Hello,
since yesterday my Galaxy S2 (summer 2011) started to act wierdly and I am trying to figure out what is the problem.
I was running the latest Sentinel ROM, and I found it "freezed". So I forced restart long pressing the power button. After the restart, I found it freezed again after some (short) time. It also freeze on the boot process.
Apparently in a random way.
So I tried from recovery a factory reset, full wipe, and reinstalling the ROM. Problem still present.
Today I tried logging with ADB logcat, but I can't figure out the issue from the log. I thought a problem with Mali driver shipped with the ROM, but actually it freezes sometime also on boot (so before loading the drivers)
I tried then to flash back the Samsumg original ROM (JB 4.1.2), which apllied nicely. However it freezes also with Sammie's ROM. Also on boot. By example I one time I got the black screen with the writing "Samsung Galaxy GT-9100" getting grey, with some horizonatl black lines. So frozen.
Flashed again with ODIN, again nicely, but it keeps on freezing on boot.
I am clueless. Could it be some issue with the battery? (it's the original, never replaced)
Any help or suggestion appreciated
Thanks
Update:
I tried to flash it back to GingerBread stock by Samsung with Odin. Applied nicely.
It still keeps on randomly hanging :-|
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I have a serious issue with both my I9100 devices.
it suddenly freezes and requires reboot. when i do it, it stuck on boot screen (Where the yellow triangle would be if using unofficial firmware)
nothing helps, only wipe data. once I wipe, device loads fine and starts working again.
I tought at first its rom/kernel related, I switched everything and even tried stock rom.
it keeps happening...today, I tried to swap batteries as one got empty, I took the battery out of the stocked-rom device (after turning it off) and then later when i switched it on, it had to be wiped.
same as with my other device.
Anyone has any clue what this is about?
Its became a big issue for me, I cant flash/wipe every few days...
One device is on Neatrom 4.4 lite, the other stock-everything, both 4.1.2
eranyanay said:
I have a serious issue with both my I9100 devices.
it suddenly freezes and requires reboot. when i do it, it stuck on boot screen (Where the yellow triangle would be if using unofficial firmware)
nothing helps, only wipe data. once I wipe, device loads fine and starts working again.
I tought at first its rom/kernel related, I switched everything and even tried stock rom.
it keeps happening...today, I tried to swap batteries as one got empty, I took the battery out of the stocked-rom device (after turning it off) and then later when i switched it on, it had to be wiped.
same as with my other device.
Anyone has any clue what this is about?
Its became a big issue for me, I cant flash/wipe every few days...
One device is on Neatrom 4.4 lite, the other stock-everything, both 4.1.2
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u can just rewert to stock ICS 4.0.3 firmware on both the phones and check for the issue (whether its firmware related or any hardware issue as such)
thanks for your help,
It did not happen on 403, tough it didnt happen on 4.1.2 for some while either.
what else would you suggest me to test?
eranyanay said:
thanks for your help,
It did not happen on 403, tough it didnt happen on 4.1.2 for some while either.
what else would you suggest me to test?
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1) with 403 for some time once again to ensure no issues of freezing.
2)then a different 4.1.2 stock/custom rom altogether to check for the same(freezing) issue.
stay for some time on those firmwares and see (may be one or two charge cycles).
3) do not install any mods on top of the firmware, just stay stock and see
One of the devices is already back to 403, while the second one on stock 412
the hardest thing to tell if 403 solves it or not, as it happens occasionally, once in a week or two.
I tried two different stock roms, so that would rule out #2.
The weird thing is that wiping data is enough.
data is separated from the rom itself, yet it causes the entire device not to boot anymore.
Hello!
I have a strange problem with my phone it wont update to latset firmware without get in some kind of boot loop.
The phone was runing the lastest firmware 1232.5962.1314.0017 before the problems started, it all started when some systems apps like camera, settnings, messeging. etc, stop working. All that showed up when entering the apps was a black screen say something like "reconnecting" and then it jumped back to home screen.
So I restarted the phone but then went in som kind of reboot loop where it wouldent go past the nokia logo. I tried everything soft reset, hard reset. The last thing I tried was to reflash the phone, I tried diffrent ROMs and it finaly worked with the ROM 059Q5C6 RM-821 GLOBAL BLACK SWAP.
