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Vibrant Lag on Power button

Hello,
So I am aware of the Lag with the vibrant being a known issue. However, I have an interesting quandary. I own two of these, one for my wife and one for myself. I already had to replace mine for poor radio performance, now the replacement has a whole new set of problems. The display is saturated in contrast by comparison to my wifes original. and the biggest problem is a lag when the device is locked. As we all know, you hit the power button and the swipe-to-unlock screen populates. On my wifes this transition is instantaneous. For mine, I hit the power button and only occasionally will it come on instantly. Most cases, it takes a second or longer before the unlock screen ever populates. So what's going on here? Do these things just suffer high fail ratio?

Just high complainers I have 0 issues....

This would be easily dismissed as a guised complaint if I didn't have two devices of the same model behaving differently. While one works great, I've gone through two. One had a radio that would drop inexplicably and now one that is extremely lagged and has a noticeable contrast saturation in the display.

Ha. There is a VERY slight delay when waking the device. Boo-hoo.

A legitimate problem and this is the reaction?
If it takes a full second to unlock one phone and near instant on everyone else's, maybe there really is a problem with it?
I don't have this problem on mine, but I do hope you're able to find a solution to your problem.

I've noticed this happening to mine as well and it's kind of bothered me since the beginning. For being a 1ghz "super-phone" I'd expect it to be a little more responsive when performing the simple task of unlocking it. I've also noticed that once the screen starts to light up, it does so a little choppy. It doesn't smoothly transition from off to on. When I press the the power button there's about a 1 sec delay, then the screen goes from off to half lit to fully lit.
Does this happen to anybody else?

I had the same problem, until I did the "Stalling fix." Hasn't happened since.

I've seen this once or five times on my Vibrant, too. But my G1 would wake slowly on occasion too.
-bZj
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I've noticed if some kind of sync was occurring as I powered on my g1 or even the vibrant (before the stalling fix), it caused a slowdown. Network traffic was just eating up some resources and it was made a more pronounced with the way Samsung sliced the memory on this phone and the data it was syncing was on the slower memory (stalling). Usually, I'd see the icon lit up in the bar at the top. I'd go back and off/on it a few times and it would be fine. Of course, the sync would have been over with by then. But just as Bahnburner said, it pretty much went away after moving data to faster bit switchers.

down8 said:
I've seen this once or five times on my Vibrant, too. But my G1 would wake slowly on occasion too.
-bZj
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That's the G1, though. My mytouch was pretty responsive, even after I loaded cyanogenmod 5 and 6. I never had this problem with that phone.
Another example of my screen unlocking lag issues:
Just now, as I was typing this, my phone completely froze when I tried to wake it up. I pressed the power button and the screen came on, but the phone became completely unresponsive. I waited for about 20 seconds until I lost patience and removed the battery to reboot it. This was the first time it happened since I got it on Thursday, but it still has me a little worried.
Even after a fresh reboot I get the 1 second screen wake up lag, and then a laggy transition from off to lit screen.
This is really the only issue I'm having with the phone. I don't experience lag anywhere else. I'm wondering if this is normal with other users or if I should get it swapped out.

its such a small delay, i didnt think it was a big deal :/

I have no lag waking it up whatsoever. I did have freezing when killing certain System apps. I stopped doing that and everything has been fine save for the occasional pause.

Try down loading no lock app. It will unlock your phone with one push of the power button taking away the need to swipe the phone.
Feeling Vibrant on xda-app

tq745 said:
Try down loading no lock app. It will unlock your phone with one push of the power button taking away the need to swipe the phone.
Feeling Vibrant on xda-app
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with this app, you can also unlock the phone with the volume buttons..

