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[Q] Some very queer power down sounds...

I just purchased a Defy, on Vodafone, my first android phone. After noticing a few of my friends' phones, I soon realised I was well up for it, and after stumbling upon a website that compares specs, price, allsorts of things, decided the Defy was a nice entry point to the ever expanding world of android.
As soon as I got it, I plugged it straight in and hustled about for how to get Froyo on it, I'd seen it running and played about with it a couple of times and for some reason Eclair seems a bit of a lemon to me. Lucky enough, not long ago the official 2.2 was released for UK Defy.
And that is what I am still running now, after installing cyanogenmod 5 on my mate's G1 (thrown right in at the deep end there, especially when 6 runs so huffy) and doing a few other daft jobs like frankensteining two old Sony Ericsson C902's to sell as one, I've found myself with not a lot of time spare with the internet and a data cable. However, I have had a bit of a fiddle, including root, ADW launcher, overclocking to 1ghz @ 50mv and a nice selection of lovely apps and gadgets.
After a few days though I noticed that when you muck around with your phone all the time your battery takes a hammering. I took a bit of a gamble here and purchased a 2430mAh battery off ebay for like 13 quid or something. Yeah, cheap chinese goods. While I was at it I picked up a 16gb sd card, class 10 apparently for another £12 (I don't know whether to believe the class 10, I could never remember what app I used to rumble the '32gb' micro sd I got for cheap last year - turned out to be a 2gb. That's ebay...), both came two days later and i fitted them.
Now, at first, I thought the battery was a full on con, it lasted no longer than my stock one before it was telling me i had 1% charge, and I duly slomp over to the charger (I'm using circle battery widget, is this known for its accuracy?). But then I started noticing that my battery was running down to 1% round about half three, four o' clock, and it was staying at 1% until i got home at 5. Then I forgot to charge it overnight and it was knocking on 1% at mid day, so I put it into ultra power saving mode (not an actual mode, obvious face) and, weird, it was still chugging along by 5.
Something very fishy indeed, I thought, though not for the worst...
2 o' clock today, it was saying 1%. I didn't care, Friday afternoons mean sit about in the yard and check out sickipedia and ebay for an hour or two so I kept on using it - full brightness for the sun (hot today wasn't it?), wifi on and browsing internet while skipping back and forth to youtube, sent and received the odd text too...
By 4 o' clock I had mentioned it to the fellas at work and it was starting to become a bit of a novelty. I did think as well, that I'd maybe not yet fully decharged the battery (what with rushing to the charger at the slightest hint of 1%, 'cos let's face it, that ****'s scary to look at when you got 5 browser windows open and you can't work out how to check your history after a reboot), and maybe it would be a good idea to discharge that, to reset the battery meter to my new battery.
So I left the brightness all the way up and intermittently until ten o' clock, surfed the web, played some games, fiddled with ethereal dialpad and generally gave it a bit of nuisance. By ten o' clock, I was really getting sick - this was about eight hours since it had first told me it only had indeed 1% of battery life left - so I started going nuts. I opened the market and just kept scrolling down the top free list, loading the content off my wifi (and downloading a few, but man I just hate ads..), plugged my hifi into it and played the only album I have at top 'media volume' (in connected music player, although I want something sleeker. Blacker. Quicker), got another 3 or 4 tabs up in browser, turned off all the low battery measures in setvsel, and rocked out a few minutes of the latest QI on iplayer. And this carried on for hours, At around twelve I decided to get the flashlight on too but after a while you realise you're having no fun (I haven't found a standalone flash light for the defy so I have been using video recorder mode and that's a chew on).
And finally, at 20 past 1, it died. But it was what happened during the power down that had me amazed...
You know those circuit bent gameboys and chiptune machines that create all sorts of 8 and 16 bit glitches and woops, this little beast started doing that - about half as loud as the music it pushed out of the way, and lasting for the whole blurry, dim shut down screen.
I don't know if this happens often, or if it was because I was halfway through downloading Cars and Guns (still didn't run that fresh on this) and a few other tasks, but it sounded awesome, I half thought it would bust out into a filthy beat.
I'm gonna charge this crazy fiend up and when it eventually does run out again, I'm gonna try and catch that effect and record it.
Has anyone else noticed this before or was it just a one-time glitch? I'd love to hear it mixed into some dirty beats (the breakdown in the android orchestra)
And hell, what a device, all my 'with it' buds show me their iPhones and how they can 'change their themes' and 'shoot in hdr' and 'turn it on its side, see?'
I laugh in their direction and stroke my Defy.

