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Keeps rebooting after Darky 8.1 update

Now just had a little problem. I updated to Darky's 8.1 no wipe version. It updated fine but the first time it booted, it froze. Now it keeps doing a boot cycle over and over again. I see the i9000m screen but I do not get to the S logo screen or in this case the transformer screen because it reboots. Can you help me plz? Thanks.

Zink6 said:
Now just had a little problem. I updated to Darky's 8.1 no wipe version. It updated fine but the first time it booted, it froze. Now it keeps doing a boot cycle over and over again. I see the i9000m screen but I do not get to the S logo screen or in this case the transformer screen because it reboots. Can you help me plz? Thanks.
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try a re flash of another ROM preferably a stock ROM then start all over again, similar thing happened to me earlier, i am quite new to all this but i dont know if its the kernel or lagfix i had what caused this...
i re flashed back to froyo and then installed darkys ROM then re installed my kernel last.. all is good (for now)

worked for me first time but when i went to sgs tools to upgrade your apps ie gallery, camera, it said no busybox installed but went ahead and done fine in v8.0 and i see that cwm changed from red to green too went to market for busybox to download it but when it goes to install phone just reboots all the time mmmm...

Easiest way out of cycling boot:
pull battery
place it in
bring phone in download mode (not recovery!)
prepare Odin with a stock ROM
connect the phone to your PC and give it a kick thru Odin
When done feel free to switch again to Darkys (8.0) with wipe (you will loose data) and afterwards upgrade to 8.1.

stepsch said:
Easiest way out of cycling boot:
pull battery
place it in
bring phone in download mode (not recovery!)
prepare Odin with a stock ROM
connect the phone to your PC and give it a kick thru Odin
When done feel free to switch again to Darkys (8.0) with wipe (you will loose data) and afterwards upgrade to 8.1.
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YES !!! i agree, it is a pain.. but we love our phones and we would do anything for them its always best to flash back to standard FW if you ever get a problem...

I myself experienced this. Whenever I installed a new software, it would just boot. I got fed up because darky's forums are also down and there is no discussion. flashed doc's rom. Now everything is fine.

...mh... but it's not caused by Darkys ROM. This cycling boot feature may appear at all ROM, at all lag fix actions and so on. It depends how proper you interact with phone- and ROM-features while configuring. A lil disturbance during your session (by you or battery issue or whatelse) or a not so well prepared basic from where you start and your unlimited-feature-wishlist-and-paint-it-golden-one-click-action is enough to interrupt the whole thing and run into trouble.
It was and is all the same - since DOS or C64. And it will be the same, even when iPhone is on level 12.x or Android will be able to beam you elsewhere thru the barcode scanner.
It's a game. Nothing more. And game means lot of fun - and in the beginning a certain thrill when your phone stuck first time and you are thinking: "... f*ck... bricked..."

yup same for me
cycle boot thing
didnt enable download mode before that....
can get into debug screen thou but wiping it doesnt help
anyone with a suggestion on what i can try? warrenty = off so im screwed otherwise

anyone with a suggestion on what i can try? warrenty = off so im screwed otherwise
Just tell the warranty guy darky screwed it .
OR
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853950
jje

cant even boot the phone mate
so ehm i dont get it....how can odin help me ?
is there any way of getting it into download mode still when it doesnt boot up? i heard about that JIG thing they made themself...isnt that just like the microusb cable that comes with it to the pc? i dont get it sorry if im trippin but im maddd at myself for even trying this lockscreen thing

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
jje

Thanks guys for all the replies. Now I did try flashing a stock rom but with no results. Was still having the same thing happening to me. If you guys can give me the link to the files you used to solve this problem, that would be great. Also just for your information I have a Bell i9000m unlocked running on fido. And NO its not an sd card failure lol.
As for DarelSteilz85, I did make one of those JIG usb for myself. It easy, just get the micro usb and strip it bare to the point you can see the pins on the usb which usually are connected to the wires and get a resister to connect one pin to another. Now for which pins, I remember it was 4 and 5 that you had to connect through the resistor but double check as I am not sure. Also the resistor has to be a certain level which I forgot so double check that also. Good luck.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853950
What i use for problems .
jje

