Weird firmware? - RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I have recent got a RAZR HD here in the UK with JB out of the box and am having a few issues including poor performance and poor battery life along with the phone getting very warm when performing light tasks such as sending a few text messages. The other thing I have noticed is that the phone takes a very long time to charge. Around 3-4 hours.
Anyway, I have used better battery stats and narrowed down some wakelocks to what appear to be radio related things. So it got me wondering and I started looking into what firmware I have and I cannot find mention of it anywhere.
Can anyone shed some light on this as well as why it might be that I am getting some strange issues like performance. An example would be that music stutters when web browsing.
Anyway, here is a screenshot of my firmware etc:

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Does this happen to anyone else?

When I am working on something, my phone vibrates then it return to the home screen occasionally. It's bit annoying when it happens, I wanna know if someone else having this issue?
I remember hearing that it is a rare hardware glitch, although I may be wrong. It may also be because you accidently pressed the home key.
I had the same problem with mine. The home and back buttons would randomly freak out and act as if repeatedly pressed.
Took it in for a replacement and the new one has had no problems since (~5 days ago).
I also noticed in my case that the battery life seems to be much better. Would get about 12-16 hours on a charge (yes I did a full battery drain to set the chip) with moderate usage. On my new one, got about 40 hours on the first charge and 36 on the second with a fair amount of usage (email, a few hours of pandora, installing apps, and a few random voice calls).
Sebby1234 said:
I had the same problem with mine. The home and back buttons would randomly freak out and act as if repeatedly pressed.
Took it in for a replacement and the new one has had no problems since (~5 days ago).
I also noticed in my case that the battery life seems to be much better. Would get about 12-16 hours on a charge (yes I did a full battery drain to set the chip) with moderate usage. On my new one, got about 40 hours on the first charge and 36 on the second with a fair amount of usage (email, a few hours of pandora, installing apps, and a few random voice calls).
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Okay, I think I will get mine replaced. Thanks for the reply.
I just got my phone replaced this afternoon. So far no home screen glitch (~5 hour).
what firmware's are your phone's showing? I'm wondering if ATT put any updates on the phones now vice the first ones that were released. If so, I'll turn my phone in and see if I can't get some sort of improved battery life. I've noticed that a cell call really does kill my battery as well.
Crank
Mine loaded up the browser today and was on porno sites, i have rarely even used the browser and for that to pop up was weird. Also alot of my att apps like to start themselves when the phone is in sleep mode, weird. Has anyone else had a really bad signal where it used to be great, im coming from a blackberry bold 9000 and that thing had great reception, this one is best at mediocre.

