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odd problem just happened

this is what just happened!
my phone was on my desk for about an hour of not using, them....my secondary phone rings and someone tells me that my phone is closed. i said, wtf? then....i pressed power button.....nothing......picked it up.....the phone WAS HOTTTTTT at the earpiece area and the camera area and it didnt want to turn on. i removed the battery, then it started and the battery was at 4% from 30% on hour ago!
what was this? anyone else with this?

You were running GPU hungry apps on the background of the phone. Don't worry, just make sure you have a ha bit of closing and deleting apps that you don't need.

i didnt start anything......and how come it was dead....and only started after pulling the battery out!?

Thermal protection.
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but i dont have any games installed! what high gpu? nothing was on!?
i have a task manager.....i always use it......but maybe it is not good for ics! what do u use?

Do you have cats?
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Uninstall your task manager.
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Skrazz said:
Do you have cats?
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you lost me!

joshnichols189 said:
Uninstall your task manager.
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why? how do i close apps?

gangstar said:
why? How do i close apps?
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lol
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The way I understand it is this...
Google spends a TON of money developing the Android Platform. It was orginally and continues to pride itself on multi tasking. That said they didn't just forget that programs running in the background could drain the battery. Android manages your apps perfectly and to think they would leave it up to a 3rd party software to assist the OS is a joke. App management software is bad, all bad.
More people come on here asking why their phone suddenly died, and majority of them have app management programs. Don't know if they are causing the issue, but it seems possible.
Hope that helps

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why? how do i close apps?
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:multiple face slaps at the same time from all possible directions:

Weird Vibrations

I have a weird problem with my phone. Every so often, my phone wjll vibrate twice, in two really short bursts that arent powerful at all. It is completely random. And whenever im playing music, it will stop the music for 5 seconds. If anyone knows what this is it would be greatly appreciated because this is happening on my new phone, as well as my last two galaxy s 2's (ive gotten 3 replacements)
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I think this happens to me too, may just be my head, but I really do believe.

Do you get a notification?
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new ion? said:
Do you get a notification?
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Nope. Nothing. It just randomly vibrates ALOT. And im on stock ROM ans unrooted so...idk its weird
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Do you have a case on your phone? If so, which one?

G1ForFun said:
Do you have a case on your phone? If so, which one?
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Nope. No case at all
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What apps do you have that give off frequent notification? Do you have facebook, friendcaster, word w/f, etc.? Can you give us a small run down?
you can also download betterbatterystats (free here on XDA) and look at what frequently runs perhaps it appears as a wakelock.
or you can always look at logcat

Scoutamis said:
I have a weird problem with my phone. Every so often, my phone wjll vibrate twice, in two really short bursts that arent powerful at all. It is completely random. And whenever im playing music, it will stop the music for 5 seconds. If anyone knows what this is it would be greatly appreciated because this is happening on my new phone, as well as my last two galaxy s 2's (ive gotten 3 replacements)
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It's a kernel crash. It's a part of android. It usually happens to let you know that it crashed but android reloads where it last left off. Hence the reason for the gap in music. If you press home immediately after you will catch it trying to finish reloading.
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PulldOvr said:
It's a kernel crash. It's a part of android. It usually happens to let you know that it crashed but android reloads where it last left off. Hence the reason for the gap in music. If you press home immediately after you will catch it trying to finish reloading.
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Is there anyway to fix it? Cause i happens like once every 10minutes
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Try running master's kernel cleanser and reinstalling the kernel, that's a place to start
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You will have to root first... Unless someone with more experience chimes in with a different idea
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new ion? said:
You will have to root first... Unless someone with more experience chimes in with a different idea
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I shouldnt have to root my phone to get something simple working Ugh
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Is the same app running every time it happens? It may be a 3rd party app that isn't completely compatible running on your phone. Try deleting any third party widgeta.. then going into your task manager and clearing your memory. Then add one widget at at time til it starts doing it. If it doesn't do it, then open one of your e eryday apps at a time till you have the vibrating again. You may find some crappy lil app that you installed is causing all the problems.
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Ill try that thanks
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Is the same app running every time it happens? It may be a 3rd party app that isn't completely compatible running on your phone. Try deleting any third party widgeta.. then going into your task manager and clearing your memory. Then add one widget at at time til it starts doing it. If it doesn't do it, then open one of your e eryday apps at a time till you have the vibrating again. You may find some crappy lil app that you installed is causing all the problems.
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any updates?
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PulldOvr said:
any updates?
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I just got the phone replaced and it has completely stopped. Thank the lord!
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Any lost or stolen app that also blocks hard reset?

