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My phone decides to reboot and or power off randomly and for no apparent reason. It's just sitting on my desk. Anyone else experience this issue?
Guess i'll try a reflash if this continues.
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Not very often but very annoying if you use your phone as alarm clock.
I honestly haven't experienced either with my SGS. I can sympathise though as my Milestone used to do both way too often (hence swapping for the SGS).
It hasn't happened to me.. It might be running a software or hardware watchdog to reboot automatically when the system panics. Ensure you are using a stock rom, otherwise, it may even be faulty hardware
Would happen several times a day on my Motorola Milestone so I sent it back and got the SGS. Totally rock solid. Only time it reboots is when I want it to. Maybe you have a rogue app?
you guys have any changes to the CPU speed whatsoever, task killers and all? i once used SetCPU and it sort of sent me into a random spree of reboots and such.
i remember rebooting, scanning 10gb of media, auto-reboot... repeat 4 times. lol.
Well it hasnt happened since yesterday. I will flash to froyo today just in case it was software related
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dakine said:
My phone decides to reboot and or power off randomly and for no apparent reason. It's just sitting on my desk. Anyone else experience this issue?
Guess i'll try a reflash if this continues.
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did you see the topic on the DEV forum about Resetting the battery status?
seems like the phone (not the battery) keeps a wrong battery status if you flashed it a few times
so even when you still have battery, the phone "thinks" it rans out of juice and it does that thing you mentioned
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did you see the topic on the DEV forum about Resetting the battery status?
seems like the phone (not the battery) keeps a wrong battery status if you flashed it a few times
so even when you still have battery, the phone "thinks" it rans out of juice and it does that thing you mentioned
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Link would be helpful, because I can't find that topic.
WOW, old thread that got dug up, for me it was just a software issue. I flashed many roms since and haven't had it happen again. I never reset my battery stats but I think clockwork mod recovery has an option to do that so most of the custom roms make that easy.
I also had random reboots and power-offs, on average once every 2 weeks, running on stock-firmware JF3. Problems did not go away when I manually upgraded to JM2. Problems stopped when I upgraded to Froyo...
Currently on dirkk's 1. 1 uv kernel(voodoo) and the superclean Rom
My phone thinks the. Usb is always connected and flashes between "fully charged" and real battery level. Also getting a lot of force closes for process. Android. Acore. It's quite frustrating. I have tried clearing battery stats in clockwork mod. This combination worked fine until about a week ago.
What else should I do? Start over? Try another Rom?
Thank you!
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im no expert but i blame voodoo. try uninstalling it.
-removed voodoo
-installed a new kernel and ROM (superfast and blackhole)
The problem persists
The phone thinks it is connected to the USB when it is not, and also getting a force close for process.android.acore every few minutes. FML
Wipe the dalvik cache and batt.stats again and try another cable.
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Tried and tried.
Have brought the phone back as close to stock as possible without using Odin. That's my next option. No force closes but the USB and battery issued persist. Geek squad warrenty might be worth it: x
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Tried and tried.
Have brought the phone back as close to stock as possible without using Odin. That's my next option. No force closes but the USB and battery issued persist. Geek squad warrenty might be worth it: x
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You have a one year warranty on the phone. If it's a genuine hardware problem, take the phone in and have it replaced.
Its looking like a hardware issue, I used odin to get it completely stock and the issue is still there. USB thinks it is always connected (which made it a huge PITA to get into the SD card to add files or use ADB) and the battery life is everywhere. Also wont boot without a USB cable plugged in. Very interesting hardware issue, my guess is the USB port got buggered up.
Hello, yestarday at night my evo was rebooting. I remove the battery and i have the same result, the solution was to enter in recovery do the factory reset, clear cache,. En apply the same that I was using myns, any ideas why this happens, also in been following the guide on how to double my battery, with no results. After I unplug the phone it drops from 100% to 92%. Need some advice on that to. Thanks
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Hello, yestarday at night my evo was rebooting. I remove the battery and i have the same result, the solution was to enter in recovery do the factory reset, clear cache,. En apply the same that I was using myns, any ideas why this happens, also in been following the guide on how to double my battery, with no results. After I unplug the phone it drops from 100% to 92%. Need some advice on that to. Thanks
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factory reset will clear caches anyway so that was redundant. u will want a trickle charging (SBC) kernel to avoid the 10% drop
let the flaming begin (SBC)
a battery pull and reboot might help
Thanks you for the fast reply, I'm using netarchy kernel 4.3.1. No sbc. Stable mod. And also I'm using setcpu, i don't know if that interfiere with the kernel that I'm using.
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uninstall setcpu... see what happens.
i know when i put the setcpu to high.. it will reboot itself....
also try a different kernel... start with a stock kernel.. or more standard.
