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Photo Gallery Freeze

My phone freezes at times when i open the image gallery.
Just to give more info on the freeze: The phone becomes unresponsive (but if i have music playing, it will continue), after some time, the phone seems to restart, but not in the traditional sense. Like the lock screen will comeback, it will say no service...until it finds service, it will scan the SD cards...but the touch screen will remain completely unresponsive. If i hold the power button, the power off, flight mode and silent mode context menu will appear but i can't do anything because the screen wont response to my touch. The only way i can get it working again is removing the battery, which is annoying.
Is anyone experiencing this issue with the image gallery?
Also, when i send an image to my friend (BB user) it takes like 20 hours before he receives it, this isnt an exaggeration. I sent an image at 3pm, he got it at 8am. This is an issue for me. The image size was less than 200kb.

Need more info, like what rom are you using?
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cappysw10 said:
Need more info, like what rom are you using?
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Im using the rogers stock rom. (Android 2.1), normally i would just use a different gallery, but honestly i really like the one the phone came with. The phone is rooted and i applied OCLF. Other than that, there are no major modifications.

I have the same problem, it used to just lag a little bit but just now it completely froze. I had to take out the battery to restart. Should we be worried?
Any help from experienced users would new wonderful! Thanks!

same problem, rogers stock 2.1
now that i know i am not the only one with this problem, i think there may be something wrong with the rogers rom itself, and not my phone.
About 10-20% of the time it will just fail to load the gallery and freeze on me forcing a hard restart

stavs said:
same problem, rogers stock 2.1
now that i know i am not the only one with this problem, i think there may be something wrong with the rogers rom itself, and not my phone.
About 10-20% of the time it will just fail to load the gallery and freeze on me forcing a hard restart
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Yea this has been a huge problem for me and a real annoyance. Im just waiting until my exams are over so i can figure out how to get off stock rom and flash something we a working gallery. Its embarrassing when ur trying to show off ur phone and it freezes just by opening up the gallery

[Q] Notification bar not working after froyo upgrade?

I just updated my UK unbranded galaxy s to froyo (JPO) using kies (no hacks, just worked).
I'm now running into an issue with the notifications bar. It was working, then I went to the market and updated some apps, and now it keeps stuffing up. It starts off working fine then something happens, and after that I try to drag it down and it goes down a few pixels then stops. I have to hit the back button to close it in order to continue using the phone.
I thought it was launcher pro having problems with it, so uninstalled and went back to touchwiz. After doing that, it worked for a little while, but now its started it again.
Has anyone got any advice? I'd rather not have to hard reset if possible...
ps, I tried searching but couldn't find anything

I have the same on my international I9000 (JPO) every now and then, also usually after installing apps. Restarting the phone fixes it, but when it happens it's pretty annoying.
Here's assuming that you, like me, didn't wipe your SGS after upgrading to 2.2? I can't be bothered to reinstall everything right now, but I would speculate that after a wipe the issue is gone.

cthonctic said:
I have the same on my international I9000 (JPO) every now and then, also usually after installing apps. Restarting the phone fixes it, but when it happens it's pretty annoying.
Here's assuming that you, like me, didn't wipe your SGS after upgrading to 2.2? I can't be bothered to reinstall everything right now, but I would speculate that after a wipe the issue is gone.
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yeah I didn't wipe it, was really hoping to keep everything in tact, but this is annoying me so I'll probably end up wiping it unless someone has a solution for us

this has also been happening to me, anybody got a fix for it? i wiped the phone initially and then backed up the apps with titanium backup which might also be a reason. hoping theres an easier fix around this though!

So even wiping it resulted in the same issue? bugger

I'm also getting this. I did a factory reset before upgrading, so I don't think that's it.
I've found with auto rotation on and touch pro, you can grab the bar, rotate the phone and it will show you just enough of the notification bar to select what you want.
Is there any way to force close the notification bar and reload it with out restarting the phone?
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I've gotten this problem a couple of times too. What's interesting to note is that the bar comes down fully and without problem if you activate it via <menubutton>->Notifications.
But of course, that's not available when you're within another program; only works from the desktop. So it doesn't really make this problem less annoying.

orcrist0 said:
I've gotten this problem a couple of times too. What's interesting to note is that the bar comes down fully and without problem if you activate it via <menubutton>->Notifications.
But of course, that's not available when you're within another program; only works from the desktop. So it doesn't really make this problem less annoying.
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ha, yeah thats the same for me too, at least I can see the notifications if I really want to!!

