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Weird phone freeze behaviour and other abnormalities! Is this normal?

Hi guys,
I'm on 2.1 Stock ROM, no taskkillers etc.
My homescreen is completely frozen as I type now and I can't open the apps menu (the app drawer with 3D conveyor belt effects) or slide to any other homescreen whether i lock/unlock the screen as many times i want!
On touching any homescreen icon absolutely unrelated apps are launching, eg, on touching messaging icon the stock camera launches (whose icon is on a different homescreen!)...on touching market icon...color flashlight launches (icon not on any homescreen...straight in app menu/drawer) etc etc! So cant launch maps or anything. 8 icons on homescreen and remaining space is taken by weather widget donation HTC style clock.
Wait a min...a call just came through fine and I could answer it...after hanging up I could touch all home screen icons and they were working but then suddenly my entire home screen rotated and went to landscape mode! Like all home menu icons, weather clock etc are in landscape/vertical direction and not alined/fitted to the entire screen...as in the ends of icons are cut off as the whole page looks magnified cos its obv not intended to be like that. Landscape orientation is not supported or needed on homescreens/app menu etc on the N1. Why is this happening (never came across this orientation change issues in any forums inc. xda) , why the hang?! Weird things regarding touch sensitivity and screen behaviour etc keep happening from time to time but I know about all that screen, touch sensor make and quality issues etc etc.
Also, I've noticed that everytime after a restart my phone takes atleast 20 mins to half hour plus to get everything working snappily and respond at full speed, eg, till then homescreen transitions are not smooth, all gallery pics dont load up to show for a long while (16 gig class 2 sandisk card). Is this normal?
Sometimes after switching to 3G my 3G watchdog (mobile data transfer measurement app) doesn't auto launch (app issue maybe?) and sometimes no mater how many times I choose wifi ON, it doesn't turn on! Switching it off from power control widget (i.e., 3G on) and then on again doesn't turn on wifi either even when good signal on my laptop!
Earlier today my phone was lying on the desk and it auto-restarted god knows why! The phone freeze happened like 10-11 hours after the restart today afternoon so memory etc wasn't so full or too many apps launched. The home screen rotation orientation has changed before in the past too so not first time to be clear.
I have still more than 80 mb app memory free in internal memory and dont overload my phone with crappy apps etc etc.
Pls advice and discuss.

I know you're on a stock rom now, but have you previously unlocked the bootloader and flashed anything else like recoveries, roms, etc?
If you have and you just reverted back to a stock rom, you could've downloaded a bad rom.
Have you dropped your phone? banged it around a bit?

mrandroid said:
I know you're on a stock rom now, but have you previously unlocked the bootloader and flashed anything else like recoveries, roms, etc?
If you have and you just reverted back to a stock rom, you could've downloaded a bad rom.
Have you dropped your phone? banged it around a bit?
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Nope...none of those...fresh as a daisy!

Ok, well 2 options...
Option #1 - Return your phone for a new one if it's under warranty.
Option #2 - Unlock the bootloader, upgrade your recovery, flash the new radio and upgrade to a new rom like cyanogenmod. Come to the Dark Side young skywalker.

mrandroid said:
Ok, well 2 options...
Option #1 - Return your phone for a new one if it's under warranty.
Option #2 - Unlock the bootloader, upgrade your recovery, flash the new radio and upgrade to a new rom like cyanogenmod. Come to the Dark Side young skywalker.
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So returning or rooting are my only options??? Why does the screen rotate weirdly? Is there any explanation of what's gone wrong?!
See if its a hardware n I root then I'll cry later due to voided warranty n in UK we get a 2 year warranty.
As far as bumps or knocks are concerned...ofcourse the phone takes normal hits or once or twice falls from my laptop to my carpeted floor but that's all.
There has to be logic behind this!

strange sceen happenings...
I've had the same ghost in my machine. In addition, my nexus would lose communication with the network and the cool startup screen with the streaming x would show. I had to pull the battery to get things back to normal. Enom suggested to watch my apps, he thought maybe one had a memory leak.
I found that moving my apps to my sdcard made my phone shot my phone to the streaming x about twice a day. Since wiping and not doing this, I haven't had that problem. I also found that my fav craigslist app was causing my screen to go unresponsive. I think the craigslist app was checking it's update and monopolized the cpu. Since my wipe i havent' installed it and the phone is working better.
Last, I installed nextheme 1.8.1. It also seems to quell the errant screen happenings. The screen still has it's moments, but if i press the off button and turn the phone back on again, i have control back.
I still have problems, but i've gotten them managable. I don't think it's a hardware problem because my rom choise and app selection really affect it. If it were hardware, it would be more consisitant regardless.
Hope this helps...

