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Got a stock Sprint CDMA Touch Pro 2 (WM 6.1) from a European seller on EBay about a week ago. Put my Vodafone SIM card in it and away we go... worked fine. I unlocked it with Olipro's web site and replaced the radio with his 2.05.00WV so I can use it with GSM carriers in the USA when I go there. So far so good, and I began piling on a lot of software -- upgrades of things I had been running on my hx4705 iPAQ. SPB Pocket Plus, Pocket Plus Diary, SKTools, Flexmail, and so on and so forth. I sync it with Thunderbird using Birdiesync (which I can recommend).
At some point in this process it began to get very slow and flaky, with lots of crashes. I began to get worried and removed Pocket Plus Diary -- I have over 1600 contacts. That sped it up some, but I noticed my battery was draining at a terrible rate. I had installed Advanced Config and set it for maximum performance, but most of those settings have to do with cache sizes and don't actually burn CPU time. I also set all the power management settings to Enabled. But it was still dropping like a rock within a couple of hours.
Eventually I began to despair -- slow, buggy, no battery life... I thought I had bought a lemon. I was on the point of flashing somebody else's ROM (without knowing who in the hell's I should choose -- everybody brags about their speed but few brag about their battery life). I decided to hard-reset the thing and see what happened. I charged it back up to about 67%, left everything else alone and put it in Suspend Mode by my bed. (No Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, of course, I'm not an idiot.) I live in an area with good coverage.
In the morning it was dead as a doornail and I was sure that I had bought a pup. I can't deal with a phone that I can't put by my bedside for 8 hours -- I travel constantly and don't always have access to power. But since all the software was off it again, I starting putting things back, very slowly and carefully.
Long story short, I now seem to have very good battery life indeed WITHOUT flashing a new ROM. I'm not entirely sure why, but these are the steps I've taken, just in case it helps somebody else:
Touch FLO 3D off. It's a kludge anyway. I'm stylus guy.
Flashed yet another radio, 2.32.00WU
Phone network set to GSM only, not Global. (Settings > Phone > Network)
Backlight auto adjust is OFF, backlight turns off after 2 minutes on battery.
Device turns off after 3 minutes on battery.
Turned off Error Reporting. (Settings > System > Error Reporting)
Turned on all the Power Mangement features in AdvancedConfig.
Made a lot of registry tweaks recommended by Ninja Duck over at PPCGeeks. HAICH TEE TEE PEE ://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=110813 I didn't use his cab, just did them by hand. Among other things it turns off OBEX -- although I only turn on Bluetooth as necessary anyway.
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\Battery "PollInterval" set to 20000 instead of 5000.
In the Comm Manager, I keep data connections OFF until needed. No push mail, weather, etc. for me. When I want to read mail, I'll check for mail.
ALSO using RedFrogFish's Data Controller 1.0.1.8 just to be dead certain data connections are disabled.
Renamed OperaL.exe in Windows to OperaL-.exe. This prevents Opera 9 from starting on boot.
Messages > Options > my account > Send/Receive Schedule > Automatic Send/Receive set to Manually.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Cl ass\SDMemory_Class "DisablePowerManagement" = dword : 00000000
Removed PKG.lnk, poutlook.lnk, and HTCStartUp.lnk from Windows\StartUp. I dunno what these do but I don't seem to need them.
Put SBP Pocket Plus back on but NOT Pocket Diary.
One other thing -- on the strength of good experiences with PocketInformant on my old iPAQ, I originally installed the latest edition (9) on the Rhodium, but after the hard-reset I didn't reinstall it. It's slower than M$'s own Contact and Calendar managers, and while those aren't as good, they're good enough -- much better than they were under WM2003SE. I don't entirely trust PI. It's big and I suspect it of grabbing things that don't belong to it.
Bottom line: I am a MUCH happier camper. I don't know which of these was the most effective, but the phone is now both fast and easy on the battery. The battery savings might all be coming from the GSM Only setting and the new radio, for all I know.
