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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?

Random Reboot after update to leaked 3.1

Hi All,
I installed the leaked 3.1 for my TF on Saturday night. It worked fine yesterday, but this morning I saw my TF automatically reboot while in standby. This happened twice already since this 10 am this morning. Has anyone experience automatic reboots on my TF after installing the leaked 3.1?
Mike

Nope.
Did you wipe the cache before updating? Usually, that prevents a lot of wierd stuff from happening...

Q.Entity said:
Nope.
Did you wipe the cache before updating? Usually, that prevents a lot of wierd stuff from happening...
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Isn't "wipe cache" for rooted device with CWM installed? My TF is not rooted and does not have CWM installed.

I have that problem with 3.0.1. Guess they didn't fix it.

bushrat67 said:
I have that problem with 3.0.1. Guess they didn't fix it.
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I didn't see this issue on my TF with 3.0.1 until I update it to 3.1. But did noticed that all the reboots occurred when I docked it with the keyboard dock. It didn't reboot at all yesterday I was just using the tablet itself. This is really strange.

mikewong27 said:
I didn't see this issue on my TF with 3.0.1 until I update it to 3.1. But did noticed that all the reboots occurred when I docked it with the keyboard dock. It didn't reboot at all yesterday I was just using the tablet itself. This is really strange.
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The past couple of days my 3.0.1 stock ROM transformer's been rebooting, freezing and crashing when plugged in the dock (on the 0209 firmware). It all seemed to start when the dock battery was completely depleted and I continued to use the pair plugged into each other and since then it's being a real pain (even while plugged into the mains and the dock was fully charged). After a couple of charge/discharge cycles in the dock it seems to have fixed itself for now.
I'm hoping the new firmware due for the dock where it shuts down when unplugged from the tablet will fix it as at the moment if it gets in a bad state there's not much I can do about it.
I have had the dock and tablet for some time now, so it's something software based that has come for no apparent reason and has eventually fixed itself (after a day or so of frustration).

no random reboots here, been using it extensively for 2 days.

We had another post regarding this... ever since I went to the leaked 3.1 mine has also been randomly rebooting while in sleep mode. Once it even did it twice in like 5 minutes. It doesn't reboot or have any issues when I'm using it though.. wish I knew what was up! Hopefully it will stop once I get it rooted and a custom rom installed..

I'm still getting random reboots. Just looked over from my computer and it was on the Asus loading screen... again!

My Gtab thinks its still attached to the dock

But it is not!
Last night I put it on the dock, and this morning I took it out, but the clock kept on the screen.
I can hit the back button and access apps, but whenever I press the HOME button it goes back to the clock screen.
It behaves exactly as if it were still on the dock.
Does anyone else get this?
Does it have any relation to the sleep of death? Is it an indication that I might get the death problem if I use the dock again. I'm afraid now...
Help!
Paulo

Anyone please?

Have you tried restarting the device?

Restarting the device should fix the issue. I have to go thru a similar process with my keyboard dock.
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Yes, restarting fixed it.
Stupid bug.
But I'm afraid it is somehow related to the sleep of death, and restarting wont fix it some day...
Paulo

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

ICS: random reboots and resumes

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.

zer0day said:
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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crisisinthecity said:
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.

tai4de2 said:
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

zer0day said:
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?
Thanks
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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.