I've been having a very strange, but rare, problem when running 3D games. It seems to only occur with certain kernels. I have no idea what else could be causing it. It has happened to me only three times since I got my Vibrant in Sept, but it's pretty scary.
What happens it's kinda hard to describe and even harder to reproduce. When I play any relatively heavy 3D game the phone performs flawlessly then randomly freezes completely. The soft-key lights still react to touch and turn off normally, but I'm unable to restart by holding down the power key for 15 seconds, leaving no choice but to do a battery pull. While this is happening, the screen (frozen in the game) starts to present very bright thin horizontal transparent white lines. These lines will keep appearing until they cover the whole screen. In the end it looks like the screen had lost all colors except shades of green and the rest has turned white.
This has never happened with 100% stock, stock+Voodoo kernels, Bali, or Overstock (didn't OC). It has happened, if I remember correctly, with Dragon (didn't OC), some other kernel I can't remember, and, just now, with DragonMODz SSSJ (OC'ed at a mere 1.1GHz). Maybe it's a problem with OC-able kernels only? Maybe it has to do with uncapped FPS? Maybe it's a simple problem that is all over the forum, but I couldn't find it?
Any help/suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I think it happened to me too but im not sure... what rom are you using??? And i'd suggest you to use trigger wit the kernel called BULLET flash those and your phone is goin to be super fast... i play 3D games on my phone and i dont have any issues so far so i'd suggest u to flash both kernel and rom and your phone should b faster....
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I'm currently on Trigger with stock KB5+Voodoo kernel. I've tested it with hours of Asphalt 6 and Gangstar 2 and didn't have any problems so far. I'm still not sure what causes the problem, so I'm not gonna go adventuring with OCable kernels just yet.
Hello ppl!
Yesterday I was flying to Dubai, and desided to "kill" some of my spare time playing the "Mini Motor Racing" game.
Approximatelly after 20 minutes of playing, the screen suddently became unresponsive (no reaction whatsoever), although the game was running normally.
I tried to press the power button to switch off the screen, but it was not working either. Tried to press the cameta button, no result as well. NO command was functioning, not hardware, neither software buttons.
I left the phone to the side for 3-4 minutes (while the game was still running), and noticed that the phone temp had actually falled down a little. Tried the touchscreen, but it was still unresponsive. This time though, the power button worked, so I managed to switch of the game.
I left the device to cool down, and then tried to play the game again, but had the same results (only this time, the phone became responsive about 15+ minutes after I put it aside, and since I have been trying to switch it off without success, I intentionally tried many button combinations, and the only one that worked was vol+, vol-, power pressed simultaneously, which switched off the phone).
I thought that this was some kind of a software/compatibility problem with the game, so I tried to play "Reckless Racing 2". Guess what. THE SAME results...
Anyone else with the same problem, or is it just me?
I heard same with PLAY my friend has with playing her favourite game.. n she has now extra battery attached on back of PLAY which seems solved issue.. may be ICS update will rectify it.. wait for it n hold those games till then
same to me
I have the same problem with my xperia. I bought the phone on 25th of april and since the first day it freezes when i am playing games. First i thought it is overheating but then it started to freeze in the middle of play or when i start the game, everytime was different. Repairing with pc companion didn't solved the problem, factory reset didnt solved the problem, updatung the firmware to .73 didn't solved the problem. I found other people on the sony talkmobile forum with the same problem. After one month i gaved my phone to sony service center for repair. I will share the results wheh they give me back the phone.
I have videorecorded the freezing problem, you can see it on youtube.
To restart your phone
To restart your phone you must press the power-off button + the volum + button for few seconde an you can restart normaly your phone !
darkyno said:
To restart your phone you must press the power-off button + the volum + button for few seconde an you can restart normaly your phone !
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Yeah, actually that's what did the trick, but didnt know it 'till then! I was just anxiously pressing buttons!
