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Something is making my photons screen unable to turn back on without a battery pull. Anyone else having this issue? It has happened three times in less than 24 hours.
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I also keep having a feeling it has something to do with the pocket detection mode. Just happened again a few minutes ago. I'm gonna leave pocket detection off and report back tomorrow or until it happens again.
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I've had that problem too, I can see the backlight turn on but the screen stays black. I wrote it off as a bug. It only did it once every few days, and yes I did have pocket detection enabled.
Yeah it seems like a badass feature but if it is causing a bug that annoying ill have to leave it off :/
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Did it again with pocket detection off. Factory reset? Or did I get a dud phone?
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DWake014 said:
Did it again with pocket detection off. Factory reset? Or did I get a dud phone?
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I doubt its a dud if I had the same problem.
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Did it again with pocket detection off. Factory reset? Or did I get a dud phone?
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Factory reset did not fix my issue.
Still happening no matter if pocket detection on or off.
Happen to me once every 2-3 days.
So its probably a software issue bc the button does work. Wonder if this is occurring on alien or homebase
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The pocket detection doesn't work for me anyways.
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Got stuck in sleep again. Gonna try unlocking the bootloader and trying a custom rom later tonight. This is getting on my nerves
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http://droidupdate.info/news/potent...-photon-4g-“sleep-of-death”-issue-forum-talk/
Found a fix for this. Still pretty sad i have to pad the battery cover
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Screen of death didn't hold up to the ghetto mod, updated to the 198_6 sbf, crossing my fingers it will cut down on this issue
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I'm on homebase and haven't had this issue. But I also didn't have it on the stock photon either? Perhaps it's like the OTA update failing for some and not others. I remember reading some people on stock failing and some being able to do it. So I'm not totally sure......But that's something to ponder on.
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Something is making my photons screen unable to turn back on without a battery pull. Anyone else having this issue? It has happened three times in less than 24 hours.
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DWake014 ,
Did you get this phone recently?
This is a known issue with some phones that went out with a corrupt firmware from Motorola. There is no patch that can fix the firmware from Sprint as of now. I needed to return mine for an exchange. Sprint explained that when it gets to the area on the firmware that is corrupt, as a safety mode it basically freezes the phone and cut the power. That's why it takes a battery pull to restart the phone. There was a large batch released with this bug. I have gone through 4 Photons to get my current one with no freezing issues. I would suggest not going to the same store if possible so you get a different lot # on the replacement phone. Good luck and get that exchanged asap. Peace
My biggest concern is that I got it off of ebay... I know I can bs them and go around the question likes it none of their business but do you think they will hassle me?
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If you have an account and a phone with issues they should replace it. As long as you take it to a tech center. That MAY work.
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Yeah its still a sprint sold phone and I have the protection plan on my account. Shouldn't be too many questions asked. Btw put the leaked sbf on last night and it has been going without any screen of death. I have been shaking it around and putting it down in its front and back and it hasn't done anything. Will keep this updated if it happens again
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If you have the plan you should be fine. I got my Evo from Radio Shack and Sprint covered it. As for the SBF. I haven't flashed the new one. So not sure about it. But I haven't had the sleep of death issue either.
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You are probably fine then, about 4 hours and counting so far off the charger, longest time yet
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I'm glad to hear it's working for you. But yeah, Sprint should take the phone in and replace it as long as it's a software issue, and they don't see you're rooted. which most techs don't care anymore anyway. And you have the insurance. Just make sure it's a repair center.
I hear people are still pulilng there battery all the time to reset there frozen non responding phone.
Just so everybody knows if you hold down volume up, volume down and power all at the same time the phone will reset without having to pull the battery out.
Just passing this on as it seems a lot of people are saying still they had to do a battery pull.
Thanks, I'm no technotard but didn't know this. Will most certainly try it next time!
frickin awesome!
I'm always pulling the Damn battery
Evo 3D in full Affect
But does it work while the phone is frozen?
If so, this is really amazing.
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But does it work while the phone is frozen?
If so, this is really amazing.
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Yeah, its also working, when your phone is frozen/in a bootloop or whatever.
...I knew of this feature for some months now - was working on my hd2 running android too.
I wonder, if this is a general android or htc feature.
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Well I'll be............ Great post!
Sometimes it doesn't work but the majority of the time it does!
