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Nexus S Freezing - How big a problem is this?

I'm on the verge of buying a Nexus S but I am now reading about many freezing issues where the phone loses all responsiveness after the backlight goes out on occasion - the only solution being to pull the battery and reboot, only to have it happen again.
This thread shows that some people are returning their phones to Samsung and are seeing a fault diagnosis of 'bad BGA' and a fix of 'PBA replaced'
Original Problem:
Technical Inquiry
Phone Freezing / Locked U
Freeze/Delay Between Menu
Problem found:
BAD BGA COMPONENT
WARRANTY, REPLACE PART
Solution:
Replaced PBA
Passed All Functional Testing
Just how wide a problem is this, is it something that will affect pretty much everyone at some point or are these cases failry isolated?
edit: I am buying from someone who has this phone on contract so I am wondering also if I will be able to get support from Samsung should I run into this problem. Are warranty issues dealt with by Samsung direct or are they passed through the carrier when originally obtained on contract?
Any thoughts?

never experienced any of these problems. you have a 30 day return policy (maybe less now)

zephiK said:
never experienced any of these problems. you have a 30 day return policy (maybe less now)
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Unfortunately not, see my edit above.
Also, it seems users are running into this problem after owning the device for a while, taking them beyond their 28 day / 30 day return

i've had mine since it was first available and never had any problem like this.

I've also never seen this.

milkham said:
i've had mine since it was first available and never had any problem like this.
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same. ive had it maybe like a 1.5 week after release date

It happens to me if i mess around with custom kernels and o/c speed but so far if i use netarchy's stable CFS, it'll be fine. No freezing and having to pull my batt.
It happens if i use hornity or some BFS kernels. Haven't tried Jame Bond yet to test it out.

i think the OP is confusing the SGS issues with SNS
the SNS doesn't have any of those problems listed.

AllGamer said:
i think the OP is confusing the SGS issues with SNS
the SNS doesn't have any of those problems listed.
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the thread the OP linked is Nexus S

only time that has happened to me is when i overclock to 1.4 ghz and the phone can not handle it

Ok, it's encouraging that this isn't affecting everyone but still a bit worrying.
AllGamer said:
i think the OP is confusing the SGS issues with SNS
the SNS doesn't have any of those problems listed.
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Wrong - as zephiK has pointed out, the link is to a whole load of people having issued with the Nexus S, NOT the Galaxy S.

I believe the most problems with smartphones are in software, not hardware. And software could/should be patched/updated.

and this is one of the reasons that preventing me from walking into cpw and buying it tomorrow.

I am Having this exact issue with my phone. it is unusable the phone freezes every 20 minutes. Hope Samsung finds a fix for this soon.

I just got my nexus s the other day but I haven't had any freezing either I hope those with the issue get it sorted out though

loading another ROM would help, or perhaps it might be a hardware issue, in which case, take it back for an exchange

AllGamer said:
loading another ROM would help, or perhaps it might be a hardware issue, in which case, take it back for an exchange
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Happens in stock rom, and many other custom roms too. So I dun think its the rom problem

oh dear, this is exactly what I'm concerned about. Any pattern as to which are affected by this, ie just slcd or just samoled? Only a thought.
I shall soon receive my second nexus s and I really don't want to have this problem!

I'm using the i9023 if that info helps.

Yes thanks but it's not what I wanted to hear as the chances are that this is the one I will receive.
I've heard of people reporting successfully fixing this with a full reflash, others say it's a hardware issue.
Keep us posted.

[Q] SMS doubled and tripled - Help

My gf recently bought a Charge an has been getting doubles and sometimes tripled incoming messages. I thought it may just be an issue with the stock app so I installed Handcent and began playing with its settings to try and prevent the issue. So far there has been no luck on my end so I opened a ticket with Verizon which has also been unsuccessful. Thinking maybe it was a phone issue we swapped it for another charge , but have the same issue. Through my searching I've seen that there are alot of folks with this issue on both the Charge and the Thunderbolt, and folks have had varying degrees of success with multiple methods. I've tried every method I've seen so far with no luck. The issue appears to be intermittent since it does not happen with every message, however it does happen very frequently. If anyone has any suggestion I'd be very appreciative. I really don't want to have to spend $100 more to get the Bionic to remove this issue, since I do want to stay with a dual-core LTE device on VZW. Thanks.

