[Q] Tab 2 7.0 Won't turn off etc - Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As of last night my tab 2 (p3100) has been playing up, have it running a pac rom, not updated in a while but all was working fine. Now when I do get it on, it lags a lot on home screen, can only really access anything for about 30 seconds before its practically unusable. When I try to power off or reboot it begins the process but ends up freezing, only way I can get it properly off it to plug it in to charge and then hold power for ages. Then getting it on again takes ages. Only thing I recall doing prior to these issues was installing the peel remote earlier that day, maybe just a coincidence but after that it all went wrong. I've just tried a factory reset and data wipe, seemed to initially solve the problem but after a few mins back to the same issues, any ideas?

edingal said:
As of last night my tab 2 (p3100) has been playing up, have it running a pac rom, not updated in a while but all was working fine. Now when I do get it on, it lags a lot on home screen, can only really access anything for about 30 seconds before its practically unusable. When I try to power off or reboot it begins the process but ends up freezing, only way I can get it properly off it to plug it in to charge and then hold power for ages. Then getting it on again takes ages. Only thing I recall doing prior to these issues was installing the peel remote earlier that day, maybe just a coincidence but after that it all went wrong. I've just tried a factory reset and data wipe, seemed to initially solve the problem but after a few mins back to the same issues, any ideas?
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Try flashing another ROM, like CM 10.2 or one of the stock-based ROMs. Make sure to wipe data, system and cache before flashing. If the issue still persists, try restoring a backup that you know worked.

Will give that a go, thanks.

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[Q] Screen won't stay on for more than an Instant

ok, weird issue.
Yesterday I came back to my TF having left it inmy bag for the day, and it would not turn on at all.
I tried various things and then decided that the battery must be totally dead.
I left it to charge over night, and come the morning was able to watch it booting.
However once It finished boot it goes to black screen. Pressing the power button sometimes gives a flicker of backlight and then goes blank again. sometimes it even gives a glimpse of the screen.
Plugging in the power sometimes gives a longer blink of the booted ROM.
I have tried a cold boot, a full data wipe and I have used NV flash to fully reinstall the ROM (Prime 1.8)
After the full reinstall I go through the Google initial setup process without a problem, as soon as the rom boots I am back to the flicker of screen going off..
Does anyone have any ideas??
Still got the problem, does this sound like hardware to anyone else?
if the screen doesnt work during boot it is hardware problem. flash ur rom again or wipe it
chatch15117 said:
if the screen doesnt work during boot it is hardware problem. flash ur rom again or wipe it
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Screen works fine during boot
Done both of your suggestions unfortunately, as I stated in my original posting.
I am going to try going back to Stock, and assuming its an app NOT restore any during the rebuild process.

[Q] Strange issue.

I am having a really strange issue with my Blaze. I am not sure if it is a hardware problem due to a faulty USB or if it is from the Rom. I put a new jack in a month or so ago. I started using tthaz777 stock ICS 4.0.4 shortly after. A week ago the phone prompted me for an update, I declined it because I didnt want to loose my root. The next day I received another prompt, I accidentally confirmed so I did a battery pull. On reboot I got the expected message the update failed, but everything was working fine with 4.0.4. Next came a Simpsons update, I got the dreaded not enough space error (even though I had plenty). I read to clear the cache to solve this so I did and everything installed fine. About an hour after that my Home button went all screwy. When pressing home from inside an app (or while on a home screen to jump to the main home screen) instead of taking me home I jump to a different screen I have never seen before. It resembles a lock screen, except I don't need to swipe the screen to get by it. Hitting the back button or the X brings me back to the last app I was in. I figured it may have been something from either wiping the cache or stopping the update. I went to recovery and wiped cache and data and reinstalled 4.0.4. Seemed to work, for a few days. I did some app updates and out of the blue it started up again. I reinstalled after a complete wipe and it didn't solve the problem. I noticed sometimes it will do it while charging but go back to normal as soon as I unplug it which has me thinking I have a bad solder joint from the jack install and it is some type of charge screen, but I don't ever remember seeing it before and can't find a matching image on the net. I tried going back to 4.0.2 to see if I could duplicate it but the camera is buggy and it is painfully slow. I guess I'll have to try a KitKat versoin, which I despise to see if I can get it to happen again. Anyone had similar problems?

"UIDs on the sytem are inconsistent" error message + deleted data partition

Hey,
yesterday i faced a problem i didn't knew of yet. As i mentioned sometimes, i came from an One M7 2 weeks ago as it didn't work the way it should - camera useless and awful battery life. I rooted the M7, had problems with it and so on - just how it is with a rooted phone + custom roms.
However, due to the DRM i didn't root my Z3 yet. Yesterday i took it out my pocket, thought it was a bit warm.. nevermind. It worked. 30 minutes later i pulled it out again, still warm, and screen wouldn't turn on. I reset it (power and vol+ for those who didn't know), tried to boot again.. well, it took several minutes and finally showed me the attached error message. The system performance was really, really low. Everything stuttered, i couldn't even enter my pin. A few forced reboots later i could finally enter my pin and get into my system only to notice that my data partition wasn't doing fine. I had to set language and so on in the initial setup process, apps kept force-closing in seconds. My own apps were still on the device, however when i tried to open WhatsApp there was no data there, i should have gone through the registration process. The phone froze after seconds each time. I tried to enter the fastboot menu (is it called that way?) while booting to just do a factory reset, didn't find the button combination. So finally, after i found home without navigation from no man's land (sure, why doesn't it happen at home anyway..), i managed to boot it, get through settings and initiate a factory reset. Of course, all the apps were deleted then and i could install all apps like LightFlow again. Had to re-enter all the settings i did in those kind of apps, it was kind of annoying.
So, my questions: Why the hell did this happen to my Z3? Not rooted, didn't even think of it. There wasn't a day on the One M7 without flashing anything and it never happened. It wouldn't have been as bad as it was on the Z3, as i HAD root, could have wiped data in TWRP in a matter of seconds and also had backups of my data, which i of course didn't have for my unrooted Z3.
Is it likely to happen again? Can any app do this on a non-rooted phone? I read a bit about the error, that it would be caused by some apps, but not in the extent as it happened on my phone. Most of the times it would just be an annoying error message.
I got a thing in always getting a defective unit, so i hope it isn't happening again on the Z3
Maybe the internal flash is corrupted/failing. I had a similar issue with my HTC One X I went to nap one day and half hour later it shut down, it restarted but boot looped. Eventually it showed no data partition as being mounted and completely died. They replaced the motherboard.
Better contact Sony, maybe you need a replacement.
Mh, actually that's the least thing i want to do.. I'd have to wait for at least 2 weeks to get it back and chances are that they won't do a thing or damage it (bad experiences with my former Razr i). It works just fine after the factory reset, no errors yet. If it should happen again, i'd of course send it in for repair but i think, until then i will use it normally, with more caution and backups of course.
Probably the cleanest solution HERE