[Q] Epic is overheaing

Okay so my epic recently started overheaing again. This first started happening 3 months ago til I took it to my local sprint shop and they fixed it for free. They said not to overcharge my phone and that they had to boost my battery. To further explan my problem, my epic gets really hot when browsing the internet but regardless of that, I just leave my phone in my pocket and next think I know when I try to unlock it is that it shutdown. When it happens, I have no idea. I can't even turn the phone on unless I remove the battery and put it back in. I'm running cm7 (the latest update from 10/22) andi listen to music in my car and most of the time its plugged into my car charger since the battery life is currently horrible on cm7.
So does anyone have any idea of how I can personally fix this or boost it? Its been more than a year so I'm not sure if sprint wll fix it for free.

Dont know what to say except for maybe you need a new battery! I have an extended battery and even though its a bigger battery with way more juice than the oem version, I still get about the same i did on eh17 [stock] but the random reboot thing has happened to me but I never had to battery pull to get it working. I am currently on cm7 too and I noticed that it only happens when its really low battery that it reboots or shuts down saying 0 when I am at like 5%...? but for the most part I think you might need to to a odin to stock and update ota to get ei22 if you want that modem or do ec05 and just use the modem-update zip found in the dev section, after you reflash cm7. my phone never over heats! oops once! I was watching movies on it all day with the wifi and via speaker from netflix but thats the only time. maybe you also might have a very aggressive app running in the background, and thats whats heating up your pocket! are you using tegrak for oc?

Thanks for your time man but not I'm not running anything to oc. I never oc because I really have no need for it. Neither am I running any aggressive apps. I tried leting my battery cool down overnight by taking it out and leaving it next to the window but no luck. The worst part is, this shutdown happens unless I constantly check my phone and use it. If I don't use it for like more than 30mins, it turns off and I hav to do a battery pull. And most of the time after the battery pull, my charge drops from like 90% to 15%

You said your running CM7? I remember on CM7 I couldn't even use the phone or it would reboot due to heat also. You should switch to maybe a different ROM if you'd like more use of the phone or wait patiently for a fix to this issue. I tried asking about this problem in the CM7 thread a month back and no one else seemed to have this issue but me.
Sent from my Samsung Legen-wait for it-dary! 4g

ac16313 said:
You said your running CM7? I remember on CM7 I couldn't even use the phone or it would reboot due to heat also. You should switch to maybe a different ROM if you'd like more use of the phone or wait patiently for a fix to this issue. I tried asking about this problem in the CM7 thread a month back and no one else seemed to have this issue but me.
Sent from my Samsung Legen-wait for it-dary! 4g
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I just flashed the EI22 Legendary Rom thru clockwork and same issue.. left the battery out for the second night in a row.. but it still overheats.. hopefully sprint takes care of this for me

Sounds to me like you might have a bad phone, and or battery. I know mine gets hot when using a lot of data like streaming music, or sitting in car dock in hot summer... with out putting ac on it... ><
But it does get pretty warm but not to hot to hold when in a pouch and streaming music from network via bluetooth to a speaker at work. Never had a reboot or shutdown from heat doing that. Only time I had it shut down due to heat was one time in summer in the car dock.. Streaming heat + 110F don't help.
Sounds like hardware to me. If it does it on stock and different roms.

Hmmm, i'm on legendary rom 4.0 with th IAP kernel and i've noticed that when surfing the net for a few hours or playing a game for a few hours the battery will get hot enough to fry an egg it seems. before installing EI22 i noticed it would shut down due to overheat but now I stop all activity on my own cause it gets way hotter than ever before and i'm nervous it's gonna fry. The phone I don't think is recognizing the battery is overheating anymore! Not sure. Thing is, I noticed before ever rooting that this overheating would happen if playing a game for too long on my phone. But doing same exact thing on a friends EVO didn't get hot at all!

Well if you are getting that hot then there is an issue. I work at a Radio Shack*i need different job badly.* and have seen a few phones where it is hardware or even battery related that they are to hot to hold really.
What games were you playing? maybe i will give it a try and see what my phone does. I do have the angry birds, fieldrunners, peggle, plant vs zombie, zenonia 3.. no issues when playing them for a bit.
The thing that gets my phone the hottest is to stream from like google music or xiia live*shoutcast streams* to a bluetooth speaker like I said above. Though streaming to internal speaker or headphones/speakers doesn't get to warm just slightly.

the game I was playing was drag racing (has happened with cut the rope too). Just played it yesterday and no problems. played for like 3 hours straight to test it. This was also after I had organized all the apps and things on my phone. I had found a ton of programs constantly running in the background and other things going on at the same time. Just a big mess. Cleaned it up and no overheating problems now. I think for me it's just something that's gonna happen once in a while when I got too much going on on my phone.

