Possibly the worse phone ever - Atrix 4G General

So I got this machine and thought it was the bee's testes, turns out it isnt
I cant rely on it to re-boot without loosing the contents of the internal memory. last night for seemingly no reason it shut it self down and when I discoverd this I re-booted it, and it took and age to restart, then when I checked the internal memory pfffft gone, everything, all gone.
What a crock of cack, this happens every 3rd or 4th time it reboots, looses the entire lot.
Phone is stock, un-rooted, has had a factory reset and reformat of the internal AND external memory.
Frankly this is the last time I buy a Motorola phone, going back to my trusty Hero for the remained of this contract (22 months) that thing has had salt water baths, drops bangs, knocks, rooting and tooting and still wont die, Atrix, cant even take a reboot with out dieing.
/rant off

Get it replaced
I've never heard of that happening
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deech said:
So I got this machine and thought it was the bee's testes, turns out it isnt
I cant rely on it to re-boot without loosing the contents of the internal memory. last night for seemingly no reason it shut it self down and when I discoverd this I re-booted it, and it took and age to restart, then when I checked the internal memory pfffft gone, everything, all gone.
What a crock of cack, this happens every 3rd or 4th time it reboots, looses the entire lot.
Phone is stock, un-rooted, has had a factory reset and reformat of the internal AND external memory.
Frankly this is the last time I buy a Motorola phone, going back to my trusty Hero for the remained of this contract (22 months) that thing has had salt water baths, drops bangs, knocks, rooting and tooting and still wont die, Atrix, cant even take a reboot with out dieing.
/rant off
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Seriously dude change your phone .. never heard any thing like this in the forums. Maybe faulty hardware. Myself using AT&T version of ATRIX.
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Yeah I thought of that, Orange are being difficult though (now why arent I surprised?)
I am wondering if using gingerbreak all those months ago had anything to do with it, but since then I've had the OTA update from orange (the pre-pre update they pushed months ago) that wiped out the root / gingerbreak.
The worse of it is that I never know when it'll happen, seems to be random, not every reboot causes the internal wipe, so damn frustrating, think I may have a look at CM7 as it left Beta last night I wasnt going to hack about with this phone but seems I am being pushed that way
Oh well if anyone has any ideas it'd be appreciated

It's probably just the phone itself. I've never had or heard of any Atrix owner having those problems before. It is technology so there's going to be faulty devices somewhere along the line, unfortunately.

In an unexpected turn of events, a second call to CS Dept, has decided that indeed the phone is Terminally Ill so new HS coming tomorrow, so factory reset tonight to clear everything off
But it is an odd one, random reboots and internal memory wipes...
Ach well

deech said:
In an unexpected turn of events, a second call to CS Dept, has decided that indeed the phone is Terminally Ill so new HS coming tomorrow, so factory reset tonight to clear everything off
But it is an odd one, random reboots and internal memory wipes...
Ach well
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Glad to hear you went the proper route of having it warrantied other than trying to polish a turd. If I run into trouble CS reps I always wait a day and call back. A new person on the other end usually helps the situation a lot.
I had run into a similar issue here at my work with a device. You can troubleshoot it all you want but on mobiles it either works or doesnt.
At the end of the day, save yourself some headache and call it in for RMA.

This happens to me sometimes. Not hardware fault. Motorola can't make a phone.

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Possibly the worst thread ever.

i personally own a atrix on orange and i have never experienced any of these issues and ive rooted, unlocked bootloader and put a beta version of cm7 on it, so i think that you should contact motorola directy and deal with them through that

Can we please lock this thread up?...
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OSNPA said:
Possibly the worst thread ever.
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I'd like to buy you a beer sir.
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Received replacement for G2 and what a difference!

Just received my replacement for my G2 yesterday. This is the fourth one I have tried. I am amazed at the difference in this one. The hinges are nice and snug and the signal does not fluctuate wildly. No random reboots (yet) No freezes or turning itself off. The keyboard does not start launching apps randomly. The battery has been super. All the things the first three had issues with. Has HTC fixed the issues in these later batches? So far this unit seems to be on a different level. Anyone else had this excperience? IMO this is now a SUPER phone not just a good phone.
thats what people need to understand. g2's arent a bad phone. htc just made a ****-ton of bad batches of these phones. its almost like diamond in the dirt for people to find a g2 that actually meets up to customer expectation. and sadly they really arent doing much to help out instead they are hoping this can be swept under a rug
I know exactly what you're saying. This is my third G2 and, actually, the only one that works right all the time. The first two reboot a lot (this one hasn't up to now), the second got stuck on bootloader. Also, I had the hinge problem on the second.
This one is perfect, nothing wrong with it up to now.
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I'm still on my first G2 but I think I'm gonna get a replacement cause my hindges are getting pretty loose now. Its like the hindges lost their snap when I open and close it. And when the phone is closed, well it doesn't actually feel like a solid close, it fells like it will just slide open. Hopefully I don't have this problem on the next one. I really like the G2.
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Still have my FIRST G2, I bought it in store on OCT 2nd. I have NO hinge issue. It did reboot on me twice, but that was because of a faulty app. The battery is finally settling in well, I unplug @ 7:45 AM every morning and usually have ~30 - 40% left at moderate use - web surfing, music and texting. This is one of the best phones ive ever owned,
I grabbed mine oct 9th, I wasn't experiencing anything most users were... as soon as i opend it up I checked to see if mine had 4gb, it did and I have had no other issues. Hinge reboots, anything. Seems like they rush, rush, rushed the first batches.
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I grabbed mine oct 9th, I wasn't experiencing anything most users were... as soon as i opend it up I checked to see if mine had 4gb, it did and I have had no other issues. Hinge reboots, anything. Seems like they rush, rush, rushed the first batches.
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u got a pic of your phone saying u got more the 2.5gb free?
I thought it was the 2.2 issue not a hardware issue.
Mog said:
u got a pic of your phone saying u got more the 2.5gb free?
I thought it was the 2.2 issue not a hardware issue.
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Its not a 2.2 issue.... the Droid 2 has 8 GB onboard it shows up fine.
Its a NAND issue, its locked and in only about ~1.3 user accessible. Once permanent root is avialable we shoul dbe able to us ALL of 4 GB.... though when I say 4 GB its actually ~3.7 GB
mgshute said:
I grabbed mine oct 9th, I wasn't experiencing anything most users were... as soon as i opend it up I checked to see if mine had 4gb, it did and I have had no other issues. Hinge reboots, anything. Seems like they rush, rush, rushed the first batches.
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Proof of this 4gb?
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Proof of this 4gb?
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3.7
keep in mind I have a ton of crap saved to it now.
Did you request a replacement through tmobile or htc? Did you have to send the memory card back with the phone?
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That's RAM, and that's 400mb.
Just to give you a heads up, 379832 kB doesn't equal 3.7GB . It would have to state 3879731 kB to equate to 3.7GB .
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3.7
keep in mind I have a ton of crap saved to it now.
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hahahah opps.
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hahahah opps.
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Its all good
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how did you guys replace is cuhz i have the hinge problem and the 4gb memory. just recently bought it like 2 weeks ago.
Please stop these threads, they confuse newcomers or people who just got the phone and just initiate a placebo effect for things that are a non-issue.
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Could you post the serial # of these 'improved' phones? So we know what to avoid.
When you guys get replacements, do they send you refurbished ones? Or a brand new phone?
I don't trust them, if they say its a new phone but send it without the battery cover and battery, just the phone itself and ask you to send the old one in. Cause I still don't know if someone else used and sent it back to T-Mobile and changed the housing and sending them out as new. Feel me?
I'm still waiting on my 3rd G2 and so seeing how my order is "back-ordered" - i hope i get a G2 from a new batch!
3rd times the charm......... i hope

**(solved)**Unrev s-on?

Well for all the flashing kernels,roms,nands etc. I finally have to unroot for the first time to get my USB port fixed. Its been a year since I unrevoked, so I downloaded the s on tool which says it doesn't like my baseband 2.15.00.0808, so I've been trying to flash a lower one without any luck. So if someone could kindly tell me what I'm missing I'd sure appreciate it.
Hboot 2.10
Among RA style recovery 3.07.
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You have to flash the 11.19 radio first then the s-on then PC36img of your choice.
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You have to flash the 11.19 radio first then the s-on then PC36img of your choice.
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Thanks, on my way.
Edit: all stock and ready to rock! Hopefully they don't update me from my 2.2, I wonder if ill sound suspicious if I let them know I don't want update. unrevoked was so easy both ways.
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Why do you have to turn back to S-ON for them to fix the USB port? My local stores all have an issue with working on rooted phones or S-OFF. Just make sure you are on a stock ROM for them (saves a hassle apparently).
I don't if my local store will have a problem with it or not. It's hit or miss and just depends on the employee really. I've heard people taking in fully rooted and running custom roms and getting whatever service they need. And some people getting turned away fully stock with s on just for having root related items on their SD card. I figure why even take the chance, it only takes a couple minutes to back up sd,put s back on, return to a unrooted Rom and wipe SD.
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I don't if my local store will have a problem with it or not. It's hit or miss and just depends on the employee really. I've heard people taking in fully rooted and running custom roms and getting whatever service they need. And some people getting turned away fully stock with s on just for having root related items on their SD card. I figure why even take the chance, it only takes a couple minutes to back up sd,put s back on, return to a unrooted Rom and wipe SD.
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True that, better to avoid chances if you don't know the store around you very well. All I can say is be prepare because some stores can be total dicks when it comes to ports. They tend to try and blame it as physical damage.
Yeah I've heard that, but I don't see how if my year old Evo is in mint condition with my otterbox which has been on it since minute one which is also in mint condition. But I do realize again it does depends on the employee. I guess ill try to get the same person I talked to today to see if they would do it. She sounded super nice, she said " yeah no prob, just drop it off for about an hour and we'll get that fixed right up for you". She did make sure to ask me if it was just loose or separate from the board though. So that may be the difference there.
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Yeah I've heard that, but I don't see how if my year old Evo is in mint condition with my otterbox which has been on it since minute one which is also in mint condition. But I do realize again it does depends on the employee. I guess ill try to get the same person I talked to today to see if they would do it. She sounded super nice, she said " yeah no prob, just drop it off for about an hour and we'll get that fixed right up for you". She did make sure to ask me if it was just loose or separate from the board though. So that may be the difference there.
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Yes that will be the difference. The phone will be disassembled, not much to it, and the port inspected. If it is still attached (or detached but solder points in tact), you get a phone ordered via Advanced Exchange. If it is detached and deemed physical, you get to file a claim.
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Yeah, it's too bad it's so hit or miss,...a lot of hassle. FWIW, I took my Evo in yesterday to have speaker replaced, and had 4.0.3 ICS on my phone and rom toolbox app right on homescreen and had no problem. Except they put it in wrong lol. I gotta push on the speaker for it to work half the time.
Going back tomorrow, I guess smh
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Yeah, it's too bad it's so hit or miss,...a lot of hassle. FWIW, I took my Evo in yesterday to have speaker replaced, and had 4.0.3 ICS on my phone and rom toolbox app right on homescreen and had no problem. Except they put it in wrong lol. I gotta push on the speaker for it to work half the time.
Going back tomorrow, I guess smh
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"guiEVO problems" lol
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I would leave it s-off n just flash back to stock. Even if they do update, it will stay s-off cuz of unrevoked 4 ever
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Calling the store & asking could save you some time & frustration. My camera was completely fubar & needed to be replaced but I was worried they wouldn't touch it do to it being rooted. I called my local store ahead of time, explained what my problem was, & asked if they serviced rooted phones. They put me on hold, asked the tech, & told me as long as the problem wasn't software related then it was no problem. Took the phone in, had camera replaced and back in my hand in less than an hour with everything intact. Saved me a lot of time since I didn't have to unroot & put back to stock before I took it in.
Well apparently neither of two repair centers near me will repair a loose charging port, only replace with a refurbished evo. So off to HTC it goes for repair.

LG G2 Screen garbled / distorted

This suddenly happened on my phone this Eve of Christmas. It was never dropped, wet nor bent.. It just happened while I was trying out voicemate. I think this is not software related as it is the same when I'm in recovery mode. Sometimes the display is correct and is not garbled but after a few seconds of touching it it acts this way again, if I try to turn off the screen it goes away but returns immediately after. Sometimes the screen won't turn on but I can feel that it is actually on thru the vibration feedback it is giving when trying to press randomly in the screen. I'm still going to try to revert to stock Rom as I am on rayglobe and rooted in case I need to send it in for warranty. I have already reflashed the Rom but still the same.. I just can't believe this is happening hours before Christmas and a few days before the new year.. I'm sure repair services of LG will take time.. Coincidentally, last year when I was using Samsung S3, the motherboard of the phone broke down on New Year's Eve..
Any thoughts what part of the hardware is failing? And what else can I try to troubleshoot before bringing this is to repair? Appreciate your comments. Thank you!
Charles
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guys any thoughts what caused this?
upon observation, this is more of a heat issue. if the unit is rested in a cold place it takes more time before the screen gets distorted like this but after a while of having the screen on it starts acting like this.. i hope LG repairs this fast!
Sent it for repair man,nothing else you can do as it seems.I wanted to ask if you had it modded or something,to see if there was something that caused it.But it seems the hardware is failing.
Definitely faulty hardware. Have it sent in for repairs. Looks like a faulty flex cable. Or it could be the main board though.
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This just happened to me
reycharlesconrad said:
This suddenly happened on my phone this Eve of Christmas. It was never dropped, wet nor bent.. It just happened while I was trying out voicemate. I think this is not software related as it is the same when I'm in recovery mode. Sometimes the display is correct and is not garbled but after a few seconds of touching it it acts this way again, if I try to turn off the screen it goes away but returns immediately after. Sometimes the screen won't turn on but I can feel that it is actually on thru the vibration feedback it is giving when trying to press randomly in the screen. I'm still going to try to revert to stock Rom as I am on rayglobe and rooted in case I need to send it in for warranty. I have already reflashed the Rom but still the same.. I just can't believe this is happening hours before Christmas and a few days before the new year.. I'm sure repair services of LG will take time.. Coincidentally, last year when I was using Samsung S3, the motherboard of the phone broke down on New Year's Eve..
Any thoughts what part of the hardware is failing? And what else can I try to troubleshoot before bringing this is to repair? Appreciate your comments. Thank you!
Charles
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Hey mate, this just happened to me
i was wondering how you went about fixing it. Did you sent it to the repair centre.
rakinisbat said:
Hey mate, this just happened to me
i was wondering how you went about fixing it. Did you sent it to the repair centre.
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So what did you end up doing? This just happened to me as well.
Just happened the same to me, did you fix it? what was it?... My observation is that when it's charging the screen stabilizes

Umm, is it normal for Android OS to be using an insane amount of data?

I was just poking around and noticed this. I have unlimited data so I don't pay so much attention to it.
Nearly 2GB in 12 days. It used 4.19GB in March :| All background data.
madwolf27 said:
I was just poking around and noticed this. I have unlimited data so I don't pay so much attention to it.
Nearly 2GB in 12 days. It used 4.19GB in March :| All background data.
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Did you use install an update lately? Only thing that I can think of.
Yeah could be the update, I'd turn off all that anonymous reporting of stats as well, but no way does that go into GB territory.
I thought the update was only about 160-something MB? How would that contribute to GIGS of data?
I've noticed, since the update, Android OS is the highest user of battery now. Wonder why
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I thought the update was only about 160-something MB? How would that contribute to GIGS of data?
I've noticed, since the update, Android OS is the highest user of battery now. Wonder why
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What update...pc8?
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ipaq_101 said:
Yeah could be the update, I'd turn off all that anonymous reporting of stats as well, but no way does that go into GB territory.
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Its used .13 GB since I posted :/ And that is off. It is definitely NOT the updates.
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Its used .13 GB since I posted :/ And that is off. It is definitely NOT the updates.
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Well I don't mean to blow things out of proportion but... If you're experiencing increased data and battery usage even after the update and while the phone is on standby, if you haven't made any crazy modifications to it since you've gotten it, then chances are your phone is tapped
As far as the steps to untap your phone that's out of my area of expertise. I only believe that may be the culprit because of my years working in cell phone retail. Anytime I experienced a customer with a relatively stock phone experiencing that much usage for little to no use, 8 times out of 10 that persons phone was tapped. We were never really sure who was tapping into their phones we would just assume either crazy exes or spouses since you can easily go to any private investigator and have him tap a phone for you (for a price of course lol)
Best I can recommend is a factory reset followed by immediately encrypting your phone afterwards in case someone is really trying that hard to steal your info
Ummm thats odd! How would someone even tap a cellphone?
Some quick googlefu tells me that this isnt really possible, because the tapping party would need access to my phone and its been fingerprint locked since i unboxed it.
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Well I don't mean to blow things out of proportion but... If you're experiencing increased data and battery usage even after the update and while the phone is on standby, if you haven't made any crazy modifications to it since you've gotten it, then chances are your phone is tapped
As far as the steps to untap your phone that's out of my area of expertise. I only believe that may be the culprit because of my years working in cell phone retail. Anytime I experienced a customer with a relatively stock phone experiencing that much usage for little to no use, 8 times out of 10 that persons phone was tapped. We were never really sure who was tapping into their phones we would just assume either crazy exes or spouses since you can easily go to any private investigator and have him tap a phone for you (for a price of course lol)
Best I can recommend is a factory reset followed by immediately encrypting your phone afterwards in case someone is really trying that hard to steal your info
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Nah it's not that.
My guess, is it's either Goolgle or T-Mobile pulling our activity from the phone.. even though I have Carrier IQ turned off in settings..
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Nah it's not that.
My guess, is it's either Goolgle or T-Mobile pulling our activity from the phone.. even though I have Carrier IQ turned off in settings..
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Im sure this has to have a negative battery impact, Android os battery consumption is down after last update but still high. And i dont want anyone pulling any data. :|
Its now pulled 447 MB in 2.5 days.
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Im sure this has to have a negative battery impact, Android os battery consumption is down after last update but still high. And i dont want anyone pulling any data. :|
Its now pulled 447 MB in 2.5 days.
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Geez dude why not reset already?
Sometimes there's no way out of things until you do a reset. This is mine
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New Firmware QC1 released 3/29/2017...Security update only

