Hi All,
Overnight i noticed that my S3 (UK, Unbranded, LF2 Firmware) stopped letting the screen turn off while it was plugged into a charger. I remember a setting for this in my S2 in developer options if i recall, but i cant seem to find whats causing it here.
I've just tried reflashing the LF2 firmware with Odin as i applied the Cell Standby fix yesterday, but this hasnt made any difference. Is there any way to find out whats causing this before i resort to a factory reset?
Moosey
I just noticed this as well. I did the official update 3-4 days ago. When plugged in either to the PC or wall socket the screen stays on. Any one else?
cydiamante said:
I just noticed this as well. I did the official update 3-4 days ago. When plugged in either to the PC or wall socket the screen stays on. Any one else?
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I did the official update to LF2 as soon as it was available, but the phone only started acting like this yesterday... having to manually lock the screen isnt too much of a bind but if someone rings during the night (or any other event that wake the screen up) then the screen stays on from that point.
I have no problem wiping the phone to sort it out but i'd like to know what caused it in the first place. I did install a couple of apps but i've removed them to rule that out too..
Nice to know i'm not alone though
I tried a hdmi adaptor this morning that was for the galaxy s2. Did you do anything similar?
cydiamante said:
I tried a hdmi adaptor this morning that was for the galaxy s2. Did you do anything similar?
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Nope nothing out of the ordinary hardwarewise, as i say i flashed the fix for the cell standby bug with CWM (I am rooted, but have been since day 1).. installed a few apps but as far as i know reflashing the LF2 firmware should reverse the standby bug flash (indeed my battery stats reflect this assumption) and i've removed all apps that where installed or updated yesterday.. no change.. i've backed up with TB so will see if a reset to factory defaults fixes it i think :/
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Nope nothing out of the ordinary hardwarewise, as i say i flashed the fix for the cell standby bug with CWM (I am rooted, but have been since day 1).. installed a few apps but as far as i know reflashing the LF2 firmware should reverse the standby bug flash (indeed my battery stats reflect this assumption) and i've removed all apps that where installed or updated yesterday.. no change.. i've backed up with TB so will see if a reset to factory defaults fixes it i think :/
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Good new... kind of... did a nandroid backup and deleted user data / reset to factory defaults in CWM and the problem has gone away... now to play the reinstallation game and see what makes it come back! :/
greenmoose7708 said:
Good new... kind of... did a nandroid backup and deleted user data / reset to factory defaults in CWM and the problem has gone away... now to play the reinstallation game and see what makes it come back! :/
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Well, restored all my apps + data... now the screen sleeps properly on charge... something odd there definitely.. the only thing i've not done is reapplied the Cell Standby bugfix.. if you've got the patience a full wipe will fix it though
Did a wipe and reset and everything was fine until i plugged it to my PC. Now its stays on when its charging or plugged in
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the phone powered off it self until i pressed the power button to turn on again. i noticed this often happened when i put in my pocket for a while. but when i put it on table over night it didn't happen.
roms that i tried that had the same problem:
batista 3.7++
lightening 3+,6+
cognition 1.4+
apps that i tried uninstalled but no avail:
-setcpu
-daemon control(batista rom)
-juice defender
is it due to motherboard issue? appreciate your advice. thanks.
have u tired wiping data and dalvik cache before installing any rom?
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have u tired wiping data and dalvik cache before installing any rom?
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thanks, yes, i in fact wiped all and even install stock rom before any mod roms. and i also changed few kernels(stock, nipo, CF..)but still the same..
now trying to use kh4 stock rom and see..
So the this issue s only occurring when the phone is in your pocket and never when out of your pocket.
this happens to my Phone as well.. its kinda random...
sometimes when am listening to music and sometimes when its just on standby
for example it just restarted which reminded me to search for this error...
few days ago it was on standby and had shut itself down and the battery was completely drained after 5 hours without anything on.
achillies400 said:
So the this issue s only occurring when the phone is in your pocket and never when out of your pocket.
