Lately my Fascinate's been freezing up like crazy. I'll be doing something, and all of a sudden the screens stops (music if any is playing does to) and I am forced to pull the battery out. I thought it could be the kernel, so I flashed another but no dice. Then I thought the rom could've been the problem, I switched, but still the same problem. Am I the only one experiencing something like this?? Any advice?
I love my phone but things like this that really irritate me..Thanks to anyone in advance!!
EDIT: I ODIN'd back to DIO1 in hopes that it would surely help but STILL..same problem!!
I desperately need some help, After boot up, it seems like I can olny do so much before it freezes again and it's unbearable..fml
If I were you, after a few different odin flashes to no avail... I would get it totally stock with the ed01 update and use the one year warranty for a shiny new one. Cause it sounds like a bigger problem.
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I must admit, i have tinkered with the actual phone (installed new lcd/digitizer bc it broke) I did this a couple weeks ago, but does anyone have any idea what would cause a problem like this?
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Hey guys, this is my first post on XDA as I'm usually lurking or keeping up with updates. I've searched many forums for an answer to my problem but it does not seem that anyone has had the same issue.
Anyway, lately I've run into the problem of an unresponsive touchscreen. I can't even unlock my phone! Two nights ago I made three consecutive calls and about ten minutes later I couldn't unlock my phone.
In order to correct this problem, I first took off the screen protector to no avail. I was running CM7, flashed a sense ROM, flashed my backup of the stock ROM, went back to stock with S-ON, pulled the battery a bunch of times, completely wiped, removed the SD card, Soft & hard reset at a VZW store. Nothing.
Took it with me to school today, powered it on and before it completely loaded I was able to unlock it by chance, skipped the setup and it was working fine all day. I was hella overjoyed... until it did it again tonight. D: I so want it to be OS issues rather than hardware because I don't want to wait two days to get a 'reconditioned' TB from VZW.
HALP! Please? Thanks, guys for even looking!
MP
P.S. I do apologize if I did not follow proper procedure to post or posted in the wrong subforum. S:
I'm frustrated and sitting around with an unrooted TB, ohnoes. (Although the screen looks sexy as hell without a screen protector.)
moneecuh said:
Hey guys, this is my first post on XDA as I'm usually lurking or keeping up with updates. I've searched many forums for an answer to my problem but it does not seem that anyone has had the same issue.
Anyway, lately I've run into the problem of an unresponsive touchscreen. I can't even unlock my phone! Two nights ago I made three consecutive calls and about ten minutes later I couldn't unlock my phone.
In order to correct this problem, I first took off the screen protector to no avail. I was running CM7, flashed a sense ROM, flashed my backup of the stock ROM, went back to stock with S-ON, pulled the battery a bunch of times, completely wiped, removed the SD card, Soft & hard reset at a VZW store. Nothing.
Took it with me to school today, powered it on and before it completely loaded I was able to unlock it by chance, skipped the setup and it was working fine all day. I was hella overjoyed... until it did it again tonight. D: I so want it to be OS issues rather than hardware because I don't want to wait two days to get a 'reconditioned' TB from VZW.
HALP! Please? Thanks, guys for even looking!
MP
P.S. I do apologize if I did not follow proper procedure to post or posted in the wrong subforum. S:
I'm frustrated and sitting around with an unrooted TB, ohnoes. (Although the screen looks sexy as hell without a screen protector.)
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sounds like it could be a digitizer(hardware related) issue. on the plus side, you can pickup a new digitizer pretty cheap... downside though is you'd have to open up the phone to replace it. it's not that hard to do and there's videos online showing you how to.. you'd just have to be comfortable i suppose.
i'd just fix it rather then going the refurbished route considering that god know's what was wrong with it before it became "refurbished" not to mention you have no idea how much use the phone had been put through and how much life it has left.
OK, I posted in the "What don't you like about Photon" thread I was tired of people complaining about the same crap. I'm not going to complain (Yet) and when I get home, I'm putting the Photon back to Sprint Stock for a minute..............
@ 1.5 months ago, I had a friend over the house. She wanted Pizza. After @ 2 minutes of me dicking with Photon, she opened app on HTC Inspire, ordered Pizza and even got confirmation call and I STILL had screen freezing and app not open.