Sorry this is so long-winded. I just wanted to say... if you're suffering... don't give up! I got much better battery life WITHOUT having to choose and flash somebody else's ROM. (I don't mind flashing ROMs but I'm damned if I can figure out how to choose one. Somebody needs to do a big review with a side-by-side table of features.)
Quick further update. I left it last night at 91% battery, and everything turned off that CAN be turned off except the radio. This morning, after close on 9 hours sitting there, it's at 86%. I'm pretty stoked!
A well done for perseverance!
nice hopefully these tips bump up my battery life
thanks for the tipps, i'm going to check those reg-tweaks by ninja duck you mentioned.
i would be interested in the mean duration you can use the phone without charging, i'm getting about 3-4 days of medium usage from one charge.
i also rather prefer a good battery life over some eye candy, so no htc tf3d for me to (noticed, that this is the main power consumer). in fact, i like the old school today plugins better, as i can see all upcoming appointments with today agenda, have some nice quick start buttons with easy today launcher (including a link to zlaunchy, where i can start all programs via t9 typing), i see the connection state and messages status with phone wheaver and the bandwidth usage with spb wireless monitor.
one thing i would recommend you is phone wheaver, where you can set profiles, that are activated at a specific time.i use a day and a night profile - in the second one, PW will disable all connections, as i wont need them at night (including the cell connection - i dont know the proper name, i mean this standard phone connection to the carrier) and so the battery life is better even more. PW also has the possibiliy to place a toggle data connection button in the today plugin, so you can switch connections fast. (hope, this was not too much of a commercial, i just like the software.)
EWAdams said:
Removed PKG.lnk, poutlook.lnk, and HTCStartUp.lnk from Windows\StartUp. I dunno what these do but I don't seem to need them.
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If you sync to Outlook on the PC and set appointments and reminders on your calendar, having this turned off on the phone means you will not get any notifications of these events. Been curious about the other two, though.
Thanks for the advice. Battery seems to be an issue regularly cropping up. Maybe someone can help withm y current 'not' postive experience.
I have the TP2 exactly 12 months, and its been pretty good. Occasional freezes but nothing a soft reset doesnt handle, and its not too much hassle and i accept it because im a heavy user.
Battery has been reasonable. Always got me through the day, and it went on the charge every night.
About 2 weeks ago i suddenly noticed a change. Tbh it probably was creeping up up but i never noticed. Anyway, suddenly all im getting is about 4 hours!!! Battery will be showing about half full, next thing its beeping then off!!! Before if you went to bed with it fully charged and left it off the charger it would still have charge in the morning- now its dead as a doornail despite NO activity (email off, wifi off,bluetooth off, no progs runnign etc).
So onto ebay. Got a replacement battery but guess what- exactly the same!! I really dont think the new batterys faulty. Another one on the way just in case, but i think its a phone thing.
Any ideas???
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Thanks for the advice. Battery seems to be an issue regularly cropping up. Maybe someone can help withm y current 'not' postive experience.
I have the TP2 exactly 12 months, and its been pretty good. Occasional freezes but nothing a soft reset doesnt handle, and its not too much hassle and i accept it because im a heavy user.
Battery has been reasonable. Always got me through the day, and it went on the charge every night.
About 2 weeks ago i suddenly noticed a change. Tbh it probably was creeping up up but i never noticed. Anyway, suddenly all im getting is about 4 hours!!! Battery will be showing about half full, next thing its beeping then off!!! Before if you went to bed with it fully charged and left it off the charger it would still have charge in the morning- now its dead as a doornail despite NO activity (email off, wifi off,bluetooth off, no progs runnign etc).
So onto ebay. Got a replacement battery but guess what- exactly the same!! I really dont think the new batterys faulty. Another one on the way just in case, but i think its a phone thing.
Any ideas???
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I noticed that once the other day: battery was about 40% and the next morning the device had shut down. I have no idea what the reason was, but I guess I left googlemaps running with gps on or something... however, I didn't have this issue another time...
Despite the bad reviews I picked up a Liveview yesterday. Was $50 brand new off Craigslist. And surprise surprise, it turned out to be a turd. Well, I don't like to waste money, so I set about modding it. Thought some people here might be interested to see what I did.