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xD3S1x said:
this happens to my Phone as well.. its kinda random...
sometimes when am listening to music and sometimes when its just on standby
for example it just restarted which reminded me to search for this error...
few days ago it was on standby and had shut itself down and the battery was completely drained after 5 hours without anything on.
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yes, found it only happens when putting in my pocket. when charging over night or putting on my work desk, it didn't happen.
and yes, it happened few times when it turned off it self, it lost about 10% to 20% battery in just few minutes... the phone was warm when it happened. that was why i took out to check and found it already powered off..
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this happens to my Phone as well.. its kinda random...
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What firmware you have? I run on XXKH3 for 3 days (previously on XXKG3 for 2 weeks), no boot issues.
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What firmware you have? I run on XXKH3 for 3 days (previously on XXKG3 for 2 weeks), no boot issues.
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lightening 3.2 = KG2
Batista 3.7 = KH3
Cognition 1.4 = KG6
all happened to shut down it self. so i guess it is not rom issue..
I would try a stock ROM for a week, just to be safe (no apps/tweaks/kernel, etc., really stock). I'm pretty sure a recent stock ROM will not give you issues, I would not worry about the hardware.
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I would try a stock ROM for a week, just to be safe (no apps/tweaks/kernel, etc., really stock). I'm pretty sure a recent stock ROM will not give you issues, I would not worry about the hardware.
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thanks for your advice, will try stock rom then
Ya, do that... just to see what is going on.
More on the technical side, the screen needs minimum 500Mhz to get out of Sleep Mode. Some custom Rom's use a low voltage or "underclock" feature that reduces the power consumption but also the number of CPU steps. That is what makes your phone crash and reboot randomly.
Once you put the stock ROM, do a sdcard wipe (if you use one), just to be safe. It should take several hours, so do it over the night. Personally I would not use an external sdcard during the one week test, just be sure.
You could also have a RAM (hardware) issue, ya. But 99% of the time is related to software. Bad memory degrades fast so you will see your random reboots pop at a faster frequency. If you did all the above and still experience random reboots, run adb logcat to see what is going on at that specific moment. If you get error codes like:
Code:
code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 00000000
you are dealing with bad memory unfortunately and need to service your phone.
astoncheah said:
I noticed this often happened when i put in my pocket for a while. but when i put it on table over night it didn't happen.
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I also heard that some people had bad battery contacts on their S2. Clean them with some audio head tape cleaner and cotton swabs, than make sure the contacts are proper... it should eliminate this possibility. In a way, it makes sense since you move a lot with your phone in your pocket.
Edit: I just clicked on Thank You button for your OP, instead of Quote.
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Ya, do that... just to see what is going on.
More on the technical side, the screen needs minimum 500Mhz to get out of Sleep Mode. Some custom Rom's use a low voltage or "underclock" feature that reduces the power consumption but also the number of CPU steps. That is what makes your phone crash and reboot randomly.
Once you put the stock ROM, do a sdcard wipe (if you use one), just to be safe. It should take several hours, so do it over the night. Personally I would not use an external sdcard during the one week test, just be sure.
You could also have a RAM (hardware) issue, ya. But 99% of the time is related to software. Bad memory degrades fast so you will see your random reboots pop at a faster frequency. If you did all the above and still experience random reboots, run adb logcat to see what is going on at that specific moment. If you get error codes like:
Code:
code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 00000000
you are dealing with bad memory unfortunately and need to service your phone.
I also heard that some people had bad battery contacts on their S2. Clean them with some audio head tape cleaner and cotton swabs, than make sure the contacts are proper... it should eliminate this possibility. In a way, it makes sense since you move a lot with your phone in your pocket.
Edit: I just clicked on Thank You button for your OP, instead of Quote.
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you got my THANK button too. but how to run "adb logcat"?
Is all explained into link. Time to read?
However, I have a feeling this is your problem, since the phone restarts in your pocket only. Don't smack it like the guy did, heh. Go easier, think like it is your girlfriend...
Just clean the battery contacts and make sure they touch properly.
is there a guide on how to install Stock ROM back on? cant find any...
how can i root my sgs2...?
it also happened to my phone. so i brought it back to the store where i purchased it and told them that it was shutting down randomly when i put it in my pocket. after 15 days of waiting i called them for follow up because they told me it will take 7-10 working days. they told me that the phone never shut down in the service center. what can i do about it? i don't know how to flash or root. this is my first android phone.
