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Okay so I got my Nexus S in December of 2011. It's worked just perfect, it's a real peach but yesterday I was trying to use it normally and it froze. Then it shut off. So I left it a few minutes and turned it on again. It starts up with the black screen with white letters that say "Google" and it never loads more so I wait with it for s few, then pull the battery and try again many, many times. Same result.
I really hope someone knows how to fix this without wiping the phone. Please Help!
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Okay so I got my Nexus S in December of 2011. It's worked just perfect, it's a real peach but yesterday I was trying to use it normally and it froze. Then it shut off. So I left it a few minutes and turned it on again. It starts up with the black screen with white letters that say "Google" and it never loads more so I wait with it for s few, then pull the battery and try again many, many times. Same result.
I really hope someone knows how to fix this without wiping the phone. Please Help!
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Is it rooted?
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eaguil16 said:
Is it rooted?
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I hate to seem unsavvy with my phone but I don't know what rooting is I apologize greatly.
do u have an app installed named superuser?
sean1984 said:
do u have an app installed named superuser?
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No I do not.
do you know if you had usb debugging turned on before this problem happened ?
sean1984 said:
do you know if you had usb debugging turned on before this problem happened ?
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Yes I did.
can you press power button and volume up at the same time and see if it will get you into the bootloader and report back
sean1984 said:
can you press power button and volume up at the same time and see if it will get you into the bootloader and report back
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I have actually tried that and it doesn't do anything sadly.
read into this thread seems to be same issue your having http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928884
and last ditch effort maybe try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
I have a Verizon S3 and it has choppy animations when switching between apps using the recent apps menu. I've tried turning both animation and transition options to off in the dev menu and it will still sometimes flicker when swapping apps.
Also, the multitasking recent apps menu itself has always been choppy, which is really frustrating. I know touchwiz isn't the best, but I never thought the phone would be this choppy. The phone itself isn't really slow, it's just the fade in / fade out animation / draw time of the recent apps menu is TERRIBLE.
Things I've done to test:
Power saving is always off. I tried turning it on and unchecking the cpu throttling, but no dice.
Tested with brightness set to auto and not auto, but no dice.
Quadrant score was in the low 5000s, which I believe is good.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal, or a sign of a defective phone? Thanks!
For the app switcher, mine hasn't been slow very often unless I'm dealing with Chrome. I have my "Window Animations Scale" set to: .5x so maybe that helps for the app switcher. I have all my transitions set to .5x actually.
I why I personally haven't noticed is cuz I dislike the implementation of the app switcher. I don't use it often unless switching from texting to Web browsing. I've used my mom's Nexus a few times and it's a smarter UI decision there. Holding the home button to activate the app switcher just feels like a step down to GB.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
For the app switcher, mine hasn't been slow very often unless I'm dealing with Chrome. I have my "Window Animations Scale" set to: .5x so maybe that helps for the app switcher. I have all my transitions set to .5x actually.
I why I personally haven't noticed is cuz I dislike the implementation of the app switcher. I don't use it often unless switching from texting to Web browsing. I've used my mom's Nexus a few times and it's a smarter UI decision there. Holding the home button to activate the app switcher just feels like a step down to GB.
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Thanks for the info. I seem to use my mine pretty often. I'm mainly trying to figure out if this is a known bug with touchwhiz (or if this is just how touchwhiz is), or if it's something wrong with the hardware and I need to return it for another phone.
I've also had some odd lag with the notification menu opening and closing, which only began happening in the past week or so.
What do you guys think?
Do you have the "force gpu rendering" box checked? If so uncheck it. I always get choppy when I have that checked.
x714x said:
Do you have the "force gpu rendering" box checked? If so uncheck it. I always get choppy when I have that checked.
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Nope, I have the power saving options turned off.
I wonder if the slowness with the app changing is just normal...but it always seems faster on videos reviewing the phone online.
Anyone else?
tomster2300 said:
Nope, I have the power saving options turned off.
