It's probably old news, if so I couldn't find it.
Anyhow for those who aren't rooted, myself included (say what!!!) I hate the fact that there is no reboot option on our phones.
After scouring the net & testing it myself rebooting is as simple as long pressing the power button (about 7-10 seconds).
This is not one of those "ooooh-ahhhh" moments but I like the fact that I no longer have to wait for my phone to shut down completely before turning it back on.
Holding the power button is the equivalent to pulling the plug on your PC when it's still running. It's harmful to the phone. If it turns off mid-write, it could do damage to the point where it won't turn back on unless you root it.
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Possibly can't say for sure. I've searched the net & couldn't come to an answer for any smartphone using this method but you never know...
Gary13579 said:
Holding the power button is the equivalent to pulling the plug on your PC when it's still running. It's harmful to the phone. If it turns off mid-write, it could do damage to the point where it won't turn back on unless you root it.
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You're half wrong on this. Yes there is the possibility of data corruption due to something being in mid-write, however in modern file systems for android it tends to be quite rare due to effective methods of journaling and write-protection.
The method described by the OP is the effective equivalent of pulling the battery, which is of course Android's soft reset, and an endorsed action.
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You're half wrong on this. Yes there is the possibility of data corruption due to something being in mid-write, however in modern file systems for android it tends to be quite rare due to effective methods of journaling and write-protection.
The method described by the OP is the effective equivalent of pulling the battery, which is of course Android's soft reset, and an endorsed action.
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This +1 You could do this on the OG Epic no problem, but if you had journaling turned off you almost always had to restore a backup or flash your ROM again. Still nice to see people putting out actually useful info
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You're half wrong on this. Yes there is the possibility of data corruption due to something being in mid-write, however in modern file systems for android it tends to be quite rare due to effective methods of journaling and write-protection.
The method described by the OP is the effective equivalent of pulling the battery, which is of course Android's soft reset, and an endorsed action.
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Journaling isn't 100% effective. I've seen it happen myself on ext3 desktops. It will save you most of the time, but it's still not something I'd recommend doing unless you HAVE to (eg due to a hard lock). Would you crash your car into a wall just because the air bags will save you? (I know, that's a terrible analogy, sorry!)
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Journaling doesn't save you from data corruption. It saves you from the super long fsck. The reason why you usually don't have a problem is the OS is read-only.
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Journaling doesn't save you from data corruption. It saves you from the super long fsck. The reason why you usually don't have a problem is the OS is read-only.
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Which still isn't a complete fail safe as there can be corruption in system /data files which results in boot loops and requires a wipe to fix.
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I have been yanking batterys and holding down the power button to restart phones for years. Never had 1 single problem. I wouldnt worry about it
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bluefire808 said:
I have been yanking batterys and holding down the power button to restart phones for years. Never had 1 single problem. I wouldnt worry about it
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Anecdotal evidence can't really compare to the fact of how file systems work. Just because the chance of dying for sticking your finger in an electrical outlet is small doesn't mean you should do it.
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Anecdotal evidence can't really compare to the fact of how file systems work. Just because the chance of dying for sticking your finger in an electrical outlet is small doesn't mean you should do it.
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Still i'll take YEARS of my own personal experience over anything else.
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Listen doctor, I know you have decades of experience and education in this, and it is your career, but there is no way smoking causes cancer! I've been smoking for YEARS and I don't have cancer!
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Just picked up the phone today and noticed a long delay between pressing the power button and the screen waking up. When it is plugged in there is no delay at all. The delay occurs whenever the phone is disconnected from a power source. It is about a 2 second delay. Is anyone else experiencing this? Best Buy didn't have another unit and the Sprint store was useless and wouldn't unplug their demo unit to compare.
I saw a thread concerning the standard Galaxy S II, but nothing Epic 4G Touch specific.
Thanks.
