Random power outage? - Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Lately I've been experiencing random power outages with my phone it'll turn off an on and get bootlooped and I'll have to pull the battery and turn it back on even though it's at 70 percent or 50 percent or it'll just reboot all on its own and not bootloop also half my notifications don't look like what they're supposed to they just show up almost like a blank white flag... it's a white square and three white lines next to it

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This may be similar to the freezing people are reporting

I have a NEON300, in other words, the US version with 20 key and US 3G. The problem I experience once in a while is sort of like the freezing people are mentioning. When mine freezes, or at least when I finally notice it has frozen, I get a blinking green or yellow LED, the phone is warm, and my battery is almost dead. Almost like I was on a call for 2 hours but I wasn't. The unit will not respond to any buttons or anything. The only way to wake it up is to pull the battery and restart. Then it works fine again for about a week. Has anyone else had this issue and possibly found a fix? Thanks.
I've had my US Dual for about a week now and I've had mine freeze at least twice. The LED's are normal, but the screen and buttons are non-responsive. The reset button under the battery cover does work and it resets fine and works. It seems to happen to me when I'm browsing the web.
I've got the US 20 key version with SPB mobile shell and the diamond theme running. Mine seems to freeze about 1-3 times per day. The led lights are still blinking but none of the buttons work or opening the phone. I have to to a soft reset with the stylus and then everything is back to normal...
It only does this when it powers down, i.e. auto sleep, then it won't wake back up.
No fix that I know of.
What a BS problem to have. I hope HTC comes out with a fix for this. I don't know about your guy's phones but mine gets warm and the battery drains for some reason. Maybe I will uninstall all of the 3rd party apps and see how that goes.

Weird Battery Percentage, (not the taskbar %)

I'm wondering if maybe my battery is jacked up or something, but I've only noticed this a couple times.
About a week ago, I plugged my phone in before going to bed, next morning I had a green light and battery widget said 100%. I unplugged the phone and the screen went back off. Maybe 5 minutes later, I picked the phone back up and woke it up and the widget said it was already at 90%. Went into settings and it also already showed a bar missing from the battery bar as well. My phone hovers between 12-15% awake, but even at 100% it shouldn't pull the battery that much in 5 minutes.
So when fresh 1 came out, I had been wanting to ruu back and start from scratch so I went ahead and did that. Seemed to fixed the battery issue, until tonight. I got bored and was changing stuff around. I turned the phone off to do a nandroid backup at 51% battery. Shut down, nandroid and reboot, and when it came back on, it said it was down to 28%. I know rebooting the phone didn't pull almost a quarter of the battery. I plugged it into the computer for maybe 5 minutes to adb the htclockscreen out, when I pulled the usb, it said it was already back to 51%. Rebooted phone and when it came back up it said it was 41%. Screen turned off, and when I turned it back on, it said 43% and now seems to be holding steady there.
Again my first thought was maybe the widget, but i've tried 2 different ones, batterylife and the htc one and they both show the same and the bar under settings appears to validate the same.
Any ideas?

Battery Full == Screen Burn In

As I go to sleep I put my phone on the charger. When the charge reaches 100% the screen turns on, and stays on the lock screen due to the notification.
The lock screen stays on for hours and burns the white dots into my screen.
How can I get the screen to automatically turn off after battery full notification?
Running stock JI6.
Switch to a different rom like Bionix that doesnt have that annoying popup
JI6 changed the popup to a notification bar symbol, like getting an email.
I've never had this problem. Charging the phone overnight I notice it lights up when the battery is fully charged but it turns itself off after a moment like always.
hipmel said:
JI6 changed the popup to a notification bar symbol, like getting an email.
I've never had this problem. Charging the phone overnight I notice it lights up when the battery is fully charged but it turns itself off after a moment like always.
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even if it has the pop-up before the update, tje screen should be off after few second (supposed)
however, i had the same problem that the screen does not turn off before, still have no idea how it happen and how to fix

Does your nexus 7 show the 'powering down' box

Hi, when my nexus gets to a low battery, it doesnt show the android system 'powering off' message.
It just goes black. Sudden shut down
Does anybody elses do this?
My C6 did this it would just die at 20% no shutting down just turned off, and gave "low low battery logo" in small white text in upper left corner. Tried several cycles, calibrating deleting batterystats.bin nothing helped always just turned off around there. Exchanged it out for a C7
Everytime mine does it, the clock resets so i cant access google play -.-

[Q] Stock N10 frequent random shutdowns

My problem is a little different from what I've mostly read. I use my N10 about an hour a day, then let it sit for 23 hours. About half the time when I turn the screen on, I find that it shut itself down at some point. Sometimes there's no notification light, and sometimes the notification light is actually blinking (weird).
I turn it back on, it boots up, life is good. It doesn't freeze while in use. It also doesn't keep time well. Between the time and the shutdowns I can't use it for an alarm, which would be nice.
Anyway, should I try to return it, reset it to factory defaults (I believe I did this a couple months ago), or is this normal?
mobbom said:
My problem is a little different from what I've mostly read. I use my N10 about an hour a day, then let it sit for 23 hours. About half the time when I turn the screen on, I find that it shut itself down at some point. Sometimes there's no notification light, and sometimes the notification light is actually blinking (weird).
I turn it back on, it boots up, life is good. It doesn't freeze while in use. It also doesn't keep time well. Between the time and the shutdowns I can't use it for an alarm, which would be nice.
Anyway, should I try to return it, reset it to factory defaults (I believe I did this a couple months ago), or is this normal?
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Sounds like the problem I worked on for two months, commonly called sleep-of-death. I ended up RMAing mine, and the new unit did not have this problem. I suggest you RMA, even though its a bit of a hassle.
do you have to hold the power button longer than usual? typically with sod the unit is on (hence the notification light) but will not wake the screen. have you tried a factory reset? checking for any rogue apps? downloading a new image from Google and flashing it may do the trick as well.

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