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[Q] Do you recommend factory reset after KitKat update?

Are there any advantages of factory resetting the GN 10.1 after receiving the KitKat update? Would it make the installation any 'cleaner' if you know what I mean! :laugh:

I also wonder.
I wonder the same thing. I updated my stock tablet to Kitkat without doing a factory reset before or after the update. It seems to be widely recommend, but I wonder if there are any noticeable problems that can happen without resetting. Not that it hurts to do it, I just don't wanna lose any data. Since I'm not rooted, nor do have plans to root, I can create a backup through Kies and then factory reset, yes? Hopefully someone can shed some light on mine and the OP's questions.

As a general rule one could say : you don't have to reset but if you run into problems you know what's the reason for them.
Here's what I've been doing for the past 4 years with android. Change in version (4.2-> 4.3): I wipe. New firmware within same version (4.3-> 4.3) I don't wipe. Works for me But I'm always rooted and have full backups.

I just updated through kies and did not factory reset, so far no problems and definitely notice the speed improvements.
Sent from my Note 10.1 (2014)

I may have to do the factory reset and update to KK 4.4.2 again. I am running into battery charging problem. Normally it took only about 6 hours to get 100%. Now it took 8 hours to get only 60%. Any one have any idea?

jimaginet said:
I may have to do the factory reset and update to KK 4.4.2 again. I am running into battery charging problem. Normally it took only about 6 hours to get 100%. Now it took 8 hours to get only 60%. Any one have any idea?
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I have a noticeable issue with Kitkat with both charging and battery drain. I tried factory reset and that didn't help much. Also got an app from playstore called Battery Calibration. Ran it last night. So far it seems to have helped a little.
I have been able to pinpoint that the drain happens quickly whenever I am using the wifi. I've checked all the settings over and over.
This is of no help to you.... but you are not alone with the issue.
Barbara
PS -- I recall with my old smartphones it was suggested (when flashing a new rom) that rom needed to settle for a or so before battery was stable. Not sure if that is true or not, but it's my last resort.

jimaginet said:
I may have to do the factory reset and update to KK 4.4.2 again. I am running into battery charging problem. Normally it took only about 6 hours to get 100%. Now it took 8 hours to get only 60%. Any one have any idea?
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I noticed the same thing. However, I turned the Note completely off last night and let it charge 8 hours and it only went from 21% to 65%. So, if it's completely turned off the operating system should have no involvement with the charging process. KitKat should have nothing to do with it.
So, this morning I tried a different charger and, while it was still powered on, it went from 62% to 76% in about an hour. So, I'm no longer concerned.

TabGuy said:
I noticed the same thing. However, I turned the Note completely off last night and let it charge 8 hours and it only went from 21% to 65%. So, if it's completely turned off the operating system should have no involvement with the charging process. KitKat should have nothing to do with it.
So, this morning I tried a different charger and, while it was still powered on, it went from 62% to 76% in about an hour. So, I'm no longer concerned.
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What? 8 hours of charging you only got 44%. That is really bad.
Before KK 4.4.2 update, my Note 10.1 2014 took 6.5 hrs to charge from 0% to 100%. It has a lot to do witk KK I m sure.
I just did the factory reset. Drain the battery to 5%. Turn it off and charge again. Will let you guy know soon.
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Naith32 said:
Are there any advantages of factory resetting the GN 10.1 after receiving the KitKat update? Would it make the installation any 'cleaner' if you know what I mean! :laugh:
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I think it is the best option. I did my OTA update as soon as I received the notification. The tablet run a lot faster. Much better than version 4.3. But this morning I found out I have a problem with charging. It took to long to charge. So I decided to do the factory reset. Hopefully it will fix the problem.
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Roger
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nabour said:
I have a noticeable issue with Kitkat with both charging and battery drain. I tried factory reset and that didn't help much. Also got an app from playstore called Battery Calibration. Ran it last night. So far it seems to have helped a little.
I have been able to pinpoint that the drain happens quickly whenever I am using the wifi. I've checked all the settings over and over.
This is of no help to you.... but you are not alone with the issue.
Barbara
PS -- I recall with my old smartphones it was suggested (when flashing a new rom) that rom needed to settle for a or so before battery was stable. Not sure if that is true or not, but it's my last resort.
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Thank you Barbara, it seems to be fine after I did factory reset. Used the tablet for about 5 hours (the battery went down from 80% to 5% in 5 hrs). Then I shut down to charge. It actually charged to 100% in about 5 hrs 15 minutes.
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Roger
DN3 3.1.2