[Q] HOX - possible overheating issue

Hi all!
Just got my new HOX a day ago. And after 2 full charges I flashed LeeDroid ROM.
But on both ROMs (stock and LeeDroid) my HOX overheats a lot, being loaded heavier than normal.
By a-heavier-than-normal load I understand: installing apps (5 apps, one by one), changing settings, browsing heavy web-site for 17-30 min.
The HOX heats to the temperature, that I can't apply it to my face to make a call.
This seems to be the only issue of my phone, and I wonder, did anybody face with the same problem? Is there any solution?
I've just installed Cool tool - it'll show me the battery temp.

CbIP said:
Hi all!
Just got my new HOX a day ago. And after 2 full charges I flashed LeeDroid ROM.
But on both ROMs (stock and LeeDroid) my HOX overheats a lot, being loaded heavier than normal.
By a-heavier-than-normal load I understand: installing apps (5 apps, one by one), changing settings, browsing heavy web-site for 17-30 min.
The HOX heats to the temperature, that I can't apply it to my face to make a call.
This seems to be the only issue of my phone, and I wonder, did anybody face with the same problem? Is there any solution?
I've just installed Cool tool - it'll show me the battery temp.
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So does your device get hot on the screen if you can't put it to your face?
My One X does get rather hot under heavy usage but it's the area around the camera on the back of the phone that can get quite hot, never the front.
It does sound like an overheating problem to me, especially if you can't physically make a phone call because of the heat

Actually, it overheats both on the whole surface of the screen and under the rear camera (I think, a CPU is located there). It's very uncomfortable to make calls using a hot phone near your ear...
Also, I looked through the thread, where HOX overheated up to ~53 C and HTC said, that is normal. But, I didn't play games - just downloaded programs and used HOX for browsing.

Surfing internet will overheat too.
Official HTC Statement: HTC One X is normal to overheat

Thank you!
Today I tried browsing for ~20-30 min.
The temperature raised up to 39 C. It is normal for hand, but not comfortable for face/ear.
I hope, HTC will fix this, despite their statement (but don't know, if it is possible)...

[Q] Noob here, some help?

Howdy all, long time lurker here.
I recently picked up a lg g3 from verizon, and noticed it gets pretty toasty right on that power button, is that normal? Currently im streaming music from spotify while downloading all 2k songs in my library. Right now the battery temp is about 80.1 F, but thats with the screen off and it just sitting on my desk. I was browsing craigslist for about a hour and it got to around 83-84ish, and playing COC it got around 90. I updated the software and when i came back the back was HOT, i could still press everything and it didnt feel uncomfortable or anything like that, but it was HOT. Never had my iphone 6 get warm ( had it in a case all the time )
so is all this normal? i plan on rooting it to remove all that crap bloatware and whatnot.
Thanks

MJYUN Wireless Earbud Review - Great for running

I recently got a pair of the MJYUN wireless earbuds, and I've been pretty impressed. I've been using them for the past few days, and so far, I'm quite impressed. The sound is pretty good for such a small headphone, with surprising bass and good treble and a decent sound stage. Where these really have shined, though, is the fit and comfort. These are very light and fit very well. So far, I've worn them at the office and for a few runs, and they have stayed in place with no issues and are very comfortable over longer duration. At my desk, I typically listen to music whenever I'm not in meetings, which this week has been mostly 1 to 2 hour stretches. During my runs, I haven't had any problem with them shifting or needing adjustment. Additionally, the ability to power just the right earbud is awesome for running or biking on the street. I also haven't had any issues with the the earbuds pairing with each other, whether they are powered on at the same time or the left one is powered on after the right one is already playing music. I have noticed a slight delay when watching movies (less than a second), which is a minor annoyance, but not a deal breaker for me.
The battery life so far has been great. I charged these fully when I got them on Saturday using a previously purchased usb c to c cable and charger, and they fully charged in 30 or 40 minutes. So far, I haven't had to recharge the case again. I love that this uses USB C, and the provided cable is nice to have. I've been able to consistently get 2 hours at a stretch before the battery dies. I replace the earbuds in the case when I am not using them, and that's been enough to maintain a charge. The case LED provides some indication of remaining charge (it shows green when it's open if the charge is >50%, and yellow when < 50%), and it's still showing green after about 6 hours of listening time, so I'm happy.
Phone calls work well. Both earbuds have a button, which is used to turn on the buds, pause or play music, and answer or end calls. Once the call is answered, only the right earbud provides audio. The people I talked to had no trouble hearing me, and the music restarted without any problem once I hung up.
Initial paring with my phone (a LG V20) was seamless, and I haven't had any issues with connecting since the initial pairing. Additionally, the range has been great. In my office, I was curious how good the range would be, and managed to get about 75 feet away from my phone before they started to break up (which beat my Garmin Vivoactive 3 by about 20 feet).
Overall, I have been very impressed with these, and would highly recommend these, especially for running or working out.

Here's some pictures of the headphones.