I'ts really a shame and i'd like to know if i got a faulty revision or if those are all known issues. Because if so, i'd change to the NVidia Shield in no time. But as i really like the handling and overall feeling of the Venue, you could give me perhaps some hints about how to handle those quirks?
1. random reboots
About once a day, the tablet freezes and reboots itself after 10-15 seconds. Doesn't depend on the app i use or how long it's been running, it just happens completely random. I already trief clearing cache and resetting to factory defaults, no success.
2.weak WiFi connection
At the same place, my reception toggles between 2 and 4 bars. All other devices have a strong 4-5 bars signal there. For some time, the reception is even gone completely.I am holding it NOT on the chin to avoid the known issue of blocking the antenna, but Wifi drops anyway from time to time.
3. moving Apps to SD freezes them
When i try using an app that i moved to the SD-Card, i can use the tablet for about 10-15 minutes until it freezes completely and has to be hard resettet.
4. only 9 GB available?!
how can this be? FreeDiskInfo told me that it sees only 13 GB of overall memory. But even with that, where's the space left? With #3 in mind, i really get close to having no space left for installing more apps.
It would be a shame if i had to return this shiny piece of hardware, but for the moment, i'm really lost because of it's instability software-wise.
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I am from Hong Kong, using vibrant.
I found that my vibrant will get easily hanged/not responding, occasionally.
No matter which rom I flashed, stock, roms from eugene. (Applied/not Applied lagfix)
When my vibrant is not responding, the back of vibrant near the camara or next to the camara, will get hot and hotter.
After a long press of the power button, for a hard reboot of the vibrant, the vibrant will be fine again. However, the situation repeat.
So, I want to figure out that is there anybody encountering the same situation.
Thanks.
I have not had this exact problem, but I have had mine randomly go black. It's done it 3 times in the 4 days I have had it. When it goes black, you can't turn it on, power does nothing, and you have to pull the battery to start it again. I have never let it sit long enough to see if it gets hot.
I have heard mixed thoughts, some people claim it's hardware problem, some say its a firmware problem =/
I've seen my screen turn black with just the key backlights remain on. The device becomes and remains hot to the touch as if working very hard (drawing heavily on the battery and CPU) but it never responds again. Holding down the power button for a full five seconds resets it.
In my case, I typically see this happen while I'm trying to use Google Navigate (GPS) while also running Pandora (streaming radio) in the background. Often it works, but often it doesn't, especially on days with warm weather. I've monitored battery temperatures around 114 degrees F after rebooting.
I suspect it is related to the problems with the GPS (fixed to use supl.google.com) and very much hope it will be fixed with the promised OTA upgrade. Although I may have seen it a few times (very few times) without GPS. My other suspicion turns toward a process called mmcqd which seems to run heavily at times. Perhaps the lagfix will help with this "Multimedia Card Queue Daemon" process. ::shrug::
Just offering this as notes to compare. I'm curious if others see the problem with GPS disabled? Or if you notice the mmcqd process maxing your CPU?
I've noticed that when using GPS, only when the GPS gets confused.. say for instance that I'm driving, get out of my car with a Navi program still running and walk inside of a building/house.. bam, phone is dead with the buttons lit.. I've decided to not bother with GPS.
If you're having those types of issues try avoiding background sync with the forever sluggish stock eMail app, and don't load up the internal memory with a lot of junk.
having the same prob... cant find the solution .. do u have any?
This happens to me on my stock vibrant everytime I try to use the maps program. On the off chance I get it to start working, as soon as it shifts orientation to landscape mode the whole thing will lock up. Usually I have to remove the battery to get it to reset. As was said, it appears to be caused by the faulty gps, so I usually just leave mine off.
However, I haven't noticed it happening while doing anything else and I'm hoping the upcoming ota update fixes these issues. (Don't want to bother with rooting stuff until I'm on stock 2.2)
The solution is to install the leaked update that we should be getting officially very soon. No freezing, no serious lag (installing apps will lag almost any Android device), no black screen freeze ups, much improved GPS, I'm lovin' it.
I installed Cyanogen Mod7 on samsung vibrant, after reboot the set not started, only samsung logo shows but not booted further, plz give the solution.
heygrl said:
The solution is to install the leaked update that we should be getting officially very soon. No freezing, no serious lag (installing apps will lag almost any Android device), no black screen freeze ups, much improved GPS, I'm lovin' it.
