My GF has a completely stock SGS4G that I just updated to GB via Kies. She is having issues with the phone locking up and rebooting randomly. This happens a few times a day. I was just wondering if you all had any ideas/hints/tips that you could give me to help her with this issue. She's not to happy with me that I updated her phone and will not let me flash any roms or even root it. Thanks in advance!
Factory data reset, maybe?
I learned long ago not to ever even touch my wife's phone.
No touch... no blame.
But yea... factory reset it. Back up all her stuff first and wrote down a list of her apps and such.
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camalus said:
I learned long ago not to ever even touch my wife's phone.
No touch... no blame.
But yea... factory reset it. Back up all her stuff first and wrote down a list of her apps and such.
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hahaha. that is SO true! every time i try to help someone, i always get blamed if something goes wrong..and its usually their fault! one time someone pulled out their sd card while playing music and it messed up the card and they blamed me because i rooted their phone...
anyway, OP, i had a similar problem on my dad's phone. i backed up my sdcard pics/music/docs and then went into 3e recovery. factory reset and wiped cache. then i went into the privacy setting and formatted everything including the sd card. this seemed to fix it for me.
camalus said:
I learned long ago not to ever even touch my wife's phone.
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Yeah. I lost my sgs4g by messing with my wife's g2.
Kies?
The OP said "...updated to GB via Kies..." So if your suggestion still leaves issues, I would pick of the stock rom from here (search for it in either development or q&a) and reflash. Others have reported problems with Kies, so I only used kies to the point where where I could receive the download from my temp folder, then flashed with Odin. Worked for me, but you may want to search for a link to the rom in these forums.
jager555 said:
hahaha. that is SO true! every time i try to help someone, i always get blamed if something goes wrong..and its usually their fault! one time someone pulled out their sd card while playing music and it messed up the card and they blamed me because i rooted their phone...
anyway, OP, i had a similar problem on my dad's phone. i backed up my sdcard pics/music/docs and then went into 3e recovery. factory reset and wiped cache. then i went into the privacy setting and formatted everything including the sd card. this seemed to fix it for me.
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If I have cognition on my device now, would it be ok to do a factory reset. My phone keeps turning off by it's self and I want to try to do a reset since some people in other forums said thats what they did to fix their problem.
not sure if that is the problem, i've heard its actually a hardware issue, try odin one click to stock, and reflash! my cap is a 1007 build and i used to get random shutdowns while on stock, but when i started flashing custom ROM's it all stopped. the last person that did a factory reset on a custom ROM was asking how to build a jig... so maybe some of the other more expierenced people can help on this issue!
Soulweaver said:
If I have cognition on my device now, would it be ok to do a factory reset. My phone keeps turning off by it's self and I want to try to do a reset since some people in other forums said thats what they did to fix their problem.
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Has your phone shutdown on its own before running cog?
If your phone is experiencing the random shutdown issue, than it most likely will not matter which rom you are on as the problem is hardware related.
You could always try doing the reset - just remember you will lose your apps
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So, how do you fix it? Should I have AT&T replace my device or what?
If you are in that return period, might as well! You will loose your apps, but if you use TiBu to back up, then copy all the contents of titanium backup to your desktop!
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so, last night my phone was acting wierd... slow, battery was getting destroyed literally in an hour or two so i cleaned it up..
somehow i lost clockwork recovery... no flippin idea what happened, i never flashed or installed anything, but i went to do a backup and all i got was samsung recovery.
i did not lose root...
tried to install via rom manager and it said it worked... yeah whatever, that program is rubbish and ALWAYS says it worked...
anyways rebooted to a black screen but the capacitive buttons would light up if i touched them.
finally it installed but nothing worked and the phone locked up.
by the way rom manager installed CWM 3.0.0.8 (orange)
so now i had to completely blow out the phone, reroot, reinstall CWM (which worked the first time) but nothing is working in clockwork again.
back up.. nope says error backing up.. thats it
restore... nope, something about only having 8gb of space on my SDcard
i can wipe cache,, or so it seems.
but
if i wipe dalvik it locks the phone and i completely lose CWM again.
its acting like CWM is only temporary or something.
so what the heck.. i have never seen this before... ever.
