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
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Sometimes when I grab the phone out of my pocket and I press the power key to enable the screen, I discover that it is off :S. When I press the reset button it will start again, but it seems strange to me. You guys have a suggestion of what it could be?
Hmm, this sound familiar...
I've just posted re battery life and my phone waking up all by itself, but now I come to think of it I've seen this happen as well - or my phone just soft reset itself randomly occasionally.
I wonder if they are related problems...
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When I press the normal power it won't start up, so it isn't totally shut down though. Only a reset will do it. Very annoying.
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When I press the normal power it won't start up, so it isn't totally shut down though. Only a reset will do it. Very annoying.
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Mine has started and shutting
NOT powering up with the power key or
the soft reset. I literally have to
pop the battery out and back in to start
up the phone. ???
If your phone is randomly turning off...yet it turns back on...your battery may be reaching its end. How long have you had the phone? My dash used to tend to do this when it was reaching the end of its battery life...it wouldn't just...run down. I noticed a decrease in battery life, but the moment the phone needed heavy usage (internet, messaging) the battery couldn't dish out enough power and it'd just turn off...this would even happen in my pocket if enough calls or texts came through...then when I'd go to check, it'd be off.
It's not that, I'm assuming, it's the phone. I just bought a new HTC Touch Pro 2 Days ago, and it does the same thing. It randomly shuts down, and it even overheats, and I have 3 batteries for the phone because I use my phone extensively. Sad thing is, this phone was to be more powerful then my 6800 and so far, it's failing.
Well, then I'm assuming its time for a replacement, lol. I've had mine for a while now, never had that issue. Never had that issue with any phone except my Dash when the battery took a dump.
My phone is 2.5 weeks old. I would hope they battery wasn't dying already, but who knows. The keyboard quit today and the screen has been acting funny too. Like when it goes into "sleep mode" the screen fades but you can still see the buttons to unlock the phone and the buttons on the bottom are all lit up and won't turn off.
The screen is incredibly wiggly too... This happened after I took my phone to a local sprint store. They put the phone casing on it to show me what it would look like and then the guy yanked it off my phone.
I am starting to wonder if some of this is not related to that.
So, since the keyboard died today.. Asurion is sending me another replacement phone... Guess we will see.
I think my problem has something to do with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3748976#post3748976
I recently have found that this happens to me whenever I turn the feature where it disconnects from EDGE when my device goes to sleep. However, when I turn that off and let EDGE continue to be on while my phone is in sleep I don't get this problem anymore. I have it checking my email every 5 minutes if that makes any difference.
alright dudes and dudettes.
i have the same issues more often than i would like.
it powers itself off and the only thing i cna do is soft reset. also sometimes when i wake the phone up, my plasma theme is distorted it still slides across but everything distorts and i cannot access any progs.
it is an annoying issue.
any fixes ideasm, help would be top. thanks..
So I hit the power button to put the tablet into standby and put it on my nightstand. A few hours later I came back to use it and it was stuck on a black screen and the tablet was very hot. It seemed like the the screen wasn't really "on," but the backlight was so it just looked like a black screen. I held the power button to turn it off and I then turn it back on. I took it out of its' leather case while it was rebooting and it was very hot. So hot I couldn't hold it for very long. I checked Battery Widget? Reborn! Pro to see what the battery temp was at. The app read it at 107 degrees Fahrenheit. I turned off the tablet let it cool a bit, then restarted it. Everything seemed fine and performed normally. For some reason airplane mode was activated when I initially restarted the tablet. It seems to do that when Tasker shut it down after the 3 hours of the screen being off. The thing is, I uninstalled Tasker a day ago.
Is there any chance this caused damage inside the tablet that may turn up later?
Anyone know why or how this happened?
Thanks,
Aaron
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So I hit the power button to put the tablet into standby and put it on my nightstand. A few hours later I came back to use it and it was stuck on a black screen and the tablet was very hot. It seemed like the the screen wasn't really "on," but the backlight was so it just looked like a black screen. I held the power button to turn it off and I then turn it back on. I took it out of its' leather case while it was rebooting and it was very hot. So hot I couldn't hold it for very long. I checked Battery Widget? Reborn! Pro to see what the battery temp was at. The app read it at 107 degrees Fahrenheit. I turned off the tablet let it cool a bit, then restarted it. Everything seemed fine and performed normally. For some reason airplane mode was activated when I initially restarted the tablet. It seems to do that when Tasker shut it down after the 3 hours of the screen being off. The thing is, I uninstalled Tasker a day ago.
Is there any chance this caused damage inside the tablet that may turn up later?
Anyone know why or how this happened?
Thanks,
Aaron
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If it's acting normal for 1 day with normal use, I think you're safe.
buhohitr said:
If it's acting normal for 1 day with normal use, I think you're safe.
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I'll watch it closely for a few days to make sure. I appreciate the reply. 107F doesn't sound too hot when it comes to electronics, but, man, was it hot to touch/hold.
VindictiveGnome said:
I'll watch it closely for a few days to make sure. I appreciate the reply. 107F doesn't sound too hot when it comes to electronics, but, man, was it hot to touch/hold.
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The same thing happened to me once, about two months ago. I wasn't using tasker...don't know what caused it but I may have had it on IPS+ and didn't turn it off. Anyway, I freaked, but as soon as it cooled down it seemed to work fine and has been fine ever since.
okantomi said:
The same thing happened to me once, about two months ago. I wasn't using tasker...don't know what caused it but I may have had it on IPS+ and didn't turn it off. Anyway, I freaked, but as soon as it cooled down it seemed to work fine and has been fine ever since.
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Funny thing is my power button and volume rocker were kind of sticky and stiff. Since the tablet heated up, the buttons don't make a popping sensation or feel stiff when I press them. Haha. Amazing.
Hi, I'm very new and also very frustrated with my tablet. I got it as a hand-me-down from my brother, and I think he got it in late 2012. I have had many problems with the tablet so I've tried cold-booting it but lo and behold! the cold boot won't work either.
First off, the keyboard does not work. USB keys are recognized and the trackpad works, but the keyboard doesn't.
At random times every 10 minutes or so the tablet shut off. I couldn't get it on unless I waited a very long time (10min-1hr).
Since the last time it's shut off, I can't turn on the tablet completely. Sometimes it went to the loop/loading screen and then the screen went black, or it wouldn't even get to the loading screen at all. I tried a cold boot once but it showed the dead Android icon with a red ! and it said error.
When I plug in the tablet the power button light flashes orange twice and then green. The keyboard dock light is orange.
I've tied doing a cold boot for the past evening but the screen doesn't even turn on, even when I've been holding the buttons down for nearly five minutes.
I've had this tablet for only a day and a half. I'm thinking the problems are because the tablet has been dropped and the corner between the power and volume buttons is damaged; also, the tablet hasn't been in use for a good 6-8 months.
Should I just forget about the tablet? I don' think I can send it in for repairs because it has physical damage.
I've been using my Nexus 5 for about 5 months now. Recently my phone have been having this "ghost touch" issue. My phone have a cracked screen so maybe that's the problem but I'm not entirely sure. Sometimes the touch screen doesn't work, sometimes it just presses at a spot repeatedly. The second problem is my phone sometimes dies at 80-70% battery if I play a game, use camera, or stream video. When it dies I can't turn it back on as it will die again while rebooting. It can only be turned back on by plugging it to a charger. Third is, when my phone dies or I shut it off, sometimes it will go to the "Android is starting. Optimizing app x of 152.". As I was typing this question, my phone rapidly pressed the recent screen button multiple times. Help is needed as I can't afford a new phone. The battery problem is really getting under my skin as I love to take pictures but I cant really do that properly with my phone connected to a powerbank.
Sounds like a shot battery
Hello guys
After about 2 month, this is actually the first time I have experienced such a problem with my Z5p...
I was using telegram and somehow the device became unresponsive! (nothing worked)
I though maybe it's related to the overheating issue and immediately touched the back of the phone and it was pretty cool like always!
I have decided to leave it alone for a few minutes, so maybe it become responsive again...
However when I grabbed the phone again it was uncomfortably hot and still unresponsive!
I had to press power and volume up buttons to reset the phone! after a few minutes I turned it on and everything was normal!
Well my question is, does the phone turn off automatically reaching certain temperature even in that situation (unresponsive) to prevent hardware damage?
I'm worried if my phone is damaged somehow....