i am experiencing a serious problem with my o2 mini pocket pc..
i goes off on its own, at any time.....
i hav checked the battery....nothing seems loose, dont know wats happening.....
can anybody suggest a solution.....
Alien life forms?
It might be helpful if you tell us how your system is configured, software you're running, time of day it appears to happen, any odd messages etc.
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By going off do you mean that the unit goes dead causing a soft reset when powered up, or is it just that the screen shut's off?
I have encountered a very similar problem. The unit goes dead sometimes. (As if you would discharge both batteries totally) And then after a time (a few sec, or a whole day) it can be turned on again, as if i would have performed a hard reset. Any ideas?
When the unit is facing down, on the lower right side there is a small switch which is supposed to be toggled with the battery cover's tab when mounted. Most probably, this tab in the battery cover is no longer good causing the switch's lever to toggle to the off position due to movement.
Yeah. I know about the little switch, but It didn't even crossed my mind, that it's because of that. But why did the hard reset happened?
When this switch is off, with or without the battery, then it is like the main battery is not in and the backup battery discharges quickly causing a hard reset.
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Soft reboots about 1 time per half hour now. Seems to have a hard time coming back to life after shutting down--flickering screen also the orange charge light goes off. Just happened again. This sucks.
Could be related to the charging function??
Did you installed any suspicious software lateley?
Have you tried a hard-reset? (do a backup first)
Now its hard rebootng by itself.
Its hard rebooting byitself now.
No new software. Looks like a trip to the shop where i bought it for service.
Pressing the power switch does a hard boot now.
Checking now the reset button--could be jammed.
On about the 10th hard reset--every time it completes installing and thenas soon as i press the on/off button it goes haywire
-or even before presing the buttton.
i have a similar problem, but i turned out to be that:
one my battery is dead, i cant recharge (charger at home)
i plug an external charger that uses 4 AA batteries...
it works fine, BUT when those 4 start to die, the xda
keep softreseting, somtimes even b4 it fully get booted.
so... check your main battery, maybe its dying on you!
Interesting!!
Took the unit to the shop today--they played around and at one point insisted that it was my sim card that was causing the problem.
Finally could see that the secondary battery had gone to 0% and was not recharging.
So in had to leave it there for extended service. Had to buy another mobile phone to use as a backup--bought the smallest thing i could find as I will use it at times i dont want to lug around the xda.
...you know, that could be true too, there is a small switch by the sim card, that if not pressed firmly, it resets the device.
a common problem if you remove the sim card often.
i have developed a problem with my hermes. it will just turn itself off even with a fully charged battery. i think the issue may be connected with the new case i bought. it is one of the monstech snap on cases. when i was first installing it, it caused the keyboard to pop loose(the actual keypad part), but it snapped right back in place. when it shuts itself down you can still see the screen image, but just barely. i was just wondering if anyone had any idea of what might be causing the issue and if it is something i can do to fix it myself since i assume that the warranty is void since the phone has been superCIDed. any help would be greatly appreciated.
hi
had the same problem. what i did was to turn on all functions (wlan,gsm phone, data transfer, bluetooth) run a bunch of programs in the background
then turn of the screen ( tapping the power button once)
the battery will then start to slowly drain itself and once you recharge the battery, the phone should be quite ok afterwards
Hi, wonder if anyone is experiencing the same problems I am having.
When the phone is in standyby (screen off) the phone goes to sleep and I struggle to get it to restart. Previously removing the battery and pressing the soft reset a number of times and then re inserting the battery the pressing the start button has got it to restart but as time has gone on it is happening more frequently and becoming more difficult to restart.
The last time it occurred (Sunday Morning)I could not encourage it to restart. I had heard that you could run the phone with the mains connected and the battery missing, so I gave this a try and noticed the start button led illuminte orange and the phone vibrated, I then went to place the battery back in and noticed that the phone stayed on its booting cycle until the battery was fully inserted and then everything stopped.
I tried again the same occurred but this time I held the battery on an angle such that the battery was connected to the three connectors on the phone but not inserting the battery completely and everything worked fine.
Then pushed the battery all the way home and the phone stopped, I noticed that on the back face of the battery and on the back of the phone there are an additional two terminals / contacts and it seemed that when the battery made contact it stopped the phone. I now have a post-it note covering the terminals in the phone with the battery fully inserted and it works perfectly and has not gone to sleep once for the last 24 hrs. I have also charged the phone successfully so proving that covering these contacts does not effect the charging.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems?
