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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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Awake while screen off

I'm on CM7.1 stable. Haven't had battery issues for a while, but starting a few days ago I've been getting rapid drain with heating. Battery use screen shows that the phone is awake most of the time the screen is off, but it doesn't reveal which app keeps waking it up. I also tried Spare Parts to see if any app is hogging the partial wake lock, but nothing seems to account for it.
Any other ideas on how to trace it? Must've been an app that updated in the past 3-4 days.
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Just to show how this looks, here is a screenshot of the battery screen.
Notice that I put the phone in airplane mode for the past hour as I was writing an exam, yet it still appears awake with screen off. The phone was warm when I retrieved it after an hour of the radios being off! Something is seriously wrong here.
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I can only guess it is an application or service keeping your phone from going to deep sleep- also known as "partial wake lock" or something like that...
What to do? You can probably nail the culprit using some application like BetterBatteryStats (Market it, or look for it at xda's app thread- it is somewhere here). It will help you find who/what is keeping the phone awake.
I think that Battery Monitor Widget can also give you similar info.
You may need some help in the BBS thread to help you interpret the results as they are not always obvious or easy to tell who's the problem.

Right. What's confusing me is that nothing in the partial wake lock list is showing more than about 10 minutes of lock time, yet the phone gets stuck awake for more than a solid hour of screen off time.
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I think I figured it out. I had a trigger set up in Tasker that resets the phone's data connection every time it crashes out with an error (and my carrier WIND Mobile does this quite frequently). On days when the battery was constantly draining, it may have been because the network was particularly error-prone and my trigger therefore kept going off. And each time it went off, Tasker must have flipped the phone into awake mode.
I've turned off the trigger for now, to see if it stops draining.

[Q] crazy battery drain in nexus 4

Hi all,
New to the forum. Sorry if somebody has already posted something similar. Tried to search but could not find any.
The reason I am here:
Yesterday night before going to the bed, my phone battery was >80% charged. In the morning I found my phone switched off. I had to restart the phone using the power button. The battery was at about 40% down when I turned it on.
I dont use the phone much through out the day, so it uses around 20% in a day(morning to night).
There is nothing unusual that I can see in the battery usage stats. Attaching screen shots for reference.
The graph shows a sudden decrease in the battery power. I am not sure if any sofware can consume so much of power in such a short time, unless there is a hardware issue or the battery readings themselves are incorrect.
This is the third time in the last 5 days that I found my phone powered off in the morning with a sudden fall in battery power.
I am using the stock android 4.2.2 with all the updates applied.
Can anybody please help me understand whats going on?

When it drops straight down it signals either a reboot or a power off. Something is causing your phone to turn off (obviously), it isn't just a battery drain issue. That said, it shouldn't drop that much if it is off.
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Thanks josh, is there a way to debug whats trigerring the shutdown? What worries me is the sudden power drop? Could this be a harware issue?
There might be some safety mechanism which will shutdown the phone in case it finds the battery current is extremely high. I am just guessing.
joshnichols189 said:
When it drops straight down it signals either a reboot or a power off. Something is causing your phone to turn off (obviously), it isn't just a battery drain issue. That said, it shouldn't drop that much if it is off.
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The battery % indicator isn't completely accurate so whenever you reboot your device it tends to show as a lower value than before you rebooted it. I find that whenever I reboot my device the instant drop is then offset by a slower than normal drain as shown by the indicator. Obviously the drain is no different but this is just what the indicator is showing.
I wouldn't worry about the drop itself so much, just what has caused the reboot. I can't help you there so maybe someone else has an idea on how to figure that out, good luck!

Try flashing the stock image again; efrant's guide in my signature is the best & most educational way to go about it..
P.S. overheating will shut the phone down. Maybe some rogue app misbehaving? Long shot but could be it. Search for betterbatterystats here in xda, see if some app produces some crazy wakelocks. If not, go back to the top..

xdaxyz said:
Thanks josh, is there a way to debug whats trigerring the shutdown? What worries me is the sudden power drop? Could this be a harware issue?
There might be some safety mechanism which will shutdown the phone in case it finds the battery current is extremely high. I am just guessing.
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You can monitor with betterbatterystats.
And if you are rooted you can check the root features in advanced settings to see any alarm that occur.
This will help you debug the problem.
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I wouldnt be worried about the battery drain.. That is usual for your situation as you hardly use your phone, the battery reading isnt always accurate and is most accurate after a reboot.

