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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ktabel01:
Having the exact issues posted in this thread. Camera and general freezes. reboots. Clock changing time after screen blanking. Running stock on t mobile. Never rooted before. Anyone able to resolve this without rooting? Doesn't appear the factory reset is super effective in reading this and other threads. Have set up carat so will see what it shows but just curious mainly about non root success stories. thanks from a new guy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Carat is a good start. djtheraven might also be on to something. From what I can see so far (I could be wrong) But it's almost as if the ICS update laid down a new o/s without actually removing the old. I know from the pc world, that you're always best to format the drive, before you install or reinstall anything. It's possible that some of the stuff you installed may have a conflict between gingerbread versions & ICS? I've temporarily removed the play store from my phone (whole other & unrelated thing) But first try clearing the cache on your phone, look at what apps you installed before the update & see if there's a GOOD cache cleaner that doesn't require root on the store. I'm pretty sure that a lot of crap was left behind. Also look to see if you can find an app called AP Mobile, I know it's not the final solution, but freezing it on my phone did get me a few days of smooth operating.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I hope you can find a way without rooting but i don't think you will be able to...the steps i took finally worked...the ds cache wipe is definitely the answer...and you do it after everything...but have you wiped data and restored apps without data? That's the first step...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ktabel01:
Thanks for the above replies. All helpful. Carat quickly gave me some suggestions. Some of them required root to handle fully so I finally pulled the trigger on that overnight. Eager to see how it goes. On stock now. Thanks again. Great forum
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
If you really want to see your phone fly try flashing darkside venom 3#5 kernel and use his cache wipe after and you should be good to go...but make sure you use cwm 5027
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Djtheraven,

A couple more days have gone by.... Any more issues with freezing after using darkside cache wipe?

For the most part my phone is freeze free, but it still happens sometimes, and mostly when browsing with chrome? I've gone into titanium and deleted any backed up files from gingerbread, used CWM to wipe dalvik & partition cache.

I am a little surprised that there's not more people commenting or asking about the freezing issues??

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
No haven't had one freeze since Monday before i used the super wipe...i also froze DeviceManagement cause it was using a lot of resources...but i haven't had any problems at all...nock on wood
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
That's excellent! Two questions; which launcher are you using (I've been using GO Launcher, but now I'm setting up Nova Launcher, just to see if there's any difference), & you're absolutely sure that even though you're phone is the T989, Darkside's cache wipe/cleaner won't pooch my SGH - I727R?

Thanks for your continued feedback! :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I'm using go launcher and dolphin browser...i read that someone used it on a hd2..just make a nandroid backup first...the worst thing that could happen could be over written by the backup...also make sure you are using non touch recovery...good luck
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Since I am using Touch CWM, I looked for another possible solution. I too was using GO Launcher, & I really liked it but I decided to switch to Apex (I tried Nova too) Apex was designed for ICS & After reading reviews & preferences on XDA, as well as some other sites I made the switch to Apex and I find it faster & smoother than Go. It was pretty time consuming to get it set up the way I wanted, but I'm very happy that I did!

I did find another remaining gingerbread file, com.android.nfc3, which I deleted.

With Go, I was still getting intermittent freezing, particularly with Chrome & a couple of other apps. Check out Apex & Nova, see what others are saying...... maybe you'll find them a better choice?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I'm trying apex right now...really snappy...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Great! Did you find that it was slow to add apps to the screen? Go & Nova were definitely faster in this respect, I found anyway. I'd select Add, then App & it took several seconds for the app list to appear... I do also miss the ability to add multiple apps at the same time (as you can in the most recent version of Go) as well, it would be great if they added a search feature for the app drawer (like Go)... I sent Apex an email to that effect, as a polite suggestion :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Yeah but it's way smoother than go...SMS it's almost the same...now today i did get a reboot but i was doing a lot and when it came back there was no loop so that's was better but i went a week without any problems...the way this is now is very acceptable...before it was impossible to use the phone...so i hope people with this problem will read this...did you flash ds cache wipe?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
No, I didn't flash ds wipe, since it specified that you had to be using non touch CWM. I did partition & dalvik cache wipe 3 times & fixed permission in CWM..

