S4 gone crazy. Please help. - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, I am Not a noob at all when it comes to android phone but i have this funny and weird problem. Phone starts to get to dock mode when i havent even connected it to dock.
Then after pulling the battery it. Is got stuck in the dock connected and disconnected loop making the phone unusable.
On the second restart I did, it then started playing music from my music player. Even when i close the app. It again starts to play the music automatically.
After that, the phone switched to vibrate. As soon as i preess the vol up key, it goes back to vol down and goes into vibrate mode
This is very frustrating as I have 0 rogue apps. No malware etc. I have the latest MG1 indian rom via OTA.
Anyone else experienced this?
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As someone familiar with Android I take it you've already tried factory reset or re flashing stock firmware?
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HELP!!!! Keeps vibrating and resetting

My phone is on but for some reason it won't let me use it, and the home screen keeps resetting and it keeps vibrating. I don't know why it is happening as this is the first time it has ever happened. I can login but its pretty much pointless as i can do nothing after that as it is frozen and then it just goes black and then the home screen comes back again.
It just happened after I clicked clear level 2 ram.
I'm on Bell with Froyo officially updated and no lagfix or anything.
You can't do nothing else than flash it with Odin. You have tutorials in Android development. Hope your 3 button download mode works!
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[Q] Elocity not waking from standby

Hello all,
Received my a7 a few days ago and was noticing sometimes it wouldn't wake up when it went to standby. The green indicator on the top of the device became solid instead of blinking which I assume means its not in standby anymore, but the screen remains blank. I thought a factory reset would fix the problem, but it didnt. I installed dexters mod last night and it did nothing to fix the problem. Any suggestions? Should I send it back or is there a fix for this?
Adam
You can't send back while you have custom ROM. Revert to stock ROM and try to reproduce the problem. Install 2-3 applications and check. Then install a few apps again.
I think it's app fault.
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I just installed the new firmware and its doing the same thing, even before installing any apps. Gonna send it back.
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Mine did this briefly, I removed power cord, pressed reboot button with paperclip, then went to recovery mode and did factory wipe. I've been good ever since. This did not help until I tried with cord out for entire process.

Blank Screen, Unresponsive.

I purchased my Google N4 from the play store yesterday it arrived this morning,
I turned it on and activated the phone and my new sim card. Recieved the 4.3 OTA so performed the update.
The phone then cloned all my apps from the phone backup and was working well. I had netflix running then I closed the app.
The phone timed out and is now blank. I have plugged it back into the charger and the screen hasn't turnt on. I called the phone and the dialing phone dials out and rings the other end but my N4 doesn't ring to say it is getting a call. My computer does not recognise the N4 when plugged in.
Is there anything I can do to remedy this. No USB Debugging wasn't enabled haven't got around to that. Haven't rooted or changed anything from default yet.
Netflix freezes 4.3. Hold the power button for about 10seconds, let go and then hold it again and it should reboot your device. After it restarts uninstall Netflix until they fix it. It is a known issue.
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sirius b said:
Netflix freezes 4.3. Hold the power button for about 10seconds, let go and then hold it again and it should reboot your device. After it restarts uninstall Netflix until they fix it. It is a known issue.
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Thank you I pretty much found this by accident.

Why is my S4 i9505 randomly rebooting after rooting?

I rooted my phone a couple of days ago using cf auto root. I haven't flashed a custom recovery yet. I deleted 1 systen app which was the YouTube app so i could install a better version. Then my phone randomly did a quick reboot. It went to the spinning samsung logo and then to lockscreen. It took about 15-20 seconds. It skipped the samsung music that usually plays during boot and skipped the screen that says samsung galaxy s4 gt i9505. And, sometimes the home screen just freezes until i go to a different application (like settings) or holding the home button. Since i rooted, these random reboots hav happemed about 8 times. Today it happened about 2 or 3 times. I've noticed that is triggered when the screen is powering off when i press the power button or after a minute of inactivity when it automatically dims and then powers off. But it doesnt happen like this everytime. However, one of them happened was while i was talking to someone on the phone.
A couple lf people have said that installing the latest firmware on my phone will help. But isn't there any othet way to fix it?
Why is this happening? What is causing this? Will this problem go if i unroot?
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lol123lol said:
I rooted my phone a couple of days ago using cf auto root. I haven't flashed a custom recovery yet. I deleted 1 systen app which was the YouTube app so i could install a better version. Then my phone randomly did a quick reboot. It went to the spinning samsung logo and then to lockscreen. It took about 15-20 seconds. It skipped the samsung music that usually plays during boot and skipped the screen that says samsung galaxy s4 gt i9505. And, sometimes the home screen just freezes until i go to a different application (like settings) or holding the home button. Since i rooted, these random reboots hav happemed about 8 times. Today it happened about 2 or 3 times. I've noticed that is triggered when the screen is powering off when i press the power button or after a minute of inactivity when it automatically dims and then powers off. But it doesnt happen like this everytime. However, one of them happened was while i was talking to someone on the phone.
A couple lf people have said that installing the latest firmware on my phone will help. But isn't there any othet way to fix it?
Why is this happening? What is causing this? Will this problem go if i unroot?
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hi mate
After rooting did you deleted all the knox files?
you have to
check here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514703
No i didnt delete the knox files. Is knox causing it?
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So i should delete all knox related stuff?
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lol123lol said:
So i should delete all knox related stuff?
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hi
yes , if you rooted the phone you have to delete all knox files...backup first, make a copy of your efs folder also