Quick battery drain & constant data being sent since 1.78 OTA

Hi,
I've got an HTC One S since a few weeks (got it with the 1.57 FW I think). It's a stock one, not from a carrier. No branding.
The battery life was great, 2 to 3 days with normal use.
But yesterday evening I proceeded to the OTA update and since then, trouble began
Battery life is much, much lower. After 12 hours standing on my desk in the office, I got 10% remaining!
Anytime I switch the screen ON, I see there is some data being sent (or received) because the "arrows" are full. If I check in system panel lite, there's always 1 or 2 kb/s of traffic.
Also, the phone is a bit warm, quite often.
Has anyone else noticed this? That's rather annoying :/
Could be faulty? I have the same phone with no carrier or branding and not had any problems at all.
Like faulty hardware? Seems unlikely to me since it worked well with 1.57. Also, sending data isn't hardware related
Here are some details.
In Mobile usage, just for today (less than 24h)
"Media" has used 13MB of background data
"Android OS" has used 5MB, also background
Android OS gives no more details. Media is told to include "Download manager" "DRM protected content storage" "Media storage" and "Downloads"
This sounds like a lot of background data :/
Try an app called Badass Battery monitor. It should tell you what's eating your battery.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
Sent from my rooted and debloated T Mobile HTC One S
I have to say, this phone, at least mines, seems to have a pretty bi polar battery. It's got a case of ADHD.
For example, just the other day, I had the phone fully charged when I awoke at 9am, after playing Temple Run, surfing the web, using GPS, streaming and listening to music, playing more Temple Run, fiddling around with the OS, checking emails, sending texts, talking on the phone a bit, downloading apps, with about 25-30% brightness, I ended up with 18% battery remaining after a good 11 hours of very heavy use. I was quite pleased, considering the inordinate amount of usage I had with the phone all day.
(BTW, I use Juice Defender, which has helped tons in reducing battery drainage for almost every phone I've owned in the past 3 months, including the One S)
Yesterday, I had the phone charged at 100% when I awoke at 9am, with a little bit of use, by 12am, I had 63% remaining, same brightness, but with much much less use then the day prior. By the time 3pm hit, I was at about 30%, and by 5pm, it was drained to 18%, mostly on standby. By my estimation, that's 8 hours of usage, same brightness levels as the day before, using Juice Defender, but with much much less fiddling around with pretty much everything on the device.
I went ahead and disabled Juice Defender today to see if it would make a difference, and the battery actually got a bit worse, so I went ahead and re-enabled it and it immediately improved.
So I'm a bit perplexed, I haven't gotten any official updates, still running on the original stock build, but ultimately, I guess this is what is too be expected with an early build. Hopefully future updates WILL fix these issues and not hinder them more. Granted it's still much better then my HTC Amaze and Galaxy Nexus, which drained 4% the moment I took them off charger.
Thanks for your input, I'll check again today how the phone goes.
I played with all the settings and menus yesterday, and found something strange. In the "downloads" app, there was a "system update" download. That's quite normal since I downloaded and applied the OTA the day before. But it was referred as "ongoing", like it was still downloading a part of the OTA zip file AFTER I applied it (and rebooted a couple of times)
In phone settings, about, updates, it was also written "ongoing"
Now this is over (I don't know why and how) and the network usage seems back to normal. I'll try today to see how the battery drain is
Anyway, it's s strange the phone was still downloading the update zip file after having applied it. AND that it was downloading it on the 3G at a very lowered bitrate (like background) while I downloaded it on the wifi the day before
Anyway...
The battery life of my One S seems to have declined as well since the update. Before the update my battery lasted 2 days easily with moderate usage. Now I have 20-30% left at the end of the day from a full charge since 9am. This is with very light usage (mostly on standby from 9 to 5).
I did turn on best wifi performance recently so I just to turned that off to see if it helps but I really doubt that.
Hello guys, I have same problem, but my phone wasting energy on "phone radio" process, just look at screens below. I tried using stock Rom with last update, trickdroid, and now it happend on leedroid v.2 . Btw I changed 4 micro sim cards with several providers, but no result. I really need help with this issue, because my battery draining very very
fast...
Thank you
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA
I had a similar problem a few days ago, using Lee´s ROM.
I noticed that the drain had something to do with autosync. As soon as I turned off autosync (leaving mobile internet on) drainage went back to normal.
I still don´t know what caused this since I only had the google account, weather and dropbox installed.
Anyway, after doing a fresh install, the problems seem to have gone.
