Hi devvers,
The last update for the German version of the tablet is not working so well for me.
First things first: the tablet drains a lot of battery power! Have you noticed that too??
And second: when the tablet is almost empty like 7%, the tablet turns off instantly. I don't see the second warning screen because there's still over 4% left. It used to show me the second screen and then when it's really empty, Android powers off.
Turning the tablet back on isn't an option anymore. You have to plug the charger and then it'll boot again.
I'm using a stock rom and no root whatsoever.
Am I the only one out there? :/
Ps. Are there people having a notification showing that the sd card is inserted every hour or so?
Okay, this problem has occured multiple times and today nothing happend and everything went how it should. Awesome.
TomONeill said:
Okay, this problem has occured multiple times and today nothing happend and everything went how it should. Awesome.
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Self-Healing
With battery drains though, it's better to check your Applications and see if you downloaded some apps that might be using too much battery. Go to Settings/Apps and select Apps running. This will show you what's running in memory.
MD
Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, it's self-healing xD
I did last week and I didn't notice any particular app eating too much RAM memory. I also checked the cached processes, but that wasn't a problem either. I did turn off some notifications from games I didn't play anyway, but that did not really help.
May I ask how much RAM you have left when having nothing running?
I have between 200-300 MB left, sometimes after a boot 300 to 400, but not really that often.
I'm running the stock ROM by the way.
Another thing: Do you have a SD card in your SD card slot? Cause every now and then since the JB update I get the notification "SD Card is inserted". Which I'm sliding away and it pops up back after having my tablet in stand-by modus for a few minutes (perhaps hours).
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I have to say that I have been installing a lot of apps, but that I deleted a lot of them 2 weeks back. Then I checked my sdcard data (internal data) for any traces of deleted apps, but I was quite surprised how little there was left of traces of deleted apps. Microsoft could learn from that (though it's not Microsoft who makes their uninstallers not fully deleting everything. But am going off topic now.). Could that may have effects on the RAM? I don't assume it will, but just FYI.
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I have had a problem occur a couple of times today that has never happened before. I have an extended battery installed(3500mAh). After 2 hours of not using the phone this morning after I pulled it from the charger I noticed the battery was down to 86% when it should have been still at 95% or higher. About an hour after that I went to make a call and the phone would not unlock. In fact it would not respond to any gesture or button push. I had to pull the battery to get it to boot up again. That freezing up has happened twice today. Once with the extended battery and once with the stock battery. Should I wipe the data and start all over again? Or is there another solution?
Have you installed any new programs recently?
No nothing for a couple of weeks now.
Still having a lot of freezes. Should I go to the security settings and tell it to do a factory reset and then start over again with rooting and customizing?
just out of curiosity did you reinstall the location services?
No. The only things I added back in after the last flash were the ringtone trimmer, sound recorder, and the sprint tv.
one thing that I noticed when I had my phone hooked up to ddms looking at the debug log I had a RSS reader app that was add supported and every 30 seconds it would search for and dowload a new add. once I got rid of that app it seemed to help.
another thing that really helped was I downloaded an app called "overclock" it let me set my CPU to 528 when the screen was active really helping with the speed and how fluid the scroll in menu's is, but it also lets you set it to like 128 when the screen is off. seems to really help with battery life as well.
What is throwing me for a loop is that the phone sleeps like it is supposed and I have verified this with spare parts show I am not sure why all of a sudden the battery is draining much faster than before. As far as the lockups, they are just temporary freezes, it locks and I have to remove the battery to get it to reboot.
Well I wiped the data then flashed to the newest sprint rom(1.56) and then rooted again. I then wiped data again and then flashed to fresh 1.1 and installed my apps and setup my home screens. So far no problems and it seems to run a lot faster and smoother.
Quick off-topic question:
When you say "wipe your data" does that mean you rm the /data directory? Or what? Just curious
No. I used Wipe in the recovery screen.
i just did a upgrade on my hero too from fresh 1.0 to 1.1
when you select wipe data from recovery mode, besides wiping data with option 1, do you choose option 2 as well ? wipe dev something. i wasnt sure what the 2nd wipe option is for, so i did the first option only and it only took 2 sec to complete that step. my phone is up and running with fresh 1.1 without any issues, so did i do it rite ? just outta curiosity
The second one is the cache. I think it gets rebuilt anyway on the first boot with fresh installed.
I have a problem with my Xt720.
I have the Froyo Rom by khalpowers V3. (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993)
Everything works just fine and how it should. But after about 20 minutes when my screen turns off or when I turn my screen off, I can't turn it on again.
I press the Powerbutton and all that happens is that the led row lights up but the screen stays black.
