So I've had my epic since it came out, traded my evo for it, no problems rooting, loved the community. But now I've ran into a problem that all my technical experience as a Sprint tech has failed to fix.
Starting last night, after watching "Hobo with a Shotgun" (amazing grindhouse style movie, get it), every time I put the phone to sleep for more then 2-3 minutes, it will not wake or ring or anything until you pull the battery. I was on SFR, tried flashing a new kernel, re flashing the rom, flashing a new rom, odin back to stock, same issue every time.
So unless someone knows something I don't, gotta wait until monday to get a refurbished unit.
Sad, this is the first time I've had to get a replacement since my HTC Apache.
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The problem is probably that the phone can't wake uo on 100mhz. If you are on a custom kernel you it to 200 MHz as the minimum. My phone will do the same thing if I have the minimum set to 100
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Try this. Seems to be working for me so far.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036648
I use to have to set mine at 400mhz to make sure it would wake back up. Since doing this I dropped it back to 200mhz and haven't had any issues yet.
Hurpa Durp, never thought of that... had the same issue on my Hero for awhile, setting it on 200mhz min worked like a charm.
While were on the subject, I have a few interesting thoughts. Since this has never happened before, is my Epic's underclock/overclock threshold degrading? Didn't know that could happen, I though it was predetermined by the quality of the die the CPU was cut from when it was manufactured. Maybe overclocking to 1300 with higher then normal voltage is having some repercussions? Thoughts?
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Hurpa Durp, never thought of that... had the same issue on my Hero for awhile, setting it on 200mhz min worked like a charm.
While were on the subject, I have a few interesting thoughts. Since this has never happened before, is my Epic's underclock/overclock threshold degrading? Didn't know that could happen, I though it was predetermined by the quality of the die the CPU was cut from when it was manufactured. Maybe overclocking to 1300 with higher then normal voltage is having some repercussions? Thoughts?
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Not suggesting you do this...but you could always brick your phone and then take it into a sprint store for a replacement phone haha
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Not suggesting you do this...but you could always brick your phone and then take it into a sprint store for a replacement phone haha
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How does this make sense, as the question was more, what can I do to stop from having to get a replacement????????
My phone can handle 1.45 oc just fine with no lockups. It has trouble waking you on 100 sometimes.
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Not suggesting you do this...but you could always brick your phone and then take it into a sprint store for a replacement phone haha
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Lol, I'm a sprint tech, don't think I'll have a problem getting a new phone.
Also, I have my phone back to stock, odin'd eb13 and its still doing it. Getting a new unit on monday or tuesday. Until then, I have it on 10 minute screen time out.
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I am running CM7 nightlies on my G2, a few days out dated because I have been insanely busy lately... But today in class my phone heated up insanely bad. Sizzled my finger on the metal back plate. I immediately ripped the battery out and let it cool. I think the battery bloated a little bit.
When I put it back in after cooling, all seems normal. The battery started out at 85% and drained to 44% during this. All I can think is that I charged it on the way home to top it off from about 50 to 85% battery, and then topped off a little more, bout ten minutes while at home. Got back to class and then it happened a few minutes later.
Also, I used SetCPU....BUT not overclocking, I had it stock speed, on demand governor, and screen off profile to 245mhz.
What could cause this? I called tmobile and they wanna swap out the phone itself because the battery is not currently bloated so it must be device related.
I am scared to let them swap it out, because I don't wanna revert my phone back to stock, and then have to root the new one. Are ALL G2's rootable? I don't want to risk getting a new one that can't be cracked
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I am running CM7 nightlies on my G2, a few days out dated because I have been insanely busy lately... But today in class my phone heated up insanely bad. Sizzled my finger on the metal back plate. I immediately ripped the battery out and let it cool. I think the battery bloated a little bit.
When I put it back in after cooling, all seems normal. The battery started out at 85% and drained to 44% during this. All I can think is that I charged it on the way home to top it off from about 50 to 85% battery, and then topped off a little more, bout ten minutes while at home. Got back to class and then it happened a few minutes later.
Also, I used SetCPU....BUT not overclocking, I had it stock speed, on demand governor, and screen off profile to 245mhz.
What could cause this? I called tmobile and they wanna swap out the phone itself because the battery is not currently bloated so it must be device related.
