[Q] when taking pictures phone seems to shut off - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

stock rooted rom
using stock everything except i added wifi tether and adblock
android version: 4.0.4
i have not taken any ota's
about 2 weeks ago i was trying to take a picture at mostly dark place, as soon as the led flashed the phone appeared to shut off, but it wouldn't turn back on.i eventually pulled the battery and was able to get phone to boot like normal. again i tried to take another pic and got the same results about 4 or 5 times. i noticed the problem seemed to be tied to using the led flash while taking a pic.
later on in the night i tried again about another 5 times to take a pic with flash and it rebooted each attempt
if i turn flash off camera worked fine.
my battery was around 17% at this time that the above happened, could have been using a generic battery
so the next day i thought i would take it to best buy for a return but i thought about how it may be easier to do a factory reset while on the road. immediately after resetting it i tried the camera with flash and it worked fine, so i went back home
after getting back home i tried to take another pic with flash and it rebooted again. wtf?
i noticed again that my battery is around 18%, i have 4 batteries and i was on the road the week end i was having trouble with flash.
below is was one of my theories: maybe a generic battery was reporting 15-20% but maybe it didn't actually have enough power to use flash and it caused some sort of power issue with the phone.
i dont think its shutting it off completely btw,
i assumed it was the battery reporting correct info and causing a under power issue so i thought the case was almost solved.
11.26.12 130am i have new info that contradicts the above theory: tonight i was attempting to take another pic with flash and
sure enough it shut off. i pulled battery and powered it back on and the battery just happen to be in that 17% range again.
i swapped the battery out with a fresh battery that reported to be 94% and i attempted to take another picture with flash and once again phone turned off.
so i rebooted and went into the camera app and hit the reset option for the camera and the symptom stopped
i changed the default storage back to external sd which is where i normally have it set and took another pic and camera with flash still worked
the pattern for the battery being in the teens when this happens could be an issue, but i want it clear that my batteries last a full day and then some every day.
i have googled this and i have come up with very little related leads, has anyone heard of this?

ok well i think i found the issue:
it was the battery.
i have four batteries and i marked the one that was suspected as being the problem
i put each battery in and all functioned as they should except the one i thought was a problem
the funny thing is that i just put it on the charger about 20 mins ago and it charged about 1% per minute wich seems suspect in itself.
out with the junk battery, thanks again ebay

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Nexus just dies while using it

I was using my nexus on facebok last night with a virtually full battery when fb stopped responding and a few seconds later the phone just switched off.I tried to restart it it but it would not come back on.I tried al combinations of buttons to try and reset but still nothing.I plugged the charger in to try,nothing.I left it on the side board,I forgot to leave the charger in all night.got up this morning plugged it in the charger and it turned on,left it for 5 mins unplugged the charger and it turned itself straight off again.I have a feeling that my battery has just instantly died,the phone is only about 3 weeks old at the moment.I will be charging it for a few hrs and see if it will come back alive.Fingers crossed it will.Its strange to go from a full battery to off in an instant.
Err did you try to pull the battery when the phone originally crashed.
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I didn't pull out the battery as i didnt think it was nessasary.After a few hrs charge it came back on but it is worrying that this could have happened to such a new phone
This happened to my first nexus. Totally just randomly died.
I returned it as faulty.
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potsykate said:
I didn't pull out the battery as i didnt think it was nessasary.After a few hrs charge it came back on but it is worrying that this could have happened to such a new phone
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Basically what happened was that when your phone "died" it actually stayed on but became unresponsive. Because you just left it for the whole night it drained the battery dry which is why you found it like that the next day.
Anyway next time when your phone crashes just do a battery pull and it should fix itself. The crash seems to be a common ICS bug and a few people have reported it. (including me) Hopefully Google fixes it soon.
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it's not just because it's a nexus. it's been an issue with various android-based phones over the years. granted, not a common one... just somehow something 'screws up' and you have to do a battery pull to reset the issue.
I've run android for a while now and have had various lock ups, but this was totally different. It actually locked up and turned off and no matter what buttons for reset or just a normal boot would do anything the battery was totally flat and only a charge would do anything.i could not even boot into recovery as it was flat. Its going back fire a replacement in the next few days
One thing I have noticed since it happened is the battery life has gone terrible in that it is draining very very quickly yet nothing has changed on my phone
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I experienced this too yesterday. I was on call with headset and I had USB plug. Suddenly phone call ends and phone was dead. I have unplug from USB and pull battery.
Mine did exactly this while on charge last night. Pulled the battery and it fired up straight away. Second time its crashed since i got it. My iphone 4 only crashed once in the 18 months i had it. Guess android isnt as stable yet.
Happened to me yesterday, and then wouldn't charge. Did a battery pull then put it on to charge. When I got it back on checked Battery temp and it was 45C I think that was the issue. after half hour it was down to 31C.
Omg.. something like the G2X random reboots?
I just experienced the same problem. Using my phone and it just went black. First thought was to try powering it on. No luck. Second thought, pull the battery. No luck. Went back to my desk and plugged it into USB so it would charge. No indication it is charging. Tried turning it on. No luck. Leaving it for an hour or more and will see if that does the trick.
Googling to find this thread I actually found dozens of threads on various sites talking about this issue. Hopefully it is a bad batch of devices and quality control has rectified the situation.
Anyone have any successful resolution to this issue? I've been using my phone for around a month now.

