question about black screen of death - T-Mobile LG G2x

usually you will get the black screen of death when:
-after a phone call
-during/after charging
-when hitting the power button to turn off or turn on your screen.
do you think that the gingerbread launcher is causing this problem?
Ive read on other forums on different phones that the launchers were causing the same problems on their phone as well and when they switched launchers, it all stopped.
is this a reasonable explanation?

Nope. It happens to my wife on GO Launcher as well.
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what is the black screen of death? or am i better off not knowing. lol
i have go launcher on my phone and wad curious if i have experienced the black screen of death. sounds scary lol

Aestetics said:
usually you will get the black screen of death when:
-after a phone call
-during/after charging
-when hitting the power button to turn off or turn on your screen.
do you think that the gingerbread launcher is causing this problem?
Ive read on other forums on different phones that the launchers were causing the same problems on their phone as well and when they switched launchers, it all stopped.
is this a reasonable explanation?
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Only SOD I ever come across is the call SOD. That happens when running Trinity kernel on CM7 or CM7 based roms. Morfics updated Trinity kernel I assume has fixed the SOD as I haven't come across it while running CM7's nightly 199.
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suicidalintentions said:
what is the black screen of death? or am i better off not knowing. lol
i have go launcher on my phone and wad curious if i have experienced the black screen of death. sounds scary lol
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This is when your phone goes on permanent "sleep" as in your screen wont turn on. Only way to turn it on is to do a batt pull and reboot.
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i use 2.3.7 eaglesblood running the trinity kernal and knocn on wood no problems at all. Hope i dont get that phone disease.

The kernel is the problem. I've said it a million times. Its why CM7 based roms don't do this and those with custom kernels. My Asus transformer did this (tegra 2) until a custom kernel came out.
Change the kernel and fix the SoD.
LG G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Asus Transformer - 3.7 Revolver OC/UV

Black Screen of death
I recently flashed EB 2.3.7 / 2.5 (runs amazing by the way) but have one small issue. When charging my phone at night it goes into perm. sleep mode for the last 3 nights. My wake up call never goes off . I read somewhere it may be kernel related, so I flashed faux .46 hoping that would resolved sleep issue. It has not, anyone else have any insight?
Thanks.

That happens sometimes or stock ROM.
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gman87 said:
This is when your phone goes on permanent "sleep" as in your screen wont turn on. Only way to turn it on is to do a batt pull and reboot.
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Hold the power button down for a long time. After about 30-45 seconds, something will usually happen. Sometimes the home screen will flash on for a second and then go black again, sometimes the home screen will come on but will be in a frozen state and won't accept input, and sometimes the screen will come back on normal. This will allow you to avoid a battery pull maybe a quarter to a third of the time you get an SOD.

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[Q] What problems still exist after update?

