TAWM
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I am having major problems with my Captivate. I have searched the forum until I can't stand it any longer. Everything I find is only part of my problem with no clear solutions. I have found one other post in regards to my main problem but nobody else has commented on it.
Once my phone goes into standby mode, it's a crapshoot to whether or not it will wake up or come back on. The button is unresponsive 95% of the time. Sometimes I have to just keep pushing it over and over to get the locked screen to come up. Sometimes pushing it slow sometimes fast. Sometimes that doesn't work either and I have to tap the phone somewhere like the screen or back of phone just hard enough to feel the vibrate and it will come on just long enough for me to get a quick swipe to unlock it.
I have thought that maybe the hard button was wore out but other times the phone won't go into standby either. Sometimes I have to go into settings>display>screen timeout to get the screen to timeout because some days it just stays on for hours until the battery has no life left in it. I can be using it and the power button options just randomly pop up.
I have the Ginger bread update. The only problem I was having was the tethering issue and I finally got that fixed. This phone has been freezing up randomly for awhile even before the update. I'm at the point now that I'm willing to try anything because I'm fixing to throw it against the concrete. I am due for an upgrade but I'm mad about the price of purchasing a new phone with and without contract renewal. I'll probably eventually end up purchasing a used smart phone as a last resort but I'm sure it will have somebody's problems with it.
What should I do? Factory reset? If so then how, because I can't even find that on here in detail? Should I root? I am completely at my wits end. Please help me.
Once my phone goes into standby mode, it's a crapshoot to whether or not it will wake up or come back on. The button is unresponsive 95% of the time. Sometimes I have to just keep pushing it over and over to get the locked screen to come up. Sometimes pushing it slow sometimes fast. Sometimes that doesn't work either and I have to tap the phone somewhere like the screen or back of phone just hard enough to feel the vibrate and it will come on just long enough for me to get a quick swipe to unlock it.
I have thought that maybe the hard button was wore out but other times the phone won't go into standby either. Sometimes I have to go into settings>display>screen timeout to get the screen to timeout because some days it just stays on for hours until the battery has no life left in it. I can be using it and the power button options just randomly pop up.
I have the Ginger bread update. The only problem I was having was the tethering issue and I finally got that fixed. This phone has been freezing up randomly for awhile even before the update. I'm at the point now that I'm willing to try anything because I'm fixing to throw it against the concrete. I am due for an upgrade but I'm mad about the price of purchasing a new phone with and without contract renewal. I'll probably eventually end up purchasing a used smart phone as a last resort but I'm sure it will have somebody's problems with it.
What should I do? Factory reset? If so then how, because I can't even find that on here in detail? Should I root? I am completely at my wits end. Please help me.
