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I dont know if this is common, but my XDA IIs hard resets itself even when I remove the battery momentarily to change sim card. This happens even when the device has just been removed from the charger after having been there for ages (just in case ;-) ).
This is majorly annoying since it means I cannot swap sim cards away from my PC (since a restore is necessary afterwards). I know I can restore from my phone, dont tell me that, its the useless internal battery that bothers me.
I agree!
If the battery is out for about 6 seconds, it's done!
Or, the unit is ON, and the battery falls out... INSTANTLY!
Terrible!
Dumbest design I have ever seen!
The most annoying thing is that when i was trying to do a hard reset once by removing the battery, it wouldnt go! It lasted its full quoted 20 minutes!
I suppose youve just gotta be prepared with a fresh backup beforehand, grrr.
The internal battery is so that it doesn't do a hard reset and wipe everything off of the volatile memory when you pop the battery out; it's not designed to keep your device on when you pop the battery off.
I know that, but it doesnt even do what you said.. (most of the time)
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I know that, but it doesnt even do what you said.. (most of the time)
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I haven't had a problem with mine; I can keep it out for a few minutes without issue.
Hi:
When I turn on Flight Mode (the phone is off) and when I close all programs before removing the battery, my PDA2K just does a soft reset, not a hard one.
Hope this helps.
Hi:
When I turn on Flight Mode (the phone is off) and when I close all programs before removing the battery, my PDA2K just does a soft reset, not a hard one.
Hope this helps.
Try to check if the backup battery works right... I had this kind of problem when my backup battery didn't work...
Yes, same thing happens with me. This has one permanent solution, upgrade to WM5.
KAMAL
help replacing backup battery
Hello all, I need help replacing the backup battery, and, what type is it?
moving house again, cant find the book.
Also from my previouse Psion Organiser days it was always better useing NEWS PAPER to clean the battery BUT DONT TOUCH IT! use plastic tweezers if you can, and clean the inner contacts with news paper or similar.
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choppidge said:
Hello all, I need help replacing the backup battery, and, what type is it?
moving house again, cant find the book.
It's a boggo standard lithium cell, maxell 1602 or summat, 3v w/tags costs about 3? Open the unit up, peel back the conductive tape, remove the shielding and it's out.
Richard
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Hi Guys,
Whenever I remove the battery from my XDA 2S I lose everything and have to set up the OS from scratch.
I have spoken to O2 and they have told me this is normal? But how can this be? It is the most stupid thing I have ever heard.
Please if someone could just tell me if their XDA 2S does this I would be more than grateful!
Thanks in advance.
Jonnycash!
Go to settings/ Power icon and check the status of both the Main Battery and the backup Battery, the first could be at any charge % the backup Battery should be at 100%, this is used to hold the data on the phone for a short duration, sim card swap or battery swap with the machine selected OFF first. If its loosing data then there is something wrong with it, I can remove the Battery on my IIs for 10 mins if need be without a problem - Mike
Yes the Backup Battery is at 100%
It loses everything as soon as I take the battery out, I can put the battery straight back on, start the phone and OS setup begins.
When you say selected "off". Do you mean quickly pushing the power button once.
I have done this and still it loses everything.
Looking forward to your response.
Jonnycash!
All I can sugest are two options
1, Return the phone as it is clearly faulty, demand O2 repair the unit or try for an Exec as a replacement as re-compense, you might get this easily as they are no longer offering the IIs.
2, install something like Sprite back-up and configure the back-up to re-install everthing hardly ideal, and this is not what I would do.
Mike
Yes, I have just got it back from being "repaired". they said that they replaced the circuit board but it still does it.
I will send it back as suggested and try get a new one.
Thanks
Jonnycash
After taking out the battery, try not to push the tab(the one you pull back and the battery pops up) that holds the battery back into place until you re-insert the battery.
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Yes, I have just got it back from being "repaired". they said that they replaced the circuit board but it still does it.
I will send it back as suggested and try get a new one.
