[Q] LG Optimus 2x / G2X rebooting issue: fixed or not? - LG Optimus 2x

Hi peeps,
Just wondering if the update LG released really has fixed the rebooting issues or not. Can we have a show of hands from 2X owners? Thanks

haven't got the update yet but mine doesn't freezes.

which update ?

Poll is pointless as LG has not yet released the update which should fix these issues
They have only released a baseband update
The update to fix reboot and bsod issues are currently being tested at all european carriers, and will be released within the next 2 weeks (week 23-24) if all tests are ok.

well...this was a waste of time All this time i thought they already released the update. My bad

Mine freezes once at all, it was about 35°C in bus, and played dungeon defenders... I would love to my freeze cuz its heating not really, I have many friends with this phone and i also have it and we dont have this issue, so i dont know whats with ppl that got it, Maybe we are jst lucky

V10C was good for me
tried the firmware at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035041
BIN_LGP990AT-00-V10c-525-05-JUN-28-2011+0 from STARHUB
sofar good, LG Optimus has not rebooted or reset.
I use the update procedure by Paul with smartflash using the starhub V10c
backed up all my data with Titanium backup and contacts with Yahoo mail.
got all my data restored except for SMS.
sofar good no reboots and the battery doesnt overheat, infact the battery temperature is at a constant 23 degrees celsius now. measured with various battery monitoring software. eg Battery Monitor 3 - Ohanasiha corp ver 3.3, Elixir 1.12.2

what about while charging? I'm using MCr fr.19 and didn't experience any reboots or crashes. Except when I was charging and at e same time running heavy apps such as gps nav app.
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My phone rebooted a few times yesterday. I'm running CM7 #84, baseband 0622 (the original one) and vorkkernel. Yesterday evening as a matter of fact, rebooted about 3-4 times in about an hour, and then hasnt rebooted since. No idea why.

I only get reboots/freezes when I force it.
Etc. opening filemanager and then usb storage at the same time makes it freeze, and i can reproduce it with few heavy apps.
Besides this, no crashes or problems what so ever.
My previous O2X was dog****, bettery couldnt even last 2 hours while in sleep mode. Next day i got an exchange phone, and I've been happy ever after

i don't have reboot issue, and i think the v10d upgrade is great. i use ESA rom, unfortunately i have one issue regarding the stock browser after upgrade, it always close it self does anyone have this issue after upgrade the rom??

Can anyone suggest a good way to debug this rebooting issue I have? Is it likely to be a hardware issue?

Haven't got any reboots since last update, V10c version. Still waiting GB though. :/

I'm on cm7, last nightly, and I don't have this problem anymore...it is very stable....baseband 502, kernel vorkKernel
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I got stock 10c and it just rebooted after about 250 hours uptime.
Good but not good enough.
I still cannot enable pin code on restart because of this. Irritating!
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stable as a rock
with CM latest nightlies (O2X V88 since yesterday), baseband 622 (+ RIL 622) & vork [email protected]
Note that I only experienced a few problems with the original ROM.

With V10C, 622 radio
Same here had a reboot after 280 hours uptime :-(
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[Poll] How often does your 2x reboot/gets SOD ?

