I've had my vibrant for about 2 weeks now, and have had some issues with media scanning. I know that the media scan can take a while if you have a lot of files on your card and all, but that's not my problem.
The issue I'm having is that my phone started doing a random media scan while sitting idle. After that scan was done, another one, and another, and another, and so on.. I pulled the external sd card, but still had the issue. Pulled the battery, same issue. The only thing that gets my phone working again is the "Factory data reset". I have already had to do the "Factory data reset" 3 times to get my phone usable.
Is there some kind of application that could be causing this? It seems to be something software related, since a factory data reset fixes the issue temporarily. The issue starts up after I get all my apps restored.
Maybe you dropped it or something. I would return it for repair. This is the first time I'm hearing of something like this.
Didn't drop it. I had more issues, so I performed a complete stock flash with odin. Everything is working great now. Definitely something I scewed up on my own...
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yeah the phones are a lil flaky once u mess with them
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If I boot my phone up, go to the home screen, my phone will get the little soft popup s aying "Auto Update of Time/Date" and then everything pauses, and the phone "soft" reboots itself. Meaning it doesnt do a full reboot, but it comes back searching for a network, performing the media scan, etc.
I did a factory reset to get rid of this, and now it's back again. It's MAD annoying. Anyone else having this issue?
Yep I noticed the same thing with mine. I thought it was normal but I'm beginning to think otherwise. I'm getting some connecting to dm server thing as well.
Sucks, the phone's awesome but if it keeps doing this then it won't even matter.
One thing I noticed is if I let the phone sit, and load up it's usually okay. If I try to go into the phone settings while it's booting up, thats when I'll see the auto update note and bam, restart. It'll keep doing this until I either leave it alone or pull the battery.
Good to hear it's not something im doing.
deng this just started happening to me like 5 minutes ago
its getting a bit of annoyed
my phone was rooted and then i unrooted it and it still has the same problem
Do you folks have any Task-kill app running in the background?
I had the same issue as well when I had a Task Killer app running in the background. It seems the app is killing some service that is causing soft reset. I turned off the auto mode last week and this hasn't happened since then.
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if u download any gameloft games thats your problem my phone was doing that then i took the games from gameloft off and now it works great hope that helps
Certain apps can cause it, I also had a gameloft game cause it. If you need to get access to uninstall apps the phone should boot fine without a sim in it.
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I am having the same problem, The phone keeps doing a soft reset. I noticed this happening after I tried to download a song from an app I installed on my phone. I deleted the app, and the problem still exists, it is REALLY ANNOYING
Hello, my sgs often disables the touch screen while typing or simply using the phone. For instance, while you are typing a sms a whole part of the soft keyboard gets unclickable, sometimes the whole screen is unclickable. This happens on every application, every rom I tried. To fix this (for a couple of seconds) I need to push the power btn to make it sleep and then wake up again, and the touch software magically wakes up as well.
Sometimes it works well for days. Sometimes a poltergeist clicks randomly wherever in the screen, and you got to battle to quickly exit every application is starting or configuration being changed by random clicks.
While at first sight this may look like a hardware fail, this can't be because just sleeping it and waking it up solves temporarily the problem. Furthermore, happens that works very nice and smooth for days and days.
Anyone else faced and perhaps solved this issue? Maybe another keyboard program? some kind of replacement? I tried one click lag fix (rooted) but looks to me it has nothing to do with that (in fact does not solve it)
Thanks for any support, this is really the best phone in the market now and it's a pity to have this kinda virus-like behaviour.
hmm not me. normally a re-flash will solve all problems.
like, you reformat your SD cards (both internal and external (if any)), flash (with re-partition ticked). after booting up, reformat SD cards again. go recovery menu and wipe data/factory reset and cache.
lol that should solve everything since you're at the default of defaults?
reccomend you not to restore apps/settings via anything. start everything afresh.
that's just me.
with original firmware (unbranded 2.1 from mediaworld - mediamarkt) I only got stuck lotsa times, with JP3 and now with JP2 I get less often stuck but got this random clicks... more often when the battery is low. For instance when the phone is totally dained and I plug and poweron, it's ghost haunted! Need an exorcist Happens randomly, then you leave it for an hour in your pocket and will behave flawlessly for dozen of hours. Don't have a clue.
P.S. formatting internal sd card won't erase everything, including OS? Or just os-settings?
formatting your sd cards will just delete whatever documents you've put onto your device. system stuff are intact.
