My Kindle Fire is having a "sleep of death" problem. If I don't use it for half an hour or more, it often doesn't want to wake up. I have to hold down the power button for several seconds and then hit it a few more times before it eventually boots up (showing the boot screen). I haven't had it fail to boot entirely yet, but I always have to mash the button a bunch of times before it starts up. And it's frustrating to lose whatever I was doing if I put it down for a while.
ditto same problem
didn't start happening until after the recent firmware upgrade.
seems to occur more frequently and quickly if i've been reading PDFs, or if i place it to sleep mode with a PDF up.
I would try doing a factory restore.
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I'm on 6.2 and I'm not having that problem at all?
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Kindle not waking up
Please see the Dead Kindle post...same problem, different thread
this is probably not the issue, but I thought I would bring it up. On my Archos 101 Gen 8, there was an issue that the device would sometimes not wake from sleep if the screen brightness was set below 20%. Haven't had this issue with Gen 9.
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Hi, is anyone else getting random reboots on their tablets? im running 3.1 its rebooting like crazy yesterday it did it 3 times one after the other and it just did one right. is their a fix for this? ill greatly appreciate it if you help
~Thanks
the only fix I've discovered is that I have to turn off the wifi before idling for awhile. Mine only reboots after it goes into sleep, never when I'm actually using it.
yea it only does in idle, so theirs no actual fix to this?
I haven't experienced this, but I also put my tablet in Airplane Mode when I know I won't be using it for several hours or a day.
I do this to conserve battery life, but I suppose it's also meant that I don't see this problem -- assuming it's a widespread problem to begin with.
For now -- until we get another software update that might fix the issue -- try getting into the habit of switching to Airplane Mode when you're done using it. It only takes two taps.
Mine did it to me today for the first time while the screen was turned off. It never happened until today or at least I have never witnessed it. I have had mine for just over a week. I also put mine into airplane mode & have been all a long when putting it to sleep. I read in another thread that under wireless setting you can set so wifi goes off with screen off under wifi disconnect policy. I don't think that wifi does turn off though.
The only other thing that has changed is that I installed the Riptide GP Demo last night. I didn't play it until today. Shortly after I was finished I put my Transformer to sleep (screen off). After a few minutes I heard pop & just a single pop. I turned my transformer back on then off. I heard this poping noise a couple of more times. I finally restart my transformer & problem went away. It was a short time later when my transformer rebooted its self.
It does this only when docked to the keyboard. I have stopped using my keyboard for now until there's a fix for this. Lost a long document last week because of the random reboot.
I'm on 3.1 and haven't experienced this. Strange.
Does this once or so every day when sleeping, doesn't matter if docked or not.
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If you have an sdcard plugged in the dock, you can try to remove it.
It worked for me.
more details -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120185
What did you change? Did you add an app, take an app update, change a setting, insert a new SD card?
I have never experienced a unexpected reboot.
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Has anyone else goten a ton of random reboots? It tends to happen when I am not using the dvice, and it's docked with the screen open and turned off. About every few hours, I see the EEE Pad restart. Even when I do not have it near me, I often come back to it only to find that AndChat/my other running programs have stopped running, which suggests the device reboot itself.
Hi,
I can't say that have seen lots of them, but last weekend as I was putting it down, as usual I switched off the screen by pressing the On/Off button... and it rebooted!?!??!?!
There is no way that I have held down the button for over 4 sec, and it should ask me whether to shut down first, and finally I have never seen an option on the TF for rebooting the device.
Any ideas guys?
rio
I have the same trouble I have noticed this today.
MP3 player on pause, tablet docked and open on my desk and after a while (like 5 or 10 min) I look at it and it's rebooting...
Quite strange.
Sounds like a power management trouble.
Would really love to know what's wrong with it.
Fandaor
If you have an sdcard plugged in the dock, you can try to remove it.
It worked for me.
more details -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120185
reppad said:
If you have an sdcard plugged in the dock, you can try to remove it.
It worked for me.
more details -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120185
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What about that don't have dock & this happens?
Yes mine does it fairly often and I had never seen it happen undocked before until this weekend. I started undocking it at night due to the battery drain issue and both Sat and Sunday when I undocked it and sat the tablet aside, the tablet auto reboot. Previously I had seen this happen only when docked and sleeping and when the screen was open. Very annoying, wish they'd fix this.
I had it wake up a few times when it notified me I had mail..of those times...it rebooted on me.
Turning off background sync did the trick for me. It really is annoying..sometimes come from work and power level dropped dramatically...now when I go anywhere..airplane mode helps...pia but it gets the job done.
I used it this morning to listen to music while getting ready for work just like any other day. When I turned it off it has about 65% batter left and I set it on my counter. Came home at lunch and it would not turn on. I plugged in the charger and got no response from the device, no orange light nothing.
I brought it to work and it has been plugged in for almost an hour now and it still has no orange light on it and it will not turn on. Any suggestions for what to do or what might have happened?
-Eric
I've had that happen twice with mine so far the fix is easy though:
Press and hold the power button for 20 seconds.
Press the power button again and it should come one.
Hopefully that fixes it for you.
mikbe.tk said:
I've had that happen twice with mine so far the fix is easy though:
Press and hold the power button for 20 seconds.
Press the power button again and it should come one.
Hopefully that fixes it for you.
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Dude you are a FREAKING life saver!! I really thought it was dead, but when I did this it turned on just fine and was almost fully charged as well. Wonder what causes this? Any ideas?
Anyway, thanks!!
