Galaxy s7 keeps freezing - Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers

So I have a problem with my phone, every now and then It would freeze forcing me to restart the phone. I thought it had something to do with the phone's age as I have been using it for almost two years now. My second thought was a third party app I've downloaded from the past. I've done some research and found similar cases as mine. I've tried clearing the caches in the start up but it displayed a message like this “e:failed to find /misc partition” I read some post from a forum saying it had problems with hardware or some apps weren't compatible with the OS* (operating system)* Before all this happened a message pop up on my phone's screen this was about 2 days ago when I force restart my phone (due to freezing) I forgot what the message was but It was basically asking if I had installed a different OS or an app disturbing the OS. I'm not exactly sure what the full message was but I pressed cancel. I'm afraid I might damage the phone permanently so I try to avoid certain step by step instruction how to fix it. I'm also considering virus as a cause but I doubt I have virus.
*P.S I'm not sure if someone already posted a similar case on this forum. Also this is my first post
Edit: The phone would freeze but the audio is still working fine

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Phone freezing more and not waking

I've been on Humble 1.42 for about a month now (please don't look down on me, haven't had time to switch since the drama) and I am starting to have some issues with my phone not waking. At random moments, my screen would refuse to turn on no matter what I do. It does, however, respond to me holding down the power button for a forced power off (hard reset?) Anyhow, has anyone else experienced this at all? I had a feeling it was my xfinity mobile app because I had been getting a lot of errors from it lately even though I rarely ever use it. Should I just switch to another rom or is there any other apps known to cause issues with this rom that I should be aware of?
On a side note, I have been on this forum and obsessed with android for the past year and been doing some serious thinking about making a career change into Android development. Been doing some java tutorials on youtube over the last few months and the such and think I'm about ready to start some real android app development. I credit some of the great developers on this site and the awesome experience at Dreamforce this week as the tipping point. Any ideas on additional resources I should look into?
There are a few things that could be causing this problem(that I'm aware of)
1) You may have sideloaded a "virus" app. I attempted to sideload an app once(will never do it again after what happened..) and it completely BROKE my phone. It made apps unable to isntall, the screen would take FOREVER to wake(if it ever did wake) and plenty of other problems. I tried rebooting and got stuck in a bootloop(boot animation would never end), did a factory reset and everything force closed on me so I was forced to flash the .md5/.pit to go back to bare stock and that finally fixed it.
2) Have you flashed Fuju Tweaks? This exact same thing happened when I flashed it on Gummy2.0, worked fine on Eclipse1.3.1 and even works for a lot of people on Gummy2.0 but it wouldn't work for me.
3) Try reflashing your ROM, that's how I fixed the Fuju Tweaks problem. It might fix whatever plagued your phone.
Just let me know of anything you've done recently and I'll try and diagnose the problem(if I didn't already).
Uh-Oh, a virus maybe? Yeah, I will just reflash later on, and change some passwords while I am at it.
I don't think it was that kind of virus but it definitely screwed up my phone.

[Q] LGL45C factory reset problems

Hi all, I come to you all in this time of great need. I have in my possession a LG Optimus Net or LGL45C as its know technically.
I started to suffer from problems from gapps resulting from uninstalling the Google Talk app(yes doing this in retrospect was incredibly stupid). After failing to resolve my problem when trying to re-install it, I decided to take the easy way and just do a factory reset and start from scratch. Little did I know what was to meet me. I was given the "Touch to the android to begin" screen like so many others, but it was not meant to be that simple. I would touch the android, and it would light gleefully but it would not reveal to me the next step and sit there motionless. So I proceeded to the next logical step, touching each corner in succession to skip the setup process. But no matter how many times I repeated it, nothing came of it. Next I booted into recovery mode(stock I never bothered to install CWM, another one of my mistakes) and did another factory reset, clear cache, etc. This too did not work. And I thought, there was always installing CWM through ADB where then I can then just flash to a stock ROM I downloaded. But Alas!! USB debugging some how got disabled and it was all fruitless. A little google-fu later I came across a method to flash .kdz using obscure LG utilities. With renewed hope I followed the steps but to no avail. Now I come to you stranger, and plead you in somehow help me in recovering some use of this phone. I have exhausted all my options and I hope someone out there read this and comes in my time of need. Sorry for the long block of text :silly::silly::silly::silly:
Having the same problem as you, bookface.
I couldn't install CWM from the links provided in another post, all lead to a 404 Dropbox page. This sucks. And when I tried to use the installer from Play, I got a dialog saying it's not compatible. Some would say to ignore it, it would be fine...
But if something doesn't feel right, don't do it, I've always been told...
So, I was rooted, but phone started acting funny. Done a factory reset. Since I didn't have CWM, I thought it would clear that mess up.
Nope, almost all apps crash. I'm lucky that at least the browser, Gmail, and music apps work, but everything else, including Google Play Store, all crash upon launch.
Net10's forum is a lame excuse as a "forum." Seems like TracFone employees have NO concept of how a forum works. I looked at there for the same issue, and they rather take software/hardware issues to private messages?
I have NO computer, my hubby's friend who helps him says "You have an Android tablet, that is a computer!" Technically, yes and no. Since I can't root that thing, it's useless. (If you want to know, Polaroid PMID709 4.1 with Rockchip RK29xx, and impossible to root fully, it's "semi-rooted".)
And I'm lost. I and my hubby need this phone to work. Because we need it fpr work (our jobs). And I'm getting sick of TracFone screwing up Android ROMs.
Please help!
youve made much more headway than i. trying to help my neighbor with his. he set a lockscreen password on his lgl34c and then promptly forgot it.
so upon a bit of research, this model is a doozie to work with. i had intended to overdeliver by flashing him a ROM that might allow some hotspotting and the like. upon closer inspection, i dont believe that i will be able to do that. at best a towelroot...
but ONLY IF i can get past this lockscreen. i've tried to factory reset by:
1) removing/replacing battery then holding vol down+power and waiting for LG splashscreen then releasing power (still holding vol down ) and then re-pressing(holding) power again
2) turning phone off and holding home+vol up+power and holding 30-40 sec
ive repeated both methods many many times, and these are the only methods that i have seen described in my google searching. in fact, yours is the most advanced post i have found yet.
how can i factory reset this phone without access to the settings menu?