NICE ...... this is another reason why I love this site, everyone helping each other weather it is something major or something small like this that actually eliminates alot of headaches.
thanks. will test it out next time my phone gets stuck. it's actually very helpful to me...pulling my battery entails removing the skeleton, the rubber cover, the case, and then the battery door...so it's a lot of steps for me
My phone has yet to freeze on the stock rom, but thanks for the info.
Doesn't this work for most devices? I know that's how I reset my touch pad too.
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Awesome, did not know this either
Thanks for the tip. I been using HTC android phones for a year now, rooting, flashing and all, and didn't know abt this.
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Well yes, but pulling battery also disconnects the phone from the cell towers which can reset poor data/ voice connections
Are there many people who experience their phones freezing that often? I honestly havent had my phone freeze on me once.
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Uchennadi said:
Thanks for the tip. I been using HTC android phones for a year now, rooting, flashing and all, and didn't know abt this.
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Same here.
Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
Thanks for the tip. Repped!
Quis89 said:
Are there many people who experience their phones freezing that often? I honestly havent had my phone freeze on me once.
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It doesn't freeze often but every once in a while mine will freeze or reboot.
Thanks for the tip. Didn't know about it. Whnever I'm connected to my computer and it freezes I just fire up a command prompt and "adb reboot". Faster, unless your not around your comp.
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Is anyone expereincing there Note lagging really bad? I have cleared all the cache today. Closed all running applications in the background. It takes 2 to 3 second sometimes to open an application or even go to the phone dialer. Facebook takes forever to open. Etc. I have turned the phone off pulled the battery fully charge it and still the same problem. Even on wifi opening applications. This happens. But the data is fine on wifi very fast. Also losing data connection on 4 g at times
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Is anyone expereincing there Note lagging really bad? I have cleared all the cache today. Closed all running applications in the background. It takes 2 to 3 second sometimes to open an application or even go to the phone dialer. Facebook takes forever to open. Etc. I have turned the phone off pulled the battery fully charge it and still the same problem. Even on wifi opening applications. This happens. But the data is fine on wifi very fast. Also losing data connection on 4 g at times
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First of all, what are you running?
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First of all, what are you running?
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Sorry. I'm all stock rom. Never changed a thing or installed anything lately. Started real bad yesterday.
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Try a factory reset. This helped my s2 when it bogged down.
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thephoneguyusa said:
Try a factory reset. This helped my s2 when it bogged down.
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I wanted to try and avoid doing this though.. Wish I can figure it out.
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Start with the obvious... Check what's running in the settings menu... Anything unusual chewing up battery time?
Recently installed apps?
I has this issue after flashing back to stock and a factory reset made all ok.
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Mondingo said:
I wanted to try and avoid doing this though.. Wish I can figure it out.
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Bro - the factory reset is ur friend if done right. And the only really important thing is to just backup ur personal data.
Esp if ur running stock, a factory reset will do the trick.
If u want the longer route, download some tools (tibu, setcpu, es fm/tm...) and try and diagnose where the bottleneck is coming from.
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jasg001 said:
Bro - the factory reset is ur friend if done right. And the only really important thing is to just backup ur personal data.
Esp if ur running stock, a factory reset will do the trick.
If u want the longer route, download some tools (tibu, setcpu, es fm/tm...) and try and diagnose where the bottleneck is coming from.
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Thanks guys for all the help. Guess ill try backing everything up and factory reset it. Just hope it doesn't happen again
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Powersaver mode will also cause it to lagg real bad. I only use power saver when I am out or worried about juice, but now I carry a spare battery and never use it.
Anyone know what causes this any way to fix it for good
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Hey... Me too!
+1
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jmtz345 said:
Anyone know what causes this any way to fix it for good
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I thought it was related to root but I've had these hot reboots even before rooting so it's not just root. Most likely an app.
Same problem here
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dimaf999 said:
Same problem here
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Will take a while to hunt down the app but anybody else have 'LinkedIn' app installed? It just hot rebooted while launching that app from a fresh restart - quickest hot reboot I've ever seen.
It might not be that app but then I went to the Play Store page and there are tons of 1 star reviews because the last update failed on people's phones - more interestingly the most recent comment is from a GS2 user who says latest update reboots his phone.
I've uninstalled it and I doubt I can be that lucky that it's that app and I find it so quickly but crossing my fingers.
Mine rebooted after I opened the Navigation app.