Make sure that if and when you charge to make sure you use at last a 2A charger and proper voltage. Also some homes might have light switches that turn off power for instance. Silly little things and please ppl these are smart batteries you do not need to drain them down, only thing worth mentioning is to charge for at least 15 minutes or more. If any other behavior call Samsung and have them fix your hardware.
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No factory reset needed.
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Urgent! Battery problem of phone problem?

Ok so when my note 2 is 100% it drains quite fast till 20%. Im on phantom v12 rom. Then when at 20%, my sim card signal goes off and after few seconds it shut down.. and i have to charge to get it booted
This happen in stock kitkat rom too. Please tell me why.

alvster said:
Ok so when my note 2 is 100% it drains quite fast till 20%. Im on phantom v12 rom. Then when at 20%, my sim card signal goes off and after few seconds it shut down.. and i have to charge to get it booted
This happen in stock kitkat rom too. Please tell me why.
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This is weird, I suggest you to install 'advance battery calibration' from playstore. 1st full charge the battery then open battery calibration app and follow the steps. After that, use the device at least 2 full cycle. If problem remains, come back here and report. Best of luck.

Try another battery . Most probably your battery is dead .

alvster said:
Ok so when my note 2 is 100% it drains quite fast till 20%. Im on phantom v12 rom. Then when at 20%, my sim card signal goes off and after few seconds it shut down.. and i have to charge to get it booted
This happen in stock kitkat rom too. Please tell me why.
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Common sense dictates that you try another battery!

nitol said:
This is weird, I suggest you to install 'advance battery calibration' from playstore. 1st full charge the battery then open battery calibration app and follow the steps. After that, use the device at least 2 full cycle. If problem remains, come back here and report. Best of luck.
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It didnt work. I guess i hv to try new battery. Any suggestion to check for an original samsung battery?
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[Q] Drain really fast 15% > 0

Hi,
Since few weeks , my s4 mini drains fast but only at 15%. In like 2 or 3 min , its falling at 0
Hard reset doesnt solve.
Somebody get an hint ?
Ps : Totally Stock and unroot

fredbull said:
Hi,
Since few weeks , my s4 mini drains fast but only at 15%. In like 2 or 3 min , its falling at 0
Hard reset doesnt solve.
Somebody get an hint ?
Ps : Totally Stock and unroot
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i have that problem too

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rrgrrg said:
i have that problem too
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Ok the good point is that i feel less lonely lol.
Did you search a bit ? Do you think its from the firmware ?

fredbull said:
Ok the good point is that i feel less lonely lol.
Did you search a bit ? Do you think its from the firmware ?
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mainly the battery guage software issue

rrgrrg said:
mainly the battery guage software issue
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Ok so i hope it ll solved on the next one

I use my phone only as a simple phone to make and receive occasional calls, with very occasional use of Google Search and Google Maps. It uses ~13% of remaining battery in a 24 hour period. I get 5 to 7 days out of a full charge. Right now mine is at 41% and i am in day 5. I expect it to be at ~36% tomorrow morning, beginning day 6. At the end of that day or beginning of next, at a bit more than 20%, i'll charge it again.
I would not expect to use the phone with the battery at anything less than 20%. I have it for emergencies, and i would not trust it at that level.

[Q] why GT-N7100 constantly restarting?

