MB525 rebooting and freezing issues

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Hi Guys,

I have the Motorola Defy MB525 and have problems with it freezing up and rebooting,

With the stock rom, the phone works fine for a while then will just randomly reboot, I tried leaving the battery out, factory resets all the basics but no reults.

I loaded CM7 on the phone and instead of rebooting the phone would work for a while then just freeze up, have to remove the battery to restart the phone.

So I have now loaded the GB kernel and CM10 (i have the red lense), the phone now no longer freezes or reboots, but after some time I am no longer able to use data or make calls, the signal icon has the little H above it and even if I set it to 3G it just stays there so seems to be stuck. But the rest of the phone works fine, camera etc just phone calls and data. If I reboot the phone then all is good again.

My contract is coming to an end and it was suggested to me that it could be the SIM or Flash card, so should I dump the phone and get a new one or is this something that you have experienced as I would like to keep the phone and go onto prepaid but not if the phone is toast.

appreciate any help.
 
Not sure why the stock ROM is freezing, but if you want to stay on stock, i suggest you do a fresh install with RSD, dont install any apps and see if it still freezes.

Re the CM 10 issue, it looks like a baseband switcher issue. Try and change it to a European one and see if you still having the issue.
 
Yeah I tried reloading the stock ROM using RSD, ran it like that for a few days and still had the same issue.

I'll try changing the Baseband to Europe and see how it goes. Thanks a mil.
 
I had a similar problem. I replaced the SIM and no problems since. Only thing is a new RBM SIM is going to cost you R150.
 
Seems when I go onto wireless at home the phone works fine, the moment i switch over to hspa it starts freezing up.

Think I will stick it out until the contract ends in March and switch over to cell c.

*Update*

I set the phone to 2G only, so I am stuck on edge but phone is stable not a single issue so far
 
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TheGrove said:
Seems when I go onto wireless at home the phone works fine, the moment i switch over to hspa it starts freezing up.

Think I will stick it out until the contract ends in March and switch over to cell c.

*Update*

I set the phone to 2G only, so I am stuck on edge but phone is stable not a single issue so far
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Did changing the baseband make a difference?
 
Hi guys,

Sorry for the late response I had given up trying to get it working. I was going to take the phone in but could not get a loan phone as I am in my second year of contract so decided to try the sim swop.

Borrowed an old sony and placed the RBM in the sony and an MTN sim in the defy.

Defy works perfectly and the Sony started acting up, switching between Hspda and edge but staying mostly in edge and dropping calls.

Went into Cell C and explained the problem, showed them the two phones and the fact that the defy works fine on MTN. They told me i must take the phone to a repair centre at which point I said no it is the sim and they should please swop the sim out, they done a sim swop and charged me R150.00. Defy is now working brilliantly!

I was a bit annoyed that Cell C charged me for a faulty sim on a contract so complained to the mybroadand Cell C rep who has been fantastic and offered to do a refund on the amount.

So to all the guys having reboot issues, dropped calls, phone lockups, try swopping the sim if that works then get a sim swop done.
 
Glad my advice worked. Maybe I should also try to get my R 150 back :D
 
T-Man said:
Glad my advice worked. Maybe I should also try to get my R 150 back :D
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haha, you should only fair. It was not really the amount that bothered me rather the fact I was paying for something that was faulty in teh first place and that did'nt bother the rep the least bit even when I showed him the sim was funky.

sorry for not mentioning you in my post, your advice was 110% spot on! Thanks a bunch :)
 
Your symptoms match mine exactly, going to try the sim swap thing then. Thanks!
 
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