Random reboot-solved, hope this helps someone.

Random reboot-solved, hope this helps someone. - HTC EVO 3D

I know more than a little about Android. I've been hacking and Romming since back in 2007. Last Friday my 3D started rebooting randomly. I tried everything I know. Reflashed different ROMs, same thing. Reflashed the aio 2.17 update. Same thing. reflashed recovery(twrp), same thing. Got 4ext and flashed that, same thing. I didn't know what else to do. Copied all the card to PC, reformatted and copied back, same thing. I had some clues, the GB ROM i was running (CleanROM Reborn) would sometimes report 0% battery. It also would almost never reboot on the charger,
I installed a fresh ROM (MeanROM ICS) and all seemed fine till it randomly factory reset while I was at a gig Sat night!! A week or so ago I was in Austin and left it charging in the car and went swimming. When I got back the battery was reporting overheat. I cooled it off with the AC vent and all seemed well. A few days later, I had a bootloop, thought it was the kernel and did a battery pull. Somehow I must have gotten something on the contacts or didn't seat the battery. I pulled the phone out of my otterbox today and cleaned the contacts and put it back in. powered it up, haven't had a problem since (knock on wood) I'm planning now to get a replacement battery in case I fried mine but only time will tell. I hope this info will help someone at least try the simple stuff first without all the headaches I've had the past 4 days.

This issue happened to my evo 3D : it turned off without reasons.
Sometimes, the battery icon became grey so impossible to see the battery level and few minutes after, it turned off.
One day, it turned off and impossible to power up. I sent it to the repair center and the issue came from battery and other components (contacts with the battery). After other comments on the internet, I'm not the one to met this problem so if it can help you I think that some evo 3d have this issue natively.
PS : sorry for the possible mistake in this message, my english is so bad

to fix random reboots, power off your phone to clear the cache, remove the battery for 30 seconds, place it back in, and power it up. Once it boots up completely, reboot your phone (don't shut down just restart). You should be good. This clears up the bad cache that causes rebooting.

guitardoc64 said:
I know more than a little about Android. I've been hacking and Romming since back in 2007. Last Friday my 3D started rebooting randomly. I tried everything I know. Reflashed different ROMs, same thing. Reflashed the aio 2.17 update. Same thing. reflashed recovery(twrp), same thing. Got 4ext and flashed that, same thing. I didn't know what else to do. Copied all the card to PC, reformatted and copied back, same thing. I had some clues, the GB ROM i was running (CleanROM Reborn) would sometimes report 0% battery. It also would almost never reboot on the charger,
I installed a fresh ROM (MeanROM ICS) and all seemed fine till it randomly factory reset while I was at a gig Sat night!! A week or so ago I was in Austin and left it charging in the car and went swimming. When I got back the battery was reporting overheat. I cooled it off with the AC vent and all seemed well. A few days later, I had a bootloop, thought it was the kernel and did a battery pull. Somehow I must have gotten something on the contacts or didn't seat the battery. I pulled the phone out of my otterbox today and cleaned the contacts and put it back in. powered it up, haven't had a problem since (knock on wood) I'm planning now to get a replacement battery in case I fried mine but only time will tell. I hope this info will help someone at least try the simple stuff first without all the headaches I've had the past 4 days.
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Good post. Yes, I can see this happening for sure. My battery seems a little loose but I have not had this problem. If it turns out I ever do, then this would be my first guess.
I once had an Acura Legend that for no reason would just stall on the road and die. It was very irritating. One time had to have it towed. I had it in two different garages and neither one of them could fix it and told me there was no problem. But sure enough it happened again. The problem was intermittent.
I had it towed again home to my driveway. I'm sittin in it and thinking. For some reason I started jiggling the keys in the ignition and it would start and stall just by doing that. It was a bad ignition switch. I had never had one go bad before. I replaced it myself and all was well.
I went back to one the garages I took it to and told them I found the problem and what it was. The guy said yeah I knew that was the problem and said he told me so. I could have strangled the guy. Never happened that he told me that. They had even charged me $75.00 for fixing nothing. I never went back to that garage. The other garage I didn't bother telling.
Anyway, your battery problem reminded me of all that. Something I'd rather forget about. Thanks.

