I don't know how well known this is, but I just noticed this.
If you have 'stop app via long press' enabled in settings, applications, development and you hold back on the home screen your phone will reset.
I found this very useful as it only takes about 5 seconds to reset instead of nearly a minute the normal way.
Also useful for making settings that need a reboot work. Ie changing bar colour.
It also kills all apps which is very useful, especially because it only takes about 5 seconds.
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Just moved to Android from my Diamond and was wondering if there is a Standby app so I can turn off my phone with a screen icon instead of using the hardware button.
I use to have a program called poweroff which was simple and perfect for the job.
Any help would be appreciated.
Note. I only want the phone to sleep and not shut down completely.
Sleep mode starts the moment the screen goes dark - so long as you are not running an application which prevents sleeping. (The screen can be blanked, but applications can still prevent it from fully "sleeping", for instance listening to music.)
Convince yourself of it this way:
- Exit any apps you are using (with a task manager, or whatever) so the phone is in a "quiet" state.
Edit: Put Settings in your ATK exclusion list.
- Settings -> About phone -> Status and scroll all the way down
Locate the "Awake time" at the bottom of the screen and note that it is increasing.
When it rolls over to a full minute, hit the End button precisely at that moment, so that the screen sleeps - and remember the number of whole minutes the counter was at.
- Now wait 2 or 3 minutes.
- Wake the phone up and quickly unlock the screen - and quickly look at the "Active time" status.
If there was no activity, you'll notice that the active time is only a few seconds more than the elapsed active time when you blanked the screen - about the amount of time it took you to unlock the screen, and maybe a few seconds more than that.
Note there is nothing special about "sleep mode" that prevents applications from running. After all, it's the way the phone is designed - for instance be able to receive "push e-mail", or periodically retrieve "pull e-mail" while the phone is sleeping. Obviously, though, the goal is to try and save power, so the OS schedules processes for execution less frequently depending on their status (ForeG, BackG, etc), delivers interrupts less urgently, etc.
Also, applications can choose to receive notifications about power state - and change their behavior as a result of that, so the fact that you sometimes hear a noise 10-20 seconds after you have powered off the screen might just be an app responding to that state change.
If you do the same thing overnight (monitor the increase in active time), you'll see that the phone accumulates some number of minutes of active time. How much additional time it accrues depends on not only the apps you have installed/running, but also how much mail you are receiving, your app settings, etc.
HTH
Thanks HTH.
But simply, I just want to simulate turning off the phone ie flicking the power button instead of using the hardware button.
How to set up a new G2x.
1. If it needs 2.3.3 do that first.
2. Hard reset the phone...turn phone off, hold volume down and power, for about 10 seconds until the little unpacking icon bubbles up.
3. Start phone up, and what the heck, go into privacy menu and do a complete restore, from there. (Its twice the fun, done via two different start signals, but it won't hurt, the phone is already blank, and it adds 10 minutes max.
4. Download as the first thing the My Device T-mobile app, and install it. Someone did some digging and found that the older version was problematic...and what the heck, it a no harm no foul item even if the guy is wrong and its just placebo. He was doing some sort of checking to see what was causing the faults and it was coming from the OLD my device program.
5. Turn off the phone via the menu.
6. Turn on the phone.
7. Turn off the phone.
8. Do a hard restart (not a hard restore, just restart) With phone off, hold power and volume up, until it comes on, and then blanks, and the white LG screen comes up. You should see it cycle, it may come on like normal, but keep holding until it cycles.
9. Unless you want random reboots or what not....DO NOT INSTALL ANY MEMORY MANAGERS OR TASK KILLERS, or BATTERY SAVERS. If you leave your house...turn off your WIFI. If you are not using the GPS, turn it off. If you are not using data, set the data mode to 2G only or turn it off. Beyond screen brightness those are all the major juice users.
Anything that you give control to shut down "wasteful" processes, is giving that utility to carve out dependent processes, which when your phone finds missing can cause all sorts of errors like rebooting.
Many of the people complaining about reboots (not all) slapped on a copy of advanced task killer, and are dumbfounded when there system becomes unstable.
Your G2x should be OK.....so to speak...now.
I was using an app on Sunday, when the app froze completely and the screen of the s3 went black. The only thing I could see was the status bar up top, but even that was unresponsive. So I pulled the battery and turned it back on, and it was acting extremely slow so I got impatient and started trying to get into settings, when it went unresponsive again.
