Frequent Freezing

ethan · 01-28-2010, 05:40 PM

I'm having a problem with my Droid where it's frequently freezing and I have to reset it by removing the battery. at first it happened once in awhile, but over the last few days it's been happening multiple times everyday. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there anything I can do to remedy it?

geeanywhere · 01-28-2010, 05:48 PM

What do you mean freeze?? Does it happen when you go onto your menu???

diverbelow · 01-28-2010, 05:55 PM

Have you installed any new apps, are you using a custom ROM?

ethan · 01-29-2010, 12:42 AM

I'm not using a custom ROM, and I mean freezing as in the screen stops responding and so do the home, back, etc. keys. This seems to happen alot when I open twidroid, but it's happened in other places too.

**Cory Streater** · 01-29-2010, 01:40 AM

This has happened to me yes, but not that often. I think these problems are usually caused by 3rd party programs - like task managers - or other programs temporarily chewing up all the memory and/or CPU time. Usually the freeze is followed by a force close message.

prometheus · 01-29-2010, 02:48 AM

Yeah, I've had that happen a few times also. I'm not a fan of pulling the battery. It sometimes is the only option. But, If you're able to be without the device for a few minutes just try sitting it down and waiting a minute or two. It MAY come out of it. The more you press buttons and switches the more system resources are being used and the worse the problem causing the freeze becomes.

I do hate that there is no dedicated power off button. If the screen is unresponsive there is no other way to power cycle than to yank the battery.

**Cory Streater** · 01-29-2010, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by prometheus

I do hate that there is no dedicated power off button. If the screen is unresponsive there is no other way to power cycle than to yank the battery.

If you hold the top button down for a few seconds, a pop-up will display, and then you can choose to power down. Or, are you simply saying there is no power button that doesn't require some sort of software interaction?

freshnezzz · 01-29-2010, 03:04 AM

Well I'm sure it worked fine out the box, so some app u downloaded has also of programing errors and needs to be deleted. I'd start with any app you've ever had to force close

prometheus · 01-29-2010, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Cory Streater

If you hold the top button down for a few seconds, a pop-up will display, and then you can choose to power down. Or, are you simply saying there is no power button that doesn't require some sort of software interaction?

that's the problem -- pop up display -- if the screen is dead, whaddaya do?

prometheus · 01-29-2010, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by freshnezzz

Well I'm sure it worked fine out the box, so some app u downloaded has also of programing errors and needs to be deleted. I'd start with any app you've ever had to force close

The most common force close "app" I have is the camera. It seems to FC at least half the time I use it. That's not gonna be deleted - I'm waiting on some camera love with 2.1

I do agree ^^^ if there is some third party downloaded app that was FC more than once in the past week or so.. money spent or not, that puppy's out of here.

To the OP: if you find out there was an offending app, please post here and share the info.