radio shack and pick up a resistor.
If Verizon sends you your phone back cause you messed with it, there is a brick repair service for like $60 bucks PM for the link if it comes to that.
Congrats on the new phone
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Congrats on the new phone
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hehe.. I can't say I was pleased with having to go that route, (can't stand being defeated by electronics) but all in all I can't imagine a simple software change causing the entire unit to just go dead. Not booting properly, or locking up and such, sure... but not just dead.
By this morning I had tried another battery (a friend has an SG3 also) to no effect, but I didn't try leaving it plugged in overnight. I did check the battery with an external charger I have and it was showing fully charged....
So, I'll get a replacement and stay away from CM10 at the very least.
**ihavenewnike - Not sure why you're on an android developers forum really...
Ok, so the new phone got here at about 12:30. Plugged all my stuff into it and it fired right up.
Rooted and unlocked it, put my latest Synergy backup (1 day old) on the SD card and restored it.
Ahhhh... It's just like it never left. :victory:
keno1964 said:
Ok, so the new phone got here at about 12:30. Plugged all my stuff into it and it fired right up.
Rooted and unlocked it, put my latest Synergy backup (1 day old) on the SD card and restored it. . .
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. . . and then the display went black and it wouldn't power on! What the heck?!
. . .
Oh, sorry: I was just imagining a funny ending to this topic.
- ooofest
ooofest said:
. . . and then the display went black and it wouldn't power on! What the heck?!
. . .
Oh, sorry: I was just imagining a funny ending to this topic.
- ooofest
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Don't like you.......
Same thing happened to me when I tried to mess with the NFC hack on my SGS III.
What saved me was a USB Jig I happened to have handy when I...accidentally... soft bricked a friend's Samsung Captivate a few months back. The USB Jig is used to put the SGS III into download mode when all else fails that tiny little gadget saves the day.
tekrhino said:
Same thing happened to me when I tried to mess with the NFC hack on my SGS III.
What saved me was a USB Jig I happened to have handy when I...accidentally... soft bricked a friend's Samsung Captivate a few months back. The USB Jig is used to put the SGS III into download mode when all else fails that tiny little gadget saves the day.
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I have looked into those and will most likely make one very soon. (I think I have everything I'd need, just may need to cobble some resistors together).
Couple of things I noticed throughout this 'process', regarding the CM10 (9-15 nightly) ROM, NFC and google wallet....
At first install of CM10 I noticed that NFC was active and working normally. It could read my tags without issue. After Wallet was installed though, NFC disappeared. It wasn't just disabled, it simply wasn't there any more. It was after noticing this that I decided to reboot, at which point my original problem started.
The reboot never came close to completing though, it shut down before it actually made it to the 'boot' phase, as in, while it was shutting down.
The actual cause of the power off is still a mystery to me, as I can't see a simple app change causing hardware failure.
So you bricked your phone, just like a few of us did yesterday.
What did you call Verizon saying in order for them to send you a new phone?
AB_ said:
So you bricked your phone, just like a few of us did yesterday.
What did you call Verizon saying in order for them to send you a new phone?
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I told them what happened, just left out a few bits of info.
"I rebooted it, and it never came back on." and that was that.
Nice.
I should have gone that method, but ended up paying for the repair service from MobileTechVideos
A friend has the qhsusb-dload showing up as well.. phone won't turn on.. flashed a bad kernel or rom I forget which.. red light comes on.. that's it.. its a Verizon i535 .. tried the resistor jig and nothing happens.. any ideas to fix?
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Guess he had aokp rom then flashed neak kernel and that's when it died..
Title says it all. my vibrate no longer works for any part of my phone. any and all help is appreciated.
thanks
p2kmafia said:
Title says it all. my vibrate no longer works for any part of my phone. any and all help is appreciated.
thanks
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It's possibly the vibrate motor. It's not unheard of for them to go out.
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+1. Hardware issue.
Still Charged Up
sounds like a personal problem - wore out your vibrator... j/k
never heard of that though - have you tried reflashing the ROM or resetting your sound settings?
tried everything but refreshing back from ep4. I was really hoping it wasn't hardware. wtf do I do now? haha
If you rule everything else out and it is the motor, it can be replaced if you don't mind a little disassembly. It's typically one of the easier repairs to do. In most phone, it's just a little round, flat cylinder, about the size of a small watch or hearing aid battery, clipped to the motherboard and connected by two wires.
how much would that cost and where do I buy the motor?
I'm pretty sure the motor is actually integrated (as in soldered) onto the board. Assuming you can actually find the motor, it's going to be a PITA desoldering and soldering that sucker. Why not just get your Charge replaced?
