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Pattern to my reboots - do yours have a pattern?

So over the last few days my phone seems to have settled into some sort of weird pattern with reboots. Although there are outliers, in general it always seems to reboot between 19-24h of uptime and nearly always at like 45 or 50 mins past the hour. It's the most bizarre thing in the world and why I think there's some funky software doing it. I don't have true random reboots, but I can't figure out what it is that is doing this. Very odd.
In all cases my phone is sitting with the screen off (I've NEVER had a reboot while using the phone/screen on) but it doesn't matter what radios are on, WiFi, BT, GPS (can be off or on).
Last time I ran "CatLog" a logging app from Market and had it write to SD logs and a reboot happened but it only by default writes every 200 lines so the last line in the file was probably not the last line in the log. I'm going to try again later and set it to write every line or few lines so I can see the last entry in the log before a reboot. Might shine some light on it.
Just find it very strange since it's a very stable and capable phone for about 18hrs and then it just craps on itself. Very strange.

finally. I too just think it is some weird software or driver bug because I was running EB 1.0.4 FINE for like 3-4 days and loving it... then it started resetting almost hourly. I didn't install any other apps past my initial normal set of apps.
Even CM7, seems like it is fine for a few days, then gets crazy. As long as I put a new nightly rom on it every day, it's good.
I didn't have any issues with stock though and didn't seem to have issues with CM7 for a while until lately.
The leaked GB rom causes lockups immediately out of the gate seemed hourly.
I use CM7 as my main daily driver now but I think you are on to something. We are talking about the Screen of Death right? I don't think mine ever reboots, but gets stuck at the lockscreen where the the display comes up, swiping to unlock vibrates then the phone but doesn't change screens to desktop. The buttons and click/drag widgets work even though you are looking the lockscreen.
I've never had my phone powered off in my pocket or noticed it "rebooting". Mine just has the SoD that seems to follow your pattern idea. They may be related. Stock roms may reset once it locks up, where CM7 just keeps running in its locked state.

I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.

I just hope that update gets here sooner than later.
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I dunno. The tmobile jingle is pretty loud and I never hear it. CM7 has a silent one so possibly there but I dunno.
I use my phone pretty often and never had the suspicious that it reboots. My phone stays very cool during my usage compared to my nexus and other phones
My uptime was 4 hours since I reset it last. I'll monitor it with results. It'll be hard not to flash but I'll keep track and see how far I can keep it online.

i have not had any reboots or waking up to a dead phone ....with the only fix is a battery pull.... ever since I started.
1) my over night charging / long term charging to 100%... only on the LG charger that it came with. Only short term...maybe. less than an hour and not to a 100% charge on a non LG charger (car charger etc...)
2) I restart my G2x every morning when I take it off the LG charger..(after I take it off..I did it once while on the charger and had an issue... (there is definitely an issue related to when it charges to/ around 100% charge)
Just my 2 cents.

Pattern to my reboots - do yours have a pattern?
Hold Power and volume up simultaneously for about 10 seconds.

I've had my phone since Friday, but the only time I had the rebooting problem was this past Saturday when it rebooted four times within 15 minutes or so. Before the rebooting began, the phone had slowed down to a crawl, so I went ahead and rebooted it. After that, I sat it down and watched it reboot a few times on its own. Luckily my iPhone 4 owning co-worker was completely unaware of this issue since we tease and bicker with each other every day over Android and iOS .

mobilehavoc said:
I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.
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I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.

smashpunks said:
I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.
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What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?

mobilehavoc said:
What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?
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Everything other than smart share, tegra zone and qik. Of course have nova and need for speed also.
Oh also have car home froze..

Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).

player911 said:
Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).
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Yes I know the battery driver is part of the problem as can be seen on CM7 builds but what's odd is my time varies so for a long time it would reboot every 17-20 hours, now all of a sudden it goes to 36 hours before it usually reboots. Looking at logs it doesn't appear to throw any major errors before a reboot which implies that it's a a kernel panic or low-level fault. At this point I've given up on trying to find the issue since it's been repeated over and over that T-Mo and LG are releasing an update. Might as well enjoy the phone and wait for that to come out

Amen. Just keep flashing CM nightlies and you'll never worry about it.

Possible hardware failure on CM 10.1?

I've been running CM 10 on my phone without issue (besides the whole touchscreen thing that wasn't a big problem for me) for several months.
I went to cm10.1 last week and my phone started having graphical artifacts on occasion (like an overheating gfx card) and eventually started shutting off randomly and restarting with 50% less battery than it had. I did a full wipe and put back on CM10, but it's still doing it, and has gotten progressively worse.
For the past couple of days my phone would work for about an hour, and then shut off and either come back on with 50% less battery, or not at all until I plugged it in for several hours (even if it had just been plugged in all night). Now, my phone has been plugged in for 24 hours and I can't get it to turn on at all. I've held the power button for 30 seconds, held power+down, etc.
When it was on it's last legs I wanted to do S-OFF and then go to stock so I could do the warranty, but the S-OFF process hanged when trying to push the first file.
Any help?
Thanks

slash178 said:
I've been running CM 10 on my phone without issue (besides the whole touchscreen thing that wasn't a big problem for me) for several months.
I went to cm10.1 last week and my phone started having graphical artifacts on occasion (like an overheating gfx card) and eventually started shutting off randomly and restarting with 50% less battery than it had. I did a full wipe and put back on CM10, but it's still doing it, and has gotten progressively worse.
For the past couple of days my phone would work for about an hour, and then shut off and either come back on with 50% less battery, or not at all until I plugged it in for several hours (even if it had just been plugged in all night). Now, my phone has been plugged in for 24 hours and I can't get it to turn on at all. I've held the power button for 30 seconds, held power+down, etc.
When it was on it's last legs I wanted to do S-OFF and then go to stock so I could do the warranty, but the S-OFF process hanged when trying to push the first file.
Any help?
Thanks
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If it won't power on, screen won't turn on, power led doesn't light up even when plugged in, it's bricked. Sounds like you've got some serious hardware issues.

