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I bought my Captivate on 12/13. For the first 3 weeks I had it I had almost no problems with it (other than the usual GPS issues). About 3 weeks ago I rooted (1-click Root), installed the 1-click decripple, SGS Tools, Titanium Backup and OCLF and removed some of the bloatware, but stayed with the stock ROM. Got some noticeable improvement as far as Quadrant benchmarks, but about a week after I did all that the phone started freaking out. I had my first of 2 unexplained shutdowns. Simple things, like receiving calls, would lock the phone up. Then I started having force closes when I tried to use a speed dial. The past week the battery has been doing strange things like losing 60% charge over 4-5 hours without using the phone for anything. It will somehow go back to normal and work fine for 4-5 days. Today, the force closes and lockups started anew. Again, an incoming call locked the device. I didn't even know it for 3 hours when I turned it on and the clock was over 3 hours behind and the screen wouldn't take any input beyond unlocking. Reboot and later I tried to speed dial and back into force close loop. Reboot...still does it. Tried to bring up my contacts and get a black screen, eventually leading to getting kicked back to the Home screen. Obviously, the contacts issue is related to the speed dial issue, which is probably related to the incoming call issue since they all are tied together. But what could be the problem? I am so frustrated I'm ready to hurl this thing at a wall. I uninstalled OCLF and am considering an Odin flash to stock. Seems like the phone is really flaky when it has a full of >90% charge. Any clues?
I would start with olcf. The lag fix it used its not recommended and may be causing data corruption
I have said it plenty of times before, and I will continue to preach....I recommend flashing back to stock and master clear to troubleshoot. That will give you assurance that you will start on a fresh clean slate, as far as bugs/data corruption/bad configurations. Obviously you will want to back up all of your data first. After you flash back and master clear, don't do anything else to it other than installing regular apps from the market to see how it runs. If it continues to act up, then you know you have hardware issues. If it fixes it, then you know you had something going on with your config or data corruption.
Whats your build number? If it is one of the 1007 builds then you may be able to get a warranty exchange for the reboots.
Getting noticeable improvement as far as Quadrant benchmarks go doesn't always = better
Here's the really odd thing, pulling the battery and rebooting seems to clear the issue for a few days. A plain reboot won't. I alternate between 2 batteries, both OEM. I've never cleared the battery stats. Could it be an issue with one or both batteries? It always seems to happen shortly after taking the phone off the charger.
If you haven't already, you can try recalibrating your battery. But the route I would take is flashing back to stock using odin one click. It doesn't take very long and it will rule out alot of things
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before you throw it aganist the wall let me know i will pick it up and give you another phone to throw
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I have said it plenty of times before, and I will continue to preach....I recommend flashing back to stock and master clear to troubleshoot. That will give you assurance that you will start on a fresh clean slate, as far as bugs/data corruption/bad configurations. Obviously you will want to back up all of your data first. After you flash back and master clear, don't do anything else to it other than installing regular apps from the market to see how it runs. If it continues to act up, then you know you have hardware issues. If it fixes it, then you know you had something going on with your config or data corruption.
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Yup...I agree...and I would start with a 100% clean slate..and not use any data from any previous time..Flash a good kernel..a good modem..apply the gps fix of your choice..and enjoy..Trying to use parts of a stock rom..is self defeating...wither or not you get uber high benchmarks or not...You may want to stay with some type of stock build..but you IMHO your better off going with a I9000 rom/kernel/modem...Anything that is even close to stock AT&T is junk as far as I know.
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If you haven't already, you can try recalibrating your battery. But the route I would take is flashing back to stock using odin one click. It doesn't take very long and it will rule out alot of things
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As soon as I have a few hours to spend redoing all my data, apps and info, I think that's what I'll do. I already downloaded the 1-click Odin OEM ROM. After flashing Odin do I have to redo the JH7 OTA update?
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As soon as I have a few hours to spend redoing all my data, apps and info, I think that's what I'll do. I already downloaded the 1-click Odin OEM ROM. After flashing Odin do I have to redo the JH7 OTA update?
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you dont need a few hours. just titanium backup....and about 20 minutes for the whole thing.
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you dont need a few hours. just titanium backup....and about 20 minutes for the whole thing.
