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Constant Phone/Touchwiz reboots - help if you can

Hello everyone, I've got an interesting problem that I want the experts here at XDA to help me troubleshoot. Feel free to ask questions as I know there's probably a million variables at this point with stuff installed, uninstalled, gps, root, task killers, etc.
alrighty with that said, I did the e-wrecked gps fix (changing the operation mode and server location+port). That seems to work great in terms of time to lock on my position as well as improved accuracy. Over the next couple of days I noticed some really choppy and lengthy phone start ups after the fix.
Eventually it got to (and currently is at) a point where it kept rebooting the phone, or at least touchwiz. It would load up, scan media, search for the network, do all the start up stuff, then lock up, and turn the screen off. Hitting the lock button/power button does nothing while it resets itself. Then it resets to the lock screen, the screen lights up and it goes into "searching" for the tmo network while doing the storage preparations, and other boot up stuff. It does not restart from cold (with the vibrant, tmo, and galaxy animations, only the lock screen and OS boot process)
Anyone else got any funky restarts going on, for whatever reason? I basically want to start seeing what would trigger this behavior. I started uninstalling stuff one by one trying to figure out why its doing that but sometimes it boots up fine, sometimes it boots but doesn't ever find tmo's network, and sometimes it just does the above.
Observations:
1. It will always boot up fine if the SIM card is out.
2. The last time it did it was today while I was at work, listening to music while the phone was charging. Im noticing that the phone gets pretty hot while charging and really hot if you're using while its charging (getting apps, surfing the web, playing games, etc)
So any thoughts from the tech gurus here? anyone have similar behavior in the past on other phones? is the heat affecting the sim card negatively? I can (and have) put my simcard back in my treo 680 backup phone with no issues whatsoever.

New observation, it consistently does the reset process as soon as the "Adjust Time and Date" as it registers/syncs with the network.
UPDATE: so, i did some research, ended up at the setCPU thread and saw that when set to OnDemand some people's phones experienced similar tendencies. Problem is, mine was already set to auto-detect and "Conservative". I un-checked start at boot, and tried again. Same problem. I uninstalled setCPU completely and my phone appears to be back to normal.
I'll update again if anything changes.

so one of the things that i removed during my troubleshooting was my corporate exchange account. When i added it back. it did its initial sync fine and gave me my calendar and contacts. I then rebooted and the problem came back.
I removed the account and rebooted. it went through two cycles of the restarts and on the third one, it worked. I left it alone after that.
I then was showing my friend some things (browser differences) and had 3 browsers open. It froze as i went to close Dolphin HD. Rebooted and now its back to the cycle.

Mine did this also. Installed several apps, woke up to find a slow phone. Resets galore. A quick reset to defaults and app restore fixed it, sans setcpu of course.
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my phone resets itself also as described above, but not really doing anything in particular. i dont have a whole lot of apps installed. i even was using google maps the other day and after it started up the screen went black and the device was unresponsive until the screen came back and it said searching and the media scanner was running.

well first off thanks for responding lol. i thought i was by myself out here.
secondly, i found that if i leave it alone and let it go through its cycle, it does eventually boot up ok (this is recently, before, it was endless). i havent restarted my phone (im afraid to lol) since it did it on its own yesterday (showing my friend the browsers).
since yesterday, i've used it for navigation (motonav), serveral installs, downloaded podcasts, rss feeds, etc and its been ok (even while charging and wifi on). again, havent actually restarted it since yesterday because its actually functioning for once.
Lastly, i unchecked the auto update time and date from network in the settings just to see if that makes a difference because based on previous expereience that is the point where it freezes and resets. Thanks for chiming in and let me know if there's any other advice you have

I'd suggest a reset as mentioned above.

Been checking out this site for awhile but this is my first time posting, today my phone started to have this problem and it just bootloops touchwiz if i have a simcard in the phone.
It works fine without a simcard but my problem is it will not let me turn of auto update of time and date, i have tried disabling this setting and it just enables itself again. I have also noticed that if I started messing around with time and date settings even without a sim touchwiz reloads once. I guess im gonna give a reset a go.

martin0641 said:
Mine did this also. Installed several apps, woke up to find a slow phone. Resets galore. A quick reset to defaults and app restore fixed it, sans setcpu of course.
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heygrl said:
I'd suggest a reset as mentioned above.
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sorry, noob question (i came from winmo and a touch pro 2), what does "a quick reset to defaults" mean? is that like a factory wipe i.e. phone will be brand new again, gotta root again and reinstall everything, change settings, etc?

jblade1000 said:
sorry, noob question (i came from winmo and a touch pro 2), what does "a quick reset to defaults" mean? is that like a factory wipe i.e. phone will be brand new again, gotta root again and reinstall everything, change settings, etc?
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Root will stick but settings and apps/app data will be gone. It briefs you on what is and isn't lost when you do a factory reset.

