Hey all - I was experiencing my HTC crashing every since I started using Bluetooth, and I thought it was the battery (and still might be, I am waiting for a new one that I ordered).
But since I deactivated my Bluetooth I noticed that the crashing has stopped (or just hasn't crashed on me for some strange reason).
Has anyone had issues using bluetooth over a long period of time that causes the device to crash?
torontotytn said:
Hey all - I was experiencing my HTC crashing every since I started using Bluetooth, and I thought it was the battery (and still might be, I am waiting for a new one that I ordered).
But since I deactivated my Bluetooth I noticed that the crashing has stopped (or just hasn't crashed on me for some strange reason).
Has anyone had issues using bluetooth over a long period of time that causes the device to crash?
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Still makes sense the battery as BT draws more power when on...
Have you tryed reflash to make sure it's not just a software issue?
stylez said:
Still makes sense the battery as BT draws more power when on...
Have you tryed reflash to make sure it's not just a software issue?
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I haven't tried to reflash to be honest - what is the newest ROM out there that is stable?
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I haven't tried to reflash to be honest - what is the newest ROM out there that is stable?
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I.M.O Kavana Ricky Remade v.24 with Opera.
Top ROM in my sig
Very strange thing happened to me today, went to wake my phone up from lock screen but I pressed the power button and nothing, no wake! I knew I had lots of battery left, but thought maybe it died for some reason, plugged in charger, no response still could not turn on, even holding the button down did no change, nor opening keyboard.
I then removed the battery and re-inserted, booted up and its working fine again
What happened?!
It just happens This happens to my Desire Z every month or so, no matter what rom I use. Recently I changed the radio the latest release, but it won't help I suppose... we'll see.
It seems nobody knows why this happens, many questions are scattered around the the forum about this hang and no answer
sorry for my english
gps make this problem (+ google maps + all google maps based programs)
just turn gps switch off
when you have to use gps, turn it on, use it, turn it off, reboot
and DZ should work fine
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=69305f1c1e5f8c31&hl=en
Not sure what causes this, but it happens occasionally to me too. Maybe once a month or so... Happened earlier today. Hadn't used Google Maps nor do I have any apps that use GPS to track my location.
Happens to me all the time, in average about once every 1-2 days. I put my phone on my desk with screen off, and an hour later it does not respond to the on/off button at all. Sometimes it will reboot when I press the button for over 15 seconds, but most of the time I have to pull the battery, which is a drag since I have a silicone phone protector. I have also noticed that every once in a while, the battery will be fully discharged when it does this. This morning my phone was at 80% battery power, I used it for a minute to check mail, then put it down. 15 Minutes later it was dead, and when I pulled the battery, all I got was a little screen saying 'Please connect charger immediately'. Kinda scary.
I've seen lots of posts about this too on androidforums.com and on MoDaCo. My wife has a Samsung Galaxy Ace on Android 2.2.4 and she has the exact same problem. I haven't found a solution yet, but it seems to be software-related (since it's not limited to Desire-Z), and more specifically Android-related (as it also happened on stock phones without any third-party apps installed). I upgraded to Android 2.3.3 last week and that did not solve it.
Other suspicions I found on other fora:
Correlation between 'phone sleep' and 'WiFi going to sleep' (some people report they benefit from keeping WiFi always off unless they really need it, some people report success keeping WiFi always on; for others - like me - it does nothing or made it worse)
Correlation between phone and SD card (phone does not work properly if the SD card is not the original one, or has not been formatted on the phone)
Correlation between WiFi and SD card (people report reformatting the SD card on their device helped, after they've turned WiFi off)
I have heard people that have had their phone replaced 7 times and all 8 phones did it, some others got the problem solved with one replacement, so it seems not all devices do it.
Check out this thread: http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-ace/312084-randomly-turning-off.html
A personal observation of mine - and maybe hardware gurus can comment on it - involves the micro-USB connector. Not only is it a pain to connect (compared to mini-USB), but I have noticed that it very easily 'jitters' if there is a slight bend in the cable or if you move the phone while it's connected. The plug will then sit slightly crooked in the connector and the phone will stop charging. And actually, I'm pretty sure that the first time it 'died' on me was when this happened. Would it be possible that this triggers the event? And that the micro-USB is the common cause?
