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[Q] [ISSUE] freezes while phone is in stand-by and while using apps

hey all,
on friday I rooted my NS again to check out cm7 rc1. before i was totally stock @ 2.3.2. friday evening i wanted to show my iphone friends the nexus s with cm7. the first one took it and did take some photos. then he smiled and gave it back to me. force close: SORRY: Android.process(???) has stopped unexpectedly.
this error was looping all the thime. i pressed okay and one sec later it was there again. i tried to flash the rom again in recovery, but the error was still there. i did date and cash wipes and some factory resets and then the error was gone.
on sunday i was travelling home on train and suddenly the error was back. i tried again some wipes and then i deceided to restore my nandroid backup. so i was back on 2.3.2. during sunday afternoon and evening i got these errors:
- NS is freezing while it is in standby... if i grab the phone and want to unlock it but the display keeps black -> i have to put out the battery..
- NS is beside my keyboard and suddenly all four buttons are on. display is still black. unlock not possible--> battery again
- NS is freezing while using facebook or twitter app
today... i unrooted it again and went back to a nandroid (2.3.1) guided _here_.
after unrooted again NS wanted to update to 2.3.2 which i confirmed.
about to hours later the errors i explained came back.
am i the first one who bricked NS?
please give me some help how to get it back working correctly, because i love this phone so hard.

I did another factory reset and now the phone is hanging at the google Logo. The four buttons are powered.
This is looping, too.

Yesterday I tried some things to kill these errors. I did:
- factoy reset (in settings menu)
- fastboot erase userdata 2x
- wipe cache, wipe data, wipe devliak
Today the phone was with out a problem, but just a moment ago I wanted to unlock it by pressing the power button but the display didn't react as usal. It is still black and the only thing I can do is to take out the battery....
Last step I can do is to send it back to my girlfriends sister in US so that she can bringt it to Samsung US to get it serviced.

"bricking" the phones involves the phone not being able to turn on or do anything, period. your phone isnt a brick. after doing a "factory reset" you want to reflash whatever rom you are using. it seems like youre having problems with a bad app or some bad data.

thx simms22. i just flashed the newest cm7 nightly with rom manager (incl. wipe). i set up all my apps and 20 min later the error come.
to figure out if it is a bad app problem i do a factory reset now and won't log into google account and see if the error appears.

simms22 said:
it seems like youre having problems with a bad app or some bad data.
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i did a factory reset and skipped google setup after first boot.
i just entered sim code and let nexus s in idel mode.. about 15 mins later the four buttons were lightened but i couldn't unlock the phone. battery out... and i could power it on.
so it's some kind of bad data problem? but how to find and/or clean this bad data? thx again for your help.
edit: I found a lot on google for "full wipe bad data". I'm reading now! But I may have to ask you something
edit2: in recovery (cwm3.0.0.5) I did: format system, format data, format cache and format sdcard. then i mounted usb and copied this nandroid 2.3.1 to it and flashed it. I booted and installed system update 2.3.2. now testing again without apps.
edit3: the hole day no problems. I only installed twitter and in the evening 2.3.3 manually. This morning again the phone was not unlockable. I had to take out the battery... on my way to work I did a wipe from stock recovery but shortly later the phone freezed while I used the slider to unlock it. oh man that sucks I thought it was fixed.
I make some coffee now and start google'ing. If you have some tipps, please throw them to me.
maybe reflashing radio?

stiefa00 said:
i did a factory reset and skipped google setup after first boot.
i just entered sim code and let nexus s in idel mode.. about 15 mins later the four buttons were lightened but i couldn't unlock the phone. battery out... and i could power it on.
so it's some kind of bad data problem? but how to find and/or clean this bad data? thx again for your help.
edit: I found a lot on google for "full wipe bad data". I'm reading now! But I may have to ask you something
edit2: in recovery (cwm3.0.0.5) I did: format system, format data, format cache and format sdcard. then i mounted usb and copied this nandroid 2.3.1 to it and flashed it. I booted and installed system update 2.3.2. now testing again without apps.
edit3: the hole day no problems. I only installed twitter and in the evening 2.3.3 manually. This morning again the phone was not unlockable. I had to take out the battery... on my way to work I did a wipe from stock recovery but shortly later the phone freezed while I used the slider to unlock it. oh man that sucks I thought it was fixed.
I make some coffee now and start google'ing. If you have some tipps, please throw them to me.
maybe reflashing radio?
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are you using any of the custom kernels?

no, I'm using stock kernel and never flashed a custom kernel.

stiefa00 said:
no, I'm using stock kernel and never flashed a custom kernel.
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im going to have you try wiping once again. wipe data/factory reset. only this time reupdate to android 2.3.3 right after the factory reset in recovery. dont boot after wiping, update after wipe, then reboot.

