I've had my GS2 since launch and had Litening Rom pretty much weeks after that.
I've not flashed anything in the last 4/5 weeks but I keep getting the following problems
1. Black screen when waking phone up, soft keys light up and vibrate, so the phone is on but the screen is black. This is my main problem! Sometimes the status bar will show and is draggable but the rest of the screen is black. Sometimes the phone wont turn on and is quite hot. If I restart the phone I can do what I like but soon as I leave it for a few mins I cant get back on. It's also produced a black screen when the screen is on just by me touching the screen.
Its not overclocked it running stock voltages, I unistalled Go launcher and various other apps, I've restored it to a month old back up which I've used before with no problems, this gave me lots of FC's which I sorted but the black screen problem and not being able to get the phone back on without restarting is still present... I've tried re-flasing Litening Rom, I've tried a different kernel and I've wipe all data/factory reset etc etc...
Can anyone help?
Your best bet is to go completely back to a stock ROM ensuring everything really is wiped/factory reset, don't restore anything at all and see if you still have problems. If you're unable/unwilling to do that, you're probably best posting in the Lite'ning thread.
Is all support gone from Litening Rom thread? It think you can get more help over there.
I was too slow.
I don't think it's the rom. It's been stable at 6.1 for months.
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I don't think it's the rom. It's been stable at 6.1 for months.
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Fantastic. Well I wish you good luck troubleshooting then.
I'm not ignoring your advice, I will try restoring the stock rom.
how many apps installed? I have this kind of black screen problem since 2.3.5. It is caused by having more than 300+ apps.
Never had that many, did a full wipe so I only have stock apps at the minute.
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No matter what ROM I try some where down the line (either 1 week, or 1 month etc) i always get the same result. Which is that htc sense stops loading. I have no idea what the problem is and its quite frustrating. i soft-reset, nothing, i turn off sense and turn it back on, nothing. always the same problem. has anyone encountered this before?
Can you give more information? Like what radio version do you use? Does a hard reset tempory help it? What things did you change before this occured?
Yes, I had this happen too. Ultimately, I put the stock ROM back on with the stock radio - kept happening. Sent it back and got a refurbed unit. Absolutely no problems now.
Im having tha same problem
Try Task 29 and then new ROM
Although there is not much of a description of the problem, I strongly believe you may have re-flashed custom ROMs without doing a Task29 which "cleans" the internal FLASH ROM. If this would happen to be the case you get these types of problems where suddenly the Phone just shuts down. Even after HardReset you will only be able to run for a limited time before the phone freezes again.
So give Task29 a shot and see if it helps.
Ps: Also try using a recommended RadioROM for a particular custom ROM.
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Although there is not much of a description of the problem, I strongly believe you may have re-flashed custom ROMs without doing a Task29 which "cleans" the internal FLASH ROM. If this would happen to be the case you get these types of problems where suddenly the Phone just shuts down. Even after HardReset you will only be able to run for a limited time before the phone freezes again.
So give Task29 a shot and see if it helps.
Ps: Also try using a recommended RadioROM for a particular custom ROM.
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ive used task 29 every time ive flashed over the months, so its not that... ive used every single reccomended for each radio rom but always the same outcome.
what could it be? ive got a little feeling its got something to do with CHT, as its only when i play around with it alot that it happens.
Same, here. Thought it was my energy ROM but have tasked 29, tried different ROMS from different chefs and radios, taken SD card out all together, only works for a matter of minutes before sense freezes and needs a battery reset, very frustrating - any other suggestions?
I did experience similar issues. In my case I've been using Artemis series of ROM v23, 25 and 28. In my case I did not use T29 the first couple of times. When using v28 of about couple of weeks sense would stop running. In my case it happened after receiving an MMS where I subsequently had to pull the battery to reboot. Ones on reboot I noticed in the file manager that the internal ROM was filled with strange symbols and unrecognizable file names. I did a HardReset to clean up (I thought). The filesystem looked okay, but after that HR Sense would run for a few minutes depending on whether I tried to re-install contacts and settings or left it be. After every freeze I had to do a HR to actually be able to reboot, otherwise it would stop at the orange screen.
What I've done is to upgrade to HSPL3 (2.08 HSPL), TASK 29 and install the latest V.30 (I reckon in a few days it is obsolete ones again ) Now everything is rosy-dandy and running like a clock (knock wood).
I'm using Radio 2.09.51.03_2 on Artemis 30 (NOR). Phone is about 8 months now, and I have not had any problems until a week ago where the above happened.
Fingers crossed!
Still running good...
just to follow up... phone is still working good so it seems Task 29 is indeed a necessary thing to do.
hey folks,
i have encountered an annoying problem that has made using the s2 quite an unpleasant experience recently.
