Hi everyone,
I have been having a very annoying problem with my Galaxy Nexus during the past few days. When it enters to sleep mode (after 15 seconds without activity or when I push the power button) it wakes up itself again after 2 to 10 seconds and does not stay into sleep mode: the lock screen is displayed during 15 seconds before a new sleep mode/'wake up state' loop starts again.
It doesn't happen all the time but it does often enough to waste around 8% of battery every hour without me touching my phone.
I searched the forum for solutions and found in other threads that an application could be the source of the problem. I uninstalled every apps but the problem remained. I did a factory reset without installing any app or update after but the problem also remained. I also tried using only Wi-Fi or only 3G for data or switching to flight mode, but it didn't change anything.
Other solutions suggested on other threads, to disable GPS. It did it too, without more success.
I noticed that the problem only occurs when the phone is unplugged. It never happens during loading.
Have you any ideas that could help me to solve the problem?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Julien
Don't know if it helps but I made some screenshoot of BetterBattery Stats results.
Galaxy Nexus - The 'Waking Up' Problem
I love my Galaxy Nexus (I would like to thank Google for giving them away during the I/O 2012). Jelly Bean (the last version of Android) is simply a blast: it is smoother, snappier, sexier, you name it.
As much as I love JB, I still need to play with my devices, and what a better way to play with an Android phone than to root it. After testing a few ROMs, I ended up using Codename Android in combination with Lean Kernel. I advise you guys to have a look at it, it packages an insane number of customization and parameters that will make your phone even better!
The drawback when you hack around with your phone, is that your start feeling guilty when it starts doing random stuff, such as waking up randomly : I would put it in sleep mode (using the power button), and a few seconds (minutes if I happened to be lucky), the phone would wake up on its own, sometimes indicating it was charging when obviously no cable was plugged…
From there started the usual bug chase that many of us know: backup, factory reset, and a complete reinstallation. Unfortunately, in that particular case it would not change a thing and the problem was occuring even more often. It was becoming obvious that my problem came from the hardware…
The usb connector at the bottom of the Galaxy Nexus has a bad habit of bending downward after some time (it varies, depending of your usage). The solution is thus to take a small knife and pushing it upward so it does not touch the bottom metallic plate. Et voila! Your phone will stop waking up by itself, and your frustration will go away with it.
I guess if a lesson can be learned from that experience, it is that the obvious answer is not often the right one; you should also keep a small knife not too far from your Galaxy Nexus.
It´s work fine to me...
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I have a problem with my Galaxy Nexus turning OFF at night.
I goto bed at night and open the clock app and click the screen to dim it. When I wake up in the morning the phone is OFF. I have to pull the battery in order to boot. The battery is fully charged.
I returned the phone after this happened twice and received a brand new one. I have the same problem with this new device. I have changed the power socket and the charger yet still the problem persists.
Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
I have Skype installed and running which maybe the cause. I will keep it OFF for the next few nights to see if this has a positive effect.
Try it without any off your apps installed. If the problem goes away you know it's an app causing the problem. Then start adding them back in batches until the problem re-occurs. Eventually you'll narrow the issue down to one app.
mark_w said:
I have a problem with my Galaxy Nexus turning OFF at night.
I goto bed at night and open the clock app and click the screen to dim it. When I wake up in the morning the phone is OFF. I have to pull the battery in order to boot. The battery is fully charged.
I returned the phone after this happened twice and received a brand new one. I have the same problem with this new device. I have changed the power socket and the charger yet still the problem persists.
Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
I have Skype installed and running which maybe the cause. I will keep it OFF for the next few nights to see if this has a positive effect.
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This is happening to me too.
At random times, the phone will refuse to wake from sleep.
Nothing but a battery pull will fix it.
I don't have skype installed.
Have a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360880&highlight=sleep+of+death
Mine started today. Really hope this does not keep happening or I need to return this right away. Missed a few phone calls today and didnt realize until I looked down any my phone was just simply black. Will not wake up or do anything at all. You have to pull the battery. Right before this happened my data was dropping non stop about every 5 minutes for an hour.
I'm trying to stay calm because I love this phone, but between the data drops and the phone turning off im loosing patience quick.
This is happening to me as well. With TWO different phones. The first one I returned to Verizon and now its happening on the second one.
Phone will power off while doing random tasks. The two I've noticed is browsing on the stock browser and texting on the stock texting app.
