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on 9th day and the reboots and freezes and GPS malfunction

This is my third device and for 8 days it has been pretty rock solid, Yesterday I had 2 screen freezes and noticed it had been rebooting randomly.(for how long I do not know but I thought at first the app was turning itself off, than learned the device was actually rebooting itself) Today while at a restaurant I lost data and the signal would go in and out. In this same place my Vibrant gets 3-4 bars of 3G consistently. Upon arriving at home I had the same situation but additionally the GPS refused to lock or even see any sats. After rebooting twice it finally straightened out. I only have a couple of days left to decide whether to get a refund or take the chance of getting one that has even more issues or just keep this one and hope for the best. Anyone else have these or issues like them?

Are you running stock? There is a patch that fixes the slow Downs which can cause a reboot.
LG left the device in engineering mode which is why it boots up so fast.
Root and flash the patch, or wait for official gingerbread, or foot and flash CM7 which is doing me good.
LG G2x CM7 2.3.4
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Yes, my data randomly gets stuck, switching to airplane mode and back fixes it sometimes, otherwise a reboot fixes it.
My GPS randomly dies and gets stuck, usually while navigating, only way I've found to fix that is yet another reboot. Cycling the GPS on and off does nothing.
Also, about once a week, the phone will crater, come back up to "system checking", decide it doesn't like something and do a factory reset! I'm actually scared every time I reboot that it'll come up reset.
Also notice if I make heavy use of the internal SD card, say, 1080p video recording, it'll randomly reboot. Defective memory?
Par for the course until LG figures stuff out. I wish this was like a computer and everything worked when it was expected to work!
Running the dexopt patch, rooted, and nothing else major.

player911 said:
Are you running stock? There is a patch that fixes the slow Downs which can cause a reboot.
LG left the device in engineering mode which is why it boots up so fast.
Root and flash the patch, or wait for official gingerbread, or foot and flash CM7 which is doing me good.
LG G2x CM7 2.3.4
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Yes running stock and applied the patch as soon as it came out. I have not tried cm7 yet. The patch does not seem to do any good for this device.

Lightning Blue said:
Yes, my data randomly gets stuck, switching to airplane mode and back fixes it sometimes, otherwise a reboot fixes it.
My GPS randomly dies and gets stuck, usually while navigating, only way I've found to fix that is yet another reboot. Cycling the GPS on and off does nothing.
Also, about once a week, the phone will crater, come back up to "system checking", decide it doesn't like something and do a factory reset! I'm actually scared every time I reboot that it'll come up reset.
Also notice if I make heavy use of the internal SD card, say, 1080p video recording, it'll randomly reboot. Defective memory?
Par for the course until LG figures stuff out. I wish this was like a computer and everything worked when it was expected to work!
Running the dexopt patch, rooted, and nothing else major.
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Gosh, sounds like we got the exact same phone!!LOL Almost my situation word for word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you really think that software patches will fix all the issues? I would like to believe but am doubtful. I went through the GPS debacle with the Vibrant and it still has not been fixed after almost a year for a lot of people.

As powerful this phone sounds I am hesitant of getting it because of the list of complaints. I think the g2 might be a better choice even though it has an inferior chip

The patch made a big difference with mine. After the patch is successfully applied, it will take longer to boot and won't slow down and laggy after a few hours.
I'm wondering if it was applied correctly? It would have to be applied after every wipe you've done. Thing is you have to remove the X-Factor from the equation. Flash CM7 and see if the problem is persistent or not. If it is, replace the phone. If not, then you owe me $5 cause I called it. There is a weird bug with the stock kernel. We are expecting an updated Kernel with the new Gingerbread rom that is about to be released.
@Jjday7: I wouldn't sweat it. I've been around the block and as far as hardware goes; the G2x is solid. The initial kernel is a little wonky but thank god we have CM7 right? I used my GPS today and had no problem getting a lock and keeping it. Of course I'm on CM7. I also don't have anymore random lockups.

