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Phone shuts off when talking and low battery alert sounds?

When I am talking on the phone and the low battery alert sounds (at 15%, or any % when it plays the low battery sound), it shuts down and cuts off the call. It did this on DK28 and now on EB13 also. Has anybody else noticed this? I assume it's a bug, but wouldn't surprise me if it was intentional seeing as how the camera doesn't function with the battery low.

My phone does the same thing. Running Bonsaai4all 3.0.0, EB13. Very annoying. However, once I restart the phone, I can make calls again. Odd indeed.
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Mine doesn't do this and I'm on Bonsai 3.00..
Set From My 3.0.0 Bonsai Epic 4g

hybridsix said:
My phone does the same thing. Running Bonsaai4all 3.0.0, EB13. Very annoying. However, once I restart the phone, I can make calls again. Odd indeed.
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My phone did this tonight for the first time while I was in the car. I plugged in the charger and turned it back on and on the lock screen it said I had 51% battery left.

Uggh. Sorry to resurect a somewhat dead thread, but...
It did it again to me. Dropped call as soon as the low battery alert sounded.
EC05 now, with the Bonsai 4.0 rom.
I've got a OEM battery replacement coming in the mail this week, so i'll try that to see if it makes any difference.

[FIXED] having issues.. EDIT! ram issue! Edit 2: fixed! sd card issue

im not sure when this started but it seems like every rom, every kernal i use now my phone will close apps to a black screen and freeze up for different lengths of time. was doing it in stock, and now a custom rom. tried different kernals... seems to be worse when the phone first boots up. its almost like a force close but slower and i don't get the force close message. help
Edit: ok i brought up the ram manager and my ram would start around 250 and climb up before my eyes until the screen blacks out.... how do i figure out what is eating up the ram.. and why does it stop?

murso74 said:
im not sure when this started but it seems like every rom, every kernal i use now my phone will close apps to a black screen and freeze up for different lengths of time. was doing it in stock, and now a custom rom. tried different kernals... seems to be worse when the phone first boots up. its almost like a force close but slower and i don't get the force close message. help
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I assume you already tried Odin to clear out any crap left right?
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JohnCorleone said:
I assume you already tried Odin to clear out any crap left right?
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yeah odined to stock ec05 and it was just as bad. rebooting the phone actually made it worse... seemed like it took forever for everythign to stabilize. phone also seems to get hot but i could be wrong about that. not the battery but above the battery near the camera

Quite often this is caused by restoring old data over a new rom using a program like titanium backup. Sometimes you can get away with it between similar roms but restoring Froyo data on to a gingerbread rom will almost always cause lots of FCs.

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Quite often this is caused by restoring old data over a new rom using a program like titanium backup. Sometimes you can get away with it between similar roms but restoring Froyo data on to a gingerbread rom will almost always cause lots of FCs.
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i never restore data from nandroid backups and i reinstall all my apps from the market...
maybe my phone is tired
modem seems to be resetting alot too

murso74 said:
yeah odined to stock ec05 and it was just as bad. rebooting the phone actually made it worse... seemed like it took forever for everythign to stabilize. phone also seems to get hot but i could be wrong about that. not the battery but above the battery near the camera
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Isn't the spot right above the battery where the chip is located? Have you been overclocking your phone like I have at 1400 everyday? I was wondering if I have been flashing too much. I saw some of these issues myself. Odin started freezing as well but it seems to have smoothed out. I thought I may have wiped out my phone
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Isn't the spot right above the battery where the chip is located? Have you been overclocking your phone like I have at 1400 everyday? I was wondering if I have been flashing too much. I saw some of these issues myself. Odin started freezing as well but it seems to have smoothed out. I thought I may have wiped out my phone
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no.... set at concervitive 200 - 1000. but i was using drockstars kernal before this without using a governer and it was still doing it. now i'm using TZ 1.1.1
it is that spot.. but its not hot there all the time either. very annoying issue

murso74 said:
no.... set at concervitive 200 - 1000. but i was using drockstars kernal before this without using a governer and it was still doing it. now i'm using TZ 1.1.1
it is that spot.. but its not hot there all the time either. very annoying issue
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Ummm, I am kind of at a loss here. You don't have any physical damage to your phone? No serious drops? You didn't go swimming with it in your pocket? But seriously, I run at 1400/100 on demand all of the time and that spot gets hot on Gingerbread ROMs but not on Froyo unless I run a lot of video at 1400 max.
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Ummm, I am kind of at a loss here. You don't have any physical damage to your phone? No serious drops? You didn't go swimming with it in your pocket? But seriously, I run at 1400/100 on demand all of the time and that spot gets hot on Gingerbread ROMs but not on Froyo unless I run a lot of video at 1400 max.
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yeah i don't know what to think either. i guess when official gb finally drops i'll try one last clean install and if it keeps doing it i'm going to have to go through insurance

murso74 said:
yeah i don't know what to think either. i guess when official gb finally drops i'll try one last clean install and if it keeps doing it i'm going to have to go through insurance
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When did you purchase your phone? did this start to happen after you started loading custom ROMs or since the start?
What is your current setup right now? Do you use RFS or EXT4?
What hacks have you loaded to your phone, and after what even that you performed on the phone did you start experiencing this issues?

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When did you purchase your phone? did this start to happen after you started loading custom ROMs or since the start?
What is your current setup right now? Do you use RFS or EXT4?
What hacks have you loaded to your phone, and after what even that you performed on the phone did you start experiencing this issues?
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i've had the phone for a year. i've been doign roms for at least 6 months.. this only started in the last month on both rfs and ext4. i don't know what i did that could have done this.. honestly i started noticing it when i odined back to EC05 a few weeks ago. then i did an rfs rom, then drockstars kernal, now srf 1.2 and tz kernal. just seems to be getting worse and worse. to be honest it may have started after i flashed back from eh22

Are you on TW4 Launcher? That can cause phone to freeze.

Overstew said:
Are you on TW4 Launcher? That can cause phone to freeze.
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i am actually.... although this started before the tw4 launcher. i guess i'll remove it for a while and see what happens. dammit i liked the tw4 launcher too

Don't use any CPU programs like setcpu, etc.. if not try wiping your sd card. Could just be your phone too.
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I had this issue for a while and it caused me to leave to the iPhone, but now after months of waiting I am trying to bring my epic back
I will post my results I am going to try flashing back to stock and see it if can stay on for a day with out crashing....I'll be back with results in a day or 2

Mine does the same thing and it shuts off sometimes at 35% battery left. Just in the past month. Im stock not rooted. One more thing somedays i get 13 hrs of life and others like 6, same usage everyday and same area so service isnt the issue.
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I had this same issue. I was to a point of chamging phones.
I decided to watch 5 different tutorials/youtibe videos on how to odin back to stock.
In that process, 3 of the videos had different options checked. Yes, I decided to try each way, restoring apps/data from Titanium, each time.
After the first 2 attempts, and still seeing the freezes, I started to get some kind of com.google.apps process force close errors.
I was really ready to beat my phone up at this point.
So, after deciding, I've had enough, I said I would do it ONE more time. (There was still one more checkbox that another video was showing...)
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Sry, my fat fingers pressed submit.
Anyhow, Ive 0 programming experience so, all of this might kust be a lucky fluke. When I odin'd, I checked all three options. Re-Partition, Autoreboot, And F. Reset Time.
Only 1 video of the 4 I watched said to do this.
I then restored my apps and data back w/ Titanium.
I did make sure that any data from OEM apps, was not broight back, as a precaitonary on my part. It was really driving me nuts. Hope this helps....
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crap well it wasn't TW4... uninstalled it last night. today rebooted and same thing.... its so strange it only happens the most after i reboot the phone. black screen with the status bar up top. if i touch the screen the button lights will come on ... if i swipe down the status bar it will eventually come down.. but with a ton of lag
i guess i'll nandroid backup and start from scratch with odin again. bone stock no root see what happens.
EDIT: just noticed that the modem seems to reset every time it does this. didn't see that before cause it doesn't always make the no signal sound. but the bars on the status screen go dark and the little x pops up above them before the home screen redraws. so basically whatever i'm doing goes to black screen.. times out for 10 min with just the bar on top, modem resets and goes back to the home screen

ok i brought up the ram manager and my ram would start around 250 and climb up before my eyes until the screen blacks out.... how do i figure out what is eating up the ram.. and why does it stop?
man this is nuts... i've got android system info running and i'm watching the processes tab... all the programs start usign memory, then android starts killing them off until they are almost all gone then i go to black screen... i dont' know what the hell is going on
edit: tasks is showing android.process.acore twice, package com.fede.launcher. both are using 34.89 MB and have cpu at 100... however total CPU usage is only showing 7%

Random turn off

I got my first random turn off today
The phone was on around 75 percent charge
I lock it
2 minutes later I go put it on charge
I heard no sound and felt no vibrate when I look st the screen it was off
I'm on random rom egret
I've been using it since 2 days after release
I get random reboots often
I'm thinking of jumping back to srf but I'm trying to hold off till 1.3
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1.3 has been in talks for a month, good luck waiting for that, and egret was eg22 right? Try EH17

Check to make sure it isn't a lose battery. Try putting something in the between the battery and the bottom of the phone's battery well to force and keep the batter in place against the contacts at the top of the phones battery well, and see if you keep having this problem.
If it continues, then jump back to SRF 1.2. Try wiping cache?