I wonder if the slowness with the app changing is just normal...but it always seems faster on videos reviewing the phone online.
Anyone else?
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That option isnt in power savings, its in the developer options.
Mine is very smooth and I use power saving. Dunno why yours would be choppy... weird
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x714x said:
That option isnt in power savings, its in the developer options.
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Oops, well I don't have it checked. Apologies.
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tomster2300 said:
Oops, well I don't have it checked. Apologies.
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How many apps do you typically have running?
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How many apps do you typically have running?
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Currently four, sometimes up to 10. My old Droid X handled that many without an issue...I figured the S3 would be able to with ease.
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Currently four, sometimes up to 10. My old Droid X handled that many without an issue...I figured the S3 would be able to with ease.
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Are you on any ROM or you running stock? Clearing out your cache could also help with any lag issues
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I never noticed any lag or shutter when switching apps. Maybe try something like v6 supercharger and see if that fixes it.
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Are you on any ROM or you running stock? Clearing out your cache could also help with any lag issues
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I've booted into recovery mode and cleared the system cache but it didn't seem to help. I'm on stock, unrooted.
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I've booted into recovery mode and cleared the system cache but it didn't seem to help. I'm on stock, unrooted.
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Has this been an ongoing issue for a while?
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HoudiniJr said:
Has this been an ongoing issue for a while?
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Yes, but it feels like it has gotten worse as of late.
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Yes, but it feels like it has gotten worse as of late.
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Well I would suggest backup all your apps and Data with Google since you can't do TiBU because you're not rooted right? Then give it a reset and see how that fares for you. worth a shot
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Well I would suggest backup all your apps and Data with Google since you can't do TiBU because you're not rooted right? Then give it a reset and see how that fares for you. worth a shot
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While I've tried a factory reset in the past, I didn't know about the recovery menu for non root before. I backed everything up, booted into that, cleared the system cache and then rebooted (triggering the factory reset). I skipped everything during setup and then restored only my Google account, and now everything is silky smooth. The recent apps menu is consistently smooth as well.
Thanks everyone! Hopefully it stays this way.
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While I've tried a factory reset in the past, I didn't know about the recovery menu for non root before. I backed everything up, booted into that, cleared the system cache and then rebooted (triggering the factory reset). I skipped everything during setup and then restored only my Google account, and now everything is silky smooth. The recent apps menu is consistently smooth as well.
Thanks everyone! Hopefully it stays this way.
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Glad to hear everything is up and running smoothly. Factory resets may be the last thing anyone wants to do but usually worth it. :thumbup:
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After playing with it for few days, it's still very smooth when you bring up the recent apps menu and click through to an open app. It's kind of sluggish when opening the menu when you're already in an app. Anyone else seeing that?
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It was like that when I was on TW. It runs at like 6 fps and it's extremely disappointing that a badass phone like this would lag there. I read that the recents menu isn't HW accelerated on TW ICS? It's completely smooth on cm10.
Good morning everyone...
Hope all is well..
My cousin's S3 is unrooted. Yesterday he said it froze up on him... No buttons work, however, if you take the battery out and put it back in, the phone will power back up, comes all the way on up to the home screen, but nothing works, no buttons, no reaction from touching the screen or anything.
Verizon is blaming it on Nova.
I know better, Nova is flawless in my opinion.
Anyone experienced this problem? know of any fixes?
Bsmith0731 said:
Good morning everyone...
Hope all is well..
My cousin's S3 is unrooted. Yesterday he said it froze up on him... No buttons work, however, if you take the battery out and put it back in, the phone will power back up, comes all the way on up to the home screen, but nothing works, no buttons, no reaction from touching the screen or anything.
Verizon is blaming it on Nova.
I know better, Nova is flawless in my opinion.
Anyone experienced this problem? know of any fixes?
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He may need to do a factory reset.
airmaxx23 said:
He may need to do a factory reset.
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How so?
Through adb? Kies?
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Bsmith0731 said:
How so?
Through adb? Kies?
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You should be able to do it with Kies.
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You should be able to do it with Kies.
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OK he just told me only the power button responds.
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There may be an option in recovery to get to download mode, from there he can Odin back to stock.
Buttons not working doesn't sound like a problem a rom can cause. Did it get wet, fall? Did it start to update and it was interrupted? Curious.
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Good morning everyone...
Hope all is well..
My cousin's S3 is unrooted. Yesterday he said it froze up on him... No buttons work, however, if you take the battery out and put it back in, the phone will power back up, comes all the way on up to the home screen, but nothing works, no buttons, no reaction from touching the screen or anything.
Verizon is blaming it on Nova.
I know better, Nova is flawless in my opinion.
Anyone experienced this problem? know of any fixes?
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Stock recovery should be able to perform a factory reset. Try that and if it doesn't work read up on Odin to go back completely to stock. If that fails you are likely looking at hardware failure. My guess is the factory reset will fix it for you.
I'd try to go into stock recovery by pressing power, home and volume up buttons....wipe davlick cache
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I've been having a few problems lately. Ever since the 4.3 update, my power button is REALLY sensitive. I can barely tap it and it will bring up the power menu. Sometimes hitting the power button doesn't work. I don't think it is a hardware problem as I've disassembled the s3 and the logic board and power switch are fine.
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I thought this and the battery drain/charging issues I've been having may have been due to a bad OTA so I attempted to boot to download and reflash the rom with ODIN.
Herein lies the problem. When I boot to download mode (which is almost impossible because of the power button problems) it will sit there for a moment then reboot. To clarify, I can get into download mode where it tells me how many times I've tripped the flash counter, etc. After that it reboots. Also when it does reboot, sometimes it loops, again I assume this is due to the power button issues.
Any help would be appreciated.
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ProtheusIRC said:
I've been having a few problems lately. Ever since the 4.3 update, my power button is REALLY sensitive. I can barely tap it and it will bring up the power menu. Sometimes hitting the power button doesn't work. I don't think it is a hardware problem as I've disassembled the s3 and the logic board and power switch are fine.
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I thought this and the battery drain/charging issues I've been having may have been due to a bad OTA so I attempted to boot to download and reflash the rom with ODIN.
Herein lies the problem. When I boot to download mode (which is almost impossible because of the power button problems) it will sit there for a moment then reboot. To clarify, I can get into download mode where it tells me how many times I've tripped the flash counter, etc. After that it reboots. Also when it does reboot, sometimes it loops, again I assume this is due to the power button issues.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Have you try factory reset to see if it at least fix your button issue?
Yes. That was the first thing I tried.
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ProtheusIRC said:
Yes. That was the first thing I tried.
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Is your phone rooted?
Yes.
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ProtheusIRC said:
Yes.
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Download "rebooter" from the market (red circle icon), open this app and it give you an option to boot to bootloader/recovery, see if you phone still reboot without touching your power button.
Tried that. Same result.
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ProtheusIRC said:
Tried that. Same result.
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Are you sure your battery is fully charged? If not plug in your phone leave over night and try again.
This has been going on for a month. I've had plenty of full batteries bro lol
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ProtheusIRC said:
This has been going on for a month. I've had plenty of full batteries bro lol
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OK, then you should call Verizon and get another one. I think something is wrong with your hardware. Sorry.
I just had the same problem, then the next day it stopped working altogether. I just paid, yesterday as a matter a fact, 30 bucks to have my power button replaced. So far, so go! Just find a reputable cell phone repair company in your area.
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I had the same problem. I Odin back to factory stock and no more problems.
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Can't Odin. Won't stay in download mode.
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I know what your talking about and it's only happened to me after updating to 4.3 OTA.
The power/phone options menu I'm talking about is the power button long press.
Well, this comes up without touching the button. It's like it's some kind of static, because it'll do it several times in a row while randomly shutting off the screen, etc.
Very frustrating.
