Rebooting in pocket! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have noticed that my SGSIII is rebooting in my pocket so upon investigation it is being caused by the power button being pressed for a long period. Even if the screen is locked it's still active and reboots.
Is there a way of disabling this??
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Yeah I'm having this issue too. Quite annoying!
On top of that it seems to be frequently unlocking in my pocket and launching all sorts of apps. I have a few pictures of the inside of my pocket too
Setting a PIN lock has stopped the random unlocking but the frequent reboots are still a problem.
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I suggest you guys install widgetlocker app. It's phenomenal! You can delay your pin locking, and for safety reasons, but still, screen will be locked as per normal use and you'll have to drag icon to unlock it. Very good application and very helpful.
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bednim said:
I suggest you guys install widgetlocker app. It's phenomenal! You can delay your pin locking, and for safety reasons, but still, screen will be locked as per normal use and you'll have to drag icon to unlock it. Very good application and very helpful.
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Thanks Bednim. I should have stated though - I already have Widget Locker installed. Still getting the random unlocks though.
Also Widget Locker unfortunately doesn't stop the reboots.
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That's very strange... Since I got widget locker, my phone finally stays locked without ringing people while in pocket so I would thought that this would sort your problem?
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I do have the same porblem and by using secure pattern or pin the pocket unlocking problem been fixed, but rebooting problem still.
any updates about this problem? or work around other than widgets?

Yeah PIN lock stopped the pocket pictures and random app launches for me but still getting the random reboots reasonably frequently. It's quite annoying tbh. The only thing stopping it being a deal breaker for me is the fact that it boots so damn quick - turns what could be a major issue into merely a mild annoyance.
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I found that without a PIN or Pattern, the Notification area can be pulled down and items toggled on and off there too. I had to set a Pattern.
Widget locker is good, I bought that but haven't installed it on the S3 yet.

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Phone keeps locking

I'm using dagr8s alpha 2 and my phone keeps locking. Like for example when I click a notification in my status bar my phone will lock for some reason. Also it happens sometimes when I click on an app. But the Strange thing is that it is not fully locked. Like I can just press the lock button and it will take me to the home screen. Also another thing is that whenever I enable blue tooth a pop up comes asking me to use car mode. I don't know why this is happening it's kind of annoying. Is this a bug with a rom. Is anybody else experiencing this?
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[Q] Lock screen bypass

I have been able to get around entering my lock pin number simply by waking up the device with the power button and pressing the X when using the face unlock method to get to the pin unlock screen then you just press around the section of the screen that has the time and it works every time! Can anyone else duplicate this? Everything on my phone is stock running the latest Verizon software.
Can't duplicate it.
Running ACE 4.5 and PBJ
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It has happened many times before by mistake for example I would be pulling my phone out of my shirt pocket and my hand would be on the screen and I would notice that the phone would be unlocked. This morning it happened and I was able to recreate it several times in a row but now I can't seam to get it to happen again. The only difference is now it's not dark. (the sun is up) the face lock also detects the amount of light and sometimes says low light so maybe that has something to do with it since I've noticed this happening a lot when I take my phone out of my pocket.
I got all kinds of ways to bypass the lock on mine its weird..notification pulldown works to..or if you have the stock ticker going that unlocks it also

