My radio and signal is perfect.. except for this one building I experience an excessive amount of time in. Cell service is bad in that one building.. but so is every other phone so its not the nexus.
I've been wondering however... in order to save battery, do you think the GNex spreads out the 'retry' for signal the more it can't find it? This makes total sense to me, here's why.
If I spend say, 30 minutes or less inside this one building, and return outside, the signal picks back up pretty quickly...
If I spend a longer period of time, it takes a lot longer to find the signal again.
If I spend the entire day (12 hours) in the building, I'm not sure how long it takes to find signal again (I haven't waited long enough), I just toggle airplane mode.
My whole point is.. searching for a signal in a dead area on all my other phones dramatically reduced battery life, but with the GNex, I notice the battery isn't affected, hence why I think the phone tries for a period, then stretches the intervals of trying each time it finds nothing.
Make sense?
As I said, I don't have any signal issues when I am outside this one building.. I don't have any dropped calls/data or the like... but this may explain some peoples issues.
Sorry if this has been brought up before.. I guess I didn't enter the proper key words in the search.
out of the blue, I've started having two very annoying issues with my phone.
First one is pretty important because it could cost me missing some important calls. Basically, at some points during the, usually during the afternoon/early evening, if someone calls me my phone doesn't ring. If they leave me a voicemail I get a notification several minutes later but it doesn't show that I had a missed call or anything like that. And when I ask the person who called me what happened, they say they dialed my number, it rang once or twice and then went directly to voicemail. That's what I'd expect to happen if the phone was off but it wasn't off.
Anyone know what might be causing this?
The second problem is that right around the same time frame as this seems to happen, my battery is draining ridiculously fast. It dropped from 47% to 34% in about two hours with absolutely no use during that time.
I opened up better battery stats to show kernel wakelocks since unplugged and it shows the powermanagementservice and something called bam_dmux_wakelock at the top of the list with 30m and 27 minutes.
It's completely stock, I haven't done anything to it. I had previously tried a couple of power management apps like juice defender and another one but I didn't like them and uninstalled them all. So I don't know what could be causing phonecalls to not be coming through to my phone. I have a fairly strong signal too. Any idea what's happening with my phone?
edit: btw, my battery life in general has been very crappy again. I thought the problem had resolved itself but today in just 14 hours I'm down to 30% with only 2 hours of screen time and 15 minutes of voice calls.
Bought four AT&T S3's back in December for the wife, kids and myself and so far we love the phones. They all right great but all the sudden I've got weird battery issues.
One day I picked up my phone and the screen said something to the affect of it stopped charging because the battery was too hot. My phone felt like it was on fire. Another time it said something about the voltage being too high? Then as quick as they came, no more issues for like a month.
All of a sudden the error about the temperature came back again. If I use a battery app that gives me battery health information, everything looks GOOD. This is one of those issues where sometimes it does it, sometimes it doesn't. The problem is if I take it off the charger, it normally doesn't do it until it's been on the charger for a couple hours and then its not always happening.
Oh and sometimes it just gets REALLY hot and doesn't give any messages. One other thing, since it started my battery life has taken a hit. I was getting 24~36 hours with medium usage but now I'm lucky to see 12~15 hours under the same conditions. I'm on the newest stock-rooted ROM with no tweaks, no over-clocking. I only have root to have basic things like no ads etc. I've ran this ROM for months without issues and I've not installed any rouge apps, I have no wake locks. I checked all that. I even did a Nandroid backup and did a fresh install and the problem came back after a few days.
I would say I have this issue 2 or 3 times a week? I'm not sure that it's consistent enough that I could walk into AT&T and SHOW them though.
Defective battery? Under warranty? I don't have many AT&T Corporate stores around here, it's a good 45 minute drive to one from my house or work. I should probably figure something out though before my phone melts!
Thoughts? Suggestions?
If you call att, they can do a warranty exchange. They send you replacement, you have so many days to return defective unit or you get charged for it. I would warrantyit.
As he stated just warranty it. They are ton's of reasons this could happen and hopefully they will just give you another battery or you can get "new" phone.
