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Wildfire restarts at random

Hey guys.
I've got an issue start is seriously starting to destroy my first Android-experience.
On several occasions when messing around with e.g. the clock app, my phone just restarts. I can at some point live with that kind of instability although I don't understand why I have to...
However, what will soon be an agonizing karate death for the little Wildfire is the fact that it, usually in the night, often restarts too. I've never tried it with the alarm turned on so I don't know if the alarm will ring while it's asking for the SIM pass. Just started working after holidays with a new phone in my possession, and luckily I accidently just found out it restarted again... But if it turns out I'm gonna sleep the day away because of this, I will definitely have had it with a piece of software - that sort of seems beta to me...
Hope you can help me out, peace
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Sounds like a defective phone to be honest.
Android normally doesn't restart on its own without an app telling it to do so.
Mine just runs fine for days.
Infact my current uptime is 163 hours.

I have the same issue.
The phone have done five restarts in the last two weeks.
Three of the times this happened I was listening to music. The other two times happened when I was browsing the menus.

Dear Friends as skye said I too doubt the phone is defective .. so best thing is to get a replacement while its new...

My W. restarts several times a day. Today it was 7 times until now. W. in factory setting with geocaching app a a some more basic apps I had used on previous Samsung Galaxy Spica with no problems. Seems to be common Wildfire problem, but I can t google no working solution.

same aplies to my phone..

I never had a problem.

My previous HTC touch cruise (windows mobile) developed the same problem, after 2 and a half years.
It's definitely hardware. You should look at warranty service

same to me,
in the evening mostly
also some times when trying to listen to music or when I'm using ebuddy

Wow, quite a few ppl getting restarts on their phone. O.O
My phone works just fine, no problem though.

Mine did a lot of time, but no more than once per day. Always when I was not using it, specially during night. The battery was always full.

Flashed any custom roms?
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My girlfriend had it also once (not rooted)( same phone)
My phone is rooted and charge it nightly
Beginning to recharge it when im stil using it and mostly its then when it happens
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TiiXiboy said:
Flashed any custom roms?
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I have the stock rom. I've updated some days ago to Froyo and it didn't happen yet.

TiiXiboy said:
Flashed any custom roms?
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Not yet maby later
Stil on stock 2.1 update1
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* 2.1
* rooted
* clockworkmod recovery
* no custom rom yet

Same issue here. I have a suspicion on applanet market, because after installing this app my phone has started to restarting.

Okay, if your phone isn't stock already run an RUU . Then take it to a repair center.
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dunno if this will apply to any of you guys but if i overclock my phone past 700 it reboots like mad. i had to drop it to around 670 i think. i also read a post somewhere on here, or over at cyanogenmod,(cant remember ) that someone was getting random reboots every time he got a 3g connection :/

Day one and im bricked..

Just jumped ships from sprint and got my facinate. Today rooted with one click and tried installing clock work. Thmanage rom manager. All seems well then suddenly my phone freezes for ten minutes I have to do a battery pull. Phone wont boot in anyway or form now. No lights or signs of life other than if I hold the power button as long as its pressed. A device labeled SEC S5PC110 Test B/D appears in device manager. And that'd all it will do. Thinking about exchanging it tomorrow afternoon. Just letting the community know what happened to me any thoughts as how or what happened might be able to help future mishaps

I'd try doing an odin flash. Just search the forums for the step by step. If u can get the phone into flash mode.

Yeah dude, definitely try Odin. Did you try flashing cwm from within ROM manager? I ask because that doesn't work for our phones yet, and it wouldn't surprise me if that could cause problems. I would use Odin to flash it back to stock, and then use the very thorough guide on here on how to get cwm going.
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hilarious post title.. good luck tho man. my only word of advice (tho it won't help u now) is to run back ups before you do anything major

illtema said:
hilarious post title.. good luck tho man. my only word of advice (tho it won't help u now) is to run back ups before you do anything major
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Hard for him to do a backup when he got bricked installing CWM LOL

Possibly bootlocked.
Newer Fascinates seem to be locked. Don't know if there is any way to tell which you've got without attempting a modification of the system....which would of course, result in the above nastiness....

I would think that if newer fascinates were boot locked, so would mesmerizes and I first flashed the stock files for Verizon on my phone then went to elements zinc (which is awesome BTW) installed voodoo 1200 kernel and everything is working great for me. Could just be that he got a bunk phone or something

PhoenixPath said:
Possibly bootlocked.
Newer Fascinates seem to be locked. Don't know if there is any way to tell which you've got without attempting a modification of the system....which would of course, result in the above nastiness....
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I'm thinking it's just Noob users who are bootlocked...

My phone is only a week old everything went fine root,cwm...

