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strange issues with my Vibrant

running rooted stock Vibrant. Phone was doing great until yesterday.
All of a sudden It started going into a reboot loop. Did a factory reset. waited for about an hr.
Then started installing my apps. I only use a bunch of games, launcher pro and some others, nothing crazy. after about 3 hrs of playing word wise, it starts it again. This time I notice that the notification bar it takes a long time to run the media scanner. sometimes it scanned twice , then reboot over and over. I finally did a factory reset again.
Could it be Launcher pro? I havent reloaded any apps at this time, and it been 10 hrs with no reboot?
Anyone else had this sort of issues?

I've used LP since day 1 with absolutely no issues. I would have to venture a bad app?

I think it might be beautiful widgets, or fancy widgets. I think it went into a boot loop when it did a auto time and date update. I kept seeing that at the bottom of my phone before it rebooted.
dunno, will be very frustrated if I cant customize it the way I want.

Well, I've used BW from day 1 also, no issues.
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didnt figure it was one of those,
guess I will have to look at one app at a time.

Sorry man, if discovered, will you let me know via a PM so I can put it in the sticky as a possible problem?

are you using setcpu? i was having all sorts of problems with phone hanging and never waking and such with setcpu...i finally just did a nandroid restore and uninstalled...no issues since

not using set cpu. very wierd. hasnt happened since my last factory reset last night. installed apps, not all of them because I am in the process of seeing if I have a bad app.
just taking it slow to see if I can duplicate the problems.
only thing now is that I have a problem with disappearing icons on my launcher pro dock LOL

Google maps keeps force closing

hey guys, I don't know what happened but about 30 min ago, every time I try to open Google Maps I get the Force close notification.....anybody have any ideas of how I can fix this? I tried restarting the phone and uninstalling and reinstalling updates but nothing has helped

It's happening to me too. Started about an hour ago. It doesn't happen every time, but pretty often. Since we're not alone, it sounds like google has changed something server side that's sending data that kills the client.

oh pheww.....I thought I was alone lol
not to seem like an a-hole and be happy it's happening to you....but just sayin....haha

Thanks... I was a little worried myself, I installed the wifi tethering mod earlier today and thought I might have screwed the phone up.

Weird! Just started happening to me too. Thanks god for this forum and the search button, because I almost just began the nightmare of trying to figure out which new app or kernel I installed was causing this issue. Guess ill wait now since I'm not the only one. It's probably a Google server causing a problem.....

Same here, just started a little bit ago ... I don't think I can leave the house safely if I don't have access to google maps!$%!
edit: Just a possible fix ... I uninstalled and reinstalled and so far so good...

Are you guys using a modified rom?
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I uninstalled/reinstalled didn't help, but if I use WiFi it works fine. Weird.

Me too, except worse - my entire phone freezes up and I have to pull the battery. Not an east or safe thing to do while driving. Started happening about a week ago. Anybody know why?

Forgot to say. Stock ROM on my Vibrant.

shrasmyl said:
Forgot to say. Stock ROM on my Vibrant.
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Stock Rom here too. Just started doing this to me today also, but only when I use it on the wifi on 3g its fine.

uninstall the google maps update and it will work for now. Google broke it and they will fix it.

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uninstall the google maps update and it will work for now. Google broke it and they will fix it.
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Yeah thats what I did.

Same here...Stock Rom started doing this a couple hours ago.
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RIP my beloved rooted G1

Same is happening to me...rooted with stock rom. I kind of stop using google maps because of gps issue.
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Have you guys tried factory data wipe and reset?
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I got the crash only when WiFi was turned on . I uninstalled all the updates and am not getting it anymore.

Mine not forcing close, but a black screen "force me to shut down and boot the phone manually".
Everytime I opened google map with GPS on, the phone hanged and I needed to long press the power button to boot..

That is an issue I have seen with lag fix installed...i had to odin back to stock install lag fox then install apps...fixed all my fc issues on stock and other roms...anyways food for thought.
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Updated today but still black screen when GPS is on...need to restart the phone manually everytime!!

