Sometimes when I grab the phone out of my pocket and I press the power key to enable the screen, I discover that it is off :S. When I press the reset button it will start again, but it seems strange to me. You guys have a suggestion of what it could be?
Hmm, this sound familiar...
I've just posted re battery life and my phone waking up all by itself, but now I come to think of it I've seen this happen as well - or my phone just soft reset itself randomly occasionally.
I wonder if they are related problems...
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When I press the normal power it won't start up, so it isn't totally shut down though. Only a reset will do it. Very annoying.
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When I press the normal power it won't start up, so it isn't totally shut down though. Only a reset will do it. Very annoying.
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Mine has started and shutting
NOT powering up with the power key or
the soft reset. I literally have to
pop the battery out and back in to start
up the phone. ???
If your phone is randomly turning off...yet it turns back on...your battery may be reaching its end. How long have you had the phone? My dash used to tend to do this when it was reaching the end of its battery life...it wouldn't just...run down. I noticed a decrease in battery life, but the moment the phone needed heavy usage (internet, messaging) the battery couldn't dish out enough power and it'd just turn off...this would even happen in my pocket if enough calls or texts came through...then when I'd go to check, it'd be off.
It's not that, I'm assuming, it's the phone. I just bought a new HTC Touch Pro 2 Days ago, and it does the same thing. It randomly shuts down, and it even overheats, and I have 3 batteries for the phone because I use my phone extensively. Sad thing is, this phone was to be more powerful then my 6800 and so far, it's failing.
Well, then I'm assuming its time for a replacement, lol. I've had mine for a while now, never had that issue. Never had that issue with any phone except my Dash when the battery took a dump.
My phone is 2.5 weeks old. I would hope they battery wasn't dying already, but who knows. The keyboard quit today and the screen has been acting funny too. Like when it goes into "sleep mode" the screen fades but you can still see the buttons to unlock the phone and the buttons on the bottom are all lit up and won't turn off.
The screen is incredibly wiggly too... This happened after I took my phone to a local sprint store. They put the phone casing on it to show me what it would look like and then the guy yanked it off my phone.
I am starting to wonder if some of this is not related to that.
So, since the keyboard died today.. Asurion is sending me another replacement phone... Guess we will see.
I think my problem has something to do with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3748976#post3748976
I recently have found that this happens to me whenever I turn the feature where it disconnects from EDGE when my device goes to sleep. However, when I turn that off and let EDGE continue to be on while my phone is in sleep I don't get this problem anymore. I have it checking my email every 5 minutes if that makes any difference.
alright dudes and dudettes.
i have the same issues more often than i would like.
it powers itself off and the only thing i cna do is soft reset. also sometimes when i wake the phone up, my plasma theme is distorted it still slides across but everything distorts and i cannot access any progs.
it is an annoying issue.
any fixes ideasm, help would be top. thanks..
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Anyone else have this issue? There have been a couple of times where I've pulled my phone out of my pocket to use, hit the power button and....nothing. I've attributed it to possibly accidentally shutting it down while in my pocket, but then I was using it today when it started to chug a little and the screen locked up. That eventually led to the phone shutting off completely. Is that a common android thing?
akhedraki said:
Anyone else have this issue? There have been a couple of times where I've pulled my phone out of my pocket to use, hit the power button and....nothing. I've attributed it to possibly accidentally shutting it down while in my pocket, but then I was using it today when it started to chug a little and the screen locked up. That eventually led to the phone shutting off completely. Is that a common android thing?
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yea, it happens but if yours is doing it daily it could be a bad unit.
mikeyinid said:
yea, it happens but if yours is doing it daily it could be a bad unit.
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It hasn't been every day, but I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for your input!
This might actually be a big problem. I had to return my first phone because it would randomly "turn off" and there was no way to wake the screen or re-boot the phone. Even when trying to hold the power button, and/or power button + volume keys. Basically the phone was still "on" because you could call it and it would ring all the way through, but to use it again you would have to let the battery completely die and then re-charge the phone.
So I hit the power button to put the tablet into standby and put it on my nightstand. A few hours later I came back to use it and it was stuck on a black screen and the tablet was very hot. It seemed like the the screen wasn't really "on," but the backlight was so it just looked like a black screen. I held the power button to turn it off and I then turn it back on. I took it out of its' leather case while it was rebooting and it was very hot. So hot I couldn't hold it for very long. I checked Battery Widget? Reborn! Pro to see what the battery temp was at. The app read it at 107 degrees Fahrenheit. I turned off the tablet let it cool a bit, then restarted it. Everything seemed fine and performed normally. For some reason airplane mode was activated when I initially restarted the tablet. It seems to do that when Tasker shut it down after the 3 hours of the screen being off. The thing is, I uninstalled Tasker a day ago.