i am truly sorry about srating a new thread (poll) on this, but i didnt find out how to change the poll options... >.<
thanks for the feedback, definatelly gona get this phone now at last lol
Once a day or something, randomly. Sometimes I can go days without any reboots, sometimes it happens a few times a day.
And LG just postponed the fix... lol
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Since using custom roms like Modaco rom ( tried fr12 and 17 and both where realy good and very stabel roms ) or cyanogenmod (.31 better battery life then modaco ) i didnt had one freez or something like that. My O2X runs very well and smooth.
I had a lot of problems with the Stockroms ( Vodafone Germany) like freezes, bootloops, batterydrain etc...
greetings
3 times a day on stock Rom.
My second handset totaly stock 1 bsod in 3 week look at the up time
Never
many weeks with many ROM changes!
Meltus said:
Never
many weeks with many ROM changes!
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How often do you use WIFI and how long when using?
Never had it with stock rom, once with custom rom. I bought two months ago.
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The poll should be changed this way:
- 10-20 times (or more) per day
- 5-10 times per day
- 1-5 times per day
- 1-5 times per week
- Never
If the phone got problem, it will always freeze.
that mean, the phone will NEVER work stably for the whole week (in case of you got problem phone)
My phone reboots time to time... can't pinpoint a reason though
1.no random reboots
2. no backlightbleeding or something else
3. @ 1500 Mhz got only 57° after 10 minutes of stress testing
I´m a lucky men with a good phone
Well i voted 0 reboots but right now i had something strange that was a reboot... i'm standing next to my phone and it was on and ok. Next i pressed power to make a call and it was asking for my simcard pin. So i guess it rebooted but didnt made any sound .... is this the usual random reboot?
nunomeneses said:
Well i voted 0 reboots but right now i had something strange that was a reboot... i'm standing next to my phone and it was on and ok. Next i pressed power to make a call and it was asking for my simcard pin. So i guess it rebooted but didnt made any sound .... is this the usual random reboot?
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well from what i know it could be it, but hey, basically ALL phones have some reboots every once in a while.
for how long have you had your phone ?
I have the phone since monday and i had 2 times the simcard pin asking but the 1st i thought it was me but can see it wasnt ...
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Something will auto reboot or shutdown and no reason. But changed custom ROM was fix the reboot bug, however, the phone also always auto shot off. Waiting v10e, hope can fix all issue.
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mine never reboots.
and the Poll is weird...
1 time per week? make it 2-3 times per week. cause 1 time per week can't really justify anything.
Same here, mine never reboots.
Owned the phone since release.
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I got frozen state i think twice in 2 weeks. Last one was today. But also twice i got forced reboot, since GSM module simply lost signal and was not reacting till restart.
So if ~40% of O2x users here don't suffer from issues, wouldn't that indicate that there isn't really a problem with the firmware? Rather it would indicate that there are defective O2x units being sold.
Ergo, if the defect is indeed due to a hardware problem, then any "fix" that LG releases is a workaround to the hardware issue - and not true remedy. The only remedy to a hardware issue would be a replacement.
Just something to think about - for all those waiting for LG's magical "fix".