help: crashing (cyanogen mod)

i have a samsung galaxy s captivate i897
i bought it Feb 2012 rooted running cyanogen mod and miui. for the 9months i ownded it it worked perfectly. then al of a sudden it started crashing randomly. most apps force closing. i also get an error messoage coming up that says "device low on disk space, please free up some disk space" - this is the message i see a few days before the apps start to force close. it seems to be a gradual process - isee that message then apps start force closing. for about a week its still useable until the force closing becomes constant and i basically cant use my phone.
when it happened the first time i took it to the local phone repair shop who fixed it but a few months later the problem reoccurred. now it's got the the point where it happens every 2-3 months i take it get it fixed phone works fine for a while then the problem starts all over again. i cant seem to work out what's causing it - doesnt seemed to be linked to installing new apps or anything. also the error message about not having enough disk space i'm not sure what it means but i know that i have 16gb of starage split into internal:1.85gb (1.58available) and external 13.03gb (11.77available) so yeah plenty of space hence i'm not sure why its saying its low.
anyway whenever i get my phone back from the repair shop its wiped everything and i've always just thought that whatever they did (software stuff - to stablise the rom or sth) returned it to facotry settings BUT i'm starting to think they dont actually do anything but factory reset it :/
i'm not up to scratch on custom roms/rooting/flashing stuff like i said my phone was already rooted when it and i dont want to start messing about with it.
i want to know whats causing the problem and how i can stop it reoccuring ?
also i was wondering is it possilbe to wipe out the rooting completely? perhaps not return to stock standard but maybe just use a different or more stable rom.
ps - sorry if any of the terminology is incorrect i hope you can still understand what i'm trying to say.
any help is appreciated.
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so!!!
you are saying that that root is causing all these??
thats nt the point.even with root gone I don't think you'll get rid of it. anyway to root simply install SuperSU
and unroot fully.
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and about returning to stock
try smthing based on stock!!!
well no i didnt say it is because its rooted that is causing this i was was asking what is causing it?
like i said the phone worked perfectly for the first 9months i had it and has always been rooted.
and like i said i dont know how to do any tech stuff so "simply unroot fully" doesnt help my much.
Just backup, wipe, and reflash a new rom.
"just" thats the point i dont feel confident enough to do any of that.
not just that i dont feel confident - that i dont know HOW to do it!!
what do you think is causing the problem?
like i said the phone worked fine for the first 9months i had it (not sure how long it had been rooted before that) so why would it suddenly become unstable? i've never did any tech stuff myself and even something simple like perhaps a certain app or sth is interfering (not sure if that's possible/likely) but i cant seem to identify.
like i said all i get is "device low on disk space" despite the fact its not - i guess if i could figure out why it says that and how to fix that problem which seems to then lead to all my apps force closing.

Lenovo A358t crapware problems

Sorry, I know that this isn't the place for a A358t, but I didn't find a forum/thread dedicated to this device, so I went to the closest thing.
I have several problems with this phone that I can't seem to figure out.
First of all, it got 4 stubborn applications that wants to run... always. They are: engriks, engrils, Adobe Air and pro.
Engriks and engrils I can delete through the app manager, and 'pro' I can disable... which would work for me (would've being better if I could delete pro as well) but after a phone restart (or after sometime) [with internet/wi-fi] they reappear as working applications. Google didn't yield any results. I would like to get these apps deleted/removed or at least disabled so they don't run.
I've disabled Adobe Air but it keeps enabling itself for some reason... and then after some time starts crashing and closing almost every 5 minutes... so I disable it again and after some time it re-enables itself and the cycle continues.
There are 2 other apps that I can't Force Stop or disable at all (System Apps)... they are labled completely in Chinese, so I can't say what they are, what they do or anything about them... but I'm pretty sure it's just other crap that the phone can do with out.
I've tried to flash the phone to a different ROM (just reflash it to the original stock ROM as this one I think is compromised) but the SP Flash Tool doesn't seem to work on this MediaTek device... I've being battling drivers, apps, cords and just about everything today with this phone with nothing to show for it.
The problem with this phone is that it constantly crashes, bottlenecks, freezes, throws constant errors, app crashes/closes...
I managed to factory reset (recovery was in complete Chinese.... I don't know a gram of Chinese) and the first thing I see after setting up the phone is that the app Adobe Air crashed and needs to close...
If I could get any help with this I would greatly appreciate it... thanks in advance!
Root the phone and remove the apps from your phone completely

System UI has stopped/force closing

Hello everyone.
So I just got this phone off of ebay recently, and yesterday I started getting the "System UI has stopped" message. I select the OK button and it just keeps repeating the same error and wont let me access the desktop.
Phone is stock, no root or twrp, with the latest sw update, and I am using Nova Launcher instead of the stock launcher.
I googled this problem and it seems that you need to reboot into recovery and wipe cache partition. I did that, and upon reboot I still get the same error.
I ended up going back into stock recovery and factory resetting.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
UPDATE...
After factory resetting, I restored phone as a new device. A short time later, after updating apps and downloading some others, I once again got the System UI stopped error. Going back to my backup phone until I can get this sorted out.
UPDATE #2...
Sent BLU a trouble ticket via their tech support page on Sunday. In the meantime, did ANOTHER factory reset and whatnot over the weekend, and the phone was fine up until about an hour ago, and I got the same error.
This time, I called them directly. They actually had my trouble ticket on file, and asked me if I did a hard reset, which I have done MANY times.
They then apologized, and asked me where I bought the phone from (ebay auction).
They then told me that I need to obtain the original sales receipt of the phone in order to process a warranty claim. Now I gotta ask the person who sold me the phone if they still have the receipt?????
This is ridiculous.
Anyway, back to my Moto X pure 2015 until I get this sorted out.
Back to the matter at hand and not how unnecessary you may think it is to obtain a receipt for your purchase...
Can anyone install "MTK Engineering" from the Play Store, go to the "Log and Debugging" tab, open MTKLogger, start recording a video of the device, press play, reproduce the issue, then press stop to stop capturing logs?
BLU needs our help to capture logs since they can't reproduce the issue.
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Back to the matter at hand and not how unnecessary you may think it is to obtain a receipt for your purchase...
Can anyone install "MTK Engineering" from the Play Store, go to the "Log and Debugging" tab, open MTKLogger, start recording a video of the device, press play, reproduce the issue, then press stop to stop capturing logs?
BLU needs our help to capture logs since they can't reproduce the issue.
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My advice would be: In SP flash tool load the Android scatter txt from the GIONEE E8 ROM(which can be found in the development thread), after loading that uncheck the top check mark so it clears all the other check marks. Then double click on the system field, navagate to where you have the stock BLU pure xl system image located(which can be found in the development thread), double click on it to load it into the system field. Then click download on SP flash tool, plug usb into computer, power off your phone hold the volume down key while plugging USB into phone. Then wait till the progress bar goes across the bottom in sp flash tool once its done flashing it will say success and now you will be flashed back to stock system. Hopefully this will get rid of whatever is corrupting your system.
Try running the phone without Nova .. I tried several launchers - and things didn't quite go right. What I've found is that not all applications run as smoothly as my OPO use to run - probably because my OPO was rooted and I pretty much did whatever I wanted with it. Not with this running stock - I don't have "proof" but the Pure XL really didn't like it when I installed a different launcher and/or themes .. once I uninstalled the launchers/themes - I rebooted and it was fine.
Jaybird thanks for the suggestion. However, I still had this issue even on stock launcher. I ended up selling the phone anyways.
And I must say here, I apologize if people were annoyed with the fact that I mentioned needing a receipt for my phone in order to send it in for repair/exhange.. This phone has been out for less then a year and in my opinion should be covered under warranty, whether i have a receipt or not.
Its 2016, don't tell me they can't look up the serial number and see that it's under warranty. But whatever.
Just would like to chime in and say I randomly got this same issue after getting a phone call. Suddenly I have no UI what-so-ever but apparently everything else works. I did see this flash of some screen saying "Preparing files for first time use..." just before I lost all ability to use my phone. And despite going into TWRP and clearing both Cache and Dalvik Cache I still have no ability to use my phone.
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I managed to get the phone working. Ran the factory reset through TWRP and it seems to be back in working order.

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