Hey guys,
Lately I'm getting very frequent sudden shutdowns on my HOX. From one moment to another it just completely shuts off, like removing the power cord of a desktop pc.
The problem mainly occurs when my hox is doing something heavy, however sometimes this also happens just out of the sudden. While I'm just checking Facebook and such.
I thought it was a problem of my rom, however.. Today I even got a showdown while checking (not performing any action) in recovery. This would confirm for me it's a phone problem, instead of a rom problem.
I want to add that this problem occurs more frequent when the battery percentage is lower. This doesn't mean though it doesn't happen at 100percent, since it does too.
When it shuts down at about 20 percentage, I hardly can power it on, because whenever I boot it afterwards, after I entered my sim pin code, after a few secs it shuts down again. However, when I turn off the screen after entering the pin, let it rest for a minute and then turn the screen, everything is all fine.
Until I perform something heavy or when an app freezes.
I haven't went to factory defaults yet. I prefer not, but if a few experienced ones are confident this might fix it, I will do factory reset.. Until then: please advice!
Thanks very much.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
It's sad there are still no replies.
Let's add this: Three days ago did a full factory reset and went on with a clean install, without any backup. It seems smoother and faster, even though I'm using a different (slower, more battery saving) governor.
Nevertheless, even with less frequencies, it's still randomly rebooting when it's having a hard time.
I must add too: MOST of the reboots appear when i'm changing from portrait to landscape, especially at changing orientation at the same time when opening the Camera..
Blackvibes said:
It's sad there are still no replies.
Let's add this: Three days ago did a full factory reset and went on with a clean install, without any backup. It seems smoother and faster, even though I'm using a different (slower, more battery saving) governor.
Nevertheless, even with less frequencies, it's still randomly rebooting when it's having a hard time.
I must add too: MOST of the reboots appear when i'm changing from portrait to landscape, especially at changing orientation at the same time when opening the Camera..
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Hi mate sorry you've had no replies so I'll try to help are you using a custom or stock kernel also if your undervolting the governor that can also cause the problem.
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Hi mate sorry you've had no replies so I'll try to help are you using a custom or stock kernel also if your undervolting the governor that can also cause the problem.
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Hey,
thanks! - I'm still running the stock (CyanogenMod stock) kernel, which i'm not undervolitng.
I must admit, after a factory reset, the frequency of random shutoff (t doesn't even reboot, it just shuts off and I have to power it back on) has lowered, and thus less trouble. However, it still happens about one, perhaps two times a day.
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Hello, everyone, this is my first post here, and after doing much research on my problem, I haven't had much insight into solving my problem permanently. tl;dr version is at the last paragraph.
First off, I installed AOKP on my phone for the first time a couple months ago and I had no problems for two months for reboots or anything like that, and I believe my phone was overclocked to 1520 mhz on the SmartReflex voltage settings. I did not undervolt whatsoever. In this phase, whenever I would turn it on, I would get to the boot animation, then the animation would hang, and the screen would rise to the highest brightness, flicker, and reboot, or shut down.
Then, in my troubleshooting, being the idiot I was, I accidentally unplugged it while I was flashing back to stock using ODIN. I got the "Android triangle computer" A.K.A. the "Soft Brick" signal. If I booted it normally, into my recovery, ODIN mode, whatever, I would get the same signal.
So, I left my phone alone for a couple weeks, accepting failure. Two weeks ago, I rebooted again into Odin mode, and I saw that Odin on my PC still recognized it, so I connected it and reflashed the stock ICS rom. I re-rooted and installed AOKP, all was fine for two/three days.
After that, the reboots started to happen again, and after a week of constant rebooting, and restoring latest backups,I set the CPU back to normal with no overclocking. I also undervolted but left "Set On Boot" unchecked for everything, This seemed to work fine for normal use, but I still had the phone on "InteractiveX" as the governor. So, when I would go to sleep, I would wake up and the phone would not be on. I would have to battery pull, reboot, etc. I thought this had something to do with one of the cores being turned off when the screen is, so I changed the governor to "Interactive" and the phone would charge now the same.
Now, the problem is, yesterday, I was fiddling with some benchmarks and I OC'd to 1520 for fun, and the phone screen froze, rose to the highest brightness, and shut down. I didn't have it "set to boot" so I thought everything should be fine, so I rebooted and the same thing happened at the boot animation which happened to me when I OC'd. I restored a Nandroid Backup I had before I set it to 1520, and still, no dice.
