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LED Camera Flash is dead

I was using Torch to help my friend install his car stereo and I guess I had it on too long, because when I went to use it again the LED wouldnt light up anymore. I tried taking a picture, recording a video, different settings in Torch, but nothing works. Is this something that can be replaced/fixed or do I have a phone without a flash now? I thought LEDs were indestructible...

LED flashes can overheat and burn out.. Oddly enough, their normal lifespan is 20,000 hours. :O So either you were doing some serious lighting, or it was a manufacturer's defect.
try flashing a different ROM and see if the flash works afterwards, if you've been using a custom ROM and are rooted.
If either it does not work after a different ROM, or you have not rooted and flashed a different ROM, i would recommend backing up your stuff and getting a replacement phone. A burned out flash after little, if any heavy use, is a reason for a factory exchange. Definitely.
Good luck, there.

I have the same problem. I will be getting my phone switched out soon. I guess I won't use death ray anymore...

XpoX said:
I was using Torch to help my friend install his car stereo and I guess I had it on too long, because when I went to use it again the LED wouldnt light up anymore. I tried taking a picture, recording a video, different settings in Torch, but nothing works. Is this something that can be replaced/fixed or do I have a phone without a flash now? I thought LEDs were indestructible...
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Have u tried reboot?? Sometimes reboots fix this kind of problem..
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I tried reboot. I am rooted and using a custom rom (Villain's gingerbread 1.2) so I'll try backing up my current setup and restoring a backup from when I know it actually worked. I really dont want to send my phone off, its my only phone line but I may have to.

I think you should just exchange it.
Keep in mind that when you exchange a phone with t-mobile they send you the replacement before you have to send back your own, so there's practically no downtime.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 running Cyanogenmod.

Oh I didn't know that. I'll get it swapped. The flash makes the camera so much better.
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Damn, but torch clearly gives you the warning that after 45 minutes the LED started glitching. I guess you shoulda thought of that before.
The lifespan of a product might be of many many hourse, but not on one use, just like a normal bulb.

I definitely didnt leave it on for 45 minutes, maybe 5 continuous minutes at the most. I'm thinking its lose or it was going bad anyway. It went out once before randomly (not using Torch that time) and just started working again on its own, so I ignored it. It still hasnt come back on, so I think its dead this time.

I've left mine on strobing at several house parties for at least 3 hours each time (while charging). Now I read this... I'm scared to do it anymore!! Lol
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I have found that different apps produce different levels of brightness. For instance, the app "Tesla LED Torch" uses the full brightness of the flash compared to "LED Light" which uses a much less intense and most likely more sustainable level of brightness.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2

The Torch app that comes with most Roms now has 2 different levels. Death ray, and normal. There's a disclaimer when you select death ray because its inviting impending doom upon your phone.
Tmobile has a new one on its way. They were really good about sending me a new one, I just had to follow a few troubleshooting steps and pretend like it wasnt rooted. I told her (helpdesk lady) my original G1 was rooted and custom romed and she started going "nahnahnahnah cant hear you!" Probably the funniest thing any customer support has done with me on the phone.

XpoX said:
The Torch app that comes with most Roms now has 2 different levels. Death ray, and normal. There's a disclaimer when you select death ray because its inviting impending doom upon your phone.
Tmobile has a new one on its way. They were really good about sending me a new one, I just had to follow a few troubleshooting steps and pretend like it wasnt rooted. I told her (helpdesk lady) my original G1 was rooted and custom romed and she started going "nahnahnahnah cant hear you!" Probably the funniest thing any customer support has done with me on the phone.
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Lol! That's funny.
I haven't gotten a new one yet, but I could have sworn that yesterday it turned itself on for a few seconds while I was a few feet away from it lol. I know I saw it, buy I removed all traces of the torch app from /system so i don't know how that's possible. I haven't been able to reproduce.
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XpoX said:
I told her (helpdesk lady) my original G1 was rooted and custom romed and she started going "nahnahnahnah cant hear you!"
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Hahaha, I love it!
Good example of a person doing what's right, instead of just what is in her job script.

redpoint73 said:
Hahaha, I love it!
Good example of a person doing what's right, instead of just what is in her job script.
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That's why their customer service is #1
Haha, but no they r great.
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Anybody know where i can buy G2 parts such as the flash, (i know its a led but i dont wanna sodar) my G2 went swimming with me in vegas (5 minutes under water in a swimming pool) and has sever water damage (all stickers are pink) it works fine and the LED lasted forever, (allways used deathray) but it went out a month or two ago and i been waiting to find parts for it on http://www.cnn.cn but doesnt look like they will have them any time soon.
Thanks.

