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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
I'm discouraged that there are either so few people suffering this that we're simply 'on our own' with it, or so many people who have it but have learned to accept it.

It seems preposterous to not have attention to such a big fault.

And I realised that I've seen this before, and have the sneaky feeling that it is a dirty little secret of Android....

I bought an ASUS Transformer last June. It had this issue from day one on Honeycomb. Random reboots at unpredictable times, at least two per day. Over the last 9 months it went back to ASUS three times and each time they 'fixed' something totally unrelated to the problem before eventually telling me that they had no replacement units to give me and were authorising a full buy back - a refund.

I had anecdotal indications that it only occurred when I had an SD card installed. That was my growing suspicion, but I now no longer have a unit to test it.

Other Galaxy range users have been reporting random or looped reboots, and have pinned blame on using an sd card, especially in conjunction with App2SD.

I have an HTC Flyer with an SD card installed, running App2SD, and have no random reboot problems. Its as solid as a rock on stock Honeycomb.

Similarly, though, some users have reported that their Galaxy phone model has random reboots relating to having a sim card installed...

You see where this is going. Its getting to the place where we're accepting that the only way our expensive device works is if we disable key functionality and surrender our expectations of its advertised features doing the job they were intended to.

It is scandalous that this device should malfunction as a result of using the advertised features, and that no fix would be found nor explanation offered.

I now have an SD in the unit, but have not moved apps with App2SD. I have established that the reboots occur with all three of my SD cards of varying sizes, soit is not caused by a corrupt or faulty SD... If it is caused by an SD at all, it is 'all' SD's. Since so many users have the Note with SD's installed, and they run perfectly, I can't believe there is an issue with SD cards, although I did wonder if the manufacturers are now phasing out SD slots in their devices because 'cloud computing' is all the rage, or rather because this volatility caused by SD in the now unfixable evolving Android code means that they are minimising their embarrassment by simply dispensing with the faulty variable.

I have also begun setting static IP's for all my stored wlan's in case this is a DHCP issue caused during momentary wakes from sleep for polling or sync. If only we had an app that could store, like a seismograph, a persistent record of device events which trigger the reboot and then capture the reboot events also. Closest I've found uses ram to store the events log and then blanks the log on reboot starting from the reboot instead of maintaining the record prior to the reboot.

Getting close to wits end with this, and now deeply regretting my purchase.

Nothing like this on my Xperia Arc S.

Even an iPhone is better than this!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Can you direct me to that guide?

And is it likely that it is the DE ICS release that just doesn't like UK devices? Why would that be so?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
Looks like i'm going to get stuck with this problem until I move on to a next phone. What a waste :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BashyUK:
Maybe you should have waited for a stable release built using the UK or wwe equivalent rom? You didn't even give the stock more than a couple of days, what was the rush?!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Maybe, yes.

Naivete, perhaps.

I'll tell you exactly why.

I had an Xperia Arc S on ICS which I loved. I was tempted by the Note. I bought one expecting a Samsung flavored ICS experience, and got tossed back to GB. I basically had 7 days to return the Note or learn to like it, and during that period DE f/w was released and I had to know...

Note was rebooted using static ip's and is nowraring to go...

So far so good @ 18 hours
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
Did you even read my other posts? Problem started when i was still in gb.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Still going... No reboots. And excellent battery performance to boot.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BashyUK:
But if that was when your phone was still new why didn't you just return it for a replacement rather than root and flash a phone that wasn't stable in the first place? For all you know it may be a hardware issue and likely so as I've not heard any apart from you and the op mention it.

Anyway, your phone, your call what you do with it but it makes no sense to me to blame the manufacturer and model when you've not even followed basic steps to deal with an issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain Splash:
The first note I had in December 2011 rebooted at random. It was a hardware issue. It only started after owning it for 3 weeks, stock GB. Not roiled or modified in anyway. I had it replaced.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
Basic steps i didn't follow? Enlighten me... I never mentioned that this happened when my phone was new. I said this started when i was still in GB. Notice the difference? If you can't help us figure out what's causing this just go troll on somebody else's thread.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
And yeah... I never mentioned that it's samsung's fault that my phone's been randomly rebooting.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BashyUK:
It's not trolling at all! I'm just looking at it from a different angle. First thing I would have done is contact either Samsung or my network provider, if that's who I got the phone from and gone through their support lines. Once it had been firmly established that there was no hardware issue and that they couldn't help me any further I would then have come here. It doesn't mention anywhere that you've done that.

The reference to blaming Samsung was your comment regarding being 'stuck' with the Note as if it was a burden put on you by the company.