[Q] Optimus Black warming problem

Hi guys,
my phone is warming after a short time playing (angry birds, modern combat, or other games), or web browsing, or when I using a navigation app for a half an hour or more (igo or sygic aura). In this case I have to remove the battery because the phone is freezing and doesn't respond. I can feel a very hot area in the back, next to the camera led (I suppose the processor is there).
Does anybody else have a problem like this?
I have the v10a soft, I cannot upgade it because my phone can't find any update via pc suite or fota.
If I could find a solution for this and the video rating problem, it could be the best pfone for me
baseband: XMM6160
Kernel: 2.6.32
Build number: FRG83G
soft: v10a
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english
try to install a costum rom.maybe that will help you.i had the same problems with my phone..usually after i made a call.i sold that phone and bought another OB.
Isnt that normal for playing games? Mine gets hot too when playing angry bords but i thought thats normal as the cpu has to work more. The same when watching video
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yep, but what about navigation? When I'm going to a long trip I can't use it becausse of freezing...
Most android devices have this prob. Maybe p970 has all plastic body so the heat can't be distributed well.
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lesp4ul said:
Most android devices have this prob. Maybe p970 has all plastic body so the heat can't be distributed well.
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maybe, but I had a motorola defy before this (same os and nav. apps), and it was working well, without warming
I know that phone is much "stronger", but I think my Optimus warming is not acceptable. It is not just hot, it is freezing.
airsheep said:
It is not just hot, it is freezing.
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hehe, i understand what you mean but that's kind of a funny expression, hot and cold at the same time!
but i don't have that problem that apps freeze except on occasion the browser hangs when i'm on some websites with flash (flash is the root of all evil!) so it might be something wrong with your device.
My OB heats quite a lott when charging but oyjerwisr it is ok.
Have uou tried yo underclock with CPU utility?
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Not too sure. I don't use navigation apps, but I do have a custom rom. It does feel a little warm after constantly playing Angry Birds, but not when I'm surfing the web (maybe coz I'm only using wifi?)
I am currently testing an LG OB P970, but I have an issue with it: the phone starts heating up and the battery is drained very fast. This is the typical scenario for my problem:
- if I use the WiFi or 2g/3g connection everything is ok
- when I make the first voice call: the phone starts heating up
- after I end the call: the phone remains warm long after the voice call was ended
- starting with the voice call initiation moment, the battery is draining very fast: 1% each minute in standby (while the phone is being charged!)
- battery temperature reaches 39-40 celsius (although the most warm area is NOT the battery but the upper part of the phone, right under the LG logo - probably the RF module is "guilty")
- I have to reboot the phone to stop this effect
- everything start over again if I make a voice call...
I must mention that this phone is a demo phone and that it was intended for testing purposes. I has a "not for sale" label printed on the body, under the back cover. The IMEI is something like 35xxxxx00000001. So it's no surprise that it has problems.
The phone came with the V10 firmware version. I've updated to this version:
- V20N_00 rooted version (upgraded from a rooted V10 by using CWM and NOT the official .kdz file since I was unable to root the official V20N_00)
- build number GRJ22
- baseband XMM6160
- android 2.3.4
- kernel 2.6.35
My mission is to determine if the heating issue is caused by a software
problem (solvable) or because of the 'probably' early hardware revision (NOT solvable).
I need answers to the following questions:
- is the firmware for the Radio module embedded in the main firmware of the phone?
- if the radio rom is not embedded in the main rom, then where can I find a software update for the Radio module?
thank you for your support
For me this looks like defective hardware. My OB gets hot only when I'm chargin from the socked and watch youtube - back of the phone gets very hot.
Yes, I have a confirmation that it is a hardware problem for the demo/sample phones. Now I'm running CM7 but I still have the same issue.
Well until recently i was using the stock kernel and stock ROM but after i got my OB rooted and got CM in it,it has started to heat after i play games(in 30 mins) or while browsing.
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Defy really hot OB warm
My OB heats up to around 45 degrees Celsius but that's better than my Motorola Defy I had that would heat up to around 65 degrees celsius, go into emergency calls only, constantly freeze and restart from just browsing using cellular data.
what rom are you using?
Hello.
Had the same problem, and sent the phone to repair under warranty.
I'll be picking it tomorrow. I've been informed that a ribbon (screen connector maybe?) has been replaced inside the phone. I'll try to gather more info when picking it up and i'll know if this fixed the issue or not.
BG
Hello again.
Well, the phone seems fixed, but...
After receiving it, the same problem was occurring and the call quality seemed worst with some "white noise" on the background.
Returned to shop, complained, they took the phone inside for half an hour and when they returned me the phone, claiming they had done nothing more, the white noise was gone and the phone never got over 30 degrees Celsius, even in long calls...
So i guess it really was an hardware issue.
BG
it's normal on OB, try to free RAM on closing background running processes
Girl friend tooks hers back over heating problems. Koodo put a new battery in and all is good.

Random lockups

Hi all.
Been playing around with a 2X since launch of the device and never had an issue until 3 days ago... I was on Cyanogenmod RC1 with 218Ril. All of a sudden the device locks up with the touch buttons and the screen on. After 3 or 4 battery pulls it will start back up.
I‘ve tried different RILs and 3 different Cyanogenmod releases and still experience the issue. I‘m now running BlazingDragon2 with the leaked Gingerbread RIL and only get the issue if the facebook application is installed, or randomly when its on the wall charger. Using the charger in my car is OK.
Any idea what might be the cause of the issue?
Cheers in advance
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Rooting my phone has turned into a nightmare, can you help me?

