Hi,
Since I flash ROMs quite often, to see what's best for me, my phone has been freezing a lot (i9100), at least twice a day, having it to reset by pressing and holding down the power button. I tried a lot of different ROMs (PAC, SlimBean, Ressurection Remix,...) and they all gave the same result. I did a complete wipe of my phone, also tried the ROMClean and KernelWipe methods, through their respective .zips.
My question is: could this be a hardware problem? The phone is second-handed and the previous owner did really use it with care.
If so, is there a way to check the for hardware problems through any software programme?
Thanks in advance!
Yes. Go back to stock firmware and test for freezing.
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I have a Sprint HTC touch pro. I unlocked it the day I got it, and have flashed mightyrom6, juicy, and a couple others to it without problem. What I'm seeing now is the ROMs are going very slow, freezing when I just try to read a text message, etc. I have a feeling that some things from the ROMs aren't completely getting wiped when I flash the new ROM. Someone suggested flashing the stock OS to the phone to clear this garbage. Is this a good idea? Does anyone else have this problem, or a solution to it? Thanks
It's definitely worth a try, it worked for me.
I had been trying out all the new 6.5 ROMS out there. At some point it wasn't slow per se, but it would completely freeze, and then I'd have to soft reset. *IF* it got past the loading screen, it would take me to the initial configuration, as though it had been hard reset. I couldn't make it 48 hours without it doing that. Didn't matter which 6.5 ROM I tried, it always did the same thing.
(shameless plug for Sashimi and Makisu! Lifesavers!)
Tried leaving out the microSD card in case it was bad data - no luck.
Tried not configuring anything - just using it as a phone - in case it was a corrupted CAB or something. Not that either.
At the end, I gave up and I was prepared to take it into the Sprint store. (I bought my phone on Ebay, so no idea what kind of success I would have had, if any.) I flashed back to stock rom, installed my cabs and user settings, etc. and waited for it to happen.
It's been over a week now, absolutely no problems.
Long shory stort: flash back to stock ROM and see how it turns out.
Good luck!
weso has a good point...But
Flash back to stock, hard reset.
Flash your ROM of choosing, hard reset
enjoy new Rom
I find after a couple flashes that I need to flash back to stock hard reset then flash new Rom. After that I tend to have a much more enjoyable experience.
Interesting. I wonder if there's any way to explain that, or if we have to put that in the X-files folder - just one of those things.
I also ALWAYS go into the bootloader manually by rebooting with the reset button and holding power and vol-down. Not sure if it makes a difference or just makes me feel better, but I've had zero issues doing it that way, so that's what I keep doing.
Mightyrom6
Hey out there! Can anyone help with this problem I am having. With the MightyRom 6 on the Touch Pro for Sprint? When Touch Flo is enable and you slide the tab to settings and tap All Settings on the bottom left it will go to Connections Only! It will not go to the All Settings screen. Can anyone help me? I know how to edit the registry but, can't find anything out there. Please Help!
Many believe this happens due to not "flash dancing" (flash then hardreset).
Be wary of doing this with generic stock roms, ive had an experiance in which my prl and qcn files were reset to the generic stock ones of a diffrent provider, which in turn got me to take the phone in and get it carrer flashed again ( NO CARRIER SPECFIC ROMS OR STOCK FOR TBAYTEL!!! . god bless tbay tell lol, but anyways after the initial flash of a rom you like, before you load it with cabs install one at a time to ensure proper installation and compatability with your current rom. Also before you run any freshly installed apps/cabs be sure to soft reset after install.
My method of flashing
Ensure battery is above 80%
Fully synced and connected
Freshly rebooted computer and phone
Update/Flash phone
Hardreset after customize and initial setup
Re-configure customise/etc
soft reset
Good to GO!
Also with every flash there is the posability of it just being a bad flash.
in some cases the freezing and such may be pagepool/Driver issue's with your hardware
Hello XDA! This is kind of long winded, but I'm at the end of my tether with this and all I want is a functioning GS2 back in my hands!
