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Hey guys,
I've been having so many problems with my Thunderbolt. I have stock everything on there because I'm too chicken $h!t to root it. I did install the Better Keyboard from Gingerbread 8 or whatever...
Anyways...
My whole phone freezes up in the middle of applications, or on the home screen, the soft keys won't respond, and a lot of the time to get the app draw or to get the apps to respond, I have to scroll through all my screens to unfreeze the screens. It's so weird.
Also, it gets extremely slow a lot during texting or emailing, so slow that I'm typing and the text isn't showing up for about 30 seconds after.
And!! I have lost almost all 3G (I don't get 4g in my area...) connectivity and half the time I can't even get 1x.
I'm going to Verizon tomorrow to demand that they fix it/give me a new one/I want the X2.
I'm fed up. Please help
Thanks!
Strange problem. Especially since its not even rooted o.o
Possible faulty phone? Or just a bunch of apps slowing the phone(which I don't see as the issue)
Have you tried factory resetting?
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Yeah I would try a factory reset and if that doesn't help then definitely go get it exchanged because that's not right at all mine had never been anything but buttery smooth even before I rooted.
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Sounds like a lemon. And from the reviews I've read on the X2, you're gonna miss the bolt's RAM.
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Hey everyone...
I'm kind of new here, and this is my first thread. I bought an ASUS Tranformer Prime and I love this thing. First thing I did as soon as I got it was update to ICS, so I have no reference if it was working prior to that, but I started getting random reboots yesterday (my first day of use).
BUT the only difference is that I got my first reboot when I installed Dophin Browser HD from the Market. I went on installing all the apps I wanted and was on the Prime all day yesterday, and the reboots started becoming more frequent last night. I think I got a total of 6-7 reboots all day yesterday, until I uninstalled Dolphin Browser last night. Ever since I have used the Prime with no reboots.
Hopefully today will be the same and no more reboots. I will keep you guys posted. It doesn't hurt to try this.
you have a lot to learn young padawan if you look at the 500 page thread on this issue you will see that it does not have anything to do with what software is installed primes brand new out of box upgraded to ics have had the lockup issue its a matter of time before yours locks up and reboots again it can be VERY random
demasao30 said:
Hey everyone...
I'm kind of new here, and this is my first thread. I bought an ASUS Tranformer Prime and I love this thing. First thing I did as soon as I got it was update to ICS, so I have no reference if it was working prior to that, but I started getting random reboots yesterday (my first day of use).
BUT the only difference is that I got my first reboot when I installed Dophin Browser HD from the Market. I went on installing all the apps I wanted and was on the Prime all day yesterday, and the reboots started becoming more frequent last night. I think I got a total of 6-7 reboots all day yesterday, until I uninstalled Dolphin Browser last night. Ever since I have used the Prime with no reboots.
Hopefully today will be the same and no more reboots. I will keep you guys posted. It doesn't hurt to try this.
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problem happens on boot up and before OS loads too. has nothing to do with apps
yup, thats what happened to my wifes. On occassions the prime rebooted a few time while on the boot screen. And aftermarket live wallpapers made the main screen lag.
Sorry guys I thought maybe it would help some people out, but I haven't gotten a reboot ever since I removed that app. My problem and reboots are definitely not at startup, just in the middle of messing around on the net or the market. But it was rebooting every hour almost. Thanks for letting me know and I will keep watching for random reboots.
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It's entirely possible that some people have been experiencing reboots because of Dolphin, but have automatically lumped themselves in with people experiencing the deeper problem of rebooting regardless of installed apps.
So, OP, thanks for mentioning this. It might very well help someone out.
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It's entirely possible that some people have been experiencing reboots because of Dolphin, but have automatically lumped themselves in with people experiencing the deeper problem of rebooting regardless of installed apps.
So, OP, thanks for mentioning this. It might very well help someone out.
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No software would cause the prime to entirely reboot simply the application itself would crash and force close.
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No software would cause the prime to entirely reboot simply the application itself would crash and force close.
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not entirely true. when my Epic 4g Touch freezes, if i keep tapping the screen or press the buttons, ill get a reboot. its almost like ive overloaded the cpu or ram? im not sure whats happening. but if i do nothing, it catches up and is fine. it rarely happens, but when it does, its when im reading/writing to storage (internal OR external SD). and i also know too that the prime has had less than desirable storage read/write performance. maybe hes downloading something or its caching a web page to memory? im not sure, but i do know it happens...
I just was talking with a friend of mine who had also gotten a prime over Christmas time. He said that in the beginning, he used to get reboots all the time... but it slowly stopped and finally doesn't reboot any more.
Mine typically reboots while media is playing or while I'm using the market. Sometimes it reboots while just navigating home screens..it's just so erratic. There's no way to predict it at all.
