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Occasional 'spasm'

Occasionally my Hero will go into a kind of spasm
It'll be sleeping on my desk, and to use a recent example, I was in the market, about to download Yelp, when I had a call on my work landline.
Put my phone down, whereupon it sent to sleep.
Finished my call, and picked my phone up.
Pressed the red button to wake it, and it doesn;t wake. The screen is still dark.
I press the red button again. Screen goes dark.
Expecting a reboot I wait.....nothing.....still nothing. Press the red button a couple more times.
then 15/20 seconds later the screen will come on, go off, come one, go off, as if it's catching up with my previous keystrokes....
what's up with that ?
Eventually I just pulled the battery.

grifforama said:
Occasionally my Hero will go into a kind of spasm
It'll be sleeping on my desk, and to use a recent example, I was in the market, about to download Yelp, when I had a call on my work landline.
Put my phone down, whereupon it sent to sleep.
Finished my call, and picked my phone up.
Pressed the red button to wake it, and it doesn;t wake. The screen is still dark.
I press the red button again. Screen goes dark.
Expecting a reboot I wait.....nothing.....still nothing. Press the red button a couple more times.
then 15/20 seconds later the screen will come on, go off, come one, go off, as if it's catching up with my previous keystrokes....
what's up with that ?
Eventually I just pulled the battery.
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I see the exact same thing on both of my Hero's. Never been able to figure out what exactly happens, glad its not ever happened with my car sinking in a lake or somthing.

Kcarpenter said:
I see the exact same thing on both of my Hero's. Never been able to figure out what exactly happens, glad its not ever happened with my car sinking in a lake or somthing.
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LOLL'ed at the "glad its not ever happened with my car sinking in a lake or something" part, very funny

daveli said:
LOLL'ed at the "glad its not ever happened with my car sinking in a lake or something" part, very funny
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Hey, that would suck, and it happens so often that it will suck!

Kcarpenter said:
Hey, that would suck, and it happens so often that it will suck!
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I know, I know, tht's why I laughed cause you are right

Kcarpenter said:
I see the exact same thing on both of my Hero's. Never been able to figure out what exactly happens, glad its not ever happened with my car sinking in a lake or somthing.
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so.. how often does your car sink in lake??
those times when it does... my guess is that your HERO was able to work and be a HERO and help you out

I have this same exact problem. Hopefully when (if) we get the new kernel, it'll be more stable and won't have this problem.

Twice in 3 months.

Kcarpenter said:
Twice in 3 months.
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Again LOLLL

Actually, I noticed my lagg got REALLY bad after posting in this thread joking about it
(Nah, JK). But really, I had never had THAT bad of a lagg when waking up the phone, but lately it had been getting worse. I figured the only things I was using differently was Weather Bug Elite (it adds temperature to the taskbar) and the battery widget that also is on the taskbar. I unninstalled WBE, and the lagg got way better (it's not gone but WAY better than it was). Do you use the WBE app?

daveli said:
Actually, I noticed my lagg got REALLY bad after posting in this thread joking about it
(Nah, JK). But really, I had never had THAT bad of a lagg when waking up the phone, but lately it had been getting worse. I figured the only things I was using differently was Weather Bug Elite (it adds temperature to the taskbar) and the battery widget that also is on the taskbar. I unninstalled WBE, and the lagg got way better (it's not gone but WAY better than it was). Do you use the WBE app?
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Don't use either app.

do you have it hooked via usb?

lv2bll said:
do you have it hooked via usb?
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Alot of times it has just come off the charger, in which case I understand the lag...but most of the times just when it is sitting on my desk.
I do wonder if it has to do with the orrientation sensor, just because it's typically face down (Like after ignoring a phone call) when it happens

Apps keep closing, anyone else facing this?