Is there any chance this caused damage inside the tablet that may turn up later?
Anyone know why or how this happened?
Thanks,
Aaron
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So I hit the power button to put the tablet into standby and put it on my nightstand. A few hours later I came back to use it and it was stuck on a black screen and the tablet was very hot. It seemed like the the screen wasn't really "on," but the backlight was so it just looked like a black screen. I held the power button to turn it off and I then turn it back on. I took it out of its' leather case while it was rebooting and it was very hot. So hot I couldn't hold it for very long. I checked Battery Widget? Reborn! Pro to see what the battery temp was at. The app read it at 107 degrees Fahrenheit. I turned off the tablet let it cool a bit, then restarted it. Everything seemed fine and performed normally. For some reason airplane mode was activated when I initially restarted the tablet. It seems to do that when Tasker shut it down after the 3 hours of the screen being off. The thing is, I uninstalled Tasker a day ago.
Is there any chance this caused damage inside the tablet that may turn up later?
Anyone know why or how this happened?
Thanks,
Aaron
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If it's acting normal for 1 day with normal use, I think you're safe.
buhohitr said:
If it's acting normal for 1 day with normal use, I think you're safe.
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I'll watch it closely for a few days to make sure. I appreciate the reply. 107F doesn't sound too hot when it comes to electronics, but, man, was it hot to touch/hold.
VindictiveGnome said:
I'll watch it closely for a few days to make sure. I appreciate the reply. 107F doesn't sound too hot when it comes to electronics, but, man, was it hot to touch/hold.
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The same thing happened to me once, about two months ago. I wasn't using tasker...don't know what caused it but I may have had it on IPS+ and didn't turn it off. Anyway, I freaked, but as soon as it cooled down it seemed to work fine and has been fine ever since.
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The same thing happened to me once, about two months ago. I wasn't using tasker...don't know what caused it but I may have had it on IPS+ and didn't turn it off. Anyway, I freaked, but as soon as it cooled down it seemed to work fine and has been fine ever since.
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Funny thing is my power button and volume rocker were kind of sticky and stiff. Since the tablet heated up, the buttons don't make a popping sensation or feel stiff when I press them. Haha. Amazing.
Hi,
i have very strange issue which i noticed right now. It seems that i can not turn on my mobile/screen. I have to say that mobile is bought less then month ago and no modifications are made like rooting or something like that. Today it worked without any problems and when i got home i left it on my desk but two hours later i wanted to check for my e mail but screen/mobile is not turning on. I checked on/off button and it's not jammed. What else can i do considering that i can not remove the battery
Ramiell said:
Hi,
i have very strange issue which i noticed right now. It seems that i can not turn on my mobile/screen. I have to say that mobile is bought less then month ago and no modifications are made like rooting or something like that. Today it worked without any problems and when i got home i left it on my desk but two hours later i wanted to check for my e mail but screen/mobile is not turning on. I checked on/off button and it's not jammed. What else can i do considering that i can not remove the battery
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Charge the phone. Could be dead. Are you SURE nothing has been modified? Also, hold down the power button until you see the capacitive buttons flashing, and don't let go until they stop flashing and the phone reboots.
Battery probably died. This phone is known to lose power abruptly. It's happened to nearly everyone at some point--it will appear to have some charge left and then suddenly drop to 0%.
Just leave it plugged in for a while and see if it revives.
nothing helped from what you mentioned but it works now. When i plugged in the charger there was no sign of charging. When i pressed and hold power button also nothing happened. Then i tried to hold volume down and power button but also no reaction from the phone and then i pressed the mobile bit harder around display to check that maybe there is no loose wire and at this point mobile turned on by itself (boot screen) and after booting there was crash report. I have HTC phones for years now and such problem never occurred to me before but phone works for now :good:
thank you
Hopefully it isn't a defect, my one x has never went off on me at a random battery percentage, except for some ROMs he he
As mentioned, some people have had instances of randomly losing charge, or phone not seeming to take a charge after running the battery down. Leaving the phone on the wall charger (not USB, which takes much longer) for several hours (overnight) and then trying to power on seems to solve the problem. One guy here could not get any response (even after charging for hours) except by holding the power button while the phone was on the charger.