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Check to make sure it isn't a lose battery. Try putting something in the between the battery and the bottom of the phone's battery well to force and keep the batter in place against the contacts at the top of the phones battery well, and see if you keep having this problem.
If it continues, then jump back to SRF 1.2. Try wiping cache?
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This right here is very good advice! A guy at a cell phone booth taught me this about 10 years ago when I was rockin the nokia 5160 lol. Several phones have this issue. After time I guess the battery door expands and does not keep the battery in place correctly. I've always used a business card, tore it, folded it a couple times and placed it between the battery and cover. I can say I've done this to 5 or 6 of my phones and it solved the issue.
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Just had one 10 minutes ago. Phone was just sitting there when I just by chance looked at it and noticed it rebooted.
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I have this sysmptom once every 24 hrs it seems like.
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Just had one 10 minutes ago. Phone was just sitting there when I just by chance looked at it and noticed it rebooted.
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I had a billion and a half reboots on Eg22. Still on EG22 Modem, but now on Deodexed EH17, my reboots are now 1 or 2 a day.

Deodexed eh17 was too unstable for me. I've been back on Srf 1.2 (EC05) for a week now.
Why did I ever leave?
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I had this and it was a loose battery, if you have insurance, go to Sprint and they'll get you a new free one. On verizon, they make you pay $50 even if you already have insurance (suckers!)

Passion ics neobuddy

Any ideas when a stable mod will be available?
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it's plenty stable. my only real issue is battery life.

turbosix said:
it's plenty stable. my only real issue is battery life.
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how bad is the battery life? about the same as the GB roms?

Only issues i have seen is random FC on launcher and gallery, and the mic mute/unmute workaround for calls
IMO its good enough to remove the Beta tag though
sEnT fRoM mY ExYnOs PoWeReD MoNsTeR

How do you change the oc settings?
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danelly77 said:
How do you change the oc settings?
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I suggest you use Voltage Control.

burntrat said:
how bad is the battery life? about the same as the GB roms?
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worse for some (like me) where for whatever reason our phones wont go into deep sleep mode. not everyone has the problem though, so you might get lucky.
I don't even remember how good/bad life was back on bionix 1.3.1, but if you aren't at a desk job where you can charge your phone for a chunk of the day, you may not see 8 hours.
mike21pr said:
Only issues i have seen is random FC on launcher and gallery, and the mic mute/unmute workaround for calls
IMO its good enough to remove the Beta tag though
sEnT fRoM mY ExYnOs PoWeReD MoNsTeR
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mic problem here, but no FC.

I dont know, been running it for two days, and have reflashed it twice and still have fc on launcher, and browser. Maybe it will smooth out this time. Maybe not.

From V7 and I upgraded to V8 and it is awesome!
Only issue I have is when I receive calls, other end cannot hear clearly(Mute/Unmute should work...)
And screen rotate is little slow from CM7 Gingerbread but no complain. I'm hoping it will be better and better with new version.
Only big problem I have is, my Samsung Original Desk Dock and Car Dock sound won't route. Oh, my battery charging indicate is not working sometime. It is charging but indicator won't show. Atleast it is charging...
So far I love Passion ICS v8!

I love this rom!!! but I hate having to deal with incoming calls, having to hit mute and unmute just to have my phone act like a phone. I hope this gets fixed on the next update.
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Guys, if you have bad batt life on ics passion, make sure you have gb bootloaders.. i have Great batt life, better than cm7 because my phone deep sleeps.. last time i checked cpu spy, i had 83% deep sleep rofl, 13 hours on batt, 3 of those screen on and id gone from 80% ->20%
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younix258 said:
Guys, if you have bad batt life on ics passion, make sure you have gb bootloaders.. i have Great batt life, better than cm7 because my phone deep sleeps.. last time i checked cpu spy, i had 83% deep sleep rofl, 13 hours on batt, 3 of those screen on and id gone from 80% ->20%
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same story here except i calibrated it once, and i get about 24+ hours if i let it sleep for a long time.
I also have wifi on 24/7
my sync's are set to either 1 hour or 30 mins

younix258 said:
Guys, if you have bad batt life on ics passion, make sure you have gb bootloaders.. i have Great batt life, better than cm7 because my phone deep sleeps.. last time i checked cpu spy, i had 83% deep sleep rofl, 13 hours on batt, 3 of those screen on and id gone from 80% ->20%
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Yes sir, I was reading in one of the i9000 ICS threads (can't remember which) where it was stated by the dev that GB bootloaders were needed for deep sleep, not just to get rid of rainbows.

