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Random restarts.

I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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It's definitely not normal. Try wiping fresh and installing only necessary apps then test again. If the issue persists trade it in for a new Infuse.

eallan said:
I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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The black screen vibrate and its off thing us what happens to me too.
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Hmm...interesting....
Are you all rooted? Changed any apps? Made any tweaks or all stock?
I've had my Infuse for a week now and it's been great....no reboots of any kind. No real bugs to complain about, though I have noticed it can lag quite a bit when looking at mms'.
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The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.

garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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I get it too... Do you guys run at 190 dpi? DO you guys run LauncherPro?

Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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garak0410 said:
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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Yeah I updated to UCKE5 with GTG's rom. Wiped my int sd and did a data wipe and very careful what to tibu back... So far so good...

Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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rjan22 said:
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe

rblankman said:
The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
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The vibration is a notification that you are running low in nemmoey and using too much. Check your apps it happens to me too only when I'm browsing and trying to open too much tabs
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slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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rjan22 said:
slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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Ergh... no....
It was exactly word for word:
ROM Pre-Installation:
Wipe Data and Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
So you put a check mark to tell it to do so.... Been flash roms almost a year now since the captivate.... I would think to do how to do that
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Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!

Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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This was in June!! June!!! And this is not a damn Windows phone forum....
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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Sell Your phone. Now.
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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WTF...... ? No. Mod.. I think you should close this..

How do I not lose All defaults when reset.

Every reset and some times when I kill tasks I loose all my program defaults. Trying to ignore then on list not enough it still happens. Its different programs each time. Launcher then my phone then contacts. Have redo the defaults. Any clue how make sure stops. Is because apps on as card?
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Stop killing tasks and learn how android works. Smh. How many threads are you going to open where you don't heed any advice?
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I have listened. I learned how to use my sd card. I fixed network issues. Also stream lined my apps. No double apps. I even managed more ram. I'm happy. I use a auto kill so doubt its doing it because I safe everything. My only issues now.
1. Google maps keeps deleting its self
2. My go locker changes
When this happens is at random. Doesn't seem be anything app doing it. I'm thinking its my Rom possibly. Bone. Skeeter
Doing my best bro. My phone is my only computer. Hard to read up as well as on a computer.
Thanks for the help.
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So odd I tried one app at a time. Might have start over with fresh rom. Its not bad problem just annoying. It deletes two random apps every restart. Thank god for titanium back up
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I have no idea what you are doing but I loose nothing over device resets. Period. Explain in detail exactly what you are doing, what ROM you are running, what launcher you are using and a list of 3rd party apps you are running.

xxsicknessxx said:
So odd I tried one app at a time. Might have start over with fresh rom. Its not bad problem just annoying. It deletes two random apps every restart. Thank god for titanium back up
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shansmi said:
I have no idea what you are doing but I loose nothing over device resets. Period. Explain in detail exactly what you are doing, what ROM you are running, what launcher you are using and a list of 3rd party apps you are running.
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sounds to me like hes running apps on sd which is unnecessary and causes more harm than good.

Really? Hmm I guess your right. I have I plenty of room. Thanks for info. I found the program responsible. Go locker. It used work but after last update it started messing up. Thanks for help I move apps back to phone
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Moving apps to phone helped allot thanks
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Random reboots in Bryan's kernel

While there may be another issue underlying, one of the more prominant reboot causes on the phone is wifi.
I believe I may have found the cause of the problem, and with that a temporary fix.
The problem had me at a loss because some people had it and others didn't, so I concluded it to be caused by either wifi channel or security.
Doing some scanning I found my own wifi to be running on channel 3. Opening the router interface I found the channel setting, like most routers, was set to auto. I changed this setting to 6 and no more reboots.
The fix
If you are running your own wireless router, open the interface and use a standard channel (1,6,11, 6 is recommended if you use wireless N with 40mhz channel width). I will not help you set up your router as there are plenty of tutorials out there.
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Unfortunately for me this is not the case. I've had my router set to channel 11 for some time. It does not change. Also, I've had the problem occur when wifi on the phone was not enabled.
After reading a thread in the Dev section on this kernel about it possibly being signal-strength related, I figured I would do some testing with different modems. I first went to the KD1 modem and it seemed fine for almost a day, then a reboot. Followed by a reboot soon thereafter. I switched to KG4 and the problem got worse. I do believe, however, that when it occurred my signal strength to T-Mobile (not via wifi) was weak/nonexistent.
I'm still on the KG4 modem despite the amount of issues I had with it last (one time it rebooted twice within the matter of a minute).
I think Bryan may be onto something provided in a log regarding the WM8994 module/code.
I'm glad you're still trying to figure out the issue as my time is limited these days. I hope we can narrow this issue down for the folks having the problem.
Thanks for your efforts and time!

