[Q] GTablet powers off when idle with 1.2 ROMs? - G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey everyone. My GTablet powers off when idle with all the 1.2 ROMs I have found. I have worked several days now trying to upgrade to something better than the stock 1.1 but everything I have tried will shut down when idle for a few minutes. I have found some GREAT ROMs out there!
Even though I have soft bricked it a few times, wiped the data several times, Had a few boot loops that were entertaining. I have wiped with nvFlash and installed:
Bottle of Smoke a6
Brilliant Corners 1.2
Illuminate 2.1
They all act the same. Is it just mine doing this? You can use it for an hour and it is fine but if you sit it down 5 minutes it shuts itself off and will take 3 minutes to boot back up.
Even though my gtablet over clocked is really fast. Instant on and off is what a tablet should be.. In the end I cannot get things accomplished while I am still booting up.

After a few google searches this looks like a common problem with gtablets, but mine did not start it until I upgraded to 1.2 BL. Odd...

All I can say is that with the latest CM7 with bootloader 1.2, my G Tablet does this sometimes, but not always.
Though it might be a false perception, it seems more prone to do this when I sleep the tablet too soon after I awaken it.

You didn't search hard enough. You need clemsyn custom kernel to resolve the sleep of death issue. I've been having my gtab on for almost a week now (most times in sleep mode) and never had any problem. I encourage you to go to my website in link.

goodintentions said:
You didn't search hard enough. You need clemsyn custom kernel to resolve the sleep of death issue. I've been having my gtab on for almost a week now (most times in sleep mode) and never had any problem. I encourage you to go to my website in link.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great website. Many thanks! Were you having sleep of death problems on all Rom's before you installed clemsyn's kernal or only on 1.2? I've not had a problem but when I read of others it makes me hesitate about switching to a 1.2 rom

Related

T-Bolt is reboot central, wait for the OTA update?

So I've had less than stellar luck with this phone. I purchased it and rooted it pretty much on day 1, (this was back in early May) and immediately started seeing some pretty awful rebooting. I switched kernels from Das Bamf's to Imoseyon's, which helped it go from mind-numbing to merely bad (used to reboot EVERY TIME the screen was slept and turned back on, went to happening maybe once an hour)
I switched back to stock, same problem, rebooting literally once an hour. I called Verizon for troubleshooting help and they immediately had me switch it out for a Hardware version 2.0 phone, which I've now had since May 15th. It does work a lot better, but it's still pretty bad. Here's the timeline:
Ran stock for about a week, was seeing 1 reboot every other day, decided to root. Installed BAMF remix 1.7 with the .7/.6 CDMA/LTE radio, which left it pretty much the same, rebooting every 30 hours or so. It's particularly likely to do it when using Navigation or on phone calls. It's not a stress thing, I can run Linpack, quadrant, make calls and surf, whatever, it runs fine at stock speeds, 1.92, 1.92x... and will do so for hours without rebooting (until it does)
Switched to 2.0 w/ the MR2 radio, and the reboots were even worse. Now more like 1-2 times a day. Thinking this was not a radio issue now, I eased down the clock speed (I was running 1.92x kernel) down to stock speeds, no affect. Upped the voltage by switching to 1.92, still no affect, reboots a couple of times day, ALSO with a few random shutdowns thrown in for fun. I tried Standard as well, letting it top out at 1.4, still having the issue.
MR2.5 came out, switched to that, and it became unuseable. Reboots literally every 5-10 minutes, and I tried running it that way for the better part of a day, thinking it was maybe the kernel settling or whatever, but it stayed that bad. I switched back to 2.0 and kept seeing the reboots a couple of times a day, so since they were worse on GB I figured I'd go back to Froyo.
Loaded 1.8 Remix, and the reboots are still happening a few times day. At my wit's end, I decided to go straight back to stock, no root. It ran fine that way for about a day, then randomly shutdown again. It has seemed good so far today, but the random shutdown happening makes me assume it's still not stable.
I really don't think it's a problem with 2 phones in a row, and there's thousands of posts of people experiencing similar problems, so it's not something weird I'm particularly doing. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, as some people are rock solid with Froyo with the .7 radios, or the .6/.7 combo, or some are fine with Gingerbread MR2, or even 2.5. Me, I have no luck with ANYTHING.
Should I start another ticket with Verizon for another dud phone, or is the promised OTA update really going to do something magical that MR 2 or 2.5 haven't already tried to do to fix this thing?
If it were me Id be screaming at somebody at Verizon. If your sure that nothing u did rooting or flashing roms caused the reboots then get a new phone. Rumors say that gingerbread is coming tomorrow but you can't out to much stock in that and even if it does I doubt there is any miracle code written in that's gonna help you.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
Some people have had random reboots on stock rom. But since you were on stock for less than a day, it's impossible to determine whether the reboots are due to a defective phone or something that happened during/after you flashed the custom rom. You obviously know your way around various roms, radios & kernel/cpu tweaks, and nothing seems to help. If you have the patience, go to the IRC channel for more suggestions. If no one there can help, I would restore to stock & exchange the phone. You may have a defective device that will never work right.

