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Random freezing/reboots...HELP!!

So basically what's going on is that once or twice a day my phone freezes (causing me to have to do a battery pull) or randomly reboots. I have tried three different roms (one being stock rooted) and the problem still occurs. I've tried different kernels, different modems, and changed everything I thought might help, including disabling SetCPU. I'm completely baffled, and I'm to the point that I think my beloved E4GT might be defective. So any help or suggestions would be great. TIA.
BTW my current setup is...
Blazer ROM 3.7
EL29 modem
Gunslinger kernel
TW4 launcher (not sure if that matters)
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mbrian27 said:
So basically what's going on is that once or twice a day my phone freezes (causing me to have to do a battery pull) or randomly reboots. I have tried three different roms (one being stock rooted) and the problem still occurs. I've tried different kernels, different modems, and changed everything I thought might help, including disabling SetCPU. I'm completely baffled, and I'm to the point that I think my beloved E4GT might be defective. So any help or suggestions would be great. TIA.
BTW my current setup is...
Blazer ROM 3.7
EL29 modem
Gunslinger kernel
TW4 launcher (not sure if that matters)
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Is your phone possibly overheating? Cause it definitely sounds like a hardware related issue.

That's kinda what I was thinking... When it restarts on its own the notification LED turns pink and I swear I read somewhere that it means the phone has overheated.
Funny thing is, most of the time after it reboots I can use my phone for hours with moderate-heavy use and it won't do it again... It's so random
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mbrian27 said:
That's kinda what I was thinking... When it restarts on its own the notification LED turns pink and I swear I read somewhere that it means the phone has overheated.
Funny thing is, most of the time after it reboots I can use my phone for hours with moderate-heavy use and it won't do it again... It's so random
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I would just take it back to stock, then to Sprint for a swap. Do you have insurance on your device? If not, you'll still be under the 1 year manufacturer warranty, and it will only cost $35 to get another device.

Yeah I have insurance... Just got off the phone with tech support and I'm going to the store later.
I know the manager at the store I'm going to so maybe I'll try to get him to let me swap it for a white E4GT lol
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mbrian27 said:
Yeah I have insurance... Just got off the phone with tech support and I'm going to the store later.
I know the manager at the store I'm going to so maybe I'll try to get him to let me swap it for a white E4GT lol
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Nice... I think I might break mine on purpose then swap for the white one too!

[Q] What do you think??

Here's what has happened....
I purchased my SGS2 Saturday April 14th, I rooted it same day, I flashed TDJ Warefare. I noticed on the 4th day after getting my phone my calls started to drop like crazy. Like every other call was dropping or they couldn't hear me. So I called Tmo they walked me through troubleshooting, that didn't help. Took it back to the store where I purchased it this past weekend the sales rep said it sounds like it's a bad sim card. Ok so they changed my sim (of course I rooted again tried Jugganuats this time) and the phone was working fine until yesterday it starting dropping calls. SO I took the phone back and they switched it with a new one.
I would like to know from you all should I try rooting again?
Please don't flame me for asking this question or if it's in the wrong section of the forum.
I would just like your honest opinion as to what If I should or not and if I do, is there a solution to the dropped calls????
Thanks all

Rooting has nothing to do with your dropped calls. your first phone was defective.
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Android_Monsters said:
Rooting has nothing to do with your dropped calls. Make them give you a new phone.
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I did I have a new one now. I was asking should I root again? I just don't want my calls to start dropping again.
Let me ask you since it's not the rooting what do you think it could be??

Did you do a factory reset before taking it back?
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Rooting will not affect the signal or radio. Would suggest that, stay on stock ROM for a week or so and see if you get drop calls. If not, then try another ROM and if you get drop calls after that so it has to do with the ROM.

SGSdabbler said:
Did you do a factory reset before taking it back?
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Yes I unrooted, factory reset and format internal sdcard just to be on the safe side. I didnt any personal stuff on there.

I had the same issue. Did the same thing you did step for step and rooted my new gsII and no problems. Musta just been a defect
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OnceUponA 0829 said:
I had the same issue. Did the same thing you did step for step and rooted my new gsII and no problems. Musta just been a defect
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Ok I will give it a try again because I really like my phone being rooted

Definitely root you get more pleasures of the phone that way but drop calls I would have changed roms to test another ROM out
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SD Card Keeps Erasing

Hi guys, I have a fairly annoying issue at hand here.
I am a (semi) proud owner of the Koodo S2X, which was a huge upgrade from my LG Optimus One. The phone is great, but lately there have been alot of freezing issues where the phone would become unresponsive for a few minutes, except for the lock button, which would not actually lock the screen. But, and this is the second time its happened, it erased my SD card. I have a 3.75 gb card in it, which was once loaded up with stuff, and my phone decided to erase it after it froze. Then, just yesterday, it erased it after I synced some files to it from my laptop. Is there any record of this happening to anyone else, and any way of preventing it from happening again? The whole reason I have a memory card is to store stuff on it, but I can't for fear it will become deleted...thanks in advance, everyone.
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I'd recommend trying another SD card. If your current one is corrupted or gone bad, it can cause all sorts of similar issues. Otherwise, I don't know, sorry.
Russian smashed across the interwebz from my T-Mobile Galaxy S2. Please hit thanks if I helped.