If your reallt worried. Reflash stock images fromm Google. Don't use toolkits and learn something about fastboot and your phone.
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Nexus 4 switching off at night while charging

I know this has been discussed plenty of times but I just have some more questions of my own I'd like to ask.
So my N4 just switches off over night after being charged to like 95-100%.
It is usually fully charged (green LED) but won't turn on if I want to wake the screen.
I have to hold the power button for like 5 seconds for it to switch off. Then I am able to boot it again.
If i just unplug the charger, wait like 30s to a minute, the screen will wake, it works as usual. But the phone restarted (!!!) without any boot animation or anything. Just like nothing happened. If I then go into settings -> battery you can see the phone switched on just a minute ago.
This is happening like everynight for me now, so I had to use my old phone as an alarm clock as I slept in quite a few times actually
I searched like all forums and tried everything but I cannot dissolve this issue.
I even turned off deep sleep in dev options and stuff alike, monitored temperatures and stuff. Nothing conclusive though.
So I just have no idea why this keeps happening.
It happened with different roms and different kernels. Root or not rooted.
A friend of mine has a N4 as well and he does not have this problem at all. He does not have a custom rom flashed or anything.
But I read on other forums that even users with stock rom had this problems.
I think this is a quite common problem with the Nexus 4 device, isn't it?
Anyone solved it yet? Or does at least know the CAUSE for this?
I mean srsly there is like nothing on the forums..
Is it software related? Hardware related? Did I **** something up?
Is this a valid reason to send my phone back to google and get a new (working) one?
Everything else just works flawlessly. I mean the N4 with PA on it works so smooth like a charm.
I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE IT BACK!

noone? really?

I don't remember this being a common problem, though maybe I missed something.
If I was you I would wipe everything and re-flash stock. Then if it still happens return the phone, it shouldn't be doing that and I wouldn't put up with that if it was my phone. But it's your choice.
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I have the same problem and I believe that this and similar issues are becoming increasingly mentioned on various sites on the net. XDA tread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2077148 which gives some idea as to what people are doing to get to the bottom of the problem.
There is further info here - https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35139 which starts with Sleep of Death issues on JB4.1.1 (on the Galaxy Nexus but has more recently focused on the Nexus 4).
Initially the problem occurred maybe 3 times a week. I'm running a Stock N4 and whether stock or custom does not seem to make any difference.
I re-flashed a stock image and thought I had solved the problem. The phone ran okay for a few weeks and then reverted to random SOD's normally at night whilst charging. If I use airplane mode at night I have no problems. It has also become unresponsive/deep sleep on three occasions during the day. More recently I have stopped leaving wifi enabled unless I need it I no longer use airplane mode and have not had any further problems --- so far ---
For me at least, the problem might be wifi related.

This happened to me this morning. I have my phone on charge every night and it probably hits 100% about 3am every morning. I have the alarm set at 7am to wake me, and has done every morning since I got it last month. However I have now slept in twice (this morning was catastrophic) due to waking up to find my phone was switched off and my alarm subsequently didnt sound!! I have wifi left on, but all my apps are closed down, and only the alarm app running.
To switch it back on I have to hold the down the power button for in between 5-10 seconds for it to reboot.
Does anyone know why this is happening? The Nexus 4 is perfect in every other way, I'm gutted to find a fault after raving so much about it!

Same thing is happening to me every night !

I have the same problem, but it happens sporadically, so I never know when I'm going to end up sleeping in. It's infuriating.
It just happened again this morning. I had Wi-Fi disabled, so I know it has nothing to do with that.

Tronno1 said:
I have the same problem, but it happens sporadically, so I never know when I'm going to end up sleeping in. It's infuriating.
It just happened again this morning. I had Wi-Fi disabled, so I know it has nothing to do with that.
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Sounds like a rogue app is triggering the phone to crash or something?
Have you tried a factory reset?

This bs caused me to be late to a final exam... I was so mad when I woke up and saw that it was 2 hours later than the time my alarm was set to sound.. Only started happening with 4.4+ updates.
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Factory reset?
Sent from my Nexus 4, while driving in my Evo9.