I'm having the same problem with my i9000 with JPM. I upgraded with kies, installed voodoo lagfix and my notification bar freezes every so often. Also screen wont rotate anymore which is a real pain.

I am having the same problem with my galaxy s after upgrading to froyo. I upgraded using the reg edit hack as the phone was branded to 3 in the uk but got tired of waiting for them to release froyo.
Thought it might have something to do with that but i did a factory reset after the upgrade and it hasnt solved the problem.
very strange! any suggestions would be gladly received...

alontorres said:
I'm having the same problem with my i9000 with JPM. I upgraded with kies, installed voodoo lagfix and my notification bar freezes every so often. Also screen wont rotate anymore which is a real pain.
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That's interesting because someone told me that installing Voodoo fixed the issue for him. He probably just hasn't run it for long enough then...

I had this, factory reset solved it. Just remember to back up anything important.

Do you have advanced task killer installed? Deinstall it (deactivate also would be enough)and install the version for froyo from the app store that made the trick for mine
best wishes gb
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Same problem. Usually experience after updating an app from market or when the market app update available notification comes app. I click on it. Usually it is Angry Birds. I don't update that. And then I start experiencing this problem.
Did a factory reset after flashing JP6. No lagfix. No advancedtask killer.
Have to reboot each time this happens.

please test this:if the notification bar is not working start the task manager kill one app after another and test the nb then make a ram clean and test it again
we could find out if an app is a reason(but i can't imagine it could be an app beside of an task killer) so we will have to further search for a reason (perhaps i will find something in the cernel differences (i am a developer but not for android and not kernel stuff at all)but i doubt that one too )) atm i am kind of idealess sorry
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I had this exact same problem for a few days. It would irritate the **** out of me. I read somewhere that restarting the phone might work. And it did for me. So it might be worth doing. Just restart your phone, no factory reset or anything, a simple reboot.
I'm not saying this will work, just that it fixed it for me.

gbohm said:
please test this:if the notification bar is not working start the task manager kill one app after another and test the nb then make a ram clean and test it again
we could find out if an app is a reason(but i can't imagine it could be an app beside of an task killer) so we will have to further search for a reason (perhaps i will find something in the cernel differences (i am a developer but not for android and not kernel stuff at all)but i doubt that one too )) atm i am kind of idealess sorry
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I was in the middle of a skype call just now. Skype decided to freeze. Gave me an option of force close or report it. I did a force close.
And then notification bar decided to not work. There was no app running in the task bar so I cleaned the ram. Still didn't work. Had to reboot.

aditya104 said:
Same problem. Usually experience after updating an app from market or when the market app update available notification comes app.
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It happens for me with the market as well.

smth has to cause it can u confirm that it does happen in large percentace of cases after force closes or does it even happen randomly? does somebody know a good log programm which we could run on ur galaxys so we can really see what happened right befor the nb doesn't work anymore(i think we need program activity and deamons running......)
sorry for my bad english it's getting too late and it isn't my native language...
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it is the notifications that cause it. Skype was also running in the notification bar and market update also comes up in the notification bar. When any of those crashes and are force closed. Notification bar gets screwed.

Touchscreen slowness

Ok so i am trying to determine what my problem is.. here are the symptoms. When i try and end a call i sometimes have to press multiple times or deliberately press and hold the end button and sometimes it doesn't respond pretty much at all. Also i am using go launcher and when i press icons that are in the dock bar they have the same issues. I also have similar issues when i text it's really annoying so is anyone else have similar issues?
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Same here. I've noticed that to hang up it takes a deliberate double tap. Also, the screen will sometimes become inoperable requiring a reboot. This has happened three times since first getting it. One note if that out happened twice stock, and once with decrapped 1.1
Any body else seen this?
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I haven't seen it anywhere else, but I have seen the double tap on the end button to end a call. Seems to happen frequently. A "feature?"
Either way, it's annoying.
Running Go Launcher as well.

