Hello,
few days ago, my computer decided not to boot the standard way. When I start it, a new screen appears on the monitor, and the computer starts to beep this way: 3 short beeps, pause, 3 short beeps, pause, and so on. I included the screen in the attachment of this post. After pressing F1, computer starts to boot the OS and everything seems to be allright, but the system time has been set to a date and time of the year 2007, so I have to correct the time manually. I already found an utility on the internet, which corrects the time automaticaly after startup. But the black screen and the beeping occur everyday, when I start the computer.
Could you please give me some advice, what the problem could be?
Thank you.
3 beeps in an American Megatrends BIOS indicates bad RAM. Try reseating your RAM, if that doesn't help, then replace the RAM with known working RAM.
Also, your clock resetting to 2007 may mean you need a new CMOS battery.
phishphinger said:
3 beeps in an American Megatrends BIOS indicates bad RAM. Try reseating your RAM, if that doesn't help, then replace the RAM with known working RAM.
Also, your clock resetting to 2007 may mean you need a new CMOS battery.
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I reseated both RAM modules, but the problem remains. RAM is working properly though. Could it be, that the reason is the empty CMOS battery? Every night, I turn off the power cord to the computer, and my theory is, that because BIOS doesnt get any electricity, it resets all its values. When I turn the computer on in the morning, the mentioned screen appears, because BIOS needs to set its values right, asking me to do it manually or load the defaults?
It's possible that the problem is just caused by the CMOS battery being dead. The simplest test would be to replace it with a new one (they are pretty cheap to buy).
If the problems still persists, then try different RAM
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So i just got a Samsung i780 and after charging the first battery i put it in and started up the phone.
However i was stunned to find that the standby time was less than 7 hrs!!
Samsung says 400hrs standby, but now ive tried both the batteries that came with the phone and i did an xperiment, by charging the battery to a 100% before i went to bed and then leave the phone in standby.
When i woke up next morning the phone had shut off and couldnt be turned back until i either connected the ext power or replaced the battery.
This goes for both the batteries and the phone is like 2 days old, and no i didnt charge the batteries half way at any point, they were at less than 30% when i recharged them and charged to 100% before i started to use them. :-(
Also i made sure the WiFi wasnt on and i set every powersaving feature to save as much power as possible by lowering the display light to the lowest setting and have it shut off the display after the shortest period of time if the device is not in use etc etc etc...
My old HP Ipaq 6515 with WM 2003 never did anything like this and that one still has a standby time of approx 90hrs, but also the powersaving features in the old WM03 is more simple and apparently works better.
Also, when i start up the Samsung after replacing the battery, i cant change the ldc brightness, nothing happens when i choose another setting, the screen stays at the lowest setting of brightness, until i reset the phone, then it works properly.
My god i thought my old Ipaq was flawed and annoying with its way of suddenly turning itself off now and then due to the batt cover being crap, but this is almost worse!
So plz anyone who has any idea/suggestions, lemme know as this is really getting to me! :-D
Thx in advance!!
Maybe a rom upgrade will solve your problems
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Maybe a rom upgrade will solve your problems
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Well it maybe will, but where will i get that?
I go to Samsung and under products i choose my phone model, then i go to "Support and downloads" and theres only a bunch of manuals in pdf and then activesync 4.5 available. :-(
Also i just noticed under the power adjustment theres an option that will shut off the display during a call 5 secs after the call has begun.
However bneneath it it says, that the phone wont shut the disp off unless the phone is in "inactive mode" whatever that means, i havent come accross anything anywhere with a possibility to enable "inactive mode"
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Well it maybe will, but where will i get that?
I go to Samsung and under products i choose my phone model, then i go to "Support and downloads" and theres only a bunch of manuals in pdf and then activesync 4.5 available. :-(
Also i just noticed under the power adjustment theres an option that will shut off the display during a call 5 secs after the call has begun.
However bneneath it it says, that the phone wont shut the disp off unless the phone is in "inactive mode" whatever that means, i havent come accross anything anywhere with a possibility to enable "inactive mode"
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Inactive mode i think is the one when you press the power button to shout down the display.
You can find a lot of infos about roms searching "i780" on this forum.
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Inactive mode i think is the one when you press the power button to shout down the display.
You can find a lot of infos about roms searching "i780" on this forum.
