I bought Galaxy A5 2016 at february this year. It worked fine until august, when I started to notice that sometimes when phone was at my pocket and I received a call, then when I took it out and answer the call, the answer and reject buttons on touch screen didn't respond and I ended up missing the call. With home button I am able to answer calls always, but I'd rather prefer to continue using the touch screen buttons. Anyone knows what's the reason for this failure and possible actions to correct it? I don't even know if it is hardware or software issue because the failure keeps showing at Marshmallow, Lollipop, after a factory reset, cache wipe and even in safe mode boot. Now the phone is at technical service but I don't think they will be able to repair it. It is a difficult to reproduce failure, doesn't happen but in very specific circumstances, but when it does, it is very annoying because calls are the core part of a phone.
I think that it could be possible for it to be a software error that has appeared in some of the updates of the phone. I always do updates when the phone notices me of that. The failure persists with Lollipop Spain PHE June version and with the first two Spain Marshmallow versions. The third one I was not able to test it because it appeared when the phone was already at service. If it is a software issue I am very worried about it, because it would took a lot of time to review the code, search for the failure, reproduce it, correct it, do testing procedures, release new software version... Perhaps Lollipop April Spain PHE version could be free of failure? It was from a time where I remember that my phone worked fine. Also, weeks before having the failure I started to use power saving mode continuously because it reduces framerate and CPU usage and sometimes when I play certain games battery goes down slowlier. Could be that related? Maybe a failure on the way phone wakes at pocket when power saving enabled? Kernel problem?
Please I would thank any information. I am very confused.
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Now that the honeymoon period is over I have started noticing a few problems with the JJ. The most serious I noted is that when the JJ has gone through some use after its last soft reset it tends to freeze when a new text message arrives in the in-box. This does not happen when the JJ has been freshly soft reset and only when some time has passed since it was last soft reset. Since I have set the unit to vibrating alert on receipt of a new message the vibrator continuously starts operating and the phone freezes. To stop the vibrator you need to do a soft reset again.
Anybody had this problem??? I am planning to do a hard reset and see what happens.
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Definitely related to some software that you have installed. I use sms everyday and havent faced any such problem.
Yes it does freezes your device when you receive new SMS, some time even I lost the SMS which was coming tru,..
Once I lost the MMS Account itself, then had to go for softreset and got it back again...
I've had the same thing happening. Very annoying. That's just Microsoft as we know it. We can't get out of the habbit of frequent softresets.
I did a complete ROM upgrade today and I replaced the Arabic ROM which came preinstalled on my JJ with the english version as available at the clubimate site. Without installing any 3rd party software I tested the SMS freezing problem and unfortunately it is very much there. This at least proves that no 3rd party software is to blame for this.
Now I am thinking that maybe I will have to dispose of the JJ as I so much depend on text messaging. The worst part is that as the JJ freezes on arrival of a new SMS the message itself is also lost and after doing the soft reset you can never tell from whom the message was.
I will really appreciate if anyone can help
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Inherent
If you have an SD card inserted try removing it and see if the problem persist.
What i dont get is why this problem is unique to a very small percentage of devices. Many of use the device for SMS quite frequently and dont face this problem. I wonder what the triggering factor is.
universaldoc said:
What i dont get is why this problem is unique to a very small percentage of devices. Many of use the device for SMS quite frequently and dont face this problem. I wonder what the triggering factor is.
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I have this problem since I updated my ROM.
I posted this a few days back that the Jasjar tends to hang not all the time but most of the time when a new SMS arrives and in fact the SMS is also lost when you recover after a soft reset.
I thought that I will re-post this question because now more users would have had more experience with their Jasjars. For me this problem does not seem to go. I have tried even a hard reset and the problem keeps coming back even with no third party software installed.
I shall be obliged if anyone else who has had this problem may kindly post his views because this may put some pressure on the people at i-mate to come up with a fix. I fear that since this problem is being faced by a very small minority of JJ users a fix may never see the light of the day.
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I have a himalaya device with WM5 and have the exact same 'sms-lockup' problem.
Also, somethimes all the incoming calls are forwarded to my voicemail, even when my phone ison and the signal is strong and im not using my device. This can only be solved by a reset or after i made a call myself. Till that time no-one could call me!
The problems started when i installed another WM5-rom and a new radio-rom( 1.18 ). This was the first time a upgraded the radio-rom, so i think this could be the problem.
Im going to install the older radio-rom ver1.08 (recommanded in combi with WM5 by buzzdef.net). I hope this solves it!
I to have the same problem... Every time you open a new text message or even after sending message and when you get delivery report it freezes and you will have to reset.. but if you are in the middle of a call the phone still works fine but not able to use the PDA part because its freeze...
