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Freezing when unplugging charger

This has been happening to me more and more lately.
In the morning I grab my Iconia and take it off charge and the device freezes on the lock screen. I have to hold down the power button to turn it off and then turn it on again. It's happened 3 of the last 4 days. It never happened before the OTA update either. Sometimes it freezes with the screen on and when I next go to use it the battery has taken a hit. Today it froze but if I pressed the power button it asked if i wanted to shut down, but the touchscreen was unresponsive. Is anyone else getting this?

This has happened to me a lot, too. I have rooted the device and changed the wpa_supplicant file, but that is all. I'm considering returning it because my first experience with android is proving to be a major disappoitment.

just letting you know that this bug has nothing to do with you plug/unplug the charger...etc
it happened when the device is left in standby for a long time...
only some reported it... some do not have this bug...etc ( with so many different build # out there... can't really troubleshoot since people are allover the map with different build # )
things might iron out with new updates...etc
one of the "workaround" I heard/read was to disable the screen lock/password ...etc
worth a shot

Having this issue myself. I feel it's also just coincidence with the charging, it's likely just after the device being in stand by for so long.
Some times it'll turn on for a minute, then if I don't touch the screen for about 30 seconds it freezes and won't respond.
This issue didn't start until after the update.

This happens to me too
In fact every morning now since the update.
I plug it in when i go to sleep and in the morning i unplug it, unlock it and open an app and it freezes. Today i read an email in k9 and then opened tapatalk and it froze.
But i just got that problem in the morning, never had it during the day.
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I've had the same issue since and OTA update at the end of last week. I can't find any consistency in when it does it though.

Ever since the update i had from 1.104 - 1.139.05_com_gen1 if i leave the tablet in standby by the morning it will not wake from sleep.
Not a real issue as i just power down instead of sleep now but an irritation caused by the update.
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Well guys I had the issue before the update when I was on 1.104.05_com_gen1. Now I'm on 1.141.07 issue is still there but a quick reboot fixes it for the day. I would just say give Acer time and hey you have a 1yr mfg. If they don't fix it in the original builds exchange it down the road for a newer one.
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Come'on Acer, this is a issue that should have been fixed before releasing the tablet.
I for one will never buy an Acer again, but hey, we all make mistakes.

For an additional data point
I also have this issue and it happened for me both before and after the OTA update. If this doesn't get fixed soon by Acer, I'm going to be massively pissed off since I'm beyond the time where I can return it

This looks to me pretty similar to the Sleep Of Death problem that plagues a lot of Transformers.
If you leave the tablet go to stand by, and it is not connected to the charger, you may be forced to power off the device (keep power pushed for several seconds to shut it down, then power on again).
I was hoping the Acer didn't show this problem, but it seems it has something to be with honeycomb rather than hardware itself.
On the TF subforum there are lot of ideas: low voltage to keep the CPU working while in suspend seems to be the more appropiate one.
Regards.

This morning it did not hang but it restarted itself.
Unplugged charger, opened facebook app, read a message and bam restart
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This morning no hanging or restarting. At least not yet.
But i didnt charge it over night
This could be a coincidence
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Every couple of days I'll have this problem - I always plug the tablet in to charge overnight and use both Gentle Alarm app followed by an alarm from the standard clock app. I can shut off both alarms with no problems, but when I later pick up the tablet for my morning web stuff, sometimes the tablet freezes on about the 4th or 5th "touch" action after I've unplugged it. Have to turn it off to fix.

Happening more and more frequently for me. Was once a day after update but happening every few hours now. Does not matter if its on charge or not.
Love the a500 and will wait before giving up on this but it is becoming a pain as reboot takes a little while.
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Mine happens on the unplug. How do I know? The screen time is when I unplugged it, it will just stay that way forever, unless I reboot it.

Any luck on finding a solution for this issue.