Thanks
Jonnycash
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Sounds like a duff backup battery to me ( see pic), changing the mainboard would seem a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I have had this with blueangels after re-assembly, even with the backupstatus at 100%. I leave on a cradle charging overnight then do a hard reset - seems to work for me.
Richard
i have that problem as well before. but maybe this will help you a bit.
because i always do it removing the battery when changing my sim card. how i wish they would put the sim card away from the battery. ( calling the attention of the engineers for future references).
i started on the permanent save check mostly on contacts and appointments (I needed them all the time) (start>settings>system>permanent save). then i usually turn on the flight mode then turn off the pda from the power button.
thats the time i take the battery off and either to swap the sim card of the battery. then it automatically go to soft reset when the battery is back you will notice that after the automatic soft reset, there will be a small window showing appointments and contacts restoring.
i hope this will help.
I've had this, once. I've heard that this is a bug of that little black thingey that holds the battery, because it supposed to switch between backup battery and normal battery. Too bad sometimes it does not do this at all...
finally this happened to me to today. I by mistake took the battery out and when I put it there again, it hard resetted itself. Many of my notes were stored in main memory, which I had taken from my teacher just 30 mins ago
kamal
kdskamal said:
finally this happened to me to today. I by mistake took the battery out and when I put it there again, it hard resetted itself. Many of my notes were stored in main memory, which I had taken from my teacher just 30 mins ago
kamal
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It happened to me again few days ago, under 2003SE (I had to downgrade for something). One thing i love in WM5 that I don't have to worry about this.
It has happened to me many times as well as I am always changing batteries. As somone mentioned above it seems to be a bug with the battery holder (the little black tab you clisk to hold the battery in.) I just keep my contacts backed up each time I add a new one. as for the applications they can usually waite till I restore them.
need solution..
need a good and working solution for this...........
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need a good and working solution for this...........
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Eeerrrr. how about ' replace the battery' - they are standard cells...
Richard
Mabey its not clear what seems to be happening here
When you drop the unit and /or when you open the little black clip that holds the battery in place. Somtimes the phone looses all stored information and goes to hard reset. There seems to be 2 bugs in action here.
1) The batterys seem to get into a strange state where they dont work properly. (I have found that putting the battery into the rear slot of the charger reconditions it to fix this problem.)
2) Some units seem to have a bug with the battery latch when you open the latch accidently or somtimes even just when changing the battery intentionaly it seems not to switch to back up battery corectly. My theory is that there is a dead zone in the latch that does not make the correct transfer if it isn't fully engaged in either direction. It is a really poorly devised way to handle battery changes but hey its too late for them to redesign it. I can not say how many ppl have this issue or if it is everyone or just some people but I do know this is the case on mines and many of the forums I've read.
Solutions:
1) Back up your unit whenever you add data to it. you can just do a contact list back up which only takes 1 min for me and my sx66 has over 2k contacts. Do full back up once a week that should cover your apps and data.
2) Keep your battery reconditioned at least once a week use the rear charging slot for the battery. If you only have one battery this is not an option so I suggeest if you are going to keep your sx66 for any length of time buy a spare battery.
3) Recently I have begun using a small peice of duck tape to secure my battery latch. It is a pain in the rear but I have droped my unit once in this configuration and the battery and latch stayed in place.
Additionaly:
To make restores easier you can include some of your favorite applications in your ext roms. Just snoop around in the forums and you will see directions for manipulating ext rom.
Also look into changing the directorys where you store information. IE your mem card and the onboard storage directory seem to never get nuked unless it is done by the user.
Anything short of the above listed or replacing the hardware is not viable, because these are HARDWARE bugs. Version 5 avoids this issue because it does not hard reset your data like all previous versions of ppc. However the hard ware issue is still there it just doesnt effect you. But if you upgrade your rom be carefull because you are trading the bugs you know for the ones you don't know...lol
thanks for advice ........
dont worry richard am shifting to o2 exec
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My phone is fully rooted with no nand unlock. And has been working great.... until recently.
I've had my phone on for about 2 weeks straight, because a friend told me its better to just leave it on. Well, yesterday while in the music app, it just went right into the startup animation. No bootscreen, just the animation. Now I noticed my phone was somewhat sluggish and decided I'm just shutting it off for a bit. Well, that's not going to well. It will not shut off. YES I HELD THE POWER BUTTON THEN POWER OFF. even with a battery pull it turns on right when the battery is in. I also noticed that ky ringtones and some settings don't restore after reboot and that sometimes I need to hit the keep button multiple times to wake it. Is this a software issue or hardware..... and if I need to return it, how do I remove the root? Or will they even notice? Could this be related to the root?
Thanks for feedback. Kinda panicking here
I had the exact same issue. What I figure happened was that in the process of rooting (plugging USB cable in/out so many times) a pin probably stuck itself high or low in the connector and caused the behavior you're experiencing now... that's just my theory though, but whatever it is, it's hardware related... so don't bother flashing the RUU and losing root over it -- I did and I kicked myself for it. What I ended up doing was exchanging my phone for another one and after two tries finally got one with a screen that wasn't pink -- in fact it was even slightly better than the original one I had.
If it's a dealbreaker for you not being able to turn off your phone, then by all means replace it. Just keep in mind you might have to swap out more than once if you're picky about refurb quality. Just my 2cents.
As for how to get rid of root, look over one of the RUU threads and download one... when you run the *.exe it extracts a bunch of files to your temp directory. Look for and rename rom.zip to PB31IMG.zip, copy it to your SD card root, and boot in fastboot and let it update from it... result = stock incredible again. Got that trick from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6679579&postcount=45
Edit: I only had the reboot after shutdown issue. Anything else sounds like something that could be fixed with a data wipe (that won't get rid of root). What I'd do now that there's a custom recovery, is make a nandroid backup just in case, that way if the data wipe doesn't work for fixing the setting sticking issue, at least you don't have to reinstall everything back and can just restore the backup.
Sorry guys...
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I had the exact same issue. What I figure happened was that in the process of rooting (plugging USB cable in/out so many times) a pin probably stuck itself high or low in the connector and caused the behavior you're experiencing now... that's just my theory though, but whatever it is, it's hardware related... so don't bother flashing the RUU and losing root over it -- I did and I kicked myself for it. What I ended up doing was exchanging my phone for another one and after two tries finally got one with a screen that wasn't pink -- in fact it was even slightly better than the original one I had.
If it's a dealbreaker for you not being able to turn off your phone, then by all means replace it. Just keep in mind you might have to swap out more than once if you're picky about refurb quality. Just my 2cents.
As for how to get rid of root, look over one of the RUU threads and download one... when you run the *.exe it extracts a bunch of files to your temp directory. Look for and rename rom.zip to PB31IMG.zip, copy it to your SD card root, and boot in fastboot and let it update from it... result = stock incredible again. Got that trick from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6679579&postcount=45
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See, this is exactly why when I was trying to root, I was pulling the cable at the PC end, not the phone end. MicroUSB is a lot flimsier then regular USB. Be careful guys... Oh, and I WOULD reflash just in case. They might give it to a tech to troubleshoot if this is software related, and I guarantee that he'll notice SuperUser.... .02$ deposited.
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See, this is exactly why when I was trying to root, I was pulling the cable at the PC end, not the phone end. MicroUSB is a lot flimsier then regular USB. Be careful guys... Oh, and I WOULD reflash just in case. They might give it to a tech to troubleshoot if this is software related, and I guarantee that he'll notice SuperUser.... .02$ deposited.
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Right on all counts, I have a usb extension cable the plug/unlug the DI with now. MicroUSB was loose out of the box--me no likee.
As far as sending the phone back with unusual software--I doubt HTC is gonna narc on you given the huge demand for DIs. It's always better to play it safe, but I haven't ever heard of a user getting a warranty claim bounced for rooted software installed, and I've been in the android game for a while now.
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My phone is fully rooted with no nand unlock. And has been working great.... until recently.
I've had my phone on for about 2 weeks straight, because a friend told me its better to just leave it on. Well, yesterday while in the music app, it just went right into the startup animation. No bootscreen, just the animation. Now I noticed my phone was somewhat sluggish and decided I'm just shutting it off for a bit. Well, that's not going to well. It will not shut off. YES I HELD THE POWER BUTTON THEN POWER OFF. even with a battery pull it turns on right when the battery is in. I also noticed that ky ringtones and some settings don't restore after reboot and that sometimes I need to hit the keep button multiple times to wake it. Is this a software issue or hardware..... and if I need to return it, how do I remove the root? Or will they even notice? Could this be related to the root?
Thanks for feedback. Kinda panicking here
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I'm not saying this will work at all, but....
If you're experiencing these things with USB plugged in... Unplug USB, and take out Battery.... Let it sit there for 30 seconds....
( I THINK that the "pins" are only for video out. If I'm correct, the "usb" part of it is actually a plate on the phone, and the pins are in the cable)
Once you put the battery back in, try using the phone w/o usb plugged in... if it behaves normally, replace USB cable. (Unless I missed something in your orig. post.)
Thanks.
Also, before you return the phone, do a hard reset and see if it fixes it (there is a slight chance it's software related.... obviously, you will lose everything, but whatever is backup up to goog. When you rooted, did you delete/remove any APPS at all?)
Ugh.... I do not want to return it. I hate refurbs. If i return it, is there a chance ill just get a new phone? Aside from that, i think i can confirm its hardware, more specifically in the usb port. I plugged in the charger and now it turns off fine. Annoying as hell, but i think im just keeping it. And after looking more i see that the screen never actually turns off, it just pauses then turn back on. I havent noticed and horrible side effects and maybe a reflash would help me. I never shut it off so ill deal for now.
Now if i want to do a nandroid backup, do i need to be in hacked recovery or will it work immediately? and can it be copied to an sd card and restored to a refurb if i got one?
Greetings,
About 2 months back i decide to root my phone, so i do, and i go Flash MIUI.
It's worked perfectly fine for 2 months now, with an exception of phone attemting to play with 2 music players and hanging and ultimately rebooting when volume controls were operated on the headset.
A minor glitch? Possibly, i didn't mind.
Yesterday though, while playing through bluetooth on my cars stereo, the hanging-rebooting kept happening quite often, ie. everytime i disconnected it to get out.
Still, didn't sense anything majorly wrong there, so moving on.
Yesterday night i kept my phone for charge, overnight,. In the morning the alarm rings, device vibrates, i put snooze it, and go back to sleep.
When i wake up in an hours tome, my phone wont boot.
It vibrates 3 times and led blinks in red.
My warranty got over yesterday though it was anyway void, since i put a custom ROM on it.
I did, search the threads but whoever bothered to reply, had their warranty on and were on stock ROM.
If there's anything i could do, please do help me out
Also, my computer wont detect my phone (Says USB device may have malfunctioned), is there anyway to revert to stock ROM with S-OFF so htc would fix it?
My phone was o/c'd to 1.2 GHz while i was on lordm0d's 8.6 Kernel. Any chances the o/c burn the processor or anything?
Hi Omairss,
can you enter bootloader ? (pressing vol down when powering up)
The red light means there is a power issue. Do you have access to another battery to try?
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Hi Omairss,
can you enter bootloader ? (pressing vol down when powering up)
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No, i can't enter the bootloader or recovery. If I try though, the phone vibrates 5 times and puts out a steady green light.
If i connect it to my laptop, it shows up as 'Unknown Device".
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Okay, i'll try that and let you know.
I went to htc's service center and they told me the phones been water damaged and that the whole motherboard needs replacement which would cost about 188$.
I haven't dropped the phone in water or let it anywhere near water as far as i know, and the void stickers are all black & white, except one in the motherboard, whose edges are slightly red.
Hi Omairss, i wish you a happy new year !!
Water damage can also happen because of sweat when carrying the phone near the body...
Perhaps worth trying before a 188$ repair:
Remove battery and cover, SD-card and cover and put the phone in a plastic bag together with lots of rice. Place the bag in a warm place for 3-4 days. The rice will bind the water.
Then try again also with another battery, Li-Ion batteries dont like water...
Let us know if it helped.
-Pudel
the unknown device, is it something to do with 'qload'. if so, its bricked, only fix is a mainboard swap out, or a jtag based flash and re-partitioning of the eMMC.
pudel211 said:
Hi Omairss, i wish you a happy new year !!
Water damage can also happen because of sweat when carrying the phone near the body...
Perhaps worth trying before a 188$ repair:
Remove battery and cover, SD-card and cover and put the phone in a plastic bag together with lots of rice. Place the bag in a warm place for 3-4 days. The rice will bind the water.
Then try again also with another battery, Li-Ion batteries dont like water...
Let us know if it helped.
-Pudel
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Cool, i'll try that and let you know.
And happy new year to you too
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the unknown device, is it something to do with 'qload'. if so, its bricked, only fix is a mainboard swap out, or a jtag based flash and re-partitioning of the eMMC.
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What's qload?
Well, the htc guys told me the same thing - a motherboard swap.
I don't know what a 'jtag based flash or re partitioning of emmc is, but it has got to be cheaper than a 188$ replacement? Anyway i can do it?
Also, what do you think would have caused it? Could overclocking have anything to do with it? I mean it could save other phone's heading towards a hardware failure, if it does, right?
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What's qload?
Well, the htc guys told me the same thing - a motherboard swap.
I don't know what a 'jtag based flash or re partitioning of emmc is, but it has got to be cheaper than a 188$ replacement? Anyway i can do it?
Also, what do you think would have caused it? Could overclocking have anything to do with it? I mean it could save other phone's heading towards a hardware failure, if it does, right?
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Well, Depends on how high you oc'd could have possibly caused a controller failure or something, but we dont know.
Usually its a failure of some sort with the emmc. In my case, the partition table was corrupted (either by cwm recovery, or some other random bug) My experience, and then found the driver, but were not able to go any further using qpst tools.
Google 'RIFF Box', thats the jtag based restoration I mentioned. There are a user or two on xda that offers riff box jtag services, I just cant remember which... and thats only if something corrupted the partition. But if its a hardware failure, then you'll have to get the mainboard replaced.
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Well, Depends on how high you oc'd could have possibly caused a controller failure or something, but we dont know.
Usually its a failure of some sort with the emmc. In my case, the partition table was corrupted (either by cwm recovery, or some other random bug) My experience, and then found the driver, but were not able to go any further using qpst tools.
Google 'RIFF Box', thats the jtag based restoration I mentioned. There are a user or two on xda that offers riff box jtag services, I just cant remember which... and thats only if something corrupted the partition. But if its a hardware failure, then you'll have to get the mainboard replaced.
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Well, now even the usb connection stopped working. Guess it's the 180$ mainboard replacement for me.
Well, about the overclock, i had overclocked it to 1.5 Ghz and was using the conservative governer, so it would overclock only if it had to.
I had the battery widget installed as well, so it would write logs to my SD card. Couldn't find anything abnormal in the mA, mV, mW, or temp values, prior to the brick, So, clearly my processor wasn't running at full throttle or anything, else it would've reported a spike in either mA, or the temperature atleast.
Would sending pictures of my mainboard help you diagonise, after i replace it?
Hello,
I've browsed the xda forums and few others extensively for solution of my issue, though to no help at all.
For the starters some numbers and general info:
Phone: R800i Xperia Play, 2.6.32.9-DooMKernel, Xperia NXT v.1.3.
Only default stuff running in the background.
For testing and possible solution, apps I've installed:
Advanced Task Manager,
No-Frills CPU (min. 134 MHz, max 1.114 GHz, smartass, sio),
Battery Defender (Temp 32C, voltage: 3.0V, changed from 4.0V).
I always keep Data, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS off, unless I need them. Brightness is about 30% most of the time, no auto-brightness control.
For solution purpose I've got manual network selection for 2G, usually it is 2G/3G auto search - never got issues with this.
I've got two batteries, stock one and a Tell Me one, both 1500 MAh, both never had any issues.
Today morning (7AM), as usual, I've disconnected fully charged phone from the charger. I haven't noticed a thing that could be off about the phone.
I've went to the work, and around 11 AM I've messaged a little, and then I've noticed a weird thing - phone was very hot and the battery info said that it is on around 30%. Of course, first I've tried was to reboot the device, and lower the maximum frequency of the CPU.
Unfortunately it wasn't a bug or a mistake - phone really had around 30% charge left. I've got a usb cable from a co-worker to keep the phone from dying.
In the meantime, I've tried resetting the phone to factory defaults, tried flight mode, setting everything to off - nothing helped. Also, what's more weird - phone was charging incredibly slow (that might be because of charging from PC USB) when turned off and it still was hot.
I've realized that phone is getting really hot only in one area - near top right corner (place where light sensor is), on the backside, after you extend the phone (there is a little screw there, under 'sticker').
After getting back to home, I've tried charging the first battery to 100% - it completed, using stock charger, but it took quite longer than expected. Discharging is quite fast - 1% per 4-5 minutes. In ~50 minutes I've got 90%. This gives roughly 7 hours of work on battery. In flight mode, with everything turned off, with CPU on 134 MHz.
On a second battery, which I have in right now, I am steadily progressing from 93% to the 0% at the speed of 1% per 3 minutes.
Phone is +2 years old, not on warranty.
Any advice could be really appreciated.
Is it a stock battery or an aftermarket? I had an aftermarket battery once. It had a similar response in my phone. Bought another battery. OEM and solved it.
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Maybe it's battery fault.
One of my battery did the same thing (it even got even bigger due gasses inside it). Replaced it and it's working fine.
If it happends on both batteries, maybe it's hatdware issue. In worste case, something inside phone is shortcutted and drainibg current, causing heating. Maybe opening phone and cleaning parts inside could help.
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Wouldn't hurt to open it up and using an eraser clean the battery contacts inside phone and on battery itself. Then use a can of compressed air to blast that bad boy.
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I've got two different batteries, stock one that came with phone, and a second aftermarket one, which was rarely used - only on long trips when I wanted to play. Both of them couldn't be damaged like that.
Phone never fell on the floor, is always in protective rubber-like 'case' and of course it never even touched water.
Right now heat is strong enough to be a bit painful if you slide the phone out and touch the light sensor area on the backside. I will try to get some torx screwdrivers and open up this part, but I doubt I will find anything. I was wondering if switching back to stock rom could help.
I'm really at loss here since I don't wanna buy new one, though they're cheap right now (about 150$ in my area with 24 month warranty, without any contract), since I've got some holiday plans and wanted to have some more funds. I can go by with the 4-5 hour discharge time if I have a cable on me since I'm working at the office with computers. I can always charge the phone, but knowing that usually I never even fell under 80% after 8 hours at work is kind of bothering.
Have you reformatted the phone via flashing a ftf file... see if that fixes the issue.
Maybe try to use it without battery. Connect charger, remove battery while still powered on, and wait 15minutes (as i recall, it will not turn off). If phone is still hot, then it's not battery related problem.
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Bakisha said:
Maybe try to use it without battery. Connect charger, remove battery while still powered on, and wait 15minutes (as i recall, it will not turn off). If phone is still hot, then it's not battery related problem.
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Actually I've tried this and I've got some results. Phone turns off when it stays this way in OS for a while, so I did that in Boot manager, which I thought won't be affected by OS itself, and I was right - phone stays on, with screen on. Unfortunately, it is very hot in the 'usual' place. So we can root out the possibility that this is a battery issue.I am not quite sure, but also this is certainly not antenna, since it is off in the boot manager, as well as WiFi, BT and GPS.
So could it be that the kernel itself, which must have some module responsible for power management, went crazy? That is just my wild (hopeful) guess, and I wish that flashing will help. Any ROMs that you can advice?
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Actually I've tried this and I've got some results. Phone turns off when it stays this way in OS for a while, so I did that in Boot manager, which I thought won't be affected by OS itself, and I was right - phone stays on, with screen on. Unfortunately, it is very hot in the 'usual' place. So we can root out the possibility that this is a battery issue.I am not quite sure, but also this is certainly not antenna, since it is off in the boot manager, as well as WiFi, BT and GPS.
So could it be that the kernel itself, which must have some module responsible for power management, went crazy? That is just my wild (hopeful) guess, and I wish that flashing will help. Any ROMs that you can advice?
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Well, to test if everything is working properly, flash stock firmware with flashtool (even kernel). Test all functions of phone with apps (wifi, BT, gps, 3g, flashlight, tear-front camera). If all works, maybe some chip is overheating.
In that case, if you don't know how to open phone, maybe it's best to take it to service.
If you do know how to open it, first start cleaning enterier. If that don't help, try to power it while dissasembled, and see what chip is overheating and google for it's model to see what it is.
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Bakisha said:
Well, to test if everything is working properly, flash stock firmware with flashtool (even kernel). Test all functions of phone with apps (wifi, BT, gps, 3g, flashlight, tear-front camera). If all works, maybe some chip is overheating.
In that case, if you don't know how to open phone, maybe it's best to take it to service.
If you do know how to open it, first start cleaning enterier. If that don't help, try to power it while dissasembled, and see what chip is overheating and google for it's model to see what it is.
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Thanks for advice. I will flash the phone completely to stock and test it. Actually, if it is turned off, it is not heating up but starts to when I try to charge the battery.
I'm working at IT company, but my knowledge ends at the desktop computers actually, certainly I am not into electronics - I can tell when capacitors on motherboard are starting to go bad, but that's it. Starting from laptops, some parts are to small and prone to damage to be just opening and looking around.
I suppose if the stock kernel won't help, I will seek assistance of some service since they always give some kind of warranty for repairs. Of course, I will keep this topic updated, since there might be same kind of lost soul with the same problem.
FouLu said:
Thanks for advice. I will flash the phone completely to stock and test it. Actually, if it is turned off, it is not heating up but starts to when I try to charge the battery.
I'm working at IT company, but my knowledge ends at the desktop computers actually, certainly I am not into electronics - I can tell when capacitors on motherboard are starting to go bad, but that's it. Starting from laptops, some parts are to small and prone to damage to be just opening and looking around.
I suppose if the stock kernel won't help, I will seek assistance of some service since they always give some kind of warranty for repairs. Of course, I will keep this topic updated, since there might be same kind of lost soul with the same problem.
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When you are on stock kernel, test offline charging too (phone turned off, but charging). So heating problem is only limited to battery-charging electronics-kernel).
Post your results when/if it's fixed, no matter what they are. Good luck
Bakisha said:
When you are on stock kernel, test offline charging too (phone turned off, but charging). So heating problem is only limited to battery-charging electronics-kernel).
Post your results when/if it's fixed, no matter what they are. Good luck
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Unfortunately, after flashing to stock R800i_4.0.2.A.0.79.ftf I still have this weird overheating issue and the battery is draining really fast. Seems like this is hardware problem, not a software one, since I tested it in many different ways to no help at all.
I will not let go off my XPlay, as I will visit service and try to repair The Best Gaming Phone to Date, though I will buy a new phone, which will be Xperia S, since I've got my eyes on it ever since I played on my friend's one - Final Fantasy 7 with OpenGL plugin in fpse looked really great, and the controls were fine for my tastes.
When I get the XPlay fixed, I will update this thread, since I like this phone and would like to have it back and running.
Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it