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When my phone is sitting idle (screen off) it will randomly decide to power itself off. Has anyone else noticed this? Any ideas on what could be causing it?
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When my phone is sitting idle (screen off) it will randomly decide to power itself off. Has anyone else noticed this? Any ideas on what could be causing it?
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you mean randomly power itself ON, right?
if that is the case, it's normal, it just mean it woke up to connect to the internet, to get updates of news, emails, or whatever it was scheduled to pick up
nope. i mean it randomly turns itself off. this topic is being discussed over on the att captivate galaxy forum section.
interesting, so it's going from stanby mode, to complete OFF... nope never seen that happen to my i9000 model
yep totally powered off... completely sucks... looks like there are a bunch of ppl that have this issue with the captivate on att. $10 says its some lame piece of software that att puts on your phone that's causing the problem.
it's possible, i've read here a few users having crazy power issues (battery draining very fast) with their SGS i9000, but after wiping it out clean, to start anew, then the power problem is gone away.
so yes, a software could cause something weird like that.
Factory reset and so far so good
Hey guys,
I use a Galaxy S here in Hong Kong and I had the same random shut down issue constantly happen when my screen went off...
I tried everything, check temperature of cpu, etc. etc. and nothing worked, it just got worse and worse.
I even changed the battery to use the spare one that came with this. Still problematic.
Used SET CPU to limit the cpu to 400mhz, still problems.
Finally I did a factory reset and so far so good.
I only have the original system installed with the Remember the Milk app installed.
24 hours, no problems.
Installed AppBrain app.
Then I installed 3G WatchDog
12 hours, no problem.
Then I installed Paperdroid
12 hours, so far no problems at all.
If I run into an issue I'll post it here. But I think it definitely was a software issue.
Update - it randomly shut down on me
Alright guys, it shut down on my randomly today in the afternoon......
I dont know if it's the re-charging that screwed it up?
Because after my factory reset, last night was the first time i charged it....
Hmmm
This happened to me too - two days in a row until noon it would shut down two or three times - i uninstalled SetCpu and for now (24 hours) it hasn't happened again. I am not sure if it was the one responsible but it started happening after i installed two programs and i uninstalled them after it started happening. I uninstalled Visual Task Switcher first but on the next day it turned off again, then i unsinstalled SetCpu and it hasn't happened again - maybe some wrong profile settings but i didn't feel like experimenting
I had this issue once too in about 40 days.
I was reading an sms and then i turned into standby and put it in my pocket. Later, maybe 40 minutes i came home and my phone was completely off. I do not remember if i had to take out the battery before to get it on again.
I was wondering why it happened. Maybe it was caused by an app i had opened. Battery still was at 40%.
But since it only occured once in 40 days i doesn´t bother me.
Interesting you mention this as it just happened to me today for the first time. I took it out of my pocket and wtf? The phone was off. Very strange... Using the i9000 on the stock Eclair rom.
Should send back for warranty
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software clash?
Well the phone suddenly switched off for me, but this time I turned off APPBRAIN and so far so good.
In fact, I came across an app called NoLED and since it kind of keeps ht phone on, while I have it on my desk, I'm able to be notified of stuff and so far with that, the phone hasnt' shut off.
I'm still experimenting with what works, but try turning off AppBrain and see if you still have the random shut off issue....
i use app brain all the time to keep my apps in sync
not the cause of the problem, that's for sure
my phone can last a whole day even with app brain running
OP, do you have MSN Talk installed on your phone? I have this same problem, seems to happen more when I am running MSN talk in a low signal area.
«try a new sim card. «Could be faulty. «i am on my 3rd phone and all of them had this same problem. «i bought a new sim card 4 days ago, and hasnt happened since. «but then again, this problem usually happens to me once every 3rd-5th day anyways, so i dont know if i am in the clear yet.
Me too, shutdown everyday
Hi guys
After upgrade OS to I9000ZSJG4, Phone random shutdown everyday.
Yep still shuts down
Tried keeping AppBrain off, still shuts down.
Used NoLED so the screen kind of stays on, still shuts off..
So far shut off on me after 40 hrs... this is really stupid.
I am this close to taking it back, but I genuinely think it's a software issue than a hardware issue...sigh
Anyone have any luck figuring this out?
Same problem no solution yet
Hi
I too have the same problem, haven't found any solution yet.
The temperature etc is all good, there is no pattern in shutdown issues.
I have tried factory reset and no new application, it still shut down while using in built browser.
