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[Q] Shutting down when in pocket?

Hi there,
I have the usual touch screen issues as well, but haven't heard of this one: anyone experiencing the phone shutting down while in your pocket?
I have this quite often meanwhile, and no use in saying it is annoying. As much as I'd love it to be a software bug, I'd suspect it to be a loose connection between phone and battery, maybe. Only once in a while I have a restart, but most of the time my phone is simply off. Pressing the power button boots it up again. I can even provoke it sometimes in my hand when I am moving or pressing the phone a bit.

Sounds like a hardware defect. I havent experienced such behaviour nor have I read any similar issues. I suggest contacting HTC.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

My phone has also been restarting at random. It has happened more than 3 times today. On top of that, when it comes back on the apps on my sd card don't show their logos on my homescreen. I have to delete them and readd to get the logos to appear. Any ideas?
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dosplunder said:
My phone has also been restarting at random. It has happened more than 3 times today. On top of that, when it comes back on the apps on my sd card don't show their logos on my homescreen. I have to delete them and readd to get the logos to appear. Any ideas?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
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for icon problem : switch to differnt scene, than back to your original (equals icon refresh and tada!)

r3v0Lut10n said:
for icon problem : switch to differnt scene, than back to your original (equals icon refresh and tada!)
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Thanks I will definitely give that a try!
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Froschfinger said:
Hi there,
I have the usual touch screen issues as well, but haven't heard of this one: anyone experiencing the phone shutting down while in your pocket?
I have this quite often meanwhile, and no use in saying it is annoying. As much as I'd love it to be a software bug, I'd suspect it to be a loose connection between phone and battery, maybe. Only once in a while I have a restart, but most of the time my phone is simply off. Pressing the power button boots it up again. I can even provoke it sometimes in my hand when I am moving or pressing the phone a bit.
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I'm experiencing the same issue. When I have my phone in my pocket it randomly shuts down. I don't know if it has something to do with battery contact. My experience was this only happens when my phone is under a certain battery level, like 40%. When I restart the phone everything its normal til it happens again and I boot it up the battery percentage jumps from 40% to about 18%.
The strange thing is when I try to charge, it charges up to 87% and it stops charging, while its still shows like it its charging.
only when I reboot it's shows 100%.
I haven't tried hard reset, maybe tomorrow.

[Q] messed up sensation, suggestions?

So, I have a messed up sensation, reboots itself, not randomly, but when you turn the screen off, or after flashing a new rom for first five minutes until you finish initial set up. Everything works, except bluetooth or wifi. So, it does not restarts, if you charge it, or leave screen on, or you use it until the battery dies. Tried a new battery, no luck. Tried different roms, no luck. And my question is, is there like system log? And can a phone detect that it has a smashed screen and digitizer and restart itself? Yes, the screen is smashed DD Thanks

dingo dog said:
So, I have a messed up sensation, reboots itself, not randomly, but when you turn the screen off, or after flashing a new rom for first five minutes until you finish initial set up. Everything works, except bluetooth or wifi. So, it does not restarts, if you charge it, or leave screen on, or you use it until the battery dies. Tried a new battery, no luck. Tried different roms, no luck. And my question is, is there like system log? And can a phone detect that it has a smashed screen and digitizer and restart itself? Yes, the screen is smashed DD Thanks
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It seems that you have hw probelms... Maybe you could have damaged some other parts of the phone...
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using Tapatalk

Well, I have taken it apart, everything is fine inside. And I think it would not function at all if something serious was damaged. Just now i finished flashing an ics without sense. It does not reboot for bit longer. You can drain the batt by using it with screen on. Just finished it off with shadowgun. Now I can see an error that appears, but if you charging, it just goes on after you press ok, if you are using it, same thing, but if it happens when screen, restart. com.android.phone stops working, and phone reboots.

[Q] HTC Sensation Unresponsive

Hi guys,
I have had my Sensation rooted with ARHD for about 4-5 weeks and everything has been smooth till now, when yesterday I was just reading an text message and my phone's screen went black but still lit up. I replaced the battery, SIM, SD and tried rebooting but it would still just appear as a black screen with the backlight on, but the keys are not lit up. Occasionally, the HTC splash screen would appear after taking the battery out and restarting, but then would again, go to the black screen. I can't go into Boot Loader either (i think i had my phone set to fast-boot cause I need to frequently switch my phone off).
Anyone have any ideas as to what I should do?
Cheers in advance

Try the taking out the SD card and then booting with the power/vol dn combo to see if you can get to the bootloader. If successful, may have to reload your firmware (P58IMG) and possibly ROM.

Just fyi fastboot has absolutely nothing to do with how fast your phone turns on lol.

Kevc44485 said:
Just fyi fastboot has absolutely nothing to do with how fast your phone turns on lol.
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Enable fastboot in settings, power off your phone and then power it back up again (without taking out the battery).
Your phone will boot in a jiffy. This more of a Sleep-Wake than a Power Off & power On, but yes, enabling the fastboot option will boot up the phone faster.

nabbyboii said:
Hi guys,
I have had my Sensation rooted with ARHD for about 4-5 weeks and everything has been smooth till now, when yesterday I was just reading an text message and my phone's screen went black but still lit up. I replaced the battery, SIM, SD and tried rebooting but it would still just appear as a black screen with the backlight on, but the keys are not lit up. Occasionally, the HTC splash screen would appear after taking the battery out and restarting, but then would again, go to the black screen. I can't go into Boot Loader either (i think i had my phone set to fast-boot cause I need to frequently switch my phone off).
Anyone have any ideas as to what I should do?
Cheers in advance
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There were threads a few weeks ago simiar to this with Sensations randomly dying.
What version of ARHD were you running, kernel, and firmware?

gustav30 said:
What version of ARHD were you running, kernel, and firmware?
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I'm running ARHD 6.5.5 with 3.32.401.5 (can't remember anything after 5) and selected the Sebastian kernel when I installed the ROM ...