So far I've waterproofed the case. Next I'll be building a better strap, one that doesn't make it huge or block the USB port. http://www.jax184.com/projects/liveview/liveview.html has everything I've done so far on it.
Nice i got that thing and it "worked" but still with the having to restart it all the time was very annoying but i ended up sending mine back
So I've been using the Liveview for a couple days, or at least trying to. Even after doing a full reset of the device, reinstalling the software on my phone and removing all the plugins, it has a battery life of about 6-8 hours. In that time I turned the screen on twice, and it briefly lit up to tell me of an incoming call. No texts, no alerts, and I don't have farcebook/twatter/etc turned on. It sat 2 feet from my phone the entire time. If I actually try to use the damn thing to, say, control the media player, the battery goes dead in 2 to 3 hours.
Pathetic...
I've decided I'm going to build it into a custom case for a friend of mine with a much larger battery, since the stock one is completely and utterly useless. So much for my gasket job...
Not sure if the battery is just dying on yours or what but if I never touch the screen, mine lasts for a couple days at least (and that's with alerts!). Sad to hear yours has issues :\
Mine's brand new and running the latest firmware/software with the bare minimum of functionality enabled, so I'm as confused as you.
I have a liveview and i absolutely love it. I dont have any connection issues but i mostly just use it as a watch with out having it connected over bluetooth and the battery lasts for days when i do that. I do have an issue now where i dropped it and the select button on top doesnt work anymore
Can I connect multiple liveviews to my phone?
I just bought 4 of them for $15 a pop !! Sweet
I know I can use it with torque which is cool
what else can I do with them? Can I run album art to it from say player pro? or Pocket Casts?
is there a decent list somewhere of "interesting" things you can do with the little buggers?
Hi, do someone know the dimensions of the battery, because i have one with death batt. and need a replacement.
nice mod! Based on the pictures I can see the battery size in case I need to replace it, by the way using notifications my watch last 2.5 days, using a plugin last only 30minutes or less
nerys71 said:
Can I connect multiple liveviews to my phone?
I know I can use it with torque which is cool
what else can I do with them? Can I run album art to it from say player pro? or Pocket Casts?
is there a decent list somewhere of "interesting" things you can do with the little buggers?
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+1 I just got one for $15, I wanna find some cool things I can do with it. What have you done to set yours up?
its a pain in the freaking butt. cool potential poor execution.
it constantly gets disconnected when something goes wrong ON THE DROID SIDE. terminating the app and relaunching it solves the problem for X period of time (few hours ??)
the most convenient access is also the worst designed. the watch band. YOU CAN NOT CHARGE IT WHILE IN THE WATCH BAND.
what freaking moron though that was a good idea to force us to remove it (VERY difficult) to charge it.
if the software bugs get worked out I may look into modding the stinking socket so I can charge it while in watch mode (thinking of RIVETING the case to the band) then I won't need the little watch pin thingy that is keeping me from charging it while its in the watch band.
and there is just not that many "cool" apps to use for it yet or the few out their are poorly executed.
how hard can it be to reliably push the freaking album art to the watch ?
nerys71 said:
its a pain in the freaking butt. cool potential poor execution.
it constantly gets disconnected when something goes wrong ON THE DROID SIDE. terminating the app and relaunching it solves the problem for X period of time (few hours ??)
the most convenient access is also the worst designed. the watch band. YOU CAN NOT CHARGE IT WHILE IN THE WATCH BAND.
what freaking moron though that was a good idea to force us to remove it (VERY difficult) to charge it.
if the software bugs get worked out I may look into modding the stinking socket so I can charge it while in watch mode (thinking of RIVETING the case to the band) then I won't need the little watch pin thingy that is keeping me from charging it while its in the watch band.
and there is just not that many "cool" apps to use for it yet or the few out their are poorly executed.
how hard can it be to reliably push the freaking album art to the watch ?
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Brother....
