Tab S 10.5 Frozen

[gregdell]

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5. Froze while streaming a video.

Screen frozen, none of the buttons function. Screen does not go off.

Any solutions? Don't want to do a factory hard reset as I don't want to loose data?

What if I wait until the battery dies?

 

[Closingracer]

Hold the power button down for like 10 seconds which will turn it off


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[gregdell]

Tried it twice. Held for a minute both times. NO. Screen still frozen.

Hold the power button down for like 10 seconds which will turn it off


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[Closingracer]

Tried it twice. Held for a minute both times. NO. Screen still frozen.

Well that's how you turn it off ...Idk what to tell you

 

[gregdell]

I'll wait until the battery drains... It was at 91% charge. The clock on the screen has it frozen at 9:27, almost 3.5 hours ago.
At least I can test the battery and see how long it lasts with the screen constantly on.

 

[FF22]

I don't know the sensor location but you could take a magnet and run it around the screen and see if that will trigger Standby/Sleep mode. Then remove and see if it awakens. Probably a long shot.

 

[gregdell]

After about eight hours the battery didn't die. Got frustrated... continued looking at multiple forums. Found that someone managed a reboot on a Tab2 with combination of volume and power hold for 10 seconds.

Well it worked... Volume down, then power button hold for 10+ seconds and the unit rebooted.

BTW: still got 19% battery power after the screen has been on for 9 hours with an original charge of 91%.

 

[gregdell]

Thanks for everyone's help...

 

[bigsmoke79]

This exacr same thing happened to mine a few weeks back! I was cracking up, good to know how to reboot it should it happen again.

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[NE4EVR]

My tab s froze too and this forum was a huge help in fixing the problem. Thanks!!

 

[FF22]

My tab s froze too and this forum was a huge help in fixing the problem. Thanks!!

I'll welcome you to Android Central. User-to-user help is the best!

 

[D Android]

This is definitely the best place to learn new things and discover something you thought you knew but didn't. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

 

[raes_yorkies]

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5. Froze while streaming a video.

Screen frozen, none of the buttons function. Screen does not go off.

Any solutions? Don't want to do a factory hard reset as I don't want to loose data?

What if I wait until the battery dies?

 

[kmaster12345]

My galaxy tab s with an unofficial release of cyanogenmod froze on the lockscreen after i changed something in the accessibility settings
Stayed froze alllllllll night. Holding down the power and vol down worked!
Thanks for the info!

 

[KneeDragr]

Mine froze this morning, thx forum members for posting the reboot fix, would have taken all day to run the battery down.

 

[Justyna Skelley]

ur awesom, thx for sharing this info!

 

[dlwracer]

Sweet!...was facing the same issue and down volume plus pwr button for 10 secs!...thank u!

 

[IMissMyPsion]

Don't know what it is about Android central, but when I tried this before reading this, it didn't work. Afterwards, even having thought "well I've done that already" , it worked and rebooted.

 

[Louie Rogers]

Thankyou! this also worked for tab s 8.4.

 

[ekendraed]

I have had freezes too. The first time was when I wanted exit from a game that my daughter was playing.
Why does it freeze? Memory problem?