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So I've had the vibrant freeze on me about 3 or 4 times out of the 2-3 weeks I've had it so far. It's gone black with the bottom four buttons still lit but it wouldn't shut of via the power button or respond to any other buttons either. Also, one time it froze yesterday after I did a master reset through the factory reset option. This time it froze while I was trying to do a speed test, the screen stayed on in the speed test window but buttons were once again nonresponsive. I haven't replicated it yet though. I have to pull the battery to get it restarted.
Another issue I've experienced a couple of times is the wifi would freeze when I turn it off through the power widget (my normal method of toggling wifi). It says that wifi is turning off but it stays in that state and never actually does. The green light would dim on the power widget as though it's turning off but it sticks there and under wifi info it just says it's turning off. When this happen, wifi will neither turn on nor off and just becomes unresponsive. I have to restart the vibrant to get wifi back to normal.
Anyone else experienced this or have any ideas on these problems?
Samsung Vibrant Freeze
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So I've had the vibrant freeze on me about 3 or 4 times out of the 2-3 weeks I've had it so far. It's gone black with the bottom four buttons still lit but it wouldn't shut of via the power button or respond to any other buttons either. Also, one time it froze yesterday after I did a master reset through the factory reset option. This time it froze while I was trying to do a speed test, the screen stayed on in the speed test window but buttons were once again nonresponsive. I haven't replicated it yet though. I have to pull the battery to get it restarted.
Another issue I've experienced a couple of times is the wifi would freeze when I turn it off through the power widget (my normal method of toggling wifi). It says that wifi is turning off but it stays in that state and never actually does. The green light would dim on the power widget as though it's turning off but it sticks there and under wifi info it just says it's turning off. When this happen, wifi will neither turn on nor off and just becomes unresponsive. I have to restart the vibrant to get wifi back to normal.
Anyone else experienced this or have any ideas on these problems?
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has any solution been found for this ?? i have similar freezing issues with my vibrant .. i found one possible culprit listed on another site .. there is a way to disable the TeleNavGPS app (as you cannot uninstall) .. it is supposed that this interferes with the phone to the point of complete failure
Are you running stock 2.2 from Kies? I had exactly the same problems.
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You could try backing up and doing an ODIN flash to KA6. I've had similar lockups with some builds in the past but they are fairly infrequent. Currently running stock KB1 rooted with KA6 radio and it has been smooth for a long while now.
I've tried some of the 2.2.1 Roms, but I absolutely need wifi calling so I stick with stock.
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I have the same issue. On my second Vibrant running stock 2.2. About to send this one back for warranty as well. Mine will freeze from the lock screen, either stuck on the screen and the display stays on, or the screen wont come back on from idle.
FirefighterZ said:
I have the same issue. On my second Vibrant running stock 2.2. About to send this one back for warranty as well. Mine will freeze from the lock screen, either stuck on the screen and the display stays on, or the screen wont come back on from idle.
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Have you tried another ROM? I thought my phone was broken with stock 2.2. Haven't had issues with Bionix.
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No other ROMs, I know there are a lot of good ones, but I shouldn't have to root my phone for it to work correctly. Within a week of this current Vibrant I was having these issues. I didn't purchase the Vibrant to flash ROMs, I bought it because of the specs to remain stock. On a side note..I was told after 3 warranty replacements within 90 days I will be able to get another phone from them.
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No other ROMs, I know there are a lot of good ones, but I shouldn't have to root my phone for it to work correctly. Within a week of this current Vibrant I was having these issues. I didn't purchase the Vibrant to flash ROMs, I bought it because of the specs to remain stock. On a side note..I was told after 3 warranty replacements within 90 days I will be able to get another phone from them.
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Yeah, know what you mean. It is silly that stock is just broken. Hopefully the OTA will be better than the Kies release. (Are they doing an OTA?)
Maybe they'll swap for a Nexus S.
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im rooted on android 2.2 but stock rom stock modem stock everything just root. i have had the same wif issue as the op. i just go to settings>wireless settings> wifsettings and turn on wifi that way. if you notice it will say error. 90% of the time this works and you will not have to reboot. i switch from wifi to 3g a lot. i have not figured the cause just yet but this is a work around for now.
as far as deleting the bloatware i rooted and deleted all that crap like sims, and other apps that i do not/will not ever use. there is a thread on which ones are safe to delete. be careful about deleting apps that are used by google such as google talk.