Smae problem, its setcpu!
SetCPU with any settings will do this.
It needs an update, the auto detect some how loses and
will set the cpu to 19mhz max and min.
This is too slow to process. I rebooted and pressed settings and uninstalled it
while I could. Seems to behave once out of touchwiz.

For me it was another app not setcpu I never used it. After i did a reset i restored all my apps with titanium backup and once i restarted my phone it looped again. So i did another restore and left off all the apps that i installed right before the problem started and so far i think for me at least one of these caused it
Google maps update
google translate
the extra language pack for translate
barnacle wifi tether
hero of sparta
these are apps that I installed right before the problem happened and without these my phone works fine I am going to see if i can find that one that caused my problem.

It's not the maps update because my phone works fine with it.

It was hero of sparta a gameloft game from there web market funny thing is its suppose to work on the vibrant while dungeon hunter which works fine would only give nexus as a check out option. Anyway im going to try to get a refund tomorrow.

I get the same touchwiz reboot but for me it has only ever happened while using google maps. I do not use set cpu, but I have applied the gps fix. It is more than a little annoying. I have done a system wipe but the problem persists.
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yes, if you have setcpu, uninstall it - its buggy with the galaxys
- sometimes you can't wake your phone (if you set a screen off profile), forcing you to do a battery pull
- constant launcher restarts

Judgement5 said:
For me it was another app not setcpu I never used it. After i did a reset i restored all my apps with titanium backup and once i restarted my phone it looped again. So i did another restore and left off all the apps that i installed right before the problem started and so far i think for me at least one of these caused it
Google maps update
google translate
the extra language pack for translate
barnacle wifi tether
hero of sparta
these are apps that I installed right before the problem happened and without these my phone works fine I am going to see if i can find that one that caused my problem.
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and this is why i started the thread, to make sure i wasnt all alone. i have everything you have installed as well, but it was doing it before i picked up hero of sparta (and nova, and asphalt 5, man those guys make some good phone game lol).
anyways i just installed barnacle wifi tether yesterday so thats not it either (at least for me). That leaves the google stuff, out of the apps in your list, all of which were installed when i first got the problem, and are still on there after I've removed setCPU

heygrl said:
Root will stick but settings and apps/app data will be gone. It briefs you on what is and isn't lost when you do a factory reset.
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ok so, contacts, text messages, etc stay? Meaning if i do a factory reset, root stays, and all app stuff can be taken care of by, say, AppBrain since it has a running list of everything installed and knows where to get it to install it again? I apprecicate the advice, but this would still be a last resort sort of thing. my phone has worked fine for the past few days but I also havent restarted it yet either

just a quick update, my phone still does this if i reboot my phone (which is never now that i got my 32gb sd card), but for the first time ever hero of sparta caused it to happen while the phone is on. I uninstalled it so we'll see.

My classroom tablet is acting up...

I think I have a problem that has not been covered yet. I have an Acer A500 that works just fine but will randomly restart. When it restarts it always hangs at the Acer logo. I can then hold the power button to turn the tablet off and then turn it back on again and it will start up fine without issue but will then restart again a short while later. I notice it happen maybe 10 times a day, possibly more. The other day it went a couples hours without a restart but eventually did. My students can play games, get on the internet, etc just fine until it resets again. I believe it has only reset when in standby but I cant say for sure.
The OS is up to date. I tried a hard reset and reset with the OS to factory settings several times without luck. It can have 100 apps on it and reset or no apps on it, it doesnt matter. I notice no difference in turning off the wifi. It doesnt seem to reset on a schedule.
Any ideas? It sure would be nice if my students could actually use the tablet rather than have it sitting around doing nothing.

papa tacos said:
I think I have a problem that has not been covered yet. I have an Acer A500 that works just fine but will randomly restart. When it restarts it always hangs at the Acer logo. I can then hold the power button to turn the tablet off and then turn it back on again and it will start up fine without issue but will then restart again a short while later. I notice it happen maybe 10 times a day, possibly more. The other day it went a couples hours without a restart but eventually did. My students can play games, get on the internet, etc just fine until it resets again. I believe it has only reset when in standby but I cant say for sure.
The OS is up to date. I tried a hard reset and reset with the OS to factory settings several times without luck. It can have 100 apps on it and reset or no apps on it, it doesnt matter. I notice no difference in turning off the wifi. It doesnt seem to reset on a schedule.
Any ideas? It sure would be nice if my students could actually use the tablet rather than have it sitting around doing nothing.
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If it's running stock ics, it's a common issue. Blame Acer and their buggy rom.
You could perform a data reset but that wipes all user data.
You may want to install custom rom, but you will need the tabs cpuid and skrilax_cz unlocked boot loader plus a good couple ours for prep and installation. See the root guide in my Sig for info
dibb
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[Q] Stuck during bootup after turning on ART

Completely stock, not rooted or bootloaded.
After my KK OTA came in I wanted to try ART for a while. Enabled it and then went through the reboot. On the Android is Upgrading screen it would get to a certain app being optimized and then freeze. I'd reboot and it would cut down the number of apps that are getting optimized until it got to just 1 of 1.
Now it just stops there and freezes after 15 seconds or so of being optimized. It won't go past that, I've spent the entire day today giving it time to sit and then try again or just let it fester frozen for anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
Question is, what do I do in order to reset my device in a way to past it.

