I have a question for people facing sod/random reboot specifically with EOS4 and kat kernel does you experience with them sound like this?
start off with a completely charged tf101 and dock, use it a lot through the day with no issues and then once the dock battery nears the end (i noticed at 5%) it will start randomly rebooting when the screen is off (after about 15 seconds with the screen off it does it). I thought maybe its related to the dock but after disconnecting the tablet from the dock it continued. Over about an hour my reboots get less and less spaced apart (to the point where it almost reboots while rebooting) followed by a reboot that gets stuck at the Asus boot screen.
In my case I then have to let the battery discharge from near 100% because my power button doesn't work. I've noticed this exact behavior three times now and was just wondering if others had something similar. I find it strange that it only does it with the screen off, its never rebooted while im using it. Personally i believe this issue is just with my tablet but thought it could be interesting if others have had the same issue.
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So over the last few days my phone seems to have settled into some sort of weird pattern with reboots. Although there are outliers, in general it always seems to reboot between 19-24h of uptime and nearly always at like 45 or 50 mins past the hour. It's the most bizarre thing in the world and why I think there's some funky software doing it. I don't have true random reboots, but I can't figure out what it is that is doing this. Very odd.
In all cases my phone is sitting with the screen off (I've NEVER had a reboot while using the phone/screen on) but it doesn't matter what radios are on, WiFi, BT, GPS (can be off or on).
Last time I ran "CatLog" a logging app from Market and had it write to SD logs and a reboot happened but it only by default writes every 200 lines so the last line in the file was probably not the last line in the log. I'm going to try again later and set it to write every line or few lines so I can see the last entry in the log before a reboot. Might shine some light on it.
Just find it very strange since it's a very stable and capable phone for about 18hrs and then it just craps on itself. Very strange.
finally. I too just think it is some weird software or driver bug because I was running EB 1.0.4 FINE for like 3-4 days and loving it... then it started resetting almost hourly. I didn't install any other apps past my initial normal set of apps.
Even CM7, seems like it is fine for a few days, then gets crazy. As long as I put a new nightly rom on it every day, it's good.
I didn't have any issues with stock though and didn't seem to have issues with CM7 for a while until lately.
The leaked GB rom causes lockups immediately out of the gate seemed hourly.
I use CM7 as my main daily driver now but I think you are on to something. We are talking about the Screen of Death right? I don't think mine ever reboots, but gets stuck at the lockscreen where the the display comes up, swiping to unlock vibrates then the phone but doesn't change screens to desktop. The buttons and click/drag widgets work even though you are looking the lockscreen.
I've never had my phone powered off in my pocket or noticed it "rebooting". Mine just has the SoD that seems to follow your pattern idea. They may be related. Stock roms may reset once it locks up, where CM7 just keeps running in its locked state.
I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.
I just hope that update gets here sooner than later.
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I dunno. The tmobile jingle is pretty loud and I never hear it. CM7 has a silent one so possibly there but I dunno.
I use my phone pretty often and never had the suspicious that it reboots. My phone stays very cool during my usage compared to my nexus and other phones
My uptime was 4 hours since I reset it last. I'll monitor it with results. It'll be hard not to flash but I'll keep track and see how far I can keep it online.
i have not had any reboots or waking up to a dead phone ....with the only fix is a battery pull.... ever since I started.
1) my over night charging / long term charging to 100%... only on the LG charger that it came with. Only short term...maybe. less than an hour and not to a 100% charge on a non LG charger (car charger etc...)
2) I restart my G2x every morning when I take it off the LG charger..(after I take it off..I did it once while on the charger and had an issue... (there is definitely an issue related to when it charges to/ around 100% charge)
Just my 2 cents.
Pattern to my reboots - do yours have a pattern?
Hold Power and volume up simultaneously for about 10 seconds.
I've had my phone since Friday, but the only time I had the rebooting problem was this past Saturday when it rebooted four times within 15 minutes or so. Before the rebooting began, the phone had slowed down to a crawl, so I went ahead and rebooted it. After that, I sat it down and watched it reboot a few times on its own. Luckily my iPhone 4 owning co-worker was completely unaware of this issue since we tease and bicker with each other every day over Android and iOS .
mobilehavoc said:
I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.