I wouldn't mess with a battery getting hot. Is this just yours ?
Yeah its just mine. The wife and kids S3's are fine.
I have to go into the city with the ATT Corporate Store tomorrow, I'll drop by and see what they say. Actually I'll call them tonight, no sense in going in if they can't do anything for me.
Thanks.
So I have had this phone for about over a month and I just love it. Here are two issues I have encountered so far. I don't know if it is the phone or a software issue:
1. The signal sometimes drops to 4G (not LTE) or Edge when LTE signal is weak but my wife's S4 holds on to one or two bars of LTE signal in the same spot. And then after I get an area where the LTE is supposed to be strong, the phone still says 4G or Edge. I can only get back to LTE if I toggle plane mode on and off. I actually tested the speeds to see if the S4's LTE signal is real. The S4 gives about 9 Mbps download and it shows LTE in speedtest app. While the OGP gives about 3Mbps download and it says Cell in the speedtest app. I hope this is a software issue and will be cleared when we receive an update.
2. The other thing just happened to me once yesterday. I unplugged my phone from the charger in the morning and played some songs via TTpod in my car. Took a few photos afterwards. Then the phone started to get warm in the lower half where you palm would usually hold it. The battery dropped at about 4-5 percent per hour (normally in idle it is less than 1 percent per hour drop). I tried stopping any unimportant processes that didn't help. I tried turning off my phone for 10 min and turning back on. It didn't help. I thought it might be the TTpod even though I had been using it for quite a while without a problem. I uninstalled it. Problem persisted. I basically gave up and let the phone sit in my pocket. The heating up gradually stopped after maybe a couple of hours. It haven't happened again since then. When I checked my battery status during the heating up though, it said the screen used most battery (however the on time was only about 9 min). I wish I had a screenshot or something.
Just want to know if some one also has experienced the same issues. Maybe it was just bad luck?
Nevertheless, it is a great phone. I hope we will get the 4.3 update and all the problems will be gone.
I work with a guy that has a GS4 and my LTE is way faster then his. We are both on the same network,and did a speed test at work the other day he only hit like 6 megs and I hit like 24... my other coworker has a note 2 and he downloads between 15 to 19 MEGS...
When the f*ck did we get ice cream??
Hey guys,
I currently own a Samsung Galaxy S9 and previously owned a Huawei Nexus 6p, both devices, while in the woods, behave very strangely. Since I don't own the 6p anymore, I'm only going to speak of the S9, which is brand new and in brand new condition. But this used to happen on my 6p as well!
A good 75% of the time, when I take my phone out of my pocket, it will be at the boot pattern lock screen. The screen will be on and the battery will have drained substantially. Somehow, the device is rebooting while in my pocket. This ONLY happens when I go camping in the woods here in Ontario. NEVER happens any other time. And it won't happen just once or twice. It'll happen a dozen times over the course of a day easily. My battery, while out in the woods, never lasts more than a day, even though I almost never use it.
Yes. I'm positive I'm not pocket rebooting. I'll move the phone into my cargo pocket, which has TONS of room. Same thing. I'm running stock Samsung, no root, nothing. The stock experience so far has been very smooth and stable. I've had no reboots, very little lags, etc. I step into the woods, BAM, starts acting a fool.
I have a Garmin watch connected via BT, but the watch is ALWAYS connected. NEVER had any issues with the Garmin device. Thought I'd mention this, since it's the only device I have connected to my S9.
Anyone else experiencing this? Or do I sound totally crazy here?? It bothers me because I don't want to go camping with a power bank. I'm often resorted to turning the device off completely and leaving it in my backpack, which isn't ideal.
TheShamsMan said:
Hey guys,
I currently own a Samsung Galaxy S9 and previously owned a Huawei Nexus 6p, both devices, while in the woods, behave very strangely. Since I don't own the 6p anymore, I'm only going to speak of the S9, which is brand new and in brand new condition. But this used to happen on my 6p as well!
A good 75% of the time, when I take my phone out of my pocket, it will be at the boot pattern lock screen. The screen will be on and the battery will have drained substantially. Somehow, the device is rebooting while in my pocket. This ONLY happens when I go camping in the woods here in Ontario. NEVER happens any other time. And it won't happen just once or twice. It'll happen a dozen times over the course of a day easily. My battery, while out in the woods, never lasts more than a day, even though I almost never use it.
Yes. I'm positive I'm not pocket rebooting. I'll move the phone into my cargo pocket, which has TONS of room. Same thing. I'm running stock Samsung, no root, nothing. The stock experience so far has been very smooth and stable. I've had no reboots, very little lags, etc. I step into the woods, BAM, starts acting a fool.
I have a Garmin watch connected via BT, but the watch is ALWAYS connected. NEVER had any issues with the Garmin device. Thought I'd mention this, since it's the only device I have connected to my S9.
Anyone else experiencing this? Or do I sound totally crazy here?? It bothers me because I don't want to go camping with a power bank. I'm often resorted to turning the device off completely and leaving it in my backpack, which isn't ideal.
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Check if Settings > Display > Navigation Bar > Hard Press Home Button & Unlock With Home Button are disabled, otherwise it is very easy to turn the screen on when you pull the phone out of your pocket, was happening to me for a while until I realised what was happening
Battery drain could be coming from low carrier signal forcing the phone to search for a signal a lot more than usual
I'd stay out of those woods! ?
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Check if Settings > Display > Navigation Bar > Hard Press Home Button & Unlock With Home Button are disabled, otherwise it is very easy to turn the screen on when you pull the phone out of your pocket, was happening to me for a while until I realised what was happening
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Those settings were actually one of the first things I disabled on my S9. SUPER ANNOYING, but those aren't the causes for my strange behavior. I've experienced this same issue with all those disabled, as well as on a completely different device that doesn't even have those settings.
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Battery drain could be coming from low carrier signal forcing the phone to search for a signal a lot more than usual
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Really?? I did not realize this was a thing. Something to keep my eye out. Most places I go camping, even though deep in the woods, still has cellular reception, but usually not LTE, only 3G or no-G even some times. Are you able to enlighten me on when the S9 drains the most when it comes to it's carrier signal? I just want to know how to set my phone next time I go into the woods for best troubleshooting.
Thanks for the reply!
Tel864 said:
I'd stay out of those woods!
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Last I checked, they are probe-free woods. My phone is probably the one getting the probe.
TheShamsMan said:
Those settings were actually one of the first things I disabled on my S9. SUPER ANNOYING, but those aren't the causes for my strange behavior. I've experienced this same issue with all those disabled, as well as on a completely different device that doesn't even have those settings.
Really?? I did not realize this was a thing. Something to keep my eye out. Most places I go camping, even though deep in the woods, still has cellular reception, but usually not LTE, only 3G or no-G even some times. Are you able to enlighten me on when the S9 drains the most when it comes to it's carrier signal? I just want to know how to set my phone next time I go into the woods for best troubleshooting.
Thanks for the reply!
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I generally have 4G most places I am so I can't help there, but I would try setting the preferred connection type to whatever you seem to get in the woods the most, so if it drops to H+ or E or whatever you get when 3/4G isn't available, set it to 2G or whatever the lowest available is in connection settings, could be that searching for a 3/4G signal constantly is causing that drain so telling it not to even look for one could help, but also could be that this radio type is causing that drain itself, maybe 3/4G signals are a lot less power hungry regardless of whether or not the phone is set manually to them or not
You could test it in the house now, set it to 2G and do a battery drain test vs 3/4G you usually have, if there is no extra drain in the house, there should be no extra drain in the woods, but if there is then 2G and lesser obviously uses a lot more power
Tel864 said:
I'd stay out of those woods!
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This guy gets it. You have been warned, lol. If you have a logcat I'm sure someone would be able to identify the problem.
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This guy gets it. You have been warned, lol. If you have a logcat I'm sure someone would be able to identify the problem.
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Haha!
Logcat is a good idea. I think the next time I'm out there, I'll pull one and we'll see what's what.
Should be going back into the woods real soon. Blair Witch be damned.