[Q] Random Reboots? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Hello. I recently purchased a SIII from eBay and got it activated today. The first time they booted it up at the Verizon store I noticed what I thought was an unlock icon towards the bottom of the screen (which I am no longer seeing).
Once the phone was activated it performed a system update to the latest OS release. Now that I have got the phone home it keeps randomly rebooting and then it will get stuck in a boot loop. I pull the battery, it will boot as normal, and then it will randomly reboot again. I have performed a factory reset/data wipe but that did not help.
I did search a bit on here but didn't see anything similar to what I'm experiencing. Any ideas on what my issue is? Thanks in advance for your help.

My GS3 randomly reboots too, I am running SynergyROM with ziggys kernel, seems like a lot of people have problems with this phone.
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deuce237bblock said:
My GS3 randomly reboots too, I am running SynergyROM with ziggys kernel, seems like a lot of people have problems with this phone.
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That's not true at all.
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silver04v said:
That's not true at all.
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Have to agree. Sure there might be a couple people that have had problems, but the overwhelming majority of people are quite pleased with their handsets.

Sounds like the phone was rooted. If it had a custom rom and you took the ota verizon update, that could cause problems.
Edit. Wrong link.
Corrected link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Would serve well to save above link.
If you want to stay on stock rom, follow instructions on section #6.
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deuce237bblock said:
My GS3 randomly reboots too, I am running SynergyROM with ziggys kernel, seems like a lot of people have problems with this phone.
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Imho, r73 with ziggy is one of the most stable builds around.
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epagib said:
Sounds like the phone was rooted. If it had a custom rom and you took the ota verizon update, that could cause problems.
Edit. Wrong link.
Corrected link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Would serve well to save above link.
If you want to stay on stock rom, follow instructions on section #6.
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Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it. I followed step #6 from the link you provided and the phone has been up for over an hour without rebooting. So far so good!

Well I spoke to soon. It just rebooted again. I'm starting to think that it must be hardware issue. I guess I should go back to the seller to see if they'll take the phone back..... :-/

I just loaded the latest OTA and it seemed to make the random reboots more frequent.

When you say "loaded" are you just flashing a stock ROM or did you Odin back to stock?
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Marcismo55 said:
When you say "loaded" are you just flashing a stock ROM or did you Odin back to stock?
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I did the ODIN back to stock (using the ROM that was in step #6 of the above link). After that booted the phone up and it indicated there was an OTA available. I downloaded that (about 30 Mb); performed the update; and then the phone seemed to start the random reboots more frequently.

silver04v said:
That's not true at all.
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apacseven said:
Have to agree. Sure there might be a couple people that have had problems, but the overwhelming majority of people are quite pleased with their handsets.
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I didn't mean that everybody has problems when I said a lot and maybe it isn't "a lot" but I have seen numerous people posting on here about there problems whether its random reboots or screen flashing/flickering or w/e it may be and not just here I know a few people with this phone (my wife, father, brother, mother in law, and myself.) And I have had 2 problems with this phone, random reboots and WiFi never wants to connect and my wife has the sim card issue, my dads phone has problems with screen and WiFi, idk what the deal is. That's 3 phones out of 5 that has problems and idk if the sim card issue even counts but still.
I'm not saying this is a bad phone or anything, other than these issues it has been a great phone the best phone I have ever owned.
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Related

