I looked over and saw the screen has been froze for seven minutes. Freezes at least once a day while using navigation and work apps whole driving. That's not good when you just need to select something quick.
What's the best way to figure out issue? Reset?
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cfclay said:
I looked over and saw the screen has been froze for seven minutes. Freezes at least once a day while using navigation and work apps whole driving. That's not good when you just need to select something quick.
What's the best way to figure out issue? Reset?
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I'm not far behind... I'm on the 39th day with this phone and I'm happy with it.
Some days, I was doing multitasking (using Google map, listening to music, and checking email and Facebook, etc...at the same time) with this phone while riding with my colleague back and forth to work for over an hour each way without any problems.
The phone got warm a little bit but the screen was still responsive and not frozen!!!
I'm running the final build of Resurrection Remix and it's been as stable as any rom I've ever used. I suggest u try it or Lineage. Stock camera app works since it's updated thru play store.
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I think I was able to settle mine down by uninstalling the last few apps (things I didn't use and a couple of games) and then clearing all my chrome tabs, plus I did a reset. Was planning to sideload the oreo beta 2 over the holiday, but never got around to it. Might just wait for the final build if it drops in the next couple of weeks. But yea, I think stock 7.1.1 is just not stable.
Anybody think sideloading Oreo would help?
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Anybody think sideloading Oreo would help?
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Did you ever root or fdr your phone? I've never experienced your kind of problem even before sideloaded my phone from N to Oreo beta 2.
My guess is do the fdr first to see if it fixes the issue. If not, your phone is still flesh started from scratch, nothing to lose.
Make sure you backup your phone first. Good luck!
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Did you ever root or fdr your phone? I've never experienced your kind of problem even before sideloaded my phone from N to Oreo beta 2.
My guess is do the fdr first to see if it fixes the issue. If not, your phone is still flesh started from scratch, nothing to lose.
Make sure you backup your phone first. Good luck!
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No root. What is FDR?
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No root. What is FDR?
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Sorry, I thought that you knew. It is factory data reset.
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No root. What is FDR?
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I believe it is Factory Reset
Oreo beta 2 has been solid for me. I've had the phone since October, and I didn't load Oreo until Christmas and it almost felt like a new phone. I didn't have many problems on nougat that others have had but an occasional freeze once a week or less.
50 days with mine (got it mid November), loaded Beta 1 on it almost the second I got it home, and beta 2 the second it was available to OTA. No issues. Wife's is still running stock 7.1.1 also no issues.
Mine has rebooted itself on its own 1 time in that entire time, and it may have been my fault. But that's still a better track record than my Pixel which probably rebooted on its own 2+ times a month.
Sprint edition, unlocked running on Verizon, no root.
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Anybody think sideloading Oreo would help?
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Yes, if you wipe and start from scratch.
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cfclay said:
Anybody think sideloading Oreo would help?
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I sideload Oreo beta 2 yesterday, much faster and no freezing yet, knock on wood.
Didn't reset either.
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Im waiting on my USB cable to come in the mail, so I can't sideload yet. I did to a reset and that helped until I was in the car yesterday and the same thing happened again- gets very sluggish when using using apps like Uber, Maps, Glympse, and Hangouts Dialer for instance. Maybe those are just memory intensive apps, who knows. Not a believer in the "memory boost" or " app killer" apps, I thought the way Android OS was developing those werent necessary- but they do seem to to help - running these two.
Isn't there some way to minimize how apps run or maximize/tweek these things in the OS?
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Im waiting on my USB cable to come in the mail, so I can't sideload yet. I did to a reset and that helped until I was in the car yesterday and the same thing happened again- gets very sluggish when using using apps like Uber, Maps, Glympse, and Hangouts Dialer for instance. Maybe those are just memory intensive apps, who knows. Not a believer in the "memory boost" or " app killer" apps, I thought the way Android OS was developing those werent necessary- but they do seem to to help - running these two.
Isn't there some way to minimize how apps run or maximize/tweek these things in the OS?View attachment 4379360
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Go to those apps settings then tap on data usage and turn off their background data running to see if that helps!
I bought my phone back in september. Running oreo beta since the day it was released. No freeze or any other major issue for me
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cfclay said:
Im waiting on my USB cable to come in the mail, so I can't sideload yet. I did to a reset and that helped until I was in the car yesterday and the same thing happened again- gets very sluggish when using using apps like Uber, Maps, Glympse, and Hangouts Dialer for instance. Maybe those are just memory intensive apps, who knows. Not a believer in the "memory boost" or " app killer" apps, I thought the way Android OS was developing those werent necessary- but they do seem to to help - running these two.