player911 said:
The patch made a big difference with mine. After the patch is successfully applied, it will take longer to boot and won't slow down and laggy after a few hours.
I'm wondering if it was applied correctly? It would have to be applied after every wipe you've done. Thing is you have to remove the X-Factor from the equation. Flash CM7 and see if the problem is persistent or not. If it is, replace the phone. If not, then you owe me $5 cause I called it. There is a weird bug with the stock kernel. We are expecting an updated Kernel with the new Gingerbread rom that is about to be released.
@Jjday7: I wouldn't sweat it. I've been around the block and as far as hardware goes; the G2x is solid. The initial kernel is a little wonky but thank god we have CM7 right? I used my GPS today and had no problem getting a lock and keeping it. Of course I'm on CM7. I also don't have anymore random lockups.
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I have applied it before and after GB update. I have hesitated flashing cm7 (have a couple of questions) If I do flash it and want to go back to stock or some other rom, would I have to flash a different kernel even with my nanroid? If so what would be the process for that? AS far as GApps I notice that you cannot use the one for tegra. All I have found at the cm7 site is universal which I suppose would be the one to choose. Do you know for sure?I have used cm7 on my nexus one but not on my Vibrant . Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I also have all the same issues as the OP. Hopefully the update fixes all these issues. Did any of you notice the phone really hot when the reboots and freezes occurred?
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So where is this patch? My GPS has been non-functional this morning. Usually it just takes a LONG time to lock on. Also, last two days I've been getting the freezing while on a call. Black screen, won't come back, have to remove the battery. Early this morning after taking the phone off the charger was the first time it froze to black screen while not on a call.

Jjday7 said:
As powerful this phone sounds I am hesitant of getting it because of the list of complaints. I think the g2 might be a better choice even though it has an inferior chip
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To my G2x friends above. Keep swapping phones. Don't give up. I was at my wits end until I swapped out a couple of times. My new phone has no bleed issues and the random crazy stuff has completely stopped.
lilaliend... take it back. get another. It should not do that. It will be nothing but a head ache/heart ache until you do. I get a solid lock within 5 seconds.
Jjday... if you get one, run the heck out of it the first few days to see if all is good. Any issues pop up...swap it.
This is a solid phone that seems to have had some issues with the first run of production. There are many detailed posts on how to fix any minor annoyances. TMobile sold out of them for a reason.
Swap bad behaving phones then read, read, and then read some more. The potential of this phone is awesome. I am a die hard WM guy who has been converted.

So .. I ended up exchanging my g2x in via t-mo customer support since I was out of the window of taking it back to the store (having 4g/wifi toggle issues etc, random reboots). The new phone is by far better, but I am having issues with the GPS still. It will see 10 satellites, all locked on (green via GPS test) but it takes forEVER to lock. When I first took the phone out of the box it locked within seconds inside my house ... should I send this back for another one again?

Third Phone - Not the Charm!

Just got my third G2x from T-Mobile. I'm running LauncherPro. I must have done something wrong because I backed up to SD card but after installing new phone it gave me an error reading SD card. I had to reset everything!
Anyway, I got a 2nd replacement (this is number 3 phone) because the 2nd one continued to have the random reboot issues.
This one is different from the other two. The icons in the top bar are smaller and the GPS signal button is different. Could this be an upgraded software?
It states Android 2.3.3, kernel version 2.6.32.9 and Software version LG-P999-V21e
Trouble is, this phone is way worse than either of the first two! I think only 1 reboot so far (1 day) but 3 times now after the phone sleeps I have to remove battery to turn it back on! And it will not allow me to mount the phone as a USB. Sometimes the message appears to turn on USB but it will not work. Touching the screen does nothing. Then the screens start to rapidly change.
Looking like number 4!

What other programs have you installed? These types of issues are almost always apps and not the OS or the hardware. The fact you are having similar problems with three phones seems to indicate that even more. Stop blaming the device and figure out what you are doing to it to screw it up.

Try installing the GB drivers to your computer via LG. That's what I had to do to get my phone to mount.
Powered by a G2x

jboxer said:
What other programs have you installed? These types of issues are almost always apps and not the OS or the hardware. The fact you are having similar problems with three phones seems to indicate that even more. Stop blaming the device and figure out what you are doing to it to screw it up.
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I agree. "I went through 8 G2x's and all of them did the same thing after I restored my backup..."
Also, get off the stock firmware as it is absolutely unstable (Sleep of Death (SOD) and resets). I've been running MIUI since mid-August and haven't had 1 reset or SoD. Most CM7 nightly builds are good but a few will cause issues. Look at the stable version of CM7 or Weapon.

player911 said:
I agree. "I went through 8 G2x's and all of them did the same thing after I restored my backup..."
Also, get off the stock firmware as it is absolutely unstable (Sleep of Death (SOD) and resets). I've been running MIUI since mid-August and haven't had 1 reset or SoD. Most CM7 nightly builds are good but a few will cause issues. Look at the stable version of CM7 or Weapon.
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The stock Gingerbread firmware is absolutely rock solid. I have been running it since it was released and have had zero problems. The only change to the system is that I rooted it. If I install an app that gives me the slightest trouble I uninstall it immediately. There is nothing wrong with the GB rom as LG delivered it. The Froyo rom did have problems, but the GB rom is very good. Many of the custom roms are based on it and just have hacks and tweaks. Very few are compiled from source like CM is.

