Can I do anything else? Android on the verge of death

[B Cs]

Hello guys, I have a question.
I'm not holding out for much hope, but still...worth a try.
So my Android phone (low budget) I bought in September. Was alright, worked fine. The last two weeks, however, it started rebooting itself and freezing up more and more often. It got so worse, I can only keep the phone on for about 2 minutes, then it pisses itself and dies. I had a lot of applications, so first I deleted some of them. Then most of them. Then I did a factory reset. Then I did several. I changed the battery. I changed it back. I formatted the SD card, I did a reset again.
Nothing, it's just kinda really really really bad right now, and gradually worsening as we speak.
So, I'm already checking out the next phone to buy, but before that I need to know if there is anything else I can do, or I just have the worst luck and got a hardware problem?
Thank you in advance for any help, or even consolation.
Cheers.

 

[MrMoto1992]

It might be something with the battery gone bad. With cheap unlocked phones, the batteries in them are usually pretty garbage.

Try turning the phone on while its connected to the charger. If it still goes off after 2 minutes, we know its not the battery.

The other thing that goes out quick on those phones is the CPU and SSD getting "corrupted". I'm not tech savvy enough to help there but some people on here can probably point you in the right direction on troubleshooting that.

Also, for good quality unlocked phones, I would take a look at BLU. They are an American company and they have good customer service. Linked below

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D64S0YU...ag=hawk-future-20&ascsubtag=UUacUvbUpU3191813

Hope you get it fixed.

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[B Cs]

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it does get stuck during charging, so not the battery. I only tried two different ones, but there's probably no reason to buy another, I'm not sure. Damn. Something corrupted in the system seems more like it. But how did that happen? Virus, or just the way it's built?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it does get stuck during charging, so not the battery. I only tried two different ones, but there's probably no reason to buy another, I'm not sure. Damn. Something corrupted in the system seems more like it. But how did that happen? Virus, or just the way it's built?

Welcome to the forums.
What device do you have?

 

[B Cs]

Hi,
I have a Chinese clone of the Samsung S3(?), I think. At least it looks like it, nothing else.
Here are some specs on it: Mini7100 Full specification
(Yeah, I know, I get what I pay for.)
The weirdest thing is that the freezes and reboots are not even...consistent. At first I thought it may have been the problem of the SD card (which I changed right about 2 weeks ago), but no, phone freezes up with or without it. (Incidentally, I took it out of the phone.) Sometimes it freezes at charging, or booting, most of the time I get to the home screen than a few minutes and it stops. Now it's been alright for five minutes, probably gonna reboot any minute...:S

 

[Golfdriver97]

Hi,
I have a Chinese clone of the Samsung S3(?), I think. At least it looks like it, nothing else.
Here are some specs on it: Mini7100 Full specification
(Yeah, I know, I get what I pay for.)

You can try rebooting in recovery and clear cache, but I don't know if they have the same method as Samsung.

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[mrsmumbles]

256 RAM and 256 ROM? It's a miracle it ran anything at all. I doubt there's anything wrong with the phone other than these specs.

Just don't use the web browser or put any new apps on it. Remove as much as you possibly can. It could come back to life, maybe.

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[mrsmumbles]

Honestly, with those specs it really never should have run at all...

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[B Cs]

Yeah, I've been trying to find that method out, unsuccessfully. According to a wild forum post this model's recovery mode isn't available until rooting. Which I'm more than willing to try at this point, having nothing to lose. What do you think about it? Can it solve my problem? Also, how is factory resetting and cache clearing in recovery mode different?

 

[B Cs]

Cheers Yeah, as I said, I didn't expect miracles, but it ran just fine. Hell, it worked, and didn't reboot itself. At the moment, there's literally nothing on it, except for the pre-installed stuff. So...
Actually, it's been running for a while (10-15 min) now. It is a big word, maybe it really was the SD card?
Or maybe I reset it so many times, it forgot that it didn't work. Cool! Jk.
Nope, it just rebooted again. So clueless.

 

[mrsmumbles]

Cheers Yeah, as I said, I didn't expect miracles, but it ran just fine. Hell, it worked, and didn't reboot itself. At the moment, there's literally nothing on it, except for the pre-installed stuff. So...
Actually, it's been running for a while (10-15 min) now. It is a big word, maybe it really was the SD card?
Or maybe I reset it so many times, it forgot that it didn't work. Cool! Jk.
Nope, it just rebooted again. So clueless.

It's a miracle phone! Should be dead, but it isn't.

I'd look into getting another phone. If money's tight, look for something used. People are selling their Nexus 4 phones for less than $200.

If money's tighter than that, maybe just get a basic phone until you can afford to at least buy something more reliable used or new. But I really feel your pain, my Hydro began spontaneously rebooting in August and, being far more of a wimp than you, that scared me into a new purchase in September. Good luck, and I hope you'll get something better soon. That phone must really love you, though. I mean, it's incredible it ever worked at all.

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[B Cs]

Yeah, I think we had a connection there. Oh well.

 

[mrsmumbles]

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