For disconnect issue , install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ishii.app.liveviewcharm
Its really bad remove device all time from strap : (
Hope it help you
2 Generations of Liveviews
Just to be clear, there are 2 versions of this device floating about... The older one goes for around $20 and is not much more than a novelty... The newer model runs around $100 and seems to have fixed the battery life issue... One should look at the Pebble once it is available as a possible alternative...
openliveview
Drewmungus said:
+1 I just got one for $15, I wanna find some cool things I can do with it. What have you done to set yours up?
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I started creating a usable gui for the openliveview project. Theo openliveview project is an open source reimplementation Of the liveview app.
You van follow the development in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422106&page=26
Note: you have to uninstall the liveview app bevore you van install openliveview
probbiethe1 said:
I have a liveview and i absolutely love it. I dont have any connection issues but i mostly just use it as a watch with out having it connected over bluetooth and the battery lasts for days when i do that. I do have an issue now where i dropped it and the select button on top doesnt work anymore
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This might help you. It won't solve the issue of select button, but it'll help you read notifications.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40041226
Where can you find one for 15 bucks? Even if it did nothing, I'd want it for 15 bucks, just to have as a key for my phone using tasker. I supposed I could get any old bluetooth headset, but I wanted something wearable.
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Where can you find one for 15 bucks? Even if it did nothing, I'd want it for 15 bucks, just to have as a key for my phone using tasker. I supposed I could get any old bluetooth headset, but I wanted something wearable.
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Yeah, $15 is AWESOME!
$18 with Free shipping on ebay buy it now is the best price I can find so far.
I bought four of them and donated 2 to the local hackerspace.
Would be wicked to control more than one at once. I'm trying to find some chick to wear two as earrings.
Perhaps one controlled with Sony app and one Open Liveview App each for one mac address.
Contrary to earlier post, I seem to be able to have both Sony and Openliveview apps installed at once (though haven't tried RUNNING both) yet.
My battery life across the two that I've evaluated and (a third I lost to the ocean) seems significantly better than the average reported above.
But a LOT of variables have changed since the OP. New firmware, new app, new phone, new bt stack, new android versions...
My impression IIRC is that this thing is ROCK SOLID on CyanogenMod7 or CM9 on evo 3d.
hi guys,
I have learnt a lot from xda and had been using this site for all of my android issues and mods. This is just fabulous.
So, I have been using my Note 1 0.1 since a couple of weeks and it's battery was acting in a funny manner.
PROBLEM
Sometimes it played well down to 60% from a full charge , then down to 15% in a minute and then down to 4% in next 5 minutes. Then i would restart the tablet and watch the battery suddenly having around 35% battery. THIS WAS SO WEIRD.
I used many battery calibrators from play store but none of them worked.
SOLUTION
And then out of frustration, I pulled out the back cover, took out the battery connector, and then placed it firmly, back to its place. switched it on used it for couple of minutes, and noticed the battery percentage. restarted, YAYY! same battery percentage. used it again, restarted, checked again. did it more often and noticed that the issue was solved.
CONCLUSION
The connector of the battery on the main board gets loosen up with time (maybe) and there is interruption of current transfer.
therefore the battery gets it's funny character.
HOPE I SOLVED YOUR PROBLEM, CHEERS!
Hi,
i have the same issue...
is there anybody tried this and can confirm this solution?
I also will try it.
More information
I tried to do what you suggest, I opened the tablet and found this:
can you please explain what to remove and how? Thank you
Lift the tape where the two back ribbons connect, release the clamps, remove the ribbons and reinsert them firmly and replace clamps and tape. That is what i did. Been having this problem for months! Will report back when i drop below 50. That is when all my problems start. Really hope this works!! Thanks for the help!
Update: I am sad to report that I am still experiencing the same problem.
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Lift the tape where the two back ribbons connect, release the clamps, remove the ribbons and reinsert them firmly and replace clamps and tape. That is what i did. Been having this problem for months! Will report back when i drop below 50. That is when all my problems start. Really hope this works!! Thanks for the help!
Update: I am sad to report that I am still experiencing the same problem.
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ttreed07 said:
Lift the tape where the two back ribbons connect, release the clamps, remove the ribbons and reinsert them firmly and replace clamps and tape. That is what i did. Been having this problem for months! Will report back when i drop below 50. That is when all my problems start. Really hope this works!! Thanks for the help!
