[Q] Sleep mode/ screen off problems - Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Okay does any one have this same problem or am i just doing something wrong?
Every time i let my kindle sit with the screen off after about 30 minutes or so, and I assume it keeps going and getting stuck in sleep mode but the only way for me to get it turned back on is to do the whole power button for 20 seconds and then reboot. Am I not being patient enough with it or is there some trick to getting the screen back on that i haven't found yet? Because I've tried multiple different things and there isn't a disable sleep mode option in my rom just the option to extend the time, even though its pretty much useless. But can anyone help me with this?

what rom are you on?

Right now I'm on Hell Fire 1.1 but last week i was running CM9 Reloaded and it did the same exact thing.

I was going to give a long speech about how people need to READ before installing any new roms but considering the Hellfire thread doesn't list what works and what doesn't, I guess it's not entirely your fault
It's called "sleep of death" (SOD). Some ICS roms have problems with it and some don't. The same could be said about certain individual devices. You could boost your minimum CPU usage to 600Mhz or more, or try a different rom. Though, it should be noted that changing your CPU settings will affect battery life.

okay that makes sense i had no idea that most of the new roms have problems with it. but I'll probably try to up the min cpu usage i suppose the difference between 600 MHz and 300 MHz isn't going to be a true killer for the amount i use it but which rom or roms would you recommend? That don't have this problem I'd really like to try barebones but every time i try to flash it my Kindle goes crazy so i gave up on trying with it.

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[Q] Bug with Lock Screen G2 Overclock

Hey there every one. When I am unlocking my phone I notice that it will flash the lock screen and then disappear and then immediately re appear. When you try to lock the phone sometimes it wont lock and the buttons will stay lit and will display the lock screen but the display wont sleep unless it times out.
This happens on all ROM's that I flash except CyanogenMod
I used both of the over clock methods but the results are the same.
Please Advise
macfan74318
macfan74318 said:
Hey there every one. When I am unlocking my phone I notice that it will flash the lock screen and then disappear and then immediately re appear. When you try to lock the phone sometimes it wont lock and the buttons will stay lit and will display the lock screen but the display wont sleep unless it times out.
This happens on all ROM's that I flash except CyanogenMod
I used both of the over clock methods but the results are the same.
Please Advise
macfan74318
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Yeah, it sucks. Theres no real way around this but disabling the lock screen helps it from happening less frequently. But then you end up draining the battery & others by the screen coming on easily by trackpad, volume keys, and power button. Its a lose/lose situation really...
sino8r said:
Yeah, it sucks. Theres no real way around this but disabling the lock screen helps it from happening less frequently. But then you end up draining the battery & others by the screen coming on easily by trackpad, volume keys, and power button. Its a lose/lose situation really...
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I bumped my minimum clock speed to 368 MHz, and I don't have this problem anymore. YMMV
seancneal said:
I bumped my minimum clock speed to 368 MHz, and I don't have this problem anymore. YMMV
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Still happens to me when I try that. It occurs when you press the power button twice in succession.
Hi there,
anything new on this topic? I'm currently experiencing this annoying problem as described.
I've already tried to set the minimum clock to 368 Mhz but the bug still exists. Even setting CPU to standard clock (Max/Min @800) didn't solve the problem.
Is it possible that the reason is located already inside the overclocking kernel?
Greets
dktnecro
Generally if you're overclocking and you have lockscreen issues that are not present @ stock speeds, then it sounds to me like the overclock is too much and your system probably isn't stable.
Based on my experience overclocking computers, things can very well appear stable but if you do stress testing (8+ hours straight) things often crop up and show you that it is in fact not stable. This sounds like one of those things. And that's not good. Who knows what other corruption could occur during your use at that speed? I had the same lockscreen issues myself, and once I realized it was due to overclocking too much I ended up solving another issue I had where half of the calls I received were garbled to the person on the other end. No more lockscreen issues or garbled calls since backing off the o/c a bit.
If the issue doesn't happen at stock speeds then maybe it's just the kernel, and hopefully that isn't putting you at risk of any kind of corruption, either.
Keep in mind I really can't be 100% if overclocking will cause corruption on a phone, but based on a lot of time spend overclocking pc's I would have to guess that it can. I'm surprised that this isn't brought up more often on device forums.

[Q] Slow and unresponsive DINC

My DINC runs great most of the time. But at least once a day it will become very very slow and almost unresponsive. The commands still work, but take 5-10 seconds to complete. A reboot fixes it completely until the next time that it occurs. This has happened with every kernel, ROM, radio, recovery etc. that i've flashed. I first noticed this after flashing a Cyanogen release MONTHS ago and it hasn't gone away since then. Has anybody else run into this and come up with a fix?
I'm currently running MIUI 12.11 with the 2.15.00.09 radio and invisiblek's #18 kernel...obviously i'm rooted with S-off as well.
I have that happen periodically but it is pretty rare and usually I am trying to do a bunch of things at once so I just assume it is user load on the phone.
try unsyncing everything for a day - see if it still happens
If you call it a dinc its going to act like one.
seriously though you have given us nothing to go on here.
what are you running? have you done a full wipe/factory reset?
lafester said:
If you call it a dinc its going to act like one.
seriously though you have given us nothing to go on here.
what are you running? have you done a full wipe/factory reset?
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What do you mean i've given you nothing to go on? I said exactly what i'm running. I don't know what more info you'd want about my phone... I've tried system wipes and flashing different ROMS...all to no avail. This can occur when the phone is sitting idle and other times it happens when i'm doing small things like using TFLN (texts from last night). When I was running Cyanogen months ago it would occur every morning when I would go to turn off my alarm...so it was happening at some point during the night when I was doing nothing. The only app that I have running overnight is Locale.
I basically posed the question to see if anyone else is having the same issue. If not, then it probably has to be something to do with one or more apps not playing nicely.
Make sure you do a full wipe, wipe dalvik, each time you flash to a different ROM.
Second, are you overclocking at all? If you are using setCPU, make sure that the max speed is set to at least 998. I have run into where installing a new ROM the max/min speeds are set low to 245. This causes overall phone slowness though...
If you are overclocking, set it to 998 max and see what happens. I cannot go over 1113600 max or my phone gets all weird.
smtom said:
try unsyncing everything for a day - see if it still happens
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ditto.
if your phone is syncing a lot of things (facebook, 5 e-mail accounts, twitter, etc.) it might be slowing things down significantly.

CPU usage through the roof, may be causing the reboots, any ideas?

So I hve been going nuts trying to figure out why my phone keeps rebooting. I'm in another country so getting a replacement isn't an option for me and it seems it hasn't helped some people anyways (After a while it comes back).
THe only constant I see is that the CPU usage after maybe 30 seconds after the phone comes on stays at 95-100% all the time. Only thing that makes sense is that the phone is shutting itself down before it melts down.
This kinda makes sense since it seems the more I try to do the more random the reboots become.....and battery life is beyond horrible. I did the steps to increase battery life and battery life is making this phone virtually unusable off AC power (EXample: Leaving from my Brother in laws apartment and travelling 10 floors down to my car results in 89% battery left. Phone is dead within the hour if i use it and 3 or 4 if leave it idling.
I tried killing all the tasks that te phone starts up with but nothing change the CPU usage. I thought maybe it was the kernel but I flashed the latest one from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...RI+version+PRL [the undervolted version]. Not sure if that would help (THe info in this forums is so scattered and disorganized it makes my head spin.....and I'm a techie).
Also try flashing the combo package of the latest radio, PRI, NV etc and that doesn't work also....CPU usage is still through the roof.
I just got this a few days ago. I'm currently on:
HBoot 2.10 [s-off]
H/W 0004
Basband 2.15.00.11.19 [I was on this before I was rooted]
Kernel version 2.6.32.27-SBC-net-4.2.2-less-havs [email protected] #19 [Just flashed] ROM myn's Warm TwoPointTwo 9RLS 4)
Software: 3.3-.651.3
PRI Version: 1.90_0003
PRL Version: 60662
Can I get some help from people smarter then me. I'm at the end of my rope and I'm not convinced a handset swap is going to fix my issue esp. since this was BNIB straight from Sprint and other people who've had this issue and had a new phone seem to somehow have it later.
If i leave it alone it will reboot on its own eventually. If i switch from airport to turning on the cell data, reboot, turning on wifi......reboot, toggling 4g.......reboot, After a few web page searches......reboot, open up an application.....reboot.
This isn't temperature related as far as I can tell.....The app I have monitoring temp has seen this happen at 25 degrees and sometimes less.
PLEASE HELP
Ok.. firs tthings first..
when your phone is unstable and rebooting, dont use an undervolt kernel. Undervolt kernels provide less power to the CPU at set frequencies.
In my case, I discovered undervolting CAUSED reboots, because my phone couldnt handle anything under 950mv... there is such a range in the quality of the components that theres no way to always say yes, undervolting this much will work with every phone.
so 1: Use stock kernel ( for whatever rom your using.. also use a well established rom, not one of the 'hey, last night i got bored and made this' ones.. it may work, but it may be so buggy its what is causing your crash )
2: do a fresh install. run the phone with 0 apps added, see if it has the same issue. If it does, may be the phone itself. If it doesnt, its one of your apps.. install one at a time, and see if it improves.
and you made two posts why?
Didn't know they would move it. Posted in the wrong forum and they moved it as well. lOL. My bad.
I've been on a stock kernel up until I started trying different kernels. I will try the other one then.
My CPU usage is the problem I think. I have both memoryusage and system monitor and both report the same thing.....95-100% usage constantly. If I could resolve that then maybe my phone would work properly.
Didn't know they would move it. Posted in the wrong forum and they moved it as well. lOL. My bad.
I've been on a stock kernel up until I started trying different kernels. I will try the other one then.
My CPU usage is the problem I think. I have both memoryusage and system monitor and both report the same thing.....95-100% usage constantly. If I could resolve that then maybe my phone would work properly.