Unreal, Samsung. I wanted to sell my Vibrant, but can't get anywhere near what it's worth because of these stupid issues.
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I'm having the same problems!!!
I am now on the 3rd replacement (that's the 4th T-Mobile's Samsung Vibrant 3G!!!) and still having problems.
My phone will just be sitting on my desk at work and I'll hear it buzz a couple times. I know that buzz. It's something "Force Closing" in the background. I will pick my phone up and it will be unresponsive. It will light up the 4 buttons on the bottom of the device, but nothing else. Normally, it will then immediately start rebooting. It will go through the usual start-up screens. It will then show the status bar at the top; battery life, alarm clock, signal, 3G/WiFi, Media Scanning progress. However, the rest of the screen will be black. It will then vibrate once, then 2 more times and do it all over. It repeats this at least once for around an hour EVERY DAY!!! Other times, it will not restart on it's own and I will have to hold down the power button to manually do so.
I have also gone through ALL the troubleshooting I can imagine. All logs, history, texts, cache... EVERYTHING... has been cleared.
Please forgive me for asking, but it appears that I am to possibly root my phone for a resolution... is this true?
Also, has anyone heard of this "3 Returns Within 90 Days" policy with T-Mobile? I could easily do this with this phone. Has anyone had any luck getting them to do that?
Got the ICS update the other day on my totally stock US wi-fi Xoom.
So far, reliability has taken a step backwards.
1. The thing wakes up at random. As in, just sitting there on the nightstand sleeping, and all of a sudden it wakes up as if I had tapped the power button.
2. It's happened at least once so far where it just spontaneously rebooted. It was just sitting on the nightstand, and all of a sudden the screen turns on and the unit is (re-)booting. Might be an evil incidence of issue #1.
3. Tapping the power button sometimes doesn't work and I have to tap it multiple times or tap and hold it in order to get the tablet to wake up.
WTF? I understand that glitches are inevitable with new software but wow, this is pretty basic reliability stuff... the final Honeycomb version on this tablet was rock solid for me.
Also, in contrast to others' reports, I think browsing has also taken a step backwards. It takes longer to load pages, and sometimes I just wind up with an empty white screen instead of a rendered page.
I suppose I could try resetting to shake out any demons but I would very much like to avoid doing that unless it's really known that it fixes some of these issues.
Any thoughts?
Are you using a dock?
I upgraded and it's running way better. No bugs that I can find so far. Wake up lag is nonexistant. No reboots or wakes. Battery is lasting about a day longer than before.
I'm having this problem. I thought it was dock related but looks like I was wrong.
I left it undocked all night and woke up in the morning and found it was at the "enter your password" screen for encrypted tablets.
I also get the problem where it doesn't wake up from sleep, have to force reboot it. Am gonna do a full wipe today and see if that helps, will report back.
I recently GED-ified mine, wonder if that makes a difference, it was originally on the UK/EU honeycomb firmware.
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I'm having this problem. I thought it was dock related but looks like I was wrong.
I left it undocked all night and woke up in the morning and found it was at the "enter your password" screen for encrypted tablets.
I also get the problem where it doesn't wake up from sleep, have to force reboot it. Am gonna do a full wipe today and see if that helps, will report back.
I recently GED-ified mine, wonder if that makes a difference, it was originally on the UK/EU honeycomb firmware.
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Seems like the only people having the issues use a dock. Maybe it has something to do with being charged by the dock if its happening off the dock too?
Do a little testing. Don't use the dock for a few, two or three days after your reset to see if you have any issues. Then dock it and see if the issues come back?
I have no issues but have never docked it once. Don't own a dock.
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Seems like the only people having the issues use a dock. Maybe it has something to do with being charged by the dock if its happening off the dock too?
Do a little testing. Don't use the dock for a few, two or three days after your reset to see if you have any issues. Then dock it and see if the issues come back?
I have no issues but have never docked it once. Don't own a dock.
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I doubt it is related to the dock. Sometimes you just get a bad download...like a slight power surge while downloading, or whatever. I'm not on stock, but from my experience on ICS, the issues you report are related to your own software install and not the OS or dock hardware.
I am using the standard dock and no issues here at all.
I wiped via Android settings and booted in, signed in, etc. Was changing some settings and it just rebooted :| Have wired it up to adb, hoping it happens again so I can see why.
The dock doesn't work right either. Putting the tablet on the dock doesn't cause it to sleep automatically after a time, and taking it off the dock does not cause it to automatically wake up.
