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[Solved] Weird Lines During Boot Up

I recently noticed something weird on my Galaxy S. I should point out I am running Darky's Rom (9.5).
Everytime I start (or restart) the phone some weird lines come up for a second or so on the top of the screen while the Galaxy S logo is displayed. I have uploaded a quick video to youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGbpU6s_38)
I have since reflashed the phone and the lines still persist.
This problem occured after my phone randomly crashed and I had to perform a factory wipe.
Other than the lines during start up, I have had no issues since they came up 2 days ago. No further crashes, the lines don't display anywhere else, nothing.
My question:
Should I be worried and could this possibly be a hardware fault? I am sure its not the screen as the lines only pop up quickly during boot up. I fear if it could be cpu, graphics or ram related.
Any opinion or advice welcome!
Is anyone else experiencing this or has experienced it?

I have the same problem with darkys rom 9.5 :S
I dont think it is bad for your phone...
I have this almost a month and no other problems at all
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this issue is kernel related, and i bet almost everyone with a custom ROM would of experienced it.
as mentioned above, it is no problem, it wont cause damage. its just one of them annoying niggles what make you think ' **** my phone.... its dying' but its not.
when a newer update for the kernel comes out the issue will most likely go away.

Thanks for the replies! Eases my fears. I guess I just got a fright because it happened (or at least I only noticed it) after the phone randomly crashed

you just assumed that was the culprit.
mine happened 3 weeks after flashing a ROM i just assumed thats what caused it because that was the last thing i did.
turned out to be nothing and now i can sleep again

it is a little 'glitch' with some kernels. don't worry, doesn't harm the phone
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god damned, you all not serious... its caused of the old darky kernel....
heres the fix for it with a new version of the kernel :
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...ore-1-4-now-with-i897-captivate-support.2055/

saphirrot said:
god damned, you all not serious... its caused of the old darky kernel....
heres the fix for it with a new version of the kernel :
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...ore-1-4-now-with-i897-captivate-support.2055/
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I have installed the new kernel and it worked
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Enough with the rebooting already!

I know there are lots of threads about problems with the Atrix including rebooting. What I haven't seen is any consensus on what to do about it. Mine reboots randomly 2 or 3 times a day. Sometimes when I'm on a call or using maps or just sitting idle.
Its happened on and off through all software versions. I'm currently running latest OTA (rooted) but otherwise stock. Is it a software bug to be fixed? Is it bad hardware? Should I seek replacement?
I love my Atrix and am really looking forward to Gingerbread next month. Is it too much to hope that this next update will solve the rebooting issue?
Flame away!

wookiebush said:
I know there are lots of threads about problems with the Atrix including rebooting. What I haven't seen is any consensus on what to do about it. Mine reboots randomly 2 or 3 times a day. Sometimes when I'm on a call or using maps or just sitting idle.
Its happened on and off through all software versions. I'm currently running latest OTA (rooted) but otherwise stock. Is it a software bug to be fixed? Is it bad hardware? Should I seek replacement?
I love my Atrix and am really looking forward to Gingerbread next month. Is it too much to hope that this next update will solve the rebooting issue?
Flame away!
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What launcher are you using? I ask because Now that I've swapped from LP+ to ADW EX I rarely get a "reboot" anymore. On the other threads you may have read that its possible you are experiencing a graphical shell crash and not a reboot.

I'm currently using apb 3d shell. But also occurred with LP. When the reboot happens, it goes all the way dark and proceeds through the whole boot animation. Seems like a reboot to me.
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yeah mine randomly reboots too... its happened more lately -- but still only once a week maybe..
It happened once when I had GPS on -- my only guess is there has to be something with incoming/outgoing data where the phone resets itself to clear something out? i dont know jack sh1t about smartphones, but I do know that the times Ive caught it rebooting I noticed the phone being very sluggish and data trickling in even though I'm in a good service area.

wait for the GB update, it is supposed to fix the issue according to the reports. I personally have not had a single reboot using ADW EX.

I had the random reboot issue when I first got my phone in March. The beginning of April I reflashed stock sbf updated to latest version then got gingerblur (currently running gingerblur 4) haven't had a random reboot since I started using gingerblur maybe try that? I don't know that's what fixed it for me I just know it never random reboots since I did this. My two cents take it or leave it

Freezing of Nexus S

Am I the only one? Every Jelly Bean ROM has the same problem. Sometimes it freezes, and it won't do a thing, I can't even unlock it, it just sits there, black, I can only reboot it by pulling out the battery. It's so annoying. At least 4 times a day. How do I fix this? I tried PA, Stock JB, and now I'm on latest CM10 nightly, I wiped cache and dalvik every time before I flashed a new ROM.
I hope you can help me.

