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Hero Locking up when on charge over night.

Hi
Anyone else had their hero lock up while on charge over night?
I have had it about 10 days and rooted it. Started getting slower and then 2 nights ago put it on charge before bed and in the morning it was totally non responsive and i had to pull the battery.
Decided root was not needed so I got the stock Rom from xda and flashed it back.
Now runs s9 much faster. great I thought.
Put it on charge again before bed yet again in the morning it was Locked.
Pulled the power and left it. 3 hrs later I pulled the battery it had totally drained it.
Been fine and fast all day so will let you know if it locks again.
White sim free model.
Russ

Update: Charged last night via usb from macbook and it was fine this morning.
Russ

I've had this on my stock t-mobile hero. I just assumed that an app was that runs in the background was causing it. For the life of me I can't remember the name of it, but I'm pretty sure it was a rss/news reader.
Sorry I'm so vague

I have NewsRob running. He has updated it twice in as many days so maybe that was it and now its fixed.
Will keep am eye on it.
Thanks
Russ

Found it, mine was called news buzz.

I am having this issue

hows your guys battery life?

im on my 3rd hero now. the first had dust, the second would not update the profile or provision. ive had my new one for 3 days now and the battery life is horrid, even with an extended 2000mAH battery. i had the phone fully charged this morning and within 2 hours without any use it was down to 93% while sleeping? i went ahead and disabled auto syncing, changed my yahoo email to sync at 1 hour intervals instead of every 10 minutes and uninstalled some apps to see if there is a difference. it's been off charge since 4am and now it's sitting at 80% with very light usage and no calls today. is this normal or should i notify sprint? by the way im using the pancake 1.5 rom, usually i had pretty decent battery life until now.
if it"s the phone i know i can know request another phone model since id be going on my 4th replacement, i love the hero but im tired of sprint and there problematic phones. ill request a new moment or a new tp2. worse comes to worse in may my wife and i will leave sprint and go to t-mobile, i hear they don't check credit there to activate new service.
any thoughts guys?

nevermind, I should do more reading before posting sometimes

Did you initially prep your battery by allowing it to fully discharge and recharge before relying on the battery indicator?

Las_Vegas said:
Did you initially prep your battery by allowing it to fully discharge and recharge before relying on the battery indicator?
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the battery is like 2 months old, initially i did, yes. like i said this is my 3rd hero, my last one was running the same rom and the battery life was much better. damn sprint and their refurbished "new" phones.

I'm running ZenHero and I unplugged my phone at about 730 this morning..and as it sits right now im at 50% with syncing set to every hour

smoother2010 said:
im on my 3rd hero now. the first had dust, the second would not update the profile or provision. ive had my new one for 3 days now and the battery life is horrid, even with an extended 2000mAH battery. i had the phone fully charged this morning and within 2 hours without any use it was down to 93% while sleeping? i went ahead and disabled auto syncing, changed my yahoo email to sync at 1 hour intervals instead of every 10 minutes and uninstalled some apps to see if there is a difference. it's been off charge since 4am and now it's sitting at 80% with very light usage and no calls today. is this normal or should i notify sprint? by the way im using the pancake 1.5 rom, usually i had pretty decent battery life until now.
if it"s the phone i know i can know request another phone model since id be going on my 4th replacement, i love the hero but im tired of sprint and there problematic phones. ill request a new moment or a new tp2. worse comes to worse in may my wife and i will leave sprint and go to t-mobile, i hear they don't check credit there to activate new service.
any thoughts guys?
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You need to keep getting replacements until you find one that works fine. Also, the ROM you're running can contribute to battery. If you're on a Sprint leak rom, make sure to do the *#*#4636#*#* trick.

scriz said:
I'm running ZenHero and I unplugged my phone at about 730 this morning..and as it sits right now im at 50% with syncing set to every hour
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well yeah the 2.1 roms have worse battery life, im running 1.5 without sense installed. not sure if it's a good comparison. im just trying to figure out if this is normal or if i should call sprint?

