I am experiencing problems with my FP1U as it is freezing in an interval from ca. 1h-12h. I observed the following types of freezes:
It just stays black when the screen turned off and i try to turn it on again.
While playing an alarm clock music, it just hangs, the screen is still shown and the last 200ms of the music is repeated over and over again.
It freezes while booting up (the screen stays blue).
It hangs in an app and the screen freezes
I can then only take out the battery, but even after placing it back again, the FP still seems to be frozen, i.e., I cannot turn it on again. After leaving the battery out for a while, I can manage to turn it on again … sometimes, not always. I have not found a reliable process to make it boot again.
I do not know whether the following observations are related to the problem. About 1.5 years ago, the system started to replace some app icons on the home screen with a green android robot icon. Up until now, there have been maybe half a dozen icons replaced with the android icon. In the past year I also experienced constant crashes of Google Maps after 10-30min along with a few other apps.
I made backups and did a factory reset, however, the problem persists. ATM, I do not manage to get it back booting again. So my guess would be that this could be a hardware issue? Is there a chance to repair my FP?
Thanks in advance for any help on this topic.
Alex
Yes, I did the hard reset as documented. After the freezes (and ATM), I was even not able to enter the recovery boot mode (pressing Power button + Volume up).
I considered this option as well, however, I did a backup of a few apps + SMS/WLAN settings via Helium. And freshly re-installed my apps. It could be an issue, but give that I even cannot enter the recovery boot mode, I ruled out this option for now.
this could be a good guess, at least it could explain why the phone would not manage to be restarted after the battery removal. So thanks a lot for the hint ! I’ll have an eye on it.
Then the question remains where the freezes come from. So to rule out any issues caused by apps, I should again perform a hard reset without installing any additional apps. I will report in the next days when I find the time.
Just a little update… since a few weeks I am not able to turn my FP1 on again. Actually, I also forgot to mention that I had problems with the Wifi (which would sometimes just stop working until the next reboot). I therefore sadly assume my FP1 to be dead.
! I’ll have an eye on it.