I had bought my xperia sometime around October'10 & updated it to 2.1 when it was available & then started facing this problem. The battery gets overheated, specially when charging, & when any activity is performed on the phone then, the phone goes into a loop of rebooting, stabilizing only when the battery cools off. Not only that, when on the move, apps like maps is initiated, the phone often reboots, so much so that it sometimes happens 4/5 times in a day, 2/3 times together. Since yesterday, the phone rebooted more than 10 times, twice with a sudden jarring sound while closing down. Also sometimes there is a burning rubber smell coming from the back of the battery. I have tried everything from reinstalling the android software to sending it off to a repair centre only for them to say that it is liquid damage when I know for a fact that no liquid has EVER touched it. Please someone help me. What do I do? Would downloading a custom rom or Zzdizus ne wcustom kernel help. Anyone got any working fixes
It sounds to me like a hardware problem, since you've reinstalled the firmware.
Why not, try zdzihus' beta 4 or wolfs' CM6.1.3 to see if it will be the same. But if it's the same, then you'll need a service.
I've had this problem too. I sent it to the repair center too (KPN Netherlands). But after 3 times to the repair center the problem still occurred. After the third repair I received a new X10 (with 2.1 pre-installed).
So I'm afraid there's no quick (software) fix. It's definitely a hardware problem and there's many people reporting this problem. Some get it fixed by having the motherboard swapped, some got a new phone, like me. I hope you still have warranty and manage to convince them is't not liquid-damage, because otherwise you're probably screwed.
I have this problem too, i don't think a rom upgrade will fix this, reading at different threads i am not alone with this problem, please read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831658
I am going to get mine in for repair see if they can fix it, otherwise i am screwed.
Chances are services won`t be able to find the reason, and odds are good they will just hand you a new device.
Is there anyway whatsoever to stop the rebooting without paying for repair and without sending it to a repair centre (they keeps saying its liquid damage when I know its not). There must be something because this problem didnt occur when the phone was on Android 1.6 at all.
its not a case of roms or 1.6 vs 2.1 etc this is a problem which looking at the SE forums they know about however are not doing anything about
its a problem with the motherboard in about 1/5 xperias from what i read so not everyone will be affected but for those who are (tell tale sign being a burning smell when the battery is removed combined with random reboots) then the unit has to be sent back to SE for re-fit / replace.
however, and this is where the worst problems are, from what i read if the white sticker behind your back cover had red dots on (yes i know most peoples will just from natural humidity) but this is the water damage sticker and they wont fix it for free if this is marked (red dots)
also you need to have all the proof of ownership / warranty receipt to send off with it, so if your like me and got your xperia off of ebay they your screwed
sorry to be the bearer of bad news but this is the problem, if you have it its hard to get fixed and if you dont then good for you but the likelyhood of you getting the problem is not too slim not to think of taking out insurance
There must be something I can do though. The phone only started overheating when I updated to stock 2.1 so there must be something
This definitely sounds like the mobo problem that's been plaguing the x10. Sadly to say, there is no fix you can easily do without switching out the motherboard. I feel like the watermark sets itself off when the device overheats. Same thing happened to me, and I bought my first x10 overseas so I had no warranty. Your update to 2.1 probably just coincided with the issue starting.
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What if I get zzhidzu's new custom kernel. It undervolts. Would this sstop or at least reduce the battery overheating problem
Please some expert respond
Because you're undervolting, it will probably not overheat as much, but it definitely will not solve the problem. The motherboard is already compromised. At first, my faulty x10 would only reboot once every few days, but as time went on, it became more and more frequent. Now, I can't even get it to boot past the carrier splash screen. Swap kernels for now, but plan to start saving money either for repairs or a replacement phone.
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Does anyone have any fix whatsoever?
any at all? to at least significantly reduce the rebooting
If you boot your phone without a sim does it still happpen?
its defonatly worth a shot i recon ill give it a go also
Is there anyway I could maybe replace the motherboard myself or even do something to my phone to stop it from rebooting because of the battery? This way when I feel that its hot I can turn it off myself when I am ready.
There must be something I can do. The phone is literally unusable :'(
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It still happens but not really as much. But what's the point of having a ohine if you cant call lol
I have just switched back to stock 2.1 and my phone is behaving very well now.
Does anyone know how much it costs to get the moboreplaced outside of the warranty in UK pounds?
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So a friend of mine could possibly be selling me his x10 for a ridiculously low price, which I found out from another friend to be because of (possible) overheating issues because he tried overclocking the phone; and after trying to bring it back down to the original speed it still is overheating.
Before I get into something that would completely waste my money, is there a way for me to be able to fix it so it works normally or would this be something that I should completely avoid all together. Basically, I'd like for some tutorials provided that can help me rectify this problem.