I wonder what radio all these dying phones were running? I had 12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26 , now I'm running latest radio, but only a few months will tell if that helped or not...
Update: it's been about a week now since I've disabled GPS and I haven't had a single SOD since! Seems that at least in my case GPS was the culprit, like others on here already suggested. Can anyone else confirm?
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Grrruk said:
I wonder what radio all these dying phones were running? I had 12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26 , now I'm running latest radio, but only a few months will tell if that helped or not...
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It's not the radio
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Spastic909 said:
It's not the radio
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+1.... no way it can be
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I also have random shutdown issue... Not sure it is related to the rom... But it happens when i get out of my house, maybe caused by wifi disconnect issue.. it happen just a few days ago... Now i off the wifi seems ok...
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SteRo said:
Update: it's been about a week now since I've disabled GPS and I haven't had a single SOD since! Seems that at least in my case GPS was the culprit, like others on here already suggested. Can anyone else confirm?
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i have the same since a few weeks
SteRo go plese to the google link in my post (#3) and report gps problem
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i have the same since a few weeks
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my GPS on 24 hours already is ok... but Wifi is a no... i come out of the house this morning... it hangs again... totally black screen and it boot up again when i press the power button so my story tells me never on the wifi when you do not needs it... maybe i'll sent it to HTC SC for checking when i get a new phone... i duno whether i can survive 3~5 working days without it...
try this for a week or too:
have gps allways off when you dont use it.
when you have to use gps, turn it on, then after use turn it off and reboot the phone
and notice how many times you phone hangs in this too weeks
Hello,
i have the same issue with my Desire Z. Many people say its GPS related, i think so, too.
I never hat issues with GPS while navigate. But because the issue is probably caused bei GPS, i have a idea.
I use the wipe efs-data using for GPS from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1028405
I never had freezes since this. Maybe it helps everyone. Please try and give feedback. Thanks.
Yesterday my Desire Z did exactly that. For the first time. First I thought the battery would be dead, but connection it to the charger didn't even make the orange LED turn on. So only taking out the battery and re-inserting it brought my phone back to life.
I had WiFi turned ON and GPS NOT turned OFF (though no Maps or anything running, so there was no satellite icon in the status bar the last time I had used it).
I will keep watching it, if GPS OFF or an EFS-WIPE might help. But right now it has crashed the first time in about two weeks, so it will be hard for me to tell any improvement before at least a month has passed. ;-)
Tronar
Addendum: after finishing this post, I went downstairs to pick up my phone. And it was dead again! Seems to be happening more often at the moment, than I thought. So I'm going to do an EFS-WIPE now.
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no Maps or anything running
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google maps is running still in background (also when You try to kill it with taskkiller it will stand up) and use (or try to use) gps for example for location for weather forecast. it can happen that the gps icon cam in notifications bar only a few seconds so You can't see it
it is possible that another apk use (or try to use) gps to get Your location, geotagging photos or so.
just have always gps off (when you haven't to use it and reboot after using) it helps
Bad News, wiping efs-data did not resolve the SOD . Yesterday it happens again.
My gf has the Desire Z and loves the phone - cept for this random issue of her phone freezing on standby. After a bit of screwing around I found out it is definitely related to the GPS module. Whether it's a hardware or memory leak it doesn't matter to her. You can crash her phone anytime by simply using the GPS and any software (she likes google maps / navigation) when she's done whether she turns off the gps or not, makes no difference - within a few hours at the most - it'll crash every time.
The short version, after using your GPS you'll have to restart your phone and you'll never have it crash again.
1moreCyberdude said:
The short version, after using your GPS you'll have to restart your phone and you'll never have it crash again.
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exactly as i allready wrote in the #3 post
Hey guys,
I don't know whether anyone encounter this before. But my phone sometimes not frequently will just blackout by itself. The saving grace is that, I do not need to pull the battery to get it working again. I just need to hold on power button for it to reboot again.
Anyone facing this issue before?
By the way, I'm on stock rom and kernel. 4.0.2 here.
Thanks in advance.
bryant_16 said:
Hey guys,
I don't know whether anyone encounter this before. But my phone sometimes not frequently will just blackout by itself. The saving grace is that, I do not need to pull the battery to get it working again. I just need to hold on power button for it to reboot again.