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Yeah, I'm still getting freezing issues :banghead:

At first it looked like it was only happening when using Chrome browser or Google's search.. But it's also happening with Dolphin (but seems less frequently?)

I'm wondering if it could be the recovery tar? I rooted my phone using TWRP. I tried searching through Google Code & just Google search, but wasn't able to find anything definitive....?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
My issues came back full force..I've gone through hell these 2 days...I'm calling Samsung tomorrow to see what i can do...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
I don't know what the deal is? I installed the most recent update for Apex, then my carrier (rogers) had an outage, which I guess forced them to fix something in my area.. I'm still finding Google search to be slow & chrome very laggy sometimes, but for some inexplicable reason my phone seems to be about 90 % better.... I'm pretty freaking confused! Let us know what Samsung has to say :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well tonight i completely wiped the whole phone formatted the internal sd and odin flashed ics stock with no data...so far so good I'll keep you informed...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Thanks for the update! Hopefully it solves all the problems! Maybe you could provide a step by step guide to what you did, you know for "dummies" like me :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Nope... this morning i wanted to make a backup and after phone restarted went into hot reboot loop again until i rebooted...now I'm definitely calling Samsung...maybe it's a hardware issue or maybe it's just ics, but I'm going to get to the bottom of this...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Well that Sucks! It sounds like you essentially did a completely fresh install on a blank slate... I had read something about a partition error for some that did a factory reset on the leaked ics rom, which if I recall could be partially fixed, but still damaged the memory of the emmc?

My phone is running great, with only the very occasional temporary freeze, which if I leave it alone for a few seconds, resolves itself or I get a message saying that an app has stopped responding. So not to the point where I am motivated to do anything just yet.

I don't remember, did you flash the original ics leak?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
No the actual rom from Samsung...i never used anything aftermarket but the kernel...maybe it's because I'm overclocked...i will be fine until i freeze most of the time i do get a fc but when my phone hot reboots then the time goes to 0gmt and then will continue to hot reboot until i fully reboot...it also will do this everytime when starting up if i touch anything before it's completely booted like 5min which really sux...i could go 24hours or 4hours it's random...

Edit- when i say 5min I'm talking about after i see the lockscreen
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] androiduser4life:
Freezing etc...

I am having the same issue. I've reset back to factory twice and it still did it. This was w/ no apps installed except for the factory ones. I got tired of it and had them send me a "new" phone. All T-Mobile sent me was the phone itself. No battery, no back cover. It was preinstalled w/ the ICS update. It's not freezing like it was but it's starting to freeze up again. T-Mobile tech told me it's one of my apps. I've had the same apps before the ICS upgrade. I'm on my 3rd SGS2 and I'm about to throw this thing into the street.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Yeah 5min is pretty long. I Googled freezing after ics update, & it's not just the Skyrocket... It's also Sony, Motorola etc. I'm just surprised that there's not more people commenting about it on this forum?

Mine is still freezing, but very rarely & if I wait a few seconds it's fine. I do reboot the phone a couple of times a day. It makes me think of a pc that has too much junk clogging up Ram, but I've always got at least 300 spare.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I talked to Samsung and tmobile...Samsung said it could be hardware but i doubt it..tmobile said they won't do anything until i reset my phone and run it for 3 days with no other apps on it...I went and used system tuner to uncheck 20 start up items and that seemed to work for my start problem...it seems i get overloaded when the phone starts with all those apps...but since i redid my phone it hasn't froze on it's own..just on startup...then continuous hot reboots...I'll see if limiting the startup apps works...Samsung also said they would love to have my phone to see what's going on but i don't want to be without a phone for a month...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
By any chance, are you using an sd card booster or something that changes the size of your cache?

Also, have you noticed whether or not Google search seems to be slower than before the update? I've tried using Google search Now & just regular Google search....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well this is it i think i have got it...the freezing when i was using the phone was coming from overclocking...and the hot reboot loop on startup was fixed by unchecking all the non important startup apps..now i know that is just a bandaid cause if i was not rooted i wouldn't be able to do that and my phone should be able to handle that anyway...but for now #hope hope# everything is working...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
I agree that the phone should not be doing what it is. I'm also wondering why more people aren't having the same issue?