Have installed another, older, radio-rom( 1.08 ) and used it for almost a week... no freezes sofar!! I dont know if this rom can be used for a Universal device...
Just uncheck the "turn off device after..." option in battery settings and this problem will go away.
This was pointed out by user Khaled in another thread.
im also experiencing this after i upgraded to Second Edition. my Himalaya tends to freeze when receiving SMS. applications starts to slow down but will eventually recover after the SMS receipt notification, no need for softresets. i also noticed that currently, it would take about 10 seconds before SMS notification appears in the screen. im sure about this because i would know that an SMS is coming because my computer monitor, adjacent to my XDA, would flicker. so the turn-around time from the flickering of the monitor to the SMS notification would last around 10-12 seconds. is this normal?
I was so fed up with the SMS freezing problem that I sold my Jasjar, albeit at a much loss and exchanged it for a new one.
Just my bad luck the problem is also there on my 2nd Jasjar. It is exactly the same as the one I have sold. When I get a new SMS the unit freezes and has to be soft reset. Please note that this does not happen every time but say 1 in 10 times. Anyways this makes the whole system very unreliable. When your phone is in your pocket and an SMS causes it to freeze you will never know if now somebody tries to make an urgent call because your unit is not responding.
I have also tried the remedy / fix mentioned in this fourm to to Uncheck Turn Off Device but does not work.
My only hope is that this problem is fixed in the next ROM upgrade.
In the meantime I am evaluating prospects of leaving the WM platform altogether and going for a Nokia 9500
a friend just adviced me that it was my Radio version that is causing the problem. 1.18 has a lot of bugs including this freezing issue. so he suggested that i reflash my ROM and go back to Radio version 1.17. could somebody point me where the bug issues of 1.18 are listed here in the forum? thanks
Hi all,
my hero crashed every now and then, i'm not sure what causes this. This really annoys me, because taking out the hero battery is a hassle. It happens like this:
- hero is in sleep mode for some time
- i can't wake it up anymore, doesn't react to any hardware button input. Screen stays black.
- i can't softreset
- only taking the battery out will help out.
Now i want to know who the culprit is, and use a logfile app. My problem is following:
will the logfile app help me at all, AFTER the crash has occured and i reboot the phone? Will the logfile have entries from BEFORE the last startup, or is everything lost by rebooting my device?
Thanks,
shahpur
Shahpur, I have this problem and when I called HTC Europe they said they have never heard of this happening. You press every button and nothing happens. You don't know it's off because the screen is in sleep anyway!! And like you the only thing that gets the phone back is taking the battery out. And then it comes on again. I initially took sim and battery out when it happened, but after it's happened a few times I now know you only need to take the battery out which is a pain, because no buttons will wake the phone when it dies. They said it is probably a hardware problem and not software so a reset or upgrade of ROM will not make any difference and want about 3 or 4 weeks to repair phone, which is not even 2 months old.
Has anyone else had this problem yet? The phone just dies until you take battery out.
I've done 2 factory resets but nothing helps, and I don't want to send it back for a repair.
How often does yours do this?
hmm i would say it happens sporadically every now and then, maybe once a week or so.
But this is definetly not an hardware issue. If the OS fails to respond after getting into sleep mode, i can't imaging that this is a hardware fault which works flawlesss otherwise. I never had any problems with the hardware buttons when working with the device so i think this has to be software od OS related...i have a lot of 3rd party apps and i think it has to do with them...
I will not send my device back because:
you cant easily reproduce this bug, so i'm pretty sure that the repair center will not be able to reproduce and fix this issue. Therefore you might get the same device back, or another device which may also have any other problem like dead pixels, LED problems and so on.
Since my hero is working perfectly and has no other issues besides this annoying bug, i will wait for the next android update and hope that this will help the system get more stable...
well they said I was the only one that reported it and as I am in the UK and you are in Germany I doubt this is true. But I would be interested to hear if anyone else has reported this issue. It's really annoying, I get it every few days, and on Monday twice in one day. It's not where I am as it has happened in 3 different locations, but I don't have any 3rd party apps, or any apps downloaded, so it is not that I'm sure. Have you done the new update and had the problem since then as well as before the update?
i think i had the issue already with the old firmware, and the new firmware didn't fix it too. My device also crashed twice yesterday...
interesting to see that your device crashes without any 3rd party apps...so i think the best way to dig deeper, is to check the logfiles.
hope somebody can answer my logfile app question, so i can find out what was the last task before the device crashed.
Yep, there are no added apps on mine, yet........ So, don't worry about them, It's the phone that you and I have. But we are in the minority. I was offered a reconditioned by Orange, but I don't want a second hand phone with more problems like you say
Just as a matter of interest, what happens if you call the phone when it is in this state?
