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Screen black; battery pull required

This morning when I woke up I checked the calendar on my Captivate and everything looked fine. I had an IM app (Go) running but stopped it. I went back about 15 minutes later to look at something else on my phone and it would not wake up. Nothing I did would make the screen come on. I eventually just pulled the battery and it started working fine. This is the 3rd or 4th time that's happened and usually at night while charging.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help

Its called sleep death. What ROM, kernel,oc/UV values are you using?

I've never heard of that, but I would definitely say that describes it perfectly.
I'm actually running stock Froyo. All of this pain lately makes me want to load up a custom ROM this weekend (assuming it would help). I just don't want to end up bricked.
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That's not sleep death, at least what I experienced, I have seen that on my own captivate. Usually mine will lock up and become non-responsive, eventually the phone will restart. I don't know if it is a common issue but one I have had often.

Ya I've had that happen. Either I gotta pull the battery or my phone poops on itself and reboots. Oh well
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I have been having the screen go black and the phone is unresponsive at times so i called att and they are sending me another phone under warranty but i asked them if my replacement is going to have the same issues because most cappy owners have this problem she said it would but i think all the phones have this issue
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I wish they would send refurbs with updated GB but i was told im getting the same
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Does anyone know if a custom ROM would fix the issue or is this hardware related?
I've given custom ROMs much thought. Not sure which one I'd choose, etc. Seems like there is so much to read and a lot of the information builds on itself. My luck I'd try AIO or something and get down to page 80 of all the postings and realize it doesn't work for me after I already flash it.
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I started having the same problem a couple days ago. I've my captivate for almost one year already. I had stock eclair, froyo, several roms. Now I'm using stock GB 2.3.5 KI2. The only thing that I can think it changed is the fact that I added an external 16gb sd. I'll do a factory reset and remove sd to see if it happens again.
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I have had the least issues on cognition 4.5.3, the gingerbread leaks for whatever reason never worked well for me. I have a S II now with no issues, but still use the captivate like an iPod touch. Working very well on cognition as I type.

xfedex said:
I started having the same problem a couple days ago. I've my captivate for almost one year already. I had stock eclair, froyo, several roms. Now I'm using stock GB 2.3.5 KI2. The only thing that I can think it changed is the fact that I added an external 16gb sd. I'll do a factory reset and remove sd to see if it happens again.
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I found the source of my battery leak/black screen. It was "Smooth Calendar Widget" app.

Weird overheating??

Hi, guys, i have to admit im a noob with Samsung's bootloader as im been so comfortable with HTC and LG.... Ok, yesterday i flashed CyanogenMod from DarkyJVT (i assume totallydumbed recommended me that)
So, it was successful, applying some tweaks, bam! Cool, fast, S!
Later, im noticing the phone is overheating (while im on the net, surfing)... Does this mean its generally like that or is it me having this problem??
Meanwhile, im using Glitch Kernel v13 + 181 Nightly...
Second thing, is it ok to turn on brightness? (Ya, i know battery will suck) Cuz i noticing the screen has major internal lines of a previous firmwares (battery icon, and all in the statusbar), is this color issue??
As i said, im a noob to samsung, please help, big thanks!
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cool thanks

me having the same issue as well;overheating when using the net..but I think this is general problem of the phone as such.the temp crosses 50c easy..

senotrius said:
me having the same issue as well;overheating when using the net..but I think this is general problem of the phone as such.the temp crosses 50c easy..
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You serious? Or does overclocking give the punch??
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prob in my incs

hi guys for the past one month . my phone is not at all responsive in the touch screen and in the soft buttons .. it gets stuck and I have to lock the screen and then unlock it to make it work!!! tried many roms but still the same. is my phone aged? lolzz its 10 months old!!
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Hmmm, strange.. Did some Googling and found some interesting stuff. Anyway, I see that you are from India too. Take it to an hTC center, and ask them to look into it. It might be some issue with the phone's hardware. If the service center's guy is not bright enough to check if your phone is s-off, you might get lucky
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im also facing this issue
when I call someone they cant hear my voice and i tried no. of callsand its still the Same and when I pull out and battery and restart everything seems to be fine..
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hey guys now volume button is not working.. is my phone dying?