Moto G 4G freezing randomly, requires reset to power on (long/detailed post inside)

so yeah, my phone just freezes randomly at different time.
I believe it's freezing and then it just drains the power.
When I turn it back on, there's a gap in the battery life. Unfortunately, this time it must have happened really early and the battery drained to 0 and now it doesn't even power on.
This includes power + vol down with and without charger on for at least 1 or 2 mins, nothing happens. The notification light turns on when you plug it in.
I believe I do need to open it and unplug the battery then plug in the power, but I can't test it out because I don't have T5 torx around so it may take a while.
Anyways, I am not definitive on the freezing, it's just most likely scenario since phone becomes unresponsive randomly.
When it happens, plugging in power, power button, plug to usb/data does nothing. Phoning the cellphone gets user not in service. And powering back on I see the battery is drained.
This started happening like around a month and a half ago, I was using SaberRom. The rom was very stable until it this started happening.
I thought there was a bug in the Rom or something, so I made the jump to CM12. However it still continues to happen.
My only guess why this may be happening, software wise now, through the process of elimination is maybe Xposed might be doing something.
If it's not, then it could be a hardware problem, which doesnt make much sense to me since the phone is stable when I actually use it.
The freezing problem never happens while I use it, it usually happens over night or not in use in my pocket.
I started using logcat to try to keep a record, but I only have 1 record, plus 1 the most current one which I dont know if it even recorded properly since I can't turn phone on.

I personally would do a full wipe and flash stock ROM and kernel without Xposed. Until you do that you really are just shooting blind. Find out if the problem goes away and go from there.

n0ts0smart said:
I personally would do a full wipe and flash stock ROM and kernel without Xposed. Until you do that you really are just shooting blind. Find out if the problem goes away and go from there.
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+100000²

outlook not so good
so i tried doing this
where you plug in the phone directly to power without the battery
for me, only the notification light turns on, the screen doesnt turn on

Screen turns itself on randomly

My Mate 9 is not even 1 year old yet and the screen turns itself on randomly every few seconds, which causes battery to drain faster.
What do you think?

It's an app or a faulty power button. Backup your data, reset the phone, DON'T INSTALL ANY APPS and see if it continues. If it does, send it in for repairs. If it doesn't, reinstall your apps one by one until you find the culprit.

Ive noticed it happens after I take the phone out of the charger. I take it out of the charger, and then the screen turns itself on and off every few seconds for a while. After a while it stops until I take it out of the charger again. I havent installed any new app before it started so I doubt its an app issue

Left in a drawer for years and now it's slow

I have a P900 that was left in a drawer for 2 or 3 years, never getting charged even once in all that time. Turning it on, I immediately realized something was wrong because it took forever to boot. The lock screen was so slow that the entire machine locked up for a few seconds, scrolling between pages on the launcher stuttered hard or locked up and everything else with the machine was generally the same. The web browser is unusable, even typing in a URL locks things up. The device is unusable.
So I thought the battery was obviously damaged, even charged at 100% it would be flat for sitting for maybe 2 hours with the screen off. I tried several cycles of charging to 100% then discharging and back up, but nothing seems to help. I don't have much money so I took at stab in the dark and got a cheap battery from ebay and it didn't help. I don't know if this battery is new, but it does seem to hold a charge like the device did when it was new but it's just still so slow that you can't use it.
However, one thing that I've noticed is that apps that don't touch the storage seem to work OK. I have a Spectrum TV app that once it starts up seems to be okay, but not great. Netflix seems to be okay as well after starting up. They both stutter a bit and rarely freeze. I don't know if this is relevant at all.
I'm at a loss of what else could be damaged or how to fix this. I'm in the process of cycling this new battery up and down, though I don't know if this would actually help. I just don't know how to diagnose this problem.

Okay, the problem was the battery, it just took a few hours of charging. I guess now that it can see it has a fully functioning battery that it's running as it should now. Android really should give you an error message about that instead of just slowing the whole thing down to a crawl, leaving you scratching your head.

This strange thing happened to me also.
I was given a tablet that was not in use couple of years. It takes about one hour on charger to start booting at all, I was thinking that it don't working at all.
Then it sits on Samsung Note Pro logo about 15 minutes, then logo changed to Samsung and it took about 15 more minutes to boot in home screen.
Then i realized that it's very slow and unresponsive, I charged it to full and reset, but it's remain the same, very sluggish.
Tried everything, reset it couple of times, flash rom with Odin, nothing helped.
After couple of charge-discharge cycles it starts to work like new!
I would never have thought that the battery could do that, but there it is.