skribbles505 said:
My gf recently bought a Charge an has been getting doubles and sometimes tripled incoming messages. I thought it may just be an issue with the stock app so I installed Handcent and began playing with its settings to try and prevent the issue. So far there has been no luck on my end so I opened a ticket with Verizon which has also been unsuccessful. Thinking maybe it was a phone issue we swapped it for another charge , but have the same issue. Through my searching I've seen that there are alot of folks with this issue on both the Charge and the Thunderbolt, and folks have had varying degrees of success with multiple methods. I've tried every method I've seen so far with no luck. The issue appears to be intermittent since it does not happen with every message, however it does happen very frequently. If anyone has any suggestion I'd be very appreciative. I really don't want to have to spend $100 more to get the Bionic to remove this issue, since I do want to stay with a dual-core LTE device on VZW. Thanks.
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Sounds like a network issue. Does it happen with different senders?
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk

Yes, so far it is happening with all senders at different times. I was thinking it was nnetworrelated myself. Now that you mention it though I wonder if it has to ddo with LTE not being up yet here. Its scheduled to launch in Nov. Which is why I want to stick with an LTE device. I'll try turning off the LTE and see if that helps.

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A

[Q] What's up with the N5?

I'm not sure if people are just really downplaying the bugs their experiencing, or maybe Canada just got a big batch of bad phones but it seems nobody online is having the problems me and a few friends are having with our phones. When 5.0 first arrived I was shocked to find I experienced none of the bugs that everyone was complaining about, 2 weeks later and my phone in unusable. A factory reset seems to clean things up but within another week my phone will become unusable again. I thought maybe my phone had broken until I spoke to some friends and found out that multiple (5+) are having the exact same issues. So my question is what's going on with the n5? How is yours working? I'm extremely disappointed this time around after the great experience I had with the galaxy nexus and n4 and would even say I was a nexus fanboy. After having the n5 since launch I have decided that I will no longer be buying nexus phones, as I have has nothing but problems with the 2 n5s I have owned.
A quick list of some of the bugs I've been experiencing are:
Terrible Battery
Immense lag / lack of response in general.
Facebook Messenger chat heads seem to close themselves about 75% of the time.
Getting the keyboard to come up is a game of hit and miss.
The Wallpaper changes itself to black (my indicator things are about to get crazy)
Data/WiFi often just stop working, while icons in the status bar appear normal
About 1 in every 4 notifications I get fails to actually send a notification.
I get a constant "attempting to reconnect in x seconds" while connected to my moto 360.
My navbar/status bar often disappear.
And the annoying "bug report captured" bug that has been persistent since I got the phone.
I've had these problems on stock 5.0, 5.0.1 as well as all custom Roms up to 5.0.2
I've even tried going back to KK, while greatly improved, I still experience much of the same problems.
Does anyone else have these or similar problems? Has anyone found anything that runs stable? Or is it just time I move on and get myself an HTC?

Using my N5 in germany and it's the best phone I've ever held in my hands Running CM12 (based on Lollipop) for now. Have also been using stock Lollipop for a few months. Both run extremely stable. To be honest: I never heard about your issues. I'm not that big of a fanboy. Never owned a Nexus device before, but I guess I'll never move away from Nexus
Just my honest opinion about the device
By the way: I've got a moto 360, too. And the connection is great - up to 10 meters at least and no random disconnects

I have zero issues with mine, but I'm on stock 4.4.4 so that may have something to do with it. I'm not a fan of Lollipop at all. Too many bugs, and I don't like the look of it.

After one year with my Nexus 5, running stock no root, never a problem. I'm a former owner of HTC flagships phones, never a problem with them.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Using Stock 5.0.1 rooted and with ElementalX kernel is good for me and have been using that setup for over a month now. No issues like what you're describing at all. :S

No problems here like that. Bug report issue is normally a poorly fitting case

Hmm... So it seems that the only people that are having these bugs live in my area... Do you think its possible we all got a bad batch of n5s at the rogers store here?
Edit: everyone experiencing these issues has bought their phones from rogers stores here in my city.

OFWGKTADGAF said:
Hmm... So it seems that the only people that are having these bugs live in my area... Do you think its possible we all got a bad batch of n5s at the rogers store here?
Edit: everyone experiencing these issues has bought their phones from rogers stores here in my city.
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Yeah the devices purchased at the play store seem to be fine now. At first, me personally, I had tons of bugs at release. But those issues have been fixed with updates. Mainly concerning the signal and camera speed.