ICS is a definite step backwards, at least for some of us. Hopefully there will be occasional updates like there were for Honeycomb. By the end of Honeycomb, things were nice and stable.
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Got the ICS update the other day on my totally stock US wi-fi Xoom.
So far, reliability has taken a step backwards.
1. The thing wakes up at random. As in, just sitting there on the nightstand sleeping, and all of a sudden it wakes up as if I had tapped the power button.
2. It's happened at least once so far where it just spontaneously rebooted. It was just sitting on the nightstand, and all of a sudden the screen turns on and the unit is (re-)booting. Might be an evil incidence of issue #1.
3. Tapping the power button sometimes doesn't work and I have to tap it multiple times or tap and hold it in order to get the tablet to wake up.
WTF? I understand that glitches are inevitable with new software but wow, this is pretty basic reliability stuff... the final Honeycomb version on this tablet was rock solid for me.
Also, in contrast to others' reports, I think browsing has also taken a step backwards. It takes longer to load pages, and sometimes I just wind up with an empty white screen instead of a rendered page.
I suppose I could try resetting to shake out any demons but I would very much like to avoid doing that unless it's really known that it fixes some of these issues.
Any thoughts?
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Try wiping your Tablet and then reinstalling all your apps. That might help you out.
I reset the tablet. This does in fact seem to have made things better.
Maybe there's some apps, or settings or whatever that don't carry over well into ICS.
The tablet has not turned itself on by itself and it's behaving about as I expect with the dock. I still think something is a bit 'off' in terms of how the tablet sleeps and resumes automatically when docked and undocked, but it's at least not behaving like there's a ghost in it.
My one is still doing random reboots, came back home from work and found it had a mere 1 hr of uptime, I left it in my drawer undocked.
when I upgraded I noticed certain apps that weren't ics ready needed to be reinstalled. Try uninstalling everything that isn't a stock app then slowly add those apps back. Ideally if you can identify the app you can let the developer know so they can fix their app.
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Mine turns on randomly I think it may be from another reason.. I am on team EOS rom.
Xoom Master said:
Mine turns on randomly I think it may be from another reason.. I am on team EOS rom.
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Could be overclocked at to high a speed for your CPU, or you're using the wrong governor. Or some other combination of settings, or needing to do a wipe before flashing a new GApps version...
Hmm its on lag free and at 1408mhz could that be the issue?
Thanks
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I wiped via Android settings and booted in, signed in, etc. Was changing some settings and it just rebooted :| Have wired it up to adb, hoping it happens again so I can see why.
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I have the same problem. Random reboots and freezes while the tablet is idle. I deleted all downloaded apps and wiped the tablet - to no avail. This is what I found out so far:
The reboots/freezes only happen when the tablet is idle, never when I'm working.
No reboots when USB is connected (so you can't use adb to find out the cause)
No reboots in Airplane Mode
Any ideas? Before the ICS update my tablet was fine
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Hmm its on lag free and at 1408mhz could that be the issue?
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try interactive.
u do a full wipe (factory reset)
I'm on eos and have not had a random reboot since 5
Mine is also having problems. I put the stock rom on there via CWM recovery with the modified file that got rid of the device check.
If I leave it sitting around for a while even in airplane mode the performance of the whole tablet just plummets. There is literally nothing happening to it when I'm not using it either. Random reboots (almost on cue when I stop using it), etc.
My device history was that I had Honeycomb stock and a locked bootloader, then unlocked (and wiped obviously) and loaded ICS. I then wanted to see if I could get the official OTA update so I flashed back to 3.2.1, and then flashed ICS again.
Edit: On second thought, maybe I should try eliminating apps before I say anything
I'd suggest a Factory Reset for those having consistent random reboots. More than likely it is an app or app related that didn't move over well during the upgrade/update. Especially if you weren't having these problems before the update/upgrade.
I personally always Factory Reset whenever my device goes from one OS version to the next OS version and then re-download the apps as needed (this usually makes for a good cleanup as well, I find a few apps I downloaded I never end up using).
My Xoom has been up 267 hours and would be longer if I hadn't turned it off while away from my charger(s) for an extended time. It has never rebooted on it's own or locked up since getting the ICS update.
With the eos rom i do not have random reboots but sometime my xoom wont wake up. I have to reboot it manually with power-volume up.
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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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).
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That happens when I undervolt too far. Are you undervolting?
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Nope, all voltages and frequencies are stock.
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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).
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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.
I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my new Verizon GS5.
Scenario: I am doing something such as reading a text, decide I'm done and lock the screen, and then a second or two later realize I forget to check something and hit the lock button again to turn it back on. Most of the time when I do this the physical buttons will light up but the screen will stay black, and a few seconds later the physical buttons will turn off. This will happen a few times until finally the screen turns on and I see the lock screen.
I had a similar issue with my Galaxy Nexus (rooted and running Kit Kat) phone prior to the GS5 and figured it was my old hardware- is this some Kit Kat bug?
Thanks for any input
Same issue here. But I can't figure out if it was due to switching to ART or not.
We can wait others reply with this i hope someone will post a tip on this kind of problem.
I switched to art after installing apps and I'm ha ing this issue didn't really play with phone much until after switching to ART. Is anyone having this issue not on ART?
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kameleongt said:
I switched to art after installing apps and I'm ha ing this issue didn't really play with phone much until after switching to ART. Is anyone having this issue not on ART?
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Yes this is happening to me running Dalvik.
Happened just now to me. It has happened a few times.
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Had this a time or two. It's like the power button doesn't register or something. Yes I switched to art.
I have found though that if I hold power for a second it pretty much fixes itself without having to do anything crazy like yanking the battery or restarting the phone.
Imo: not a big deal, doesn't seem to happen a lot for me.
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tehgyb said:
Had this a time or two. It's like the power button doesn't register or something. Yes I switched to art.
I have found though that if I hold power for a second it pretty much fixes itself without having to do anything crazy like yanking the battery or restarting the phone.
Imo: not a big deal, doesn't seem to happen a lot for me.
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Is it kind of bugged?
Lodaserves said:
Is it kind of bugged?
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This is actually becoming quite an annoyance to me and happens very often. I'm still on Dalvik. Could this be caused by an app?
I feel like half the time I go to use my phone the screen doesn't turn on.
tehgyb said:
Had this a time or two. It's like the power button doesn't register or something. Yes I switched to art.
I have found though that if I hold power for a second it pretty much fixes itself without having to do anything crazy like yanking the battery or restarting the phone.
Imo: not a big deal, doesn't seem to happen a lot for me.
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I'm having the same issue for the past two days; although, I am not switching between apps or anything (only trying to use the phone). No display, but get sound/vibration from buttons and LED lights from soft keys. Unfortunately, both times required me to yank the battery. My S5 is completely stock (not using ART) and have manually reinstalled my apps from old device. Any suggestions?
I am not experiencing this and I have switched to ART...
Lodaserves said:
I think your phone have a problem and others don't have this kind of problem.
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I hope this isn't the case. Once again I experienced these EXACT same issues with my Galaxy Nexus running 4.4.2. I can't help but think it might be some app causing it since not everyone has it.
I am noticing this every once in a while. But it's mostly right after I shut the screen off after a large processed app or task, and then remember something I forgot to do and try and turn it back on and there is some lag bringing up the screen again.
Black screen when quickly pushing lock
Lodaserves said:
Try to ask the person where you bought it.
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I was about to return my S5 to Verizon for this very reason. I haven't switched to art and have been having the screen go black on me, you can tell the phone is on because the physical buttons are lit. It seems to happen to me alot when I take the phone off the charger and hit the on button. I will hear the phone rebooting, but not see the boot animation. Thats when I do a battery pull. Holding the button doesn't do it. I also have had a few random reboots. Thats ok...I'm going to try every root method under the sun..gggrrrr..lol
I've started to try to uninstall apps to see if I can narrow down the issue. It still plagues me at least half the time I try to use my phone.
This is happening to me as well. Not as often. I'd say once a day, but I have to pull my battery to restart it. I did 2 factory resets and am now using a new google account as per verizons request and I added apps slowly. I have been fine until I put a second launcher on. I installed the GEL launcher but did not use it just to see if having multiple launchers could cause this glitch. Could it be this? Is everyone else using a different launcher? Also the only time I ever had it happen while messing with the phone was two times while working in light flow. Any one else connected to those two happenings? Trying to narrow down what could be causing this.
Running ART here, I'm not sure if I'm getting this problem, but I have realized some latency from pressing either the home or power button and the screen turning on. Not sure what causes that lag, but it's a good almost full second whereas my S4 would be instant
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I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my new Verizon GS5.