I had the reboot issue a while back. My solution was to not leave Wi-Fi on if I wasn't using it. My phone would reboot if I left Wi-Fi on and it was idle.
I had to replace my evo three times for the same reason, I tried everiting, roms, batteries, etc.... but the true, is a problem with the evos. so nothing to do, if get to bad, it will, take it to sprint a replace it. Good luck.
Thanks you, all. This is the first time that happens to me. So let see if does it again.
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if its randomly rebooting try reformatting your sdcard.
or maybe try setting the wifi sleep policy to never. I suggest this because I also had the same problem and I had forgotten that certain kernels will cause random reboots if wifi the wifi policy is set on default.
Thank you, all for you help. So far my phone is acting normal...
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I have a same probleam but i couldent get to recovery too!!! my evo keep rebooting again and again
I am not sure if this has been resolved if it has please point me in right direction to thread. everytime I pull my battery out everything system force closes (messaging, phone, swype, android process. etc..) I read somewhere that sometimes clearing data or cache fixes this although I've had no luck, the only way I get around this is restoring to one of my back ups. is there a faster or better way around this? also I am rooted froyo 2.2/EC05 with various roms.
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I am not sure if this has been resolved if it has please point me in right direction to thread. everytime I pull my battery out everything system force closes (messaging, phone, swype, android process. etc..) I read somewhere that sometimes clearing data or cache fixes this although I've had no luck, the only way I get around this is restoring to one of my back ups. is there a faster or better way around this? also I am rooted froyo 2.2/EC05 with various roms.
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Are you perhaps running on the ext4 file system with journaling off?
Maybe switch back to journaling if this is the case. If not disregard and wait til a better answer comes along.
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I am not sure if this has been resolved if it has please point me in right direction to thread. everytime I pull my battery out everything system force closes (messaging, phone, swype, android process. etc..) I read somewhere that sometimes clearing data or cache fixes this although I've had no luck, the only way I get around this is restoring to one of my back ups. is there a faster or better way around this? also I am rooted froyo 2.2/EC05 with various roms.
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I asked the same question in a thread but sorry i cant remember which thread but i was told that doing a battery pull with phone on can cause data corruption much like how when u just like when u dont shut down ur computer properly. Hope this helps.
The only fix i was able to find was a system restore.
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flopelayo3 said:
I am not sure if this has been resolved if it has please point me in right direction to thread. everytime I pull my battery out everything system force closes (messaging, phone, swype, android process. etc..) I read somewhere that sometimes clearing data or cache fixes this although I've had no luck, the only way I get around this is restoring to one of my back ups. is there a faster or better way around this? also I am rooted froyo 2.2/EC05 with various roms.
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Pulling your battery shouldn't cause this issue, unless you pulled it before the phone was completely shut down. (You have to wait for it to go black and vibrate. This vibration happens anywhere from 2 seconds to 15 seconds after the phone goes dark, depending on which rom you are using).
It seems to be a "no journaling" issue with 95% of the people that this has happened to (including myself!!) "No journaling" is a faster set-up, but will not write needed data in the event of an unexpected/improper shut down.
No journaling/journaling is a choice we have been given by the great developers here, so it really comes down to personal preference.
As a side-note: If you have restored a backup that had jounaling "on", you don't have to worry about turning it back on now. I believe, from what I have read on here, that it reverted automatically. Also - if you restored a backup that was not ext4, then I don't think you are ext4 anymore either.
Hopefully I haven't taken up all this space telling you something you already know. In any case, I hope this helps a little!
This happened to me last night and I was pissed cause I would have lost a lot of unsaved numbers. I found the easiest fix though. Boot into clockwork > advanced > fix permissions. That simple.
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Don't pull your battery until off........... these are not simple devices you can go yanking the battery out of whenever you want and its still gonna work properly.
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If journaling is on then you can.
To (re)enable journaling just make a NAND backup then restore it.
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Don't pull your battery until off........... these are not simple devices you can go yanking the battery out of whenever you want and its still gonna work properly.
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Sooo how long should we stare at a frozen screen until we do pull the batt?
I finally gave up on custom roms and am sticking with stock, just for this reason, way too many FCs then I do a batt pull and I gotta reflash the rom and hope it works
.. I guess this phone just can't handle the flash dance like my HTCs could.
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Guess no one tried doing what I did. Cause, you know, it's SO much harder than reflashing an entire rom and losing your data...
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I gave up on custom ROMs as well. I'm on cleaned up stock and I get great battery life with plenty of speed and no debilitating errors. If (or I should say WHEN) an app decides to go batty, it only hurts itself and not my entire system.
just happened to me smh....