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Thx mate, in that case thats not a problem, i mean the "inactive mode" i always use that, a habit from my old Ipaq which didnt run for too long with the display on. :lol:
I found a rom upgrade to version 6.1, however i could only find it in english, but thatll have to do for now, because whats the "correct" language worth if the device cant stay turned on for more than 4 hrs? ;-)
Geeez this is freaking me out now, i try to do the upg to 6.1 and the upgrader needs to verify the deviee, so it verifies it and alerts me about it and say "Press ok to reset the device", the phone restrts and meanwhilke the upgrader throws this in my face: "Time-out. Unable to access device. Try again".
So i tried again and the same thing happend. Pfffft.... Boohoo!! :lol:
Have you installed the drivers, activesync etc.? Is your battery fully charged?
What drivers? afaik the ain no drivers, but yes i have the Mobile Device center installed and that works perfectly.
As started earlier:
This goes for both the batteries and the phone is like 2 days old, and no i didnt charge the batteries half way at any point, they were at less than 30% when i recharged them and charged to 100% before i started to use them. :-(
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Good morning every1,
I installed NeatRom on my i9100 and worked marvellous for months, now is a living hell! Not blaming the Rom itself but some kind of conflict between hardware and software.
Bug Description: screen strange behavior, in certain conditions won't turn on or will show strange colors, over illuminate or darken display, while at start up it will always work fine.
Trigger: locking the screen normailly causes to blackout but it will not turn on again on most tries, pushing the power buttom or the home buttom is equally uneffective most of the times. However, reseting the phone by removing the battery (since there's no display is the only way) will allow the phone to start normally: normal brightness, normal colors and normal operation everytime.
Fixes tried so far: I've reset the phone to factory, erase all cache, partition and delvik, and reduced the amount of apps to keep ram very low in usage. Also, I've removed the phone cover to check the screen connections, check the cable to see if its not broken and everything its fine. The display is not broken or otherwise damaged.
Opinion: since the display works fine at start up and would be working normally for as long as I don't lock it, I'm discarding all hardware problems of the screen itself; and I've removed all apps to avoid conflct of other software and it still has the same problem. Therefore, I think there's somekind of conflict between NeatRom and the screen (drivers maybe).
PLEASE HELP! :crying:
Malakiel said:
Good morning every1,
I installed NeatRom on my i9100 and worked marvellous for months, now is a living hell! Not blaming the Rom itself but some kind of conflict between hardware and software.
Bug Description: screen strange behavior, in certain conditions won't turn on or will show strange colors, over illuminate or darken display, while at start up it will always work fine.
Trigger: locking the screen normailly causes to blackout but it will not turn on again on most tries, pushing the power buttom or the home buttom is equally uneffective most of the times. However, reseting the phone by removing the battery (since there's no display is the only way) will allow the phone to start normally: normal brightness, normal colors and normal operation everytime.
Fixes tried so far: I've reset the phone to factory, erase all cache, partition and delvik, and reduced the amount of apps to keep ram very low in usage. Also, I've removed the phone cover to check the screen connections, check the cable to see if its not broken and everything its fine. The display is not broken or otherwise damaged.
Opinion: since the display works fine at start up and would be working normally for as long as I don't lock it, I'm discarding all hardware problems of the screen itself; and I've removed all apps to avoid conflct of other software and it still has the same problem. Therefore, I think there's somekind of conflict between NeatRom and the screen (drivers maybe).
PLEASE HELP! :crying:
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Hello,
XDA assist is for newbies finding their way around XDA Developers, it isn't a development section.
Please try posting the bug reports in the same thread you found the ROM in order to provide a helping hand to the developers.
-Vatsal
I have an LeTV Max (x900), which is a Chinese made android phone. Quite high spec for its time. Anyway, it was flashed with an italian rooted ROM, can't remember exactly now as near 2 years ago.
Current problem is that: phone does not detect any wifi. When pressing "scan". nothing happens, not even any error message. Also, using the phone as a mobile hotspot no longer works.
Circumstances leading up to problem: the phone experienced excessive battery drain, it was quite warm and charging took nearly 10x as long. Eventually, the phone crashed entirely, and the little penguin logo came up on screen frozen. Had to hold power button for 20 secs to turn off. I thought it was battery suddenly dying (as had some trouble charging when low battery), but battery now suddenly seems fine again.
What have I tried: random wifi apps on play store, deleting / restoring hosts file (don't know if that makes difference).
Is this likely to be a software or hardware problem? A full reset is obviously the last option which I don't want to do unless I'm sure it's not hardware. Any definitive way to make sure? Thanks
Hello Forum,
why does my alarm clock work while the phone is turned out? What is the name of this function and how can I turn it off?