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For instance when the phone is totally dained and I plug and poweron, it's ghost haunted! Need an exorcist
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May I conclude that the problem is worse when you use your phone while charging it? If so, maybe your phone is haunted by a cousin of the famous shaky screen (while on charger) ghost. See this thread.
Good luck with finding the GhostBusters for this one
I've noticed that the touch screen is less responsive when plugged into a charger. Maybe because of the electrical current running through the phone.
But your situation just seems like lag to me. Next time it happens, open up the task manager and check how much free ram you have. A solution to lag would be to use a lag fix and install AutoKiller. You'll need root for both though.
I've had my Galaxy Tab (Verizon edition) now for under a week. Naturally, that means I've been installing apps on it every day.
Last night an issue cropped up that turns out to be a deeper problem than I thought.
To start, I'd randomly see a force close for the built-in Google Maps app. Force closes aren't necessarily unusual, but this was force closing every 10 seconds or so. And it wasn't running. No sign of it in any of the task manager or application manager or running services areas. Yet, it was crashing.
(Don't worry, the fun doesn't end there.)
So, I suspected the last couple of apps I installed and uninstalled them (more on this later). The problem didn't go away. Around this time, other apps started crashing randomly -- often without a force close (much more like how iOS apps crash -- a return to the home screen).
The crashing always coincides with a single short vibrate then a triple-vibrate about 5 seconds later when the app closes or the force close dialog comes up. This happens in nearly any app -- from the home screen (less common) to the Browser, maps, settings, gmail, 3rd party apps, etc.
But wait, there's more...
I wasn't observant enough the first time to notice that the suspected apps were never uninstalled. Now no app will actually install. When I perform the uninstall, everything seems fine. Until I reboot. Then the app is back, fully functional.
None of the apps are installed to the SD card. The device is not rooted. The device claims just over a gigabyte of internal memory free, and slightly under half the SD card free.
Anyone see any of this behavior? I'm hoping to avoid doing a factory reset -- while also unsure that it would even do anything if something else is wrong. And the two issues (crashing and uninstalls-not-sticky) aren't necessarily related.
This isn't my first Android device, either... I haven't seen this or anything like it on the G1, N1, Droid, Evo, Archos, or any other device, for that matter.
Thoughts? Ideas? Musings? Questions?
[Update: Device was replaced. If it wasn't a hardware problem, it was still good enough to prompt the retailer to replace it. They easily accepted, "The factory reset doesn't work." as a reason.)
Sounds to me like there is something wrong with the internal memory chip. I would return the device within the DOA warranty if I were you.
Seems that it probably is a hardware issue.
I tried a factory reset (which appears to be a very convenient way to boot in to recovery mode, BTW) and it was only able to delete a portion of data. All of the apps are still there, all the data, etc. (The SD card aside, the factory wipe doesn't touch that.)
So, back it goes for exchange!
I just started having the same problem today and I have not installed any new apps although I did update date my existing apps a few days ago. My phone is rooted but by your discription that's not the cause.
I did reset my phone and I formated my SD memory. I also use a code that I found to reset the phone to factory and reset everything. Non of this has solved the problem.
I'm still trying and I'll let you know it I have any positive results.
I'm on a Galaxy S Vibrant with 2.2 Firmware, Froyo and a 2.6.32.9 kernel
All of the sudden my phone refuses to go into deep sleep, it stays at 300mhz according to cpu spy. Not even if I switch to airplane mode the deep sleep works. This has happened a few times in the last week. A reboot fixes it for a while. Do you think it's an app that is misbehaving? Has someone else seen the same thing on their phone?
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All of the sudden my phone refuses to go into deep sleep, it stays at 300mhz according to cpu spy. Not even if I switch to airplane mode the deep sleep works. This has happened a few times in the last week. A reboot fixes it for a while. Do you think it's an app that is misbehaving? Has someone else seen the same thing on their phone?
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I had the same thing once I got my Note 4. Turned out that it was my micro SD card, which I popped straight into my new phone from my old phone (an LG). It may or may not be your cause too.
I ended up reformatting it through Android (after copying all my files to my pc). After that, I put all my data back on it. It's been about a month now with my phone always deep sleeping.
If you have a micro SD card in your phone, then remove it for a while to see if the phone sleeps. If so, then backup any wanted files from it, pop it into the phone, and reformat it. Afterwards, you can put your data back on it.
If this isn't your problem, then yeah, it could be an app.
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I had the same thing once I got my Note 4. Turned out that it was my micro SD card, which I popped straight into my new phone from my old phone (an LG). It may or may not be your cause too.
I ended up reformatting it through Android (after copying all my files to my pc). After that, I put all my data back on it. It's been about a month now with my phone always deep sleeping.