-Eric
EABonney said:
Dude you are a FREAKING life saver!! I really thought it was dead, but when I did this it turned on just fine and was almost fully charged as well. Wonder what causes this? Any ideas?
Anyway, thanks!!
-Eric
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I would think it's some kind of problem, regardless. Software or hardware, who knows. Basically the 20 second power button as I understand it is just a hard reset akin to a battery pull.
Felnarion said:
I would think it's some kind of problem, regardless. Software or hardware, who knows. Basically the 20 second power button as I understand it is just a hard reset akin to a battery pull.
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It's definitely a problem but it's not a problem with just his Fire; it's happened to me twice. Once when I turned off the Fire while playing a game (not a hard power off, just a quick power button tap) and again when another app crashed.
This happens to some other android devices. I think its an issue in some gingerbread builds where the device wont wake from sleep.
This has been happening to me frequently since the 6.2 update.
just for the record I too have experienced this problem. freaked me out that is for sure. glad to see others have seen this, and hopefully it will be fixed. at least its pretty easy to resolve the issue when it occurs.
it's useful topic for me.
Kindle Dead
This is happening every day now. Is there a fix? I'm not sure what the frequency is or why, but once or twice a day is becoming the norm...it's frustrating
Rooted Kindle
Go Launcher
Android market Apps, etc.
Try disabling wifi and see if the problem goes away.
kindle dead not wifi related
Thanks for the suggestion. I disabled wifi and waited 3 hours; dead Kindle. I'll try anything...please help as it's quite a nuisance.
Thanks
Is this happening to only rooted Kindle's? I'm getting one from the wife for Xmas and was wondering if this is happening to stock fires as well.
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This only seems to happen to be when i am not using the factory supplied power supply. You guys still getting this using the factory plug?
My Kindle totally dead. I can't repair it. I can't get acces to adb shell. Nothing. this is really sad.
Dead Kindle
Try holding down power button 20 secs then re-press it...works for me
I had this happen to me while I was in a work meeting on Friday. Thankfully I found this thread so I learned about the 20 second hold down thing. It worked like a charm and I have only had it happen once. For the record I am not, nor have ever, rooted the Fire.
It was pretty discouraging to be sitting in the meeting with a "dead" Fire and unable to look at the manual to see how to factory reset it because, well, the manual is included in the Fire....
man, I hate irony.
Same problem here. Several times it has been dead now. This morning again and the power had fallen without showing any steps for about 10 per cent. Wifi was switched off.
Any more ideas?
Now it happend two times in a row. After this night again it was "dead" in the morning. Are there any ideas what might be wrong with the device? (rooted, wifi off, ADW launcher, but not activated, some google apps like market)
Any ideas what could be done?
It only happens to mine (rooted, adb, Go Launcher) when I put it to sleep while it is in "Go Launcher", if I put it to sleep from Kindle Launcher it wakes right up. Hope this helps.
Bruce
So i have looked this up all over google and cant find my exact problem
I have a Xoom Wifi and it works flawlessly 98% of the time but every so often i will wake up the xoom from sleep and the touch screen does not respond... (here is where this problem differs from others i have found) to fix the problem all i have to do is push the sleep button in the back to make it go back to sleep then push it again to wake it up and the screen works/responds fine.... no restart, nothing
Any idea why its doing this?
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New development in my problem... i had an app open and i was in a menu and watching my tablet ... it kept pushing the same selection on its own in the same spot on my screen.... i restarted it and it stopped... but this has never happened before and it doesn't seem to be doing it again so could be coincidence
Please tell me if this is something where i need to send it in for repairs or if i should do something else ... i have a 1 year warranty on it and i have only had it for about 2 months if that
No, mine has done that once or twice...it is unsettling, but no more than with the crazy stuff my pc does once in a while...
My xoom does this quiet often. Usually i just press the power button a few times then it wakes up :/
My N7 was flawless until some days ago.
Usually to turn on, I had to press the power button for 4s and it would turn on, never ever failed. Also on the boot sequence (the X of nexus), it took relatively low time, even when I had all of my currents apps installed (nothing changed).
For the last days, it's happening that sometimes the device doesn't wake up after pressing the button. I've checked and I have to press it for 20-25s in order to see the "Google" logo and have it start booting.
Also, the nexus "X" boot animation also randomly takes like 4x longer, and it seems to not have any relation with the 20s pressing issue, since it happened me both with the 4s and 20s pressing power-on times.
But both of those issues came together.
Anyone else with the same issue? Would a factory reset solve the problem?
Thank you in advance.
RusherDude said:
My N7 was flawless until some days ago.
Usually to turn on, I had to press the power button for 4s and it would turn on, never ever failed. Also on the boot sequence (the X of nexus), it took relatively low time, even when I had all of my currents apps installed (nothing changed).
For the last days, it's happening that sometimes the device doesn't wake up after pressing the button. I've checked and I have to press it for 20-25s in order to see the "Google" logo and have it start booting.
Also, the nexus "X" boot animation also randomly takes like 4x longer, and it seems to not have any relation with the 20s pressing issue, since it happened me both with the 4s and 20s pressing power-on times.
But both of those issues came together.
Anyone else with the same issue? Would a factory reset solve the problem?
Thank you in advance.
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How much memory is free on your N7? I've seen posts from people who have had similar issues when they came close to filling up the memory on their N7.
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How much memory is free on your N7? I've seen posts from people who have had similar issues when they came close to filling up the memory on their N7.
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16 GB model, more than 6GB left.
It has been like that for the last 2 weeks.