I think it uses battery, because I charged my old phone (switched off, emergency phone) a week ago and now its empty.
Thanks
Peter
peterfarge said:
Hello Forum,
why does my alarm clock work while the phone is turned out? What is the name of this function and how can I turn it off?
I think it uses battery, because I charged my old phone (switched off, emergency phone) a week ago and now its empty.
Thanks
Peter
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Hi, what phone do you have ?
I remember this was an issue for certain phones (but that was 6 years ago lol). Your phone must be really old !
And about the battery life when shut down, how long does it last usually?
Now for the upfront solutions:
Delete the alarm you sat up.
And if you have a removable battery on this phone, removing it would have a very good effect on battery life.
Have a good one
Its an Elephone P7000. I want to charge it and use it as a secondary phone. I turn it only on when my main phone has no battery. Last month I bought a new battery for this phone, on the battery is written "production date 2015". The battery last a whole day when the phone is turned on.
I'm really interested what is running the whole time in the background when Android is turned off. Is it some kind of BIOS? Is it the bootloader? Can you give me the name of this "program"?
PS: When my Xiaomi phone if turned of, the alarm does not work.
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Its an Elephone P7000. I want to charge it and use it as a secondary phone. I turn it only on when my main phone has no battery. Last month I bought a new battery for this phone, on the battery is written "production date 2015". The battery last a whole day when the phone is turned on.
I'm really interested what is running the whole time in the background when Android is turned off. Is it some kind of BIOS? Is it the bootloader? Can you give me the name of this "program"?
PS: When my Xiaomi phone if turned of, the alarm does not work.
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A battery life thread which may help is:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
PS: I have never heard of an android phone that respects alarms when the phone is off, as android is not running But I always wondered why not, since my previous non-smart phones all did.
This App analyses the energy consumption of Android and the Apps, but that is not my problem. My problem is that the charged phone loses energy while it is turned off.
And secondly I'm really interested what is running in the background while the phone is turned off. Is is a firmeware from Elephone? I removed the original Elephone rom and switched to Cyagenomod and then to Rublix. But original Bootloader and other Elephone stuff my still be there.
I asked in a german Android forum and they said it is the fastboot function. But I think this is only a possibility of Android to boot fast when is is wakened from the watchdog I'm searching. (That the alarm clock starts immediately and not minutes after the targeted wakeup time.)
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This App analyses the energy consumption of Android and the Apps, but that is not my problem. My problem is that the charged phone loses energy while it is turned off.
And secondly I'm really interested what is running in the background while the phone is turned off. Is is a firmeware from Elephone? I removed the original Elephone rom and switched to Cyagenomod and then to Rublix. But original Bootloader and other Elephone stuff my still be there.
I asked in a german Android forum and they said it is the fastboot function. But I think this is only a possibility of Android to boot fast when is is wakened from the watchdog I'm searching. (That the alarm clock starts immediately and not minutes after the targeted wakeup time.)
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Yes, when you flash a custom ROM, all you are really changing is the system partition itself and maybe the kernel, everything else from your original firmware is still there: e.g. bootloader, modem, etc, etc..
Fastboot has nothing to do with how quickly the device boots, fastboot is a bootable function/mode used to flash/manage the device using the adb/fastboot software while booted into fastboot mode. Some devices have a feature that allows for fast booting, but that is a different animal than fastboot.
Your device has an internal clock the same as a PC does, that is how a PC keeps correct time even when the system is powered off and still shows the correct time when you boot the system. As for what is causing the battery to die even turned off, that may be a different issue than the power used by the internal clock.
All of my old devices lose charge after sitting in a draw for some time without being used, it isn't really an "issue" or problem, it is just the nature of the beast. Batteries do not store power indefinitely.
You can find out more about lithium-ion instability and the particulars of their construction and how they actually work if you do some google searches on the subject.
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And secondly I'm really interested what is running in the background while the phone is turned off.
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Are you rooted? running Magisk?
The smartphone is rooted with SuperSU.
This watchdog is more than a Bios clock. It wakes the smartphone at a given time. So the android system configures this background watchdog somehow. Maybe there are more things that it can do?
My Motorola Moto E (LineageOS) starts always with a wrong time. (WhatsApp is complaining about it at the start) So there seems to be no watchdog.
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I'm really interested what is running the whole time in the background when Android is turned off. Is it some kind of BIOS? Is it the bootloader? Can you give me the name of this "program"?
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The smartphone is rooted with SuperSU.