Of course I can´t be completely certain of it until some more days of testing/usage.
I also noticed quite a few problems since the latest OTA update.
Not only does the battery drain fast, the phone also feels extremely hot when browsing on 3G.
The phone does cool down pretty quickly when turning off 3G but it feels like I burned my hands
Here are a few screenshots.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52039330/2012-05-10_13-46-08.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52039330/2012-05-10_13-51-52.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52039330/2012-05-10_13-59-10.png
I also experienced weird things when connected to EDGE (2.75G).
3G (HSPA) coverage on BASE (KPN) sucks in Belgium
Look at the video below for more details.
Has anyone else experienced this yet?
http://youtu.be/3g8FLpWDAYM
I also contacted HTC about this issue and they recommended a hard reset.
Unfortunately this doesn't help at all, I still get these weird glitches
mattionline, can you get a logcat when the phone's doing this weird stuff? It looks like the Home button is being pressed repeatedly and if logcat confirms it then it's probably a hardware problem.
keinengel said:
mattionline, can you get a logcat when the phone's doing this weird stuff? It looks like the Home button is being pressed repeatedly and if logcat confirms it then it's probably a hardware problem.
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Do you need root to make a logcat ? My phone is not rooted and I'm not planning to do it. How can this be a hardware problem ? I never had this problem before. I'm sure that it's a software bug.
Bricolo_fr said:
Here are some details.
In Mobile usage, just for today (less than 24h)
"Media" has used 13MB of background data
"Android OS" has used 5MB, also background
Android OS gives no more details. Media is told to include "Download manager" "DRM protected content storage" "Media storage" and "Downloads"
This sounds like a lot of background data :/
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I just fixed someone else phone that had the exact same symptoms. In the end I narrowed down the problem to one of his weather apps.
He had a live wallpaper that reflected the current weather, weather on his lock screen and a beautiful widgets weather thing. I never did figure out exactly which one it was I just turned off all there and told him he was crazy.
I don't know if it's something "weather" related for you but it maybe it will help.
mattionline said:
Do you need root to make a logcat ? My phone is not rooted and I'm not planning to do it. How can this be a hardware problem ? I never had this problem before. I'm sure that it's a software bug.
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you don't need root, just enable usb debugging in development options and connect the phone to your pc. You need to have the android sdk installed.
Sup guys , some of you don't seem to realize that there are many reasons why your battery drains, what you might think is, "quickly". A few tips to keep minimal battery out put...1 keep brightness down, the screen itself sucks juice probably the most. 2 check your apps, some apps send and receive data and/or are kept running in the background. You might have to enable/disable setting on shove apps. 3 widgets, widgets like battery meters, CPU meters, things like this constantly refresh to keep real time info. That also eats up alot of juice . 4 Turn off WiFi or any other thing like that when your not using it. WiFi continually sucks nice. Lastly, invest in some app that will help you close apps. Basically, tweek everything you might think that the os can run without. The less your CPU has to do, the more juce you save.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA
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[...]I just turned off all there and told him he was crazy.
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This made me lol hard.
Best advice ever.
But yeah, on the 1.0 version of Leedroid I had quite some drain, too.
When I turned off autosync it went back to normale. I only had my google account, dropbox (with syncing off) and the weather thingy set up and never figured out which one was resposible.
After installing Lee´s 2.0 ROM everything is fine.
I suppose there really is something wrong with the autosync and maybe with the weather stuff in particular.
My problem didn't go away with stopping auto sync, even without it, I had a constant data flow
Anyway, I rebooted the phone twice and the issue was gone.
It happened again a few days later, after the phone did shut down because of low battery. I put it on charger and turned it on, then, I noticed the 3G arrows were always on. After I unplugged it from the charger the battery went down in 10 hours. After a reboot, problem gone...
Since then, nothing...
And please note than when the problem is here, it's media and android os using a lot of data
I have been having one S problems too - I am on my second phone after the first one became reliably unresponsive every time I turned on mobile data. More relevant to this discussion, my battery died shockingly last night. Normally it drains at a few percent an hour when I am not using it (i.e. when asleep!) but I woke this morning to find it totally dead - that is 30% plus gone in 5 hours without it being in use.