Ok firstly I'd like to say I just rooted my phone last week, this was my first time doing it. I decided to do it to get rid of various problems (I was led to believe rooting fixes everything). Some of them went away, some of them stayed, and new ones came up with the rooting.
I was coming a stock LG Optimus 2X P990 with Android 2.3.4 (had been updated because the phone was originally older 2.2.2 I think.. I'm not sure), and rooted to Nova HD Rom (ICS 4.0.4) using this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1508492. Oh also, I'm using SPB Shell launcher.
Problem #1 : Signal interuption. This one is probably the worst problem I have. I rely on my phone a lot as I don't have a ground line I need it to catch all my calls. About 2-3times a day I'll check my phone and I'll have no network. Sometimes the signal bars are frozen, they don't flutuate as I move to different areas. Sometimes there's an X on the signal logo. Either way, where I go inside/outside.. my phone can't get network. At first I tried to activate/de-activate 2G, turning on/off airplane mode to somehow reset the damn thing, but it just won't pickup. Then I tried a reboot, after the reboot.. still stuck at no signal. Then I finnally found how to fix it.. a full power OFF, and back ON. That's right each time I peak at my phone and it seems to be doing this, I need to make a complete shut down to wake his ass off.
Problem #2 : Battery drain. Well after days of reading on the subject apparently rooting my G2X was gonna improve it's battery life. Result is : no difference. I've bought a bunch of apps to try and keep track on what's wrong (BetterBatteryStats, Battery Monitor Pro). Just this morning I unplug my fully charged phone at 7:00:AM, and by 1PM (6hours later) it was done. There was about 1½hours of awake time, and about 50mins of screen on (perhaps half of this was using my 3G internet with various apps), no SMS or Calls. Usually if the phone is kept sleeping it can last about 24hours, do you guys think this is normal battery drain?
Problem #3 : Phone Clock off? Last week I was woken up by my alarm in the morning to find out I was about 40minutes late. Only happened once so far. I checked to see if I had set my alarm incorrectly.. nope, then I saw my phone time.. It was was OFF by 40mins... WTF? I went in the options and everything was fine... "Automatic date & Time" checked. I unchecked/checked it, and it didn't fix it, I had to reboot the phone for the time to come back to normal. Now hopefully that was only a one time problem, only now I have to live with the stress every morning my phones time might be wrong and I'll be late for work.
Problem #4 : Seriously where the hell is my FM radio. I use to listen a lot of FM radio before I rooted my phone , this is a feature I enjoyed. After rooting the FM radio application was gone, I said what the hell I'll just get another app from google play. NOPE, not a single FM radio app (that works). I tried a bunch of stuff, read on the forums and searched google for like 3hours and couldn't believe how much work I had put into such a simple thing.. this is so infuriating. The next day I kept looking but was never able to get anything working.. Oh and every where I look people say "lol why use FM radio when you can stream 1gazillion radio with given apps or whatnot". DAMMMMMMNN CAUSE MAYBE I DON'T HAVE INFINITE DATA PLAN? (In fact I have only 500megs/month). Seriously I'm so mad about this.
Problem #5 : Can't copy MKV files?! . I swear to got now that I rooted my phone each time I try to do something, something ****S UP. I just wanted to plug in my phone and copy some episodes of a serie I watch. Each time I tried copying the files : BAM "Windows Explorer has stopped working". So after another 2hours or so of trials and errors I figured the damn thing out . If I try to copy anything, it works. If I try to copy a *.MKV file, explorer crash. A solution I found is renaming my files to *.****YOU and then copy it and rename it back to MKV after it's done copying. Then I wondered, what if I rename a txt file to mkv, will it crash when being copied? Nope won't crash. So it's not just the extension? But why does it work if I remove the mkv extension.. oh good god how the hell am I supposed to understand anything.