What are these terminals for?
Am I best sending the phone back to HTC?
Any help would be appreciated.
Come on guys can anyone help I don't know what to do
Any suggestions
Send it back..
I would.
You have paid so much for it that it should work without using tricks.
Exchange it for one that works, before you put too much work in it
Sounds like you have a hardware problem with either the battery or the phone. Have you tried taking to a mobile shop and using a different battery?
Otherwise I would return it and get a repelacement device
Hi, wonder if someone else has had this problem.
My HD 2 will only sleep when on mains power. If it on battery when I put into sleep with the on/off button it comes back on after 1.5 seconds. Same if you wait 30 secs for it to go into sleep. To fix it (temporary) I have to put it on the mains for about a minute and then it behaves itself until the battery is about 50% and then it won't sleep again. This obviously drains the battery.
I have 'hard reset' the device and it is still the same. I also updated the rom from Vodafone support site. Still can't fix it.
Can anybody out there help please, it's driving me mad!
I have this happen every so often. fixed by plugging into the usb cable (doesn'tneed to be plugged in). what I understand happens is in the usb port a connection gets wobbled and stops sleep. sometimes I have to plug it in and out a couple of times.
Thanks
Thanks, didn't try it without power. I'll just carry a mini usb connector with me! Thanks again.
that's what I've started doing.
The USB insert actually doesn't work
Hi, tried the fix suggested but it doesn't work for me. I have to have the power supply live to make a difference.
Any other ideas?
sometimes it can take a few attempts. I normally soft reset first to see if that fixed it first. other than that I don't know.
sorry!
mine's started doing this now.. yey! rinses the battery too while its stuck on.
Tried a hard reset, even a different ROM and hasn't fixed it.
I'll try a different radio next
Anyone else got any ideas? is there some software that can monitor inputs to see what it is that's waking it up?
Spike
^ different radio didn't fix
Hey.
I had this, but after a while it didn't only do it on mains.
It started to do it all the time, and as you can imagine that was killing the battery.
I tried everything! took everything back to exactly how I got it and it still did it.
so I took it in for repair, they sent it back to me and it had clearly been opened up, and the screen was brand new.
If yours is still under warenty, take it to get fixed.
I spent a little over a month looking fro a fix and nothing worked at all.
Last 3 days i also have this problem....
Anyone found what is causing it or sending it for repair is the only thing to do..
anyone please?...
Press a button .. fixed
Haha
Mine does this too all of the sudden.
There is a very, very easy fix for this...
press the right lower button (The hang-up button)
Battery life is extended from 1 day max to 2-3 days standby even!
It used to go to sleep automatically tho.
I think I probably 'tweaked' it with the tweaking tools and that's why
it does it. I'm too lazy to turn it off - and - to be honest - it's good if it's on all the time. At least my GPS won't just stop the readings I take all of the sudden.
And after I'm all done playing with Navigation, I can still press the little button.
(It really IS NOT that much of a problem to quickly press it)
Stingraybass said:
Hi, wonder if someone else has had this problem.
My HD 2 will only sleep when on mains power. If it on battery when I put into sleep with the on/off button it comes back on after 1.5 seconds. Same if you wait 30 secs for it to go into sleep.(
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Same problem here, have made hard reset, but still have the problem!
janne_s said:
Same problem here, have made hard reset, but still have the problem!
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You might want to install the S2U2 program, and let it manage your power settings. I've found it to be much steadier and more reliable, without those sudden wake-ups and battery draining issues.
I don't think it has anything to do with software.
It is clearly a hardware issue
I had the same problem. After inspecting the usb close, i found that there is some dirt and/or corrosion at the contacts.
I cleaned them up using some spray for electic contacts and problem has gone for almost 1 week now.
I read somewhere on XDA that an other member tryied the same thing, problem solved but came back after a while...
Anyway the fact that i cleaned the usb and the problem is gone for now shows that is clearly a problem with this part of the phone..
solved
i two have had this problem and have just found out how to sort it out. basically i tried everything new radio, rom, getting rid of CHT
and in the end all it was is the usb connection!!!!
all you have to do when unplugging your usb cable is make it come out on a angle left to right. there are obviously some very delicate contacts that get knocked out of kilter making the phone think its still on mains power when its not hence never turning off
you can confirm this error by unplugging your phone going into backlight settings and seeing if you can adjust you light setting on battery power if when you adjust your light setting nothing happens you got the same prob as me
Well, mine was fixed by a hard reset. Been testing it since, and it hasn't failed to go to sleep now.