Scenario: I am doing something such as reading a text, decide I'm done and lock the screen, and then a second or two later realize I forget to check something and hit the lock button again to turn it back on. Most of the time when I do this the physical buttons will light up but the screen will stay black, and a few seconds later the physical buttons will turn off. This will happen a few times until finally the screen turns on and I see the lock screen.
I had a similar issue with my Galaxy Nexus (rooted and running Kit Kat) phone prior to the GS5 and figured it was my old hardware- is this some Kit Kat bug?
Thanks for any input
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I would assume this is NOT the physical hardware issue, but the software, I heard somewhere that Samsung version of KitKat 4.4.2 is quite buggy and glitchy.
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Same issue here. But I can't figure out if it was due to switching to ART or not.
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I had the issue before and after switching to ART
Anyone have any further ideas yet? I'm not running ART bit I was able to have it happen again when I had Google experience launcher installed. Removed it and it hasn't happened for two days. I'm installing Google launcher again now to see if that was causing the issue.
Anyone else with further developments?
Guys I'm on the latest Nougat update on AT&T with the March update and the most annoying thing started happening out of nowhere... Wondering if y'all have ever seen this and have been able to stop?
Basically, during a call, my screen turns off after my screen timeout time, and within 5 seconds, the screen turns back on and keeps repeating ?...!
Here's what I've tried:
1. Calibrated and tested the proximity sensor.
2. Double checked with or without Smart Awake setting.
3. Cleared data of the in call UI app.
4. Rebooted.
5. Wiped OS Cache.
6. You tell me? ?
Thanks for all the help!
It's a Bug with the In-Call UI
My T-Mobile Galaxy S7 Edge has been experiencing the same issue. I tried everything including a factory reset to no avail. I believe it may have something to do with the In-Call UI system app associated with the Phone App. It only started happening after the 7.0 update and really makes using the phone to make a phone call unnecessarily frustrating. I am guessing more people have this but don't realize it because the screen will turn off if you navigate away from the In-Call UI to another app or to the home screen. It is a bug though and I hope Samsung deals with it in the next update.
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My T-Mobile Galaxy S7 Edge has been experiencing the same issue. I tried everything including a factory reset to no avail. I believe it may have something to do with the In-Call UI system app associated with the Phone App. It only started happening after the 7.0 update and really makes using the phone to make a phone call unnecessarily frustrating. I am guessing more people have this but don't realize it because the screen will turn off if you navigate away from the In-Call UI to another app or to the home screen. It is a bug though and I hope Samsung deals with it in the next update.
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Thank you so much for responding. Makes me feel better that I'm not crazy! ?
Can others test and confirm for us so we can maybe document and report to Samsung for a fix?
BTW for what it's worth, as a workaround, you can hit the home button to put the in call UI out of focus and then let the phone sleep, it stops the waking up. Down side of course, no proximity action and the nuisance of turning on, then bringing up UI to mute and unmute, very annoying on meetings for work! :crying:
Any others please test and report for us? Thanks you!
Trevozneoma said:
My T-Mobile Galaxy S7 Edge has been experiencing the same issue. I tried everything including a factory reset to no avail. I believe it may have something to do with the In-Call UI system app associated with the Phone App. It only started happening after the 7.0 update and really makes using the phone to make a phone call unnecessarily frustrating. I am guessing more people have this but don't realize it because the screen will turn off if you navigate away from the In-Call UI to another app or to the home screen. It is a bug though and I hope Samsung deals with it in the next update.
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Reread, you already mentioned the workaround, sorry and thanks!
Now I am not sure if this will work for you but I've noticed that if I occasionally use the slide up gesture to launch Samsung pay (i.e. from the lock screen or home screen) and I back out of it, it keeps the problem at bay temporarily. I tried deactivating the slide up to activate feature of Samsung Pay and it didn't fix the issue. For now, this is my temporary work around. I hope it works for you too!
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Now I am not sure if this will work for you but I've noticed that if I occasionally use the slide up gesture to launch Samsung pay (i.e. from the lock screen or home screen) and I back out of it, it keeps the problem at bay temporarily. I tried deactivating the slide up to activate feature of Samsung Pay and it didn't fix the issue. For now, this is my temporary work around. I hope it works for you too!
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Extremely good observation and another workaround bud! You're right, it provides some relief with the Samsung Pay workaround. I can't believe we haven't heard more noise on this from others, we can't be the only two OCDs here !?