Isn't there some way to minimize how apps run or maximize/tweek these things in the OS?View attachment 4379360
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is there a problem with the charging cable that came with the phone? i would think that it would work fine for data.
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is there a problem with the charging cable that came with the phone? i would think that it would work fine for data.
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Except most people don't have usbc on their computers and I'm not so sure it works 100 prercent on usbc systems.
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is there a problem with the charging cable that came with the phone? i would think that it would work fine for data.
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Doesn't it have USB-C on both ends?
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Zargone said:
is there a problem with the charging cable that came with the phone? i would think that it would work fine for data.
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Doesn't work here, or it's just too slow. Other normal USB cables work ok
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Been having horrible battery life lately and have been led to believe that the media server process is to blame. 8-12% battery usage on average and have searched and searched for a fix to no avail. Formatted SD twice, factory reset twice, and flashed back to Google's stock image to no avail. No idea what's causing it and it appears to randomly wake the device up from deep sleep every once in a while overnight. Any help would be appreciated thanks.
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Worst. Question. Ever.
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Been having horrible battery life lately and have tried both paranoid and AOKP with the same results, 45 minutes of screen time on at 77 percent battery currently... I used to get 6+hours of screen time and now get about 3.5-4. This could be accountable to 'mediaserver'. No idea what it is or how to get rid of it but usually takes up 8-12% of battery. So far stock still produces the best battery life but it's still pretty bad. Any tablet ROMs that produce good battery life? Thanks for anyone's input!
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Dude, it's pretty obvious that the problem lies not with your ROM, but with your 'media server' or any other processes that suck battery life. There are threads on the 'media server' battery issue that you might want to search for.
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Worst. Question. Ever.
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There, I re-phrased the question. No need to be a jackass on here.. If you don't have anything helpful to say, then don't say it. It's just a waste of space :laugh:
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There, I re-phrased the question. No need to be a jackass on here.. If you don't have anything helpful to say, then don't say it. It's just a waste of space :laugh:
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I did help you. Helped you realize what your real question should have been
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ÜBER™ said:
I did help you. Helped you realize what your real question should have been
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Well thanks. I just wish I could fix my N7...:crying:
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There, I re-phrased the question. No need to be a jackass on here.. If you don't have anything helpful to say, then don't say it. It's just a waste of space :laugh:
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I give you credit, sir. I expected an angry, hostile post from you after ÜBER was so blunt. That was not what you ended up posting.
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I give you credit, sir. I expected an angry, hostile post from you after ÜBER was so blunt. That was not what you ended up posting.
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Well I don't really like flaming/raging at people because then this thread would just be pointless after that; ÜBER and I going at eachother aimlessly. I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable on the mediaserver issue can fix this problem because I'm quite certain that I'm not the only one with this problem.
It was recently introduced. I remember not too long ago this wasn't an issue. Then out ta nowhere flashing a nightly it appeared. However I'm told it is things polling the sdcard for images or as the title suggests media. There really isn't a fix, that I new of or come across.
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Worst. Question. Ever.
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Btw these kinds of posts do NOT HELP anything at all in anyway... If you feel the question is silly or even dumb....refrain from posts like this as they don't help and do nothing but lead to flamming typically. See if you posted ur last post first instead of this then the result might of been much better...
And OP no need for the name calling btw. We can all be civil here guys.
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Btw these kinds of posts do NOT HELP anything at all in anyway... If you feel the question is silly or even dumb....refrain from posts like this as they don't help and do nothing but lead to flamming typically. See if you posted ur last post first instead of this then the result might of been much better...
And OP no need for the name calling btw. We can all be civil here guys.
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It wasn't serious... at least completely it was a Simpson reference if you didn't catch that. And also it turned out just fine... he reworded the question and we didn't get in an argument. :thumbup:
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It wasn't serious... at least completely it was a Simpson reference if you didn't catch that. And also it turned out just fine... he reworded the question and we didn't get in an argument. :thumbup:
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I hear ya but what things look like over text are not always taken the way the poster intended for it to mean...
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Well I don't really like flaming/raging at people because then this thread would just be pointless after that; ÜBER and I going at eachother aimlessly. I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable on the mediaserver issue can fix this problem because I'm quite certain that I'm not the only one with this problem.
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I found this thread you might want to look through. It seems to be similar to the issue you're having.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801378
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I found this thread you might want to look through. It seems to be similar to the issue you're having.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801378
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Already saw that one and that guy's problem had to do with a navigation app issue where mediaserver was constantly scanning the map files, which isn't my case. Thanks though man I appreciate your help.
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Already saw that one and that guy's problem had to do with a navigation app issue where mediaserver was constantly scanning the map files, which isn't my case. Thanks though man I appreciate your help.