I'm not sure but I think the touch screen doesn't work either because I can't unlock it by sliding the unlock thing. (or I just can't find it when the screen is off)
This began today and I did nothing extraordinary with my phone. When it started I had the Dexter's Froyo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939644) Version 1.2. But it has never been a problem before.
Then I flashed the above called Rom by khalpowers and it's still the same problem.
Everytime it happens I have to remove the battery and reboot the phone to use it again. This is very annoying and not how it should behave.
Wat do?
Monthana said:
I have a problem with my Xt720.
I have the Froyo Rom by khalpowers V3. (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993)
Everything works just fine and how it should. But after about 20 minutes when my screen turns off or when I turn my screen off, I can't turn it on again.
I press the Powerbutton and all that happens is that the led row lights up but the screen stays black.
I'm not sure but I think the touch screen doesn't work either because I can't unlock it by sliding the unlock thing. (or I just can't find it when the screen is off)
This began today and I did nothing extraordinary with my phone. When it started I had the Dexter's Froyo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939644) Version 1.2. But it has never been a problem before.
Then I flashed the above called Rom by khalpowers and it's still the same problem.
Everytime it happens I have to remove the battery and reboot the phone to use it again. This is very annoying and not how it should behave.
Wat do?
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Let it charge for a while and try again. Your battery may be extremely low. Turning on the button lights is one thing it does when there isn't enough power to boot even to the "display a charging battery" mode. This has happened to me.
I've had this issue ever since I got my phone. This would just happen completely randomly (nothing to do with battery or anything else). It happened pretty unfrequently and barely ever happens ever since I put on Dexter's 1.3. Not sure what causes it - but it looked to be completely random for me.
Monthana said:
I have a problem with my Xt720.
I have the Froyo Rom by khalpowers V3. (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993)
Everything works just fine and how it should. But after about 20 minutes when my screen turns off or when I turn my screen off, I can't turn it on again.
I press the Powerbutton and all that happens is that the led row lights up but the screen stays black.
I'm not sure but I think the touch screen doesn't work either because I can't unlock it by sliding the unlock thing. (or I just can't find it when the screen is off)
This began today and I did nothing extraordinary with my phone. When it started I had the Dexter's Froyo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939644) Version 1.2. But it has never been a problem before.
Then I flashed the above called Rom by khalpowers and it's still the same problem.
Everytime it happens I have to remove the battery and reboot the phone to use it again. This is very annoying and not how it should behave.
Wat do?
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Another suggestion. Since you've already swapped ROMs, maybe it's related to the SD card. Perhaps try backing your SD card up, reformatting it and copying the data back (do this on the PC not through USB access). Then reinstall your rom in OpenRecovery and factory wipe.
(You don't happen to be running WidgetLocker?)
@Mioze: The battery was at 70% a few hours after I loaded it to 100%, so that's probably not the problem. I don't have widgetlocker and it also happened with the sd card taken out.
But it didn't happen since I've started this thread so maybe I'm lucky and syrenz was right.
i have had this problem on every rom. it is related to sdcard. happens to me almost everytime i try to unrar one of khals rar files it always happens when im doing something sdcard related. last time it happened i did a battery pull and when it powered up my sdcard would stop checking for errors and everytime the screen turned off it wouldnt come back up. i had to plug into pc and check for errors and then it worked again without having to reformat it. my advice is get a faster sdcard. the stock one just doesnt cut it.
Trying a 4Gb Kingston Sd card now I used with my Dslr before.
I used the stock sd the whole day after I checked it for errors yesterday and it went well until I tried to download something from the store.
By now there seems to be no problem. Going to update my post if the problem still exists.
If it's ok: Thank you all for your efforts to help me.
Now this is ironic, as my phone began doing this today after put a new 32GB class 10 (Patriot) microsdhc card and reflashed Dexter's 1.3 and added bugfix v3 to it. After some tinkering, I think I nailed it down to me undervolting the processor.
I'm assuming the new microsdhc card need's a little more power than I was allowing. I was clocking the processor to 720Mhz/Vsel43, I left the speed at 720Mhz, but increased the vsel to 45, which seems to have solved the above described problem. However when I tried to copy my music over to the phone, it borked out again. So I've increased the vsel to 50 and things seem to have settled down. (fingers crossed)
G.
Ack! I spoke too soon. I just tried to install Steve Lin's Gingerbread keyboard and the phone reboots at the end of the download, even though I tried increasing the vsel. Going try clearing the Dalvik/Cache and see if that helps any.
I've flashed my XT720 to the khalpowers MIUI-Optimized V3 with the camera update.