Extreme Battery Drain

I never had that much of a problem with the battery on my Desire Z. Okay, I had to charge it sometime during the day when I was browsing the web or playing for a few hours but then, that was expected.
Forward last week, where I decided to try Mimicry rom (I'm not pointing any fingers there, keep reading). Everything was going smooth except one thing, the battery was draining at least.. twice as fast as usual. I'm speaking deplugging at 7 AM, dead at 12:30 PM. And that's with practically no usage. At this point, I've tried rebooting, and, oddly, it wouldn't do the same thing as usual (not opening or opening briefly to the loading screen then closing). No, it would boot to the launcher, show me that I had 2% left. It's usually at those points that I've been able to take a screenshot.
Then, a few moments ago, if I kept rebooting. It would be back at say 36%, but kept hard dying (no "Android is shutting down" or stuff like that, just BAM, black screen) every 5 minutes.
Thinking that Mimicry would be the culprit, I went over there and asked the question, but, oddly enough, nothing in the rom could produce this effect. Weird. He was kind enough to give me some tips to try to see if it would make any difference. I've tried them.. Several time with the battery stat reset, deactivate the Google Backup in case it was in a loop. I've reflashed the rom, downgraded to the earlier version, updated to the latest. No use.
So at that point, Andromadus Beta 5 was out and decided to go back at Andromadus. At first, no problem but finally, it came back. So the culprit is not the rom, or maybe yes, I don't actually know. Today was the day I could use it the longest but.. It's unbearable. Also, I've looked into 4EXT at the battery indicator and it seems to be ****ed up too. I tried to force drain the battery with continuous permission fixing and the battery would drain from 3% to 0% in under 2 minutes, but would stay at 0% for a while.
So, what do? New battery because this one is bricked? New phone, because at the price of the battery... Or is there a way where I don't have to take my wallet out?
Thanks in advance.
Here are some screenshot I took
EDIT
Seems like no screenshot shows up on there. here's an imgur album
imgur .com/a/j9seu#0
Reupload those screenshots nothing is showing, I'd suggest trying a new battery then if that doesn't work get a replacement device.
New photo upload, to see if it finally works.
Mimicy uses Andromadus source so they could share a piece of code which could falsely report battery information. I suggest, mainly as a test, take a nandroid backup. Then plug the phone in and let it charge until you get the green LED. Leave it plugged in for an extra hour or two just to make sure that your battery is at 100 percent. Then flash the Cyanogenmod ROM then reset the battery stats. Try using Cyanogenmod for a while and see if the phone is still doing the same thing. If it is, then it could be the battery. Also if you know someone with a G2, you can always swap batteries and see if the same issue happens. If it does maybe switch to a non-ICS ROM and if that doesn't work, your phone maybe going bonkers.
i think its kinda bricked, or you could buy a portable phone charger. that could help
synthiis said:
I never had that much of a problem with the battery on my Desire Z. Okay, I had to charge it sometime during the day when I was browsing the web or playing for a few hours but then, that was expected.
Forward last week, where I decided to try Mimicry rom (I'm not pointing any fingers there, keep reading). Everything was going smooth except one thing, the battery was draining at least.. twice as fast as usual. I'm speaking deplugging at 7 AM, dead at 12:30 PM. And that's with practically no usage. At this point, I've tried rebooting, and, oddly, it wouldn't do the same thing as usual (not opening or opening briefly to the loading screen then closing). No, it would boot to the launcher, show me that I had 2% left. It's usually at those points that I've been able to take a screenshot.
Then, a few moments ago, if I kept rebooting. It would be back at say 36%, but kept hard dying (no "Android is shutting down" or stuff like that, just BAM, black screen) every 5 minutes.
Thinking that Mimicry would be the culprit, I went over there and asked the question, but, oddly enough, nothing in the rom could produce this effect. Weird. He was kind enough to give me some tips to try to see if it would make any difference. I've tried them.. Several time with the battery stat reset, deactivate the Google Backup in case it was in a loop. I've reflashed the rom, downgraded to the earlier version, updated to the latest. No use.
So at that point, Andromadus Beta 5 was out and decided to go back at Andromadus. At first, no problem but finally, it came back. So the culprit is not the rom, or maybe yes, I don't actually know. Today was the day I could use it the longest but.. It's unbearable. Also, I've looked into 4EXT at the battery indicator and it seems to be ****ed up too. I tried to force drain the battery with continuous permission fixing and the battery would drain from 3% to 0% in under 2 minutes, but would stay at 0% for a while.
So, what do? New battery because this one is bricked? New phone, because at the price of the battery... Or is there a way where I don't have to take my wallet out?
Thanks in advance.
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hi there..same problem with me too..exactly..my battery couldn't last for more than 4 hours with minimum usage...have u solved it?

