My handset (stock Vodafone) will hang/freeze when gaming. Sort of. If I enable in-game sounds, it's almost guaranteed that within a few minutes, the display will freeze. Game music continues to play.
The handset is still somewhat responsive, though if I hold the home button to bring up task manager, it can take between a couple of seconds and 10+ seconds for the window to display.
When I manage to get through to task manager, the game task shows 80%+ CPU usage. I'm able to kill the task and the handset is usable again.
This happens in every game and I've seen comments against certain games on the app store mentioning hangs/freezing/crashing on the SGS2.
If I disable sounds, the problem never occurs. I can even enable in-game music, just not sound effects.
I'm left wondering if there is a common handset fault, a software/OS fault, if maybe I just have a singularly faulty unit or if it's a whole lot of game developers using some common sound handling code that doesn't play well with the SGS2.
Has anyone else experience of this? I've tried Googling and I have tried searching this forum, to no avail.
Thanks.
You should post the names of the games you are playing. I didn't encounter any game that should freeze or hang because of sound.
Yes i too have been having this problem, and like you said, if you turn off sound in game, the game works fine. I have google'd it and a game developer has said that it may have something to do with the S2 sound system causing instabilities.
Some games which are notorious for me is robo defence and guns n glory, cut the rope also freezes when i turn the taps in the game.
Again turning off sound does allow game to be playable, but who wants to play games with no sounds. Trying to get on the phone with samsung if they know anything about it. Is anybody else having these problems 2? or can someone test playing these games.
I'm also having the same problem.. Coincidentally I also bought my handset from Vodafone.
Could this be related to Vodafone only firmware? :/
SGS II Freezing
My Galaxy S2 freezes when i play the game Cut the rope. the music remains playing. when i checked the RAM usage the game was using upto 55% ram.
This seems to be an issue with SoundPool on dual-core devices. Google is aware of the issue : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17623
As the offending API has been identified, I believe we can expect to see a patch soon. Vote on the issue to help prioritize it.
galaxy s2 freeze
I've been havin the same problem with a game called fly boy and sometimes on google earth. google maps navigation and lattitude are fine and all other games are fine so far. I've noticed my cpu jumps about a lot even in stand by/idle mode. any ideas?
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I'm using a Qtek 8500 and WM6.1 Build 5.2.21040 AKU 1.6.0 by Erofich.
I also updated Jbed Java because the version supplied with the ROM was really old, but it didn't help.
The problem is that some games are freezing for several seconds everytime a sound effect is supposed to play.
Like you walk over an item to pick it up, the game freezes and then it'll play the "pick up sound" and the game continues.
There is no problem with background music. It really just happens with sound effects. The problem disappears as soon as I disable the sound within the game.
I've noticed this problem with the following games:
Doom RPG, Doom 2 RPG and Wolfenstein RPG.
I've downloaded as many different versions of each game as I could find.
But if I think about all the other games I tried only had background music without any sound effects.
I just tried Bubble Breaker. No problems.
Is there maybe someone around who would like to try to reproduce the problem?
Try downloading tornado power control and then running that at 240Mhz - you can find it on here - I find it helped for running games like Doom/Doom II
Jemma
It is a common problem as seen from Moto official q&a forum. Do any of you exhibit this issue in game with ongoing freezes that lags the phone for a good 3 seconds? Is any fix in the works?
Sent from my XT910 using XDA App
I don't play games but I noticed something similar when playing music. It will freeze for a few seconds seemingly randomly a few times per song. A reboot fixes it temporarily.
Sent from my DROID RAZR using XDA App
I don't have any freezes during music playback but it only happens to me during game, in fact almost every game... I hope I can get more consensus here so somebody can start looking into it
Fruit ninja, ninja jumping freeze and music sometimes bug..... With power amp
Sent from my XT910 using xda premium
Same problem here. A good 3-second freeze in angry birds season, and more severely in fruit ninja.
I guess it is not a software bug. Simply the game doesn't support the device. Check out Angry Birds Season page in android market.
I have the same with "Wheres my Water' unfortunatly.
the freezes stopped with the last OTA. when i was playing fruit ninja, the game did freeze a lot but after i installed the OTA, no freezes anymore.
No OTA for middle eastern versions available yet.
I have same problem.. every games it freezes around 3 seconds yet the game music is running.
Hopefully got the fix for this issue.
I have the same problem in Brazil. With the games Dragon Fly, Fruit Ninja and others. It Freezes... Guess have something to do with some background process. I dont know...
Try disabling wireless network locations, it runs in the background and can eat a lot of cycles.
Check running processes and uninstall some if they appear to run for no reason.
any updates on this? It is really annoying while playing Dragon Fly (1-5 sec freeze every 30 seconds), Fruit Ninja etc. Almost not usable phone for simple gaming. I'm on FW 30. Though angry birds seem OK.
shadowgun
I noticed that the screen doesn't respond in shadowgun sometimes but the buttons work. Wonder if it has to do with a heat issue - using a otterbox.
Hi,
I've been using the Artillery Brigade game that I got from SamsungApps on my SGP5. It works fine, EXCEPT that it seems like it's not saving the state of the game at all.
Whenever I close the game or power off the SGP5, and then, later, start the game again, it always starts as if I've never played it before, including offering to play the tutorial.
I was really enjoying the game, but it's getting pretty boring playing the same levels over and over to get to where I was before.
Has anyone tried this app? Does it save the game state in between runs?
Thanks,
Jim
same problem here may be next update will fix it
thannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnx
Hello, I don't know if my post will be understood enough, I'm not a native speaker.
I don't play often games on my F1 but sometimes I did, after update to Miui 11 I can't run any games. Every game freezes with black screen and nothing happens. Even Game turbo doesn't shows its message that it's enabled itself. Do You have any ideas what happened and how to fix it? I'm sad because I must travel a lot and want to play something sometimes
Does anyone experience problems when playing games, for example when playing online games often reconnect
Yes, when i playing game, sometimes the game shows that i have weak wifi signal. I also notice that downloading app from google play is too slow. Maybe this is MIUI rom bug because i test GSI rom, the problem is gone.
No but I do notice my connection drops every once in a while for some reason... especially in IG app
TanjungY said:
Does anyone experience problems when playing games, for example when playing online games often reconnect
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Yes I had. Now I changed phone, but I had a lot of problems while playing.
First of all when the game started, Google Play gave me error saying that it could not connect to the account, and also when I played the game, after a while I could hear some glitch sounds and in few minutes the game crashed (this also means lost battle if it crashed in the middle of it).
Awful game experience for me
just go to miui 10 rom again
miui 11 is not optimised yet