1.2 bootloader sleep of death

So after updating to the 1.2 bootloader and running a couple of different honeycomb roms i found that my gtab was not waking from sleep and had to be full restarted after a couple of mins with the screen off.
I thought it may be because of honeycomb so i recently switched to CM7 for BL1.2. However I am still having the same problem.
The only solution i found when i was running honeycomb, is to run a wifi lock app which keeps the wifi active and prevents the tab from going to sleep, but i can still turn off the screen. However this is terrible for my battery so i really want to find a proper solution to the problem.
On the 1.1 bootloader i ran the stock rom, TNT lite, CM7, Vegantab, Vegantab Ginger. and had no problem with any of them.
I have tried the following to fix the problem since updating to BL1.2:
wiping data/cache/dalvik
re-partitioning storage
NVFlashing
turning off wifi completely
turning off wifi and turning on bluetooth
using volume buttons to wake
adjusting CPU settings to lower and raise CPU speed when screen is off
lowering and raising voltage
leaving power plugged in vs. running on battery only.
Any other suggestions are very much welcome. I want to fix this problem but still be able to run 1.2 and have the latest best roms
bump anyone?
Some people report that Fancy Widgets causes sleep of death. My tablet has the sleep of death only when charging on the dock, Vegan 5.1.1 on BL 1.1.
Any chance you bought a dock or started using Fancy Widgets around the same time you switched to BL 1.2?
My computer is flaking out while installing updates, sorry if this is a double post.
mike_ekim said:
Some people report that Fancy Widgets causes sleep of death. My tablet has the sleep of death only when charging on the dock, Vegan 5.1.1 on BL 1.1.
Any chance you bought a dock or started using Fancy Widgets around the same time you switched to BL 1.2?
My computer is flaking out while installing updates, sorry if this is a double post.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nope. no fancy widgets and no other docks. Even on a total clean install with nothing else installed it will go into SOD
I run GtabComb 3.3 on the 1.2 bootloader and i don't have the SOD. mine goes to sleep and i can wake it up everytime. so i don't think it's the 1.2 bootloader unless the creator of GtabComb figured out how to fix it.
Sleep of Death, HC 3.3 BL 1.2
Just echoing the first note, and confirming that I have the same combination (HC 3.3, BL1.2) with no extras, clean install, and continue to bump into Sleep of Death. Sort of a nuisance. Tried most of the items listed in thread #1, but still no success.
So, in reply to the previos comment, I return to Bootload version 1.2 as the culprit, and not Honeycomb 3.3. Maybe some interesting combination? Will review the files and try to follow-up with a note.
Thank you.
Well that sucks I guess but I can assure you after wiping my device as I normally do when switching roms, all I did was load GtabComb 3.3, wiped data, wiped cache, wiped davalik and reboot. No sleep of death.... EVER nothing wrong with the 1.2 bootloader here
im thinking its just a random problem with a select few devices. If everyone had this issue with BL1.2 im sure we would have heard about it.
but from what i can tell a select few devices had SOD with 1.1 and some have had issues only with BL1.2 like myself
It could just be the hardware. I have had the SOD (or it just rebooting) since day 1 across different ROMs, bootloaders, and stock.
i will say i had the SOD when i was using CM7 on the 1.2 bootloader but when i switched to GtabComb it stopped. i also don't thing i had it when i was on Flashback either. it was just CM7

