[Q] What causes my Galaxy S2 to freeze so often? - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey,
I about a month and a half ago upgraded my S2 from Gingerbread to ICS (4.0.4).
Not long had gone and i noticed that my phone freezes too often, maybe twice every two days. In Gingerbread it froze maybe twice every two months, so ofcourse this pisses me off very much.
It freezes on both apps and built-in apps such as Internet. Usually it just freezes on the image i had on at that time or sometimes even a black screen appears. Then after 3-6 minutes an error message appears saying: "*App name here* has stopped working. Close it?" In GB when it would freeze the error message appeared almost instantly.
My question is: What could be causing my phone to freeze so often?
Also i have noticed that my battery life has decreased very much, maybe too much, after the ICS upgrade, so suggestions on what could cause that would also be highly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.

CashAndPotatoes said:
Hey,
I about a month and a half ago upgraded my S2 from Gingerbread to ICS (4.0.4).
Not long had gone and i noticed that my phone freezes too often, maybe twice every two days. In Gingerbread it froze maybe twice every two months, so ofcourse this pisses me off very much.
It freezes on both apps and built-in apps such as Internet. Usually it just freezes on the image i had on at that time or sometimes even a black screen appears. Then after 3-6 minutes an error message appears saying: "*App name here* has stopped working. Close it?" In GB when it would freeze the error message appeared almost instantly.
My question is: What could be causing my phone to freeze so often?
Also i have noticed that my battery life has decreased very much, maybe too much, after the ICS upgrade, so suggestions on what could cause that would also be highly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
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I'm not sure what causes this problem, but on my Nexus S wiping data/factory reset helped (settings -> backup & reset)

CashAndPotatoes said:
Hey,
I about a month and a half ago upgraded my S2 from Gingerbread to ICS (4.0.4).
Not long had gone and i noticed that my phone freezes too often, maybe twice every two days. In Gingerbread it froze maybe twice every two months, so ofcourse this pisses me off very much.
It freezes on both apps and built-in apps such as Internet. Usually it just freezes on the image i had on at that time or sometimes even a black screen appears. Then after 3-6 minutes an error message appears saying: "*App name here* has stopped working. Close it?" In GB when it would freeze the error message appeared almost instantly.
My question is: What could be causing my phone to freeze so often?
Also i have noticed that my battery life has decreased very much, maybe too much, after the ICS upgrade, so suggestions on what could cause that would also be highly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
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1. Please state your ROM and kernel.
2. No matter which version you had of Android, FC shouldn't happen (even once in a while) I can't even remember when it happened to me, it means you have a problem.
I'd suggest to do all the 3 wipes and to flash to the most stable ROM which is Wanam.
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Try to change your kernel
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normally this happens when there are rogue apps / some applications running in the background that use up the resources.
facebook is one of the culprits.

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It started to restart very often (without user interaction and freshly booted).5 to 10 minute intervals approximately. I can't say exactly what might be wrong the phone doesnot otherwise expose any kind of visual problems (poor performance, apps crashing or nonfunctionality).
Is there any common diagnostics for that situation...to get known what's wrong and remove the culprit. Certainly this can be hw fault also (the worst variant).
The phone uses stock ICS, custom kernel, UBL, rooted.//also in the past I encounter freezes and reboots occassionally but not so often as during last two days. May this be a poorly written application? In most recent time I only installed two new apps (Solo Launcher not default and XPrivacy)
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