Android phone keeps re-booting

[Crackle]

Before I make the inevitable phone call I thought I'd ask on here if there are some things I can look at to see if I can narrow the issue down and solve it, rather than just assuming it's a hardware fault.

I've already thinned down all my apps but have not done a factory reset. It seems to particularly occur after GPS usage but is not confined to that. For instance it re-booted at 6 this morning when it was sitting in a drawer charging.

I've read that issues with batteries and storage cards can cause phone re-boots but I am largely ignorant of diagnosing Android phones, so all suggestions most welcome.

It's an LG h440n

 

[Inertia]

Have you updated the operating system recently?

 

[Crackle]

Have you updated the operating system recently?

Not recently. It did some updates a month or two back and there are no more available. I'm not sure when it started doing it now. It kinda of slowly seeped into my consciousness that it was.

 

[Fnaar]

If you phone up, or take it into the shop, they are likely to advise/do a factory reset anyway... (I have experience here). So personally I'd do one of those, and see if it solves anything.

There are probably homunculi in there who have fallen asleep. A factory reset will wake them and spur them into action.

 

[mustang1]

At least you never have a memory leak.

 

[Lonestar]

Any stuff on Utube/Google?...Generally when I have a problem with phones or computers/Operating systems I search the web...You could include your phone model number in the search to find out if it's a common problem.Surely you aren't the first person who has encountered this problem.

 

[Crackle]

Any stuff on Utube/Google?...Generally when I have a problem with phones or computers/Operating systems I search the web...You could include your phone model number in the search to find out if it's a common problem.Surely you aren't the first person who has encountered this problem.

Nothing specific.

I've gone for the factory reset after doing a quick backup of stuff, sms and photos mainly. It's a right pain really, re-entering all your passwords and re-syncing stuff and re-organising screens

 

[rich p]

At least your electronic gadgets didn't let us down in the high Flintshire hills...

...oh, hang on ...

 

[MossCommuter]

there is a suggestion on one or two forums that it's the gmail lock-screen widget that doesn't play nicely with that phone.

have you got that lockscreen widget?

 

[Crackle]

At least your electronic gadgets didn't let us down in the high Flintshire hills...

...oh, hang on ...

Feck orf

there is a suggestion on one or two forums that it's the gmail lock-screen widget that doesn't play nicely with that phone.

have you got that lockscreen widget?

See a sensible answer. I've no idea. I think the lockscreen is LG's own. I certainly haven't changed it.

 

[MossCommuter]

do you use the gmail app?

 

[Crackle]

do you use the gmail app?

I do use Gmail. The lock screen is LG's knock code one, so I haven't changed it.

I've done a reset now, so I'll see what happens. I noticed that google maps is now doing a few things it never did before, so perhaps the reset has cured something as Google maps was one way of making it reboot itself, though not always.

 

[Lonestar]

Strange.I've had problems with bootloop mainly because I've changed the operating system on the phone but nothing like this on all the phones I've owned.

 

[mjr]

Get an iPhone.....

Because when they die, at least they're unfixable by anyone except Apple?

To the OP - wipe the cache if you can and search forums like xda-developers who might have a bit more clue with your LG than a bunch of random cyclists including me who killed a Samsung with a dodgy upgrade last week.

 

[Crackle]

To the OP - wipe the cache if you can and search forums like xda-developers

I did all that. You lot were my last resort before a reset. However the reset one and it wasn't quite as painful as I thought it might be.