[Q] Any way to enable NFC while phone is in standby?

Hi is it somehow possible to port those modded Nfc.apks to our stock 4x HD phones?
I tried some of the modded Nfc.apk, but none of them seem to work
NFC is pretty useless when you can't use it while screen is off.
Can anyone help to get nfc working while screen is off?

Evilandi666 said:
Hi is it somehow possible to port those modded Nfc.apks to our stock 4x HD phones?
I tried some of the modded Nfc.apk, but none of them seem to work
NFC is pretty useless when you can't use it while screen is off.
Can anyone help to get nfc working while screen is off?
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tbh i would prefer NFC not detecting when the screen is off. imagine it going off accidentally in your pocket if so ever happens that your credit card or some other NFC 'device' activates it. the small trouble of unlocking the screen and tapping is worth the other troubles to me.
Not able to use it while screen off - we're not using the phone - is a good way to prevent negligence discharge =D army term =X

L2Deliver said:
tbh i would prefer NFC not detecting when the screen is off. imagine it going off accidentally in your pocket if so ever happens that your credit card or some other NFC 'device' activates it. the small trouble of unlocking the screen and tapping is worth the other troubles to me.
Not able to use it while screen off - we're not using the phone - is a good way to prevent negligence discharge =D army term =X
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NFC is pretty useless without the option to have it always on. Google had this integrated, but changed some time ago. Most users try to get back to this state (AOSP, Cyanogen, etc.) or to let the user decide what he wants (off, activated when unlocked, activated when display on (and locked), activated when display off).
Why always on: It would be very nice to activate/deactivate things when you put your phone on your table etc without the need to unlock the phone first (then you can also push a button, so no need for nfc).
Although we have no useful NFC applications here (no payment for example), I don't think that always on is a security problem. You need to get really close to transfer something, so this shouldn't be a real security problem.

hi I have the same issue. NFC makes no sense when you have to unlock the screen first.
I have found this for the HTC One X.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1713354
Could this work on the 4X ?

I had a shot
This issue really irritates me, so yesterday afternoon I decided to run head on at a big learning curve and have a shot at decompiling/editing/recompiling the nfc apk myself.. I flashed my edited apk, turned of the screen scanned a tag and it worked! ..Assuming it worked I left it alone..
This morning I realised that my edit only work for 15 seconds after turning on the screen :/ LG have added their own edits on top of the android source, and honestly Im not even sure what for.. Something in that code is contradicting with the android code and I can't really afford to waste more time on it atm!!
I'm attaching my half working APK file if anyone fancies playing with it.. The key value to play with is POLLING_MODE: a value of 0x1 means NFC should work with the screen off and locked; a value of 0x2 means the screen must be on but can be locked; and 0x3 means NFC will only work with the screen on and unlocked. I also made some minor edits elsewhere.
Anyways, sorry about the long post! Just trying to give people hope, as this is most definitely do-able, and probably not too difficult either.. But not by me as I really can't be doing with getting my head around smali when I am supposed to be doing other things
Note:-
Attached file is intended for firmware v10f, just push the file to /system/app/Nfc.apk using abd.
If you can work out what changes about 15 seconds after the screen is turned off, I would love to hear it.
MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR ORIGINAL Nfc.apk BEFORE PUSHING THIS