Update: I am sad to report that I am still experiencing the same problem.
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I think this is wrong. In my suggestion the power connector is the white one in the middle with the red and green cables. Just remove the tape and lift the connector upwards to you.
I think the other two black ribbons are for the USB port and for the mic or so.
It worked for now. The battery consuming is extremely better then before.
I hope this solved the issue.
merry Christmas to all
LamerMmc
I apologize i left that part out but yes i did that as well. I would like to see others people's results as well though.
Or is it a rogue app?
I've been having the same, infuriating issue, including the CPU getting really hot.
I reflashed ROMs over and over, with and without formatting data, I went back to stock, flashed different kernels...OMG, the amount of time I have wasted is frightening.
I'm finally trying the following and it seems to be working:
- full wipe, reflashed Hyperdrive 4.1, as per his instructions
- on boot, waited 10 minutes and rebooted.
- after reboot I didn't allow ANY automatic updating and I started reinstalling apps one by one.
- battery life has been stable!
- And now I may be on to something! Yesterday, after updating the following 10 apps, the same crazy battery performance reappeared. Then when I uninstalled the updates to these 10, the battery life returned to normal and not acting crazy:
- Dropbox
- ES File Explorer File Manager
- Gmail
- Google
- Google Keyboard
- Google Text-to-Speech
- Google+
- Maps
- Papergarden (Tab S)
-Samsung Link
I'm going to one-by-one see which one induces the crazy battery performance.
Watch this space...
UPDATE: I think it's Samsung Link...when I updated it, the same f****ed-up battery behavior came back! I think I found it! Woo-hoo! Woo-hooo!
I`m having this issue too, got bored changing roms and kernels, KK or LP still no result.
Battery drains much faster on gaming like Dead Trigger 2. 100% to 20% less then in one hour. If browsing and watching videos or doing other stuff SOT is nearly 4-5 h. Besides, when boot into recovery, battery percentage always differs from ROM one and never matches to it. Didn`t try yet method in OP, but anyway, I`m interested in this NewPower99 Battery replacement kit. Did anyone test it?
kornelius1982 said:
I`m having this issue too, got bored changing roms and kernels, KK or LP still no result.
Battery drains much faster on gaming like Dead Trigger 2. 100% to 20% less then in one hour. If browsing and watching videos or doing other stuff SOT is nearly 4-5 h. Besides, when boot into recovery, battery percentage always differs from ROM one and never matches to it. Didn`t try yet method in OP, but anyway, I`m interested in this NewPower99 Battery replacement kit. Did anyone test it?
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I would be interested, but since we have three months lefts until Mobile World Conference in March and we could see the Note 10.1 2015 or Note pro alongside GALAXY S6.
Solution
I take the tablet to the samsung and the problem is the board, they had to change this part.
bilalraybrig said:
hi guys,
I have learnt a lot from xda and had been using this site for all of my android issues and mods. This is just fabulous.
So, I have been using my Note 1 0.1 since a couple of weeks and it's battery was acting in a funny manner.
PROBLEM
Sometimes it played well down to 60% from a full charge , then down to 15% in a minute and then down to 4% in next 5 minutes. Then i would restart the tablet and watch the battery suddenly having around 35% battery. THIS WAS SO WEIRD.
I used many battery calibrators from play store but none of them worked.
SOLUTION
And then out of frustration, I pulled out the back cover, took out the battery connector, and then placed it firmly, back to its place. switched it on used it for couple of minutes, and noticed the battery percentage. restarted, YAYY! same battery percentage. used it again, restarted, checked again. did it more often and noticed that the issue was solved.
CONCLUSION
The connector of the battery on the main board gets loosen up with time (maybe) and there is interruption of current transfer.
therefore the battery gets it's funny character.
HOPE I SOLVED YOUR PROBLEM, CHEERS!
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Thanks dude, that really helped me. I got rid of the the fake percentage and I have the feeling that my battery improved . Thank you again
Hi guys, so i just got a moto 360 on the 31st of July and till now im disappointed with it.