If you have a micro SD card in your phone, then remove it for a while to see if the phone sleeps. If so, then backup any wanted files from it, pop it into the phone, and reformat it. Afterwards, you can put your data back on it.
If this isn't your problem, then yeah, it could be an app.
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I don't have any SDcard. Hopefully it is an app that is causing the problem. Right now I have uninstalled all the apps that I have installed lately. Let's hope this helps.
The problem seems to start after I charge the phone and pull if off the charger. But as I said, it started last week. I haven't had the problem before and I bought the phone in early November.
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I don't have any SDcard. Hopefully it is an app that is causing the problem. Right now I have uninstalled all the apps that I have installed lately. Let's hope this helps.
The problem seems to start after I charge the phone and pull if off the charger. But as I said, it started last week. I haven't had the problem before and I bought the phone in early November.
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If it didn't do it before, then it shouldnt be a hardware problem unless something just randomly broke. As long as the phone isnt getting real hot or anything weird like that, then that shouldnt be it.
I think it may be an app. If uninstalling everything fixes it, then you can reinstall the apps one by one until it happens again. Wait like a day inbetween reinstalls.
If that doesnt help though, then do a factory reset (last resort).
GOOD LUCK!
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If it didn't do it before, then it shouldnt be a hardware problem unless something just randomly broke. As long as the phone isnt getting real hot or anything weird like that, then that shouldnt be it.
I think it may be an app. If uninstalling everything fixes it, then you can reinstall the apps one by one until it happens again. Wait like a day inbetween reinstalls.
If that doesnt help though, then do a factory reset (last resort).
GOOD LUCK!
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My problem seems to be fixed now. I did uninstall some apps but that didn't seem to help. I then turned off the phone, pulled the battery for some minutes, put it back again, booted to recovery, wiped cache and then restarted. Since then it's been OK. I have an uptime at 350h right now. It must has been something that had got stuck before. Hopefully it doesn't happen again! Now I'm waiting for lollipop
Over the past week or so, I've noticed a couple of really concerning problems with my T-mo Galaxy S7 edge:
The home button stops responding while the rest of the phone functions normally. (https://youtu.be/CEj1CrRbdkI)
The phone entirely hangs up for a significant period of time (1 min - 5 mins) and doesn't respond to any buttons or input, sometimes leading to a restart (https://youtu.be/wuo1Ngc9bqE, https://youtu.be/UXwIPle5rHw)
These problems happen completely randomly - whether I'm at home, work, on a train, it doesn't matter. The app or screen that I'm on doesn't matter as well. The videos I captured were just examples from today, after a fresh factory reset. I'm not sure what else to do at this point. Any suggestions?
Edit: I should also add that I recently sent in my phone to Samsung for a screen replacement (which involves swapping out the entire front plate). I wonder if they messed something up on the hardware side ...
That defenetly looks like it could be a hardware defect my friend. Sorry but your home button looks gone. Anything sticky you had on your hands? Children?
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That defenetly looks like it could be a hardware defect my friend. Sorry but your home button looks gone. Anything sticky you had on your hands? Children?
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Nothing sticky, no, but you're right that it could be a hardware thing. Since Samsung replaced the entire front plate (including the home button, soft buttons, volume and power buttons) it could be that. It doesn't explain the complete hangups either though ... I clocked the latest one at EIGHT MINUTES. That's how long the phone was hung up before deciding to restart on its own. Really strange. I might just get it replaced through T-mobile instead of engaging Samsung again.
An update: I took it to the T-mobile store for a check, and the rep there discovered that there was something like 1.5GB of data sitting in my cache (which somehow escaped clearing from two factory resets - access it by Settings > Storage > Internal Storage > Cache data). I also refrained from disabling any of the stock apps. It's been less than a day but so far the problems haven't resurfaced.
I proceed with cautious optimism.
Thank you very much for the info! I am having the same issue, I hope this helps me out. Currently I have 1.38 g of cached data. fingers crossed.
fatannasty said:
Thank you very much for the info! I am having the same issue, I hope this helps me out. Currently I have 1.38 g of cached data. fingers crossed.
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No problem! Please keep us updated here if clearing the cache worked for you too. I want to make sure that the cache is the actual cause of the hang-ups. I still don't understand how it was unaffected even after two factory resets
Used to have reboot issues
I was wondering if you have the Samsung Good Lock installed?? I had it enabled for about 2 weeks and would get random reboots and the phone would become unresponsive. I tried everything to get rid of the problem but couldn't figure it out. Make a long story short, I unistalled Good Lock and no more reboots or issues. Worth a shot at least.