Top Screen touch not working well when battery low

Hmmmm, not sure why but sometimes when my battery is low, some parts of the top of the screen tend to stop registering touch input. As an example, if i'm in the Play Store and I try to touch the search bar to bring up the keyboard but it doesn't work...also sliding down from top to bring down notifications also doesnt work.
Anybody else have this issue?
nope
I've never had the screen stop registering touches, but I often have the notification bar stop responding to swipes.
I can resolve the latter by going to the lock screen and trying it there. The notifications will always open from there, and it starts working after being done once.
I've also set up a gesture shortcut to open the notifications by swiping down with two fingers. I'm using Nova Launcher, and that one always works.
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nova prime fixed
fYI I have the same problem and downloading Nova prime somehow fixed it
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fYI I have the same problem and downloading Nova prime somehow fixed it
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I also am using Nova and have had prime installed for a long time.
I also had this issue (though at 100% battery) after a reboot. Rebooting again didn't work. Switched to TouchWiz briefly which also didn't work, but then I hit the Nova Prime button (already installed) and after reverting to Nova Launcher it started working again. Not sure exactly what fixed it though.
I think I'll send a link to the Nova dev and see what he thinks
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I sent en email to the devs with a link to the thread. Maybe they will find the cause of the problem
I restored my phone 2 times in the past week and problem randomly comes back. I don't even have to have a low battery, it did it to me 10 minutes after taking it off the charger for a full night. I have no idea what is the cause but about 1/2 inch of the entire top of my screen has no response to touch. I can solve this by rebooting but recently i discovered that if i flip my phone and force it to rotate the screen, the problem stops right away. I doubt its a hardware issue, but then again, if it was software, a restore should have solved that issue.
This is happening to me as well and I'm using Apex, not Nova. Seems like it's been randomly happening since 5.1.1 was installed. Any word yet on a fix?

Gear S messing with Note 4 lock screen

Just got a Verizon Gear S today, paired with my Note 4. I use the fingerprint lock screen on the Note, and noticed that when the Gear is paired with it, I have to go through two lock screens - a simple swipe screen that then leads to the fingerprint lock screen. I have to unlock the phone twice, which I really don't like. As soon as I unpair the two, the lock screen works as normal.
I've searched the Gear for some kind of setting that would cause this, but can't find one. Anyone else seen this or have any ideas?
Thanks.
EDIT: Actually, it's worse than I thought. The top swipe lockscreen totally bypasses the fingerprint lock, so I have no security.
Nevermind. I had set it up as a trusted device. My bad, I'm an idiot.
It took me a while also to figure out the trusted device thing
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Loading