Thank you again and request to others to join us test and slay this problem, if possible!
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Now I am not sure if this will work for you but I've noticed that if I occasionally use the slide up gesture to launch Samsung pay (i.e. from the lock screen or home screen) and I back out of it, it keeps the problem at bay temporarily. I tried deactivating the slide up to activate feature of Samsung Pay and it didn't fix the issue. For now, this is my temporary work around. I hope it works for you too!
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@Trevozneoma - To build on your observation with Samsung Pay, I went into settings and have unchecked the option for using it via screen off. The lock screen and home screen are still checked, and this seems to have fixed my issue. It's not perfect, as I like to use the feature when using Samsung Pay, however, I will take this, over the battery drain and annoying nature of the screen on on the incall UI screen!
Thanks for your help!
@ProFragger we probably notice it because we use our phones...as phones haha. I will give the Samsung Pay work around a try. Thanks for the recommendation!
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@ProFragger we probably notice it because we use our phones...as phones haha. I will give the Samsung Pay work around a try. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Haha true that, brother. Please respond back with your changes and results so we can confirm a workaround solution for this . Thanks for partnering and responding with me, I am sure this thread will help others .
Hi Guys!
I too have this issue and I have a Samsung S7 Edge on Sprint.
As it was stated, this all started after the last update.
As I primarily use a BT headset with my calls, I have simply been hitting the Home Button and the phone will stay in the time out mode.
Just jumping on this band wagon in hopes that this issue will be resolved quickly!!
Thanks!!
Crystal Dragon said:
Hi Guys!
I too have this issue and I have a Samsung S7 Edge on Sprint.
As it was stated, this all started after the last update.
As I primarily use a BT headset with my calls, I have simply been hitting the Home Button and the phone will stay in the time out mode.
Just jumping on this band wagon in hopes that this issue will be resolved quickly!!
Thanks!!
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Thanks for your report, bud... We need more of these to gain some momentum around this issue... Does the workaround for you?
The work around works, but it is just a PITA to have to keep hitting the home screen to put the call screen out of focus.
I really hope that Samsung will address this issue and fix it!!
Happens here also. Thanks for the workaround.
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I hate this so much. It happens while I am on the phone and it happens when an appointment reminder pops up and then the screen goes black and then turns on, over and over. THIS ONLY STARTED HAPPENING AFTER I UPDATED FROM Marshmallow to Nougat.
Here is the FIX... Guessing anyone that has the issue has Samsung Pay with a card provisioned. Was reading through some other forums and found that this was the root cause. Everyone was deleting their cards to get the screen to work as expected. However, if you go into Samsung Pay --> Settings --> Use Favorite Cards, you can just disable the Screen Off option and all will be well once more. You will still be able to use your cards but will just have to turn on the phone first.
edit: Well [email protected] Worked great last night during testing and now back to turning the screen on again this morning. Going to try disabling all the options under Use Favorite Cards. If that doesn't work, will delete all my cards and try again.
Ant word on whether that worked?
Same issue for me as well (Verizon Galaxy S7 edge, 7.01). When I am on calls (usually have a headset plugged into the phone) the screen cycles on and off repeatedly. Seems to have started when I went to 7.0. So glad others are reporting the same thing as it is very annoying and hopefully something Samsung will fix in the next update. I will try the Samsung Pay fix and report back.
Same issue here, Galaxy S7 Edge on ATT. Noticed after Nougat update. It seems to be problematic across any dialer as I did try and had the same results using the hangout dialer. It does seem to be related to the Samsung Pay application. You can force stop Samsung Pay in applications and everything seems to work correctly. I have tried removing permissions from Samsung Pay and have had no luck. Will try and report to Samsung and Google directly also. Thank ya'll for sharing your info. hopefully they will have a fix soon.
I'm having the same issue on my S8. I thought i was somehow pressing my face against the screen and accidentally activating the "home button." Then I starting blaming one of my friends because it seemed like it only happened when I talked to people with iphones lol. I don't have or use Samsung Pay, so that can't be what's causing this problem. All I know is it's absolutely frustrating and making talking on the phone a complete headache. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.
Thank you all, I have the s8 and it has done this since I got it.
I don't have Samsung Pay installed at all, I use my Bank's pay app so disabled it. It can't be that but have no idea what it is. Driving me nuts, I keen putting people on hold, hanging up on them or at the least have the annoying vibration going off from pushing buttons. Hate hate hate it...