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Just to make things perfectly clear, here is a video of the delay time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJc_nYuwac
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Downloaded Soft Locker Free and it allows the phone to instantly wake with no delay by bypassing a deep sleep mode. I'm unsure about how detrimental this is to the battery, but at least it's a fix. I'd still like to know if all Epic Touch phones have the wake up lag, though.
mine is doing this too.. are you using a SD Card wallpaper? I am. not sure if thats affecting things.
I have not noticed any delays on mine.
I have noticed this as well. I'm using a stock wallpaper.
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Just picked up the phone today and noticed a long delay between pressing the power button and the screen waking up. When it is plugged in there is no delay at all. The delay occurs whenever the phone is disconnected from a power source. It is about a 2 second delay. Is anyone else experiencing this? Best Buy didn't have another unit and the Sprint store was useless and wouldn't unplug their demo unit to compare.
I saw a thread concerning the standard Galaxy S II, but nothing Epic 4G Touch specific.
Thanks.
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Downloaded Soft Locker Free and it allows the phone to instantly wake with no delay by bypassing a deep sleep mode. I'm unsure about how detrimental this is to the battery, but at least it's a fix. I'd still like to know if all Epic Touch phones have the wake up lag, though.
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You shouldn't do that, it will be detrimental to your battery. Deep sleep mode means that the processor is technically off, provided the phone doesn't have any tasks to run while the screen is off.
Its perfectly natural for your phone to wake up immediately when plugged in, because that's how samsung designed the galaxy's. No need to deep sleep when the phone's getting a charge.
By restricting your phone from sleeping (affectionately referred to as wake lock),your forcing your processor to run for nothing, most likely at 200mhz. When it's all said and done, I estimate you'll end up shaving off about 5 hours of battery life. Not worth it to me, just learn to deal with 1 sec it takes to wake up the phone.
On a lighter note, I find it amusing that you've installed an app that now makes the phone do something that is commonly known as a bug and a lot of people spend their time trying to squash. Lol.
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On a lighter note, I find it amusing that you've installed an app that now makes the phone do something that is commonly known as a bug and a lot of people spend their time trying to squash. Lol.
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+1LOL*10
The amount of threads I have read, the hundreds if not thousands of posts I have seen the hundreds of developers that have all chased wake-lock bugs are all disgusted right now. Thousands if not tens of thousands of man hours have gone into chasing the wake-lock bugs down on many many many devices....in roms, in kernels in conflicting apps. For years. Sometimes its simple, sometimes it's given up on completely.
You are right. Wow, just, wow.
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The amount of threads I have read, the hundreds if not thousands of posts I have seen the hundreds of developers that have all chased wake-lock bugs are all disgusted right now. Thousands if not tens of thousands of man hours have gone into chasing the wake-lock bugs down on many many many devices....in roms, in kernels in conflicting apps. For years. Sometimes its simple, sometimes it's given up on completely.
You are right. Wow, just, wow.
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Lol, I'm actually crying a little from laughter. The scenario you described was exactly what went through my head when I wrote that
EDIT: to the OP, this is all in jest, no offense meant. But seriously, don't wake lock your phone.
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I've noticed it too, but it isn't too bad of a lag. Not snappy like the EVO 4G, but not a dealbreaker, not on this.
Don't wakelock the phone.
Voluntarily wake locking a phone? Haven't heard that before lol
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I've noticed it too, but it isn't too bad of a lag. Not snappy like the EVO 4G, but not a dealbreaker, not on this.
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Thanks for all the responses. My past Android phones (Evo and Evo 3D) didn't have any delay whatsoever, which is the origin of the original post. The power of the Galaxy S2 phones is pretty much legendary, which is why I'm surprised about this power saving feature. Reviews boast quick boot times, but I would argue that a regular wake time is much more useful and realistic to have. I do understand the basic premise that a powerful phone consumes more battery, but that didn't make any other dual core phone I've seen require this precaution.
Therefore, why is it that others forego this feature if it ultimately saves so much battery that Samsung has made it a default feature on their latest phones?
Updated the OP with a video. Please view and tell me if this is the norm.