I reflashed my recovery then, because sometimes it would just freeze at the Google logo and not boot into recovery at all. Then, I restored my Nandroid again, and it booted into Android. After a few minutes, it crashed with the same "High Brightness, Screen Flicker". I restored again, and this time, I rushed into the "Performance Tab" and set my undervolt settings. The phone worked smoothly until I turned the screen off, and then I got the "Screen of Death". Basically, the screen stayed black, but the notification light was still on, and there was no response. So I pulled my battery and tried to reboot, but at the boot animation, the Nexus logo goes into "High Brightness, Screen Flicker". So, I took the battery out, and the phone is just sitting here now for fifteen or so minutes while I typed this out.
My question is, has anyone been having these same issues with their GNex. Because at this moment, I'm thinking I caused a hardware defect for running on 1520 for so long previously and I fried some inner components. Any help?
Edit: I put the battery back in and still the same thing. Going to charge overnight and let it sit, but if anyone has any help, please come forward.
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First off, don't bump threads which aren't even a day old.
Secondly, if your device behaves like that when you UV/OC, have you thought about not pushing it so far?? Why don't you stick to stock for a while to check for hardware failure or if it's just you?
Edit: if it comes back, install stock through fastboot. Leave Odin. Don't OC.
Sent from my Nexus
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First off, don't bump threads which aren't even a day old.
Secondly, if your device behaves like that when you UV/OC, have you thought about not pushing it so far?? Why don't you stick to stock for a while to check for hardware failure or if it's just you?
Edit: if it comes back, install stock through fastboot. Leave Odin. Don't OC.
Sent from my Nexus
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First post here, didn't know much about rules. Thanks for the response. My Nexus did come back, just about 5 minutes ago. I'm going to stay on AOKP for a day and if I don't encounter any problems, I'll stay on it. If I do, I'll revert back to stock.
So yeah, **** this
bk201doesntexist said:
First off, don't bump threads which aren't even a day old.
Secondly, if your device behaves like that when you UV/OC, have you thought about not pushing it so far?? Why don't you stick to stock for a while to check for hardware failure or if it's just you?
Edit: if it comes back, install stock through fastboot. Leave Odin. Don't OC.
Sent from my Nexus
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It was working fine until I got 3 or 4 Sleeps of Death a day until today. It just stopped working, and I restored my backup multiple times, but it would just hang at boot or bootloop. So I'm like **** this, so I flashed the stock image for 4.2.2 through Fastboot, and it still didn't boot, even after complete data wipe through the stock recovery. So, I thought it must be 4.2.2 that is doing this, so I installed the 4.1.1 and still the same result.
I'm so done with this thing, it's a hardware issue, total crap of a phone. If it is actually meant to be tinkered with and to be a "developer's phone" this crap wouldn't happen.
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...
Hey guys,
since ~a week I got a heavy-ass problem with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GSM). I am using the Cyanogenmod Nightly Version cm-11-20150412-NIGHTLY-maguro.zip (bootloader version primemd04; cwm version 6.0.5.1). I know that nightly versions are not really stable and still have a lot of problems, but so far everything didn't went that badly. At least I was able to use the phone...
So last week I put my phone in airplane mode. That was when the disaster started.
Now what happens when I start my phone is, that it starts in airplane mode with wi-fi on and no matter what I do, restarts after ~1min. Sometimes it even shuts down, when starting it in recovery mode.
What I tried so far is:
factory reset ---> most of the time it shuts down halfway done and restarts as if nothing happened.
updating CM ---> restarts as if nothing happened.
I'm really lost right now, but still don't want to give up all hope.
Thanks for every kind of help!!
Cheers,
Lovis
Try to get a legit application that tells you the real CPU temperature like FKUpdater, in case you have franco.Kernel. Then just run heavy tasks on in. If it just ****s doen,might be a problem with the battery. Mine just shutdown on itself just by doing common tasks like calling. Replacing the battery fixed it. Another thing O realized was that if you plug it in the charger and use it was helping it not restart. Try this method. If it restarts then its pretty much a ROM or hardware related problem, if not then a battery problem for sure.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
It has to be some kind of ROM problem. Before I got in airplane mode the phone worked almost perfectly.
AdmiralulNipples said:
Try to get a legit application that tells you the real CPU temperature like FKUpdater, in case you have franco.Kernel. Then just run heavy tasks on in. If it just ****s doen,might be a problem with the battery. Mine just shutdown on itself just by doing common tasks like calling. Replacing the battery fixed it. Another thing O realized was that if you plug it in the charger and use it was helping it not restart. Try this method. If it restarts then its pretty much a ROM or hardware related problem, if not then a battery problem for sure.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Hi all,
recently my D855 with v20T (root/xposed) started to sort of randomly reboot. It seems like once the device gets too hot, it's gone.
Happens rarely during general usage, often while playing a game, and especially often when starting the camera.
