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Nook reboots if it falls asleep running aftermarket launcher.

Is there a way to remedy this? If I let my NC fall asleep while it's running a non-stock launcher ( I've tried LauncherPro, Go Launcher, and I'm currently using Zeam) it won't wake up. I have to power it back on to bring it back to life. Is this a normal problem that people have been having? I've looked through other threads but haven't seen anyone mention it.
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Never happened to me and I have been using a 3rd party launcher since early december. I would do a factory reset then update then root with auto nooter

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880785
Unlikely anything to do with third party launchers, read that thread. And this wiki page covers it. http://www.nookdevs.com/NookColor_Issues

i have a fix for you and anyone who might have this problem
The problem lies with the soft menu keys not the launcher. My nook would reset after every sleep with wifi on. It was really worrying me. Somhow i realized it had to do with the soft keys that come with the autonooter. Remove that apk and install from the market button savior. It will save your nook
Let me know if it worked for you. I haven't had any problems after this change.

I'm using Button Savior and still get very frequent random reboots.

The only thing that seems to have stopped my reboots is the Settings Profile Lite that turns off wifi when my screen is off. I'm at 1 day 22 hrs 44 min and counting. Before that, I was consistently rebooting at least once every 24 hours, if not more.

I'm trying the Settings Profile Life method. I'll let the internet know how it went.
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eyecrispy said:
The only thing that seems to have stopped my reboots is the Settings Profile Lite that turns off wifi when my screen is off. I'm at 1 day 22 hrs 44 min and counting. Before that, I was consistently rebooting at least once every 24 hours, if not more.
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Interesting find.... I'm going to take this idea another direction and see if I can recreate it with Tasker.

Use SpareParts to set WiFi sleep to never. If using SetCPU and the problem still persists, you may wish to (temporarily) uninstall to see if the problem goes away. If so, it was likely the program, settings used, profiles, etc. My NC doesn't do this when it goes to sleep with the WiFi on running Zeam. The battery stats often show 3 days before I end up charging it. If I didn't use it as much as I do, it would likely show up as longer.

I installed Settings Profile Life. It's been working great. I haven't had a reboot since. Thanks for the advice.
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natoe33 said:
I installed Settings Profile Life. It's been working great. I haven't had a reboot since. Thanks for the advice.
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I fear that we are only dealing with the smoke and not the fire when controlling the Wifi in this manner.
I had a semi-brick that took a whole day to fix and re-do. Upon re-rooting, I used AutoNooter and a modified version of the Auto Config script that excluded : (copied from my other post)
-YouTube removal (not sure why we are even removing it and I have a suspicion that removal may be causing the issues... Was YouTube only included in the Autonooter to allow entry of Google Account?)
-SoftKeys removal & LauncherPro installation
-Boot Animation change
-A bunch of the installed apps including Facebook, taskkiller, quickboot, vol master.
I've been reboot free for 21+ hours now, where I used to get them about once an hour or so. (BTW, I haven't touched the wifi settings, I have SoftKeys 3.0.0 running, no setCPU, haven't visited The Store, and I use ADW Launcher EX)

cal3thousand said:
I fear that we are only dealing with the smoke and not the fire when controlling the Wifi in this manner.
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Oh, absolutely. Setting Profiles is just a Band-Aid. The underlying problem is still there and AFAIK no progress has been made in identifying it. I expect it's being caused by one of the many unnecessary things have been rolled into the automatic rooting scripts but have no way to identify it since my NC has turned into a very late Christmas gift that I still don't have yet.
In any case, I think the rooting scripts need to be greatly simplified down to the bare essentials to get root and nothing else, and then have optional additional scripts to add the various other things that some people want and others don't. So long as the rooting and feature-additions are being combined into a single package, it's going to be pretty hard to narrow this down.

RoboRay said:
Oh, absolutely. Setting Profiles is just a Band-Aid. The underlying problem is still there and AFAIK no progress has been made in identifying it. I expect it's being caused by one of the many unnecessary things have been rolled into the automatic rooting scripts but have no way to identify it since my NC has turned into a very late Christmas gift that I still don't have yet.
In any case, I think the rooting scripts need to be greatly simplified down to the bare essentials to get root and nothing else, and then have optional additional scripts to add the various other things that some people want and others don't. So long as the rooting and feature-additions are being combined into a single package, it's going to be pretty hard to narrow this down.
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So use the script to root it, not auto-nooter, and see if it also happens. You, or someone..... For me, I'm getting a pretty steady 2 days of uptime, and it's still 100% stable while using it, so it's good enough for me.

Screen flashing after update.