The thing is after i have read may posts about the battery life the conclusion i get is that i need to give some time to the watch so the battery can "normalize"?. It´s so bad right now, if i leave the watch home without any use i get a 10% drop in about 4 hours, but as soon as i put it on my wrist i can literally see the battery drop % by %.
So should i give the watch a few more days and charges or should i be worried and return it?
Another issue i have it´s with the android wear app. I can't seem to find that gear icon to go to the definitions. I simply can´t access the definitions on the app on my phone.
PS: I've tried some steps to improve battery life but to no success. They included reseting the watch and cleaning cache etc...
Dunno man, I am not crazy about the battery life, but I get through a full day. I don't use the wifi at all on the watch, but I can easily get through the day. I have some unique problems with my work phone, but the device it cool. I can say for the current price point, I'm pretty happy. The gurus here are cool too, so I'm sure someone smarter than I am can pipe in.
Good luck
It took mine about 4 days to settle in. My brother's took a week. Hang in there. My watch has been on my wrist since 6:30 this morning....it's 9:45 and I have 65% left.
The gear is on the top right of the wear app.
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It took mine about 4 days to settle in. My brother's took a week. Hang in there. My watch has been on my wrist since 6:30 this morning....it's 9:45 and I have 65% left.
The gear is on the top right of the wear app.
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The thing is that i dont have that thing saying connected neither the gear icon. I dont have that top bar.
ret4425 said:
Dunno man, I am not crazy about the battery life, but I get through a full day. I don't use the wifi at all on the watch, but I can easily get through the day. I have some unique problems with my work phone, but the device it cool. I can say for the current price point, I'm pretty happy. The gurus here are cool too, so I'm sure someone smarter than I am can pipe in.
Good luck
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Uninstall and reinstall Android Wear. Might show up then.
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The thing is that i dont have that thing saying connected neither the gear icon. I dont have that top bar.
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You did sync the watch to your phone, right?
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You did sync the watch to your phone, right?
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The thing is that the process to begin with gave me trouble. I couldn't pair the watch trough android wear properly so i did pair the watch with my phone trough Bluetooth and android wear seamed to work. I could only change faces and such. On the other hand moto connect said my watch was connected.
Hey guys,
I currently own a Samsung Galaxy S9 and previously owned a Huawei Nexus 6p, both devices, while in the woods, behave very strangely. Since I don't own the 6p anymore, I'm only going to speak of the S9, which is brand new and in brand new condition. But this used to happen on my 6p as well!
A good 75% of the time, when I take my phone out of my pocket, it will be at the boot pattern lock screen. The screen will be on and the battery will have drained substantially. Somehow, the device is rebooting while in my pocket. This ONLY happens when I go camping in the woods here in Ontario. NEVER happens any other time. And it won't happen just once or twice. It'll happen a dozen times over the course of a day easily. My battery, while out in the woods, never lasts more than a day, even though I almost never use it.
Yes. I'm positive I'm not pocket rebooting. I'll move the phone into my cargo pocket, which has TONS of room. Same thing. I'm running stock Samsung, no root, nothing. The stock experience so far has been very smooth and stable. I've had no reboots, very little lags, etc. I step into the woods, BAM, starts acting a fool.
I have a Garmin watch connected via BT, but the watch is ALWAYS connected. NEVER had any issues with the Garmin device. Thought I'd mention this, since it's the only device I have connected to my S9.
Anyone else experiencing this? Or do I sound totally crazy here?? It bothers me because I don't want to go camping with a power bank. I'm often resorted to turning the device off completely and leaving it in my backpack, which isn't ideal.
TheShamsMan said:
Hey guys,
I currently own a Samsung Galaxy S9 and previously owned a Huawei Nexus 6p, both devices, while in the woods, behave very strangely. Since I don't own the 6p anymore, I'm only going to speak of the S9, which is brand new and in brand new condition. But this used to happen on my 6p as well!
