[Q] NB1 - EAS and SD complaints. - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Ok, So I am posting this to see if others are having the same issues...
I grabbed NB1 OTA last week, and then spent the next 2 days battling issues. First, I was running the OEM 4.3 version that was rooted. When the OTA came out, I deleted the Superuser apk, and reset the tethering apk and odex files (learned this trick in the last update), and accepted the update. Upon restart, half my apps were not installed. Which, upon a little digging, I learned happens. One of the main apps I use is a security app mandated by my employer to utilize Exchange Active Sync. Since I could not seem to get this app running correctly, and I needed it running correct, I did a reset of my phone, and started over...
The security app loaded normally, and I soon had EAS configured and running.. well, sort of.... Strangely enough my contacts were not syncing from my Exchange 2014 server. I didn't think much of it, assumed that my IT guys had messed something up on their end, and went about my business of reinstalling my apps, and copying my customers sounds and ringtones to the phone.. It was not until later in the day that I realized my battery was being sucked dry at an extreme rate. Checking the battery app, Exchange Services was eating more (2x) of my battery then screen use!! This was bizzare to me, as I have never seen EAS use more then a trickle. I checked, and sure enough my contacts had still not synced. So I started googling, and there it was, there is a known issue with the 4.4.2 build with EAS and battery consumption. Seems in some cases, the connection to the Exchange server is not closed, and EAS is constantly "chatting" to exchange. I pulled up the data manger (I use My Data Manager), and sure enough EAS had been consuming huge amounts of data. Without new email being delivered, it was running through 4mbs an hour. Good thing I was on wifi, not walking around town!! So trying to put 2 and 2 together, I thought maybe it was the failed contact sync, and disabled it. Nope, EAS was still burning through data and battery. Next I switched from push, to 15 minute sync. And that did the trick, EAS calmed down, and started acting normally.But this is not the solution I was looking for. Further research shows the Google knows about this bug, and it is a low priority for them. Thanks Google... I assume if it were a gmail bug, you'd be all over it....
Doesn't end there... I knew going in to 4.4.2, the changes around the SD card were going to be a pain. But it never occurred to me that placing my customer sounds on the SD card were going to be a problem. You see, once I set my phone to use my ringtones, and notifications that existed on my SD, and rebooted my phone (during the EAS process above), 4.4.2 corrupted my SD card..... I had to reformat it, and copy back all my data (mostly music)... Ugh...
I love Android, but this is the worst build I have ever seen...
So, has anyone else seen the EAS issue? Had your phone corrupt the SD card yet???
-Chris

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Still have 100% Awake after Sprint MR? Report in!

I know I'm not alone with this and I think it's getting ignored because most people don't have the problem.
Even after the MR, I'm still having 100% Awake problems.
Yesterday I did the following.
1. Flashed back to stock rom.
2. Allowed the phone to perform the OTA MR update
3. Updated PRL and Profile.
4. Rooted phone using asroot2 process.
5. Installed Optimized/Zipaligned Apps found in this forum.
I then installed a random selection of my preferred apps. I did not log into any of the social networks on the phone itself. Facebook, Twidroid, Peep, Seemic are all on the phone but either not logged into or not set to update automatically. GPS is on, bt and wifi are not.
The only widgets I'm running is the normal clock/weather, big calendar, music player, and gps/wifi/bt toggles. Everything else is shortcuts and such. I'm using Gmail app for my mail, the stock messaging app for sms, and the stock browser. I'm syncing with Google for mail, contacts, and calendar. I have no other email accounts set up.
This was the 3rd time going through this process. The phone lasts roughly 24 hours with great low awake times, then suddenly starts climbing. A reboot will of course reset it so it shows 100% awake.
Things I've tried.
Installed Spare Parts and sorted by all sorts of things. Android System seems to be the biggest offender. Real vague.
Installed the Terminal app and tried to run top. Nothing seems to be taking up an abnormal amount of CPU but I don't know how accurate this thing is.
Obviously I've tried this 3 times and attempted to keep all widgets and other things that constantly update away from use but it doesn't stop.
I have shied away from task killers seeing how that's the normal reaction in this forum, that they're bad and I'm not sure they are a good idea.
My buddy has the exact same phone, way more widgets and things running, and his has been running for days without ever going over 25% Awake. We've went through all of our setting and installed apps and widgets etc, and cannot find a good reason for this.
