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GSOD (GREEN Screen Of Death)

damn.. today I got a complete freeze of my HD2 running on original ROM, original radio and HSPL1.42..
It was very low on batt (4%) and I was searching a file on Total commander.
has anyone got one of this before?

holy cow WTF, i would leave it of for a while then charge it turned off, try again, I never seen that man.

Can you enter the bootloader? Btw. I've never seen such an issue.

It was the first one.. (and I hope the last one) and I got scared like hell!
BTW I pulled off the battery and it came back to life. Now it is charging normally and everything is ok..
Just wanted to know if someone else have faced this kind of hangs..

de Wolfe said:
Can you enter the bootloader? Btw. I've never seen such an issue.
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thank god it was just a hang... everything is ok now..

I have seen it on other units when the battery gets critically low. Some units will go into a continuos boot cycle,others will turn off, and some others will hang on certain screens..... Glad that you sorted it out.
Later

woah! that green color is freakishly close to the HTC theme "green".
its as if the HTC "HAL" inside is trying to come out, like it had become "self aware" for a fleeting moment
beware!

God damn... ^^ You made me freak out after 4 dead Xboxs due to the red ring of death...

hdbueller said:
I have seen it on other units when the battery gets critically low. Some units will go into a continuos boot cycle,others will turn off, and some others will hang on certain screens..... Glad that you sorted it out.
Later
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I remember old days with my 2nd winmo device.. it was an HP IPAQ running WM 6.0, when the battery was really really low, it started rebooting on an endless cycle.. Now this is my 4th winmo device, I never thought ill see something like that again...
Paschinski said:
God damn... ^^ You made me freak out after 4 dead Xboxs due to the red ring of death...
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you really can't immagine my freaked out face while looking at the green screen...

i want it... i want it...

got same trouble often with any batt status

agreed with previous replies, gsod in this case probably more relates to low battery...
in wm, using sync mode when connecting to pc via usb cable, reboot to android, and you will not get gsod... at least works for my hd2: either using this way or reboot when battery is not too low (above 40%??)

Someone got their hands on the rare HTC Hulk...
Never seen that solid gsod before -- at least outside of the Android port's early builds.

I GOT ONE TOO!!!
but mine was while booting into Android
Never seen one within WinMo though... ever.

leepriestenator said:
I GOT ONE TOO!!!
but mine was while booting into Android
Never seen one within WinMo though... ever.
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I too have had it with android, allot of people have!
But never ever in winmo, Ive never even heard of it till now!

got it when booting to android too

GSOD repeatedly
Hi, this is really scary. This morning I had so far 5-6 GSODs. Battery's fine (90%). The only different thing is the GSM's turned off since I'm in roaming. After a GSOD the screen is hanging on the white screen with the ROM details 3.14 ROM btw. Reset needed after that too. Original batteries. First time it happened it was during a USB sync.
Is anyone getting the same?
No Android, no ROM experiments.
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Getting out the microSD card helped. I uninstalled a couple of programs, now it's all right.
I remember installing some multialarm program and IMDB mobile, midomi all from OPNmarket. They are out of my phone now.

do a hard reset

GSOD
I got the same thing on WM. i send my phone to htc for warranty, and they replaced my motherboard. dont why but they did. since that moment i got the GSOD. it also keeps rebooting. very annoying. called htc and im getting a new phone. hope this helps

GSOD Moto Triumph
The same senario has happened to me and I can't seem to get my Triumph to work again. Any tips would be appreciated.

[Q] shut down normally: now no power light or boot

I apologize in advance if there is a similar thread; I could not find one.
My EVO has been fine, no issues. I use it heavily every day. I'm running Cyanogen 7 nightly 147 (I think) and have been for 4 or 5 days. Using the Tiamat kernel running SMARTASS.
Last night I shut down around midnight with around 50% power. I plugged in the charger but don't remember if the charging light came on then. This morning there is no charging light and the phone won't boot. Tried long holding the power button, battery pulls, pulled the SD card (for lack of anything else to try). Nothing has had any effect.
Does anyone have other ideas? I'm at a loss. If it's dead, it sure chose a strange way to go. Any advice would be very appreciated. I need this thing for work and home. Many thanks.