I have finally found a solution... installed XXKH3 FW stock, not rooted yet, and installed an application from the android market called Load Monitor
Code:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.landak.loadmon
and enabled only Add Notifications, only notify high load, autostart and only screen on... seems to do the job, no battery drainage and most of all NO SOD (Sleep Of Death) or restarts anymore
If you still have problems try checkin wake lock from the options of the app...
Hope it helps
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nikkoangelo said:
it also happened to my phone. so i brought it back to the store where i purchased it and told them that it was shutting down randomly when i put it in my pocket. after 15 days of waiting i called them for follow up because they told me it will take 7-10 working days. they told me that the phone never shut down in the service center. what can i do about it? i don't know how to flash or root. this is my first android phone.
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The phone did not rebooted in their store because they did not move it, you have a bad battery contact that can be fixed easy.
dusnoki said:
I have finally found a solution... installed XXKH3 FW stock, not rooted yet, and installed an application from the android market called Load Monitor
Code:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.landak.loadmon
and enabled only Add Notifications, only notify high load, autostart and only screen on... seems to do the job, no battery drainage and most of all NO SOD (Sleep Of Death) or restarts anymore
If you still have problems try checkin wake lock from the options of the app...
Hope it helps
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Weird, people reported that app adds load to the phone. Why not use terminal instead to check the stats?
yqed said:
Is all explained into link. Time to read?
However, I have a feeling this is your problem, since the phone restarts in your pocket only. Don't smack it like the guy did, heh. Go easier, think like it is your girlfriend...
Just clean the battery contacts and make sure they touch properly.
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ops..missed you link..ok will read it.
lol, i do hope it's my problem and not my phone's.. i've been modding this and that on it for the past 3months since i bought it, i think it's time to treat it nicely like my girl friend and see what is her response to me.. it's been one day testing, so far ok.. thanks..
Hi everyone,
first of all I did search forum, but havent find answer nor related thread, if I have missed it please sorry about it.
Got my SGS2 about 6-7 months ago. No issues, everything perfect. Got updated to 2.3.4 with KIES (not really fan of experimenting with phone that have price of above average monthly salary in Serbia).
Rooted device with ZergRush exploit since I wanted as close to mint backup in case I have to send it to service(dont ask, service here is pain in the butt), purchased Mobile Odin Pro (cheers to that Chainfire) and flashed Hellcat's kernel for 2.3.4 from Mobile Odin.
Everything was cool, CWM, made EFS backup with his tool too, and so on...
However, about 2 moths ago, I started experiencing random restarts of the phone. Did search, found out that it happens and actually dealt with it.
Now, recently, i switched off my phone in the evening (was on 20% and didnt wanted to leave it on charger, and didnt want it to die on me during night), and in the morning I havent been able to turn it on. Freaked out badly, only to realize that its battery was empty. Which was odd because I DID turned it off.
About few days ago, i switched the phone, and it went to full shut down, however managed to get stucked somewhere in process (LED's are on, did vibrate i think) but never shuts down itself.
After some time, when I picked it up since I saw LED's on, i realized that its very hot and that I cant switch it back on (presumably because it never got shuts down) and had to remove battery so that I can switch it back on. When I did, i found out that battery was about 15% drained in that 10 mins, and I dont know what he was computing while shutting down, but it burned the sh*t out of itself.
Tonight it did that again so I decided to ask first before I do factory reset/wipe everything (maybe update to ICS too).
So, any idea, suggestion what to do is more than appreciated.
Cheers
Polite bump?
What is the actual problem .
jje
Well assuming you have read original post, why the hell that happen, does it happen to anyone else, and how to avoid it?
this may help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108499
Well, as I said, its not bootloop.
As I said, I shut down the phone, it starts shutting down, turn on leds, vibrate and stays turned on. After that battery drains quickly, and phone gets very hot.
When I get battery out, and back in it boots up without problems.