I am scared to let them swap it out, because I don't wanna revert my phone back to stock, and then have to root the new one. Are ALL G2's rootable? I don't want to risk getting a new one that can't be cracked
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That's really odd...maybe the phone had a defect or something but yes all G2s can be rooted/s-off since we haven't had any new updates from t-mobile to prevent us from rooting the phone
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That makes me feel better, if I have to replace.
They were going to call me in 20 minutes after I started charging it during the initial call, but they called my wife's Vibrant which never rang, I just got a voice mail notification They left message, and I have no way of calling that particular rep back in technical without going through the entire process over again But, it's still charging, went from about 35%-80% and it's not hot at all. I'm just very confused how this is an isolated thing.
I'm about to be gone from home for 5 weeks, and need my phone, Worst timing ever for this
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That makes me feel better, if I have to replace.
They were going to call me in 20 minutes after I started charging it during the initial call, but they called my wife's Vibrant which never rang, I just got a voice mail notification They left message, and I have no way of calling that particular rep back in technical without going through the entire process over again But, it's still charging, went from about 35%-80% and it's not hot at all. I'm just very confused how this is an isolated thing.
I'm about to be gone from home for 5 weeks, and need my phone, Worst timing ever for this
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Ah I see... anyways just tell the new rep, tell that you already called another rep and was about to give you a replacement but something happen or something... it will make the process faster. when will you leave? T-mobile can send you the replacement phone if you pay 20$ it will get to your house in 1-3 days rather than the normal 3-7 days
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I'm just wary to change the entire phone out and keep the part that scares me into the new one. If I have a problem, I'll call them. It seems to have been just that once. I'll be leaving in about a week probably, and phone is vital. so I hope I get this figured out.
Do NAND backups swap to new phones? Like just NAND this one how it is, and stick it onto my replacement? Or does it backup things specific to that exact phone?
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I'm just wary to change the entire phone out and keep the part that scares me into the new one. If I have a problem, I'll call them. It seems to have been just that once. I'll be leaving in about a week probably, and phone is vital. so I hope I get this figured out.
Do NAND backups swap to new phones? Like just NAND this one how it is, and stick it onto my replacement? Or does it backup things specific to that exact phone?
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Once you get your new replacement you have to reroot/S-off your phone again and flash clockwork. If you have any backups in your sd card just flash your backup and you will have the same stuff you had on your old phone.
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I know, I just mean are Nand's specific lol.
Full charged, no issues... so I'll just keep a really good eye on it. I'm just wondering WTF made it do that. I'm kinda wary to run setCPU now
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I know, I just mean are Nand's specific lol.
Full charged, no issues... so I'll just keep a really good eye on it. I'm just wondering WTF made it do that. I'm kinda wary to run setCPU now
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Lol ohh... well nand for g2 yes.
Lol maybe by chance you overclocked?
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I used to OC to 1.5ghz all the time but not in a long time I need it to get the best battery life possible these days
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I used to OC to 1.5ghz all the time but not in a long time I need it to get the best battery life possible these days
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Aha I see. Well what I do is I put it 1.5 ghz but on ondemand. Never gets hot at all but when I put it on profomance it heats up quickly. Lol have u tried MUIU? Its pretty good.
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Either the battery itself is fried, or some SOFTWARE you're running is responsible. Swapping out the phone itself is pointless. Try a WIPE and see if the problem doesn't come back. If it does, replace the BATTERY.
I didn't read if yo ugot it fixed, but check your battery status... liek what's been using that. I had that one time and like my email app for example used a **** load... I reflashed it and started it from new and it's fixed now.
exactly what is the point of overclocking on the G2?
I can tell why youd use SetCPU on the G1 but what is the point of doing it on the G2?
I really have failed to understand the purpose.
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exactly what is the point of overclocking on the G2?
I can tell why youd use SetCPU on the G1 but what is the point of doing it on the G2?
I really have failed to understand the purpose.
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What's the point in having leather seats, cloth works fine. Why thongs, granny panties get the job done.
Why overclock? Because we can
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What's the point in having leather seats, cloth works fine. Why thongs, granny panties get the job done.
Why overclock? Because we can
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Yes, except that sometimes these hacks can cause problems, so before concluding that the hardware is defective, it is important to return the software to a more natural state and see if the problem goes away. If the problem is present with the hacks and not when without, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is a correlation between the problem and the hack.
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Yes, except that sometimes these hacks can cause problems, so before concluding that the hardware is defective, it is important to return the software to a more natural state and see if the problem goes away. If the problem is present with the hacks and not when without, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is a correlation between the problem and the hack.
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+1 I do agree with that
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Oh ok...nuf sed! I am in agreement...
But if I see granny pants on any of my dates then...date is over!
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Yes, except that sometimes these hacks can cause problems, so before concluding that the hardware is defective, it is important to return the software to a more natural state and see if the problem goes away. If the problem is present with the hacks and not when without, then it is reasonable to conclude that there is a correlation between the problem and the hack.
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For the record, tmobile concluded that it's hardware, not me *can't exactly say I have it fully rooted/modded* and the only reason I called them was that my wife used to work for verizon and it was a known issue that a certain battery style/make/whatever was known to have this exact issue. So she told me to call and ask if it was some known problem that I could tell them my serial to identify if my battery falls under those conditions. They said since it wasn't still bloated by the time I called them, it must be the phone. I talked them out of sending me a replacement... that I'll see if it comes back and immediately call them lol.
I haven't had the issue come back, I think I'm on Nightly 3, and I'm about to flash the latest but I want the battery more charged before I do so. I got like 3x the battery life today than I did the other day.
For whoever asked, I haven't tried MIUI, looks pretty interesting but I'm quite a die hard Cyanogen guy lol. I wish it came to the vibrant
THE GET RICH QUICK SCHEME:
1. Keep phone.
2. Keep using phone the way it is.
3. Induce it to blow up.
4. Sue HTC
5. ? ? ?
6. Profit
I DON'T THINK YOU NEED THE QUESTION MARKS LOL... remember the "droid x that blew up while I was talking on it and it cut my face/I smashed my droid x I want a refund trolol" guy?
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AND THEN, when the phone restarts it has more than 50 % battery.
WTF.
Is this happening to anyone else?
Are you running stock, di18, eb13, eco5? More details please!
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sorry, was just wondering if anyone else had this happen, running eb13 viper rom.
This has happened to me, at the
time I had syndicate 1.0.2. It did a soft reboot and didn't actually hang up till my phone finished rebooting. The whole time well it was on the booting video the call still worked. Then it booted to the lockscreen and the call ended.
Reminds me of my palm pre.
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Hey, they called this phone the "Epic" for a reason, it only does things in epic proportions.
I've had that problem on the EB13 Syndicate, then today one the EC05 Syndicate... I fixed it last time, but can't remember how. I just wiped battery stats and did calibration, so I will let you know if that did it.
this happens to me whenever i get a phone call and i have less than 15% battery. it has happened on EVERY rom i have used
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Hey, they called this phone the "Epic" for a reason, it only does things in epic proportions.
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Truth LOL
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I made a post about this a few weeks ago. I remember it happening on dk28 and everything since, multiple roms. Right now I am using eb13 with ec05 modem but haven't had a call yet whan my battery was that low. I can't believe not very many people have complained about this.
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Are you STILL here trolling the Epic forums J3ff?
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Are you STILL here trolling the Epic forums J3ff?
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I wouldn't call it trolling if it's the truth.
It just happened to me again.
15% beep, DROPPED CALL, phone reboots, 22% battery on restart.
I can't wait till a new cool phone comes out on sprint.
Mee too, just don't get the same one I get ok?
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Still happens on EC05 with SRF and Rodricks kernal.
well even after loading a new kernal and rom, still happens. I just bought a 3500mah battery, FML
Can't wait to get rid of the epic. Had the issue since EB13. I guess it's not bad as iphone dropping calls all the time, but still unacceptable!
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Can't wait to get rid of the epic. Had the issue since EB13. I guess it's not bad as iphone dropping calls all the time, but still unacceptable!
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yup. It's annoying as F - I have to cut the person off and say "My battery is dead I'll call you back" as fast as possible.
Then the phone reboots and it has 30+ % battery.
Seriously stupid.
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yup. It's annoying as F - I have to cut the person off and say "My battery is dead I'll call you back" as fast as possible.
Then the phone reboots and it has 30+ % battery.
Seriously stupid.
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Are you running SetCPU or an Undervolt settings? When a battery gets to a low percentage, the voltage is lower so any undervolt settings will actually be even lower and the phone will crap out. At 40% my phone would not wake and totally black out, needed to pull battery. Found out I had undervolted 200 Mhz by 100 mV. Pushed that back to zero and no more problems.
