My brother's vibrant is turning off any time its dropped. It even turns off from a one to two inch test drop onto a table. Does anyone have a clue why? It turns back on after so battery is in contact after the fall. Stock back and battery.
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Get a piece of cigarette pack and slide it along the edge of the battery to make the battery sit in snug. Works on all the phones with loose battery problems.
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The battery might be lose, There was a thread once about people shaking their phone and it turning off. The general consensus was loose battery and a folded gum wrapper between the case and battery was the fix. That thread prompted me to make a video of me shaking my phone, LOL.
That's what I thought. Thanks for the tips. Worked like a charm.
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I was driving down the road when I felt my phone slowly starting to slip out of my pocket, I reached to stop it but I was too late. I just rolled my eyes as this has pretty much how my day has been going. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but the way my girlfriends car is, there is a .35 inch gap in between the door molding and the seat, which allows the phone to perfectly drop in like a quarter going into a vending machine. The seat is electric and its a ***** to get the phone out!
Once I finally did I went to check the screen for scratches and noticed that everything was written backwards and the screen was upside down. Although the screen presses were registering as if the phone was still displaying as normal. I've never seen anything like that and thought it was funny and that I should share.
Happy Sunday
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That's happened to me as well, you can take a screenshot and it will go back to normal weird glitch haha
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If you have the crt off animation "on" that is what makes thia happen. Disable it and it will go away.
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yeah I've had that happen too, but it went away after I rebooted
Anyone experience this? I noticed when my phone is plugged in and i play a game for 5 mins the top half of my phone gets to 47-48 degrees... Almost too hot to hold. When I leave it alone it stays about 10 degrees cooler. Anyone know what might be causing this?
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Not sure what might be causing it but mine does the same. It's probably normal.
There are several threads discussing this. Please search first.
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The current to your phone and the addition of you doing something causes the processor to get hot. That's it.
Are you using the flip case from Samsung?
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I didnt do anything to the phone.. This was a replacement from my original one that was randomly rebooting and freezing.. Im just worried i might damage the internals.. Anyways i called rogers for another replacement. They are sending it as soon as i return my original
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StarLog said:
There are several threads discussing this. Please search first.
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I have searched but mines getting hot from the screen and the back cant talk on it.. Burns my face
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The current to your phone and the addition of you doing something causes the processor to get hot. That's it.
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I have tried three other Notes and they are all significantly cooler doing the same tasks. Like i said im worried about damaging internals.
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Thanks for bringing this up, it's quite relevant to my interests.
Mine also gets hot. I recently upgraded my folks' phones to ATT Galaxy S II's (non Skyrocket) and they both get very hot when surfing on battery power via data. My battery monitor widget said 103'F at one point.
My Note also feels a little laggy (not hugely so) and has crashed a couple of times. The battery life is atrocious (coming from an iPhone 4)... I'm considering exchanging it at ATT as I'm still well within my 30 days. Rooting and freezing all the usual suspect apps hasn't helped.
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Thanks for bringing this up, it's quite relevant to my interests.
Mine also gets hot. I recently upgraded my folks' phones to ATT Galaxy S II's (non Skyrocket) and they both get very hot when surfing on battery power via data. My battery monitor widget said 103'F at one point.
My Note also feels a little laggy (not hugely so) and has crashed a couple of times. The battery life is atrocious (coming from an iPhone 4)... I'm considering exchanging it at ATT as I'm still well within my 30 days. Rooting and freezing all the usual suspect apps hasn't helped.
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Whats weird is that my original one didnt get hot but was laggy and freezing up. This ones the exact opposite.. Fast as hell and hot. Now i did a couple tests and the only difference was that the white on my current phone had a slight yellowish tint on the original. Battery life i get 12-17 hours on both.
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On a sidenote just took my phone out of my pocket and while writing the last post phone got to 37 degrees and this is while it was off the charger... Anyways once Rogers recieves my original note they will send me a replacement to my replacement lol.. Anyone know if i get three lemons would I be entitled to a new unit? I know carriers used to do that.
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mine gets hot when i am on the phone for long time or when i use it as a hot spot
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mine gets hot when i am on the phone for long time or when i use it as a hot spot
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Depending on the task mine got hot anywhere between 5 or 10 mins
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My first note would her extremely hot between 117f and 130f while idle on a charger from the top half up. Used a thermal temp sensor from my liquid cooling to measure temp. According to a friend of mine manager at an att, said the heat problem is the biggest for return and that from what he's found out talking a Sammy rep that the cpu and memory in some units through shipping and handling have been loosened from their respective heat transfer system.
So basically manufacture defect and if it gets hot replace it. It'll hurt the internals.
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Getting a replacement shipped this week
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feel bad for the ones having all the problems.....its hard for me to get my phone to even reach 40C and thats while watching movies and pausing and making calls. the playing a game. i have to do ALOT to get it that hot.
i have noticed the pocket thing though, if i keep it in my jacket pocket it seem to get hotter faster even though i am not doing anything on it at all. but it goes right back down again after i pull it out for about 3 min.