i-l-l said:
to fix random reboots, power off your phone to clear the cache, remove the battery for 30 seconds, place it back in, and power it up. Once it boots up completely, reboot your phone (don't shut down just restart). You should be good. This clears up the bad cache that causes rebooting.
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Yes that would be q normal fix. I tried clearing cache and dalvik AND flashed ROMs and the problem persisted. So far, it's stayed solved. I settled in MeanROM ICS, which I highly recommend btw and have had no reboots that I didn't initiate. I just thought it wierd that a hardware issue would manifest itself that way.

Freeza's All-in-one firmware update helped me as well:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21374142#post21374142

The OP has described my experience to a T. In fact I tried all of those things in that exact order.
I have always suspected the battery but I have tried moving it around in the compartment with the phone on and can't force a reboot. Plus, when mine reboots, the screen freezes for a few seconds, which tells me it hasn't lost power and is most likely a corruption or fault of some kind.
Since upgrading the Kernel I have had less reboots, but it sill randomly happens once a week.
This has been true for 4 different ROMs now.
I have other thoughts that this is either an app crashing the kernel or my cpu can't tolerate even default speeds. None of which I have tested yet.
So friggin annoying!
Richard

ramiss said:
The OP has described my experience to a T. In fact I tried all of those things in that exact order.
I have always suspected the battery but I have tried moving it around in the compartment with the phone on and can't force a reboot. Plus, when mine reboots, the screen freezes for a few seconds, which tells me it hasn't lost power and is most likely a corruption or fault of some kind.
Since upgrading the Kernel I have had less reboots, but it sill randomly happens once a week.
This has been true for 4 different ROMs now.
I have other thoughts that this is either an app crashing the kernel or my cpu can't tolerate even default speeds. None of which I have tested yet.
So friggin annoying!
Richard
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Yeah, the kernel has something to do with the random reboots too. I had it with some of the dodava kernels. It would happen after unplugging from the charger. I did notice that right before, there would be touchscreen issues. Lag mostly in sipping between homescreen panels or opening apps.

I cleaned the battery contacts. A Q-tip and alcohol to remove any crud. Let it dry, and put the battery back in making sure not to touch the contacts.

guitardoc64 said:
I cleaned the battery contacts. A Q-tip and alcohol to remove any crud. Let it dry, and put the battery back in making sure not to touch the contacts.
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thx man, how this wil work, i have random reboots on every rom especialy when phone is in my pocket, but also when stays on desk, so random shutdown/reboot, also i tryed change kernel but without success, mybe this would help, thx for advice.. cheers from croatia

If you guys are not running current firmware/radios I would check that also. I've had that cause random reboots for me in the past and it took me forever to figure it out...

22vlaja said:
thx man, how this wil work, i have random reboots on every rom especialy when phone is in my pocket, but also when stays on desk, so random shutdown/reboot, also i tryed change kernel but without success, mybe this would help, thx for advice.. cheers from croatia
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No problem, let me know if it works for you.
bpc4209 said:
If you guys are not running current firmware/radios I would check that also. I've had that cause random reboots for me in the past and it took me forever to figure it out...
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Yeah, I'm running proper firmware for my ROM. That was one of the things I tried when I was figuring out wth was happening. My biggest clue was radical difference in battery level on reboots and the system ui battery reporting crashing. I knew then it wasn't the firmware.

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What's wrong with my phone?