Problem #6 : Can't play that MKV file?. Hey I finnally copied my file, the next day at work during my break I open my phone to watch it and.... well I realised there wasn't any video player included in my ROM, so luckly this time I found apps on the market that could play it. I used MX Player. Oh alright time to watch it? NOPE The video is all laggy and skipping frames like hell. Also audio is off and about each 10sec it mutes as if it was re-syncing the sound. Later the next evening I wasted another couple hours figuring this one out. What comes out often : they say use Dice Player instend! LOL Funny! The damn app won't even open my file!.
Playing with my phone I opened an APP I've pushased : System tuner pro. Looking at the CPU stats I noticed the first CPU was at 1.01Ghz, and the second one was at 216mhz? What the hell? I thought isn't that suposed to be 2x1ghz dual core?. So I cranked up the thing up to 1.01Ghz just like the other CPU, opened MX Player and already my video was almost watchable (a definitive improvement). I went back in System tuner pro, and overclocked the damn thing (even tough I had no idea if it was safe to do so) to 1.4ghz on both cores. Another significant improvement, this time when set this way I could watch my video! And the app onlyl reports a 5Celcius increase so I guess it's fine.
My only problem/question about that is why does each time I reboot my phone does the damn thing turns back to 216mhz? In fact why was it set to 216mhz in the first place? Considering all the problems I have and that I reboot my phone about 10times a day, I can't just go in system tuner the re-set my CPU settings each time?
Hopefully you guys can help me.. I'm exhausted I''ve been searching this forum and the web for the last couple days, I have like 1000tabs open in chrome. Btw this forum is a goldmine for information but damn it's a lot of reading.
Thanks in advance for your help
First, I'd like to say that I admire your keenness to detail in writing all of your issues down. Thing is, most of the problems you have are mainly because you flashed a modified ICS ROM. ICS roms by themselves are in beta stage, meaning there are some things that people compromise in flashing them (such as the missing FM radio), and you flashed a modified one, which might be the reason for certain power saving features such as your 2nd core down stepping to 216MHz.
Thing is, most of those were discussed in the NOVA ICS thread.
I would recommend flashing the more stable ROMs. Temasek's CM7, DjangoManouche by Carburano, Nostalgia by Topogigi (Froyo ROM) are the ones that pop-up in mind.
For a panic button, you can do a smartflash and it will restore all partitions to stock LG (wiping all user data of course).
Anyway, read the threads carefully. The opening posts and the last 5 pages at least. In order to get a feel of user experiences with the ROM.
Goodluck and happy flashing!
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I also noticed that you mentioned you have a G2X? But you also mention having a P990. If you're on a G2X, you have a different forum section my friend. This forum section is specifically for the O2X.
Flashing an O2X ROM on a G2X may result in softbricks.
(Please disregard my advise about ROM choices if you're have an LG P999 G2X, those are all intended for the LG P990 O2X.)
yea my mistake when I typed G2x.. I meant O2X.
Thanks for the advice.
If I change my ROM will it wype all my user data again? (sorry im a newb at this)
The ROM itself might not. But I highly recommend you wipe your device since you're moving from 1 version of android (ICS) to another (Froyo or GB).
I'd recommend you CM7 (not CM9) based ROMs but since you need the FM radio, they have none AFAIK.. but you can try stock based ROMs that are still in active developments by the dev. Usually they worked just fine and will fix most of your problems.. again, don't use CM9 based..