I had the same thing happen to me while skiing in Whistler last weekend. It died twice. I attributed it to the cold. I normally use a 3000mah battery up there, but left it back the house that day. Afterwards while charging in the car and even charging it at home it died prematurely again. It was the eBay aftermarket variety 1500mah knock off. I have since changed back to the Samsung OEM battery. I haven't had an issue with it since. My assumption is that the knock offs in my case cannot handle the heat cycles of charging and then the cold as well as the original. Or they have a limited lifespan, well below OEM specs. I am now only using the 3000mah battery on the weekends to hedge my bet on the quality of manufacture, as it seems to be from the same factory as the 1500.
I don't know what all your experiences are, but I noticed the past few days that my epic is getting hot on the back.
I also noticed that my battery is draining more so than usual. When I got the update last week my battery life sucked, but now since this overheat thing it's gotten worse. It drops a lot even when in standby.
I do not have gps, wifi, anything else on. I am not rooted. Didn't do any battery tweaks. This is completely stock di18.
This is normal use with 3g. It's getting annoying and I'm hoping someone has an answer. Thanks!
Do you have any email accounts configured in the mail application?
This happened once or twice - I rebooted the phone and all was peachy.
Sounds like you have a rogue process wearin it out.
Yeah my phone overheated yesterday while charging....this phone has a few more steps to go before it really beats my hero...
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I partly found out what the problem was, but it seems you guys are ahead of me. I had some process keeping my CPU running at 95-100% nonstop. I still haven't figured out what the process was, as now it is back to the normal 5-15%, but I'll have to keep an eye on it now.
the task manager widget turns red and it shows you what process was causing it...for me it was the xda app...a few times.
I think my problem was not backing out of WordFeud. I didn't notice anything on the task manager though. Hasn't happened since that one time.
this happens to me when i'm plugged in and using gmail. screen flickers and then shuts off. the screen-off battery indicator shows the batt. gauge and a little thermometer sign next to it indicating it's too hot.
wtf?!?! this has to be a defect. anyway, is there any official word on this? any pr from sammy/sprint?
i have read elsewhere about some epics resetting themselves a few times a day which could indicate an issue with heating (at least on a pc). so if you think it might be hardware its possible. otherwise keep doing what your doing, monitor your processes for anything thats eating it up, go to about phone > battery use > cell standby to see your time without signal. the higher this is the more battery use. also, might want to consider a startup manager to prevent the 2 DRM files (search forums) from running as this can affect batt life too
you can also use setcpu even (free on here, search it) to throttle your cpu down when it hits a certain temp.
This is very interesting... My wife and I both have this phone, she has had this happen several times after the last update (I though she was just crazy). Me on the other hand... No problem!
I need to look into this a little deeper.
The only time my epic's battery gets hot is during heavy use or gps. Gps/Nav makes it heat up like a mofo. But other than that... *knocks on wood* Its all good, no problems. As far at battery life, I am rooted and using SetCPU to turn down the processor while the screen is off, helps a ton. Not using anything other than that... was using juicedefender but then I started not getting calls or text...
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One thing, I learned, that didn't help my battery was putting my phone in the locker at work. That thing must have killed my TWS and ate my battery alive.
i feel like this thread will start to die but i had a weird somewhat related issue last night. i too have had maybe 3-4 times where i woke up to my charging phone with the red LED and a screen that would not turn on, battery pull, worked fine.
however, THIS morning my phone would freeze like 30 seconds after boot EVERY time. tried a few things to no avail until I wiped, reinstalled my ROM (aosp 0.4.1) and the data from a previous backup (which was the way i got that ROM to first boot successfully according to tips in that thread).
so this worked, but i couldnt figure out why my other steps wouldnt. had to be something in the data partition of my system at the time, since changing that worked. the only thing i could think of is that app watchdog which someone mentioned to track processor usage by apps. anyone else ever experience this?
I have experienced this once when I was playing Robodefense while the phone was charging. My phone tends to get a little warm when it charges, and hot if I run something intensive while its charging. Wondering if this will be an issue when I use this phone for GPS nav while plugged into my car.
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"I'm having this problem too...I didn't get any warranty for this either. Any reasons onto why this is happening...I woke up this morning and picked up my burning phone lol the temp was at 50C so I took out the battery and let it sit for 15 mins...it went down to 30C, then after not touching it for another 15..it was at 17C...very odd...what should I do, this crap is going to die within the next hour I'm worried it will fry the hard drive or something. Need help! " - I wrote this on a diff. forum a couple days ago
I dont have anything on, no wifi, gps, or any 4g (lol only if I could find it)...I even got rid of my facebook/twitter/weather updater widgets. The only thing that updates is email, and that's only if I click on it. The battery has been dying a lot faster and I charge my phone next to the window now because its like 20 degrees outside here in Chicago, so that brings down my phones temp lol....and today, my phone's battery life went from 100 to 5 percent in about three hours of barely using it...wtf?!
