Random Phone Shut Downs

[ehedgecock]

Had this problem myself. ROM was solid for a day with the liberty theme, but as soon as I applied another theme, it started rebooting. Switched back to 1.0 and everything is fine again. Was rebooting almost every hour, but now its been solid for two days with no issues.

 

[GeeDee82]

I have also been having this same problem of random reboots and screen outages with liberty 1.5. I also noticed that the phone was quickly overheating like crazy whenever I spent more than a couple minutes on it. I have flashed a couple other ROMs on my D2 before but never had these problems so frequently, not even on Liberty 1.0. I hardly use any widgets and I've experimented with many different OC voltages and speeds, but nothing seems to resolve the issues. I even wiped it and re-flashed it 3 different times but still nothing. I LOVE the Liberty ROM but it was getting so bad that I had to go back to stock.

I hope this gets this resolved in the next version because I hate rocking a stock D2, but it does seem to be the most stable.

 

[soonster]

I've also reverted back to liberty 1.0, no issues for the past 5 days.

 

[Cwagmire]

I've come to the conclusion that the stock rom is by far the most stable. I have had zero issues and every custom rom I tried had its own plethora of problems.

I find the stock to to be very slow. If it didn't have so much blur.and.was vanilla android, I would probably use stock more.

Still no reboot so maybe I solved my own problem. Are others still having it?



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[jediman]

I've come to the conclusion that the stock rom is by far the most stable. I have had zero issues and every custom rom I tried had its own plethora of problems.

I find the stock to to be very slow. If it didn't have so much blur.and.was vanilla android, I would probably use stock more.

Still no reboot so maybe I solved my own problem. Are others still having it?



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Yes..stock SUCKS all together, and actually it's not that stable..its just seemingly stable cause its locked down. Battery manager still force closes when I look at whats been running and I occasionally get the reboot upon using the SD card in mass storage, etc. It's also HORRIBLY slow thanks to motoblur. Stock was bearable this weekend thanks to ADW and a good Tron Legacy theme, but beyond that I couldn't stand it so I went right back to Liberty this morning.

I'm guessing the issue of random reboots is the memory scripts..raised mine to 75..will try 100 if need be. I'm wondering if its killing a system task by accident when trying to free up memory which in turn could cause a reboot since its forcing it via root permissions.

 

[jediman]

Ok Devs, not sure if you've seen this but:
imoseyon

"First of all, I believe tweaking minfree is just as important, if not more, than sysctl. Android tends to behave badly when there's very little free memory. When you're running your device with say less than 20-30MB of free RAM, a misbehaving app or two could invoke kernel's OOM killer and cause the device to become unstable, then eventually reboot or freeze.

For that reason, I don't like the default value of 25MB minfree. (minfree, btw, is android's memory management system). From my experience, I think at least 80MB minfree is required for your device to run fast and stable. In general I recommend Rubix's minfree setting (20480 blocks x 4 will give you 80MB):"


Seems to me that this really could be why the random reboots are happening . So what i'd love to hear from is the devs on this thought and from users who have done the sysctl tweaks. Any improvement or stoppage of the random reboots?

 

[Cwagmire]

Ok Devs, not sure if you've seen this but:
imoseyon

"First of all, I believe tweaking minfree is just as important, if not more, than sysctl. Android tends to behave badly when there's very little free memory. When you're running your device with say less than 20-30MB of free RAM, a misbehaving app or two could invoke kernel's OOM killer and cause the device to become unstable, then eventually reboot or freeze.

For that reason, I don't like the default value of 25MB minfree. (minfree, btw, is android's memory management system). From my experience, I think at least 80MB minfree is required for your device to run fast and stable. In general I recommend Rubix's minfree setting (20480 blocks x 4 will give you 80MB):"


Seems to me that this really could be why the random reboots are happening . So what i'd love to hear from is the devs on this thought and from users who have done the sysctl tweaks. Any improvement or stoppage of the random reboots?

Sounds logical. I would still like to hear something from the devs.

 

[Cwagmire]

Just had another reboot when I got a text message from Handcent. First reboot in a week or so.

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[jediman]

I have yet to get a reboot in 48 hours, BUT, i also have yet to leave my phone unrebooted manually in 48 hours. I hopefully will do that in the next 24....yeah..

 

[ehedgecock]

Update for mine. Downgrade 1.0 didn't actually solve my problems. Still expierenced the same reboot issues. Went back to stock and problems went away so I eliminated a app as the culprit. Went back to 1.5, boom, reboots again, as well as it locking up when trying to press the power button to get to the unlock screen. Applied the zip for the sysctl settings, and I can honestly say, I think it did the trick. Had 38 hrs of uptime prior to a manual reboot, and current sitting at 29 now with zero issues. Hoping this works so I can stay on Liberty and not stock.

 

[Cwagmire]

I have yet to get a reboot in 48 hours, BUT, i also have yet to leave my phone unrebooted manually in 48 hours. I hopefully will do that in the next 24....yeah..

So far I think this has been my issue too. I was pretty good about rebooting my phone before each charge, but these past few days, I have forgotten, and subsequently, it has done a random reboot.

 

[drinksprite]

this is why I don't use liberty.

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[phoenixus]

So, I think I solved my reboot issues. A common link I found was beautiful widgets. I removed all of those widgets and installed the systcl tweaks from isomeyan....no reboots for the past two days and the phone has been blazing fast
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[Cwagmire]

So, I think I solved my reboot issues. A common link I found was beautiful widgets. I removed all of those widgets and installed the systcl tweaks from isomeyan....no reboots for the past two days and the phone has been blazing fast
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Hmmm I'm using Fancy Widget and maybe I'm haivng the same issue.


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[Cwagmire]

Just reset on me when I left the browser up idling.