Even I have problem with JB , it hangs for 2 3 seconds n becomes normal. No need to pull the battery n all , it becomes normal by itself. Using stock 4.1
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JavaJunkay said:
Am I the only one? Every Jelly Bean ROM has the same problem. Sometimes it freezes, and it won't do a thing, I can't even unlock it, it just sits there, black, I can only reboot it by pulling out the battery. It's so annoying. At least 4 times a day. How do I fix this? I tried PA, Stock JB, and now I'm on latest CM10 nightly, I wiped cache and dalvik every time before I flashed a new ROM.
I hope you can help me.
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I had the same issue - except that I was in ICS stock...
got worse and worse in time - in the end I even couldn't use my keyboard anymore (whole lower part was unresponsive)
I testet it with some apps from the market which showed that the lower part of my screen didn't response to any inputs
solution was to take my nexus s to a repair center and they replaced the whole touch screen unit

Can you send me links of those apps? My touchscreen responds well but the problem is that the phone entirely hangs, and when I lock it, I can't unlock it anymore. It is I9023
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Only cache and dalvik..?
That's not a clean install...
Do a clean install!
+ you have to don't touch anything for few minutes after first boot...
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I had mine do that on the stock ICS .. It would also shut off and wouldn't charge or anything.. Had to pull the battery.. Dunno what was causing it to lag and go bonkers like that.. I never had any 3rd party apps installed.

JavaJunkay said:
Can you send me links of those apps? My touchscreen responds well but the problem is that the phone entirely hangs, and when I lock it, I can't unlock it anymore. It is I9023
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that's the way it started on my phone as well
- sometimes it did not respond to slide to unlock (OUPS may I say slide to unlock or am i getting sued by apple now)
- some characters on the keyboard did not work or it randomly selected any character
- whole lower part of keyboard didn't work
and so on...
this one showed that the lower part did not respond to inputs...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hermit.touchtest&feature=search_result

Wipe data/factory reset before flashing a ROM. Stock launcher was also causing big freezes on early 4.1 builds. Have you tried with another launcher?
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Yes I forgot to say I always wipe, of course. I use Nova launcher, not Trebuchet. Link to market didn't work
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I think I fixed it. I deleted a MIUI folder on my SD card. Dunno what was it doing there, wipe didn't include it I guess. It took about 200mb of data from MIUI ICS to JB I had some time ago. It doesn't lag now.
I hope this helps someone.
Sent from my Nexus S

JavaJunkay said:
I think I fixed it. I deleted a MIUI folder on my SD card. Dunno what was it doing there, wipe didn't include it I guess. It took about 200mb of data from MIUI ICS to JB I had some time ago. It doesn't lag now.
I hope this helps someone.
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Hope it works out for you .. I had to have my phone replaced something got spanked on my old one.. It was all stock..

happens to me countless times a day that im super annpyed by it to the point that i'm just used to it by now. whenever it happens though, i just shut my screen off, not look at it, wait 30~40 or so seconds til it gets back to normal

Most Jellybean ROMs run much better than any previous versions for me on my Nexus S 4G. I always wipe and format all relevant partitions. I also at one point wiped the internal/SD storage on my phone. I have seen a weird flicker then freeze happen on all JB Roms/kernels but only happens once a month if less. Currently running RASBEAN JELLY and Bedalus's Marimite 4.7 kernel. Maybe try different launchers? Also try running phone without doing Google Restore. Slowly add back apps to identify the prob. Don't get why so many are having these issues w JB

kurigowa said:
Most Jellybean ROMs run much better than any previous versions for me on my Nexus S 4G. I always wipe and format all relevant partitions. I also at one point wiped the internal/SD storage on my phone. I have seen a weird flicker then freeze happen on all JB Roms/kernels but only happens once a month if less. Currently running RASBEAN JELLY and Bedalus's Marimite 4.7 kernel. Maybe try different launchers? Also try running phone without doing Google Restore. Slowly add back apps to identify the prob. Don't get why so many are having these issues w JB
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Mostly because they use ****ty thrown together kernels.

My phone never freezes, sometimes it gets stuck but just for a sec. Im totally stock!
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Does the N10 still have its problems?

I've heard the device will do things like restart randomly, and have some other misc issues - is that fixed with later releases of it or is it still an issue?

I never got any og those problems with my N10, maybe others do i dont know. Mine runs very well and the best tablet i have used
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Bipedial said:
I've heard the device will do things like restart randomly, and have some other misc issues - is that fixed with later releases of it or is it still an issue?
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My N10 suffers from random reboots and memory leaks every couple days. But after flashing a 4.3 rom those problems almost dissapear with the updated Mali drivers from Samsung
So right now its a no issue, at least for me

Had screen flicker, but went away with the kit kat update (fingers still crossed).
Only had one reboot and that was on 4.3.
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I've been using mine for almost over a week. It came with 4.2.x and asked for update to 4.3 right after unpacking. Never had a single problem for a week with 4.3 and now using 4.4 which i manually updated. Still had no problems.