Sound problem on thunderbolt

My wife and I both have Thunderbolts. I have not had this problem with mine so I am curious as to if anyone else has had a problem or if maybe she just has a bad tbolt. When she is on a call just out of nowhere the person on the other end can not hear her. This has happened when she has talked to multiple people and she has had good reception when it happens. This happened stock and on BAMF so I dont think it is a ROM problem. Anyone else having a similar thing happen, or do you think she has a bad tbolt?
I have not heard of this being a widespread issue, and I keep up with a lot of the Android forums. Sounds like a dud phone to me.
That's what I was thinking as well. Looks like its back to stock then Verizon for that bolt
I've had this problem from day 1. A bunch of different techs from VZW have looked into it and changed stuff on the backend and still no luck. :-(
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davidbudd1, PLEASE let me/us know if swapping out the TB and/or the SIM fixed the issue for you! Here is a thread on Android Central that we've been trying to do some testing about this issue:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-thunderbolt/71734-can-you-hear-me-now.html
I'll keep you posted on what they tryband if it fixes it. I don't have a problem with this on mine, only my wife's phone. My buddy has a tbolt also and his doesn't have this problem. So to me it sounds like a bad phone.
Thank you SO much, I really appreciate it!
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Hey man, any updates on this? I just went to VZW to get my phone swapped out and of course they said NO again because they couldn't reproduce the issue with 2 quick test calls.
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Well I took her phone back to stock, and now she has been using since and it hasn't happened.again since. So I'm wondering if something didn't quite flash right.
PorscheGuy said:
I've had this problem from day 1. A bunch of different techs from VZW have looked into it and changed stuff on the backend and still no luck. :-(
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And the VZW guys are better at this than XDA members?
davidbudd1 said:
Well I took her phone back to stock, and now she has been using since and it hasn't happened.again since. So I'm wondering if something didn't quite flash right.
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I had that happen with mine the first time I tried to root it. ADB crashed on me in the middle of the process. I rebooted and started again and it appeared to finish, but I was experiencing that issue. I rolled everything back to stock and reran the root from scratch, I've had no problems since.
I have this problem as well. Althought it doesn't happpen often.
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I was going to reroot it on my day off and see what happens
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And the VZW guys are better at this than XDA members?
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OMG of course not!!! But unfortunately us XDA members don't have access to VZW's back-end systems. :sad: Haha, you think that could be our next project?! :smile:
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jab818 said:
I had that happen with mine the first time I tried to root it. ADB crashed on me in the middle of the process. I rebooted and started again and it appeared to finish, but I was experiencing that issue. I rolled everything back to stock and reran the root from scratch, I've had no problems since.
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Hmmm, I wonder if I should try that? I have the stock RUU sitting on the root of my SD card (with a bak extension of course) in case the store could swap my phone tonight.
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I was going to reroot it on my day off and see what happens
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Oh, I thought you said that it happened on stock also?
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i have the same problem on my tbolt, people say they can hardly hear me
jab818 said:
I had that happen with mine the first time I tried to root it. ADB crashed on me in the middle of the process. I rebooted and started again and it appeared to finish, but I was experiencing that issue. I rolled everything back to stock and reran the root from scratch, I've had no problems since.
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OK, I remember having an issue when I originally rooted also, so I used the shipped RUU to go back to out-of-the-box stock and then reran the root process, etc, and then restored my nandroid backup. I'll make some test calls this afternoon and then report back!
so if i download the the ruu it came with and flash it will it unroot an turn it back to stock?
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so if i download the the ruu it came with and flash it will it unroot an turn it back to stock?
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Yes. Here is the link to the thread and download: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=975888
Do I flash it via hboot an do I have to rename the zip?

