Hey guys. My S3 started freezing randomly a few days ago. What happens is that I will be playing with it and then it will literary become unresponsive along with the hardware buttons except the power button. The weird thing is that the animation on the screen is still active: say I was writing a text and the little blinking bar keeps blinking as if nothing is wrong but the phone is simply unresponsive.
I did a factory reset and it is still happening.
Anyone have any idea what the heck is happening? Is it hardware or software related?
Have a read of the freezing thread in general forum, sounds like the operating system is dealing with bad memory blocks.
Well, same thing happens to me, i looked up on that tread about bad memory blocks: well i even tested the memory and works fine, no bad memory sectors, my hardware power button responds to restart (no need to pull out battery). When it does freeze it doesn't unfreeze at all after some time ( i once let it unfreeze for entire night on charger and it stood on the same screen after 8+ hours). I even reinstalled a different software (JB 4.1.3 Darky edition) and it freezes very rarely now but when it does, it's still same kind of freeze. When it freezes it freezes mostly on Twitter app but sometimes random app. I don't know now is it really a faulty memory or just software bugs... btw dummy file didn't freeze my phone (to be clear) after i reinstalled the software, but did it before on old one
Help! Galaxy's freezing!
Hello,
I have exactly the same problem, when phone freezes nothing works except power button, when pressing it about 10 seconds, the phone reboots. I have exactly the same model (GT-I9300), but Lithuanian. The freezing lasts from 10 minutes to an infinite time. All the freezing started about three weeks ago, when google play started updating iron man game. I tried dummy file geterator, the phone hasnt freezed at all, but the phone freezes randomly when opening internet, other apps or just anytime, even when phone is on stand by. I tried flashing DarkyRom 4.1.2 XXEMB1, but the phone started freezing even more, then i recovered from the Nandroid backup, and the phone is now freezing not so frequently, about 1 freeze in 2-3 days, but it still freezes, and i also have a strange "Process com.google.process.gapps has stopped working" problem. I tried every solution to this problem, but none of them works. Also, i think it is somehow connected to the freezes, because after those messages phone freezes sometimes. I dont know how to solve these super annoying problems, because i tried nearly everything, and nothing works. I think this might be a hardware issue, and that i should buy a new phone. If you know somehing, help me!
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Hi,
My phone sometimes just restarts suddenly like it crashed and gets stuck at the Android screen. This has happened twice - first when I was listening to some songs, and the second time while the screen was unlocked.
The first time, I noticed that the SD card suddenly became unmounted and after a few seconds the phone rebooted from the Android screen, but gets stuck there.
The second time, I took the phone out of my pocket and found it stuck at the Android screen.
In both cases, the power button didn't work and I had to remove the battery and replace it to fix the problem.
In both cases, I wasn't running too many apps - the first case, just the music player and some background apps, the second time, just the background apps.
I am a root user with stock 2.2.2 ROM, and I use Link2SD. I have had 2 SD card unmount problems in the past, but it hasn't happened for almost 2 months. Dont know if its related.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Hi everyone,
I've been lurking for the past year or so, but now I got a problem of my own and I hope I can solve it with your help.
For a while now, almost every time, I picked up the phone, tried to check mail, or do something, and it wouldn't do anything. It seemed like it was turned off, except I couldn't turn it on by pressing the power key. It wouldn't react to touching the screen, menu button, plugging in headphones, the USB cable, pressing hardware buttons, sending myself a mail/sms, or calling myself, the alarm didn't go off (especially troublesome), it was, for all intents and purposes, completely frozen, until I removed and reinserted the battery. Then, I could normally turn it on and it seemed like everything was in order and a new message or email (in the account that triggers a notification) was waiting for me.
This started after I upgraded to ICS (official). I also rooted the phone with CF-Root. Everything was working fine, except for these freezes.