I'm having the same problem. It's happened twice in the 3 days I've had the phone. It hasn't happened while I'm using it, both times it was when the screen was already off -- it just wouldn't waku up. Nothing short of pulling the battery, letting it sit, then powering on would work.
Couldn't have come at a worse time either, my daughter is in the hospital and I get updates from the surgeons via phone. So now I have to check every 5 minutes and make sure the phone is still on.
Phone is bone stock, out-of-the-box.
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i just had my first turned off this morning... my friend's SGN happened 5 days ago too. very unreliable....
I had that happen to me as well. Turns out I forgot that I had an app scheduled to do a backup at like 3 AM.
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CodenameDroid 1.2 cdma & Franco 14.4
My sgn turned off every night now. Anyone got any ideas why? I turned my verizon backup already.
reboot durring skype call
mark_w said:
I have Skype installed and running which maybe the cause. I will keep it OFF for the next few nights to see if this has a positive effect.
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it does it when i have skype running too. also i have other other audio apps open. (power amp, tunein, pandora) It's happened twice to me and each time it has been during a skype call while the other apps were running. (in widget form)
shock sensitive in the area right below the camera?
My device just "randomly" switches off (sometimes several times a day). After a long search for a reproducible cause, it seems safe to say that at least some devices seem to be extremely shock sensitive in the area right below the camera (on the back of the device). Even minuscule shocks to this area switch these devices off. Youtube-user 'jardinepatten' demonstrates this problem nicely in a video called "Galaxy Nexus Turning Off".
I did not have that problem for a long time, it only recently happened. In the morning the device 'froze' for the first time and did not react to any input without the screen turning on.
I took out the battery to restart and everything seemed fine. But later on it happened while I was using the device, certain pixels moved out of place (like a green pixel distortion) and the device froze. Screen turned off soon after. Taking out the battery was the only option.
Now, this is either battery or some other hardware flaw. After restart the battery had been hit with a 20% drop.
Might the device act up by some charging problems? When I am charging the device, I can feel the electric 'buzz' from the docking connectors (the three golden circles).
Also, when it is not charging, I cannot detect it myself, but if I take a strand of hair, the end of it 'sticks' lightly to the screen (and to the docking connector) if I put it close there. I fear like there's some manufacturing flaw there that broke loose.
The device has not dropped once, nor has had any other physical damage happen to it.
Has anyone else had the same symptoms happen?
Sounds like you've hit the same (or similar) issue to others (including me)
Sleep of Death
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360880
I found this issue (or one very much like it) at code.google.com here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22748
jss42 said:
Sounds like you've hit the same (or similar) issue to others (including me)
Sleep of Death
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360880
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Thank you. I thought it was different from Sleep of Death since the initial symptoms were different from weeks ago when I read that thread, but now reading it this seems correct. This thread can be merged or removed, I'll post in the other thread. Thanks again!
I've had that too, couple days ago using Facebook everything just froze. The keyboard went all buggy and green pixels everywhere. The back of the phone started to warm up phone wouldn't respond in any way.
Tried everything I could try, only option was to pull the battery, once that happened phone wouldn't turn back on!
I gave the phone 5 mins to rest before putting battery back in then it turned on.
My heart was pounding I thought my phone had died!
Thankfully it hasn't happened since
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It's happened to me multiple times. Less since I turned off the EQ in the Music app, but it's still happening.
Once it happened with the device just sitting there with Tapatalk displaying a list of posts. I wasn't even interacting with it.
I think it's a OS or driver problem and will be fixed in an OTA.
happened to me once, although when it happened I was already pretty low on battery, about 20% left, maybe less.
I was in a settings menu for some app, I can't remember which. But I had the keyboard up, and the green pixels hit, froze, unfroze, green pixels again, froze, and then shut off.
it would not turn on via the power button, so I quickly pulled the batt and put it back after 30 secs or so and powered it up. Batt did not drop any lower than it was, and it worked fine. Plugged it in, recharged overnight, and has been fine ever since.
I'm running 4.0.1 and I don't have anything but apps made by Google on the phone at the moment.
never rooted or unlocked bootloader.
Hopefully 4.0.2 or 4.0.3 fixes this
i realize now that there's no support for 720P AC3 .MKV files on the Nexus yet, but every time i tried the phone would lock up and i'd have to do a battery pull. other then that, i notice if i have Google Music running and attempt to do something else(multi-task) the phone will also lock up.. but then it will reboot on it's own. i also get lag regularly switching views/menus or going from portait/landscape. additionally, the browser(regardless of which one i use) will occasionally just freeze & close by itself.. usually if i try to do a secure login on a site. i will also sometimes get FC's(have seen them for launcher pro & android keyboard)
I've very occasionally had intermittent problems with responsiveness which I've being trying to track down for a while ...