I have an international GS2 that i've owned since they appeared in the UK. I rooted it after a month of running stock and then started flashing ROMs pretty soon after that. I have flashed many many ROMs, all with success and no issue whatsoever.
However....
I now have a GS2 that boots into recovery, boots into download and will boot into a ROM. Once booted into a ROM, it will freeze, either instantly or after a period of minutes. The screen becomes non-responsive yet the ROM seems to function, calls come in and continue and it still connects to a PC to browse storage etc.
I've wiped and flashed a multiple of ROMs - CM, RR, PA, multiple official stocks. Followed all the install instructions as per usual. Never took any shortcuts or whatever.
Inbetween all this the power button stopped working. Took this to my local store, they showed me the water damage, they replaced the button and that was rectified, working again.
So....basically no ROM would work properly at all. I assumed that this was a soft brick of some sort and gave up hope of getting this fixed myself. Took it back to the phone shop, explained the issue and he said it should be repairable, good chance it was just a software issue and that if worst came to the worst it would go on the JTAG and be flashed back to stock and I would lose everything but have a working phone.
Obviously the phone was picked up today and it's still the same. Boot into stock ROM and pretty much freezes instantly.
The phone shop dude said he tried a new screen to see if that was issue, it wasn't. They tested all the connections on the board and there where no shorts apparently. They had it on the JTAG multiple times, that didn't fix it.....
Doe's anyone have any idea what could be the cause. Do I just let it RIP or is there a chance someone out there can fix this.....
Thanks in advance and sorry for the rambling post. I thought I better lay out all that's happened with the phone and the work that has been carried out on it.
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Did they check the battery?
I assume they did.
Nuke scripts can clean all previous ROMs leftovers and format system will get your device all cleaned up.
If those 2 don't work, hardware it is, swap shops and see.
Sent from the little guy
Could be a GPU issue. If it is then you will need a mobo replacement or replace GPU if possible.
Alternatively you should do a complete clean install or rom which means make sure all the old files and partitions are cleaned before installing a rom. First simply try using a rom/kernel cleaning script and the flash custom or stock rom. Another way would be to format internal and external sd cards via CWM and then flash rom.
If you still have issues after doing above then you have a hardware issue and will need new mobo.
Hi everyone,
I have a Galaxy S II from Bell Canada and it was recently updated via Kies to Android 4.1.2 a couple weeks ago. I've been having all sorts of problems with it since the update, including random freezing, crashing, and so on, so I intended to backup and factory reset this weekend. Before I could do that however, it shutdown and now I can't boot it back up.
Symptoms:
- The phone gets past the Samsung Galaxy S II animation, but then goes immediately to the glowing SAMSUNG logo and stays that way for several minutes before shutting down.
- Battery power is not an issue. Half-full to full battery makes no difference.
- Connecting it to my PC allows Windows 7 to install most of the needed drivers, except it fails on 'MTP USB device failed'. This might simply be because the phone doesn't fully boot.
What I've tried:
- Multiple reboots (shutdown and restart)
- Removing the SD card and multiple reboots
- Wiping the cache partition several times and booting via the stock recovery menu (reached by Volume + Home + Power)
I have backups but from several months ago, so anything I can do to flash the firmware and retain my data would be appreciated. I've looked at other threads but many users seem to have slightly different issues or are with other carriers. I haven't played around with flashing or anything since getting the phone two years ago, so I don't know how much of a difference their steps would be from mine.
The phone is either just inside the warranty period or just outside... I don't have the exact date if that makes a difference here.
Any help tracking down the issue or helping to get it back to functional would be appreciated.
Firstly, from your post it looks your phone is not rooted. If that is the case then i am afraid we are left with not much options to try.
I would advise, if u want to come out of this issue and data is not the concdrn then do a hard reset by getting into the recovery console.
And, if you are rooted than simply reinstall the rom without resetting anything. This will bring back the rom and you will also not loose any data.
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vishal11in said:
Firstly, from your post it looks your phone is not rooted. If that is the case then i am afraid we are left with not much options to try.
I would advise, if u want to come out of this issue and data is not the concdrn then do a hard reset by getting into the recovery console.
