[Q] Phone screen randomly going off - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

Sorry but I didnt know where else to ask this. Theres not a forum for the sprint version of the galaxy s2 which is what i have. Anyway onto the problem. So for the past 2 weeks the phone has been restarting itself on occasion and sometimes its really bad but lately it's gotten really really bad. The screen now just randomly turns on by itself and the power options window also randomly pops up by itself. (the window that says shut off/restart/other things like that) At first i thought it was the power button so i fiddled with it a bit but it hasnt changed. even if i'm holding the phone and my fingers and hand is nowhere near the power button the phone still does it. It can be laying on the table, and the screen will still turn on with the power options. Now, I'm under warranty so I might just bring my phone to sprint but the problem with that is im rooted and have a custom kernel installed. And I'd unroot and flash the stock gb27 kernel but i'm worried that during that process the phone will restart itself and i'll have a bricked phone or a phone stuck in a bootloop or god knows what else. Any suggestions? I've ran out of possible ideas that it could be. My batterys fine, the power button seems to be fine. So I have no idea at the moment

The XDA forum for the Sprint Galaxy SII, also referred to as the Epic Touch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/epic-4g-touch
The Samsung Epic 4G Touch is the successor to the Samsung Epic 4G. Both phones are available as a part of the Sprint network. The Epic 4G Touch is Sprint's version of Samsung's Galaxy S II smartphone. Unlike the Epic 4G, the Epic 4G Touch does not include a physical keyboard. This version of the Galaxy S II has a 4.5" display, as well as all four touch-capacitive buttons along the bottom of the phone instead of the three found on the international version. The Samsung Epic 4G does not have the NFC capabilities found in other versions of the Galaxy S II.
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TimSimm2 said:
[...]Theres not a forum for the sprint version of the galaxy s2 which is what i have.[...]
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Happy flashing
-Cyril

cyril279 said:
The XDA forum for the Sprint Galaxy SII, also referred to as the Epic Touch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/epic-4g-touch
Happy flashing
-Cyril
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thank you very much. someone may close this now

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Having a little problem with my galaxy s2