I bought my s2 about 4 months ago. after 2 weeks or so i switched to miui (galnet) and have stuck to miui ever since. later i switched to langthangs releases as well as siyahs kernels (loving both, major props to them).
around mid of december, my phone suddenly started to crash. up till then i had a couple of freezes here n there, maybe once or twice a months. but since then, even though i did not change anything, my phone has been crashing more often, like 5-10 times a week. updating kernel and rom didnt help.
i experience two types of crashes:
a) freeze: phone just stops working. i have to take out the battery to reboot
b) reboots: phone just reboots out of the blue. sometimes it reboots 3-4 times in a row, like after the first reboot the phone does nothing for 2-3 minutes, then reboots again and so on
i am not sure if that helps, but most of the time the freezes occur while using the internet, the market and playing games. reboots occur randomly, even if the phone is not used at all.
i haven't done any overclocking, just undervolting using voltage control. but i had been using the reduced voltages for weeks, long before the crashes started to occur. and yes, i did try switching back to the stock voltages.
i may have dropped my phone a couple of times, but none of the drops was really bad as it has no scratches or dents.
Anyone else having the same experience?
Is there a way to check if -maybe- the ram/rom is defect? If nothing helps, i think i ll have to flash a stock rom and submit a warranty claim
I would go on a limb saying its MIUI's fault. Wich version of Syiah are you using? Try to reflash different version, I found that 2.6.2 is stable. Also the new one 2.6.6 wich I'm currently testing is stable to, other ones were kinda buggy.
Also are you undervolting or UC'ing ?
If all else fails flash different ROM, after testing many of them I found the latest Criskelo to be stable as a rock.
The only way to really tell is to flash back to a stock rom and see if the freezes/reboots still occur...
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well, i have tried different roms. and yeah, i am undervolting and underclocking (200-1000).
but isnt it strange? i have been using miui for months without any problems, and baaam ... suddenly the phone starts crashing? i mean at the time the freezes and reboots started to occur, i had been using the same system (kernel,rom,setting,apps) for weeks without any problems.
i ll try going back to stock. if that doesnt help, ill send it in.
btw. i have flash stock via odin, will the exclamation mark during the bootup process vanish?
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btw. i have flash stock via odin, will the exclamation mark during the bootup process vanish?
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Yep, hence you flashed original firmware the dredded(by some) yellow triangle will dissapear.
It will reapear as soon as you root your device.
that last sentence was supposed to be "if i flash stock via odin ..."
ok. ill try that and report back.
BUT
if flashing a stock rom helps, the problems much likely lies with the custom rom. but if so, why did they work perfectly fine until recently?
i may have dropped my phone a couple of times, but none of the drops was really bad as it has no scratches or dents.
Logic says that is the answer .
jje
u think so?
the phone just slipped out of my hand a couple of times, but it never fell on the floor (lets say 30cm or more).
and why would sth like that cause freezes like that? i mean my sisters ace has a totally shattered glass and its still working perfectly fine.
anyway, backing up all my stuff and trying a stock rom tmr
Hi,
I have a Galaxy S2 on TMobile in the UK. Not rooted, just been upgraded to ICS with the official firmware through Kies.
Ever since then I've been randomly getting a black screen - i.e. phone doesn't respond to any of the buttons to turn the screen on. Only way to get the phone to work again is a battery pull. Haven't installed any apps from prior to ICS, and prior to ICS I didn't have this problem.
As well as getting a black unresponsive screen it seems to get really warm. Not the normal been playing a game warm, but bordering on really hot. When I do the battery pull and restart there's also been a big battery drain - have lost half the battery before and the phone warning is on screen saying it's about to run out of battery when it was 60% charged before.
I'm guessing no one's going to have a simple answer to this (although it would be great if anyone does, but I've searched and haven't found anything) - but any tips on trying to identify what the cause is? Could it be a bad app maybe?
I tried logcat but didn't really understand it (!) and I wasn't sure if it would record what happened before a battery pull anyway. What's a way of recording what's going on that will stay recorded after a battery pull?
Any tips to help get the bottom of this would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Andrew
First backup data and factory reset .
Still a problem reinstall the firmware.
Checkfus will let you download it and flash via Odin .
Or take it to a service centre is the other choice .
jje
factory reset m8 if ur carrying ur bckup frm gb ,than some apps r not fine wiv ics...jus use ur ics wivout ur bckup of apps and download betterybattstat and some apps to c wats draining,ull get some idea.
magosalas said:
Hi,
I have a Galaxy S2 on TMobile in the UK. Not rooted, just been upgraded to ICS with the official firmware through Kies.