Check for common things like time without signal and awake time.
I have my email, twitter, fb, weather, etc. set to check fairly often and they seem to do little to battery life.
My phone comes off the charger at 7:15-7:30 am and is used as a music player for the majority of my 8-9 hours at work, I tend to send about 10-20 texts a day and spend about a half to hour on the phone, by the time I am heading out the battery is usually at 60% or so, some days it is lower some it is higher, right now at 3:45pm the battery is at 73%. On avg the battery is at about 30% when I go to bed at midnight.
Currently running Fresh 2.1d w/ lwp

smoother2010 said:
well yeah the 2.1 roms have worse battery life, im running 1.5 without sense installed. not sure if it's a good comparison. im just trying to figure out if this is normal or if i should call sprint?
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Ahh..ya my nandroid is 0.1 Pancake with sense and i usually get a full day and I'm at about 25-30%.
Honestly..you are better off with a hero. I came from a moment and a tp2 and neither were "my cup of tea". The moment is plagued with bad support from Samsung and the tp2 while a nice phone..I used it after coming from an android phone and was disappointed in what WM6.5 did not have when compared to Android.

HeroMeng said:
You need to keep getting replacements until you find one that works fine. Also, the ROM you're running can contribute to battery. If you're on a Sprint leak rom, make sure to do the *#*#4636#*#* trick.
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what trick?

I am running damage 2.0.7.2.8.1.57.5783.5468.4.∞
I was up at 7 this morning, unplugged it first thing- its 15 til 5 PM here now.
I am at ~80% with moderate use. Downloaded about 10 Apps from the market, constant emails coming in (gamil and exchange), facebook, texting, 3 or 4 phone calls.

Wait..you are at 80% after 12 hours? I'd say consider yourself lucky...I'm not at 12 hours yet and im below 50% with just texting.

Kcarpenter said:
I am running damage 2.0.7.2.8.1.57.5783.5468.4.∞
I was up at 7 this morning, unplugged it first thing- its 15 til 5 PM here now.
I am at ~80% with moderate use. Downloaded about 10 Apps from the market, constant emails coming in (gamil and exchange), facebook, texting, 3 or 4 phone calls.
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good lord thats some nice performance there im assuming you get good reception?.....i unplug at 8am and i use my phone constantly at work texting browsing market, internet, prolly 20 mins worth of calls a day (ballpark) but by the time i get home at five im sittin at around 50-60%....im running matrix rom but its been about the same for all the newer 2.1 bulids TBH....i have two batterys because i hate being chained to a charger so aslong as i make it thru work im good and it surves its purpose

scriz said:
Wait..you are at 80% after 12 hours? I'd say consider yourself lucky...I'm not at 12 hours yet and im below 50% with just texting.
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yeah but it's draining when im not even using the phone at all today, not even texting. this is also on an extended battery. i guess ill call sprint, they told me this was a new phone and it's a refurb...got over 579 calls made under my settings and it says it's a refurb date of 1/10/10. they flat out told me my replacement would be brand new, my 2nd one was.

scriz said:
Wait..you are at 80% after 12 hours? I'd say consider yourself lucky...I'm not at 12 hours yet and im below 50% with just texting.
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Don't worry, as soon as I hit the interstate on the way home it'll drop 30% just durring the drive, I think I roam the whole drive home. Then when I get there I have full 3G....stupid cell towers.

Ok I know this has got to be a JOKE thread. You are just messing with us right? If my phone was at 80% after 12 hours of light use I would be writing HTC and Sprint telling them how awesome they are. Tell me your just pulling everyone's leg.

redram38 said:
Ok I know this has got to be a JOKE thread. You are just messing with us right? If my phone was at 80% after 12 hours of light use I would be writing HTC and Sprint telling them how awesome they are. Tell me your just pulling everyone's leg.
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no it's not a joke thread, im asking you guys. i had better battery life with my last hero. it drained 20% without any use today. im asking if that's normal on a 2000mAh battery?

smoother2010 said:
no it's not a joke thread, im asking you guys. i had better battery life with my last hero. it drained 20% without any use today. im asking if that's normal on a 2000mAh battery?
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Without any use my battery is at ~50% after 12 hours on a normal battery. I don't think theres anything wrong with the phone, other than them lying to you and saying it was new.

if its that andida battery, I wouldnt be surprised.....mine seemed to last longer , until it hit 50% then it dropped 1% every 90 seconds
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no it's not a joke thread, im asking you guys. i had better battery life with my last hero. it drained 20% without any use today. im asking if that's normal on a 2000mAh battery?
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I took my phone off the Charger at 6:30am and it's now 2:30pm i'm currently at 70% battery.
this is with around 500+ texts a couple phone calls checking of emails updating a couple of APPs and running Google Buzz
Firmware: 2.1-update1 (sprint 2.1 leak)
Baseband: 2.42.00.03.10
Build: 2.20.321.1 CL157175 test-keys
Software: 2.20.651.1
PRL: 60663
and made sure i did *#*#4636#*#* and made sure it was on CDMA auto PRL
and have "Use Wireless Networks" turned off