Thanks for any help provided.
its not possible to over clock the phone right now... so idk what your friend did. Also what kind of overheating issue is it? Getting really hot? or shutting down a lot?
Well thats was how I understood it as. And from the sounds of things it seems like it is just getting overly hot.
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Well thats was how I understood it as. And from the sounds of things it seems like it is just getting overly hot.
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It's possible it's just his battery that's shorted. Maybe another battery? That or the GPS chip runs constantly... I know mine heats up when the GPS runs at full. I also say try and flash the firmware back to a regular ROM (Without mods).
Those are my ideas. Otherwise toss it in the freezer! haha
Sounds like new need some Arctic Silver, Heat Sink and a 200CFM SUNON!
Its a hardware fault. It will eventualy start rebooting, and after that it wil start shutting itself down or locking... i think its something with the pmu but not sure. If it has warranty send it to repair...
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So a friend of mine could possibly be selling me his x10 for a ridiculously low price, which I found out from another friend to be because of (possible) overheating issues because he tried overclocking the phone; and after trying to bring it back down to the original speed it still is overheating.
Before I get into something that would completely waste my money, is there a way for me to be able to fix it so it works normally or would this be something that I should completely avoid all together. Basically, I'd like for some tutorials provided that can help me rectify this problem.
Thanks for any help provided.
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nice friend!!! lol
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Its a hardware fault. It will eventualy start rebooting, and after that it wil start shutting itself down or locking... i think its something with the pmu but not sure. If it has warranty send it to repair...
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My Xperia started overheating and now its having very frequent restart cycles from several days. Is it a hardware fault in the Xperia X10?
At least on my first x10, it started like that, then only went worse. the first sign was when doing generous amount of traffic (heavy browsing, downloading some apps at the same time...) it started rebooting. After that it started doing it whenever it got network, during calls... even when reflashing.
So I would flash back to stock, then take it a day for a ride with.a backup phone. If it reboots even once, send it to repair...
I'm also experiencing the frequent reboot problem. It seems the best solution I've found was to send it back to SE for repair/replacement. That solution is unacceptable for me, as I spent $600+ for an imported x10a when it first was released, and as such, SE has deemed my phone "gray market" and I would need to pay for repairs.
I love my x10, but $800 for a phone that's still severely outdated and lacking some high-end functions is just not worth it.
I am convinced that the problem stems from a faulty temperature sensor in the motherboard. My phone is definitely not hot to touch, and it seems that just placing it in front of a fan alleviates the rebooting problem.
Do any devs know of a way to disable the temperature sensor either through an app or via adb?
Its doesnt look like bad sensor, but a bad ic on the board or a bad solder point.
For me it ended up getting stucked even on the bootloader, where everything is 'out of order'. The only way i got to reflash it was using my car's air conditioner at 16 degrees... didnt have warranty either, so the board now resides half dead on my desk...
Ouch. Sad to hear. Did you order a new mb or a brand new phone? If just the mb, mind sharing where you got it from and the price?
I bought a second x10 and left the other one for testing and parts... though this x10 is starting to get a little warm too, lets hope this doesnt die too...
The display ous on max, turn it down...that's why it's hot as hell
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lol you did just like me i bought another X10 today check my (motherboard problem thread) guys pls if there anything to avoid this problem tell me from now , i have 2 X10 now
Its been doing this for a while. I'll go to check it and it's off, but the battery hasn't died. Last night it did this so my alarm didn't go off for work this am. Everything is stock on my phone. N
stock everything so please don't ask what rom/kernal/whatever ..
Any suggestions? I can't be late to work again because this phone is for ****
If you are absolutely sure that your phone is completely stock, then the problem is probably your battery. Does this only happen when the phone is not plugged in?
It does it when its on the charger too. Like I woke up this morning and found it off but it was on the charger when i found it like that. i havent flashed anything or changed any roms or kernals which is why I say its stock. otherwise people ask me what rom im using or whatever.
It could possibly be a lose battery. Generally people will notice it when there is movement to the phone i.e. shaking it or dropping it. If the phone is completely still when it randomly shuts off chance are that a lose battery is not your issue. Still its worth looking into. Most people fix a lose battery with a small piece of cardboard wedged between the battery and case.
Good luck!
Probably not a loose battery. I just had it charging for the past hour and went to check it to find it turned off. Any suggestions as to why it happens when its just sitting there charging?
My phone did the same thing, and with my wife having the same phone I was easily able to rule out battery. Since your complety stock it sounds like a problem with the phone. If your with Tmobile give them a call and see if they will replace it, they did for me.
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My phone is already a year old tho. i think my warrenty is gone,
(At least in my case) the warranty didn't matter. I had a 100% bricked vibrant and I told them that "it just happened" and no one was the wiser. I got a replacement and all I had to pay for was shipping. So my advice, tell the T-Mobile rep: my phone is broken through no fault of my own and I want a replacement.