Also, another problem...sometimes when I lock my phone and unlock it after taking it out my pocket or something, the screen doesn't seem to respond...I keep swiping my finger over it to put in my password and it wont do anything and it only works when I slide up my phone for the horizontal view. This happens like 4 out of every 10 times I open phone.
Very embarrassing especially if your trying to get someones number down, I stopped showing off the phone now ...lol
Hi all,
Got the 2.3.6 (GRK39F) system update this morning but I've noticed today that my Nexus One is running unusually hot despite me not really using it.
I've tried rebooting and the problem seems to remain.
Battery temperature is coming up as 37.6 °C according to the test app (having typed *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer)
Anyone else having a similar problem? Any suggestions to further debug or resolve?
I haven't got the update yet. But if it keeps getting worse, I would try a factory reset.
No issues here, I am at 32.5°C with light use.
Not sure what I did but it seems to be back to normal now. I fiddled round switching on and off wifi/gps/sync etc and charged the phone over night and it was fine in the morning and has been today.
I've seen similar issues.
I've also noticed battery life has gone down significantly.
I've investigated a bit and noticed that suddenly my Facebook app was consuming about 30% of the power (i barely use the facebook app).
It turns out this has been keeping the GPS on for ages... and i could see my GPS always looking for a lock.
I uninstalled facebook (as much as i can, you can't really remove it completely on stock..) and this seems to make things much better.
Maybe you're seeing the same problem?
HaggleLad said:
I've noticed today that my Nexus One is running unusually hot despite me not really using it.
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Have your phone been plugged into a computer via USB when you realized that issue?
I'm asking, because a while ago i realized my Nexus One's battery got extremly hot when connected via USB, though it turned out that it only happened, when using not the original USB cable.
itay1 said:
I've seen similar issues.
I've also noticed battery life has gone down significantly.
I've investigated a bit and noticed that suddenly my Facebook app was consuming about 30% of the power (i barely use the facebook app).
It turns out this has been keeping the GPS on for ages... and i could see my GPS always looking for a lock.
I uninstalled facebook (as much as i can, you can't really remove it completely on stock..) and this seems to make things much better.
Maybe you're seeing the same problem?
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I know I am a little late to the game on this one (no internet at home for another 10 days and I was out of town), but I was having the same issue with facebook constantly using GPS, but an uninstall and reinstall fixed it. I think it was just a botched update. Granted, I am running CM7, so I uninstalled the full app, but maybe redoing the updates will fix the gps problem for you.
Using Battery Spy I've seen that different cables support charging at different maximum current levels. If the phone seems hot during charging then its because it is actually charging faster.
The Skype app can make the phones run very hot also. I had to remove it for that reason.
My phone is rooted with xposed installed. I've been like this for a year and half now with no issues. I am running Kernel Version 3.10.84-perf-g6898f68.
The last few months I have noticed apps being super slow. I never really connected it until now I just realized that it's mainly when my phone is plugged in.
I have installed CPU-Z just now to see what is possibly going on but the only thing is that I hardly ever have RAM.
My CPU usage goes from 8-20% when unplugged to 25-90% when plugged in and stays that way. Maybe I just need to update my build?
they are slow because u are using turbocharge that makes phone temps go higher than normal, and cpu is throttling.
As fliperpl said, that's correct. Also do not use your phone when it gets hot, especially this phone because I've read multiple times the area near the navigation bar starts getting dead if the phone/screen is pushed to higher temperatures.
m3kgt99 said:
My phone is rooted with xposed installed. I've been like this for a year and half now with no issues. I am running Kernel Version 3.10.84-perf-g6898f68.
The last few months I have noticed apps being super slow. I never really connected it until now I just realized that it's mainly when my phone is plugged in.
I have installed CPU-Z just now to see what is possibly going on but the only thing is that I hardly ever have RAM.
My CPU usage goes from 8-20% when unplugged to 25-90% when plugged in and stays that way. Maybe I just need to update my build?
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Increased CPU usage during charging, assuming your hands on usage is the same when not charging, could be several things. By chance do you have anything at to run only when charging (i.e. pictures/video backup)? This could use cycles while charging.
I flashed crDroid then used TIB to restore all my data. I had to flash an old version of TIB because it would crash upon startup every time. Anyways... my phone is like brand new again. I love it!