G405T said:
This issue really irritates me, so yesterday afternoon I decided to run head on at a big learning curve and have a shot at decompiling/editing/recompiling the nfc apk myself.. I flashed my edited apk, turned of the screen scanned a tag and it worked! ..Assuming it worked I left it alone..
This morning I realised that my edit only work for 15 seconds after turning on the screen :/ LG have added their own edits on top of the android source, and honestly Im not even sure what for.. Something in that code is contradicting with the android code and I can't really afford to waste more time on it atm!!
I'm attaching my half working APK file if anyone fancies playing with it.. The key value to play with is POLLING_MODE: a value of 0x1 means NFC should work with the screen off and locked; a value of 0x2 means the screen must be on but can be locked; and 0x3 means NFC will only work with the screen on and unlocked. I also made some minor edits elsewhere.
Anyways, sorry about the long post! Just trying to give people hope, as this is most definitely do-able, and probably not too difficult either.. But not by me as I really can't be doing with getting my head around smali when I am supposed to be doing other things
Note:-
Attached file is intended for firmware v10f, just push the file to /system/app/Nfc.apk using abd.
If you can work out what changes about 15 seconds after the screen is turned off, I would love to hear it.
MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR ORIGINAL Nfc.apk BEFORE PUSHING THIS
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You have to rename nfc.odex (nfc.odex.org or what you want), if you don't do this the code will be replaced with the one in the odex file after reboot.
There also an other thing with the deep sleep mode which starts after a few seconds (15-30s) . In deep sleep mode nfc is not working until the phone is waked up.
But except that your modification ist quite useful. Nfc is starting immediately after the screen is turned on and this is much better than the default behavior.

NFCMod
So. Which ROMs are you using??? Isn't anybody using a signature here?
If I get a fast answer I would try to make it with my usual method but you have to test then.

StephanSch said:
So. Which ROMs are you using??? Isn't anybody using a signature here?
If I get a fast answer I would try to make it with my usual method but you have to test then.
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At the time of the last post on this thread we had no custom ROMs as there was no way to unlock the bootloader.

SimonTS said:
At the time of the last post on this thread we had no custom ROMs as there was no way to unlock the bootloader.
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and now?

StephanSch said:
and now?
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We have an unlockable bootloader. We have various ROMs based around Cyanogen 10.1 but with a couple of AOSP variants appearing over the last few days as well.

With the slim bean ROM it work.
LG 4X HD - Better than a Smartphone

Ok. Then I've nothing to do.
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Possessed Touch Screen Galaxy Mini and some other issues

I have some weird problem to fix on my girlfriends Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-5570
Firstly, touchscreen works OK, then suddenly it starts acting like possessed, it detects random touches over the screen, it clicks things, moves things, etc, then it backs to normal and works perfectly for a while and then horror starts again......
Sometimes it even doesn't detect touch, but locking/unlocking makes it work again.
And sometimes it even unlocks it self.
These actions help when touchscreen go crazy:
- Reboot - sometimes touchscreen problem gone for a few hours, but sometimes it still here
- Lock/Unlock
- Rapidly entering the menu after unlocking (if the touchscreen is still a bit usable to do that)
I tested it while normal work with different applications, and these results are perfect, even better than on my brand new LG P350.
It's fluid, precise, no dead spots, multi touch also works.
I done Wipe data and cache, I flashed S5570XWKTN firmware (Android 2.3.6) and there is result: it longer works normally but it still sometimes go crazy.
So I think that touchscreen needs replacement, but I'm not sure. I don't have money to throw away, in case that problem is not related with touchscreen.
Is there any solution?
It also have problem with weak signal, if network signal is low, while other devices have one-two bars, this guy have noone. Reflash didn't helped.
Is there a way to improve internal antenna?
Also can someone recommend me a good stable and fast ROM for it?
Thanks in advance for any help.

xZero707 said:
I have some weird problem to fix on my girlfriends Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-5570
Firstly, touchscreen works OK, then suddenly it starts acting like possessed, it detects random touches over the screen, it clicks things, moves things, etc, then it backs to normal and works perfectly for a while and then horror starts again......
Sometimes it even doesn't detect touch, but locking/unlocking makes it work again.
And sometimes it even unlocks it self.
These actions help when touchscreen go crazy:
- Reboot - sometimes touchscreen problem gone for a few hours, but sometimes it still here
- Lock/Unlock
- Rapidly entering the menu after unlocking (if the touchscreen is still a bit usable to do that)
I tested it while normal work with different applications, and these results are perfect, even better than on my brand new LG P350.
It's fluid, precise, no dead spots, multi touch also works.
I done Wipe data and cache, I flashed S5570XWKTN firmware (Android 2.3.6) and there is result: it longer works normally but it still sometimes go crazy.
So I think that touchscreen needs replacement, but I'm not sure. I don't have money to throw away, in case that problem is not related with touchscreen.
Is there any solution?
It also have problem with weak signal, if network signal is low, while other devices have one-two bars, this guy have noone. Reflash didn't helped.
Is there a way to improve internal antenna?
Also can someone recommend me a good stable and fast ROM for it?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Problem source: Digitizer/Touchscreen
Solution: Replacement of Digitizer/Touchscreen
Problem fixed.

