It seems to occur most often when I'm using Google play music. I think I see the sync icon go as well. But I haven't been able to reliably recreate the problem. I'm on a slimmed down stock ROM. Before, I was on rooted stock with lots of G2 exposed features on. Is there a good way to diagnose the cause? Should I revert to stock entirely and try to get it replaced?
Also, sometimes my data runs excruciatingly slowly, even though it says full LTE signal, and it's a site that is quite reliable and definitely not the problem.
I also have been receiving texts late (sometimes 24 hours later) recently. I have experienced similar things before on different phones, but maybe there's an actual software solution for that.
Thanks for any help
I've had this issue for months now and I've started countless threads in countless forums attempting to solve it:
my S4 (GT-I9505 jflte) is basically running in "slow motion". What I mean by that is that no matter what I do, about 50% of the time all animations will play back at about half the speed they normally would and any kind of input will be registered with a delay of about half a second. Animations still look smooth at about 60fps and the phone doesn't crash, it's just... slow. Really slow.
I used to think this had to be an issue with Cyanogenmod (was running the Optimized CM12.1 rom from AntaresOne & Alucard), but after trying several different builds and clean flashing countless times, nothing changed. Now I just flashed an entirely different ROM (Resurrection Remix) and although it ran buttery-smooth for the first hour or so, after restoring all my apps it has now started doing the same thing.
The fact that the problem persists even with a completely different ROM leads me to believe it must be something to do with the apps I have installed. But how do I troubleshoot this? I have way too much stuff on my phone to go through deinstalling every single app and making sure it wasn't causing the problem.
I have no idea how to approach this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm not sure if this has been happening before with CM12 or if it just started happening now with Resurrection Remix, but I just noticed that it seems to happen mostly when the device is charging. When I unplug it, 9 times out of 10 the slowness will instantly go away... is that an indication of anything?
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I think I just solved the issue. After discovering that the problem appeared to be caused by the charging, I tried a different charger. My original Samsung charger started having horrible coil whine a few months ago, so I threw it out and started using a generic one I had laying around. Come to think of it now, that must have been when the problem started.
I just found another charger for a Samsung phone and plugged my phone in: everything fine. Switched back to the generic charger: everything slow. So it must have been the charger. Just out of curiosity, is this a known issue? Could some kind of electrical noise from the charger be interfering with the touch screen? Seems almost bizarre that a simple charger would cause a phone to run slow...
I enrolled to beta programa like 3 weeks ago and everything was just fine, but yesterday after some apps updated the phone started freezing a lot, all the apps started crashing especially WhatsApp and Instagram, when I unlock the phone it takes like 5 seconds, also a lot of times when I go to the home screen after writing something, the keyboard stays on screen and it doesnt hides, I dont know what is happening, if someone could help me I would thank it a lot.
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I enrolled to beta programa like 3 weeks ago and everything was just fine, but yesterday after some apps updated the phone started freezing a lot, all the apps started crashing especially WhatsApp and Instagram, when I unlock the phone it takes like 5 seconds, also a lot of times when I go to the home screen after writing something, the keyboard stays on screen and it doesnt hides, I dont know what is happening, if someone could help me I would thank it a lot.
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Don't mean to scare you, but that is exactly what was happening to me right before going into an unrecoverable bootloop. Nothing I tried revived the device, although there have been some that have been able to. I ended up RMA'ing my device as nothing I did brought it back to life. You might be in a different situation but just giving you a heads up.
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Stock 7.1.1 and rooted here. I've been on the official 7.1.1 release for our 6P's since early December, and for the past week or so, I've been experiencing freezing as well. I'd be in the middle of typing in Hangouts, streaming music in the car via bluetooth and Spotify, or just waking the phone up from sleep. For the past few days, I've been getting 3-4 freezes per day.
On rare occasions, I've left the phone alone to settle, and it returns to normal, but more times than not, a hard reset is the only 'fix'; until the next freeze.
I reluctantly wiped the phone, unrooted, flashed stock 7.1.1 and re-rooted all via NRT last night. The phone froze again this morning coming off the charger...