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No issues here besides the occasional Mobile Radio active wakelock, which I did also see occasionally on KK. I did have some memory leak issues on 5.0.0 but either 5.0.1 fixed it or me removing some 3rd party background services did.

OFWGKTADGAF said:
I'm not sure if people are just really downplaying the bugs their experiencing, or maybe Canada just got a big batch of bad phones but it seems nobody online is having the problems me and a few friends are having with our phones. When 5.0 first arrived I was shocked to find I experienced none of the bugs that everyone was complaining about, 2 weeks later and my phone in unusable. A factory reset seems to clean things up but within another week my phone will become unusable again. I thought maybe my phone had broken until I spoke to some friends and found out that multiple (5+) are having the exact same issues. So my question is what's going on with the n5? How is yours working? I'm extremely disappointed this time around after the great experience I had with the galaxy nexus and n4 and would even say I was a nexus fanboy. After having the n5 since launch I have decided that I will no longer be buying nexus phones, as I have has nothing but problems with the 2 n5s I have owned.
A quick list of some of the bugs I've been experiencing are:
Terrible Battery
Immense lag / lack of response in general.
Facebook Messenger chat heads seem to close themselves about 75% of the time.
Getting the keyboard to come up is a game of hit and miss.
The Wallpaper changes itself to black (my indicator things are about to get crazy)
Data/WiFi often just stop working, while icons in the status bar appear normal
About 1 in every 4 notifications I get fails to actually send a notification.
I get a constant "attempting to reconnect in x seconds" while connected to my moto 360.
My navbar/status bar often disappear.
And the annoying "bug report captured" bug that has been persistent since I got the phone.
I've had these problems on stock 5.0, 5.0.1 as well as all custom Roms up to 5.0.2
I've even tried going back to KK, while greatly improved, I still experience much of the same problems.
Does anyone else have these or similar problems? Has anyone found anything that runs stable? Or is it just time I move on and get myself an HTC?
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A reboot a day keeps the android bugs away

kevtrysmoddin said:
A reboot a day keeps the android bugs away
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Rebooting is normally my go-to solution for problems but it doesn't seem to help these bugs. I installed CM Security and it constantly warns me about my CPU usage/RAM and battery Temperature. The culprit almost always seems to be the Facebook app (sometimes using 250+ mb of RAM just for background services) Could this be a bug with the Facebook app making my phone perform poorly... Does anyone know of any solid alternatives to the official Facebook app?

OFWGKTADGAF said:
Rebooting is normally my go-to solution for problems but it doesn't seem to help these bugs. I installed CM Security and it constantly warns me about my CPU usage/RAM and battery Temperature. The culprit almost always seems to be the Facebook app (sometimes using 250+ mb of RAM just for background services) Could this be a bug with the Facebook app making my phone perform poorly... Does anyone know of any solid alternatives to the official Facebook app?
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Fast for Facebook I'd a good alternative

I've been without issues since the factory images were first released, running CM12 CAF builds without issues (besides cm12 bugs)

So call me crazy but I deleted the Facebook and Messenger apps about 6 hours ago and have had 0 problems since... I'm using the official Facebook "Lite" apk I found online and while it is very ugly, things are running much smoother, just hoping that maybe this will solve the bugs I've been experiencing and I'll be able to help my friends get there phones back to a usable state.

