How To Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Galaxy S9 And Galaxy S9 Plus

The only Frozen that everyone loves is the Disney movie. So when your smartphone becomes the Frozen one, things get nasty.

No matter how high-end your smartphone is, for various reasons, it shall freeze at some point. Nonetheless, when it comes to Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9 Plus, things may get nasty. This is because the option of taking out the battery is no longer available since it is now built-in into your phone.

However, apps shall freeze and glitches and bugs shall continue to appear. What do you need to do then, since you are not able to reboot the device by taking out the battery? You can try hitting and long pressing the Power key for a while. If you’ve pressed it more than 10 seconds and the smartphone appears to be still freezing, just like what other Android smartphones do, you are still able to do something with it.

You cannot shut down the smartphone by simply utilizing the power key, but you can easily reboot with a specific combination of buttons that have to be pressed at the same time, for a particular time frame.  

How to Fix your Unresponsive or Frozen Samsung Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9 Plus

1. Tap then long press the Power key and the Volume Down key at the same time
2. Long press the keys for at least 7 seconds, or till your unit shall be recognized the rebooting process
3. Once done, it shall turn off automatically, which implies that you can remove the hold from the keys
4. Wait for a few seconds till the smartphone automatically turn ON, without you having the need to do anything more

This type of reboot is confirmed to solve the issue most of the time. In less than ten seconds, without having the need of taking out the battery or having to perform anything else, the glitch, the bug, or whatever issue that was, should be no more by the time your smartphone will turn back ON.

Nonetheless, if the issue endures, or if you regard an aim for your smartphone to become unresponsive or to freeze while utilizing specific apps or not, you should think to have it examined by a trusted technician.