New Edge, 3 issues: 1. black screen, 2. camera prob, 3. odd sound playback behavior

Hi all,
Wondering if anyone else has seen anything like what I have seen with my new Edge.
I've had it for a week - I love the phone, the camera, the performance - there's a ton to love. This is the first phone I have not rooted and hacked on day one in at least 6 years.
OTOH, I have experienced 3 issues with the phone, after never experiencing a single issue in almost a year with an s6.
S7 Edge International, 64GB SanDisk Extreme Plus SD card.
1. Last night, my phone was in my pocket while I was doing some stuff, and when I pulled it out, it was completely unresponsive. Black screen, no cap buttons, nothing. I didn't even remember how to force a reboot - I haven't had an issue like this with a phone in a long time. I tried charging it (maybe the battery had dies?) - nope. I tried recovery-mode buttons, no good. I stumbled upon vol down and power, and it rebooted fine. No repeats as of yet, but is this anything anyone else has seen?
2. A couple of days ago, the camera wouldn't save pictures. I do not know why. It would open, focus, and the screen would do screen things, as if the photo was taken, but it wouldn't save it and it couldn't be consulted. Oddly, WhatsApp could still take pictures. A reboot fixed the issue, and I've yet to see this repeat, and I did try.
3. This one has repeated several times. I use Spotify for music and PocketCasts for podcasts. Sometimes, when I try to start the sound (with or without headphones), playback starts (the counter advances), but there is no sound. Changing apps doesn't change anything. I thought initially it might be that Game mode was locking out sound resources, so I turned it off - no difference. I tried killing any and all apps that might be stealing the sound - no difference. Once, after dancing around the interface for a bit, it started working, but other times, no. Rebooting obviously fixes the problem. This morning, on the way to work, I experienced the issue, so I placed a phone call - and after the call, the issue was gone. Has anyone else seen anything like this?

That's very strange, especially for the Exynos. I would try a factory reset, if that doesn't fix it, I would request an exchange.

Ugh, a factory reset does not sound like fun at all.

big_adventure said:
Hi all,
Wondering if anyone else has seen anything like what I have seen with my new Edge.
I've had it for a week - I love the phone, the camera, the performance - there's a ton to love. This is the first phone I have not rooted and hacked on day one in at least 6 years.
OTOH, I have experienced 3 issues with the phone, after never experiencing a single issue in almost a year with an s6.
S7 Edge International, 64GB SanDisk Extreme Plus SD card.
1. Last night, my phone was in my pocket while I was doing some stuff, and when I pulled it out, it was completely unresponsive. Black screen, no cap buttons, nothing. I didn't even remember how to force a reboot - I haven't had an issue like this with a phone in a long time. I tried charging it (maybe the battery had dies?) - nope. I tried recovery-mode buttons, no good. I stumbled upon vol down and power, and it rebooted fine. No repeats as of yet, but is this anything anyone else has seen?
Yes i have had this issue 2wice so far - except that in my case the screen was on (once got stuck on weather page, and another time while i was in google play)
But as yourself - nothing worked anymore - no button no screen nothing at all - vol.down+power is the only trick that worsk
I am too puzzled as in what is causing this - i was looking to install some sort of even viewer app to see if there is a log - but couldnt find one
I cannot imagine what it can be - but whatever it is it completely freezes the phone - the screen wont go off - and it would literally stay like this forever....
2. A couple of days ago, the camera wouldn't save pictures. I do not know why. It would open, focus, and the screen would do screen things, as if the photo was taken, but it wouldn't save it and it couldn't be consulted. Oddly, WhatsApp could still take pictures. A reboot fixed the issue, and I've yet to see this repeat, and I did try.
I have also had this issue - but this is due to SD card not being read properly by the phone - this seems to be an issue with many users and again no idea what is causing it but i heard is due to poor SD tray design
3. This one has repeated several times. I use Spotify for music and PocketCasts for podcasts. Sometimes, when I try to start the sound (with or without headphones), playback starts (the counter advances), but there is no sound. Changing apps doesn't change anything. I thought initially it might be that Game mode was locking out sound resources, so I turned it off - no difference. I tried killing any and all apps that might be stealing the sound - no difference. Once, after dancing around the interface for a bit, it started working, but other times, no. Rebooting obviously fixes the problem. This morning, on the way to work, I experienced the issue, so I placed a phone call - and after the call, the issue was gone. Has anyone else seen anything like this?
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this problem i have not had but i never used the headsets so who know
Overall the phone works OK i dont want to return it just for this - but i do want to understand what can cause esp issue 1 and somehow happy to see its not just me having it - so maybe some sort of RAM/Core mismanagement > IDK
Also i have not had any single system updates since i purchased it on the 8th - so hoping one will hit soon and fix the issues :silly:

BTW fix for the Camera Failed issue is to turn OFF the Smart Stay option

I can add something simillar:
- sometimes the camera wouldn't open at all (error) and every time this is solved only by reboot; 2 times in 5 days already
- sometimes when scrolling in the settings menu, there appears some bluring frames (like an "indecision" between top-bottom...)