It all started yesterday morning. My had been acting very strange all day long. It would randomly lose reception all day long and when I say randomly I mean I would be sitting down in the same place for 45 min and it would just lose reception and I would have to reboot to get it back. Once I got home, I was having a very serious talk on the phone and then all of a sudden the reception died. It pissed me off of course, but I knew all I had to do was re-boot. I rebooted my phone, but it would not start...I decided I would take out the battery, and wait a few moments. I put the battery back in, and it put the little buffering icon on the screen and then turned off. I thought my phone might of been bricked or something, but I wasn't quite ready to accept that so I powered down, plugged in my charger and tried to start it and like magic it turned on. Sadly, that is not the end of my problem. The slightest bump, makes my phone turn off, and every time I turn off my phone, I have to use my charger to get it to power on and my phone is having difficulties reading my SIM card. Software issue? What should I do? I am running an outdated version of Simply Honey on GB. I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to androids and what not so if you tell me what to do then I can do it. Thanks for you time.
P.S. Skip to the last few sentences if you wanna skip the whole story and get to what's wrong with my phone.

Odin back to stock and run it for a day to see if the same thing happens with stock

I just tried going into download mode, but it won't turn on now. I think I'm officially screwed -.-

So my phone is now turned on, but after around 5min-15min it decides to reboot. -.-...like it did right now out of nowhere.

Dragonkai said:
So my phone is now turned on, but after around 5min-15min it decides to reboot. -.-...like it did right now out of nowhere.
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Sounds like you have a hardware problem not software related. Did you drop your phone or wet it perhaps? If so well yeah you are screwed and you cannot do anything about that other than replacing the defected part(s). If it is a software problem a quick flash through odin to 2.1 would definitely fix your problems. Otherwise you might be screwed as i had a phone with similar symptoms. It would just reboot on its own after 5mins of use.

I took off the back case and took out the SIM card, battery, and SD card and my SIM was a bit wet along with my battery. :/ I haven't been near water recently but I did leave my phone in the kitchen, so maybe one of the engineers got it wet :/. Good news is, my dad had this exact same phone and is no longer using it so he's gonna FedEx it to me. Bad news is, he tried to get all computer genius with it and bricked it haha. I should be able to get the phone into working condition again though with minimal to no problems. Thanks so much for everyone's time.

[Q] Hard to explain rebooting issue

So, my Atrix is doing something quite strange, and possibly unique.
Just about every 5 to 10 minutes, my phone will randomly reboot. This seems like something a forum search would fix. But it gets significantly more... weird...
More than half the time, it will come up to the Motorola logo, and just sit there... doing nothing. No errors, no messages, no nothing. Just logo. Pull battery, repeat. Sometimes it boots, mostly, it just does it again. Motorola logo. Big. Red. Cylon-like.
However, sometimes it seems that if I give the body of the phone a bit of a twist, flex it a little bit, SOMETIMES, this will prompt it to boot. I tried the because I have had to do this twist and flex trick to get the USB port to connect and charge for some weeks now.
If I can get it to boot, it will sometimes boot normally. Run for a while. And then I lock the screen. Sometimes, the lock button will wake it up like normal. More often though, it shows no response. I attempted to press the button while doing the same twist and flex trick, and this occasionally works. It will unlock the screen, and I can keep going. But usually, it just decided to reboot, and back to that darn Motorola logo.
I thought maybe because I was running JokerSax CM9 beta, it was a rom issue. So back to CM7 I went. No dice. Same thing. I kept a Nandroid backup of the stock ROM even, so I rolled back to that. Again, no change. Same results.
Some inconsistent symptoms are that sometimes when it boots up, the wifi will not come on. Other times it dose fine.
And one time, just one single time, it gave me a "Could not connect to modem" error on that red Motorola logo screen. I haven't gotten it to do that again.
So, is this a Radio issue? A ROM issue? Or has my logic board gone kaput? I am at a loss. I ordered a shattered Atrix from ebay for a logic board swap in case that would fix it, but it won't be here for another week. If anyone has some alternate ideas, I am open to suggestions!

does your wifi work properly when the phone is functioning?

How warm does the phone feel? Almost sounds like an overheating issue.

dLo GSR said:
does your wifi work properly when the phone is functioning?
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Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Its really pretty random.
xcguy said:
How warm does the phone feel? Almost sounds like an overheating issue.
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The phone gets quite warm once it starts having its fits. I usually pull the battery to let it cool down before trying again. I was running an overclocked kernel, but have since flashed back to a normal 1ghz kernel. It seems to get hot only when it is trying to boot. It only started doing this recently though. I never had an overheating problem before.

