what is the wake lock issue? i have no idea what it is but i hear about it alot..
ive searched but i keep hitting threads with gazillion pages!
mrjeancw said:
what is the wake lock issue? i have no idea what it is but i hear about it alot..
ive searched but i keep hitting threads with gazillion pages!
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While your screen is off. There is a process running in the background. It could be anything.
It's when you get alike, a call or text, and your screen comes on, and stays on, even if you have screen-on time set to go off after x amount of minutes
oh yea i def have this sometimes.
mrjeancw said:
what is the wake lock issue? i have no idea what it is but i hear about it alot..
ive searched but i keep hitting threads with gazillion pages!
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HipKat said:
It's when you get alike, a call or text, and your screen comes on, and stays on, even if you have screen-on time set to go off after x amount of minutes
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I thought it was the issue where the phone doesn't like to wake from a lock state. I know when i was running CM7.0 rc1 and the screen would lock and turn off, when I hit the power key, the screen wouldn't come back on. I usually had to press the power button then tap the screen to get it to turn on. Sometimes i had to just fight with the power button a few times to get anything to show. It was quite annoying. Might have been a kernal issue, not really sure as I updated to CM7.1 and a new kernal all at once.
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I thought it was the issue where the phone doesn't like to wake from a lock state. I know when i was running CM7.0 rc1 and the screen would lock and turn off, when I hit the power key, the screen wouldn't come back on. I usually had to press the power button then tap the screen to get it to turn on. Sometimes i had to just fight with the power button a few times to get anything to show. It was quite annoying. Might have been a kernal issue, not really sure as I updated to CM7.1 and a new kernal all at once.
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It could be, or maybe we're both right
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ok, has anyone else noticed this problem,
sometimes i switch my phone off to save battery and it will switch itself on in my pocket so i need to check every now and then to see if it is really off, however, the only way to switch the screen on is with the power button so if my phone was really off then i have to let it start up and switch it off all over again.
i'm going to have a look for a way to remap the buttons without root as i cant get unrevoked to work and i cant be bothered to go about it the long way
hmm im not sure if this is the same issue, but sometimes the keys on my desire are on with the screen being turned off, im not sure if it happens on its own or what, not a big deal really
kinkade said:
ok, has anyone else noticed this problem,
sometimes i switch my phone off to save battery and it will switch itself on in my pocket so i need to check every now and then to see if it is really off, however, the only way to switch the screen on is with the power button so if my phone was really off then i have to let it start up and switch it off all over again.
i'm going to have a look for a way to remap the buttons without root as i cant get unrevoked to work and i cant be bothered to go about it the long way
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I noticed this, it is very annoying!
What ROM are you using? I use DeFrost 2.3 and you can bring the phone out of standby by pushing the trackball button. A second push unlocks the phone.
I dont understand this. If the phone is on, a single short press of the power button will light the screen. If it's off, it needs a long press to turn it back on - therefore it's pretty easy to tell the difference
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I dont understand this. If the phone is on, a single short press of the power button will light the screen. If it's off, it needs a long press to turn it back on - therefore it's pretty easy to tell the difference
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nope. just tapping it lightly seems to switch mine back on. i find it quite annoying also.
i am using a tool to light up my blue led when turned on.
so this cant happen to me anymore
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What ROM are you using? I use DeFrost 2.3 and you can bring the phone out of standby by pushing the trackball button. A second push unlocks the phone.
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Mine is unmodified and i'm not planning on changing that until HTC stops issuing updates. Sounds like a good feature though, bit of an oversight on the phone that.
stats101 said:
nope. just tapping it lightly seems to switch mine back on. i find it quite annoying also.
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Yes, any sort of press turns the phone on.
snudel said:
i am using a tool to light up my blue led when turned on.
so this cant happen to me anymore
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Careful, it may burn the LED out if you keep it constantly on.
rofl. this burn stuff is constantly floating aroung and is still crap.
why do you think, they enable the led while charging? because it is likely to burn?
who ever brought that up .......
snudel said:
rofl. this burn stuff is constantly floating aroung and is still crap.
why do you think, they enable the led while charging? because it is likely to burn?
who ever brought that up .......