@globetrance: Does your phone do the same with ALL games? Even 2D ones? The only two actual 3D games that I have freeze the phone, but others, such as Stardunk (the game actually makes the phone boil, especially in online mode), Azkend, Machenarium have no problem!
It is a bit odd...
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I have already fully reset the phone and re-installed .73 from the begining, but the problem is here again!
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Yeah, actually that's what did the trick, but didnt know it 'till then! I was just anxiously pressing buttons!
@globetrance: Does your phone do the same with ALL games? Even 2D ones? The only two actual 3D games that I have freeze the phone, but others, such as Stardunk (the game actually makes the phone boil, especially in online mode), Azkend, Machenarium have no problem!
It is a bit odd...
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I have already fully reset the phone and re-installed .73 from the begining, but the problem is here again!
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My phone do the same not with all games, but with 80 % of games i've played. No matter HD or 2D. I think angry birds is the only game working fine.
mine gets hot and keeps getting hot when playing on highest brightness
it gets 40C when it gets 40C or 41C it lowers the screen brightness?
i check the settings highest is same as in the middle
never had that it was unresponsive or crashed nope
but it gets HOT
darksherko said:
mine gets hot and keeps getting hot when playing on highest brightness
it gets 40C when it gets 40C or 41C it lowers the screen brightness?
i check the settings highest is same as in the middle
never had that it was unresponsive or crashed nope
but it gets HOT
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Our phones freezing has nothing common with the temperature . Mine is freezing sometimes even @ 30 C. I think the problem is somewhere else, may be in the internal memory?!
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To restart your phone you must press the power-off button + the volum + button for few seconde an you can restart normaly your phone !
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Ive tried that fu*king way alot of time it never works men my phone still cant open!!!
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dragunov said:
Hello ppl!
Yesterday I was flying to Dubai, and desided to "kill" some of my spare time playing the "Mini Motor Racing" game.
Approximatelly after 20 minutes of playing, the screen suddently became unresponsive (no reaction whatsoever), although the game was running normally.
I tried to press the power button to switch off the screen, but it was not working either. Tried to press the cameta button, no result as well. NO command was functioning, not hardware, neither software buttons.
I left the phone to the side for 3-4 minutes (while the game was still running), and noticed that the phone temp had actually falled down a little. Tried the touchscreen, but it was still unresponsive. This time though, the power button worked, so I managed to switch of the game.
I left the device to cool down, and then tried to play the game again, but had the same results (only this time, the phone became responsive about 15+ minutes after I put it aside, and since I have been trying to switch it off without success, I intentionally tried many button combinations, and the only one that worked was vol+, vol-, power pressed simultaneously, which switched off the phone).
I thought that this was some kind of a software/compatibility problem with the game, so I tried to play "Reckless Racing 2". Guess what. THE SAME results...
Anyone else with the same problem, or is it just me?
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me i got thesame problem but when my phone freeze the screen turn off and icant open it even i prees the power bottom and the volume up bottom please help!!!
globetrance said:
Our phones freezing has nothing common with the temperature . Mine is freezing sometimes even @ 30 C. I think the problem is somewhere else, may be in the internal memory?!
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weird.
my screen came unresponsive when phone get heated a lot during playing some HD game for a while...
anyone else ocured this problem or is just me, also take notice i have yellow tint isuse..i will send it in short time to service center...
@electrash:
Yeah, we seem to have the same problem. But this does not occur while playing 2D games (although the device heats up a lot).
Yep, I also have the yellow tint issue, which is getting worse every day.
It seems that ppl having this issue are "rare" to find, and that we are the lucky ones
I will take my SXS for service tomorrow to see what happens.
@globaltrance:
My friend, did you get your Xperia from service? Any news?
12 days have passed and i am still waiting for my phone. Tomorow i am going to check things out, but i think the phone won't be ready within next 20 days.
I think the freezing come cause dalvik vm is low in the build.prop
There is 2 value 32 and 48 Can someone set the 2 value to 64 and try again.