Just bought my first Nexus phone yesterday used of Amazon. Worked fine for the first hour then was prompted to update to 5.0.1. After the update the phone display will turn off randomly for a second every 5-10seconds (display turns off (not dims not locks). Dose not happen in bootloader and still happens even after flash installing 6.0.1 and Android N. The issue only happens for the first 20-30min after boot. It almost seems like an application that only runs the first 30min after boot is crashing the phones gpu. Anyone had this issue or have any insight?

Play store: Advanced Task Manager.
With this app you can kill apps.
You can select which apps.
Maybe you can find the cause

NLBeev said:
Play store: Advanced Task Manager.
With this app you can kill apps.
You can select which apps.
Maybe you can find the cause
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Tried this and it didn't stop it. Even tried booting in safe mode. The issue happens even before Android loads up (during the splash animation).

Defective phone
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Jcssk said:
Tried this and it didn't stop it. Even tried booting in safe mode. The issue happens even before Android loads up (during the splash animation).
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I agree with the previous poster (Mike... ).
If you can't find a software cause, it may possible a hardware issue.
Some hardware problems are temperature related. Shutdown and cool down the phone.
A few minutes in the freezer. Than restart the phone.

Screen overlay

Ever since the last July security update, when I try to use any number of apps from capital one too smart select with my s pen, I get it asking permissionas then coming up saying I need to turn screen overlay off. This is an os permission that many programs use. Unless I turn it off on every app, I cannot give the current apps permissions. However summarily turning them off screws up those apps.
Is Is anyone else having this problem?

udrunner said:
Ever since the last July security update, when I try to use any number of apps from capital one too smart select with my s pen, I get it asking permissionas then coming up saying I need to turn screen overlay off. This is an os permission that many programs use. Unless I turn it off on every app, I cannot give the current apps permissions. However summarily turning them off screws up those apps.
Is Is anyone else having this problem?
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I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone. I've been really struggling lately. Seems like quite a few of the new apps trigger that "Overlay" problem. I'm not sure how/what to do. Please help

I've been having the same exact issues. It's been driving me nuts. The only thing I can think of is it must have something to do with the latest security patch we got.

Hopefully they fix it, soon!! How do we let them know?
From my non-rooted AT&T Galaxy Note 5 (N920A)

udrunner said:
Ever since the last July security update, when I try to use any number of apps from capital one too smart select with my s pen, I get it asking permissionas then coming up saying I need to turn screen overlay off. This is an os permission that many programs use. Unless I turn it off on every app, I cannot give the current apps permissions. However summarily turning them off screws up those apps.
Is Is anyone else having this problem?
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I just turned off all the apps which using screen overlay. After I installed the new app successfully, I turned them all back on. That's annoying, but working.

twemco said:
I just turned off all the apps which using screen overlay. After I installed the new app successfully, I turned them all back on. That's annoying, but working.
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From my experience, that only works until you open/download another app... Then you start all over

I am also having this problem, I am glad I wasn't alone, I was beginning to think it was just me!

I've found that restarting the device will resolve this issue MOST of the time. It worked for me twice yesterday...
But it's such a tedious workaround!
From my non-rooted AT&T Galaxy Note 5 (N920A)

Go in Dr. Ketan rom & check in few days back post. Someone has posted a zip file. Just flash it & its perfect. Plz take a backup before flashing the zip.
SM-N920I powered by M12 PRO.

maheshhtc said:
Go in Dr. Ketan rom & check in few days back post. Someone has posted a zip file. Just flash it & its perfect. Plz take a backup before flashing the zip.
SM-N920I powered by M12 PRO.
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I wish that it was going to be that easy for me... I'm using a non-rooted (un-rootable) AT&T Galaxy Note 5 SM-NM920A.

Google play store problem

Does anyone have problems downloading with google play??
The problem happened around 3 days ago. I was trying to download something when it said "connection timed out, please try again after some time". After a few hours still I cannot load google play nor download anything
I have tried all the solutions possible for google play, service and framework ( clear cache, uninstall updates, remove accout, reboot, clear dalvik) but the connection only works in the beginning then after like 2 mins then "connection timed out" again appears.
For sure my internet connection is strong and I'm sure my ISP is not blocking google play because I can access it via web. What's weird is when I use a VPN, google play all of a sudden works flawlessly.. can anyone help me in diagnosing where exactly is the problem?

I have the same exact problem on my galaxy note 8!. My Google play store won't load anything if I'm on Wi-Fi or on cellular Data!!
But with the VPN it works!

I had a similar problems. I got the Samsung Disconnect Pro app when it was free. I installed that then had the same problems. Turned it off and everything was good. After a day turned it on and now working correctly.

ammar577 said:
I have the same exact problem on my galaxy note 8!. My Google play store won't load anything if I'm on Wi-Fi or on cellular Data!!
But with the VPN it works!
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wow wtf samsung!
liquidguru said:
I had a similar problems. I got the Samsung Disconnect Pro app when it was free. I installed that then had the same problems. Turned it off and everything was good. After a day turned it on and now working correctly.
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I don't have that app nor ever used it... so I wonder where my problem is coming from?