Random Reboots

Lately, I've noticed my SGS4G randomly reboots itself. I'm not exactly sure why, I haven't changed anything about my phone since the latest Valhalla version came out, and it never rebooted itself when I first flashed the ROM.
I have CatLog (logcat reader) and aLogcat, but I'm not exactly sure how to use them to be able to tell what happens to my phone just before it reboots itself. There are so many lines that I don't know which one to look at. Can anyone please provide some assistance? My biggest worry is my phone rebooting or shutting itself off at night, and my alarm not loading properly, causing me to miss class in the morning.
adobrakic said:
Lately, I've noticed my SGS4G randomly reboots itself. I'm not exactly sure why, I haven't changed anything about my phone since the latest Valhalla version came out, and it never rebooted itself when I first flashed the ROM.
I have CatLog (logcat reader) and aLogcat, but I'm not exactly sure how to use them to be able to tell what happens to my phone just before it reboots itself. There are so many lines that I don't know which one to look at. Can anyone please provide some assistance? My biggest worry is my phone rebooting or shutting itself off at night, and my alarm not loading properly, causing me to miss class in the morning.
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What kernel is that running? I think (I might be wrong) it's bhundven's subtly modified stock. The versions past beta 2d (for me) have that issue. If that's the kernel it runs, go check the dev section for bhundven's kernel.
Yup, I have his latest kernel, v0.1.1-rc1. I'll try to downgrade to beta 2c and see if the reboots stop. Thanks for the suggestion.
adobrakic said:
Yup, I have his latest kernel, v0.1.1-rc1. I'll try to downgrade to beta 2c and see if the reboots stop. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I reverted back to beta 2d and it's working well thus far. Good luck
I've actually seen this a lot on stock builds both out-of-the-box froyo and official gb. Have customers bringing these back constantly for this crap!
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tehgyb said:
I've actually seen this a lot on stock builds both out-of-the-box froyo and official gb. Have customers bringing these back constantly for this crap!
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This happens to my girlfriends stock gb. Can't figure out why. I'll try taking it back to t-mobile and see if a new one helps.
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sunsurfer42 said:
This happens to my girlfriends stock gb. Can't figure out why. I'll try taking it back to t-mobile and see if a new one helps.
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That's normally what ends up happening when they bring it in :/ I've tried almost everything short of taking their phone and flashing stuff on it (because obviously that's not something a retailer can do lol)
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Seems like the problem, for me at least, was Bryans latest kernel I was using. Downgrading to beta 2d stopped the reboots so far, I've been up since 8am and now it's 3pm. I'll post back tonight for further results.
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tehgyb said:
That's normally what ends up happening when they bring it in :/ I've tried almost everything short of taking their phone and flashing stuff on it (because obviously that's not something a retailer can do lol)
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And she won't let me.
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Alright guys, it seems that the problem was for sure Bryan's latest kernel. I haven't noticed my phone reboot once today (unless it ninja'd the reboot). Thank you, stephen.
adobrakic said:
Alright guys, it seems that the problem was for sure Bryan's latest kernel. I haven't noticed my phone reboot once today (unless it ninja'd the reboot). Thank you, stephen.
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No worries. Glad the problem is solved. I'm back on his latest kernel for testing. I've only been on it for a few hours, so I'm going to give it a day or two to see how it goes.
The thing that gets me is that the kernel worked perfectly fine from the time I flashed it up until a couple of days ago. I'll reflash the latest version in a few days to see if I can see what's triggering the reboot.
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The thing that gets me is that the kernel worked perfectly fine from the time I flashed it up until a couple of days ago. I'll reflash the latest version in a few days to see if I can see what's triggering the reboot.
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raver nor myself have been able to reproduce this issue. i normally run pandora and android irc all day. not to mention i brick my unbrickable moded phone a lot (lately); when i do i flash sms kj6 one-click, flash bootloaders, flash v0.1.1-rc1+, wipe to factory, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, reboot, let the phone sit for a half hour. This allows time for the main OS's cache to build. I usually charge to 100% before flashing and plug it back in while it sits for the half hour.
After that I manually re-configure my phone settings and TB restore my apps (not my data, just the apps).
I dont trust system settings/data being restored across different roms.
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Hi Bryan
I enjoy your latest kernel 3.1 beta for the past 2 days (on HebrewValhalla ROM) and it's simply awesome.
I only had problems on 2d. 2c has been great as well.
To me, it seems that all reboots ppl were getting were related to Black Valhalla tweaking more than to your kernel.
Anyway, f#k it, if someone is not content let him flash other old kernels, i think you're doing a sacred work here.
You deserve a bier house.
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Hi Bryan
I enjoy your latest kernel 3.1 beta for the past 2 days (on HebrewValhalla ROM) and it's simply awesome.
I only had problems on 2d. 2c has been great as well.
To me, it seems that all reboots ppl were getting were related to Black Valhalla tweaking more than to your kernel.
Anyway, f#k it, if someone is not content let him flash other old kernels, i think you're doing a sacred work here.
You deserve a bier house.
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My reboots were not attributed to Valhalla Black as I never loaded it. I reverted to beta 2d and the phone was stable. I'm back on his latest beta after a factory reset to see if it helps. Thus far, I am OK but I want to give it a few days to make sure.
I agree that Bryan's work is great. Unfortunately I think Bryan is leaving or is gone already. His kernel thread in the Dev section is closed & his signature indicates he's leaving. I wish him the best.
Sigh...it just randomly rebooted. So it seems that a factory reset doesn't help the issue.
I will be reverting to beta 2d again shortly.
Lol, wtf @ the signature. Seems rather childish. Anyway, I have exams for the next few days, so I'm gonna wait until those are done to wipe everything and try the latest kernel over again.
The problem just may be our phones. I'm sure there are hiccups in the manufacturing processing while the hardware is being compiled, so I doubt all of our phones are exactly the same. We may be that "lucky" few, Stephen.
Give me logs, don't give me logs. Can't reproduce, you're doing it wrong. I'm leaving
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Not that i don't admire Raver's work, but, has anyone got reboots on a non-Raver ROM ? I think he's power tweaking the ROMs, for sure he's done it in Octane.
itzik2sh said:
Not that i don't admire Raver's work, but, has anyone got reboots on a non-Raver ROM ? I think he's power tweaking the ROMs, for sure he's done it in Octane.
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Yes, I have. I got a new phone and did the 2.3.6 update via Kies Mini then put Bryan's kernel on top of it. When I go back to beta 2d, it doesn't happen. I'm not sure what the deal is.

