I got mine from Three UK on a plan yesterday. Had one update and installed the usual everyday apps, Gapps, social media, android wear and a couple of games.
Went to bed with around 40% of juice left, closed all the background apps and went to bed. Woke up 6 hours later and phone was dead. Charged it this morning and monitored the battery. Said that it has only 8hrs left from full charge ?. Two hrs later down to 75% with very minimal use and with battery saver on. Nothing I could see that was draining the battery.
Has anyone else had this kind of battery drain or similar? I spoke to Razer Support live chat, told me that I was the 1st one to report this issue and that it shouldn't be happening. They said they'll email me today with a solution or next step.
You on full res @120hz?
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You on full res @120hz?
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Not always. When it was on battery saver mode it wouldn't be. But the point is that it was draining even when the phone was locked.
What's the list of background processes that are running? (I think it's in the dev options prolly)
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What's the list of background processes that are running? (I think it's in the dev options prolly)
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Trying to attach the screenshot but it keeps failing, on the xda app as well as on web, keeps saying "bad request".
I kept background apps closed. Looking at the battery settings, the screen was the main drainer, 13% with screen on time of just over 2hrs. Other drainers were 3% and below: android OS, Android System, Mobile Standby, phone idle, Google services, Chrome, clash royale, WiFi.
I tend to ignore my battery for the first 2 days of a new phone. Because of the amount of apps being set up and accounts syncing and such. If it is just as bad after a couple of days, maybe a rouge app is hogging the resources? A factory reset would be another option to try
Obviously is it entirely possible that it is a hardware issue, but I'd be surprised.
I haven't done a factory reset just yet but will do it once I've tried everything else.
Something interesting has developed though. I took out the sim card and micro sd card and the battery draining has stopped, but WiFi still on. I actually realised that micro sd card wasn't even being detected, so I checked if it's even working, ended up being fried I think as my PC wasn't detecting it either.
So now I've inserted a sandisk, which was detected and needed formatting, but in the end... "This device does not support SanDisk SD card", is the message I got. (shrugs shoulders)
So now I'll just insert the THREE sim card again on its own and see what happens. I'll update in the morn.
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I haven't done a factory reset just yet but will do it once I've tried everything else.
Something interesting has developed though. I took out the sim card and micro sd card and the battery draining has stopped, but WiFi still on. I actually realised that micro sd card wasn't even being detected, so I checked if it's even working, ended up being fried I think as my PC wasn't detecting it either.
So now I've inserted a sandisk, which was detected and needed formatting, but in the end... "This device does not support SanDisk SD card", is the message I got. (shrugs shoulders)
So now I'll just insert the THREE sim card again on its own and see what happens. I'll update in the morn.
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What?!
What's the sd model number?
Don't mean to rub it in your face but battery life has been fantastic for me. All settings at max 120hz, 1440p and 3/4 brightness manually at all times.
I don't have the app usage screenshot anymore, deleted it like a div by mistake, but I had a flat line for 9hrs when I slept and didn't plug it in, only lost 2% overnight so could be a dud unit for you if you can't find a software problem.
I got 7hrs screen on time
https://imgur.com/a/ivhrK
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Don't mean to rub it in your face but battery life has been fantastic for me. All settings at max 120hz, 1440p and 3/4 brightness manually at all times.
I don't have the app usage screenshot anymore, deleted it like a div by mistake, but I had a flat line for 9hrs when I slept and didn't plug it in, only lost 2% overnight so could be a dud unit for you if you can't find a software problem.
I got 7hrs screen on time
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That's amazing! That's what I was hoping for. So how long did it last till u had to plug it in, and how active are u with the phone? Thanks for sharing man.
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What's the sd model number?
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SanDisk Ultra 64gb class 1. I believe it stopped working on my Note 4 last year though, strangely it is detected by my PC and I was able to salvage the data.
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That's amazing! That's what I was hoping for. So how long did it last till u had to plug it in, and how active are u with the phone? Thanks for sharing man.
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I got the 7hrs screen on time on my second day of use.
The phone was unplugged and running on battery for 31hrs, 9 of which were while I was sleeping where it lost 2% battery.
Before and after that time what I was doing with the screen on was Reddit, YouTube, Chrome, Twitch, listening to Spotify with my Bluetooth headphones, telegram messaging and the like. I don't have any social media accounts so no drainidge there. Really just general use like I would normally use my phone. The games I played were Titanfall, Shadow Fighter 3 and Monument Valley. Think the games totalled around 1hr20mins total but like I said I don't have the screenshot anymore.