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His bad is it? Is it the top thing eating battery or just under display?
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My Solution
I have the Galaxy Note 2. My battery used to be at 40% after 15 hours of continuous use because the battery is 3,100mAh. One day I started noticing "Media" consuming 30-50% of my battery drain and the phone was always getting hot. I thought I solved the problem a couple days ago, but it came back and I couldn't figure out how to delete this post, so here's an update lol.
Things I've tried
I tried using Titanium Backup and Freezing "Media," "Downloads," and a couple of other apps/services/processes, but that usually had no effect, or just crashed other apps.
I tried downloading F5 Media Scanner and freezing my media scanner, but I got impatient and just uninstalled it. My media never showed up, and I didn't know what I was doing.
Some people said Google Play Music was causing it, but that only seemed to run "Media Service," not "Media." I disabled "Automatically cache" just to be sure. I guess I can re-enable it and monitor now.
I found a couple corrupted video and image files on my SD card. They might have been the cause? I used ES Explorer and noticed some pics and videos didn't have thumbnails generated... that's how I spotted them.
I also deleted a couple of "temp.43223523" files. They were some things I was downloading from the Internet browser, but I must have lost connection or something... and the files were left behind.
I tried renaming some of my pics that had ridiculously long names like "e62352_3423525.23542.jpg" to "pic34.jpg."
I moved all my Titanium backup files (1,300) and ROM backups to my computer and deleted them off my phone.
My Solution?
I placed an empty ".nomedia" file in every folder on my SDcard and ExtSD (and reboot phone). That seemed to actually solve the problem. I've been gradually deleting the .nomedia files with ES File Explorer (and rebooting). You have to enable "Show Hidden Files." Any file starting with a period is hidden.
When you reboot your phone, I think "Media" scans your SD card automatically. So this is how I investigated: 1. Reboot, 2. Charge the phone to 100%, 3. Unplug charger and periodically check my battery status.
Conclusion
The .nomedia solution seems to work when you reboot your phone and maybe clear your "Media Storage 4.1.1..PALJ1 (PLAYLISTS)" with Titanium Backup by hitting "Wipe Data." I enjoy the piece of mind knowing I don't have all these random pics and **** from various apps being scanned continuously at all hours of the day or on each reboot, cluttering up my gallery/playlists. If you're not going to use this solution, I might suggest limiting the number of files on your phone. Making several Titanium Backups resulted in 1,300 files probably being scanned a few times a day. I have 900+ pics and videos I've taken and 10gigs of videos downloaded on my phone and I think I solved my problem. Now my phone is cool to the touch and after 4 hours of use has only dropped 20%.
Create the file with notepad -> save as ".nomedia" or find it somewhere else on your memory card and copy/paste it.
This thread is for any talk related to the Google Play Edition HTC One. If you have any questions on how to convert use the forum linked below.
How to convert: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358781
The Google Play edition phones automatically receive updates of the latest Android software. Optimized for the latest apps, more storage for your content and a fast, clean user experience all come standard.
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Android 4.4 update delivered to Google: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/htc-one-kitkat-update-ready-delivered-to-google/
Mines fine
What app could we download to see if the readings are correct? Mine is fine.
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define "mine is fine"
because is common that the thing that uses more battery is the screen, but in android 4.3 is android system, but I think the battery is not bad at all...
In the other hand:
- super smoth
- ir enable
- better bluetooth
- sixasis support
the only fault that I see in 4.3 GPE (beside the battery report) is the camera app, it is just not good =/
SLver said:
define "mine is fine"
because is common that the thing that uses more battery is the screen, but in android 4.3 is android system, but I think the battery is not bad at all...
In the other hand:
- super smoth
- ir enable
- better bluetooth
- sixasis support
the only fault that I see in 4.3 GPE (beside the battery report) is the camera app, it is just not good =/
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My definition just means i can use it all day without the bigbdrain sense 5 was giving me. (4.1.2). I guess I'll look more into it since I just flashed yesterday. Also for camera, at least for me, it works fine. Of all the phones I've owned I've never messed with the settings (filters, iso, etc) just because I've never needed to. Plus I have a DSLR camera to do that . but that's me.
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I am thrilled with the 4.3 update. I have had zero issues and battery life is very solid. My wife finally took the plunge from her iPhone 4 and I picked her up a ONE yesterday. While settings hers up, I realized how much better Stock Android is just due to the smoothness and simplicity of it. In my opinion, Sense 5 is still the best manufacturer experience to date but it's still too cumbersome compared to plain ole Stock Android
My battery life seems to be decent. I don't notice much difference than when I was on sense. I do notice the high android usage but as gunny said, I think it's being misread as it doesn't seem to be having a negative impact.