Ever since then I've been randomly getting a black screen - i.e. phone doesn't respond to any of the buttons to turn the screen on. Only way to get the phone to work again is a battery pull. Haven't installed any apps from prior to ICS, and prior to ICS I didn't have this problem.
As well as getting a black unresponsive screen it seems to get really warm. Not the normal been playing a game warm, but bordering on really hot. When I do the battery pull and restart there's also been a big battery drain - have lost half the battery before and the phone warning is on screen saying it's about to run out of battery when it was 60% charged before.
I'm guessing no one's going to have a simple answer to this (although it would be great if anyone does, but I've searched and haven't found anything) - but any tips on trying to identify what the cause is? Could it be a bad app maybe?
I tried logcat but didn't really understand it (!) and I wasn't sure if it would record what happened before a battery pull anyway. What's a way of recording what's going on that will stay recorded after a battery pull?
Any tips to help get the bottom of this would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Andrew
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I am having exactly the same problem. This has started just after upgrading to ICS. (I have an unlocked S2 CSC:XEU). Never had this problem before. I tried hard reset but the problem is still there.
I have upgraded using Kies.
I have the same problem on unlocked S2 CSC:XEU. not rooted...
reset didn't work. full wipe - the same problem
ics problems
hi, i have the following problems after updating to official ICS,
wifi sometimes gets stuck between on/off
sometimes phone goes to sleep and does not respond
wake up is slower than in GB
after numerous hard resets and re-flashing ICS with odin these issues persist.
I recommend re-flashing the official GB version and wait till samsung sort their crap out.
all these issues are kernel related. the wifi issue is reported to be a faulty stock kernel and the black unresponsive screen also is a kernel issue I faced with some beta kernels.
my tip, before you hesitate to go back to GB, give one of the custom kernels a try. Siyah, Speedmod, ... just for the moment don't tweak anything and make sure you really flash an ICS kernel (!!). Just flash one of these kernels and give it a try, you don't even have to do it with odin and thus increase the counter, but you can use that variant. When you are in CWM, instead of flashing the SU zip file, flash the custom kernel zip which will root your phone, too.
Now give the custom kernel a try and see if your issues are gone.
If you don't like it, just flash the stock kernel with odin and uninstall SU and Busybox, and you are back to stock ICS.
I had the same problem. Kernel. Flash the latest siyah kernel and sleep of death will dissapear
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I'm getting the exact same issue running Siyah 3.3.2 and CM9. Also happened with stock ICS.
First few times it happened the phone was in my pocket and I felt it get warm. Only way to recover it was to hold power button in for about 10 seconds and it then reboots. I thought the screen was unlocking in my pocket and it was switching off due to overheating... but
Happened again today whilst I was using the phone. Screen went black and phone started getting hotter and hotter. I now think something is causing some kind of loop that causing the lockup / heat up and the phone is actually still on until I press and hold the power button.
I'm currently trying a "record" with CatLog but I can reproduce the problem easily apart from it happening 4 times in the 4 weeks I've had the phone.
(Its a I9100P if that makes any difference)
So I was pretty faithful to MIUI because of a lot of reasons, but i couldn't easily switch between 2 calls when i had a couple people on the line... Being that i use my phone a lot for business, I decided to go back to Sense as it's very easy and straight forward in terms of call switching...
I decided on Meanrom because of all the hype about the speed, battery life, etc...
I went to this thread and followed these instructions:
mikeyxda said:
Before you Install, prepare:
2.17.651.5 ROMs need the latest firmware. See freeza's all in one firmware update if you haven't done that already. If you unlocked via the HTC method, you know the drill: you'll have to take the OTA and then re-unlock.
If you are already running an older version of MeanROM, you should be OK just flashing this ROM without a full wipe, BUT...
If you have any trouble at all, do a super wipe and then install the above firmware and this ROM
Go to "Menu", "Settings", "Power" and UNcheck "Fast Boot". When you reboot or power off the phone, you really want it to reboot/power-off. This can save you a lot of headaches.
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Since then, my phone will randomly lock up completely requiring a battery pull to restart it. (not even vol-up+vol-down+power is working)
sometimes it locks while the screen is on, sometimes while off... red light usually flashes when it locks with screen off....
after a lockup it seems like the battery loses like 25% or more once rebooted.
It seems like its usually after a call, or switching on/off Wifi, etc.
Battery life on this phone has never been worse!
Thinking that my issues were with the rom, i tried infected rom, same issue, then i went back to MIUI.... still same issues...
Anyway.... Different roms, different Kernels, same problems, leads me to think that this is a radio issue... anyone point me in the right direction??
I am on the verge of smashing this piece of **** with a large hammer if i can't get it fixed... so save a phone, and my sanity, please.
thanks!