I encountered a similar problem with the camera.
While I was capturing a Slow-mo video the phone was getting really hot (Exynos international version, 32GB) but I was like, yea I knew that the phone would become hot because of the chipset so I continued.
At 4:58 the phone would freeze, non responsive to any buttons. After a few minutes the phone would reboot but the video got deleted.
I did this 3 times to check if it could be repeated and I succeeded. 3 times it would stop at 4:58 and crash and burn.
The fix for this problem is to switch from saving photos/videos to SD card to internal storage.
Kind of disappointed because the SD slot was one of the biggest pros to buy the phone..

guys - the camera failure issue can be fixed (until they release an update OTA next week) by disabling smart stay - not sure if this can also fix the slo-mo thing

Try turning off the App Power Saving mode!! This fixed my phone and now i dont have these weird freezes no more!!

Random issues on separate days (SM-935FD)

Hi all,
I have a black S7 Edge International version (Dual Sim version). The phone as a whole has been working great. I have been having certain issues though, they don't happen very often. So I'm not sure if its related to certain apps I have or if it's an issue with the phone.
Each issue happened on a separate day.
First problem: The phone froze when I was editing a photo on Adobe Lightroom. This was the first time I was using the app, so I launched after installing it. I tweaked a photo and noticed the phone lagging. They it froze, and I couldn't do anything on the screen. Nothing worked until I did a hard reset. Afterwards, the problem didn't occur again, although I haven't tried Lightroom since, so maybe I should, to see if the problem is with the app. Does this happen often with lightroom? Or could this be a phone issue?
Second Problem: On another day I had my phone randomly start vibrating, like it was receiving a call. I had just made three calls to my wife, and thought she was calling back. However, there was no call notification, and nothing on the drop down menu. There was also no ringtone. The phone kept vibrating, and wouldn't stop. I pressed the power button and reset, then the problem stopped.
Final problem: Today, I've been using the phone fine. However I was playing angry birds and then pressed the home button, so the game was still on it's memory, and being multitasked. I used the phone again a few times, then I noticed on the bottom that the game launcher circle (was on the bottom of my homescreen), even though the game was not open (still in the multitask window - I assumed) I tried to click the multitask window, and the button lit up, but nothing happened. The multitask window had frozen. Again it required a restart, and now it's working.
Given that I'm having these three issues (none have repeated themselves though), is this just the phone needing an OTA update, early phone bugs, specific 3rd party app issues, or is it a more serious problem?
Should I take the phone to Samsung and ask for a replacement, or should I wait it out?
Would love some advice from people, and would also like to hear if you've had similar problems.
Current firmware I'm on: G935FXXU1APB6
Thanks!

Does anyone have any feedback on this? Thanks!

I have the first problem on my phone.
But I didn't use adobe lightroom
and I've seen many user reported this problem in many different threads. it seen a known issue.

Thanks for that stone... Hopefully it's a bug... Would love to hear if anyone thinks that it requires a replacement... Also, i just found a dead pixel on the top corner of my phone... it's completely black...
Is that grounds for replacing the phone, or is samsung wishy washy about the whole thing?

I have the second problem; sudden vibrations with no reason, no app pending or anything else; I start to think it is associated with the Smart Alarm being activated (in Advanced settings).....
Anyway, really a bug, in fact the Smart Alarm and Smart Stay are known for having made other problems previously, but seems they didn't correct all the bugs.....

eyeatoma said:
Thanks for that stone... Hopefully it's a bug... Would love to hear if anyone thinks that it requires a replacement... Also, i just found a dead pixel on the top corner of my phone... it's completely black...
Is that grounds for replacing the phone, or is samsung wishy washy about the whole thing?
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If there's a dead pixel I would return it.... There has been alot of people talking about freezing and rebooting... I've experienced too.... Most likely a software issue.... When I got the S6 last year my phone would reboot 3-5 times a day until a software update came out.... The continuous vibration I haven't heard anyone talk about... But if your still in you grace period I would get another phone for the pixels alone... Too nice and new to have to deal with that
Galaxy S7 edge

Hey, I have the same phone with the same firmware. I experienced the freezing right after I opened the camera from the lock-screen, it lasted for a few minutes and then went away. I'm waiting till Sunday to get the OTA and if I don't, I'm just going to update using Odin, considering how the firmware for the SM-G935FD and SM-G935F is the same.

