My S10e is getting hot and has weird colors - Samsung Galaxy S10e Questions & Answers

Hi,
My S10e started to have low contrast (very poor back value) and is runny very hot in battery mode. When plugged in the phone is fine.
The behavior usually starts when the phone is waking up in battery mode. It immediately cools down when plugged into a power source. Switching the screen off and on again while plugged in is fixing the colors.
I have my S10e (G9700) now for one year. Yesterday it suddenly started the weird behavior. I haven't installed any new apps or changed any setting.
The only unusual was that it ran out of power and I was not able to charge it for a couple of hours. When I arrived home I plugged it in and charged it to 40%. I unplugged it and started the phone and I run into the trouble I described above.
Sometimes a restart helps till the screen is switching off for standby. Waking the phone up results again in the weird behavior of the colors and the phone is running hot and the battery drains in super fast.
I can't debug the behavior with adb as the phone is running fine as long it is plugged in.
Any ideas what that could be and how to fix that?
Is there a way to connect with adb in unplugged power condition?
I appreciate every help.
Cheers

The issue seems to be connected to the last System update for the S10e. After a factory reset the phone was working fine for two days. After the System update G9700ZHU2BTA2 the issue is appearing again.

And what happens if you go back to BSL7?

I installed BSL7 with odin. The same issue seems to keep happening. It seems the update G9700ZHU2BTA2 and the appearance of the issue was just a coincident.
I'll install ASJU in the next days just to check if the issue is existing in Android 9 as well.
I'm living in Singapore and Samsung support here has rejected to take care of the issue. They are not even able to send the device to Hong Kong to fix the issue. Neither is Hong Kong is accepting that I send the device to them. Only personal handover at the HK support center. Has anyone here experience how to deal with the Samsung support? I have not expected that from an global player like Samsung.

Anyone an idea?
It seems not to be connected with the power source. The issue seems to be connected with the "always on screen". When the always on screen is displaying nothing in the moment of waking up the phone this issue appears.
A workaround now for me is to turn the "always on screen" always on
A tool that is switching on the always on screen before waking up the phone would be hotfix. Any idea if it is possible with the Android SDK to hook in there?

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I've been experiencing some 'overnight' problems with the HTC Touch Pro lately.
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Had the same thing a couple of times too.
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Again, had this a few times
Not had TF3D scrambled, but had the other two. I'm pretty sure it has happened to me only when charging (other people report similar problems resuming from standby when charging). Perhaps, like me, you mainly charge the device at night?
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Maby it are the installed programs that doesn't work correctly..
I'm curious if ya let the phone 'standard' so without installing all kinds of programs if the phone still has these problems.

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My almost 3 year old Samsung Note Edge keeps freezing 2-3 minutes after turning on, even without launching any app. Same behaviour happens even on Safe Mode. It just freezes, pressing on/off button doesn't trigger anything and the only way to turn it back on again is to physically remove the battery from the unit and replacing it back in, then powering the device on.
Each time this happens I notice the unit and battery gets hot.
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darthjed said:
My almost 3 year old Samsung Note Edge keeps freezing 2-3 minutes after turning on, even without launching any app. Same behaviour happens even on Safe Mode. It just freezes, pressing on/off button doesn't trigger anything and the only way to turn it back on again is to physically remove the battery from the unit and replacing it back in, then powering the device on.
Each time this happens I notice the unit and battery gets hot.
The only time you can keep the phone on is if you enable ultra power savings mode within 2-3 minutes before it freezes. At that state it can actually last the entire day and can I use it to call, text, connect to Wi-Fi or Mobile Data and surf using the default browser and even launch twitter.
Not sure if this is a battery issue as I got new PowerBear batteries and as stated above, the phone is useable for the entire day as long as I can get it to Ultra Power Savings mode before it freezes.
Appreciate any help or suggestions. My phone is not rooted. Thank in advance.
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To me it sounds like you've got something running in the background that shouldn't be.
Any suggestions how to isolate whatever that is? Or a way to at least to recover data whilst the phone is on ultra power savings mode? I tried installing Samsung Kies but it needs the phone to be on normal boot.
darthjed said:
Any suggestions how to isolate whatever that is? Or a way to at least to recover data whilst the phone is on ultra power savings mode? I tried installing Samsung Kies but it needs the phone to be on normal boot.
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I would try turning off things like location trackers, auto updates (if you haven't), disabling Playstore, etc.
Do you have any add on apps that could cause this?
I tried Video Lan media player and had a heck of a time.
Got rid of it and all was well.
I love it on my PC though.
Short of that, maybe a full restore is in order?
The Radius Kid said:
I would try turning off things like location trackers, auto updates (if you haven't), disabling Playstore, etc.
Do you have any add on apps that could cause this?
I tried Video Lan media player and had a heck of a time.
Got rid of it and all was well.
I love it on my PC though.
Short of that, maybe a full restore is in order?
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I was trying to retrieve some photos this week and noticed a Samsung Cloud folder in my Gallery. which I havent seen there before. I remember signing on Samsung Cloud before my phone malfunctioned because I wanted to use it to backup my files (I'm due for phone replacement this year anyway). Is there some kind of correlation to this?
No I dont have the video lan media player installed.
I disabled ultra battery savings mode because I had to check the Gallery and now it wont even get past the Samsung Note Edge boot screen and either restarts or just freezes. It's at a point I just want to throw it.
Really disappointed, before switching to Samsung I was an apple fanboy, last one was an iPhone 4. Which I'm now using as a temp phone, it still works despite being in dead in the drawer for over 3 years.
I was looking to get the Note 8 but after this bruhaha, Google's Pixel 2 looks more appealing... they own the Android platform anyway so Im hoping their software updates go through more rigorous testing before it's released out.
Oh well. Good bye Samsung.

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