[URGENT] Phone stuck in constant vibration loop *BRICKED*

I was sending a text message tonight and out of no where the phone's screen turned off and went into a vibration loop. Took out the battery and put back in and as soon as I put in the battery the phone boots up and passes the samsung logo and goes into vibration loop, tried to enter clockwork recovery and it won't work! it gives like a mini CRT-off animation and reboots what do I do? Been running skyics for almost 2 months now no issues. cant enter download mode either wtf!
*edit* I guess I need to order a USB JIG? Not sure tho since I cant enter download mode or CWR.. once I enter download mode when it gives me the warning to "install custom OS" blah blah, and it just reboots itself and then boot loops with vibration.. not sure if my phone qualifies for a soft brick or hard brick.
Which sky ics?
Do you have a device support center near you? I had the same problem running a custom from and brought it there..they couldn't even flash it back to stock because it would boot loop so they just gave me a new one
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xcrazydx said:
Which sky ics?
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One before the latest one, UDLD2 or w.e.. so is my phone hard bricked or soft? And I might try to get warranty work done.. I don't understand why this happened tho, doesn't make sense.. not like I dropped the phone a second before it happened
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One before the latest one, UDLD2 or w.e.. so is my phone hard bricked or soft? And I might try to get warranty work done.. I don't understand why this happened tho, doesn't make sense.. not like I dropped the phone a second before it happened
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It sounds soft bricked. Can you get into DL mode? Odin stock tar?
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It sounds soft bricked. Can you get into DL mode? Odin stock tar?
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You didn't read the OP post properly. No I can not get into DL mode, it just restarts the phone when it tries to after giving the "custom OS warning"
Girn said:
You didn't read the OP post properly. No I can not get into DL mode, it just restarts the phone when it tries to after giving the "custom OS warning"
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Maybe you have debris bridging the battery contracts like that other one a while ago. There is a thread called something like, symptoms of a bricked phone.
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same thing happened to me. Since they can't load it up to see the warranty is voided, you will just get a new one.
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same thing happened to me. Since they can't load it up to see the warranty is voided, you will just get a new one.
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You were on an ics leak too?
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would like to know if this happened to anyone else.. If it is happening im not gonna flash ICS leak or any custom rom for that matter
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would like to know if this happened to anyone else.. If it is happening im not gonna flash ICS leak or any custom rom for that matter
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I think it is the reason. I Have been seeing it on both the t989 and here. I think it's the same bug the note has. Wiping with the ics kernel is making bricks everywhere. It's just starting to happen and be documented on the rocket and 989. That's just my guess, taker it or leave it.
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xcrazydx said:
You were on an ics leak too?
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Actually, no. I was on GB. Alien build.
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xcrazydx said:
I think it is the reason. I Have been seeing it on both the t989 and here. I think it's the same bug the note has. Wiping with the ics kernel is making bricks everywhere. It's just starting to happen and be documented on the rocket and 989. That's just my guess, taker it or leave it.
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hmm.. i had been running it fine tho for months. And all of a sudden it happened..
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hmm.. i had been running it fine tho for months. And all of a sudden it happened..
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That's the same thing that's happening with the note. Some run fine for a long time, some get bricked almost immediately after. I'm not saying this is your case, but it might be. I'm avoiding the ics leak. I ran it fine for longer than a month, but I'm done with it now.
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That's the same thing that's happening with the note. Some run fine for a long time, some get bricked almost immediately after. I'm not saying this is your case, but it might be. I'm avoiding the ics leak. I ran it fine for longer than a month, but I'm done with it now.
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I thought the bricking was related to using the notes modem (in the note and in the skyrocket).
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Nobody really knows 100% what's happening
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I thought the bricking was related to using the notes modem (in the note and in the skyrocket).
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That's a whole different separate issue.
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Can you post a link to the thread with note people and T989 having the bricking issue?
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Can you post a link to the thread with note people and T989 having the bricking issue?
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There's at least one sticky in the note forum about it, should be easy to spot. As far as the 989, I have seen a couple threads with similar problems like you. I'm not gonna hunt them down right now, I'm on my phone
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same problem except mine wouldnt even go to the boot logo. when i tried to turn it on it would just vibrate. sent it into samsung and they replaced the PCB and it worked fine,