Sounds good, thanks for the advice guys... I went to Samsung, and they said they would replace the phone for the dead pixel... Will take a week to arrive, but I'm just glad it's getting replaced...

I would return it immediately while it is within your return period.

eyeatoma said:
Hi all,
I have a black S7 Edge International version (Dual Sim version). The phone as a whole has been working great. I have been having certain issues though, they don't happen very often. So I'm not sure if its related to certain apps I have or if it's an issue with the phone.
Each issue happened on a separate day.
First problem: The phone froze when I was editing a photo on Adobe Lightroom. This was the first time I was using the app, so I launched after installing it. I tweaked a photo and noticed the phone lagging. They it froze, and I couldn't do anything on the screen. Nothing worked until I did a hard reset. Afterwards, the problem didn't occur again, although I haven't tried Lightroom since, so maybe I should, to see if the problem is with the app. Does this happen often with lightroom? Or could this be a phone issue?
Second Problem: On another day I had my phone randomly start vibrating, like it was receiving a call. I had just made three calls to my wife, and thought she was calling back. However, there was no call notification, and nothing on the drop down menu. There was also no ringtone. The phone kept vibrating, and wouldn't stop. I pressed the power button and reset, then the problem stopped.
Final problem: Today, I've been using the phone fine. However I was playing angry birds and then pressed the home button, so the game was still on it's memory, and being multitasked. I used the phone again a few times, then I noticed on the bottom that the game launcher circle (was on the bottom of my homescreen), even though the game was not open (still in the multitask window - I assumed) I tried to click the multitask window, and the button lit up, but nothing happened. The multitask window had frozen. Again it required a restart, and now it's working.
Given that I'm having these three issues (none have repeated themselves though), is this just the phone needing an OTA update, early phone bugs, specific 3rd party app issues, or is it a more serious problem?
Should I take the phone to Samsung and ask for a replacement, or should I wait it out?
Would love some advice from people, and would also like to hear if you've had similar problems.
Current firmware I'm on: G935FXXU1APB6
Thanks!
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None of the issues mentioned above, using since 2 weeks now, Adobe lightroom works great here,SM-G935FD:
BTW:you should have been on G935FXXU1APB8 by now:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G935F/CAC/

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hagba said:
None of the issues mentioned above, using since 2 weeks now, Adobe lightroom works great here,SM-G935FD:
BTW:you should have been on G935FXXU1APB8 by now:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G935F/CAC/
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Thanks Yerevan... I wanted to wait to see if I'd get an OTA update... Do you have the changelog for this firmware? What are the updates/improvements. THanks!

i mostly had camera freezes from lock screen and random reboots.... hopefully a software update will fix it

Samsung Galaxy S8 G950F freezing

Hi.
I know it's early days for the European market to be using one of these phones, but I have had mine since Saturday. I'm finding that it will freeze for about 20 seconds before switching itself off and then restarting. It doesn't matter which app I'm using, at one point I was playing music and it made the most horrendous noise before doing it. Other times I've been playing videos, I've been on the Internet or on Facebook or something and the same thing has happened.
I'd first set this phone up through SmartSwitch, so I figured maybe do a factory reset and reinstall all my apps fresh. This has made no difference. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

I have mine since Friday, not one issue. Freezing and restarting sounds like software or hardware issue. If I was you I would factory reset again and run clean without installing any software yet (could be a program you're installing). If it's fixed, then load few programs at the time to try to identify which batch has a bad program in it. At the end, if you don't want to bother or it still doesn't work, just return it.

Hi Pete
I have a feeling it's a screen issue, the last time it happened there was a thick jagged line about 5mm going across the lower half of the screen. Could well be hardware/screen. Obviously I just got it so I'm going to probably going to have to return it. Thanks for the quick reply

Galaxy S8 Freezing here too
I purchased a Galaxy S8+ for myself and an S8 for my daughter. We got the phones on April 20th and since then only the S8 has frozen twice. The clock on the front of the phone stops, the only way to 'wake up' the phone is to press and hold all of the external buttons for ~15 seconds.
What is the Samsung warranty like in the event that this becomes a real problem?