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gm007 said:
I think the freezing come cause dalvik vm is low in the build.prop
There is 2 value 32 and 48 Can someone set the 2 value to 64 and try again.
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I am guessing that this procedure requires rooting, correct?
My SXS is not rooted, and I promised myself NOT to touch this baby, but if you believe that it will work, I'll give it a try!
gm007, do you have such issue with freezing games?
dragunov said:
I am guessing that this procedure requires rooting, correct?
My SXS is not rooted, and I promised myself NOT to touch this baby, but if you believe that it will work, I'll give it a try!
gm007, do you have such issue with freezing games?
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Yes the phone freeze sometimes when I exit a game. we need someone with rooted phone and who play games too much cause I play games not everyday.
I don't remember that the phone freeze after I changed the VM value to 64.
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My phone is not repaired yet. I have to wait more...
Оk folks, i've got my phone now. I'll make some test to check if it's going to freeze again while gaming. I hope not.
Perfect!!!
Let me know how it went. If it worked OK for you, maybe it's time to take my SXS to service for the yellow tint as well!
(Let me know if you get the yellow tint after service)
Ok, the phone is working perfect now, it's stable in games, but i have another problem. I found 4 dead pixels... There's no yellow tint. Their answer about dead pixels was that the pixels must be at least four per square centimeter for any service support. Now i have to wait for more dead pixels, and i hope the next will appear close to each other. Damn i hate this phone... Buying this phone was my biggest mistake.
I got a xperia s this 2012 but not so long time when i play a game (an very nice air plane war game) i forgot whats the title of it but every time i play a high ram usage game it will cause the battery or the devices overheated so i play in front of a electric fan but one time i play just as every time i nomally played the game freeze and the light of the xperia didnt closed but the screen closed and my phone become hotter and hotter finnaly it closed but when i try to open the device it will not open and i remember that my battery is full i need some help please!!!!
Reformulate all you said. I could not understand nothing. Try using commas and full stops.
press and hold the power button and volume up for 10 seconds
I got a xperia s this 2012 but a while ago when i played a game (a very nice air plane war game) i forgot what the title was but every time i play it i get a high RAM usage for the game it will cause the battery to overheat so i tried playing in front of a electric fan but once i played just as regular the game froze and the light of the xperia didn't turn off but the screen went off and the phone become hot and kept getting hotter the phone shutted down but when i try to turn on the device it will not boot and i remember that my battery is full i need some help please!!!!
fixed the story no commas or else
Now I understood a little more. Well, I don't know. If the device had freezed, you just have to do what the other but said. But if turned of and don't turn in again, I don't know what to do
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Or volume up and power for 15 second to do a hard reset, shut down your device
My screen is black and it doesnt showing anything but i can unlock it(i hear the unlock sound). I tried flashing a stock firmware and it didnt help.
Does someone know how to fix it?
hardware
So it looks as a hardware problem, mabe with backlight of the display.
What was the last thing that you were doing before that problem (phone fall down, get wet, modify some libs, reload firmware)?
HI
See this, I have the same problem, and my phone is back to consumers service im moment
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1939771&highlight=wake
or this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29925139
in case, I try to flash every Rom and the same problem.
I think, the only chance, is to change the motherboard......
good luck, I have no Ray more since 1 month
sorry for my bad english
simon80bl said:
So it looks as a hardware problem, mabe with backlight of the display.
What was the last thing that you were doing before that problem (phone fall down, get wet, modify some libs, reload firmware)?