Also I know some have mentioned low signal. Again its just the way its reported because last night I had two bars and I was pulling speeds in the 20,30,40mbps range. Which I think they must have upgraded some towers because here in NYC with all the network congestion I usually pull 9-15mbps on average(depending on location)
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My only issue on 4.3 is a lower LTE signal. I am only getting 1 bar now, and I used to get 3-4. The battery is good, even with that weird bug.
Does GPE 4.3 still has the 3 dot menu button?
proximity sensor bug is back,
pulling phone away from my face doesn't turn the screen back on.
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proximity sensor bug is back,
pulling phone away from my face doesn't turn the screen back on.
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How often does this happen? I was on a call yesterday and I was testing the sensor and it was super sensitive I thought. I barely put my hand over it about 2 inches and it shut off the screen .
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Does GPE 4.3 still has the 3 dot menu button?
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with stock kernal yes
How do you receive the new 4.3 update.
I have been trying "System Update" under "About" for days now, and there are no update from Google.
gunnyman said:
proximity sensor bug is back,
pulling phone away from my face doesn't turn the screen back on.
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True, I still have this bug.
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monkeypaws said:
How often does this happen? I was on a call yesterday and I was testing the sensor and it was super sensitive I thought. I barely put my hand over it about 2 inches and it shut off the screen .
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It seems random
Yeah, 4.3 is all sacked. LTE ping is slow as a turtle. 4.2.2 everything was snappy. ADB doesn't work, screen off proximity sensor, when phone is off the charge animation doesn't work when rooted. Its not the root process. My nexus 4 & 7 have stock ROM and supersu installed.. No problems. What has HTC done!? Back to 4.2.2 I go. This 4.3 blows.
Look at this junk! Wow.. Horrible Horrible update. 4.2.2 was at 20-30% system this is at 80%+!?!? Horrific.
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It seems random
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Regarding the proximity sensor bug, I briefly flirted with the complete Google Play edition conversion then decided to return to completely stock sense. I started blindly messing about with mids, cids , firmwares etc. I eventually managed to run RUU 1.28.401.7 successfully. :laugh:
I factory reset my device for good measure then proceeded to install every subsequent update and I am now on 2.24.401.1 and I factory reset my device after every update. Everything appeared good and I have set my device up again with what I would consider to be a very clean install of the stock sense rom.
......Then ring ring and there it is...the dreaded proximity sensor bug
How can this be??
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Regarding the proximity sensor bug, I briefly flirted with the complete Google Play edition conversion then decided to return to completely stock sense. I started blindly messing about with mids, cids , firmwares etc. I eventually managed to run RUU 1.28.401.7 successfully. :laugh:
I factory reset my device for good measure then proceeded to install every subsequent update and I am now on 2.24.401.1 and I factory reset my device after every update. Everything appeared good and I have set my device up again with what I would consider to be a very clean install of the stock sense rom.
......Then ring ring and there it is...the dreaded proximity sensor bug
How can this be??
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My good buddy has the HTC One for AT&T. I rooted it for her and all was well. Next thing she finds out her proximity sensor borked. She called att and they went thru a process to see what the sensor was on.. The sensor should be at 50 and the reports came back that her sensor was at 0. Hearing more and more of this sensor bug, makes me think its more of a hardware fault. Its only a matter of time till the sensor completely flakes out and dies.
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My good buddy has the HTC One for AT&T. I rooted it for her and all was well. Next thing she finds out her proximity sensor borked. She called att and they went thru a process to see what the sensor was on.. The sensor should be at 50 and the reports came back that her sensor was at 0. Hearing more and more of this sensor bug, makes me think its more of a hardware fault. Its only a matter of time till the sensor completely flakes out and dies.
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Any idea how they found out what the sensor was at?
Hello.
How many of you have serious problems with n4? I mean random reboots/shutdowns or freezes etc. I heard about this kind of troubles but I want to know if it occurs to many people or is this single cases.
Greetings.
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no problems here. im very happy with my nexus 4
Anything you've read about reboots etc is just false conjecture. History has shown through various outlets like XDA, Google+ etc that the Nexus 4 is rock solid and stable. So much so the Nexus 5, whatever it may be has to be SIGNIFICANTLY better in design and features before I even consider upgrading. Which I doubt I will because the N4 is just perfect for me.
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no problems here, on my n4. im very happy with my nexus 4
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Same here.
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Nope perfect.
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Works fine as ever
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Even with browsing, the temperature is usually above 50 C. Its was never like this on 4.2.2. Rest all is fine i guess
All stock.
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I'm getting freezes, random reboots,overheating...
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I'm getting freezes, random reboots,overheating...