Turn journaling on, and search or something
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Listen too him he is absolutly correct. Turn journaling on. Also you don't have to stare at a blank phone it will vibrate when its done shutting down after the display is off
Go here for 2 scripts to enable and disable journaling
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071723
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Listen too him he is absolutly correct. Turn journaling on. Also you don't have to stare at a blank phone it will vibrate when its done shutting down after the display is off
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I was going to tell him 2-3 hours but you have to watch cuz the led might flash and show you it's ready. I'm only feeling semi-helpful today. I gave a great fix for this on the SRF thread if you're OCD about backing up like I can be.
I bought S4 2 months ago. Recently, it keep restarting and restarting. The battery go down from 50% to 0% when it restart. Anyone know how to fix this issue ?
Same thing over here
My S4 acted that way also.
It happened when I took burst pictures and then touch the little photo icon in the corner to see the captured images.
The phone restarted at 0% battery and got into restart loop.
Only removing the battery for a few seconds could stop this loop.
Now, I reinstalled a new ROM.
Hope it works.
Try install new recovery+ROM
There are many ways to try to fix this issue start from the least expensive :
- disconnect wireless
- remove sd card
- remove the battery and the sim card and reinsert them
- check if your battery is swollen and replace it if so
- try a factory reset
- if you have a custom rom try stock rom
good luck
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difyel said:
There are many ways to try to fix this issue start from the least expensive :
- disconnect wireless
- remove sd card
- remove the battery and the sim card and reinsert them
- check if your battery is swollen and replace it if so
- try a factory reset
- if you have a custom rom try stock rom
good luck
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- i already removed sd card, but it keep restarting.
- Just did, didnt work.
- My battery is fine, lots of people are suffering this problem so i think this is software, firmware, etc. problem.
- already did, twice.
- I havent touched anything about ROM.
Logcat or kernel dbug messages may be useful in this cases
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smep said:
Logcat or kernel dbug messages may be useful in this cases
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can u give me more detail about those 2?
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can u give me more detail about those 2?
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Those are diagnostic tools, they log every thing including fatal errors that cause the system to restart.
Install from play store
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Getting the same-ish problems. Phone is rebooting like mad, doesn't matter what ROM I have installed at all. Not sure if it's an issue with my battery but it seems that it could be a voltage/current issue that causes the phone to die for just long enough. As everyone knows if you pull the battery out whilst the phone is on, then put it back in after a second or two, the phone tries to reboot without you ever having pressed the power button
I just got 2 new batteries. Gotta wait about a week for them to come. Gonna do some testing, see if it stops the issues. If not, then it's a hardware issue and I'm gonna see if I can get it replaced under warranty.
How to use logcat
My problem seems to be different compared to the others in this thread, but don't want to start a new thread. Currently my S4 is lying in the office all week, because I use another phone, when I am outside of the office. It's equiped with pre-rooted MGA, but I also tried various other ROM's, with different ways of flashing e.g. CWM, Odin etc. also no wipe/full wipe. The problem is that as soon, as I take the phone away from the office, I have several restarts a day, which is never happen in the office. This is strange!
My thoughts are, that some app is responsible.
questions:
- can I find out in using logcat? / How to use logcat?
- There is a description to boot the phone into safe mode http://skp.samsungcsportal.com/integrated/popup/FaqDetailPopup3.jsp?cdsite=my&seq=871239. It's not working for me. Has anybody tried that?
- Any other ideas?
schlork said:
My problem seems to be different compared to the others in this thread, but don't want to start a new thread. Currently my S4 is lying in the office all week, because I use another phone, when I am outside of the office. It's equiped with pre-rooted MGA, but I also tried various other ROM's, with different ways of flashing e.g. CWM, Odin etc. also no wipe/full wipe. The problem is that as soon, as I take the phone away from the office, I have several restarts a day, which is never happen in the office. This is strange!
My thoughts are, that some app is responsible.
questions:
- can I find out in using logcat? / How to use logcat?
- There is a description to boot the phone into safe mode http://skp.samsungcsportal.com/integrated/popup/FaqDetailPopup3.jsp?cdsite=my&seq=871239. It's not working for me. Has anybody tried that?
- Any other ideas?
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You may have an application that response to locations through gps which give you another set of profile depend on your location, try turn gps off and see...
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Try to swap batteries. When phone keep restarting all the time battery is faulty. Hope it helps.
Hi guys, I tested a few days before coming back. So what I can say now
Try to swap batteries. When phone keep restarting all the time battery is faulty. Hope it helps.
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==> It is not battery
You may have an application that response to locations through gps which give you another set of profile depend on your location, try turn gps off and see...
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I believe that goes in the right direction, but turning off GPS did not help. But I think it must have to do with location, sometimes it is stable the whole day (same as in the office) sometimes 2-3 reboots, one after the other.
Must be an app, but how to find?