Anyway bro clearly my lines of enquiry are of no help to you, good luck in finding out the issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
BashyUK,

Actually, if you read around, there are LOTS of users reporting random reboots, and potentially others who haven't noticed them. Most of those users are frustrated at no official acknowledgement, no authoritative investigation by devs, no definitive answers, and are either living with it, or chasing cycles of following trial and error and the android equivalent of old wives tales.

I can tell you that the prevailing (mis)conception on this issue is that many Samsung phones (not just Note) have fundamental problems utilising sd cards, especially using App2SD, arising from official kernel alterations occurring between 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 updates, if I recall correctly, and continuing into ICS.

I don't entirely agree.

My current experiment involves forcing static ip on as many wifi networks as possible because my hunch is that the (my) reboots are triggered during scheduled wifi data 'pings' and periodic 'wake' from deep sleep for background sync, perhaps as a result of clash or stutter arising from use of dhcp assignments. Anecdotal it may be, but this is the only change I've made at present. I now have noteworthy improvements in battery life to the point of having one and a half days consuming only 70% of the battery, and yielding NO random reboots - very unusual based on precedent. I am now down to 39% and 20 hours since my last charge (using a car charger with intermittent charging periods and heavy use on both phone and wifi for at least half of that time) and also have not racked up any reboots in that period.

The app I am using is WiFi Static.

I generally use only 3 wifi networks, all dish out the same subnet, so WiFi Static can be set to apply the same network settings for all the networks.

So far so good.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
There you go. Better than just semi bashing on people who have legit issues. As Ive mentioned, not blaming anybody. I think i've mentioned somewhere here in this thread that i've flashed my phone with the franco kernel. Reason for me not blaming Samsung. BUT if u have a few people who've had this issue from out of the box i think it's just fair for them to blame the manufacturer for having phones come out of the factory defective. Have you ever heard of quality check? You said it yourself. There have been more than a few people who have the same issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
And about going to the manufacturer for problems outright? I disagree... I'd rather try to trouble shoot first especially if i did some modifying not recommended by them like flashing kernels. And guess what... Where do you try to ask for support when you need it? Forums like xda right?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkarahan:
I need urgent solution

Brother, I bought my note December 2011 in Turkey. I just update with German ICS. But it is rebooting itself, after updates.

Its rebooting every 4-5 minutes. I tried, un-plug battery, wipe factory reset etc.

I did not find soluions.

Help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Ok, first things first. It is highly possible that your issues are the result of German ICS. You could go back to GB. If you're comfortable with an English phone you could go to Taiwan ICS. Alternatively (and this is what I'd do) you could use PC Odin to re-flash German ICS with a full wipe.

If your phone reboots so regularly, it should be fast and easy to see if something makes a difference.

Do you use an SD card for additional storage? Do you use Apps2SD? If so, move apps back to phone and then remove the SD. Did that change anything?

Does the phone still reboot in airplane mode?

If it doesn't, then narrow it down further... Turn wifi off. Any change? Now try removing the SIM. Anything?

If wifi seems to be the issue, just try WIFIStatic, and force your Note to use a static IP over DHCP.

A restart every 5 minutes is the most severe I've heard of. Sounds like a bad flash... Certainly worth retracing your steps and being thorough.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
I have bad my Unrooted note around 3 weeks and im having random restarts which is annoying. I wonder if its due the launchers and stuff ive have instaed so im confused. Is it worth changing phone or will this update fix it?

Is the ics out yet in uk also..

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l0rd_almighty:
Looks like the wifi theory has some weight to it. I seem to only be experiencing the reboots when i'm at work not connected to my wifi at home while not using the phone. I had auto wifi installed. I took it out of the equation. Will get to test when i get to work later if i will still have issues.

---it's been 5 hours since I left home. No random reboot yet since then. Looks like I can confirm that auto wifi was causing the reboots for me. I'll update my post again by the end of the day.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Due to the issues raised on XDA about the safety of LPY and LPF 'official' ICS ROMs and the danger of hard bricking, it goes without saying...

Nobody flash nuffin

(at least until further clarification... And definately no wipes or factory resets.)

And yes... My note is still running long without any random reboots since moving to StaticIP.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
I have a feeling wifi is what is causing me the restarts also.

ive not rooted and had my note around 3 weeks or so now and i get a restart mainly everyday, it seems i get them when iam browsing or checking a app or something. i to have downloaded that move2sd but have not used it at all, i now have taken out my sdcard to see if it continues to reboot when im using it.

what other things can i try after that?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
I can't emphasise enough that I think StaticIP is the issue. I've not had a restart since I went this route. Now... i'm using Wifi Static to do this. But I've discovered that ICS also has built in static IP support. Go to your wifi networks, select an access point and long press on it to get the 'Modify Network Config' option. Now click the checkbox for Advanced options and you'll see that you're offered choice of DHCP or Static...