Now for the network that is constantly disconnecting in background, this bug is actually introduced (at least for me) after the GB update (i assumed because of the changes LG has made to the baseband). There's no surefire fix for this problem.. try different combinations of basebands and RILs.. stick to whatever works for you
For battery, if you're in constant mobile network, 24 hours standby time is incredible IMO.. our battery is just too low in capacity to make it last any longer than that.. my only advice is minimize the number of apps in your device, because some of them always stay in RAM doing god knows what..
Good luck
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Patbach said:
yea my mistake when I typed G2x.. I meant O2X.
Thanks for the advice.
If I change my ROM will it wype all my user data again? (sorry im a newb at this)
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Yes it will wipe them.. for baseband changes too.. so if you have apps that you'd like to preserve, back them up before flashing anything.. Titanium backup will do the trick, but some instability issues might appear if you choose to just backup and then restore everything up.. so choose all your important apps and leave the rest.. this way if something is wrong with the rom after restore, you can at least pinpoint which app is causing it
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amateru said:
I'd recommend you CM7 (not CM9) based ROMs but since you need the FM radio, they have none AFAIK.. but you can try stock based ROMs that are still in active developments by the dev. Usually they worked just fine and will fix most of your problems.. again, don't use CM9 based..
Now for the network that is constantly disconnecting in background, this bug is actually introduced (at least for me) after the GB update (i assumed because of the changes LG has made to the baseband). There's no surefire fix for this problem.. try different combinations of basebands and RILs.. stick to whatever works for you
For battery, if you're in constant mobile network, 24 hours standby time is incredible IMO.. our battery is just too low in capacity to make it last any longer than that.. my only advice is minimize the number of apps in your device, because some of them always stay in RAM doing god knows what..
Good luck
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CM7 has a working FM radio since late last year.
Just an FYI.
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salisbury_steak said:
CM7 has a working FM radio since late last year.
Just an FYI.
Oh great.. that means you wouldn't mind using CM7.. i just don't bother checking for working FM radio app since long ago
why not try Temasek's kang build? I believe it is still the best stability wise..
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is there ICS Roms which are CM7 Based? I figure might as well have the latest version of android...
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is there ICS Roms which are CM7 Based? I figure might as well have the latest version of android...
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CM 7 is Gingerbread
CM 9 is ICS
The numbers indicate Android's different iterations, so no, you can't
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CM 7 is a fantastic phone, but it has 2 big problems:
-huge battery drain, specially when you enable Wifi!
-sporadic BSODs...specially when the phone is on charging...
Sadly i had to remove CM7 because i use a lot Wifi...i flashed Topogigi's nostalgia now..good rom
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markop90 said:
CM 7 is a fantastic phone, but it has 2 big problems:
-huge battery drain, specially when you enable Wifi!
-sporadic BSODs...specially when the phone is on charging...
Sadly i had to remove CM7 because i use a lot Wifi...i flashed Topogigi's nostalgia now..good rom
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Which both are solved to about 95% by using etana kernel.
In short CM7 is the most feature complete ROM without sacrificing performance on our phones.
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Just to give an update I have changed my ROM to a CM7 based rom like u guys said. Temasek's kang build