I think my phone is hacked :/

Ok,so as funny and stupid this may sound ,i think my phone is hacked,some of you may know that lately i was having problems with my touch screen not being responsive at times,but it looks like its not just the screen not working as it should but the whole phone,its getting laggy and slow animations are slow and its just not the way it should be at times not always thanks god,and Facebook app is not working ok sometimes it will just freeze and make the phone unresponsive for a short period until the app is force closed,but what happened tonight is what made me sure that something is not wright and scared me a bit.So my phone was sitting while i was watching tv,i took the phone to use it and when i try to unlock it the screen was unresponsive,i tried swiping a few times and i unlock it,but when i tried to open Facebook app nothing happened,after a few sec the app opened and it was tagging my friends,the keyboard was opened and was writing text i mean real text,it was typing by itself i don't remember what exactly but it was something like:and,this,that,him and so on,that scared me a bit so here i am looking for a solution. What do you guys think,is my phone hacked or is it obsessed by some evil spirit ,jokes aside is there any way i can completely i mean COMPLETELY wipe this phone clean,every partition that exists where a malware could be hidding and than re flash it,or any other suggestion is welcome

It might not be malware 'typing'. If screen was not responding in might still act on touches (just not displaying them due to CPU overload or in general low available resources). Then, when CPU finally caught up to processing your input it executed all swipes and taps exactly as queued before - resulting in swype text (with auto-correct those could be actual words - just not logical sentence).
That being said - it is still good idea to flash everything clean all over again - just to get rid of whatever is 'eating' your CPU cycles.

Razor Phone 2 randomly freezes

Hi my Razer 2 will just randomly freezes. By that I mean sound will continue to work, the screen will remain on passed it's 5 min inactivity cutoff point, but the screen and the side buttons( all 3 buttons) will not respond to any input. I'm not sure how long this will last but I know it has stuck that way for more than 15 mins. Most of the time I just immediately reboot. And about 25% of those times it will still be unresponsive once it comes back on. But most of the time it fixes the issue till it decides to do it again. It does this about 2 times a day.
I'm not rooted, unlocked, nor have I flashed anything to my phone. It is still bone stock. The phone is only about 2 months old and I'm on the latest update.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Exactly the same issue here, stock completely but will crash on nearly every app I try to run. Screen is so unresponsive it is painful, playing Pokemon Go is a horrendous experience. Taking my handset to Three today to see if they can give me a replacement.

Mine doesn't do it on every apk. But when it does I'm usually watching a video...... Haha no not porn.... Lmao. And the other weird thing about it is when I reboot it it will show the splash screen then boot animation then it cuts the boot animation short and pops up a very basic very old school window requiring me to enter my password. So I enter it and it goes right back to the boot animation where it left off. And finishes running the animation then before I can go to my "Home" screen I have to input my password again. But this time is normal password screen and I have it set up to require it at that point. It's the first generic password screen in the middle of the boot animation that puzzles me. It just started doing this about 3 to 4 days ago.

Had a previous phone that would randomly freeze.
The solution was to enable developer mode. (Settings about phone and tap on build number 10 times)
Head back and find developer options.
Set Window animation scale to off
Set Transition animation scale to off
And set Animator duration scale to off
Restart phone.
Hope that helps.

chewdiggy said:
Exactly the same issue here, stock completely but will crash on nearly every app I try to run. Screen is so unresponsive it is painful, playing Pokemon Go is a horrendous experience. Taking my handset to Three today to see if they can give me a replacement.
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I've faced the same. Three are not only swapping my handset for a Mi 8, but they have upped my contract benefits to the top level, and reduced my costs by £10 a month. I know the Mi 8 specs slightly lower than the Razer, but I'm fed up with this

Nameless21 said:
Had a previous phone that would randomly freeze.
The solution was to enable developer mode. (Settings about phone and tap on build number 10 times)
Head back and find developer options.
Set Window animation scale to off
Set Transition animation scale to off
And set Animator duration scale to off
Restart phone.
Hope that helps.
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That's one of the first things I do when I get a new phone, flash a rom, or just generally anytime I have to set it up from scratch. So it's not that. I guess I'm gonna flash the kernel in these forums that has root capabilities and twrp built in. See if that helps..... I like the performance it has during mobile gaming. PUBG runs on the higest/best video setting and speed like a boss.