Yes. As I said it appears there are 2 issues. My phone had started to reboot almost every 5 minutes when connected to wifi. There does also seem to be another issue causing reboots, but for some this may help.
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hampsterblade said:
Yes. As I said it appears there are 2 issues. My phone had started to reboot almost every 5 minutes when connected to wifi. There does also seem to be another issue causing reboots, but for some this may help.
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I misread the first sentence. Sorry about that. Weird that wifi is causing that issue. I'm tempted to set my router to auto & see what happens. I set a channel for it long ago because I have a repeater to get the signal to the other side of the house and they would hang if both were set to auto.

stephen_w said:
I misread the first sentence. Sorry about that. Weird that wifi is causing that issue. I'm tempted to set my router to auto & see what happens. I set a channel for it long ago because I have a repeater to get the signal to the other side of the house and they would hang if both were set to auto.
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In my case it was locking up and rebooting almost every time the phone locked and was destroying battery life
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In my case it was locking up and rebooting almost every time the phone locked and was destroying battery life
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I don't get great battery life as it is. I did notice yesterday or the day before, though, that when it reboots itself, the battery usage shows a sharp drop. I also noticed it's not a "full" reboot, but rather seems like a quick boot.

I agree with the half reboots and it also seems to me that they happen when the signal is low. I get a couple a day and usually while using data or wifi while indoors or while coverage is low. I don't know if these details help track it down or not but I wanted to leave my experiences.
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sunsurfer42 said:
I agree with the half reboots and it also seems to me that they happen when the signal is low. I get a couple a day and usually while using data or wifi while indoors or while coverage is low. I don't know if these details help track it down or not but I wanted to leave my experiences.
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I mag have found a fix. Testing it now. Will update tomorrow.
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Just an FYI. I set my router to n only channel 6 a few days ago. No reboots til this morning. Normally it's "hmmm there it goes again." This morning however I thought I had broken my ankle and was waiting for a call back on what to do. BAM, my blue tooth disconnected, I looked at the phone and saw the beats audio startup. Really bad timing for a reboot. Wifi wasn't on. Glad I didn't miss the call back. That would have really sucked.

Ive pretty.much given up on finding it. Im waiting for my sdcard to come in the mail to test that. If that doesnt fix it ill be redeeming my phone warranty this weekend.
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Don't give up just yet.
I'm using my Hebrew Valhalla ROM and using Bryan's kernel I had no reboots for more than a month. It's basically Valhalla Final with Adrenaline Shot 14.1 with system mount on etc init.d scripts. I'm also on sidekick kd1 modem. You can try this ROM, if you don't change locality to Hebrew it's as English as any other ROM.
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itzik2sh said:
Don't give up just yet.
I'm using my Hebrew Valhalla ROM and using Bryan's kernel I had no reboots for more than a month. It's basically Valhalla Final with Adrenaline Shot 14.1 with system mount on etc init.d scripts. I'm also on sidekick kd1 modem. You can try this ROM, if you don't change locality to Hebrew it's as English as any other ROM.
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You may have something there. I really don't understand how all the various work together, but seemingly there's something between the kernel and the modem. Since the reboots can be random though, it's hard for me to even guess. I flashed SCOM a little bit ago which uses the KD1 Modem with KJ6-v0.1.1-rc2. So we'll see.

Idk. It seams heat related. Also Bryan said that he either tracked it to userspace errors or he thinks its caused by userspace errors.
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for those of you having the random reboot, did you do the gremlin removal steps + the factory wipe without the sd card in the phone? i would highly recommend this. after you have successfully done the gremlin remover, remove and reformat the sd card on the computer. while this is formatting, go back into cwm and wipe data/cache/dalvik without the sd card in the phone. once this is done, let the phone sit for 15 min or and and shut down. put the sd card in and reboot. if you still have random reboots, try the kh2 kernel.

I was going through the same reboot issues with kernels newer than 2D for a while. Then a few weeks ago I flashed FB's version and everthing ran great for a week. I was running VB with no additional tweaks of any kind. The week of no random reboots got me feeling good enough to start adding some of the typical changes I make to my phone... the first being changing some SD apps over to System apps ( Netflix, Skype, TB, Plume, Ninesky, ES File Ex, Camera Zoom FX & a few others)...BAM! Random reboots 4 to 5 times a day. Converted apps back after 3 days but the reboots persisted. Reflashed VB from scratch, keeping kernel that is packed in Raver's VB ROM, left apps alone and so far no reboots in 4 days. The only logs I found were similar to those posted on another thread where Bryan then said he didn't need anymore, he just needed time to de-bug.

Has anyone tried using the kj2 modem? kd1from SCOM was giving me random reboots left and right and after flashing kj2 last night my phone has been up for a little over 17 hrs without any issues. I know its not alot of time but its better than random reboots every hour or so. Signal strength also went up a bit.
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jager555 said:
for those of you having the random reboot, did you do the gremlin removal steps + the factory wipe without the sd card in the phone? i would highly recommend this. after you have successfully done the gremlin remover, remove and reformat the sd card on the computer. while this is formatting, go back into cwm and wipe data/cache/dalvik without the sd card in the phone. once this is done, let the phone sit for 15 min or and and shut down. put the sd card in and reboot. if you still have random reboots, try the kh2 kernel.
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I usually do the whole gremlin thing before every flash regardless. Actually formatting my sd on the puter as we speak. Then I'll do gremlin again, then reformat, etc. The things you mentioned at the end though I've never seen before, so I'll add those into the mix. With the SCOM flash this morning, the phone rebooted within 3 hours. I'm glad to see Bryan's back and that he's on top of it.