Can MB1/MF1 Firmware Kill Battery Life?

I've been running Synergy/Ziggy combo for a while now and recently noticed I'd drop network connection while still being able to do regular phone stuff (text/call). I discovered I was running KT1 or some other older baseband and figured I'd throw on MF1 with an AIO zip install. After figuring out a workaround to getting the camera to work I was psyched as 4g lte was coming in strong and speeds seemed to have resumed their regular pace.
Problem is that I've noticed my battery life has pretty much crapped the bed now. I used to ride to work with Pandora playing with wired headphones and noticed I'd get to work with about 95%+ battery life. By the time I was at work, it showed high 80s. With very minimal use by lunch time I was showing down to the high/mid 60% mark where I'm still usually at around 70-80% with random facebooking, texting and instagram stuff. None of which I really did as I wanted to see whether the battery death was in my imagination.
Anyone else notice issues with battery life after flashing new firmware? Is it possible my phone's still working out which towers to lock onto with the new antenna?
Look at your battery stats, if android system is at the top, then you need to do more investigating. I would fix permissions and or flash the kernel again to start.
Surge1223

[Completed] Strange android system battery draining

Hello everyone!
I own a LG G3 D855 and from the moment I bought it, I've noticed problems regarding battery life. After some resets, the store changed my battery. Despite this, it remained more or less the same. I usually never pass 3 hours of screen-on-time (no gaming!) with a full charge. After that, I considered it was due to the 2K display and reports around the internet talk about 4 hours with this phone, so I became thinking it was quite normal to have this battery life (asking your opinion, guys). Notice I usually have wifi on; 3g, nfc and gps turned off.
However there's a second problem. Sometimes, at random days, like it happen today, I get android system using more battery than the screen (around 50-60%).
I'm avoiding sending it over to the warranty, because I'll be 30 days without the phone and not sure they're figure out the problem.
Any help?
PS: I'm running stock Lollipop, haven't rooted yet. Same behaviour when I had 4.4
XDA Visitor said:
Hello everyone!
I own a LG G3 D855 and from the moment I bought it, I've noticed problems regarding battery life. After some resets, the store changed my battery. Despite this, it remained more or less the same. I usually never pass 3 hours of screen-on-time (no gaming!) with a full charge. After that, I considered it was due to the 2K display and reports around the internet talk about 4 hours with this phone, so I became thinking it was quite normal to have this battery life (asking your opinion, guys). Notice I usually have wifi on; 3g, nfc and gps turned off.
However there's a second problem. Sometimes, at random days, like it happen today, I get android system using more battery than the screen (around 50-60%).
I'm avoiding sending it over to the warranty, because I'll be 30 days without the phone and not sure they're figure out the problem.
Any help?
PS: I'm running stock Lollipop, haven't rooted yet. Same behaviour when I had 4.4
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Battery life ... oh there are many different fators that influence the battery life.
For example: The battery (capacity and health), the firmware (many the kernel), the apps, the usage, the system/apps settings, the temperature, the (wifi and/or mobile) signal strength, etc.
So it's hard to say if your battery life is "normal" or not.
For detailed discussion about the battery life on your device, please post in the G3 General > Battery Life Discussion thread.
If you think your battery is fine and suspect an app draining your battery, I recommend to install and use Better Battery Stats (BBS) app.
For some stats you will need to root your phone though. But you can record all stats and post a dumpfile from the app to the app thread, and the "experts" will analyze it for you ... helping to identify the culprit.
Thread closed. Thank you!

bad battery only while playing

hi,
I already had a thread some months ago, I was thinking qi loading damaged the battery but ordered a new battery and it changed nothing.
later I noticed that the battery runs normal while not playing. I can use the phone for 2-3 days. but while playing after 30-40min the battery ist down to 20%. (mostly hearthstone / rayman)
it's a second hand phone and the old owner had a custom rom running. right now I'm on stock. I would like to know if you could messed up something what can't be fixed by just installing everything clean and stock?
I'm not sure but the display seems also completly like new, but the backcover is messed, like he changed the display, could there be errors while changing display which cause this problem?
hi, I'm back here again.
still can't find a solution to this problem. I don't know if it's unusual because compared to some youtube videos it is.
I run antutu completly stock and got 55.3k antutu while it drained 8% of the battery doing that. could there be some permanent changes even if I'm completly stocked like changed volt table? even if the phone is flashed stock afterwards?
Hey,
I've been using a Samsung QI charger an my N5 for a while now and recently noticed that my battery has been draining faster then before. I don't usually play a lot of games in this phone but when watching videos or playing music for a while the battery dies fast.
To begin with I thought it might have been the battery bug bit it isn't, I checked the location settings that drain the battery and the WiFi scanning interval but they're both off/ not the cause for the battery draining fast. I even went as far to changing the batter to the one I have in my other broken n5 but it didn't seem to change anything and I know that battery herd a charge good.
Now I'm thinking it may be a bug in my ROM (Resurrection Remix) or too many background processes.
I installed Multirom and broken is and the battery seems to last longer so I may have fixed my issue.
You may be able to find a solution in one of the things I tried. Good luck!
PS Rayman is an awesome game!

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