Did you set it to adoptable storage when you first got the phone?

Nameless21 said:
Did you set it to adoptable storage when you first got the phone?
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If that is the issue is this something that can be reset to have the option to choose the correct storage if the factory image is flashed?

mattwheat said:
If that is the issue is this something that can be reset to have the option to choose the correct storage if the factory image is flashed?
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You would have to do a hard reset.
When asked how the memory card is to be used select as portable storage.

Not to be provocative, but why have the option of adaptive storage if it doesn't function as it should on this phone? I've never had this issue with any other device. Personally I'm extremely disappointed at Razer. No updates since the Feb security patch, we are now in June. Razer forums show very little advancement and support, and we know the mobile division has been scaled down significantly.
I would have thought this device could be a devs dream, but alas it appears long forgotten

bay91 said:
Not to be provocative, but why have the option of adaptive storage if it doesn't function as it should on this phone? I've never had this issue with any other device. Personally I'm extremely disappointed at Razer. No updates since the Feb security patch, we are now in June. Razer forums show very little advancement and support, and we know the mobile division has been scaled down significantly.
I would have thought this device could be a devs dream, but alas it appears long forgotten
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I agree. Not having any update since feb's security patch shows Razers laziness or lack of concern for their supposedly high end mobile gaming device. Not a confidence booster going into a round of PUBG knowing it may freeze at any moment.
It just froze again for no apparent reason.
And by the way I don't even have a micro SD card in the phone.

This is weird I've never had any of the issues you've described in either my RP2 or RP1. I would contact Razer send it back or swap.
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Same. Haven't even had it for a month. Completely stock, latest update, freezes completely when opening either version of Chrome (Canary and Stock) sometimes, and forcing a reboot usually gets it frozen AGAIN before I even unlock it, which makes me force another reboot. Not to mention I think I'm already noticing a dead pixel on the screen. It hasn't even been a month.

I did a factory reset in the stock recovery about 4 or 5 days ago. It's been running beautifully since. No lag no freezing just running as smooth as a unicorn sliding down a rainbow. So I guess I picked up some kind of malware or something along my journey. I've gone to the "dark web" a few times. Just snooping around. But I was safe about it. I used a VPN and ran thru tor browser. But it could have been there that I picked up something. Who knows. But what I do know is it's back to as smooth as it was out of the box after a full factory reset.

same here on rooted
it mostly crash when I want to watch videos on Facebook or similar pages.
it does on stock/rooted stock/gsi and i think it's vendor problem

Moving back to Internal storage seems to have done the trick, especially as my SD card has been disconnected several times now.

Same issues with Radom and sometimes more often freezing as to where I have to hold power down until it reboots.last time it did it was a few minutes ago I was trying to watch a clip about oppo 7 pro video about 5g on the chrome search app it played about 15 seconds and solid froze my phone everytime I tried to play it.it worked fine in YouTube app

My phone is been having this issue lately.
Seems to have started only in the last week or so..
I am running the custom kernal and the "stock deodexed and zipalign" rom.
It could also be that I've rooted...?
I don't want to go back to stock rom so I live with the random frozen screen once a day and since people here have said it happens on stock.
Phone has never been dropped and it isn't hot when it happens.View attachment 4803124
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Mine has done this a few times in the past week. Stock rooted, tried stock kernel and arter's kernel with same result. It's only happening to me while using chrome and videos in Facebook.

Running complete stock Three ROM, no rooting. Chrome took an update over the weekend and now the phone locks up when watching video. Works fine on Samsung browser on the phone, just Chrome.
Might finally get around to flashing and getting LDAC working on this thing....