Every once in a while when I turn on the screen the lockscreen is upside down and all the controls are reversed. Usually I need to reboot the phone to get it out of it. Sometimes it will rotate to normal fashion on its own. This only happens when I have auto rotate enabled. I am rooted running Phantom Hackers Blazer rom latest edition(great rom by the way) and I am using magic locker for custom lock screens. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I would think it's rom related, I suggest posting in their specific forum - except you can't until you increase your post count I don't think
BigMrB said:
I would think it's rom related, I suggest posting in their specific forum - except you can't until you increase your post count I don't think
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Ya your right I cant post there untill I get at least 10 posts here. I honestly think its more of a magic locker problem. I will try just running the stock lock screen and see if it still happens. Thanks for the input though and I will keep you posted as to how it goes.
O ya and also just out of curiosity if you think it is a rom related issue do you know of any other roms out there that are better? I do like this rom but the more I think about it you might be right because when I turn the screen off it flashes my homescreen upside down before it does the crt off animation.
Phantom Hackers Blazer Rom from the Epic 4G Touch forum ?????????
jje
A very new rom -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403044&page=4
If it's not THE best - it WILL be, neo's work is infamous!
What you're describing happens to me when I have two things active:
1. Screen rotation animation, and
2. CRT screen animation (on and/or off)
If you have both of these things, check your CRT screen animation. There should be a screen on animation, and a screen off animation. Screen on is the one you need to worry about. If you have this turned on, turn it off. The screen off animation flips and mirrors the image as well, but only during the actual animation that occurs during screen off; the screen is normal when the screen is turned back on. (provided the screen ON animation isn't active)
EDIT: Hmm, JJEgan raises a good point. The only device I see the "Phantom Hackers Blazer" ROM for, is the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, in THAT forum. You DO realize that the Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710) and the international Galaxy SII (model GT-I9100) are actually different phones, right? This post is currently in the forum for GT-I9100.
BigMrB said:
A very new rom -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403044&page=4
If it's not THE best - it WILL be, neo's work is infamous!
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Thanks for that missed it .
jje
ctomgee said:
What you're describing happens to me when I have two things active:
1. Screen rotation animation, and
2. CRT screen animation (on and/or off)
If you have both of these things, check your CRT screen animation. There should be a screen on animation, and a screen off animation. Screen on is the one you need to worry about. If you have this turned on, turn it off. The screen off animation flips and mirrors the image as well, but only during the actual animation that occurs during screen off; the screen is normal when the screen is turned back on. (provided the screen ON animation isn't active)
EDIT: Hmm, JJEgan raises a good point. The only device I see the "Phantom Hackers Blazer" ROM for, is the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, in THAT forum. You DO realize that the Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710) and the international Galaxy SII (model GT-I9100) are actually different phones, right? This post is currently in the forum for GT-I9100.
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WOW Holy **** you are right LOL I cant believe I did that. I am running the galaxy s2 I9100. THANK YOU for pointing that out! I better switch roms quickly! By doing what I did with the wrong rom was there a chance I could have bricked my phone?
rbtrucking said:
WOW Holy **** you are right LOL I cant believe I did that. I am running the galaxy s2 I9100. THANK YOU for pointing that out! I better switch roms quickly! By doing what I did with the wrong rom was there a chance I could have bricked my phone?
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If you bricked your phone, trust me, you'd know. I'm right about what? Did you flash an Epic 4G Touch ROM to your International GSII? If you did, I'm surprised it worked.
I'm guessing JKay is installed on your ROM. Did you check to see if the screen on/off animations are turned on or not? And if so, did you try turning off the screen on animation?
No I know I didnt brick it I was just asking if I could have by installing the wrong rom on here. You were right about the fact that the rom I installed was for the international galaxy and not the one I have. I am surprised it worked too but trust me it was very buggy like the screen problem and it would reboot sometimes and i would get force closes. I am going to flash that rom you recommended. The Illusion. Thank you very much again. you saved me from allot of frustration!
Alright I flashed the illusion rom but now for some reason the phone is acting very funny It is stuck in landscape mode I cant access the desktop it keeps asking me to connect to my google account but for some reason I have no service and it wont connect to my wifi. Is this a final release or is this still in production?
also now my soft keys are all messed up. They dont light up and dont do what they are originally assigned to do. Just to clarify to make sure I am using the right rom I am on a samsung galaxy s2 I9100 sprint version.
I am pretty sure this rom is not for my phone because absoluetly nothing is working. I cannot even connect it to the computer anymore. It doesnt show up.
Ok give me your phone info and how your flashing etc... full wipes?
Sent from my GT-I9100
Its the Samsung galaxy sII epic 4g touch. On the first screen when it goes on it says Samsung galaxy sII I9100 it is the united states sprint version. When I flashed I did a full factory wipe, wiped delvic, then cache partition and then I rebooted. Absoluetly nothing works! It is all messed up On my box it says sphd710kit I dont know what that is thats the only thing it says besides the esn# and the name of the phone.
Now for some reason in clockworkmod I cant acess my sd card it says sd card cannot be mounted this is big trouble I was working allot better with the other rom. Did I destroy my phone? If anyone wants to help me a little quicker and wouldnt mind jumping on aim I would greatly appreciate it. My screename is
Rb trucking4
are u sure you have an international version? how come "sprint" come into play? if i am not wrong, international version is also call unbranded phone/european version. if i am not wrong, different carrier in USA, come with different "modified" samsung galaxy s2 (eg. T-mobile, At & t, and so on), and they are not I9100 version.
i am not sure about "sprint". someone living in US might have some idea?
btw, does your s2 has any physical button? how many touch sensitive button you have?
it has 4 they go from left to right menu, home, back, and search I know I messed somethin up real good here because now I cant acess my sd card from clockwork to flash a new rom. When I boot the phone up and connect it to the computer it just says device install failed. What can I do to get out of this mess?
rbtrucking said:
Now for some reason in clockworkmod I cant acess my sd card it says sd card cannot be mounted this is big trouble I was working allot better with the other rom. Did I destroy my phone? If anyone wants to help me a little quicker and wouldnt mind jumping on aim I would greatly appreciate it. My screename is
Rb trucking4
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DUDE! what you are holding in your hand is Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710)! -_-"""
you get yourself confuse twice...
ok, let's try this, reflash the kernel, and reflash your ROM back to stock ROM. i am pretty sure the kernel is messed up and confused right now, like you!
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rbtrucking said:
it has 4 they go from left to right menu, home, back, and search I know I messed somethin up real good here because now I cant acess my sd card from clockwork to flash a new rom. When I boot the phone up and connect it to the computer it just says device install failed. What can I do to get out of this mess?
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oh boy, bad news for you. you bricked your phone!
edit: wait a minute, so you are able to boot your phone?