Samsung Galaxy S I9000 - ICS 4.0.3 - Stopped Booting

Hi,
I installed a Cyanogenmod ICS 4.0.3. build 17 firmware on my Samsung Galaxy S I9000 almost 5 months ago from a tutorial. The update itself has been a fantastic experience from the start and I'm not sure if my current problem is even related to that firmware update. Apparently new users like me can't post URLs so I can't provide it now. If you need it let me know.
I have to admit that lately the phone has been rebooting every couple of days, or Android's been freezing and I had to remove the battery, but I didn't think too much of it. It wasn't too bad of a problem really, but this morning all of a sudden the device has become totally unusable. Help! :-/
The issue that's started since today is that my phone won't boot anymore. It seems to reboot somewhere during the boot process. There's only two screens that will be shown, before it reboots. When I remove the battery, put it back in and attach the charger, I will only see two charging screens. While charging, the device will also*reboot after a while.*
I can get into download-mode (volume-down + ok-button + power-key) but can't get into recovery mode (volume-up + ok-button + power-key).
Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
Greetings,
Adriaan
ps -> I have pictures of the booting screens and the charging screens but wasn't allowed to post them here. Again, if you need to see them please PM.

Hi,
I think you have to reflash using odin. You can be happy to reach download mode

I'll try that, thanks.
switch_42 said:
Hi,
I think you have to reflash using odin. You can be happy to reach download mode
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just to be sure...
Just to be sure, could you please check that my logic is correct?
First off: the tutorial I had followed had me follow a few procedures:
first I updated Galaxy S with XXJVU Firmware
then rooted Galaxy S on XXJVU Firmware
after that I flashed CM 9, ICS 4.0.3. build 17 to the device
To which of these steps were you referring? My guess would be to take the last one, but perhaps it's wiser to restart the tutorial from the beginning. I'd appreciate any additional support you can give me, you can understand that I don't want to brick my device due to my misunderstandings..

Seems like a high overclock or high underclock
Sent from my GT-I9000

Helloworld294 said:
Seems like a high overclock or high underclock
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Not sure what you mean there. In any event I've never taken any steps to overclock or underclock my device. Maybe it's going senile and I get to buy a galaxy s III soon

*phew* well my problem's been solved. Since I was able to get into download mode I flashed a baseline rom with Odin and found my way back to ICS. One surprise along the way was that from the same tutorial I had followed (and had happy results from) a few months ago, the step of using Odin to root the device wasn't working, it kept getting stuck at 'zImage' during the process! What's more, after that I was getting the BSOD image (the phone, exclamation mark and computer), which I found could be helped by using a 'One-Click Unbrick for Samsung devices'.
That was a XXJVU firmware. After some snooping around I found a different firmware than the one I had previously used and had switched from a XXJVU firmware to a XXJW4 firmware through a page on XDA-Developers. Did that. It worked. And now I'm back to ICS again, yay!
Thanks for the help along the way!

[Q] Help with G-Note Revival...