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What if there's something wrong with an app I installed that is causing the problem? Wouldn't reinstalling my apps with TB just bring that problem back?
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As soon as I have a few hours to spend redoing all my data, apps and info, I think that's what I'll do. I already downloaded the 1-click Odin OEM ROM. After flashing Odin do I have to redo the JH7 OTA update?
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It really doesn't even take a few hours to back up and restore. I have an 8gb external sd card full of music, photos and videos and over 200 apps stored internally and it takes me 10-15 mins if that using titanium backup pro for apps . You don't have to restore jh7 but it might be a good idea to do so if that's what your phone had out of the box.
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What if there's something wrong with an app I installed that is causing the problem? Wouldn't reinstalling my apps with TB just bring that problem back?
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Typically restoring normal apps you get from the market will not cause you grief. But what can cause you grief is backing up and restoring mods, system data, configuration data etc. The goal is to create a totally unhacked unmodded totally stock experience to isolate and possibly identify what could be causing problems
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Typically restoring normal apps you get from the market will not cause you grief. But what can cause you grief is backing up and restoring mods, system data, configuration data etc.
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and OCLF.... dont forget that OCLF causes PAIN!
I need my phone tomorrow for work, so I'll settle for just uninstalling OCLF for now. Maybe Friday or Saturday I can sit down and "go back." I don't remember if the phone had JH7 or if I updated it OTA when I first got it, but that's what it has been running almost since day 1. Is there an Odin for JH7?
No there isn't but heres a thread on how to install it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790080&page=20
You will need to download jh7_ota.zip.
Basically, after you flash back to stock, you have to install clockworkmod recovery, place the zip file on your internal memory, boot into clockworkmod recovery and choose to install the zip file. I actually did this the other day to see if it actually works, because my phone came with jh7 out of the box.
PS...if you kept the box your phone came with, it will show near the barcodes if your phone came with JH7 or JF6
Box says JF6, so I must have upgraded it. Don't remember doing it, though. What's wrong with just using the Odin for JF6 and letting the phone do the OTA for JH7?
One click lag fix sucks.
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I done several different searches and can't seem to find an answer.
Well, first off, I am not a newb to Android but am a little new to this phone.
Ok, well, I originaly rooted my phone and was using Stock FW for the longest and never had any issues. Then I decided to run a Gingerbread rom to see if I would like it. Used it on Infused GB for about a week and never had any issues but due to work and the use of BT I decided to swap back to a Froyo rom so I could have full use of BT. So I installed Infused 1.6.0 and ever since have had no issues.
Well, I decided to give MIUI a shot and installed that rom. Now my issues started. After I installed MIUI I would get very frequent and Random freezes on my phone that would require a battery pull. I enitialy thought it was a bad flash. So I Wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik and reflashed, well the problem still persisted.
I decided to do few tests to see if I could determine what was causing it. But when I say its random, its random as ****. The only thing that is persistent is it only does it when my screen is off. I read somewhere that a CPU OC program could cause this but I do not have one installed or anything to that nature. never had as matter of fact.
After many hours of trying to fix the issue I was having with MIUI I decided to go back to Infused 1.6, however. Again, Wiped everything and flashed Infused back and guess what, I am still having this problem and its beginning to give me a headache.
Steps I have taken so far.
Wiped Data - Cache - Dalvik Cache
Fresh Flash
ODIN back to stock and started over.
Thought it was possibly a corrupt Kernal install so changed that around.
After all of the above, I am still experiencing random phone freezes after the screen turns off and I have to pull the battery to get the phone to respond.
Any suggestions.
I'm not a developer so I dont have any advice; however have you looked in the MIUI Q&A thread? And if so, why not try posting there?
Also, bump. Because I haven't had this happen, doesn't mean it won't happen and it'd be nice to get an answer. :-D
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I looked in the MIUI Q&A but its not an issue with just MIUI, its happening with any rom I flash. I am not sure what borked on my phone but its quite annoying.
Are you restoring anything using TiBu when moving between ROMs? Make sure you don't restore any system data. And try without restoring any apps at all. Could be a case of some random app that's freezing up the phone.
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Are you restoring anything using TiBu when moving between ROMs? Make sure you don't restore any system data. And try without restoring any apps at all. Could be a case of some random app that's freezing up the phone.