Update to Phone
First, let me say that T-Mobile Customer Service is great! Every time I call or visit the store they are friendly and try their best to help me.
I called T-Mobile and explained the issues on this phone, as one person wrote above the "SOD". She walked me through a bunch of steps, and I'm fine with that, I understand she has to be sure i have done all the typical troubleshooting. She confirmed that the new one had GB.
She is sending phone number 4 out today. Meanwhile she said go by the store to have them check the battery, just in case. I did that, it was kind of funny. Gal says, no need to test it, I'll just grab a new one. She comes back and inserts new battery, "There ya go, brand new battery". Ah, Miss, I say, it won't turn on now. "No, that can't be, its a new battery". She finally went and got me yet another new battery!
Hopefully this 4th phone will do the trick.
As for the apps, maybe I do need to uninstall some, but it seems like what I have are all mainstream apps:
Launcherpro
Beautiful Widgets
Touchdown Pro
Pure Calendar
Juice Defender
Batter Monitor Widget (free edition)
All of the above are paid apps too, not free versions (except Battery Monitor).
Any thoughts, known issues on these?
Thanks!

All those are pretty common apps, none of which I've had trouble with. Juice defender has been a cause of connectivity, etc issues for some people, but works fine on all my devices.
If I were you I would ***** until they replaced it with a Sensation, Amaze, SGS2, etc. I've seen so many people with 3,4,5,6 replacements on this board....why? As much as I like the form factor, the G2x is not worth 4 replacements. NO product is worth 4 replacements. Needing to have a product replaced is one thing, having to replace the replacement, or more, is ridiculous. Fool me once....
At what point do you say, "wow screw this POS." 4 replacements is a company jacking you around. I got lucky with a mostly mint G2x on launch day. Had it had issues I would have replaced it, beyond that..... the G2x is a nice phone, but there is absolutely zilch nada NOTHING special enough about it to deserve 4 replacements.
I don't mean to sound like a douche or harsh or anything. I just don't get why this is a recurring theme on this board. Would you do this with a pair of jeans, or with a TV, or with tires? No. The product sucked the first time, why repeat the experience?

I hear ya Adamhart. On the phone with CS today I asked this very question. She said I was not eligible for a different pone ... yet. She indicated that x number of returns within 90 days usually trips the option. First sign of trouble on number 4 and I will be calling. When the phone is working I like it, but I'd happily trade it for something else.
Thanks for the note on Juice Defender, I noticed on another thread some issues so for the moment I have it turned off.

Fouth Phone Arrived
So number 4 arrived next day. I set it up. Such a pain to have to reinstall everything. So far all is good. The battery life is not improved but one day later with no reboots and it starts up without a problem (no sleep of death!).
So far so good.....

I' ve been using an extended battery for a few months now and its been great. No reboots or SOD issues.
Couple of weeks ago I insert the stock battery. Within the hour I have 1 freeze up and 3 SOD! That stock battery is defective. Its been the cause of 80% of my problems with this device.

4th phone has same problems. Already posted a rant! I'm going to try rooting!

You know I never had a problem with my g2x and I see all these people going thru 3-6 phones THANK GOD I'm not on that statics.
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And I see mostly the ones who have problems don't usually nvflash cwm and install a custom rom.
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I broke my last one (slammed it on concrete) so got a replacement through Asurion, they sent me a refurb (as they tend to do).
thing worked well for the first day, albeit a bit weak on battery, then started having charge issues and general mis-reporting on the battery (it'd say 100% when it meant 20%, around 5 hours after being unplugged it would drop very steeply (~75%) to catch up)
I noticed on the 1809#*999# menu that the Factory Version was registering as Unknown. After a few more days of it being a pain in the ass I went ahead and did a Factory Reset. After which the Factory Version reported the correct numbers.
Works almost flawlessly now, I'm getting a good 30 hours of battery life out of the thing (mostly texting + standby). I'm currently using the default launcher with Go Contacts and Go SMS (It sucks Go Contacts can't clear missed calls properly on 2.3.3 but it's a minor complaint), Facebook, Battery Monitor Widget (3c), and a few other small apps.
Also, I noticed on my first phone that JuiceDefender seemed to cause Sleep of Death issues. At least thats what the process of elimination had me believe (and this was back on Froyo). IMO - just leave everything alone with regards to task killers and battery enhancers, GB actually does a very good job of battery management on its own.