Kevc44485 said:
Just fyi fastboot has absolutely nothing to do with how fast your phone turns on lol.
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He means the feature that just suspends your phone instead of powering off. Ironically, both methods don't fully turn the phone off. Coincidentally, it's also called Fast Boot. You're thinking of that set of bootloader tools.
As per OPs issue, I have no idea. It sounds hardware related, but intermittent. Perhaps crack it open and see if there are any loose ribbon connectors or anything? I'm thinking the ribbon responsible for the screen may be loose. If it's loose but still kind of in place, the pins responsible for power might still be in contact but the ones responsible for sending data to the LCD might not. That could be why it turns on but it's only solid black. Pulling the battery and putting it back in might just coincidentally be "helping" because the angle of the phone is affecting a loose ribbon. Mind you, this is all speculation, and it might not be hardware at all, but that's my best guess.
Also, if you can get it resolved, never use HTC's Fast Boot. It's convenient, but tends to be a major pain when you have legitimate issues.

I have been having similar issues. My phone will be fine and all of a sudden it will turn off. Receiving calls, changing tracks from the lockscreen or playing games. Sometimes just unlocking my phone to use it will cause it to crash. Then getting it to boot again can be a royal pain in the behind. Anywhere from the first bootsplash to first unlock / loading the UI can make it crash and it's usually a pull of the battery SIM and SD to get it to boot.
Age of the ROM is something I have noticed to be a factor, the older the ROM, the more likely it is to do this but wiping cache and Dalvik from 4EXT has no real effect on stopping it from happening for any noticeable length of time.
Also to note, battery life seems to be very jumpy when this happens. I have had 4% battery life for hours, listened to music (at volume) and it's remained at 4%. Hardware LED isn't lit and it's just the OS with it's UI warning me so every so often, with the battery indicator staying at the 4%. It'll change again if the phone crashes again. Either to an accurate reading or to another fixed percentage, but it seems to like the 4%.
Not sure if it's the ROM, or firmware, but my previous ROM's have been using Bricked Kernel. I don't know it that's a deciding factor or not.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I too have stability issues and been wanting to say something on here for a while.
I'll post version details later on as I'm just about to get ready for a road trip.
Mark

kgs1992 said:
Enable fastboot in settings, power off your phone and then power it back up again (without taking out the battery).
Your phone will boot in a jiffy. This more of a Sleep-Wake than a Power Off & power On, but yes, enabling the fastboot option will boot up the phone faster.
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fastboot has nothing to do with how fast your phone boots up. take your battery out and put it back in then start it and see if it starts up fast. you're thinking of quick start from basically hibernate
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fastboot

HTC Sensation 4g

I was using OrDroid(ICS) on my HTC Sensation 4g for about a month and a half and I started getting random rainbow static screens. All the time. When I screen off and try to turn the screen back on, all I see is the rainbow static. I try to reboot and none of my boot animations show up or anything. Then once the phone actually loads the OS, I get the rainbow screen again. So, I wiped everything clean and flashed Paranoid Dragun(Jellybean) and it seemed to have gotten rid of the problem for about 18 hours and then I started getting the rainbow screen again. I've tried pulling the battery and booting into recovery and fastboot to no avail. Is this a hardware issue? What can I do to get rid of this problem?

Help - One X will not stay on

Right guys,
I was just updating some apps on my One X, left it to its business and came back and it had turned off, so turned it on and it seems to load to the lock screen and then the screen goes blank and the phone turns off.
I have had it on charge (mains), tried the recovery, that doesn't help and I have tried a factory reset (when you hold the power and volume button) that doesn't work either.
Every time, just about gets to the lock screen freezes, goes blank and turns off.
It is totally stock software and hardware.
Locked to EE (Orange) network in the UK
Any help please?
Mike

More information please. Is the phone stock or modified?
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timmaaa said:
More information please. Is the phone stock or modified?
Sent from my Evita.
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Sorry, it is totally stock, not rooted or anything like that.
Just edited my first post too, sorry I was in a rush when I wrote it.
More info:
I have noticed that sometimes the little LED flashes red then green then pauses and repeats. I have seen this is an overheating problem?! The phone feels cool/warm to the touch, I know when playing the odd game the back of the phone gets really warm and it's no where near as warm as it can get.
More info:
Had it on charge overnight from the mains and it doesn't appear to have taken any charge, when it loads the lock screen it will show the battery level and when I press the power & volume buttons it tell me the battery level is too low.
Thanks again!
Mike

I've been having the same kinds of problems for months now.
I only use my OneXL for app testing fortunately, if I needed it as a normal phone I'd have given up and bought something new.
It often reboots after an hour or 2, even if it's doing "nothing", not even running any app after a restart.
Maybe it's overheating or something, but it seems more random to me. I was going to say that smacking it a bit doesn't cause any problem, but I just tried it now and it died. So maybe a PCB is cracked or there's some cold solder joints.
And yeah, the phone acts like the battery is dead. Again tonight I tried to boot it several times before it started up OK. It can end up dead but "powered" so I have to remove USB plug and hold power down 10-20 seconds to boot again.
I dunno, to me the phone is just broken, in effect.

I have had this same problem in the past with mine. Try disassembling it and pulling the battery.. then reassemble and see if that works, or could be a faulty power button
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Hmm.
I just updated with the latest RUU for the HBoot or whatever, and it looks like the reboots may have stopped !
Crosses fingers for luck...