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Increased CPU usage during charging, assuming your hands on usage is the same when not charging, could be several things. By chance do you have anything at to run only when charging (i.e. pictures/video backup)? This could use cycles while charging.
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No I didn't have those settings on. The only weird setting is that I don't auto-update apps. I want to do them when the time is right, not just whenever I'm connected to WiFi.
AsquareX said:
As fliperpl said, that's correct. Also do not use your phone when it gets hot, especially this phone because I've read multiple times the area near the navigation bar starts getting dead if the phone/screen is pushed to higher temperatures.
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Yeah my phone screen started turning yellow in the top left portion of the screen. I didn't know what it was until just a couple days ago. Thanks for the heads up. I will remove my phone case when in heavy use and be careful not to overheat it any more.
I've seen a couple threads that look like this issue. I have replaced my battery and I think it's good. I get great life and performance out of it.
This has happened a hand full of times. It started with the stock camera app. I double tapped power to launch the camera and it turned the screen on for a second then shut down. It happened a few more times when I was using the camera (launching, taking a photo, switching to front camera... ). Since I've had issues with the camera app I've wiped all internal storage and reloaded the ROM and apps. Just yesterday it happened again when I was loading the MyRadar app.
All times were with plenty of battery left, usually more than half. Plugging it in for a second will let it start and operate normally again with a good and same amount of battery left. I've used a couple benchmark apps to stress the phone to see if it was heat or power related, but no issues. I've manually tried running through a ton of apps to stress it (including the ones that gave issues) and still no problems.
Is there a chance this isn't a hardware issue? Maybe an issue with the ROM, Gapps, radio, vendor, etc... ?
ABC ROM from 06/24
Gapps from around the same date
Rooted with Magisk
Kernel Adiutor - only DT2W enabled
I know you said you replaced you battery.... But, it is typical symptoms of a Nexus 6P battery dying. I had the same kind of issues (shutdown when starting the camera, for example). Issues were worse in cold weather. We visited Iceland and i wasn't able to use my phone for anything else than GPS in the car while driving (connected).
All my issues went away when i replaced the battery.
Not saying this IS your issue, but it sure does feel familiar.
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nlz242 said:
I know you said you replaced you battery.... But, it is typical symptoms of a Nexus 6P battery dying. I had the same kind of issues (shutdown when starting the camera, for example). Issues were worse in cold weather. We visited Iceland and i wasn't able to use my phone for anything else than GPS in the car while driving (connected).
All my issues went away when i replaced the battery.
Not saying this IS your issue, but it sure does feel familiar.
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Do you have trouble starting the phone again once it shut down from a bad battery? I'm not denying it's a posibility, but I was under the impression that if a phone died from a bad battery it would either restart itself or was able to power on normally. Or, maybe my replacement battery has faulty circuitry of some sort.
Schiben said:
Do you have trouble starting the phone again once it shut down from a bad battery? I'm not denying it's a posibility, but I was under the impression that if a phone died from a bad battery it would either restart itself or was able to power on normally. Or, maybe my replacement battery has faulty circuitry of some sort.
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Yes, i had issues starting the phone after those shutdown, I 100% had to connect it, wouldn't start otherwise. Even that time when it shutdown at 71%, i had to plug it to get it restart.
Super annoying when you are on vacation to a foreign country... Wanted to throw the damn thing in a volcano! haha
Since i changed the battery i became super an*l about it, installed AccuBattery and got it set to warn me at 70%. I only do 100% charges when i know i'm gonna need that autonomy. So far (a little more than a year later) i'm good, no issues.
nlz242 said:
I know you said you replaced you battery.... But, it is typical symptoms of a Nexus 6P battery dying. I had the same kind of issues (shutdown when starting the camera, for example). Issues were worse in cold weather. We visited Iceland and i wasn't able to use my phone for anything else than GPS in the car while driving (connected).
All my issues went away when i replaced the battery.
Not saying this IS your issue, but it sure does feel familiar.
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nlz242 said:
Yes, i had issues starting the phone after those shutdown, I 100% had to connect it, wouldn't start otherwise. Even that time when it shutdown at 71%, i had to plug it to get it restart.
Super annoying when you are on vacation to a foreign country... Wanted to throw the damn thing in a volcano! haha
Since i changed the battery i became super an*l about it, installed AccuBattery and got it set to warn me at 70%. I only do 100% charges when i know i'm gonna need that autonomy. So far (a little more than a year later) i'm good, no issues.
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Well, damn.... that's depressing. Maybe I'll get another battery if this keeps happaning.
Thanks for the info!