I'm hoping to get some recognition for the problem. Maybe if others have the problem, we can try to see if we can come up with a fix.
Suggestions
Check the apps you have installed, some of the ones i liked say they 'keep the phone from sleeping' during installing. Just because you aren't running an app doesn't mean it's not running in the background. I would suggest you uninstall ALL external apps and test your phone for 24 hours after a full charge and see if that is the problem.
Another problem i had was i never gave my battery the proper charge when i bought the phone. I got much better performance from my batter by running it down to where it would not turn on then completely charged it without interruption. I repeated this 3 times in a row and my battery lasts much longer now.
I would also suggest to flash your phone with the fresh ROM .6b After doing this my phone was amazingly fast and excellent sleep times.
Currently Pulled Status:
After 48:15:00 Up Time Only Awake Time 13:01:00 (27%)
I'm aware of that app thing but I will say that I haven't installed any apps to speak of today. The only thing I installed today was a widget for turning the ringer off but I uninstalled that. Of course, that *could* be the problem.
Other than that, I haven't installed any apps today so you'd think that anything that would cause 100% Awake would have happened yesterday as well. Granted, that's an assumption and something best proven so tonight I will flash to stock + the OTA MR and leave it alone. We'll see if the phone with zero apps installed in basically stock form flips to 100% awake tomorrow or not.
I tried Fresh yesterday and it made no difference. Granted, I put it on top of a phone that already was at 100% Awake but still. I also don't care for what's installed/removed on the rom either. I would love to have my stock rom + rooted + removed apps + optimized apps and call it a day. I can hope right?
I was having the same problem as you...
I did a factory data reset after I applied the MR.
Then rooted
Then installed fresh .6
my phone has been sleeping like a baby ever since (over 1 week now).
Hope that helps...
andybars said:
I was having the same problem as you...
I did a factory data reset after I applied the MR.
Then rooted
Then installed fresh .6
my phone has been sleeping like a baby ever since (over 1 week now).
Hope that helps...
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I tried Fresh .6b but it didn't help. Granted, I applied it after the 100% awake problem hit. I don't really care for Fresh though.. but I might try it after I do a few experiments.
Bah.. I gave up on the experiment idea and went ahead and did this.
Flashed to stock
OTA MR upgrade
Rooted
Flashed Fresh .06 ROM
Flashed Optimized/Zipaligned apps
Only apps installed are Seesmic, SMS Backup & Restore, and Call Logs Backup & Restore.
I will leave it at that for now. It will get a full charge tonight and hopefully I'll see more than a 24 hour run of good idle time.
I can say that sms problem is also persists.
And i found out that i have SMS problem only when there is 0 in incoming number. If sender have number without ZERO - it works just fine.
Nice fix from sprint -) I think they do not test it at all
kajama said:
I can say that sms problem is also persists.
And i found out that i have SMS problem only when there is 0 in incoming number. If sender have number without ZERO - it works just fine.
Nice fix from sprint -) I think they do not test it at all
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I am running the MR + rooted, and have *NO* issues whatsoever with texting... and I have sent and received plenty of messages to/from people with a zero in their phone number.
x99percent said:
I am running the MR + rooted, and have *NO* issues whatsoever with texting... and I have sent and received plenty of messages to/from people with a zero in their phone number.
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Could be a total coincidence but I was texting someone with a zero in their number when my awake time started climbing. But I had also been texting all morning with another person with a zero in their number and it waited until around 3:30 to start acting up.
sph33r said:
I will leave it at that for now. It will get a full charge tonight and hopefully I'll see more than a 24 hour run of good idle time.
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make sure you look for the following
settings>applications>deveolopment
(uncheck stay awake)
if this is checked, your phone WILL NOT SLEEP when plugged in.
to avoid any silliness make you check the awake time when it is NOT plugged in.
...Just sayin
x99percent said:
I am running the MR + rooted, and have *NO* issues whatsoever with texting... and I have sent and received plenty of messages to/from people with a zero in their phone number.
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I have this problem on 2 updated Hero.
kajama said:
I have this problem on 2 updated Hero.
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What problem? I said I had no problems..?
x99percent said:
What problem? I said I had no problems..?
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I understood your message, but i STILL have SMS problem on 2 HERO after MR update. Thats a pitty
Well folks, I thought I had the problem licked but last night it came back. On Monday morning, I did the following:
1) RUU back to stock
2) applied voice mail and MR update
3) rooted phone and applied optimized apk & clear screen mod
It was working so well until last night when I was playing with the wireless and wired tether apps. After I *uninstalled* those apps, the phone would not go back to sleep. I'm getting sick of this but will not be resetting my phone. Hopefully an update will come out soon to resolve this.