0% battery use

Stayed at a friends house last night and didn't have any charge leads (he has a fruit based phone).
So I turned off wifi and data. Was at 40% when I went to bed and was surprised to see 40% when I woke up this morning.
I'm confident that there are no drain issues with my setup.
Just thought I'd share.
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well, that mean you didnt use the phone at all. you didnt open your phone(i assum) to check for the time, and didnt surf the web becuse you were a sleep.
it's could be a great tip: during the night dont use your phone at all.

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lpp.phpme said:
well, that mean you didnt use the phone at all. you didnt open your phone(i assum) to check for the time, and didnt surf the web becuse you were a sleep.
it's could be a great tip: during the night dont use your phone at all.
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As true and as funny as this reply is i think hes getting at the point that he has no rogue apps draining his battery. It would be nice if he would be so kind as to share what his setup is though instead of just bragging lol
Drew

Yesterday I watched before going to sleep and the battery was at 90% when I woke up the battery is still at a 90% and then I realized that I only slept 2 hours

LOL, many funny and valid points stated.
Yes I didnt look at my phone or recieve any calls/messages.
Also I went to bed at 11 and woke up at 7 so a decent length of time to prove it worth while.
As for setup:
Ultimate 8.2
Ultimate kernel 1.2 (800mhz, ext2 all with loops, 75mv UV)
dont use any messaging apps etc. and also dont use any sort of app killer. just make sure apps are exited when I stop using them.
If there I anything I missed please ask. Also I use an all black theme with Launcher pro, not that it matters with this issue.

My phone did this straight after a charge.
It was straight off the charge at 100% i went to bed slept i dunno maybe 5-6 hours and when i got up phone was till 100%.This stayed until the afternoon which i thought was sus so i turned off and powered on again my phone and it came up 44%(circular battery widget) even the standard battery icon stayed on 100% until i restarted.
So maybe a glitch in phone or summit i dunno just thought i would mention it since even for fairly short periods of time there should still be some battery lose.

I had this on a stock froyo build as well, had my phone on WiFi when I went to bed, same charge when I woke up. But for me the Wifi stopped working as my peak hour mail check did not kick in until I tried it manually. So a minor bug that saved me quite some charge

EVO keeps force rebooting

For some reason my EVO keeps restarting randomly on me, and all the time too.
I'm running CM7 7.0.3.1 and savaged zen 2.2.0, and I have an extended battery and I rum juicedefender.
Now I don't think its the battery because I've had it for month
Its most like savagedzen 2.2.0 but idk maybe its CM7 too.
I think this started after I started playing words with friends. Doesn't seem like a memory intense app and I never had this happen but lately its been rebooting randomly, like I'm download from the market. Internet, and even posting this thread!
Basically I'm thinking of switching to either virusrom or Mik, which is better?
Sent from my dope fly fresh EVO

my chick is having the same issue. hers just reboots at random after starting to use her pandora app about a week ago.
her evo is running:
Mod version: CyanogenMod-7.0.3.1-Supersonic
Kernel version: [email protected]#1

Ditto
I have same problem, and have tried various ROM's, most recently a complete wipe as per Mikroms instructions. Only pattern I can make out is it tends to start when the CPU is stretched a little, such as running Tango over 3G, or even Angry Birds for over ten minutes. Once it starts though, it reboots several times before it finally quits.
There was another thread on this, but no solutions, instead it turned into an argument over whether it is CM7 fault; not very constructive. I have tried different batteries and changed up CPU speeds, still to no benefit.
Like I said, if I don't tax the system I have no problems, and that so far has been my only solution, but a disappointing experience with my Evo.

My dad's kept rebooting too even after the gingerbread OTA. He is running a bone stock phone(not even rooted)

Wife is having the same issue on her stock EVO with the new OTA

same issue here, playing WWF,stupid zombies or surfing the web. on decks rom and on the gingerbread 2.3 stock.