Mine is random, many different apps
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dimaf999 said:
Mine is random, many different apps
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Mine happened again. I've now uninstalled BetterBatteryStats. I'm going to start uninstalling stuff that uses root to roll that out. I've had these issues on stock but it happened rarely, lately it's been happening very frequently so something is going on.
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Anyone? Developers? Any input?
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Bump this thread!
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I've had the same on mine. I rooted mine day 1, so no idea if it would have done it without root. I've defrosted everything in TB and still no luck.
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Well I'm tired of the random hot reboots! Some people say it happened to them before rooting, but I don't believe it happened to me until I rooted and installed CWM touch......so I'm going back to stock to start all over again so I can try to narrow down the issue. I'll report back on my progress as it becomes available.
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Well I'm tired of the random hot reboots! Some people say it happened to them before rooting, but I don't believe it happened to me until I rooted and installed CWM touch......so I'm going back to stock to start all over again so I can try to narrow down the issue. I'll report back on my progress as it becomes available.
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Happening often to me. The search continues. I've now uninstalled adfree. I'm positive this is an app since I had it occur on stock after two weeks of using the phone and installing crap.
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I had the same problem on my previous Captivate and am having it now on the GS III; no rhyme or reason to the reboots that I can see.
I still have heat problem but I played w/ different settings to see what it is.... I had att s3 which got really really hot... So returned it for Verizon s3. Verizon is better but learned that the data (lte/s3) makes it really hot and battery drain. Also the screen, of course.
If you're rooted then go get Phone info and disable lte. I tried CDMA auto for Verizon and it got much better... But at lowered download speed. I change it when I speed the speed... Doesn't require reboot so it's easy to change.
U can also under clock using setCPU.
I don't need it to be fast normally except when playing games... So just have it at 384min and 1024max... I find this helps allot w/ heat as well... U can try and find your setting that's acceptable speed and heat.
Just sharing my experience here.... So good luck.
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Happens here too with the T-Mobile GS3. I think they rushed their fabrication process to deliver a high volume and fubared a few hardwarewise. I've even had it lockup/freeze once when not even in the OS but just in the recovery menu's. But yeah, the usual is a totally random unpredictable hot reboot throwing out my resident programs, homescreen, ect. Starts with the screen being frozen and not accepting input, then a short vibration, then back to homescreen reloading and all regular apps and widges that are supposed to run at boot load again. It's as if there's a micro static short or something. Anyway, I'm sick of problem solving and looking through logcats. Going back in for warranty. This is a dream phone except for this ultra annoying bug that it seems not many people have.
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Happens here too with the T-Mobile GS3. I think they rushed their fabrication process to deliver a high volume and fubared a few hardwarewise. I've even had it lockup/freeze once when not even in the OS but just in the recovery menu's. But yeah, the usual is a totally random unpredictable hot reboot throwing out my resident programs, homescreen, ect. Starts with the screen being frozen and not accepting input, then a short vibration, then back to homescreen reloading and all regular apps and widges that are supposed to run at boot load again. It's as if there's a micro static short or something. Anyway, I'm sick of problem solving and looking through logcats. Going back in for warranty. This is a dream phone except for this ultra annoying bug that it seems not many people have.
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Are any of you have this happen purely on stock without rooting or anything else ?
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mobilehavoc said:
Are any of you have this happen purely on stock without rooting or anything else ?
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Happened to me once or twice (that I noticed) in the two weeks before I rooted (stock UCALEM), and a few more times after. It's just TouchPiz being pizzy. Maybe someone can catch the logcat, but there's nothing we can do about it (except install a better ROM )
How would anyone be able to diagnose this BS
"OK. My phone is hot. And it randomly reboots".
"Crap - u r out of luck buddy. Go change ur damn phone".
Provide ur phone model, ROM version, apps installed. Check ur battery stats.
As a solution - flash any custom ROM which removes bloatware.
Every time I go into the camera app and I try to take a picture my phone shuts off completely and I have to take the battery out. I'm not rooted or have any customs ROMs or anything. I also haven't downloaded any new apps. This just started today and the only difference is that earlier this month I installed that security update sprint pushed. Any ideas what can be causing it or what I should do?
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Sound like a hardware issue, but you could try going in clearing the data on the camera app, its like resetting it.....menu>setting>application>camera...press clear data. Hope this helps
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If the doesn't work reset phone and try again, if the doesn't work go to sprint store
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