Hardware failure!

Is anyone else having issues with their vibrating hardware on the Evo? Mine will work fine one minute then just stop working the next. I found giving it a nice slap fixes the problem temporarily!
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Sounds like your vibrator went out from too much use!
Seriously though, I think the motor might be dying on you.

Yeah sounds like it could be going, especially if a 'slap / smack' kicks it back into working order for a bit.
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Yeah, those things can wear out.

We're still talking about EVO's right??

Crackling noise when I touch the screen

I've been having this issue with my epic for the past month or so. If something (other than a phone call) is playing audio (game, music) through the speaker or the earbuds I hear a crackling noise when I touch the screen and only when I touch the screen. It's very easily reproduced too. For example, I'll have pandora playing through the speaker and it'll play fine until I touch the screen to change the song or do something else. If I keep my finger on the screen it'll continue making the crackling noise until I lift it off. Doesn't happen if I touch the screen while it's off. The same thing has happened on every rom I tried including odin to stock eb13 and ec05. Since I've had the phone for less than a year, can I take it to a sprint store and get a replacement? Or does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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This may not make the most sense, but it sounds like you've got some exposed wires or something on the inside, my guess would be that the capacitive touch screen is causing some feed back when the field is broken and you touch it. May be a bad capacitor, or just some crossed/exposed wire, but we have had a similar issue with a wall touchpad in one of our class rooms. they control a Audio visual box and once it was damaged would produce a crackling over the speaker system when you would use the touch pad to change source or adjust volume and the AV box was turned on. The unit had to be replaced, I'd be willing to bet the same would go for the phone as replacement parts wouldn't be the easiest to come by.

gearless said:
This may not make the most sense, but it sounds like you've got some exposed wires or something on the inside, my guess would be that the capacitive touch screen is causing some feed back when the field is broken and you touch it. May be a bad capacitor, or just some crossed/exposed wire, but we have had a similar issue with a wall touchpad in one of our class rooms. they control a Audio visual box and once it was damaged would produce a crackling over the speaker system when you would use the touch pad to change source or adjust volume and the AV box was turned on. The unit had to be replaced, I'd be willing to bet the same would go for the phone as replacement parts wouldn't be the easiest to come by.
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Do you think I should call Sprint first or just go into a store?

dieselg5 said:
Do you think I should call Sprint first or just go into a store?
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Go into the store so they can see the problem personally. They will most likely order you a refurb.

dieselg5 said:
Do you think I should call Sprint first or just go into a store?
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Go to a store, Sprint will tell you that over the phone. haha

This is a well known issue around here. Hold up ill dig up a post about it. I am happy to say that as of Bonsai 4.1.1 this issue no longer exists.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026971
dieselg5 said:
I've been having this issue with my epic for the past month or so. If something (other than a phone call) is playing audio (game, music) through the speaker or the earbuds I hear a crackling noise when I touch the screen and only when I touch the screen. It's very easily reproduced too. For example, I'll have pandora playing through the speaker and it'll play fine until I touch the screen to change the song or do something else. If I keep my finger on the screen it'll continue making the crackling noise until I lift it off. Doesn't happen if I touch the screen while it's off. The same thing has happened on every rom I tried including odin to stock eb13 and ec05. Since I've had the phone for less than a year, can I take it to a sprint store and get a replacement? Or does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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p3dr0maz said:
This is a well known issue around here. Hold up ill dig up a post about it. I am happy to say that as of Bonsai 4.1.1 this issue no longer exists.
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Must be various on a per phone basis then, because I've flashed EVERY single ROM to date and I've never experienced that.

p3dr0maz said:
This is a well known issue around here. Hold up ill dig up a post about it. I am happy to say that as of Bonsai 4.1.1 this issue no longer exists.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026971
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It doesn't sound like a software issue, therefor a rom won't fix the issue. If he goes back to stock, and the issue persists its hardware. Sounds like a loose wire, but I can't be sure...
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XtaC318 said:
It doesn't sound like a software issue, therefor a rom won't fix the issue. If he goes back to stock, and the issue persists its hardware. Sounds like a loose wire, but I can't be sure...
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We were trying to track down the cause, but never did, we still think it might be vodoo sound related when its built into the kernel...
But if it happens on stock, it could be something else, only happens to me on modded kernels.
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I've never expiernced this either