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I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.
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I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.
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What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?
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What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?
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Everything other than smart share, tegra zone and qik. Of course have nova and need for speed also.
Oh also have car home froze..
Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).
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Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).
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Yes I know the battery driver is part of the problem as can be seen on CM7 builds but what's odd is my time varies so for a long time it would reboot every 17-20 hours, now all of a sudden it goes to 36 hours before it usually reboots. Looking at logs it doesn't appear to throw any major errors before a reboot which implies that it's a a kernel panic or low-level fault. At this point I've given up on trying to find the issue since it's been repeated over and over that T-Mo and LG are releasing an update. Might as well enjoy the phone and wait for that to come out
Amen. Just keep flashing CM nightlies and you'll never worry about it.
There has been a lot of talk about the random reboots since ICS, but i have a slightly different problem. Since updating to ICS i've had a few random shutdowns....i think, it might be that it freezes with the screen off, i'm not sure which. ive never seen it happen when i was using it, the battery is never dead, i just try to turn the screen on and it won't. I have to hold the power button down for it to do either a reboot or a boot from scratch not sure what it is.
here is what i have
- stock transformer (rooted in HC to fix left speaker volume)
- upgraded via ota to ICS (seemed to work correctly)
- not overclocked
- no other hacks
- haven't done factory reset (don't want to, but might if it keeps happening)
Has anyone else seen this since ICS ??
I haven't had that problem but I've had a lot of others from bootlooped, to the whole tablet freeze... I'm on stock ics and factory reset didn't help what so ever........
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518552
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518552
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I started to read through that thread (lots of pages there), i didn't notice anyone with the random shutdown on there that's why i started this thread, just in case it started happening to other people too.
I will try some of the suggestions on there to see if it goes away.
Same issue here - it is either freezing while the screen is off or shutting down. Only way to get it to respond afterwards is to press and hold the power for 10+ seconds, release, and then again for 5+ to turn it back on.
I've reset to defaults with no success. Running stock rooted ICS.
Same issue!
I've noticed this happening on my tablet too.
Mines completely stock in every way, never rooted or modified in any way from stock.
After the ICS update I've noticed that... probably once a week or so I'll go to turn on my tablet only to find that it's essentially turned off.
There was plenty of battery, and no obvious rhyme or reason for the shut down ?!?!
Same here. Stock TF101, after ICS upgrade device doesn't respond to wake button. Plenty of battery. You have to hold the button for a way longer than just a power on press.
I've started having the same issue after updating to ICS. Sometimes it's random reboots and other times I'm getting this shutdown issue.
I have this problem too.
I try to fix this by changing the ROM but all still get this problem.
Stock ---> RevolutionHD ---> EOS with cornerstone 4
I have had same problem with the random reboot/boot loop problem with ICS and I have tried stock unrooted / stock rooted / Revolver / RevolutionHD. All do the same thing. If I have the screen off for extended periods of time, it reboots and gets caught in a boot loop. The 10+ then 5+ button hold works to get it restarted. I am trying different apps to see if one is the cause. Most of the time I seem to remember that I was browsing just before shutting the screen off.
Will let you know if I narrow this down as I have multiple browsers installed. Note: I mainly use Chrome and FireFox Beta the most, will try removing those and testing.
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Same here, having random shutdowns and sometimes when I lock my screen it restarts and get stuck at the bootanimation.
Also it often reboots when I use Splashtop remote. It works well, then I touch the screen and it restarts...
I hope Asus will fix this as soon as possible, but i think it will take a while.
I believe this has to do with the power management issue. I've noticed that after being unplugged from the power supply. The tablet will stay on. Once when the power level dips below a certain percent, the tablet automatically shuts down. When it reboots, sometimes the wheel will stay stuck. The only way to keep the tablet powered on is to have the cable plugged in. That defeats the purpose of a portable tablet, might as well get a EP121 then.