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I would think that if newer fascinates were boot locked, so would mesmerizes
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Why would you think that? Same hardware!=same software...or we'd all be running USC's kernel/ROM.
Could just be that he got a bunk phone or something
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Could be...which is why I said "possibly" instead of "definitely".

Couldn't get to the flash mode even to use odin, went back today and bestbuy swapped it out for me thinking I just got a bad phone, I could also shake the thing and hear raddling with the usb door shut to so im not really surprised. The new one seems to be working better already, eill try root tonight,

Jwahlg said:
I could also shake the thing and hear raddling with the usb door shut
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Volume toggle. I bet the new one does it.
good day.

chopper the dog said:
Volume toggle. I bet the new one does it.
good day.
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He's right, the volume rockers rattle like a sumbitch.
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My Fascinate is just twp weeks old and One Click and CWM worked just fine for me. BTW I am running JTs super clean rom. Lovin this phone!
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This is why manufacturing companies are locking down phones now. That phone wasn't bricked it could have easily been fixed. OP. Please read and try to learn what u r doing. As well try to have a semi understanding of how u can fix ur phone if u mess it up. I would bet that your phone could have been up and running in 15 minutes.
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ksizzle9 said:
This is why manufacturing companies are locking down phones now. That phone wasn't bricked it could have easily been fixed. OP. Please read and try to learn what u r doing. As well try to have a semi understanding of how u can fix ur phone if u mess it up. I would bet that your phone could have been up and running in 15 minutes.
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x10
This is counter development long term.
I further submit that in the future, all root processes require a ten question exam on the users knowledge to work.
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Mine crashes sometimes. Even with all original OS. I just pull the battery and all is good.
My volume rocker doesn't rattle, so there is that plus.
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Help!!! Phone wont power up!

all i did was install CM7 nightly 41 after a full wipe, all went well. then installed titanium backup, restored all apps, then went to recovery and installed gapps, powered back up, and it tried to sync and it froze up, so after a while i pulled battery and pow no power!!! uh oh? any ideas?

Does it light up when you charge it?
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nope. i think its a total brick.
when i plugged it into computer the computer did attempt to install software (bubble on lower right of screen near clock that pops up saying new hardware found) but failed to install properly

holy crap tmo takes up to 7 days for an exchange to be shipped!!!! wtf???
verizon gives free 2 day exchange via fedex. tmo does it for 20 bucks for 3-5 days!! unreal. im starting to hate tmo more and more

tackleberry said:
holy crap tmo takes up to 7 days for an exchange to be shipped!!!! wtf???
verizon gives free 2 day exchange via fedex. tmo does it for 20 bucks for 3-5 days!! unreal. im starting to hate tmo more and more
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Yea.. I hate that too. It doesnt really take that long though. You should get it in 5 days the latest.
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yea i bought a nokia prepaid X2 as a spare so i can at least get email. my old spare isnt great its a nokia 6310i lol. it works great as a phone but nothing more.
according to ups ground, its 4 days from texas to me, so tuesday i should see my refurb crap again lol.
just irritating, they wanna charge 20 bucks for 3 day shipping....verizon charged 10 for overnight and free for 2 day. unreal. i just dont understand how it failed like that. i did nothing different when changing roms! my phone was running like crap after i wiped and installed virtuous sense on it, so i wiped again and flashed CM back on, and it just bugged the hell out! any idea why it would brick like that?

Holding power+volume down doesn't work?

This may sound silly. But have you tried a battery pull?

You seem kind of stupid, you supposedly brick your phone and before anyone can try to help you call tmobile and tell them to replace it, then complain about how long it takes them to replace your screw up.
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ionic7 said:
You seem kind of stupid, you supposedly brick your phone and before anyone can try to help you call tmobile and tell them to replace it, then complain about how long it takes them to replace your screw up.
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And in the process make the cell phones and rate plans cost more for everyone else cause yet another a-hole wants there warranty honored when they knowingly VOIDED the warranty. Getting so tired of this. Between people bypassing paying for tethering and OVERLY taking advantage, and bull**** like returning phones that you KNOWINGLY VOIDED THE WARRANTY WHEN YOU ROOTED AND INSTALLED THAT CUSTOM ROM on it, it is ZERO wonder why they all want to sign the god dam bootloader anymore. These may be evil corporations were dealing with, but there is still a difference between right and wrong. These few on xda will ultimately be our downfall. This thread is all kinda fail.
Edit: sorry for sounding so harsh but you could have waited for at least a LITTLE bit of help first. it sounds like something not that out of our league to have fixed.
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Edit: double post. Everytime I go to edit on the new xda prem app I accidentally hit quote!

