Hey XDA Forums. So I am having a problem with my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket (i727). I will have it in my pocket, not using it, and when I take it out to try and use it, it will not wake up. I do not know if it is off or what, but I cannot turn it on without pulling out the battery and putting it back in. And it isn't dead, once it comes back on it will have anywhere from %20-100 of battery left. No where near being dead. This isn't just when it is off in my pocket tho, it happens some of the times when I try and restart it, but only sometimes. This was happening before I put a Rom on it but after I had Rooted it. I am running the Slim Bean Rom and I have made sure that it is completely updated and I have returned the device to factory state and reinstalled the Rom following the directions given with the same thing happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!
Random freezes and lockups have been an issue with jelly bean from the start. They are much more infrequent now, but they still occur. Be sure your minimum CPU speed is atleast 384. Many have found this to help quite a bit on cutting down on the lockups.
A battery pull shouldn't be necessary by the way. Simply hold the power button for 10 seconds and that should do the trick.
I have only had freezes when rebooting way back in July when I flashed my first ROM Sky ICS. It happened constantly after the initial flash though while yours seems random. I was told to backup the rom, wipe and immediately restore it. Worked like a charm. Can't hurt to try it.
Edit: It could also be a stuck power button. Check the stickies and you should find info on correcting it.
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can u clarify, when you are on stock rom does it do it, or only on custom rom, on stock rom its more important if its doing it as it could be some hardware issue, if its a custom rom, read the devs thread for possible fixes or try another rom
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Hey XDA Forums. So I am having a problem with my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket (i727). I will have it in my pocket, not using it, and when I take it out to try and use it, it will not wake up. I do not know if it is off or what, but I cannot turn it on without pulling out the battery and putting it back in. And it isn't dead, once it comes back on it will have anywhere from %20-100 of battery left. No where near being dead. This isn't just when it is off in my pocket tho, it happens some of the times when I try and restart it, but only sometimes. This was happening before I put a Rom on it but after I had Rooted it. I am running the Slim Bean Rom and I have made sure that it is completely updated and I have returned the device to factory state and reinstalled the Rom following the directions given with the same thing happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!
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I had this same issue with my Skyrocket. Granted mine was just rooted and on stock rom. But it still did it, random reboots usually during a call. I got tired of it happening so I contacted AT&T international support (that part was by accidentaly dialing the wrong number), and then a few days later I had a brand new Galaxy S III. Now granted in my case it was that I was on the 3'rd Skyrocket and was not about to go through all that again.
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Hey guys,
I flashed Cognition 2.3b, and also flashed the update, and I am having a couple of issues, and was wondering if anyone could shed some light.
The first issue is that my battery seems to be draining really fast. I unhooked my phone from the charger at 2:00pm this afternoon, and by the time I got to work a little after three, it had already gone down 10% with very little use.
The other issue is that the auto suggestions are not working on the android or samsung keyboards, and the tap space twice to insert a period is not working either, even though the option is checked in the settings. Can anyone offer any insight or suggestions? Please keep in mind I am a noob with roms.
First post this in the Cognition thread. Did you flash on a full charge? Recalibrate your battery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656. Post your other issues in the thread so you can get help there.
Cognition v2.3 Unlocked Samsung Captivate on TMobile
This weekend I installed Cognition v2.3 via ROM Manager on my Samsung Captivate running Eclair 2.1 update1. Once the install was completed and the device booted, every 30 seconds or so my device would vibrate and then be followed by a force close. I also noticed that I would appear to have no radio signal around the same time.
Obviously I did a factory reset which did not help, so I did a reinstall of Cognition v2.3. This time it was fine!! No vibrating and no force closes for a few hours, that is until I realized that I had actually not had my sim in and was on wifi. As soon as I inserted my TMobile simcard back into my device, all the vibrating and force closes started right back up.
Needless to say I am back on 2.1 update1 and hoping some can shed light on this strange issue.
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This weekend I installed Cognition v2.3 via ROM Manager on my Samsung Captivate running Eclair 2.1 update1. Once the install was completed and the device booted, every 30 seconds or so my device would vibrate and then be followed by a force close. I also noticed that I would appear to have no radio signal around the same time.
Obviously I did a factory reset which did not help, so I did a reinstall of Cognition v2.3. This time it was fine!! No vibrating and no force closes for a few hours, that is until I realized that I had actually not had my sim in and was on wifi. As soon as I inserted my TMobile simcard back into my device, all the vibrating and force closes started right back up.
Needless to say I am back on 2.1 update1 and hoping some can shed light on this strange issue.
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I encountered this same issue when i first upgraded to v2.3b3. In the Cognition thread people suggested installing v2.3b2 first and then installing v2.3b3. This is what I did and it worked flawlessly.
Where to get 2.3b2? I looked at main site, didn't find a "older versions" link.