Not sure what to say if it happens on stock. Proud to say i've never ran stock except for the 2 minutes before I flashed a custom ROM. And yeah I mentioned the ROM because it does have a custom kernel and even though we've all heard arguments that it's this or that i still have to say it's gotta be something in how voodoo is compiled into the kernel like ecooce says.

So I odin back to DI18 and let it update before I took it to the store and of course it's not happening anymore
I remember going back to stock after ACS 1.1 destroyed my phone a few times (my phone would freeze a lot and since there's no journaling in 1.1 everything would get corrupt) and I still had the issue. Playing air attack hd with the crackling was horrendous. Anyway, thanks for the support everyone. Sorry for the scare

dieselg5 said:
I've been having this issue with my epic for the past month or so. If something (other than a phone call) is playing audio (game, music) through the speaker or the earbuds I hear a crackling noise when I touch the screen and only when I touch the screen. It's very easily reproduced too. For example, I'll have pandora playing through the speaker and it'll play fine until I touch the screen to change the song or do something else. If I keep my finger on the screen it'll continue making the crackling noise until I lift it off. Doesn't happen if I touch the screen while it's off. The same thing has happened on every rom I tried including odin to stock eb13 and ec05. Since I've had the phone for less than a year, can I take it to a sprint store and get a replacement? Or does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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I am glad you fixed it.

Kernel bug. Likely not a hardware issue.
I have the same exact behavior with Genocide 1.0. I'm unaware if this occurs in other Voodoo sound enabled Kernels but it sounds like it does.
On stock EC05 the problem goes away. For me anyways.

It does for most. TWZ 1.4 doesnt have the problem and neither does Bonsai 4.1.1 kernel AFAIK. There might be other known good combos.
TheDub said:
Kernel bug. Likely not a hardware issue.
I have the same exact behavior with Genocide 1.0. I'm unaware if this occurs in other Voodoo sound enabled Kernels but it sounds like it does.
On stock EC05 the problem goes away. For me anyways.
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I have the same issue on certain kernels. I was just about to ask, too. VERY noticeable when I'm playing music in my car and need to do something onscreen, makes the audio sound terrible.

I had this issue on several roms, including acs and the previous bonsai. In fact, my experience with acs was identical to yours. My phone just didn't play well with it. I don't have this problem with stock plus rom, even with the genocide kernel. Give that one a shot.
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greezestain said:
I had this issue on several roms, including acs and the previous bonsai. In fact, my experience with acs was identical to yours. My phone just didn't play well with it. I don't have this problem with stock plus rom, even with the genocide kernel. Give that one a shot.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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or its loose wire on your audio jack could be short to graounf when you tap the phone

TheDub said:
Kernel bug. Likely not a hardware issue.
I have the same exact behavior with Genocide 1.0. I'm unaware if this occurs in other Voodoo sound enabled Kernels but it sounds like it does.
On stock EC05 the problem goes away. For me anyways.
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Mine also crackles when the brightness adjusts. This includes when the screen fades out when I turn it off.
I hadn't noticed it when simply touching the screen though, just with the brightness. Also, I never noticed it until I started running custom roms with voodoo built in.
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Download voodoo control and turn down headphone amplifier or turn down volume limit. Might do the trick.......