And, if you are rooted than simply reinstall the rom without resetting anything. This will bring back the rom and you will also not loose any data.
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That's correct, the phone isn't rooted. I'd like to exhaust all other options before attempting something that will wipe the data... is it possible to determine the exact problem some other way?
Nope. If it were me I'd be doing a wipe (and this wouldn't faze me because I back my stuff up regularly).
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That's correct, the phone isn't rooted. I'd like to exhaust all other options before attempting something that will wipe the data... is it possible to determine the exact problem some other way?
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Looks difficult to save the data. But you may try, i am not sure it will work.
find out a compatible rooted kernel. Get into the download mode and with the help of odin flash this kernel. (ensure its *.tar file ).
Once done try to boot the phone. if no luck, clear the cache and then again try. Still no luck, then i am afraid you have to hard reset.
Best of luck.
Hi, I need help for my I777... I really don't know what to do.
I have been on Slim Bean for 5 months (previously I had CyanogenMod 9 & 10), but four days ago it started to reboot randomly. At first I didn't pay much attention to these crashes, but then they became more and more frequent, until the free interval was only a few seconds. There were no strange processes active, and even wipe cache / wipe dalvik / fix permissions solved the problem. In the meantime I also noticed that the phone was doing like phantom power button presses, and it did also while I was in CWMR, making it really hard for me to do this things.
I did a full wipe and clean install, but nothing changed.
So I tried to revert back to stock gingerbread with heimdall on my mac, and to flash different official rom versions, either rooted or non rooted... but nothing worked. Countless full wipes, mr Cook wipe script... nothing. The phone even rebooted while it was in download mode and Heimdall was flashing new kernel and rom.
I tried also with odin from a PC. The last firmware I flashed was official UCMD8 Jeally Bean Stock, non rooted, from your download repository, which also had bootloader in it... but nothing.
Reebots are still there. It seems that random presses are gone on Stock Recovery, but maybe it's just a matter of time... while the phone is switched on phantom presses are still there.
I tried everything I know... events seem to be completely random and I can't find any trigger for them. The problem is passing from rom to rom without noticeable changes... I don't know what to do.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much... and sorry for the long post, but it's quite difficult to describe such a strange behaviour.
Sounds to me like a faulty power button. There are a few guides on how to repair it yourself, or you can send it in to Mobile Tech Videos and they can fix it for you at a price.
I agree with SteveMurphy, you have described the classic symtoms of a failing power button.
Before attempting a replacement, or sending it off, I do suggest buying/trying a can of contact-cleaner (after completely removing the board from the device). This worked for me us a few months ago, and has reportedly worked for others as well.
-Cyril
Kefka88 said:
[...]it started to reboot randomly. [...]but then they became more and more frequent, [...]I also noticed that the phone was doing like phantom power button presses, and it did also while I was in CWMR, making it really hard for me to do this things.[...]The phone even rebooted while it was in download mode and Heimdall was flashing new kernel and rom.[...]The last firmware I flashed was official UCMD8 Jeally Bean Stock, non rooted, [...]
Reebots are still there. It seems that random presses are gone on Stock Recovery, but maybe it's just a matter of time... while the phone is switched on phantom presses are still there.[...]
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Thank you for the answer!
cyril279 said:
I agree with SteveMurphy, you have described the classic symtoms of a failing power button.
Before attempting a replacement, or sending it off, I do suggest buying/trying a can of contact-cleaner (after completely removing the board from the device). This worked for me us a few months ago, and has reportedly worked for others as well.
-Cyril
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I tried this solution, but it didn't work... Tomorrow I'll go to a local repair centre and see if they can do something for me!
Thank you guys
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is keeping safe during these unprecedented times of Covid-19 (In India, things don't seem to be as good for now. Shall get better soon, hopefully!)