I originally had a Sandisk 8GB Class 4 SD card, but after installing a new Adata 8GB Class 6 SD card, I started having the same issues. I was running Milestone Overclock on non-custom overclock settings, so it was running at 1GHz @ 74 vsel.
Honestly, I don't know that I've seen a discernible difference between the Class 4 and Class 6 card, so I may go back to the original card until I get more concrete data on how to fix this.
Let me share my 2 cents regarding sd cards.
first trouble shouting:
1. use the phone without the sdcard to see if the problem disapear
2. while doing 1. test the sdcard. Have in mind that sdcards are little bit different from normal hdd. For example i had 2 sdcards which locks the phone, but seems good on normal fs checking (even bad sector check option forced). but this 2 cards failed on the following test
test read speed of the sdcard for every 100 MB of it. for my desktop the script looks like:
Code:
i=0; while [ $i -lt 75 ]; do echo $i; dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 skip=`expr $i \* 100`; i=`expr $i + 1`; done
dd utility will probably report the speed (else just type time dd ....., then you will have the time)
if the card is good, then the speed has to be almost constant
for example on the good card i am using now is almost constant from 13.1 till 13.6 MB/s
for one of the bad, i observerd droping from 10 MB/s to 3 MB/s for a specific space range. then had run several tests just in this range and it turnout that this area of the sdcard is slow. That means that the card is on it way to the RIP.
For us it means that some sdcard io will timeout and soft lookup can happen (e.g. so called warm reboot, or just system_server kill by the watchdog). The other possibilities is more worse, just freeze and the watchdog cannot kill the system_server (probably because hang io operation)
Personally i was runing adb shell when the phone had freeze. it turns out that the linux works somewhat, but even as root i was unable to kill any process (probably because io hung operation), also every operation with the sdcard has hangt the current adb session, so i have to open new one....
secondly performance
0. If you wish you can perform the read speed test from above, but with write and to observe weak areas of the new sdcard
1. align the partitions on 8192s boundary (both of them to start on 8192*X sector)
2. format the fat32 so 64k logical cluster is formed (i use mkfs.vfat -S 4096 -s 16 options )
3. do the read_ahead tweak
4. be sure to using noatime mount options
5. vold checks the fat partition for you, make sure that thex ext[234] partition is checked before is mounted
6. If you decide to move the /data/dalvik-cache, move it to the /cache partition, not the ext[234] one
and do not forget, that free internal phone storage has no benefits. so as the internal nand is faster, use it as much as you can
p.s. and just to share: i have troubles with the thumbnail service. it turns out that when it runs (e.g. when i lock the display) it find some broken images and crashed badly, invoking warm reboot. after deleting this broken images, this problem was solved
I've been using the Kingston 4gb sd for a few days now and the problem's gone.
So that might be the solution.
I use 8GB C2 sdcard, and turn off desktop cache in system setting of ADW, this problem was gone.
It seem to be caused by ADW places cache in SD.
I've left my Adata 8GB Class 6 SD card in for now, but after removing the SD Speed Boost app, it appears my problem has gone away. I've never had the persistent memory setting enabled on ADW, btw.
Edit: I was curious if the SD Speed Boost would work after a reinstall, but 20 minutes after, I was pulling my battery, so I'm pretty sure it was that app at fault.
easye420 said:
i have had this problem on every rom. it is related to sdcard. happens to me almost everytime i try to unrar one of khals rar files it always happens when im doing something sdcard related. last time it happened i did a battery pull and when it powered up my sdcard would stop checking for errors and everytime the screen turned off it wouldnt come back up. i had to plug into pc and check for errors and then it worked again without having to reformat it. my advice is get a faster sdcard. the stock one just doesnt cut it.
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I got the issue even I'm using the class 10 SD card it seems not related the SD speed.
Annoying.......
This problem just started happening to me but I doubt that it is a SD card problem. Mostly since my phone has been unresponsive since yesterday afternoon and I can't even get the LEDs to light up or get the screen on at all. I got it to work after relentless battery pulls and taking the SD card and SIM out. But I decided to turn it off so I could pop the SD and SIM card back, it went back to its non-responsive mode. I also am unable to get to recovery mode or even the bootloader. My tech always seems to break all on the same day (my bike too >_<).
just try without sdcard
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I'm almost positive this is sdcard related it only happens to me when I'm doin something sdcard related. Happens like clock work when I try to unrar one of khal themes that's 100 or more megs same when I use the unyaff app to extract my data.img from my back up. Ive had this problem ever since upgrading to 2.2 never happened on 2.1 I've just gotten used to it. I dont think its gonna go away I'm thinking the sdcard must timeout or something.
easye420 said:
I'm almost positive this is sdcard related it only happens to me when I'm doin something sdcard related. Happens like clock work when I try to unrar one of khal themes that's 100 or more megs same when I use the unyaff app to extract my data.img from my back up. Ive had this problem ever since upgrading to 2.2 never happened on 2.1 I've just gotten used to it. I dont think its gonna go away I'm thinking the sdcard must timeout or something.
