Hey guys, I've had the Fuze since the day it came out. Never had any rough drops, only one onto carpet a while back from about 2 feet. Recently, the phone has been acting up though.
At completely random times, the phone will simply wakes itself up, for no reason. When I attempt to make it sleep, sometimes it wakes right back up, sometimes it stays asleep for a while. I can go days without it happening, or happening for hours straight. It will attempt to make itself sleep, but as soon as it sleeps, it wakes itself back up. It is a total battery killer. And the pocket dialing has become so much an issue I had to use a password lock, which I do not like and wish to do away with.
Here is why I think it is a stylus problem though. Whenever I take or make a phone call, the notes are up when I look at the screen when I go to hang up. It think the stylus is being pulled out, when it obviously isn't.
I thought it may be a software problem, so I flashed to a new rom, NATF 4.7. Still does the same thing. What do you guys think? I am thinking of maybe reflashing stock AT&T rom and taking it to them and seeing if I can get a replacement. But if I can fix it myself, I would much rather do that.
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Colleagues,
I noticed today that my Fuze was very hot when I pulled it out of the pouch. It was functional, but I immediately shut it off. I have had it for a month and this is the first time it has happened.
What should I do?
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do u have wifi on? that would always heat up my kaiser.
have you flashed it recently?
reaverclan,
No, I only have Phone on and Data Connection on.
overhaulengines,
No, stock ROM. I have not wanted to put in another ROM until I had the phone for a little while longer precisely in case anything went wrong with it and wouldn't loose the warranty.
I turned it back on and it is staying under normal temperature but I don't know if it will happen again. Any other ideas as to why this happened or what else can I check?
If you dare to measure the battery drain it would get us closer to the answers
The fuze tends to do that. Especially with data connection on. If you were doing anything data intensive it should warm up. I actually had a phone call while the device was charging this morning and the phone became really warm. But thats normal. Dont worry about it too much.
I guess I'll have to keep an eye on it to see if does it again.
yeah if it is using data it will definitely heat up. the gps should make it heat up too.
how hot is hot?
The phone does get warm when you're using it...this is by design. It is even mentioned in the manual.
Hi.
My Touch Pro is acting somewhat weird.
The other day I walked in what best can be described as moist weather. It wasnt raining but it wasnt dry either. I had my headset on an the radio running on my touch pro. No problems. Later that day it freaked on me.
The backlight wouldn't turn on no matter what i did. Until i soft reset the phone. Then it turned on until it went to sleep by itself. Then the lcd turned off but the backlight stayed on. One hard reset later and it was fixed. A few hours later i recieved a text and it took forever to open the messaging app, and as soon as i startet typing on the keyboard it kept turning the light on and off, and the caps an fn lights cycled on and off also. I had to turn to the soft keyboard to answer the text. And the phone now seems REALLY slow and unresponsive, like cpu cycles are being used. But nothing is running on the phone.
And thats basicly how its been ever since. I can se both the water sensitive labels have turned red, and i sure that its because of my walk outside.
I've tried hard resetting, flashing the original rom, flashing a new 6.5 rom, drained the battery completely (not that hard because the backlight wont turn off) and off course fully charging the battery. Nothing seems to help.
Any ideas of what to change, or ways to fix it. Theres no warranty on it, and even if there was they wouldnt touch it because of the water sensitive labels has been triggered.
Any help is appriciated.
Im thinking of buying the tattoo instead if it aint feasible to fix it, but im really hoping cause im not sure i can live without the hardware keyboard.
Hey guys I'm posting today because I have a little problem or a huge problem I should say at this point. Anyways, I've owned a Captivate since they first came out a couple months ago. I've never had any problems with mine up until about 2 or 3 months ago when the phone started doing something weird. The bottom row of soft buttons on the phone will press themselves. Now only the back button and home button press themselves. The problem started out around the time I flashed Serendipity for the first time (not blaming the rom) I noticed the buttons would press themselves randomly at times and it started out slow, maybe once or twice a day and it didn't really annoy me. Flash forward to today and my phone is practically unusable because of this problem. Any time I wake the device from sleep the home and back buttons will rapidly press themselves over and over and over until I furiously tap either button to get the buttons to stop pressing themselves.
The problem will restart itself about 30 seconds after stopping it and It never stops. I've tried numerous re-flashes with no avail. At first I thought the problem was caused by a bad flash on my part because the problem started after I had just flashed a new rom. But I've known for a while now that wasn't the case. I've never dropped this phone or submerged it in water. This problem just popped up out of the blue one day and never went away.
Do I have a defective phone?
Thanks for the help.
Had the same problem, not to the extent your having more like once an hour they would go crazy. Placed the phone in some rice over night and the problem was gone. Im pretty sure, for me at least, was condensation had worked its way under the glass and was causing contact problems. Worth a shot for you. Never had the problem again after that.
I never even found out how it happened, though I suspect the steam from a hot shower did it.
how is your gps? if it sucks, go for warranty while you can, samsung has a 1 year warranty cross your fingers for a better replacement, or if you go through Att and you get a refurb who knows..... the board inside wont match the date under the battery and who knows how it will work.
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Had the same problem, not to the extent your having more like once an hour they would go crazy. Placed the phone in some rice over night and the problem was gone. Im pretty sure, for me at least, was condensation had worked its way under the glass and was causing contact problems. Worth a shot for you. Never had the problem again after that.
I never even found out how it happened, though I suspect the steam from a hot shower did it.
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I'll try the rice thing, can't believe I've never thought of that. I've never dropped water on the phone but it has been in the bathroom with me when I've taken showers or what not. Thanks for the idea.
TRusselo said:
how is your gps? if it sucks, go for warranty while you can, samsung has a 1 year warranty cross your fingers for a better replacement, or if you go through Att and you get a refurb who knows..... the board inside wont match the date under the battery and who knows how it will work.