Just a quick update, 5hrs later and now on 77% with 18 hrs left. The first hour and a half was on airplane mode with the sim and sd cards inside, which drained 15%. Then I took out the cards and only reinserted sim, and drainage stopped. Haven't really done much on the phone but does this sound like it's on the right path of battery drainage...?
Update...
So battery seems to be performing normally now it seems (refer to screenshot).
Now the question is...
Should I get this unit replaced? As I wouldn't want this issue to return in the future. Yesterday I went to a Three store and told them about it, they were willing to replace it there and then but were out of stock (and I didn't have the box with me). I have no idea what caused this rapid battery drainage, whether it was the sd card or the actual battery being faulty, but I wouldn't want it to happen again.
Which sd card are you using now? I guess the drain could be explained by bad code and engaging the sd card.
If it attempted to connect to the sd card all night long, that would surely suck power.
I would probably coordinate with customer service, return to 3 but have it sent back to razer to be analyzed. Gove razer the serial etc so they can identify it.
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Which sd card are you using now? I guess the drain could be explained by bad code and engaging the sd card.
If it attempted to connect to the sd card all night long, that would surely suck power.
I would probably coordinate with customer service, return to 3 but have it sent back to razer to be analyzed. Gove razer the serial etc so they can identify it.
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At the moment I'm not using any sd card. But the one that was inside at the time of drainage is attached. I think I had it less than a year. This phone might have fried it somehow perhaps, coz it worked in my mate 9.
I'm gonna put it back in, to see if the drainage occurs again. Either way, I think I'll take it back to three, as I've got two things to vouch for to get a replacement, the obvious and the phone frying my sd card, which resulted in loss of data.
Looks like a fake card. Is that the one u said ur note 4 may have killed?
Please contact razer though so they can get it when its received, best to get them involved so your problem doesn't get lost in returns, let alone driving cost of the units up.
I could definitely see a fake card causing battery drain. Hardware reports its a certain size and then an address request just continually times out.
Were you prompted to format it when you put it in? Did you let the phone format it?
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Looks like a fake card. Is that the one u said ur note 4 may have killed?
Please contact razer though so they can get it when its received, best to get them involved so your problem doesn't get lost in returns, let alone driving cost of the units up.
I could definitely see a fake card causing battery drain. Hardware reports its a certain size and then an address request just continually times out.
Were you prompted to format it when you put it in? Did you let the phone format it?
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No, this one I only bought less then a year ago. The sd card which was killed by the note 4 was a SanDisk Ultra 64gb class 1.
Strangely, I wasn't prompted to format this fake one in the photo, hence leads me to thinking that it was killed by the razer. However, I was prompted when I inserted the SanDisk, and after formatting, either of the two options, it did not work and showed an error.
I've now inserted a 3rd sd card, looks just like the fake one on the photo, but 16gb. This one was recognised and worked fine, I can see all the data on it. Had it in for 10 minutes, dropped 2% so far. I think there might be an issue with the sd card reader inside or something.
I guess it might matter too about exfat vs fat vs fat32 vs ntfs vs whatever other linux partition types there are? I can't recall them all, but I can't believe a sandisk sd wouldn't be accepted. That's like a car accessory company saying they won't make something for Fords. :/
You happen to have a walmart around where you can spend 10-20$ on another sd card, insert into pc first, maybe format it, scan for errors, then put it in the phone with a few test files on it?
I'll be able to answer this stuff if customs ever decides to put our US shipment through lol...
I would go with 60hz refresh rate and 1080p to get better battery on the razer, even at these settings its very fast no lag, if you do this also check performance in gaming settings to better battery, but honestly i have boughtboth phones lg v30 and razer and i cant see any difference between them the lg v30 and razer ,both are just as fast as each other, i must admit i like the adoptable storage on the razer as lg has locked this out again!!
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Hi Guys,
Whenever I remove the battery from my XDA 2S I lose everything and have to set up the OS from scratch.
I have spoken to O2 and they have told me this is normal? But how can this be? It is the most stupid thing I have ever heard.
Please if someone could just tell me if their XDA 2S does this I would be more than grateful!
Thanks in advance.
Jonnycash!
Go to settings/ Power icon and check the status of both the Main Battery and the backup Battery, the first could be at any charge % the backup Battery should be at 100%, this is used to hold the data on the phone for a short duration, sim card swap or battery swap with the machine selected OFF first. If its loosing data then there is something wrong with it, I can remove the Battery on my IIs for 10 mins if need be without a problem - Mike
Yes the Backup Battery is at 100%
It loses everything as soon as I take the battery out, I can put the battery straight back on, start the phone and OS setup begins.