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Well just did a battery pull again and just took out the SD card and put the battery back in and tried to turn it on again but to no avail. Really annoying not having having my phone.....
This is also happening to me too... regardless if i have anything installed or accessing any files on my SDcard... and i already flashed my xt720 back to stock... and still the same... already changed my SDcard from the 8gb that was included on the package to 16gb... but still the same... i am very dissapointed with this device... just got this last week...
Still Annoyed....
My problem is still persisting after 2 days now and I'm torn between junking this phone and getting something else or trying to find a way to get my phone back in working order. I've tried just about everything I can do physically with the phone (battery pulls, w/o SD or SIM or with both in or one or the other out, etc........). So far all I have right now is a $400 dollar paper weight.
On another note, for some reason it keeps phoning my dad or sending him text messages with random assortments of code or error messages..........
Guys,
I have a very weird problem that started a couple of days back with my Galaxy Tab.
I was running a game (game name does not matter as the problem happens in all games) when all of a sudden the 'Pause' screen came into effect.
After hitting any key to continue it played for around a further 20 seconds then it happened again... and again... and so on.
Some games simply pause whilst others will flip back to the reload the game screen then flip to the press continue to play screen.
Whatever it is it only effects games.
I have tried several reboots and looked at all my recently installed/updated Applications but can not ascertain what is causing the issue.
Further, whilst browsing through my installed Apps using the App 'System Panel' (to see if I could locate the offending App) I also noticed when I scrolled down through my installed Apps every few seconds the list would jump back to the beginning of the list.
No matter how many times I scrolled down after a few seconds it repeatedly jumped back to the beginning.
After about a minute or so it stopped doing this.
It's almost as if something is paging the system every so many seconds ~ which may also explain why when playing games it drops the game into Pause mode.
Anyway, the Galaxy Tab is a stock Tab unaltered. It is not rooted nor had a ROM change.
At this stage I do not wish to update the ROM nor perform a factory reset.
As a surgeon you investigate the cause of the problem and not simply give the patient a tablet to mask the pain and send them on their way..... I wish to do the same with the Tab, find out what is causing the problem and not just do a system reset.
Any ideas ladies & gentlemen?
Same problem
I have the same problem on my stock ROM tab.
It's nerve wrecking to reinstall everything again.
Killerpint said:
I have the same problem on my stock ROM tab.
It's nerve wrecking to reinstall everything again.
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As the OP that reported this I feel for you.
I have no idea what caused the problem nor do Samsung.
All I can say is I switched the phone off one night because it was playing up that bad and used my Galaxy S that evening.
The following morning I switched the phone back on again and mysteriously the problem simply vanished.
All I can think is whatever was causing the problem must have been memory resident.
Killing the phone for a long period must have cleared the issue.
I have not come back and reported it is fixed yet as I want to do further tests just to make sure it has gone but more importantly try to find out what caused it in the first place.
In a way although I do feel for you I also am pleased someone else has the problem.
This proves it is not a totally isolated case and may crop up again.
The tests I am currently trying are with the external SD card.
Do you have an external SD card and did/does the problem happen only with games installed to the card?
I have found that all but one of the games were installed in this way.
The one game not installed to SD that when run pauses behaves in a slightly different manner in that it does not pause every 20 seconds or so but every 1 minute or so.
I am beginning to think the problem may be something to do with timing, memory and the external SD card.
Hello,
last week my HTC Sensation started random rebooting. Sometimes it lasts longer alive (up to 15 minutes). Though what is interesting, is that my SMS Icon has (1) on it, while after opening the native SMS app it does not display anything, nor I am able to recieve any more SMS (aaand usually it crashes after I open the SMS app).
I do not ever delete my messages (well ... why should I?)
Could it be, that there is some SMS hack which causes the stock ROM to crash?
the phone is not rooted (except S-OFF, which I did just to see if it goes), no crappy apps installed, running only stock ROM. Since 2 months I am not able to install HTC Twitter client (it reboots and I get a blue Android with an exclamation mark and cannot do anything more) and on my SD Card I have ~160MB Free - could that an issue aswell?
