So I upgraded to JB via OTA yesterday with no problems. Today I'm reading an article on Chrome and the tablet screen shuts off and after a few seconds it looks like it's in the process of rebooting so I set it down and leave thinking it'll be booted up again when I come back but I was confused why it rebooted in the first place.
Anyways, about an hour and a half later I come back and my tablet is super heated to the point that it burns to touch it. The screen was blank but it looked like the backlight was on or something because it wasn't the same as if the screen was actually turned off. I held the power button down several seconds until it powered off and rebooted and then I set it down by my AC so that it could cool off. After a minute or so it booted up like normal to the main screen and it showed that the battery had drained from 95% when it first happened to 37% so it was obviously stuck doing something very CPU intensive during that hour and a half.
Does anyone have a clue what happened and if I should do something? I just bought this tablet from Best Buy yesterday without their additional warranty but should I either take it back there or possibly contact ASUS of a replacement or something? I know how bad that kind of heat is for computer components and it bothers me it was like that even for 1.5 hours. Also my tablet has not been rooted so it was completely stock save for the few apps I've installed so far.
Thanks in advance!
Had the exact same thing happen to mine about a month ago. Was worried afterwards that the excessive heat would have caused damage but so far have not seen any ill effects.
Falchion17 said:
So I upgraded to JB via OTA yesterday with no problems. Today I'm reading an article on Chrome and the tablet screen shuts off and after a few seconds it looks like it's in the process of rebooting so I set it down and leave thinking it'll be booted up again when I come back but I was confused why it rebooted in the first place.
Anyways, about an hour and a half later I come back and my tablet is super heated to the point that it burns to touch it. The screen was blank but it looked like the backlight was on or something because it wasn't the same as if the screen was actually turned off. I held the power button down several seconds until it powered off and rebooted and then I set it down by my AC so that it could cool off. After a minute or so it booted up like normal to the main screen and it showed that the battery had drained from 95% when it first happened to 37% so it was obviously stuck doing something very CPU intensive during that hour and a half.
Does anyone have a clue what happened and if I should do something? I just bought this tablet from Best Buy yesterday without their additional warranty but should I either take it back there or possibly contact ASUS of a replacement or something? I know how bad that kind of heat is for computer components and it bothers me it was like that even for 1.5 hours. Also my tablet has not been rooted so it was completely stock save for the few apps I've installed so far.
Thanks in advance!
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I would just take it back. Doesn't seems normal at all!
Ok well I feel a little bit better that I'm not the only one to experience this problem. It makes me nervous that this happened so I'll probably contact Asus and see what the deal is.
Hi all, I've had my HTC chacha for a year and a half. Fot the first year it worked smoothly but last six months turned into a nightmare. It started with problems with charging which today also exist. The phone doesn't charge even if it has been charging in excess of 10-12 hours overnight. Instead the percentage is decreasing until it reaches 0% percent to turn off. I overcame this problem by taking out battery and placing it back. After turning on phone again, it signalized fully charged.
What makes phone unusable is that the it constantly automatically restart itself. Usually it restarts when using applications like WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Viber or when I'm viewing a website on Opera. At first I thought it has something to do with internet but now it also restarts typing regular text messages or using camera.Tthe screen suddenly switches off and it restarts. When the phone comes back on, the battery indicator is down to 0% but after a few minutes goes back to the normal level it was (i.e. 65%).
The most interesting thing is that, while plugged for charging, I can use all this apps without restarting.
As i know that there is no isolated problem for one costumer, i suppose there is someone else who faced this proble. Also, I hope there is someone who can help me with it, I'm really frustrated not being able to use the phone regularly.
The phone is on its regular OS, never rooted. Did 2 factory resetes, didnt help.
I have s5 for VM but there's this weird problems going on with it. here are the things I have installed
1.carbon ROM 5.1.1
2.open gapps mini
3.xposed framework SDK 22 79v
With that out of the way, there's this thing where when i turn the screen on while. Charging it goes black and its give that vibration that it restart but the screen stays black for a while and then the phone will get really hot while its doin that and this only happens if the battery is over 60%.
But when it reboots fully the battery will like at 50% or a bit lower I got battery replaced with a new one and still the same. I changed to many different ROMs but its still ends the same way
Hello, everyone.
I'm using an OPO since october 2014 and I had no intention of buying a new phone in the near future. But now I'm worried about it.
Abouth three weeks ago, my phone started to freeze and reboot. At the time I was using sultan's latest ROM. I thought the problem was the latest updates and, as I wanted to test Nougat, I decided to download Lineage.
To my surprise, I kept having random freezes and reboots.
While reflashing ROMs and changing kernels, I had some reboots. Yes, self rebooting while on recovery.
So I decided to get it totally back to stock and re-start fresh.
Phone froze and restarted on COS initial config. And, after that, rebooted again when updating Gmail apps.
During these three weeks, it kept on with no reboots for, at max, around 40 hours.
Is there any way I can test my phone to determine if it's a hardware issue? It all makes me think it is. :/
Any clue is welcome.
Thanx.
Cappelletti said:
Hello, everyone.