Just after posting I went back to playing with different chargers and power button pushes. The white HTC logo flashed for a second and the phone vibrated but it went right back off. It's the first sign of life I've seen, but I can't get it to repeat or go further.

This happened to my sisters Evo when she first got it last summer. Luckily it was the battery and HTC shipped a new one for free. The warranty on the evo is 15 months so you can try and request a new battery!
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I have found one similar thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913258. So maybe it is a dead battery. Been getting amazing life recently, so it seems crazy that it would suddenly be dead. Is this common?

Any suggestions for going to the Sprint store with a rooted phone? Since it's a bad battery, they may not need to look at the phone once it boots. I haven't had to do this before, so I'm not sure what to expect.

if you do go to a sprint store, i would not let them keep the phone or even take it out of your sight. if that happens you may well find yourself unrooted. but thats just a guess. you can get on ebay or any other similar site and buy a cheap battery for less than $5. then if thats not the problem go from there. this same problem happened to me but luckily one of my friends also has an EVO so i just used his battery and my phone worked great. so i just bought a new battery

Thanks for the input. Headed to the Sprint store in a minute to see if a battery will solve it.

It was the battery. They tested in at the Sprint store and pronounced it DOA. They said they don't normally have spare batteries but they happened to have one, luckily. I was pretty grabby with the phone and didn't let it go for long. Once it started to boot I took it back and they never saw the Cyanogen screens.
Overall they handled it very well. I was impressed with how responsive they were. I was out of there in 10 minutes.

Weird Issue!

My tab was sitting on my desk in sleep mode. I picked it up and tried to unlock it and it seemed frozen for a moment, then let me swipe. It seemed fine after that. A few hours later I picked it up again and it was very sluggish and the back was warm and my battery at 15%. (it was at about 50% a few hours earlier) I rebooted it and it's fine, but I am wondering what caused it to get so warm. I know that happens when it's being used a lot but it was just sitting on my desk. There were no apps running in the background. Any ideas what could have happened? I haven't installed anything new in the last few days.

Are you running stock?

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Are you running stock?
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And we assume ICS (apart from stock)? But there are quite a few threads on the increased power-consumption on ICS (Stock and other). So might be some run-away process or service. What is the highest battery-user according to the device info? And how much? Has ICS gotten rid of the dialer goof-up for non-3G tablets?
P.S. Like the off limits (slap on the wrist) of the better half's tablet, same here :laugh:

Yes assuming ICS...my bad lol. It was more of a "tell me everything you've done lately" type of question. I have noticed increased battery consumption myself but that's why I switched ROMs today. If I lose a couple extra ticks on the battery in exchange for the performance I've gotten I can live with that
And yes I will lose whatever part of my body touches the wife's tablet. She's heard enough profanity in the last month as I got my feet wet hahaha!

Yes, stock ICS. Sorry for omitting that!
The highest battery user is the screen. I'm thinking maybe the tablet froze and I didn't notice it. Having the screen on constantly for several hours is probably not battery friendly. I'm concerned because it's still warm between the Samsung logo and the camera on the back. It's not hot or anything, just noticeably warm, and it's just sitting there charging. I'm not using it.

I have (or you can do it yourself) to delve in other threads, where they dismantle the tablet. Is it a P7500, or just a plain P7510? I thought that the 3G radio-part was about there where it still is hot (residual heat probably by now), but I can be mistaken. If this is a P7510, then I do not know what would be there at that location. It certainly is not the battery, that is much lower...
I will try and find what is about there, but other solder-happy soldiers must be able to tell you exactly what is located there.
Anybody?