It could also be a bad battery, especially with the varying percentage from reboots like that.
no undervolt. Just whatever the rom+ kernal settings are is what I run.
I should get the new battery this week. Hopefully that'll fix the problems
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no undervolt. Just whatever the rom+ kernal settings are is what I run.
I should get the new battery this week. Hopefully that'll fix the problems
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You are running the kernel supplied with Syndicate or something else?
Do you BONSAI?
Yes blame the phone for everything when running a custom rom
Well, I live in Arizona so it is pretty hot here, and my phone, as a result gets pretty hot as well. Anyway, after some lengthy use the phone gets to about 40 degrees centigrade and then after a bit turns itself off, and vibrated five short times. After that, I cannot turn the phone back on until I pull the battery and put it back in again. Is this normal? Or is this just a faulty EVO?
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I play a couple games that cause my evo to get very hot ie star legends, however it has never shut off on me. i never checked the temp, but it definitely gets very hot to the touch and even though I continue to play, it doesn't turn off..
This is just from my experience.
It's a faulty cpu temp sensor - the phone must be replaced. Search for my identical thread posted about a week ago.
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Jesus... Well i guess ill wait till 2.3 root is out
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My phone runs ok since this issue appeared, I just make sure to keep the battery < 40C.
I also cool the phone to approx. 30C on an AC vent before flashing any roms or mods - it struggles booting up when the temp is elevated but runs great once booted and under 40C. This will have to do until the 4g's true successor is released...I love my rooted phone running Evo Deck and SZ bfs
My Evo runs o
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I took mine in and of course they gave me a new one. Make that a refurb... However no way I am going to root it right now.. it has the newest firmware..
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I took mine in and of course they gave me a new one. Make that a refurb... However no way I am going to root it right now.. it has the newest firmware..
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I hate when you buy a electronic device that is defective and they give you a refurb as a replacement. Hope you guys get root soon.
It is kind of like a swift kick to the junk, furthered by the fact that they gave me an older refurb. Not a fancy 004 refurb... Anyway, patiently awaiting root, since I in no way shape or form have the skill to figure something like that out.. I gave up that career a while ago...
I am in AZ also. When I get high temps, my indicator lights flash an alternating red/green, usually while charging, but it has never turned itself off....
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I was just wondering if anyone else is experiencing frequent reboots? I am averaging about one a day with really light use(under one hour screen on time). It sometimes freezes at the unlock screen just after the power button is pressed to wake it up after being idle for a while. Other times it will reboot while its just sitting there. My phone is currently on stock ROM and is not rooted.
I did every day and it also got very warm whilst supposedly idle. I got a replacement and have had just 1 reboot in just over a week and it runs cooler too.
I suggest you get it replaced.
Ps. Do you have poor battery life too because it's a lot better with my new phone.
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I did every day and it also got very warm whilst supposedly idle. I got a replacement and have had just 1 reboot in just over a week and it runs cooler too.
I suggest you get it replaced.
Ps. Do you have poor battery life too because it's a lot better with my new phone.
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So your replacement "only" rebooted once in a week? Correct me if i'm wrong, but from my understanding, a phone is NEVER supposed to reboot for no reason.
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So your replacement "only" rebooted once in a week? Correct me if i'm wrong, but from my understanding, a phone is NEVER supposed to reboot for no reason.
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Correct. But I'd consider that acceptable considering it has no other hardware flaws and put it down to buggy software or a rogue app. If it's an isolated reboot then I'm happy, a reboot every day certainly points to a hardware issue and not acceptable.
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Correct. But I'd consider that acceptable considering it has no other hardware flaws and put it down to buggy software or a rogue app. If it's an isolated reboot then I'm happy, a reboot every day certainly points to a hardware issue and not acceptable.
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To me it's unacceptable, as it obviously shouldn't do this and the device seems to be defective if it just does that. Also, there are other hardware flaws, for example that the device gets so hot that it needs to throttle the performance after ~5 mins of work and has to completely shut down after ~10 minutes.
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To me it's unacceptable, as it obviously shouldn't do this and the device seems to be defective if it just does that. Also, there are other hardware flaws, for example that the device gets so hot that it needs to throttle the performance after ~5 mins of work and has to completely shut down after ~10 minutes.