To me, it seems like it takes the screen a really long time to wake up from being off, in all cases - for example, dial voicemail and put the phone to your ear. When you get the prompt to put in your PIN, take it away and the screen comes on, try to punch the dialpad button immediately and it just won't work. I tried it as I was writing this and had to triple tap the button.
Same thing with the lockscreen (still on the stock lockscreen for now). The screen will wake up and it takes a second or two to even start to register finger swipes. It's really annoying...
Speaking of phone lockup, I received a call a few days ago and the phone froze - I couldn't answer the call, or do anything, all the while the phone just kept ringing. Had to pull the battery. I'm still on the stock ROM.

Me too! I had a call and it froze. Battery pull as well. Also, forgot to mention I am using open home launcher.
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Yep it's a bug either in LG's function to turn on and off the screen in Android, or the kernel drivers that enable/disable the touchscreen. There is about a 1 second delay to it.
I discovered this lovely bug while porting the AOSP lockscreen mod.
I'll run some more tests to see whether it's an android bug or a kernel bug. I'm betting it's android (something like the screen being turned on before the touch controller has had time to reinitialize itself, or something more complicated like a race condition of some kind...)
Either way, with cm7 around the corner, I don't think it's that big of a bug

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Either way, with cm7 around the corner, I don't think it's that big of a bug
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Errrr Are you sure the Revo is getting CyanogenMod 7? Where did you hear this and more importantly when will we get it?

AndroidCraig said:
Errrr Are you sure the Revo is getting CyanogenMod 7? Where did you hear this and more importantly when will we get it?
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Since he is the one working on getting it ported over, I think he has the best idea, and the only rule of cm is no asking for etas ;-)
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blank screen but phone ON!!!!

Has anyone had this issue?
I have tried a few different ROM's and have had this problem on all, the phone will work but sometimes when the phone is locked and asleep you cannot get the screen back.
If you ring the phone it will ring but you can't wake the phone up (the screen is off).
If I then pull the battery and reboot all is well until the next time, which is random.
I will remove all my programs to see if there is one of them causing the issue, I don't believe it is the rom as it has happened on a few of them.

Have you wiped your phone when flashing the different roms? I've had it sometimes, i think it could be a ram management issue...

Talon26 said:
Have you wiped your phone when flashing the different roms? I've had it sometimes, i think it could be a ram management issue...
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Yeh, I always do a factory/wipe, dalvik cache wipe.
I think it might have been TW4.5, I did some research and installed TW4 Manager I then updated TW4.5 to the latest Version. So far it hasn't happened yet but i'll give it a couple more days.
Thanks.

Yh ive been reading and TW4 generally accelerates the issue (because its a ram hog? not sure i dont use it) Im currently using Golauncher with system tweaks, but was told that nemus launcher and system tweaks was a better combination... Seems to be working, ive had less force closes or issues of that type

it's the proximity sensor. needs replaced.

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it's the proximity sensor. needs replaced.
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I don't think so...
The proximity sensor is only used when your in a call. It should not have any effect when he tries to wake it from his pocket after a while...

Well i am on 2.3.5 and using golauncher and never had any problems. Still my best guess is the damn sensor. On samsung apps there is an app called sensors i think and that app tells u what is working inside the phone.
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If I recall correctly yeah I had this issue once on JVR and once on JVS and now on JVT I got it a few hours ago
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pch.radu said:
Well i am on 2.3.5 and using golauncher and never had any problems. Still my best guess is the damn sensor. On samsung apps there is an app called sensors i think and that app tells u what is working inside the phone.
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Sounds like a great app but seeing as the screen doesn't turn on that app might as well be useless in this case

No screen turns on, its just when it turns off it wont come back on...

