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Has this ever happened to you?...Vibrant seems dead, battey re-install needed!

Since I have got it (2 weeks ago) i have picked up my phone make a call, and on about 7-8 occasions, have noticed that the phone is turned off, and I can't get it to turn on. The only solution is to take out the battery and put it back in. Has anyone else experienced this. I have updated to JH2 firmware, but it still happens. I even got a new battery for the phone (Bell employee let me swap with another phone that was going back to samsung for gps issues), but the problem still happens once in awhile (like every 2 days, sometimes more sometimes less). Anyone have any ideas? thanks
UPDATE: Someone mentioned for me to call my phone the next time this happens to see if it rings. They said it might stuck in sleep mode? Not sure, i just pullthe battery and then it works

I've had this happen, but only when the GPS was on. If it's happening with the GPS off, I'm guessing you've got a lemon.
So far I've not needed to take the battery out, though. I've always been able to reboot by holding the power button down for 5-10 seconds instead.

Yes I have been experiencing the same problem. From what I can see, it seems like the phone is over heating then it locks up. My only fix was to install a battery temperature monitor and also kill any tasks that are not needed by the phone. My phone hasn't locked like that since I've been doing that.
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I have not had this problem. Been on a call for about 1-2 hours one time and the phone was fine. I was able to switch it to speaker, bluetooth, open other apps, and etc without any problems. I don't run task managers. I do have one, but I rarely use it.

Interesting...I experienced this for the first time today. Picked up my phone from teh night stand after having it plugged in all night and it was off. Had to pull the battery to get it to come on. The battery was about 85% charged when it came back on. It worked ok since but the battery drained kinda quick. I am using an aftermarket battery, got the 2 batts and charger on ebay. So I put the other battery in and havn't had any issues. I wonder if it over heated while charging? What apps are you guys running? The one I am running that would be most suspect would be weatherbug elite, and I just installed it a day or 2 before this happened.

I think it is a GPS issue. I got this phone on the first day of release. I’ve never had this problem until just days ago. I hadn't used the GPS extensively before last Thursday and Friday. During my business trip I had the GPS on for almost two days straight and during these two days I experienced the blank screen, shut down twice. I had to cycle the battery to get it to boot.

I had this happen to me while using Set CPU. Check out this thread. http :// forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727006
take out spaces and what not.

I had this problem on my g1 but it started to get worst an I soon need too keep my mobile always connected to a charger so out turned into a landline phone lol but it was because I somehow broke a middle cell in my battery and need replacing but I don't know what to say about yours cause you tried a different battery :S
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Experienced a freeze just a few hours ago while running the navigate application.
Trying to show my wife how uber cool it was and all. Switched on GPS, launched maps, chose directions, method / navigate. GPS locked and had my location pinned down until I reached the corner and suddenly the GPS kicked me to a location about 5 blocks away then froze the phone, requiring a battery pull and reboot.
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Long boot time

Anyone else having long boot times for the tablet? It's very annoying together with the sleep of death's and many random reboots.
My boot time is like at least 2 minutes, and I see people writing here it takes 20 seconds for them.

From the time I hold down the power button and get the first response on screen to "ready to use" is about 20 seconds on my tablet, that would be a fair estimate. I haven't timed it exactly.

Thanks for the reply. It's weird because it was like that for me at the start. But after some days it just started to take around 2 minutes. Never rooted or anything so no clue what it could be.

Mine takes a while too. Definately longer than 20 seconds, at least a minute.

Just started happening to me during my second day of use. Initially, boot up times were about 20 seconds. Everything seemed to be going well until this evening (second full day of ownership). I came home to see battery drop about 20% while on standby. Looks like "Cell Standby" was the culprit. No idea why this process would eat up battery considering this is WiFi only! Anyway, I also discovered two odds things: 1) it took significantly longer to boot up (about 2 minutes) and 2) I kept getting a warning about being out of space for apps, even though I had about 2GB of storage free.
Trying a hard reset now to see if it fixes these issues.

I noticed boot time increased right after the recent OTA update.

should i return this iconia?

Hello all,
I bought my iconia tab last Tues. I am a big fan of android. But I have used an I pad since they were released. Now I'm not going to make comparisons, but I'm thinking I may have received a bad unit. Or maybeothers can verify my findings.
Battery life is horrible.
I barely get 4 hours of use before I need to go running for the charger.
Random shutdowns and reboot.
Unit will shutdown at random, even when I'm using it. And it reboot any time it loses a wifi source. Ex. I have a mobile hotspot. If I shut the hotspot off, the iconia will reboot when it loses the signal.
Screen on/off all day.
When I put the unit in standby, the screen turns on and off about evey 2 minutes.
Laggy keyboard.
Even as I type this, the keyboard is extremly laggy.
I am running this unit stock now, nothing extra has been installed.
I even did a factory reset and hard reset.
Ii have not received any updates, although I check all the time. I'm still on the 1.104. Build.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

from your description, yeah, you should probably return this unit...

just return my device is not that bad, battery last 1 day with normal use, never random shut down
the only thing i got troubled with is screen on/off , that is solved by pressing powerr button several times, very annoying actuallly

I've gotten 2 days of moderate use, I usually charge every night but unless I'm playing games for hours at a time I'm usually @ 40% before I plug in.
If the tab is rebooting on a frequent basis, particularly if you can do it on demand, definitely return it.
The screen random on should be fixed by the .141 update

I don't want to start anything but when i read "Should I return it?" and your posting it in this forum, then most likely the person posting it (if you found this forum) knows a little about it. But to read, it shuts off, battery life is terrible, etc..
I dont use it all day but i will use it with lowest brightness, 1 min timeout, and i dont use twitter or play movies, but get like 5-8 days on a charge.. NOW, one key thing, i turn the power OFF when done using it and does hold the battery much better (I never tried airplane mode)..
Never mind, got off on a rant from the thread...unrelated, there are some very cool news apps that are out now for HC.

Ok. Returned it for a fresh unit. Letting it get a full charge before I do anything with it.
Fyi. Previous unit only gave me 4 hours. Regardless if I was using it or it was sitting in standby.
Does anyone know of a way to get the 141 update without rooting?
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BadGrim said:
Ok. Returned it for a fresh unit. Letting it get a full charge before I do anything with it.
Fyi. Previous unit only gave me 4 hours. Regardless if I was using it or it was sitting in standby.
Does anyone know of a way to get the 141 update without rooting?
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For the first time since I bought it I haven't used my device for a day. In around 22 hours of standby it lost 3% battery.
So draining in 4 hours in standby sounds completly defective to me.

when I got mine
battery was at 50%
I used it during the day, and when the battery was arround 5% I did a full charge
- regular usage : 1day ++
- working usage : 8 hours (web apps dev...)
4 hours, use it or not it's awfull...
Wish you got better now

interqd said:
just return my device is not that bad, battery last 1 day with normal use, never random shut down
the only thing i got troubled with is screen on/off , that is solved by pressing powerr button several times, very annoying actuallly
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What kind of screen problem? Is it turning on randomly while in stand by or the other way around, turning off while in use?
And for my future reference, how do you do returns in Indonesia? Do you take it to the store or to the service center (or either)? Thanks in advance!

iqbalbaskara said:
What kind of screen problem? Is it turning on randomly while in stand by or the other way around, turning off while in use?
And for my future reference, how do you do returns in Indonesia? Do you take it to the store or to the service center (or either)? Thanks in advance!
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Yes, the screen would randomy turn on/off while in standby.
The other. The tablet would actually power off while i was using it, not just th screen, the entire thing.

iqbalbaskara said:
What kind of screen problem? Is it turning on randomly while in stand by or the other way around, turning off while in use?
And for my future reference, how do you do returns in Indonesia? Do you take it to the store or to the service center (or either)? Thanks in advance!
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its turning on randomly while standby, usually i have to pres power button 3 or 4 times before it went off without turning on again...
i think its not possible to return to the store here, just take to the service centre... but i dont know if they will give new device.. as i know here only apple , blackberry and samsung that will give new device if found defective ..

Nexus 4 switched off...

The phone was charged at 95% or around that percentage. This hasn't happened to me before, I hadn't just installed any apps, I'd barely done anything with it since I'd just woken up.
I had a timer going on the phone, went to check it to see how long I had left and then when I pressed the power button to unlock the phone, it didn't unlock or do anything. Then I did a quick google search and saw people saying that holding it down for about 30 seconds would turn it on.
I did so and it turned on as it it had been shut down (which I didn't do) but the time was 1am (wrong) and the date was sometime in 1970 (definitely wrong)!
Has this happened to anybody else? Does anybody know why this happened? Any solutions? It's never happened to me before so I'm just concerned at the moment.

LPX4 said:
The phone was charged at 95% or around that percentage. This hasn't happened to me before, I hadn't just installed any apps, I'd barely done anything with it since I'd just woken up.
I had a timer going on the phone, went to check it to see how long I had left and then when I pressed the power button to unlock the phone, it didn't unlock or do anything. Then I did a quick google search and saw people saying that holding it down for about 30 seconds would turn it on.
I did so and it turned on as it it had been shut down (which I didn't do) but the time was 1am (wrong) and the date was sometime in 1970 (definitely wrong)!
Has this happened to anybody else? Does anybody know why this happened? Any solutions? It's never happened to me before so I'm just concerned at the moment.
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I have had my new Nexus 4 turn off on it's own numerous times, but the battery had always been low.. Give or take 40% battery or lower. I ended up calling google up and they are sending me a replacement device. I should be receiving it sometime today actually.

Note 4 (N910F) restarts itself

I finally upgraded from S5 to Note 4, I've had my phone now for 2 weeks but I have a problem!
If the phone is asleep (I mean screen off and I haven't touched it) after around 2 hours, it's like it's powering itself off! Because when I put the screen on, the samsung boot logo comes on, not the first galaxy note 4 screen but the second one. After that I can unlock the screen, so it doesn't really reboot completely because otherwise I would have been forced to unlock my Sim-card.
I'm rooted and I've tried different roms, norma v26, batman, black dog, apocalypse.. but now I'm very satisfied with AstraDream UX. Also I've tried flashpoint kernel but I'm satisfied with Ramkernel. But it doesn't matter what I run, the problem always occur. For example, this morning I missed my alarm clock.
I attached a screenshot where you can see that the phone went off around 3 am, I locked it a half hour earlier. Then I woke up 07.50 am and as you can see, the battery drained a lot. I had like 95% then in the morning it was 60 something.
On betterbatterysaver I can't see anything because it restarts its counting from boot, but on GSam, it says that since full charge, the device been on 4-5 o clock am. But it was full charged at midnight.
Someone who know about this problem? Or someone who know a good log program so I can see what's going on?

Isaac_T said:
I finally upgraded from S5 to Note 4, I've had my phone now for 2 weeks but I have a problem!
If the phone is asleep (I mean screen off and I haven't touched it) after around 2 hours, it's like it's powering itself off! Because when I put the screen on, the samsung boot logo comes on, not the first galaxy note 4 screen but the second one. After that I can unlock the screen, so it doesn't really reboot completely because otherwise I would have been forced to unlock my Sim-card.
I'm rooted and I've tried different roms, norma v26, batman, black dog, apocalypse.. but now I'm very satisfied with AstraDream UX. Also I've tried flashpoint kernel but I'm satisfied with Ramkernel. But it doesn't matter what I run, the problem always occur. For example, this morning I missed my alarm clock.
I attached a screenshot where you can see that the phone went off around 3 am, I locked it a half hour earlier. Then I woke up 07.50 am and as you can see, the battery drained a lot. I had like 95% then in the morning it was 60 something.
On betterbatterysaver I can't see anything because it restarts its counting from boot, but on GSam, it says that since full charge, the device been on 4-5 o clock am. But it was full charged at midnight.
Someone who know about this problem? Or someone who know a good log program so I can see what's going on?
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Looks like you've got the dreaded emmc problem! Search and you will find!
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Looks like you've got the dreaded emmc problem! Search and you will find!
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I don't think so, because everybody who have that problem describe that their phone reboots completely several times or they can't boot or they get error message. Also I checked emmc check and it passes. My phone only reboots if the screen has been locked for more than 2hours, and it doesn't completely reboot, just a fast reboot.
It's like it's not completely off because I can press home button, then the phone starts from Samsung logo and then I'm in, no sim card pin either.

if you leave it plugged in does it reboot after few hours of inactivity? If not then maybe try another battery.

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if you leave it plugged in does it reboot after few hours of inactivity? If not then maybe try another battery.
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No, plugged in it doesn't reboot. I was thinking it was a battery thing, because one day it suddenly fast drained from 25% to 15% and then suddenly it died.
So I got a second battery when I bought the phone and I tried that one, and I got a better battery life and I thought no reboot problems.
But then, during a call after around 1hour, it did the same thing and rebooted to the samsung logo. Also during another call, when I unlocked the phone and opened Textra it rebooted.
Another day I saw it reboot during inactivity for around 15min after a full charge and now yesterday it rebooted when I was going to enter Google Home.
So now I'm back at stock and running stock kernel, so far so good.

You should try wake lock application and use partial wakeup to keep your device from freezing