I have a T-mobile Samsung s2. The sucker keeps randomly freezing usually 10 to 30 seconds after reboot. Sometimes i can go for about 10 to 30 minutes without freezing, but...it always ends up freezing sooner or later(only thing I can do is hold the power button for 10 seconds and restart the device). I did the whole master reset and recover from stock to no avail. It keeps freezing. Second step was, I rooted and installed clockworkmod. Did a back up of my phone, and tried to install different roms. I tried jedi mind trick and cm10 hercules, but both of these get stuck on the start up screen. I restored my original back up image and now it boots but it keeps freezing like always. Is there something physically wrong with my device? any input would be appreciated.
The only other thing I'd try would to Odin back to stock then update with Kies; if u haven't all ready? If that doesn't work then without re rooting the phone call T mobile and tell them that after u updated the phone it keeps freezing on u. Hopes this helps and good luck!
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The problem only happens when I reboot or turn on the phone. When it boots up, I get multiple results. A: It boots up normally (not a problem) B: When it gets to the samsung screen, it freaks out and reboots itself again and again. It's like it's struggling to boot up. One time it got to the gs 3, but then it looped back. C: This just happened today. I booted up and it went pass the samsung screen but when it got to the gs 3 screen, the screen turned a faint pink and it stayed on that screen.
This just happened right after version 8. I know 10 was messed up but on 9 and 11, this problem persisted. Also,I don't think the issue is the phone, since I don't have this problem on other Roms. If I'm wrong please let me know .
Any suggestions, advice, help, etc is welcomed.
Please... i really need help.
I suggest you start over, this will remove any corruption and gremlins you have klinging to your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099.. Then re root and flash anew.
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I suggest you start over, this will remove any corruption and gremlins you have klinging to your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099.. Then re root and flash anew.
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I unrooted, went back to stock, it did a factory reset so no bugs should have been alive. I re-rooted, made a backup, did a factory reset and wiped dalvik, then I flashed the rom zip and rebooted. It gets stuck on the Gs III screen. I waited like 5 minutes and it didn't move. My battery was at 50% so I just put it on the charger and tried to boot up and it went through to the set up screen for gmail.Just to see if it was coincedental, I did another reboot but this time it got stuck again. It sounds like a system problem but i'm not sure.Like i said earlier, this only happens on Jellybomb.
Any other ideas?
Edit: I've tried switching recoveries but it doesn't fix it.
Sigh.
I am completely stock, no root. Phone has been working fine, but for the last 3 days, it will sit at the Google boot logo for 5 to 10 minutes, then start booting. I already did the factory reset back to defaults, 3 times. After the factory reset it will work normally or about 3-4 hours and then its back to taking 10 minutes to boot. I have not loaded any apps on the phone since the factory reset, just my exchange server settings for contacts. It is a pain, because I have multiple batteries. After the phone is done booting, everything works fine, nothing is slow.
Any recommendations?? I have the warranty on the phone, is it worth making a claim? Do they replace it with another nexus, or will they give me a S3?
Thanks All.
It might sound dumb, but are you shutting your phone down properly? If not, your phone will do the equivalent of a chkdsk (Windows check disk) on boot to ensure the integrity of the system/data files. This will usually take several minutes during boot-up.
I hold the power button down and then tap power off and wait for the phone to turn off.
Is it possible for the internal memory to be going bad causing a check on boot-up?
Is there a way to log what is going on to see maybe what is causing the issue?
Thanks.
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You could always pull a logcat.
Unlock bootloder flash cwm flash a 4.2.2 ROM and profit. I don't have that issue with 4.2.2. Had it with older versions.
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Sounds like time for a warranty or insurance replacement.
So there's some issue with my phone, it started with an issue where my phone would crash, restart, and then go into a booting loop (the samsung logo part). Well after a few retries of installing that rom again (phantom blazer), after that very version of the rom had worked without an issue for 4 months, the crash/boot loop happened again. After this instance, reinstalling the same ROM would not get me into the android OS.
So I moved on to a new rom (paranoid android), which worked for a little while, and then had the exact same issue. After two times in a month of the same crash/boot loop, I moved on to a new rom (wicked sensations). So here I am now with the same issue, but it seems to have gotten worse. Now the crashes happen more often, randomly while in my pocket, and often when trying to place/answer a call, but the frequent crashes are without the boot loop and need to reinstall a rom.
I follow the installation instructions for each rom to the T, all the wiping of dalviks and cache, but the same **** keeps happening. Does this sound like a hardware error in my phone?? Should I return to a stock rom and see if my issue keeps happening? I'm in a rage at this point . Please halp.