It appears that both LG and T-mobile are putting a LOT on the hope that this update has indeed fixed all of the problems plagued with the G2X. But to be honest with you, I only notice 2 differences with the update...gps and data speed.
Problems I'm still having:
Random reboots
Lock-ups when switching from USB storage on to off
Sleep of death (try to wake the screen with the power button, and you can see some kind of slight light behind the black screen, but requires a battery pull)
Camera is dark, dark, dark
MP3 Ringtone at max volume when call is coming in is distorted
I will edit this if I think of more, but I have to go handle some business en el bano.
Please reply if you are having these issues, not having these issues, or if you have other issues.
mmapcpro said:
It appears that both LG and T-mobile are putting a LOT on the hope that this update has indeed fixed all of the problems plagued with the G2X. But to be honest with you, I only notice 2 differences with the update...gps and data speed.
Problems I'm still having:
Random reboots
Lock-ups when switching from USB storage on to off
Sleep of death (try to wake the screen with the power button, and you can see some kind of slight light behind the black screen, but requires a battery pull)
Camera is dark, dark, dark
MP3 Ringtone at max volume when call is coming in is distorted
I will edit this if I think of more, but I have to go handle some business en el bano.
Please reply if you are having these issues, not having these issues, or if you have other issues.
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Only problems ppl complaining about is not having lg camera in gb
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mmapcpro said:
Problems I'm still having:
Random reboots
Lock-ups when switching from USB storage on to off
Sleep of death (try to wake the screen with the power button, and you can see some kind of slight light behind the black screen, but requires a battery pull)
Camera is dark, dark, dark
MP3 Ringtone at max volume when call is coming in is distorted
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So basically this update has fixed nothing?
I had no problems before update except for some minor black light bleed. After update I had a few sleep of death issues happened 4 time in the few days running the update. Yesterday I flashed the rooted update and have had No problems yet.
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It fixed my wifi, it's like night and day now. Battery has very slightly improved. LG camera is gone. Overall though, I'm happy.
I was happy but just had a random shutdown. First one hopefully last. That is with the update
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I really HATE the new buttons on the keyboard...as well as the fact that double hitting spacebar no longer equals a period. I know they're petty, but they annoy the f*** out of me.
bballcat03 said:
I really HATE the new buttons on the keyboard...as well as the fact that double hitting spacebar no longer equals a period. I know they're petty, but they annoy the f*** out of me.
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Should be a setting under the keyboard settings to re-enable the double tap period shortcut.
G2X CM7
omarsalmin said:
So basically this update has fixed nothing?
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I know right? Since I updated my phone still won't help me make an army of tiny, laser toting robot minions. Stoopid LG.
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My problems got worse. GPS won't lock on now, and when it does, it's like 30 miles off.
Getting more freezes and reboots.
Finally decided to try a warranty replacement!
The update fixxed all the reboot problems for me, however my GPS still takes forever to get a fix, and once when checking for a text message i was expecting, i would turn the screen on and off every 15 seconds or so for about 2 minutes, which eventually led to the screen getting stuck. Everything seemed to work (slight vibrate when using the unlock slider, able to feel buttons being touched through the vibration), just the screen was frozen. Weird bug, was fixxed with a battery pull and a restart though.
for those wanting the lg camera app on gingerbread, couldnt you just make a backup of the application with titanium backup and restore? Or is it not compatible on gingerbread?
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I have the following issues:
1. Phone turned off while charging overnight
2. During calls, it cuts in and out almost constantly (or every several seconds)
3. Battery life hit the crapper (due to Juicedefender not turning off radio and bloatware present again since I'm not rooted anymore)
I haven't gotten any reboots or lockups, yet
Wifi is pretty solid now
Somewhat better performance, although it lags a bit when woken up
d12unk13astard said:
for those wanting the lg camera app on gingerbread, couldnt you just make a backup of the application with titanium backup and restore? Or is it not compatible on gingerbread?
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Not yet compatible.
G2X CM7
Lakonikos said:
The update fixxed all the reboot problems for me, however my GPS still takes forever to get a fix, and once when checking for a text message i was expecting, i would turn the screen on and off every 15 seconds or so for about 2 minutes, which eventually led to the screen getting stuck. Everything seemed to work (slight vibrate when using the unlock slider, able to feel buttons being touched through the vibration), just the screen was frozen. Weird bug, was fixxed with a battery pull and a restart though.
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Regarding GPS, just curious if you have wireless networks enabled under Settings > Location and Security
G2X CM7
Just got the OTA this morning and I've noticed much faster GPS lock and vastly improved call quality (no more drop outs!). Only been a few hours though so this is just my initial impressions. Would love it if the battery life improves but I'll have to wait and see.
My phone is way faster now and I even got a quadrant score above 3000 but it's locked up and rebooted 3 times today so I have mixed feelings.
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cuda340 said:
My phone is way faster now and I even got a quadrant score above 3000 but it's locked up and rebooted 3 times today so I have mixed feelings.
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My Quadrant speeds are the same as before... Around 2800.
I've had several random reboots today and only had maybe 4 over the last 3 months with Froyo. Trying out some different ROMs, xboarders tweaked, to see if that corrects some of the problem.

[Q] screen issue....maybe?

I got my charge as a replacement for my fascinate like many others. befor i do anything i wanted to give the phone a few days on stock to make sure everything works fine. So far the only thing i noticed was sometimes it lags when i hit the power button to turn the screen on. Sometimes it flashes a static filled screen for a split sec before home screen loads. also some times it takes a sec for my screen to come back on after i lower the phone from my face so i can hang up. Is this just a little minor known issue others are having or is there something wrong with my phone possibly? Phone is all stock, fully bloated and the only apps ive installed are xbox live stats and google googles (coolest app ever). I doesnt do it all the time but it happens frequently enough to notice it. I can normally recreate it if i hit power button to turn screen off and let it sit a few mins then hit the button again to turn it back on.
When running completely stock, I experienced the same 2-3 second delay. Now that I am on EE4 with a custom kernel, the delay is closer to 1 second.
NotATreoFan said:
When running completely stock, I experienced the same 2-3 second delay. Now that I am on EE4 with a custom kernel, the delay is closer to 1 second.
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did you ever see black/white lines or static? I only ask because if its a common thing that most have exp then its really no big deal. ill root and flash to help fix the lag. But if its not then i would like to get it fix asap. Other then that i havent seen any other issues yet.
I see the lines and"static" on mine when the screen comes on. Not every time though.
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Undzis said:
did you ever see black/white lines or static? I only ask because if its a common thing that most have exp then its really no big deal. ill root and flash to help fix the lag. But if its not then i would like to get it fix asap. Other then that i havent seen any other issues yet.
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I have seen it on occasion. It's much less noticable on a custom kernel and ROM.
Undzis said:
did you ever see black/white lines or static? I only ask because if its a common thing that most have exp then its really no big deal. ill root and flash to help fix the lag. But if its not then i would like to get it fix asap. Other then that i havent seen any other issues yet.
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I have that on mine too.
(Out of the box EE4 stock)
Thanks for posting everybody. It seams like its a common issue then. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just mine or that i needed to return it due to some kinda of defect. Nice to know a custom kernel will fix it for the most part. Thanks again guys. This phone is so much nicer then the fascinate
I set a lock pattern on my phone, and I haven't seen the screen flicker once since. I'll switch back to the puzzle lock and see if it comes back....standby.
*update* switched back and still no flicker. Maybe that's the ticket.
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I have it on two replacement phones I got through amazon . White lines for a split second . I got it replaced through verizon because both of the others had a dead glowing red pixel after about a week. The one I got from verizon works great I would get it replaced asap before u get the glowing red dot of doom
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[Q] Screen goes black when unlock