Is this still happening to anyone? I have the T-Mo varient of the S8 and I have returned my first one, now its happening to my second. It just freezes randomly, once or twice a day.

This just happened to me. Was watching youtube before the screen froze and the speaker started playing a buzzing tone. It restarted after a few seconds and during bootup, a blue bar appeared at the bottom of the screen

Ghost touch issue

It seems my phone has a problem of ghost touch. The status bar slides down automatically and randomly. I turned on developer mode to see what happened, it seems, some coordinates near (320, 0) are clicked very often with no reason at all. It annoys me a lot since it interrupts my normal operation. Did someone has the same problem? And how do you solve it? Thanks

I had the same issue. top right of my screen would think it was being touch when it wasnt.

Yes, my wife's ph-1 has this issue. the ghost touches liked a bunch of Instagram posts, it was hilarious seeing my wife's reaction to this, and then she had to go back and unlike a bunch of crap posts.
But this is an issue and very serious one. I believe this could be also causing battery drain if it interacts with OS and causes deep sleep not to kick in when it should. If the issue happens again I will be contacting support to get this BS sorted out.

I have this issue on the oreo beta although it will keep touching the same spot continuously for about a minute or so and if it happens while the phones locked i cant do anything till it stops luckily its been happening less and less often

I had this happen on one phone but not the others, worse when the phone got hot
i think it's the screen, if you look closely, its not flat. Mine is kinda wavey at the edges, like there's a little too much adhesive, and i think that waviness gets worse when the phone gets hot, and causes the phantom touch

glasscitysd said:
I have this issue on the oreo beta although it will keep touching the same spot continuously for about a minute or so and if it happens while the phones locked i cant do anything till it stops luckily its been happening less and less often
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It was gone for 3 days and now the problem is back today. I tried to restart in safe mode and problem is still there so it is a system issue, not caused by third party app.

Same issue here. No rhyme or reason I can see as to why

Mine was happening on my old PH-1 without the earpiece screen, but i got the new version i got has no issue.

This issue is very annoying I'm thinking of returning the device to Sprint and getting another but since it happens so random I wouldn't even be able to show them the issue. Thought it was an issue with the oreo beta but after going back to stock I still have the issue starting to regret buying this phone

I've never experienced this issue on mine

Bump. Been happening to me on Oreo beta. About once or twice a day it happens. I just lock and unlock the phone and it stops. It's weird. I think it has something to do with the screen sensitivity. It's more prone to happening when the device screen is all smudgy or if I just washed my hands.

I have the same issue too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHtJLQEU7o

Me too

Same issue here as well. I did the touch sensitivity trick as well and still getting it. Hope its a software issue and not a hardware one.

I haven't encountered ghost touch but encountered slow responding touch issue. Sometimes the touchscreen will respond to my command slower like 3-4 secs after i touch the screen. Every time this issue appears, a restart of my phone will clear it. Very likely software issue. I'm still on nougat, hopefully they fix it on Oreo before it goes out of beta.

My first PH-1 would become touch unresponsive for 30+ seconds all the time (it was fully updated at the time). It seemed to happen more frequently when I was typing on the stock keyboard. I eventually returned it and bought another several weeks later. I've had no issues with the new one-quite happy with it. I'm running the Beta2 update and enjoying it.

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My first PH-1 would become touch unresponsive for 30+ seconds all the time (it was fully updated at the time). It seemed to happen more frequently when I was typing on the stock keyboard. I eventually returned it and bought another several weeks later. I've had no issues with the new one-quite happy with it. I'm running the Beta2 update and enjoying it.
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That's good to know. Mine also happened when using the keyboard occasionally as well. I have a replacement set coming as my original set's packaging did not come with the pull tab on the box and there was a fingerprint smudge at the back of the phone when i took the phone out of the box the first time. I presumed mine was a used/returned set, not new as what i had ordered. Hope the new set fixes the issue.

My phone has the same issue whenever I'm charging it and using it at the same time it's registering multiple touches when I'm using just one finger on the screen, it mostly happen when I'm doing a long press action. In developers option I have show taps enable so I'm able to see all ghost touches.

I fixed my ghost touch issue with a simple hard reset.

It will come back sadly