Hello everyone,
My note II restates out of the blue without any good reasons :crying:
it generally happen when i play any game or use 2 or 3 apps at the same time ( like sound cloud , facebook and messenger )or ( game and messenger ) or playing for a long time ... knowing that the battery is fully charged or at least more then 80% ... it suddenly restarts with about 2 % .. and i take that battery out and in and open the phone to find it about 60%
i tried to factory reset
knowing that the phone on kitkat 4.4.2 the original french update from Samsung , and i tried also to run the secreat codes but neither of the code worked!!
can anyone please tell me what is the problem and how can i fix it please

Bosteco said:
Hello everyone,
My note II restates out of the blue without any good reasons :crying:
it generally happen win i play any game or use 2 or 3 apps at the same time ( like sound cloud , facebook and messenger )or ( game and messenger ) or playing for a long time ... knowing that the battery is fully charged or at least more then 80% ... it suddenly restarts with about 2 % .. and i take that battery out and in and open the phone to find it about 60%
i tried to factory reset
knowing that the phone on kitkat 4.4.2 the original french update from Samsung , and i tried also to run the secreat codes but neither of the code worked!!
can anyone please tell me what is the problem and how can i fix it please
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how old is the battery?
did you overclock?
check if it's warm or even hot

yaro666 said:
how old is the battery?
did you overclock?
check if it's warm or even hot
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the battery and the mobile are about 2 year ...
and no i didn't overclock the phone
and it gets a slightly warm in fact

battery life is approx. 1000 cycles, so in 2 years it is quite possible.
If you can swap battery and test. If you don't OC, then it's not a security restart.
I bet it's battery

yaro666 said:
battery life is approx. 1000 cycles, so in 2 years it is quite possible.
If you can swap battery and test. If you don't OC, then it's not a security restart.
I bet it's battery
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i thought at the first it would be some kind of software problem ...
i'll try to get another battery and try it out
really appreciate your answer
thanks :good:

Weird coincidence. This started happening to me on May 10th. My 2.5 yr old phone would restart over and over even when plugged into the computer. I did a hard reset and it still didn't help.
I replaced the battery and it fixed it!
Bosteco said:
Hello everyone,
My note II restates out of the blue without any good reasons :crying:
it generally happen win i play any game or use 2 or 3 apps at the same time ( like sound cloud , facebook and messenger )or ( game and messenger ) or playing for a long time ... knowing that the battery is fully charged or at least more then 80% ... it suddenly restarts with about 2 % .. and i take that battery out and in and open the phone to find it about 60%
i tried to factory reset
knowing that the phone on kitkat 4.4.2 the original french update from Samsung , and i tried also to run the secreat codes but neither of the code worked!!
can anyone please tell me what is the problem and how can i fix it please
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Problem Solved
it was really the battery
once i changed it every thing went back to normal .
thanks everyone for your answers :good:

Its also another weird coincidence as this issue has happened to me, my note 2 is also 2.5 years old and my phone kept restarting too, but i really didnt care much and instead, i continued to use it over and over and overclocked it to 1800 mhz and i have no idea how but is stopped restarting. It was weird, at least is saved me money buy not having to buy a new battery. But as i expected, a new problem arises, systemui keeps crashing. But the battery is still fine, all i did was flashed a new rom.

72% Battery usage over night without even touching my HTC10

I got my HTC 10 about 7 month ago and I was really happy with it until three or four days ago that I have no idea why my phone started to drain drastically even when I'm not using it at all.
I'm not a heavy user, I have never even installed a game.
I repeat, I was completely satisfied with the battery.
Most of days I used it for 2 days and still having 10 % remaining.
Until 3 or 4 days ago I noticed that my phone is draining way too much rapidly.
I did everything that I could think of but nothing got better.
Yesterday I reset factory the phone, and just installed less than 10 essential apps (I used to have more than 50 apps on my phone before this) and I have restricted their access to network.
Last night I fully charged it and shut everything off. No Wi-Fi, no data, no nothing. Even I turned on the power saving mode. When I got up in the morning the battery percentage was 28% while my phone used to use less than 5% during nights.
I checked battery usage details and the results were shocking:
Android OS 55%
Android system 24%
Phone idle 11%
Only 1 app had used the battery and it was:
Telegram 1%
What should I do?
This change hasn't been gradually so I'd say "okay my phone is used out and old! "
This change "just" happened. I have no idea why.
Please someone give me some advice.