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Mine typically reboots while media is playing or while I'm using the market. Sometimes it reboots while just navigating home screens..it's just so erratic. There's no way to predict it at all.
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Defiantly erratic for me
Ive had reboots, in many different apps, sometimes a lock up then reboots, or just an instant reboot.
Yet sometimes I can be absolutely using it intensively for long periods, playing multiple games one after each other, browsing with multiple tabs... etc no reboot for hours.
Then i can just be scrolling through a simple menu and bam i get a reboot....
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Not if there is a memory leak or something in the OS that is exploited by a certain app (obv not on purpose but exacerbated by the app) causing the OS to fail.
Got like 3 Reboots so far since .21 ... all 3 while playing video... 2x TED Talk app, and MX Player yesterday... both times after switching out of the a playing video and switching back to the app... the app can't resume the playback... hangs and reboots...
no other situations so far.
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Got like 3 Reboots so far since .21 ... all 3 while playing video... 2x TED Talk app, and MX Player yesterday... both times after switching out of the a playing video and switching back to the app... the app can't resume the playback... hangs and reboots...
no other situations so far.
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Same here, I get typically get two reboots a day like clockwork and they come while playing video. I will see the video play in some sort of loop while the audio is just fine and then it will freeze and reboot. Or if I'm able to exit out of the app then will freeze and reboot. Not really a big deal yet, as ICS loads pretty fast. Outside of that and weak wifi this is a great tablet.
I just got my first reboot couple days ago. It was while I was watching video on YouTube. My video started sluttering and artifacting....thought it was the uploaded video then tried to reloaded it-it did the same thing-sluttering and artifacting and it rebooted itself. It almost looks like driver issue to me. I hope it is fixed in the future updates.
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slowatsch said:
Got like 3 Reboots so far since .21 ... all 3 while playing video... 2x TED Talk app, and MX Player yesterday... both times after switching out of the a playing video and switching back to the app... the app can't resume the playback... hangs and reboots...
no other situations so far.
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Grüezi!
I believe the Ted reboot problem is with the app itself, and you're not the first to experience it.
Looks like I'm not alone either. Well, the only other person I know with an Evo 4G LTE experiences the exact same thing, at least.
You can play for about 10-15 seconds before the screen freezes. The background audio that plays during gameplay still can be heard, but the game is locked up.
It happens on all versions of the game even after uninstalling, restarting, and reinstalling.
Anyone else?
Quite curious.
Thanks
Works fine for me
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there all working fine for me. played it for about 20 minutes this morning with no issues other than the wife nagging me to mow the lawn lol.
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there all working fine for me. played it for about 20 minutes this morning with no issues other than the wife nagging me to mow the lawn lol.
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Strange... It doesn't work for us at all.
I don't have the wife app so I can't relate to the second part.
have you tryed rebooting the phone. my tablet has had this happen before with netflix and a reboot fixed it.
I just tried mine, and it seems to work OK. I just updated yesterday. I rebooted after the update so maybe that's why?!? Not sure. I believe there was an Angry birds app update that came through after the OTA update, but I could be speaking out my hind end.
I have the wife app, and she seems to be running stable so far today. This is always subject to change though
This is annoying enough that it moved me to backup my shizzle and completely wipe my device.
I did a factory reset and had it wipe out my SD card and phone storage both.
I got the phone back up and running, installed Angry Birds again.
Locked up 10 seconds into playing.
My friend and I continue to have the same issue.
Any ideas?
The stock browser keeps crashing on me too. The screen just goes white and nothing loads. This never happened before the OTA update. Also the youtube app gets stuck on a black screen. It's happened twice and I've had to reset my phone to fix it. It hasn't done it in awhile but it just sucks because it never did it before the update.
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The stock browser keeps crashing on me too. The screen just goes white and nothing loads. This never happened before the OTA update. Also the youtube app gets stuck on a black screen. It's happened twice and I've had to reset my phone to fix it. It hasn't done it in awhile but it just sucks because it never did it before the update.
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Same with me and stock browser
Not only am I having the browser issue I'm also getting a white screen for Gmail and Google maps and also have Google wallet not want to open. I've been having to reset my phone almost 2 times a day from these issues. Never happened at all before the ota update.
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Juan...I forgot to mention Gmail in my post but I'm also getting a white screen upon opening gmail. A reset always fixes that but it's super annoying.
I have narrowed it down to only Google apps and the stock browser I can access all apps when it acts up with the white screens but it's weird that it started doing this after the ota update.
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Have you guys try to do factory rest after OTA? I havent met this issue at all.
I think we are all having nightmares with these random reboots/crashes. Some people say that they get these problems only with browsers but many of us get random reboots or system crashes doing random stuff like uninstalling an app.