S6 keeps Rebooting

Hello all,
Today my Verizon S6 (on CleanRom 1.5) started to keep rebooting. After it boots, I can use the phone for less than a minute until it reboots again.
Here's how it began to happen today, if it helps.
- I didn't plug my phone to a charger last night, and when I woke up the phone had like 0%~1% battery. The phone died soon after I picked up the phone.
- At the same time I turned on the phone, I connected it to the stock charger.
- I used it for like 1-2 minutes, and the phone seemed to get confused whether it should die again or not (at 0% battery level)
- Then the phone decided to die again, and keeps rebooting itself.
My guess is something related to booting, initializing, or battery might have gone wrong. Also the soft button lights get never turn on.
Now I cannot use the phone really, as it dies like 30 seconds after I swipe the lockscreen.
- I tried to boot into safe mode, it didn't help.
- I wiped cache partition, it didn't help either.
The last thing I would like to try is to odin CleanRom again (or factory reset) but I would like to try other things first because I cannot even backup the data as it keeps rebooting. Odin will wipe all the data in my phone.
Any help or suggestions guys?
mtshure said:
Hello all,
Today my Verizon S6 (on CleanRom 1.5) started to keep rebooting. After it boots, I can use the phone for less than a minute until it reboots again.
Here's how it began to happen today, if it helps.
- I didn't plug my phone to a charger last night, and when I woke up the phone had like 0%~1% battery. The phone died soon after I picked up the phone.
- At the same time I turned on the phone, I connected it to the stock charger.
- I used it for like 1-2 minutes, and the phone seemed to get confused whether it should die again or not (at 0% battery level)
- Then the phone decided to die again, and keeps rebooting itself.
My guess is something related to booting, initializing, or battery might have gone wrong. Also the soft button lights get never turn on.
Now I cannot use the phone really, as it dies like 30 seconds after I swipe the lockscreen.
- I tried to boot into safe mode, it didn't help.
- I wiped cache partition, it didn't help either.
The last thing I would like to try is to odin CleanRom again (or factory reset) but I would like to try other things first because I cannot even backup the data as it keeps rebooting. Odin will wipe all the data in my phone.
Any help or suggestions guys?
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The OE2 tar file shouldn't wipe your phone as it is not a full wipe tar. I don't know if your phone would do it with it's reboot problem but a dirty flash of clean rom shouldn't wipe your phone either. However, a reboot during the middle of either of those would not be good. Flashfire does seem to be able to keep a phone from rebooting once it gets going or at least it has for me when I have been caught in a bad way before.
Problem Solved!!!
Thank you Tulsadiver for your suggestions. But is it okay to do odin without wiping anything?
I almost gave up after struggling several hours and thought about doing a factory reset, but the problem is solved now.
I found it weird that the soft key lights never turn on, so I thought that there might have been something wrong with the power management. So I turned the ultra power saving mode on (fortunately the phone didn't reboot before I did that), and it didn't reboot itself. I turned it back off then now the problem is gone!
I am happy with it now, and this might be one of the things to try if you experience a random reboot.

Nexus 5: My phone starts to freeze or restart when not charging

I noticed a strange problem with my Nexus 5. It starts to hang or restarts on its own. Sometimes go in to continuous boot loop. I could not differentiate why it would do that. Sometimes it worked flawlessly for hours. Then I realized that when it's charged off my computer USB power it works smooth. It works fine for sometime. But after few minutes of idle time or quick usage session freezes the phone and it re starts and keep going to boot loop, even after wiping cache. After a few attempt to wipe sometimes it starts without external power help. However, when attached to USB power it just starts without any issue.
I have done factory reset a few times. Unlocked my phone and also installed TWRP with Pure Nexus. The behavior hasn't changed much.
I think this is hardware issue. Could be a battery.
Can anyone provide a detail on how I can find issue?
super19 said:
I noticed a strange problem with my Nexus 5. It starts to hang or restarts on its own. Sometimes go in to continuous boot loop. I could not differentiate why it would do that. Sometimes it worked flawlessly for hours. Then I realized that when it's charged off my computer USB power it works smooth. It works fine for sometime. But after few minutes of idle time or quick usage session freezes the phone and it re starts and keep going to boot loop, even after wiping cache. After a few attempt to wipe sometimes it starts without external power help. However, when attached to USB power it just starts without any issue.
I have done factory reset a few times. Unlocked my phone and also installed TWRP with Pure Nexus. The behavior hasn't changed much.
I think this is hardware issue. Could be a battery.
Can anyone provide a detail on how I can find issue?
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Sounds like the battery is failing.
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