socialgadfly said:
I got my HTC 10 about 7 month ago and I was really happy with it until three or four days ago that I have no idea why my phone started to drain drastically even when I'm not using it at all.
I'm not a heavy user, I have never even installed a game.
I repeat, I was completely satisfied with the battery.
Most of days I used it for 2 days and still having 10 % remaining.
Until 3 or 4 days ago I noticed that my phone is draining way too much rapidly.
I did everything that I could think of but nothing got better.
Yesterday I reset factory the phone, and just installed less than 10 essential apps (I used to have more than 50 apps on my phone before this) and I have restricted their access to network.
Last night I fully charged it and shut everything off. No Wi-Fi, no data, no nothing. Even I turned on the power saving mode. When I got up in the morning the battery percentage was 28% while my phone used to use less than 5% during nights.
I checked battery usage details and the results were shocking:
Android OS 55%
Android system 24%
Phone idle 11%
Only 1 app had used the battery and it was:
Telegram 1%
What should I do?
This change hasn't been gradually so I'd say "okay my phone is used out and old! "
This change "just" happened. I have no idea why.
Please someone give me some advice.
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That doesn't sound right at all. I had a similar experience recently and sent it for repair, it's possible it's hardware related. Is quick charge working ?
Mine was apparently due to a corrupted OS which is odd as I did 2 factory resets and 3 ruu's prior to sending it back. It's fine now but I don't understand why the ruu didn't fix the corrupt OS.
I assumed mine was hardware related and possibly due to faulty usb port as quick charge didn't work consistently, but apparently not. Sorry to not be much help but you could try an ruu which would be more thorough than a reset ( it's quite straightforward if you find the right one for your device )

timbohobbs said:
That doesn't sound right at all. I had a similar experience recently and sent it for repair, it's possible it's hardware related. Is quick charge working ?
Mine was apparently due to a corrupted OS which is odd as I did 2 factory resets and 3 ruu's prior to sending it back. It's fine now but I don't understand why the ruu didn't fix the corrupt OS.
I assumed mine was hardware related and possibly due to faulty usb port as quick charge didn't work consistently, but apparently not. Sorry to not be much help but you could try an ruu which would be more thorough than a reset ( it's quite straightforward if you find the right one for your device )
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Thank you for your reply.
The strangest of all is that everything JUST happened !
I mean no gradual change !
I love HTC but I'm deeply disappointed right now.

Have you tried factory reset ? If your phone is in warranty visit a nearby service center and if your phone is rooted install BBS and post dumpfile.

rajkatiyar07 said:
Have you tried factory reset ? If your phone is in warranty visit a nearby service center and if your phone is rooted install BBS and post dumpfile.
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In his OP he says he did a factory reset.
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I would download accubattery app and see where your battery is at. I bought my device when it came out and I'm down to 81% unfortunately now.
Are you rooted, S-OFF or anything like that?
I would run a full wipe RUU

andybones said:
In his OP he says he did a factory reset.
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I would download accubattery app and see where your battery is at. I bought my device when it came out and I'm down to 81% unfortunately now.
Are you rooted, S-OFF or anything like that?
I would run a full wipe RUU
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Gsam would most likely be the better option to see what exactly is the thing causing the battery drain

bilibox said:
Gsam would most likely be the better option to see what exactly is the thing causing the battery drain
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Better?
Who's to say.
No reason both can't be used.
OP does say "I checked battery usage details and the results were shocking:
Android OS 55%
Android system 24%
Phone idle 11%
Only 1 app had used the battery and it was:
Telegram 1%"
Which is why I suggest to see the battery health.