[Q] HOw many days do you guys go without a restart?

Lately I have been observing lags/freeze-ups after just 1 day of use on my stock 351 streak!
(yeah- I do have tonnes of apps - but still!)
I mean I am observing the screen tilt ( after physical rotation ) is also sloww!
Only link I could find, that was- my restart interval was like 3 days or so.
I am restarting it once in 2 days now ( manually).
But, still - the lags/freeze-ups are getting more frequent!
I have case for the Streak- so its very annoying to open it all the time to pull out battery!
So- I have factory reset it now.
Will now check the performance. But- I am sure getting a feeling its getting slower
thought of checking here- whats the restart interval?
and
Are freeze-ups common? -- ( no much crashes though) just- freeze-ups.
Thanks,
Sony.
I never ran a stock rom long enough to find out. If you want to stick with Froyo, since it sounds like you want stability, go with either my Streakin' 354, or Simple Streak. I wents days, maybe even a week, without a restart and when I did it was because of theming or something that required me going into streakmod.
If you want to stick with stock, then you may just have to resign yourself to manually restarting once a day. I used to have a profile set up in Tasker to do just that, before I found a stable rom that I liked.
Odd. Other than a brief switch to StreakDroid 2.4.4, I've run stock ROMs and have had only one occasion where it was necessary to forcibly shut down and reboot the Streak.
For the most part I only reboot mine every once in a blue moon. Like Morph, I have to reboot for a new theme or boot animation. But I run my streak with minimal apps loaded besides stock ones from Rom. (Total including stock apps 102) Mine doesn't lag after a few days.
Each phone and User is different. Sounds like a cliche' but ask 100 Streakers, and you might get 100 different answers.
Once a week
I'm stock, rooted, 2.2.2
I reboot once a week, regardless of if it isn't causing a problem.
Sunday before bed, I just pop the back cover, take out the battery
and reboot it.
I haven't had any lock up's or anything, but I'm not into playing streaming
music/videos/games.
I use it mainly as a phone & for work. 20-25 emails per day, 5-10 text messages,
viewing PDF's, web pages etc.
I'm currently running StreakDroid 2.4.4 and have gotten up to 60+ hours of uptime. Even then I only needed to reboot cause I was tweakin' the thing.
I've found my stability MUCH better after installing SetCPU (245min, 998maz, ondemand) and autokiller (all advanced tweaks enabled with aggressive profile activated at bootup)
but like people have said, you have to play with settings, cpu governors... to get your Streak stable. They're all different. I'm currently on my fourth. The one I'm on now is rock solid but the one before was a MESS. It could NOT handle overclocking and constantly had wifi/sleep of death problems.
Just like a baby... keep trying things til something works!
Up until the latest Gingerbread ROMs I've always found stock to be the most stable and had it running for upwards of 2 weeks without reboot. I've since found the new GB ROMs to be super stable but with tweaking and running out of battery i've had no longer than a week of late. I've got abut 200 apps installed
I reboot mine all the time. Not necessarily because of any problem, just to freshen it up I guess. I have a widget on my home screen, and if I'm doing something CPU intensive, when I'm done I'll just hit the button and stick it back in my pocket. When I pull it out- fresh Streak!
Why not...
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk
I flashed 2.3 straight away and I have never had a lockup....
I didn't have a freeze with 2.4.4 either. The camera didn't work properly however (white screen) which is why I went back to stock. I haven't tried the other ROMs yet so....
Thanks!
Thanks to all for super-prompt replies!
And, I have just done a factory reset.
and, yeah- this was the only phone with me-- so I did not go for root/flash yet.
But- I have a spare fone now ( HTC P3400! my trusty old friend!--ROMs flashed like flash on a camera!)
I have read quite some information on flashing streaky dear-- just some catching up to do.
and, lordmorphous -- I am a fan already Simple Streak looks awesome
Strephon - yeah- I find it odd too! but now- lets see what happens-- I will test this |clean| stock rom for weeks time -and then jump to Simple streak.
Gregionis- I had similar number of apps on stock-- will check now.
All - thanks for the help!
Keep Streakin'
Sony.
Hi
I usea programme called fast reboot.Its great to clean ram up from various appliications.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
Fast Reboot is an excellent tool. I had it when I was using AdFree to implement the host file changes. After switching to AdAway, which has a full reboot routine included in the app, I still use Fast Reboot.
Weeks at a time
Hi!
I run simplestreak 1.3, before i used simplestreak 1.2. Cant remember any problems really. Now looking into 2.3 roms, mainly because its.. too stable and no thrills at all.
Maybe because i am alamoust religious when it comes to flashing. Going all trhe way all resets and wipes and all of it. Alaways.
Just a GRAND thanks to all!
Thanks to all - BIG time.
I took this problem forward- and got my Streak replaced!
and, now- this is really a fast one!!
I dont remember My streak being this fast in past 8 months!!
-- I guess, it is right! " No two streaks are the same!"
Now- I will check the uptime- but I already see the speed!
--
So, this is my 3rd streak in last 11 months!
But, I love this phone!!
CAnt wait to get on the flashing wagon now!!
In a weeks time
Thanks to all!!
Sony.
Gingerstreak 2.4.4 installed for around a month now I think. Not a single forced reboot and it hasn't frozen either.
I have rebooted manually a couple of times whilst sorting the battery meter out but this is the most stable the thing has been since I got it in July last year! I've previously had stock 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, Streakdroid 1.5.3, 1.8.1 and 1.9.1 and couldn't get it stable on any of them. Finally after nearly 18 months it works as it should!
It lives next to the bed overnight on standby and has woken up and sounded my alarms every day without fail since going to 2.4.4
The only thing I seem to be able to point to that i've done differently is SetCPU running 576/1113 lagfree. If I go higher it doesn't like it on previous builds (including 2.4.3) so i've not tried it on this one. Going lower seemed to cause issues for me too so maybe the various stability problems people experience are CPU / governor related? We know that they all have varying max clock speeds so I wonder if they have varying minimums too?