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My GPS does indeed suck, It takes about 5-10 minutes to get a lock on anything sitting outside. My phones still under warranty until this November so I think if I don't solve the problem soon I'll just get a new one.
Does ATT upgrade the phone to a newer version if you replace it with the warranty? I might hold out until ATT releases the Cappy 4g or whatever they're going to call it.
I'm kinda hesitant to post this, because I know you guys go through great lengths to emphasize searching first. I watched the video when I registered, nice touch. More forums could use vids like that!
oh well, here we go:
I have owned an Iphone every since they where introduced to the market. I have been wanting to make a switch for a while now. I was very close to purchasing a G2x back in April when they came out, but I held off. Well recently, a coworker let me check out his HTC G2 and I was amazed at the functionality, features, and other misc items compared to my old Iphone 3GS. I was never a fan of the slide out keyboard, so I knew the G2 was not for me.
Last week, I just missed the free promo on T-MO's web site, so Instead I purchased a G2X locally. I was totally unaware of all the problems you guys where having, as the typical review sites never mention these issues.
I have owned the phone for 8 days, So far here is whats been a going on:
7-29-11 Purchased the phone from Best Buy, decided to buy from them since they where the cheapest out the door with out rebate. I hate rebates! lol
Right before I am going to bed, I plug in to charge, and the phone shuts off, I cannot get it to power back up. I did not know about pulling the battery, I thought it had just died. I was going to wake up the next morning and take it back.
7-30-11 When I woke up, I looked around online, and found out about removing the battery and putting it back in. Now phone is working again.
I was able to get the OTA update to 2.3.3, right after the update, I did a master reset.
8-2-11 I downloaded a "radio scanner" app, and the first time I executed it, the phone froze, requiring another battery pull. Afterwards, the app ran fine.
Those are the only 2 major issues I have had.
Here are a few other things I noticed:
Screen: No separation, very slight light blur around top corners with lit black screen. Does not bother me, and I can't really notice it 99% of the time.
GPS: I know some have been having issues with this, for me, The time to get an accurate fix can sometimes take anywhere from 5-30 seconds. Even with the stock toggle always turned on, I do not always have the GPS Icon in the top bar, I don't know if I am supposed to. Can someone please confirm this?
WI FI: Seems to be working like intended, no complaints there.
BT: I have nothing to pair with the phone, so I will probably never know.
Making calls: this is kinda annoying, I will look through my call log and select a person, I see the dialer initiating so I put the phone to my ear, but a few seconds go by and nothing.... I look at the phone and find myself looking at the call log again, like the dialer crashed? Also, during the conversation the screen will turn off. I think this is normal, but when the phone detects motion shouldn't the screen turn back on?
Other than that, I love this phone so far. However, I do not want to swap handset after handset, refurb after refurb with T-MO or LG.
Is it possible that the phone will NOT continue to get worse as time goes on? Or should I take the first shut down as a sign of whats to come in the future? I have a 6 days left to take this thing back, but I am having a major conflict with myself about keeping it. What makes it even harder, Is I have already ordered a 32g micro SD, Trident case, and 3 extra data cables.
My plans are to root it, and run some sort of rom with it once I read up and half ass know what I am doing.
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TLDR:
Have owned phone for a week. Shut down instantly the first time I charged it requiring a battery pull. Froze/crashed due to an app maybe Second battery pull.
Question a few functions but otherwise works like a champ.
Purchased case, micro sd, extra data cables.
thinking of taking it back and cancelling contract to avoid future headaches, but not sure if I should or want to at this point. need avdice please!
Doesn't sound like a lemon. The stock software is buggy. If you're gonna root it and flash another rom then you're gonna love this phone.
The GPS indicator is normal. It only shows when an app is using GPS for your location. Otherwise it doesn't show.
G2X CM7
It doesn't sound like a lemon to me either. I bought mine in April and my phone had a few reboots while charging overnight and two freezes in the first month. It has been OK since then, although I did not do anything about it (and I'm still on Froyo). The only thing I do is that I reboot my phone manually once in 7-10 days because the phone starts to lag. I believe this is normal for all smartphones including iPhone...or am I wrong?
Oh, forgot to mention when I hit the power button to wake the phone and go to the lock screen, I briefly see the last screen I was in before the phone went into sleep mode. Total lack of QA in my opinion... Will a rom fix this?
And yes Man of La Mancha, the iphone would get somewhat glitchy, but a reboot always took care of it. I didn't really have to reboot it too often, maybe once every 2 weeks or so.
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Oh, forgot to mention when I hit the power button to wake the phone and go to the lock screen, I briefly see the last screen I was in before the phone went into sleep mode. Total lack of QA in my opinion... Will a rom fix this?
And yes Man of La Mancha, the iphone would get somewhat glitchy, but a reboot always took care of it. I didn't really have to reboot it too often, maybe once every 2 weeks or so.
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The lockscreen issue is a known bug. CM7, or any ROM with 2.3.4+ doesn't have that problem.
Ive gotten it maybe 5 times since I bought it, although the latest updates have been stable. I still got it a few days ago though. Basically if I have the dock, and close the lid and say rotate the whole device or just move it a certain directions, it will make the screen stop displaying when trying to open it again. The lid opens, you hear a noise like it unlocks, but the screen is black. I try unlocking and locking, undocking, but its still black unless I reset the device via power. Anyone having this issue? It's not a serious one yet, but id like to know why it happens in the first place.
I have similar experience without dock.
I put it in carrying bag and drive to subway, when I take it out and the screen is blank and I can reboot it by power button. It happened 3-4 times under same situation.
I updated to 3.2 and problem didn't come back so far.