Edit: that stuff happened like a year ago so I don't know if that policy still applies. Hope this helps though.
I did download Load Monitor and made the settings a certain way. so far it hasnt shut off. We will see if I am late to work again tomorrow.
even some stock Samsung roms (like kb5 and ka5) lately have had the same turning off problem for me as well. i think it has to do with some of the older vibrant's when the hardware (battery) becomes charged or is depleting slowly, triggers a software issue like a discharge error forcing an emergency shut-down to prevent damage. the only thing i can recommend it to take the advice of previous posters and get a replacement or upgrade if you are nearing the end of your contract.
just a few things to consider.
Have you tried, I know this sounds odd, a drastic ROM change? Not just switching between Froyo ROMs, but moving to a Gingerbread ROM like MIUI? Could help isolate the problem if it keeps happening under a different OS.
my problem is gone now that i use custom roms. the same could help you thread starter.
Edit. i know you refer to developers as op's but do you do the same to a thread starter?
Pretty sure OP stands for "Original Poster", as in the person who started the thread. Developers start a lot of threads which is probably why you thought it referred only to developers.
Since installing Load Manager my phone hasnt shut off by itself. Seems to have fixed the problem!
Hey guys you are probably tired of answering this same question but I will ask it anyways.
I was having a problem with my phone restarting constantly till it simpily wouldn't turn on, I got the motherboard replaced and now it still restarts constantly, I bought a new battery hoping that it might fix the issue and also went back to a stock rom and kernal to see if it was a software issue...
The phone acts up mostly when on the net with it... doesn't matter if it is pluged in or not.
Hopeing that maybe some of you might have some other ideas as to what else I can try, aside from smashing it into a million pieces, which I don't want to do as I really love this phone.
I had the same problem and I sent it for warranty and they changed the board.
Good luck.
Hi, about 2 weeks ago my phone began to run into some rather odd problems which I suspect are all related and may or may not be to do with water damage as these problems started soon after i was at the beach and my phone got a little wet being in my pocket.
The first problem I am having and also the most critical is that part of the touch screen (just under the notification for about 5m) will not respond to any touches. This itself is not such a big problem. However after a random amount of time from when I boot the phone up the touch input kinda "moves up". For example, I click on the dock bar and it's as if I am click halfway up the screen. This of course makes the phone unusable to a large degree and the only way I can seem to fix it is by restarting the phone, which leads to problem two.
Now problem two is that the phone will continually boot loop until I connect the phone to a power source. I can still get into the hboot etc but not much more than that.
I suspect both, or at least problem two to be due to a battery problem and so I have ordered a replacement battery but that wont be coming for a while yet.
I've also tried several different roms, wiping the cache and delvik, re flashing the boot along with several hours of googling the problem but that came up with nothing related to my issue.
So any help or input someone could give me would be great, thanks in advance.
Seems like a hardware problem to me. If you still have warranty, send it in for repair.
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Yes I had the same problem too... I brought it to HTC Hong Kong (i live here) and had to pay them about 150 USD to get it replaced.. a while later it happened again and they fixed it free under the 3 month warranty. I just got it back and I really hope it doesn't happen again.
I have the same problem,What did you do at last? did the battery replacement solved your problem?!!
Hi guys,
My phone seems to be hard bricked: black screen, nothing happens when trying to charge it, not possible to put it in DL mode, and even usb jig is not working.
Now I'm fully aware of the risks that go with a bad flash, but what is weird in my case is that it happened out of nowhere: I was on stock rom, phone was suffering from a bad case of slowdowns/random freezes/etc so I decided to put CM 11 on it. Like a phoenix my phone rose from his ashes, battery was holding for a full day instead of the usual 3 hours, no more freezes... but then after 2 days of working like a charm, I just found it plain dead on my desk.
Has it ever happened to anyone, suffering that kind of brick a few days after flashing but not during the actual procedure ? Does anyone has a potential solution other than replacing the MB ? (not really worth it on a 2 years old phone IMO, since there is little chance that I will stumble upon a free MB, and I'm not even sure that it would solve anything anyway)
Thanks for your help !
Nothing to do with the flash. Fact - electronics fails/dies. All the time. All electronics. Often without warning & for no apparent reason other than that's the nature of electronics. I don't know why people are so surprised when this type of thing happens.
Motherboard replacement or new phone - a motherboard replacement will fix the phone; one or more components on the motherboard have obviously died.
http://www.parts4repair.com/categories/Samsung-Repair-Parts/ seems to stock reconditioned motherboards for the S2......double figure prices rather than mid triple figure prices for a new phone.....you do the math.......
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right