I found a few apps that tracks your phone down or even takes pictures of the person trying to unlock it, but like the title says, is there any app that blocks hard reset? It's kind of pointless if your phone gets stolen if they can just shut the phone off and do a hard reset to it and sign in with there email,
Thanks :-D
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I guess in theory you could place an app like Seekdroid in the system folder and then do a hard reset. Usually a hard reset won't affect system apps.

g2uzer said:
I found a few apps that tracks your phone down or even takes pictures of the person trying to unlock it, but like the title says, is there any app that blocks hard reset? It's kind of pointless if your phone gets stolen if they can just shut the phone off and do a hard reset to it and sign in with there email,
Thanks :-D
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you can't really avoid physical maneuvers. and anything baked into the phone's startup has to be a modification to the actual ROM. so no.

dLo GSR said:
you can't really avoid physical maneuvers. and anything baked into the phone's startup has to be a modification to the actual ROM. so no.
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I didn't think so, but wanted to make sure lol, thanks
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whats the name of the one you found that takes pics of thief, that sounds badass

Use Cerberus that app does everything that ur talking about
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x_SCOS_x_ELITE said:
whats the name of the one you found that takes pics of thief, that sounds badass
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Cerberus app in Google play
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caulton said:
Use Cerberus that app does everything that ur talking about
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Thanks
I missed the part were it said that you could set it to were the only way they can un install it is by flashing a different ROM,,but that setting is for rooted phones,I'm completely stock and not sure if I want to root this phone,
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You should root the phone it will change your life. Plus its so easy even a cave man can do it
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Check out Android Lost, it does alot of those things as well. Relies on push messaging too, so its very light. You can take a picture on demand, turn on GPS and get location, download texts/emails, etc.

tjr2010 said:
You should root the phone it will change your life. Plus its so easy even a cave man can do it
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Yea, I've rooted all my previous phones and yea I've like them a lot more, but for some reason I'm not sure to root this particular one lol
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jiggytom said:
Check out Android Lost, it does alot of those things as well. Relies on push messaging too, so its very light. You can take a picture on demand, turn on GPS and get location, download texts/emails, etc.
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I'll give that a try
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It'd be nice if we could put a password lock on the recovery. Wonder why 4ext hasn't done that yet.

stonew5082 said:
It'd be nice if we could put a password lock on the recovery. Wonder why 4ext hasn't done that yet.
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Yea it would, also it would be tight if Samsung had in app like that already installed, that way even with a master reset you'll still be able to find your $700 + phone lol, I haven't lost one yet (knock on wood) but still very nervous of loosing it, ill give android lost a try,
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g2uzer said:
Yea it would, also it would be tight if Samsung had in app like that already installed, that way even with a master reset you'll still be able to find your $700 + phone lol, I haven't lost one yet (knock on wood) but still very nervous of loosing it, ill give android lost a try,
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After I got my phone I left the box on the train with all the accessories lol. It can happen!

I'm trying to use Android Lost,, but I can't get the gps remotely to turn on when it's off,
So maybe Cerberus might be better, I might have to give that one a try,
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Android lost is free and its king of this kind of apps. Nothing is even close. Go get it try come back and hit thanks.
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This is how I got around the GPS toggle not working:
Since AndroidLost.com allows you to send texts, I have setup a tasker profile which waits for a text that says "androidlost" and if it receives it, it enables GPS.

nismax said:
Android lost is free and its king of this kind of apps. Nothing is even close. Go get it try come back and hit thanks.
Signed &
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it looks good, although cerberus seems just as good and its already installed. I tested cerberus and its flawless. I guess there's no harm in having both though!

stonew5082 said:
it looks good, although cerberus seems just as good and its already installed. I tested cerberus and its flawless. I guess there's no harm in having both though!
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Its not that wise to have 2 of same kind of apps running at same time. Battery and often cause conficts. I have tryied only android lost and is one amazing ap. Newer had cerberus. I cant say much about it.
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How to fix lag in 4.2.2 system wide.

