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Sense Keeps Crashing

im wondering if its just me..
most times, when the phone comes out of sleep, after i slide to unlock, it just hangs. i dont even get to see the clock, sometimes, it just shows a black screen, and sometimes, all i see is the lock screen..stuck.
i can push the start button, and it would work as normal, but i cant go home.. and everything else related to sense...music, settings, message, ..just crashes.
i always have to reboot phone to get it back to normal.
could there be something making it crash? ..and does it happen to anyone else?

yes it happens to me from time to time. sometime HD2 just lies on my desk and 'fall asleep'... cannot turn on the screen though all the buttons light up.
when this happens i have to call from my HD to turn HD2 on and when it's on, it's unstable, and i have to reboot it.

same problem
I have exactly the same problem. it just crashes for no reason. sometimes when WiFi is on. sometimes after I synchronize. sometimes if only plugged out of the charger.
it was in version 1.48 and kept happening even after I upgraded to 1.66
I hope this has a fix or something or atleast a way to restart sense because the Windows button works, phone works, except the volume, the turn off and the settings in the start menu..
help!
thank you in advance.

Same problem here. Freezes at the lock screen and the lights appear from the buttons. Occurring with worrying frequency now. Twice in the last three days. Any ideas?

folks, do report your issues here .. i have a feeling that this is a known hardware issue by HTC and they are just keeping veru quiet about this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=596484&page=15

mercernathan said:
Same problem here. Freezes at the lock screen and the lights appear from the buttons. Occurring with worrying frequency now. Twice in the last three days. Any ideas?
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Same thing here, it use to happen 2 time in 2 months since new, but ever since i upgrade to 166 is happening everyday
I am really really disappointed with HTC HD2 he came out with some many bugs that i am after 2 months of hade and love affair really considering divorcing ones for all.
Nice looking screen but no reliable atall enough is enough

Vibrant Freezes and WIFI freezes?

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
drgnclwk said:
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?

When Traveling, Android Shuts off and blocks the phone...Help?

Hey guys. I have a major issue while traveling... the phone literaly becomes unusable. What happens is that when I am traveling and the networks are changing, the phone simply shuts off and restarts itself. However, it never gets to even showing the radio on the bottom...it only shows the boot screen and it stops there... I tried to reset it using the button, and also get the battery out but the gash darn thing does not turn on...When it finally turns on, it stops at loading sense! And its totally stuck there. no activity... I need to turn it off, and leave it like that for a long time for it to be able to work properly again...i changed radios etc, but its still the same thing...I did a hard reset and new a Windows rom and its still the same...It drives me NUTS! do you guys have any idea what might be wrong?

Come on! Noone?

Are you using a newer kernel and wrapper? Older ones had that problem for me. Make sure the phone is not hot when you try to turn it back on. Check thread where you got your Rom and see if anyone else experienced the same issue you have.
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Phone randomly switching itself off

For some reason, my phone is having a nasty habit of turning itself off randomly. Sometimes it randomly resets itself and boots up again on its own, whilst other times it just turns itself off even with a full battery. However, when it turns itself off, I cannot turn it back on without first taking the battery out, then it takes ages for it to boot up again - longer than normal.
Has anyone else had this problem? I'm on stock firmware fully updated (XEU, JVQ)

Yes, same problem. if i press power button for 10 seconds it reboots, no need.to pull off battery
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My friend said he also had a similar problem, but Samsung says it isn't a fault and won't fix it, despite having insurance. Getting rather fed up of it now as it's happening more frequently.

Check for apps that has excessive CPU consumption. I had this problem too, but on other ROM. The problem was an stupid app that keeps the CPU 100% all the time and the phone overheat and shut down itself.
Use CPU&Temp widget to monitor your CPU frequency.

If you still have the warranty and are totally stock with no root or anything, why not take it to carphone warehouse tell them the problem, they will reflash the software within a couple of hours. If it keeps happening then go back and tell them it needs to be look at and they will send it off. Before you go make sure you check on samsung's website for the nearest service centre as it needs to be repair centre

It's a software problem, with stock gingerbreads.
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It's a software problem, with stock gingerbreads.
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Really?? I had 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 for long enough to test it out (over a month on each) and i never had this issue...
With Darky 10.2.2 (one of the few yes i did)

Same issue here. Think my battery must be on the way out as with wifi, bluetooth and everything switched off, Im getting through half the battery in half a day, and Im not even using the thing.
Im in same situation, upgraded to Gingerbread. It's been rock solid until past couple of weeks.

Same problem here since upgrading to Gingerbread
The phone was solid before never had a single issue with it
Now i get Random powering off when in sleep mode which makes the phone useless
Never does it when on charge though
Tried New Battery = no
Wipe and re- installed software back to factory settings = no
Full re-flash and new software = no
Sent it back to Samsung for repair

might have been something wrong with hardware internals (short circuit somewhere or sumfin)
you might have used faulty mod/theme/rom/kernel
but it is not a problem of Gingerbread firmware for sure

Have you under volted your phone? This often causes reboots. I had to up my voltage at 100 mhz after it started to reboot itself, now ok. system panel monitoring is very useful to look back in time to see what been happening
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i had the same problem with blockbuster rom
i reflashed it
carried on
then i changed the lockscreen
now its working perfectly

AT&T: Hardware Failing?

Hey guys,
So I was on PowerUser 2.0. For months I was fine but it started going nuts yesterday when I woke up. I somehow managed to get it back to stock JellyBean but there are still the same issues.
What is happening:
I can get the phone to start. Sometimes it goes through the LG screen multiple times, though. It usually freezes up 2-5 minutes after startup and just restarts. If the screen turns off it's even more likely to be frozen. This is more like the black screen of death -- can't get it to turn back on but the phone is still "on."
Then I have to hard reset it and go from there and rinse repeat.
Is this the hardware failing? Any ideas for what to do?

Adding on to this. The led is blinking in a weird pattern when the screen is off(not when it fails to wake up but just in general). I'm able to use it for hours at a time now but I think it may have something to do with heavy use or it heating up. Just seems weird that it is still functional and everything seems fine it just seems like I can't get the display to come back on. I'm relatively sure the phone is fine behind scenes but then again a lot of the freeze ups come with the phone on and the whole screen just won't react then it restarts on its own
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No ideas?
So I can get it to work generally if I just keep using it. If it heats up it seems to restart a lot. If it does start restarting I generally have to hold the power until it is fully off to restart it or it just loops the LG logo.
There's times when it goes hours between restarts, and then times it does it every ten minutes. I really think over heating has something to do with it, but I have no idea for sure.
I can't seem to find anything like it online

So I'm using a loaner phone and am letting the battery run out on the g2. It hasn't shut down once when I'm not using it. So like 3 days of uptime.
Does that help anyone with maybe pining down what's up?
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