Apparently, this is a common problem with the EVO. Mine started as soon as I accepted the recent OTA update. There is an XDA thread somewhere. Just do a Google search.

Same here & 2 of my other friends. I am on my 3 or 4 EVO (lost count) & everyone does it. This is only one I rooted as well. I noticed it does it less (once every few weeks to a month) with a custom non cm rom. Also restart your phone at least every couple of days (usually I did every day). It works out pretty well. What I tell my friends don't hesitate to tell sprint you have a issue so it gets documented. So you have proof to fall back on when you had enough. It's not like you pulling one over on them. They see if you have all these issues for so long why just now saying so. I have found that for some reason phone resets in middle of calls multiple times same day with certain Bluetooths. I drive truck for living so I on phone alot with customers/work/friends/family/etc. Always Bluetooth, and did up to 5 times a day. Then bought one top of line (jawbone icon &now Bose) and doesn't do it like that anymore. Hope this helps any of you. & again any issues you get tell sprint. Last time I got a new EVO in box, & they let me keep my old one. So gave it to my mother. Then had it replaced under her #.
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Mine started out with a reboot
every so often. It finally got so bad it would reboot over and over until I pulled the battery for a few. Somewhere in the process, my GPS crapped out as well. It would work for a few minutes and then freeze. Not a good thing when you are not from Boston and trying to navigate 8am traffic to get somewhere.
I got a refurb as a replacement. It was in perfect shape and only had like 111 minutes of talk time. No telling why it was sent back but I've had no issues with it.

Mine is doing this too.. its annoying Ive restored backups and it just keeps rebooting, i dont know whats wrong. Im on avaFroyo 2.2

I don't remember where but there is a thread about this very topic. From what I read this was attributed to a corrupt data partition. My gf phone is starting to have this problem. Only fix I have read so far is to reroot phone and take it to sprint. I am waiting til they can root the ota. Then I will unroot her phone and get a new one.
Tim
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[Q] Phone over heating and draining the battery

Hi there,
I bought a Galaxy S3 in the beginning of July and it's been great. Everything running smoothly, no problems whatsoever, excellent battery life. I've been getting 10 hours or more most days - I could not have been happier.
The phone is exactly as I bought it from the shop, with the exception that I'm running Nova launcher instead of the stock launcher.
However, The phone downloaded an update in early August and since then I've been having problems. The phone is running as normal, then, for no apparent reason it gets insanely hot, seriously, I could probably iron a shirt with it if I wanted. This appears to drain the battery completely and the phone shuts down within an hour.
This is only happening since the phone downloaded the latest update, it never happened before that. Yesterday it didn't happen, I got the full day out of my phone, unplugged it at 8am and didn't have to plug it in until near 9pm. But most other days the phone is getting really hot at some stage between 11am and 1pm and the battery is dead within the hour. I haven't installed any new apps since before the last update.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be?? If you need any more information please let me know.
I'm running Android 4.0.4
Any advice greatly appreciated.

mal808 said:
Hi there,
I bought a Galaxy S3 in the beginning of July and it's been great. Everything running smoothly, no problems whatsoever, excellent battery life. I've been getting 10 hours or more most days - I could not have been happier.
The phone is exactly as I bought it from the shop, with the exception that I'm running Nova launcher instead of the stock launcher.
However, The phone downloaded an update in early August and since then I've been having problems. The phone is running as normal, then, for no apparent reason it gets insanely hot, seriously, I could probably iron a shirt with it if I wanted. This appears to drain the battery completely and the phone shuts down within an hour.
This is only happening since the phone downloaded the latest update, it never happened before that. Yesterday it didn't happen, I got the full day out of my phone, unplugged it at 8am and didn't have to plug it in until near 9pm. But most other days the phone is getting really hot at some stage between 11am and 1pm and the battery is dead within the hour. I haven't installed any new apps since before the last update.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be?? If you need any more information please let me know.
I'm running Android 4.0.4
Any advice greatly appreciated.
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Its possible that ota update is not so good at it seems like and when you have running apps in background ( i assume). If i get your post correctly i asume that its ota update that causes your problems (correct me if im wrong) for more help go to s3 forums since this isnt s3 forum but samsung galaxy 3 one
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Oh right, S3 again. And I was already wondering how the G3 could heat up that much by it's own components^^
Nevertheless I would recommend whereismydroidpower app.

oops! sorry guys, will repost.
thanks for the advice.