Granted, it decided to restore 528mb's worth of WhatsApp history as soon as I unplugged it (why it didn't restore on charger overnight is beyond me though). Will update if it freezes again.
The phone runs butter smooth with zero issues other than these freezing occurrences though. MO, the 6P is the best all-rounded phone currently available, even if it's a year old already.
Appreciate any help or suggestions!!
That's odd try ex kernel and over clock or try HEBF manager on play store
Quick update. Couldn't bear the multiple freezes per day, so I called Google to ask for help. Apparently I've done everything I can on my end (including a factory reset and updating to the latest firmware), so they sent out a replacement 6P to me free of charge. They'll also be covering the courier/shipping costs for my old 6P too. Fantastic customer service. Kudos to them!! I called them Tuesday morning (20th Dec) Australian time, and received my replacement 6P Friday afternoon (23rd Dec). Very quick indeed
Half a day after setting up my replacement 6P, including updating to 7.1.1, I started getting the same symptoms as my old 6P. Freezing, unresponsiveness, etc. Persisted for another day and had enough. I've since done a full wipe and downgraded back to the final 6.0.1 release, and it's been stable as a rock for 3 days now. No freezes, lagginess, nothing.
So I deduce it might actually be a software issue with 7.1.1, and not a hardware problem. It appears a growing number of Pixel and Pixel XL users are also experiencing random freezes on their new phones running 7.1.1 too...
Looks like I'll stick with 6.0.1 until Google makes a formal announcement and something is done about 7.1.1. I've missed Xposed and GravityBox too, so 6.0.1 is all good. Most importantly, it's stable
Had you ever tried booting into safe mode to see if maybe an app was causing the issue? Maybe a compatibility issue between an installed app(s) and 7.1.1
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Had you ever tried booting into safe mode to see if maybe an app was causing the issue? Maybe a compatibility issue between an installed app(s) and 7.1.1
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Thanks for the pro tip. I did consider doing that with the replacement 6P, but the only apps that I had installed were the stock Google ones that came with 7.1.1, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and SwiftKey. I just assumed if such popular apps were the cause, a lot more people would have pinpointed them as the problem?
I did however read a few users claiming SwiftKey to be the culprit prior to RMA'ing my old device, but even after uninstalling that from my old phone, I was still getting the freezing issues.
A few months ago, I flashed a 6.0.1 cyanogenmod rom(by Alberto96) onto my jfltexx(international) S4. Excellent Rom I must say, but since that flashing, my phone had been dying at 30%, (when I switch on the screen if its 30% or below it'd freeze then switch off). Thinking the ROM was the issue, I then reverted back to stock Samsung 5.0.1, but the issue persisted. I'm not a fan of the stock rom and would like to go back to CM or lineage, any idea what could be causing it?
I've eliminated the fact that it's a faulty battery because this is a new battery, and all my other spares that switch off at 30% work just fine on other devices.
Really hope you can help me resolve this.
Regards
Is there any way to figure out what's causing a random reboot?
I'm rooted, running A-O Rom, which is almost stock Android 8.
I got a random reboot when I used the camera the other day (it took about 5 pics and then rebooted).
Today I got a random reboot in the middle of playing "Words With Friends."
I've never had any issues with these apps before. Since it was today and 3 weeks ago, I doubt it will happen again soon, but I don't want it to happen again at all, especially since I'll be going on vacation soon and needing it for pics/alarm clock/phone/etc.
Any suggestions?
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Is there any way to figure out what's causing a random reboot?
I'm rooted, running A-O Rom, which is almost stock Android 8.
I got a random reboot when I used the camera the other day (it took about 5 pics and then rebooted).
Today I got a random reboot in the middle of playing "Words With Friends."
I've never had any issues with these apps before. Since it was today and 3 weeks ago, I doubt it will happen again soon, but I don't want it to happen again at all, especially since I'll be going on vacation soon and needing it for pics/alarm clock/phone/etc.
Any suggestions?
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Could be just Oreo. Im on stock temp root and get random reboots, way more then nougat.
I ran A-O's 8.0 for almost a year without any reboots...
Any other ideas from anyone on how to diagnose this? or fix this?