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I originaly thought that may have been it too, but it wasn't.
Ive had a similar problem with2. 3. 4 DlevRom 5. 0, when i try to change things around in prefrences, like how many rows on homescreen or w/e
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It freezes up, and automatically restarts, any ideas ne1?
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I was using the Facebook app yesterday when it locked up my phone. It was still on, but it didn't respond. I had to pull the battery, but when I turned on the phone, all my data on the phone was wiped.
The phone immediately started to FC. Smart Keyboard, Go Launcher, etc. It brought me to the screen to add my Google account.
I was wondering if this has ever happened to anyone. I found it really annoying that it happened on the one day when I needed the phone at most and even fixing permissions didn't work. Reflashing the ROM was a temporary solution as the stock SMS app kept on crashing (no idea how that happened). In the end I decided to go back to stock + root.
Yes I have. Only one time about two weeks ago.
Have no idea why. Was not tinkering. Had not changed/added apps or other around the time it happened. Just went to look at it and it had factory reset itself.
When it happened I was on VB, LZ, AntonX first BLN kernel and undervolted with DSexton's values.
I had it happen once a few months ago. I rebooted and when it powered up it went to the setup screen and was just like I factory reset it. I was on icbinb.
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Ive had similar things happen. Two days ago my phone went nuts after a app updated. Not sure which one did it I had several that were showing updates.
Logsprovider and another that I dont remember were continuosly force closing. I booted into recovery, used the recovery file manager renamed the two apps as .bak, rebooted the system. Backed up texts and calls then reinstalled the rom.
Did any of you do a full cwm restore prior to this? Had any of you been experiencing random reboots prior to this? I know a couple of you started what ROM, but lumin started what kernel and tweaks he had. Can the rest of you provide that info? I'm looking for a commonality add i have experienced this as well once upon a time. I was on vb, lightning zap, and Brians kj6 rc2 when it happened to me. Now I'm on miui with Antonx test 3 kernel and I'm getting random soft reboots with the phone freezing up before hand. It might be an app issue though. But let's look at the basics first.
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it's happened, but only when I was on KF2, back in the early GB Leak days.
The rom was really unstable.
Also, I had modded
thomas for me I was on VB-FB using the latest antonx kernel. I dont remember using any tweaks other than what is in the rom.
I was getting soft reboots until I removed bln. I think my problem was related to scramble with friends. I havent reinstalled it and no issues so far.
@ Thomas, I don't recall all that info. I want to say just icbinb with bhudvens original kernel (only kernel I used before I started using Anton's). I may have swapped a few system apps from various ROMs, but I know I wasn't having any issues unless you count a reboot about once every 5 days.
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I had this happen once. Was running MIUI from Erik, release 0.2, and AntonX 1b3 kernel. I think it may actually have to do with an app as well, I too was running Scramble with Friends when my phone randomly rebooted and everything started force closing and looked like a fresh install of MIUI going crazy.
Just in case it may be related:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668198
Yes it just happened to me 2 days ago. App froze, pulled out battery, rebooted, and just like that all my apps were gone and a bunch of FCs. But its all good now.
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I was running vb fb edition when it happened to me about 2 months ago. I didn't have any tweaks on it, just apps that I use daily. A few of you guys claimed to he on VB when it happpened. Could be a rom issue.
Happened to me twice on vb-fb and twice on MIUI. I switched back to a backup i had of vb final fixed and haven had a problem. I was using Antonx's kernel when it happened but I'm using it for vb final now and haven't had issues. I did notice at least 2 of those times it happened an app was updating. I want to say it was Facebook updating one of those times.
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Theoretically things like that may happen if you use tweaks that completely remove journaling from the file system and fsync from sqlite. Files and databases can be damaged too easily if for any reason the system reboots without proper shutdown. Not sure if VB has those tweaks though.
I was using Valhalla Final with the latest SMS kernel.
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Theoretically things like that may happen if you use tweaks that completely remove journaling from the file system and fsync from sqlite. Files and databases can be damaged too easily if for any reason the system reboots without proper shutdown. Not sure if VB has those tweaks though.
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Lightning zap removes journaling, but i never removed fsync
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Battery pulls while the phone is froze and letting your battery die while using will both cause this to happen...