Regards,
Dave
Well it's dead/off, so answerphone......
Sorry to bump this thread, but I am also having the same issue. Did anyone manage to resolve this issue?
Me too!
I'm having the same issue and it seems to be happening more often. I have sent an email to HTC but no reply yet.
Any fixes?
Mine is a SIM free purchase from Play.com
in my case it was most definetly a 3rd party app which caused the crashes. Since i have like 40 apps installed i'm not sure anymore which one was the culprit, but it seems like i have either uninstalled the app or a recent update fixed the problems.
i didn't get any freeze for many weeks now.
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Got an email back from HTC advising a Hard Reset. Did this last night and no more crashes so far. Fingers crossed
I've reset mine maybe 4 times in 4 months, but I still get this problem
Any update from anyone on this little running saga of the invisible offs?
Hi!
I feel like i searched nearly the whole internet for an answer, but only very few people seem to have these problems so i found nothing that could help me...
I have 3 really annoying bugs on my Play (locked, not rooted, bought in may):
- It randomly reboots from time to time. I tried to figure out when it happens but it has absolutly no relation to what i do with it. it mostly happens when i'm not using it. so it just lies around doing nothing and suddenly i see the sony ericcson logo on the sreen and it reboots...
- The second bug is: it throws me back to the enter PIN screen. like i never entered the PIN it kills wlan, mobile network etc and waits until i reenter the PIN...
- Third is: the clock stops at random times. it seems that this happens sometimes while in flight mode (i always put it in flight mode during the night because i don't want to be disturbed while sleeping and i use the alarmclock).
I already tried to turn off the automatic time via internet because i thought "perhaps it is irritated when internet is no longer available and then it just stops".
But it also happend while in normal mode with wlan on. in that case the clock only stops for a few minutes and then resumes, resulting in a 5 minutes or so difference to the real time without the phone noticing it (even with automatic time turned on)
I don't expect, that anyone can help me fix this, but it would be interesting to know if anybody else experienced these bugs and if you think its hardware or software related.
I already tried getting a warranty replacement. I sent the phone back to amazon, but they have an own mobile phone repair department and, surprise, none of the bugs occured while they tested it. So i got it back with: Sorry nothing found phone works fine....
I would be glad for any sort of advice.
I'm experiencing the random reboots. I believe it has something to do with a software issue on the Sony end. I'm about to check their site now. I'll report back if i find anything.
EDIT: Just finished a chat support session, and in his official capacity he instructed me to either take it to Verizon, or to ship it to their evaluation/repair center. Big load of help. :\
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I'm experiencing the random reboots. I believe it has something to do with a software issue on the Sony end. I'm about to check their site now. I'll report back if i find anything.
EDIT: Just finished a chat support session, and in his official capacity he instructed me to either take it to Verizon, or to ship it to their evaluation/repair center. Big load of help. :\
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Can you please PM me with more details on your random reboots? I'd be interested to know what applications you were running at the time, signal strength, battery level, and any other details that could help me troubleshoot your issue.
I've been having issues with my i9505 not always "waking up" when someone tries to ring me, and instead they get sent directly to my voicemail.
It's inconsistent from speaking to people who have tried to ring me and got my voicemail, even though my phone is ALWAYS ON 24/7 with a near maximum H+ signal, and always near full charge.
Is it normal when you press the home key and the lock screen appears that the clock initially shows the last time the phone was "woken" or "unlocked" and then in an instant corrects itself to the correct time??
It feels like the phone is going into a deeper sleep state than I'd like which MAY be causing my issues?
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I've been having issues with my i9505 not always "waking up" when someone tries to ring me, and instead they get sent directly to my voicemail.
It's inconsistent from speaking to people who have tried to ring me and got my voicemail, even though my phone is ALWAYS ON 24/7 with a near maximum H+ signal, and always near full charge.
Is it normal when you press the home key and the lock screen appears that the clock initially shows the last time the phone was "woken" or "unlocked" and then in an instant corrects itself to the correct time??
It feels like the phone is going into a deeper sleep state than I'd like which MAY be causing my issues?
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have u updated to new version without a complete reset ?
If so do a Reset and try
factory reset and you should be all set
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factory reset and you should be all set
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I've not done any updates whatsoever and have only had the phone for 2 weeks, and simply installed several apps.
It took ages to configure the phone settings to my liking, so I really don't want to factory reset it.
Does the "clock not updating on lock screen" that I mentioned happen to you or anyone else?
Waking up this question thread. I'm experiencing the exact same issues - with my i9506 (the LTE+ model). Quite annoying actually even though the problem may seem minute.
