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Help EVO Freezing

Just talked to my mom (we both just got evos, however mine is still in the mail), and she has what sounds like this exact same problem. She lives near STL, which doesn't have 4g YET (as I understand), but has this same issue where she tries to use the phone and it won't respond.

....This was over the phone, but I think she told me the unlock screen actually came up, and she was able to touch it, but it wouldn't unlock. I'll suggest the 4g turn off (hopefully I can explain how to add the widget if it isn't there by default) and will report back any findings.
 
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Denise, it sounds like your issue may be different than mine because when the phone freezes, I lose all functionality.

By the way, did you eventually have to take the battery out to get it going properly?

Yes, I had to take the battery out to get it working. My screen completely went black and made the call using blue tooth and the call thru the address book in the car.

I just thought I'd join a thread that talks about freezing.. wonder if I should start my own? :)

Good luck with yours! love the phone!!
 
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i had a few freeze and crashes.. when playing a game and try to go back to home screen, it would get stuck to the game and wont let me do anything.. i had to press the power button and do a hard reset.. :( i dont know if this is gonna be a occasional only or would happen often. I'll give this phone another week and if my experience wont get better, i'll probably go back to RS and get my refund..
 
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My Evo frooze as well while using Pandora. I had a black screen, No Audio, The power light was on and I actually heard the new message beep when someone set me a Google Talk Message.
I pulled the battery and it works fine.
Other random issues include no task bar on the top of the screen, just a black line where is should be. Sprint TV locks up the phone and no keyboard letter pop-ups when using the keyboard.

I understand how to recover from those issues. I still love this phone and cant keep my hands off it.
 
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To all seeing Issues with Pandora freezing. I too use Pandora a lot and have seen freezes with it. It tends to happen when the network has a hiccup. I don't think this is an OS issue though. Sometimes if you just wait it out it will fix itself or even force close. I believe its more of how Pandora is handling network lags. Most apps that require the network may cause these types of issues.

Just my .02 cents.
 
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To all seeing Issues with Pandora freezing. I too use Pandora a lot and have seen freezes with it. It tends to happen when the network has a hiccup. I don't think this is an OS issue though. Sometimes if you just wait it out it will fix itself or even force close. I believe its more of how Pandora is handling network lags. Most apps that require the network may cause these types of issues.

Just my .02 cents.

I think you're right. Pandora definitely makes my phone freeze. It happens when it is transitioning to another song. The screen goes blank and eventually the force close message comes up. Hopefully this gets fixed in an update!
 
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My first freeze happened today. I had just received a text and i tried to unlock the ICE screen (ICE-In Case of Emergency has its own lock screen) then it froze in the middle of the unlock slide. The screen was completely unresponsive as well as the bottom buttons. I then hit the power button to put it to sleep, screen went black and hitting the power button again to wake it up did nothing. tried holding down the power button for 5-10 seconds to try and reboot and nothing. Finally pulled the battery, seemed to take a little longer to reboot.
 
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