Plugged tab in overnight, woke up to new screen

Hey,
So i left my galaxy tab plugged in last night, woke up to the backlight being on but i couldn't actually see anything. So i pressed the powerbutton thinking i had to wake it up, no luck. I ended up holding the powerbutton trying to force it to turn off but a new screen popped up that said something like
"uploading (forget what else was on this line)
uploading: undefined"
I did manage to get the tab back to the homescreen, but i don't actually know what happened otherwise

mchimney said:
Hey,
So i left my galaxy tab plugged in last night, woke up to the backlight being on but i couldn't actually see anything. So i pressed the powerbutton thinking i had to wake it up, no luck. I ended up holding the powerbutton trying to force it to turn off but a new screen popped up that said something like
"uploading (forget what else was on this line)
uploading: undefined"
I did manage to get the tab back to the homescreen, but i don't actually know what happened otherwise
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Happened to me a few times. Pretty annoying.
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Thats the modem screen i believe. You can get to it by holding power and vol up i believe,or maybe vol down. Its the opposite of what you do to get to te bootloader.
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I have the exact same problem. Left my tablet charging overnight. Woke up to the upload_case: undefined message. Now it alternates between that and the infinite reboot. How did you manage to fix it?
I have a Google IO edition tab, BTW.

I think I've got the exact same problem. Left charging and it's gone into the infinite boot/"uploading" mode alternating. I am not absolutely sure it was not broken before I plugged it in to charge though.
The only thing I have done recently is the update to 3.1 the day it came out. Never rooted or anything else. Very sad.

Well, I never got it to come back. I just tried restarting it various ways. I put in a email to support. I'll see what they say.

i just held the power button for about 20 seconds and she came right back up. Haven't had this happen again (thankfully). I was on 3.1 though

[Q] Wont turn on

My tab was working fine last night, now for some reason, it wont turn on at all....anyone else see this happen, and if so, what did you do?

Probably a dumb question but did you try charging it for a few hours? Maybe the battery is dead.
What did you do with the tablet before this happened?

Thanks for asking.....so here is a brief history. Working fine last night. Set it aside for a couple of hours. Went back to it, but it was off, and it wouldnt start up, so I also thought maybe the battery died. I plugged it in for the night, but this morning, it still wont turn on. Very perplexed.

Hmmm. If you've tried charging it and it still doesn't work then it's probably dead and you should have it replaced.

yeah...Im at work so when I get home I will plug it in again and see if there is any change. Otherwise, its going back.

Haveu tried pressing the reset button in. Never not had it turn on but a few time the screen would not respond to touch
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Yeah, tried the reset but with no luck. Talked to Acer and they suggested checking to see if maybe the plug is out a bit and didnt charge it last night, but I just called home and my wife says the charger is fully plugged in. Very odd. This one may be going back to Amazon.

Also, try holding the power button for about 15 seconds, then let go. Then do it again for about 8 seconds. If it's actually on but unresponsive the first time will force it off. The second time would turn it on.

Darn....my hopes were high....but nothing. Considering it was working perfectly last night, this seems so odd.

I've had this happen to me. I just held the power button for like half a minute before it decided it wanted to turn on. Stupid bug

Shoot...nothing on that either. I appreciate everyones input though.

Crazy....got home, plugged it in and turned it on. Working. Go figure.

The power button is hit for miss.
Here's a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6FXZqW8hg

reset button
To get the reset button to work you have to really push it in hard Go get it to move
My power button as well seems. Buggy thou I never turn my tab off .its been on since April 24th the day I got it. Sometimes it has needed tonne restarted. The power button often needs to be held tightly in for over a minute. I once thought my tab was not coming on .Indo think its software not the physical button
Just my two pennies

Transformer Boots Up After Shutdown

Hi folks,
Like a lot of other people, I've grown frustrated with the effects the ICS update has done to my Transformer. Like others, I've experienced RR, the SOD, video volume issues, and being kicked off browser sessions.
I had hoped that this weeks update might have brought some relief, but I'm still experiencing some problems with RR and SOD. I have an issue that I'd like to bring to the forum that I haven't seen discussed yet.
In an effort to avoid the battery drain that occurs as a result of RR, I've resorted to simply shutting down the unit at the end of the night. And depending upon the current battery situation, I'll set the shut-downed unit on its charger (no dock) to ensure a full battery charge for the morning. But what I've begun to notice is that, once I disconnect the Transformer from the charger, the screen comes on as though it only went to sleep (as opposed to shut down). Has anyone else experienced this? I thought that once you shut down, you had to perform a long press of the power button to allow it to boot up. But at some point during the night, it seems to have done this by itself.
Any thoughts?