--> stock recovery -> wipe / factory reset -> reflashed update (ota2.3.3) -> testing now without installing apps
thanks simms!
Edit: the phone got a freeze while I wanted to unlock it -.-
Edit2: I'm testing now in airplane mode. Maybe the error doesn't come...

stiefa00 said:
--> stock recovery -> wipe / factory reset -> reflashed update (ota2.3.3) -> testing now without installing apps
thanks simms!
Edit: the phone got a freeze while I wanted to unlock it -.-
Edit2: I'm testing now in airplane mode. Maybe the error doesn't come...
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im now thinking it might not software related. if it was software, a wipe and reupdate should have fixed it. maybe you should check into a warranty replacement. .

In airplane mode the error is there, too.
Okay thx 4 ur help. I'm starting a service request. Bad day -.-
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

stiefa00 said:
In airplane mode the error is there, too.
Okay thx 4 ur help. I'm starting a service request. Bad day -.-
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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the only other thing i can think of that might cause something like that after wiping is something bad on your "sd" storage. copy everything you need off your "sd" storage and try wiping that.

stiefa00 said:
edit2: in recovery (cwm3.0.0.5) I did: format system, format data, format cache and format sdcard. Then nandroid restore...
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I think I allready did this? Or do you talk about this 1gb sd. If so, how to format this one?
Could I find something usefull with logcat?
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

According to this thread I think you will have to get it replaced:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=44db6d8e31129d4c&hl=en

Holy sh** what an anoying link. -.-
BUT: thanks dude.. now I know waaazzz up

[Q] Stuck in boot loop for no reason

Hi guys, um, I got a boot loop today for no apparent reason...
The last 2 days I had some problems with all my apps, they force closed suddenly at random times, then today, I woke up and checked my phone and the battery was almost drained, when I charged it less than 8 hours ago (and I was sleeping so it should be around 50%, not 5%). I got tired of the phone not working properly and pressed the power button until it turned off.
And now is stuck with the boot loop.
... Help? :C

Alhena said:
Hi guys, um, I got a boot loop today for no apparent reason...
The last 2 days I had some problems with all my apps, they force closed suddenly at random times, then today, I woke up and checked my phone and the battery was almost drained, when I charged it less than 8 hours ago (and I was sleeping so it should be around 50%, not 5%). I got tired of the phone not working properly and pressed the power button until it turned off.
And now is stuck with the boot loop.
... Help? :C
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Try flashing Eclair first and then Froyo

um, what? @[email protected]

Alhena said:
um, what? @[email protected]
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Wipe cache and dalvik cache. If don't work data wipe. Don't work reflash. Don't work I duno
Cheers
Sent from my i9003 powered by Poseidon's Rom/Dxkp9 Junior + UC kernel

bscraze said:
Wipe cache and dalvik cache. If don't work data wipe. Don't work reflash. Don't work I duno
Cheers
Sent from my i9003 powered by Poseidon's Rom/Dxkp9 Junior + UC kernel
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Once you flash Eclair everything will be wiped clean.

darksyde18 said:
Once you flash Eclair everything will be wiped clean.
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wait, wait, i have froyo, i have to downgrade? and, can't i install a custom ROM in the same time? I have wanted to install Kyrillos for a while now

Did a data wipe, thanks for the help! Phone working again

[Q] Nexus S ICS first load problems

HI
I rooted and installed ICS on my Nexus S. I rebooted it and its been trying to load for 20 minutes. I decided to pull the battery and reboot it again and again for the past 30 minutes I keep getting the loading screen graphics. Can you please help?
Thanks

adamniazi said:
HI
I rooted and installed ICS on my Nexus S. I rebooted it and its been trying to load for 20 minutes. I decided to pull the battery and reboot it again and again for the past 30 minutes I keep getting the loading screen graphics. Can you please help?
Thanks
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Pull the battery connect ot pc via usb then press power n volume keys to reboot to recovery then wipe all and reflash or reinstall backup.
Sent from my GT-P7510 using Tapatalk

Did you wipe cache and dalvik cache? And do you have an unlocked bootloader?

Which image you used to install? Try the full OTA one for your phone model from the link in my sig.
Also do a full wipe before flashing.

Thanks, I went back into bootloader and I went to reset to factory specs but instead i think it cleaned my phone of my information and then when rebooted, went into ICS easily, Love the OS but I am not getting a wireless signal. I read one post where someone was running a gingerbread radio so now I am seeing how to do that

[Q] Is it a hardware problem?

I am having this weird problem in my phone..
It shuts down suddenly and then goes into boot loop i.e. the SAMSUNG logo keeps on blinking until I remove the battery.When I put the battery back, the phone factory resets itself...Please help?

smartboy_anu said:
I am having this weird problem in my phone..
It shuts down suddenly and then goes into boot loop i.e. the SAMSUNG logo keeps on blinking until I remove the battery.When I put the battery back, the phone factory resets itself...Please help?
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Did you do something with your phone or did this happen all by itself?
Try flashing STOCK ROM via Odin.