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Hey, did u get the update or solution?
Good morning all. I have a small amount of knowledge about this device (I’ve read a fair bit) but would still classify myself as a novice user. I am able to flash my device and have had android running for a while now. I have a few issues, and just want confirmation that I’m not doing anything stupidly wrong.
Firstly, I have flashed to a number of winmo roms, all with varying degrees of usability. I found them to be slow compared to android. All my rom including the last two roms, chuckyrom tabtastic and chuckydroid, have given me a few issues of varying degrees. They freeze a lot and require a soft reset or to pull the battery. Sometimes, if I try and restart straight away, the red writing on the first screen doesn't come up and the phone vibrates 4 or 5 times. Further to this, they may restart midway through booting up, or if I am transferring a large amount of data or using my phone as a wireless hotspot the phone also resets after a while. I have noticed the phone gets quite warm during this. Best results for a reboot come after pulling the battery and leaving it for 15-20 minutes.
Secondly, I have used a number of different android builds (all HTC based) and whilst generally the phone does not freeze when it is in idle mode, it freezes up to 15-20 times a day when using applications such as facebook, internet explorer, music etc. Is this normal?? I don't get any force close notifications. When people say it is “relatively stable” what does this actually mean – no freezing, 5 freezes a day, 50 freezes a day?? The device also freezes when syncing all data. Sometimes when I am in a call, if a change occurs on the device (text message or other notification comes in, even when on the move which I’m guessing may be location changes in the system) the phone freezes and emits a “bzzzzzzzz”ing noise (well, I don't know how well the word “bzzzzzz” conveys what I’m trying to say, but you may get the picture). All this in turn leads to me needing to re-boot, which then brings into play the issues of rebooting above.
The other day, I noted that the micro-usb cable had what appeared to be small burn marks on it, and the contacts inside the micro-usb cable were a bit corroded/eroded. I do remember a few weeks ago where my phone froze in the middle of the night whilst on charge and the phone became quite hot, possibly resulting in the damage to the cable. Yesterday, I got a new cable and woke up this morning with the phone quite warm again (battery temp was at 39 degrees). This was all whilst using android.
I have tried a number of different winmo roms and android builds, flashed radio, task29, different micro sd cards, formatted sd card etc. I am thinking of reflashing back ot the original rom and if I still have the same issues then sending away to get it fixed. Problem with this is that Telstra here in Australia claim it will be a month and that no replacement phone will be given to me in the meantime. I think I am paying about $160 a month at the moment – surely this is a bit slack not to give me a replacement phone in the meantime? Can anyone share their experiences with Telstra and/or tips when dealing with them?
Any help with the above would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
No, don't think you're doing anything wrong. Android builds shouldn't be freezing at all, as far as I know. I've tried many builds, and have never had one freeze on me. The current ones are arguably more stable than most Windows Mobile ROMs! Still, Windows Mobile shouldn't actually require pulling the battery that often either.
Based on what you mention it sounds like your phone might be overheating, which would probably be a hardware problem (at least really unlikely to be caused purely by user operation or software). It might be worth checking the battery pins, to make sure all of them make a firm connection to the battery. If not, it could be one is disconnecting as your phone gets warmer. Still, overheating itself is a more likely cause, especially because of what you mention about vibrating x times if you restart it without giving it time to cool down.
I'm no expert, but it might be time to send your phone in for repairs... (if you do, don't forget to remove HSPL & restore stock ROM)
thanks for that help. I think i will send it back, i had already checked the battery pins.
just got rid of HSPL, but now having trouble flashing back to original rom. it jsut gets stuck on the update screen at 0%.... any ideas? i tried via SD card too, and it just gave me the "loading" page....