battery pull yes, vol down and pwr nothing. charged it overnight, and led didnt even power up, tried 2 different batteries, etc. nothing.
i dont know why it bricked, i did nothing different than what was done before to it. any time i ever did have problems was with the bootanimation screen would stay on and device would never boot, but i was still able to fix that with a full wipe and fresh reinstall. this was maybe a hardware failure of some sort? ive done all the same stuff to my mt4g (went from iced glacier to CM7, been on CM7 since nightly 6 or 8 with that one), and for a longer amount of time now and no issues at all. funny thing is i dont even flash nightly, or weekly...usually about 10-14 days ill flash an updated newer rom. now i know some of you people here are major fanatics about flashing nightly, changing radios constantly, kernels, amongst other things...i do half of that stuff and at probably a tenth of the rate that some of you hardcore folks do. so before you wanna pass judgement, i have been doing this same stuff since november on 3 different phones and never had a problem since yesterday at random. so i dont know why some of you get pissed when people have defective equipment. id guess if my hinge broke you would be telling me it was because of flashing roms too??? my rom was already flashed, working, and then when email was syncing it locked up, did a battery pull and nothing worked since. get a grip folks, crap happens. its not like i improperly flashed a non sense rom direct over a sense rom then back again with no wiping, clearing cache, data, etc etc etc then flash 3 incorrect kernels and bad themes and so on. if my device at least would power up, i wouldnt have decided to have it exchanged under warranty because i probably would have been able to fix it somehow since there are write ups about semi bricked devices. even plugging it into the computer does nothing now.

We have been looking into this issue on IRC for the past week or so. ANYONE WHO IS HAVING THIS ISSUE NEEDS TO STOP BY THE IRC CHANNEL.
We need to get some more info, right now we only have 2 cases to go on.
irc.freenode.net
#G2ROOT
tackleberry said:
battery pull yes, vol down and pwr nothing. charged it overnight, and led didnt even power up, tried 2 different batteries, etc. nothing.
i dont know why it bricked, i did nothing different than what was done before to it. any time i ever did have problems was with the bootanimation screen would stay on and device would never boot, but i was still able to fix that with a full wipe and fresh reinstall. this was maybe a hardware failure of some sort? ive done all the same stuff to my mt4g (went from iced glacier to CM7, been on CM7 since nightly 6 or 8 with that one), and for a longer amount of time now and no issues at all. funny thing is i dont even flash nightly, or weekly...usually about 10-14 days ill flash an updated newer rom. now i know some of you people here are major fanatics about flashing nightly, changing radios constantly, kernels, amongst other things...i do half of that stuff and at probably a tenth of the rate that some of you hardcore folks do. so before you wanna pass judgement, i have been doing this same stuff since november on 3 different phones and never had a problem since yesterday at random. so i dont know why some of you get pissed when people have defective equipment. id guess if my hinge broke you would be telling me it was because of flashing roms too??? my rom was already flashed, working, and then when email was syncing it locked up, did a battery pull and nothing worked since. get a grip folks, crap happens. its not like i improperly flashed a non sense rom direct over a sense rom then back again with no wiping, clearing cache, data, etc etc etc then flash 3 incorrect kernels and bad themes and so on. if my device at least would power up, i wouldnt have decided to have it exchanged under warranty because i probably would have been able to fix it somehow since there are write ups about semi bricked devices. even plugging it into the computer does nothing now.
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In need of advice...

Hello all. I am hoping I can get some advice as to what to do about my wife's phone(epic 4g). Her phone is completely stock and has never had any custom rom or anything flashed to it. Over the last three months, the phone has semi-bricked itself 3 times. The phone will just power off by itself and when it is rebooted, it gets stuck at the "samsung" screen. The only way I can get the phone back to normal is by flashing DI18 with Odin v1.85 (no other versions work). Anyway, my wife obviously does not want an unreliable phone. I should also note that about 8 months ago, my 2 year old son took my wife's phone and threw it in the toilet. After taking the phone apart and drying it, the phone worked perfectly for the following 5 months. For that reason, I do not think it is a good idea to have sprint look at it because the water damge indicators will be colored. I have seen a thread here that talked about calling sprint and complaining about the epic and in turn getting a new nexus s. I am not sure what to do. I cannot afford another phone. my wife uses her phone as the house phone as well. The phone bricked itself yesterday so I flashed the stock DI18 rom. I then tried to flash EC05 and it bricks itself again. Even the OTA update bricks the phone when ran. I really appreciate any help/suggestions the community can provide.
Thank you
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Interesting problem you have there. I barely remember Di18.
I would use Odin to flash the EC05 stock rom. QBKing77 has an awesome video showing exactly how to do that. That would not brick your phone unless you are using the stock cable. Get a new one. First boot will take a little bit. Here is the link, the description includes all necessary downloads. I would fresh download everything even if you think you already have it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU
There is no reason it will Odin to DI18 and not EC05. Water damage doesn't force the phone to like one rom over another. If the others are "not working" as you said, then you are doing something wrong. Follow the video to a T and it will work.
If you want more I would the one click root it with CMW 3101 and remove all of the sprint bloat. Not necessary, but will help the phone a bit.