The issue seems completely random. So unless it persists, probably nothing to worry about.
I've had the TF101 since it was first released in the USA. I haven't really used it much but lately I found a niche use for the tablet. The problem is most of the time it's really hard to turn the screen on. Almost every press to the power button will turn the screen on for about half a second and then it turns off. Then I have to wait about 5 sec before I can turn the screen on again but most of the time it will just repeat the same process. This is really frustuating. It appears this is less frequent if the tablet is laying flat instead of being held in hand, but I usually need to try it around 5 times before the screen will stay on.
The second problem is the screen will sometimes randomly turn off. Most of the time the screen will stay on for hours when I use it. Sometimes though, it will just turn off and then I'm met with the first problem. This is a sudden shutoff with no warning. Other times the right side of the screen will glow really bright before turning off. It appears to happen more frequently when I'm moving the tablet.
I'm using a rooted stock ICS rom. I'm pretty sure this is a hardware problem. Has anyone encountered this before? Is this something I can fix myself?
Thanks
I had the same prob many times. For me it was doing it real bad before i rooted. It is likely nothing serious. Could your lower frequency be too low? Try Katkiss. its very fast.
oddly the screen went off to the left a few mins ago. i never had that before but everything is back to normal it seems
I just flashed KatKiss 4.2 rom unto my TF101. Problem persists. At least the tablet is fast enough to be usable now.
I had this same problem...
It turns out that one of the kids had dropped the tablet and it bent the frame enough that it was putting pressure on the power button.
Yea sounds like the power button is either getting stuck, or it is faulty
My myTouch worked for a really long time, even while overclocked. Today, when I was playing a game (Minecraft) it gets much hotter than normal. So I place it on my fan, just a floor fan, to let it cool down. Once it's cooled down, I resume my game. Out of nowhere, it just freezes and shuts off, then restarts, then turns off again once the BIOS splash goes away. It doesn't power on until I press the power button, then it only runs the BIOS splash and shuts off again. I try again, and it powers on to the boot screen, and then it shuts off again shortly after. I try it again, then just BIOS. And yet again, then a successful boot after letting it charge for about 10 minutes. I take a shower and when I come out it works fine, but 10 seconds into use, while I pressed the Bluetooth notification drawer widget button, it freezes and shuts off. From here on, it won't power on at all. I plug it into computer, nothing. All that works is the dim red LED on the trackpad. I press the power button, trackpad light turns on for a few seconds, then off. I press again, turns on for a second then off. When I hold the power button, the light is on and blinks every 10 seconds. No key combos work. Charge light does not come on when plugged in to either computer or wall charger. Any fix for this?
Not a fun situation, very possible your emmc is fried but there is a chance its just the battery. Let it charge overnight and if possible test a new battery
But there is a high likelihood you're going to need a new logicboard
If you're after a new device I do have a few oneplus one invites left...
Best of luck!
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Not a fun situation, very possible your emmc is fried but there is a chance its just the battery. Let it charge overnight and if possible test a new battery
But there is a high likelihood you're going to need a new logicboard
If you're after a new device I do have a few oneplus one invites left...
Best of luck!
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I have a very similar problem, i recently came across the mytouch 4g slide in the closet and remembered that it died due to charging overnight, 2-3 years ago lol, well the phone still does what it did after it died, no vibrations screen etc, the only sign of life is the two red lights one at the top left of the screen and the trackpad, could this be just the battery that got fried that night? Should of gotten this fixed those years ago but just got a new phone instead.
Possible but could also be a sign of a bad logic board
I have an extra one if any of you want it, not selling it, I can just mail it to ya, PM me about it, whatever. It's got moderate chips and dents, but works fine except sometimes the soft keys don't always work and you have to restart the phone. It has the latest CWM recovery and the latest 4.4.4 ION ROM. No SD card ships, but baseband and all wireless works, but uh, it's SIM locked and S is still ON. Bootloader is unlocked. I'll give you an extra screen and an extra battery, too.
I fixed the one I posted this thread about after I realized I could buy a new motherboard directly from HTC with a few hidden strings pulled (I'm just that special) and before that I ordered the one I'm talking about now that I'm trying to get rid of on Amazon.
So, yeah. best way to fix one is to get a new motherboard, the one from HTC's old stock warehouse that I got took a week or so to ship, and I cracked the casing opening it and almost ripped a connector ribbon, and I also think that this phone surpasses the G1 as the most mechanically intricate device I've disassembled. I've done a few, but man, this blew the top.