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OK, if you are rooted, I would try running a boot-script that logs what is running on your phone every X minutes. If your lucky, the boot-script will log while the phone is "OFF".
something like the following maybe:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
top >> /sdcard/runnig_processes.log;
You may need to find a path that is actually mounted in your "OFF" state.
Also, I wouldn't keep this as a permanent thing, simply a test.
I dont think that this works. The uptime shows that the smartphone is running since 6 hours. I think if I put the script somewhere in the android system it wont be executed while android is turned off.
I have done some search. It seems that the P7000 has a Real Time Clock (RTC) in the MT6752 SOC. This chip can be configured to wakeup Android. I can see it at "cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/name".
There is also the charging screen despite the phone is turned off. The SOC can do a lot of things when android is not running.
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I dont think that this works. The uptime shows that the smartphone is running since 6 hours. I think if I put the script somewhere in the android system it wont be executed while android is turned off.
I have done some search. It seems that the P7000 has a Real Time Clock (RTC) in the MT6752 SOC. This chip can be configured to wakeup Android. I can see it at "cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/name".
There is also the charging screen despite the phone is turned off. The SOC can do a lot of things when android is not running.
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It does sound like android is not running on your phone for the phone-off-alarms, since it has a real time clock (I didnt read it, sorry).
As for the charging animation, all my phones have that too, but I think that is only the bootloader and ONLY while charging. ie connected to power, so discharging isn't an issue.
I suggested the above, as waaaay back when I modified my first phone, when I added a bunch of boot scripts that logged heavily, I *think* i was surprised when I noticed once (its back in gingerbread days) that I had logs from the start up of when I turned it off. But that was now many moons ago. It was just an idea, that shouldn't be too hard to test, even though all you have said points to it failing. And now that I think of it, the charging animation on that first phone I had, was actually PNG images (as animation frames) sitting on the android file system path; but again, that was during charging, not completely off.
Hello everyone, I'm in trouble.
22 Ultra is simply eating battery at indescribable levels. Yesterday we went on a trip from work, I left my home with 100%. During the day I did not touch the phone, a bit of a camera but beyond that really nothing. My battery was about 40% after about 3 hours, with no screen use at all! On the other hand, a friend at work with Xiaomi came out with 100% and after 3 hours was on 85, and he did touch the phone here and there.
I don't know how that makes sense, and it's no longer clear to me what to do to solve the problem. I debloat, deleted and disabled a number of irrelevant apps but still, the battery is being eaten. How can I solve it? Please help me!
Draining battery so fast, 20% per hour while idle is not normal, so you definitely have a problem.
It looks that there are two possibilities here:
- Battery malfunction
- Some active process in the background that is using lots of processor power constantly.
If battery is damaged / not working properly, the only solution is to replace it. Still, this doesn't look like a case of duying battery.
If you have some persistent process running in the background that you can't get rid of by debloating, it can't be stopped by restarting the phone, and its not visible in the battery usage section, i would say that factory reset is the most effective option here, since you stated that you tried to deal with it in a various ways already.
You could also wait a bit until you get chance to update to OneUI 5 / Android 13, which should solve your problem, if it's software related.
Hope that you will find solution soon
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Draining battery so fast, 20% per hour while idle is not normal, so you definitely have a problem.
It looks that there are two possibilities here:
- Battery malfunction
- Some active process in the background that is using lots of processor power constantly.
If battery is damaged / not working properly, the only solution is to replace it. Still, this doesn't look like a case of duying battery.
If you have some persistent process running in the background that you can't get rid of by debloating, it can't be stopped by restarting the phone, and its not visible in the battery usage section, i would say that factory reset is the most effective option here, since you stated that you tried to deal with it in a various ways already.
You could also wait a bit until you get chance to update to OneUI 5 / Android 13, which should solve your problem, if it's software related.
Hope that you will find solution soon
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I want to keep the factory reset as the last option....
Every single app that I don't need at the background I disabled from running in background.
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I want to keep the factory reset as the last option....
Every single app that I don't need at the background I disabled from running in background.
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Try to wipe your system cache.....it won't do a factory reset but might solve the issue while keeping your phone as it is.
Volume UP button along with the power button until you see Android screen
Scroll down with volume down until you reach wipe system cache and reboot
sometimes, it won't show up while you press the buttons....in that case, connect your phone to your PC/Laptop with any USB C cable and then do it.
Second solution, you can try Samsungs App Booster.....get an apk from the net. It generally helps as well.