Put your phone in recovery, Try wiping user data but it'll delete you contacts. If nothing happens then reflash.

Hi All,
I am facing the same issue. I upgraded my firmware from stock 2.2 to 2.3.3 GB around 6 months back and it was working fine till 2 days back. Suddenly 2 days back it started restarting itself and it ended in a boot loop. When I tried removing battery and started the phone, it semi resets the phone(like contacts and other settings getting deleted). I tried going to recovery mode and did factory reset/ Wipe cache and restarted my phone, but it was of no use. Today I tried to flash my phone with XXKPQ firware for which I flashed XXKPE first as per the guidelines given in Misledz's post. Flashing was successful, but it again ended in boot loop.
Guys, Please guide me on how to proceed with this. Its really irritating to see my phone in boot loop
Thanks a ton in advance.

rajmohanase said:
Hi All,
I am facing the same issue. I upgraded my firmware from stock 2.2 to 2.3.3 GB around 6 months back and it was working fine till 2 days back. Suddenly 2 days back it started restarting itself and it ended in a boot loop. When I tried removing battery and started the phone, it semi resets the phone(like contacts and other settings getting deleted). I tried going to recovery mode and did factory reset/ Wipe cache and restarted my phone, but it was of no use. Today I tried to flash my phone with XXKPQ firware for which I flashed XXKPE first as per the guidelines given in Misledz's post. Flashing was successful, but it again ended in boot loop.
Guys, Please guide me on how to proceed with this. Its really irritating to see my phone in boot loop
Thanks a ton in advance.
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I think this is a problem of psuedo reset...flash the stock firmware and take it to the service centre.They will replace the motherboard (you might even get 16GB internal memory )
Sent from my GT-I9003 using XDA

Damn!! I am having the exact same problem and it also started a few days back!! Plus the phone heats up a lot during this with a massive battery drain.
I have tried hard reset, but no good so far and the phone is completely in stock condition DDKP3. Any Solutions??

mznk said:
Damn!! I am having the exact same problem and it also started a few days back!! Plus the phone heats up a lot during this with a massive battery drain.
I have tried hard reset, but no good so far and the phone is completely in stock condition DDKP3. Any Solutions??
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Read the above post :|
Sent from my GT-I9003 using XDA

It all happened by itself
rockyddroid said:
Did you do something with your phone or did this happen all by itself?
Try flashing STOCK ROM via Odin.
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SikanderKeynes said:
Put your phone in recovery, Try wiping user data but it'll delete you contacts. If nothing happens then reflash.
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It all started by itself...I am running the stock ROM only...I have tried clearing the cache and dalvik too..
Now i have flashed the recent ROM by Aditya (Titanium V3) and its having the same problem..!!

One more thing
One more thing that I have noticed is that whenever I press the home screen button after the phone is idle, the screen lights up and then the phone restarts suddenly resulting into boot loop..!!

Both recoveries having issues wiping cache causing major issues

Nexus 5 here and tried both CWM and TWRP and each have the same issue. It just sits there and does nothing when doing a wipe cache. I have seen others having the same thing and the answers are it much be your device. Then if you power it off it loses the IMEI and anything network related and has to be reverted all the way back to stock. Very annoying really and more that this gets ignored and the threads closed.

GrandMstrBud said:
Nexus 5 here and tried both CWM and TWRP and each have the same issue. It just sits there and does nothing when doing a wipe cache. I have seen others having the same thing and the answers are it much be your device. Then if you power it off it loses the IMEI and anything network related and has to be reverted all the way back to stock. Very annoying really and more that this gets ignored and the threads closed.
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It takes around 5min to wipe cache, dont interrupt it.
Sent from my Nexus 5

I've noticed that now, should be a sticky or something. I myself am not used to it taking more than a few seconds on any other device.

Anyone know why it takes so long to wipe cache on this? I'm like Grand and seeing it only take a few seconds.
Sent from the jaws of my Hammerhead!

Yup, this should be in the sticky guide. I am on android since the days of G1, and even I was stumped for a bit. Thankfully I did not loose anything. But yes, I did not boot into Android. I just rebooted into bootloader by long pressing power to reset and again wiped cache. This time I decided to wait it out, and there it was. Took much longer than usual to wipe cache with CWM.