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It might not be a 4.3 problem but a physical problem. This is a extreme case but your phones might be on there way. If you are having the same problem as this thread the fix should work for you. The reason I don't think its the update is because it doesn't happen to me.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2611166
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It might not be a 4.3 problem but a physical problem. This is a extreme case but your phones might be on there way. If you are having the same problem as this thread the fix should work for you. The reason I don't think its the update is because it doesn't happen to me.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2611166
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Well it didn't start doing this till after the update. Its brand new! Also, I can't count hoe many times I've beat the **** out of this phone lol. No luck.
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ThePagel said:
It might not be a 4.3 problem but a physical problem. This is a extreme case but your phones might be on there way. If you are having the same problem as this thread the fix should work for you. The reason I don't think its the update is because it doesn't happen to me.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2611166
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Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen to others. Come on.
I'm having a similar issue and it didn't start until I updated.
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cam1john said:
Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen to others. Come on.
I'm having a similar issue and it didn't start until I updated.
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I didn't say it wasn't I said I don't think. Chill out
My wife's Ultra has developed an issue where the phone powers down whenever the screen is turned off. This happens whether the screen is put into standby with the power button or is allowed to turn off automatically.
Just tried a factory reset today with no joy.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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NovaChief said:
My wife's Ultra has developed an issue where the phone powers down whenever the screen is turned off. This happens whether the screen is put into standby with the power button or is allowed to turn off automatically.
Just tried a factory reset today with no joy.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Today, i had the same issue on Droid Ultra, running KitKat. I think it's because battery state issue - before i rebooted, battery showed 19%, but after power on issue, i go into bootloader and power off the device and plugged in charger. Charging battery on screen showed me 0%.
PS: i used exposed feature for better battery stat. Maybe issue was because of it.
PPS: did you root her phone and clean from bloatware? Add some tweaks? My Droid currently charging, and i'd like to hcarge it up to 100% then try to power it on.
Her phone is unrooted and stock kit kat. We've eliminated the battery and any third party apps as the cause. It seems like a hardware issue but the power button works fine for all other functions.
Also figured out that the phone doesn't power off immediately after the screen goes off. Still baffled.
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NovaChief said:
Her phone is unrooted and stock kit kat. We've eliminated the battery and any third party apps as the cause. It seems like a hardware issue but the power button works fine for all other functions.
Also figured out that the phone doesn't power off immediately after the screen goes off. Still baffled.
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I am having the same issue with my Droid Maxx Dev Edition. Anyone find a fix?
I am having the same issue and it is driving me crazy!!! Any resolution?
Any answers?
TheDroidURLookinFor said:
I am having the same issue with my Droid Maxx Dev Edition. Anyone find a fix?
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BariB523 said:
I am having the same issue and it is driving me crazy!!! Any resolution?
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BariB523 said:
Any answers?
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Try running the correct fxz for your build and see if that corrects it.
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Try running the correct fxz for your build and see if that corrects it.
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As far as I know I have the factory image for my phone. I haven't changed it.
On a side note...I have stopped laying it face down anymore so I am not getting the shut offs. Don't know if that helps anyone.
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As far as I know I have the factory image for my phone. I haven't changed it.
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Doesnt mean it didnt become corrupted in some way
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Doesnt mean it didnt become corrupted in some way
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You have a good point. Ugh...not looking forward to all that work. lol
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You have a good point. Ugh...not looking forward to all that work. lol
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Its not difficult. The 4.4.4 fxz doesnt erase any data in stock form. It will wipe root though
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Its not difficult. The 4.4.4 fxz doesnt erase any data in stock form. It will wipe root though
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Yeah not happy about losing root. Have they got root on 4.4.4 yet?
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Yeah not happy about losing root. Have they got root on 4.4.4 yet?
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Just partial carried over from 19.6.3
We ended up getting a warranty replacement through Verizon.
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Just partial carried over from 19.6.3
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Yeah...I'll wait. Not that big of a deal for me now that I know not to put if face down.
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We ended up getting a warranty replacement through Verizon.
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Did that fix it for you?