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overheating.. and what is your cpu temp? or are you just saying overheating because it "feels" hot to you? overheating can be real, but its mostly imagined by the user.
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Even with browsing, the temperature is usually above 50 C. Its was never like this on 4.2.2. Rest all is fine i guess
All stock.
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50C is normal.
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overheating.. and what is your cpu temp? or are you just saying overheating because it "feels" hot to you? overheating can be real, but its mostly imagined by the user.
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50C is normal.
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55-60° on browsing + music..
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55-60° on browsing + music..
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thats normal. considering that its summer there where you are, and the air temperature is warm, thats very normal. the phone temperature while being used will average lower when its cooler there. the phones safety shutdown is at 100C cpu temp, so you are still quite a bit in the safe range.
No problems or over heating after about 10 months of heavy usage!
I can't understand why some people have so many problems with the Nexus 4, mine does no random reboot/lock now (last time I rebooted to install 4.3)...
I had a problem with over-night lockups (i was not the only one), so I disabled a lot of apps/widgets, and got many days without lockups. So I started turning everything back again, one by one. I had a suspect always in my mind: dashclock, I never turned it up again (it has so many plugins, including some made by me with Tasker). I can't tell for sure dashclock was the culprit it's an excellent app, and I ended giving up other apps too (I really didn't used them frequently ).
But I learned that apps can create random reboots... (the system should still handle this, but appears it does not).
So, I don't think anything is wrong with the hardware, since software can take a system down to.
The Nexus 4 is a great phone.
My only dislike is: now on 4.3, I have to use "hangouts" (no status?!) instead of talk (i may root to get talk back).
PS: I've disabled Hangouts, it is of no use to me.
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I can't understand why some people have so many problems with the Nexus 4, mine does no random reboot/lock now (last time I rebooted to install 4.3)...
I had a problem with over-night lockups (i was not the only one), so I disabled a lot of apps/widgets, and got many days without lockups. So I started turning everything back again, one by one. I had a suspect always in my mind: dashclock, I never turned it up again (it has so many plugins, including some made by me with Tasker). I can't tell for sure dashclock was the culprit it's an excellent app, and I ended giving up other apps too (I really didn't used them frequently ).
But I learned that apps can create random reboots... (the system should still handle this, but appears it does not).
So, I don't think anything is wrong with the hardware, since software can take a system down to.
The Nexus 4 is a great phone.
My only dislike is: now on 4.3, I have to use "hangouts" (no status?!) instead of talk (i may root to get talk back).
PS: I've disabled Hangouts, it is of no use to me.
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as you said, most of the "issues" are user set up. the heat issue is blown out of proportion by too many, when the issue is a non issue. they "feel" the heat more because of the glass back.
anyways, the great thing about root.. im using talk on 4.3
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Even with browsing, the temperature is usually above 50 C. Its was never like this on 4.2.2. Rest all is fine i guess
All stock.
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well flash a custom Kernel which will undervolt the phone and then use an app to underclock the GPU not the CPU. I get 30-35 max, 5-6 hours of battery (4.2.2 ) I tried the 4.3 and did not like how it works.
Loud pops and crackles on the first 4-5 seconds of video taken with the camera.
Poor 3G signal/reception performance from update to update. 4.1 bad, 4.2 good, 4.3 bad again.
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Anything you've read about reboots etc is just false conjecture. History has shown through various outlets like XDA, Google+ etc that the Nexus 4 is rock solid and stable. So much so the Nexus 5, whatever it may be has to be SIGNIFICANTLY better in design and features before I even consider upgrading. Which I doubt I will because the N4 is just perfect for me.
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conjecture?
Since the 4.3 upgrade my Nexus 4 is essentially a paper weight. First it just refused to go beyond the X screen. After a downgrade of the radio back to 4.2.2 version, I could start up. After that, the problems weren't over. My N4 locks the SIM at random, shuts down a couple of times every hour and refuses to restart without being plugged in. Even when fully charged.
Worse: reflashing an older factory img (I tried 4.2 and 4.2.2) does not resolve these issues. Nor does flashing AOKP. Which is just bizarre, because my N4 worked perfectly before the upgrade. How can an upgrade lead to hardware problems?
I'm not alone.(but I can't post outside links, apparently.) There's a support thread on the google groups forum 6 pages long.
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conjecture?
Since the 4.3 upgrade my Nexus 4 is essentially a paper weight. First it just refused to go beyond the X screen. After a downgrade of the radio back to 4.2.2 version, I could start up. After that, the problems weren't over. My N4 locks the SIM at random, shuts down a couple of times every hour and refuses to restart without being plugged in. Even when fully charged.