My A50S SM-A507FN is frequently getting restarted automatically since a week now. I have tried the basic steps like clear cache, factory reset etc. both from the phone settings as well as via hard reset menu, to no avail. It may be due to firmware or could be due to hardware issue (power IC maybe). I have seen a lot of A50S owners reporting same issue on Google, etc. but no concrete solution. People have mentioned that upon taking their phones to Samsung Service Center they are suggesting it being due to motherboard issue, and suggesting to change the motherboard @ INR 8000 which is insane IMO. I am thinking to flash the custom rom on the phone, as it may probably overrule the firmware or the laggy OS lag due to which this problem is occurring. Also, if the problem persist after flashing the rom, it will give me clarity that the issue may exist in the power IC indeed, and is not due to software. The only confusion though is, whether it's safe to flash the custom rom, considering the issue of sudden restart. I wonder if the phone will malfunction and restart in recovery mode too, for its not being operated via OS during that time. What if the process gets interrupted due to phone restarting during rom being flashed. It should not brick the device, right? At max I will have to boot the phone in TWRP mode again to flash the custom rom file, right? I used to flash custom roms a lot almost like a decade ago when I used to own HTC smartphones, but its been a while since I do this, and hence the doubts.
Please share your inputs, I will highly appreciate the same.
Thanks in advance!
vicky_crispy said:
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is keeping safe during these unprecedented times of Covid-19 (In India, things don't seem to be as good for now. Shall get better soon, hopefully!)
My A50S SM-A507FN is frequently getting restarted automatically since a week now. I have tried the basic steps like clear cache, factory reset etc. both from the phone settings as well as via hard reset menu, to no avail. It may be due to firmware or could be due to hardware issue (power IC maybe). I have seen a lot of A50S owners reporting same issue on Google, etc. but no concrete solution. People have mentioned that upon taking their phones to Samsung Service Center they are suggesting it being due to motherboard issue, and suggesting to change the motherboard @ INR 8000 which is insane IMO. I am thinking to flash the custom rom on the phone, as it may probably overrule the firmware or the laggy OS lag due to which this problem is occurring. Also, if the problem persist after flashing the rom, it will give me clarity that the issue may exist in the power IC indeed, and is not due to software. The only confusion though is, whether it's safe to flash the custom rom, considering the issue of sudden restart. I wonder if the phone will malfunction and restart in recovery mode too, for its not being operated via OS during that time. What if the process gets interrupted due to phone restarting during rom being flashed. It should not brick the device, right? At max I will have to boot the phone in TWRP mode again to flash the custom rom file, right? I used to flash custom roms a lot almost like a decade ago when I used to own HTC smartphones, but its been a while since I do this, and hence the doubts.
Please share your inputs, I will highly appreciate the same.
Thanks in advance!
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hi i am also facing same issue and i have same thoughts as you man, were you able to rectify/fix it
vicky_crispy said:
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is keeping safe during these unprecedented times of Covid-19 (In India, things don't seem to be as good for now. Shall get better soon, hopefully!)
My A50S SM-A507FN is frequently getting restarted automatically since a week now. I have tried the basic steps like clear cache, factory reset etc. both from the phone settings as well as via hard reset menu, to no avail. It may be due to firmware or could be due to hardware issue (power IC maybe). I have seen a lot of A50S owners reporting same issue on Google, etc. but no concrete solution. People have mentioned that upon taking their phones to Samsung Service Center they are suggesting it being due to motherboard issue, and suggesting to change the motherboard @ INR 8000 which is insane IMO. I am thinking to flash the custom rom on the phone, as it may probably overrule the firmware or the laggy OS lag due to which this problem is occurring. Also, if the problem persist after flashing the rom, it will give me clarity that the issue may exist in the power IC indeed, and is not due to software. The only confusion though is, whether it's safe to flash the custom rom, considering the issue of sudden restart. I wonder if the phone will malfunction and restart in recovery mode too, for its not being operated via OS during that time. What if the process gets interrupted due to phone restarting during rom being flashed. It should not brick the device, right? At max I will have to boot the phone in TWRP mode again to flash the custom rom file, right? I used to flash custom roms a lot almost like a decade ago when I used to own HTC smartphones, but its been a while since I do this, and hence the doubts.
Please share your inputs, I will highly appreciate the same.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi. Did you get any solution for A50S restart issue? I am facing the same. Did you try custom ROM or changing Power IC?