I have stock gnex on takju, since 4.2.2 I have suffered from lag all over the place, the lag could be fixed by restarting the phone but it would eventually come back.
I have only 300MB of data plan and I noticed that Facebook and facebook messenger where using about 50MB a month on the background without any user interaction and just a couple of days ago I started seeing Facebook app as the second most battery using app just behind screen on, this made me uninstall Facebook and and I instantly saw performance go up all over the place, it was night and day comparison, my phone feels like new and the buttery effect is back.
Now I installed Facebook back just to test and it indeed is the reason for my lag but this time I used greenifyed it and it fixed the lag too.
So there you go, hope this helps
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What if i don't have facebook
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Then maybe is another app running in the background using a lot of RAM or using a lot of resources?
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Thanks op. This helped me alot
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I had some problems with ram also , this tip was really helpful
Thx

Went to try this, then I realized I don't have a Facebook. :silly:

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Went to try this, then I realized I don't have a Facebook. :silly:
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+1 there! :highfive: :silly::silly:

Dosent matter. Maps and about 10 other apps were acting up.
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hvacman316 said:
Dosent matter. Maps and about 10 other apps were acting up.
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Does matter. I disabled background data (as opposed to removing the app entirely) on Facebook and have noticed substantial speed improvement instantly. The only place you can do it, that I'm aware of, is from the mobile data screen when checking the apps usage.
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There are two places to disable notification from Facebook on mobile.
The first would be to go into the settings by clicking on the 3 point button just right of the multitasking navigation key, then disabling notifications.
Second, by clicking on the top left corner button inside the Facebook app, then clicking on privacy settings --> notifications---> mobile push--> uncheck all
Sometimes I think Facebook deliberately tries to complicate the notification settings so as to keep pushing themselves on our faces!
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Thanks for the tip, this actually helped a bit.

I've had luck with disabling auto-rotation for some reason. Caused SystemUI to lag after time. Hopefully it'll be patched in 4.3.

My MIUI experience. Pros/Cons

Well, I brought myself to removing my CM10.2 and trying the MIUI ROM. It was a very slick, very smooth ROM. I overall enjoyed it. But with it being a ROM of course it had a few minor bugs. And I did have a few dislikes. So I'm gonna list a few things I personally noticed about it. Fell free to post your thoughts and any resolutions to anything I'm gonna lay out.
PROS:
-a smooth, soft feeling touch that was full of color and a very nice setup. The was miui was set up in settings for example was on of a kind. I was not disappointed. The theme app that was there gave me full control of changing the status bar, lock screen, home screen, etc. You have full control of customization. WiFi also seemed to work just fine.
CONS:
- Sadly, my LTE didn't appear to work. I tried adjusting my setting to fix it. No avail and that kinda was frustrating. But with WiFi working it didn't pose to much of a issue. I also experienced to apps for my gallery, and I was unable to delete it because it was a system app. Some of the themes I downloaded froze my phone, causing me to remove my battery and restart my phone. I wasn't bothered by it to much, I'm rather used to having to do that with previous phone.
Over all if you like a fresh and fast ROM you will love MIUI. But with these few issues I went back to cm. As I need my LTE cause my phone is also a work phone and I need the fastest internet I can get. So feel free to post your thoughts on MIUI and any fixes. Because I would like to switch back and continue using MIUI.
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LTE works you just have to select it in settings when you first flash the rom because it doesn't default on. Reason there are 2 galleries is because MIUI has its own gallery and since we have to use 4.2 camera it comes with its only gallery also hide one in a folder if you dont like one. And theme issue I've never experienced this
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Thanks for the advice. Looking forward to flashing back and getting it sorted out
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LTE works you just have to select it in settings when you first flash the rom because it doesn't default on. Reason there are 2 galleries is because MIUI has its own gallery and since we have to use 4.2 camera it comes with its only gallery also hide one in a folder if you dont like one. And theme issue I've never experienced this
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Another thing I was having a issue with was my xda app on miui. When I signed in. I was unable to view any threads
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dalton912 said:
Another thing I was having a issue with was my xda app on miui. When I signed in. I was unable to view any threads
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That's not a issue with the rom xda app is wonky sometimes
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Notorious said:
That's not a issue with the rom xda app is wonky sometimes
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Okay. And how about this screenshot. On the far left page of the left side of my screen. Looks janky. Like a bug?
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I love the visual development compared to all other ROM.

Looks great.. but I'm still in love with AOSP.

Right out of the box, I think MIUI looks a lot like ios . Maybe too much.
It is a great ROM though, and very user-friendly.

Could I see a screen shot of the phone? Keypad, in call. These are things people over look, but this is our phone is it not? For most if not everyone on here, the only phone they use.
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