Anyone facing this issue before?
By the way, I'm on stock rom and kernel. 4.0.2 here.
Thanks in advance.
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unlocked and rooted? I would do a factroy reset and see if that would solve your problem. It could be an app you downloaded.
I'm not rooted at all. Stock rom and kernel.
Anyone has any idea on this?
I've had similar problems but i'm rooted any it was a problem with the governor not bringing the phone out of sleep. I think it was the hotplug feature or something.
Not sure what it'd be on stock, sorry!
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i've had my gnex for over 3 weeks and yesterday was the first and only time that i've experienced random shutdowns and reboots. i think i know the culprit.
i was at a location known spotting vzw 3G coverage. no 4G. i had issues getting reception w/ my moto droid phones at this location. this is the first time i've been there w/ my gnex. the gnex shutdown and rebooted twice. a third time, the reboot at stuck at the intro video. had to pull battery.
since i came home to good 4G/3G coverage, my phone has not acted up once.
me thinks random reboots is radio related.
Is anyone else having a issue where NFC turns off on its own at random times? I'll try to S-beam with my girlfriend's S3 and impress friends only to find out that it previously turned off without me doing it. I use the Power Toggles app (link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLnBhaW5sZXNzLnBjIl0.) and think that MAYBE this is causing the issue, but I'm not 100% sure
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Is anyone else having a issue where NFC turns off on its own at random times? I'll try to S-beam with my girlfriend's S3 and impress friends only to find out that it previously turned off without me doing it. I use the Power Toggles app (link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLnBhaW5sZXNzLnBjIl0.) and think that MAYBE this is causing the issue, but I'm not 100% sure
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Yes, you're not the only one. I'm on stock and not using that app but I'm still getting nfc off randomly. I don't use s beam often, so I just have a tasker profile that turns nfc on every few minutes, but it would be nice to know what's going on so I wouldn't have to. There's no pattern, it can stay running fine through reboots, and over the course of days, but then will turn off randomly multiple times in an hour.
I have a Galaxy S5, and my NFC also turns off randomly.
Hi there,
Apologies if this may be a bit of a superficial post but the phone in Q isn't mine so I'm working on second-hand info here. A friend of mine got a G3 off ebay that's t-mobile branded and is supposedly the European model, I haven't checked. (She's using it in the UK nonetheless). Also it has "the latest software updates" (whatever those may be) installed. The phone is not rooted or otherwise tampered with.
Her problem is that occasionally, the phone restarts apparently randomly, though she noted that this happened more when she was in the countryside and the internet connection was coming and going. My guess is that this may have to do with the modem, but not sure. She did some googling and apparently the problem is relatively common but there's no good solution to it.
My two (three) questions are:
- has anyone else encountered this issue?
- any solution to the problem?
- is this a stock firmware issue, ie would installing CMod solve the problem or is this a hardware problem?
Thnx
If it's second-hand phone it's battery issue.
Rushing toward CMod isn't going to solve your problem.
I am also facing the same issue. This also occurs when I'm at my village home. Mostly happens at the same place.
So instead of installing CMod try to change battery because stock Rom is also best and therefore any problem in it means problem in hardware not in software.
But you can still try different techniques. Also tell me if you can solve it.
Installing CM brought no solution for me and still faced random reboots.
i have faced this problem, adter everything i tried then i decided it is battery issue.
i mean change your battery
imamalemdar said:
i have faced this problem, adter everything i tried then i decided it is battery issue.
i mean change your battery
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Did it work? (Changing the battery...did it resolve the problems?)
wyco said:
Did it work? (Changing the battery...did it resolve the problems?)
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of course it works now like a rock
I've been having the same issue. My I've used a new battery but my phone acts the same as it did before. Reboots randomly after the wifi, bluetooth, and 3g crash and attempts to recover. The reboot never succeeds and I have to physically pull the battery. Currently using the latest nightly of CM13.
I have had the same issue. I have a stock ROM, fully updated TMobile G3 phone and when i would go to europe, the phone would randomly crash. When it was in airplane mode it would not crash, so i kept it in airplane mode unless i needed to call and i used the wifi calling feature. I thought it was the battery but i have the stock battery and an anker battery and i have never had this problem in the US, it only happened abroad.