Last week, I had enough and I did a factory reset. After that, it seemed to be ok, until 2 days ago, when I flashed it with ICS 4.0.4 and rooted it again. It was fine for 2 days, today it started freezing again. I did not install any new apps - all the apps were (re)installed immediately after the flashing.
I *did* have some problems with the camera (I couldn't see what I was shooting, I found out that it's probably a wrong version of CF-root, so I reflashed that, problem persisted, I reflashed just the kernel of official 4.0.4 and the problem disappeared. This is all I did before I noticed the problem again.
I would think that it might be because of the SD card, some app or something else, but to the best of my observing, it ONLY happens, when a notification should be triggered - instead, the phone freezes.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ben
i think your RAM is on its maximum level, try cleaning your RAM once in a while.. go to your Task Manager (if you're on a stock firmware)
Hi,
Since a week or so now, my Samsung Galaxy S3 with a rooted Android 4.1.2 "sort of" freezes randomly. And with "sort of" I mean that animations and such (can) keep running, it just doesn't respond to any kind of imput anymore. I had it freeze on a youtube video, but the video kept playing till it was done (but it didn't continue like it would afterwards, so the process definitely froze too).
I have no clue what sets it off. I've had it freeze while using navigation, while browsing, while typing, while taking a photo, while turning the screen off (it will just stay on forever), anything. Sometimes it freezes 5 times in 5 minutes, sometimes it freezes only once a day. In all cases, the only way to get it back to life is by taking the battery out and putting it back. Waiting doesn't do anything.
I thought it might be a memory card problem, but I unmounted the card and got the problem again just now.
I figured I'd download an app that writes logfiles to see what is happening, but all those programs don't work anymore with the current version, due to that the programs only have access to their own logs now.
Does anyone have a clue to what might cause this, or a way to troubleshoot further and try and find the solution?
Thanks!
I had an LG G4 with boot loop. They told me that V10 is newer and has no such problems so I switched to V10. V10 also failed me after a few months the device went into boot loop and I had to factory restore it. Booting to the clear operating system I asked google play to setup as new device and I installed all my applications. I only use normal applications like Facebook, Messenger, Viber, Whatsapp, SwiftKey, Snapchat, Paypal, Banking apps etc. The device is so laggy. It freezes like every 10-15 minutes. While I scroll on facebook it suddenly freezes and it takes few seconds to unfreeze. Or while typing something ie on Viber, the keyboard freezes and I cant type or touch anything. I have to wait a few seconds like 5-10 to unfreeze. Even if I try to click the back or menu button i see it is selected by changing the background color of button but it freezes there and it doesnt nothing and after some seconds it unfreezes. This freezing is happening like 10 times per hour. Some times it take too long like 30 seconds and I have to restart device. Is it related to boot loop? Does anyone had similar problem? I am suspecting that the motherboard had to be replaced after boot loop, as I did with G4.
EDIT: Btw, before boot loop the phone was so super fast, no lagging, no freezing, everything was so smooth. An amazing experience even better than G4.
Hello guys, I have a Samsung Galaxy A10 and since today that I'm having an issue with it. Every 3 seconds there's a lag spike in the operating system only. In apps its completely normal no lags at all. For example if I continually flick the notification bar up and down i get a lag spike every 3 seconds every time. It happens the same with the navigation buttons on the bottom, keyboard, basically anything related to the os. But in apps I dont have this issue. I think it all started when I plugged in the charger and i got a warning that was water on it, but there wasnt any water that warning sometimes pops up when the cable slips a little bit and gets halfway attached. I restarted the phone multiple times, it seems fine on boot but quickly goes to the same problem. The phone is not rooted, it's original firmware and all. Can anyone help me out here?
@crazyon3
Try this
Uninstall apps which haven't used in last 30 days. No need to worry, you can always install back when required.
Delete all images and videos of WhatsApp and similar which are just forwards. It will be a big chunk usually.
Move all personal pics and videos to cloud (Google Drive). Enable auto backup. Delete device copies for > 1 week old files.
Run SDmaid app. Uninstall it after that.