Me and same friend went to Hockey Game Sunday where my job had a suite. I took her phone and took picture of her and mascot. I took me 30 seconds to get my camera ready and no freaking clue what happen to picture. File size is 0! Not to mention 1 hour later after 8 pictures, battery was at 20% and I had to shut it off. She snapped all night (was at 10% when we left, but she made it)
Today in company IT meeting with 80+ people, damm thing IPL'ed into Bootstrap Recovery mode. 10 minutes to get out of Otterbox with no tools so I could pull battery out. Then when I put it back in, it got so hott I pulled the battery again. It was so hott i juggled like hot potato which brought unwanted attention.
Again, I'm going back to Sprint Stock.
Get off Stock ROM... Problem solved..
Cythrawl said:
Get off Stock ROM... Problem solved..
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Suggestion? I'm open to anything!
dsims7_2000 said:
OK, I posted in the "What don't you like about Photon" thread I was tired of people complaining about the same crap. I'm not going to complain (Yet) and when I get home, I'm putting the Photon back to Sprint Stock for a minute..............
@ 1.5 months ago, I had a friend over the house. She wanted Pizza. After @ 2 minutes of me dicking with Photon, she opened app on HTC Inspire, ordered Pizza and even got confirmation call and I STILL had screen freezing and app not open.
Me and same friend went to Hockey Game Sunday where my job had a suite. I took her phone and took picture of her and mascot. I took me 30 seconds to get my camera ready and no freaking clue what happen to picture. File size is 0! Not to mention 1 hour later after 8 pictures, battery was at 20% and I had to shut it off. She snapped all night (was at 10% when we left, but she made it)
Today in company IT meeting with 80+ people, damm thing IPL'ed into Bootstrap Recovery mode. 10 minutes to get out of Otterbox with no tools so I could pull battery out. Then when I put it back in, it got so hott I pulled the battery again. It was so hott i juggled like hot potato which brought unwanted attention.
Again, I'm going back to Sprint Stock.
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I've been running rooted stock since I got my phone. and have had none of those problems.
Yes - if you're having those issues, you should go back to stock.
Either your phone is defective or you have done something to it that is creating conflict. I have had the Photon since day 1 release, stock rooted, and nothing even close to that has ever happened to me. Phone is responsive as well and never gotten that hot.
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Either your phone is defective or you have done something to it that is creating conflict. I have had the Photon since day 1 release, stock rooted, and nothing even close to that has ever happened to me. Phone is responsive as well and never gotten that hot.
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I got it 9:00AM August 2nd. It could be (and likely is) conflict, which is why I'm going back to bare stock. Although it has many features and app's, at the end of the day, I'm on call and need a phone.
As for getting hot, I have no freaking clue what that was about. When I had my Evo, tethering made it get warm. This was actually HOT and I dropped 50% on battery in a matter of minutes? I seriously pulled the battery and sat everything on the floor!
Playing hot potato is fun! Get your phone replaced.
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Playing hot potato is fun! Get your phone replaced.
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Going to try Sprint Stock first. Additionally, going to cut off the "Auto Update" in all my app's that way I know what to delete and when! Besides, I normally do 300Mb to 700Mb of data a month. Last month I did 2Gb (1.9Gb but who is counting!). and I use Pandora on WiFi!
CCallahan said:
Either your phone is defective or you have done something to it that is creating conflict. I have had the Photon since day 1 release, stock rooted, and nothing even close to that has ever happened to me. Phone is responsive as well and never gotten that hot.
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methinks its the operator
people bored with cm9 already?
shabbypenguin said:
people bored with cm9 already?
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I have not tried it yet. Like I stated before, at the end of the day, I need a phone. although extream and very, very, very rare...............I don't answer, someone is dead! He**, I schedule my drinking!
I've been through the same issues, (among other crazy issues such as random reboots, deep sleep (still), and more.
My cam takes years to work... I get very embarrassed when this stuff happens. Like for example, I had to make a call for a friend, I go to the dialer, dial the number, and press the call button, then my phone reboots immediately, and we all know how long it takes to reboot.
deedscreen said:
I've been through the same issues, (among other crazy issues such as random reboots, deep sleep (still), and more.
My cam takes years to work... I get very embarrassed when this stuff happens. Like for example, I had to make a call for a friend, I go to the dialer, dial the number, and press the call button, then my phone reboots immediately, and we all know how long it takes to reboot.
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We all know how long...but with cm7, it's like 15 seconds.
foxsdaddy67 said:
methinks its the operator
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+1. You should try using v7speedy! My phone runs flawless on stock! I used to get almost all of your problems but I haven't since using skinnycomplete!
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dsims7_2000 said:
OK, I posted in the "What don't you like about Photon" thread I was tired of people complaining about the same crap. I'm not going to complain (Yet) and when I get home, I'm putting the Photon back to Sprint Stock for a minute..............