Hmm, alright. I'll try another card for a while and see if the problem persists. Thanks alot for the reply! As simple as it was, I wouldn't have thought of that.
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KDJewl said:
Hmm, alright. I'll try another card for a while and see if the problem persists. Thanks alot for the reply! As simple as it was, I wouldn't have thought of that.
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Also don't use a cheap no name SD card. And format it with ur phone then start using it before anything goes on it.

BACARDILIMON said:
Also don't use a cheap no name SD card. And format it with ur phone then start using it before anything goes on it.
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Are there any brands that you would recommend? I can't recall the one that's in my phone right now, and I'm at work so I can't stop to check...
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First hiccup in two months with my Note2!

Well, it happened, I experienced the first real freezing up yesterday. Everything just became un responsive while on a call, trying to end a call, the person I called couldn't hear me but I showed 3 bars of signal then the dialer froze up and I had to pull the battery out to restart the device. Same exact thing happened on my Mom's note2 today. I can't believe anything could cause this phone to stutter so badly. My phone is stock rooted T Mobile ROM. My mom's is totally stock.
I know all electronics can have the occasional hiccup. Anyone else have this happen? Don't get me wrong, I totally love this phone, gps is solid, navigation got me to a location in an unfamiliar area when I was a bit lost. Google maps had one place on the wrong side of the street 800 ft from it's actual location but I can't be certain if it was a clear night. There was rain in the area.
As I said first hiccup in two months.
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I would say it was a good run!
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Me to last couple of days I've got a freeze or to weird because its never happend.

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Try to clean up the application cache, and check the installed applications.

Im un rooted, and just started getting random reboots
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mingkee said:
Try to clean up the application cache, and check the installed applications.
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How do we clean up application cache?
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predation said:
How do we clean up application cache?
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App Cache cleaner from the Play Store.
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blaxican25 said:
Me to last couple of days I've got a freeze or to weird because its never happend.
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Could you please say it again? I couldn't understand if you have a problem with your phone or not.

Sounds like a common application that is installed on both your and your Mom's Note IIs experienced a small problem. Check Notifications to see what may have updated on both phones.

Its really hard to know what causes the freezing as we install different apps everyday. It can be from some apps we just installed or from something else. Luckily for me, I haven't had anything like that since I got this in Oct. 2012. I rooted mine in December but with stock ROM and still perform as great as before.
I usually restart my phone weekly. Its just like something that I used to do in all my old phones. Maybe it helps freeing up some memory.

Some of you root the phone only to keep the stock ROM and stock Kernel, etc.
The phone really does not need it.
Unless you are looking to modify the unit by over clocking it and changing the stock ROM to something exotic, there is no need to root the Note II.
When you flash changes to the unit, there are going to be bugs and other things that pop up now and then.
I have a Sensation runing Sense 4.1, Android 4.0.1, overclocked to 1.83 Mhz, with all types of tweaks. The Note II blows it away in every way, stock.
I will not root it until there is something worth flashing.
The phone just came out a few months ago.
I am sure there is a nice ROM caming down the pipe.
I will be waiting.

I really hope I don't run into this issue with the freezing! I got the phone on release day in store and haven't had any issues thus far.
C.S.

maybe try rebooting every once in a while.... keeps things fresh... i reboot at least once a day.

So tired of this.

How many of you were trying to use your rooted stock galaxy s3, and when you were using it, it froze, resulting in a battery pull? I am sick of this. Either after writing a long post, message, or status and it freezes and losing it all, or just now, when I was downloading the MOAR ROM (800 mb), it took an hour and thirty mins, and then at 94% it froze. I returned a galaxy s3 STOCK NOT ROOTED for this same problem, and got another and it still does it. How many of you have the same problem? This is one of the few reasons I wish I havent gotten this phone. Do not get me wrong, I love this phone and all its features, but there are these few tiny things that make me really mad that is does it, that makes me regret it too.
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I had this issue.
Download Fast Force Close from the market.
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ubigred said:
I had this issue.
Download Fast Force Close from the market.
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Oh okay. Thank you. I just find it very annoying. Wanted to see if other people had problems like this.
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I can say I'm not experiencing this. Rock solid, could be the Rom you're on, or kernel. Any oc or uv?
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Can't say I ever had this problem...