Give it a go that way if you like.

Make sure you set it up for as many wifi networks as you can to minimise the risk of recurrence of the reboots.

As they say, 'it works for me.'

Please remember to post your steps and your results here. We're all looking for sure solutions. And DO NOT hard reset, erase, or wipe using an ICS ROM.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spumpco:
Hi all, I think is the first time I post here but been reading since a while.

Anyway, I have experienced a lot of reboots as well but I noticed that they happen when I have wifi on but the phone is not connected to any net. If it stays this way (without connecting) the phone starts to heat a lot and then the constant reboots start.

Also, I can't turn wifi off if it doesn't conect to a net first. So lets say i was connected at home, I can turn it off while connected. But if I'm at a public place and turn it on and there are no public nets where I can connect, then I can only wait for the phone to start rebooting.

This has been a pain specially because I used to have wifi on always no matter if I was connected or not and it was flawless as new, but then it started to do this all of a sudden.

I found a partial solution in an app called WIFI Power Saver, it helps me turning off wifi when I disconnect from a net. But obviously it'd be great if I could leave my wifi on all the time again.

I hope this helps someone here and probably open up other alternatives so there can be another solution. And sorry if I have repeated any info previously posted.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
I continue to think there's a link between the restarts and wifi that is more than just anecdotal.

I'm still using Wifi Static.

I'm still having a lot less restarts than I did before.

But restarts HAVE resumed, sadly, after quite a curious gap.

I was running the German ICS official ROM, unrooted, unmodified. I had (prior to knowing what a risk it was) done a factory wipe on the unit, and I was also achieving excellent battery usage, nearly 2 days basic use dropped me to 15% charge remaining.

So I was not charging so often, and running the phone without reboots.

The reboots first resumed about three days ago, and the circumstances were not unusual. I was sat within the range of one of my recognised WIFI networks which I have configured for Static IP.

No precursory indications. Nothing unusual to report afterward.

Since then I have had an additional reboot, in an area where I was a guest on a dynamic IP wifi network.

And an additional reboot within 24 hours while driving (with my mobile wifi hotspot turned on and set to static IP)

Yesterday I did a non-wipe install of UK stock ICS ROM and I had another reboot this afternoon, again within range of one of my recognised WIFI networks.

The only thing I can note additionally about ALL of these recent reboots relates to battery.

Using the ICS battery meter (found in 'settings') I note that on two occasions the point of reboot was preceded by a very short, very sharp INCREASE in battery capacity, according to the meter, without the phone having been plugged in. The phone then reboots and the normal decline of the battery continues following reboot.

In three other cases the point of the reboot is visible on the battery meter because of an abrupt break in the battery usage represented by a sudden drop (like a sheer cliff) by maybe 4-5% of the battery life from the point of reboot to the point of system restart.

I don't know anything about how these things work, so I have no idea what it represents, only how unusual it looks, especially two instances where the charge starkly increases (say 2-3%) without being plugged in to any charging or USB device...

Any more ideas?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Belfia:
All you people experiencing random reboots. How many of you have the official facebook app installed. Its not uncommen that it causes a lot of trouble, among them random reboots.

Just a friendly tip.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] islandmixed:
the facebook app deffo is the issue. I used to get a few a day after using it so i uninstalled it. However after that i was using draw something so u have to sign in with facebook in order to use it and then i got a restart so i kne it was facebook. Now im on ics and no facebook app ive not had any as of yet.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbreloaded:
Same problem on official UK ICS XXXLQ2

Hello there, Im having the same problem: random reboots. I am also having problems with the phone randomly locking up during use with the capacitive buttons and touchscreen not responding. This is all since upgrading to ICS. Before that I was on GB and all was running smooth.

On an unrelated topic- does anyone know what app2sd actually does to the SD card? Could it be that it creates a partition and uses a boot script to mount said partition?

Also are all stock ICS updates bugged with the superbrick bug? Is it safe to factory reset a Note running the official UK LQ2 rom?

Also for the people having the problem have you rooted your phones?

If you have rooted did you use the method found here? ---- androidauthority.com/galaxy-note-gt-n7000-root-clockworkmod-recovery-no-flash-counter-90787/

Do you have Dolphin browser and Facebook installed?