I'm using an OPO since october 2014 and I had no intention of buying a new phone in the near future. But now I'm worried about it.
Abouth three weeks ago, my phone started to freeze and reboot. At the time I was using sultan's latest ROM. I thought the problem was the latest updates and, as I wanted to test Nougat, I decided to download Lineage.
To my surprise, I kept having random freezes and reboots.
While reflashing ROMs and changing kernels, I had some reboots. Yes, self rebooting while on recovery.
So I decided to get it totally back to stock and re-start fresh.
Phone froze and restarted on COS initial config. And, after that, rebooted again when updating Gmail apps.
During these three weeks, it kept on with no reboots for, at max, around 40 hours.
Is there any way I can test my phone to determine if it's a hardware issue? It all makes me think it is. :/
Any clue is welcome.
Thanx.
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Get your device checked at a local shop. Looks to me like a battery or logic board issue.If it's battery then you can get a replacement but if its logic board then yes,you should consider buying new device.
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Get your device checked at a local shop. Looks to me like a battery or logic board issue.If it's battery then you can get a replacement but if its logic board then yes,you should consider buying new device.
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I'm fairly sure that there is no local shop that could check it.
Right now, before checking this thread, I let the battery completely drain and now it's on the wall recharging. I'll enter recovery when it's 100% charged and do a factory reset. Then install everything back and use it for a few hours.
Let's see it that helps.
Thanx for the reply.
- phone battery completely drained
- phone battery completely charged
- booted to recovery and factory reseted
- initial COS configuration done without any freeze and/or reboot
- updating Google Apps
So far, so good.
And it rebooted twice, during apps update.
Although it updated main Google apps, it was not supposed to reboot.
:/
Hmmm...if random reboot but able to boot normally afterwards then you need to tweak the kernel a little bit but if is random reboot and then stuck at 1+ logo or bootanimation then your battery is dying....
to check whether the battery is dying just wait until next reboot...if it stuck on 1+ logo or bootanimation, turn off the phone completely then plug in the charger...it it charge for 5 minutes in offline mode then turn it on while the charger still connected...if its boot normal then it is confirmed that the battery is dying...replace a new battery as quick as possible...
I've been living with random freeze+ automatic reboot since COS13 it's a PITA but doesn't cost me anything to wait 1min until full reboot, only problem are lucky patch on boot which take longer but nothing that bad. I was never able to troubleshot the issue, usually happens to me when I receive some notification I see the LED and try to unlock but the phone stays blacked out (even though it's clearly on since notifications are shown on the LED) until I force reboot.
Over the years I tried insane amount of ROMs and kernels, nothing changed, adding to that the fact that 10% of the times when i put it in charge (original charger+cable) says 7h or 6h until full charge (and I actually have to wait all that time), I just have to unplug and try again until it fixes. It's not the charger because I tried it with other phones, so I started to assume my problems are the small board with the charging board + battery. But I never had the willing to change it. I'm "fine" with how it works.
iPusak Gaoq™ said:
Hmmm...if random reboot but able to boot normally afterwards then you need to tweak the kernel a little bit but if is random reboot and then stuck at 1+ logo or bootanimation then your battery is dying....
to check whether the battery is dying just wait until next reboot...if it stuck on 1+ logo or bootanimation, turn off the phone completely then plug in the charger...it it charge for 5 minutes in offline mode then turn it on while the charger still connected...if its boot normal then it is confirmed that the battery is dying...replace a new battery as quick as possible...
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It does not get stuck. At times, it reboots during boot. Some times (rarely) it does that for two or three times and then turns off. But most of the time it freezes, reboots and I can use it normally for hours and hours.
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I've been living with random freeze+ automatic reboot since COS13 it's a PITA but doesn't cost me anything to wait 1min until full reboot, only problem are lucky patch on boot which take longer but nothing that bad. I was never able to troubleshot the issue, usually happens to me when I receive some notification I see the LED and try to unlock but the phone stays blacked out (even though it's clearly on since notifications are shown on the LED) until I force reboot.
Over the years I tried insane amount of ROMs and kernels, nothing changed, adding to that the fact that 10% of the times when i put it in charge (original charger+cable) says 7h or 6h until full charge (and I actually have to wait all that time), I just have to unplug and try again until it fixes. It's not the charger because I tried it with other phones, so I started to assume my problems are the small board with the charging board + battery. But I never had the willing to change it. I'm "fine" with how it works.
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I'm "almost" fine with the way it works for me. As most of the time it's fully operational.
I found a OPO with damage screen for sale here. He guy didn't want too much $ for it. I bought it and will receive next week. Will try to swap logic boards.
Let's see what happens.
Was able to have logcat running when the device froze (during game) and rebooted.
Is anyone able to see any error on the log that could make the device freeze and reboot?
Got the broken screen OPO two days ago. Yesterday my phone was impossible to be used. Rebooting like hell.
I swapped logic boards and all is fine. No freezes and reboots (of course, it's pratically another phone). I kept only my screen, housing and battery.
My logic board had a 2.5 sticker on it. The one I got now has a 2.1 sticker. Does anyone know what's that about?
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.