Hey man,
My girlfriends nexus 4 did this as well and she got it RMA'd with no questions asked and a brand new one sent out, they told her to do a factory reset; this worked for a few days then went back to normal again.
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Charging cable
I have had this problem eventually with every android phone I've ever owned but it seems by replacing the charging cable with a new one the problem goes away. It seems that there is a weird thing with android where if the cable doesn't sit completely snug or straight the battery can charge but the phone won't realize this and go to sleep. Also seen the opposite happen where the phone thinks that the battery is charging and in fact it hasn't. When you unplug it suddenly goes from full charge to nothing. Haven't seen that last one on my Nexus 4 yet though. So I would try replacing the cable (not necessarily the charger) usually worked for me on other phones. Also I would suggest not to leave the phone and cable hanging off the end of a table. Make sure it's in enough that it sits flat. I think this is how I slightly bent mine.

[Q] Nexus 4 shuts off every night - requires force restart

Hey guys, so I'm not sure what's going on but myself and several people on reddit are experiencing this issue:
http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/1j7o85/n4_shuts_off_overnight_after_43_update/
Every morning since I've gotten 4.3 update, my nexus 4 shuts itself off throughout the night. It does not boot up until I force a shutdown (volume up and power) AND THEN try to power it on.
My nexus is completely stock, it has not been rooted or even bootloader unlocked. It seems to work fine regardless, but I like to keep my phone on in case of an emergency.
Can someone shed some light on this?

pastasauce said:
Hey guys, so I'm not sure what's going on but myself and several people on reddit are experiencing this issue:
http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/1j7o85/n4_shuts_off_overnight_after_43_update/
Every morning since I've gotten 4.3 update, my nexus 4 shuts itself off throughout the night. It does not boot up until I force a shutdown (volume up and power) AND THEN try to power it on.
My nexus is completely stock, it has not been rooted or even bootloader unlocked. It seems to work fine regardless, but I like to keep my phone on in case of an emergency.
Can someone shed some light on this?
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This sounds like the sleep of death issue. User tkolev has written the Safe Charge app to prevent this from happening when the Nexus 4 is charging. You can read his discussion of the issue at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226698. The app is available at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sash.sodeliminator.

BobWalker said:
This sounds like the sleep of death issue. User tkolev has written the Safe Charge app to prevent this from happening when the Nexus 4 is charging. You can read his discussion of the issue at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226698. The app is available at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sash.sodeliminator.
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Thanks for the info Bob. However, I don't charge my phone throughout the night, so I don't think it's that.
It's not the battery either because when I do power it up, it's usually at least 40%+ battery. I'm really at a loss as to what could be causing this.

pastasauce said:
Thanks for the info Bob. However, I don't charge my phone throughout the night, so I don't think it's that.
It's not the battery either because when I do power it up, it's usually at least 40%+ battery. I'm really at a loss as to what could be causing this.
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Sleep of death happens when the Nexus 4 is in deep sleep mode and fails to respond to a key press and can occur whether or not the phone is charging at the time. If you are able to charge the phone overnight, I would install and enable Safe Charge to see if it keeps the problem from occurring at night.

BobWalker said:
Sleep of death happens when the Nexus 4 is in deep sleep mode and fails to respond to a key press and can occur whether or not the phone is charging at the time. If you are able to charge the phone overnight, I would install and enable Safe Charge to see if it keeps the problem from occurring at night.
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That's terrible . It only started when I updated to 4.3, and unfortunately I can't charge overnight. I'm guessing the Safe Charge app drains battery? If so, I don't think that would work.
Is there seriously no other way to solve this issue than a wakelock work around? It seems pretty significant to simply ignore on Google's part.

i hate to say it, but you may have to do a factory reset to determine whether or not its the phone, or some app that you have installed that is not playing nice with the update.

I've found the issue, turns out Netflix's chromecast update screwed up with 4.3:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1jdenw/psa_if_you_have_netflix_read_this_before_updating/
Fix: Uninstall Netflix or stay on 4.2.2 until resolved. Thanks guys.

It keeps shutting off at 3:07 every night?
Demons
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