[Q] Tab S dead all of a sudden

Model: Tab S T805M (that's the 10" with LTE) rooted and stock firmware. I've had it for over 6 months and nev er had any issues, ever!
Yesterday I fully charged the battery using an original Samsung charger (from my late Nexus 10) until it was full.
I then used it for a while (basic stuff) then installed a game (Hill Climb Racing), played for a bit, then let it sit on the coffee table. Naturally, it went into sleep mode. Once I tried to turn it back on, about 30 minutes later, it was dead.
It doesn't have a SIM nor micro SD card in it.
I tried the key combos to get into bootloader or recovery, no go.
I tried holding power button for several seconds, no go.
I tried connecting the original charger that came with it, no go.
I hooked it up to my laptop, the same I had used to root the thing months ago and has Odin and all drivers installed and everything, no go. It won't even acknowledge there's some USB device connected.
Then, for some reason, while still connected to the laptop, I was randomly pressing buttons on the tablet (out of mild desperation, I was tired, just wanted to get it fixed and get some sleep) and I saw the battery logo again. It was at 99%, the way it was wen I last used it. So I unplugged the tablet and booted it normally.
Then, again, I used it for a while, connected to my WiFi, everything normal, and once it went into sleep mode, it died again. No buttons, no USB, no response to charger.
So, the problem is repeatable, but I haven't figure out yet the exact procedure to bring it back from the dead.
I'd like to fix it, even if I need to flash the stock ROM back on and lose root. If that's impossible, I'll settle with a tip on how to reboot the stupid thing once it enters this state. Then, eBay, here we go.
KNOX was tripped when I rooted, so I guess I can only try my luck with the warranty.
I think you should start your post letting people know that you have rooted and flashed your 10.5" and not in the last three lines.
Do you think your battery level is being reported correctly, as if your tab thinks you have 90% left when you only have 50% , then you game and use 50%, and think you still have 40% left but when your battery hits 39% it will just die, no battery warning or anything.
Flashing a tablet can cause the battery to be reported incorrectly, since you are rooted, download a free battery calibration app off the play store.
You say you have had your tablet 6 months, if you game or use other apps that rapidly drain the battery, the battery might be failing.
Since you say the fault is repeatable i would have the tablet replaced, flash it back to the stock rom and remove the root, Can you reset the KNOX counter, I think i read you can somewhere on this forum.
Good Luck
John.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
I think you should start your post letting people know that you have rooted and flashed your 10.5" and not in the last three lines.
Do you think your battery level is being reported correctly, as if your tab thinks you have 90% left when you only have 50% , then you game and use 50%, and think you still have 40% left but when your battery hits 39% it will just die, no battery warning or anything.
Flashing a tablet can cause the battery to be reported incorrectly, since you are rooted, download a free battery calibration app off the play store.
You say you have had your tablet 6 months, if you game or use other apps that rapidly drain the battery, the battery might be failing.
Since you say the fault is repeatable i would have the tablet replaced, flash it back to the stock rom and remove the root, Can you reset the KNOX counter, I think i read you can somewhere on this forum.
Good Luck
John.
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Yes, I did mention in the FIRST line I had a rooted device with stock ROM.
Tonight I was just able to enter bootloader and stock recovery and did a data wipe / factory reset. Let's see what happens now.
I'll install a battery tool to see what's really going on. Maybe my battery is ****.
GSam is the battery monitor i use, have a look at the alarms in the setting, I have them all set, I got a high temp alarm while my tab was in it`s case while i was asleep in bed, I remove my tab and the back was hot, just shows what can happen when you think your tablet is sleeping.
I bought my 10.5" before Christmas and it has never been turned off or rebooted, I have about 170 days continuous use in the battery settings, so it`s been quite reliable for me apart from that little temp hiccup.
John.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm.rootcompanion&hl=en

Assume it's a dead battery? Weird behavior.

Strange symptoms started a week or so ago. Phone works normally while plugged in to charger, and seems to get up to 100% as normal. When taken off of charge, it will slowly drain as normal...
But then, for example, it will be on 95%, and then just turn off (or maybe say the "Shutting down battery low" screen, then shut down). When I turn it back on, it might say 92% (dropping a couple percent points.
OR, when I turn it back on, it might say 3%, and be almost dead.
And then after a while obviously it will shut down again, as the battery is almost dead. It just did this from what it said was 3%, but when I restarted the phone... it now says 85%!!
So yeh, it seems like it can't decide if the battery is full or drained or both. I have tried full restarts, and this is a factory reset phone at the moment too so totally empty and on stock ROM. Not currently rooted either, as I restored everything to stock recently.
I'm assuming the battery has broken itself, somehow. It seemed to happen very suddenly though, as it was working a couple weeks ago. But before I sell it for spares/repairs, I thought I'd ask in case there was another possible cause!
edit: Also, once or twice when the phone has restarted, it has gone to the "Android is Starting Optimising application 1 out of 144" screen, where it configures all the apps? I thought it only did this on a factory reset, or after installing a new rom or something. Weird.
Yes, sounds like a dead battery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/son...ttery-reporting-phone-dying-suddenly-t3095120
Quite a few of us have had something similar and replacing the battery fixed it for me.

Replaced screen and battery, now in (another) bootloop!