Pulling the battery is like taking a thumb drove off usb while its R/W. you're cutting the power to the NAND flash and causing a discharge... No bueno! You wouldn't yank your PC 's power out of the wall because Windows froze; would you?
No, just like a PC, if you hold down the power button on your phone it will shutdown, and our phone will actually reboot when the power button is held down for 5 - 10 seconds.
The only time I've had this problem is after doing battery pull or having the battery die while in use. The funny thing is that it won't do after first booting the phone but on the next boot :-/ I'm still about 90 percent sure that interrupting power while a R/W is being done is the problem in most cases, especially since most reported that it happened after a battery pull...
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Phone rebooted a couple of nights ago just before plugging in my headphones. It was still in a sleep state. Just woke up and rebooted. Afterwards I had force closes on everything including my launchers.
Forced a reboot into recovery, fixed permissions, and the phone booted properly. Just about all my apps were gone though. Very strange.
Running that crazy sweet scom4.4 with Antons 1.1.0 kernel. KD1 modem.
Of course I modified it to my looking, but that's the base software.
Edit: titanium restored everything back to it's proper state. Good thing I had a fresh backup. Others might not be so lucky.
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So after using the One Click Back to Stock + root for 2 months, I did not experience the phone losing the data. Even if the phone locked up and I had to pull the battery, everything was still there after the reboot. I did not get any FC or missing apps.
I'd hate to say it is something with the custom ROMs. I even get better battery life with the stock ROM.
Happened to me yesterday uaing fb's valhalla black. Basically rebooted and factory reseted itself.
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Ever since I switched back to GB from ICS (had to, needed WiFi Calling) every GB rom I install has a bunch of problems. Yes, I followed the directions for going from ICS back to GB to the T and at first didn't have any problems. And yes, when I install a GB rom, I follow the dev's instructions to the T. So, it's not that. But anyway, the problems I'm having are:
Phone automatically reboots for no reason sometimes
After phone resets itself, I power it back on and the battery drops to around 1% (when before it reset itself I could be on a full charge, or close to it)
I get many, many "Force Close" popups for different apps and system processes (ex. "The application Google Services Framework (process.com.process.google.process.gapps) has stopped unexpectedly" and when I go to open SMS I get, "The application Messaging (process.com.android.mms) has stopped unexpectedly." And many other "Force Close" messages, GMail, etc.
Camera will not open
I've tried different GB roms (octane, vahalla -the different versions) so it's not just one rom.
I've tried fixing permissions, wiping dalvik cache, rebooting and other little things. I'm definitely stuck.
Again the problems started after going back to GB from ICS.
*Any help would really, really be appreciated!! :good:
What method did you use to go back to GB?
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What method did you use to go back to GB?
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Man, it was so confusing getting it back to GB and it was a little while ago so I'm not positive but I think it was http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1333423
That's what I was just thinking actually, do u think I should just try to flash back to stock using another method?
Follow this method instead
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
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Follow this method instead
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
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Cool, thanks man, I'll give it a try. I'm tired as hell right now, so I probably won't get to it tonight, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow sometime and I'll let u know how it went. Thanks again.
Sounds like a battery issue. Does any of this stuff happen while it's plugged into USB?
Might be but the method he used was for the old Gingerbread, not the latest Gingerbread.
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Might be but the method he used was for the old Gingerbread, not the latest Gingerbread.
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True, true
Don't restore the data for apps you backed up
This same scenario has happened to other people and so far they were battery issues. When you think about, all the battery problems make sense since most of the phone are nearing the 2 year old mark. If you were a heavy user in that time and charged your battery frequently then more than. Likely you have a dead cell in the battery. I went through all of the troubleshooting when I was having the exact same problem and never even thought about the battery until I did a battery pull and just so happened to sit the battery on a table and wobbled. So I inserted the battery from my wife's vibrant in and the problem went away.
Ok so I have a rogers skyrocket and it's been random rebooting and vibrating in 1 or 2 sec intervals wile the camera flash flashes on and off I've search but have found no answers I've wiped the phone 3 times and flashed rogers stock but it still persists any ideas guys only thing I haven't tryed is odin.
Probably a sticky power button. Although the camera flash is weird. It's a common problem. Search stuck power button
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Ya I figured that thought I'd ask thx I'll have to grab a #0 phillups tomarrow
I had this exact same issue on the UCLL3 leak for AT&T. I got out whenever I would flash gs2user's mods on top of the odexed stock version. It required me to reflash my ROM.
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Well I've reflashed stock rogers and wiped 3 times before and after flash so I hope that fixes it skyrockets not my daily driver but my friendwants to borrow it so I hope I fixed it up
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Ok so I have a rogers skyrocket and it's been random rebooting and vibrating in 1 or 2 sec intervals wile the camera flash flashes on and off I've search but have found no answers I've wiped the phone 3 times and flashed rogers stock but it still persists any ideas guys only thing I haven't tryed is odin.
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I flashed the same ROM on both my son's phone and mine. Exact same phones. Exact same ROM exact same steps. His did this as well but mine never did. I wiped everything, and reformatted the system/data 3 times and reflashed. It did it every time. I ended up putting him back on CM10. Mine never did it and his hasn't since...go figure
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I flashed the same ROM on both my son's phone and mine. Exact same phones. Exact same ROM exact same steps. His did this as well but mine never did. I wiped everything, and reformatted the system/data 3 times and reflashed. It did it every time. I ended up putting him back on CM10. Mine never did it and his hasn't since...go figure
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So, do you think it was a sticky power button? I have been having this problem for a while now, and it is VERY FRUSTRATING! I love my phone but I hate this problem. I have done a lot of internet searching on this topic, all which suggests a sticky/dirty buttun. However, I disassembled my phone and found NO dirt. I cleaned it anyway, to get rid of any invisible dirt, but its back. Basically, every week this happens to me for a day or so.
I am running ICS (seanzscreams) and hadn't had this problem for the first few months. I am thinking of reflashing my phone to see if that helps.
If any can add additional insight, I would appreciate it. Not particularly in the mood to reflash, but it would be better than a broke phone!
(PS: vibrate/reboot only...no funky camera flash issue)
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So, do you think it was a sticky power button? I have been having this problem for a while now, and it is VERY FRUSTRATING! I love my phone but I hate this problem. I have done a lot of internet searching on this topic, all which suggests a sticky/dirty buttun. However, I disassembled my phone and found NO dirt. I cleaned it anyway, to get rid of any invisible dirt, but its back. Basically, every week this happens to me for a day or so.
I am running ICS (seanzscreams) and hadn't had this problem for the first few months. I am thinking of reflashing my phone to see if that helps.
If any can add additional insight, I would appreciate it. Not particularly in the mood to reflash, but it would be better than a broke phone!
(PS: vibrate/reboot only...no funky camera flash issue)
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Seems odd to me that it would be a sticky power button for one ROM and not another, but then I can't figure for the life of me why mine worked fine and his didn't. Twilight phone zone lol
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Ya so I cleaned mine and still it does it I odined back to stock still dose it I'm at my wits end its pissing me off
OK so I odined back to stock factory reset stock then flashed twrp in odin then updated twrp and flashed the super light cm10 with gapps haven't had a reboot yet fingers crossed that it worked must be a software thing I got no clue.
OK update my phone started doing this again to day did it like 6 or 7 times FML its defently a hardware problem.
I'd have to agree that it's a hardware problem
I wiped my phone shortly after my post and did a clean install of seanscreamz newer ROM as well as TWRP. Problem continued to happen...actually worse than before. But at that point I had yet to put a single app on it, so an issue of incompatibility of my apps and ROM did not seem to be the case. I then wiped my phone AGAIN, and di a clean install of CWMR and CM10 (I went from ICS to JB), figuring maybe a TOTAL change would do the trick. Not the case.
The phone still randomly reboots, but now that I am certain it is a problem with the power button, I know how to deal with it, and can minimize te recurrence and my frustration levels. I read a post that said someone else had the same problem, and smacked his phone on his desk repeatedly on the power button, and the problem stopped. I didn't do that, but when the problem occurs, I will repeatedly hit the bower button, or if my otterbox case if off, I will stick my nail into the button to pull it out.
It's too bad, 'cause it's a great phone otherwise!
I got an app called tap tap tap and it uses the proxy sensor to unlock the phone and adds a widget in the notification bar to lock the phone works great then my power button does not get stuck Cuz I don't need to push it.