[Q] Soft Buttons not working :(

The search function is currently not available or else I would have searched this topic, but recently i have had problems with my soft buttons not working. I have never rooted of flashed a rom, and it did seem to happen after ICS was delivered. I have recently factory reset everything but to no avail. I was wondering if anyone could point me into the right direction for a fix or a work around at this point, as I really don't want to send it in to Samsung. It really sucks cuz one i enter an app or message, i have to turn my phone completely off or on for it to work. Thanks
Since on the I9100 the home button is not a soft button, why would you have to turn your phone off on and on to exit apps?
My guess is you don't actually have an I9100 and have flashed something for the wrong device, despite your claim to the contrary.
If you dont have a hardware button, in the middle of the lower bezel then you dont have a I9100, you propably have one of the galaxy s2 variants, like the skyrocket for example. If you can provide your model number it would really help us find the solution.
Sorry guys, I didn't know there was a different model, i have the t-mobile version, mdoel # SGH-T989...
reymunoz said:
Sorry guys, I didn't know there was a different model, i have the t-mobile version, mdoel # SGH-T989...
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Then you are in the complete wrong forum. This is the I9100 forum.
SGH-T989 has its own forum.

[Q] Galaxy s3 screen stuck on black screen when idle

Hi there,
i've searched the net for help and didn't find anything similar.
my girlfriend and I both using galaxy S3 9300 4.1.2 bought in June.
In the last few week both of us suddenly saw that the phone turns off while it idle.
In most of the cases the solution was turn it back on, but sometimes it didn't help and we had to take the battery off and back on.
today I noticed for the first time that the phone doesn't really off- since the notification led still flashes.
I'm using apex launcher she use TW.
any idea anyone?
I will be grateful,
Thanks
Or
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both phone are stock rom
mine with the UK Rom
Her with the Indian Rom
both 4.1.2 virsion.
I am having the same problems since last week. Sometimes it also freezes in applications. The GUI thread is then still running because I can see animations from loading dialogs and the wifi indicator also blinks. When this freeze occurs, the device won't react on button presses (except very long press on power button to reboot). Also the device is not going into standby mode (screen off) after 30 seconds.
Maybe this is a side effect of the last update? I am running build version JZO54K.I9300XXELLA (Dutch intl version).
Edit: when it's stuck also the battery is drained very fast.
you might be right and maybe there is a connection between last update and all that bugs suddenly appears.
I update through odin to the newest firmware:
I9300XXEMB1 I9300OXAEMB1 I9300XXMB1 BTU
anyone have a clue?
Data wipe would be first start point really
I would start from that, but how come that it started on both phone at same time- doesnt it means its a software related?
slaphead20 said:
Data wipe would be first start point really
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oravi said:
I would start from that, but how come that it started on both phone at same time- doesnt it means its a software related?
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No idea to be honest, are they both stock phones? Rooted? Could even be something inane like a recent app update that isn't working properly, could be almost anything
slaphead20 said:
No idea to be honest, are they both stock phones? Rooted? Could even be something inane like a recent app update that isn't working properly, could be almost anything
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both unrooted, both running stock rom.
anyway if so, i guess you wont recommend to back all my app, right?
I would back then up, system data is most likely the cause, so my advice would be just restore app data only where necessary and important
Issue with S3
My bro Bought At&t S3 on ebay sent it to me in India
What happened is he unlocked it and sent me.
I was using it and was having battery issues so one of my friends told me to root my fone
i did it . It worked fine. I tried to put Resurrection Remix ROM on it .
It went fine put custom installationa nd atlast reboot .
Now it is stuck on BLACK SCREEN. Im actually an iOS convert. Its kind a rough for me to figure out what had happened to it
:/
HELP
roopn said:
My bro Bought At&t S3 on ebay sent it to me in India
What happened is he unlocked it and sent me.
I was using it and was having battery issues so one of my friends told me to root my fone
i did it . It worked fine. I tried to put Resurrection Remix ROM on it .
It went fine put custom installationa nd atlast reboot .
Now it is stuck on BLACK SCREEN. Im actually an iOS convert. Its kind a rough for me to figure out what had happened to it
:/
HELP
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You flashed an international i9300 Rom on to your AT&T 9300, they are different phones, and you are in the wrong forum