Hi Guys...
I got a Galaxy Note GT-N7000, and its been more than a week i tried to revived it using the any method i've found in this great forum.
So let me tell u guys the stories of my Note :
1. It was always updated OTA so the last ROM i used is Indonesian Note ICS 4.0.4
2. One day (last Friday) while i was browsing Internet using it, it suddenly got very hot, and the battery seems like draining very fast
3. In the mid day it reboot by its self, and entering countless reboot... a never ending reboot
4. So i tried to enter recovery, and yes sadly i've might triggered the emmc bugs by doing factory reset. But i'm not sure i've done it or not, coz i've a CWM recovery installed.
5. Anyway then i tried to flash stock room found in dr.ketan's thread...many thanks to him for those collection using PC ODIN and i got the "factoryfs" stuck problem
6. I also tried to flash countless kernel over and over, tried install Stock GB and ICS, tried RocketROM, CM10 and it all failed. In dowload mode i still got a Stock Firmware installed. So any ROM i've tried to install using Kernel didn't succed.
7. So i decided to take it to Samsung Service Center nearby, and i found that my battery is BAD, it wont charge (wonder would it because of the battery i got that problem in the first place). Since i got this Note for around 8 months, and the warranty for the battery is 6, the make me bought the new one, ordered and available in 2 days.
8. So I get back to the service center, put the new battery restarted the phone, and it stop on samsung logo (no yellow triangle there). So I complained, and they look into it, and said we may try to install new software, but there's a risk that your Note got damaged. They said the risk is mine and they wont have any responsible for it.
9. So furiously i bargain about my Warranty (12 month), coz the said that i've updated the ROM my self, so i explained to them that it was OTA's update, all i do was press YES, and they said even OTA official update will cancel my warranty. Its getting weird, i got angrier and they just said its their company procedure so there's nothing they can do to help me. So Samsung Indonesia will cancel warranty for every attempt to update the ROM OTA's, only their service center is allowed to do so. Wasted my valuable working hours there...
10. So i get back, determined i officially will do anything to get this Note life back. So i started to look at Forrest1971 (many thanks to him) thread about bricked note and tried many kernel and got one working with adb (T-Kernel V0.9) doing the checking and found faulty partition 9 and 10 and doing the step and finally got the partition fixed. Lost 3GB of space.
Then here came the real problem :
1. Still wont work with ODIN, stuck at Factoryfs with stock ROM GB N7000DXLC2_N7000OLBLC2_N7000DXLC1_HOME.tar and ICS N7000DXLR5_N7000OLBLR2_N7000DXLR1_HOME.tar. But working fine flashing Kernel so my guess it is not the connection problem. I've tried on 1 PC, 2 Laptops, 2 OS (Win7 32bit and WinXP 32 bit) still the same.
2. Then i tried to flashing via Kernel (CWM, Abyss, T-Kernel, CM9 Safe Kernel) i got to do trial and error coz not all ROM can be installed using any given Kernel. Seems that T-Kernel v0.9 is working for most of the ROM. Sorry i didn't keep note about the kernel-rom coupling. Here is the list of ROM i've tried :
cm-9.1.0-n7000 + gapps-ics-20120429-signed
cm-10-20121209-NIGHTLY-n7000 + gapps-ics-20120429-signed
RocketROM v2 XXLS7_stock_odexed
SuperNexus-N7000-BUILD5-20121017 + gapps-jb-20121011-signed
RocketROM_ICS_XXLPY_v1
3. All of those ROM came out with the same problem :
- Freezing on the Samsung/Mod Logo Screen (Got very HOT)
- Entering the "Andoid is Upgrading" and then updating Apps but stuck at random number (# of ###) (Got very HOT), i've tried to wait overnight but stay on the same number
- Succeeded boot up but Freeze after couple of minute (Got very HOT)
4.All those problem seems happened randomly, but most of the time it happened like this :
Stuck and Logo Screen - Reboot by me - Stuck and Upgrading - Reboot by me - Boot fine, but freeze very soon - Reboot by me, and back to the Logo stuck... (but still sometime its just random), the only thing same that it got very hot.
5. This is my last resort, i'll try to flash Supernexus, CM9 or CM10 without the GApps. Now i'm on Supernexus ROM, not yet freeze while i'm typing this. But without the GApps i wont have G-Play, and cant reinstall Apps that i bought in G-Play. Dilemma...
So any thoughts or advices will be greatly appreciated...
I really like this phone, wish i can revived this phone... :fingers-crossed:
Thanks B4 for any comment...

Well, i guess no one have the same problem here...
I'm running the rocket ROM ICS right now, this is the one ROM that got me closer to "STABLE" state.
Still got self reboot, most of the time when i'm using browser (Android, FF, Chrome), or after a long run on youtube or downloading something.
I've also tried the PA Experia ROM by AmniX : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100083
But it was worse than rocket ROM ICS, more likely have the same symptom with the CM9/10 i've tried.
So seems like i've to manage to use this defect/handicapped gadget... :fingers-crossed:

diasdroid said:
Well, i guess no one have the same problem here...
I'm running the rocket ROM ICS right now, this is the one ROM that got me closer to "STABLE" state.
Still got self reboot, most of the time when i'm using browser (Android, FF, Chrome), or after a long run on youtube or downloading something.
I've also tried the PA Experia ROM by AmniX : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100083
But it was worse than rocket ROM ICS, more likely have the same symptom with the CM9/10 i've tried.
So seems like i've to manage to use this defect/handicapped gadget... :fingers-crossed:
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I would complain to the service center. It's absolutely rubbish that an ota update voids warranty, they're lying through their teeth and I wouldn't stand for it. So long as you have no trace of custom rom or root, they are required by law to fix the phone or replace it within 12 month warranty. If you'd left traces of root or Cwm that's a different story.
Try a second repartition, often a first scan will not find all bad sectors, run through it again just to be safe. Also, after repartitioning its usually the case that stock or tw based Roms won't work without freezes and reboots because they occupy too much space on the emmc. You're best with cm or aokp Roms.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

Giga Bricked Note.

Today, my Note got extremely bricked, that I could not believe a phone like that could get so easily blown up.
I get this "Firmware update encountered an issue. Please select recovery in Kies and try again." message while it's rebooting every second.
I got this by making a huge mistake, using the re-partition option with the included .pit file, thinking it would factory-wipe the phone before downgrading... well, it didn't. Now, I can't barely access Download Mode or recovery because of, what I assume, low battery. It's charging now and it doesn't look like it. It reboots itself every 5 sec while it's plugged in. Before that, I used the JB leak and began to hate it because of it's damn instability. I wanted the stable, stock, ICS that came with it. I never had any problems like that on Xperia S.
Hell, even Odin can't ****ing save it because of the reboot-problem. I begin to think that, for the first time ever, I have to send this pile of **** back to Samsung and get a new one by saying, Kies ****ed up my phone.
Is there a solution that DOES NOT INVOLVE A DAMN USB JIG for this phone?

If you got the error in kies you could have followed the kies emergency firmware recovery option. Reflashing with a pit file is only for when you have triggered the emmc brick bug is my understanding. Look for the thread with the unbricking guides and hope for best. If not then it looks like service centre...........
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app

LinixAndroid said:
.. I could not believe a phone like that could get so easily blown up.
I got this by making a huge mistake, using the re-partition option with the included .pit file...
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Did you really read and combine this two sentences? Sometimes people should read the warnings (here about the reasons why NOT to use a pit) and follow them.
But first of all you should recharge the battery outside your device. When you're sure it's "reloaded" try download mode again and install a prerooted Stock Rom (like GB LC1 3-part) and check if you can install and after reboot into a stable device again.
Maybe it isn't so bad forever only for a few hours.

ThaiDai said:
Did you really read and combine this two sentences? Sometimes people should read the warnings (here about the reasons why NOT to use a pit) and follow them.
But first of all you should recharge the battery outside your device. When you're sure it's "reloaded" try download mode again and install a prerooted Stock Rom (like GB LC1 3-part) and check if you can install and after reboot into a stable device again.
Maybe it isn't so bad forever only for a few hours.
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Wait, I have to charge it outside the phone? What kind of charger only charges the battery outside the phone?

just find someone with the same phone in your neighbourhood and charge in another phone...that's the easiest way..

I have flashed my note multiple times now and it never crossed my mind to use a .Pit file..
By the way, have you thought of leaving the battery out for a few minutes? I got that Firmware issue message before because the power went out while I was flashing my phone from my PC.. Then I just left it out for a few minutes and was able to boot back into dowload mode again

After the emmc brickbug:
The custom pit file may work but trust me after a few moths you going crazy with your phone... it freezes randomly on every rom and wont charge randomly. When you wake up.. phone frozen and battery is on 0% ... i lived 2 weeks with this then i gave it to samsung and they changed the mainboard for free now im happy

[Q] Captivate power issue download mode unless charging.