I continued to have trouble with number 4. Called T-Mo. Long story short they said "nothing we can do until LG comes out with new software update".
Phone is just not useable the way it is (mine that is) so I finally followed the advice of so many on this board and I rooted the phone and installed CM7.
I was a little freaked out a first because CM7 looks so different. Now I am comfortable with it. I have loaded up all the apps and configurations again. So far it is good. A couple of times the phone shut down but that may be more to all the changes I have been doing. One the whole it is far more stable than stock. Battery life is a tad improved too, but still not great.

My mom is about to embark on her third try. She doesn't download apps at all. Phone won't hold call for more than a minute.

[HELP]: Unofficial AOKP Jellybean 4.1.1

I don't have enough posts to ask a question in the ROM's actual thread, but I am currently running the Unofficial AOKP Jellybean 4.1.1 ROM on my One S from T-Mobile. I'm getting a problem almost every 2-3 hours of the day. I'll be chillin out, listening to music via offline google play, and then... POW! My phone randomly shuts off / soft reboots. By its self. Nothing causing it as far as I'm concerned, except when I'm listening to music, that's almost always when it happens, or right after I send a text message, even when the phone is just sitting on my desk it will randomly reboot on its own. I don't have scheduled reboot checked in the performance manager, and I know my battery / processor temperatures. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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I don't have enough posts to ask a question in the ROM's actual thread, but I am currently running the Unofficial AOKP Jellybean 4.1.1 ROM on my One S from T-Mobile. I'm getting a problem almost every 2-3 hours of the day. I'll be chillin out, listening to music via offline google play, and then... POW! My phone randomly shuts off / soft reboots. By its self. Nothing causing it as far as I'm concerned, except when I'm listening to music, that's almost always when it happens, or right after I send a text message, even when the phone is just sitting on my desk it will randomly reboot on its own. I don't have scheduled reboot checked in the performance manager, and I know my battery / processor temperatures. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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From my experience with unofficial, unsupported devices getting the unofficial upgrades by porting from another phone, this is always an issue. Rebooting and also SOD's. Seems it may be because the sensors can't be ported or something. I'm no dev by far, I'm just a user but I have pretty much come to the conclusion that this is what you have to deal with from ported builds so now I really don't bother with them.

[Q] But really...what's with all the random reboots?

Hi all...first time poster, long time reader. (Mostly because someone has usually solved my problem for me six months in advance.)
My Inspire has been rebooting at random for about the last six months. The rate varies from once every couple of days to once every couple of hourse. Most of the existing answers are "replace the battery." I think that makes sense in cases where phones reboot while under strain (watching a video, during a call, etc.) because higher current draw would pull down voltage if a battery is failing. Not in my case, though. About 80% of the time that I notice a reboot, the phone is either in a pocket or on the desk.
For a few days I thought that I had solved it by removing the Facebook app. I had noticed a correlation between using Facebook at the phone restarting, and not using Facebook really did seem to make a difference for about a week. (Upon further investigation, that seems to hold across different ROMS. This has been happening with the stock rom, Ice Cold Sandwitch, and JellyTime.) But it isn't 100% better. I currently get about one reset every two days that I notice, and probably more that I don't notice.
That leaves me wondering, what could be going on? Is my hardware borked? Should I try flashing a different radio? I have had this phone for about 22 months and it would be nice to hold onto it a little while longer. Otherwise it has been a reasonably decent device.
-Tim

ZircularLogic said:
Hi all...first time poster, long time reader. (Mostly because someone has usually solved my problem for me six months in advance.)
My Inspire has been rebooting at random for about the last six months. The rate varies from once every couple of days to once every couple of hourse. Most of the existing answers are "replace the battery." I think that makes sense in cases where phones reboot while under strain (watching a video, during a call, etc.) because higher current draw would pull down voltage if a battery is failing. Not in my case, though. About 80% of the time that I notice a reboot, the phone is either in a pocket or on the desk.
For a few days I thought that I had solved it by removing the Facebook app. I had noticed a correlation between using Facebook at the phone restarting, and not using Facebook really did seem to make a difference for about a week. (Upon further investigation, that seems to hold across different ROMS. This has been happening with the stock rom, Ice Cold Sandwitch, and JellyTime.) But it isn't 100% better. I currently get about one reset every two days that I notice, and probably more that I don't notice.
That leaves me wondering, what could be going on? Is my hardware borked? Should I try flashing a different radio? I have had this phone for about 22 months and it would be nice to hold onto it a little while longer. Otherwise it has been a reasonably decent device.
-Tim
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Tim, random reboots can occur due to lack of memory. See if your internal memory is almost full. In that case, try deleting some apps or sending a couple to he sdcard. Take into consideration, that not all apps work fine from the sdcard, so just send the ones you like less...BTW, are you rooted or just stock?