I would try this link-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099. And like you said, see if problems continues. I think any ROM can and will reboot at some point, are you updating your ROMs as developers update them?
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Have you considered your experiencing the 'sudden death syndrome' you may have a faulty power button it's a known issue with the S3. Sprint does repair or exchange the phone for this. It's exactly what you described it powers off and on. It can power up until the splash screen and it powers right down. It just so happens that you start playing with the power button when trying to go into recovery to flash another rom or what not and it clears the issue for a while. Until it sticks again. Just something to consider you can search it here under exactly what I called it 'sudden death syndrome'
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Hello everyone,
My phone is NOT rooted. Earlier today it was stuck on the Samsung Screeen when I turned my phone on. I then used the power, camera, volume down button combo to bring me into recovery mode. Now everytime my phone turns on it stays in recovery mode. I can scroll up and down on my choices but there is not a key that I can press that will select a choice. Any ideas for how I can get my phone to work?
Screen I am stuckl on reads: "android system recovery <3e>
enter: OK key, Select : Vol UP/ Vol Down
reboot system now
apply update from SD cared
Wipe Data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
then theres an exclimation mark in a triangle with the android dude below that
#manual Mode#
If you don't care about existing app data, Odin would be a great choice. Either Odin-ing in a custom recovery or a fresh stock system would get you out of the situation.
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Sounds like you tried to do something and the phone didn't like it, hence you boot back into recovery on it's own.
Use Odin and reflash stock.
Much Thanks
Thank you very much for the responses, for some reason I was under the impression that your phone had to be rooted in order to use odin, much thanks!
I do not care about my personal files getting lost, but just out of pure curiosity, roughly, how would one accomplish that?
I'm try out odin now!
Back to my old problem! Any ideas?
So odin passed twice with all the stock software. Now I am back to my old problem that I had before I was stuck on the recovery screen (hardware issue? idk) When my phone boots up it stays on the samsung screen for 2 mins, then it lags like crazy on the 4g screen (sound and video), and it stays frozen at the Galaxy S screen (for over 6 mins). I need a working phone, luckily I am elgible for an upgrade, but really dont see the need to spend 250 to upgrade my phone or spend 100 for insurance to replace it!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks again for all of your help so far
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So odin passed twice with all the stock software. Now I am back to my old problem that I had before I was stuck on the recovery screen (hardware issue? idk) When my phone boots up it stays on the samsung screen for 2 mins, then it lags like crazy on the 4g screen (sound and video), and it stays frozen at the Galaxy S screen (for over 6 mins). I need a working phone, luckily I am elgible for an upgrade, but really dont see the need to spend 250 to upgrade my phone or spend 100 for insurance to replace it!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks again for all of your help so far
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Well, first boot of flashing any custom or stock rom takes a bit to fully boot. If you're stuck at the Samsung or Galaxy S screens, then you should reflash. If you have tried that and still having the same issue, then try a few more times. I've read posts of people having constant boot loops on flashes and they finally got one flash to properly stick after many tries.
So odined again and again, this time my phone eventually did turn on but it literally took 30 mins. When it did turn on I had no network connection nor could I use my touchscreen, it eventually shut off. I'ma go get robbed at the sprint store in a bit lol.
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End Thread- I got a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. My god- this phone is amazing. Kinda bull**** that I got nothing for my old phone with full insurance when it seems like it was a hardware failure!
Can't wait to play with this beast of a phone tomorrow!
I've had an M9 for 2-3. After the first year I got my phone, I installed a custom recovery and rooted it but later uninstalled root and custom recovery. It has been fine ever since except recently. Last month, my phone randomly crashed for the first time and got stuck in the infinite bootloop. It was as if everytime it tries to boot up, it crashed during it. If I hit the power, vol up, and vol down button, I make it to the screen with the option to go into recovery, download, etc. But when I actually try to go into either bootloader, recovery, or download mode from that menu, it crashes and goes back to the white htc logo. I've have gotten the phone to bootup a couple times by leaving it in the freezer as it tries to boot up but after using it for 1-5 minutes, it crashes again. If I don't use the phone at all, then it usually wont crash. After a day or 2, the phone fixed itself. Then one morning, my notifications got stuck together and my screen became unresponsive. So I took my death sentence and restarted my phone and now my phone has been doing the same exact thing for a week. I don't know how to fix this problem because getting it crashes trying to go into recovery and trying to do a factory reset is risky since it could crash during the reset. If also manage to make it into safe mode thinking maybe an application or virus is causing this but the phone crashed in SAFE MODE so I don't know what the problem is. I doubt there is any saving this phone because is probably a hard ware problem but who knows. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you.
Flash back to stock. Stock firmware fixes all sorts of issues.