When you say selected "off". Do you mean quickly pushing the power button once.
I have done this and still it loses everything.
Looking forward to your response.
Jonnycash!
All I can sugest are two options
1, Return the phone as it is clearly faulty, demand O2 repair the unit or try for an Exec as a replacement as re-compense, you might get this easily as they are no longer offering the IIs.
2, install something like Sprite back-up and configure the back-up to re-install everthing hardly ideal, and this is not what I would do.
Mike
Yes, I have just got it back from being "repaired". they said that they replaced the circuit board but it still does it.
I will send it back as suggested and try get a new one.
Thanks
Jonnycash
After taking out the battery, try not to push the tab(the one you pull back and the battery pops up) that holds the battery back into place until you re-insert the battery.
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Yes, I have just got it back from being "repaired". they said that they replaced the circuit board but it still does it.
I will send it back as suggested and try get a new one.
Thanks
Jonnycash
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Sounds like a duff backup battery to me ( see pic), changing the mainboard would seem a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I have had this with blueangels after re-assembly, even with the backupstatus at 100%. I leave on a cradle charging overnight then do a hard reset - seems to work for me.
Richard
i have that problem as well before. but maybe this will help you a bit.
because i always do it removing the battery when changing my sim card. how i wish they would put the sim card away from the battery. ( calling the attention of the engineers for future references).
i started on the permanent save check mostly on contacts and appointments (I needed them all the time) (start>settings>system>permanent save). then i usually turn on the flight mode then turn off the pda from the power button.
thats the time i take the battery off and either to swap the sim card of the battery. then it automatically go to soft reset when the battery is back you will notice that after the automatic soft reset, there will be a small window showing appointments and contacts restoring.
i hope this will help.
I've had this, once. I've heard that this is a bug of that little black thingey that holds the battery, because it supposed to switch between backup battery and normal battery. Too bad sometimes it does not do this at all...
finally this happened to me to today. I by mistake took the battery out and when I put it there again, it hard resetted itself. Many of my notes were stored in main memory, which I had taken from my teacher just 30 mins ago
kamal
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finally this happened to me to today. I by mistake took the battery out and when I put it there again, it hard resetted itself. Many of my notes were stored in main memory, which I had taken from my teacher just 30 mins ago
kamal
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It happened to me again few days ago, under 2003SE (I had to downgrade for something). One thing i love in WM5 that I don't have to worry about this.
It has happened to me many times as well as I am always changing batteries. As somone mentioned above it seems to be a bug with the battery holder (the little black tab you clisk to hold the battery in.) I just keep my contacts backed up each time I add a new one. as for the applications they can usually waite till I restore them.
need solution..
need a good and working solution for this...........
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need a good and working solution for this...........
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Eeerrrr. how about ' replace the battery' - they are standard cells...
Richard
Mabey its not clear what seems to be happening here
When you drop the unit and /or when you open the little black clip that holds the battery in place. Somtimes the phone looses all stored information and goes to hard reset. There seems to be 2 bugs in action here.
1) The batterys seem to get into a strange state where they dont work properly. (I have found that putting the battery into the rear slot of the charger reconditions it to fix this problem.)
2) Some units seem to have a bug with the battery latch when you open the latch accidently or somtimes even just when changing the battery intentionaly it seems not to switch to back up battery corectly. My theory is that there is a dead zone in the latch that does not make the correct transfer if it isn't fully engaged in either direction. It is a really poorly devised way to handle battery changes but hey its too late for them to redesign it. I can not say how many ppl have this issue or if it is everyone or just some people but I do know this is the case on mines and many of the forums I've read.
Solutions:
1) Back up your unit whenever you add data to it. you can just do a contact list back up which only takes 1 min for me and my sx66 has over 2k contacts. Do full back up once a week that should cover your apps and data.
2) Keep your battery reconditioned at least once a week use the rear charging slot for the battery. If you only have one battery this is not an option so I suggeest if you are going to keep your sx66 for any length of time buy a spare battery.
3) Recently I have begun using a small peice of duck tape to secure my battery latch. It is a pain in the rear but I have droped my unit once in this configuration and the battery and latch stayed in place.
Additionaly:
To make restores easier you can include some of your favorite applications in your ext roms. Just snoop around in the forums and you will see directions for manipulating ext rom.