Hi. I'm having trouble with my v10. When I go to the home screen from what I'm doing I get "loading". Example: I'm on chrome I hit home button it goes to home screen "loading" apperes. Its so quick I can't get a screen shot of it. Idk why it keeps doing it
Any idea ?
pgarcia88 said:
Hi. I'm having trouble with my v10. When I go to the home screen from what I'm doing I get "loading". Example: I'm on chrome I hit home button it goes to home screen "loading" apperes. Its so quick I can't get a screen shot of it. Idk why it keeps doing it
Any idea ?
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I get that too! I thought it was just my phone. I'm not sure why its happening, it doesn't bother me much since its so fast but still would be nice to fix it.
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Do you have the weather app on the home screen?
pgarcia88 said:
Do you have the weather app on the home screen?
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Yes, is that what's causing it ?
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Stock Launcher?
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Stock Launcher?
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Yeah
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Well I had weather on my home screen I took it off and thought that was the problem but it wasn't. But I also don't see it as much...and yes stock launcher
Same problem. I've had the weather app on the home screen since day 1 but didn't start seeing the loading message until last week when I was playing around with my lock screen settings.
I turned off fingerprint lock and changed my knock code a couple times and then changed my mind and turned the fingerprint back on.
I've been getting the loading message randomly since then.
What the heck? It's strange.
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I don't have any security on my phone I took the weather off and it still does the loading
planetbeen said:
Same problem. I've had the weather app on the home screen since day 1 but didn't start seeing the loading message until last week when I was playing around with my lock screen settings.
I turned off fingerprint lock and changed my knock code a couple times and then changed my mind and turned the fingerprint back on.
I've been getting the loading message randomly since then.
What the heck? It's strange.
Sent from my pretty nifty brand new LG V10
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I think it's when you're in an app for a long time and the home screen is cleared out of the ram. When you go into home it has to reload. Just a guess..
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how many apps do you have running, i have never seen this but i greenify everything thats not lg and my keyboard i actually dont even have a lag from when i hit home button to when i see the home animation flipping my apps across my back ground. but one question did you freeze or disable any lg apps, i saw on another post were they had issues with knock on and the fingerprint scanner after disabling the LG home launcher app, but they didnt have the problem when it was enabled even though they were using nova, it use to happen on my note four till turned back on the samsung apps so try that.
I have 18 apps in my home screen. And I'm running everything stock. I did disable some stuuf but nothing lgish
planetbeen said:
Same problem. I've had the weather app on the home screen since day 1 but didn't start seeing the loading message until last week when I was playing around with my lock screen settings.
I turned off fingerprint lock and changed my knock code a couple times and then changed my mind and turned the fingerprint back on.
I've been getting the loading message randomly since then.
What the heck? It's strange.
Sent from my pretty nifty brand new LG V10
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I added another home sreen and left it blank but it still happened
wollivierre said:
how many apps do you have running, i have never seen this but i greenify everything thats not lg and my keyboard i actually dont even have a lag from when i hit home button to when i see the home animation flipping my apps across my back ground. but one question did you freeze or disable any lg apps, i saw on another post were they had issues with knock on and the fingerprint scanner after disabling the LG home launcher app, but they didnt have the problem when it was enabled even though they were using nova, it use to happen on my note four till turned back on the samsung apps so try that.
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I haven't disabled anything. I have very few apps and I didn't have the "problem" until starting last weekend.
The only thing I can remember changing was playing around with fingerprint vs no lock screen vs only knock code. Went back to knock code with fingerprint and started seeing the loading message randomly.
I definitely don't have more open than I did a few weeks ago. I close whatever I'm not using.
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I close everything all the time. I just don't understand it. I almost wanna master reset my phone But don't wanna set it all up again
[ QUOTE=planetbeen;63896167]I haven't disabled anything. I have very few apps and I didn't have the "problem" until starting last weekend.
The only thing I can remember changing was playing around with fingerprint vs no lock screen vs only knock code. Went back to knock code with fingerprint and started seeing the loading message randomly.
I definitely don't have more open than I did a few weeks ago. I close whatever I'm not using.
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I'm on my third device and two of them had this issue. I could always replicate it by going into an app like chrome, turning off the screen while still in app, turning the screen on then pressing home. Everytime I got the loading message, no matter what I did it persisted. I factory reset and flashed stock. I'm thinking it's a bug that only effects some devices.. I'm sure a software update will fix this and the smart notice app restarting like first install after every boot too.
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Did anyone else that has experienced this have a G3 or 4 and transfer data through lg backup?
it might be you have to many apps running at once that arent closing. what are you using to close the apps i noticed even after doing a clear all most of the apps are still running when i have greenify close them. also this isnt exactly part of your problem but i noticed that my phone acted weird like not turning on or screen staying on after i hit the power button when i reset it. but after taking out the tmobile apps it worked fine, i think one of them is causeing a problem once you root the phone cause it was fine the first few days i had it untill i rooted it and reset it to fix the knock issues i was having. so try removing all the tmobile stuff and the blue app thing is tmobile to. i also dont have lock out on my phone anymore it only messes with my rooted apps.
Only apps I'm using regularly are chrome (usually have 4 to 5 tabs open) TuneIn Radio (only open when using it) email, text messaging, camera, gallery.
I've only installed 10 apps. TuneIn, Dropbox, Shazam, my album (Facebook picture uploads), cartwheel (from target), Verizon fios, charging report, flipp (shopping circular ads) and tapatalk.
My main home screen has the smaller weather widget (was there when I got the phone) and one of my other screens has a clock widget.
I really don't think multitasking is causing this issue. No idea what but it doesn't seem like I'm using any more than I was last week yet from the day I bought the phone up until just days ago I had never seen it.
Curiouser and curiouser.
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What the heck? It's strangs.
Here's one for you :
It's not only doing it when I press the home button.
It just did it when I pressed the back soft key from the messaging app back to my app drawer.
I got the "loading" message pop-up right in front of the app drawer window.
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