I thought maybe it's one of the dev options so I tried disabling Force 2D GPU option and I have not have any problems since. I want people to try this and see if you still get any reboots or crashes. The solution could be easier than we thought.
Mine has been disabled for a few days, but still getting the random reboots/ freezes.
Every time mine resets once it comes back on it starts updating apps. Not sure if that happens to everybody else. Or if it is even related.
Mine had restarted a couple of times while using chrome. Once while in gallery. Other than that it's been really smooth sailing. It never started updating apps after a restart though, possibly timing? However you did say it has happened a few times so not sure.
Had a random reboot the first time I turned it on with the original software version but haven't had a reboot since. Not sure what the reason was to begin with but seems to have been resolved with software update
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I've been getting random reboots the whole time. I'm sure it will get ironed out with some updates just got to wait 15 seconds for it to reboot lol
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Every time mine resets once it comes back on it starts updating apps. Not sure if that happens to everybody else. Or if it is even related.
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Mine does this.
got one when using Chrome. Will try this solution out.
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Every time mine resets once it comes back on it starts updating apps. Not sure if that happens to everybody else. Or if it is even related.
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Hasn't happened to me with the few resets I've had.
Finally happened to me 2x today after updating to 4.2.1. Had 4.2 the first 2 days I had the tablet and didnt have reboots. My reboot happened while playing Nova 3 and NFS Most wanted. Game froze and speaker gave a buzzing sound for 5-10 seconds then rebooted.
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Casemantwo said:
Every time mine resets once it comes back on it starts updating apps. Not sure if that happens to everybody else. Or if it is even related.
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I have noticed that as well.
Casemantwo said:
Every time mine resets once it comes back on it starts updating apps. Not sure if that happens to everybody else. Or if it is even related.
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+1 Mine has only restarted a couple of times, but it always updates at least 2 apps after restarting.
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+1 Mine has only restarted a couple of times, but it always updates at least 2 apps after restarting.
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I think the updating apps might just be a play store check right after boot. If you know an app to be updated but haven't checked play store, try resetting your device, you might see it do that same thing.
Of course, I might be wrong, mine froze twice after finishing installing an app (dropbox the first time and a game the second)
I am suddenly getting a bunch of reboots and I really can't understand how or why. I can not uninstall any program else it will reboot instantly. is there any solution?
I don't get why people are still posting random solutions with placebo effects. It's been found using logs from crashes that it's due to the location services. That's why people initially thought it was HD Widgets, because they use location services for weather. That's why it still happens after a factory reset...
So do you have a solution ?
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I seem to have issues when using Google products. I do NOT use chrome. An example, earlier tonight setting up a different Google wallet account my N10 froze and rebooted again. It was doing well for a while. (no chrome, no background sync in currents, no HD widgets) until 3 days ago. Now I am getting about one a day. Makes me mad, because it ran well for about 2 1/2 weeks. I haven't done anything out of the ordinary since then. I have had it set up the way I like since I got it on the 21st of Nov. (Lucky to get one on opening day 32gb.) I will have just shut off force rendering in developer options. I will post back here in a few days to report my findings. I hope this is a fix!! I believe it may be that, I did enact FR a bit ago but not sure when...
freezing and rebooting
I've tried everything and still keep getting the random reboots and yesterday my table started freezing a lot wasn't having that problem before it's frustrating
this was my first Nexus device and will be my last i sold my samsung galaxy tab 10.1 for this one and it's been nothing but headaches i've already replaced two tabs and i'm on my third becasue google keeps telling me to replace the unit and i asked them about a fix and tech support told me they were not aware of any issues can you believe that BS i'm very dissappointed with this device Samsung built a great tab for google and google messed it up. I really don't know if i can wait for a software fix. Feel like taking the tab and smashing it.
Uninstall Facebook you guys
I've no crashes with paranoid android and that manta kernel (plus, i'm overclock and undervolted)
Location is totally disabled for me.. Don't need it anyways..
No crashes.. I could show a weeks worth of on time if I wanted to
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aznmode said:
Finally happened to me 2x today after updating to 4.2.1. Had 4.2 the first 2 days I had the tablet and didnt have reboots. My reboot happened while playing Nova 3 and NFS Most wanted. Game froze and speaker gave a buzzing sound for 5-10 seconds then rebooted.
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I just had a crash while playing Chaos Rings. The device buzzed and five seconds later rebooted. I crash two or three times a day, usually in the browser.
Hey guys, I'm on hour 2... or is it 3? I don't know. I'm watching Stargate Atlantis back to back on amazon while re-installing venom (after setting DPI to low on a sense install). This isn't my first time around the block with aroma fails while installing venom, i know it will work.. eventually.