Also look into changing the directorys where you store information. IE your mem card and the onboard storage directory seem to never get nuked unless it is done by the user.
Anything short of the above listed or replacing the hardware is not viable, because these are HARDWARE bugs. Version 5 avoids this issue because it does not hard reset your data like all previous versions of ppc. However the hard ware issue is still there it just doesnt effect you. But if you upgrade your rom be carefull because you are trading the bugs you know for the ones you don't know...lol
thanks for advice ........
dont worry richard am shifting to o2 exec
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My battery doesn't last a day, and when it does run out everything gets wiped.
Is there anything that can be done about this? I install things to an external card but it is still a problem.
Seems a shame. Makes the whole thing useless to me, yet the device can almost do everything I need.
I can't even fix it into my car because that would either drain the car battery or it will run out of power itself.
Is your "beam" disabled? That can drain the battery very quickly.
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My battery doesn't last a day, and when it does run out everything gets wiped.
Is there anything that can be done about this? I install things to an external card but it is still a problem.
Seems a shame. Makes the whole thing useless to me, yet the device can almost do everything I need.
I can't even fix it into my car because that would either drain the car battery or it will run out of power itself.
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If your running the original release rom , check to see if your provider released any newer versions. Orange, O2 , and T-mobile all released newer roms that improoved both battery life and bluetooth stability. Also as suggested above, turn off anything your not using directly and turn them on as you need them then back off when your done. Ie: Bluetooth , Ir beam, Wireless. as all are power hungry. Also there are alrger capacity batteries for the BA 3rd party. Another consideration is to keep a watch maybe with a battery meter, PLENTY of frebies out there just google search pocket PC freeware. and watch the internal battery as the ONLY reason you would loose everything when your external battery went flat is if the internal battery got drained or was faulty. as it retains the info while you change batteries or till you can put it on charge and usually the BA will refuse to stay on if it's low.
Another thought just occured too. SPB backup or similar and tell it to Backup the WHOLE thing to your storage card internally if it's not full OR preferrably and SD card if you loose things while your out you can literally restore the BA from the storage card as the backup file is an executable and will fully restore your BA and all it's installed programs kinda like Norton Ghost does for a PC.
It's commercial software but works really good.
Ok so I dropped my HTC G2 (not rooted) and the battery popped out, but there was no physical damage. The spring pops back into place when I insert my SD card. I popped the battery back in and immediately noticed that when the phone turned on, it wasn't recognizing my SD card.
I went into settings and then Storage, where it says that the Total space available on the SD card is 'unavailable' and the Mount SD card option is whited out.
I clicked Erase SD Card, which was the only option on that menu that I could click on, but the message that popped up was SD Card Has Been Removed, when in fact it's still in the slot.
I connected my phone to my laptop, and usually I would get a message asking me to connect manually through my phone to my computer. Once I click connect on my phone, then only would my computer be allowed to access the SD card on my phone. I didn't get any such notification on my phone now.
I also cannot use USB tethering so that I can use my 4G service on my laptop.
I turned my phone off, turned it on, hard-reset it, factory reset it, used another SD card, formatted all SD cards to FAT 32, turned on USB debugging, but NOTHING is working and I really don't know what to do anymore.
I don't care about the data that's on my card at the moment (well there actually is none considering I formatted it), I just need a functional SD card for music, apps, and data etc.
I've looked ALL over the internet, but no one specifically has my problem.
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to be as specific as possible, and I also apologize if this is a noob question, but I really don't know what to do and really need some help.
Any advice or resolution to this is appreciated.
Thank you!
Sounds like the SD card tray may have been damaged in the fall, for which there is no easy fix.
"not rooted"
ur lucky
try and get a warranty replacement (or fix) for it
yeah if you have issurance a replacement is your best bet.
does your phone vibrate? if not i bet either the flex ribbon connecting the sd card port is damaged or disconnected in some way. or the whole port is bad. usually less than 15usd on ebay or amazon or wherever. takes maybe 15 min to replace
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UPDATE: the seal that's supposed to indicate that there has been water damage is pink. Don't know if that's a good thing or bad, but I've never dropped it in water and never noticed the pink before, it's always been white.
ALSO FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO MINUTES TODAY, IT RECOGNIZED MY SD CARD BUT SAID IT WAS DAMAGED AND NEEDED TO BE REFORMATTED. I CLICKED REFORMAT BUT IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. I TOOK IT OUT TO PUT IN ANOTHER SD CARD AND IT WENT BACK TO THE SAME STORY.