Experiencing Major Reboot Issues

Let me preface this by saying this is my experience. I am passing this off to see if others are experiencing the same thing. I am not dissing this phone because I really like it.
I have seen more than 10 random reboots with this phone. The crazy part is when the phone reboots, I lose settings.... Like a lot of them. I recently experienced and my notification bar started malfunctioning where the settings would not pull up and I could not long press panels. I finally had to factory reset my phone.... After that, it rebooted again this morning while I was listening to the radio.
At this point I am going to have start a log to try to correlate where the problem might be.
This is very concerning. I have never experienced anything like this even with custom Roms.
Please let me know if anyone else is experiencing this.
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I've read that other people are experiencing this too. Hopefully mine doesn't come like this. I would recommend returning it and getting a new one. This is ridiculous that this is happening
Try removing all apps you installed and see if you cant pin it down to an app but if all said and done and phone is stock meaning you installed no additional apps and still see it happen then to me sounds like a Hardware problem and you should return it for a replacement.
anrchy666 said:
Try removing all apps you installed and see if you cant pin it down to an app but if all said and done and phone is stock meaning you installed no additional apps and still see it happen then to me sounds like a Hardware problem and you should return it for a replacement.
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Unfortunately, I think you are right.
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I'm having the exact same issues. Once or twice a day, usually in USA Today or IHeartRadio, it reboots. Once I experienced that loss of settings also and had to factory reset. I'm going to return the phone.
Try wiping the cache partition
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rocolema said:
I'm having the exact same issues. Once or twice a day, usually in USA Today or IHeartRadio, it reboots. Once I experienced that loss of settings also and had to factory reset. I'm going to return the phone.
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I also experienced this in iHeartRadio... Do you use bluetooth?
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Try wiping the cache partition
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Is there a way to do this on a non-rooted phone?
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Go into recovery mode with phone completely off .volume down+home button+power button.If that doesn't work factory reset and if that doesn't work return the phone or if possible reflash stock firmware through ODIN.
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Yes, I use bluetooth to listen to IHeartRadio. I tried clearing the cache thru recovery. It did not work.
rocolema said:
Yes, I use bluetooth to listen to IHeartRadio. I tried clearing the cache thru recovery. It did not work.
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I have been watching watchespn for about an hour with my bluetooth headphones... No problem. I need to test iHeartRadio some more. With that said, I think there is a deeper issue here just because I've never seen settings get changed like that.
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My Bluetooth streaming was janky got this notification and restarted the phone. Problem gone. Dunno the relevance but this was a system notification
Just switched back to iHeartRadio on bluetooth, I was coming here to read a reply so I clicked the home button and rebooted.
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The beta version (6.0.0) of the IHeartRadio app seems to have fixed my reboot problem (which was happening on both bluetooth and earphone modes).
Update, it is still rebooting, even using the beta.
First reboot of the day. IHeartRadio and Bluetooth. I am already running 6.0.0 of the app.
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(note that I don't typically do iHeartRadio and Bluetooth on the weekends.)
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My experience was different. I didn't have any random reboot but I did get the phone just hang.
Before my Springbreak trip I was testing out a sport camera and downloaded an app that could remotely control the camera. Everything seemed to be working smoothly during the test. Then when I was done, I shut down the camera, turned off the phone and started packing up.
Then I needed to use the phone, so I turned it on.. it's turned on but I couldn't do anything, the screen was unresponsive.. I couldn't swipe or press anything... I attempted to reboot it... the power button still worked... the reboot menu came on but I couldn't press anything... I still could turn the screen on and off and brought up the reboot menu.. but jsut couldn't do anything with it..
Only one option was available which is to force it reboot by holding Power and Down volumne.
That was weird, especially on a brand new device.
I've seen it reboot a few times, and it is especially annoying when you are trying to show your device off and it reboots...in front of people...randomly. I am not sure if I want to return it just yet because it is a Touchwiz/android bug that I have experienced on other devices as well. It MAY be an app issue but I can't pinpoint it yet.
I was trying to launch my DJI Phantom app and it just hung/restarted - got stuck on tmobile screen and it wouldn't let me do a hard-reset! Had to wait a few mins and it recycled.
vnguyen972 said:
My experience was different. I didn't have any random reboot but I did get the phone just hang.
Before my Springbreak trip I was testing out a sport camera and downloaded an app that could remotely control the camera. Everything seemed to be working smoothly during the test. Then when I was done, I shut down the camera, turned off the phone and started packing up.
Then I needed to use the phone, so I turned it on.. it's turned on but I couldn't do anything, the screen was unresponsive.. I couldn't swipe or press anything... I attempted to reboot it... the power button still worked... the reboot menu came on but I couldn't press anything... I still could turn the screen on and off and brought up the reboot menu.. but jsut couldn't do anything with it..
Only one option was available which is to force it reboot by holding Power and Down volumne.
That was weird, especially on a brand new device.
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This is exactly what happened to mine, I was going to return it and put it on the charger and it rebooted. Knock on wood, No problems since. I'm going to keep a close eye on this in case I need to exchange.
Yes, same here. Bluetooth headset with iHeartRadio makes the phone reboot and lose some settings. Maybe a bug with iHeartRadio and 6.0.1.

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