This time I held down the power button to see if I could get it to respond and the lock screen came up, without my wallpaper and instead of Verizon Wireless at the top, it said "No Service". After a couple of seconds my wallpaper showed up and then it said Verizon Wireless. After I get through the lock screen, I would go through the same whole routine - e.g. try and get into settings, freeze, hold power, have it come back up, etc. So I battery pulled again.
Finally, I got it to boot OK, by just letting it be for 10 minutes and completely ignoring it.
However, today my battery drain was pretty fast, it was on for 12 hours and was down to 40% after only 30 minutes of screen time. The culprit was "Android System" at 61%, i've never seen this that high before. Because of the high "Android System" power usage, I thought it might be good to power it down. Upon boot up, I assumed I'd be able to use it immediately, so I started going into Settings, and yet again it went unresponsive.
Are the two issues unrelated? What should I do?
As a warning, I'm extremely new to anything smarter than a Nokia brick, so be patient - Thanks!
As inconvenient as it is, I would recommend a full system wipe and go back to out of the box. That seems to fix everything and unfortunately it is rather difficult to diagnose issues on phones, especially unrooted.
In order to do a wipe you can do one of two things, goto settings then backup and reset, then hit factory data reset.
-OR-
Turn off the phone. When you start it again hold volume-up, power, and home to get into recovery. Then do the factory reset.
Ok, I thought that's what my option was. Thanks dwibbles.
I've got a weird issue. I'm running the stock T-Mobile ROM with the only real modification being Swype as my keyboard. Sometimes it seems the phone will get very warm and stop responding. I can still open the home screen, go through apps, etc, but Internet/Data will fail to work. I can access the dialer, but it will refuse to dial. When I press a text box for the keyboard to come up to type, nothing registers within the box as I type. Using the home screen widget to turn on and off wireless and GPS, those buttons stop responding as well.
Has this happened to anyone? I'm close to performing a factory reset to hopefully rid this issue. Rebooting the phone seems to fix it, but it has happened about half a dozen times within the past 2 weeks now.
unrealii said:
I've got a weird issue. I'm running the stock T-Mobile ROM with the only real modification being Swype as my keyboard. Sometimes it seems the phone will get very warm and stop responding. I can still open the home screen, go through apps, etc, but Internet/Data will fail to work. I can access the dialer, but it will refuse to dial. When I press a text box for the keyboard to come up to type, nothing registers within the box as I type. Using the home screen widget to turn on and off wireless and GPS, those buttons stop responding as well.
Has this happened to anyone? I'm close to performing a factory reset to hopefully rid this issue. Rebooting the phone seems to fix it, but it has happened about half a dozen times within the past 2 weeks now.
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Best bet is to factory reset which, of course, will dump all your apps, settings, etc etc... An even better bet is to root and install a custom ROM; but that is your call.
Another option is to get a task manager / battery monitor and see if a specific app is causing your phone to act up. Look for things like most time on or most CPU usage or most battery consuming, depending on what app you use.
Agreed. Try a factory reset, or send it to HTC.
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I factory reset my phone and during the process of signing in, agreeing to T&C's etc, a strange problem started occurring - the touchscreen became super unresponsive (had to press something three of five times for it to respond), however, at the same time, the phone would quickly vibrate on touch multiple times, but again, not actually do anything. Moreover, a weird blue text box started appearing around the options I touched and I can't swipe down to access the normal settings menu.
And to top it all off, if I long hold the power button to force restart/power off, it just won't do it. (tried the old "turn it off and on" trick to see it'll do the trick)
Everything was all normal until this point, had my phone for a couple of months, haven't dropped it or anything. Does anyone know why this is happening, and if so, how to fix this?
Thanks so much in advance!
shnk said:
I factory reset my phone and during the process of signing in, agreeing to T&C's etc, a strange problem started occurring - the touchscreen became super unresponsive (had to press something three of five times for it to respond), however, at the same time, the phone would quickly vibrate on touch multiple times, but again, not actually do anything. Moreover, a weird blue text box started appearing around the options I touched and I can't swipe down to access the normal settings menu.
And to top it all off, if I long hold the power button to force restart/power off, it just won't do it. (tried the old "turn it off and on" trick to see it'll do the trick)
Everything was all normal until this point, had my phone for a couple of months, haven't dropped it or anything. Does anyone know why this is happening, and if so, how to fix this?
Thanks so much in advance!
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In fact, I can't swipe at all ... in the app drawer if I swipe, it just goes to the next app , instead of the next screen.