Reboot into recover and flush both cache and dalvik-cache.
Still sounds like an overheating issue...

xcguy said:
Reboot into recover and flush both cache and dalvik-cache.
Still sounds like an overheating issue...
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Tried that already...

My vibrant turns off by itself and it's unusable

Secuence of events that happened BEFORE the problem started:
1-Had a working rom of CM7.2
2-Battery was going out too quickly (7 hours or so) therefore I tried wiping battery data
3-Charged the phone
4- Unplugged it, took a picture
Problem:
One hour later I realised it was turned off...
I turned it on again, it turned off soon afterwards
for a moment it had a problem turning on (it wouldn't go past the cm logo)
afterwards it was even worse; it turned off before even passing the first logo, I couldn't even get it to recovery mode.
Solution Attempt no.1
Tried to get it to stock rom with Odin.
I was able too... but the problem persisted in the new Rom.
Solution Attempt no.2
Tried to get another rom
My situation NOW
I'm back on stock Rom. If I leave my phone alone for like an hour or so it works for 20/30 secs before turning off... After that the problem gets worse till I cannot boot.
Any ideas guys?

How old is the battery? There are apps on playstore to check your battery, thats where I would start. It doesn't sound like a Rom problem, sounds like hardware.ie battery first. Gluck.

Sugartibbs said:
How old is the battery? There are apps on playstore to check your battery, thats where I would start. It doesn't sound like a Rom problem, sounds like hardware.ie battery first. Gluck.
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Can't have the phone on for 1 minute, forget about downloading and using an app from the store...
I don't know if it's a hardware problem since it happen really suddenly...and just the day after I resetted the battery stats ..... Maybe it is a hardware issue but I want to be sure I tested everything first

Hey, maybe you moved on but I was having the same issue on every ROM.. stock or not. being the detective I am I investigated and inspected.
One of my battery connecting pins is loose even though it's pressed tightly in the case any moderate amount of force or impact loosens it from the contacts.
My temp solution for you would be to add something to the back cover to apply enough pressure to keep the battery still or resolder the copper connectors. The first being easier.
Hit thanks if that helps.

Invest in a new battery. Simple solution.
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[Q] Phone won't turn on

Hey guys,
Last night I plugged in my LGOG right before I went to sleep. About seven hours later I woke up, woke it up to check the time, then fell back to sleep. When I woke up again a few hours later, my phone was completely dead. No lights go on when charging, nor does it go into the charging mode that happens when the phone is off but charging. The power button does nothing at all. Connecting it to a computer does nothing. I have tried two different wall chargers and a USB plug, and have tried different outlets. The phone is rooted and unlocked. I haven't put any new apps or anything on the phone recently, however I have had a slight overheating issue lately. I don't think that that's what caused the issue though, as when I woke up for the first time and woke it up, the phone was not noticeably hot, and seemed to work fine. Any ideas or suggestions?
Edit: As suddenly as it stopped working, it has started working again, about two hours later. The notification sound buzzed, my phone turned on, and usual on start things happened. However I'm still extremely worried about it. Now that it's on, I assume there's more I can do to figure out the issue- suggestions?

These phones are terribly buggy when charging/when they die, IMO. Worst Android device I've ever had in that respect.
Probably just a fluke, tbh.

