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Screen freezes or stays black, forcing hard reboot

Phone screen freezes or stays black at random, forcing users to hold the power button to restart.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 17 October 2025 · last reported 7 February 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Owners of several phones and tablets running a community Android build report that the display sometimes locks up or stays black, most often after the screen turns off, after unlocking, or with no clear trigger.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.