I had this problem and added the system mount on init.d scripts and the modem and don't have it. Never used the gremlin remover. So if the gremlin remover won't work for you as well, try what I say.
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I'm on icbinb, which I've been on for well over a month and have only had one reboot (after leaving my phone on for more than 5 straight days). Only thing I've changed is tried the sidekick modems, but they didn't increase my service, so I flashed back to kj6.
Oh, slightly uv'd and oc'd at 1.2
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I'm on scom v2 and no reboots so far so it might be an app causing this. Hmm...
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[Q] High usage (40+%) for "Media" in battery settings

I'm having trouble with the Media application as listed in the battery stats. It's using an ungodly amount of my battery power. This has happened across multiple roms, using Darkside Wipe and not using it. I've even gone as far as to use ODIN to go back to stock, and reroot and rom my device.
I'm currently using Team Wafflehouse's AOKP rom v4. Only thing I've done is install gapps and added my google account.
Staring at it right now, Media is at 48% of the battery consumption. This is directly after wiping battery stats + wiping cache and formatting emmc. I have no idea what's going on.
Any help?
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I've since reinstalled my rom. Checking the usage. It seems to be skyrocketting, pardon the pun, as soon as I sign into my google account.

I've noticed the same thing every now and then, only since I flashed CM9, which was a few weeks ago now. Haven't figured out what's causing it, so I'd also be interested in some possible explanations.
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Thought it might have been the cache for the Gallery's instant upload. Nope, still having same issue.

I'm stock and I don't even see media. I think it has to do with transferring files to and from your SD card.
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Still happens even with the SD card removed.
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You may have a corrupt file on your device that can cause the media scan to get stuck.
Have you tried wiping everything to new and just use the phone without installing anything or copying any files to it?

Mediaserver eating battery on Carbon ROM

I've been running Carbon ROM for a solid 3 days and it's been working great. Probably the best battery life on a AOSP ROM I've had.
But...yesterday my battery just started draining and "Mediaserver" is the culprit. I was running a TW ROM for a long while and haven't seen Mediaserver show up and eat battery like it has been for months. I know for a while it was a big problem for a lot of people but I'm not sure if a fix was found.
I posted a couple pictures of it draining the battery but I don't know what do to.
I posted the on the Carbon ROM thread but nobody responded and it doesn't seem like anyone else is having the problem. Any help?????
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If you have a lot of pics/music and/or files and you constantly access those files your mediaserver will be much higher. If you dont then give it a couple days to calm down.

I tried an app called "rescan media root" that someone suggested to me. I would open it every so often cause I kept seeing "Mediaserver" of the top of the battery chart. Didn't seem to help. Screenies below.
Still looking for any ideas
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x714x said:
If you have a lot of pics/music and/or files and you constantly access those files your mediaserver will be much higher. If you dont then give it a couple days to calm down.
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I have some music and picture on my phone but I wouldn't consider it "a lot".
I use to have this problem a while back on some of the first TW ROM's for the S3 but I haven't really had it for 4+ months. Now it's eating more then it ever did when I first saw the problem.
I know that early on the advice was to just let it run it's course which I've done for a couple days now on Carbon ROM. I'd think it should have settled down cause I've been running it for over 5 days.
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Go into recovery, clear cache, dalvik, and fix permissions; has worked for me in past when that happens
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Usually when I have had this I would go through and add .nomedia file to the folder that I didn't want the media server to scan. The biggest folders would be any folder that has backups like clockworkmod or Titanium Backup. then reboot. This usually works for me.

mapatton82 said:
Usually when I have had this I would go through and add .nomedia file to the folder that I didn't want the media server to scan. The biggest folders would be any folder that has backups like clockworkmod or Titanium Backup. then reboot. This usually works for me.
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What kind of file is the ".nomedia"? Can I jsut copy it from another folder that should have it already?

schmaltzy said:
What kind of file is the ".nomedia"? Can I jsut copy it from another folder that should have it already?
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Yeah that's what I did, not sure how to create it from scratch.

mapatton82 said:
Yeah that's what I did, not sure how to create it from scratch.
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Sorry, I should have edited my last post. I found some .nomedia in a couple other folders that must have been created by other apps....????
Just copied it into certain folders like TWRP and Titanium backup. Also went through almost all my folders and deleted unused items and other junk like empty/unused folders.
So far I'm at 87% with 4 hours and 10 minutes of being off charger and Mediaserver is nowhere to be found. Light usage and only about 5 minutes of screen time. I'll consider good for now.

Any help as to where to find the .nomedia folders?
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