Sorry for all the questions but ive been researching this problem and wanted to collate all the info here so hopefully someone can spot a pattern.

Im really interested in your wifi theory. I always have wifi enabled but it wasnt restarting with wifi enabled all the time when it was on GB. Only started rebooting since ICS.

Also are you guys running Juice Defender Ultimate? And do you get the AOSP install warning in the Juice Defender log?

Do you have GL to Sd installed?

And finally do you have Gameloft Order & Chaos installed. This app causes messages to appear saying the app has stopped working.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Don't have Facebook. Don't want Facebook.

Still getting restarts.

Under LPY they could be a week apart. Under LQ2 they are back to every 6 or 7 hours and can be seen visibly on the system's battery usage chart represented by a sudden drop of a few battery percent or, more oddly, sometimes preceded by a sudden increase in 'juice' over the few minutes prior, in spite of not being plugged into a source.

I have Juice Defender Installed.

I have no games.

I have app2sd but it is unused.

I have recently rooted LQ2 using Dr Ketan's method, and it has not helped.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichson:
u can hard reset it by *2767*3855# Full Factory Reset , if ur phone still reboot , go to download flash new stock german update
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Belfia:
I would consider that a piece of really bad advice since it might cause a brick.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tknguyencsu:
Check the applications manager on the running tab to see if your Note has enough free memory (at least 350 MB) at idle. If not delete or disable (you can enable it again) some of the applications you do not need to see if the problems disappear.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Yes, it has plenty memory.

I went ahead and reported the issue to my vendor and a replacement is under way... See if the next one does the same.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
And now its gone back to behaving....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Spoiled itself after 36 hours. On reboot it threw up a flurry of activity in Gmail app, so I disabled Gmail Sync and will see what happens...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hykhleif:
for me my phone is from France, and i installed the ICS LQ2 stock rom and reboots started to happen. They only happen when I am in the car listening to music over my bluetooth car stereo and this happens every 30 minutes.

I am surprised why it does not happen when i am home and listening to music over bluetooth.

So it could be a combination of wifi and bluetooth that is causing these reboots.

Anyway i today flashed rocket rom v 4.1 without speedmod kernel, drove for about 30 minutes and no reboot, i hope it will stay like that,

tomorrow i have a drive for about 2 hours and i am curious to see if listening to music over bluetooth will survive 2 hours without a reboot in my car.

I swear if it reboots I am back for good on GB as I did not have such problems in the past.

for me i can't live with a system that is vulnerable, i will want all widgets, and all my apps to function on the rom i use, so i will not be bound by a rom or what i can do on it. For me a phone must work flawless, otherwise it will be a pain.

sometimes i miss my iphone where i never had those issues with roms, kernels, modems, etc to worry about, I just used to jailbreak and thats it, and many hundreds of app installed all working so beautifully. If iphone 5 is a 4.5 inch screen i will say goodbye to the note, as it consumed so much of my time, trying to make it perfect instead of enjoying my apps
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
I know what you mean about the simplicity of the iphone, although I had major issues with a rapid drain on 2 3gs's until I got a good one.

I have the reboots back.

They are almost certainly something to do with battery or interaction between device and battery.

I've reported several occasions where the battery usage meter records inexplicable increases in capacity immediately prior to a reboot, and almost all my reboots were followed by a sheer drop in capacity, sometimes small, sometimes large, but always sheer, like vertical, almost as if (like this morning) the phone thinks it is at 50% and then suddenly corrects itself to 34%.

and thats what happened this morning. I had not long checked my phone, at 34% on the status bar. Short while later it reboots. Still 34% on the status bar. But when I checked the usage meter it shows 50% on the meter immediately prior to reboot, and 34% immediately after it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alexey117:
I´m on CM9 and my Note Turns off

Hi guys, many days ago I decided to root and have the CM9 rom (nightlies) , and the phone reboots when I try to unlock(pressing the power/lock button)the phone , I have to turn on the Note again , it happens almost 3-6 times in a day :( what should I do ? GO back to GB ? and if I go back to GB and experience the same issues should I return the phone to have a new one with my warranty, my Note almost has 50 days of use , I´m very sad:confused: , please help and sorry for bad english :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbreloaded:
My Galaxy Note running LQ2 ICS via official update reboots on its own as well. Happens randomly hours apart from each other. Just did it randomly just a moment ago which prompted me to write this post.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbreloaded:
I have decided to post a poll to see if there is a pattern to the number of reboots per day, what versions and apps people have running etc. --

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1706343
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTen:
Ok dbreloaded...

I just posted an update on your thread...