Edit: the phone heats up like crazy
It's because the phone is overheating. I have the Xe and it's a nightmare: usually just take the back off, and take the battery out for ~10 minutes and put everything back in.
danamnic said:
It's because the phone is overheating. I have the Xe and it's a nightmare: usually just take the back off, and take the battery out for ~10 minutes and put everything back in.
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tried that, doesn't work
had the battery out for 4 days already, even the time settings had been reset.
Curious though: it started rebooting after first day I went skiing with this phone (wanted to do some Runkeeper stats). Outside temperatures never dropped below -10 celsius - could that cause the issue
Have a look to see what free memory you have on the phone and on the SD card, if the phone memory is getting low (below 40 mb ) or the sim memory is low (below 400 MB) then its time to do some hasrh house keeping
SD card is simple if you can replace it with a bigger (and faster version)
If its phone memory, a factory data reset is the simple way around it then use something like App2sd to keep the phone memory free
Lack of free memory is the number 1 problem for freezing and reboot issues into our call centre for android phones
Ooh if I were you, I'd delete those text messages. I save mine as well using SMS to Gmail Backup and have a limit of 70 SMS messages and 5 MMS messages. The rest of it gets backed up.
I don't know if I'm right or wrong but from experience.. saving ALL of those text messages up can slow it down. I saved up to about 20,000 with one person and it was pretty slow. (This was back then when I had an older phone though) However! Deleting it did help. I wouldn't suggest keeping all your messages... imagine if you had a million and the SMS app had to open up and load a million messages. that would take forever, and in your case, might not even work!
Seeing as how you save all those texts... I also doubt that you've wiped your phone. I suggest 1) delete your messages (or back them up) 2) factory reset if it's not yet working properly!
Hello everyone!
Let me start off by saying that i'm actually using an unrooted, officially update nexus 5, updated to the latest 5.0.1
I have no problem whatsoever, battery really seem to have improved, but lately i've been getting a strange behavior
After a period of use (it goes from a couple of days to a whole week) the phone oddly slows down when i press the middle button, to return back to the homescreen.
For example, if I'm using the facebook app, and watch a couple of videos along with opening a few external links, when i press the home button, the whole home "loads" from start. I mean, i literally see nothing for a second, then it slowly loads widgets and icons. After it's been loaded, everything works flawlessly again, but if i open facebook again, use it for a while and press the home screen, it loads again.
Mind that i have no custom drawer (i tried Themer, it gives me the same error, it says "loading homescreen" when the problem appears) but the problem is still there with the stock homescreen. I tried force-closing the apps i used, thinking about a memory issue, but to no avail. I have to turn off and turn on the device, and everything works wonders again.
Is there any app that could help me with this issue? I'd like to understand why it's doing this and which app is slowing down my phone.
g0ldb3rg said:
Hello everyone!
Let me start off by saying that i'm actually using an unrooted, officially update nexus 5, updated to the latest 5.0.1
I have no problem whatsoever, battery really seem to have improved, but lately i've been getting a strange behavior
After a period of use (it goes from a couple of days to a whole week) the phone oddly slows down when i press the middle button, to return back to the homescreen.
For example, if I'm using the facebook app, and watch a couple of videos along with opening a few external links, when i press the home button, the whole home "loads" from start. I mean, i literally see nothing for a second, then it slowly loads widgets and icons. After it's been loaded, everything works flawlessly again, but if i open facebook again, use it for a while and press the home screen, it loads again.
Mind that i have no custom drawer (i tried Themer, it gives me the same error, it says "loading homescreen" when the problem appears) but the problem is still there with the stock homescreen. I tried force-closing the apps i used, thinking about a memory issue, but to no avail. I have to turn off and turn on the device, and everything works wonders again.
Is there any app that could help me with this issue? I'd like to understand why it's doing this and which app is slowing down my phone.
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I am not Sure whether this is 100% sure, But have heard that there is a memory leak issue in lollipop. Which might be the reason of ur problem. And the oly way get enough memory is to restart. But again, I am not Sure whether the above information is correct though.
keertikumar_ws said:
I am not Sure whether this is 100% sure, But have heard that there is a memory leak issue in lollipop. Which might be the reason of ur problem. And the oly way get enough memory is to restart. But again, I am not Sure whether the above information is correct though.
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I've heard that too, but it's strange that it has appeared only now. I haven't had this kind of issue ever since i updated it.
The FB app is just real buggy. My personal theory is whatever that app does exposes the Lollipop memory leak.
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The FB app is just real buggy. My personal theory is whatever that app does exposes the Lollipop memory leak.
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Yep i know about that, the FB app is just horrible script-wise. Nevertheless, i've never had THIS problem. And even if i forceclose it, it doesn't solve the problem anyway.