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Hello guys,
Its my first post here, and my first android phone, and already i have a annoying problem.
I have searched these forums and many others but didnt find any similar problem or solution for it so here it is:
I bought Samsung Galaxy S2 15 days ago, from the local mobile service provider with contract. It runs OS Gingerbread 2.3.3 (adjusted to my mobile service provider settings), not rooted, under warranty.
Ive downloaded and installed many apps. Among them some free games from android market - demos, lite, free.
Sometimes, while i play, not often, game freezes. When it does only thing that is lest working is sound, and home button. Than i go to home screen, kill the game via android task manager, and than i see that screen auto rotation isnt working. Its stuck in landscape mode mostly, or portrait, even the auto rotation option is on. If it is in landscape mode, when i uncheck auto rotation then it goes to portrait mode. If i try some other game that supports sensor controls, like driving (accelerometer?).... u know...... when u tilt the phone to turn right or left......... and its not working.
Ive discovered 2 possible temporary solutions for the problem:
1. Turn off and on the phone, and its back to normal;
2. Wait for a 10 min or so, and its back to normal by itself;
I have one year warranty and i took the phone to service where they assumed that it is a software problem and flashed OS (ive recorded the behaviour of the phone with camera and showed to the service guy).
Ive got the phone back after a day with flashed OS. On a fresh instal of OS ive installed just one app, one game that it tends to freeze and cause problem - "Cordy" free trial. After just 20 sec of playing problem occurred again. It happened just that one time in last two days.
Any opinion on this matter is most welcome.
Tnx in advance.
If the phone is stuck then Restarting it is the option, not a temporary one. Now what's causing the freeze? I don't know.
Regards.
Tnx for answering. Im a bit disappointed with lack of answers because it just saying that my problem is not something common and with easy solution.
Im saying that restarting the phone is a temporary solution because i want find one that will prevent the problem for happening at all. Game freeze and accelerometer not working r connected in this case
It happened just now.
After that I checked in the app called sensor test that i instaled ffrom android market, and also that testing menu typing *#0*#.
in both cases it shows that acceleration sensor is not working. It came to normal by itself after 5 min or so.
What do u think? Software or hardware problem?
OK, update.
Its not caused just by the games, it happens even when not using any apps.
Accelerometer, orientation sensor and magnetic field sensor just stop working for a 5-10 min. Dont know whats causing this.
Tommorow is going back to service and im afraid that guys there r clueless.
Anyone have some suggestion pls.
Update on a problem.
My friend bought same phone from same service provider 3 days after i did and he is having exactly same problem.
He didnt had time before to test it but we did it yesterday, and after a hour of so trying to reproduce problem we succeded.
My phone is at service and i called today and the service guy said that the work on my phone is completed, they replaced sensors part (which apparanty comes with touch screen).
Im picking it up tommorow and i will test it and see if the problem is solved. But, im pesimistic.
How likely is that me and my friend have same hardware problem?
Here it is on video. Pls watch it and give any kind of oppinion, im getting desperate.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vym3cRHFjuw
my xperia x10 is behaving wierdly. When i hit the power button to swith off the display, the display goes off but gets on again after a few seconds and keeps on doing this every 10-15 seconds.. i.e. it switches on automatically, remains on for 2-3 secs and goes off and gets switched on again after 10-15 secs. I have to finally reboot my phone to solve this...
And this happens randomly, not regularly.. and is currently showing the same behaviour as I'm typing this.. Pls help!!
Not rooted... 2010 model. running 2.3.3
Xperia X10 Display turns ON automatically.
Hi,
I am also facing the same problem. My Xperia X10 display turns ON automatically. It doesn't happen regularly, but happens frequently. I dont have any 3D applications, nor Screen Keep application nor any Auto Task killing application.
So please suggest me some remedy for it. Or should I go for Flashing the Phone. Right now I have 2.3.3 GingerBread.
I also dont know much about ROM and Kernal. So if solution has this ROM/Kernal involved, then please elaborate the solution.
Thank You Very Much in Advance.
Guys, please search before post!
We have already discussed this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26911158
Hit thanks if it helps...
Got my Zu a few weeks back. When in stock, this problem occurred randomly and extremely infrequently. Now, the phone is unlocked and rooted and currently in 757 (4.4.2). Now the frequency of the problem has increased many fold. Whats the problem? ... The device just switches off without any notification or alert!! Even when fully charged. I need to switch it back on (with the power button) when I realize it has switched off.
This switch off randomly happens at-least 3-4 times a day. I used the "catlog" app to see if any errors or failures are logged (which may cause the shutdown), but the log entries are so many and so many are generated that they just fly past for me to figure out anything. Is there any specific error that I may have to search for? Any ideas on how to approach the problem and maybe solve it? If it turns out to be a h/w issue, I can send it for service. But I need to ensure that it’s a h/w issue Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hi folks,
I have had this issue a few times now, basically when I try to tun wifi on using the quick settings tile it doesn't come on, if I then go into settings-wifi & try to turn it on using the toggle the toggle moves but doesn't change to the blue colour or say it is on, it just goes a light blue colour, if I then back out of settings & try again the toggle is back to off. I then basically have to turn the phone off & then back on (the quick boot feature in developer settings doesn't do anything) & when it boots up wifi is on.
Anybody else had this issue? The phone is getting replaced in a few days due to gap issues, over heating & camera lens not being centred anyway but just though I would check.
Cheers.
No one else have this issue?
BanziBaby said:
No one else have this issue?
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I had this issue on .55 firmware. Haven't noticed it on .69 yet.