<SOLVED>[Help] Lost CRT screen-off Animation & Proximity Auto-Off

Well I just recently made the jump to Gingerbread and was really enjoying the little perk of the CRT screen animation.
Just lately though, I noticed that it had disappeared.
As well, I've been noticing that my phone does not automatically turn off when I put it up to my ear.
My first 4.5.91 flash I feel that I botched:
I had flashed Nottach's Darkside ROM (v1.3) and his Evoluer theme (v1.0) and I was trying to set up some of Droid Shogun's SwitchPro widgets and messed with a screen auto-off widget. I thought this was what caused the problem in the first flash and I eventually ended up wiping my phone (much deeper than I kinda planned, too).
I reflashed Darkside and Evoluer again and the problem reappeared. Though I remember testing the CRT & auto-off before I flashed the theme.
I just now flashed Nottach's uninstaller (found in the Evoluer thread) and it brought me back to the stock AT&T theme (no Darkside theming), but that did not solve the problem either (bring back CRT & auto off).
I'm asking a couple of questions here:
1) Is this a known problem? The animation and or Auto-off disappearing for some reason, whether it's theme flashing, flashing that particular theme (Evoluer), or something else (kernel problem, etc...)?
2) Is there something I could have done that is easily reversible (something I ticked/unticked in settings?). I will also add that I always do a little Spare Parts tinkering when first setting up my phone. Could that have altered anything?
3) What are my solutions? I could always reflash, but that is a true PITA. Help, please?
Thanks for any advice or input you guys have to offer. Also, please let me know if there's anything more I can divulge that would help in your diagnosis.
At this point,

In spare parts you most likely ticked faster window animations....put that to normal and crt anim should be back....uh not sure bout your proximity problem.
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jzaslice said:
In spare parts you most likely ticked faster window animations....put that to normal and crt anim should be back....uh not sure bout your proximity problem.
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Well,
I.
Will.
Be.
That fixed it.
Thanks a bazillion (and now I feel a pill).
Any thoughts on the auto-off vanshing?
EDIT:
HOLEE SH!T.
That fixed the auto off thing too!!
You are a frickin' prophet man.
Hey please say one last thing here so I can give you the very least 2 thanks you deserve.

xyrovice said:
Well,
I.
Will.
Be.
That fixed it.
Thanks a bazillion (and now I feel a pill).
Any thoughts on the auto-off vanshing?
EDIT:
HOLEE SH!T.
That fixed the auto off thing too!!
You are a frickin' prophet man.
Hey please say one last thing here so I can give you the very least 2 thanks you deserve.
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I think I'm the true prophet here.

xyrovice said:
Well,
I.
Will.
Be.
That fixed it.
Thanks a bazillion (and now I feel a pill).
Any thoughts on the auto-off vanshing?
EDIT:
HOLEE SH!T.
That fixed the auto off thing too!!
You are a frickin' prophet man.
Hey please say one last thing here so I can give you the very least 2 thanks you deserve.
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Haha no problem man I had the same issue when I first used spare parts I noticed the crt went away but glad it fixed all your issues posted.
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jzaslice said:
Haha no problem man I had the same issue when I first used spare parts I noticed the crt went away but glad it fixed all your issues posted.
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Me too bro.
Just out of curiosity, you didn't run into any other problem with spare parts, did you? I'm just kind of at a loss as to how it messed with the screen proximity off and want to make sure there aren't any other seemingly unrelated things it could break.
Also, where did you get yours? Is the Market version still being updated? I just want to make sure mine is up to date.
CancerJesus said:
I think I'm the true prophet here.
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Yoo gouf. proov it

xyrovice said:
Me too bro.
Just out of curiosity, you didn't run into any other problem with spare parts, did you? I'm just kind of at a loss as to how it messed with the screen proximity off and want to make sure there aren't any other seemingly unrelated things it could break.
Also, where did you get yours? Is the Market version still being updated? I just want to make sure mine is up to date.
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I'm using kens Alien ROM, its pre loaded. And no not really any problems. I Use it for compatibility mode and faster transitions, other than that I don't open it at all. I don't remember it messing with the sensor like that, I might have not noticed tho I didn't leave the fast window animations on for very long, but not so sure why it would bug out like that. Spare Parts shouldn't cause any other problems tho.
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jzaslice said:
I'm using kens Alien ROM, its pre loaded. And no not really any problems. I Use it for compatibility mode and faster transitions, other than that I don't open it at all. I don't remember it messing with the sensor like that, I might have not noticed tho I didn't leave the fast window animations on for very long, but not so sure why it would bug out like that. Spare Parts shouldn't cause any other problems tho.
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Awesome. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Q] A500 Lag During Charging

Hello all, I have 1 issue with my A500. Only during charger plug in, my tab become super lag. This problem started when I doing overclock using flexreaper extreme.
Tried to flash new kernel from eztery, upgrade bootloader to v8, and flash lightspeed ics rom. None of these works as I still have this problem. Even on recovery screen, my tab is not responsive when charger plugged in.
I don't know what caused this. Is anyone having the same problem? Please help.

im on the same but no probs while charging, maybe titanium backup,. nandroid and wipe all and re-install flexreaper

actually i've tried that already. Real format and wipe all and flash different rom and kernel. Strangely it just heppen while charging. Do you think this is hardware problem?

kazai said:
actually i've tried that already. Real format and wipe all and flash different rom and kernel. Strangely it just heppen while charging. Do you think this is hardware problem?
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i think it must be as ive never read anything about this anywhere before did it do this when you was stock?