I have the same issue with my SGS. Running stock version of JVT.
Wake up in the morning to phone alarm but screen is black. Pushing home button or any other button does nothing. Had this happen a few times now and only solution is to pull the battery

In order to help you we need to know what you are running currently and what you have tried to resolve the issue so far, can please make as detailed account as possible

It's seems that everybody have this same issue. I have exactly this same - phone is working - buttons are lit, but the screen is blank. I'm on 2.3.5 stock firmware.
Trying to solve this I already did wipe and even formatted the internal storage.
What's more interesting is that this same happens to my wife's Galaxy Mini (S5570) !!.
I can remember though that when my phone was on v2.2 about a year ago it was working ok.
small tip:
What you can do instead of pulling the battery out is to press the power button for about 10 seconds ( phone will turn off) release and the press it again for few seconds to start again.

You don`t need to press power again, just keep it pressed until you see the samsung bootlogo.
Mine has started to blackout too, maybe it`s related to some installed software. It worked ok still few months ago. My galaxy mini is working ok tho, has only few market apps installed.
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poyda69 said:
Has anyone had this issue?
I have tried a few different ROM's and have had this problem on all, the phone will work but sometimes when the phone is locked and asleep you cannot get the screen back.
If you ring the phone it will ring but you can't wake the phone up (the screen is off).
If I then pull the battery and reboot all is well until the next time, which is random.
I will remove all my programs to see if there is one of them causing the issue, I don't believe it is the rom as it has happened on a few of them.
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The bug is called SOD (Sleep of Death). Apparently a Gingerbread only bug (I think deep sleep was introduced in Gingerbread).
Your phone is going into deep sleep, and can't be woken agian.
I don't know if there is a fix for it, but you could try search for SOD on these forum pages.

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The bug is called SOD (Sleep of Death). Apparently a Gingerbread only bug (I think deep sleep was introduced in Gingerbread).
Your phone is going into deep sleep, and can't be woken agian.
I don't know if there is a fix for it, but you could try search for SOD on these forum pages.
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i had this issue on cm7 with neo kernel, but sometimes it responded after some time
i think its black magic made by apple and will kill our cats

As Herman76 said, this is the SOD, I used to get them quite frequently. I created a thread with a possible workaround. So far haven't got any new SODs.

[Q] Black screen after receiving/makeing a call

Problem is very simple. My phone's screen is sick & tiered off my calls.
Black screen immediately after i push "call" button (dialing up)
OR
after i push green "accept" button on the screen.
Any ideas?
Samsung GT-I9000
Firmware:2.1-upgrade 1
kernel: 2.6.29; [email protected] #2
Build number: ECLAIR.Xwjm2

I think the proximity sensor of your phone is playing up. The phone thinks it is already very close to or already touching your ear.
Unfortunately i think there is no way to disable this function. You can just press the home button if you want the screen to appear again.

GrippingSphere said:
I think the proximity sensor of your phone is playing up. The phone thinks it is already very close to or already touching your ear.
Unfortunately i think there is no way to disable this function. You can just press the home button if you want the screen to appear again.
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Yeah. I must to reboot phone to get the screen to appear again.
It will not light up on its own.
But when screen is black i can still talk until the other party decides to exterminate a call (because i can't)

If your Rom has Accessibility, you can enable the "power button ends call" feature. Maybe it can help.
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GrippingSphere said:
If your Rom has Accessibility, you can enable the "power button ends call" feature. Maybe it can help
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No option ;(
Do you think that new software will help?

Go for an update then... Hope it helps.
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No option ;(
Do you think that new software will help?
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You're still on Eclair? Definitely better to upgrade:
GB > ICS > JB
But you must upgrade gradually to avoid post-installation problems like invalid IMEI and instabilities.

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But you must upgrade gradually to avoid post-installation problems like invalid IMEI and instabilities.
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Can you give me to some legit tutorial link that will explain how to DIY ?

You can use the link below as guide to root and flash GB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8805265&postcount=1
After flashing to GB, you can decide to upgrade to ICS if you like. There are many Roms to choose from. You can flash the Rom via CWM. I used CM9 ICS and Darky's ICS but for a short time only.
After flashing to ICS, you can decide to upgrade to JB, many to choose from. I recommend C-RoM Mix, proven fast, smooth and stable.

I found an app BetterSleep by Tad.
It disables phones proximity sensor. And it fixed my problem (or bypassed it).
Thanks 4 all the help
I was wrong. It did not fix a problem.

Good! There's an application to control the proximity sensor after all.
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