Well, I have no idea how it fixed itself, I went to do a hard reset, couldn't get it go into the documented recovery mode, and then it worked.
Frustration.

[Q] Nexus 4 -- Only working while plugged in...?!

Yeah... I'm not great at titling... Anywho...
I've come across a problem, of which I'll attempt to go through everything I did that leads to the point, which is; my Nexus 4 doesn't turn on without being plugged into, either the wall or any PC.
So my phone crashes, solemnly (probably because I have Cyanogen on my phone), but lately (lately is in this past week), it's been crashing 3-4 times a day. Then, a few days ago, I was on it and it crashed again, this time, it wouldn't turn on -- my brother was (and probably still is) under the impression that I bricked it -- I would still be thinking the same but seeing as the phone turns on whilst being plugged in I'm wondering if the battery is shot, the hardware is shot, they're both shot or something more undesirable is happening.
I'm not blaming the app for this, however, the frequent crashing did start to happen more violently after I installed and used "Google Camera" for no less than 5 minutes -- at which time, I uninstalled the app and went to the Default Camera App, only for it to also crash the phone, thereafter, the phone just started to crash no matter what I did.
The phone also chooses when to shut itself off; sometimes if I unplug it, it'll turn off immediately, other times I've noticed it'll actually stay on for awhile (the longest its gone so far is 5-10 minutes). I was playing around with wallpaper when I decided to see if I might be able to use the camera, to my dissatisfaction, the phone crashed -- I noticed this when I looked back at the screen.
So now, for the last 18 (give or take 4 hrs) hours, I've been using the phone 'normally' whilst plugged in.

JJBerryere said:
Yeah... I'm not great at titling... Anywho...
I've come across a problem, of which I'll attempt to go through everything I did that leads to the point, which is; my Nexus 4 doesn't turn on without being plugged into, either the wall or any PC.
So my phone crashes, solemnly (probably because I have Cyanogen on my phone), but lately (lately is in this past week), it's been crashing 3-4 times a day. Then, a few days ago, I was on it and it crashed again, this time, it wouldn't turn on -- my brother was (and probably still is) under the impression that I bricked it -- I would still be thinking the same but seeing as the phone turns on whilst being plugged in I'm wondering if the battery is shot, the hardware is shot, they're both shot or something more undesirable is happening.
I'm not blaming the app for this, however, the frequent crashing did start to happen more violently after I installed and used "Google Camera" for no less than 5 minutes -- at which time, I uninstalled the app and went to the Default Camera App, only for it to also crash the phone, thereafter, the phone just started to crash no matter what I did.
The phone also chooses when to shut itself off; sometimes if I unplug it, it'll turn off immediately, other times I've noticed it'll actually stay on for awhile (the longest its gone so far is 5-10 minutes). I was playing around with wallpaper when I decided to see if I might be able to use the camera, to my dissatisfaction, the phone crashed -- I noticed this when I looked back at the screen.
So now, for the last 18 (give or take 4 hrs) hours, I've been using the phone 'normally' whilst plugged in.
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Have you tried to make a clean install and not restoring anything to check if that helps? If that doesn't help I would try flashing a factory image.

theminikiller said:
Have you tried to make a clean install and not restoring anything to check if that helps? If that doesn't help I would try flashing a factory image.
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Yes I have tried to make a clean install, with a different OS as well, CyanogenMOD's take on Lollipop 5.1. The phone still turns itself off though.
What is "Flashing a factory image" mean?

JJBerryere said:
Yes I have tried to make a clean install, with a different OS as well, CyanogenMOD's take on Lollipop 5.1. The phone still turns itself off though.
What is "Flashing a factory image" mean?
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You download the full stock ROM from Google, and use fastboot to flash it. Here is a guide on how to do it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/how-to-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2010312

JJBerryere said:
Yes I have tried to make a clean install, with a different OS as well, CyanogenMOD's take on Lollipop 5.1. The phone still turns itself off though.
What is "Flashing a factory image" mean?
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If you want a 100% clean flash, just download the factory image and flash it by executing the flash-all.bat (you are using windows I guess) script. It might be necessary to reboot into the bootloader first.
cheers

greg17477 said:
If you want a 100% clean flash, just download the factory image and flash it by executing the flash-all.bat (you are using windows I guess) script. It might be necessary to reboot into the bootloader first.
cheers
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Tried this, didn't work.
My phone has basically been flashing red for awhile now and it doesn't turn on at all.

