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This thing is reallllyyy pissing me off. Before people say "are you happy now, see ya later, or the iPhone sucks"
Their are serious issues with the Android OS and the Battery is the main problem with the EVO.
Now if someone can give me a fix for this I would greatly appreciate it and continue to love using my phone again but untill then Every little thing is going wrong with this phone to make me want to switch.
Here it is:
I am NOT rooted! I have 4G turned off, WIFI, bluetooth, and GPS turned off, I also have the screen brightness set to automatic. I have no widgets on the home screen that require an internet connection, and have all syncing turned off, on everything! that includes contacts, facebook, mail (stock and gmail) weather, and news.
I even have "enable always-on mobile data" turned off.
I am currently using Launcher Pro, but was using ADW launcher before that and then stock 2.1 android (no sense turned on, on all of them)
My battery barely makes it 8 hours without being on low.
under the battery category, for the past week or so plus, I havent really checked into that, So i can't tell you when it started, as been on 100%
So my uptime and my awake time have been the same.
I have turned the phone on and off 5 times already, used a task killer, turned on airplane mode, and no dice.
The only definite fix, is going one by one and deleting an app, turning the phone on and off, and looking at battery usage, I have easily 25 apps and that will take forever. Or doing a hard reset, something I do not want to waste my time doing again, reconfiguring my phone, and reinstalling a bunch of apps and settings.
An example of todays usage, I am not exagerating any of this.
I unplugged it at 10:30 AM, 25 total text messages (going in an out) no phone calls, 4G was on and connected for a total of 2 Minutes.
Now I know if you leave 4G on and you are not connected it kills the battery, but I had it off, turned it on for 2 Minutes because I was in chicago, and wanted to see how fast it was ran 3 speed tests, and turned it off.
I refreshed my email 4 times, That means opening up the mail app, clicking menu and refresh, same thing with facebook, refreshed my news feed 5 times. and at 6:30
I have 2 out of the 5 bars left.
That is absolutely rediculous, I am past my 30 day return time.
An OS that allows certain apps to keep the phone on and make the battery life horrible is rediculous.
This is a list of all apps I have both from the market and off:
advanced task killer
AK notepad
akari
astro
better cut
betterkeyboard
dictionary.com (offical App)
facebook
find my phone
Flikie wallpaper
fox news
handcent sms
keeper
leet speak
live scores
memory trainer
news and weather (from nexus one, but refreshing is on manual)
pass phrase
pda net
picsay pro
qik
ringroid
shazam
speedtest
status notes
texas hold em
tip calculator
tv listings
urban dictionary
zedge
I have notice one thing tho with launcherpro, for some reason when I go into an app or hold down the home button to bring up the multitasking 6 app menu, and then click home after, the setting to come up that asks which home launcher I want
HTC sense or Launcherpro
comes up all the time, like 10 times a day, and I always click choose this action for default and click launcher pro and sure enough after opening a couple apps, and clicking home the box will come up, may be that has something to do with the battery I dont know tho.
If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate, and you would save an evo from being thrown into a wall.
thanks.
Try out CM6 and I guarantee you'll never even think about an iphone again.
Like he said above.. Root and get cm6.. I can go 2 days easy regular use..
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the iphone sucks
can you post a link to which one you are talking about, because I looked up on android Development and it said the cyanmod or what ever it was was not very stable, so I don't know about that.
And if the iPhone is such a terrible phone, why should I have to root my phone and install a custom ROM in in order for it to work properly, IOS 4 does not have that.
The key is in data if your not using mobile data then use the widget to turn it off til you need it. Or root and flash a custom rom. They have better battery life hands down
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Read the insane battery life thread.
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mjz147 said:
can you post a link to which one you are talking about, because I looked up on android Development and it said the cyanmod or what ever it was was not very stable, so I don't know about that.
And if the iPhone is such a terrible phone, why should I have to root my phone and install a custom ROM in in order for it to work properly, IOS 4 does not have that.
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Yeah it just can't make calls
the iphone sucks
mjz147 said:
can you post a link to which one you are talking about, because I looked up on android Development and it said the cyanmod or what ever it was was not very stable, so I don't know about that.
And if the iPhone is such a terrible phone, why should I have to root my phone and install a custom ROM in in order for it to work properly, IOS 4 does not have that.