Music App rebooting phone

My stock music app seems to have started rebooting my phone after about 5 minutes of listening. The phone will then kept resetting itself until I power it off myself.
Strangely it seems to randomly move one app icon from the application menu half the time it reboots.
It's only started happening today and there are no issues when I use Winamp to listen.
There's no change to my phone over the last few days and the music app was fine until today.
Google didn't seem to bring up any useful info, any ideas what's causing it or how to fix it?

wizardofoz85 said:
My stock music app seems to have started rebooting my phone after about 5 minutes of listening. The phone will then kept resetting itself until I power it off myself.
Strangely it seems to randomly move one app icon from the application menu half the time it reboots.
It's only started happening today and there are no issues when I use Winamp to listen.
There's no change to my phone over the last few days and the music app was fine until today.
Google didn't seem to bring up any useful info, any ideas what's causing it or how to fix it?
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WOW and I thought I was going crazy with my phone
This morning alone, I was trying to have myself some music, and the phone freaking bounced like 4 times during 20 minutes.
I have 2 suspect combinations of conditions when this might happen. Both include of course the stock player running:
1) The setting is switched on that mutes the phone when you turn it face down - I suspect it has something to do with the reboots
2) The phone is manually switched to Airplane mode, or there are some rare issues with signal (I am in New York City, signal is the worst here)
Did you by any chance have any of these 2 when your phone bounced?

I have this too. I use poweramp as my music player and have no issues. Using stock KE7.
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I've got the face down mute thing on but I always lock the screen when listening to music and it's never caused issues before.
As for the signal, it happened to me at home where I have great signal and then again when I was at the gym, where the signal can get a bit ropey but not in the area I was in when I experienced the problem.
I can't really think of anything that might have caused it. It's not a huge issue for me yet but if out starts affecting other music players then it'll really bug me

I didn't have this issue until I upgraded to ke7
I'm back on ke2 and zero issue with the music app. Look in the ke7 thread, there are few posts about the soft reboot
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Random restarts

The past week I got 3 restarts on my note. First was at home with USB cable to PC to charge it, nothing else, locked screen, don't remember if there was a running app. The other 2 times where on the road, I was listening music on stock music player. The only app I am thinking it could have something to do with this is top deals, even not 100% sure need to confirm got rid of it now let me check it. Anyone else noticed anything similar???
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Same here
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It happened to me few days back. It did not restart but I found it was off. Battery was around 50% and it was on third day after restart. I think it could be remote desktop app called 2X - Note particularly gets slow after runing 2X couple of times. I am on 2nd day without running 2X and I wish to confirm if this app is playing something wrong (btw I didn't have problem with 2X on S2).

Yup. It does happen to many people. "Sleep of death" happened to me several times on stock speeds/voltages. Restarts on my phone seem to be more OC/UV related.

I got mine about a week now and have had several restarts. It was way worse before I ran the update though... Now it "only" reboots 0-3 times a day
I don't dare to root it before I know it software related, but it seems like that since it got better with the official update...
I have restored it to factory defaults etc and nothing helps. I experienced this with NO extra apps installed and with the 4 apps I installed it's not worse. (Don't wanna personalize it before I root OR send it back and hope for replacement.)

Third day and it restarted. It however did not reset System Uptime.
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Never had a random restart or sleep of death, in fact I can only recall 1 FC and I've had the phone for 2 weeks now

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Never had a random restart or sleep of death, in fact I can only recall 1 FC and I've had the phone for 2 weeks now
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Lucky you!
Well what I wonder is if I root it is it possible that a custom ROM will fix my problems?

Frequent Freezing and Reboots on 4APIA

On 10/17/16 I took the OTA to take me from the July Security patch to the September security patch, with build number G935TUVU4APIA.
With in the first day of the update I experienced the phone freezing on the home screen, then rebooting. Later on I found it had rebooted while in my pocket (prompted for pin and system up time was minutes). Ever since over past 6 days it has become frozen and rebooted multiple times a day. Anywhere 2 to 5 times a day doing various different things.
I have tried clearing all system and app cache since after the update. Unfortantely that has not helped at all. So what I would like to know is anyone else on this build experiencing these reboots, or was before and fixed it?
I'm trying to determine if its a bug with this build, cause I will be really annoyed if I have to go through the trouble of a factory reset, then find out it didn't help cause its an issue with this specific build. If some other stock people can confirm this build is not rebooting for them I will give factory reset a try.