Your battery is dead, same happened with me 3 months ago.....
I took it to service centre, they just changed the battery (ask them specifically otherwise they will wipe data too, internal included)
Overall it cost me INR 1200 i.e approx $20

anupampb said:
Your battery is dead, same happened with me 3 months ago.....
I took it to service centre, they just changed the battery (ask them specifically otherwise they will wipe data too, internal included)
Overall it cost me INR 1200 i.e approx $20
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Yeah, so I figured.
My father and I just replaced the battery with a Tablet's battery. Although probably not seen as proper. If it works, why fight about it? Haha.
Thanks.

JJBerryere said:
Yeah, so I figured.
My father and I just replaced the battery with a Tablet's battery. Although probably not seen as proper. If it works, why fight about it? Haha.
Thanks.
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Your farther does not really worry enough for your health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Safety

Strange instances of multiple reboots!

This is really starting to get on my nerves now. Ever since I got my new S10+ from AT&T, it's occasionally done this thing where after I reboot the phone, I unlock it, and it briefly says "starting phone" on the home screen, and then will mysteriously do a quick reset, where it skips the AT&T logo and jingle, and just shows the Samsung splash screen , then takes me back to the lockscreen and it's usually fine after that.
However, Just now I decided to reset my phone, like one should do periodically, and it did the strange double reset after unlocking... Then when I unlocked it, after the "starting phone" message I tried to open a browser, and BAM! Quick reset again! Unlocked, let it start up, tried to open an app, BAM quick reset again after the screen briefly shifted from landscape to portrait mode (even though I was still holding it long ways in landscape position). Its never done this before and I'm getting concerned. It's never randomly reset while using the phone, this only happens right after a reset.
Any ideas? I've already tried wiping partition cache after big updates, doing soft resets. I'm worried that I'm going to have to end up resorting to a factory wipe, as others suggested I do when I was having battery drain issues on the ASD3 firmware, possibly because of restoring everything from a backup of my last phone when I got this one. Because supposedly restoring from backups from AT&T, Google or Samsung has caused all sorts of problems for people. I really don't want go wipe everything and spend hours try to get it all back on here manually if i don't have to.

SinisterDev said:
This is really starting to get on my nerves now. Ever since I got my new S10+ from AT&T, it's occasionally done this thing where after I reboot the phone, I unlock it, and it briefly says "starting phone" on the home screen, and then will mysteriously do a quick reset, where it skips the AT&T logo and jingle, and just shows the Samsung splash screen , then takes me back to the lockscreen and it's usually fine after that.
However, Just now I decided to reset my phone, like one should do periodically, and it did the strange double reset after unlocking... Then when I unlocked it, after the "starting phone" message I tried to open a browser, and BAM! Quick reset again! Unlocked, let it start up, tried to open an app, BAM quick reset again after the screen briefly shifted from landscape to portrait mode (even though I was still holding it long ways in landscape position). Its never done this before and I'm getting concerned. It's never randomly reset while using the phone, this only happens right after a reset.
Any ideas? I've already tried wiping partition cache after big updates, doing soft resets. I'm worried that I'm going to have to end up resorting to a factory wipe, as others suggested I do when I was having battery drain issues on the ASD3 firmware, possibly because of restoring everything from a backup of my last phone when I got this one. Because supposedly restoring from backups from AT&T, Google or Samsung has caused all sorts of problems for people. I really don't want go wipe everything and spend hours try to get it all back on here manually if i don't have to.
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Had an issue with this early on but seems to have been fixed at some point, I'm I'm exynos though so probably not much help!

mtm1401 said:
Had an issue with this early on but seems to have been fixed at some point, I'm I'm exynos though so probably not much help!
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Dang... So it does appear to be an issue experienced on both Exynos and Snapdragon variants. I wonder if there is or will be a fix for this. I've been asking around and haven't gotten many responses about this problem at all. I'm concerned because it seems to be getting worse than when I first got the phone.

I'm having the exact same problem. Sometimes it goes through quick reset, full reset, a couple more quick, then back to the Verizon logo, then starts up. Opening an app at that point usually does another quick, then full, then everything works. Glad I'm not the only one, but I haven't found any solutions either.

macmanui said:
I'm having the exact same problem. Sometimes it goes through quick reset, full reset, a couple more quick, then back to the Verizon logo, then starts up. Opening an app at that point usually does another quick, then full, then everything works. Glad I'm not the only one, but I haven't found any solutions either.
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Mine does the same. Unlocked bought directly from Samsung. I don't reboot the phone very often so it doesn't bother me that much.