I cant do anything with regards to bqcking up or restoring.
I cant.flash anything either even though rom manager boots to a portion of cwm which tries to flash a eom. But the phone just reboots.
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Can't lie - Karma's a *****
Try going back to stock and starting over.
foxfire450 said:
Try going back to stock and starting over.
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please be sure you read my post in its entirety and not bits and pieces.
i did finally get the latest CM7 installed and its running ok.
havent tried to do other things in CWM yet
akellar said:
Can't lie - Karma's a *****
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you aint kidding...
but
its a phone, my life doesnt end if my phone goes to hell
just wierd, i have never lost clockwork before.
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In fairness, it's not immediately clear what you did after getting CWM Orange 3 installed---and really, ROM Manager should only ever be used on our phones if you're using the latest (CWM 4) on an MTD ROM.
That said: IF you think you need to do this (it sounds like if you got CM7 installed, you don't, but offering the advice all the same): take foxfire450's advice. Then do the entire process all over again. I've heard of people having issues with a lagfux or MTD removal unless they did the process twice. You might even consider the RFS Formatter if you're still having trouble.
Again though, that's all largely academic if you're running fine now. *shrug* Up to you to try if you think it's worth bothering at this point.
Okay. So I've had my G2x stuck at the S/W upgrade screen fora couple of days now. I have tried reflashing back to complete stock and that didn't help me. I flashed a new ROM (all of the ones in the G2x ROM list) and that didn't help me. I flashed the restore ROMs that were stock (was in the ROM list. said it'd help me) and that really didn't go well either. They all flashed successfully and I made sure to clear the restore data, but I still get that darn S/W upgrade screen. >_< I've cleared the cache. Reformatted everything including my SD card a million times. That S/W screen still popped up. I did everything that was posted here that would work to help my phone. No go. Is there anything I can do to get rid of this screen? It's driving me crazy.
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Okay. So I've had my G2x stuck at the S/W upgrade screen fora couple of days now. I have tried reflashing back to complete stock and that didn't help me. I flashed a new ROM (all of the ones in the G2x ROM list) and that didn't help me. I flashed the restore ROMs that were stock (was in the ROM list. said it'd help me) and that really didn't go well either. They all flashed successfully and I made sure to clear the restore data, but I still get that darn S/W upgrade screen. >_< I've cleared the cache. Reformatted everything including my SD card a million times. That S/W screen still popped up. I did everything that was posted here that would work to help my phone. No go. Is there anything I can do to get rid of this screen? It's driving me crazy.
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If you don't mind formatting your internal sd card then you can try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590523.
Let me know how it goes. Remember to flash a gb rom afterwards.
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mansa_noob said:
If you don't mind formatting your internal sd card then you can try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590523.
Let me know how it goes. Remember to flash a gb rom afterwards.
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Oh my God! Thank you sir! This worked! I cannot thank you enough!
Hmmm... My battery meter is always at 0%. Is there a way to fix that? o:
grandestfail9190 said:
Oh my God! Thank you sir! This worked! I cannot thank you enough!
Hmmm... My battery meter is always at 0%. Is there a way to fix that? o:
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I am guessing you mean it drains fast . Here is a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1607297
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So about two weeks ago Ive noticed my infuse starting to get laggy. Now its laggy all the time. Ive tried reinstalling CM7 and nothing, Ive installed CM9 and it still lags. can anybody help with this?
Did you try any other ROMs and noticed similar behavior?
If you use Google voice it will cause that. Make sure when you first reinstall a rom don't add any apps... run it and see if its laggy. If not install your apps you always use one at a time... if after installing one Ans you notice lag you got your culprit. GV used to do this to my aria
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i would backup everyone on both of you sd cards to a computer.