Oh crap, I tried wiping the cache from the stock recovery and it just sat there forever, so I powered it down and rebooted it before reading this thread (I've done this on many Android devices and it never took this long...). I encountered problems with Google Play Services when it started back up so I decided to do a factory reset, but it didn't seem to start when doing it through the settings so I started it in recovery (format data/cache). And now it is just sitting here, as it has for the last 10 minutes... I'm starting to get worried. What should I do?
EDIT: right after I wrote this, the factory reset finished. Am rebooting now.
EDIT 2: booted up fine, with everything working. Wiping took an ungodly amount of time compared to previous versions of Android.

I had the same problem.
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever and I powered off my phone (big error).
Since then it has started behaving in a crazy way.
I re-entered the stock recovery mode and selected the factory reset option, but it didn't succeed signalling "can't access /cache partition".
Evrything followed by eternal bootloops.
I repeated the procedure many times and at last everything was OK (after many attempts, the factory reset procedure worked, even if it took SO long)
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.

Indeed, patience is the key
TeoLinuX said:
I had the same problem.
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever and I powered off my phone (big error).
Since then it has started behaving in a crazy way.
I re-entered the stock recovery mode and selected the factory reset option, but it didn't succeed signalling "can't access /cache partition".
Evrything followed by eternal bootloops.
I repeated the procedure many times and at last everything was OK (after many attempts, the factory reset procedure worked, even if it took SO long)
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
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I started the cache wipe, thought the phone got hung up, and powered it off. Powered on and all network-related settings were missing, /sdcard partition was empty. Then I went searching and found this thread. Based on what I read, I decided to try the wipe cache again and this time I waited for it to finish. Rebooted the phone and all is back to normal.

For me it's takes on wiping cache only few seconds on CWM touch latest version recovery.

i was frightened when i found this thread, after my n5 seemed to be stuck flashing cache....but after a very long time (about 10 minutes, not sure) phone finished wiping....i was so relieved!!phewwwww

TeoLinuX said:
I had the same problem.
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever and I powered off my phone (big error).
Since then it has started behaving in a crazy way.
I re-entered the stock recovery mode and selected the factory reset option, but it didn't succeed signalling "can't access /cache partition".
Evrything followed by eternal bootloops.
I repeated the procedure many times and at last everything was OK (after many attempts, the factory reset procedure worked, even if it took SO long)
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
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In future if you face the same issue kindly,don't powered it off, then it will take more time in factory settings. I tried without switching it off and its all done in flash of time. might be i was luckey:fingers-crossed:

joannn said:
In future if you face the same issue kindly,don't powered it off, then it will take more time in factory settings. I tried without switching it off and its all done in flash of time. might be i was luckey:fingers-crossed:
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This is the worst thing I have ever heard. I have had plenty of devices and for some reason the nexus line have the weirdest issues.
But I do love this devices. Well will wait and see if my stuff works again.
Waited like 4 minutes on second attempt and yes it came back. Wow!!!

TeoLinuX said:
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever
.....
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
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Agreed! It took mine about 7-10 minutes (much longer than I expected) -- those who are waiting hours must have some other problem.

dangerzone said:
Agreed! It took mine about 7-10 minutes (much longer than I expected) -- those who are waiting hours must have some other problem.
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I ran into the same problem today - gave up after 20 minutes and rebooted the phone. Now /cache could not be mounted and thus no sdcard either.
Unzipped the latest factory image (KTU84P) and did a
Code:
fastboot flash cache cache.img
which was successful.
rebooted into recovery and now wipe cache took seconds.
So the cache partition can become corrupt, but this seems to fix it.
Luckily I had an unlocked bootloader - otherwise factory reset would have been the only option.

It can take up to half an hour (maybe more)
gian569 said:
i was frightened when i found this thread, after my n5 seemed to be stuck flashing cache....but after a very long time (about 10 minutes, not sure) phone finished wiping....i was so relieved!!phewwwww
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On my phone, it took nearly half an hour. Plug it in, and be very very very patient.

Ha! Well I'm glad I found this thread. Was stuck on it for 10 min and almost powered down. Waited another 5 min and it finished.

Soooooo looooooong
My /cache wiping took about 30 mintues. Luckyly, i found this post and wait until it ended.

I just experience the same thing, only then with my Note 3. I was waiting for about 15 minutes and I thought it was stuck at formatting the cache CWM. Luckily I found this thread and I waited before I rebooted. It finished in about 20 to 30 minutes.

I just had to thank you.
GrandMstrBud said:
Nexus 5 here and tried both CWM and TWRP and each have the same issue. It just sits there and does nothing when doing a wipe cache. I have seen others having the same thing and the answers are it much be your device. Then if you power it off it loses the IMEI and anything network related and has to be reverted all the way back to stock. Very annoying really and more that this gets ignored and the threads closed.
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I just had to thank you for even making this thread. LOL. My HTC One M7 took so long when I was wiping cache. So i rebooted and went into all sorts of bootloops. Tried it again after reading this thread and after about 20-25 mins it finished. Thanks once again. :good::good::good::good: