hi guys, im here to discuss about my phone problem. Actually, when my phone in Gingerbread 2.3.4, the problem already there.
The problem is my phone will suddenly heat and the battery drain very fast. The only way to stop it is to reboot my phone. But it seem like everyday also heat, then i need to reboot my phone everyday.
The heat area is not battery but is bottom. Somewhere memory slot and sim card slot there. I thought is gingerbread problem, but after i upgrade it to ICS 4.0.3 the problem still the same. Any one know what is the problem? and how to solve it. I had tried factory reset, but no luck with that. I change new battery, the problem still there. I have no idea about it.
Apparently its the CPU temperature. Sensation's phone does heat up slightly quicker. Try underclocking your device.
When the CPU is heated, so will other components and also battery in some ways, and battery will recharge or discharge quicker than usual when heated. So its common.
Unless its boiling hot, its quite common.
Well, if your cpu is overclocked yes it heats up. What rom and kernel are you using? Try to go back to stock frequency (1118Mhz) and/or change kernel and see if the issue persists. If you are on stock ics rom and on stock frequency as well and as you said you already tried to change battery, did factory reset then I would say it might be a hardware issue. When I had the stock rom on my phone, it did heat up but not much and it only happened when I played some heavy games. BTW how hot is it?
yup, the CPU frequency it show 1.2ghz. The phone just suddenly heat without playing games, surfing internet or anything. It just heat up and the battery drain drain drain...........until i reboot it. or else, i believe will keep drain until the juice of battery is empty. any solution about fully reformat? i also tried RUU already. still no luck with it. other than RUU, is there any tools can really really clean up my phone software?
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yup, the CPU frequency it show 1.2ghz. The phone just suddenly heat without playing games, surfing internet or anything. It just heat up and the battery drain drain drain...........until i reboot it. or else, i believe will keep drain until the juice of battery is empty. any solution about fully reformat? i also tried RUU already. still no luck with it. other than RUU, is there any tools can really really clean up my phone software?
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You can use the custom recovery to fully format your phone's internal memory. Any Custom Recovery should do the trick.
After doind that, you can try to install any ROM you feel like, like Albinoman's CM10.1, Bruce's CM10, Viper's Sense 4.1...
The reason for your battery drain and CPU heat might be caused for some specific apps to be constantly using up your phone, you can check that in the battery information, in system settings. Look to see if your phone is constantly awake, or if its awake way too often, and also look for what app is draining more power from your battery, and get rid of it. Should make things better.
And finally you can install a different Kernel for your device, and with the right configuration, your CPU might heat up less as well as making your battery life last longer.
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yup, the CPU frequency it show 1.2ghz. The phone just suddenly heat without playing games, surfing internet or anything. It just heat up and the battery drain drain drain...........until i reboot it. or else, i believe will keep drain until the juice of battery is empty. any solution about fully reformat? i also tried RUU already. still no luck with it. other than RUU, is there any tools can really really clean up my phone software?
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My concern is you already installed a ruu so went back to full stock. If it started heating with that as well it might be some hardware fault... Try the suggestions was given above and than if the issue is still there you may consider to send it for repair?
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hardware fault? sad case. motherboard? cpu ? phone cpu is like computer cpu? can it be replace? i know motherboard can replace but not sure for cpu.
Phone CPU is different than the ones in PCs. Remember there is no fan on it so their temperature need to be monitored and controlled somehow. I'm not really into these things but as I remember you can find a good video about controlling cpu's temperatures in smartphones on the Qualcomm website. Well, there was one there before...
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I have a g2x that has absolutely horrid battery life when using WXCDMA. When using it on the go, I sometimes loose like 1% life per minute or so, getting quite warm in the process. Also, when these monsterous drains occur, it continues killing the battery while sleep.
When on wifi, the life is great. I have already tried all of the various fixes, but I haven't run across anything that would stop the wcdma modem from sucking so much power.
I'm wondering if reflashing the baseband would work? Is that file even available? Input is greatly appreciated, cause I am envious of people that can make it a full day on a charge....
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I have a g2x that has absolutely horrid battery life when using WXCDMA. When using it on the go, I sometimes loose like 1% life per minute or so, getting quite warm in the process. Also, when these monsterous drains occur, it continues killing the battery while sleep.
When on wifi, the life is great. I have already tried all of the various fixes, but I haven't run across anything that would stop the wcdma modem from sucking so much power.
I'm wondering if reflashing the baseband would work? Is that file even available? Input is greatly appreciated, cause I am envious of people that can make it a full day on a charge....
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not possible as far as i know... just try a factory reset, that is your best bet
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not possible as far as i know... just try a factory reset, that is your best bet
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Been there, done that. Flashed multiple roms also. Same issue
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have you tried getting a new sim card?
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Been there, done that. Flashed multiple roms also. Same issue
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"Flashed multiple roms" isn't helpful. Which roms did you flash? Have you tried CM7 or one based on CM?
Have you monitored your battery usage to figure out which apps are eating up your battery?
Do you turn GPS/bluetooth/wifi off when not in use?
Replaced battery (seems to help people who have over heating issues)?
The most common causes of the battery drain/overheating is a rouge app and/or just a bad battery. My battery never even gets warm. I've noticed that even after long periods of gaming or internet surfing that the phone is relatively cool, so it seems you definitely have a problem there. Finding that problem is key.
Before you jump the gun, my SETTINGS>ABOUT PHONE>BATTERY USE:
Cell Standby = 58%
Phone idle = 42%
Display = 2%
I don't know why that equals 102% but just roll with it. A good battery monitor app will tell you which specific application is eating battery. I don't use those as I don't have a need to since I don't have a problem, but check those out and report back.
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"Flashed multiple roms" isn't helpful. Which roms did you flash? Have you tried CM7 or one based on CM?
Have you monitored your battery usage to figure out which apps are eating up your battery?
Do you turn GPS/bluetooth/wifi off when not in use?
Replaced battery (seems to help people who have over heating issues)?
The most common causes of the battery drain/overheating is a rouge app and/or just a bad battery. My battery never even gets warm. I've noticed that even after long periods of gaming or internet surfing that the phone is relatively cool, so it seems you definitely have a problem there. Finding that problem is key.
Before you jump the gun, my SETTINGS>ABOUT PHONE>BATTERY USE:
Cell Standby = 58%
Phone idle = 42%
Display = 2%
I don't know why that equals 102% but just roll with it. A good battery monitor app will tell you which specific application is eating battery. I don't use those as I don't have a need to since I don't have a problem, but check those out and report back.
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I have a brand new sim card.
Yes I have tried cm 7
I haven't tried a new battery simply because its not the battery that gets really hot, its the phone, specifically the area around the camera lens.
Also it doesn't do this while on wifi.
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I think the processor is around the camera lens. I tried flashing a rom that would simply not boot. It would go from the LG screen to a black screen and hang. That is the only time my phone has been warm around the camera lens.
So try to figure out what is taxing your processor and stop it. What rom are you running? You still haven't provided enough details. What about a battery monitor? What apps do you have installed?
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I think the processor is around the camera lens. I tried flashing a rom that would simply not boot. It would go from the LG screen to a black screen and hang. That is the only time my phone has been warm around the camera lens.
So try to figure out what is taxing your processor and stop it. What rom are you running? You still haven't provided enough details. What about a battery monitor? What apps do you have installed?
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Nothing was taxing the processor. This has happened on the stock rom with no added apps. Surfing the internet is what made it warm. I used an app called watchdog to see the cpu usage and nothing even went above 40%
My sensation currently has a power drain that I can't seem to find the cause for. I'm using InsertCoin 3.4.2 with bricked kernel 1.5, using SPB shell 3D launcher, got an Anker battery, running tasker to cut data, wifi, gps, etc whenever the screen is off, setCPU running ondemand with max at 1536mhz and minimum 192mhz, etc, etc.
I fully charged my phone to 100% about two or three hours ago, and it's been pretty much left alone since. It's now down to 68%.
I've got BetterBatteryStats and SystemPanel, both showing nothing untoward, no active tasks, no wakelocks from what I can tell, etc. And according to the standard app for battery monitoring, it shows the various connections have indeed been turning off as intended, and the phone has been asleep nigh on all the time it's supposed to be.
Any ideas what's going on, or how I could look into it deeper?
I've just been playing with the phone pretty much non stop since I started this thread an hour ago, and the battery level is now at 60%. So that means it's actually consuming MORE power when it's not even in use!
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I've just been playing with the phone pretty much non stop since I started this thread an hour ago, and the battery level is now at 60%. So that means it's actually consuming MORE power when it's not even in use!
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Hi,
There is a lot of talk about battery consumption,and it's causes.
Most people will suggest trying a different kernel,or downclock it to 1.2 GHZ.
I've tried different kernels already, and underclocking the cpu seems to make little difference. As I say, setCPU should be knocking it down to 192mhz whenever the screen is off anyway!
StuartTheFish said:
I've tried different kernels already, and underclocking the cpu seems to make little difference. As I say, setCPU should be knocking it down to 192mhz whenever the screen is off anyway!
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Hi,
Is your ROM a 2.3.4 base or 2.3.5 ?
2.3.5 mate. It's InsertCoin 3.4.2, with sense 3.5 (which I'm not using in favour of SPB).
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2.3.5 mate. It's InsertCoin 3.4.2, with sense 3.5 (which I'm not using in favour of SPB).
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Hi,
I was going to suggest bricked 0.9.1 with a 2.3.4 ROM,because my son has had great results on his Sensation.
I do not know IC well enough to help.
Sorry.
No problem, thanks for your input anyway.
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No problem, thanks for your input anyway.
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1)Try his new test version of bricked(beta4).
http://code.google.com/p/bricked/downloads/list
2)Charge to 100
3)Turn off, wait till green, unplug and plugin(bump charging)
4)Boot to recovery thru bootloader and wipe battery stats and then reboot unplugged
Drain you battery to 1, then charge up and repeat for a few days. And you can lower the clockspeed since you're using ondemand, you won't see a speed difference with 1.2 and higher. Oh and use ultra smooth rosie so the home will be faster...And see which apps are open in B/G.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302914
With the exception of trying the beta bricked kernel, I've already done all that when I first got my anker battery. It's not a calibration issue, it's that something is actually draining the battery even when it should be asleep.
And that rosie change isn't needed, as I'm not even using sense in the first place. I've got no real issues with how the phone actually performs as everything is already perfectly smooth. The only slight issue I have is since flashing the amaze camera, on rare occasions it can lock up when exiting it, requiring a battery pull to get going again.
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With the exception of trying the beta bricked kernel, I've already done all that when I first got my anker battery. It's not a calibration issue, it's that something is actually draining the battery even when it should be asleep.
And that rosie change isn't needed, as I'm not even using sense in the first place. I've got no real issues with how the phone actually performs as everything is already perfectly smooth. The only slight issue I have is since flashing the amaze camera, on rare occasions it can lock up when exiting it, requiring a battery pull to get going again.
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Oops missed the part about SPB, I have been having similar issues but with Faux's kernel after using Amaze cam, but I doubt that could cause sleep drain. I think you drain is caused by the phone not entering "Deep Sleep", some rogue app is keeping the phone partially awake and sucking up juice. I'm gonna go on a hunch and say the phone is running around 1.x GHz while screen if off due to the app.
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With the exception of trying the beta bricked kernel, I've already done all that when I first got my anker battery. It's not a calibration issue, it's that something is actually draining the battery even when it should be asleep.
And that rosie change isn't needed, as I'm not even using sense in the first place. I've got no real issues with how the phone actually performs as everything is already perfectly smooth. The only slight issue I have is since flashing the amaze camera, on rare occasions it can lock up when exiting it, requiring a battery pull to get going again.
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Hopefully mine can help you. I also noticed HUGE battery drain issues in the past using Bricked Kernel, so I then reverted to stock. Battery was GREAT, but the stock kernel blows. So yeah, I went back to bricked and using the 3rd? beta right now. My battery started dropping like crazy again, so I thought it was the kernel. Before, I used bricked and it was fine so again, I couldn't really blame the kernel. What I tried after that is deleteing my OC app (I've used both SetCPU and System Tuner) and since then, battery is great again! You can try this and hopefully it'll help!
Tried that already as I too suspected the OC app a few days ago. Made no improvements to battery life, so I've put it back on today. Not tried a different kernel yet though, as I'd read that the bricked kernel was the best choice with InsertCoin? I used faux123's kernel first of all, but found it ran hot and kept crashing...
Down to 30% now by the way.
Ace42 said:
I think you drain is caused by the phone not entering "Deep Sleep", some rogue app is keeping the phone partially awake and sucking up juice. I'm gonna go on a hunch and say the phone is running around 1.x GHz while screen if off due to the app.
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That's what I'm suspecting too, but I don't know how to go about finding it. I've looked with SystemPanel and BetterBatteryStats and haven't spotted anything, but that could just be because I'm not 100% on what to look for. And why would setCPU not be overriding it and making it clock down to 192mhz whenever the screen is off anyway? Isn't that it's job?
Then try the stock and see if it's still draining. When I tried stock and everything was great, I just simply assumed that it wasn't an app. It was the kernel!
I'm not convinced it's the kernel though, as if it was then battery life would have been crap ever since I flashed it. It hasn't been, it's only been bad for the past few days. Are there any links to the stock kernel just in case I can't find anything else?
- mine is 24 hrs
- heavy use 16 hrs
. Used some aninations only
. Turn off wifi when not in use
. Used only 20% brightness
. Used juice defender
. Downclock to 1.2 ghz intellideman
And ofc my kernel and rom that im using right now!
Thank me if I helped
I use bricked and i actually got better batter out of it but itsn still not up to par.. However fauxs ran faster but my phone was getting up to 47C... Way too hot.. I don't know why mines running so hot.. Using coredroid 2.6. 1.5 bricked kernel. wiped dalv and cache and battery stats... blah.. any input? i had setcpu and deleted it.
SetCPU is uninstalled again now to see if it was causing anything, and there's still a drain on the battery when it should be sleeping. Does anyone have any tips on how to find what's keeping it awake? It's been fully charged again, been unplugged for just one hour and it's down to 80% battery. Not even been using it apart from me flashing the InsertCoin Bravia addition onto it, making it 3.4.3.
One thing I have noticed though, is that BetterBatteryStats says the RILJ dialler has been running for 5m 33s since it was last charged, 775 times, 8.9%. This is on the partial wakelocks screen, whatever they are. Everything else listed is under 1%, with the only exception being the alarm at 1.6%. What does this mean?
Hey guys,
I have a one big fat problem. Ever since I installed my very first custom ROM a battery drain on my Sensation became unacceptable. And it doesn't matter if I'm using a senseless rom or not. I also tried many different kernels with no luck at all. I never had those issues when I was using the stock rom. It never gets under like 200mAh even while sleeping, and when woke it sometimes gets even to 1000maH(!) while browsing internet and such. So is there anything I could possibly screw up or forget to do that may cause this problem? Help would be very much appreciated as I am really tired of charging my phone every 4 hours
Firstly download a few monitoring apps, Use them over the next few days and try to find out whether its app related.. ( i use watchdog ) there are many out there...
Do not overclock your CPU, Adjust settings for battery performance, Such as auto brightness, Turning off wifi / gps / data / BT and such when not using... See whether this helps or not
finally, if the above steps dont find anything, Try and 'calibrate' your battery... To do this, Run the phone down to zero battery, then switch it on again just to make sure its completely dead and will not power on at all... Then charge it fully to 100% no pauses.. When complete, boot into recovery and delete battery stats.
If all of them fail i would start thinking that the battery may be faulty.. But most extreme battery drains are caused by one of the above
for a few weeks, my one s battery cant pass through 2-2.5 hours of screen time although it used to be something like 4 hours.
i tried to full reset, didnt help.
even noticed that games are lagging, like music hero and subway surfers to the point it can fail me.
most of the time the screen brighness set on 30%, wifi mostly off, gps off, sync off. only 3g is on.
i got s4 version running 2.21 software stock locked unrotted nothing.
as it is from the manufacture.
i dont use alot of apps, mostly basic ones like whatsapp chrome shazam and few more.
i dont think its some bad app which draning my batt, also the phone is 2 month old.
all this time, the phone didnt do any problems but 2 days ago for the first time after unlock the screen phone had restart.
could it be that after 2 months my battery is dying?
If you say that games are lagging there could be something draining your cpu... This could also explain the battery drain.
In the battery stats, what app/task is draining most?
Well, screen by far... No special app drains..
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Well, screen by far... No special app drains..
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Try turning down your screen brightness.
If it's really bad I'd try a reset
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BetterBatteryStats and Carat. Take a BBS dump after a day's use and you should see what's causing major issues. Carat will take care of anything else after a few weeks by showing you what apps are using serious battery power.
it is unlikely that she dies. What radio are you using?
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Why dont you install a Custom ROM for testing if this problem still shows up ? Like someone mentioned above something is fu*** up your CPU for some reason and this is the reason why your battery is going down very fast.
Some questions:
- Do you run any "battery saver" or any other app in the background (except Facebook,WhatsApp,GMail,..)
- Do you charge your battery from totally 0% (when your phone doesnt boot anymore) to full 100% ? It could be a battery de-calibration but this not really explains your lagging problems
i dont want a custom rom because i still want my warranty.
i dont run any battery saver app in background.
i charged the phone from 0 to 100 few weeks ago.
for 2 days im trying to be on gsm only and its seems battery have been improved by almost an hour.
there are less lags in games also and the device is feeling faster.
could be a radio problem?
i have full reception most of the time.
maybe the diztronic skin interrupting radio or something?
in few days carat will give me a report and ill see what he suggest.