Cheers for the reply Jackos.
I had it both on the .55 firmware as well as the .69 firmware, have done factory reset etc but it still happens every few days, really stumped by it.
BanziBaby said:
Cheers for the reply Jackos.
I had it both on the .55 firmware as well as the .69 firmware, have done factory reset etc but it still happens every few days, really stumped by it.
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I think I saw someone posting this issue at Sony Support Forums, let's hope they fix this in the next firmware revisions.
I'll keep you posted if this happens to me again on .69.
I have this happening to me, on .69 fw. Normally a restart will do.
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@Jackos Cheers for keeping us posted mate
@pohsze Yeah mate, only way I have found so far to resolve it is to power off then back on, strange thing is wifi is on when phone finishes booting lol.
I have the exact same problem and I am on .55.
Sometimes I can't even turn Wifi off so I have to reboot. It is really weird because I don't know what triggers the bug.
I almost decided to return the phone but it is hard to recreate the error, and a reboot fixes it so I don't know if my phone company will accept the bug.
Since others have the same problem I hope they fix it in the new updates. Will come back when the .69 is released here.
I have same problem - switching in & out of AIrport mode cleared it.
I have the same problem.
First time I encountered it this morning.
Not sure from when wifi was not working for me.
In wifi settings no networks were shown.
Turning on wifi button would go light blue . . . but nothing would happen.
I selected Airport mode. Waited a moment. Then exited Airport mode . . . and wifi started working.
I'm on firmware .55
BanziBaby said:
Hi folks,
I have had this issue a few times now, basically when I try to tun wifi on using the quick settings tile it doesn't come on, if I then go into settings-wifi & try to turn it on using the toggle the toggle moves but doesn't change to the blue colour or say it is on, it just goes a light blue colour, if I then back out of settings & try again the toggle is back to off. I then basically have to turn the phone off & then back on (the quick boot feature in developer settings doesn't do anything) & when it boots up wifi is on.
Anybody else had this issue? The phone is getting replaced in a few days due to gap issues, over heating & camera lens not being centred anyway but just though I would check.
Cheers.
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Hey I get it sometimes too, just press and hold on the wifi icon and then manually turn wifi on in the wifi settings, works fine after that. Just a minor bug.
I have also experienced the exact same problem on the newest firmware. Only happened once, and going in to the actual WiFi settings didn't solve it, since the button turned light blue as described. Strangely after a little while when the phone was inactive it started working all by itself.
Phones:
Samsung Galaxy S I9000
Asus Padfone 2
Sony Xperia Z2
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Same issue
Hello all,
I have the same problem when I tried to turn Wifi on by accessing Quick Settings and pressing Wifi button.
It works again after 10-15 times pressing Wifi icon.
It just happened last few days and I didn't have any system update recently.
Im also having the same issue. Anyone managed to get a fix for this?
Same issue
Im also having the same issue.
Anyone had a solution for this :/ ?
I don't think i have this issue yet since I just got the phone, but I remember when I setup my wifi connection there was an option to enable/disable wifi based on location. Could it be that the phone's GPS location hasn't update yet and think you are close to your wifi location thus won't let you turn on? May be disable this feature and report back if you guys still have this issue.
I am on .167 and this is happening to me more and more often it seems like it is getting worse. If I go into settings/wifi I get a white screen that says tunring wifi on and no further change. This usually starts occurring 18 hours or so after I reboot. It looks like no one has any idea what is wrong.
Fred
I have this same issue, a restart fixed this fora couple of days but now it seems the Wifi wont start up at all
Still had some warranty so returned the phone at the store that I bought it at.
Had the issue from the moment I got the phone from my gf (she has a new one) and did a factory reset.
After that I have flashed 3 different versions on it and for all the WiFi didn't work.
Let's see what happens after I get the phone back..
after exchanging my phone due to the reboot problem, im encountering a new problem
my screen sometimes turns on by itself, and if i try to operate it at that point, the screen will turn black and nothing is functional except for the soft buttons and the pull down menu, only restart will solve this
sometimes it will also just crash to black even without the screen turning on by itself scenario
does anyone have the same issue? i suspect this is a software problem
I just got the z5 last night, and experienced the same problem this morning. Turns out that if you give the power button a 'double click', the screen comes back on. So this solves the problem reported above.
HOWEVER, there must be a setting (I hope) which we can change, I find it very irritating that as soon as I make a call, the screen goes blank, and you have to double-click the power button to see what is happening. If anyone knows about such a setting, please let us know!
My screen went black about an hour ago.
After Hotspotting for 40ish minutes so I could use my iPhone on the way to work on the train, I tried to check this forum with my Z5C, the back of it was really hot & after a few minutes, the screen went black & the phone was unresponsive for around 20 seconds & then basically unusable once it came back on, for another 20ish seconds, due to lag.
meganeet said:
after exchanging my phone due to the reboot problem, im encountering a new problem
my screen sometimes turns on by itself, and if i try to operate it at that point, the screen will turn black and nothing is functional except for the soft buttons and the pull down menu, only restart will solve this
sometimes it will also just crash to black even without the screen turning on by itself scenario
does anyone have the same issue? i suspect this is a software problem
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Did you ever find a resolution for this? it is driving me crazy, I've tried factory resets, software repairs via the Sony Companion and this still occurs, sometimes it won't happen for a week then sometimes it happens multiple times in a row even straight after a reboot. The fix that RohitMayor describes does not work on my device. This phone is really terrible compared to the Z3 Compact
I have the same issue. This pb occurs since i have update my phone to 6.0.1...
Any solution ?