GS3 random reboots....a lot of them

So I am posting this for a coworker. A little background on me, I have been rooting and romming since my Droid X (what a pain that was) so I like to think that I am not too noobish and know what I am doing. I currently have a GS4 rooted and rommed running Hyperdrive and I love it, no issues at all.
A coworker came to me with a stock, bloated up GS3 and wanted me to unlock and root it. I took an afternoon and did it for him, installed TWRP and ran a backup of the stock, rooted rom and said have a field day looking into flashing roms and kernels and such. He started reading up on it and got around to flashing CarbonROM (used to run it on my Gnex, loved it). After a few hours, he texted me and said he was getting reboots. The first thing that came to mind was maybe he forgot to wipe everything or something, so I instructed him to factory reset a few times and make sure it gets wiped clean. He did and reflashed and still was getting them. He then tried LiquidSmooth. Same results...I then instructed him to try going back to a TW based rom and he tried out Hyperdrive. Still same results. I tried to do some searching and I am out of ideas. I saw that sometimes Nova launcher can throw fits which I did install on there for him, but the last few times he said he was not using it. We tried a few different kernels as well, still no luck. Should I try and get the phone back to a stock, unrooted state and retry? Or is it a defective device maybe? It WAS a refurb sent back from Verizon as he was having issues a few weeks back and they had to send a replacement. Should I unroot it and get it to stock and have him return it? Any help would be awesome.
I'd say use odin to flash stock and see if he has any more reboots. If he does its defective. Even now I think its defective.
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I'd say use odin to flash stock and see if he has any more reboots. If he does its defective. Even now I think its defective.
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My thoughts exactly. I think I am going to give that a try. Thanks. Any other ideas appreciated too.
What kernel is he running?
I find certain kernels don't work well with my phone and will cause random rebooting.
My advice is to flash a different kernel.
Peace
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wwonka69 said:
What kernel is he running?
I find certain kernels don't work well with my phone and will cause random rebooting.
My advice is to flash a different kernel.
Peace
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This is the coworker. I had originally used the stock kernel, then switched to Zeus. Both kernels had the same issues. Ended up unrooted it and finding a whole slew of problems with the stock phone. Brought it back to be replaced with a new device. No refurbs allowed.
Also, what version of carbon is he using? I flashed 1.8 and it did a lot of random rebooting. 1.7 is more stable.
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I was using 1.8. I think I had around other issues with Carbon beyond why issues my phone has in general. For example, as I am typing this, the screen is wigging out with random flashes like it's going to crash. Yay.
Tip for the future: beware of refurbs....
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[Q] ERI/IMEI/Google Play Issues after Flash