Hello. I have been reading on these forums for a while now. I always go here to find out information about smartphones. I have had this captivate for quite some time now. Probably about 2 years. When I was first given the phone it wouldn't do anything but go into download mode and my friend just gave me the phone because he actually had 2 broken ones and i was able to make a completely working captivate from the pieces from the 2. but the other would go straight to download mode if i hit the power button. the guy gave me the one that was constantly in download mode for fixing his other phone. This phone also had an lcd problem untill i came across a captivate that someone had torn the power connectors off so i used the lcd from that phone and put it on the captivate that was constantly in download mode. i plugged it into the charger and it shows a loading screen alot like what an iphone shows when it is loading. and after long enough it would show a battery partially charged. at this point i can push the power button and it powered on and went into safe mode. so I factory reset it and it still has the same problem. i have even formated the internal storage and tried many different roms. the first i tried was serendipity VII it was a great gingerbread rom but it also had the problem. i later flashed cm9 and icyglitch kernel. icy glitch is amazing however ics is old now. in ics the download mode problem still exists. Now the real problem to all of this that makes me think it is a hardware problem is i have recently tried about every jellybean rom with the combination of demon and semaphore and semaphore unofficial kernel and they also have this problem. however there is another problem with any of the jellybean roms i try. they will all work perfectly. i just have to install them 2 times. first install installs semaphore kernel andsays it needs to repartition. i guess cause its coming from icy glitch kernel. then it restarts into the semaphore cwm and then i reinstall jellybean rom and reboot and the phone just laggs unbelievable unless plugged into the charger. i mean the booot animation will move like 1 frame every 10 seconds. i have tried changing the voltage and overclocking it once it starts up. everything works perfectly until the second i unlug the charger then it does the extreeeeem lagg. From my experiences with this phone i would have to say that it is the power management ic on the logicboard. My question is what do you guys think i should do. i am back on icyglitch kernel and the outdated slim ics. i would really like to get jelly bean working and i would also like to be able to boot my phone with out a charger and an electric outlet.
sorry for such a long post i just thought that some of this information could give someone on here an idea of what is wrong with my phone.
Thanks for any help you guys can give.

anarchybob6 said:
Hello. I have been reading on these forums for a while now. I always go here to find out information about smartphones. I have had this captivate for quite some time now. Probably about 2 years. When I was first given the phone it wouldn't do anything but go into download mode and my friend just gave me the phone because he actually had 2 broken ones and i was able to make a completely working captivate from the pieces from the 2. but the other would go straight to download mode if i hit the power button. the guy gave me the one that was constantly in download mode for fixing his other phone. This phone also had an lcd problem untill i came across a captivate that someone had torn the power connectors off so i used the lcd from that phone and put it on the captivate that was constantly in download mode. i plugged it into the charger and it shows a loading screen alot like what an iphone shows when it is loading. and after long enough it would show a battery partially charged. at this point i can push the power button and it powered on and went into safe mode. so I factory reset it and it still has the same problem. i have even formated the internal storage and tried many different roms. the first i tried was serendipity VII it was a great gingerbread rom but it also had the problem. i later flashed cm9 and icyglitch kernel. icy glitch is amazing however ics is old now. in ics the download mode problem still exists. Now the real problem to all of this that makes me think it is a hardware problem is i have recently tried about every jellybean rom with the combination of demon and semaphore and semaphore unofficial kernel and they also have this problem. however there is another problem with any of the jellybean roms i try. they will all work perfectly. i just have to install them 2 times. first install installs semaphore kernel andsays it needs to repartition. i guess cause its coming from icy glitch kernel. then it restarts into the semaphore cwm and then i reinstall jellybean rom and reboot and the phone just laggs unbelievable unless plugged into the charger. i mean the booot animation will move like 1 frame every 10 seconds. i have tried changing the voltage and overclocking it once it starts up. everything works perfectly until the second i unlug the charger then it does the extreeeeem lagg. From my experiences with this phone i would have to say that it is the power management ic on the logicboard. My question is what do you guys think i should do. i am back on icyglitch kernel and the outdated slim ics. i would really like to get jelly bean working and i would also like to be able to boot my phone with out a charger and an electric outlet.
sorry for such a long post i just thought that some of this information could give someone on here an idea of what is wrong with my phone.
Thanks for any help you guys can give.
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2 things, probably needs a new mobo and/or battery (thinking mobo though) and your volume down is probably stuck or dirty, making your phone go in download mode all the time.
Did you try flashing Odin KK4 with bootloaders and start fresh from there?