But it behaves strangely in general: if I do *not* unlock the SIM (and thus can't use the phone), the device runs forever, without a reboot, no matter what the device temperature is. Same for recovery (TWRP), it can stay there for hours and heat up however it likes, no reboot.
Removing the SIM and/or microSD does not make a difference, battery level does not matter.
I pulled a backup of the stock ROM, wiped everything (system, data, cache, dalvik) and flashed Fulmics 5.
Unlocking worked once or twice, the next time I entered my SIM pin, the lock screen showed, then reboot. This behaviour (unlock SIM, reboot) repeats endlessly. If I leave it turned off for 10-15 minutes - or sitting at the SIM unlock screen - it most of the time works fine after unlocking.
Wiped again, flashed robalm's v30F ROM.
Guess what, exactly the same.
On both variants, the phone got rather hot during the "optimizing app x of 190" screen, but never rebooted, only after I unlocked the SIM.
Let it sit overnight on the unlock screen, no reboot at all. Unlocked this morning, added my google account, rebooted - same thing again.
It's starting to drive me crazy, now it froze right in the middle of setting up the google account after another clean flash.
Is the phone prone for repair, or can anyone think of another solution to this weird issue?
Edit: Fun fact: if I manage to do the lock screen swipe before the SIM lock screen comes up, the phone reboots instantly as well.
Edit2: Followed the instructions from this thread to go back to completely stock v20T. Rebooted after optimizing apps before I could even choose a language, ran seemingly fine after this, started bootlooping after the first manual reboot. A full wipe later (volDn+Power) it at least boots. What the hell?
Thank you and best regards,
Sub
I have similar problem. Cant connect issue with exact cause, but it restarts almost every few minutes of use. Camera launch causes restart almost immediately. Phone is unusable. My VolDn button is not working so I'm currently a bit afraid to try anything new... I updated from Fulmics4.1 (i havent got reboot problems since last 1,5week ago) to 5.1 but issue persists even after full wipe. Seriously dont know what to think about it.
At first I thought that reboots are caused by low power (much more frequent with battery under 30%), then maybe big cpu load or high brightness.... now basically everything causes reboots. Im really annoyed this phone been crap since day one...
I havent tried your sim unclocking method as my doesnt have pin security etc. Let me know if you will find out solution.
foxracer89 said:
I have similar problem. Cant connect issue with exact cause, but it restarts almost every few minutes of use. Camera launch causes restart almost immediately. Phone is unusable. My VolDn button is not working so I'm currently a bit afraid to try anything new... I updated from Fulmics4.1 (i havent got reboot problems since last 1,5week ago) to 5.1 but issue persists even after full wipe. Seriously dont know what to think about it.
At first I thought that reboots are caused by low power (much more frequent with battery under 30%), then maybe big cpu load or high brightness.... now basically everything causes reboots. Im really annoyed this phone been crap since day one...
I havent tried your sim unclocking method as my doesnt have pin security etc. Let me know if you will find out solution.
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Try a new battery
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Try a new battery
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Just received the device back from LG, they replaced the mainboard, even got a new IMEI and v30c preinstalled.
It is the same case, with the protective glass on top and a dent on the left plus the 2-3 micro-cracks around the frame.
Not sure if they swapped the battery. The problem showed up again with anywhere between 50 and 15 percent battery left.
Unfortunately I only tested it after leaving the shop, after a long walk to the bus which I caught just in time.
Setup assistant completed -> reboot.
Google setup nearly completed -> reboot.
Removed SIM and MicroSD, started phone, started camera, made a movie -> reboot.
Wiped again (strange enough, v30c only has 61 applications to optimize while v20* has 190+?), tried again, same thing.
Next, after letting the back camera take a movie for 2-3 minutes, I wanted to adjust display brightness to the max.
Result: see screenshot. This also happened with the cable plugged in.
I will return it for repair once more tomorrow...
Anyway, thank you for your answers
Regards,
sub
subworx said:
Just received the device back from LG, they replaced the mainboard, even got a new IMEI and v30c preinstalled.
It is the same case, with the protective glass on top and a dent on the left plus the 2-3 micro-cracks around the frame.
Not sure if they swapped the battery. The problem showed up again with anywhere between 50 and 15 percent battery left.
Unfortunately I only tested it after leaving the shop, after a long walk to the bus which I caught just in time.
Setup assistant completed -> reboot.
Google setup nearly completed -> reboot.
Removed SIM and MicroSD, started phone, started camera, made a movie -> reboot.
Wiped again (strange enough, v30c only has 61 applications to optimize while v20* has 190+?), tried again, same thing.
Next, after letting the back camera take a movie for 2-3 minutes, I wanted to adjust display brightness to the max.
Result: see screenshot. This also happened with the cable plugged in.