[Q] Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Screen works then stops working

Ok guys, first post here. My galaxy tab model GT-P5113TS is having an issue that I can't seem to find on any site including this one.
Little background, this problem first started several months ago. My wife ran the battery completely dead on the tab, we didn't have a "samsung" charger and couldn't get it to charge up. Bought new charger, got it charged, and ever since then, the screen will work for anywhere from 15-20 seconds to 3 or 4 minutes, then just stops working. Hitting the power button will turn the screen off, hitting it again brings up the lock screen, but the screen will still not recognize any touches. The side buttons still work, just not the touch screen.
Letting the tab sit for a couple hours is the ONLY thing that lets the touch screen work again. But it will only work for a minute or two again before it stops working. I tried a soft reset several times to no avail. Kind of forgot about the tab, left it for a while. Picked it up today after charging it and still no different than a couple months ago. I tried the factory reset several times and it made no difference. Usually the screen won't stay responsive long enough to make it through the whole set up process.
I'm pretty new to digging into these things. I'm not afraid to give it a shot, since the thing is useless in its current state. But most of the lingo and abbreviations are new to me. If anyone can point me towards a solution, I'd be VERY grateful! I'll do my best to answer any questions to help as well.
PS, we bought it used off ebay, so no warranty
Bump for some help!!
gr8shot said:
Bump for some help!!
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Well, you're in the wrong forum. This is the forum for the gt p7500/7501/7510/7511 or the galaxy tab 10.1 number 1 if you will.
So we can't help you, even if we wanted too (unless someone in this forum also owns a tab 2).
I suggest you take a look in the correct forum, I'm sure you'll have better luck there.
Sent from my Nexus 7 2013
Olivier V said:
Well, you're in the wrong forum. This is the forum for the gt p7500/7501/7510/7511 or the galaxy tab 10.1 number 1 if you will.
So we can't help you, even if we wanted too (unless someone in this forum also owns a tab 2).
I suggest you take a look in the correct forum, I'm sure you'll have better luck there.
Sent from my Nexus 7 2013
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Thanks, didn't realize that. I'll repost in the right section
gr8shot said:
Thanks, didn't realize that. I'll repost in the right section
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XDA is a big place and it's sometimes a bit complicated to get where you want to go so no worries, we've all been there at one point ?
Sent from the mini galaxy in my hands! ?

How do i stop Samsung galaxy SIII (T-mobile) from over heating?

ever since my brother replaced his Samsugn GSIII T-mobile screen panel it started over heating at the bottom of the screen. we did everything, hard reset or every thing and still it over heats. even it is very hard to use it; even 5 minutes it becomes too hot to be even touched plz help me any working help will be greatly admired
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