And I dont have any cooked rom, just Hellcats kernel for 2.3.4 stock rom.
you problem
Hi there,
Here's the best way to resolve this issue you have to re-flash a fresh new rom, meaning a full installation of the android os and here is how to do it,
First search google and download ODIN to ur computer or Pc.
Next search again google and type the following ( Sammobile.com ) and register and after that type the model number of your phone for example (i9100) in the site search bar and download rom that u need and thats it this should solve ur problem
Note : be sure to have 100% battery charged before doing the above and after installing ur new rom do a full wipe and enjoy,
I hope this was helpful,
Regards,
iMatrix
Yeah, thats probably that I will end up doing, luckily i have bought Titanium Backup so that I can backup all apps that I have and restore them after wiping everything.
I was wondering that somebody have any idea what might be going on.
Thanks for suggestions everyone.
before that try wiping cache and dalvik cache
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This seems to happen quite a bit on gb roms.. definetely time to upgrade to ICS
Actually from what I have read about ICS 4.03, Im actually glad I didnt.
Releasing it in that state(e.g. battery issues again, 3rd party sms programs sends sms twice...) is bad for both G and Samsung imho...
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Actually from what I have read about ICS 4.03, Im actually glad I didnt.
Releasing it in that state(e.g. battery issues again, 3rd party sms programs sends sms twice...) is bad for both G and Samsung imho...
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Lp7 fixes these problems
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Eudemony said:
Lp7 fixes these problems
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I think I'll wait few more iterations just in case
Hi,
Recently installed Cyanogenmod on my new Galaxy S2, I couldn't get the stable version to install and after googling several threads on XDA recommended using a nightly build so I went ahead and downloaded the latest one at the time (April 19th release). All was fine, a couple of small bugs but nothing I couldn't work around. The only thing really bothering me was being unable to add a Facebook account.
Yesterday I decided to update to the latest version to see if that release had addressed the Facebook issue. It wouldn't allow me to connect to Wi-Fi, or add a Google account so I restored a backup from a couple of days before and thought nothing of it. Last night when I plugged my phone in it wouldn't charge, I thought I'd knocked the plug out of the wall and I was tired so I just went to sleep. I woke up this morning and my phone was dead and I can't do anything to get it to charge. I have checked the charger with another phone and it's working fine.
I have borrowed someone else's battery and I am able to turn on the phone, but nothing I have tried so far will get it to recognise a charger. I have tried:
resetting battery stats in CWM
resetting cache (both Dalvik and normal)
restoring to an earlier backup
reinstalling CM9 (the 19th April release that worked for me before)
finally restored my phone to stock using my initial backup, but still no joy
After all the above the problem continues. The really odd thing is that it will charge via USB from my PC, or at least it displays a charging animation - no change in battery level reading after 45 mins. It plays the USB plugged/unplugged sound on the PC and phone around every 30 seconds. So after all that my questions are:
1/ Is this a likely to be a Cyanogenmod issue or a hardware fault that coincidentally developed at the same time?
2/ Any suggestions to fix this?
Please let me know if you need any more info, thanks in advance for help.
Diberlee
[EDIT] I'm unable to get the phone to connect to the PC in download mode, I can get into Odin on the phone but it won't connect to the PC.
m8 post in cm9 thread,ull get good help.....if ur not on cm9 then flash again stock rom or c with diffrent usb cable.
After a full factory reset this issue sorted itself out. Guess the simplest solution is sometimes the best =)
Thanks for taking the time to read all the same.
diberlee said:
After a full factory reset this issue sorted itself out. Guess the simplest solution is sometimes the best =)
Thanks for taking the time to read all the same.
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Yes and a point to bear in mind many user go down the long and winding road just to get to starting point of factory reset .
jje
Hi guys! First off, I know this sounds like a common problem, but I've looked through several times and haven't found a solution yet.
I have a SGS2, came as 2.3.3 stock but upgraded a while back to 2.3.5 through Kies. It was working perfectly for as long as I remember.