Try looking at your power options, it might be sleeping wifi (im presuming it happening on wifi). The VPN thing might solve it cause VPN usually does not sleep wifi properly

SteelPicori said:
Try looking at your power options, it might be sleeping wifi (im presuming it happening on wifi). The VPN thing might solve it cause VPN usually does not sleep wifi properly
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No its not in the list... thanks though

drmodify said:
No its not in the list... thanks though
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It's not something that turns up on the battery saving list, it's a power saving feature
under
Settings-->Connections-->Wi-Fi-->Advanced (top right hand corner menu)
make sure Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is set to always
if i recall moderate battery saving will switch this off

SteelPicori said:
It's not something that turns up on the battery saving list, it's a power saving feature
under
Settings-->Connections-->Wi-Fi-->Advanced (top right hand corner menu)
make sure Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is set to always
if i recall moderate battery saving will switch this off
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for a minute there, I felt a glimpse of hope but...
Thanks again

I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.

bosshog187 said:
I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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This is exactly what happened with me

bosshog187 said:
I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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What about installing unknown sources apps?
Because there's a lot of apps that I can't find in the playstore

AGHYAD90 said:
What about installing unknown sources apps?
Because there's a lot of apps that I can't find in the playstore
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Whenever I have apps like that I back them up to my Google drive and onece the phone is set up I reinstall those apps from the cloud.

bosshog187 said:
I had this exact same issue on my note 8. I blame the smart switch app on these issues. I usually always do a fresh install but this time tried to be fancy and tried that. After doing a fresh install and not using any backups my phone is flawless. I know its annoying going that route but trust me it works and you will have peace of mind.
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But I didn't use the smart switch app. Like you I did a fresh install

drmodify said:
But I didn't use the smart switch app. Like you I did a fresh install
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Did you restore any data from Samsung cloud?

I'm still facing this problem. I didn't install apps that are not from Google play and I did not restore from Google or Samsung cloud. And I also did not use Smart switch. I love this phone but this issue is very frustrating to be honest

AGHYAD90 said:
What about installing unknown sources apps?
Because there's a lot of apps that I can't find in the playstore
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Did you restore any data from Samsung cloud?
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Nothing.
Anyway thanks for the inputs guys, I found the culprit and it has to do with an app I downloaded and installed outside the playstore coz it was not available in my country. Once I uninstalled it the playstore came back to normal.

ammar577 said:
I'm still facing this problem. I didn't install apps that are not from Google play and I did not restore from Google or Samsung cloud. And I also did not use Smart switch. I love this phone but this issue is very frustrating to be honest
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I understand how you feel. I felt like that for a week. I hope someone will come up with asolution for you.

If you don't mind can you disclose what app was causing you issues, I'm deleting, restarting and clearing my play store memory hoping to solve this issue but no luck so far

ok long shot but try going into
Connections-->Wi-Fi-->Advanced (menu on top right)-->Wi-Fi control history
to see if there are any apps messing with your wi-fi

Thank you... the history is clear there is nothing. But that's probably because I keep restarting the phone. Now the Google play store home page won't even load

Phone randomly reboots or powers off

Running latest stock firmware and at least once a day my phone reboots automatically. Auto restart is turned off. I have it on the table and next thing it just reboots. One time this week it turned off completely. Has anyone else experienced this and or know of a solution? Thanks

I cannot confirm anything you describe. It's either caused by a bad or disabled application or possibly faulty hardware. Test your phone at Safe Mode to see if the restarts stop. If so, you need to find out which app is causing it.
Fix an Android device that's restarting or crashing - Android Help
Try the following steps if your phone has any of these problems: Randomly reboots or restarts Shuts down without restarting Restarts constantly: Go to the Advanced troubleshooting section.
support.google.com
Why Does Android Randomly Restart? - Technipages
I provide a list of things you can try if your Android device seems to randomly restarts for no apparent reason.
www.technipages.com

hallo dare said:
Running latest stock firmware and at least once a day my phone reboots automatically. Auto restart is turned off. I have it on the table and next thing it just reboots. One time this week it turned off completely. Has anyone else experienced this and or know of a solution? Thanks
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Can confirm. It happens to me as well. Not everyday. It is completely random. Happened twice today. After I charged it. Don't know if charging it is connected somehow to the issue. Every android phone I buy just has some odd quirks. No more. After this one I'm done. You barely see any problems like this with an iPhone.

hallo dare said:
Running latest stock firmware and at least once a day my phone reboots automatically. Auto restart is turned off. I have it on the table and next thing it just reboots. One time this week it turned off completely. Has anyone else experienced this and or know of a solution? Thanks
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You using a SD card? If so try pulling it.
If you did any firmware update flashes since getting it, factory reset.
At least clear the system cache...
A hard reset may also get it.