A good 75% of the time, when I take my phone out of my pocket, it will be at the boot pattern lock screen. The screen will be on and the battery will have drained substantially. Somehow, the device is rebooting while in my pocket. This ONLY happens when I go camping in the woods here in Ontario. NEVER happens any other time. And it won't happen just once or twice. It'll happen a dozen times over the course of a day easily. My battery, while out in the woods, never lasts more than a day, even though I almost never use it.
Yes. I'm positive I'm not pocket rebooting. I'll move the phone into my cargo pocket, which has TONS of room. Same thing. I'm running stock Samsung, no root, nothing. The stock experience so far has been very smooth and stable. I've had no reboots, very little lags, etc. I step into the woods, BAM, starts acting a fool.
I have a Garmin watch connected via BT, but the watch is ALWAYS connected. NEVER had any issues with the Garmin device. Thought I'd mention this, since it's the only device I have connected to my S9.
Anyone else experiencing this? Or do I sound totally crazy here?? It bothers me because I don't want to go camping with a power bank. I'm often resorted to turning the device off completely and leaving it in my backpack, which isn't ideal.
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Check if Settings > Display > Navigation Bar > Hard Press Home Button & Unlock With Home Button are disabled, otherwise it is very easy to turn the screen on when you pull the phone out of your pocket, was happening to me for a while until I realised what was happening
Battery drain could be coming from low carrier signal forcing the phone to search for a signal a lot more than usual
I'd stay out of those woods! ?
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Check if Settings > Display > Navigation Bar > Hard Press Home Button & Unlock With Home Button are disabled, otherwise it is very easy to turn the screen on when you pull the phone out of your pocket, was happening to me for a while until I realised what was happening
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Those settings were actually one of the first things I disabled on my S9. SUPER ANNOYING, but those aren't the causes for my strange behavior. I've experienced this same issue with all those disabled, as well as on a completely different device that doesn't even have those settings.
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Battery drain could be coming from low carrier signal forcing the phone to search for a signal a lot more than usual
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Really?? I did not realize this was a thing. Something to keep my eye out. Most places I go camping, even though deep in the woods, still has cellular reception, but usually not LTE, only 3G or no-G even some times. Are you able to enlighten me on when the S9 drains the most when it comes to it's carrier signal? I just want to know how to set my phone next time I go into the woods for best troubleshooting.
Thanks for the reply!
Tel864 said:
I'd stay out of those woods!
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Last I checked, they are probe-free woods. My phone is probably the one getting the probe.
TheShamsMan said:
Those settings were actually one of the first things I disabled on my S9. SUPER ANNOYING, but those aren't the causes for my strange behavior. I've experienced this same issue with all those disabled, as well as on a completely different device that doesn't even have those settings.
Really?? I did not realize this was a thing. Something to keep my eye out. Most places I go camping, even though deep in the woods, still has cellular reception, but usually not LTE, only 3G or no-G even some times. Are you able to enlighten me on when the S9 drains the most when it comes to it's carrier signal? I just want to know how to set my phone next time I go into the woods for best troubleshooting.
Thanks for the reply!
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I generally have 4G most places I am so I can't help there, but I would try setting the preferred connection type to whatever you seem to get in the woods the most, so if it drops to H+ or E or whatever you get when 3/4G isn't available, set it to 2G or whatever the lowest available is in connection settings, could be that searching for a 3/4G signal constantly is causing that drain so telling it not to even look for one could help, but also could be that this radio type is causing that drain itself, maybe 3/4G signals are a lot less power hungry regardless of whether or not the phone is set manually to them or not
You could test it in the house now, set it to 2G and do a battery drain test vs 3/4G you usually have, if there is no extra drain in the house, there should be no extra drain in the woods, but if there is then 2G and lesser obviously uses a lot more power
Tel864 said:
I'd stay out of those woods!
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This guy gets it. You have been warned, lol. If you have a logcat I'm sure someone would be able to identify the problem.
pedodroid said:
This guy gets it. You have been warned, lol. If you have a logcat I'm sure someone would be able to identify the problem.
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Haha!
Logcat is a good idea. I think the next time I'm out there, I'll pull one and we'll see what's what.
Should be going back into the woods real soon. Blair Witch be damned.