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p2kmafia said:
Title says it all. my vibrate no longer works for any part of my phone. any and all help is appreciated.
thanks
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What I have done. (I also have insurance)
ODIN with PIT
In the middle of re-partitioning with the PIT pull the plug and disconnect all battery sources.
When you turn it back on It will say to connect to the computer and download mode will not
work... Take it to the store and tell them that the vibrate alert stopped working. You checked
to see if there was an update and there was. Take the update and then this showed up. Works
every time for me >.< Any time I frail up my phone I incorrectly PIT it and make an excuse to
get another one bahaha
je2854 said:
What I have done. (I also have insurance)
ODIN with PIT
In the middle of re-partitioning with the PIT pull the plug and disconnect all battery sources.
When you turn it back on It will say to connect to the computer and download mode will not
work... Take it to the store and tell them that the vibrate alert stopped working. You checked
to see if there was an update and there was. Take the update and then this showed up. Works
every time for me >.< Any time I frail up my phone I incorrectly PIT it and make an excuse to
get another one bahaha
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THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS.
But yeah, that'll work, but make up some other excuse than taking the update, FP5 is too mature for this to work, but then again a VZW employee likely wouldn't know on a phone this old.
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Bad mojo..
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someone said swap doing it... i think it's the guy above me
.... lol
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lukegman said:
someone said swap doing it... i think it's the guy above me
.... lol
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I use swap and my vibrate works just fine.
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I've had my charge since the day after it came out haha waiting on the s4 to upgrade I don't think they'll give me any more charges (I'm on #4). But not having vibrate sucks. I did hear that swap was doing this to some people and I have swap activated, I'm going to try that out for size, will report back
so i don't think replacing my charge is a possibility (unless I pull the this phone is f#@$!ng terrible card) which I'm not in the mood to do. Also, disabling swap did not help wiped dalvik also just in case that could affect anything. I was scared my phone stopped accepting charge and was about to re-partition my phone last night but it was 4am and my phone decided to work again so that's probably the last thing I can do and I'll do it when I've got some free time this weekend and report back for anyone having this same issue.
on a semi-related note what are you guys planning on upgrading to? I want to wait for the moto x but would rather get the S4 because I like what samsung has been doing with extra features in their version of android, but also the HTC M7 looks super appealing and its not mumbo jumbo like the s4
p2kmafia said:
so i don't think replacing my charge is a possibility (unless I pull the this phone is f#@$!ng terrible card) which I'm not in the mood to do. Also, disabling swap did not help wiped dalvik also just in case that could affect anything. I was scared my phone stopped accepting charge and was about to re-partition my phone last night but it was 4am and my phone decided to work again so that's probably the last thing I can do and I'll do it when I've got some free time this weekend and report back for anyone having this same issue.
on a semi-related note what are you guys planning on upgrading to? I want to wait for the moto x but would rather get the S4 because I like what samsung has been doing with extra features in their version of android, but also the HTC M7 looks super appealing and its not mumbo jumbo like the s4
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I'm holding out for another Verizon Nexus to come around.
p2kmafia said:
so i don't think replacing my charge is a possibility (unless I pull the this phone is f#@$!ng terrible card) which I'm not in the mood to do. Also, disabling swap did not help wiped dalvik also just in case that could affect anything. I was scared my phone stopped accepting charge and was about to re-partition my phone last night but it was 4am and my phone decided to work again so that's probably the last thing I can do and I'll do it when I've got some free time this weekend and report back for anyone having this same issue.
on a semi-related note what are you guys planning on upgrading to? I want to wait for the moto x but would rather get the S4 because I like what samsung has been doing with extra features in their version of android, but also the HTC M7 looks super appealing and its not mumbo jumbo like the s4
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I went with the ThunderBolt. HUGE ROMS but still one of the best LTE phones out ( as in being like a tank and being sturdy)
Hello fellow XDA members,
Before I start, I would like to appologize if my English spelling is not perfect.
Ok, Problem 1:
This morning i woke up, and as usual, my phone was still plugged in into the charger. (Acer Liquid E2).
But, the thing that actually woke me up, was the phone constantly re-booting, and making the start-up sound + vibration.
When I took the phone, it was SUPER hot... I have never felt a phone being so hot.
It kinda got me worried...
I have the phone for about 2 weeks now.
What i did, was unplug the phone from the charger, took out the battery and placed them on my marble windowsill, and left it there to cool down for about 15 minutes.
When it was cool again, i placed the battery in the phone, and booted it up.
There was nothing wrong with the phone, but when it booted, it said that it was only charged 16%...