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i dont want a custom rom because i still want my warranty.
i dont run any battery saver app in background.
i charged the phone from 0 to 100 few weeks ago.
for 2 days im trying to be on gsm only and its seems battery have been improved by almost an hour.
there are less lags in games also and the device is feeling faster.
could be a radio problem?
i have full reception most of the time.
maybe the diztronic skin interrupting radio or something?
in few days carat will give me a report and ill see what he suggest.
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I understand your argument but if you follow the guides step by step you will succeed. Even if you fail,you still have multiple ways to recover your phone. My broadband chip was broken and i lost my IMEI (Galaxy S1) and i had a custom ROM installed and the support still repaired it.
Maybe you need to calibrate your battery. If you only charged it once it doenst really helps.
Dont know,maybe it could be a radio problem.
You have a skin installed? If you rooted your device the warranty still could be gone.
i dont want to root the device cuz of warrenty.
i have diztronic case from amazon.
and i heared recharging the battery from 0-100 could harm your battery for long term and shorten the battery life.
pookipsy said:
i dont want to root the device cuz of warrenty.
i have diztronic case from amazon.
and i heared recharging the battery from 0-100 could harm your battery for long term and shorten the battery life.
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No. I don't know where you got that from but It's crap. It doesn't harm your battery, in fact it is better than charging from 60%.
GSM only does NOT affect gameplay. Maybe battery, but not gameplay. Somehow I think you're trolling everyone.
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im not trolling, i love this phone and really wondered maybe i did something wrong with it..
gsm only shouldnt affect games but maybe its affecting something else which affect games.
maybe its a software issue or drivers.
Guys, stop being idiotic. "Battery calibration" might as well be telling the person to charge the phone while hopping on one foot and rubbing his other.
It's quite simple. Post screenshots of the top of the list for partial wakelock, process, and kernel wakelock. This will help diagnose battery drain problems. Carat will slowly build a list of battery drainers that you can also use to identify issues.
And please make sure you're not using any task killers or similar apps as they cause more harm than good and are big no-no's on Android.
Speaking of Custom ROMs, I'm not sure what the rules are where you live, but where I live, unlocking the bootloader does not void the warranty, so flashing custom ROMs is perfectly safe, just make sure to make a backup first.
And yes, battery calibration is not possible, as these batteries doesn't have any "memory".
Where i live the warranty void sadly.
Im still waiting for carat report but for this moment, using gsm only + wifi instead of auto wcdma/gsm, seems to make my battery life normal - almost 4 hours screen time.
Hi guys. I have a problem regarding heat with my g930f. After updating to Nougat the phone started to heat in the area of power button. It doesn't matter what app I am using it randomly starts to heat. The device is rooted and now running Superman rom with super stock kernel. The battery is draining like hell when the heat occurs. Installed BBS and monitor what is causing the drain. In most of the cases says Android system and/or wifi. What I noticed is that I can't fully turn off the wifi. It doesn't matter what the icon shows - off or on, BBS says that the wifi is 100% of the time on. Besides the device goes to deep sleep normally and when is in that state the battery drain is very low - 2% for 8 hours. The SOT is no more than 2 hours which is very bad. Tried stock rom, superman rom there is no difference with heating. The most interesting thing to me is that the heating problem occurs randomly - scrolling browser, watching youtube, playing games, listening music - sometimes it happens sometimes not. Still didn't tried to rollback to MM but frankly I don't want to. I just like Nougat. Any suggestions or ideas what to do will be appreciated. Cheers
Wifi might be locked on due to location services. Connections->Location->Improve accuracy.
Otherwise the low SOT suggests somethings hogging the CPU. Did you factory reset when you upgraded? Have you tried seeing if this happens in Safe Mode?
CurtisMJ said:
Wifi might be locked on due to location services. Connections->Location->Improve accuracy.
Otherwise the low SOT suggests somethings hogging the CPU. Did you factory reset when you upgraded? Have you tried seeing if this happens in Safe Mode?
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The location services is set to device only. Yes, I did wiped everything couple of times before and after install. And yes did happens in Safe Mode
No one has any ideas?!
If it doesn't stop even after a full wipe and firmware flash then it might be hardware damage? The heatpipe is in the right of the device, so that could be damaged maybe? It doesn't explain the battery drain though.
CurtisMJ said:
If it doesn't stop even after a full wipe and firmware flash then it might be hardware damage? The heatpipe is in the right of the device, so that could be damaged maybe? It doesn't explain the battery drain though.
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I read heat can make these batteries discharge faster when it gets to a certain level, don't know any details though. Maybe it's worth checking out.
Good luck, OP!