Recently I posted about a problem others had as well - when under 50% ish battery, my HTC 10 would randomly reboot, and that would loop until it was plugged in.
Once plugged in and fully rebooted, the battery % reading would vary from where it was before to 1%. Also, certain apps' data or cache would be deleted. I would open, Macrodroid, for example, and it acts like it's the first time being opened after installation.
This has been exhausting, having to constantly be charging, staying above 60% - and even then it still happening. After it does, the apps whose data was cleared varied, and I wouldn't always know until I opened each.
So after this I dropped it and cracked the screen. I have fixed all of my HTCs before with various problems - M8, M7, DNA, Incredible, Max - so I decided to put in a new battery to hopefully fix the bootloop problem.
After watching a few disassembly videos, it seemed best to replace the screen when I opened it for the battery. So I ordered a screen, and waited more, constantly charging, restoring data to apps like Macrodroid and initializing apps all over again.
I finally have the new battery and screen. I have a few hours. I get out all my tools.
A few hours later, I have put it back together. It's like Medusa inside this thing! I was really being risky doing this last night, because I have a ton of work to do today, yet here I am typing this on my backup nexus 5x - so slow!
So the result? Success for the screen replacement, and the battery as well. But, now, it is bootlooping still! I plug it in, and two things:
Plugging it in does not stop the bootloop.
The charging LED does not light up.
So I am hoping someone may have some insight as to what I may not have connected properly. I can post pictures later, I'm not home right now.
I looked and looked and looked and cannot find where I went wrong. I am going to take it apart and put it back together if I can't find the error. Any ideas? Any other places I should post this?
I guess when I get home, assuming it has completely drained itself, I can plug it in, and see if it gets a charge, and if the LED illuminates. I am thinking: charging port is not properly connected back + the new battery did not fix the bootloop / battery issue.
Thoughts?
Bootloops/shutdowns are going to corrupt your data. I would RUU the thing before looking for hardware trouble, which you've likely sorted out by replacing the battery (of course, we're assuming the new battery is good).
BUT before that, is there a memory test in the bootloader or recovery? If so, I would run that very first thing.
bluedimensional123 said:
Recently I posted about a problem others had as well - when under 50% ish battery, my HTC 10 would randomly reboot, and that would loop until it was plugged in.
Once plugged in and fully rebooted, the battery % reading would vary from where it was before to 1%. Also, certain apps' data or cache would be deleted. I would open, Macrodroid, for example, and it acts like it's the first time being opened after installation.
This has been exhausting, having to constantly be charging, staying above 60% - and even then it still happening. After it does, the apps whose data was cleared varied, and I wouldn't always know until I opened each.
So after this I dropped it and cracked the screen. I have fixed all of my HTCs before with various problems - M8, M7, DNA, Incredible, Max - so I decided to put in a new battery to hopefully fix the bootloop problem.
After watching a few disassembly videos, it seemed best to replace the screen when I opened it for the battery. So I ordered a screen, and waited more, constantly charging, restoring data to apps like Macrodroid and initializing apps all over again.
I finally have the new battery and screen. I have a few hours. I get out all my tools.
A few hours later, I have put it back together. It's like Medusa inside this thing! I was really being risky doing this last night, because I have a ton of work to do today, yet here I am typing this on my backup nexus 5x - so slow!
So the result? Success for the screen replacement, and the battery as well. But, now, it is bootlooping still! I plug it in, and two things:
Plugging it in does not stop the bootloop.
The charging LED does not light up.
So I am hoping someone may have some insight as to what I may not have connected properly. I can post pictures later, I'm not home right now.
I looked and looked and looked and cannot find where I went wrong. I am going to take it apart and put it back together if I can't find the error. Any ideas? Any other places I should post this?
I guess when I get home, assuming it has completely drained itself, I can plug it in, and see if it gets a charge, and if the LED illuminates. I am thinking: charging port is not properly connected back + the new battery did not fix the bootloop / battery issue.
Thoughts?
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Whatever happened to your phone? I have the exact same problem. Infinite boot loop, no illuminated LED, and no way of getting into recovery or anything else with it bootlooping. It occurred after I made the mistake of trying to restart it at 25%. I have the new battery and screen. i'm going to attempt to open this Pandora's box. Seriously going to have to turn my back on HTC. The 10 is so full of software issue problems regarding the batteries that they never bothered to address.
I did the exact same thing a few days ago and my phone won't charge or boot, but I do think the problem is with the button strip, that's what i think, because i tried turning it on before re assembling it and it did turn on successfully and was charging normally but when i re Assemble it, the phone got this problem, now i think when i turned it on before assembling i pressed the power button with a screw driver because i couldn't press it with my fingers, I think there i messed it up, any advice how to fix the button strip and remove a slip nut would be very much appreciated
I had the exact same issue as you(shutting down at 50%), have you found any solution to it?
edit: I THINK clean flashing oreo firmware then latest RUU then twrp then lineage fixed my issue, charging to full rn will drain it over the next day and report back if its gone for good

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