Yesterday I decided I didn't care for the Fresh .6 rom and went back to my experiment idea.
I flashed the stock RUU back onto it, let it do the OTA update for the firmware, and then installed only Handcent and Seesmic to keep from using the stock SMS/twitter clients just in case.
I signed into Google for my Gmail, contacts, and calendar and left all the update settings alone. I turned on GPS satellites, and I signed into the Facebook integration on the phone so I could get the photos/bdays/status updates in People.
That's all I did. No rooting, no additions, nothing. I removed all widgets except for the clock/weather and the big calendar. Everything else was deleted, I only have the 6 shortcuts on the first home screen.
I went to bed with between 1:15-1:30 awake time. I woke to 4:45 wake time and climbing. Sometime around 5am it stopped being idle and is now climbing steadily toward 100% awake time. Obviously I wasn't using the phone, I received no phone calls or text messages, and it was charging.
This is frustrating.
sph33r said:
Yesterday I decided I didn't care for the Fresh .6 rom and went back to my experiment idea.
I flashed the stock RUU back onto it, let it do the OTA update for the firmware, and then installed only Handcent and Seesmic to keep from using the stock SMS/twitter clients just in case.
I signed into Google for my Gmail, contacts, and calendar and left all the update settings alone. I turned on GPS satellites, and I signed into the Facebook integration on the phone so I could get the photos/bdays/status updates in People.
That's all I did. No rooting, no additions, nothing. I removed all widgets except for the clock/weather and the big calendar. Everything else was deleted, I only have the 6 shortcuts on the first home screen.
I went to bed with between 1:15-1:30 awake time. I woke to 4:45 wake time and climbing. Sometime around 5am it stopped being idle and is now climbing steadily toward 100% awake time. Obviously I wasn't using the phone, I received no phone calls or text messages, and it was charging.
This is frustrating.
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did you just totally ignore my post or what?
johnsongrantr said:
did you just totally ignore my post or what?
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Yes I ignored it because it did not pertain to the issue at hand. If you had read my entire post, you would see that it had, on all previous times, went from idle to 100% awake while off the charger. Last night was the first time it ever went awake in the middle of the night and it only happened 3 hours before I woke up meaning that it had been on the charger for 5 hours previous without being awake.
Also, that option isn't even checked by default. The only way it would be checked is if you were too stupid to read the text next to it. Needless to say, mine is not checked.
So no, never once in the time of having his phone has that setting been turned on. This issue is not related to your post in the least.
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Yes I ignored it because it did not pertain to the issue at hand. If you had read my entire post, you would see that it had, on all previous times, went from idle to 100% awake while off the charger. Last night was the first time it ever went awake in the middle of the night and it only happened 3 hours before I woke up meaning that it had been on the charger for 5 hours previous without being awake.
Also, that option isn't even checked by default. The only way it would be checked is if you were too stupid to read the text next to it. Needless to say, mine is not checked.
So no, never once in the time of having his phone has that setting been turned on. This issue is not related to your post in the least.
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well just for ****s and grins.... retest with it not being plugged in. just to rule out even the remote possibility of that being the issue.
EDIT: also if you are really hard set on figureing out what is causeing it do a stock RUU, then update it.... then don't touch it... at all, no market apps, no enableing anything.... then test
if good, then add a variable.... use scientific method of figureing out what is wrong. Don't just test with a random set of variables and hoping someone might guess at what might be the issue.
from the information you gave.... my money is on the charger causeing it. I may be just totally wrong, but my track record is being right most of the time with this type of troubleshooting.... but if you want a second opinoin... by all means... and a tip of the hat to you sir
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from the information you gave.... my money is on the charger causeing it. I may be just totally wrong, but my track record is being right most of the time with this type of troubleshooting.... but if you want a second opinoin... by all means... and a tip of the hat to you sir
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I'd say you're wrong because I'm not experiencing the issue at all.
Since the OP's phone and my own are similarly modded, I'm thinking that it has something to do with his own personal info (contacts, calendar, etc.)... because I have NO issues.
I use HTC Peep to update/view Twitter.
I use Handcent for SMS/MMS.