Unfortunately it happened again- sent a message, put my phone away, when I tried to turn it on again nothing happened and it stopped working for five minutes.
Apologies for not mentioning this before, but I am using carbonrom, not stock. I've used it for several months with no issues, and have used the latest build for a week or two now without this issue.

miller150 said:
Unfortunately it happened again- sent a message, put my phone away, when I tried to turn it on again nothing happened and it stopped working for five minutes.
Apologies for not mentioning this before, but I am using carbonrom, not stock. I've used it for several months with no issues, and have used the latest build for a week or two now without this issue.
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Reboot into recovery and wipe cache+dalvik
Maybe the rom needs a little cleaning
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Tried wiping cache and dalvik, but didn't seem to solve the issue. Then my phone started having an issue it's had once before- it turns on for a few seconds, then the screen goes grey for about a minute, then returns to being on. After returning to being on, it acts like it's just started up- ie, there's superuser grant notifications, cpu set notifications, and all sorts of other stuff I usually see on boot. It essentially rendered my phone unusable, so I restored an earlier backup. This seems to have resolved it for now, I may have to wait before updating carbon again.

miller150 said:
Tried wiping cache and dalvik, but didn't seem to solve the issue. Then my phone started having an issue it's had once before- it turns on for a few seconds, then the screen goes grey for about a minute, then returns to being on. After returning to being on, it acts like it's just started up- ie, there's superuser grant notifications, cpu set notifications, and all sorts of other stuff I usually see on boot. It essentially rendered my phone unusable, so I restored an earlier backup. This seems to have resolved it for now, I may have to wait before updating carbon again.
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Either you have a bad phone (possible, LG seems to have some QC issues based on some of the crazy reports Ive heard fm other people on this forum [Mine's fine]), or it's all the startup **** that you have going.
Do you usually let it discharge to below 5%?
that's a stupid idea with any device, and seems to be especially damaging to our LGOG.

OMGMatrix said:
Either you have a bad phone (possible, LG seems to have some QC issues based on some of the crazy reports Ive heard fm other people on this forum [Mine's fine]), or it's all the startup **** that you have going.
Do you usually let it discharge to below 5%?
that's a stupid idea with any device, and seems to be especially damaging to our LGOG.
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Have mine 2months been careful not to let the battery shut down on its own but thirds past Monday my car charger weren't bad and the phone shut down. Would not except a charge after that. Went to att and they sent me to a service center. They could not charge it either. They replaced it, now making sure my external battery backup its always charged. Do not want to do that again.
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That sounds like that could actually be the issue. On the previous iteration of carbon I almost never allowed it to go below about 10%. However the new update seemed to be harsher on battery life and it slipped into the 1% range several times...

same thing happened to me running root box with no tweaks or anything. I woke up and the phone was off, been that way for two days now. it wasn't on the charger so its definitely possible that it died. I actually found this thread because I could've sworn there was a report of someone who had to do a battery pull. I'm thinking that's my only option now.

[Q] Frequent Random Shutdowns and Reboots

I've been getting these A LOT since the second half of summer and it is really annoying. My phone is not rooted and is on stock ROM with the latest update. I always have to remove battery and put it back in place to fix it, working for only a hour or so. It was also weird, because I'm thinking this could be battery issues, is that is this a problem with the current of power going to the battery when charging? Because when I'm at my house, it says the power current is too much, and then when I went on a vacation in Las Vegas, I charged my phone there and it seemed to get fixed just a bit. Bit I still am getting these random shutdowns and reboots.

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I've been getting these A LOT since the second half of summer and it is really annoying. My phone is not rooted and is on stock ROM with the latest update. I always have to remove battery and put it back in place to fix it, working for only a hour or so. It was also weird, because I'm thinking this could be battery issues, is that is this a problem with the current of power going to the battery when charging? Because when I'm at my house, it says the power current is too much, and then when I went on a vacation in Las Vegas, I charged my phone there and it seemed to get fixed just a bit. Bit I still am getting these random shutdowns and reboots.
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First of all i thought it was a software issue..I removed sense launcher & it worked very well for few days..Then it started again..This time i've change the battery & still haven't got a single shutdown or reboot.

crazykas said:
First of all i thought it was a software issue..I removed sense launcher & it worked very well for few days..Then it started again..This time i've change the battery & still haven't got a single shutdown or reboot.
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Hm, so it's more of a physical battery issue...I had a feeling too. It must've been affected because of my crappy outlet.

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