^^ thats what she said to that last sentence lol
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^^ thats what she said to that last sentence lol
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uhmmmm but, damn. she must be mad....lol
Bought a used Streak today.
The battery cover is a little flakey. Sometimes the phone will boot, sometimes not. Sometimes it starts to and then hangs with the Dell splash screen.
Are there any battery cover work-arounds I can employ until a replacement cover arrives?'
edit: n/m I googled.
http://www.streaksmart.com/2010/12/how-to-keep-dell-streak-on-when-back-cover-is-off.html
This damn battery switch is kicking my ass.
Can't get it to stay down properly.
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If you're able....
If you're able and willing to do it there are ROMs available which have that disabled...for example, I'm using the simplestreak rom and don't suffer from that inconvenience
Guys, I am planning to buy a Galaxy S3 but a friend of mine who owned an s3 told me that it generates a lot of amount of heat.. Can anyone please confirm or deny the issue?
Thanks!
Deny.
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but if your s3 is placed in the sun it is getting very hot and it will reboot by itself.
happend to me. i had to pull out the battery to stop the re-re-reboot process
I have yet to feel any significant heat on the S3, even while charging. My S2 on the other hand would get warm frequently but it never bothered me.
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It overheats with the overheat app it comes with. I managed to bake a potato in one full charge.
Compared to my old HOX, the SIII is a fridge.
It warms up ever so slightly if you run some benchmarks on it but its the equivelant temperature to breathing on your own hand.
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redlag said:
Guys, I am planning to buy a Galaxy S3 but a friend of mine who owned an s3 told me that it generates a lot of amount of heat.. Can anyone please confirm or deny the issue?
Thanks!
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No heat at all. Coolest phone here.
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Today while charging the phone I dropped it in a bag of unpopped kettles. Guess what I have now. Popcorn. Boy does this phone overheat.
Yeah, I was just confirming if it was a fluke. According to him the phone even overheats while making call which IMO is not possible.
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OK this sucks.
Years ago, I got the Iphone 4 and you had to put a cover on it because of the antenna issue.
I get the S3 and to protect it, i get a cover and within no time, after putting it on the phone, the phone overheats, locks up, lags,
If i am charging it, it locks up. I was driving shortly after i put the case on, and it kept making noise but i was driving so i couldnt look at the phone. then once i got home. i noticed it locking up and really warm, bottom right hand corner.
This really sucks as i love the phone but I do know, overheating like this is not good for electronics and will lessen their lifespan.
anyone else having cover issues?
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OK this sucks.
Years ago, I got the Iphone 4 and you had to put a cover on it because of the antenna issue.
I get the S3 and to protect it, i get a cover and within no time, after putting it on the phone, the phone overheats, locks up, lags,
If i am charging it, it locks up. I was driving shortly after i put the case on, and it kept making noise but i was driving so i couldnt look at the phone. then once i got home. i noticed it locking up and really warm, bottom right hand corner.
This really sucks as i love the phone but I do know, overheating like this is not good for electronics and will lessen their lifespan.
anyone else having cover issues?
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There is something wrong with your phone, that never happens to mine.
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There is something wrong with your phone, that never happens to mine.
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I just started looking for sensor apps and only found one so far, and it just shows battery temp which hoovers around 93F.
I havent found one yet for cpu temps.
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I just started looking for sensor apps and only found one so far, and it just shows battery temp which hoovers around 93F.
I havent found one yet for cpu temps.
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That's absolutely fine. That's 33c and that's safe.
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It gets rather warm when it running stuff that puts quite some load on CPU, GPU whateverPU, yah, but not to an extend where one could call it "overheat".
So far it's always been below 50°C - I think that's a "no" on the original question.
I just received metallic cover for my Galaxy mega I9200.
Here is the link for the cover.
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/266518953.html
I am facing serious battery drain as soon as I put this cover. I am not really sure is it because of this cover or some app is doing the damage? I restarted my phone twice, cleared memory and killed all the applications. Still I am facing serious battery drain. Normally this battery works 1.5 days very easily with normal use (like wifi + data + music player + facebook and games etc).
This cover is very nice, I really like it. But I want to know is it really because of this cover I am facing battery drain problem? Or some app is doing problem? Or do I need to wipe data and restore my data again?
Take cover off put plastuc one on. Use for a day and you will know the answer
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Possibly having a effect on signal?
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The metal case blocks signal which makes the phone work extra hard.
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The metal case blocks signal which makes the phone work extra hard.
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That is what I was thinking as the wifi and if you use your carrier..then the 3G,4G,LTE etc will have to work harder at keeping the best signal which can put more drain on the battery I believe.
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Yes
What happens is the phone is struggling to get a signal
Which definately does drain the battery
I know metal backs and bumper guards look cool,
but I don't think anyone gives any thought to signal loss.
Here's a free million dollar idea:
Make a back cover that actually boosts or enhances the signal instead of blocking it.
Why can't they make a cover that connects to the antenna and actually becomes a giant antenna? And no those little sticker boosters do Not work.
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it definitely block signal! I facing the same problem! Signal for network and wifi also degrade as well!