In contrast to the OP's phone, my phone has a ton of stuff installed (25 free apps from the Market, last I checked)... yet my awake times are consistently <30%.
johnsongrantr said:
well just for ****s and grins.... retest with it not being plugged in. just to rule out even the remote possibility of that being the issue.
EDIT: also if you are really hard set on figureing out what is causeing it do a stock RUU, then update it.... then don't touch it... at all, no market apps, no enableing anything.... then test
if good, then add a variable.... use scientific method of figureing out what is wrong. Don't just test with a random set of variables and hoping someone might guess at what might be the issue.
from the information you gave.... my money is on the charger causeing it. I may be just totally wrong, but my track record is being right most of the time with this type of troubleshooting.... but if you want a second opinoin... by all means... and a tip of the hat to you sir
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Except, again.. of the 4 times I've reloaded this and had the 100% awake time, only once has it happened on the charger. So I find that theory a bit weak. I suppose it could be, but still.. seems a bit odd that, for instance, it would wait until 3:30 in the afternoon (7 + hours after coming off the charger) to act up.
I'm currently stock + 2 apps which should eliminate the supposed leak with the SMS that some people still claim is happening. But I will flash the stock RUU and then the OTA MR and leave it alone. I'm still going to use the functions of the phone though. I see no reason why syncing with Google or facebook or using peep should matter since those are on the phone from the get-go and intended to be used. I'm sure everyone on here who has no problems at all has a lot more things turned on than I do right now.
For instance, X99Percent and I have compared settings. He has WAY more widgets running, WAY more programs installed, and is signed into all the social networks. Yet he can use his phone for days with normal idle time. I might make it 24 hours, or in the case of yesterday, about 14 hours, before going to 100% awake.
I'm convinced it has a lot more to do with something wrong with the phone itself or a software bug than anything else. And if you notice, I'm not alone in this problem, there's others complaining about it on here and on PPCGeeks.

Audio Loss. Observation

Even with auto-sync turned off, you have probably noticed that google contacts
keeps syncing on an irregular basis. It's not supposed to do this and for some reason when it does it slows down the phone BIG time.
In my experience, the only time I lose the audio (phone slows, audio goes, have to reboot) is when the google contacts are trying to sync.
If you aren't on a call when the contacts sync, the phone slows and recovers fine on its own. If you are on a call...curtains.
If the google sync issue is corrected...the problem may go away. I have no idea how to attempt to do this but I really think these issues could be tied together.
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Even with auto-sync turned off, you have probably noticed that google contacts
keeps syncing on an irregular basis. It's not supposed to do this and for some reason when it does it slows down the phone BIG time.
In my experience, the only time I lose the audio (phone slows, audio goes, have to reboot) is when the google contacts are trying to sync.
If you aren't on a call when the contacts sync, the phone slows and recovers fine on its own. If you are on a call...curtains.
If the google sync issue is corrected...the problem may go away. I have no idea how to attempt to do this but I really think these issues could be tied together.
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Just one problem with that statement...when on a call, EVDO (all data) drops out, meaning sync isnt possible. However, could it be possible that those experiencing issues have a problem with data continuing while on a call wrecking havoc? Just an idea. Have yet to experience this yet and hopefully wont.
hmmmm interesting
ive too also have been dealing with the audio issues, my thing is it doesnt do it all the time, my phone sometimes does have a google sync issue at times, where it kind of hangs, i too have noticed that when i loose audio my sync is connected, but when its completely off theres no probs, meaning i never have to retart phone. idk im beat once my sync is done when i flash a rom i completely turn it off and i un check always on mobile in settings, and my audio issues went away................
im not sure if this is what you guys are talking about, but ive been having an issue that is driving me insane. I can make and receive calls fine, however no sound is transmitted to either party (my mic and speaker don't work). The only thing that fixes it is a restart, then its usually only the first one or two calls after the restart that work fine, after that its lights out again. always on mobile is unchecked, contacts/mail/calendar are set to manual sync and nothing else really pulls data without me initiating it.
Ive been on with Sprint all week about it and they are sending me a replacement and credited me back the past month, so we'll see if its a ROM or a hardware thing cause the second the replacement comes in its getting rooted and flashed
I have flashed Fipz' 2.0d on my phone, my co-worker's, and my wife's. The first two phones have worked just fine, from the first boot, however, after flashing it several times, my wife's hero continues to lose audio. I have even tried the update.zip that was supposed to help it.
The only differences that I can account for is that I rooted and flashed the two working ones on a Windows computer at work, and my wife's I rooted and flashed at home in Ubuntu.
It doesn't seem likely to me that I did anything different, (other than the required differences in the code when rooting) on my wife's phone than I did on the other two.
After 3 wipes, SD Format and re-partitions, and reconfiguring her phone, it still gets that audio issue. The longest it has lasted without doing it is about 6 hours.
I have absolutely no clue what could be causing this lol
SchmediumTux said:
I have flashed Fipz' 2.0d on my phone, my co-worker's, and my wife's. The first two phones have worked just fine, from the first boot, however, after flashing it several times, my wife's hero continues to lose audio. I have even tried the update.zip that was supposed to help it.
The only differences that I can account for is that I rooted and flashed the two working ones on a Windows computer at work, and my wife's I rooted and flashed at home in Ubuntu.
It doesn't seem likely to me that I did anything different, (other than the required differences in the code when rooting) on my wife's phone than I did on the other two.
After 3 wipes, SD Format and re-partitions, and reconfiguring her phone, it still gets that audio issue. The longest it has lasted without doing it is about 6 hours.
I have absolutely no clue what could be causing this lol
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To complicate things, I'm on a mac and have flashed MatrixROM. So, it looks like nobody is safe...Ubuntu, Windows and Mac. I noticed someone had posted a possible fix a little bit ago. I may give that a shot as it's incredibly frustrating. I wish there was a way to send all calls to voicemail, cause its pointless to have them connect through right now.
hopefully anyone who wants to test the new fix has. if not please do. its on the thread i started and it uses a variation of "fixes". as stated before, we know what causes it but not really sure how to fix it. im working with a very good dev to create a kernel and ramdisk to fix it with everything working.
wifi doesnt work with the fix as of right now. but anyways hope it helps.

2nd EVO to have GPS Reboot Issue

I know there are similar posts about the general issue but not this particular problem so dont waste my time with search suggestions or flaming me!!! My first EVO had light leakage and after the recent update any activation of the GPS caused the phone to randomly restart (the only non stock thing about the phone was I used UnrEVOked one click "root"). I finally asked for a replacement, got it yesterday and received the OTA today. I hard reset the refurb right out of the box just to make sure. I only had basic programs on this replacement (goggles, google voice, myspace, aim, fourquare, pandora, facebook, twitter, and thats about it) and did not restore anything but my old SMS messages. I just started up foursquare and guess what? THE RANDOM REBOOT! Any advice? I doubt it is fourquare or any of the other basic programs so I'm lost!!
When my phone was randomly rebooting due to gps issues, I solved it by doing a factory reset. I too thought at the time that it was related to an app that was currently installed but I reinstalled all my apps afterwards and the problem hasn't occurred again since performing the reset.
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well i did a hard reset on the first and then even did it by the clear storage setting... then got a completely new evo with the same problem after the OTA update
I had to do a factory reset for mine too. The phone was resetting anytime an app was accessing GPS.
The interesting thing was that when I pulled the micro SD card out of the back, the problem was solved. Of course, once I put it back in, it returned. I have no idea what the significance of that is but nevertheless did a factory reset yesterday and so far no more problems with all the same apps reinstalled.
Thanks I removed it, now no GPS issue??? So what could the problem be the card itself or something that reads the card?
I have had random reset issues with my own Evo, and have hard-reset the device twice already to try and solve the issue. The problem returns after a matter of days. I came to the forums hoping to solve the issue, but so far I have only confirmed what others have seen.
Firstly, I run stock with no root.
Accessing Maps, Camera, ShopSavvy, Goggles, all reset the phone immediately. Also accessing apps that have no GPS access (e.g. NYCMate, Newsrob, Flixster) were causing a reset.
Most importantly, once my phone reset the first time, it would not cease until I removed the battery, or until it drained itself of a charge.
Finding this thread may have solved my issues and saved me a trip to the Sprint store for a reconditioned device.
I have been able to replicate the "solution" of removing the MicroSD card. I have also been able to use a second (newly formatted 2GB) card in its stead with no restarts. My thoughts now are to wipe the original card and replace it and see what happens. If this solves my/our problems, that would be fan-flippin-tastic.
Of course, if the problem persists, it is either an issue with the specific card itself (Samsung 8GB) or with the reader on the phone.
My phone reboots a few minutes into a call when GPS is active in Google nav.
Frustrating to say the least.
So, after hard resetting my phone did the same thing after a few days. Then I found this solution and haven't had any issues since. Granted it's only been a few days, but this definitely worked.
1. Call Sprint and have them give you the MSL CODE for your phone.
2. Dial ##GPSCLRX#
3. Enter the MSL code that you recieved from Sprint.
4. Your phone will reboot.
5. After your phone starts up again it should not reboot because of a GPS crash (test it out).
I will warn you that some have reported having an endless boot loop as a result and had to do a hard reset from recovery. So backup your data first if you need to. I did mine without the bootloop.
I also read that ShopSavvy may be the culprit. I removed it from my phone before doing this as well. You may want to try that first. I'll report with an update after a couple weeks if still ok or if the problem returns. Even if it does return, this is a relatively simple fix until Sprint gets something official out (yeah, right).
this did not fix my phone it is still rebooting
what radio are you guys using? have you updated it recently? or still on the old 7.28? just curious cuz this happened to a friends EVO i am in charge of & sprint store appeared to have updated it as their "fix"
drdrewdown said:
what radio are you guys using? have you updated it recently? or still on the old 7.28? just curious cuz this happened to a friends EVO i am in charge of & sprint store appeared to have updated it as their "fix"
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I'm running: 2.05.00.06.10
For me, I didn't change anything that I remember outside of installing apps(no radio, etc updates) and it just randomly developed the reboot issue. Doesn't seem related to GPS to me.
I got into a reboot loop while emailing pictures today(had to pull the SD card to stop).
I got a reboot today(but not a loop) when surfing the app store
I get most reboots while surfing the web using dolphin
SD card is the culprit?
I am experiencing all these same symptoms, except for the fact that at this point, I have restored the phone to 'factory' settings, as well as formatted the SD Cards mutliple times (on the phone). I have no apps on the phone, except for those that come with the factory reset image.
I simply have the 4G and GPS turned on, and my google account synced. When I try to surf the web for more than 20 minutes or so using the default web browser, the phone starts to reboot.
I'm at my wit's end and now I'm off to Fry's to buy a new SD Card. seems like that worked for at least one person above.... any other fixes, much appreciated...
Took an evo with this issue to sprint and they replaced the phone. After doing all the things that you did to solve the problem, decided it was hardware related. Have not had the issue with the replacement phone yet(1 month).
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My brother's Evo was doint this and I tried the factory reset on it twice. It's off with Best Buy right now, hoping he'll have it back before Christmas. Wish I'd seen this thread first but oh well. I'll try ideas here if it still does it when we get it back.
replacing the phone was the only thing that worked for me but i now have light leakage and a loose screen as well as small dings on my phone. making the switch to tmobile soon. form what i hear they give out new phones not refurbished ones.
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Thanks I removed it, now no GPS issue??? So what could the problem be the card itself or something that reads the card?
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Try re-formatting the card with the Evo itself (not a PC)
Good info in this thead.
Mine seems to be working better. Too short of time to call it fixed.
what I did....
1.pulled the SD card and loaded all contents to my laptop.
2.formatted the SD card in my phone
3. Reset GPS using the ##gpsclrx# - I had to do this 3 times. Using GPS Test, I noticed that the GPS was working then locking up (not causing a reboot). After the 3rd time of resetting, it was working properly.
Before I tried this...my phone was rebooting randomly...but...sometimes every 30 secs or so. It's been up for about an hour now with all radios turned on.

Answer to: "Why, after great battery life, did my battery life deteriorate?"

Answer to: "Why, after great battery life, did my battery life deteriorate?"
This isn't a question -- but I think it's the answer a question that I have had, and that I suspect others may have had as well. To formalize this, the question could be:
Why, after having had great battery life for 3 months, did my battery life drop down dramatically, and stay there?
I've had my G2 since Cyber Monday, and it's been a spectacular phone in general, and like so many others, I've experienced fantastic battery life - until a couple of weeks ago. Instead of 40 or 50 hours, and 5 or 6 hours of screen time, I watched my battery running down to 40% by midday, and when the battery was at 15% before bedtime, I only had gotten less than 3 hours of screen time.
I examined all the running processes, ran various utilities like better battery stats, experimented with the GPS, location services, etc -- although that shouldn't have been necessary, since I had no problem with any of those until the past couple of weeks. Google services were consuming most of the battery, and producing a lot of wake locks.