Worse: reflashing an older factory img (I tried 4.2 and 4.2.2) does not resolve these issues. Nor does flashing AOKP. Which is just bizarre, because my N4 worked perfectly before the upgrade. How can an upgrade lead to hardware problems?
I'm not alone.(but I can't post outside links, apparently.) There's a support thread on the google groups forum 6 pages long.
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Are you wiping your partitions in fastboot before flashing the images? Sounds like an error somewhere is causing serious issues for you. It probably stemmed from a bad download and has yet to be corrected. I would wipe EVERYTHING and start with a clean slate. Re-download the images and verify the md5.
KSLevel11 said:
Hello.
How many of you have serious problems with n4? I mean random reboots/shutdowns or freezes etc. I heard about this kind of troubles but I want to know if it occurs to many people or is this single cases.
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I've had random re-boots, shut downs and freezes up to and exceeding 10 times a day, during phone calls.... youtube, web browser. you name it. there is no disparity.
it's random. . . it doesn't care when it wants to re-boot. - i've had this problem since the day i received my nexus 4 on January 2nd 2013
It doesn't matter if it's running stock android. rooted or not rooted locked or unlocked.... freshly installed, new rom, different build or new offical stock build.. ~ maybe some builds it has been a little bit more stable.... but there was a short period where i just left the phone as is...
no updates.... no new software.... nothing..... it was working fine for a couple of weeks then the random reboots started all over again.
so i have no idea... honestly.... i've heard every reason imaginable.... it's this software, it's that widget. . . it ain't true.
the problems persist.... on a fresh install....no widgets running... no software downloaded.....
ive tried cyanogen mod for the last few months.... it's been better.
but it's starting the problems all over again... so today i wiped the entire phone.... in a last ditch effort to get it stable....
i'm stuck now without an OS and i can't get fastboot recognized in the command prompt..... i don't know what to do now... ive been reading threads for hours without success.... installing driver, sdk.... you name it....
it ain't bricked..... but i sure can't get android back on there without an OTG cable and that doesn't work on nexus 4. well.... mine anyway.
i just want stock android 4.3 or 4.2 ... "ANYTHING" running... with minimal apps and something stable.... that's all i care about. i can't afford another phone at this time.... so i'm completely stumped.
so . . . there are others like you... that ARE having major hiccups with their NEXUS 4's......
my friends at collage all have the same phone without ANY problems at all..... BUT there are some of us....
who have just had bad luck all the way....
Did you try to RMA?
I just got it today, and I'm pretty happy with it, but it lags a lot... any way to speed it up?
That's fine. I'll return it.
have you tried running a diffrent launcher? TouchWiz is heavy handed.
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How about debloating?
What lags? Laucher, centain apps, all apps?
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I just got it today, and I'm pretty happy with it, but it lags a lot... any way to speed it up?
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Root it, debloat it, change launcher..... It will become a beast.!
I don't remember the last time I expiranced a lag..
just a little stutter here and there. after I paired it with the logitech keyboard it crashed. Is there anyway to root it without a windows pc? I have a mac, I know ODIN is usally used for root.. I REALLY want to keep it, but I really do feel like it needs to be rooted.
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I just got it today, and I'm pretty happy with it, but it lags a lot... any way to speed it up?
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That's fine. I'll return it.
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just a little stutter here and there. after I paired it with the logitech keyboard it crashed. Is there anyway to root it without a windows pc? I have a mac, I know ODIN is usally used for root.. I REALLY want to keep it, but I really do feel like it needs to be rooted.
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LOL.....
If you have the p900, use my rom.
You will need to use bootcamp and setup windows to use Odin probably. Or just use a friends computer, that part takes all of 2 minutes.
Also use nova launcher, apex, or something similar. Stock touchwiz is garbage.
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just a little stutter here and there. after I paired it with the logitech keyboard it crashed.
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It really shouldn't be doing that.
It's one of the most powerful tablets available. (especially the Snapdragon variant)
It should not lag. You don't need to root this thing to make it usable, it's fast on stock already. There's something wrong with yours.
And it certainly isn't supposed to crash after you pair it.
Do a full wipe,
Disable as much bloatware as possible,
Install Apex or Nova, (MagUX is 400MB Ram, TW 800. Too much!)
Use Greenify to kill apps you dont need to have running once in a while (things like facebook keep restarting themselves)
And dump a .nomedia file in every folder that doesn't contain media needed for the music or notifications, or wallpapers. (You can still launch films from my files.)
That should speed it up.
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That's fine. I'll return it.
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just a little stutter here and there. after I paired it with the logitech keyboard it crashed. Is there anyway to root it without a windows pc? I have a mac, I know ODIN is usally used for root.. I REALLY want to keep it, but I really do feel like it needs to be rooted.