I left mine unplugged and I am pretty sure I shut it down as well. When I came home after like 10 hours, the screen was on the Asus loading circle. I am not sure if I got the newest update, but I updated it yesterday.
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I also have experienced this, for the same reason as the OP, I shut down the transformer the usual way and went to work, on my return the stupid thing at some point in the day restarted itself and was on the Asus logo boot screen draining my battery away.
I now shut down the unit using the long press on the power button until it completely shuts off, this way I have not yet had any auto restarts.
This whole RR stuff is really starting to tick me off big time to the point where I wanna chuck the damn thing against the wall, but then I come to my senses....

Nexus 4 wont turn on

Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.

Leave it plugged in for fifteen minutes without touching it.
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Try holding volume up + power to see if you can get into recovery then reboot from there.
Also, give some more details about your setup...
Rooted/Stock/What Rom/Kernel?

Yea I left it alone for a bit and then I held the power button while holding down both volume rockers and somehow it turned on. I dont know why this happened but I'm just glad it turned back on, it gave me a good scare though. I just hope it doesnt happen again

Mine is completely stock, I havent done anything with it yet

And may I ask what was your battery percentage level like after the short charge? Maybe the phone drained it all just being turned off... There were some cases of this here...

i wanted to add that i had a similar problem with my phone not turning back on. However, I managed to fix what was wrong by just plugging in the usb cable. I know you've tried it, but just in case someone else stumbles upon this thread (like me!) and has a problem turning on their nexus, I wanted to share my experience.
I haven't done anything to my phone other than add my old apps to my Nexus since I received it 1.5 weeks ago. It's stock. I've never dropped it or gotten water on it or anything. I charged it overnight last night and stuck it in my purse on the way to work. I think I briefly saw a working screen after I unplugged it this morning. However, the first time I tried to access my phone today was after I got to work. It wouldn't turn on, though that pinkish light at the bottom was still blinking. I tried calling it and the Nexus wouldn't ring even though the call went through a few rings and then onto voicemail. I tried holding down the power button for a while and also holding the power button with the volume keys to see if that would work, and it did not. Finally I borrowed a usb cable to plug it in, hoping the jolt of power would wake it up. That worked. It gave me the charging symbol for a little bit and then gave me the startup/loading screen with the glowing x made of arrows. I checked my battery and it was at full charge. Well, it was at 85%, which is odd since I plugged it in for about 9 hours last night to charge and there has only been 3 hours of non-use since I unplugged it. Also, if it was really turned off during those 3 hours it shouldn't have ate up any battery. Anyway, I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents in case anyone else has this problem. My brother, who gave me the Nexus, told me that he only has 2 weeks to return it if there's something wrong with it or I don't like it. Needless to say this gave me a scare, since the 2 weeks is almost up.

Money2g said:
Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.
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Yes this happened to me the other night. I was making a phone call and accidentally hit the power button. I then tried to turn the screen back on in order to hang up the phone and it would work. I tried holding the button for 15 seconds, tried pressing the volume up/down keys, and still nothing. I then put it back in my pocket for a minute or so and tried again. When I did that the screen came back on and the call was still active. Very strange, and I hope it doesnt happen again....

Money2g said:
Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.
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Same thing is happening to me right now.
Running stock. Not rooted. Phone charge was around 70% and I was on twitter and the app force closed. So I decided to restart my phone then went to turn it back on and it wont respond. Tried holding down the power button for 20 sec. Volume up and power, volume down and all 3 at the same time. Still nothing. Leaving it on the charger for awhile and the screen is blank no battery logo or anything.
Not quite sure what to do now?

That's scary

shotlimesalt said:
Same thing is happening to me right now.
Running stock. Not rooted. Phone charge was around 70% and I was on twitter and the app force closed. So I decided to restart my phone then went to turn it back on and it wont respond. Tried holding down the power button for 20 sec. Volume up and power, volume down and all 3 at the same time. Still nothing. Leaving it on the charger for awhile and the screen is blank no battery logo or anything.
Not quite sure what to do now?
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Plug it in with the original charger, leave it alone for a couple of hours, try again.
Sent from my Nexus 4

I get the same. I use Dophin Browser . After that i reboot my Nexus 4.
I try to hold Power Button for 1 minutes or more. But nothing change. I
I try hold Power + Volum Down - or Volum + but get same result.
I plug in Adater and wait for it. I will check it 2 hour later.
My Nexus 4 use Stock Rom, Rooted. and this first i get this problem. Please advise me on this case. Thank
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I'm having similar problems. Lots of random rebooting and refusals to turn back on sometimes, even though the LED at the bottom is flashing so i know the phone is still powered up. Also, sometimes when i have it plugged into a computer through usb it will get extremely hot and completely shut down, not turning back on for a long time. I called the google play store and someone is going to get back to me. I love my nexus 4 so i hope i can get this fixed or a replacement.

