Tab pro 8.4 freezing and crashing. How do I isolate issue? - Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, 8.4 Q&A, Help & Trouble

Hey guys, I have a new tab pro 8.4 wifi, I've been having a lot of freezing and crashing problems and would like some guidance on how to gather crash logs/data and figure out what's going on. I did root the os with but besides that I have not installed xposed or really screwed around with anything that I would think would cause this much system instability. I notice that something is running in the background and my touchscreen becomes completely unresponsive, during that time the wireless indicator shows activity both ways. I can use the three buttons at the bottom and bring up task manager, if I clear ram the tablet instantly functions normally. Sometimes the tab just reboots with no warning...
I am new to android but a network and storage engineer with microsoft/citrix/vmware/cisco technologies so i am slightly technical although not a dev or programmer.
Thanks for the help, I've started by installing a live catlog reader
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Anyway I figured it out by watching the catlog.. It was wondershare Android app causing the issues..
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[Q] Modern Combat 4 minimizes instantly

So I installed Game Killer recently onto my rooted Nexus 7 and I decided I would try to give myself a bottomless clip on MC4. Now, despite the fact the app was working just fine before the root, it immediately minimizes when I start up now. I click the app and a black screen opens for a couple of milliseconds before the game minimizes back down. I can still see it in the running apps menu but if I try to open it from there it just does the same thing again and again. I've already tried the basic solutions like reinstalling and rebooting my device but that's pretty much all my options.
I know that it's not a crash, seeing as the app is still running. It just doesn't maximize correctly and I can't actually view the game. With that, I've exhausted all my options because I'm not getting any feedback about the error and I can't look at a crash report because it hasn't crashed. I can't find anyone else with this problem either.

stability update

Has anyome else recieved a stability update on the 8.4?
yes for the US SM-T320 8.4 but I'm getting random reboots. it was fine on the earlier version, never had any random reboots. I tried to factory reset after the update but still the same. it seems to do a soft random reboot when you are doing something on the tablet and you leave it idle for a few seconds. It never rebooted while I'm actively using it even if the load is high..
zorbakun said:
yes for the US SM-T320 8.4 but I'm getting random reboots. it was fine on the earlier version, never had any random reboots. I tried to factory reset after the update but still the same. it seems to do a soft random reboot when you are doing something on the tablet and you leave it idle for a few seconds. It never rebooted while I'm actively using it even if the load is high..
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And now the keyboard is stuck in split screen mode I no longer get a full screen keyboard
I just updated my 12". No issues so far.
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Mine says device modified, I am rooted - any workaround?
I'm currently uploading the new ND3 DeOdex ROM base now. (Tab Pro 8.4 Wi-Fi)
I will also upload the bootloader firmware (Odin flashable) too.
I managed to capture a logcat but I can't seem to identify the cause of reboots, can anyone assist with that pls...
zorbakun said:
I managed to capture a logcat but I can't seem to identify the cause of reboots, can anyone assist with that pls...
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I had the exact same rebooting issue. Drove me crazy so i flashed cm11 and I'm loving it. No reboots and faster than stock.
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TabPro 8.4 random restarts
Hello guys
So, it appears i am not alone then.
The school i work in as an IT tech, has purchased us 2 TabPro 8.4 tablets and the one i have has given me hell so far with these random reboots.
It has the latest update and is also rooted. It has nothing to do with the root i believe as it did it before and also after applying the latest OTA update. I have now factory reset it and noticed a slight difference in the home screen where i now have 2 pages (1 home screen of course) wheres, as far as i remember, when i first turned it on it only had 1. I may be wrong though.
I didn't sign in to any accounts yet (google, samsung dropbox etc.) and left it with Google chrome and Samsung own browser open. I suppose only time will tell now. It's really bloody frustrating though because i spent hours loading all my apps again and restoring app data via Helium etc.
Another thing i noticed is that even i after wiping the tablet via recovery (Wipe device/factory reset option) it actually kept root.
New device, issues gone
Got my replacement unit from John Lewis today (i must say their service is the best i have seen) and spent hours on the device rooting it and installing all the apps i had on my other unit.
I have not encountered one single reboot so far , whereas my previous unit restarted on me pretty much 30 minutes after i first turned it on.
My advice to you is if you are having stability issues and random restarts with your TabPro 8.4, send it back for a replacement.
I installed the update also and haven't had any issues or random reboots either. The screen sensitivity fixes are great. Huge difference.
I spoke too soon it seems. It did restart on me. Twice. Once whilst caching images on quickpic app and second time installing Samsung's own office suite of applications.
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What is this? Stability or Instability update? Sammy, why?
anyone who doesn't suffer from Random reboots, are you rooted?
also those who suffer from reboots, are you all rooted?
My the Theory: I think this reboots are related to being rooted or have knox void.
Mine restarted before root but after I installed the OTA update. I since rooted it but it didn't change a thing obviously. God knows how many times it reboots a day. I leave it in airplane mode with a few apps running and after a couple of hours I notice that the apps that ran on the background are not there anymore so I figured out it restarted. is there anyway to uninstall the OTA update???
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Stability update
Since reverting back to old version (and rooting the device again) i have suffered 0 random reboots. Looks like the latest update screws something up.
galijanach said:
Since reverting back to old version (and rooting the device again) i have suffered 0 random reboots. Looks like the latest update screws something up.
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I have two 8.4's and they both boot when I wake them up. They are rooted with Xposed, but I uninstalled Xposed and tried one without it and it still boots at random. So IMO Xposed/root isn't causing the trouble.
See my other post... wonder if that'll fix this. I'd almost rather have the reboots over the screen sensitivity problem, but either way, the tabs aren't really usable.
Rich
I have used my tab pro 8.4 now for 5 days running on the old firmware rooted and with xposed running, without a single glitch. I'd strongly advise people to avoid updating the tablets to the latest ND3 firmware.
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I purchased a tab pro 8.4 a few weeks ago and was noticing random reboots several times an hour. A couple of days later I got the update and didn't see any change in reboot behavior. Couldn't link it to anything at all as it happened before as well as after rooting and adding Xposed.
Changed to Average Joe's debloated (elsewhere in the forums) and have had zero random reboots since. Also running several exposed modules without any problems. Purely anecdotal, but it appears to have increased the overall responsiveness of the device while keeping most of the good things Samsung put on top of stock Android.
New update
Samsung released a new update to the TabPro 8.4 which is supposed to improve stability and add "Kids mode" (firmware version ending with NE3). I gave it a go and the random reboots got back! wiped my device clean and installed NAI firmware and all is well again!

laggyness with certain apps

I've had the zenwatch for almost 2 weeks and i will be keeping it. That being said here is a heads up, i found that using the app facer to make watch faces and using wear mini launcher together causes a good bit of lag when performing any action on the watch. to remedy this issue i downlaoded watch maker and low behold the lag went away. so if anyone is haven a lag issue check into what apps you are use to make your watch faces and also what launcher u have choosen. hope you guys find this helpfull .
So, did you uninstall wear mini launcher ?
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So, did you uninstall wear mini launcher ?
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no i switched to watch maker it works better with min launcher
I've actually had this happen a number of times and I'm not sure why. It doesn't seem to have a consistent cause. Usually it'll be when I install a new app or something, but it's happened other times as well, but it doesn't happen consistently with one app or another. For me, the lag shows up as the screen basically being frozen without being able to control anything. Eventually, it will unfreeze and I'll usually see the mini-launcher screen, but even a restart with the back button won't solve the freeze.
For me, it was worse when I had Mini Launcher installed, but it still happens occasionally without it. I no longer have either Facer or Watchmaker installed, either. I'm using the Weather Watch Face, though. I wonder if it has something to do with watch faces in general?
When I was using Mini Launcher, apps would almost never launch the first time I tapped on them. It would go back to the watch face and freeze for a few seconds, and force me to go back to Mini Launch and tap again. Without Mini Launcher, this still happens occasionally from the built-in Start... item, but much less frequently.
I have all 3 installed and it doesn't seem to lag too bad. I guess I don't interact with it the same as I would with a phone so it doesn't bother me at all. Whenever I get a card it interacts with it seamlessly, that's about as much as I need it to do
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I have all 3 installed and it doesn't seem to lag too bad. I guess I don't interact with it the same as I would with a phone so it doesn't bother me at all. Whenever I get a card it interacts with it seamlessly, that's about as much as I need it to do
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Interacting with cards hasn't been a problem for me, either, it's launching an app that's not already running that seems to be the issue. Sometimes (or almost every time for me with Mini Launcher), the new app doesn't come to the foreground, and the watch appears to hang for several seconds. It then has to be launched a second time to become visible.
I've definitely seen it lag like that. Hopefully it's just a software issue with android wear being so new and updates will help fix that. It's got plenty of processor and ram torrun the tiny apps no problem
I noticed a considerable amount of lag while using mini launcher. To the point that I didn't even want to show off the watch to other people because it made it seem terrible. Major difference since uninstalling, lag free now. I also use Watch Maker and a few Play Store watchfaces with no lag issues.
Wish we could move the start menu to the first selection on the tap screen instead of the last, then I really wouldn't care about a separate launcher.
1+ for deleting mini launcher. I like the app but its so dam laggy. As far as Watch Maker app works at times for me so I deleted that as well. I was using Facer until I ran into Intellicom which seems to be very easy to use and no change in my battery life.
I think this is more of a symptom of using a single core A7 processor. I imagine all of the governors and IO schedules are set up for battery life so that probably doesn't help either. It might just be coincidence that you are running something while a background task is also running.

Nexus 7 Keyboard And On-Screen Buttons Not Working

Nexus 7 keyboard and on-screen buttons not working
Hey guy, since quite a while, my nexus 7 has been randomly giving me this problem, which only got worse with time. Every now and then the keyboard would refuse to show up when I tap on a textbox. When this happens, my back button would also stop working. Also, YouTube videos would go all black (no video) while the audio continues to play and/or the on-screen controls would refuse to hide after a while.
I googled a bit and found out that greenify and xposed are causing this problem but in my case even getting rid of them didn't solve the problem. I even uninstalled every new àpp, reverted every new changes but no luck.
I'm really getting sick of this problem and this is the last time I'm seeking for any help before I go ahead and format my device. I'm a bit techie (the reason why I don't wanna go the format way) but this one's really gotten to my nerves.
I'm on KitKat 4.4.4 using Pacman Rom (KK RC-3 dev) with the kernel ElementalX v3.4.0.
I've frozen literally every app I could blame for this issue.
Please help me out guys!!!
No one??? Not even a guess??? Come on guys, pleeaaasssseeeee!!!!!

Issues with Lineage OS 13 on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0

Hello everyone, I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and never had any issues until it began to run too slow to use even after factory reset but thankfully I found Lineage OS and it revived my old tablet. Although it functions better I still have numerous issues, non detrimental though. First, I get a frequent "App" stopped working errors but they seem to be false positives and never actually indicate a frozen app but occasionally I get a genuine one, mainly YouTube. I discovered that my tablet would restart every time I attempt to use any app that uses my IR, disappointing because I liked to use it as my tv remote.
Now the main issue I am here to ask about is, when I restart or shut down my tablet, it does not clear my tasks like it used to before I installed Lineage, it is almost like its just going into sleep mode and not actually shutting down. Most times when I restart or freshly boot I find the tasks still open and the tablet is slower than before The OS was install. How do I get it to clear tasks without always doing it manually. Or is there something I can use as a workaround.
Device is rooted with Lineage OS 13 expresso-Wifi Nightly 2017-07-15
Forgot to mention running Marshmallow
I use 3C System Tuner Pro to tame my system. It can automatically manage tasks for you in the background. It has sped up my Tab 2 significantly and is available from Google Play.
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