Also did you have saved fingerprints? I know on my Note 4 if you reset your phone when you had fingerprints setup that would cause issues because of how they are saved.
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An update: I took it to the T-mobile store for a check, and the rep there discovered that there was something like 1.5GB of data sitting in my cache (which somehow escaped clearing from two factory resets - access it by Settings > Storage > Internal Storage > Cache data). I also refrained from disabling any of the stock apps. It's been less than a day but so far the problems haven't resurfaced.
I proceed with cautious optimism.
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Bahaha! I had 4.3 GB. I was wondering why things seemed slow!
I do not have Good Lock installed, but I'll make sure to watch out for that one in the future.
I did have saved fingerprints, but they always got cleared after the factory reset. Besides, the problems existed before I decided to do the factory resets so maybe that isn't the issue.
4.3GB is high! But again I've been using the phone for just 3+ months (and only 1 month since I received it back from Samsung). We've all used phones for far longer than that without hte need to actively clear any cache. So I don't know, it still seems weird.
After 2 days since clearing the cache, the hang-ups seem to have stopped but I still noticed the home button being unresponsive a couple of times. It seems like they are separate issues, and I may still put in for a warranty replacement with T-mo for the home button issue if it persists.
Gah I don't know how to work multi-quote here sorry lol.
Final update: both problems are back in full swing. I even tried a 'hard reset' through recovery mode a couple of times and set my phone up as a new device (as opposed to restoring all my apps during setup). Stuck with stock everything, and did not disable any bloatware. Only apps I installed were Whatsapp, Inbox, and google Keyboard. Removed my SD card just in case. Still, both the problems highlighted in the first post continue to happen.
Based on the evidence I cannot see how this can be a software problem alone. Called in for a warranty replacement through T-mobile, which I should be receiving early next week.
Definitely a hardware problem.
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Definitely a hardware problem.
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Yea - kind of f*cked up that Samsung created a new problem for my phone while fixing the original issue (cracked screen). I specifically chose to send it to them and not a local store or even Staples (yup, they do repairs now lol) because I wanted to avoid complications ... smh.
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No problem! Please keep us updated here if clearing the cache worked for you too. I want to make sure that the cache is the actual cause of the hang-ups. I still don't understand how it was unaffected even after two factory resets
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So far my phone is still running great!
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So far my phone is still running great!
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I just got my replacement unit yesterday and it's been performing like a champ. I set it up as a new device to play it safe, but since then I've installed most of the apps that I use and have been able to disable all the bloatware without problems.
Pretty much confirms that there was a f*ck up with the screen repair on my original unit that ruined the home button functionality (and more, probably).
A note about those looking to do a warranty replacement through T-mobile: If you do not have insurance on the phone through them, they charge a $20 warranty service replacement fee AND a $20 shipping fee. Neither of these fees were revealed to me when I processed the replacement over the phone. Very under-handed on their part, especially because in that conversation with the T-mo rep I actually talked about how sending it back to Samsung was one of my options (for free, but they take 7-9 days to 'process' the replacement). Shameful on that rep's part.
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I do not have Good Lock installed, but I'll make sure to watch out for that one in the future.
I did have saved fingerprints, but they always got cleared after the factory reset. Besides, the problems existed before I decided to do the factory resets so maybe that isn't the issue.
4.3GB is high! But again I've been using the phone for just 3+ months (and only 1 month since I received it back from Samsung). We've all used phones for far longer than that without hte need to actively clear any cache. So I don't know, it still seems weird.
After 2 days since clearing the cache, the hang-ups seem to have stopped but I still noticed the home button being unresponsive a couple of times. It seems like they are separate issues, and I may still put in for a warranty replacement with T-mo for the home button issue if it persists.
Gah I don't know how to work multi-quote here sorry lol.
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The fingerprints are stored in a weird way. A factory reset does make it look like they are cleared, but for some reason if you don't manually clear them before you factory reset the phone develops a lag. I have no idea why, I just know it was an issue on the Note 4/5 so I am not surprised it is an issue on this device as well.
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The fingerprints are stored in a weird way. A factory reset does make it look like they are cleared, but for some reason if you don't manually clear them before you factory reset the phone develops a lag. I have no idea why, I just know it was an issue on the Note 4/5 so I am not surprised it is an issue on this device as well.
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Oh that's really interesting - it's really a shame that Samsung doesn't sort these issues out. It's actually concerning to know that my fingerprint profile could be residually passed on with my device to a new owner because it didn't clear out with a factory reset like it was supposed to.