[Q] Maybe a potential fix for SOD(sleep of death)?!?!

Hi Guys,
Im no Genius when it comes to android, but I have done my fair share of programming before, but my SOD are killing me and a last resort is a warranty exchange as I cannot be without a phone.
So far I have been getting SOD about 5 times a day if not more, and I am one for tinkering with gadgets until i break or crash it, fix it and doing it all over again.
But anyway back on topic
I have noticed this in the build.prop
" persist.ril.mux.sleep=2 "
And so I wondered if this is causing my SOD, does anyone have any ideas regarding its uses?
Findings (as of 2155)
In my testing thus far I have changed it to "persist.ril.mux.sleep=1" using phone leaving it for an hour doing it over just for fun, And I have been SOD for 5 hours straight and haven't had any SOD or adverse battery drain
I mean this may not be the cause of the SOD for me, or anybody but I am up for trying just about anything
What is SOD?
Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G using Tapatalk on AT&T, the company that disappoints me so much that I have to use my tapatalk signature to tell everyone
Sorry, Sleep Of Death
I have SOD here too. To me it's only happens when I turned off a data connection (3G or wifi).
I use LoadMonitor app as a workaround for a while, with success.
At now I'm using Neutrino 2.5 CM7 ROM with success too. I think it's more a blur rom problem than cm7 one.
Let us know about your progress.
So if you disable load manager you would get SOD?
I am making a script to update a few things so far no SOD for me, after a few tweaks
What settings are you using on load manager ?
Any info you can give me will help in me tracking down some of the errors and temporary fixes people are using to avoid the dreaded issue
Oh, THAT's what that was!
I forgot to turn the wifi back on a few nights ago when I said "Hey, let's watch some movies on netflix with my super-duper mirroring-abled phone!" So an hour into it, LBE Privacy warns me I'm about to max out my data, and I go turn the damn wifi back on but turned OFF the 3G.
Then last night I go to wake up my phone and the screen is "black but on", & took a couple of tries to wake it. I'm on Nottachtrix.
Harrison85 said:
So if you disable load manager you would get SOD?
I am making a script to update a few things so far no SOD for me, after a few tweaks
What settings are you using on load manager ?
Any info you can give me will help in me tracking down some of the errors and temporary fixes people are using to avoid the dreaded issue
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm a bit confused here. I don't know what "load manager" is.
What a sad is I used LoadMonitor app (from market) as a workaround.
LoadMonitor just monitor taks that are running in your device. But it have an option that claims to prevent device deep sleep. So, when I checked this option my device don't get SOD.
It's a workaround, as I sad, and I don't know how LoadMonitor do that.
What is load manager?
Thanks
I had a similar issue, I installed SetCPU and set my minimum speed to ~456(faux 1.45 Kernel).
Never had the problem since.
cldot said:
I had a similar issue, I installed SetCPU and set my minimum speed to ~456(faux 1.45 Kernel).
Never had the problem since.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
cldot do you use blur rom or cm7 one?
Thanks
My bad meant load monitor
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
I tried some roms and the only one I hadn't random reboots was jokersax11 alpha7 (ICI), now I'm on beta 0.2.0 and had reboots.