@hallo dare
@mehigh95
Then check your Android System WebView version according this article:
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Download it from the Play Store or APK Mirror now
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Thanks to all for the replies. Something i have noticed (and i hope i don't jinx myself now) is that since i turned off the "auto optimise daily" feature, i haven't had a single reboot or power off.

hallo dare said:
Thanks to all for the replies. Something i have noticed (and i hope i don't jinx myself now) is that since i turned off the "auto optimise daily" feature, i haven't had a single reboot or power off.
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Yeah leave that junk turned off... power management is known to cause erratic behavior as well.

How it's going with the random reboots? Do you still have a problem or turning off "auto optimise daily" fixed it?

lanant said:
How it's going with the random reboots? Do you still have a problem or turning off "auto optimise daily" fixed it?
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It still happens.

mehigh95 said:
It still happens.
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This is not normal behavior.
If it's under warranty now might be the time... at least get the documentation started.
Have you cleared the system cache?
Try in Safe Mode as pointed it maybe a 3rd party apk; power management apps and 3rd party launchers are prime candidates. Anything that runs in the background when the screen is off.
Factory reset time...
If that doesn't get try replacing the sim card and removing the SD card if any.
If you still can't find it try reflashing the firmware.
It maybe a hardware failure... and intermittent ones can be the hardest to track down.

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How it's going with the random reboots? Do you still have a problem or turning off "auto optimise daily" fixed it?
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I think it actually turned out to be Nova launcher causing the problem. I uninstalled it and turned back on auto optimise on Saturday and i haven't had a reboot since.

hallo dare said:
I think it actually turned out to be Nova launcher causing the problem.
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Nova launcher premium or free and what version?

I'm using Nova Prime, I haven't noticed any reboots but there has been occasions where the fingerprint scanner was switched back to code unlock like it had just booted up. I'll check up time if it happens again.

Latest free from Play store. 6.2.18.
I might try amd reinstall it later to see if the issue reoccurs, but there has been no reboots since i uninstalled it thankfully.
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Nova launcher premium or free and what version?
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3mel said:
there has been occasions where the fingerprint scanner was switched back to code unlock like it had just booted up.
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This is normal security behaviour in Android and it happens every few days. It has nothing common with used launcher.

hallo dare said:
Latest free from Play store. 6.2.18.
I might try amd reinstall it later to see if the issue reoccurs, but there has been no reboots since i uninstalled it thankfully.
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Ok, was it configured from scratch or via imported configuration from previous phone?

hallo dare said:
Latest free from Play store. 6.2.18.
I might try amd reinstall it later to see if the issue reoccurs, but there has been no reboots since i uninstalled it thankfully.
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Might want to quit while you're ahead. A buggy 3rd party launcher is a sure fire way to crash and burn a Android OS. Boot looped twice by one on my stock Note 10+.
Take any noticable instability seriously...

blackhawk said:
Might want to quit while you're ahead. A buggy 3rd party launcher is a sure fire way to crash and burn a Android OS. Boot looped twice by one on my stock Note 10+.
Take any noticable instability seriously...
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No doubt you're absolutely right about that, but on the other hand, with the Nova launcher, it's not normal behavior. Nova is rock solid, I've used it for years on various devices, and there's never been a problem.

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No doubt you're absolutely right about that, but on the other hand, with the Nova launcher, it's not normal behavior. Nova is rock solid, I've used it for years on various devices, and there's never been a problem.
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While I found that it's not better than the native One UI launcher, Nova Launcher didn't boot loop my 10+ into oblivion... lol, a definite plus.
What I found was it was slower and that I lost some features I liked with One UI. It used a lot more battery but some of that was due to tweaking it, but even when I wasn't adjusting it's settings it's battery usage was high. One UI unlike some of Sammy's past launchers is a fast and very stable launcher... hard to beat.
Samsung's are very customizable in their stock configuration, other makes not near as much so.
So yeah I get why you might want use a 3rd party launcher and Nova is at the top of the candidates. Not being at the mercy of every new flavor of OS and native launcher is also more harmonious and productive... so yeah, I get it.

I don't use Nova launcher and I have random reboots. What I' ve noticed is that the reboots were happening when I wasn't using the phone for a while. Also when the phone turned back on an application was active in notification curtain. In the beginning it was TuneIn although I had it force stopped from settings everytime I was using it. After I uninstalled it I didn't had any incident for quite a while. Two days ago I had a lot of reboots in a day. The app working after the reboots was always Samsung Accessory Service, I have Galaxy Watch 3 also. My guess is that the UI is trying to kill an app and it crashes. When I find some time I 'll try a factory reset with fresh install cause my current set up is based on settings from my previous phone (LH V30).