I am a Crack Flasher. I've been doing it since the Fascinate. Very experienced. I recently jacked up my phone which obscured my ERI/IMEI/Google Play connection. I was able to manually re-program the IMEI using QPST....... Before, I re-flashed stock MF1. I took it to Verizon and they were skeptical and unhelpful. They said it seemed as if I altered the OS. They had no proof and wouldn't honor the warranty. Play wont work unless a previous OS (before MF1) is installed(?). I get Connection Error. I TRIED EVERYTHING!
I followed the flash to a T.
Not sure which Rom is the culprit.
maybe TK 2.5
ERI Fix????????
djcrystals said:
I am a Crack Flasher. I've been doing it since the Fascinate. Very experienced. I recently jacked up my phone which obscured my ERI/IMEI/Google Play connection. I was able to manually re-program the IMEI using QPST....... Before, I re-flashed stock MF1. I took it to Verizon and they were skeptical and unhelpful. They said it seemed as if I altered the OS. They had no proof and wouldn't honor the warranty. Play wont work unless a previous OS (before MF1) is installed(?). I get Connection Error. I TRIED EVERYTHING!
I followed the flash to a T.
Not sure which Rom is the culprit.
maybe TK 2.5
ERI Fix????????
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You haven't tried everything
Choice number one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2420546
Choice number two:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405499
Before you go accusing roms of causing your problems, maybe you should read up on how people actually lose their imei and eri in the first place. A simple search for "imei" or "eri" would've accomplished this.
If you did that, you would have been directed to a plethora of threads describing that the s3 can drop their imei randomly even without a flash being a culprit.
Next time you start flashing anything, read up on the device stickies so you know what you're doing and how to fix most problems that come up.
Sorry for the long post, I just can't stand it when people bash a rom for no reason. It wasn't that roms fault for this issue.
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You haven't tried everything
Choice number one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2420546
Choice number two:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405499
Before you go accusing roms of causing your problems, maybe you should read up on how people actually lose their imei and eri in the first place. A simple search for "imei" or "eri" would've accomplished this.
If you did that, you would have been directed to a plethora of threads describing that the s3 can drop their imei randomly even without a flash being a culprit.
Next time you start flashing anything, read up on the device stickies so you know what you're doing and how to fix most problems that come up.
Sorry for the long post, I just can't stand it when people bash a rom for no reason. It wasn't that roms fault for this issue.
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Holy flipping crap man! I wasn't bashing anything. So RELAX. I appreciate your help but you need a freaking Xanax.
djcrystals said:
Holy flipping crap man! I wasn't bashing anything. So RELAX. I appreciate your help but you need a freaking Xanax.
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Took one this morning, you're absolutely right, fixed all my crankiness.
Hope you got your eri back.
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BadUsername said:
Took one this morning, you're absolutely right, fixed all my crankiness.
Hope you got your eri back.
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Lol!!!! Glad to hear. I did find your posts useful. I'm still exploring and learning a certain "unmentionable" program those posts pointed me towards. I really appreciate the help! It's not back yet, but I'll figure the program out quickly. A lot of info on it out there.
djcrystals said:
I am a Crack Flasher. I've been doing it since the Fascinate. Very experienced. I recently jacked up my phone which obscured my ERI/IMEI/Google Play connection. I was able to manually re-program the IMEI using QPST....... Before, I re-flashed stock MF1. I took it to Verizon and they were skeptical and unhelpful. They said it seemed as if I altered the OS. They had no proof and wouldn't honor the warranty. Play wont work unless a previous OS (before MF1) is installed(?). I get Connection Error. I TRIED EVERYTHING!
I followed the flash to a T.
Not sure which Rom is the culprit.
maybe TK 2.5
ERI Fix????????
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Yeah same thing happened to me lost me IMEI/ERI/PRL Version got them all back but thing is my Play Store has been acting up since i downloaded 2 apps .
1) Freedom
2) Market Unlocker
ever since then it has never worked , but now i have time on my hands to find out what is wrong.
If you find out let me know :good:
TreasureMan said:
Yeah same thing happened to me lost me IMEI/ERI/PRL Version got them all back but thing is my Play Store has been acting up since i downloaded 2 apps .
1) Freedom
2) Market Unlocker
ever since then it has never worked , but now i have time on my hands to find out what is wrong.
If you find out let me know :good:
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There's A LOT of this happening with our phones according to the forums this last 2 months.....I'm still out ERI and Play only works on ICS.....no JB roms. Very strange.....but, I love a challenge and these forums and all of the amazing info I'm finding thanks to all the intelligent folk. Verizon is out as far as a replacement. They said I must have tampered with it....which, I did. Whats the status of your ERI/IMEI info? Hopefully solved soon.....I'm driving my wife nuts trying to fix it.
djcrystals said:
There's A LOT of this happening with our phones according to the forums this last 2 months.....I'm still out ERI and Play only works on ICS.....no JB roms. Very strange.....but, I love a challenge and these forums and all of the amazing info I'm finding thanks to all the intelligent folk. Verizon is out as far as a replacement. They said I must have tampered with it....which, I did. Whats the status of your ERI/IMEI info. Hopefully solved soon.....I'm driving my wife nuts trying to fix it.
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I fixed my IMEI/ERI just the play store isnt working still.
TreasureMan said:
I fixed my IMEI/ERI just the play store isnt working still.
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How'd you guys fix the eri? I used QPST for the IMEI but now my debugging won't activate, whether on stock or an AOSP. I need it to.use another program that I can't mention.
djcrystals said:
How'd you guys fix the eri? I used QPST for the IMEI but now my debugging won't activate, whether on stock or an AOSP. I need it to.use another program that I can't mention.
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I forgot the name of it but it's in the development forums somewhere
i cant get the computer to install my phone for programming........SO I can't use RevSk$#$ on it. I need it to open as com port. Ive reinstalled drivers......several times....and check/re-checked phone settings. It occurs on both computers running Wirdows 7 Prof.
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i cant get the computer to install my phone for programming........SO I can't use RevSk$#$ on it. I need it to open as com port. Ive reinstalled drivers......several times....and check/re-checked phone settings. It occurs on both computers running Wirdows 7 Prof.
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Have you tried downgrading your modem before trying revskills? When I used the repair utility it wouldn't connect my phone until I downgraded my modem. Just a thought.
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TreasureMan said:
I fixed my IMEI/ERI just the play store isnt working still.
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I'm in the same boat somewhat. My play store only works on certain roms now and I still can't figure out why.
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