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yes you can!
depends on which device you have....
if u have the snapdragon variants u can use- towelroot, google it.
I have the Wifi only version. I see odin 3.09 can if for mac and PC, is this odin version usable to root?
I rooted it, changed to Go Launcher, and froze a bunch of crap. I also uninsulated touchwiz. runs much better. I then installed adblock, and not chrome is zooming.. Much better. I love it so much now, I went and grabbed me the Logitech case. I'm a very happy camper.
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I rooted it, changed to Go Launcher, and froze a bunch of crap. I also uninsulated touchwiz. runs much better. I then installed adblock, and not chrome is zooming.. Much better. I love it so much now, I went and grabbed me the Logitech case. I'm a very happy camper.
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Lol i want to root but don't want to risk it yet. Will wait a few more months lol when my warranty is up in April
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I ended up sending it back, in the 5 days I have owned it it crashed at least twice a day, random freezing, and the web performance was very jittery. it constantly had almost 700 - 800 mb of free ram, thats with me closing everything, clearing out the cache, and having greenify on. That's a lot of work for such a pricy tablet. I haven't owned a tablet since the original ipad; I went to bestbuy and spent 5 minutes with the air and immediately wished the note ran as smooth, it was like liquid lol. I broke down and picked up a 32gb. The first thing I that grabbed my attention is how much better the apps look on it, they dont look all messed up. The tablet is also REALLY nice in on the vertical axis... like a magazine. I still have my note 3, and will buy a note tablet once they make a snapdragon for less than $500 bones. Or grab a surface 3 or 4 once they get it all worked out and lower the price.
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I ended up sending it back, in the 5 days I have owned it it crashed at least twice a day, random freezing, and the web performance was very jittery. it constantly had almost 700 - 800 mb of free ram, thats with me closing everything, clearing out the cache, and having greenify on. That's a lot of work for such a pricy tablet. I haven't owned a tablet since the original ipad; I went to bestbuy and spent 5 minutes with the air and immediately wished the note ran as smooth, it was like liquid lol. I broke down and picked up a 32gb. The first thing I that grabbed my attention is how much better the apps look on it, they dont look all messed up. The tablet is also REALLY nice in on the vertical axis... like a magazine. I still have my note 3, and will buy a note tablet once they make a snapdragon for less than $500 bones. Or grab a surface 3 or 4 once they get it all worked out and lower the price.
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Glad you found something that suits you better, that's the main goal! Best of luck to you!
That was bad luck for you.
My Galaxy Note never lags, is super fast. I enjoy it far more than the Ipad 3 or any previous tablet I got. And the 12.2 screen is perfect for reading books, drawing sketches, watching films, browsing the web...
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I just got it today, and I'm pretty happy with it, but it lags a lot... any way to speed it up?
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That's fine. I'll return it.
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Glad you could wait 1 3/4 hours for a reply before deciding to return it.
The first time I had the tablet I copied a lot of pdf files in the sdcard. This make the tablet goes very slow because the file indexer read all the pdf ( 14GB approx). I let the indexer working for 2 or 3 days but usually it crash. Finally I decided to root the device for stop the index service because I really don't need to search into those files.
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The first time I had the tablet I copied a lot of pdf files in the sdcard. This make the tablet goes very slow because the file indexer read all the pdf ( 14GB approx). I let the indexer working for 2 or 3 days but usually it crash. Finally I decided to root the device for stop the index service because I really don't need to search into those files.
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If all your media stuff is in one or two folders you can put a blank ".nomedia" file in the dir to stop it. For me that wasn't an option so ya cleaning out the service was easier too
So I did something the IOS guy in me hadn't done since 2011, went on the hook for a new s7.
I'm having a some restarting issues in this first 24 hour drive. Restarts every hour I have in my hand. Last night I set it up on my night stand as a clock (with that nice always on display) and the darn thing restarted on its own within three minutes of laying it down .
Sometimes when watching or listening to media it will start a screeching sound and I have to hold down the power button to force to recharge.
Also had a camera failure. I read on the forums that could be because of turning on "smart stay" , so I turned that off.
Is there some way I can try to figure out what app is causing it to crash? It appears I can be using any app or doing about anything. Heck, I got a keyboard error as I was typing this post!
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Buggy system maybe. Try reseting settings or do a hard reset
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I reset all apps settings and It appeared to hold off for most of the morning. Next strategy I will try to employ is to Uninstall and reinstall any apps that close or create problems.....the first culprit was Facebook!
One thing I read in another post was to disable "auto update " of apps. Can anyone comment on that being or not being a good idea?
Last night I took this thing out of my pocket and it was trying to self activate!