Figured I'd chat it up with others in the same boat, or just create a place to talk about it, either way, welcome! Season 4 episode 2 if you were wondering (just finished up all 10 seasons of sg1 last month, best-show-ever)
Ive tried keeping the phone flat, holding it up, doing a full wipe, non wipe, sense, non sense. I even tried standing on 1 foot with the phone on top of my head, while I spun around in circles changing "A-RO-MA,. A-RO-MA..." (I heard that worked by the way). Unfortunately, still nothing. However, I AM confident that this NEXT one will be the one that works, okay.. maybe the next next one
Serinety said:
Hey guys, I'm on hour 2... or is it 3? I don't know. I'm watching Stargate Atlantis back to back on amazon while re-installing venom (after setting DPI to low on a sense install). This isn't my first time around the block with aroma fails while installing venom, i know it will work.. eventually.
Figured I'd chat it up with others in the same boat, or just create a place to talk about it, either way, welcome! Season 4 episode 2 if you were wondering (just finished up all 10 seasons of sg1 last month, best-show-ever)
Ive tried keeping the phone flat, holding it up, doing a full wipe, non wipe, sense, non sense. I even tried standing on 1 foot with the phone on top of my head, while I spun around in circles changing "A-RO-MA,. A-RO-MA..." (I heard that worked by the way). Unfortunately, still nothing. However, I AM confident that this NEXT one will be the one that works, okay.. maybe the next next one
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Have you tried using the volume up and down buttons and the power button to navigate in aroma? I haven't had a single problem as long as you go slow. :good:
I actually haven't tried that. lemme give it a shot but will that help it not fail during the installation? It gets anywhere from 8% to 81% . It just seems to hang, randomly, during the extraction/installation process. its only failed 3 or 4 times on the button presses.
Another tip is to hold the phone upright...my friend has the DNA and it took about 4 times to install 1.1... Just go slowly and go very with the touches if you're going to use the touch screen
I was lucky and twice had to install viper and had zero problems.
Weird for you guys. Both my installs were flawless the first go around
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Try a different recovery. I'm using twrp 2.3.something and have never had an issue.
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Try a different recovery. I'm using twrp 2.3.something and have never had an issue.
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I ended up getting it to install. finally.. I think the "hold it upright" and "go slow" are just placebos. i held the thing upright, went really slow, put it flat on a table, went slow, nothing. Went fast.. nothing..
I'm not sure what the going slow thing has to do with it, or why people think it has some magical powers. The install is not getting stuck during the menu selection. It gets stuck during the extraction of files. Essentially, its entirely random. There might be some merit to the "hold it upright" as someone mentioned it could be an accelerometer, but I found this to be inconsistent as well.
When it finally did install. I had done nothing different than the last 5 or 6 attempts. The phone lays flat on my desk, I push through the install options, then when it starts to install I just leave it there and go back to watching my show. Then.. it just worked, like I said, did nothing different.
As an engineer, my "spidey" sense tells me its a clocking issue (not the processor clock speed). Often when getting hardware to communicate properly during a prototyping phase of development, we (as in I) can run into issues with clock causing internment problems that are difficult to track down. Sometimes the leading edge of the voltage high is dirty (not sharp) and can result in a missed bit. The problem I'm seeing with aroma leads me to think that somewhere, somehow, the installation is losing sync with something.
Without knowing more about how aroma works, there really isn't a way for me to trouble shoot the problem. I'm not a software guy either.
So.. here's some interesting info. I work with a ton of smart guys. A lot of them have android phones, run linux on their machines, program crazy things or whatever. But I am the only one I know of in my research group, or most of the people on campus that roots and roms his phones. Almost every time I mention it to a colleague, they have no clue what a "rom" even is, and they think rooting a phone is "jail-breaking". Anyway, i've always thought that was weird. I figured nerds were nerds, guess not
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So.. here's some interesting info. I work with a ton of smart guys. A lot of them have android phones, run linux on their machines, program crazy things or whatever. But I am the only one I know of in my research group, or most of the people on campus that roots and roms his phones. Almost every time I mention it to a colleague, they have no clue what a "rom" even is, and they think rooting a phone is "jail-breaking". Anyway, i've always thought that was weird. I figured nerds were nerds, guess not
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Same here. Nobody I know knows about roms except for my girlfriend who has a jailbroken iPad and my roommate who has a rooted GS3.
Anyway, I SWEAR going slow helps. It doesn't always keep it from freezing but it definitely helps. I really don't think it's placebo. I usually wait about 3 seconds between presses no matter what. Also are you telling Aroma to do a full wipe? I'm not sure if it matters but I always do that manually and tell Aroma no since I don't think that does anything on TWRP anyway.
Did you get it working?