Sleep of death

Is anybody else having issues with their ET going to sleep and you have to pull the battery to get it come back up? I thought it might have been my setcpu settings. So I cleared them and uninstalled it. I tried the midnight rom and the starburst rom. I tried the stable and exp LosKernel. None of these got rid of this issue for me. Randomly through out the day I can try to wake the phone up to use it and nothing happens. After a minute or two I have to pull the battery. I am currently testing the stock kernel.
Thats weird, the only time that happened to me was when i had setcpu, and i tried putting "screen off" value to 200/200.
You should install setcpu again, and make screen off value 500/500, and if you dont have the issue, then try making the value 200/500, if you dont have the issue at this value, then leave it as is.
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I agree it is weird and I am not sure why it is happening. If it stays okay with the stock kernel then I may wipe and try the viperrom.
Yep happened twice the other day... Im on stock rom with lost kernel..roooted i put setcpu to 200/1200 after waking my screen for a minute used google came back 3 min later and phone was either off or wouldnt wake .. I had to pull battery twice.
I setcpu up to 1200/1200 never happened again.
This is a nice phone but very touchy.. Seems alot weird things goin on for some Et users.
Worst of all for this phone is Los or just weak /radio signal in general ..which is a samsung issue.
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Why people still insist on screen off profiles amazes me. When you hit the power button to wake it - the phone is stuck at 200MHz, you do realize this? If snything else is going on while it's stuck at 200 or SetCPU doesn't sample the phones state fast enough, it never gets out of 200MHz and locks up. Just like any other processor does when you overload it.
All the background processes going on even when the screen is off and somebody thinks setting the CPU max to 200MHz is a good idea? That's just asking for it. Not to mention the screen off profile is known to cause this issue. Notice how Virtuous, Viper, Cyanogen, and many other developers don't use one in their native OC daemons? There's a reason why. The phone sleeps just fine without it, just let it do it's thing.
Don't use offscreen profiles (the kernel is smart enough) and avoid using task killers, as those are likely to be the second leading issue.
I am having the issue even with setcpu uninstalled. I still have not found out what is causing it.
ElAguila said:
I am having the issue even with setcpu uninstalled. I still have not found out what is causing it.
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Just wanted to throw this out there: beware mislabeling this problem. The setcpu issue causing the phone the permanently lock up and require a bat pull is one issue, yes; slow screen wake up is a different issue. Sometimes if you hit the power button, the screen will not wake up on the first try. If you wait a few seconds and push in the button again for a second or so, the screen almost always will come after. Coming from a mo-pho, I actually had the stupid no-wake problem requiring bat pulls, so I'm extremely paranoid about by e4gt doing this -- but it really has been good about eventually waking up every single time...just try my instructions and see if it works for you, too.
Again, though -- setcpu issues may be a different problem entirely.
did you reinstall a rom and try it again or did you simply just unistall setcpu and try it. I say this because I had an issue when testing setcpu and my system still kept my cpu setting even after I unistalled the app. I had to reinstall the rom after wiping to get it to run properly again.
I think I have found the issue. I did a factory reset and installed the rom but I am getting an error now that is basically saying it can't read the internal storage card. So I think there are some actual hardware issues going on that need to be looked at by sprint.
how often has the sod been happening? I think i got it yesterday, but not sure.
Do you use setcpu?
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This thread seems a little slow- has there been a solution found or are we isolated cases?
I reflashed the phone back to rooted stock and then flashed Blazer 4.1.
Got 2 SODs in the past week- one just a few minutes ago.
I tried calling the phone from another line, it rings but the screen is black and thus I couldn't answer it.
Power button and vol buttons work fine.
I had to powerdown and reboot.
Getting kinda frustating.

[Q] Fast battery drain inconsistent behaviour

I flashed a custom ROM [unofficial CM9 ICS4.0.4]. Everything seems to be working fine, but there are a few problems and I'm wondering if this is normal for those using this. It's my first time flashing a ROM on my android and I'm not sure if it's normal. Did some searching in the forum, couldn't find much info too. Maybe I didn't search hard enough!
Anyway, here are some issues, I'm not even sure if it's the ROM.
1. Sometimes, the apps just bring me back to the home screen several times. Example: Running whatsapp brings me to home screen a few times, or when I go into a conversation, it brings me back to the conversation list but eventually it works.
2. On another occasion, every app that I ran would be unresponsive and I needed to end it. Solved it by rebooting.
3. Battery drain is very fast with little usage. I thought running a custom ROM usually provides better battery life.
I've not overclocked it, it's still in it's default value after flashing 1024. So I doubt it's anything to do with that. But since we're on the topic on overclocking. Desire HD didn't have anything beyond Gingerbread. So if we're flashing anything greater, is there a need overclock to be able to work comfortably on a higher OS? Is there a minimum or maximum for it to function comfortably?
Thanks!
Hmm, did more reading up.
Could it be I didn't calibrate my battery after flashing a new ROM?
Just flashed ARHD 6.4, will try to calibrate after that.
Appreciate any other advice though

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