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Tim, random reboots can occur due to lack of memory. See if your internal memory is almost full. In that case, try deleting some apps or sending a couple to he sdcard. Take into consideration, that not all apps work fine from the sdcard, so just send the ones you like less...BTW, are you rooted or just stock?
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That's an explanation I had not found. Internal storage looks OK in my case, with 701MB currently available out of 1.13GB. If it matters, the SD card currently shows 3.86GB avaliable out of 7.39GB. (I have tried with and without the SD card, and it doesn't seem to matter.) Maybe I should increase the free memory setting?
To answer your question, the phone is currently rooted and running IceColdSandwich 8.8 AOKP. If anything it reboots less frequently in the current configuration than it did on the stock ROM. I have not tried any Jellybean ROMs for more than a day at a time, so I'm not sure if that would be better.

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That's an explanation I had not found. Internal storage looks OK in my case, with 701MB currently available out of 1.13GB. If it matters, the SD card currently shows 3.86GB avaliable out of 7.39GB. (I have tried with and without the SD card, and it doesn't seem to matter.) Maybe I should increase the free memory setting?
To answer your question, the phone is currently rooted and running IceColdSandwich 8.8 AOKP. If anything it reboots less frequently in the current configuration than it did on the stock ROM. I have not tried any Jellybean ROMs for more than a day at a time, so I'm not sure if that would be better.
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Sounds to me like your hardware is bad. I have had my Inspire 4g for two years and the only issues I have had was maybe three apps force closing. I have never had the phone its self freeze or reboot. I have tried all kinds of ROMS and right now I have 4 regulars I stay with and alternated monthly. I Use Energy, Revolution, Smart Droid Red venom edition, and JB 10.1. All those ROMS are stable and cause no issues as you have described.
So from a tech view if I had your issues and it happens with all ROMS then that leaves only the hardware to be at fault.

Nexus 5 - wifi stuck on 'turning on WiFi'

Hi everyone.
First off, I'd like to say that I don't like opening new threads, and I always read up on my problem first, but I'm simply at my wit's end.
The problem is fairly common (not only on nexus 5 phones), and something a lot of you forum guys have encountered and tried to help with, with more or less success.
Basically, my WiFi doesn't work, it shows 'turning on WiFi' most of the time, and sometimes (fairly rarely), has a couple of hours where it reboots to no end, but I'm thinking that's a power button that sticks. It usually fixes itself after I gently but firmly stroke it (lol) and doesn't happen again for weeks. The WiFi issue started randomly, totally out of the blue, and never happened before to any of my phones (it might have started a couple of days after the last OTA security update, but I can't say for sure). The phone was a 100% stock 16gb Nexus 5.
What I've tried (some steps even multiple times, with different variations):
- removing the sim card
- switching airplane mode on/off
- factory reset (3 times in total think)
- wiping cache
- reflashing stock ROM
- reflashing stock everything
- flashing TWRP and rooting, and manually changing/removing either the .macaddr and .btaddr files, or changing/removing their respective folders
- playing with ownership of those files
- flashing CM, flashing a custom kernel and flashing Paranoid Android
- all in all, i've wiped and rebooted the device like 50 times
Honestly, I don't know what I've missed, I've been at it for days, and I'd be very grateful if someone would point out an oversight.
Also, what's weird, my bluetooth didn't work too, but after i tinkered with .btaddr and .macaddr, it now works perfectly, no matter what I throw at it. This is what gives me hope that I still can resolve this issue without paying for a new motherboard/phone.
Thanks in advance, guys, you've been truly helpful so far.

A defective wifi chip could be the cause of the problem and, in my experience, is not that uncommon. I have come across two n5 and two Samsung s4 phones that work perfectly except the wifi either won't turn on or tries to turn on for about 10 minutes.
I tried different modems, bootloaders, and roms without any success.

Yeah, sadly, that's what I'm thinking too. I had some hope because bluetooth works, but not anymore. I've kinda already made my peace that I'm gonna have to spend +$200 on a repair or $400 on a new phone. I'm just thinking if anyone knows something that helps that I haven't tried yet, please come forward, possibly before I take it to a service centre :laugh:

Maybe look for a used N5 with a smashed screen and working motherboard?