I'm having the same problem. I've tried 3 different ROMs. I used Nottachtrix, following the directions to the letter with reboots and hard locks. Recently I flashed back to 4.5.91 (w/pudding) and I was having the same issues. I noticed that on the hard locks, my phone appeared to be warm, so I used SetCPU at 216MHz and still had hard locks and random reboots. I've not set the lowest setting at 301 and so far I haven't had any reboots, but its only been about 5 hours. But I was having them at least once every few hours.
BTW - I also noticed that I only had the freezes and hard locks when the phone was running on the battery. I rarely had problems when the phone was on the dock or USB charger, however, I did have reboots when it was on the wall charger.
Another program you can try is call 'Wake Lock' available from the marketplace. I haven't used it yet, I'm still experimenting with load monitor.
Wake lock has a few different options and has some really good review.
I confirmed that Neutrino 2.5 CM7 Rom works great without reboots.
That's a patch you need to apply to correct a battery drain problem of the original version. Notorious544d are working in a 2.6 version including that patch.
To me it's working like a charm. I'm testing for two days but, of course, everyone needs to test it in your own device.
PS: Follow this instructions to install a battery drain patch in Neutrino 2.5 (or wait for a 2.6 version):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23179486&postcount=4258
Update 13/03/2012: Notorious544d released Neutrino ROM 2.5p with battery patch and some other things.
See you!
what patch?
marcosvafg said:
I confirmed that Neutrino 2.5 CM7 Rom works great without reboots.
That's a patch you need to apply to correct a battery drain problem of the original version. Notorious544d are working in a 2.6 version including the patch.
To me it's working like a charm. I'm testing for two days but, of course, everyone needs to test in your own device.
See you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Could you point me to that patch? I can't seem to find it. Thank you
Sleep Of DEATH!!!
I was encountering that problem for a while but then I figured that something went wrong when I was flashing CM7 Beta. So I flashed Aura's ROM, and then Reflashed CM7 Beta and only experienced it once a month at most after that, Hope it helps
eNorby said:
Could you point me to that patch? I can't seem to find it. Thank you
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Follow this instructions (or wait for a 2.6 version):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23179486&postcount=4258
Update 13/03/2012: Notorious544d released Neutrino ROM 2.5p with battery patch and some other things.
Atrix SOD & Random reboots related to Wifi?
Does anyone know if the Atrix SOD & Random reboots are related to WiFi. I've had my wifi off all day and I've had no crashes.
I'm going to run it for a few more days without Wifi and see what happens.
I don't know about other guys, but wifi and 3G was the cause of my Atrix SOD and reboot problems.
Solved it using Neutrino Rom CM7 based.
See you!
Still working on my SOD issue, but recently, I disabled most power options, turned off wifi, rebooted and I've been running for 2 days with no crashes. After day 3, I'm going to turn wifi back on reboot and see what happens.
Update 1
After 3 days with wifi disabled, I've had no crashes, no freezes or random reboots. I'm going to enable wifi again and see what happens.
Update 2
After turning enabling my wifi and using it briefly then turning it back off, I had a random reboot later that evening.
The more I used my wifi, the more frequent my crashes became.
Interesting side note
I can enable all my radios when plugged into the desktop charger and I won't experience any crashes, however, if plugged into to the AC charger, I've had reboots and freezes.