BWolf56 said:
2 things, probably needs a new mobo and/or battery (thinking mobo though) and your volume down is probably stuck or dirty, making your phone go in download mode all the time.
Did you try flashing Odin KK4 with bootloaders and start fresh from there?
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What is odin kk4?if its the korn kernel i have tried it and semaphore kernel and they both installed but semaphore had the extreme lagg problem and korn kernel worked but the power issue was still there i installed the cwm .zip version tho would this make a difference? I have used odin one click to restore it to factory defaults. I think that should have ruled out any firmware issues, but im not sure. maybe i need to do the master clear thing that it shows on odin. It does seem like it could be a bootloader issue becuase the phone was originally on some half working rom when i got it and i know the guy i got it from said he was always flashing new roms on it. when i got it it already had this problem. then i flashed all kinds of roms and kernels trying to c if it was a firmware issue. I dont think the volume button is stuck because I use my phone daily even with this very annoying defect. It never turns the volume down on its own. the power button does stick sometimes but thats not too often. i have actually tried another battery in the phone too with the same results.
Do you think that having the wrong bootloader would cause something like this? I know from experiences installing linux and hackintosh that the bootloader is crucial to how the system runs. I did the one click restore and i would think that would also restore the original eclair bootloader but it still had the issue. then from there i flashed a GB rom then an ICS rom and a JB rom. I think these would each have their own different bootloaders and maybe they are conflicting. i always clear cache and dalvic cache before installing a new rom.
Is there anymore software i could try troubleshooting on my phone or is this seeming like a hardware problem?

anarchybob6 said:
What is odin kk4?if its the korn kernel i have tried it and semaphore kernel and they both installed but semaphore had the extreme lagg problem and korn kernel worked but the power issue was still there i installed the cwm .zip version tho would this make a difference? I have used odin one click to restore it to factory defaults. I think that should have ruled out any firmware issues, but im not sure. maybe i need to do the master clear thing that it shows on odin. It does seem like it could be a bootloader issue becuase the phone was originally on some half working rom when i got it and i know the guy i got it from said he was always flashing new roms on it. when i got it it already had this problem. then i flashed all kinds of roms and kernels trying to c if it was a firmware issue. I dont think the volume button is stuck because I use my phone daily even with this very annoying defect. It never turns the volume down on its own. the power button does stick sometimes but thats not too often. i have actually tried another battery in the phone too with the same results.
Do you think that having the wrong bootloader would cause something like this? I know from experiences installing linux and hackintosh that the bootloader is crucial to how the system runs. I did the one click restore and i would think that would also restore the original eclair bootloader but it still had the issue. then from there i flashed a GB rom then an ICS rom and a JB rom. I think these would each have their own different bootloaders and maybe they are conflicting. i always clear cache and dalvic cache before installing a new rom.
Is there anymore software i could try troubleshooting on my phone or is this seeming like a hardware problem?
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Start by flashing Odin KK4 from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18370912&postcount=3 - That will clean your phone of w/e was on it before.
From there, you can flash Corn Kernel to get back to a JB ROM. Although, know that if you had the wrong bootloaders, your phone wouldn't boot and it would show color stripes.
Also, before flashing a ROM, you should wipe system and factory reset to make sure everything is clean (Backup your stuff first).

BWolf56 said:
...your volume down is probably stuck or dirty, making your phone go in download mode all the time...
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I had a similar problem with my Sprint Galaxy S2 D710 (Epic 4G Touch) - my phone would randomly reboot every few days, and it kept getting more frequent. I thought it was the ROM, the overclock, etc. I flashed back to a stock ROM, and stock clock speeds. Eventually, I noticed that even brushing the power button would wake the screen, and about 10 seconds later the phone would reboot. I cleaned the button with some 95% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol, and it worked better for a few weeks. It started acting up again, so I bought and installed a replacement power button.
Long story short, I got a new power switch, soldered it in place, and have had zero problems since!
The i897 Captivate uses the same switches for power and volume up/down. These switches are notorious for failing, so that's probably the issue with your phone. Try cleaning them, or you can buy a new switch for about ten bucks on ebay.
YouTube has numerous "teardown" or "disassemble" videos and several eBay sellers offer the switch you'll need.
(They don't include the skills needed to replace it. It's a tiny switch - about 4mm long, and you'll need a good soldering iron and a steady hand. Do you have a friend who's pretty good at soldering stuff?)