While digging through files and processes, trying to find a clue, I was reviewing my accounts, finding and removing duplicates, and I noticed that I was having sync issues, specifically seeing the message:
Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly
Lots of posts on the topic with various suggestions - and one in particular caught my eye. It seems that, although my phone appeared to be acting normally for the most part -- allowing me to send and receive email, add events to my calendar, etc. But I was still seeing that sync error message. Seemed a bit contradictory, but it seemed as if the gmail and calendar client had remained logged in, despite my having changed my account logon password awhile back. I don't know the innards of Android account management, but my impression is that sync services log on periodically -- and couldn't at that point. Guessing this was the cause of the error message (sync experiencing problems). I tried to "add an account" / "existing account", but couldn't add my Google account while it was already in place -- so I removed the account re-added it -- this time specifying the new password I had established earlier...and syncing started to work. It took some time to sync gmail, calendar, docs, etc -- but it all worked this time with no error.
In several hours since that time, with the phone idling, interrupted by just a few minutes of use, the battery level has only dropped 1%. Screen has consumed 42% of the battery, Android System and OS less than 15% each. Too early to be sure, but this already looks a LOT more like what I had been experiencing when battery life was great.
My guess: the Android sync service was unable to log in, and kept attempting to very frequently -- hence the wake locks, and excessing system activity that actually used more battery than any other process. Once the proper credentials were known again to the sync service, it started working normally -- and allowed deep sleep once again in between sync events. Again -- I don't know the innards, so there's some speculation here, but it seems reasonable - and the results are very promising so far.
Any of you seeing less than the stellar battery performance the G2 *should* be enjoying might want to take a look at Settings / Accounts -- and then take a look at your Google account -- display the list of accounts and then tap on the Google account itself to see Data & Synchronization. Depending on what you have installed, you'll see items like App Data, Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Drive, Gmail, etc. From here, you should be able to see if they're all syncing properly - or not. If you're seeing the message, like I did:
Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly
You might want to try working your way through the solution I describe above.
Thanks for this info mate! This should be made a sticky post.
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Yes thanks for this helpful info. Much oblige
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I checked my accounts and as OP said I had the can't sync message. I went into the Google Account and it turns out it was the 'internet' sync. So I've turned that off. Seems to have a good effect so far as I'm still on100% battery after using my phone for a bit.
Update on today's battery. 60% with 3 hours SoT. This little trick has really sorted my battery out!

[Q] Wifi Issues?

Lately, since my phone got a little wet (dried out the phone in rice and cleaned it out with Rubbing Alcohol), some apps on my phone have been running slow.
I thought maybe it was just the application at first, so I cleared the app's cache. Then I noticed it took a long time to display images from Google Now (such as movie suggestions, or weather icons). So I took the time to completely reset my phone from scratch and flash NAE ROM and Firmware (without the bootloader) this afternoon. After waiting for everything to download and get setup, I tried browsing a website. It took forever, what should have immediately loaded (within 5 or so seconds), took 10+ seconds to load. Tried logging into pushbullet. I remember that the login process was quick and painless. Again, this took a while to load. The initial configuration for the phone setup which is usually quick for me, took a while to just login to my google account.
I was wondering if maybe the cause of this slowness is something happened to the internal storage when it got wet. Are there any programs that can test the phones internal read and write speed, or possibly any networking throughput applications that you all could recommend? I am going to try and take it in for a warranty replacement if I can get into the Sprint store in the next day or so. I really don't want to, as I am going out of town for two weeks and don't want to be phone less during that time period.
EDIT: After running A1 benchmark, and getting average (what I think anyways) results, ~60 read, ~8 write for the internal storage (not micro SD Card). I am wondering if it is another issue, possibly that my wifi antennae or hardware is defective? As the slowness tends to be an issue when running on Wif.
EDIT2:
So after some testing, there definitely seems to be an issue somewhere a long the lines with WiFi. This happens on multiple wifi networks. Say for instance, I use pushbullet to send a link to my phone. ll, if I am on WiFi, I don't get the push notification unless I request for an update. If I turn off WiFi and hop onto 3G, I immediately get the push notification. Note, this is after a fresh re-install of the NAE ROM. So, I am mighty confused as to why this is happening. It seems like it is definitely a push notifications issue, because as soon as I hop off WiFi, I got e-mails, and several other notifications. I tried installing this and lowering the heartbeat, assuming that is the problem, but I don't think it is. Is there anything else I can do or check to verify what is causing the push issues?

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