[Q] Why does my Tab keep turning off?

Hello,
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on why my Tab keeps turning off when left for several hours? A perfect example is leaving it on in the morning with just uTorrent running and when I return in the evening its turned itself off. Has only been doing this for a few days for a few weeks, prior to that it was fine.
Here's the spec:
GT-P7500 with stock Rom
3.2
P7500XXKL4
Pershoot kernel 2.6.36.4
HTJ85B P7500DXLA2
Any ideas as to why this is happening would be really appreciated.
Thanks guys
Not really a solution to your problem, but does it also happen when there is no torrent client running in the background? I found that whichever client I use it usually freezes after some time and I have to reboot the Tab (I'm on GalaxyTask 14 now, but it was the same on v13 and CM9), so maybe this is a cause of what you're experiencing?
I take it you ruled out power saving settings or that it ran out of battery, right?
Well it never used to go off and I could leave it on all day downloading and it was fine. Last night it was left on with no torrent running and was on this morning, ran uTorrent this morning though and it was off when I got home. It never ever done this until recently however?
No settings have been changed in respect of power management so it's not that no
maybe the best and safest option is to link it to odin and flash a stock rom, without any kernels. and see if the issue remains mate.
if this post helped you in any way, please hit thanks button
There seems to be alot of issues with the stock HC ROM's would suggest you try a cooked ROM or something
stevec187 said:
Well it never used to go off and I could leave it on all day downloading and it was fine. Last night it was left on with no torrent running and was on this morning, ran uTorrent this morning though and it was off when I got home. It never ever done this until recently however?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So, have you tested it more? Is there a correlation between the GTab turning off and torrent running in the background? For me it also started quite recently, although I can't really say when as I usually torrent stuff on my laptop and then transfer to GTab. I was trying 2-3 torrent clients and it was all the same - the GTab was freezing after a while, in particular when I watched something.
I guess too much stress on the GPU forces the tablet to save itself and shut off. Even the smallest torrent client eat's up about 100% GPU if not set to control properly. The same applies to the tablet, it lags hard without a performance governor to set the GPU @ 100%
Well it's definitely tTorrent that's been causing it to shutdown (sorry called it uTorrent earlier in the thread).
Have run it all day and through the night with nothing running and it stays on with no issues. So, as others have mentioned the same problem with other clients does anyone know of any performance governor software that can manage the GPU and stop it getting spanked?
Would also be nice to know why this has suddenly happened, I've been thinking that this has only started to happen since an update via Kies a few weeks back.
Like it's mentioned, use pershoot's kernel, to OC it and use something like Nofrills, it's free to manage the governor and I/O

Categories

Resources