BretonGirl said:
Yes, stock ICS. Sorry for omitting that!
The highest battery user is the screen. I'm thinking maybe the tablet froze and I didn't notice it. Having the screen on constantly for several hours is probably not battery friendly. I'm concerned because it's still warm between the Samsung logo and the camera on the back. It's not hot or anything, just noticeably warm, and it's just sitting there charging. I'm not using it.
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A friend of mine had a similar problem with his galaxy s2 locking up and needing a long-press power reboot to get it working again on stock ICS 4.0.3. The culprit ended up being android os in battery stats, but the problem has not happened again yet. As for the warmth on the back of your tab, this is caused by the processor running at full speed for extended periods of time. If your screen is on, and you are interacting with it a lot, then you should expect the upper left back side of the tab to heat up and not cool down until you stop using it. This is normal... if it continues to stay hot for long periods of time after the screen is off, then you are probably not going into deep sleep mode because of a rogue app. If you are rooted, install better battery stats and CPU spy to do a little more digging. Good luck, I hope you figure it out and get your tab running the way you would like it to.

I figured out what it was. I'd seen the Ebook icon in my app tray and tapped it. It took me to the Samsung App store. I left immediately but that visit apparently installed "Samsung Push Service" which was taking 62% of my battery and causing 100% wake lock. What a POS! I uninstalled it and everything is normal again. Won't ever visit the Samsung App store again.

I froze that app. Ugly. Glad you worked it out!

Note 4 Issues

Good afternoon,
I have a AT&T Note 4 and I am at my wits ends. When you try and restart the phone it will just shut down and then it will not power up for 10-15 minutes at all. The phone will also shut down randomly. It will lag and not unlock sometimes. It just seems to freeze. Sometimes on start up it goes to the Odin screen or gets stuck on restarting and never makes it to the colored SAMSUNG screen. I have replaced the battery to eliminate that possibility. The software is up to date also. I have trouble shot this thing to death. What am I missing? The GPS also way off and it started being off a year and a half almost after the phone was new. I am talking 250-500 feet off. It is mostly off while moving making navigation impossible.

BrtherSanders said:
Good afternoon,
I have a AT&T Note 4 and I am at my wits ends. When you try and restart the phone it will just shut down and then it will not power up for 10-15 minutes at all. The phone will also shut down randomly. It will lag and not unlock sometimes. It just seems to freeze. Sometimes on start up it goes to the Odin screen or gets stuck on restarting and never makes it to the colored SAMSUNG screen. I have replaced the battery to eliminate that possibility. The software is up to date also. I have trouble shot this thing to death. What am I missing? The GPS also way off and it started being off a year and a half almost after the phone was new. I am talking 250-500 feet off. It is mostly off while moving making navigation impossible.
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there are multiple threads on the first two pages of this forum section.
many others having same issue, please read the following ones:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/phone-functioning-badly-failed-ota-t3450091
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/note-4-sm-n910f-freeze-restart-issue-t3439111
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/help-newly-acquired-note-4-boot-looping-t3448009
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/phone-functioning-badly-failed-ota-t3450091
i wish there would be a way to make Samsung accept the fact that THERE IS something wrong with our Notes!!!
short verdict - it is dying. install wake lock application, add it to start up and set settings to #4.
accept the fact that your phone will eat the battery faster and one day WILL die completely

golden_m said:
there are multiple threads on the first two pages of this forum section.
many others having same issue, please read the following ones:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/phone-functioning-badly-failed-ota-t3450091
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/note-4-sm-n910f-freeze-restart-issue-t3439111
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/help-newly-acquired-note-4-boot-looping-t3448009
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/phone-functioning-badly-failed-ota-t3450091
i wish there would be a way to make Samsung accept the fact that THERE IS something wrong with our Notes!!!
short verdict - it is dying. install wake lock application, add it to start up and set settings to #4.
accept the fact that your phone will eat the battery faster and one day WILL die completely
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Thanks for the response. Yup that is what the issue is. I have been a Samsung fan for years. The fact that they refuse to acknowledge this may drive me away from getting another one. I have spent hours researching and trying to narrow down the issues and find the fix.