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That is not a flaw, the S4 Pro can't disperse heat efficiently in a small device. Not to mention that even throttled, it's probably still the strongest chipset in terms of brute power.
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To me it's unacceptable, as it obviously shouldn't do this and the device seems to be defective if it just does that. Also, there are other hardware flaws, for example that the device gets so hot that it needs to throttle the performance after ~5 mins of work and has to completely shut down after ~10 minutes.
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I'm just realistic when it comes to tech. If my only issue is 1 isolated reboot (which it is at the moment) then I'm happy. Don't think I've ever owned anything with a chip that hasn't at least restarted/frozen once.
Sure the phone gets warm under heavy use but I haven't noticed any slowdown in real use so all good. PS My previous did stutter when hot, unlike this one, so I'm certain that was faulty.
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That is not a flaw, the S4 Pro can't disperse heat efficiently in a small device.
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That's not correct. There are other phones with exactly the same CPU, and none of them throttle. Only Nexus 4 does.
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To me it's unacceptable, as it obviously shouldn't do this and the device seems to be defective if it just does that. Also, there are other hardware flaws, for example that the device gets so hot that it needs to throttle the performance after ~5 mins of work and has to completely shut down after ~10 minutes.
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Where is the proof of the phone shutting down in ~10 mins... You sound like a grumpy customer... Next time don't pull facts out of your ass.
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Where is the proof of the phone shutting down in ~10 mins... You sound like a grumpy customer... Next time don't pull facts out of your ass.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLJ4BU9tgc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLJ4BU9tgc
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A benchmark that is fireing up ~100% of the core is not "normal work"
Linpack tests on my CPU bring it to it's knees' but it will never crash under normal circumstances.
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Where is the proof of the phone shutting down in ~10 mins... You sound like a grumpy customer... Next time don't pull facts out of your ass.
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A benchmark that is fireing up ~100% of the core is not "normal work"
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I don't really give a sh** what you consider normal work. I've never used that term.
When there's a game that needs the full performance of an S4 pro and the N4 can't deliver it, it won't run. The N4 is the only device that cannot run it's max stated clock frequency.
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I don't really give a sh** what you consider normal work. I've never used that term.
When there's a game that needs the full performance of an S4 pro and the N4 can't deliver it, it won't run. The N4 is the only device that cannot run it's max stated clock frequency.
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Then don't buy it? Get the GS3 then. (which btw throttles as well)
I'll wait for some custom kernels and updates to come out. This is brand new silicone.
I think I'm mostly in denial at the moment. I really want this phone to be awesome, however I had my first random reboot about 15 minutes after I got it on the 16th of November. Battery life has been quite horrible most of the time due to the "msm_hsic_host wakelock" issue. I have never had a defective phone and I wasn't ready for a "nexus" to be one. Yes I know it can and does happen. I keep telling my self "4.2.2 will fix all the things".
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I think I'm mostly in denial at the moment. I really want this phone to be awesome, however I had my first random reboot about 15 minutes after I got it on the 16th of November. Battery life has been quite horrible most of the time due to the "msm_hsic_host wakelock" issue. I have never had a defective phone and I wasn't ready for a "nexus" to be one. Yes I know it can and does happen. I keep telling my self "4.2.2 will fix all the things".
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Actually it probably will...
Do you happen to have a widget that is polling your location? I had HD Widgets installed, with my GPS off it kept rebooting my phone... Now it seems a-ok! This issue has been brought to Google's attention and I think they're working on it.
I don't have the msm_hsic wakelock anymore... Solved that with Franco's kernel and it really improved my battery life.
Hopefully this helps!
I don't, I am running minimal installed apps :-/ . I also have the buzz in the ear piece while on and off calls. It's time to RMA I guess.
I bit the bullet and ordered a new one :-/ The rep I got was awesome and the overall experience was good. Unfortunately I was made aware that a replacement could be 2 weeks away. Today my phone was off charger for 4 hours in good reception. Screen on time less than 10 mins, sleep time was just over and hour and I have 48% battery left. blah.
Strange as the concept sounds, I get better battery life when I overclock my Epic. At first I thought this was a fluke, since a faster processor (in my head, anyways) HAS to equal more power consumed. Generally speaking, this is true...