Problem 1. Signal interuption : problem is definitly solved.
Problem 2. Battery drain : definite improvement, battery now last at least twice longer
Problem #3 : Phone Clock off? : Didn't get the problem again, so solved.
Problem #4 : Seriously where the hell is my FM radio. : Well I got an FM radio app, but I can't make it work. It doesn't pick up the stations..
Problem #5 : Can't copy MKV files?! : Well this is solved yes and no. If I manage to make my computer detect the damn phone, I can copy whatever I want to. Thing is for some reason I can't seem to be able to plug my phone into Mass Storage mode anymore. It worked a couple of times and all of sudden even tough I didn't change any drivers, my computer just doesn't see the phone anymore. I get a "USB Composite Device" with a yellow "!" mark in my device manager.
I tried a bunch of stuff in the options, rebooting the phone and/or computer, nothing worked. I decided to try reinstalling the rom, and boom right after I pluged it in, the USB Mass storage mode worked. Once again after a couple of times it started doing the same thing (yellow "!" mark in my device manager), and no new drive being detected. This time I'm completly clueless on what's going on, and I have no idea what I can do about it.
I'm currently copying files using Samba Filesharing over Wi-Fi, but sometimes I'd prefer using my USB cable, and I just can't...
New problem!!! : I had my phone at work yesterday and pluged in my headphones to listen to music, start my music and the sound was playing in both my heatphone and phone speakers. I tried unplugging/replugging the headphone, now the sound only worked on the phone speaker. Looked up every phone option possible regarding sound or headphones.. couldn't find nothing. I did a reboot on the device, and bam fixed everything. Couple hours later I re-open my phone for music, same problem occured. Had to reboot the device for the sound to be back in the headphones.
Most problems are fixed, I Guess I'm satisfied, but damn can't everything just work...
JuiceDefender Premium will make it that your device loses 1% every 10 hours if screen is off.
Stock 20Q from LG is free of bugs and full of functions.
Might be a stupid advice,
but you do know that you need your headphones plugged in for FM radio? (they are the actual antenna)
In the settings you can also set your region (e.g. North America or Europe), since the frequencies differ a bit (e.g. Europe uses 0.1MHz 'jumps' and some regions 0.2MHz).
Zorkman said:
Might be a stupid advice,
but you do know that you need your headphones plugged in for FM radio? (they are the actual antenna)
In the settings you can also set your region (e.g. North America or Europe), since the frequencies differ a bit (e.g. Europe uses 0.1MHz 'jumps' and some regions 0.2MHz).
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yea I know all of that don't worry.
The FM radio app is pretty buggy, today I made it worked. Once the app was started with the station selected, I hit the home button then I pulled down the tray and click on the FM app from there. All of sudden I started hearing sound.. it had worked.
Turns out the app is also the source of what is messing my headphones up. When I close and re-open the app, the sound will come out from the phone speaker, and that messes up every sound from the phone then on.
Patbach said:
yea I know all of that don't worry.
The FM radio app is pretty buggy, today I made it worked. Once the app was started with the station selected, I hit the home button then I pulled down the tray and click on the FM app from there. All of sudden I started hearing sound.. it had worked.
Turns out the app is also the source of what is messing my headphones up. When I close and re-open the app, the sound will come out from the phone speaker, and that messes up every sound from the phone then on.
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That FM radio thing is a bug that I haven't heard of actually. When you have the opportunity (or maybe on the next build #94, I'd suggest a full wipe then reflash).