Thanks.
I am currently running 2.3b2. Thats weird. I may have to master clear and flash back to stock with Odin.
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I am currently running 2.3b2. Thats weird. I may have to master clear and flash back to stock with Odin.
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You don't just flash with rm/cwm.
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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.
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.
So, I don't know what happened. I didn't touch a thing on this phone, haven't changed any settings or installed any apps for weeks. However, just now, my phone has decided to start acting up in a bad way.
I'm on Paranoid Android 2.52, and I have been for many months now, with no stability issues of any kind. However, without any warning or cause on my part, something got reset. The first thing I noticed was that all of my settings reset to the default Android settings. I had to go through and change all my settings back to how I want them. Then I discovered that there's nothing I can do to get my lockscreen to work again. I have it enabled, I've tried every variation of lockscreen on this ROM, with delay, without delay, but the lockscreen just won't show.
Then I noticed that my notification bar won't display any notifications. It'll show the time, battery, Wi-Fi and other small logos. But the alarm, timer, text, e-mail, etc. notifications will not show on the bar at all. My phone will vibrate when receiving and e-mail or text, but no notification will appear.
Then I noticed that in SMS Popup, which I use, I can't un-hide the message on the popup. I have the privacy set such that I have to tap the little eye logo to display the message. But now that logo no longer responds. It will change color on press, but will not un-hide the message. All I can do is close the popup with the message unseen.
Then I noticed that my home button doesn't work. Either short- or long-press. Short-press should take me to my home screen, long-press should take me to recent apps. It does neither. My phone will vibrate when I touch the home button, but it does nothing. I've checked my settings, and they are as they should be. The button just won't do anything.
I'm sure there's many, many more issues I'm yet to discover. What on Earth happened to my phone and how do I fix this?
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I've tried rebooting, turning it off, pulling the battery for a few minutes. Had no effect. And I have no idea what else to do.
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Titanium just reported to me that my phone's ID somehow changed. This indicates a factory reset, but I certainly didn't do that.
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I've tried rebooting, turning it off, pulling the battery for a few minutes. Had no effect. And I have no idea what else to do.
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When all else fails I personally start completely over using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081 ,boot into completely stock GB go through setup,reboot into stock GB,then reboot into download mode, flash Zen's A16 kerrnel with recovery,reboot,then follow directions for installing whatever ROM you desire.My two personal favorites(YMMV)are 2.3.6 GB deodexed,zip-aligned,debloated and BeanStalk
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When all else fails I personally start completely over using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081 ,boot into completely stock GB go through setup,reboot into stock GB,then reboot into download mode, flash Zen's A16 kerrnel with recovery,reboot,then follow directions for installing whatever ROM you desire.My two personal favorites(YMMV)are 2.3.6 GB deodexed,zip-aligned,debloated and BeanStalk
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Yeah, I ultimately decided that the only thing I could do is just go back to stock and work my way up to BeanStalk. I enjoyed PA for a while, but all the BeanStalk discussion piqued my interest.
Anyway, I just wish I knew what happened to cause my phone to spontaneously fail so completely. It's seriously of a case of it working before I put it in my pocket, and it being completely ruined when it came out.
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Yeah, I ultimately decided that the only thing I could do is just go back to stock and work my way up to BeanStalk. I enjoyed PA for a while, but all the BeanStalk discussion piqued my interest.
Anyway, I just wish I knew what happened to cause my phone to spontaneously fail so completely. It's seriously of a case of it working before I put it in my pocket, and it being completely ruined when it came out.
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If you go back stock and run it for a day or two should let you know if it is a hardware issue.
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If you go back stock and run it for a day or two should let you know if it is a hardware issue.
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Yeah. As soon as I went back to stock, everything was immediately back to normal. But, my past three phones have all lasted anywhere between 21-24 months without any problem, and then suddenly falling apart like the Blues Brothers car and becoming completely unusable overnight, just in time for me to upgrade to new phone with a discount. And, since my contract is up in a couple months, I wouldn't be shocked if my phone's about to have its end-of-term breakdown.
I'd really like to avoid the introductory prices on the S4, though... If I could keep this phone going until about June, I'd love that.
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Yeah. As soon as I went back to stock, everything was immediately back to normal. But, my past three phones have all lasted anywhere between 21-24 months without any problem, and then suddenly falling apart like the Blues Brothers car and becoming completely unusable overnight, just in time for me to upgrade to new phone with a discount. And, since my contract is up in a couple months, I wouldn't be shocked if my phone's about to have its end-of-term breakdown.
I'd really like to avoid the introductory prices on the S4, though... If I could keep this phone going until about June, I'd love that.
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I don't have contracts and I've had phones with faster,newer,better hardware and I come back to and enjoy my Infuse more. As long as there is this kind of active development for it I will keep picking up cheap Infuse.