(also back up any apps with titanium and text and such)
read this whole page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
then flash stock gingerbread
factory reset your phone
then flash the kernal in the same thread
(format your external sd in your pc, then put it back in your phone and format it with your phone)
remember to back up things on the phone, then move them over to your pc before you start this process, because EVERYTHING on your phone will be wiped
then flash a rom again, from this clean of a state it should fix pretty much anything.
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Did you try any other ROMs and noticed similar behavior?
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Before ive ran lots of different roms with no problems, ive been running cm7 for a few months now and its just now starting to act like this. I must have installed a bad file or something.
The_Zodiac said:
i would backup everyone on both of you sd cards to a computer.
(also back up any apps with titanium and text and such)
read this whole page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
then flash stock gingerbread
factory reset your phone
then flash the kernal in the same thread
(format your external sd in your pc, then put it back in your phone and format it with your phone)
remember to back up things on the phone, then move them over to your pc before you start this process, because EVERYTHING on your phone will be wiped
then flash a rom again, from this clean of a state it should fix pretty much anything.
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okay thanks, ive went back to stock gingerbread and im formatting everything right now. after everything is done ill try flashing cm7 and see if the lag is gone and if it is ill move on to cm9
Okay so I am running CM10 stable on i9023. Its been fine for like a month I think with just a couple of reboots. But today I have been getting reboot whenever I turn on bluetooth. Its a very ugly situation where upon boot the phone reboots again as soon as trying to turn on bluetooth. I then clear dalvik cache and cache to make it work again. However it seems like I really am stuck now it just wont boot anymore.
I have tried clearing cache again but it still wants to turn on bluetooth and reboots. Even took out the battery for several minutes but to no avail.
My titanium backup is a bit old so please what should I do here that doesnt require data reset?
Does nandroid backup also restore those apps which were moved to SD card?? Would it even solve the situation here?
Thanks.
Okay I finally got it running again but what do I do about the bluetooth problem now? I am scared even touching bluetooth now but I really need it from time to time. :S
So everything was fine for a few hours then I decided to do a normal reboot and bam I get the bootloop again. Something has seriously got messed up I guess.
Please anyone what would you suggest me?
Do a factory reset from recovery. If that still fails, flash the factory images and see if everything works.
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rasengan82 said:
Do a factory reset from recovery. If that still fails, flash the factory images and see if everything works.
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Yes that's what I have decided to do.
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Did factory reset and everything is working fine so far including bluetooth. I just wish it doesnt happen again or I'll be really put off by CM.
Gambler_3 said:
Did factory reset and everything is working fine so far including bluetooth. I just wish it doesnt happen again or I'll be really put off by CM.
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Had you installed something just before the problem started? I'm also on CM10 and make extensive use of bluetooth, so you just scared me
Gambler_3 said:
Did factory reset and everything is working fine so far including bluetooth. I just wish it doesnt happen again or I'll be really put off by CM.
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How can you blame CM for that? Or any rom for that matters?
You had multiple reboots, the early ones which might have be caused by something unrelated to the rom, and the later ones something was probably corrupted. If data was being written when it rebooted on you, it's no wonder you'll have problems...
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Had you installed something just before the problem started? I'm also on CM10 and make extensive use of bluetooth, so you just scared me
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Well my bluetooth is now working fine after a factory reset.
Infact yes I did install/uninstall this app a few days ago but I suppose I cant be sure about blaming it for it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987032
polobunny said:
How can you blame CM for that? Or any rom for that matters?
You had multiple reboots, the early ones which might have be caused by something unrelated to the rom, and the later ones something was probably corrupted. If data was being written when it rebooted on you, it's no wonder you'll have problems...
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It wasnt the first time CM rebooted on me, stock rom on the other hand was very stable.
And then this whole mess happens.
only had some bugs with newer nightlies.
reflashing the rom w/o factory reset did the job