Nexus 4 crashed and would not power on
shinobi-wan said:
I'm having similar problems. Lots of random rebooting and refusals to turn back on sometimes, even though the LED at the bottom is flashing so i know the phone is still powered up. Also, sometimes when i have it plugged into a computer through usb it will get extremely hot and completely shut down, not turning back on for a long time. I called the google play store and someone is going to get back to me. I love my nexus 4 so i hope i can get this fixed or a replacement.
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I had this issue too a couple of times playing Pandora through my car's Bluetooth. That was when the Nexus 4 had 4.2.1. I have not had this issue with Pandora since the upgrade to 4.2.2.
However, I just now had this issue with Movie Studio app and exporting a video I edited. It turned off its screen like normal screen timeout but then would not come back on.
I had to Volume Up + Power button for a few seconds and then release to get it to reboot.

This same thing is happening to me. Haven't found a specific cause...

Just got the same issue
Today got mine not turning on.
Managed to turn it on by holding volume up and power button together for about 30 seconds while phone was on a stock charger. After that I saw blinking orange led. When I resolved buttons there was a battery pictogram. After pressing and holding power button I finally got turning on vibration and Google logo.
The only things a made after the charging were making few photos of my cat (from the lock screen) viewing them in gallery. Then I locked the screen and put the phone on a shelf. In a hour I was not able to turn it on.
My phone has stock rom and only few third party apps installed.
I got muy Nexus 4 on 21-Dec-2012. 4 days ago I flashed to Android 4.2.2 which phone dowloaded itself. After flashing phone was rebooted.
What I noticed is that it shows 70% battery. But It was fully charged few hours ago.
30% in 2 hours! In my opinion some service/app drained these 30% by using 100% of processing power that caused overheating and/or hanging.

I too have just had this problem. And I've had it previously when making calls, the screen simply won't respond at all, its quite annoying.
This morning my alarm went off and the screen wouldn't turn on, it went on for so long I almost threw the phone across the room. I eventually held the power button and volume down/up button and then the led blinked orange a few times and the phone reset, now it seems fine.
Its a very annoying problem, and could be very serious depending on what you are doing, might have to phone the play store and tell them.

Money2g said:
Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.
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This has happened to me twice now. First time was a month ago and the second time was this morning. Phone was at 100% just woke up checked my messages turned off phone 10 min later it will not turn on. Un plugged cord re plugged cord nothing finally pressed up/down vol and power for about a minute (long minute) and the phone rebooted. YIKES!
Every thing seems normal now but I hate that scare and the fact that it has happened to me twice. Full Stock, not rooted.

zz_zz_ said:
Today got mine not turning on.
Managed to turn it on by holding volume up and power button together for about 30 seconds while phone was on a stock charger. After that I saw blinking orange led. When I resolved buttons there was a battery pictogram. After pressing and holding power button I finally got turning on vibration and Google logo.
The only things a made after the charging were making few photos of my cat (from the lock screen) viewing them in gallery. Then I locked the screen and put the phone on a shelf. In a hour I was not able to turn it on.
My phone has stock rom and only few third party apps installed.
I got muy Nexus 4 on 21-Dec-2012. 4 days ago I flashed to Android 4.2.2 which phone dowloaded itself. After flashing phone was rebooted.
What I noticed is that it shows 70% battery. But It was fully charged few hours ago.
30% in 2 hours! In my opinion some service/app drained these 30% by using 100% of processing power that caused overheating and/or hanging.
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Happened second time.
I was able to turn it on again by following the same steps. But this time I got some strange issue: after resolving vol+ and power buttons I saw battery pictogram with some frame with a blue background; when phone finally booted up this frame and blue background were visible through the my desktop background an screen itself was much lighter with pure colors. Only after about 5 soft resets screen seems to became nice again. Each reboot caused blue frame to become less visible. I'm confused and worried.
Also during all these reboots this frame with blue background was visible even in behind "Google" and "X" logos during booting up.
Another strange thing is that on screenshots I made this frame is not visible.

That would have to do with LCD or software..
As the battery & Google are just pictures that change. If you understand what in saying lol ?
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