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I don't have contracts and I've had phones with faster,newer,better hardware and I come back to and enjoy my Infuse more. As long as there is this kind of active development for it I will keep picking up cheap Infuse.
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Yeah, I'll admit Scott's solely responsible for keeping my interest in this phone. A year ago, I was still on Froyo and I was getting bored with it and wanting a new phone, but I stumbled across PA somehow and thought I'd give it a shot. Three PA roms and Bean Stalk later, I'm still loving my Infuse.
The problem is that the hardware's just not holding up anymore. I'm having the famous power button issue. I'm going to try to gut my phone and clean the button myself, but beyond that, there's not a lot that can be done about it. I'd really love to dedicate the Infuse to an alarm clock/media player when I get my new phone, so I can still have something to mod. But I just don't know how I'm going to adjust to the sudden lack of customizability when I get the S4 with a stock release of Android.
Hi. Let's get right to it, shall we?
I was running a 4.3 Rom on my phone. Worked great while I was at my house though I did notice my signal seemed lower than before I installed it. But I didn't worry about it too much. Ran the Rom all weekend without any issues. Coverage in my city is pretty good, so I never had a signal drop.
I work in a pretty rural area of PA which causes me to lose my signal a couple of times while commuting there. So, on Monday when I got to work, I had a blank screen and all buttons were unresponsive. I did a hard reboot which went fine until the phone tried to reconnect to the network. Then it went back to the blank screen and forced another hard reboot.
Thinking this was an issue of cm10.2, I went home and reloaded a 4.2 Rom. Again, it worked great until the next day when I returned to work. Then the shutdown/freeze issue arose again. So I went to stock 4.1.2 with stock kernel and radio. No extra apps, nothing. The only thing custom on my phone was the recovery. Anyway, I still had the same problem.
As long as I don't lose my signal, my phone works awesome. And it's not the loss of signal that's bad, it's when the phone reaquires the signal that it breaks. I went to AT&T and discussed with a rep but I seemed to know more about phones than he did ( his words, not mine ) and I couldn't reproduce the problem because, of coarse, there was a perfect signal at the store.
So, I'm asking for thoughts, ideas, and suggestions on how I might fix this problem or what might be wrong. I respect and appreciate, any help I might get from this fine community. Thank you all in advance.
So when you say after you went to stock the only thing custom was a custom recovery ...
Odin a ucmc1 stock the one which also takes you to stock recovery and do your wipes from there.
See if this resolves the issue
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Commodore 64 said:
So when you say after you went to stock the only thing custom was a custom recovery ...
Odin a ucmc1 stock the one which also takes you to stock recovery and do your wipes from there.
See if this resolves the issue
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How does the recovery effect the phone when it's on normal and not in recovery mode? Please ( and this isn't sarcasm ) Talk to me like I'm four years old.
Mine did something like that also, I was on CM10.2 20130920 Nightly clean install with TWRP 2.6.3.0 and everything was fine then phone froze and started vibrating, camera flashed, power button wouldnt do anything I pulled battery and reinserted it and same thing just vibrated. Finally was able to go to DL and reinstalled stock booted just fine I set up the phone and couple hours latter same thing phone locked up started vibrating and nothing.
I know it is recommended to use CWM 6.0.3.7 but figured the lates TWRP would work. Now I have a worthless Skyrocket that all it does is vibrate, I can take the battery out and use it as paper weight.
I am using a galaxy note i717. I have issues with it. I have rooted this phone using odin. I have tried everything I know to make it work correctly. The problems are just horrible. The worst one is the phone call thing. Someone calls me, my phone starts ringing and completely locks up, I can't even see who it was that called. My phone will ring forever till I turn it off, completely locked up only option is power cycle. Worst part is it does not even show it as a missed call so I have no clue who called. Another thing is the phone needs to be reset at least a few times a day, as it is just laggy and slow I waited 10 seconds today for my call log to show up after I pressed the button. There are a few others but those are extremely anoying. My phone works fine till I load certain apps then it becomes bogged down. Defender of texel and Group Me are 2 apps that cause this problem. I have tried many things to fix it. I have tried many jelly bean custom roms. All of them have the same problem. I also did the samsung upgrade trick. The one where you unroot and put the phone to stock ics then have samsung upgrade it to jb then root it to a jb custom rom. I have 2 ideas of how to fix it. I can get ics custom roms to work flawlessly, I got a goldie rom already downloaded and ready to install. The other idea might come from an expert. I think it is some setting that is default turned on that needs turned off. I really don't know, I don't want to revert back to ics I like new technology and getting the most out of my devices. I am using black jelly right now, it is a good rom, it was just the last one I tried. The phone has no wings but was about to fly across the room so I gave up before I broke it. I need an expert that knows the tricks to make this phone work correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
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