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Because i don't have to wrap my phone in Rubber or Duct Tape it for it to make a phone call or maintain a data connection. You were just asking to get flamed by posting this. If you wan't help from people around here, bashing Android and saying "IOS 4 has no problems!!!" isn't going to be your best option.
P.S. Stock Android 2.1 or even Sense UI crushes IOS 4. Maybe it's not the phone....maybe it's the user.
You didn't specifically say that you had Google talk signed out. Turn off auto sign in on that app and it makes a huge difference.
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I didn't see anyone mention this, not that it's going to be your issue but it could be something to check.
I recall a friend having a severe battery issue and it turned out the stock calendar program was preventing his phone from hibernating and thus being on constantly.
Just something to try, I hope you find out what's up soon. Also not sure if you have a spare battery, but sometimes you can get a dud and the only way to test that is try another battery.
Seriously, if you think iOS4 is better than Android then that's the phone you need. You pretty much just wasted everyone's time with all that.
While I would agree that if you want to get dramatically improved battery life, your best bet is to root it and flash a custom rom, Even when my phone was stock it got much better battery life than yours seems to be getting. I actually ran my phone for for weeks stock, not rooted, so I would have a good baseline of experience when I did start to customize it.
Typically, my phone would last about 10-14 hours before needing to be recharged. That would be with slightly more usage than you indicate, and with data and gps always on, but 4g off, as I don't live in a 4g area.
Now that I am rooted, and am running Fresh 1.0.1 and the fps fix kernel, and a battery saver setcpu profile, the same use gives me more than 50% charge left after running 14-16 hours off the charger.
Personally, it sounds to me like you might have a defective battery. As one of the previous posters said, I would recommend you try the instructions in one of the battery life threads here and if that didn't work, I would take it to the Sprint repair center.
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can you post a link to which one you are talking about, because I looked up on android Development and it said the cyanmod or what ever it was was not very stable, so I don't know about that.
And if the iPhone is such a terrible phone, why should I have to root my phone and install a custom ROM in in order for it to work properly, IOS 4 does not have that.
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iphone isn't a terrible phone, it just doesn't compare to an EVO.
anything iphone can do, the evo can do - and do it better.
no need to be on wi-fi for a video chat!
Why would you buy a 4.3 inch screen....4g.... and expect awesome battery? Yes it could be better but come-on....if you didn't expect it to have bad battery life....?????????? That's all I can say I just don't understand...android phones normally have bad battery life on top of all that....
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I'm having the same issues as you except that I am rooted. Have an underclocked phone and Baked Snack 9.7
I'm really beginning to think that the people that claim to get 14+ hours of battery life is just a bunch of bs. I do exactly what they do and i get no where near the 18 hours some users claim to get. And for the people bashing the iphone, its not a bad phone, and almost everyone that invests $200 in a phone get a case anyway. And no i'm not bashing the Evo either. Battery life just sucks on it.
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can you post a link to which one you are talking about, because I looked up on android Development and it said the cyanmod or what ever it was was not very stable, so I don't know about that.
And if the iPhone is such a terrible phone, why should I have to root my phone and install a custom ROM in in order for it to work properly, IOS 4 does not have that.
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No offense, but it seems like you kind of made up your mind already on what you want to do. Iphone 4 is a good phone, but honestly, it gets boring after about a week, if that. Android is so much fun. You don't have to root your phone for it to work properly. Do some research into why batteries drain really fast with this phone. You do realize how big the screen is right? lol. I''l give you ups and downs of both phones.
Iphone 4-
Good
Nice looking phone, OS is smooth, apps.
Bad
Got to watch where you hold it, AT&T (they don't have unlimited data plan), not very much to do with Iphone
Evo
Good
Big screen, Sprint, camera, don't have to be on wi-fi for video calling, fully customizable, even more so if you root it. There are more but tired of typing!
Bad
Battery
Thats just my opinion though. I would have more bad things to say about it if not for Cyanogen. Its like an overgrown Nexus now! Sorry for the long post. lol. If you have any questions on how to root or anything feel free to send me a message or whatever.
mjz147 said:
under the battery category, for the past week or so plus, I havent really checked into that, So i can't tell you when it started, as been on 100%
So my uptime and my awake time have been the same.
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dial *#*#4636#*#*
battery history
partial wake usage
tell me what comes up 1st and 2nd.