Apps keep closing randomly. They're not force closing or crashing, just closing and I end up at the home screen.
Earlier it wasn't so frequent, buy it has become quite frequent now. Has happens at least 2-3 times in the past 2 hours.
It seems to happen more frequently when I'm using the phone while charging, but it does also happen when the phone isn't being charged.
Battery temperature was around 36-38C
Is anybody else also facing this?
Sent from my Nexus 4

m0h1t said:
Apps keep closing randomly. They're not force closing or crashing, just closing and I end up at the home screen.
Earlier it wasn't so frequent, buy it has become quite frequent now. Has happens at least 2-3 times in the past 2 hours.
It seems to happen more frequently when I'm using the phone while charging, but it does also happen when the phone isn't being charged.
Battery temperature was around 36-38C
Is anybody else also facing this?
Sent from my Nexus 4
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Honestly, I think I get that too sometimes. I just noticed recently when I was just trying to use the SMS app to text some friends it just randomly closed out of it sending me to the homescreen. I mean it was not a force close or anything like that it just closes randomly as I was typing. I mean I could of hit the home button on accident, but I don't think I did so yeah I'm pretty sure I do know to some extent of what you are talking about.

narupls said:
Honestly, I think I get that too sometimes. I just noticed recently when I was just trying to use the SMS app to text some friends it just randomly closed out of it sending me to the homescreen. I mean it was not a force close or anything like that it just closes randomly as I was typing. I mean I could of hit the home button on accident, but I don't think I did so yeah I'm pretty sure I do know to some extent of what you are talking about.
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How often does this happen with you? And no, it's not the home button getting hit by accident.
This is very annoying, happens atleast 4-5 times a day. Also this happens on both, the stock as well as franco r14 kernel.

That happens when I undervolt too far. Are you undervolting?

m0h1t said:
How often does this happen with you? And no, it's not the home button getting hit by accident.
This is very annoying, happens atleast 4-5 times a day. Also this happens on both, the stock as well as franco r14 kernel.
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You could activate "show touches" in your settings for a while.
At least it would confirm you aren't straying anywhere near the home button (i have done this on several occasions).
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

jacklebott said:
That happens when I undervolt too far. Are you undervolting?
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Nope, all voltages and frequencies are stock.
drpepe said:
You could activate "show touches" in your settings for a while.
At least it would confirm you aren't straying anywhere near the home button (i have done this on several occasions).
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If I was mistakenly pressing the home button, opening the app again from recent apps or from the drawer should resume it from where it was left off. But that doesn't happen, it starts afresh, be it a game, pulse, chrome or anything else.

Had my first phone lockup :(

Was using this app, then long press on home button to search from Google now. Phone froze, screen went black and just left the keyboard open. Couldn't do anything apart from a battery pull. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come!
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Never happened to me on the S5 yet but it happened for me some times on the nexus 7 2014 while using chrome (only on kitkat). Guess its a general problem that can happen in android since KitKat. Hope google can fix it asap.

Hasn't happened to me, would be sad if it did since it's new, and hope it never will (yeah right...)

Hold both Vol+/Vol- , Home & power button to perform a hard reboot

dynospectrum said:
Hold both Vol+/Vol- , Home & power button to perform a hard reboot
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Was wandering if there were any special keypresses I could use to reboot
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dynospectrum said:
Hold both Vol+/Vol- , Home & power button to perform a hard reboot
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Good to know!

There is no need for breaking your fingers by pressing all buttons,just hold the power button as long until it restarts
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simacca said:
Was using this app, then long press on home button to search from Google now. Phone froze, screen went black and just left the keyboard open. Couldn't do anything apart from a battery pull. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come!
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
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That sucks. Let us know if it happens again and how.

happens to me all the time, very annoying. The screen just goes black but the background apps continue to work (at least half the time anyway).

mastermarc said:
happens to me all the time, very annoying. The screen just goes black but the background apps continue to work (at least half the time anyway).
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ALL the time? I wouldn't have had the patience to keep with it and probably have sent it back or something...

This driving me mad..power button

I have to press it 2-3 times before the phone powers on. It doesn't happen all the time. it's very intermittent, but it does happen. After doing a factory reset, the button still performs the same. This just stated happening 2 days ago. I didn't drop it or get it wet. Anyone else experiencing this or do I have a faulty power button? I also get a delay when using the home button to turn on the phone. The home button issue might be due to the SD card though. Really love this phone, but this issue is frustrating!

You have to press and hold the power button for a few seconds to turn the phone on from cold.
The home button is probably because of S Voice which is set to activate with a double click of it, so it'll wait to see if you click it twice before going to the home screen, you can disable this in S Voice's settings.
Hth
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ratsalad said:
You have to press and hold the power button for a few seconds to turn the phone on from cold.
The home button is probably because of S Voice which is set to activate with a double click of it, so it'll wait to see if you click it twice before going to the home screen, you can disable this in S Voice's settings.
Hth
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Sometimes I have to press the power button more than once to put the phone to sleep. Do you experience the same? Is this normal? I am coming from a GS2. This never happened. I purchased an unlocked phone from GSM Nation. I am past the 15 day window to return, so I don't know how they will proceed. If I send my phone to Samsung, I'll be without a phone.