You've killed your incs time to buy galaxy nexus.
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itsbeertimenow said:
You've killed your incs time to buy galaxy nexus.
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Seriously stop being that naive, I also had that call problem - radio flash did help. Still having same freezing as u occur, which came and shows up with Sense 3.0+ releases. Don't worry your phone isn't even near to it's death

henrylife said:
Seriously stop being that naive, I also had that call problem - radio flash did help. Still having same freezing as u occur, which came and shows up with Sense 3.0+ releases. Don't worry your phone isn't even near to it's death
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I've got the same freeze issue....tried replacing digitizer, didn't help. Tried various ROMS, didn't help.
Have you tried a non-Sense ROM? I thought I tried that, and it didn't help either

Bringing up an older thread, but I have found a partial solution for my screen freeze issues. This was posted on another forum, so I can't take credit.
Download SGS booster and set to optimized. Slide top three sliders all the way to the left, and bottom two sliders all the way to the right, and apply.
I seem to have way less freezes with this active.
Before doing this i replaced LCD and digitizer, new ROMs (both Sense and AOSP), and nothing made a difference, so I am fairly happy that this software has improved my phone.
Anf no, I am not affiliated, just a user that seems to have been successful with an issue by using this software. There might be other software which does the same thing also, idk.

I had same touch problem and hanging problem.
It's the motherboard problem.
I took it to HTC care center and reported the problem.
Also added a few problem on my own like..AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHING OFF..UNABLE TO ACCEPT CALLS.
They replaced my piece (except back cover, camera and battery).
Try reporting to HTC Care center. :good:

[Q] Sleep of Death?

I've recently loaded up my dad's OG Galaxy Tab up with Cyanogenmod's release of Jelly Bean, the October 7th release to be specific. He uses it infrequently, but has been suffering from sleep of death issues so he has to power it up every time he wants to use it.
Is there any fix for this at all?
Has anyone else been having these issues?

Hi,I've had the same problem a few times also,and random reboots. I read a few suggestions that putting the min CPU frequency to 400 might stop sods. Hope that helps.
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SamBroomby said:
I've recently loaded up my dad's OG Galaxy Tab up with Cyanogenmod's release of Jelly Bean, the October 7th release to be specific. He uses it infrequently, but has been suffering from sleep of death issues so he has to power it up every time he wants to use it.
Is there any fix for this at all?
Has anyone else been having these issues?
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I'd suggest going for the most up to date nightly, I've not had any problems with sleep of death, although I have had maybe 2 complete shut downs at night when its been on charge.

You tried to change the governor?

[Q] black screen of death

I'm baffled and trying my very best to work out why I'm getting the BSOD on this phone. There appears to be no logic or pattern to when it occurs, so it's very difficult to diagnose what's causing it. I've now had two of these phones where it has occurred. The first one I took back and got a replacement under warranty. The second one worked like a charm on stock GB with no flashing of basebands, but since messing about and installing both CM10 and the latest ICS ROMS it's started happening again.
It seems to occur most when I go to charge the phone. It'll just die a death and I'll have to take the battery out before it even thinks about starting up again. Perhaps the most annoying thing of all is that it resets all time and dates and will then fail to use the network provided settings.
Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution that works long term? What about the cause? The strange thing about it is that it can go for a week without doing it...then, it'll happen twice in one day. And it's getting frequent to the point of being very irritating. I'm wondering If a different baseband would help. It currently detects it as unknown, but if memory serves I flashed the old 528 original stock baseband for use when I first installed CM10.

I have experienced it in every rom (I have experienced it in: cm10, all GB roms Ive tried, all ICS roms etc..) but not in cm 7 ... so I usually go back to that rom most of the time..

What baseband are you using? Whether or not it has anything to do with it I don't know. Desperately trying to find a fix. I'm thinking it can't be a rom issue. I'm just hoping it's not the phones hardware.
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The worst thing is don't know how we carry cm10 bugs after flashing over different roms even with full wipe..I lost my amazing battery life after cm10 flash got new battery calibrated food full wow did smart flash still battery life drains like in 10% in hour even without any use....gross

This bug has been reported in the CM10 Bug Thread, you should take a look at it.
Basically the workaround is to turn on your screen before plugging the phone to a charger. There are users saying that they also have a lot of BSOD's when plugging the phone in CM10.

Don;t you think that questions has its own thread? Hope your eyes are still in good condition.
To prevent BSOD you can try hihger min cpu clock frequency.

Rayman96 said:
Don;t you think that questions has its own thread? Hope your eyes are still in good condition.
To prevent BSOD you can try hihger min cpu clock frequency.
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You seem to be in a foul mood lately, passing such comments on all threads.
And for your info, increasing min cpu clock frequency has no effect on cm10 bsod. It may work in some roms, but not on this one.