Which app are you using to control which apps start on boot?

Appreciate the update! Hopefully you've found a solution, albeit not a perfect one.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I'm using system tuner pro...and this is fixed...all the stuff i had running at startup was causing the phone to hot reboot over and over...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Good to hear! Just out of curiosity, how many processes did you have running at startup?

I'd asked about cache, because that may have been partially responsible for freezing..?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I stopped 39 of them...still no problems....sometimes Android will reboot itself but with all that starting up it was too much causing my phone to keep hot rebooting...i only disabled extra apps and stuff that was not meaningful from the startup menu...but i haven't had any freezes yet either...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Great! According to OS Monitor (from the store), I've got 57 processes running & thanks to your advice I installed system tuner & removed a few from start up.

I have Apex paid, and I like it but I also tried Nova Launcher(free at the moment) & it's so much faster at adding apps or widgets to the screen! Don't know why?

I asked you about cache because I'm using sd booster & after playing around with it, I'd noticed significant variations in performance. Just a thought :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well after you talked about it i installed nova and I'm currently trying it out...apex had to many redraws for me...but I'll see which one is better...i had a freeze today after installing an app and then running it and then the dreaded hot reboot...but everything has been doing much better...but I'm thinking it's a hardware thing cause we have had this thread up for a while and keeping it on top with over 3k views and no one is chiming in...i would think everyone would be telling us their situation...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] androiduser4life:
Resetting ringtone, notification and display time

Anyone having any issues w/ their ringtone/notification sound and display time being reset to factory after a reboot? Mine constantly does this after a reboot and it's annoying. I'm on my THIRD SGS2! I had issues before the ICS update but it's just worse now. T-Mobile keeps telling me it's my apps that I'm running. I ran the same apps before. I find it hard to believe that some of the apps I have are causing the phone to do this at reboot. I'm also having it freeze up on me but it's not as often and it's usually while doing a search on the net. Please help! I'm about to stomp this phone into a bazillion pieces! There are no custom ROM's on this phone. It's factory.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
djtheraven came up with a solution that works for me. Check to see how many apps you have running at startup. I'm using system tuner pro and titanium in combination, to stop unnecessary apps from starting up on boot & freezing others.

There are a few very good start up manager apps available.

As for the ringtone & time.... the time could be network related, I've had mine off by an hour occasionally after a reboot or startup.

What are you using / how are you saving the ringtone / notification?

But I think that if you're on your 3rd phone, it sounds like it may well be some apps that are incompatible for some of your issues.....?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well i gave up on this...I'm getting a new handset tomorrow through warrantee so I'll keep you posted..if it does the same thing then it must be an app...but it's got to be hardware or more people would be here...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] egorre:
hope they fix this. I've tried factory resetting mine too but it's still freezing a lot. worse thing is when it freeze on an app, either you wait or you pull the battery out and wait for it to reboot which has sadly almost same waiting time.

This never happened on gingerbread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Djtheraven, I hope that you get it sorted out! My phone is occasionally hanging, but it's only happening if what I'm doing is dependant on a network connection.

Google freezing after ics update, there's a lot of posts & not just Samsung, Sony, HTC.... IDK.

Let us know how things go with the new phone :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
The hot reboot issue i have at startup i think is different...something is wrong when my phone tries to load a lot of things...it's like it can't handle it...a freeze here and there would not bother me i actually fixed that but when i start my phone it can't handle the load and i can take me an hour to get it started...once running then i am fine...maybe my cpu is the problem idk but if the new phone does it then i can rule out hardware...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Yeah, you're certainly right about the hot boot issue, I've never had that problem & since I've been using system tuner & froze a bunch of needless crap, the only time that my phone makes me wait is if what I'm doing requires data.