Mrplennium said:
Sometimes I have to press the power button more than once to put the phone to sleep. Do you experience the same? Is this normal? I am coming from a GS2. This never happened. I purchased an unlocked phone from GSM Nation. I am past the 15 day window to return, so I don't know how they will proceed. If I send my phone to Samsung, I'll be without a phone.
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To be honest, no, it goes 'to sleep' pretty instantly with one press on mine.

Mrplennium said:
Sometimes I have to press the power button more than once to put the phone to sleep. Do you experience the same? Is this normal? I am coming from a GS2. This never happened. I purchased an unlocked phone from GSM Nation. I am past the 15 day window to return, so I don't know how they will proceed. If I send my phone to Samsung, I'll be without a phone.
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You might not be pressing the button deep enough. If pressed properly, it should go to sleep with just one press. Long press will pop up the shutdown/restart menu. If turned off, long press of 2 sec will power on the phone.

Mrplennium said:
I have to press it 2-3 times before the phone powers on. It doesn't happen all the time. it's very intermittent, but it does happen. After doing a factory reset, the button still performs the same. This just stated happening 2 days ago. I didn't drop it or get it wet. Anyone else experiencing this or do I have a faulty power button? I also get a delay when using the home button to turn on the phone. The home button issue might be due to the SD card though. Really love this phone, but this issue is frustrating!
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Yes, I'm having this problem and I think others are too. I've had 10-30 second wake up lags at times (I have one of them recorded for proof). I got a replacement phone yesterday and while I didn't use it long enough to experience all of the lags, it had a pretty constant 2 second wake up lag. I'm now using SoftLocker to prevent the phone from going into deep sleep and that's minimizing the lag.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2750350

avhokie said:
Yes, I'm having this problem and I think others are too. I've had 10-30 second wake up lags at times (I have one of them recorded for proof). I got a replacement phone yesterday and while I didn't use it long enough to experience all of the lags, it had a pretty constant 2 second wake up lag. I'm now using SoftLocker to prevent the phone from going into deep sleep and that's minimizing the lag.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2750350
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I guess it depends on the RAM utilization. The delay happens to me when the RAM is highly utilized.

Does anyone who is having lag issues, have ART as their runtime? I had such nasty lag with ART that I almost took my phone back. Once I switched back to Dalvik, everything was really fast. If you don't know what ART or Dalvik is, then it's probably something else.
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Freeze at wake up, system UI not responding

Dear forum users,
I'm the proud owner of a 6t, but it is starting to become a nightmare.
This started on June, with Android 9. I had the phone freezing at wake up (screen stays black, even when I get my op6t in hand, not responding to power button). After some time ranging from 1s to 30s, the phone will wake up and execute every action I may have done (multiple power button press etc).
I tried to do a wipe cache and data with no success.
Did a factory reset followed by a Google account restore (apps and all) that let me with a day fine, but it came back.
Then I did a factory reset with manual restoration, app by app. Everything fine till now (writing this the phone hanged till home button press (yeah I use the evil navbar)).
I did the same procedure, but for unknown reason, I only got a day off. I'm trying right now safe mode.
This time it happened right after a strange popup poping in a baby care app, asking me to select customized Gads to continue using the app.
I've posted on their support site too, but I'm willing to know what would you think about this.
Usually the freeze happens on wake up.
Screen will stay entirely black. No heating, no battery drain.
As the phone is a year from the buy order, I might ask for a refund or exchange, but it seems to me that the issue is with my Google account. Cause if I reinstall slowly app by app, I'm pretty sure this would go **** someone else phone, as for the first time.
I'm running oos 10.3.0 OTA
Thanks for reading to this line.

Found out this comes from end of trial week with no ads (accepting ads) from baby daycare app from drilly apps.

ldFxl said:
Found out this comes from end of trial week with no ads (accepting ads) from baby daycare app from drilly apps.
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I was going to say that it sounds like you are getting pop ups from an app.
Glad you figured it out :good:

Scott said:
I was going to say that it sounds like you are getting pop ups from an app.
Glad you figured it out :good:
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I was unaware of the secure mode, which is so fine to test if non system app is a source of problem without any factory reset or uninstall.
For those who also aren't just long press power off popup button.