I have recently installed Artemis Touch 4.01 on my XDA Orbit. This seemed fine for a week or 2, but recently, I have found the phone swited off in my pocket (not in standby, i.e. hold power button in for few secs to swich back on).
Could this be a software bug, as this has never happened on O2 firmware?
If the only explanation for this is that the power button has been inadvertently pressed, can the keypad lock be set to lock automatically?
Thanks
Flashed to Touch 4.02 last night and I'm having the exact same problem.
I flashed to ARTEMIS TOUCH 4.02 2 weeks ago and have had my XDA Orbit shut off 7-10 times already. One of those times was when I was on a phone call with a friend. I just reflashed to ARTEMIS TOUCH VANILLA 4.02 today and have already had it shut off on me while I was driving. Can anyone make any sense of this? Any suggestions to fix this horrible problem of ours?
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Hi folks,
I had my XDA doing strange things too. Battery status (%) all over the place, fast drain aso. found the XDA switched off. Was thinking about ROMs, SD card (I've a 8 gig one) and BT which I use regular, but the easy solution
I just bought a new battery
Standby is back to 3 days with some use in between, doesn't switch off unintended anymore.
May just think off how old your battery might be and how often you loaded it!
I was also thinking it was the battery so I decided instead of buying a brand new one I would drain the power and start from scratch. Yesterday I drained the battery down to 0% then recharged it. Since then I haven't had it shut off on me. I'll let you guys know the progress on if its fixed or not.. lets hope so. Thanks for the suggestion fun! I'll check back in about 5-7 days letting you guys know what has happened.
i went into settings/today and checked off the check box for htc home, this reset htc home to default settings (but still displays it regardless of the checkbox value) and it's been fine since...
wtf?
i've only had these problems since 4.02, everything was fine until then (I was on 3.xx before that and B&B before that and it's always been fine).
I've also flashed to Vanilla 4.2 with Radio 03.08.90 and the phone cut out on me during conversation and after that it would say invalid simcard.
After that I had it flashed with the original O2 WM6 ROM and radio 03.08.90 and now I have no power drain at all.
I've had it charged almost 25 hours ago and had not used the phone but for one call and just to check the time on it and I am still on 100 percent power. (battery Status)
I am amazed. Before, by this time I would be down to 85 or so percent.
I had just soft reset the phone to make sure Battery Status didn't get stuck on 100 percent but it still says 100 percent after the reboot. So I guess it's true.
The Rom is stable and no turn offs and works great with TomTom too.
This happened to me and flashing never fixed it. The problem is more than likely the battery but I took mine back to o2 (because it is on contract. You have a waranty for the same length as your contract, they just dont tell you). Take it back the shop, if its not your fault they will fix it. In my case they couldn't and they gave me a brand new XDA Orbit and battery.
Alright guys its been 5 days since I posted and guess what? My Orbit has yet to shut off! Woo hoo *knock on wood*. But if any of you would like to try what I did just let you battery drain out until its fully drained Then just charge it until its full again. Please let us know your findings if you do decide to try this out. Hope this solves your problems!
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Hi
Got problem with power. It happened suddenly about 1 week ago.
Before it, battery stills for 3 even for 4 days. At now, i must recharge it eveary day.
I didn't installed anything. Just using Pocket Informat and baterry pack pro. Nothing else from memory resident programs.
I don't think battery is ****ing up, i've got my device for only 3 months for now, so it must be software issue, but which, cause not installed anything new.
I've dont use bluetooth (i've deleted runbttray to solve muted phonecalls), ocassionally i use wifi. Every evening i've put device in flight mode and sometimes it goes about 30% down at night (between 22 - 7). It is so rapidly i think.The most power-eater are screen and GSM module, but at night they are booth off. When GSM is on, it gets even more power.
I try to hardreset but before i want you to ask some sugestions maybe.
radio is 1.10
rom 1.40 (i-mate)
saganov said:
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i must recharge it every day.
radio is 1.10
rom 1.40 (i-mate)
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i have had this from the start, and from what ive read in the past, its pretty normal even if you dont use it a lot, i always charge mine up in the car if i drive to top it up!!!!
if it is software related id like to know if it is fixable!!!!
but as far as ive read anyway, its just normal is that!!! :roll:
Yes, but why it work great. 3-4 days, and from about week ago is working for 1-2 days, usage of device before and now is similiar
Hi all, i have the mda pro (t-mobile UK) Had tried lots of roms before but in the end i stuck with the latest official t-mobile rom & radio.
In the last few weeks i every time i try to connect with gprs the signal goes, other times the phone just goes dead, wont reboot properly for a few try's( gets to the windows mobile logo then dead again.
After a few try's it will boot up, but it turns off alot i mean just about every time i open up the phone. I thought maybe the battery but when i get it to boot up its fine %70 battery ect ect.
Its still under warrenty and is actual being sent back tomorrow for repair but i have a feeling they will just reflash and send it back as the problem is random.
Anybody any ideas whats wrong? did a hard reset and problem if anything is worse now and seems to be getting worse everyday. Ofcourse i dont know when the phone has went belly up as its closed over when not in use.
I really would like a replacment phone but as i said i think they will reflash and send back. I have to keep sim,battery ect.ect.
Info anyone.
With those symptoms my first thought would be a faulty battery. If i were you, I would insist on returning the battery for replacement as well.
Are Battery's covered under the first years guarantee?
Iam almost sure its the battery also, but the battery holds fine after it reboots, Having said that it never lasts anywhere near 24hrs and never has.
Steph69 said:
Are Battery's covered under the first years guarantee?
Iam almost sure its the battery also, but the battery holds fine after it reboots, Having said that it never lasts anywhere near 24hrs and never has.
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I'm sure that is the battery,I had the same problem and the guarantee covered only 6 monthes
Problem solved....
Well got a brand new shinny MDA Pro replacment under warrenty.
Not a new battery tho, still got all the same problems so yup its a battery problem.
No big deal i will buy a new battery and i got a brand new mda pro again.
Result .....
First off. . .I've had so many WINMO phones i've lost count. . . so knowing a bit about WINMO and how batteries work, THIS MAKES NO SENSE WHY IT WORKED. . .but it did.
Ok, let me know if this fixed the problem for you, I'd love to hear if there was another factor in my battery suddenly becoming An AMAZING powerhouse.
So my battery life SUCKED for the first week i had my Sprint TP2. After trying every reg hack I could get my hands on (including trying to disable 3g - which the mode of operation page just never showed up on my settings- like it did on my touch pro --anyone have thoughts on this?) I decided on another hard reset.
But this time was different. . . I let it charge all night long. . .then while it was still plugged in, I hard reset it. . .
1) CHARGE FULLY
2) hard reset while still plugged in
3) install myphone and restore (still plugged in)
4) install nuePower 1.52 -- soft reset twice
5) install other software
About 2 hours after doing this (and using it) i noticed the battery was still at 100% - - - WHAT!!!
My first thought was that the sensor was broken, but then about an hour later, it dropped to 90%. I used the phone more yesterday than i have in every day I've had it combined. . .
I downloaded (on the battery) I'd say upwards of 30MB -- did another myphone sync - a cleanup -- took about 1/2 hr.
Made several phone calls. . .bluetooth the whole sh'bang (about 30 mins phone calls i'd say)
end of the day . . . battery was at 50%
NOTE: for some reason the 1% increment doesn't work, but who cares anymore when the battery now ROCKS!
I'm more incline to think an app you install before was sucking the power somehow, did you have identical app suite before and after the hard reset?
yes, I've re-installed EVERY piece of software i had before. That's one of the reasons it makes no sense why it works.
s2u2
Facebook
Bing
Myphone
Klaxon
DST Update
Advanced Config Tool
Google maps
nuePower
olive tree bible reader
PHM Registry Editor
weatherCityEditor
olive tree bible reader-> lol
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yes, I've re-installed EVERY piece of software i had before. That's one of the reasons it makes no sense why it works.
s2u2
Facebook
Bing
Myphone
Klaxon
DST Update
Advanced Config Tool
Google maps
nuePower
olive tree bible reader
PHM Registry Editor
weatherCityEditor
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olive tree bible reader
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where did you find that app at? Can you get different versions (KJV or NIV) ?
http://olivetree.com
they have several bibles for free (KJV, MKGV, ASV, etc) and some for fee (NIV for one).
app is pretty good, if not a bit "old" looking
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where did you find that app at? Can you get different versions (KJV or NIV) ?
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Here, and yes. Many of the older versions are free. It doesn't support touch screens very well yet, but you can make the zoom bar work as a scroller which helps.
BTW, back to the OT-
I found that I had to turn off the power option that turns on the TP2 when the keyboard opens. The keyboard sensor is magnetic, and it would think the keyboard had opened every time I would put it back in it's HTC belt case. You know- the one with the magnetic lid...
i've not seen that magnetic case problem, got the case from Sprint, insert it in so the screen faces my belt. . . no problems there. Yup, just checked it.
Hey where did you find that feature to turn off the keyboard thingy. I have a magnetic case and I always see my light one when I take it out of my case
second that request for how turn off the power option on sliding the keyboard..
it is silly anyway. I never slide the keyboard unless i have an app open that needs it. But that app doesn't need it until I open and use the app, which doesn't happen until I turn on the phone.....
LOL
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Hey where did you find that feature to turn off the keyboard thingy. I have a magnetic case and I always see my light one when I take it out of my case
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Google is your friend-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523842&highlight=power+keyboard+slide
here: so you don't have to jump through 2 loops to get to it:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\DeviceMap\Keybd] Create new dword "SlideWakeup" with value of 0 and soft reset.
To revert, delete the key or set it's data to 1
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second that request for how turn off the power option on sliding the keyboard..
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Schap's Advanced Config did that on the Kaiser, has anyone tried it with the TP2?
I have that installed, i don't see the setting anywhere.
Can anyone else confirm this... I would do this in a second if I thought it would work. I barely get a days worth out of normal use. Sprint TP2
I'm about to give this a shot. I'm not terribly upset with my battery life, but anything more would be better. I see that you are using the sprint TP2. Is hspl out for that yet? I'm using a Tilt2 and have a custom ROM. Not sure if that means much to you but I will let you know if I see an improvement.
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So far so good. I won't know if the 1% battery driver doesn't work until the battery meter updates, but it hasn't dropped below 100% yet. It's my feeling that the full charge and hard reset on charge is what did the trick. I will keep everyone posted.
can anyone tell me if they are having success by using this method...is this working on any touch pro 2 bc i have a verizon touch pro2 and im lucky to get 10 hrs life with it and thats with texting only (heavily)...i dont make any phone calls and i barely use the data but like i said, im lucky to get 10-12 hrs of life...any help would be great
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can anyone tell me if they are having success by using this method...is this working on any touch pro 2 bc i have a verizon touch pro2 and im lucky to get 10 hrs life with it and thats with texting only (heavily)...i dont make any phone calls and i barely use the data but like i said, im lucky to get 10-12 hrs of life...any help would be great
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Well I've been using my phone with heavy to moderate usage since my last post (with wifi off) and my phone is currently at about 65%. So it doesn't seem that my battery life has improved dramatically. I'll have a better idea about how effective this method was on my battery life later this evening.
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It has been about 10 hours off charge and my phone is currently at 36%. Since it's the weekend and I just got the phone I've been using it a little more than usual. So far I feel that the battery life has improved after using this method. Once I've used it for a couple more days I'll report back my results.
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I woke up at 8am, used my phone throughout the day, and here about 12 hours later my phone is at 33%. I am much happier knowing that I can use my phone all day and still only have to charge it overnight. Thanks OP.
Solution to my battery life issue.
Hi all,
This is related to battery life (but not really the original poster's cause), so I thought I'd post it here so others can find it. I purchased a TP2 in a city where 3G coverage exists, while on a business trip, and I was pleased with the battery life. But when I returned home I found my battery life decreased greatly. The phone was only 3 weeks old, but I thought I might have had a dud battery. The Settings>System>Power>Information tab, however, showed many hours of device usage (which was draining my battery) even on days when I didn't check email or use the internet.
I was finally pointed to a solution by a T-Mo rep (after a few encounters with less-informed staff). My home location is in a non-3G area and my phone was constantly trying to find 3G coverage all day long when in my home area. This was, apparently, the equivalent to being on the internet all day and my phone wouldn't last 10 hours. I went to Start>Settings>Advanced Network and changed the option to Disable (when I'm in a non-3G area) and this solved the issue. My phone now lasts two days again, instead of 10 hours.
This is, I know, slightly off the topic of the orginal posters topic but I hope someone reading about battery life issues might find this useful.
can anyone provide me the nuePower 1.52 i cant download it
Hi guys, i bought my hermes (o2 trion) in 2007. It came with windows mobile 5. In march 2008, i decided to upgrade to windows mobile 6. After some time, i noticed it draining battery within a few hours and the device started emitting more heat than usual. Initially, i thought that there was a problem with the device and bought it to the local htc retailer. The guy there told me that the was a problem with the board and it needed to be replaced. I found it weird coz a few days earlier, it was working fine. As the board was a bit too expensive, i decided not to get it replaced. My hermes had been sitting in a drawer since. Today, i came across this article on the xda wiki: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_ExtractedRadioRoms It mentioned this:
"Problems with the device emitting more heat than usual, shorter battery life, long drop out periods where the device looks for a network or other "odd" intermittent radio issues can be a warning that something may not be right."
I continued getting signal but the device started heating and draining battery faster. Today, i thought that it may be a problem with the radio software. How to i flash a new radio?
My device has the following software on it
Rom: schap's 4.31
Date: 10/03/07
Radio version: 1.48.00.10
Would flashing a windows 6.5 version solve the problem? Thanks for your inputs gys.
ok, i upgraded to joshkoss's light 6.5 rom but the radio didnt get updated. Can somebody direct me to a rom which contains it's own radio? thanks.
you've got a pm from me
i flashed the latest radio. seems that something is wrong with the device itself. it still heats up and battery end fast when i activate my phone function.
luke1708 said:
i flashed the latest radio. seems that something is wrong with the device itself. it still heats up and battery end fast when i activate my phone function.
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try taking it apart and cleaning out all the dust?
I had this problem, i opened and i noticed that the camera wasn't in the right position. Now it works perfectly
Camera not in right position ? Care to explain further?
If you open it you'll notice that the camera is linked to the rest of the phone with a very small connection and can move from its place (sorry for my english). I don't know why but it moved from the right position and so some electric contact didn't work very well, causing fast battery drain and warming the phone. I just put it in the right position
Battery life and WM 6.0
Have had similar issuses with mine but now seem all OK, flashed with Hardspl to permanently unlock the ROM, and make bootloader freely accessiable to all other flash programs, and then downloaded and flashed with Dark Visions ROM and now battery lasts all day instead of 60 minutes.
I has become so frustrated with the 60 minute battery life i had purchased a new battery only to discover it was the ROM and not the Battery.
Apparently the battery monitor software in WM 6.0 drains the battery real fast
I am still searching for a ROM that lets me connect to Telsra in Australia and can open email attachements, but I am real close to what I want out of my JasJam
Anyone else having this problem?
The phone won't turn back on from what I think is locked because the screen is black, but none of the buttons do anything, I have to re-insert the battery and the phone will boot up with the power button. This happens almost every day.
Sounds like a problem with the digitiser/screen, and a candidate for a warranty return ?
Have you tried to switch it off (the screen with short press, not the power) and then on again with the power button? Sometimes it happens on my z too but its just a sw bug. Switch off and on helps here.
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I am able to lock and unlock with the power button normally.
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Have you tried to switch it off (the screen with short press, not the power) and then on again with the power button? Sometimes it happens on my z too but its just a sw bug. Switch off and on helps here.
-- sent from htc z using xda app
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akira112 said:
Anyone else having this problem?
The phone won't turn back on from what I think is locked because the screen is black, but none of the buttons do anything, I have to re-insert the battery and the phone will boot up with the power button. This happens almost every day.
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Could be a problem with the contacts on the battery -- perhaps the contact is loose, so when you bump the phone just right it loses power and shuts down.
I had this once last week. I left it sitting on the workbench in the garage for about an hour while I was out there and it became unresponsive to all buttons/keypresses.
A battery pull and it fired right up again.
It was -10C in the garage and the bench is metal. I chalked it up to getting too cold.
It hasn't done it again since I keep it in my back pocket (front pocket has claimed a few digitizers/LCDs in the past!).
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Anyone else having this problem?
The phone won't turn back on from what I think is locked because the screen is black, but none of the buttons do anything, I have to re-insert the battery and the phone will boot up with the power button. This happens almost every day.
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This is definitely not an individual case as I saw so many DesireZ or G2 users in HK or China raised the same issues on the gfan forum (one of the China HTC forum).
My DesireZ is a genuine one with stock ROM. It happened 2-3 times already of what we called the "sleep dead" in China here.
I locked the phone then after a while when I tried to turn it on, all buttons became dead. Finally I have to pull out and insert the battery again to make the phone alive.
Some of the gfan forum members also encountered the same situation. Some of their phone are Euro version and some Asia Pac version but the cases are the same that means this problem are not only for a specific version. Some say it is becoz of temperature but I really don't think so. I am sure this is a bug......
Bring back to HTC is not a solution as this "sleep dead" phenomenon don't appear every minute. Mine has happened 3 times and I bought this DZ only about 2 weeks.
happened 2-3 times to me too, each time it was sitting in my pocket.
it's summer in Australia so i doubt its anything to do with being too cold.
hasn't happened for about a week now, so i kind of ignored the problem.
That is definitely not good news.
Mind is still stock from Bell, unlocked for use on Rogers.
I guess I may have to find a replacement phone soon.
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This is definitely not an individual case as I saw so many DesireZ or G2 users in HK or China raised the same issues on the gfan forum (one of the China HTC forum).
My DesireZ is a genuine one with stock ROM. It happened 2-3 times already of what we called the "sleep dead" in China here.
I locked the phone then after a while when I tried to turn it on, all buttons became dead. Finally I have to pull out and insert the battery again to make the phone alive.
Some of the gfan forum members also encountered the same situation. Some of their phone are Euro version and some Asia Pac version but the cases are the same that means this problem are not only for a specific version. Some say it is becoz of temperature but I really don't think so. I am sure this is a bug......
Bring back to HTC is not a solution as this "sleep dead" phenomenon don't appear every minute. Mine has happened 3 times and I bought this DZ only about 2 weeks.
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I encountered the same problem, so do my friends. Google maps causes the problem in 3 different phones.
Sent from my Desire Z
Anyone found a solution to this? Is it a s/w bug or a hardware issue? Thanks.
As far as I can tell, it's a hardware issue. Happened to me four times randomly before I took it in and exchanged at Bell. My new phone and the phone my friend got (at the same time as my first), has zero issues.
At the time, it didn't matter if it was cold, warm, fully charged, plugged-in, etc. It would do it randomly once every 1-4 days. It didn't even matter after I did factory reset (so software would not be an issue).
I have no idea what causes it but if you're getting the sleep-dead issue, I'd really recommend exchanging it if you can. Better to be safe than wait and find it's not an issue you can fix yourself.
I have a Bell stock Desire Z that has done this twice. First time it happened was when I tried wake it up in the morning after sleeping all night. The second time it was at a Christmas party. Just finished taking a picture. Went to take another shot, bang it was dead. Both times, pulled the battery and it came back to life.
Bought mine from Bell as well less than 2 weeks ago. Do they give any trouble to exchange it? Do they actually need me to factory reset it before returning/exchanging it?
sekhar_777 said:
Bought mine from Bell as well less than 2 weeks ago. Do they give any trouble to exchange it? Do they actually need me to factory reset it before returning/exchanging it?
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I didn't have any troubles. I did a wipe and factory reset, then wipe again for security though. As long as you're only doing EXCHANGE (not refund), you have 30 days.
I must report that this issue happened on mine as well.
In JuicePlotter, the period where the unresponsiveness happened, juice plotter recorded no power.
(Either that or juice plotter only refreshes the graph when you open the app).
Happened twice within the first 48 hours of getting this phone. In day 3 now.
I have the same problem. It happend to me twice (in two weeks).
I would like to know if this is a software issue.
I still have the stock unmodified rom but am planning to install custom roms.
If this appears to be a hardware error, I should return my phone and get a new one. If it's a software thing, there will be a fix eventually, or I can just install a custom rom and be done with it...
anyone any idea?
Is there anyone with a custom rom who has the same problem?
Like I've said, I doubt it's a software issue (especially when it happens AFTER factory reset). But again, why take the chance? Better to be safe than sorry than be out $600.
happend to me today for the first time too... fully loaded, not pretty cold and stock rom on european version. it seems to simply being switched off. kind of sucks, as i'm having hardcase around which needs to removed everytime first.
mine too
it happened to me too. just after i started using maps and locations. i have it for a month now and this issue just started to surface the past 3 days...ohwell..hope we get a fix soon..or at least a "how to stop this issue" sometime real soon....:|