When I unlock my phone (as in push the unlock button) the screen remains black but lightly lit. The bottom four buttons remains lit when the screen is touched. Currently I'm using Eaglesblood 1.5 Rom with latest Trinity 1.1 GHz. I tried using the latest CM7 Kangs and the stable 201 rom with both trinity and faux with and with out overclock and the same thing still happens. Even with a clean wipe it still happens. Currently I have Juicedefender, AdAway, KeyboardManager Launcher, Go Launcher (have used ADW and ADW Ex) running. I have advanced task killer as well but it's not set to autokill.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do to remedy this problem? If not i'm stuck with the usual battery pull each time the screen goes black. Also I don't think it's a sleep of death because the phone is not frozen as the touchscreen and side buttons are responsive. It should also be noted that the battery is NOT hot when the screen is black.
Also, I'm using an overclock widget that's set to 432000-1100000 screen on, and 432000-750000 screen off. I have tried varying the frequencies too. Should I change my values?
Try uninstalling juice defender. I had issues with a similar app.
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Overclocking can be handy, but if you set it too high or overclock your phone too much, it could damage the phone itself. I uninstalled my "SetCPU" once I learned that. However, it could just be that there is a hardware fault within the phone that is causing the screen to be black. Maybe the LCD or backlight?
Happens to me too sometimes on both weapon and cm7.2.
I just do a battery pull and hopefully it doesn't happen soon again.
Uninstalling juicedfender seemed to have fixed it for me thanks so much!
jim.k.yee said:
Uninstalling juicedfender seemed to have fixed it for me thanks so much!
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Awesome. Glad I could help.
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Lock screen problem

Hello,
I've run many different AOSP roms and so far each one has given me lock screen issues. When I press either the power button or the home button to unlock, the phone screen stays black but the hardware keys glow. This will keep happening for almost a minute and then it will work normally. Battery pull always fixes it temporarily. Is there an obvious answer to this? Thanks!
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Danno131313 said:
Hello,
I've run many different AOSP roms and so far each one has given me lock screen issues. When I press either the power button or the home button to unlock, the phone screen stays black but the hardware keys glow. This will keep happening for almost a minute and then it will work normally. Battery pull always fixes it temporarily. Is there an obvious answer to this? Thanks!
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I find I have this problem whenever I'm using a battery saving governor ...such as ktoonservative, smartass etc. Changing to wheatley or pegasusq seems to solve it. Also if I try to set my minimum CPU below 384 it does it along with screen flicker. But that's just me.

Phone randomly turning off

My infuse is randomly turning off (not bootlooping). No particular time of the day. It is not critical but very annoying. Almost evertime I need the phone quickly, it appears off.
Currently running [ROM] 4.2.2 - Jellybean - AoCP 5.6 - The Collective - Final and it appears fine. I am also using an extended battery and though the case back was loose, so I checked that and put in a small wad of piece of paper as a filler to pack the battery in a little more and also cleaned all the terminal connections between battery and phone.
Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue and what to do to correct it?
yes i think its a pretty normal issue for a Infuse. Mine was doing that when i was running Froyo. Now it just reboots.
GutterGuppy said:
yes i think its a pretty normal issue for a Infuse. Mine was doing that when i was running Froyo. Now it just reboots.
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Reboot is the power button issue (most of the time). This one likes to turn off. Since I padded the case with a little wad of paper, no turn offs but I suspect, now that I said it, it will start turning off again...LOL.
I've had issues with the phone mysteriously turning off ever since running JB. Maybe ICS too. I don't recall ever having an issue with 2.2.
We have five infuses in my family....3 on Froyo and two on GB. I am the designated troubleshooter. (geek)
We have occasional reboot, often during heavy use. I'm not sure I've ever seem them turn off...if it has happened, it's not often.
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Its the power button. Lots of people have the issue. What I recommend is upgrading to a rom (Beanstalk for example) and in the settings have the volume buttons also turn on the screen and then download a remapper that you can change the power button
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toxicpaulution said:
Its the power button. Lots of people have the issue. What I recommend is upgrading to a rom (Beanstalk for example) and in the settings have the volume buttons also turn on the screen and then download a remapper that you can change the power button
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You sure about that? wouldn't power button issues making the phone restart rather than simply turn off?
I guess if the power button did not work at all and simply was non-responsive the phone could be on and you'd never know it for sure, but at least in my case I know I've missed phone calls when it's off so i dont think that is the case.
I don't think it is the power button issue. It randomly turned off, it did not just reboot. Since I added a piece if paper between back and battery, it has only turned off once. Prior to that it was turning off a couple of times a day.
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