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8525 gets hot and battery drains

Every so often my 8525 has this symptom where the battery gets real warm, and the power level drops like crazy. If I don't soft reset, it'll kill the battery completely in an hour.
It's probably some application running in the background that's looping or something. I have a few commercial apps installed, but it's an OEM rom, radio, etc.
I'm using mobile shell and the task manager shows me that nothing is running. Is there a task manager that will show me all the running tasks, and not just mine? Something similar to XP's task manager?

roboHaxx said:
Every so often my 8525 has this symptom where the battery gets real warm, and the power level drops like crazy. If I don't soft reset, it'll kill the battery completely in an hour.
It's probably some application running in the background that's looping or something. I have a few commercial apps installed, but it's an OEM rom, radio, etc.
I'm using mobile shell and the task manager shows me that nothing is running. Is there a task manager that will show me all the running tasks, and not just mine? Something similar to XP's task manager?
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Sktools will show processes.
Mike

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

roboHaxx said:
Every so often my 8525 has this symptom where the battery gets real warm, and the power level drops like crazy. If I don't soft reset, it'll kill the battery completely in an hour.
It's probably some application running in the background that's looping or something. I have a few commercial apps installed, but it's an OEM rom, radio, etc.
I'm using mobile shell and the task manager shows me that nothing is running. Is there a task manager that will show me all the running tasks, and not just mine? Something similar to XP's task manager?
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I just noticed the same problem with my 8525 as well. Exact same symptoms. I'm running CUSTEL 2.5, but I don't think it is related to CUSTEL. I have installed the vibration feedback hack recently. I wonder if that caused it, but there is no uninstall for it as far as I know.

have you guys updated your radio? your you using pushmail?

I'm running an OEM ROM, radio, etc. I have several additional programs installed, almost all commercial stuff. I don't use push mail, but I do poll for new POP mail every 15 minutes.
I installed the SKTools trial, but the task manager display doesn't show me CPU utilization, so it's not of much use for debugging this issue.
Upon further investigation, it seems the problem can start when I have the phone in my pocket for a while. When I pull it out of my pocket, it's warm. Maybe it's searching for a signal, or maybe I was leaning on a button. Once I soft-reset, it goes back to normal. For the record, this has happened 4-5 times total.

It happens to me once a week.
Brutal!
I am really unimpressed with this device so far.
Lots of hanging/rebooting/etc.
I think I'll upgrade to WM6 and see what happens.
But when this thing gets hot... wow, it's hot!

Michael_514 said:
It happens to me once a week.
Brutal!
I am really unimpressed with this device so far.
Lots of hanging/rebooting/etc.
I think I'll upgrade to WM6 and see what happens.
But when this thing gets hot... wow, it's hot!
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Love my 8525. Don't have ANY of the problems you're talking about. I upped to WM6 a while back to Black 1.2, and have stuck with it. Love it!!!

Michael_514 said:
It happens to me once a week.
Brutal!
I am really unimpressed with this device so far.
Lots of hanging/rebooting/etc.
I think I'll upgrade to WM6 and see what happens.
But when this thing gets hot... wow, it's hot!
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Have you done some of the standard things to reduce lock-ups and freezing?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1078848&postcount=2
Mike

Have you guys solved this?
I've got similar experience with my new SPV M3100. While it was in my pocket it gets really hot and battery drains very fast. Task manager shows no running apps. Happened to me a few times in two weeks on both WM5 and WM6 ROMs.
P.S. There wasn't a SIM card in the device and the device was in flight mode! So no searching for signal...

Perhaps messenger is running?
I had the issue where I thought I had closed messenger, but it was running in the background. It kept trying to connect to the internet, and it took me a while to find out I hadn't closed it.
Jörg

roboHaxx said:
Every so often my 8525 has this symptom where the battery gets real warm, and the power level drops like crazy. If I don't soft reset, it'll kill the battery completely in an hour.
It's probably some application running in the background that's looping or something. I have a few commercial apps installed, but it's an OEM rom, radio, etc.
I'm using mobile shell and the task manager shows me that nothing is running. Is there a task manager that will show me all the running tasks, and not just mine? Something similar to XP's task manager?
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I had that problem when i used softbank x01ht at beginning. Also suspected that there are problems in software or battery like you guys. But finally it turns out the problem of phone circuit board. I sent it to repair center and now its ok.

Solution
Your camera software is running in the background and is heating up the processor while running. You must make sure you close out of the camera software completely when you finish using it. I ran into this problem too and found this solution to work.

GT-i9000m has been locking up recently to the point of removing the battery.

It went from extremely rarely doing it to three or four times just the other night in the span of a few hours. I can't reproduce it on command but it happens when I lock the screen and put it in my pocket. Then sometimes when I take it out it is entirely non-responsive, even the power button doesn't work. I have to remove and reinsert the battery.
It could be ADW Launcher or WidgetLocker since those are the only two programs always running, but I was hoping someone else experiences a similar issue. It hasn't happened when I normally lock it yet though, so it could also be the proximity sensor maybe?

Having the same issue (on Bell as well), but not running either of those two apps. Was almost to the point of returning the phone and then installed JM7 and it's been better, although not perfect. Last night it locked up with NoLED displaying an icon, so I've deleted that app to see if that's the issue. It hasn't locked up today, but it did reboot a few hours ago seemingly at random. :shrug:

Your internal sd card might be failing like all the other i9000m phones I see on this forum bricking themselves .

clubtech said:
Your internal sd card might be failing like all the other i9000m phones I see on this forum bricking themselves .
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Oh, that doesn't sound pleasant at all...
I'm outside of Bell's 30 day exchange period plus I've talked for over 30 minutes, so I'll have to go through Samsung if it completely breaks. On the plus side, a phone from them should be three button recoverable.
Although I can't be without a phone for weeks, I hope it's not the SD card.

Mine Lags like crazy once every few days till the point I need to restart it. Any idea why this is do?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Hold your horses people....
before you jump about the lag, and or one click lag fix and such
first you have to investigate what is running on your phone.
just over the weekend (since XDA was down) i stalled over 400 Apps
my phone slowed down to snail speed, then i ran my Startup Manager software (many to choose from)
I suggest Startup Cleaner 2.0 then uncheck everything, leave only the apps that you want to run during start up
reboot your phone and presto, fast as new!
if you can find version 2.1 of startup manager that one is even better
keep note, start up manager apps are not the same as task killer apps
it only run once during start up, and it helps you easily select what should and should not run during start up, so it doesn't stay in memory after it runs
on the same topic
you should also configure your Task Killer apps to kill everything, and add only the wants you want to be running to the ignore list.
that will keep the phone working smoothly even without the "one click lag fix"
i'm still running stock on my JH2 i9000m

AllGamer said:
Hold your horses people....
before you jump about the lag, and or one click lag fix and such
first you have to investigate what is running on your phone.
just over the weekend (since XDA was down) i stalled over 400 Apps
my phone slowed down to snail speed, then i ran my Startup Manager software (many to choose from)
I suggest Startup Cleaner 2.0 then uncheck everything, leave only the apps that you want to run during start up
reboot your phone and presto, fast as new!
if you can find version 2.1 of startup manager that one is even better
keep note, start up manager apps are not the same as task killer apps
it only run once during start up, and it helps you easily select what should and should not run during start up, so it doesn't stay in memory after it runs
on the same topic
you should also configure your Task Killer apps to kill everything, and add only the wants you want to be running to the ignore list.
that will keep the phone working smoothly even without the "one click lag fix"
i'm still running stock on my JH2 i9000m
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All gamer has a good sugestion here BUT we are going to get people flaming the fact that Android shouldnt need task managers.....
Ho hum..
TBH in my experience, I have found (after a couple of hard resets) that there appears to be a size limit for installed apps. Once I get over this size limit, I get LAGTASTIC, phone slows to a snails pace, then I remove a few of the apps and I am back at light speed again....
I cant say what the limit is, but I know when I have hit it - I would then uninstall a lame app or two and get back running.

Yes a lot of people "claims" that, but yet you do a search in Android Market, you see LOTS of Task Manager / Killer apps for every phone.
they were not designed for Galaxy S, they were designed long ago for all the other phones that had and still have the same problems of memory management causing lags
Android is not robust enough to survive without one
heck not even Windows 7 or Windows Mobiles phone

I just read that possibly the phone freezes while trying to find a signal. As this problem has only recently started, and I just recently moved into university, and many buildings receive little to no wireless signal, I think it's more than a coincidence. I'll try going to plane mode before entering lecture halls and basements.