I've had the TF101 since it was first released in the USA. I haven't really used it much but lately I found a niche use for the tablet. The problem is most of the time it's really hard to turn the screen on. Almost every press to the power button will turn the screen on for about half a second and then it turns off. Then I have to wait about 5 sec before I can turn the screen on again but most of the time it will just repeat the same process. This is really frustuating. It appears this is less frequent if the tablet is laying flat instead of being held in hand, but I usually need to try it around 5 times before the screen will stay on.
The second problem is the screen will sometimes randomly turn off. Most of the time the screen will stay on for hours when I use it. Sometimes though, it will just turn off and then I'm met with the first problem. This is a sudden shutoff with no warning. Other times the right side of the screen will glow really bright before turning off. It appears to happen more frequently when I'm moving the tablet.
I'm using a rooted stock ICS rom. I'm pretty sure this is a hardware problem. Has anyone encountered this before? Is this something I can fix myself?
Thanks
I had the same prob many times. For me it was doing it real bad before i rooted. It is likely nothing serious. Could your lower frequency be too low? Try Katkiss. its very fast.
oddly the screen went off to the left a few mins ago. i never had that before but everything is back to normal it seems
I just flashed KatKiss 4.2 rom unto my TF101. Problem persists. At least the tablet is fast enough to be usable now.
I had this same problem...
It turns out that one of the kids had dropped the tablet and it bent the frame enough that it was putting pressure on the power button.
Yea sounds like the power button is either getting stuck, or it is faulty
I bought a used GS6 a few days ago and several times the phone has either randomly rebooted, froze up, black screen, laggy etc. Several times when this has happened it appears as though the phone is still on but there is a black screen. Other times the phone just shuts completely off as far as I can tell. When this happens sometimes I can power down with pwr+vol down and get into the service screen. Other times I can't do anything at all with the phone for several minutes. In all cases when I plug it into the charger and let it charge a while it seems to come back to life.
At first I assumed this was a software problem, but after 3 data factory resets that does not appear to be the case. The problem crops up almost right away after the reset.
Then I noticed these issues always seem to start happening when the battery level gets down to about 65%. This is consistent. I can find no other consistent reason why these problems happen. When the phone is fully charged I don't seem to get these problems.
Any ideas what could be the actual problem (bad battery, bad main board, bad...) and any solutions? Thanks in advance.
I have a P900 that was left in a drawer for 2 or 3 years, never getting charged even once in all that time. Turning it on, I immediately realized something was wrong because it took forever to boot. The lock screen was so slow that the entire machine locked up for a few seconds, scrolling between pages on the launcher stuttered hard or locked up and everything else with the machine was generally the same. The web browser is unusable, even typing in a URL locks things up. The device is unusable.
So I thought the battery was obviously damaged, even charged at 100% it would be flat for sitting for maybe 2 hours with the screen off. I tried several cycles of charging to 100% then discharging and back up, but nothing seems to help. I don't have much money so I took at stab in the dark and got a cheap battery from ebay and it didn't help. I don't know if this battery is new, but it does seem to hold a charge like the device did when it was new but it's just still so slow that you can't use it.
However, one thing that I've noticed is that apps that don't touch the storage seem to work OK. I have a Spectrum TV app that once it starts up seems to be okay, but not great. Netflix seems to be okay as well after starting up. They both stutter a bit and rarely freeze. I don't know if this is relevant at all.
I'm at a loss of what else could be damaged or how to fix this. I'm in the process of cycling this new battery up and down, though I don't know if this would actually help. I just don't know how to diagnose this problem.
Okay, the problem was the battery, it just took a few hours of charging. I guess now that it can see it has a fully functioning battery that it's running as it should now. Android really should give you an error message about that instead of just slowing the whole thing down to a crawl, leaving you scratching your head.
This strange thing happened to me also.
I was given a tablet that was not in use couple of years. It takes about one hour on charger to start booting at all, I was thinking that it don't working at all.
Then it sits on Samsung Note Pro logo about 15 minutes, then logo changed to Samsung and it took about 15 more minutes to boot in home screen.
Then i realized that it's very slow and unresponsive, I charged it to full and reset, but it's remain the same, very sluggish.
Tried everything, reset it couple of times, flash rom with Odin, nothing helped.
After couple of charge-discharge cycles it starts to work like new!
I would never have thought that the battery could do that, but there it is.