BrtherSanders said:
Thanks for the response. Yup that is what the issue is. I have been a Samsung fan for years. The fact that they refuse to acknowledge this may drive me away from getting another one. I have spent hours researching and trying to narrow down the issues and find the fix.
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you are welcome.
i am in the same shoes - liked the note, but considering switching to Nexus 6p now

golden_m said:
you are welcome.
i am in the same shoes - liked the note, but considering switching to Nexus 6p now
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Note7 already having issues. Seems like Samsung may have some serious issues going on. Ill have to get my hands on a Nexus and look at it.

Just finished switching to 6P, for better or for worse. Looks great, love the octa core, but the new Google phone is supposed to be announced in a month, and there's no expandable storage. But, I was ready to upgrade and the last few months with my note4 have been brutal. After hearing how many people were also having issues with Samsung (plus the note 7 exploding battery thing), I'm more than ready to come back to Nexus and leave the Note behind. Tbh probably just gonna thrash it until it completely dies lol

Help: Bought used HTC 10, it started randomly reboot, now stuck in bootloop, stock sw

I guess Santa gave me a lump of coal this Xmas... I finally treated myself to an upgrade from my trusty One M7 and got an used S-offed HTC 10 from Swappa. Yeah I know... as a poor grad student, funding is pretty damn tight.
The phone is in good physical shape - no obvious signs of abuse. However, in the first week of use, I experienced a couple random reboots, and the phone itself was getting hot (>40 degrees C) while just texting and on wifi, with airplane mode on. Battery life with that usage pattern and load was maybe 1.5 hours screen on time. Deep down I knew something felt off, as that's WORSE battery life than my 4+ year old One M7. But I thought hey, it's a used phone. I was planning to flash TWRP and custom roms on there, maybe the debloated roms will help.
When I finally was able to flash TWRP and Santod's debloated stock rom, it was okay. Still some random reboots, but I loved the new phone so much, I was okay with it.
Until it got worse and worse. To the point where unlocking the phone will make it freeze, then reboot. At first, it was when the battery was low, like 40%. Then gradually it started freezing and rebooting at higher %, until it started doing it with a full battery.
Fast forward to just before Xmas - the phone is unusable. It will reboot show the white HTC boot screen, then black out, and start again. Bootloop forever. All while plugged in. I noticed the charge light isn't on even when plugged in, I guess during the initial seconds of booting up, it relies on battery power alone? Such a bad design if true
I've had to leave it overnight. I would wake up to a seemingly dead phone. I'll plug it in, and it would show the charge screen. If I turn it on then, it would go into bootloop. It won't even make it into recovery, stock or TWRP when I had it. If I let it charge until the charge light is green, it MIGHT boot into the welcome screen. It'll freeze up after a few taps, then back to bootloop.
My best guess is the previous owner abused the battery so bad that the cell is completely ****ed. I regret that I forgot to ask about the battery life before I made the purchase - I was just too excited about getting an upgrade from my M7 As of now, I am back to my trusty M7, which although slow and janky, it's 100% stable and still has usable battery life.
I paid $200 for the HTC 10, which might not be a lot of money to some, but it is to a struggling grad student like me. The phone is nothing but an expensive paper weight right now. And I never got to enjoy it Has anyone experienced similar problems with their 10? I am so angry and sad...

Roughly the same thing happened to a friend, we got our 10's at right around launch. We had similar battery usage, we both played a lot of Pokemon Go which is hard on the battery. Mine has been running custom ROM's as far back as when Sunshine was still mail in, his is purely stock S-on. His started doing the same thing as what you are describing a couple months ago, we even tried a RUU and while that helped for awhile he traded it in asap for a Pixel 2. There are a few reports of this going around, not sure if it had to do with a recent update from Verizon that borked something or if it's a hardware flaw, either way you are probably better off trying to get your money back or trading it in to HTC of Verizon for something newer