I never have this when on stock. Even after on flexreaper for few months also no problem. This only happen after upgrade to flexreaper extreme with OC. Weird.

have you clocked it back to 1ghz? might help you out? im not really sure dud srry

Does your tablet have a loud screen whine while it charges? Mine has been doing that for sometime now...

bouncer665 said:
Does your tablet have a loud screen whine while it charges? Mine has been doing that for sometime now...
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def take it back and get a replacement that's a hardware flaw another member posted about that then eventually his tab died and wouldnt charge up, if i was you matey i would take it back asap to show them the whining sound so they cannot say you did something to break it, plus you'll have that noted down incase they dont do anything and it then does break.

bouncer665 said:
Does your tablet have a loud screen whine while it charges? Mine has been doing that for sometime now...
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Mine have no sound while charging. It charge the battery as usual. Only the tab become less responsive and typing using on-screen keyboard is a headache.
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have you clocked it back to 1ghz? might help you out? im not really sure dud srry
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Tried that already, still have problem. I can minimize the problem by increasing the minimum frequency to 600+MHz.

The whine could also be capacitors (if any) on the logic board that are about to burst or something. Or something is overloaded and getting stressed out.

I don't believe its lag. The switching power supply causes some touch screens (such as mine) to become less sensitive requiring much harder finger presses
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blackthund3r said:
I don't believe its lag. The switching power supply causes some touch screens (such as mine) to become less sensitive requiring much harder finger presses
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Bingo. You are right. I just realize that. It is actually less sensitive. Do you have any idea how to solve it?

kazai said:
Hello all, I have 1 issue with my A500. Only during charger plug in, my tab become super lag. This problem started when I doing overclock using flexreaper extreme.
Tried to flash new kernel from eztery, upgrade bootloader to v8, and flash lightspeed ics rom. None of these works as I still have this problem. Even on recovery screen, my tab is not responsive when charger plugged in.
I don't know what caused this. Is anyone having the same problem? Please help.
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If it worked on other versions, just flash back to what worked before or back to ota for real proof. You said it worked till you changed software, so change back and prove it's not hardware.

kazai said:
Bingo. You are right. I just realize that. It is actually less sensitive. Do you have any idea how to solve it?
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I found some weird results by making a circuit. Try touching the tab with one finger and a laptop track pad with another. There's a tingle. I think it's a design defect internally - perhaps the screen assembly is touching something it shouldn't be. So in terms of a solution, I don't believe there is one, unless there's a way to earth the screen?
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I have once dissemble the back cover. I'm not sure whether this is where the problem started. But I don't have this problem initially. Something is wrong with my device, just don't know where's the problem come from. I might touch something causing short circuit or something.
Tried flashing the stock ROM and still no luck. I don't think its a software issue.

kazai said:
I have once dissemble the back cover. I'm not sure whether this is where the problem started. But I don't have this problem initially. Something is wrong with my device, just don't know where's the problem come from. I might touch something causing short circuit or something.
Tried flashing the stock ROM and still no luck. I don't think its a software issue.
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My tablet hasn't been opened and it still has this problem but not always. It hasn't done it recently.
I'm sure it's not a software thing but for the record I'm on Thor's ROM
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Today I noticed something. I do have this problem when charging at my office. Looks like this issue only happen at certain wall plug. It happen at my house but not my office. Could be something with grounding.
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kazai said:
Today I noticed something. I do have this problem when charging at my office. Looks like this issue only happen at certain wall plug. It happen at my house but not my office. Could be something with grounding.
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Perhaps it is to do with the consistency of the power supply. My house is pretty old so I suppose there would be more voltage variation. When I get home I'll try and find a spare surge protector and see if it stops the issues. The actual existence of the issues is pretty sporadical though. There is no clear answer to this.
I do think you're onto something though