While it had been in the charger for about 7h's straight.
I just charged the phone again, but this time using another charger.
To Be Honest, I used the charger from my old samsung device, and swapped to the charger that came with the Acer phone.
I used the Samsung charger, because it has the same plug + the cable is longer ...
Do you think that this all happened because the samsung charger is not compatible with the acer device?
Or should I bring the phone back to the store, and have them take a look at it?
Ok, Problem 2:
When I try to call someone.
I often need to call 3-4 times...
Sometimes, when I call and the person answers my call, I can not hear them.
But the phone is still calling...
I need to re-call them then, and when the phone is calling, and I head a double beep.. then it will work...
Its really hard to explain..
But when I hear 2 dail beeps at once, then I can make a call,
if I only hear one dial beep, then I am a 100% sure it will not work, and I will need to recall them...
I have never had this problem before.
Could it be the provider? or the phone?
I hope you understand my issues,
And I am hoping that you guys can help me.
PS: if I posted this in the wrong section, please forgive me and move it to the right section on the board.
Thanks for your time,
And I am looking forward to see the replies.
Greetings from Belgium,
Kristiaan D.
Are you running a custom ROM?
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mattoaida said:
Are you running a custom ROM?
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No my friend,
Just android 4.2.1,
Its the stock ROM that came with the phone, but with an update.
Thank you for your reply.
Doing a preliminary search I discovered that it might not be your phone, it might actually be a tower or similar in your area.
What kind of phone do you have? What carrier do you have?
Do you travel away from your home regularly? Do these issues persist when you are away from home?
According to another forum it could be your SIM card or your SD card (if you have either of those)?
According to another forum you may need to consider a factory reset to clear the cache and then reintroduce applications one by one to see if any are actually causing the problem.
I see you are in Belgium so I know some of the above may have no pertinence to your situation.
sergeri said:
Doing a preliminary search I discovered that it might not be your phone, it might actually be a tower or similar in your area.
What kind of phone do you have? What carrier do you have?
Do you travel away from your home regularly? Do these issues persist when you are away from home?
According to another forum it could be your SIM card or your SD card (if you have either of those)?
According to another forum you may need to consider a factory reset to clear the cache and then reintroduce applications one by one to see if any are actually causing the problem.
I see you are in Belgium so I know some of the above may have no pertinence to your situation.
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My carrier is BASE.
Well, i walk alot...
And these problems happen everywhere that i go...
But to be honest, i never go far away... (max 20km)
I don't think its an app that causes this, because i have had this problem from the first day that i bough the phone.
Thanks for the reply
ikristiaan said:
My carrier is BASE.
Well, i walk alot...
And these problems happen everywhere that i go...
But to be honest, i never go far away... (max 20km)
I don't think its an app that causes this, because i have had this problem from the first day that i bough the phone.
Thanks for the reply
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@ikristiaan - 20k is more than enough to rule out towers as the cause.
What kind of phone do you have?
Does your phone have an SD card or a SIM card?
To find if the problem is due to charger or phone,connect it to a laptop or pc via USB and let it charge and also if u want to know if it was also not because of network take away the SIM and charge if the problem still present then u should probably take it to store.it happens if you've overclock too.
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sergeri said:
@ikristiaan - 20k is more than enough to rule out towers as the cause.
What kind of phone do you have?
Does your phone have an SD card or a SIM card?
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As mentioned above, i have an Acer Liquid E2.
Yes, the sim card.. thats pretty logical to have right, and yes it also has a SD
nivdeep said:
To find if the problem is due to charger or phone,connect it to a laptop or pc via USB and let it charge and also if u want to know if it was also not because of network take away the SIM and charge if the problem still present then u should probably take it to store.it happens if you've overclock too.
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It does not get that hot when i charge it using the pc or when i charge it using the charger that came with the phone.
I did not overclock it. It has enough power with its 1.2ghz quad core
thanks for the replies
ikristiaan said:
As mentioned above, i have an Acer Liquid E2.
Yes, the sim card.. thats pretty logical to have right, and yes it also has a SD
It does not get that hot when i charge it using the pc or when i charge it using the charger that came with the phone.
I did not overclock it. It has enough power with its 1.2ghz quad core
thanks for the replies
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@ikristiaan
1) Try removing the SD card for a few hours to see if it restarts on its own.
2) Try plugging your phone into the charger, then remove the battery. Observe it to see if it restarts.
3) If those do not make a difference remove your SIM card to see if your phone restarts by itself without the SIM.
Report back here with results.
@ikristiaan - Hey, I'm just checking back in to see if you've had any success with any of the trouble-shooting methods above.
I look forward to hearing back!