THnaks!
well, i am not sure what to do.
i have sn: BCOKAS005XXX, and i am exhibiting some of the issues. GPS was non-existent before the ICS update. it seems that it improved a little bit with ICS as it picks up 1 or 2 satellites without wifi, but nothing to work with. my samsung galaxy s 4g gets 10 satellites within 2 seconds using GPS TEST.
had a bunch of issues after ICS upgrade with sluggishness and touchscreen lag until i did a factory reset. i do not see a way of clearing the cache as when i do VOL-DOWN and POWER gives me the option to reset using VOL-UP. if i do that, i get sort of the the android with the gear rotating for a couple of seconds and then i get an exclamation mark in a big orange triangle above the android and nothing happens. i have to power down from the button. i am not sure what that is all about. maybe somebody has an idea. by the way, it seems the touchscreen lag improved (still happening sometimes)
wifi still seems crappy. it works, but very slow. i have it sitting next to my computer and i get around 30mb while my computer gets 350mb. i am not sure why the wifi is slow in this tablet. didn't check it on my phone to see what i get. i have only supperficially looked at the bluetooth interfering with wifi issue, as i ran a speedtest with the bluetooth off and with the bluetooth on and does not seem to affect wifi, but i did not have anything connected through bluetooth.
decisions, decisions. i think i have until tomorrow to return it. hope someone can help me with my decision.
so, no inputs?
I hope not......... farrk these threads are getting boring!
I don't know where to begin to test GPS.
Yeah despite weeks of seeing some of you folks make thread about it, I never bothered to check when I got my Prime.
I did come across the Bluetooth paired + streaming over Wifi issue. I can deal with it because it's not so bad since ICS update, crap to marginal quality is better than no stream, which is what I got before the OS update. I'll have to stop pairing BT to obtain high and optimum quality from Netflix steaming though. But oh well.
I can live with it, primarily because the TFP is soon to be on the rare block as the only tablet made of metal, and with ASUS quickly trying to replace it with that ugly plastic TF700T.
I rather deal with the minor pain than to depart from my device so quickly.
I seem to be 1 of the lucky ones with no problem except GPS. If you NEED GPS then this tablet is not for you, or if you can wait few months you'll find some nice tablets. I have few issues but nothing that bothers me. I had a choice ipad2 vs this.... although I think ipad is better (ipad1 owner still) I love the android UI. Mine is not lagging only once in a while... if your freezing all the time exchange it or wait a month...
Seems like your going into recovery mode there with the Vol & power button....here's what you do to wipe....press down VOL- first then POWER for couple seconds (simultaneously) then when you see the writings appear let go then you should be on a screen with Android bot/data wipe box thingy...at this screen press VOL- then press VOL+...wipe should begin....
Return that *****!
Personally I emailed ASUS and told them they have 9 days to either fix my wifi/backplate or I am returning. Plain and simple it does not work in my Apt (wifi) the router is right outside my door and it is a small apt (probably under 500sqft). The building provides Wifi as part of the rent and well it sucks my computer can 10mb/s down and 15 up (I know pitiful). My TFP can connect and get 500kbs in the living room about 15ft from router with a door in the way and drops the signal about every 2mins and in my bedroom about 30ft away with another wall away from the router (2 walls total) I cant even see the ****ing router on my TFP. That performance is bull**** for $600. If they dont fix it I dont want it. I need wifi plain and simple and I am not getting it.
If you are in a similar situation I say return it!
Oh and sorry for the piss poor grammar I am slightly inebriated
Return it while you can, unless you can afford to use it as a paperweight when you get the next droid tablet.
My phone is a week old tomorrow. It is bone stockTmobile and has been having force close/ freeze issues. Nothing specific that I can recall doing at the time. I have a moderate amount of apps and games I play on it. When calling or just using in general it freezes which I then have to restart or pull the battery if completely frozen. I have wiped the phone and went back to factory setting. It seems to make no difference. What have you guys done to fix this issue?? A guy I work with has the exact same phone and his works flawless. I normally close the apps when done and I regularly clear the memory in the ram tab to help keep things running good. My S2 also started getting force close and freezing issues after updating to ICS. While I was waiting for Tmobile to warranty the S2 I bought the S3. Now have similar issues. Plus this phone seems to be blessed with wifi dropout issues, complete signal loss (comes back after restart), cant disable the led, and takes a screen shot on its own without having to push home + power. Just wait long enough and viola Nice phone but a little bigger screen, and a little faster processor. Starting to wonder if I should just take back and enjoy the S2 till something better comes out. Is it possible I just received a LEMON??
Not sure what is happening, but this phone went from being awesome to being hardly usable in a very short amount of time. I downloaded a Verizon update on or around November 5th, and ever since then, I have noticed the following issues ever since then.