At first I thought it might be a thread choking the CPU but often while experiencing UI difficulties there was barely enough activity to keep a CPU activity widget moving.
By luck one day I was using the tablet in bed resting on the duvet and the problem occurred, it continued to the point of not being able to unlock even after a reboot and a power cycle...
Thinking the tablet was broke I picked it up and it started working put it back on the duvet and it began misbehaving again.
While its very difficult to replicate placing the tablet on the duvet without holding will often cause the problem - which can some times happen when you are holding it, the "fix" seems to be holding the tablet in one hand touching back and sides...
I must try earthing myself when it happens again....
It happened to me too. I was unable to unlock my N7 because the touch screen would lose 'contact' with my fingers while I was unlocking it. There's another thread about this too somewhere around here. Oddly enough though, the problem either stopped showing or was solved after reflashing my ROM and flashing another kernel.
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Hi guys
looking for some advice here please as this is slowly driving me crazy.
Bought a tab s 8.4 about a week ago, along with the folio cover.
When I either close the cover or press the power button to put into sleep mode, it'll wake up providing I either open the cover or press power button within about 8 seconds. Anything longer than this and it requires a soft reset to get it to turn back on. From reading this sounds like the sleep of death. I've looked around for solutions to this, installed an app to stop it entering deep sleep but this didn't work, granted I may have the settings wrong on the app but I had it waking up the device every 9 seconds which is the lowest setting, and this still didn't prevent it having to be reset.
Thought it may have been due to apps I'm installing but now done 2 hard resets back to factory conditions, then not connected to the WiFi so it doesn't download my associated apps, and it's still getting the Sleep of death.
As I see it at the moment it's going into the sleep of death straight from factory settings. FYI is does the same with out the case on also.
Any advice, comments or potential apps that's may help would be appreciated as at the moment it's pretty much unusable and will soon to be flying out of the window.
Thanks guys
Kieran
I would suggest going for a ROM update. Either from another country. Or some custom one.
I would update/reinstall the firmware or try a different kernel. This sort of problem usually points to the kernel synaptics touch driver. Maybe you have a kernel problem.
Thanks guys I'll give that a go
Hello everyone, I just recently got a G3 and it was working fine for the 1st 2 days, no issues. I was sending a text to a friend earlier today and after it sent, it completely froze. After doing a soft reset it took forever to boot up. Once it booted up, it seemed to be fine. about an hour of operation, the screen looked as if it was freezing because it wasn't recognizing any of my touches. i decide to flip the phone sideways to see if it was actually frozen but it changed to landscape just fine. Sometimes it comes back to life then goes off again shortly after, and other times, i have to soft reset. I've tried the following to no avail.
Took the phone apart and cleaned both connectors.
Re-flashing the rom.
Trying 4 other roms.
Returned to lollipop stock.
I can't figure this out for the life to me and worked my ass of to be able to buy this phone. Any help would be appreciated as I can't afford to spend any more money on it!
I also have this issue, it's been ongoing for a few weeks. There will be short periods where it can work just fine, then it just freezes up and does not register any inputs. The content on the screen continues to run as if nothing happened (videos and games keep playing). Turning the screen off, waiting a couple minutes, then turning it on can sometimes give me another minute of use until it freezes up again. Also of note, when the screen is unresponsive and I press the power, it will dim to very low levels for a few seconds before going fully black. When the screen is being responsive and I press the power, it goes straight to black, as is normal and expected. From my testing, I've concluded:
1. This issue is not app dependent. It can occur at any time, and is not caused by alarms or overlays, such as blue light filters.
2. The issue is not from the specific battery I use. I've switched out between multiple batteries and used different chargers, none seem to affect the frequency of freezes.
3. Temperature may have something to do with this. When waking the phone after it's been sitting out in the cold, there seems to be a higher likelihood that it will be unresponsive. This is not always the case, which makes concluding that the issue is hardware related difficult, but some correlation seems to exist.
4. This issue started occurring shortly before I began having the popular "SIM Card Removed" issue, which I've yet to resolve (though can sometimes get the SIM card to work)
I am running stock 6.0 D85030p AT&T. I will post here again if I figure something out, but I have been trying for weeks without much success.