Rayman96 said:
Don;t you think that questions has its own thread? Hope your eyes are still in good condition.
To prevent BSOD you can try hihger min cpu clock frequency.
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Dude if you read my post im saying it occurs whether cm 10 or not. Changing clock frequency did nothing for me so thanks for pointing out the obvious. Like i say, it's a problem I've always had with this phone whether I was on stock gb or not and im getting sick of it. I just wondered if anyone knew the reason and a sure, concrete solution.
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I am on CM10, and I never get random BSODs. I am on the 11/20 nightly.
For me, the one and only time a BSOD occurs is if my screen is off, and I plug in the charger (USB or wall), and the charger doesn't cause the screen to turn on automatically. If the screen turns on the moment the charger is plugged in, I won't get a BSOD.
My "solution" at the moment is to always turn on the screen before plugging in my charger. No more BSODs.
I used to get random BSODs even off the charger on earlier nightlies, but after 11/10 it was all right.

Mine is just the opposite....whenever i dont have it charging the bsod will appear sooner or later if its plugged in everything is ok...i tried changing min freq and clean installed all cm 10 nightlies so far but nothing has helped.
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haunterx said:
Mine is just the opposite....whenever i dont have it charging the bsod will appear sooner or later if its plugged in everything is ok...i tried changing min freq and clean installed all cm 10 nightlies so far but nothing has helped.
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Same here with CM10, and some days worse than others. Although weirdly it was exactly the opposite with stock GB or CM7 - it would do it mostly while charging.

See this is my point.. Just how many folk are having this problem with the device? I might contact LG support to see if it's a known issue. I have it both whilst charging and not whilst charging. A Google of the topic does support a fair number of everyday stock users as having this issue. I just don't think it's a rom specific issue. The occurance is so spasmodic I think it's simply coincidental.
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withoutwings said:
Same here with CM10, and some days worse than others. Although weirdly it was exactly the opposite with stock GB or CM7 - it would do it mostly while charging.
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Same here. With CM7, very, very rarely would the phone just "die" with a black screen when charging. If I had it plugged in via USB to my computer and then immediately plugged into the wall charger, it would almost always BSOD. The only way to recover was to unplug it, pull out and re-insert the battery. This happened so rarely (especially if I always rebooted the phone after using USB) that it wasn't a problem for me.
With CM10, it will instead BSOD if it's just left idle with nothing connected. This happens 0 to 10 times a day with no logical pattern. Some days, I almost think the problem is gone, others the phone is almost unusable because it keeps dying. It has never had a BSOD while charging. This has happend with every nightly build of CM10. I've also had the problem where the caller/person I call just hears "dialup modem" type noise.
Monday evening I flashed SU660 V30c baseband. Still no BSOD as of today (noon on Wednesday). However it has gone this long without BSOD before, so fingers crossed. I have a "Made in Korea" P990 and it previously had Baseband 20I-EUR. Also going to do a few test calls to see if the noise problem is still there.

That's very useful to know. As you say the problem is so bizarre and so random that's almost impossible to know until weeks later if it's been solved for good. I just hope that final ics and baseband release will put the issue to bed once and for all. Can anyone confirm whether or not they have had this issue with the latest leaked ics baseband?
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48 hours without a BSOD after flashing BB 30C however now calls have gone completely quiet. Neither party can hear a thing.
Back to the drawing board :silly:

Is anyone else's phove really hot when BSODed or is it just mine? When I was on Gueste 3.6 everything was ok until it BSODed, that's when cm10 came out, tried it, changed a few basebands and didn't have it for almost a month, suddenly a few days ago while I already returned to default bootldr and partition sizes on gueste 3.8ext3 with v28g bb I think (20121110)
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UPDATE ON BSOD: I used Titanium Backup to freeze the stock browser (using chrome now lol) and for the past 3 days I haven't had a BSOD. Can people try to do the same and report what they find?

neovdr said:
UPDATE ON BSOD: I used Titanium Backup to freeze the stock browser (using chrome now lol) and for the past 3 days I haven't had a BSOD. Can people try to do the same and report what they find?
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Truth is that I always use root uninstaller and remove the stock browser and this is the first time I haven't. Hmm... let's see...
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I think BSODs occur when the relationship between rom, kernel and baseband is not so good.

Yes it appears to be that way. Unfortunately we don't have a BB for the P990 that works properly with ICS/JB ROM (call audio bugs etc.), which is why development of CM10 for P990 was abandoned. I'm now back on CM 7.2 and everything works as it should.