So I have owned a Galaxy S5 for about a year and a half now, and over the course of that time I have noticed a very gradual decline of my phone's overall software quality with how it runs and handles processes, which I assume is fairly normal and the phone still did what I needed it to do, so it was fine. Then the battery started dying at around 30 percent. Dropping from a full charge to 40 percent in only a couple hours without any use and then proceeding to die anywhere between 0 and 40 percent. Which again, I was fine with because when the phone was on, it still did what I needed it to do.
However, yesterday when I took out my phone, it did the glorious ol' dying and 38% thing again, and I went and put it on the charger and booted it back up. This is when things went downhill. Once the phone had booted, I noticed it was taking ridiculously slow to do even the simplest of things, such as opening up an app, message, etc. I went to play a Youtube video and it refused to play it. Just loading and reloading and reloading the video over and over and not actually playing it. Then Youtube crashes. I go into my music player and start playing a song. "Media file not supported". Although that media file is an mp3, and has been working flawlessly for the past year and a half. This is when I noticed that my plugged in headphones werent even showing up in the notification panel. As though it wasn't even recognizing that there was a device plugged into the headphone jack. I figured maybe that was the issue, that it was just the headphone jack acting wonky. So i unplugged the headphones and the problem persist.
Yet this is when i also discovered, NONE OF THE SYSTEM SOUNDS WERE PLAYING. Headphones and without headphones, my phone was stuck on silent, even though it clearly showed the volume bar moving up and down. So i quickly checked to see if i could still make phone calls. AND SURPRISE!!!! The phone crashes when i try to make a phone call. Even voicemails, the phone says media file not supported and then crashes after several attempts to play the voicemail. THIS IS NOT OKAY.
What the [Removed] is going on with my phone? I tried reinstalling the software, i tried rebooting under many different circumstances, such as SD card in, SD card out, headphones plugged in, headphones not plugged in, charging, not charging, booting into safe mode, recovery mode, cleared the cache partitions, and I even have factory reset my phone twice now, once from within the system settings, and again from recovery mode. NONE OF THIS HAS WORKED. And now whenever my phone boots up, i get a very exciting "Unfortunately, system UI is not responding" as well as "Google tv and google play [Removed] whatever is not responding".
I am not able to currently get a new phone anytime relatively soon, so all i am asking is what the [Removed] happened to my phone in a matter of literally 5 minutes and how the [Removed] can i fix it?
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