I will return it for repair once more tomorrow...
Anyway, thank you for your answers
Regards,
sub
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It's a common thing if you use camera specially if you take video in 4k mode your phone heat up and you can't use full brightness in stock rom it's a feature try moded thermal config...also try new battery if battery percentage suddenly dropped it seems battery issue because i face the same problem....
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It's a common thing if you use camera specially if you take video in 4k mode your phone heat up and you can't use full brightness in stock rom it's a feature try moded thermal config...also try new battery if battery percentage suddenly dropped it seems battery issue because i face the same problem....
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I used to have thermals installed, the 75 dregrees Celsius variant, iirc.
Everything else was at stock, except for one short excursion to CM12 and one to ... some custom ROM.
Think I never actually took 4k videos, and the first 1,5 years the phone got a bit warmer but never really hot. Only recently it started to get really hot especially when using the camera, this also consistently was what could cause the reboot loops for sure. Other candidates were a few games which use more processing power like Alto's Adventure.
The battery drops by 2-3% after a reboot, because of the load the phone has (and the heat it develops during boot).
Anyway, I added the screenshot to the next repair request, and the woman at the counter said they'd look into the battery specifically (it seems to give out too much voltage, she said), but also check everything else once more.
I'll let them repair up to three times, then ask for a replacement, should be legal within 2 years after purchase in Germany.
Also, next time I'll take the 15 minutes (before doing a 1h/direction trip) to factory reset the phone, set it up and start the camera. If it reboots during any of this -> return, repeat.
Regards,
sub
Received my phone back from LG, finally.
Battery's broken - it outputs too much power.
Ordered a new battery and just put it in, so far no reboots during setup.
At least this got me a new mainboard and new IMEI
Regards,
sub
Hahahahahahahahaha
I just wondered why the phone shows 25 GB free everywhere, even without SD.
Turns out, during repair instead of replacing the 16GB/2GB board with an identical one, they installed the 32GB/3GB board
\o/ for LG
Hello everyon everyone.
I have the SM-P600 version, everything was good until the beginning of the week when touchpad began to go off without reason, and completely random.
I first reinstalled several official ROMs from the most recent to the oldest, with no significant improvement
Then i rooted and tried Lineage, it looked good for a while, but in the end same problem.
Please note, when the tablet begins to mess, the reboots are occuring more and more often and after a while it turns in a loop and im not even able to switch it off.
Samsung logo display, black screen, logo, black screen, etc ...
I think rather for a battery-side problem, if some people have faced similar problem, I'm taking help.
Do you know if by chance we can use the tablet without battery to test this theory?
Thank you in advance for any answers.
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Hello everyon everyone.
I have the SM-P600 version, everything was good until the beginning of the week when touchpad began to go off without reason, and completely random.
I first reinstalled several official ROMs from the most recent to the oldest, with no significant improvement
Then i rooted and tried Lineage, it looked good for a while, but in the end same problem.
Please note, when the tablet begins to mess, the reboots are occuring more and more often and after a while it turns in a loop and im not even able to switch it off.
Samsung logo display, black screen, logo, black screen, etc ...
I think rather for a battery-side problem, if some people have faced similar problem, I'm taking help.
Do you know if by chance we can use the tablet without battery to test this theory?
Thank you in advance for any answers.
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I think I'd be taking a close look at the physical power button. Seems to me that if it had gone flakey it could cause something like this.
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I think I'd be taking a close look at the physical power button. Seems to me that if it had gone flakey it could cause something like this.
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Hello and thanks for you answer,
Just to precise i never faced this issue while flashing an official or custom ROM, dont know if it is just luck or it can help in anything
Anyway ill try to check it the power button just in case
It's weird I just started having this exact problem myself. One morning I unplugged it and it had shut itself down overnight. Since then it randomly reboots. Sometimes I can get 20/30 minutes out of it, but once it starts, it can get into multiple reboots with the only way to stop it is to plug in the charger. I tried wiping cashe/dalvic (no help). Nothing was recently changed (including apps). Tried resoldering battery connector (battery was replaced a year or so ago with OEM Sammy). The P600 is rooted with TWRP installed, but no custom ROM. Usually the reboots start while I'm doing something (surfing, email, etc.), but I don't think it will do it while sleeping. I'm considering the power button, but I don't see this exact problem anywhere else, but this post. Any ideas?
OK. My tablet has taken a turn for the worse. Now it is stuck in a continuous boot loop. I tried the power switch, no help. I tried booting into TWRP, and it went back into rebooting before I could do anything. Strange thing is I can put it into download mode indefinitely without it rebooting. Should I ODIN back to stock? I tried the resoldering of the battery connection earlier. Any other ideas?