@ 1.5 months ago, I had a friend over the house. She wanted Pizza. After @ 2 minutes of me dicking with Photon, she opened app on HTC Inspire, ordered Pizza and even got confirmation call and I STILL had screen freezing and app not open.
Me and same friend went to Hockey Game Sunday where my job had a suite. I took her phone and took picture of her and mascot. I took me 30 seconds to get my camera ready and no freaking clue what happen to picture. File size is 0! Not to mention 1 hour later after 8 pictures, battery was at 20% and I had to shut it off. She snapped all night (was at 10% when we left, but she made it)
Today in company IT meeting with 80+ people, damm thing IPL'ed into Bootstrap Recovery mode. 10 minutes to get out of Otterbox with no tools so I could pull battery out. Then when I put it back in, it got so hott I pulled the battery again. It was so hott i juggled like hot potato which brought unwanted attention.
Again, I'm going back to Sprint Stock.
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Sounds like you need to learn how to use your phone man. I have never once had an issue like this.
shabbypenguin said:
people bored with cm9 already?
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I've not yet tried CM9. I use my phone frequently at work to take pics of whiteboards after meetings.
Realize the team needs to get the right drivers; then I'll try it!
I JUST thought of something.............I have ROM Toolbox Pro. All this s**t started when I moved almost everything from Phone to SDCard! Still going to wipe it though!
I just picked up my phone, unlocked it, held the camera button to get into the camera app, and snapped a photo all in under 10 seconds. What part of the process is slow for your guys?
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I JUST thought of something.............I have ROM Toolbox Pro. All this s**t started when I moved almost everything from Phone to SDCard! Still going to wipe it though!
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I wouldnt put apps on the SD card. I had problems with things disappearing and stuff when I tried it.
OK boys and girls, first I dumped all my photos off the phone. I then formatted the SDCard, I then erased internal storage with took me 2.5 hours before I pulled the battery. I then did internal storage again and it took 3 minutes.
Now here is the odd thing.........I really, technically, did not lose squat. All of my apps were still there, just not installed. My e-mail, contacts, etc. all remained. Even my Bluetooth stayed paired. The only thing I did was turn on wireless, go to Andriod Market, and go thru 128 Apps and put them back (no, I did not want to use the restore of Titanium Backup. That would put the curroupt crap back)
And this is the REAL killer, I went to bed at 10:30PM with Photon un-plugged with BT and WiFi on. I woke up to 80% charge!!! something was definately wrong before and I think me moving apps to card was it!!
Anyway, so far so good!!
Ok, so here's the scoop.
Earlier today for no reason that I can pinpoint I lost all Cellular connectivity on my photon while at work. No calling, no 3G, etc. I figured it was just a hiccup or possibly that they where working on the towers in my area and that it would eventually just come back up.
That was over 12 hours ago, and I have already traveled from work, to home and still no change.
I began to think that maybe my PRL was out of date, so I flashed back to a blur based Rom that has worked for me in the past (I normally use CWM7.2 and moved to Imperium_Initiative_v1.0.5 to try and do this) and tried to initiate the update there.
Still, no results. Not only would the PRL & profile not update but I got a general "NETWORK_ERROR" every time I attempted to do so.
I'm getting a little desperate because I really need to have my phone active for work and other reasons.
I've already restored old NAND backups, restarted the phone numerous times, and so far nothing is working...
If it is indeed a PRL issue, is there a way to manually flash an updated version onto the phone?
Any help that anyone can offer is greatly appreciated!
-Timboman
P.S. The only major change that has been made to the phone recently was I purchased a new extended battery about a month back. It's been working great since I broke it in, and have no so much as flashed a new rom image since I got it. It's the Trexcell Motorola Photon 3570mah Extended Battery.
Well I decided to bite the bullet and do a full re-lock and stock re-flash and I now have gotten my signal back.
Still have no idea why it happened to begin with, but I have apparently solved my issue.
If anyone can give me a reason this might have happened then at least this topic can be of future use to someone else.
-Timboman
Timboman said:
Well I decided to bite the bullet and do a full re-lock and stock re-flash and I now have gotten my signal back.
Still have no idea why it happened to begin with, but I have apparently solved my issue.
If anyone can give me a reason this might have happened then at least this topic can be of future use to someone else.
-Timboman
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This happened to me once while on cm7, again, for no apparent reason. After being baffled for an hour i got pissed and went to bed thinking my radio died. Signal was back by morning. Id be willing to bet yours would have come back too. Pawn it off as a hiccup and keep flashin stuffs.
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