Interesting to see that you havd/hade the same problems under JB. I'm seeing the same under KK 4.4.2. Just checked the clock-update on lock screen and for a split of a second, the clock showed the "old time" before it updated. I do not know if i had the same problem before updating to KK (I had the phone only for about a month before it was updated to 4.4.2). Maybe it has to do with some deep sleep policy issue for the Snapdragon chipset as both the i9505 and i9506 have Snapragon. I have reported my observations to my local Samsung customer care centre (which is in Sweden).
Rgds
Hi,
At some times my ASUS ZenFone 3 (ZE520KL) phone is unusable but Asus's after-sales service does not find the problem and simply updates it when I send it to them.
I haven't figured out what's causing the problem. This can happen to me several times in the same day or not at all for a week.
All applications are crashing at the same time and I have a lot of messages saying "XXX keeps stopping" (I don't know what the English version of this message is). Sometimes the bug report creation (via the menu "shut down""restart") works until it ends but I can't send the report because the other applications crash. Other times the report crash before finishing.
It usually takes several restarts before I can reuse my phone. I have different problems during restarts: infinite loading, no keyboard to type the PIN code, application crashes as soon as the restart is complete.
Other points I noticed (but I'm not sure it has anything to do with it):
the phone restarts on its own, sometimes several times a day
when I do a factory reset, it takes several days before problems reappear.
the more I use the phone, the more likely it's gonna crash.
After some crashes, I loose my wallpaper
If you connect a headset with the screen turned off: it will not be detected by the phone even if I reconnect it with the screen turned on. Forced to restart.
The first crash occurred 3 weeks after my purchase.
My version is up to date. I tried with and without the Play Store or without deactivating any application. But I didn't see any difference.
How can I fix the problem? or how to provoke it (the after-sales service must see it)?
Thank you in advance for your help because even if I can't cause problems, they happen frequently and when they do I can no longer rely on my phone. I often can't take the risk of having a phone with which, when I need it, I might not be able to make a phone call, be awake in time,...
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Hi,
At some times my ASUS ZenFone 3 (ZE520KL) phone is unusable but Asus's after-sales service does not find the problem and simply updates it when I send it to them.
I haven't figured out what's causing the problem. This can happen to me several times in the same day or not at all for a week.
All applications are crashing at the same time and I have a lot of messages saying "XXX keeps stopping" (I don't know what the English version of this message is). Sometimes the bug report creation (via the menu "shut down""restart") works until it ends but I can't send the report because the other applications crash. Other times the report crash before finishing.
It usually takes several restarts before I can reuse my phone. I have different problems during restarts: infinite loading, no keyboard to type the PIN code, application crashes as soon as the restart is complete.
Other points I noticed (but I'm not sure it has anything to do with it):
the phone restarts on its own, sometimes several times a day
when I do a factory reset, it takes several days before problems reappear.
the more I use the phone, the more likely it's gonna crash.
If you connect a headset with the screen turned off: it will not be detected by the phone even if I reconnect it with the screen turned on. Forced to restart.
The first crash occurred 3 weeks after my purchase.
My version is up to date. I tried with and without the Play Store or without deactivating any application. But I didn't see any difference.
How can I fix the problem? or how to provoke it (the after-sales service must see it)?
Thank you in advance for your help because even if I can't cause problems, they happen frequently and when they do I can no longer rely on my phone. I often can't take the risk of having a phone with which, when I need it, I might not be able to make a phone call, be awake in time,...
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Did u root your phone?
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Did u root your phone?
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No, I wanted to wait until I was sure everything was working well before I lost the warranty. And apparently I was right...
killersky4 said:
No, I wanted to wait until I was sure everything was working well before I lost the warranty. And apparently I was right...
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I have same problem, but that time my phone was rooted and i sovled it by root too.
Ok so I'll try to return my phone one last time and if it doesn't work I'll try it in root (but I'm afraid it's a hardware problem).
If the phone is covered by warranty you may ask if you can get a replacement. They should have all your problem reports. I think that would be best instead of rooting it for now. You can root, but it's a gamble and the issue may be hardware, if you do root and issue persists, you lose warranty
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Ok so I'll try to return my phone one last time and if it doesn't work I'll try it in root (but I'm afraid it's a hardware problem).
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You should ask for hardware problem to ASUS center because if you root your phone, ASUS will not responsible for your device any more.
Thank you for your answers.
I already told Asus that the updates didn't fix anything and I thought it was a hardware problem. But they did the same thing again: update, test, their tests pass so they send my phone back to me. That's why I'm trying to figure out how to cause the problem.
I will ask if I can get a replacement if they return my phone without correcting the problem once again.
Asus give me a new motherboard and new camera. Now my phone works perfectly