The phone is runing now and almost all functions work exept camera and automatic brightness (all that I discoverd so far).
Its currently running the 1231.5951.1249.1004 firmware.
But like I said now when I try the update the phone it goes to the same boot loop state.
What should i try next?
Is the thread in the right place?
Strepsil said:
Hello!
I have a strange problem with my phone it wont update to latset firmware without get in some kind of boot loop.
The phone was runing the lastest firmware 1232.5962.1314.0017 before the problems started, it all started when some systems apps like camera, settnings, messeging. etc, stop working. All that showed up when entering the apps was a black screen say something like "reconnecting" and then it jumped back to home screen.
So I restarted the phone but then went in som kind of reboot loop where it wouldent go past the nokia logo. I tried everything soft reset, hard reset. The last thing I tried was to reflash the phone, I tried diffrent ROMs and it finaly worked with the ROM 059Q5C6 RM-821 GLOBAL BLACK SWAP.
The phone is runing now and almost all functions work exept camera and automatic brightness (all that I discoverd so far).
Its currently running the 1231.5951.1249.1004 firmware.
But like I said now when I try the update the phone it goes to the same boot loop state.
What should i try next?
Is the thread in the right place?
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Same thing happens to my phone!! Did not think that it could be the latest firmware (1308 for me) could have caused it since I don't think there are a lot of us affected by it and my phone has been running fine for months after the update! I've restored 5 times, by the time I thought to flash it, it wouldn't charge anymore.... I'd sent mine for repair now... Have you fixed yours?
Hi to everyone..well..as the title says my phone keeps freezing after seconds it boots. i was on PA v3.6 and decided to flash the newest release so i did.. after that it's been only problems. i did the wipes, but it constantly freezes.. so i decided to go back to stock and try again.. so i did with odin, but it keeps freezing even when the first settings pops out. i don't even install any apps. it just freeze, even if i reboot the phone and leave it to deep sleep i find myself with the same problem. i've been flashing custom roms since i bought the galaxy s1 and i never had any problems. i tried the dummy file thing but it keeps happening. does anybody knows how can i fix this?
Freezing is usually the memory controller working around bad memory blocks. Try reading the 'unusual freezing' thread in the general forum.
Hi all, hoping to get some help. I rooted my phone the other week and was using viperrom. I had no problems whatsoever, no glitches that I could remember. That is, until I decided to trade my m8 with a friends Note 3. I factory reset it and give it to her, I left the viperrom on because she didn't mind but then the glitches started to happen. The onscreen bottom 3 buttons disappeared for her (home, back,etc.), So I reset it again but the problem persists. I searched for an at&t stock rom and sideloaded that after master resetting, wiping the dalvik cache and all that... now a different problem popped up. It hangs at the HTC logo for what seems like forever, but then I noticed the volume up and down make a noise as if the phone is loaded up. I pressed the power button a few times and eventually the screen turned on and I could see the home screen. This happens every time I restart the phone and I have tried reinstalling the stock rom a few times. I am now in the process of trying a different stock rom.. the first was odexed and this new one is deodexed, I dont know if that makes a difference in my situation but does anyone know what could be causing this? Any help would be appreciated.
Nvm, after a few more master resets it seems to have sorted itself out... not sure what it was but its gone now.
If its the latest version of Viper, based on 2.22 software, you need to update the firmware package, otherwise the long boot times will continue.
Details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54408500&postcount=9592
I woke up with a black screen and unresponsive I soft reset and booted back up just fine, fast forward 2 days, apps are constantly crashing and often seemingly randomly the phone will restart and go into a bootloop anywhere from 1-5 minutes before it finally boots. Sometimes I get lucky and can use my device just fine for a few hours, then apps will crash and stuck back in bootloop.
I have factory reset in recovery, and also flashed latest stock rom via odin, I am new to this and this was my first time I might add, it passed but it hasn't resolved the issue, is there anymore steps with odin or anything else I can do to repair this? The device isn't rooted if that helps.
I think that's a motherboard issue
You could try installing a custom rom