I just got an Evo last week and I have been loving it aside from the battery issues. I just noticed that this evo only support 3 point multitouch and some users had claimed that 5 point multitouch works for them.
Should I call Best Buy or Sprint and ask for one that support 5 point multitouch?
Is that even worth it?
Please advise.
A note on multitouch:
Some of you may have used my 5point multitouch test builds with success, others with failure. Research has shown that the Evo's contain at least 2 different versions of the touch sensor, one of which does not support 5point multitouch (but it DOES support 3point). You can check which sensor you have using adb by issuing the following command: "adb shell cat /sys/android_touch/vendor" and examining the result. If your result is ATMEL_x0080_x0016, your phone can support 5point. If your result is ATMEL_x004F_x0016, your phone will only support up to 3point.
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I verified that shell shows ATMEL_X004F
Oh yeah, DEFINITELY take it back. I don't know what I would do without those 2 extra points.
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Oh yeah, DEFINITELY take it back. I don't know what I would do without those 2 extra points.
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sad part is i can't tell if your being a smart ass of dead serious lol
I doubt you can return it as it doesnt effect performance unless there is such an app that supports 5 point touch. BTW this is due to the new batch of EVO's coming with the new screens, different connectors etc.
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sad part is i can't tell if your being a smart ass of dead serious lol
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The former. Don't tell OP though.
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The former. Don't tell OP though.
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LOL !!!
Sporkman said:
sad part is i can't tell if your being a smart ass of dead serious lol
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lol thought the same thing
I'm new to the Evo, that's why I asked. Am I missing out on something with not having 5 dots working?
jtadeo said:
lol thought the same thing
I'm new to the Evo, that's why I asked. Am I missing out on something with not having 5 dots working?
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Nah, you're fine. My old Evo had 5 point, my replacement that I just got has 3. There is no real world difference, no apps besides multipoint visualizer even make use of 3, and that's just a test program. Keep your Evo, and cherish and protect it with your life.
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Nah, you're fine. My old Evo had 5 point, my replacement that I just got has 3. There is no real world difference, no apps besides multipoint visualizer even make use of 3, and that's just a test program. Keep your Evo, and cherish and protect it with your life.
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Thanks for the info
already have this bad boy protected with bodyguardz full body skin
No prob. How do you like it so far? It's an amazing device, even with its unfortunate 3 point multitouch limitation!
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No prob. How do you like it so far? It's an amazing device, even with its unfortunate 3 point multitouch limitation!
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Runs great, but having some strange battery issues. Running the latest flipz rom and kings cfs #11 and the battery drops 20% within 10 minutes with hardly any use.
I performed a full reboot and didn't launch any apps and it did the same thing. I just Flashed netarchy-toastmod-4.1.9.1-cfs-havs-universal-signed so hopefully I get different results.
20% in the first 10 minutes is a little unusual, most people's Evo's tend to drop 10%. It has something to do with the way the phone charges the battery, once it gets up to 100% it stops charging altogether (no trickle) and doesn't start charging again till the battery drops down till about 90% (I believe). If you unplug your phone at 100%, turn it off and plug it back in until the light turns green and then turn it back on, you should get a full charge out of it. Also, your phone is new, so I'm sure it hasn't profiled the battery fully yet, which is probably where that extra 10% is coming from. Give it a few days and I'm sure you'll see it level out.
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20% in the first 10 minutes is a little unusual, most people's Evo's tend to drop 10%. It has something to do with the way the phone charges the battery, once it gets up to 100% it stops charging altogether (no trickle) and doesn't start charging again till the battery drops down till about 90% (I believe). If you unplug your phone at 100%, turn it off and plug it back in until the light turns green and then turn it back on, you should get a full charge out of it. Also, your phone is new, so I'm sure it hasn't profiled the battery fully yet, which is probably where that extra 10% is coming from. Give it a few days and I'm sure you'll see it level out.
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I haven't completely let it die out so that may be another problem. Lowest I have let this thing go is about 50%. I will try to drain it now, will report later.
Thanks again.
I only have 2 points =(
Mudkip said:
I only have 2 points =(
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If you are running a stock kernel then you will only have 2 points. You need to flash a custom kernel in order to have 3 or 5. Honestly though, there is no use for any more than 2 touchpoints.
_MetalHead_ said:
If you are running a stock kernel then you will only have 2 points. You need to flash a custom kernel in order to have 3 or 5. Honestly though, there is no use for any more than 2 touchpoints.
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i am running the cm6 kernal.
I dunno, I'm not on cm6 so I don't know what that kernel supports. Seriously though, have you come into any situation that required you to have more than 2? Didn't think so.
To everyone: Stop worrying about touchpoints, benchmarks, etc... and just enjoy your phones.
Wondering what's going on with peoples Evo lately... Mine stopped working for 3 hours then came back on.... I went to sleep this morning and left it on the USB charger...Woke up and noticed that my supersonic was off and went through the normal routine of trying to get it back on..(battery pull, tried booting into recovery, pulled SD card, tried different charger) all to no avail.... Get to the store and the tech tells me my battery is deformed (even told me to feel the buldge, which I did not feel). Their solution was for me to by a new battery...they wouldn't replace and im covered with the TEP....just as I was about to purchase the extended battery cause they didnt have the stock battery, I push the power button and my phone boots... Walked out the store baffled but the phone has been working ever since...
I been reading similar stories and my simple question is what the hell is going on...
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K-Driod said:
Wondering what's going on with peoples Evo lately... Mine stopped working for 3 hours then came back on.... I went to sleep this morning and left it on the USB charger...Woke up and noticed that my supersonic was off and went through the normal routine of trying to get it back on..(battery pull, tried booting into recovery, pulled SD card, tried different charger) all to no avail.... Get to the store and the tech tells me my battery is deformed (even told me to feel the buldge, which I did not feel). Their solution was for me to by a new battery...they wouldn't replace and im covered with the TEP....just as I was about to purchase the extended battery cause they didnt have the stock battery, I push the power button and my phone boots... Walked out the store baffled but the phone has been working ever since...
I been reading similar stories and my simple question is what the hell is going on...
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Probably something with the kernel, that seems to be the common denominator so far.
Almost all of us hack our phones in some way: rooting, flashing roms, flashing kernels, adding programs (like hulu, wireless tether), etc etc. Since our battery life sucks anyway, many of us charge our phones multiple times per day. Li-Ion batteries aren't exactly known for their stability. If you Google it, you'll find that they've been acting funny and blowing up for nearly a decade (the oldest news story I could find dated back to 2002).
Since we run our phones really hard, sometimes the battery bugs out for a little while, or dies completely. It was recently blamed on SBC kernels, but we're talking a very small percentage of users experiencing problems. However, it's the nature of the beast that sometimes the phone just has a mild heart attack and comas out for a bit. I would still replace the battery or at least take it easy on flashing things for a little while.
As our phone grows older, we have more and more options on what to do with it...and that's just super but over-flash too much and one line of code doesn't make it and boom, your phone doesn't turn on for 3 hours. Software is a fickle *****, so have fun but be cautious. Always check your logcats and battery monitors.
Thanks for this very logical explanation... Ordered new battery just in case....and will take heed to your recommendations..
AbsolutZeroGI said:
Almost all of us hack our phones in some way: rooting, flashing roms, flashing kernels, adding programs (like hulu, wireless tether), etc etc. Since our battery life sucks anyway, many of us charge our phones multiple times per day. Li-Ion batteries aren't exactly known for their stability. If you Google it, you'll find that they've been acting funny and blowing up for nearly a decade (the oldest news story I could find dated back to 2002).
Since we run our phones really hard, sometimes the battery bugs out for a little while, or dies completely. It was recently blamed on SBC kernels, but we're talking a very small percentage of users experiencing problems. However, it's the nature of the beast that sometimes the phone just has a mild heart attack and comas out for a bit. I would still replace the battery or at least take it easy on flashing things for a little while.
As our phone grows older, we have more and more options on what to do with it...and that's just super but over-flash too much and one line of code doesn't make it and boom, your phone doesn't turn on for 3 hours. Software is a fickle *****, so have fun but be cautious. Always check your logcats and battery monitors.
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Just saw you said your battery was deformed... yeah, that's why you don't use kernels with sbc. It's pretty stupid to honestly.
Check out a video on youtube of what they can do when overcharged.
And definitely get rid of that battery. That's not something you want to be using.
xHausx said:
Just saw you said your battery was deformed... yeah, that's why you don't use kernels with sbc. It's pretty stupid to honestly.
Check out a video on youtube of what they can do when overcharged.
And definitely get rid of that battery. That's not something you want to be using.
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lol do you search the website every hour for "SBC" and have to diss it every post lol, it's actually hilarious, i find it funny...
iitreatedii said:
lol do you search the website every hour for "SBC" and have to diss it every post lol, it's actually hilarious, i find it funny...
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He asked what was going on so I told him, I'm glad you are easily amused.
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He asked what was going on so I told him, I'm glad you are easily amused.
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maybe you should enlighten him that batteries aren't perfect nor are they any where near invincible, they come and go, just like cars, just like power supplies, just like anything. Relax with the NAZI, "SBC OMGGGGGGGG" that's all, it's every thread and it's all opinionated. And no, I'm not going to argue with 4.2 charge full dangerous 4.3 read this site, then dip your oreo while doing a kickflip, no, just relax with the opinions that's all...
So hunting through the bloat I chance upon this interesting kibble. Using nobloat I disabled it and thusfar no issues...But doesn't anyone know what the heck it is?
Google wasn't much help in that regard.
Maybe it is the dreaded "Battery Sucker" we are all searching to disable/stake through the heart/flame to hell, cut it's scrawny head off???
that's weird, i just checked and mine has com.lge.wolfman
repherb said:
Maybe it is the dreaded "Battery Sucker" we are all searching to disable/stake through the heart/flame to hell, cut it's scrawny head off???
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Imagine it is the reason why the battery life is so horrible. And if so, why is it there to begin with? hehe
makes us actually wonder that question with serious thought, just WHY is it there and named so? i can actually say i saw battery life decrease when i enabled it. i could leave my phone unused in my holster all day and see little dropoff, but when i re-enabled com.lge.dracula i actually lost 3/4 of my battery power by mid-day!! coincidence?? maybe....LTE affiliation? possibly.... "battery sucker"?? certainly.
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makes us actually wonder that question with serious thought, just WHY is it there and named so? i can actually say i saw battery life decrease when i enabled it. i could leave my phone unused in my holster all day and see little dropoff, but when i re-enabled com.lge.dracula i actually lost 3/4 of my battery power by mid-day!! coincidence?? maybe....LTE affiliation? possibly.... "battery sucker"?? certainly.
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Well Dracula was also on my vivid
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Can someone run it with the others over at Skyrocket's forum n see if it's also available on their phone. If it is, then it might be LTE related.
Repherb, when u disable it, did u check to see if your LTE will work or not?
i froze dracula through Titanium backup , currently connected to LTE, no problems here, restarted to make sure. it is still frozen and LTE connected.
LG Optimute LTE. P930.
Who can we inquire to here in XDA to research on this random file? Can someone from XDA investigate with LG to find out the purpose behind this file?
Also, is there any possibility of some screenshots to show the difference freezing Dracula does to the battery life? This way we can prove that this file (or Wolfman) does suck the life out of the battery and is the reason behind the horrible battery life.
Froze it, no discernible difference in battery life imo.
Ran a video playback test, the extrapolated playback time at 40% brightness in airplane mode is about 5 hours 20 mins. The same test on my SGS2 got slightly over 8 hours.
LTE works fine when disabled, i am going to dive into the OS to see what calls this. btw: after rooting with DoomLord v3 zergrush, i am getting a serious amount of FC with nothing disabled using GO launcher. anyone else having this? just a [Q]... not trying to cross post...
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after running top, i found that "lg_fota" (OTA updates) calls the Dracula process. hope this sheds some light on this elusive process.
I hate to reopen a two year old thread, but since Dracula is actually undead, I just have to ask: has anyone figured out what com.lge.dracula is, and if it's safe to chuck it?
Hey I have been noticing a weird issue with my phone.
Ive flashed a few different ROMS to see if it was a specific one or if it is something else. Yes, that didnt work.
I am still having random turn offs which shut the phone down. Whether on it or not it happens at least twice a day.
Does this have something to do with the battery? When i reboot the phone the battery level shows at what it was...
last example I had was 68%. So it wasnt fully dead. I was going to send my phone back but decided to stick it out and maybe a new
battery will work? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Take your battery out and place it on a flat surface. Try to spin it. If it spins, it's time to replace it.
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Try a stock rom for a few days if the battery seems fine. My phone has the sleep of death issue with various jellybean AOSP based Roms.
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Hey I have been noticing a weird issue with my phone.
Ive flashed a few different ROMS to see if it was a specific one or if it is something else. Yes, that didnt work.
I am still having random turn offs which shut the phone down. Whether on it or not it happens at least twice a day.
Does this have something to do with the battery? When i reboot the phone the battery level shows at what it was...
last example I had was 68%. So it wasnt fully dead. I was going to send my phone back but decided to stick it out and maybe a new
battery will work? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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One thing I've noticed. My Battery will get extremely hot. I'll pull the battery, wait for 5 min, put the Battery back in and will be able to proceeded.
Just my $.02 worth
It's certainly the battery, only fix is to replace it.
Happens to me once every other day. Not a big problem just take out the battery and replace it back in.
I'm about to change the rom temporarily from goodness to blu kuban to see if it continues.
If it does then it has to be a battery issue at least on my end...
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Time for a new battery.
Pp.
Sent from a jelly bean shooting Epic. In your eye ....... phone.
Battery issue with Galaxy SII
The shutdown issue seems to be inherent in many SII regardless of carrier. I have had this problem with my Sprint phone since new. It has been exchanged twice thus far but the problem continues. Samsung will tell you to do a factory reset. DONTdo it. It will not fix the problem.
It is NOT the battery in most cases.
It seems to be OS related. I have cleaned the battery contacts; not charged unless below 20%; unchecked the Power Saver and Optimization functions; and did a factory reset without loading in any additional apps for awhile. Nothing stopped it from shutting down.
I was able to prevent shutdown for about a two week period by not charging it until it went below 20%.
I did notice that my RAM consumption was over 60% prior to the phone acting up.
Could it be a memory issue?
Thus far, I have not received any real support from Samsung or Sprint. The Galaxy SII is one of the few phones that cannot be run through a diagnostc test by Sprint. If you have warranty coverage, they will replace it but I can almost guarantee the problem will beda plague to the new one.
If anyone has found a solution to this shutdown thing, I would love to know it. Right now, I check my phone status very often throughout the day to see whether it is one or not.
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qanda said:
The shutdown issue seems to be inherent in many SII regardless of carrier. I have had this problem with my Sprint phone since new. It has been exchanged twice thus far but the problem continues. Samsung will tell you to do a factory reset. DONTdo it. It will not fix the problem.
It is NOT the battery in most cases.
It seems to be OS related. I have cleaned the battery contacts; not charged unless below 20%; unchecked the Power Saver and Optimization functions; and did a factory reset without loading in any additional apps for awhile. Nothing stopped it from shutting down.
I was able to prevent shutdown for about a two week period by not charging it until it went below 20%.
I did notice that my RAM consumption was over 60% prior to the phone acting up.
Could it be a memory issue?
Thus far, I have not received any real support from Samsung or Sprint. The Galaxy SII is one of the few phones that cannot be run through a diagnostc test by Sprint. If you have warranty coverage, they will replace it but I can almost guarantee the problem will beda plague to the new one.
If anyone has found a solution to this shutdown thing, I would love to know it. Right now, I check my phone status very often throughout the day to see whether it is one or not.
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What rom/build are you on? Rooted?
Your problem isn't a common topic here unless your running experimental nightlys or doing a bad flash/install or your battery is no good.
I have two Epics since 10/2011 and have never encountered this condition. We did replace the batteries on both phones in 12/12 because of rapid discharges, going from 90% to 50% after a reboot or running a system heavy app like browser, camera, or YouTube.
Other than that all we do is use and charge when necessary.
Both phones are rooted, her phone is a workhorse because of her job, fashion design NYC, keeping track of 4 email accounts (2 gmail, 2 Microsoft Eexchange) plus crazy messaging all day long.
Check your phone model.
It may be different. Maybe you have the wrong battery in your phone?
There where some instances that had some Epic's with 1500 mha batteries instead of 1800mha!
Pp.
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Battery Issue?
PanchoPlanet said:
What rom/build are you on? Rooted?
Your problem isn't a common topic here unless your running experimental nightlys or doing a bad flash/install or your battery is no good.
I have two Epics since 10/2011 and have never encountered this condition. We did replace the batteries on both phones in 12/12 because of rapid discharges, going from 90% to 50% after a reboot or running a system heavy app like browser, camera, or YouTube.
Other than that all we do is use and charge when necessary.
Both phones are rooted, her phone is a workhorse because of her job, fashion design NYC, keeping track of 4 email accounts (2 gmail, 2 Microsoft Eexchange) plus crazy messaging all day long.
Check your phone model.
It may be different. Maybe you have the wrong battery in your phone?
There where some instances that had some Epic's with 1500 mha batteries instead of 1800mha!
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Phone is not rooted....straight OS. I will check the battery to ascertain if it is a 1500 or 1800.
Phone is an SPHD710. It's only three months old and has been swapped twice by Sprint. I think it may be ICS. When I got it, they updated it to the latest OS which was ICS fron Gingerbread, so I don't know if it would have had the same problem with GB.
I'll try to get a new battery from them and see if it makes any difference.
Thanks.
qanda said:
Phone is not rooted....straight OS. I will check the battery to ascertain if it is a 1500 or 1800.
Phone is an SPHD710. It's only three months old and has been swapped twice by Sprint. I think it may be ICS. When I got it, they updated it to the latest OS which was ICS fron Gingerbread, so I don't know if it would have had the same problem with GB.
I'll try to get a new battery from them and see if it makes any difference.
Thanks.
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Most definitely I would say ICS. !!!!!
If it had been left on gb you wouldn't be experiencing these issues. :thumbup:
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deviouskind said:
Hey I have been noticing a weird issue with my phone.
Ive flashed a few different ROMS to see if it was a specific one or if it is something else. Yes, that didnt work.
I am still having random turn offs which shut the phone down. Whether on it or not it happens at least twice a day.
Does this have something to do with the battery? When i reboot the phone the battery level shows at what it was...
last example I had was 68%. So it wasnt fully dead. I was going to send my phone back but decided to stick it out and maybe a new
battery will work? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Sounds like the power button might be going bad. If you are not getting sudden large drops or increases in battery % I would lean towards the power button.
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I'm having the same sort of issues on my S2. I've had it for about 6-7 months and it's worked fine but the last few weeks it's been almost unusable. Within 5-10 minutes of using my phone it will shut off, regardless of the battery level. Turning it back on would show that it was critically low on battery and it would shut off again within seconds. Plugging it into a charger would let me turn on again and restore the battery level to what it was, oftentimes over 60%.
It seems that the false battery reports come and go, but the real problem is that the phone just keeps turning off. It's useless without a charger anymore. I've looked on Sprint's forums and it seems like many people have been having the same problem. Especially after the new JB update. I've been running stock so I figured I might try a custom rom. I rooted and went back to FF18 but I can't load up a custom recovery to install a ROM. The link to download the autoroot package in this thread is dead.
I have run into the same issue starting about three weeks ago. I am already on my second battery, which is only six months old, but it was behaving as if it was dying again, so I got another brand new one from the sprint store just to make sure... Phone was still shutting off though. After some more research, I came across someone who had a bad card reader in their phone. They even wrote a program that keeps track of mounts, ejects, and bad ejects. I downloaded it (its called sd card monitor), and sure enough, my card is ejecting itself multiple times an hour (which is no surprise, this phone has destroyed several cards already)... If I remove the card, I have no more problems... So for now, I am using my phone without a sd card. I am not paying Sprint $50 for a refurbished replacement at this point, I am fed up with their service and will be changing carriers after the S4 comes out...
The strange thing though, the sd card issue doesn't affect the phone if it's plugged in.
MECHAnized said:
I'm having the same sort of issues on my S2. I've had it for about 6-7 months and it's worked fine but the last few weeks it's been almost unusable. Within 5-10 minutes of using my phone it will shut off, regardless of the battery level. Turning it back on would show that it was critically low on battery and it would shut off again within seconds. Plugging it into a charger would let me turn on again and restore the battery level to what it was, oftentimes over 60%.
It seems that the false battery reports come and go, but the real problem is that the phone just keeps turning off. It's useless without a charger anymore. I've looked on Sprint's forums and it seems like many people have been having the same problem. Especially after the new JB update. I've been running stock so I figured I might try a custom rom. I rooted and went back to FF18 but I can't load up a custom recovery to install a ROM. The link to download the autoroot package in this thread is dead.
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Can you confirm that your phone is having the same issues due to the card reader.?
If so please share.
(Otherwise you need a new battery.)
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PanchoPlanet said:
Can you confirm that your phone is having the same issues due to the card reader.?
If so please share.
(Otherwise you need a new battery.)
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I ran that SD card monitor app for about 4 hours and no disconnects, so I guess it's a battery issue.