Phone freezes with upside down screen..

[skim3993]

I am using cm7 with honey theme. When I try to turn off screen, it freezes with upside down lock screen showing. It doesn't happen everytime but randomly..3 times since yesterday... No keys or buttons work and needs to hard reset by taking the battery out. Kernel I use is Faux123smartass and I use setcpu but don't oc. Has anyone happened this to u? Got any solution to this problem?

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[TheNarrowGate]

Yes. I have experienced this many times. A couple suggestions for you. Uninstall SetCPU and flash faux's version 2.1.5 STOCK voltage.

 

[TheNarrowGate]

Wait... which version of CM7 are you on? nightlies or RC2?

 

[superevilllama]

I had this same issue. Ended up being because I had setcpu to clock down to 245 with screen off. Disabled that and problem was gone.

 

[lowandbehold]

Yes. I have experienced this many times. A couple suggestions for you. Uninstall SetCPU and flash faux's version 2.1.5 STOCK voltage.

Yes it is probably the kernel. There was an issue of this happening with one of the ROM's and the faux kernel that it came stock with. Flashing a different kernel fixed the issue. Definitely flash another faux kernel, as his are the best, it's just a compatability thing..

 

[skim3993]

my setcpu setting when screen off was set to 245 min, so I changed it to 768 instead. But it did not solve my problem. Screen got frozen again and now I just changed the faux kernel to a stock one. I will see how it goes..btw i am using CM7 RC2.

 

[Jaylito.]

Yes, but I solved the problem by changing my setcpu screen off profile to 368 instead of 245. used to always get upside down freezes but I changed it &never had one since! it's not any kernal problem & u don't have to disable the setcpu screen off all the way. just don't set too low

 

[superevilllama]

Yes, but I solved the problem by changing my setcpu screen off profile to 368 instead of 245. used to always get upside down freezes but I changed it &never had one since! it's not any kernal problem & u don't have to disable the setcpu screen off all the way. just don't set too low

I will give that a try! Always trying to squeeze the most battery we can =]

 

[jdkoren]

I have 245 as my min setting. I got the upside down screen a couple times, but each time it fixed itself either after a few seconds or after turning the screen off and on again. I never did a battery pull.

 

[h22aboi]

Man I thought I was the ONLY ONE with this annoying problem! I too have been suffering from this. Do you guys get like a strip of screen garbage by the upside down unlock screen too? (the strip looks like a tv screen with no channel)

I changed to 368 minimum for set cpu with no results, I still get it. I think sometimes like once a week.

I also noticed if I shake shake the phone, try to unlock upside down, etc, it does this.


I have to press the track pad and then wait for normal screen again...annoying as hell.



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[skim3993]

I changed the setcpu setting...didn't work

so I changed the kernel...it seemed like working fine...til now..

It just got frozen AGAIN! I don't know what else I need to do except formatting..

it's really annoying to pull battery in and out everytime

mine never fixed itself..I wouldnt be as concerned if it were fixed itself.

 

[skim3993]

yea i get that stripe line too..first it doesnt appear, but with little vibration, it appears afterward. It keeps soft vibrating but no buttons work at all.

 

[faux123]

Please keep on investigating this and help each other out in order to help me... I need to find a commonality between all of you who are experiencing this issue...

I am lurking this thread.... I will get to the bottom of this, but I need more involvement with users helping each other and trying out different things...

Faux123

 

[h22aboi]

Ps. I forgot to mention I am stock. Although I am rooted s off with all bloatware removed, I am stock everything. I do however have set cpu for screen off. But I remember getting the upside down screen before I started the root, etc.

So the kernel being the culprit may be wrong.

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[skim3993]

I was running a screenshot program "shoot me" in background tried to see if I could capture that frozen upside down screen with tv noise stripe screen in the middle. The upside down screen popped up while it was charging so I shook my phone to get screen captured. I could hear capturing sounds twice but not more than that. I shook my phone several more times but seemed like phone itself is dead by that time. After I reset the phone, two screenshots were captured but with no stripe line! Also it captured normal lock screen not upside down screen.

One more thing! I have noticed a weired phone battery stat right after I reset my phone. It was charging when upside down screen showed. So I captured screenshots and unplugged the AC charger from the phone to reset it. It was at 88% when that happend. However, it went straight up to 99% after I hard reset by pulling off battery and putting back in. The term between screen capturing and noticing weired battery stat was only 8 minutes and the phone was not charging during that period. Even It was on charging, it would have not been gone up to 99% in 8 minutes. I am attaching shots I have taken thogh it looks normal but check out the battery stats.

I am not sure whether it is related with upside down screen but I thought I check.

 

[skim3993]

Its still doing the same upside down screen...I changed with royalginger from cm7 and it was running good for couple weeks and it did happen again. I think its a kernel problem for sure...anyone know alternate kernel I can use for royalginger?

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[h22aboi]

Its still doing the same upside down screen...I changed with royalginger from cm7 and it was running good for couple weeks and it did happen again. I think its a kernel problem for sure...anyone know alternate kernel I can use for royalginger?

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As I said before I have stock everything with the upside down screen, so I doubt its your kernel.




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[h22aboi]

Just thought I'd share a screen shot of the upside down screen.

Anyone try a G-sensor calibration again, auto rotate off, etc etc??

 

[nanobaka]

Just thought I'd share a screen shot of the upside down screen.

Anyone try a G-sensor calibration again, auto rotate off, etc etc??

I have had the same problem since I bought mine back in November! And I thought it's only my phone because I never seen this thread until now.

It's really annoying because it usually happens when I get a call, and because the screen is locked up I always end up missing the call. It's driving me crazy!

I tried the G-sensor calibration and it didn't work. The setcpu suggestion didn't work as well. My phone is rooted but the ROM is stock.

I also have that other problem where the suspend process eats up all the CPU cycle and drains the battery quickly. I have two problems pretty much since I bought the phone. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to the quality of Android.

 

[viper_1986_1986]

I just got my phone 3 days ago.
Rooted it within an hour. And setup setCP, with stock kernel.
No issues, the next day i installed tons of random apps, and trying stuff, set my setCPU profiles up, and then installed GPS tracker (instamapper.com), went to unlock it, and BAM upside screen, with the brown/grey/black fuzzy just under the LOCK part.
To fix it, i just tap the lock to turn off the screen, and hit it again and it is fine. For the next 6 hours (yay for days off) I was downloading random apps and playing with setCPU profile and stuff. And kept getting random crashes, about 8 or so in a few hours.

I thought the issue was the GPS tracker since it all started AFTER that app, so i uninstalled that. Still happened once more that night. All morning it was fine, at work it happened twice, before my batteries died after 5 hours...

The only thing note worthy i have seen is it ONLY happens if profiles are turned on

edit:

So just a moment ago it happened again.
I noticed had profile set on with setCPU, at 45% clock down to around 3/4ths for max.
And i looked at my battery life, 45%.
I quickly set up another profile to go off at 43%, used my phone for a few mins playing angry birds, let it auto sleep, and clicked the button, BAM, upside down.

So has something to do with the profile kicking in, or maybe just the fact when the phone is being underclocked?

Anyone else wanna do any tests with their non-stock kernels?