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I agree, I think the only LED to be worried about having on for long periods of time is the SUPER BRIGHT Camera Flash LED. It's obviously a different LED than the charging/notification ones, and snudel makes sense when he says that it's enabled while charging.
snudel, do you have a link for this blue LED app? I don't even think I've ever seen the blue LED on my Desire glow, but it would be neat to have it lit when the phone is "awake".
Cheers!
you can download a blue led app here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700418&highlight=blue+led
but don't know if this is the one that snudel uses (i think not)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705645
Hi,
Is anyone else getting this problem;
Basically At random times when i try to wake my phone from standby mode by pressing the top button it gets stuck in standby.
The three buttons light up, Home, Menu & Back/search.... but the screen stays off, completly black, like the phones off.
I've tried multiple things to get the screen on, pressing the track pad, holding all the buttons down, holding the on/off button down ect.. nothing seems to wake the screen or make the phone respond, the only fix seems to be to remove the battery.
I havent installed any new apps for about a week or more so i dont think an app is causing it, but i maybe wrong.
I have noticed that it seems to happen when im in the cold, when im indoors or somewhere where the heating is on it doesnt seem to happen, but when im in a cold place it seems to happen, i diont know if thats just coincidence or if its also something to do with the problem.
I did google the fault, but only found two pages with a similar topic, one was the vodafone forum where they just recomemded a reset and the other page had no answers.
I was hoping the good folks here at XDA could help.
Merry Christmas.
can you give more info? are you rootrd? are you using setcpu with profiles? a custom rom?
C_S_R said:
Hi,
Is anyone else getting this problem;
Basically At random times when i try to wake my phone from standby mode by pressing the top button it gets stuck in standby.
The three buttons light up, Home, Menu & Back/search.... but the screen stays off, completly black, like the phones off.
I've tried multiple things to get the screen on, pressing the track pad, holding all the buttons down, holding the on/off button down ect.. nothing seems to wake the screen or make the phone respond, the only fix seems to be to remove the battery.
I havent installed any new apps for about a week or more so i dont think an app is causing it, but i maybe wrong.
I have noticed that it seems to happen when im in the cold, when im indoors or somewhere where the heating is on it doesnt seem to happen, but when im in a cold place it seems to happen, i diont know if thats just coincidence or if its also something to do with the problem.
I did google the fault, but only found two pages with a similar topic, one was the vodafone forum where they just recomemded a reset and the other page had no answers.
I was hoping the good folks here at XDA could help.
Merry Christmas.
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Oh, sorry, forgot that, everything is stock android/htc nothing rooted or modded.
See my reply in another thread.
I have recently encountered a problem with my hox, where, if I press the power button, the screen doesn't awake. It's a little weird, because the back home app switcher buttons do light up if it is dark enough around me and, after pushing them a few times, the volume buttons respond as well.
I haven't fully tested it, but it seems like when I wait like a minute or so, maybe more, the screen does finally wake up. I have also held the power button several times to restart it while it was like this and then the screen doesn't light up until the sim unlock screen pops up.
I have yet to factory reset the phone etc., but I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem. I have looked around the internet, but was unsure what to search for.
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I have recently encountered a problem with my hox, where, if I press the power button, the screen doesn't awake. It's a little weird, because the back home app switcher buttons do light up if it is dark enough around me and, after pushing them a few times, the volume buttons respond as well.
I haven't fully tested it, but it seems like when I wait like a minute or so, maybe more, the screen does finally wake up. I have also held the power button several times to restart it while it was like this and then the screen doesn't light up until the sim unlock screen pops up.
I have yet to factory reset the phone etc., but I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem. I have looked around the internet, but was unsure what to search for.
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Are u using sweep to wake?, that sometimes causes this problem
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Nope, I do not have sweep to wake.
Well, after a while of being okay, the issue is showing up again. If I press the power button it does wake the phone somehow (back, home, tasks lights light up, volume can be altered), but the screen wont come on. And when it's one of those rare moments that it does turn on the UI flies everywhere, making it literary uncontrolable, until at some point the screen just turns itself off.
I am not running any custom things, everything is stock. I tried a factory reset without erasing the SD storage. I also have just sent an email to HTC, but it being weekend and all I still have to wait a day or two.
Any other things I could try?
Never had this problem with the HOX.
Only with Xperia Arc and X10 when a heavy task ran in the background
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i have same issue taking ti back to vodafone today
CAPSGUY said:
I have recently encountered a problem with my hox, where, if I press the power button, the screen doesn't awake. It's a little weird, because the back home app switcher buttons do light up if it is dark enough around me and, after pushing them a few times, the volume buttons respond as well.
I haven't fully tested it, but it seems like when I wait like a minute or so, maybe more, the screen does finally wake up. I have also held the power button several times to restart it while it was like this and then the screen doesn't light up until the sim unlock screen pops up.
I have yet to factory reset the phone etc., but I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem. I have looked around the internet, but was unsure what to search for.
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I've not had black screen but sometimes the slide to unlock does not respond until I press power then unlock again
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Same Issue
CAPSGUY said:
Well, after a while of being okay, the issue is showing up again. If I press the power button it does wake the phone somehow (back, home, tasks lights light up, volume can be altered), but the screen wont come on. And when it's one of those rare moments that it does turn on the UI flies everywhere, making it literary uncontrolable, until at some point the screen just turns itself off.
I am not running any custom things, everything is stock. I tried a factory reset without erasing the SD storage. I also have just sent an email to HTC, but it being weekend and all I still have to wait a day or two.
Any other things I could try?
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Hi, I was wondering what did you do regarding the lockscreen problem. I'm having exactly the same problem here. I've already done a factory reset but it did not solve the issue. From time to time I'm not able to unlock the phone.
Please HELP!!!
It sometimes happens to me, recently after clearing the clock and weather apps and widgets. I don't know what it is.
As we all know(or should know if you read around the forums) that there is an issue with "sod". Now these sods are not the same as the sod i was familiar with before 4.2. Before 4.2, the device(s) were for all intensive purposes not alive. Sure you could connect to adb, but the device was "dead" until you pulled the battery and rebooted. But with these 4.2 "sods", the device is alive, with the exception of the screen not being able to turn on. Phone calls and messages still come in. notification sounds still play, and you can use the volume buttons to raise/lower the volume. But you still have to pull the battery and reboot for the screen to come back on. Running logcats via adb doesnt seem to show anything related. Well, ive found a way to reproduce these 4.2.X "sods" while the device is awake with the screen on. I can reproduce it at will, and have had other users confirm this. What i do is this.. I go into the main settings, display, then brightness. Turn off automatic brightness if its on. Now adjust the brightness, up, then down, then up(back and forth, but take your finger off the slider when you go up then down). now press ok to set the brightness. Go back into the brightness setting and repeat. Eventually(sometimes seconds, sometimes minutes) the screen goes completely black, like its off, but the device is completely awake. same as these 4.2 sods, phone calls and messages come in, notifications sound, etc. Only difference is the device screen is on when it goes black instead of it being off. The symptoms are the same. This behavior leads me to believe that it most likely isnt a kernel issue like many believe. I believe that its related to some coding that controls the screen. As we know, every rom/kernel has shown this behavior, even stock and unrooted(some more, some less). Personally, i had 3 of these sods last month(trinity kernel/rasbean rom), but i know that some users have them many times a day unfortunately. What could it mean that i can replicate this behavior on an awake device? Any more thoughts about this?
maybe someone using another kernel/rom can try to reproduce this?
I haven't tried your method yet. I'll and post my results here. I was able to replicate it using another program (check the links below)
But reading your post, I'm sure now that SOD has to do with autobrightness or brightness control (knowing that, maybe it is easy to solve?)
Check my posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35205418#post35205418
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35496824#post35496824
Check my post here:
[URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35899150&postcount=26638"]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35899150&postcount=26638[/URL]
whre I answered to that phenomen. I was on RBJ + franco r348 that time
I can't reproduce (force) it now with RBJ + franco r360, I tried about 100 times.
Just wanted to post my results, maybe it's too early to tell as r360 is too young.
Why does this not happen on N4, N7 and N10
+ never had an SoD in this wee k (Running anarkia's stable berserk releases, only on 511 & 515 / Jellybro )
Ashtrix said:
Why does this not happen on N4, N7 and N10
+ never had an SoD in this wee k (Running anarkia's stable berserk releases, only on 511 & 515 / Jellybro )
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Maybe because OMAP is abandoned at 3.0.
Ashtrix said:
Why does this not happen on N4, N7 and N10
+ never had an SoD in this wee k (Running anarkia's stable berserk releases, only on 511 & 515 / Jellybro )
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it does. just not as often/widespread as with the gnex. ive seen enough reported with the n7 and n4(i havent read any reports with the n10 though).
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it does. just not as often/widespread as with the gnex. ive seen enough reported with the n7 and n4(i havent read any reports with the n10 though).
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Sometimes I have my screen say go off but I will click the lock button The screen don't come on but it is still responding. Meaning I can still unlock the device as vibration tells me if I click the ring or not. So this is all down to the SOD? WoW. Learn something new everyday. I am on Xenon-HD 11-12-12 but also had it on stock too. With me though to fix this it just required to to press the power button a few time then the screen returned. Honestly I don't find it annoying at all UNLESS I need to say make a call to my local emergency services. (999 in UK). That is the only time. My nexus S does the same too with the screen but only after I had the NAND chip replaced by Samsung. Hope you guys can find something and my bit of info helps a little.
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Sometimes I have my screen say go off but I will click the lock button The screen don't come on but it is still responding. Meaning I can still unlock the device as vibration tells me if I click the ring or not. So this is all down to the SOD? WoW. Learn something new everyday. I am on Xenon-HD 11-12-12 but also had it on stock too. With me though to fix this it just required to to press the power button a few time then the screen returned. Honestly I don't find it annoying at all UNLESS I need to say make a call to my local emergency services. (999 in UK). That is the only time. My nexus S does the same too with the screen but only after I had the NAND chip replaced by Samsung. Hope you guys can find something and my bit of info helps a little.
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Jessie-James
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if your device wakes, even after a few presses, its not sod.
simms22 said:
it does. just not as often/widespread as with the gnex. ive seen enough reported with the n7 and n4(i havent read any reports with the n10 though).
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we cannot pull out the battery and fix the SoD on those devices so how could we fix that on N4 & N7 ?
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we cannot pull out the battery and fix the SoD on those devices so how could we fix that on N4 & N7 ?
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pressing and holding the power button for 10-20 seconds will force reboot those devices.
A battery pull isn't necessary; you can shut down the phone with a little practice (depending on your lockscreen).
1. Press the power button (or wait) to lock the phone
2. Press the power button again and unlock
3. [optional] Press the home button (center of screen near bottom edge)
4. Press and hold the power button until a short vibration is felt.
5. Touch the Power Off button (center of the screen just below a horizontal line from the midpoint of the volume rocker). This puts you in the Power Off confirmation dialog.
6. Touch the screen in the approximate location of the "OK" button. I start at the middle on the right side and work my way down. Soon I get the long vibration telling me the phone has powered off. This is the hardest to master since feedback isn't immediate; the long vibration happens several seconds after I successfully hit the OK button.
7. If nothing happens, press the power button to re-lock and start again.
8. Practice when the phone is functioning normally, and you'll be prepared for your next SOD.
My observations (bone stock GSM phone):
This happened once in a pitch-black room. The screen does not go perfectly dark, but it is extremely dim and uniformly grey. I could not make out any details, so the contrast is completely gone.
SOD happens all the time playing Ingress, or other apps where the screen is active for a long time. It seems to happen most often when the display partly dims before going to sleep. My phone is set to sleep at 30 seconds, and the "pre-dim" happens at about 25 seconds. That's usually where I get my SODs.
SOD happens to me less often with auto-brightness set to OFF. It's extremely rare in normal use (but happened just now as I replied to a text!)
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A battery pull isn't necessary; you can shut down the phone with a little practice (depending on your lockscreen).
1. Press the power button (or wait) to lock the phone
2. Press the power button again and unlock
3. [optional] Press the home button (center of screen near bottom edge)
4. Press and hold the power button until a short vibration is felt.
5. Touch the Power Off button (center of the screen just below a horizontal line from the midpoint of the volume rocker). This puts you in the Power Off confirmation dialog.
6. Touch the screen in the approximate location of the "OK" button. I start at the middle on the right side and work my way down. Soon I get the long vibration telling me the phone has powered off. This is the hardest to master since feedback isn't immediate; the long vibration happens several seconds after I successfully hit the OK button.
7. If nothing happens, press the power button to re-lock and start again.
8. Practice when the phone is functioning normally, and you'll be prepared for your next SOD.
My observations (bone stock GSM phone):
This happened once in a pitch-black room. The screen does not go perfectly dark, but it is extremely dim and uniformly grey. I could not make out any details, so the contrast is completely gone.
SOD happens all the time playing Ingress, or other apps where the screen is active for a long time. It seems to happen most often when the display partly dims before going to sleep. My phone is set to sleep at 30 seconds, and the "pre-dim" happens at about 25 seconds. That's usually where I get my SODs.
SOD happens to me less often with auto-brightness set to OFF. It's extremely rare in normal use (but happened just now as I replied to a text!)
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wouldnt it be easier to just pull the battery? thank you for your observations btw.
simms22, I actually think it is a kernel issue. I only experience SOD problems when i use a custom kernel. Also yesterday I flashed stock 4.2.1 and tried for 10 min to replicate SOD using your method - I could not. Today I tried again - nothing.
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wouldnt it be easier to just pull the battery? thank you for your observations btw.
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My phone is in an Incipio case, and it's more of a pain to separate the case, especially if I'm in my car or out hiking or whatever. I've gotten pretty good at doing it blind. Also, years of running Windows have made me anal about doing orderly shutdowns. :laugh:
Forgot to add earlier: I was unable to replicate with the technique described in the OP. But as long as someone can get this to happen on demand, it ought to be solvable.
Edit: although I got the SOD in normal usage a few minutes after trying the technique in the OP. Maybe the display SODs on some specific number of brightness changes? That would explain it happening more often with autobrightness, also.
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we cannot pull out the battery and fix the SoD on those devices so how could we fix that on N4 & N7 ?
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Just hold down the power button for several seconds. Continue to hold down the power button until the screen blinks off and the boot logo appears.
We are flooding here.. lets discusse this other place and leave the devs alone here
i dont know how replicate this 4.2 SOD, but there is a simple way to avoid it, put all animations inside developers option to 1.0
it doesnt happen anymore to me, stock rom and kernel (i have automatic brightess on if this can matter)
if i put all animations to off or to 0.5, when the screen time out and became black, sometimes it doesnt wake anymore..4.2 sod
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i dont know how replicate this 4.2 SOD, but there is a simple way to avoid it, put all animations inside developers option to 1.0
it doesnt happen anymore to me, stock rom and kernel (i have automatic brightess on if this can matter)
if i put all animations to off or to 0.5, when the screen time out and became black, sometimes it doesnt wake anymore..4.2 sod
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When I was running the first few nightlies of CM10.1 it still did the "sod" on me. By default the animation settings are at 1.0. Not sure if it's different on stock.
I've had several sod's daily for last few day's and today finally flashed RBJ from the beginning plus dax's modified kernel and now i'm in watching phase. So far so good.
I have time without any sod... Maybe because I'm trying not to use auto brightness or because of the lastest versions of Francos kernel... Stock ROM
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Hello,
My sgh-t989 has just started behaving rather oddly. The screen on the phone does not ever turn on. Not during boot at any point, not after boot, never. It does boot up, the softkey lights respond to the power button being hit, but the screen does not turn on. Wondering if anyone else has had this problem, or if it is just me. If anyone has any tips, i'm all ears.
Thanks much.
mrhotflamin said:
Hello,
My sgh-t989 has just started behaving rather oddly. The screen on the phone does not ever turn on. Not during boot at any point, not after boot, never. It does boot up, the softkey lights respond to the power button being hit, but the screen does not turn on. Wondering if anyone else has had this problem, or if it is just me. If anyone has any tips, i'm all ears.
Thanks much.
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WOW! Mine too! I replaced the screen (digitizer/lcd) with a new one and when first powered on, just the softkey button lights come on with short short vibrats, then neer stops
itrustno1 said:
WOW! Mine too! I replaced the screen (digitizer/lcd) with a new one and when first powered on, just the softkey button lights come on with short short vibrats, then neer stops
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Um....a lil help here, PLEASE!