No problems here too..
The reason that you maybe find much 'complains' is because people with a problem are searching for a fix. But hou never hear a word from people without problems.. Well until now
I really love this tablet. Fast and oh te screen.
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On 4.3 I got
- screen flickering
- random reboots after heavy apps (like reading big sized PDF in acrobat)
After 4.4 I haven't seen those issues yet.
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I've not had too many issues with my N10. I've mostly been running CM10.2 on it, but I've put KitKat on it now and it's purring like a happy cat.

Solid with 4.4 so far.
4.3 eliminated a number of the screen issues with the updated Mali drivers. Looks like they were updated further under 4.4 as the Google site shows new binaries for 4.4.

I'm running stock 4.4 and have 0 issues. Didn't with 4.3 either. Can't say for anything earlier, I'm newer to the device.

Still running 4.3 here, but mine reboots randomly a couple of times a week.
Waiting to see what 4.4 will do.
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I had massive problems before, but it works like a charm since 4.4!
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4.4 seems so far (over two days uptime with Chrome installed!) to have fixed the massive memory leaks on this device.. 4.3 never seemed to release memory correctly and SystemUI would bloat to 200MB and completely implode on itself. Now it seems memory is releasing fine, and SystemUI is fluctuating in memory usage like it should be now..

I was given an N10 for my bday back on Sept 30 and its gotten almost daily use. I can say with full confidence that I have experienced ZERO problems. No memory leaks (if its going on I cant tell...the performance is snappy as hell!) no light bleed and definitely no random reboots. I have thrown the most hardware intensive games at it and they all work better than I had hoped for. It does exactly what I want it to do when I want it to do it.

I've had it for about half a year and used daily and I've had one or two reboots during that time, quite long ago now, otherwise it's been perfectly smooth and had no issues.

The photo editor crashes while editing large images (probably runs out of memory), haven't tried it on 4.4. But that's really not a issue as I normally use Photoshop on my pc anyway.
So far I never had any other issues at all, no random reboots or anything else. 4.3 was running smoothly as is 4.4 which I have now. The only modifications I have made are rooting it so I can use certain apps, and I didn't even have to reroot after the 4.4 ota.
tldr: mine works like a charm.
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Mine suffers extremely bad with memory leaks and random reboots when I have Location Services on. If I turn Location off, it doesn't reboot but after 30 hours or so, it slows to a complete crawl and redraws the launcher every 2 seconds thus making me have to manually reboot it. It's usable and I still use it every day, but I'm definitely not ecstatic with it and I'll likely replace it as soon as another tablet running stock Android and with a beautiful screen comes along. Hopefully I'm not waiting too long.

I get a reboot on average every 3 days. Usually while in the browser.. Screen will just flash white and reboots.. Never slows down before had.. No sign of trouble either..
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I haven't had any reboots from the browser yet, but I did get a hard freeze while using the HBO app yesterday. That's actually new, never saw it before the update so hopefully it's just a one time thing.

Bipedial said:
I've heard the device will do things like restart randomly, and have some other misc issues - is that fixed with later releases of it or is it still an issue?
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I'm having problems with any rom later than 4.2. The 4.3 roms cause random reboots, and 4.4 will not install.... Something about some E: error.
I've gotten into the habit of wiping for factory reset before every flash.....so I have no idea why the problem with flashing the 4.4 roms. :silly:

LMY48T and Power button

In recent days, I've often needed to press my Nexus 4's power button 2 or 3 times to turn the screen on. I believe since the time I applied the OTA update to LMY48T. I never had this problem while running any previous Android builds.
Has anyone else noticed this? I don't think there's anything physically wrong with the power button. It's as if the device is simply a little harder to wake up.

What about when you turn your screen off? Does it always work then or do you need a couple of tries then too?
Do you use a custom kernel? If so have you messed with the cpu frequencies? A to low screen-off frequency could cause this issue.

It can happen when trying to turn off the screen too.
I'm not using a custom kernel, and I haven't done anything with the CPU frequencies. The only updates that have ever been installed are the official OTA updates.

eldraan said:
It can happen when trying to turn off the screen too.
I'm not using a custom kernel, and I haven't done anything with the CPU frequencies. The only updates that have ever been installed are the official OTA updates.
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I think this is not related to the software; but the hardware. How old is your phone?

nitin.chobhe said:
I think this is not related to the software; but the hardware. How old is your phone?
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Nearly 3 years old. But it's hardly ever used -- it's not my primary phone. My partner's Nexus 4 is doing the same thing. It is also running LMY48T and has also only started experiencing this problem recently. I'm convinced it's not a physical problem with the hardware. Oh well, in a few months time when CyanogenMod 13 is available for the Nexus 4 I'll try that out and then know for sure.