Stability comes with updated phones meant for running the roms we keep chasing :-/
Yes you can say I'm in the wrong forum blah blah....but I have no interest in this phone and will eventually get another vibrant to run stock 2.2 I'm running 2.3.5 and its no better than 2.2 lol.
But the vibrant is much better in every way......oh and the "4g" ain't **** and I live in Orlando city limits
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Decided to go back to Bionix 1.3.2 for now.
I love the whole ICS layout and it was zipping along when working.
The FC decreased with each update, but the mic issue forced me to switch back for now.
Mic issue affected me mostly when receiving calls. When this is fixed, I'll try it again.

I get Force Closes only on Gallery and sometimes my app menu will close but other than that have found no real problems..
I have noticed downloading seems to be a bit slower than CM7, but it's still fast enough for me.
The other little thing i've noticed is that it takes a little while to install apps... I don't know if thats to due with ICS on our phones, passion, or what... but again I can deal fine with that it's not a big deal.
As for battery, I came from CM7 so it had the GB Bootloader... but until I completely drained the battery, and charged it to 100% then recalibrated, killed it one more time then charged back to 100%..
So far I have 14 hours and 18 minutes on this charge, battery is still at 56%. Usage is light, web, messaging, phone calls, and I played one game of Drag Racing... My battery is from July 2010 so it's not a new battery either. \
Calibrating your battery really will make a difference.
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Really, Bionix... Try to go to CM7...
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Decided to go back to Bionix 1.3.2 for now.
I love the whole ICS layout and it was zipping along when working.
The FC decreased with each update, but the mic issue forced me to switch back for now.
Mic issue affected me mostly when receiving calls. When this is fixed, I'll try it again.
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I also have to agree, now that Deep Sleep is back on my battery life has gone up alot, completely forgot about that. Excuse me, i've been drinking a bit tonight waiting to get picked up for the party. woot
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same story here except i calibrated it once, and i get about 24+ hours if i let it sleep for a long time.
I also have wifi on 24/7
my sync's are set to either 1 hour or 30 mins
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I also went back to bionix due to the incoming call mute and unmute. It was really pissing me off. I hope it will get fixed soon. I love everything else about the rom.
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Ics passion v10 has very nice battery timining

Great battery on v10, had one launcher freeze. The only remaining issue with mine is an 8GB external SD (2GB mounts just fine).
I think I used the phone for at least 8 hours straight since v10 came out.

Ill stick to team toxic until this hits a solid final, that mute issue would drive me bonkers lol
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Phantom Low Battery Shutdown

The first time this happened to me I figured it was a fluke. Now I've had a third time where in mid phone call my Epic has "thought" it's battery was drained to 0 and hung up my call then proceeded to shut down. The first time was in a busy train station in Chicago, don't remember the situation the second, and today was when I got another call beeping in while I was on the line. Each time when I booted the phone back up it showed plenty of life left on the battery.
Has anyone else experienced this or could it be my phone? I wish I could remember specifics from the first two occurrences, but I believe it could have been a call waiting situation as well.
FWIW, I'm on the MTD CleanGB 1.0.3 rom.

Does it go through a shut down or is it just off? If it is just off may be loose battery connections. Oh you said it shut down on the call....maybe it was a modem crash. Try reflashing a modem.
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Mine actually did this last night while I was on the phone

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Does it go through a shut down or is it just off? If it is just off may be loose battery connections. Oh you said it shut down on the call....maybe it was a modem crash. Try reflashing a modem.
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It actually goes through the shutdown. Does the low battery double beep and pop up, then says shutting phone down.

Might need to wipe the battery stats then re-calibrate the battery. Mine has done this before, but I'm pretty sure it was from throwing the battery at my wall.

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Might need to wipe the battery stats then re-calibrate the battery. Mine has done this before, but I'm pretty sure it was from throwing the battery at my wall.
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Quite possible. I think I didn't bother calibrating the last couple of times I've flashed a ROM. Going to go ahead and do that and hopefully it doesn't happen again.

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Quite possible. I think I didn't bother calibrating the last couple of times I've flashed a ROM. Going to go ahead and do that and hopefully it doesn't happen again.
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Ya I've had the same issue I would have like 14% and while I'm in a call it would shut down
Just wipe status and calibrate it and it should be fine
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I've had this happen, only on cm7 though.
Doesn't happen often so I've not been worried about it
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This used to happen to me ALL the time. It was so frustrating, as soon as it hit 15% if I was talking it'd shut right down. Thankfully flashing the new GB roms seems to have fixed the problem. I sure hope it doesn't happen in CM7

I have this issue regardless of rom. Happens when on a call and low battery alert sounds.

Well, just did it to me again. I calibrated the battery after upgrading to the latest MTD cleanGB yesterday. I was in a building that had poor signal granted, but same thing dropped call, low battery popped up and it shutdown. I had 60% battery left.