signal dropping randoml and constantly - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

im currently on Emerald Envy and my signal keeps dropping to no bars very constant and random. it lasts for about 5 to 15 seconds and it happens anywhere.

I haven't messed with my kernel but from my knowledge in reading up, changing kernels may fix your issue, not to mention, before you do so, do a Prl update.
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I'm running ef02plus. My epic will sometimes go out to lala land and reboot or just become unresponsive. Sometimes the battery will drain within 5-10 minutes. It has always been a little unstable no matter what rom or radio I had installed.
I opened a shell window to find out where the space was being used and found that in /data/data/log (I believe if I remember correctly) there was about 200mb of what appeared to be core dumps from apps and system processes. I removed the files and resolved the problem for now.
Is this common? Think I should go back to stock and do a switch out? It's been annoying but I've put up with it until now.
Why don't u go to a newer gingerbread rom ef02 is way outdated
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Hmmm...I'm just one leak away from current. I didn't see much in the way of improvements?
I froze DRM launcher with mytoolbox and turned off auto sync. I've read a few posts that low signal areas can cause the battery to get hot when sync is turned on. Will try that for a few days and see how it performs. Battery life already seems better.
brewdude said:
Hmmm...I'm just one leak away from current. I didn't see much in the way of improvements?
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EG22 is much more stable than EF02. Those reboots and lockups that you speak of occured constantly for me on EF02. I have been on EG22 since the day it came out and I have not had a single lockup, force close or reboot.

Anyone else tried using Google Earth?

I loaded it up and used it for about 3 mins or so (gpu force is on). I could feel the phone starting to get hot and about that time my screen went black (which has done this before) so I pulled the battery out which usually fixed previous issues. Well this time everything would boot up and once the launcher loaded my GPS icon appeared in the status bar and the device would crash and reboot again. After numerous battery pulls and booting into safe mode and everything else I could think of the problem never corrected, doing the same thing everytime. Eventually had to restore with factory image.
Just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this? Also, it doesn't help that in new to android and was completely uneducated on a fix besides what I did and was a little turned off to the OS at that point.
On the other hand I love my Galaxy Nexus lol
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i play around with it here & there but have never had that happen. also, i have gps/location turned off(always that way) so not sure if that has anything to do with it.
I'm playing around with it aswell and up to 30-40 min straight without it ever even getting tempered.. with gps location turned on and over wifi..
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no issues here with earth over wifi. gps off. didn't get too hot either. also loaded faster and with less lag than my transformer.
I've also used it for more than 15 minutes without problems. It does heat up, but nowhere near the ungodly temperatures it reaches while playing games.
gps seems to heat up more when charging it seems. with any phone. but i wouldn't sweat it too much unless your phone is rebooting or melting.
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Just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this? Also, it doesn't help that in new to android and was completely uneducated on a fix besides what I did and was a little turned off to the OS at that point.
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I had a few freezes (mostly in google maps) but they were resolved with a battery pull. Your expereince could have been just very bad luck.
Try this App to check your phones hardware: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.into.stability&feature=order_history
I had no problem running it for 20 min, no errors occurred. Phone gets really warm to the right of the camera when the App is active, which is to be expected.
Both mine loaded fine.

GPS crazy

Something on my Gnex is going GPS crazy today after the 4.2 upgrade. I've tried disabling Google Now, checking logcats for likely suspects, freezing various apps, but I can't narrow it down. It's causing battery drain and preventing deep sleep. Any ideas how to figure out which app has been calling for GPS so frequently?
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Yeah my GPS won't even lock after I did the upgrade yesterday. I dropped my phone also so that could be the reason idk
I still don't know which app is responsible, but I realized I've been getting constant data dropouts today. Every time data comes back, the GPS icon pops up for a little while. Tried flashing the H1 radio and I'll see how it goes tomorrow.
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Bump. Is there ANY way on Android to track down which app is responsible for firing up the GPS?

GPS Searching every minute or so

I'm using the stock Bell 4.1.1 on my S3 and it's always searching for GPS every minute or so. In fact I can force it to just by turning the screen off and then on again. It finds a signal fine everytime, but after a minute it's checking again.
I've tried going through and disabling anything that could be using the GPS, but it's still happening. Is there an app out there that I can get that will tell me what is accessing the GPS and when? I really want to track this down.
Disable GPS except when you need it? Just a suggestion.
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Thanks but that's just a workaround. My battery life isn't so bad I can't live with it. I just don't want to see that blinking icon up there all the time. I should only see that icon every 15 minutes at the most.
Somethings checking the gps and I want to find out who the culprit is.

GPS problems when power connected.

So I have been experiencing this weird intermittent GPS dropping problem for months now. I thought it was due to corrupted AGPS, but I recently isolated it using the GPS test app.
When running on battery, I get decent SNF of high thirties and accuracy within 10 to 13 feet.
As soon as I connect the power cable, SNF drops to 15 or below on all satellites and my accuracy shoots up to over 300 feet. Also, Waze/Maps drop and are not able to lock or even figure out my current location.
Is there a way to fix this?
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