AndroidPurity said:
On 10/17/16 I took the OTA to take me from the July Security patch to the September security patch, with build number G935TUVU4APIA.
With in the first day of the update I experienced the phone freezing on the home screen, then rebooting. Later on I found it had rebooted while in my pocket (prompted for pin and system up time was minutes). Ever since over past 6 days it has become frozen and rebooted multiple times a day. Anywhere 2 to 5 times a day doing various different things.
I have tried clearing all system and app cache since after the update. Unfortantely that has not helped at all. So what I would like to know is anyone else on this build experiencing these reboots, or was before and fixed it?
I'm trying to determine if its a bug with this build, cause I will be really annoyed if I have to go through the trouble of a factory reset, then find out it didn't help cause its an issue with this specific build. If some other stock people can confirm this build is not rebooting for them I will give factory reset a try.
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Idon't have this build installed yet but the previous one and had the same issue, turned out to be my alarm clock plus app causing it to reboot on an alarm.
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Shrubby said:
Idon't have this build installed yet but the previous one and had the same issue, turned out to be my alarm clock plus app causing it to reboot on an alarm.
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Dang that sucks, worse time for it to fail when its supposed to wake you up lol! Thanks or the suggestion but I don't think its app related since it happens on home screen, in app drawer, in chrome, and in my pocket with screen off. Unless its an app in the back ground. But I haven't installed any new in past 5 days apps that I would say are uncommon that aren't supported well.
Edit: I just checked. Since the OTA I did install 1 app the day after. The Nexia app for smart thermostat that came with my new furnace. I don't think thats it since I can recall at least 1 reboot after the OTA and before that app. But just in case I will uninstall that app for a couple days just to test. Thanks!

Shrubby said:
Idon't have this build installed yet but the previous one and had the same issue, turned out to be my alarm clock plus app causing it to reboot on an alarm.
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I use I cant wake up alarm clock and experience that too. I am rooted but still keep the alarm clock because it rearms on reboot and still works. so no biggie for me
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I had a serious freeze/lock up last night. I am on the same build and NOT rooted. I even tried holding down the power button and the phone was unresponsive. Cap. keys stayed lit the whole time. After holding down for 45 sec or so it finally relented and rebooted. But this combined with random heat surges/ups really have me pissed.

Had the same issue. On u firmware now cuz i couldnt take it. One thing that seemed to help some was removing the sd card and wiping cache then rebooting. I let it run for a few hours then put in sd card. Seemed to help alot

I'm back to follow up with the results from uninstalling the only app I installed since the update. It actually almost went 24 hours without a freeze and reboot. I was starting to think it actually was the culprit. But then I had 2 freezes and reboot today. ��
So I have switched back to my Nexus 6P for a while. Thanks to those who also reported the same issue! Since other people are reporting the same issue it seems to be a bug in this build unfortunately. So here is to Samsung pushing out a fix soon. Until then I will be using my 6P. If they haven't fixed it in a couple weeks then I will probably flash to the U firmware too. What variant is the U firmware from anyways? The unlocked North America variant?

I installed the update and have been running it for the past four days with no problems to report thus far. If I get a reboot or any freezing I'll let you folks know. Perhaps try a factory reset.
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I get a reboot twice a day. Sometimes the phone will freeze while I'm scrolling through my internet browser or it will reboot if I'm using the SAMSUNG branded car charger and Google Maps at the same time. Other times it'll just randomly reboot out of nowhere.
This is extremely frustrating. T-Mobile recommended that I get an exchange and I did get an exchange and the same day it rebooted on me. I called complaining that it's not a hardware issue and they told me to exchange the phone again. Smh.
This sucks especially since I use GPS a lot. This phone was/is perfect before the update.
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OuncE718 said:
I get a reboot twice a day. Sometimes the phone will freeze while I'm scrolling through my internet browser or it will reboot if I'm using the SAMSUNG branded car charger and Google Maps at the same time. Other times it'll just randomly reboot out of nowhere.
This is extremely frustrating. T-Mobile recommended that I get an exchange and I did get an exchange and the same day it rebooted on me. I called complaining that it's not a hardware issue and they told me to exchange the phone again. Smh.
This sucks especially since I use GPS a lot. This phone was/is perfect before the update.
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Yeah... Carriers need to train their employees to be able to know how to tell the difference between a hardware and software issue. For example if a user reports something didn't happen until a recent update, then that should be an automatic sign to not waste that customers time with a pointless exchange.