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I reset all apps settings and It appeared to hold off for most of the morning. Next strategy I will try to employ is to Uninstall and reinstall any apps that close or create problems.....the first culprit was Facebook!
One thing I read in another post was to disable "auto update " of apps. Can anyone comment on that being or not being a good idea?
Last night I took this thing out of my pocket and it was trying to self activate!
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Also, disable sprint bloatware. It can also have something to do with it
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Did you try booting into recovery and clearing cache partition
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Did you try booting into recovery and clearing cache partition
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Sure did ?
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Also, disable sprint bloatware. It can also have something to do with it
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Thanks. What kind of sprint apps, I don't think I've opened any of them?
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All amazon apps, and all sprint apps except zone and voice-mail.
If that doesn't work, do a hard reset. You can backup data to Google so you can restore after or back up to samsung
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I can do a hard reset, but what do you mean by backup to google? Thats not actually backing up my apps is it? If there was a way to back up apps I would hard reset, but man....I just bought this and downloaded all of those darn things!
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Yes Google will backup your apps too. When u log back in for the first time setting up the phone Google will automatically re download all of ur previously installed apps.
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Yes Google will backup your apps too. When u log back in for the first time setting up the phone Google will automatically re download all of ur previously installed apps.
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Thanks, I thought so, I just missed that prompt somehow- maybe the phone restarted lol. This isn't good for Samsung and me- I've wiped this phone many times in 7 days, including installing apps one by one and I still have restarts and prompts that different apps have stopped. I've even typed posts up for different forums and been unable to post.....because the phone restarted.
Been to see the Samsung rep at best buy, they are kind of stumped.
The phone doesn't do this in safe mode, but it still restarts when I try and download individual apps after a wipe.
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Yes Google will backup your apps too. When u log back in for the first time setting up the phone Google will automatically re download all of ur previously installed apps.
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So I've been reading about the crashing apps, even while reading a website this phone restarted lol. You posted somewhere about a package disabled. What exactly does that do, might that help.
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It freezes or disables almost any app on the phone including apps that cannot be unistalled. Search for it in the play store. If u message me your email I can send you the xml file that you can import to the program that automatically disables the same apps I did. I have been running this for a month with no problems.
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Thanks for the help on email Visionikz03, I did purchase that android app. I wish this store had a happy ending- that S7 is back in customer return pile and Best Buy and I"m back to IOS today. I had the very first G1 ten years ago or whenever it was- I was really hoping to enjoy that phone. It never, ever handled the streaming apps I liked like iHeart, DirecTV , or Foxnews app. Not even with a wipe and installing apps one by one. It was a Sprint device, not that that mattered- but what could be the problem, early adopter syndrome maybe? Maybe developers hadn't ironed out every bug with their app on the Samsung devices? Is there such as thing as a bad phone?
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Thanks for the help on email Visionikz03, I did purchase that android app. I wish this store had a happy ending- that S7 is back in customer return pile and Best Buy and I"m back to IOS today. I had the very first G1 ten years ago or whenever it was- I was really hoping to enjoy that phone. It never, ever handled the streaming apps I liked like iHeart, DirecTV , or Foxnews app. Not even with a wipe and installing apps one by one. It was a Sprint device, not that that mattered- but what could be the problem, early adopter syndrome maybe? Maybe developers hadn't ironed out every bug with their app on the Samsung devices? Is there such as thing as a bad phone?
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There's always a possibility of getting a 'lemon'. The hardware on the phone you had could have been bad. Who knows. It might have been worth exchanging to find out.
Well, I believe that the policy of the store was I could only get one return within 14 days. I didn't want to chance it. Honestly, I don't think I've ever had a "bad" phone – except for maybe a speaker or display failure. There are a lot of issues with restarts with this phone right now as I read on the forums.
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I had it for 13 days, I didn't have restarts, I had a few force closes though.
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Thanks for the help on email Visionikz03, I did purchase that android app. I wish this store had a happy ending- that S7 is back in customer return pile and Best Buy and I"m back to IOS today. I had the very first G1 ten years ago or whenever it was- I was really hoping to enjoy that phone. It never, ever handled the streaming apps I liked like iHeart, DirecTV , or Foxnews app. Not even with a wipe and installing apps one by one. It was a Sprint device, not that that mattered- but what could be the problem, early adopter syndrome maybe? Maybe developers hadn't ironed out every bug with their app on the Samsung devices? Is there such as thing as a bad phone?
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No problem! Sorry to hear it didn't work out! I assure u it was a hardware problem with ur specific device. As stated it happens with various devices running various software. Hopefully u reconsider android some day. It really is a great OS.
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Just chiming in here, started a new line of service and gave the phone a try again. Love it- I either had a bug or their was a software patch. Has never restarted on me yet.
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