But, here's how a higher processor speed actually helps you reduce overall battery life. During daily use, your phone throttles up the processor to get something done, and then goes back to a sleep state. Mine goes from 100 to 400 to 800 to 1100 (my overclocked speed) as I watch it, with my phone just doing it's thing.
The faster it can get a certain thing done (i.e., faster processor), the sooner it can go back to a resting state, which equals more rest and better battery life.
That's it. Of course, this only works for daily use - if you keep it running playing a few games the battery life will most likely be worse. Has anyone else experienced better battery life by overclocking? I'm curious to see if this phenomenon only effects me
My setup:
CM10.1 - Experimental (Jan 20)
NS4G modem, with nitest kernel and patch (Jan 25)
smartassV2 governer/NOOP I/O scheduler
Overclocked to 1100MHz
hmmm interesting thought... i have never overclocked my epic but im just wondering how are your boot times with it overclocked... my daily use on my phone requires bluetooth on all the time and while i am at work i play music and on breaks i play games so i do go through a battery every 2 to 4 hours (I keep 6 spares on hand at all time lol) if it didnt drain battery but sped up boot at battery change would be worth a try just always been scared to oc cause dont want to mess up my phone...
Wow, six batteries? How do you charge them all?
I've been overclocking computers and such ever since I found the clock switch on my old Packard Bell 486. The trick is to not go too crazy and start small. For example, I have two Epics in the house running at 1100, and everything is going smooth. Boot times seem pretty fast, but the overall battery life is better than it's ever been on both.
I tried to clock one of them up to 1200, and I had a couple force closes and a forced reboot, so I backed it down to 1100, and the problems went away. I've heard that others can run at 1200 all day and not have any issues, so it depends on your phone.
I'd like to hear what happens if you do OC yours - my usage is nothing like that!
Sounds about right to me, the cpu isn't working on the same thing for as long and hashes it out quickly so the battery isn't drained as fast.
Just my view, I'm a slightly advanced computer ****.
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Wow, six batteries? How do you charge them all?
I've been overclocking computers and such ever since I found the clock switch on my old Packard Bell 486. The trick is to not go too crazy and start small. For example, I have two Epics in the house running at 1100, and everything is going smooth. Boot times seem pretty fast, but the overall battery life is better than it's ever been on both.
I tried to clock one of them up to 1200, and I had a couple force closes and a forced reboot, so I backed it down to 1100, and the problems went away. I've heard that others can run at 1200 all day and not have any issues, so it depends on your phone.
I'd like to hear what happens if you do OC yours - my usage is nothing like that!
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Definitely dependent on the phone as you said, back in the samurai kernel days my epic could handle 1500 no problem...
I have 2 external charger that came with 3 spare batteries... ebay like 15 bucks or so for 3 and a charger... I may give it a whirl see how it goes... what rom you using now??? Was thinking of just the regular cm10 but I really like the center clock mod of aokp... but thanks for the advice I will let you know how it goes.
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Isn't the default lower-bound clock 200mhz on most roms? Maybe the fact that you have it going down to 100 makes a difference too?
^Pretty sure that all ROMs run 100mhz stock.
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rootsamurai said:
Isn't the default lower-bound clock 200mhz on most roms? Maybe the fact that you have it going down to 100 makes a difference too?
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While the default is 200, 100 and 200 really aren't big enough a difference power wise to make a big jump in battery life...
wizzdome said:
I have 2 external charger that came with 3 spare batteries... ebay like 15 bucks or so for 3 and a charger... I may give it a whirl see how it goes... what rom you using now??? Was thinking of just the regular cm10 but I really like the center clock mod of aokp... but thanks for the advice I will let you know how it goes.
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In the past week, I just upgraded to a Galaxy Nexus, bit still have 2 Epics in the family. One is on CM 10 and tje other is on 10.1. Definitely like to hear how it turns out.
Although this thread is about overclocking, don't ever let your friend that knows how to change the clock speed use your phone. I let my friend use my phone to play a game, and when I got it back, it was really slow, laggy and hot. Because he thought it would be funny to change the max clock speed from 1 Ghz to 200Mhz.
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jeffreyjicha said:
Although this thread is about overclocking, don't ever let your friend that knows how to change the clock speed use your phone. I let my friend use my phone to play a game, and when I got it back, it was really slow, laggy and hot. Because he thought it would be funny to change the max clock speed from 1 Ghz to 200Mhz.
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LMAO!! That's actually pretty funny
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