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I flashed jj hybrid rom 3.2 and phone got wet a bit but i put the phone on warm and after a half an hour phone turned off and start vibrating.Day after i turned it on and i noticed that touchscreen is working but its black
luka09 said:
I flashed jj hybrid rom 3.2 and phone got wet a bit but i put the phone on warm and after a half an hour phone turned off and start vibrating.Day after i turned it on and i noticed that touchscreen is working but its black
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hi mate, Do you always play games while you charging your phone? I think that is the cause of the problem, i had a blank screen problem too, but its not really bad bcoz when i push the on/off button on the top then push it again it will display the screen like a normal.And i notice this problem happened to me since i addicted to play a virtual tennis, i play till the battery drain and connected the charger and keep playing the game, after couple of day, then i got this problem. And one more thing, while i playing any games, i always used the home button to reply sms i got then i push the home button again to get back to the game i played.
ponext said:
hi mate, Do you always play games while you charging your phone? I think that is the cause of the problem, i had a blank screen problem too, but its not really bad bcoz when i push the on/off button on the top then push it again it will display the screen like a normal.And i notice this problem happened to me since i addicted to play a virtual tennis, i play till the battery drain and connected the charger and keep playing the game, after couple of day, then i got this problem. And one more thing, while i playing any games, i always used the home button to reply sms i got then i push the home button again to get back to the game i played.
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its not working screen is still black
I have run into these issues several times. They seem to be related, but I can't say for sure.
Every now and then while I'm actively using the phone, 1/2 the screen will go away and the phone will be unresponsive. If I shut off the screen, then turn it back on, it usually clears up. Sometimes the screen won't come back on. It stays off no matter what buttons I press. So I put it on the charger, that triggers the screen turning on and everything is back to normal (the battery is always over 50% or more at this point). Yesterday this got to a point of happening several times in 1/2 hour, so I ended up rebooting to see if it would clear it up. This issue did not come back since then.
On a similar note, I was playing a game this morning in a dark room with the brightness turned all the way down. I was being very active in interacting with the screen. Every now and then the screen would go black, except for the notification bar. I could still see that (time and statuses of things running). The screen would not respond to any touches, so I would shut the screen off and turn it back on and all would be good. This happened 2-3 times over a 45 min period. I play this game quite often, but not usually in the dark and often not as actively as I was doing. My resolution is set in the middle (FHQ+ I think it's called).
Has anyone else run into anything like this?
This S9+ snapdragon through Verizon just seems to be plagued with so many minor issues. I've never had a new phone with this many problems.
Brokk said:
I have run into these issues several times. They seem to be related, but I can't say for sure.
Every now and then while I'm actively using the phone, 1/2 the screen will go away and the phone will be unresponsive. If I shut off the screen, then turn it back on, it usually clears up. Sometimes the screen won't come back on. It stays off no matter what buttons I press. So I put it on the charger, that triggers the screen turning on and everything is back to normal (the battery is always over 50% or more at this point). Yesterday this got to a point of happening several times in 1/2 hour, so I ended up rebooting to see if it would clear it up. This issue did not come back since then.
On a similar note, I was playing a game this morning in a dark room with the brightness turned all the way down. I was being very active in interacting with the screen. Every now and then the screen would go black, except for the notification bar. I could still see that (time and statuses of things running). The screen would not respond to any touches, so I would shut the screen off and turn it back on and all would be good. This happened 2-3 times over a 45 min period. I play this game quite often, but not usually in the dark and often not as actively as I was doing. My resolution is set in the middle (FHQ+ I think it's called).
Has anyone else run into anything like this?
This S9+ snapdragon through Verizon just seems to be plagued with so many minor issues. I've never had a new phone with this many problems.
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As a followup, I think I have found the problem. It seems to be with a product called Game Tuner. It can black out the screen while leaving the app running in the background. I think it is buggy. Doesn't seem to be a way to shut it off though.
Brokk said:
As a followup, I think I have found the problem. It seems to be with a product called Game Tuner. It can black out the screen while leaving the app running in the background. I think it is buggy. Doesn't seem to be a way to shut it off though.
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I was able to uninstall, then install an older version of Game Tuner and the problem that was easiest to reproduce was fixed. Hopefully this will prevent the weird 1/2 screen thing as well.