Don't have insurance, I bought it off of someone else.
My phone does vibrate.
How can I fix the SD card tray?
BTW thanks for all the responses, i'm really grateful for it.
Put bleach on the end of a q tip to turn the water damage indicators back to white
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I'd take it to a cell phone repair store for the rest. I took mine in after I fried it playing golf in the rain. 70 and they gave me a new battery
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Hello, I would like to start off by saying I'm new here AND in Android culture. I was an iPhone user, but decided to swith to something different. Since I live in Europe (in Lithuania, to be exact) I figured that it wouldn't mean anything here if I bough a blacklisted T-mobile Note 3 4G LTE phone. Now to the main point - I got the phone yesterday and noticed something suspicious. Firstly, it came with aftermarket charger and usb cable (not usb 3.0, just a simple micro-usb to usb 2.0). My first problem is that when I am charging Note while it's on, it almost doesn't charge at all. Only when I turn off the phone I can expect the phone to charge to 80-90 percent in 8 HOURS! That's insane! Needless to say, I WILL be getting original samsung charger... Now other complaint is that the area around camera gets hot even when changing settings. Not really sure what causes that, so I did 4 factory resets yesterday.... Today it gets warm, but nothing suspicous. Disabled KNOX and other crappy programs. Not sure if it's the chargers fault, but battery life sucks. Phone drains the battery like crazy, the percentage drops about 1 in minute or so. When I use the power saving, reduce the brightness, use airplane mode, it's better, but even If i charge it and use my phone at the same time, the battery percentage still keeps going down
Now, the biggest wtf moment is when the phone is not plugged to charge, if i press the sleep button, the display turns black and after a few second the phone shuts itself off. No sounds, no vibration or notifications, it just silently goes to sleep. I can only turn it on again. I could even successfuly unlock the phone to use with a sim card, the phone is also making fun of me! Not really sure what's happening with my note that i bought off ebay and spent quite the amount of money, but I am starting to get into depression...
Please, if anyone has ANY idea what the hell is happening (apart the stupid charger), i would really appreciate any answers. And sorry for the long post and my english, as it is not my native language!
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Hello, I would like to start off by saying I'm new here AND in Android culture. I was an iPhone user, but decided to swith to something different. Since I live in Europe (in Lithuania, to be exact) I figured that it wouldn't mean anything here if I bough a blacklisted T-mobile Note 3 4G LTE phone. Now to the main point - I got the phone yesterday and noticed something suspicious. Firstly, it came with aftermarket charger and usb cable (not usb 3.0, just a simple micro-usb to usb 2.0). My first problem is that when I am charging Note while it's on, it almost doesn't charge at all. Only when I turn off the phone I can expect the phone to charge to 80-90 percent in 8 HOURS! That's insane! Needless to say, I WILL be getting original samsung charger... Now other complaint is that the area around camera gets hot even when changing settings. Not really sure what causes that, so I did 4 factory resets yesterday.... Today it gets warm, but nothing suspicous. Disabled KNOX and other crappy programs. Not sure if it's the chargers fault, but battery life sucks. Phone drains the battery like crazy, the percentage drops about 1 in minute or so. When I use the power saving, reduce the brightness, use airplane mode, it's better, but even If i charge it and use my phone at the same time, the battery percentage still keeps going down
Now, the biggest wtf moment is when the phone is not plugged to charge, if i press the sleep button, the display turns black and after a few second the phone shuts itself off. No sounds, no vibration or notifications, it just silently goes to sleep. I can only turn it on again. I could even successfuly unlock the phone to use with a sim card, the phone is also making fun of me! Not really sure what's happening with my note that i bought off ebay and spent quite the amount of money, but I am starting to get into depression...
Please, if anyone has ANY idea what the hell is happening (apart the stupid charger), i would really appreciate any answers. And sorry for the long post and my english, as it is not my native language!
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Could be a counterfeit - Check the serial with Samsung and make sure it has all the crazy samsung sensor, the counterfeits usually don't
Make sure the power button isn't sticking, I had an iphone 4s that did the same thing and it was due to power button hardware problem.
For the charger just get a cheap one off ebay with the right power ratings(find them for your country on samsung.com) and I find Toshiba sells replacement USB3 cables for their hard drives really cheap - That can save you 30$
Blacklisted IMEI phones are a gamble, if you can prove it's a counterfeit then ebay should refund you but it might also be a phone some bad man/woman/other stole and might have been abused. If it's the latter then that's a shame that he ended up stealing from two people...