[Q] Galaxy NOTE SOD problems.

My brother's galaxy note have been facing serious sod problems since he bought the phone at Nov 2012. After he faced it the 1st time , he sent to SC and got it back. After 1-2months the problem came again and he asked for my help. I persume it was because the malaysian firmware of the ICS was somewhat unstable from what i read from forums here and there. So i changed the firmware to JB duno from which country when it came out in MAC. After a week or so. The problem reappeared . So I just decided to root and chnge the kernel and also the ROM. Changed the ROM to a stock rom and a kernel. Still the problem persist. I'm out of options. Went to the ****ty SC and the idiots just factory reset the phone and give u back. BUNCH OF RETAR*S . (sorry for my languange)
Hope someone here may help me out with my problem. Thanks a million :laugh:
Check all the apps you have installed maybe you find the bad one whose causing it as you have mentioned it comes after sometime of installing a fresh rom and have you tried any aosp rom maybe that will fix the issue
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abhinav quietly brilliant said:
Check all the apps you have installed maybe you find the bad one whose causing it as you have mentioned it comes after sometime of installing a fresh rom and have you tried any aosp rom maybe that will fix the issue
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I just installed an aosp rom (PA) and I hope it fixes the problem. Well I've seen the amount of apps installed in the note and its jst a quarter the amount I have in the Galaxy S2 and my S2 works like a charm. The note has been giving me headache ever since I got it from my brother. Hope this does solve it , if not I guess its something else maybe hardware
Phone sod twice on paranoid android. FML! Guess im visiting SC tmrw again.
Same problem with me..
My Note 1 has SOD since 1st time bought it..
be patience to install JB --> still SOD
change kernel to SpeedMod 5.3 --> SOD again
change kernel to PhilZ --> sometimes SOD
I have read many information that related with SOD in galnote 1, my opinion it is related with hardware too.. sometimes
or it is related with kernel... it can not wake from deep sleep..
anyone have another better suggestion to cure this ?
if u're using pure stock rom still facing the same problems then definitely is hardware issues!
if ur device still under warranties suggest bring to SC ask them do a thorough check on it n let them know what's going on actually...
Yes, I use stock ROM still has SOD,
so it's hardware issue for sure...
but I will keep the phone for now because sometimes SC doesn't give solution to this..
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Yes, I use stock ROM still has SOD,
so it's hardware issue for sure...
but I will keep the phone for now because sometimes SC doesn't give solution to this..
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Yeah and they will give your phone back only doing a factory reset lol
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I too get this SOD once a week on my GT-N7000
Phone status when this happens:
stock JB(earlier ICS), non-rooted, data connection, wifi, GPS, bluetooth all disabled. Battery mostly above 80%.
Gmail, Google+, Facebook and all other social n/w apps disabled (yes, i am an oldtimer )
During SOD, if a third party calls my number, he hears it ringing, but my handset is dead as dodo (quite dangerous as the calling person may think i am not answering it)
i used to get this when it was on ICS and still getting it after i upgraded to JB.
Most of the time, SOD occurs during wee hours in morning ( i used battery monitor app that logs battery stats every 10 minutes to check the time when this happens).
Sometimes it occurs when the phone is in my jeans back pocket. phone needs a 10 second press on pwr switch to restart it.
Turning off the "power saver" mode seem to reduce the probability of SOD.
i have taken this phone to SC and they re-flashed the JB.
i told the SC chap that i have already done this and couple of factory resets, but he said that they do "much more" than just re-flashing through kies like calibrating camera, bluetooth )
does anyone in the know, know if this is indeed true ?
Thanks
-mprab
updates...
After 2 days of re-flashing at a samsung authorised service center, i got SoD 2 times in a period of 12 hours.
once last night and second time when i was traveling to office.
Last night i installed some bare-minimum apps back after waiting 2 days for any SoD to happen in "stock" condition.
Well.... i did not pay 30K to use the GNote as just a phone, so installed some basic apps (Battery monitor, Bangalore BMTC, RealCalc, GPS Test, ES File explorer and a first time app StatusLogger)
phone went dead at 1:00 am in morning and as usual there was no wakeup alarm.
phone was warm to touch when it was lying dead. The battery which was 96% at 00:30 AM had gone down to 54% at 7:00 AM.
Status logger did not show any loss of GSM signal which might have resulted in phone transmitting at higher power/hunting for signal etc.
The "radio" seemed working, because when i made a call to the dead phone from my landline, i could hear the phone ring instead of expected "phone is switched off" message i was expecting.
So this has to do with application processor going in some infinite loop.
Uninstalling all apps is NOT an option.
anyone know if we can establish any debug connection to phone and know what the hell CPU is up to in this situation ?
any processor logger that will periodically log all the processes running on phone ?
SOD resolved... not a single one since 6 months.
Hey guys, just wanted to share this info with you, I had SOD's like anything and did all freakingly possible things right from flashing roms to kernels, speed up CPU, banging my head in front of the dumb witted morons at samsung service... to get rid of that pain. What helped me was an app called "WAKELOCK" by darken which is merely 72kb in size but works wonders, not a single SOD after that. What u need to do is.... it has a list of presets that makes sure your cpu stays up. You need to select the preset called "partial wake lock" which is at no. 4, and viola...
It ensures that the CPU is running. No SOD ever after. Also, you need to make it autorun on boot from the options. Yea, it does eat up batter a bit more but its definitely manageable. I still need to charge my note only at night.
Just to be sure, I uninstalled it and guess what, SOD returned. So, do try it, I hope it helps...

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