socos25 said:
I can say I'm not experiencing this. Rock solid, could be the Rom you're on, or kernel. Any oc or uv?
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First phone it happened on stock rom rooted/not rooted (happened on both) and it happens on stock rom rooted on 2nd phone. I dont mess with kernals or CPU or Overclocking/ anythinf like that because i am scared of breaking my phone. So it has been bone stock other than root
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Can't say I ever had this problem...
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Neither have I, I was having overheating issues but found a way around it. Hope a solution comes your way. This does remind of the bad chip issues the orig tmobile galaxys were having tho
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Tell us the full story. It's your phone refurb?
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My phone froze once. I've had it for 9 months. I'd start looking at things like a badly written app or an issue with the SD card if I were you. BTW, you should be able to force a reboot by just holding the power button for 10 seconds.

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Tell us the full story. It's your phone refurb?
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First phone was brand new, this one is refurbished.
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Jataadroid said:
Neither have I, I was having overheating issues but found a way around it. Hope a solution comes your way. This does remind of the bad chip issues the orig tmobile galaxys were having tho
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My first one over heated bad. Take it to sprint and they can fix it. Helped me. It was my first big smartphone and I thought it was normal.
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Have never once had this problem on my GS3. Day one purchase too. Sorry to hear that.
I've had freezes due to custom kernel overclocking and undervolt testing, but once I found the right settings, I haven't had a single freeze...and it's been months.
Phone has ran its longest at 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours.

Never had this problem. Rooted since 2nd week in July.

No issues here either; rooted and blue-tified not long after getting it 6/21.

My first phone I had was a dud. The screen would flicker and freeze up. The only way it would fix itself was a battery pull. But it would start doing the same thing within a few minutes. I got my replacement and haven't had problems since. Maybe it's possible you got another dud? There worse thing that can happen is you get another bad phone, or you get a good one. If you'd get another bad one you could just see if they'll let you upgrade to a new phone early. Have a buddy who just that same thing, not with a s3 though.
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Overheating means one of two things.
1. You phone is in an extremely marginal signal location and keeps switching between cells. Lots of radio activity at full power will heat up the phone.
2. An app is using lots of CPU power and/or data and may be "running away".
You should be able to get some clues on this by looking at battery stats to see what's using the most power.

freeza said:
Have never once had this problem on my GS3. Day one purchase too. Sorry to hear that.
I've had freezes due to custom kernel overclocking and undervolt testing, but once I found the right settings, I haven't had a single freeze...and it's been months.
Phone has ran its longest at 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours.
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kennyglass123 said:
Never had this problem. Rooted since 2nd week in July.
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No issues here either; rooted and blue-tified not long after getting it 6/21.
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godbilla said:
My first phone I had was a dud. The screen would flicker and freeze up. The only way it would fix itself was a battery pull. But it would start doing the same thing within a few minutes. I got my replacement and haven't had problems since. Maybe it's possible you got another dud? There worse thing that can happen is you get another bad phone, or you get a good one. If you'd get another bad one you could just see if they'll let you upgrade to a new phone early. Have a buddy who just that same thing, not with a s3 though.
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I always thought it was something I did, but I took my first one in and it froze and heated up, now this one just freezes. I don't wanna take the 2nd one in because that is just extra work for sprint and I can deal with it. If my computer worked or I could download the moar rom (or any for that matter) without it freezing or restarting the download I wouldn't have this problem. Oh well. Nothing I can't deal with. Heck, it is a great phone.!
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Whiplashh said:
How many of you were trying to use your rooted stock galaxy s3, and when you were using it, it froze, resulting in a battery pull? I am sick of this. Either after writing a long post, message, or status and it freezes and losing it all, or just now, when I was downloading the MOAR ROM (800 mb), it took an hour and thirty mins, and then at 94% it froze. I returned a galaxy s3 STOCK NOT ROOTED for this same problem, and got another and it still does it. How many of you have the same problem? This is one of the few reasons I wish I havent gotten this phone. Do not get me wrong, I love this phone and all its features, but there are these few tiny things that make me really mad that is does it, that makes me regret it too.
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Must be some rogue app you install consistently.

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Must be some rogue app you install consistently.
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I wonder what it could be though? I mean all I have are top notch apps that are like in the top 100 on play store. I don't download from play store without reading reviews.
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Whiplashh said:
I wonder what it could be though? I mean all I have are top notch apps that are like in the top 100 on play store. I don't download from play store without reading reviews.
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Hard to tell. Perhaps someone here knows a diagnostic to tell which app freezes the phone.
But it's most likely something that runs as a service (under Settings/Apps/Running), probably something you yourself installed. I'd start there first. If you have a quick and reliable way to determine if it will lock up (like running some stress test, maybe a benchmark), perhaps you could "freeze" some of those apps in Titanium Backup and find out which app is responsible.