- Overall slowness. Whether it's switching apps, making phone calls, turning the screen on or off...everything is just much slower and lags more often.
- Unresponsive at times. This occurs most often during phone calls. The proximity sensor does not activate correctly (screen will not turn on when I move the phone away from my face), and the touchscreen will not register input. It will happen other times, but never seems to follow a specific pattern.
- Random soft resets. Every once in a while, it will randomly go to the Verizon splash screen, for no reason. This has happened in the middle of phone calls, while using apps, and while the phone is just idle.
- Increased battery drain. Even turning down the screen brightness, and using some apps like CM cleaner to keep apps closed and clear up RAM usage, I am experiencing drain at an exponential rate (over 10% per hour when idle, and sometimes up to 20% per hour doing simple things like texting and making phone calls.)
I have researched multiple websites' solutions for crappy G3 performance. Some of their proposed solutions have applied to my problems, and I've tried each and every one of them. Nothing has really helped...turning brightness down, using apps like CM Cleaner and Battery Doctor, etc. My last hope is that I unmounted my SD card this morning...which, if it works, will be fine, but is kind of a bummer because I would have liked to have the expandable storage.
Unless the update I downloaded from Verizon (I don't think it was an actual Android update, but I'm not sure?) is what caused this, I can't find any more potential problems other than my phone being defective...which just doesn't make sense, as I've had it since launch now with no issues. The only other thing that I can think which may be affecting things is that the phone is encrypted (the SD card was not, I never found the time and eventually forgot)...and is also using a piece of software called Maas360 (which I installed around the same time as the update was downloaded), which I'm hoping does not affect phone performance this much, because it will be required by my work starting in the next couple weeks.
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Not sure what is happening, but this phone went from being awesome to being hardly usable in a very short amount of time. I downloaded a Verizon update on or around November 5th, and ever since then, I have noticed the following issues ever since then.
- Overall slowness. Whether it's switching apps, making phone calls, turning the screen on or off...everything is just much slower and lags more often.
- Unresponsive at times. This occurs most often during phone calls. The proximity sensor does not activate correctly (screen will not turn on when I move the phone away from my face), and the touchscreen will not register input. It will happen other times, but never seems to follow a specific pattern.
- Random soft resets. Every once in a while, it will randomly go to the Verizon splash screen, for no reason. This has happened in the middle of phone calls, while using apps, and while the phone is just idle.
- Increased battery drain. Even turning down the screen brightness, and using some apps like CM cleaner to keep apps closed and clear up RAM usage, I am experiencing drain at an exponential rate (over 10% per hour when idle, and sometimes up to 20% per hour doing simple things like texting and making phone calls.)
I have researched multiple websites' solutions for crappy G3 performance. Some of their proposed solutions have applied to my problems, and I've tried each and every one of them. Nothing has really helped...turning brightness down, using apps like CM Cleaner and Battery Doctor, etc. My last hope is that I unmounted my SD card this morning...which, if it works, will be fine, but is kind of a bummer because I would have liked to have the expandable storage.
Unless the update I downloaded from Verizon (I don't think it was an actual Android update, but I'm not sure?) is what caused this, I can't find any more potential problems other than my phone being defective...which just doesn't make sense, as I've had it since launch now with no issues. The only other thing that I can think which may be affecting things is that the phone is encrypted (the SD card was not, I never found the time and eventually forgot)...and is also using a piece of software called Maas360 (which I installed around the same time as the update was downloaded), which I'm hoping does not affect phone performance this much, because it will be required by my work starting in the next couple weeks.
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Ah encryption. That's your culprit. It sounds like you took Verizon's 11c update on the 5th of November. This was a minor security update that also added some minor features like a camera shortcut on the lockscreen. A lot of people have been experiencing very poor performance on the G3 after encrypting internal storage. Apparently, it drastically reduces read/write speeds as of now and is not ready for primetime. Hopefully with the Lollipop update around the corner, we will see this issue fixed. I would suggest decrypting your phone and seeing if that makes an improvement on overall fluidity. I know that that is a pain, but this seems like what has happened to several people who encrypted data on a stock LG ROM. Best of luck and let me know if encryption is not the issue!