Galaxy S2 Skyrocket

[Jewrrick]

friend's description of what happened:

A white line flashed over the screen. When I turned it back on the samsung logo showed then it shut off and started vibrating every two seconds with the notification light flashing until I took out the battery.

I was using the original OS and never tried to upgrade

any thoughts?

[Tx Redneck]

Reboot into recovery and wipe cache+dalvik cache and try booting. Recovery= both volume buttons+power until the Samsung logo appears, then release ONLY the power till the next screen appears.

The volume buttons scroll, power button executes the function.

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[Jose]

I have the same phone. Only thing I can suggest is booting into Recovery Mode and try a reboot from there or do a Reset on the phone.

[Jose]

Reboot into recovery and wipe cache+dalvik cache and try booting. Recovery= both volume buttons+power until the Samsung logo appears, then release ONLY the power till the next screen appears.

The volume buttons scroll, power button executes the function.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

Beat me to it and props for giving more detailed info.

[Baron Von Crowder]

while we have a thread on this phone, mine is running low on available memory, and starting to run much slower and be more prone to locking up for seconds at a time. Is there a good route to take to clean it up some and get me to my contract renewal at the first of next year?

[Jose]

while we have a thread on this phone, mine is running low on available memory, and starting to run much slower and be more prone to locking up for seconds at a time. Is there a good route to take to clean it up some and get me to my contract renewal at the first of next year?

Running low on available memory? How much available memory do you have? Do you have a bunch of apps, music, videos, pictures on it? Do you have an external memory card installed?

[Tx Redneck]

Low on storage like you can't install more apps or storage for pics?

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[Jose]

Low on storage like you can't install more apps or storage for pics?

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Wouldn't low on storage also affect performance?

[Baron Von Crowder]

I have an external card, and not an issue of space, but acutal RAM. 566mb/768mb available. Each update takes a bit more each time.

edit*

system storage
1.46gb/1.97gb

USB
1.38gb/11.25gb

sd card
1.38gb/3.83gb

[Tx Redneck]

Wouldn't low on storage also affect performance?

Pics, not so much, apps, yes

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[Tx Redneck]

I have an external card, and not an issue of space, but acutal RAM. 566mb/768mb available. Each update takes a bit more each time.

Android handles ram far better than Win, having said that how much space does it report available for apps?

Also, try the steps I posted for the OP.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Android handles ram far better than Win, having said that how much space does it report available for apps?

Also, try the steps I posted for the OP.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

I edited my post above, does that help?

[Tx Redneck]

Try the cache+dalvik cache wipe them post back.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[Jose]

Try the cache+dalvik cache wipe them post back.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

Does it hurt to do that even if you aren't having any problems?

[Tx Redneck]

No sir, it forces the OS to rebuild the cache for apps and the Java Dalvik VM upon boot, thus removing any old, corrupt or unneeded files. It can help restore the speed of the phone, albeit temporarily.

Anytime mine doesn't feel like I think it should, I'll wipe those two. Keep in mind, the initial boot will take much longer than normal, but subsequent boots will be as expected.

Here's a couple quick reads that better explain those two as well as others..

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/android-partitions-explained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc/

http://www.ddsystems.com.au/other/android-2/android/

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