I watched the video, mine is not that slow delay.
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I watched the video, mine is not that slow delay.
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+1 return it
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I wouldn't return it Hold tight for custom rom.
I'm sure tweak will be around the corner to improve wake up response
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I wouldn't return it Hold tight for custom rom.
I'm sure tweak will be around the corner to improve wake up response
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Funny how mine has all my apps on it... (over 40) and a **** load of music... And for the life of me I cant get it go lag like that.... I had a refurbished evo 3d that did that... I called sprint.after factory reset and.a few battery pulls... Id just return it.
roms dont fix all bugs let alone one random wake lag problem and the op may have to deal with it as most of us dont have lag like that...
@op if you got it from a store id bring it in.... if a rep says its suppose to do that.... Tell them your older android phone didnt do it... Then ask to speak to a manager
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Yeah... I had a feeling it was worse than it should have been. Though it's true a custom ROM could fix it, it would probably implement a fix similar to Soft Locker (which is obviously shunned for its battery draining ability). Also, I'd much rather have a device in proper working order to begin with. The Best Buy I got it from only had 2 on launch day, so here's hoping I find one that has it in stock.
Thanks for all the replies.
My delay is similar to the video. How does everyone else compare after seeing the video?
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I had the same issue. Move the pic from ur sd card to ur internal. Open in using myfiles and set as lockscreen
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Thanks. Stupid question but how do I move it. I only know how using root explorer on a rooted phone.
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I've had the Nexus for about 2 weeks now and been impressed with it overall.
Which comes to the biggest mistake I've made now. I left the phone on the table and my sis's kids were in the house. Before you get any ideas they did not drop it. However, when I caught my nephew with the phone it was rebooting. I was wondering how he managed to do that considering I had screen lock enabled with a PIN.
In any case, when restart completed everything was blank. Somehow he managed to do a factory reset. All my programs were gone. All local data wiped out.
Good thing most of my apps were back in a few minutes but lost quite a bit of other stuff.
Lesson: Never leave phone unattended.
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I guess he found his way into recovery and wiped? lol.
I bet he hit one of those magical bottom combinations which only kids know that happen to be the right one for factory reset lol
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Thanks for the welcome.
It's either a combination or perhaps too many tries on the PIN?
I'm guessing the latter because I've got office email sync and it required permissions on remote wiping etc.
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He probably hit Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
Have you considered deliberate intention?
DaSheikh said:
Thanks for the welcome.
It's either a combination or perhaps too many tries on the PIN?
I'm guessing the latter because I've got office email sync and it required permissions on remote wiping etc.
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It was probably too many improper PIN attempts.
Man, I never leave my phone out of arms reach of me lol. Couldn't stand the thought of some little kids molesting it!
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Have you considered deliberate intention?
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This. Can we get a background check on the kid? Maybe past criminal records??
Kidding of course
I'm pretty sure it was me. I pressed the button - the remote self-destruct button. It didn't work.
Too many incorrect PIN attempts will force a factory reset? If that's true it is a HUGE design/security flaw.
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Too many incorrect PIN attempts will force a factory reset? If that's true it is a HUGE design/security flaw.
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How??? that's a security FEATURE. You want someone to not get at your data if they get ahold of the phone...
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Too many incorrect PIN attempts will force a factory reset? If that's true it is a HUGE design/security flaw.
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That's how blackberries are.
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He probably hit Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
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xD is'nt that the bouncing puck in Ice Hockey?
Edit: I googled it and it is apparently the so called Konami Code, used in many of their games.. awsome memories anyway
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That's the famous code that worked for quite a few Konami games waaay back in the day.
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joshnichols189 said:
That's how blackberries are.
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My sister had a friend get locked out of their iPhone for 9,999,999,999 (or something like that) minutes. Lol.
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Accord281 said:
He probably hit Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
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fatality!!!
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martonikaj said:
How??? that's a security FEATURE. You want someone to not get at your data if they get ahold of the phone...
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So if I want to piss someone off I can just grab his phone when he's not around it and enter a wrong pin several time until his phone gets wiped? Awesome!
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So if I want to piss someone off I can just grab his phone when he's not around it and enter a wrong pin several time until his phone gets wiped? Awesome!
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If you really want to piss someone off, you can take his phone when he's not around and simply throw it out of the window.
So, we should not leave our phones in a place where someone may wanna piss us off.
Does your kid by any chance works for apple? He might be trying to destroy one android phone at the time. Got to start them young
exceleth said:
If you really want to piss someone off, you can take his phone when he's not around and simply throw it out of the window.
So, we should not leave our phones in a place where someone may wanna piss us off.
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That would only make sense in this context if the phone was somehow attached with a lock, and after repeated failed attempts to pick the lock the phone would catapult itself out the window.
Hi all,
So my phone recently started giving me some battery issues that I just cannot for the life of me get resolved. I noticed that under better battery stats, my phone was avoiding deep sleep. Looking at the kernel wake locks shows Wlan_wake with nearly non stop wakes. I've done just about everything. I've wiped totally to stock Blu Kuban, tried different radios, kernels etc. I get these even on a fresh wipe with no apps installed and no sync on. It doesn't seem to be related to any application in particular. If I turn off wifi and just use 3g,the phone goes into deep sleep immediately and stays. The Wlan_wake stops and the wake counter doesn't keep ramping up. The phone once again gets great battery life while sitting idle. This occurs on both of the wifi I use predominantly, home and work. I'm really at my wits end since when I go to bed, my phones battery gets knocked down a good 20-30% in the 7 hours I go to bed. Attached is just a small sampling of what it's doing.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Stop leaving your WiFi on. Either that or install one of the hundreds of battery scripts available that will shut off WiFi when the phone sleeps.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630792
abadasstanker69 said:
Stop leaving your WiFi on. Either that or install one of the hundreds of battery scripts available that will shut off WiFi when the phone sleeps.
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While I can appreciate people who want to hamstring their phones to save battery life, turning off WiFi is not an option for most people who actually use their phones for grown up things.
Sprint data is horribly unreliable for me... Without WiFi on, I would never be notified of important emails from work, done of which are time sensitive.
It's too bad that ICS has such bad battery life when compared to a similarly configured GB device.
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Dalmus said:
While I can appreciate people who want to hamstring their phones to save battery life, turning off WiFi is not an option for most people who actually use their phones for grown up things.
Sprint data is horribly unreliable for me... Without WiFi on, I would never be notified of important emails from work, done of which are time sensitive.
It's too bad that ICS has such bad battery life when compared to a similarly configured GB device.
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Well a grown up would solve the problem by calling Sprint and having a free mini tower sent to them so they wouldn't have that problem... just sayin
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Is there some specific reason you can't charge your phone while you sleep? It seems like that's the most obvious and easiest solution to your complaint...
I'll take a look at that wifi idle time thread, thanks man.
To the rest, when I suddenly have a glaring issue with my phone, I usually don't include "pretend the problem doesn't exist" as a troubleshooting method. If that's what has to be done, so be it. Charging the phone while sleeping is fine, depending on my schedule/battery level, but that doesn't answer the question of why the battery is absolutely horrific when the phone is doing absolutely nothing. It's not syncing, it's not pulling down data from apps etc. I guess I'm just having trouble coming to terms with the fact that Gingerbread idles, with sync on, about 3-5 percent in an 8 hour period (on blazer) while my ics experiences have been literally 10 times worse. It's hard to just say "oh, ICS battery life just isn't as good", when the disparity is that large.
I want to make sure I'm an exception, not the rule as far as idle drain is concerned.
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I'll take a look at that wifi idle time thread, thanks man.
To the rest, when I suddenly have a glaring issue with my phone, I usually don't include "pretend the problem doesn't exist" as a troubleshooting method. If that's what has to be done, so be it. Charging the phone while sleeping is fine, depending on my schedule/battery level, but that doesn't answer the question of why the battery is absolutely horrific when the phone is doing absolutely nothing. It's not syncing, it's not pulling down data from apps etc. I guess I'm just having trouble coming to terms with the fact that Gingerbread idles, with sync on, about 3-5 percent in an 8 hour period (on blazer) while my ics experiences have been literally 10 times worse. It's hard to just say "oh, ICS battery life just isn't as good", when the disparity is that large.
I want to make sure I'm an exception, not the rule as far as idle drain is concerned.
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Since I'm included in the "rest" ill say that I was not suggesting that you ignore it, I was simply suggesting that by charging while you sleep you would remedy the issue for the time being, as there is absolutely no logical reason your phone can't be charging while you sleep... including battery level... im assuming from your post you wait till the battery is low to charge, that is unecessary as Li-Ion batteries do not have a memory, so incremental charging will not damage them, in fact ive read that its actually better for them than full power cycles.... if you want more possible solutions perhaps you should start by following revampers link and using the damn search bar, as there are 10's of ics battery threads, and I'm pretty sure phaker posted a solution to a very similar issue in one of them, as opposed to starting yet another thread about an issue that's been beat to death and replying condesendingly to those who offer you suggestions not entirely to you're liking....also use the thanks button at least for revampers post as you seem to have found at least that useful, its considered common courtesy around here...
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Ignore, xda app quoted instead of editing
You weren't included in the rest btw. Forgot to thank v.
The first response was snide to both myself and the other person who replied about slashing off your phones arm when it isn't necessary. I have spent quite a bit of time on this problem, and have done substantial searching with my info I've collected from various apps and logs. Snide non replies get snide responses. It was not aimed at you.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28207774
This may help as well, worth a read at least... the script that just modifies wifi_supp_scan or something to that effect.... should be what you're after as I recall that was preventing deep sleep, read through the thread to confirm, I read it about a week ago and dont recall 100%
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Appreciated, thank you sir.
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My power button stopped working. It's not the actual button, but i guess whatever is behind it. Does anyone know what the process is for replacing something like that? Luckily, I'm able to use an app to enable lockscreen and another app to use the volume rocker to wake the device, so I actually don't NEED to have it fix. Of course, if and when I decide to sell, i want it working.
my button broke too, is your phone also randomly restarting?
what app do you use for volume rocker and lockscreen
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my button broke too, is your phone also randomly restarting?
what app do you use for volume rocker and lockscreen
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This may help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584342
its only 3 pages wrong but someone posted how he fixed his power button
eagles16 said:
my button broke too, is your phone also randomly restarting?
what app do you use for volume rocker and lockscreen
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I'm running cm10 Paranoid Android and it has a feature to use the gilume rocker to wake the device.
Oh and yes I was having random reboots. Maybe it's not the physical button. Maybe it is software related. I'm keeping an eye on that thread. Hopefully, there will be a solution.
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pariah1570 said:
This may help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584342
its only 3 pages wrong but someone posted how he fixed his power button
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Thanks for the thread but there wasn't a direct fix. I already took my phone apart today. Mad sure it was clicking. No dice, but I'm subscribed to the thread now. Thanks
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No problem just trying to help in some way, instead of posting junk to get my ten posts.
pariah1570 said:
No problem just trying to help in some way, instead of posting junk to get my ten posts.
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Thanks for the lead. I just got done ripping the phone apart and even tightened the power button. Still no go. My last option is to Odin back to el26.
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As far as I know this isn't a software issue. My broken power button is driving me nuts but I'm not in the mood to send it into repair.
Are you covered under Sprint with either warranty or insurance? If you are, take it in. They will probably just replace the entire phone for you. I speak from experience.
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Are you covered under Sprint with either warranty or insurance? If you are, take it in. They will probably just replace the entire phone for you. I speak from experience.
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Nope. Neither.
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Nope. Neither.
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I'm pretty sure tdunham started a thread in the General section about replacing a power button. That is probably going to be your best bet then.
word of caution..be VERY VERY careful when clamping down the power button with pliers...or else you'll break the button and be forced to upgrade to a new and better phone.
PS - my broken phone is now for sale: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33975509#post33975509
Restart
jinwu57 said:
word of caution..be VERY VERY careful when clamping down the power button with pliers...or else you'll break the button and be forced to upgrade to a new and better phone.
PS - my broken phone is now for sale: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33975509#post33975509
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My phone has started to do that as well. It randomly restarts. I started having this problem when I clicked yes on the ota update from samsung while using a blazer rom. I wiped everything, running codename android's jellybean rom and still having these problems. I thought it was a battery issue as I had a previous battery that restarted every so often and the battery would be wiped out. Here, the battery doesn't get wiped out but it suffers a significant drop. In the previous case, the phone never restarted when connected to a charger but now, even the charger doesn't seem to help.
Mine started doing the same thing. I took it to sprint and they just sent me a new one. But a lot of ppl on the forums are having that issue
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I fixed mine a few times by taking it apart..... my only problem now is battery at say.. 69 percent then reboot and its at 19
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moparfreak426 said:
I fixed mine a few times by taking it apart..... my only problem now is battery at say.. 69 percent then reboot and its at 19
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Whenever this happens take out the battery for a few minutes. When you put it back in you should gain a little, like maybe have 35% instead of 19%.
faceyourfaces said:
Whenever this happens take out the battery for a few minutes. When you put it back in you should gain a little, like maybe have 35% instead of 19%.
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Do you think I have the dreaded battery bulge?... I'm almost scared to check
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Recently had a Galaxy S2 do something strange and I wanted to see if you guys can decipher what really happened because I have no idea what caused this to happen.
Let's start off with some other info....I was running:
CWM Touch Recovery 6.0.1.8
Cyanogenmod10 Nightly 111212
I simply turned it off once the battery was getting low and charged it, once it was done I turned it on and it made it to the lock screen and then restarted. It would continue do that indefinitely until I removed the battery. So I thought maybe something went wacky and got corrupted so I went back to stock....When Odin restarted it I made it to the Android Welcome screen and it restarted again just like before. So then I got really desperate and did a factory reset and erased all my personal data along with a different stock rom...ICS stock. Nope, it STILL restarts.
Additionally, T-Mobile is replacing said device for a new SGS2, but now I'm afraid to root it. Which is why I want to figure out what happened to it. I'm starting to have suspicions about my extended battery I bought because when this restarting issue began, I've been using them for a little over a week and I haven't done any cyanogenmod updates or flashes recently.
on another note, if I do decide to root again, which Recovery should I use? Preferably one that doesn't require me to use Darkside Superwipe or cache scripts. I'd prefer a Recovery that can do it without scripts. And if you could provide the link, that would be great. I don't care if it's touch or not.
I have been using TWRP for awhile now. Supposedly the built in Wipes are very effective. I like the look and aesthetics of it. I don't think the issue you experienced had anything to do with rooting and romming. I think you may have had a legitimate phone issue. Don't be afraid, just be prepared with backups and knowledge and such.
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I have been using TWRP for awhile now. Supposedly the built in Wipes are very effective. I like the look and aesthetics of it. I don't think the issue you experienced had anything to do with rooting and romming. I think you may have had a legitimate phone issue. Don't be afraid, just be prepared with backups and knowledge and such.
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Thanks for your input, As a precaution, do you think I should stop using the unofficial extended batteries? Because this started about 2 weeks after using them.
goku1910 said:
Thanks for your input, As a precaution, do you think I should stop using the unofficial extended batteries? Because this started about 2 weeks after using them.
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I would go a while without using it and see if the issue persist. If it does then you'll have your answer. Either way.
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Sounds like your phone's power button is messed. You can try using a small flathead screwdriver and put it into the sides of the power button and rock it around a little bit. If that doesnt work i guess youre going to have to take it to a repair shop or if you have warranty just bring it back.
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