OFWGKTADGAF said:
I'm not sure if people are just really downplaying the bugs their experiencing, or maybe Canada just got a big batch of bad phones but it seems nobody online is having the problems me and a few friends are having with our phones. When 5.0 first arrived I was shocked to find I experienced none of the bugs that everyone was complaining about, 2 weeks later and my phone in unusable. A factory reset seems to clean things up but within another week my phone will become unusable again. I thought maybe my phone had broken until I spoke to some friends and found out that multiple (5+) are having the exact same issues. So my question is what's going on with the n5? How is yours working? I'm extremely disappointed this time around after the great experience I had with the galaxy nexus and n4 and would even say I was a nexus fanboy. After having the n5 since launch I have decided that I will no longer be buying nexus phones, as I have has nothing but problems with the 2 n5s I have owned.
A quick list of some of the bugs I've been experiencing are:
Terrible Battery
Immense lag / lack of response in general.
Facebook Messenger chat heads seem to close themselves about 75% of the time.
Getting the keyboard to come up is a game of hit and miss.
The Wallpaper changes itself to black (my indicator things are about to get crazy)
Data/WiFi often just stop working, while icons in the status bar appear normal
About 1 in every 4 notifications I get fails to actually send a notification.
I get a constant "attempting to reconnect in x seconds" while connected to my moto 360.
My navbar/status bar often disappear.
And the annoying "bug report captured" bug that has been persistent since I got the phone.
I've had these problems on stock 5.0, 5.0.1 as well as all custom Roms up to 5.0.2
I've even tried going back to KK, while greatly improved, I still experience much of the same problems.
Does anyone else have these or similar problems? Has anyone found anything that runs stable? Or is it just time I move on and get myself an HTC?
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I know it's really late in the game now, but have you tried starting in safe mode to see if you have the same issues? It could be an app causing all the grief.

Unknown batterdrain issue g920F (S6 International,6.01). A problem called 10219

Hi, in the screenshot you can see an app or program running called 10219.
I've googled far and wide but so far i have not found an answer. By the end of the day this is the cause of a very fast battery drainage for my S6. I'm at an end wit this issue. Anyone have any ideas?

ikbendewalrus said:
Hi, in the screenshot you can see an app or program running called 10219.
I've googled far and wide but so far i have not found an answer. By the end of the day this is the cause of a very fast battery drainage for my S6. I'm at an end wit this issue. Anyone have any ideas?
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Ask This Issue in S6 Device Forum's Q/A Section
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help ..So That Your Device Users itself Can Help you For This Issue..

Screen flickering with horizontal lines

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxerck6wu4l475m/20161207_203959.mp4?dl=0
Hello everyone,
Just asking for some help here; I couldn't find any cases like mine online. (Although, tbh, I'm not sure how to describe it, let alone search for it)
But it is a reproducible issue that occurs. It isn't always there but for certain images/screens, it is always present. The video is one example.
I am on stock everything; I haven't really touched the phone much since I just recently acquired it.
What would be causing this issue and is there a way to fix it??
Thanks in advance for the help.
P.S. I've posted this question on the Q&A thread and I don't mean to spam or anything. Just making sure I reach out to everyone.

I have the exact same issue.. While playing games it happens a lot.
Also whenever green color is onscreen it happens.
I have searched a lot on Google and basically the query is not understandable for google and it shows me irrelevant results.

Nitish Joshi said:
I have the exact same issue.. While playing games it happens a lot.
Also whenever green color is onscreen it happens.
I have searched a lot on Google and basically the query is not understandable for google and it shows me irrelevant results.
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tell me about it...can't even search for it properly because queries like 'horizontal lines flickering' shows me search results a totally different issue

Mine also happen the same thing. Suspected software issues because only certain picture reproduce this issue. But a friend I found in facebook said he replace the screen to fix this. Starting to happen on 6.0.1 approx. 1 month before getting nougat custom rom. Never tried to reflash stock rom yet.

goyagoyago said:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxerck6wu4l475m/20161207_203959.mp4?dl=0
Hello everyone,
Just asking for some help here; I couldn't find any cases like mine online. (Although, tbh, I'm not sure how to describe it, let alone search for it)
But it is a reproducible issue that occurs. It isn't always there but for certain images/screens, it is always present. The video is one example.
I am on stock everything; I haven't really touched the phone much since I just recently acquired it.
What would be causing this issue and is there a way to fix it??
Thanks in advance for the help.
P.S. I've posted this question on the Q&A thread and I don't mean to spam or anything. Just making sure I reach out to everyone.
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Try flashing cos13.x through fastboot.

goyagoyago said:
tell me about it...can't even search for it properly because queries like 'horizontal lines flickering' shows me search results a totally different issue
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Have you fix yours?

I Still have the issue
awandroid89 said:
Mine also happen the same thing. Suspected software issues because only certain picture reproduce this issue. But a friend I found in facebook said he replace the screen to fix this. Starting to happen on 6.0.1 approx. 1 month before getting nougat custom rom. Never tried to reflash stock rom yet.
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Hey, finally is the problem fixed for you ? And what was the solution? I am on Android 6.0.1 & was thinking about downgrading to 5.1.1
Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!