But there are quite a few posts for different devices, complaining about freezing etc after the ICS update....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Here's just one page from the rogers community forums..... It seems that more people than you'd think are having problems with the ICS update....

http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Android/message-id/11325#M11325

And another....

http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Android/message-id/11319#M11319

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I found the problem it was volume+ ...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Great! How did you find out?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
It was a hunch...i knew it was something that would activate during startup... and I was having problems with it.. so I disabled it and then uninstalled it and rebooted the phone and then started playing around imediately and nothing froze nothing rebooted and I did it a bunch of times and everything's been perfect... just sucks that my phone volume is cut now, but at least everything works... I have places on my screen that were burned like to top status bar and icons burned in the screen so I needed a replacement anyway... taught me a lesson not to keep the brightness all away up..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
:thumbup:

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well got the replacement and there is a difference...I'll post later but this one is so much better...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Great! So when you installing volume + lol, although it shouldn't give you any problems now :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
I installed everything and made a backup and then installed volume +..so we will see..this one was made in Korea which I heard was better...my original one was made in China...this new one has a lot of improvements...like louder spkr, better screen and it seams the processor is smoother...also the way it reads my ex sd card is way smoother....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Yep definitely volume +... Is froze on startup luckly I had a back up so restore back up all is fine..I have an older version I might try

Edit.... so far volume+ 1901 seems to work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Nope volume + no go
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Well, at least you know :) & you've got a new phone to boot! :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Lol yes i did get it to boot...and it's been on for 2 days straight overclocked and with volume+1905...no problems yet
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Terrific! I finally left the rogers ICS behind, and with some above & beyond help I flashed TWRP recovery (unbelievably freaking fast compared to CWM, any version) and then flashed the cm9 nightly & added the Cobalt Theme :D

I couldn't be happier!

Sent From Down The Rabbit Hole. CM9 Cobalt Theme
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
So a custom rom was better? Cause I've been thinking of that...I've been using twrp for awhile now...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
This custom rom is KICK A$$!

Sent From Down The Rabbit Hole. CM9 Cobalt Theme
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Looks great...I'm gonna stick with this but if those problems come back I'm switching to custom...so that also cured your freezing?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Cured everything! & the amount of customization is amazing! I had been really apprehensive about flashing a custom rom, & now I'm kinda kicking myself for waiting. It's a lot more straight forward than I thought... I also had some incredible support from a fellow member of xda, that walked me through the process... I pretty much knew what to do, I just really didn't want to screw up my phone... :)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well after a week i can say or definitely was a hardware issue for me...the new phone us running beautifully...not one freeze....and i have everything installed...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shaggyskunk:
Too bad that you had to go through all the head banging frustration, but at least you know it wasn't something that you did! So, are you ready to flash cm9... It's amazing, and I have no idea why some people think that the nightlies are considered to be risky? The only thing that is still being worked on that I'm trying is the Google Now Voice Search (which is unrelated to cm9) it's been a little buggy, but there's a new "fix" that was posted & I'll give it a shot.

BTW, going from the 7/27 nightly to the 7/30 nightly, the phone seems even smoother than before & far & away miles smoother than stock 4.0.4! :)

Sent From Down The Rabbit Hole. CM9 Nightlies - Cobalt Theme
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MrMind10:
I'm stock non rooted ICS, what I did to stop all the freezing was to disable the stock app I could disable. Setting/Applications/All Tab and disabled Ap Mobile News, Blio, Media Hub ETC. You get the idea.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chicoelnino:
I put the phone into flight mode over night and the drain was a bit less than when on. 15% in 8.5 hours, compared to the 25% with it on.

However, as you can see from the screen shots, something is still causing the phone is "wake up". I've turned off everything in the process of trying to find out what it is, but still cannot find out.

Can someone have a look at the shots and see if ye can pick out something.

I must say that the connectivity issue I'm having(keeps giving me a connected to wifi network notification every few mins) could be causing these wakelocks?? I don't know myself.

Anyways, I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to sort out the wakelocks.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Karnalsyn:
s-voice has a wake up feature turned on by default
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JagDave:
Continuously connecting to Wi-Fi is the power saving mode.

You can deactivate it by dialing *#0011#, menu, Wi-Fi.

The only way I found to allow the phone to truly sleep was not to have Wi-Fi on at all. Off when screen off also seems to work.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokhor:
4.5hrs screen time looks pretty good to me. I'm lucky if I get 4hrs
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kostagge:
froze the screen after put new original ftf(62) rom with flashtool.i put another rom again and froze the screen again.help................................
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Someguyfromhell:
Post in correct section.

Sure, that you installed .ftf file for Xperia MINI, ST15?