Just a security update, nothing else to see here.
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Here I was thinking my phone would stop doing soft reboots at least 4x a day while also being able to get LTE/4G in the same locations my Note 2 & 3 did.
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Just a security update, nothing else to see here.
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http://sihmar.com/software-update-n910pvps4dqc1-galaxy-note-4-download/
Trying to get this installed but it seems that it doesn't play well with TWRP.
Also tried installing it manually in TWRP /cache/fota/update.zip but TWRP said the zip is corrupted...
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Here I was thinking my phone would stop doing soft reboots at least 4x a day while also being able to get LTE/4G in the same locations my Note 2 & 3 did.
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I keep seeing people talking about this reboot problem when 99.9% of the time the solution is so simple. Get a new battery.
I wish it was that simple...
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I keep seeing people talking about this reboot problem when 99.9% of the time the solution is so simple. Get a new battery.
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My Note worked perfectly until this recent update. About 2 days after taking the update, my Note started rebooting, lagging, freezing...basically becoming unusable.
I have 4 batteries, and no matter which battery or whether plugged in or not, this happened.
Wake lock app helped but then, yesterday, the phone wouldnt boot. Nothing but black screen. Would not charge with any battery or any combo of cables and chargers.
By playing around with it, I finally got it to boot into recovery, however, there was no recovery. No matter whether I did power up or down, I got download mode.
The firmware repair using the PIT file got me back in action through Odin. It still took half a day to get the phone stable.
Long story short, it's not always the battery. I think these updates cause issues. The web is full of similar cases. My phone has been completely stock and still this happens. Even going back to Android 5.0 didn't cure the software corruption that this latest update caused me. My phone still won't work without the wake lock app.
I was thinking S8Plus but now I'm thinking no more Samsung.
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Long story short, it's not always the battery.
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Hey, I DID say 99.9%, not 100%.
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I keep seeing people talking about this reboot problem when 99.9% of the time the solution is so simple. Get a new battery.
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This has nothing to do with the battery. This issue with the Note 4 rebooting is common and no matter which battery you use, the issue continues. I have numerous reason why that is but they seem to do with the MM updates not playing well with the hardware on the Note 4, especially the most recent updates (last 2 or 3). No matter what people try, the issue continues. The Wake Lock app seems to help a bit but this is no long term solution and honestly I don't think Samsung or Google will invest any time in fixing this issue for a device that is over 2 years old. They want people to upgrade.
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I keep seeing people talking about this reboot problem when 99.9% of the time the solution is so simple. Get a new battery.
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Does this include stock unmodified and fully OEM phones? My wife's Note 4 started rebooting a lot in the last few days. She has done NOTHING other than standard user stuff. Me? I always mod mine or add an extended battery, but hers straight up the consumer setup, including the original battery.
If the battery, why would a battery cause this? just getting old or is this related to mods or buying after market batteries.
Bob
ParrSt said:
Does this include stock unmodified and fully OEM phones? My wife's Note 4 started rebooting a lot in the last few days. She has done NOTHING other than standard user stuff. Me? I always mod mine or add an extended battery, but hers straight up the consumer setup, including the original battery.
If the battery, why would a battery cause this? just getting old or is this related to mods or buying after market batteries.
Bob
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A phone battery (at least these days) isn't like a D battery you put in a flashlight. It communicates with the phone. When it starts to go bad, it can cause things like premature shutdowns and boot loops.
Yes, I've been running 6.0.1 ever since I got it OTA, and have never rooted or loaded a custom ROM since then. Suddenly my phone started shutting down at 40-60%, and often went into a boot loop. The only way I could stop it was to put it on the charger. But as soon as I had it fully charged, it would start giving me problems at 40-60% again.
I bought 2 supposedly Samsung OEM batteries, one from Amazon, and one with the external charger from Sprint. They both fixed the problem, but the Amazon battery sucks. It looks identical to the Sprint, but I suspect it's a clone. It doesn't last nearly as long as the Sprint OEM battery. I bet you can get a battery that is genuine Samsung other than using Sprint, but just beware.
EDIT: Just as an aside, I didn't suspect the battery was the problem at first. The battery started to swell up, which is why I replaced it. It was a lucky thing that replacing it fixed the problems.
Thanks, got one ordered. for $15, it is worth a try!
Or is it a conspiracy! Is Samsung killing our phones, to make us buy new ones? ???
Just my 2 cents. I don't know, but here is a theory.
Everyone i see make a post about rebooting issues always mentions it after taking ota's.
Now my theory, i can only speak for myself. I've never taken an ota, always upgraded through Odin. When i got my phone it was on ob7, i think. And i upgraded it through Odin since. Thank God i haven't had any problems.
So i wonder if it has something to do with Samsung's ota process? Just a thought!
aaron74 said:
Just my 2 cents. I don't know, but here is a theory.
Everyone i see make a post about rebooting issues always mentions it after taking ota's.
Now my theory, i can only speak for myself. I've never taken an ota, always upgraded through Odin. When i got my phone it was on ob7, i think. And i upgraded it through Odin since. Thank God i haven't had any problems.
So i wonder if it has something to do with Samsung's ota process? Just a thought!
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Samsung doesn't run the OTAs, they come from Google servers.
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Samsung doesn't run the OTAs, they come from Google servers.
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Understood! :good:

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