Unfortunately I don't have any answers as I just s-offed/rooted my phone for the first time tonight, but considering I am planning on installing the same firmware upgrades/rom, you wouldn't happen to know if your Evo is HBOOT 1.3/1.4?
I have read about firmware issues with 1.5 elsewhere, but I've got a Nand backup and HBOOT 1.4 so I'm feeling lucky.
byg.nick said:
So I was pretty faithful to MIUI because of a lot of reasons, but i couldn't easily switch between 2 calls when i had a couple people on the line... Being that i use my phone a lot for business, I decided to go back to Sense as it's very easy and straight forward in terms of call switching...
I decided on Meanrom because of all the hype about the speed, battery life, etc...
I went to this thread and followed these instructions:
Since then, my phone will randomly lock up completely requiring a battery pull to restart it. (not even vol-up+vol-down+power is working)
sometimes it locks while the screen is on, sometimes while off... red light usually flashes when it locks with screen off....
after a lockup it seems like the battery loses like 25% or more once rebooted.
It seems like its usually after a call, or switching on/off Wifi, etc.
Battery life on this phone has never been worse!
Thinking that my issues were with the rom, i tried infected rom, same issue, then i went back to MIUI.... still same issues...
Anyway.... Different roms, different Kernels, same problems, leads me to think that this is a radio issue... anyone point me in the right direction??
I am on the verge of smashing this piece of **** with a large hammer if i can't get it fixed... so save a phone, and my sanity, please.
thanks!
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if your talking about meanrom's ICS build: Chad had a fix for this that didnt require flasing rogue firmware - but he had to remove it from XDA. some of the newer ics roms may work w/ older firmware.. if not, search for chads ics test kernel.
My phone thinks it's a tablet, from what I can tell. And the screen can't handle it, so it stays blank. From the second I hit the power button, the backlight turns on, and the phone boots up, but the screen is completely blank and the touchscreen is non-functional.
The first time this happened was when I let the battery drain all the way, but after pulling the battery many times, charging for a while, and booting several times, it went back to normal. This most recent time I have pulled the battery tons of times, booted up plugged in, not plugged in, and anything else I can think of. The battery is actually fully charged. But still blank screen (except for the backlight).
Androidscreencast shows a single image of a tablet interface, but I can't send any commands, mouse doesn't work, can't unlock, etc. I'm running unofficial AOKP, and tablet mode is not a feature of that ROM as far as I know. I have done a complete wipe, reformat all, fresh flash of a newer version of the ROM in between blank screens, so I don't think a bad flash or the ROM in general is the problem. Any ideas?
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Are you on a nightly build of AOKP? Where did you get your ROM download from? It looks like you have a Jelly Bean build, so I'm guessing it's not anything stable.
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Are you on a nightly build of AOKP? Where did you get your ROM download from? It looks like you have a Jelly Bean build, so I'm guessing it's not anything stable.
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It's Mazda's AOKP JB rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831841 It's actually quite stable for everybody in the thread.
I'm back in business for now, just kept battery popping, waiting, charging, rebooting, and finally I got my screen back, it's back in regular phone mode. But I am now deathly afraid of rebooting, because I could lose my screen.
Thanks for the reply
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It's Mazda's AOKP JB rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831841 It's actually quite stable for everybody in the thread.
I'm back in business for now, just kept battery popping, waiting, charging, rebooting, and finally I got my screen back, it's back in regular phone mode. But I am now deathly afraid of rebooting, because I could lose my screen.
Thanks for the reply
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That's so odd... Yeah, it seems like a good ROM. I'd probably be using it if a few more features were working. If you're interested, you might check out this CM10 ROM based on Agrabren's work. I'm using it now and it works pretty well so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873926
soldierforchrist2 said:
That's so odd... Yeah, it seems like a good ROM. I'd probably be using it if a few more features were working. If you're interested, you might check out this CM10 ROM based on Agrabren's work. I'm using it now and it works pretty well so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873926
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Thanks for the tip, I may give that a try. Not sure if the ROM is the problem, or bad hardware, or what. When the screen won't come on, I can't even use the recovery or the boot loader.
Ok, sorry to bring this back to life. I'm dead again, and I've battery pulled/rebooted 50-100 times today to no avail. The touch screen actually does work, but nothing displays except through Androidscreencast, where I can see a very strange tablet interface which now has no notifications bar (it did before, see previous attached image). Can't launch any apps, and the buttons at the bottom do nothing.
So... I was trying to find a way to do a complete wipe, partition all (except SD card), and flash a new ROM all via ADB/shell commands. Is this possible? I couldn't find anything helpful on Google. As always, thanks in advance.
It is time to bring ur phone back to da shop
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It is time to bring ur phone back to da shop
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Yeah, you're probably right. They may not like my custom software though. :fingers-crossed: