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Galaxy S1 crashes overheats and freezes, battery level fluctuates? - HPluv - 06-17-2014 08:29 PM
I've factory reset the phone, cleared the cash partition and formatted the SD card. What can I do to fix the below issues?
I was in the process of reinstalling core apps (nothing crazy, twitter facebook and songza) when the phone turned off (didn't even restart) so the above steps didn't help.
The issues:
-Top half of phone overheats within 5-10mins of use (not where the battery is)
- It freezes and crashes daily
- After a freeze battery always goes down to critical level even when fully charged. Upon plug in, battery indicates previous level though if I don't plug it in, the phone will turn itself off thinking it's got no battery!
- Sometimes it takes 20+ tries to open the messaging or phone app (it'll open for part of a second and crash, returning the user to the home screen)
- Media scanner takes forever even though the SD card is empty and very few apps on phone
The phone is out of warranty. I would like some home fix solutions I don't want to put money into this thing if I can avoid it. Also, I don't want to brick the phone or lock myself out.
Model: SGH T959W, Running 2.3.6 Gingerbread. There is no option to upgrade to Android 4.0 from phone. Can't buy an official Samsung battery from Canada and the ones on e-bay are sketchy.
- Simon Yu - 06-17-2014 08:40 PM
Replace the battery, its likely that its gone kaput and the OS is reading info based on old battery stats though clearly its not lasting anywhere nearly as long, go ahead and root it as well and put CyanogenMod on it and it'll clear up some lag issues, don't use the SD Card or use a delayed Media-Scan on your phone so it doesn't chug down while booting up, the overheating is probably more hardware related than anything.