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Could be a counterfeit - Check the serial with Samsung and make sure it has all the crazy samsung sensor, the counterfeits usually don't
Make sure the power button isn't sticking, I had an iphone 4s that did the same thing and it was due to power button hardware problem.
For the charger just get a cheap one off ebay with the right power ratings(find them for your country on samsung.com) and I find Toshiba sells replacement USB3 cables for their hard drives really cheap - That can save you 30$
Blacklisted IMEI phones are a gamble, if you can prove it's a counterfeit then ebay should refund you but it might also be a phone some bad man/woman/other stole and might have been abused. If it's the latter then that's a shame that he ended up stealing from two people...
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Thank you for your answer
Well, the power button isn't sticking, I can clearly feel and heal it click when I am pressing it. The IMEI under the battery matches the IMEI in android system settings. I checked my IMEI on swappa and it says that phone was reported stolen (yay..). On imei.info site it says a different model (n9005 instead of n900t), but whatever.
Thank you for the info about toshiba usb 3.0 cables, might as well buy one right away
To be honest, I feel like it's a faulty item (even though seller assured my that the phone is working like new and that he replaced the battery). The battery life, as I said, is terrible, it doesn't hold a charge, the vibration motor seems very cheap (it's too strong, it sounds very strange), speaker seems to be not-ok too (distorted sound not even on full volume), screen-capture with palm doesn't even seem to work properly, I can't choose various music eq's (it says that this eq is not supported with speaker), I can't get my sim to work with this phone. Well, according to the ebay ad, phone should be working properly without any problems. The fact that the battery or charging mechanism sucks determined that was a lie...
Now I'm wondering if this info would be enough for paypal to refund me, because the phone is almost unsable (with self shutting of while it's not charging) and sad battery life...
Sorry for double post, but I noticed something very strange...
Well, turns out, that when the airplane mode is off, the phone gets very hot around the camera and battery is draining like mad. BUT, when I turn on the airplane mode, note cools off, battery still keeps draining, but it seems that not as much... Anyways, is it possible that the cellular module or something like that could be a cause of all my problems? (and to keep in mind that I haven't been able to use any sim with it, as it keeps saying "searching")
Sim won't work unless it's unlocked.
My suggestions are to:
1. Stock restore and then root the device.
2. Just sign in to phone using WiFi and download chain fires region lock away. Roughly $3 US.
3. Then try out Sim card, see if you can get signal.
If you can get that far, it will tell us what other kind of problems the phone is having on its own. Sounds to me at the moment it is trying very hard to find the signal and causing battery drain issues. The random shut downs could be due to the phone over heading and shutting down as a fail safe.
This thread has the stock restore in all languages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2615393
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Sim won't work unless it's unlocked.
My suggestions are to:
1. Stock restore and then root the device.
2. Just sign in to phone using WiFi and download chain fires region lock away. Roughly $3 US.
3. Then try out Sim card, see if you can get signal.
If you can get that far, it will tell us what other kind of problems the phone is having on its own. Sounds to me at the moment it is trying very hard to find the signal and causing battery drain issues. The random shut downs could be due to the phone over heading and shutting down as a fail safe.
This thread has the stock restore in all languages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2615393
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I did everything exactly as mentioned in the thread that you've posted the link to. First of all, booting logo changed, then my phone became unlocked (when I inserted the SIM, it didn't ask for unlock code). However, even with apn settings, it still says "searching" and gets quite hot in the upper-left side of the phone (when screen is facing towards me). I was really hoping this would help, but it didn't do much, as it seems... Anyways, I appreciate your good deed trying to help me I'm really desperate to make this phone work with my phone, but can't seem to manage to do that, which is very sad...
Iam using stock camera-app. The phone loaded overnight and should save pics to sdcard. Also all possible apps are at my sdcard. After some time without changing anything the pictures i am freshly doing dont appear at thegallery or inside the camera-app. I have to disconnect the card per software and connect again. Then i can see the recent made pictures i thought they were not saved to sdcard. Any ideas?? Btw my pho took to charge from 3percent to 100 from last evening 8.30pm to 430am. I am very disappointed from this phone after the lg g2 and think about switching to s6.
Try reformatting the sd card. But the handling of the sdcard from LG is terrible on top of the Android problems.
The S6 will charge a lot faster because it has a smaller battery.
Get a Aukey quick charger. It will give you more then 1% per minute. So yo are more or less done in 90 minutes.
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Thanks, its crazy but reformat the new card with. Exfat again seems to fix it. Dunno why. Used sd format tool