Frostshock said:
I just read that possibly the phone freezes while trying to find a signal. As this problem has only recently started, and I just recently moved into university, and many buildings receive little to no wireless signal, I think it's more than a coincidence. I'll try going to plane mode before entering lecture halls and basements.
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i don't think that is the case with the Galaxy S
however back then my Treo 650 did suffer from that.
if you believe that is the problem then try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7999389&postcount=28
more cool apps here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7999389

No battery issues for ages, and now they start

So, I've had reasonable battery life now for a while and no real drainage of any description, but for some reason, the last few days, it has started, and I can't really see why...
Today it drained the last 22% to completely flat in 28 minutes - I know this because I was using the stopwatch function with the screen turned always on while cooking my dinner. The phone ran out before my dinner was finished.
Checked the battery usage, and Android OS was only at 13% and no sign of wifi sharing. Nothing was running in the background (according to Sammy's task manager).
I don't get it, its behaved for ages, and now for no apparent reason it starts draining - I have restarted it each time I've noticed it, I've never used Samsungs hubs, or anything like that, and I don't have an affected wifi router. I'm on KE1 but never felt any reason to upgrade (if it ain't broke, don't fix it).
I know we've had a million posts about battery but I just can't believe the randomness of it suddenly starting when it's behaved for weeks on end...
So has anyone else experience this randomness, and has anyone managed to find a solution? I'm starting to think one of the ROMs but that means wiping which I didn't really want to do.

Maybe a failing battery?
Before we go there, use a different "task manager". The Samsung task manager doesn't show everything. At least in TW3 on my Vibrant it didn't. Although some say don't use Advance Task Killer, I find that it shows more than the stock task manager. I would only use ATK to see if there were more apps running in the background than what Samsung's task manager is telling you.
There is another task manager that warns the user of high CPU usage so you can kill those apps. Not sure what it's called, but you might want to use that.

Speed-cooking?

Verizon GS5 rooted running very slow

I have a rooted GS5 on verizon running 5.0 and it's very slow. Its seems that the task manager isn't doing much, when i have a lot of apps open, the phone is almost unusable. Sometimes when I'm navigating using google maps, the navigation will just quit with no notice, same with google music.
if i open the task manager and "close all" the phone will run quicker for a bit, but then it just slows down again. it's very frustrating.
Something that has just started to happen is the screen will come on after i sleep the phone. I have no idea what is causing it, but the screen will just come on for apparently no reason. I have recently reset the phone to factory (when i rooted for 5.0).
Are there any apps that will tell me what is causing the slow down? a task manager that will track CPU/ram usage? and is there an app that will tell me what is causing the screen to come on? I'm about to do a factory reset and not root cuz the phone is unusable.
Thanks.

owenrg said:
I have a rooted GS5 on verizon running 5.0 and it's very slow. Its seems that the task manager isn't doing much, when i have a lot of apps open, the phone is almost unusable. Sometimes when I'm navigating using google maps, the navigation will just quit with no notice, same with google music.
if i open the task manager and "close all" the phone will run quicker for a bit, but then it just slows down again. it's very frustrating.
Something that has just started to happen is the screen will come on after i sleep the phone. I have no idea what is causing it, but the screen will just come on for apparently no reason. I have recently reset the phone to factory (when i rooted for 5.0).
Are there any apps that will tell me what is causing the slow down? a task manager that will track CPU/ram usage? and is there an app that will tell me what is causing the screen to come on? I'm about to do a factory reset and not root cuz the phone is unusable.
Thanks.
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Unless you have a custom rom/kernel root will not affect battery.
There are many battery statistics apps on play store, i would personally recommend GSAM Battery Monitor.

Battery isn't really the issue. The phone just gets Bogged down easily.
Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Apps Restarting

Ok. I've searched all over and have found a thread with a similar problem with no responses. I hope this gets some help. I have a Verizon G2, and ever since the Lollipop update, my battery life has been pretty awful (sometimes less than 2 hours of SOT in 8 hours of battery time), and the performance is horrendous at times. some apps (facebook Messenger especially) will stop when I am using them. No crash report. They just close out of nowhere. Nova Launcher redraws almost every time I hit my home button, sometimes my phone gets ridiculously hot. There are times when Android system restarts, and I lose the navbar and status bar, leaving my phone quite useless for a couple minutes. I do not have a task killer This all happened on 100%stock unrooted
I read something similar happened with the 5.0 release on nexus devices and was related to a memory leak. I have read in ROM threads that the G2 does not have this memory leak.
Things I have tried.
Frequent reboots - Hit or miss temporarily. Sometimes it would reboot into lag and restarting apps
Frequently clearing running apps - sometimes helped for a few hours or so
Factory reset-helped for a couple days
Rooting and installing xposed with the "lollipop Memory leak fix module"-maybe helped for a day? no significant change
Installed a XDABBEB's stock based ROM with TiBu and without =same result - butter for the first few days, but the apps restarting is always there. Then it gradually loses its smoothness and all the problems begin again.
Is this not a common issue? Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking of going CM, but I really like LG's floating apps and such. I'd rather stay with stock. They just seem to work better as well.
When it works, it is awesome. I don't think there is any reason to get a new phone as this one still has great hardware. I'm just frustrated. My phone always worked amazingly on kitkat, but Lollipop seems to have ruined it.