Since there's a few different "fixes". might be a couple separate actual causes.
Started facing same problem when was on hols in +40 and quite humid atmosphere. Connecting cable helps but only if the cable is plugged in power socket or computer. And that is actually a problem as I do switch often between Android and WM and after restart HD2 doesn't go to sleep
Did this two months ago with good results ;-)
mrlard12 said:
i two have had this problem and have just found out how to sort it out. basically i tried everything new radio, rom, getting rid of CHT
and in the end all it was is the usb connection!!!!
all you have to do when unplugging your usb cable is make it come out on a angle left to right. there are obviously some very delicate contacts that get knocked out of kilter making the phone think its still on mains power when its not hence never turning off
you can confirm this error by unplugging your phone going into backlight settings and seeing if you can adjust you light setting on battery power if when you adjust your light setting nothing happens you got the same prob as me
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When I suffered from this problem a couple of months ago, I was flummoxed at first.
But then I decided to use a strong (20 diopter) magnifying glass to look at the ports and buttons of the phone. I could not imagine the amount of gunk I found inside the USB slot.
I cleaned with a very very small cotton swab dabbed in cleaning alcohol and wound around a pin and the problem was solved. Power consumption at rest went down from 30-40 to 4-9 mAh.
I now do this every few weeks.
I try the following, it works :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8010471#post8010471
Hello,
I have problem with my NST. Sometimes it completely freezes. Reset didnt work, I have to replug battery to reset it. And often battery is in bad condition after reset.
Sometimes aslo is situation that in default reading application pages are turning very fast and I cant stop it. you have to lock device (click power button) to stop it.
Also "touch screen" sometimes stooped work. Reset device always help to solve this problem.
First problem is the most problematic for me. I have to remove Torx screw and after that I`m not sure if nook dont need recharge - even if battery was in good condition before freeze.
Have you any solutions?
Hello puszcza,
I having almost the same problems as you.
puszcza said:
Hello,
I have problem with my NST. Sometimes it completely freezes. Reset didnt work, I have to replug battery to reset it. And often battery is in bad condition after reset.
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I never needed to remove the battery. But there were occasions, when I was unable to reset, the usual way. Most of the times, it helps pressing and holding the power button for really long time (20sec). But as my device getting older, it sometimes freezes during boot However what always worked for me, is to plug in an usb cable. After a few seconds my NST booted every time with no trouble. One of my friends suggested - and I'm on his side - that these problems may be related to battery and the power supply circuitry. Poor quality of these parts, can cause voltage levels to fall or be unstable, and make the system crash. It could explain, why things getting worse as time goes by.
puszcza said:
Sometimes aslo is situation that in default reading application pages are turning very fast and I cant stop it. you have to lock device (click power button) to stop it.
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I used to face this bug frequently, but nowadays I don't. As far as i can remember, i noticed that when it happened i pushed the UPPER LEFT button. So, in my case, it might be because of the stuck button.
Anyway in the past few days my nook is freezes so frequently, I can't stand it any longer. And factory reset did not help. So I will replace the stock rom, and see what happens. I hope it will work. I will report my results here.
Thank you for repose.
I tried to hold power button really long - didnt hep. When its frozen and I connect it to charge I see green LED light. It should be orange, green is for full-charged.
For this moment I have custom rom, but these problems shoved also on stock rom.
I`ve be glad for totally frozen Nook tips.
So I installed some custom ROMs from these forums. But it didn't helped. Still freezes after some hours, and still the only way to restart it is to plug it in. I really don't have any idea other than some issue with battery.
You might find that your battery is getting old.
You can run a battery utility or my UsbMode.apk and see what the battery is doing.
If you let it run, you might see that your Nook freezes at what should be an adequate battery level, like 40%.
The battery is discharging, then falling off the cliff.
A replacement battery might be the solution.
In my case, I think my NSTGL was freezing sometimes because of ReLaunch (it happened with all versions from 1.3.8 through current 1.4.4), so some time ago I've deleted ReLaunch and using now Zeam Launcher instead - so far no freezing for quite a while. And in my case, I was able to force restart my nook by long pressing the power button.
Update: April 24, 2016 - No, it wasn't ReLaunch, it is Nook itself, and obviously - the battery is the culprit.