If the water indicator has already changed, what is stopping you from using a custom rom that is more stable? You might not have as many issues.

Thank you both for your replies. I am using the stock cable, so I will try a different cable. It may be possible that I am doing something wrong as far as flashing roms. It has been a while since I have flashed anything to my phone. Again, thank you very much for the help!
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I am just so confused as to why the phone semi-bricks itself every so often. My wife doesn't do anything out of the norm with her phone. I guess the only likely possibility is that the water slightly damaged something.
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Arion02 said:
I am just so confused as to why the phone semi-bricks itself every so often. My wife doesn't do anything out of the norm with her phone. I guess the only likely possibility is that the water slightly damaged something.
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Like I said, water damage will not cause your phone to only be flashed to DI18. Now the random reboots may have something to do with the water damage, without more info as to what is happening when it reboots I have no idea. Maybe a custom stable ROM with voltage control set correctly would help with that?

my farewell *for now*

i bricked my N7000 tonight doing a wipe/flash off of LP6 leaked kernel
why do i think its LP6 kernel cause?
last night i used the same rom i was building and flashed it again tonight, straight away when i hit flash i knew something was wrong because no progress bar showed up, i gave it 10 minutes and still stuck, rebooted holding recovery button combo, screen went black and she was toast. no cwm, no download, no os boot, no pc connection.
either way its a goner, but the good news:
i am sending it back to the guy i bought it from and he will deal with samsung india for me and ship it back *no he wont scam me im not even worried about that
so i dont know how long it will take, but i hope you enjoy your selves and be safe!

JamieD81 said:
i bricked my N7000 tonight doing a wipe/flash off of LP6 leaked kernel
why do i think its LP6 kernel cause?
last night i used the same rom i was building and flashed it again tonight, straight away when i hit flash i knew something was wrong because no progress bar showed up, i gave it 10 minutes and still stuck, rebooted holding recovery button combo, screen went black and she was toast. no cwm, no download, no os boot, no pc connection.
either way its a goner, but the good news:
i am sending it back to the guy i bought it from and he will deal with samsung india for me and ship it back *no he wont scam me im not even worried about that
so i dont know how long it will take, but i hope you enjoy your selves and be safe!
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As I wrote you I think people shouldn't flash LP6 or CM9 kernel because they are too heavy modified without kernel sources.
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once again, im glad its not because of LPY..
dont misunderstand me, im not happy that you brick your device..

Sorry to hear that. I hope you get it back soon.
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Damn its getting to the point of being insane the amount of bricks.
Neobuddy89 bricked his as well.

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As I wrote you I think people shouldn't flash LP6 or CM9 kernel because they are too heavy modified without kernel sources.
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this i agree with 100%, by the time i get my note back im sure kernel source will be out and custom kernels will be out that wont be any issue, atleast i hope thats the way it works out HAH should be a good month or 2 before i get it back though :\

antiochasylum said:
Damn its getting to the point of being insane the amount of bricks.
Neobuddy89 bricked his as well.
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You see I have say this weeks ago don't flash. Sorry for my friend Neo...
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Wow this is why dev is stalling.. so many big names are bricking..
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Sorry to hear Jamie

RIP and condolences to your note so sorry to hear that
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Hey Jamie that sucks dude but your lucky the guy will fix it for you !
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Sorry to hear, hope to see you back soon.

Hope to see u back here soon dude.. Sorry for ur note loved ur rom.. Guess i'll be sticking with stock ics for now.. I darent touch it lol
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One of the bigger names here, I remember you were the first dev. to release an ICS ROM... I hope everything goes well.

Sorry to hear it man. Jesus, our devs are dropping like flies
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Bad luck man. Hope to see you back soon.

I bricked my Note few days ago when wipe data from LP5, buy another new replacement mainboard, right now feel very afraid when flash a new ROM... may be brick again at any moment! Remember the same with Samsung Omnis before. I never have this issue with HTC. Waiting if HTC will release a new big s ame screen, will back to him. I beleave HTC is more carefully design theys phone, compare with Samsung.

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I bricked my Note few days ago when wipe data from LP5, buy another new replacement mainboard, right now feel very afraid when flash a new ROM... may be brick again at any moment! Remember the same with Samsung Omnis before. I never have this issue with HTC. Waiting if HTC will release a new big s ame screen, will back to him. I beleave HTC is more carefully design theys phone, compare with Samsung.
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Have fun with locked bootloaders

it happens, we all take the risk's just being here so no reason for me to be upset
for now im a bb 9800 user which i think is even worse then bricking my phone! haha
phone goes out to india this week, hopefully have it back before july haha

I flashed LP5 and LP6 kernel and firmwares many times. Never got any problems. This is because I carefully follow instructions and I always know what I'm doing.