on 14-01-2013 09:08
on 14-01-2013 09:08
Hi all, been having some pretty majour issues with my Galaxy S3, first time it happened was Friday night (just gone) I left my phone on the side of my sofa and basically had not touched it all evening. Went to pick it up to put it on charge before I go to bed and notice I had got the blue and cyan LED flashing as if the phone was booting but it was completely unresponsive. I pressed and held the power (lock button) till it rebooted then it just went into a continuous loop of the O2 splash screen and the SAMSUNG logo. Then a haptic vibrate, then the O2 Splash screen again, took the battery out and tried restarting with no luck.
I did a factory reset with the vol up, home button and power button procedure and everything was fine. Unfortunately lost some data but I do keep everything backed up with my dropbox so it's fine.
Anyway, Sunday night (last night) exactly the same thing happened. However this time I selected "format cache partition" in the reset device screen thingy. As just thought to myself it's worth a try. And hey ho, the phone started and everything is fine except my application defaults have all reset but that's not a majour problem.
There are 2 apps I have installed over the last week which are new, they are "noom coach" (because i'm dieting lol) and Touchpal keyboard, a friend suggested I should try it instead of swiftkey.
The device was updated to 4.1.2 pretty much the day o2 released it and was updated OTA, then a hard reset was applied after the update with a full restore.
Any ideas what is causing this? I was thinking it could be a bad app so have removed "noom coach" to see if it does it still with Touchpal installed.
Thanks in advance.
Matt
on 14-01-2013 09:17
on 14-01-2013 09:56
Don't have any power saving apps installed as I always think their a gimmick and they only activate/deactivate features that the phone already has.
I did have Kaspersky Antivirus installed too, which is rather invasive with all the administrator access and stuff like that, so I have now opted for Lookout security.
Although I have had Kaspersky installed since I have owned an android device, their last few updates havn't been very friendly with my S3.
Also noticed another problem, the phone is taking ages to charge now although I think the device may have reset its battery configuration (the lithium memory on the device) when I formatted the cache partition. So that will hopefully rectify itself.
Thanks for the reply, and for confirming my thoughts!