About a month ago the battery started acting weird going from 80% to 20% in no time, heating up too, I do remember dropping the phone once during this period, but it was nothing (just thought I should include this, also, I usually leave the phone plugged into the charger overnight as I do not have a power source at work (i work outdoors) i probably need a battery replacement)
The screen brightness would sometimes flicker and then POOF! The phone shuts off...At first this would happen at any activity, nothing specific, BUT, I have noticed that it intensifies with the Facebook app.
Anyways, usually plugging the phone back into the charger and powering it up would bring it back online, but not this time. It would get stuck looping the animation of the 'S' at the beginning and no booting up. I have a valid warranty card which I'm guessing will get the phone either fixed or replaced but I need help to try to salvage whatever info I can get my hands on, preferably everything, but my memos are most important to me.
Thanks for the help!
sherief87 said:
Hi guys! First off, I know this sounds like a common problem, but I've looked through several times and haven't found a solution yet.
I have a SGS2, came as 2.3.3 stock but upgraded a while back to 2.3.5 through Kies. It was working perfectly for as long as I remember.
About a month ago the battery started acting weird going from 80% to 20% in no time, heating up too, I do remember dropping the phone once during this period, but it was nothing (just thought I should include this, also, I usually leave the phone plugged into the charger overnight as I do not have a power source at work (i work outdoors) i probably need a battery replacement)
The screen brightness would sometimes flicker and then POOF! The phone shuts off...At first this would happen at any activity, nothing specific, BUT, I have noticed that it intensifies with the Facebook app.
Anyways, usually plugging the phone back into the charger and powering it up would bring it back online, but not this time. It would get stuck looping the animation of the 'S' at the beginning and no booting up. I have a valid warranty card which I'm guessing will get the phone either fixed or replaced but I need help to try to salvage whatever info I can get my hands on, preferably everything, but my memos are most important to me.
Thanks for the help!
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are u rooted
try flashing the stock rom again and check if u face the same issue
I'm not rooted. I tried doing that using odin and got the stock firmware from sammobile. same thing happens, stuck at the boot.
a friend suggested i try to flash the stock ICS version, same thing.
sherief87 said:
I'm not rooted. I tried doing that using odin and got the stock firmware from sammobile. same thing happens, stuck at the boot.
a friend suggested i try to flash the stock ICS version, same thing.
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Weird. It shouldn't boot loop. You sure your version is GT-I9100 and not GT-I9100G? Since I'm in Riyadh, the latest version for GB here (Saudi Arabia) was JPKJ2, but that's for GT-I9100, dunno about the G version.
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okay so with the help of a friend and this awesome forum, i managed to install cwm, from there i could take a nandroid backup, but i cant mount the phone as a drive or anything to copy the files, and i'm guessing i cant use this backup i just took to restore later because it'll just get me stuck at the same place im at now
i read that i can use unyaffs to extract files from the resultant backup image, so my question is, before i do a wipe, is there any other method through which i could get a backup of my stuff? the things i would very much like to get a copy off are my messages/notes/whatsapp history and pretty much anything really
thanks for the help!
Alright then. Description of my problem first I guess. I was not at home and running out of battery on my S2, but play store asked me to update some application so I agreed. After this I got the message that my phones internaly storage was running low, and keep in mind that I had near to no battery life (like 5%) and was not near any sort of charge point. I tried to access the applications page, to delete some apps that I never used and when I did my phone randomly and crazily got stuck and switched off. I'm assuming it somehow drained the 5% battery life I had left.
I got home thinking I could just switch on my phone and delete some applications that I wasn't using...that was 2 days ago...I can't even get past the samsung splash screen. It goes on a horrible boot loop and I've just about tried everything apart from hard resetting and I don't want to do that as I haven't backed my phone up recently...
If anyone knows any other methods, could you please please help? I would really appreciate it if I could keep my files and just enter my phone to delete a couple applications...which I'm assuming is the problem.
What have you tried? What firmware do you have? More info would be nice :thumbup:
urdstve Juden
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What have you tried? What firmware do you have? More info would be nice :thumbup:
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yay for quick replies. I have tried cold booting, and soft resetting...I also went into recovery and cleared the cache partition to see if it would help and so far nothing... I have absolutely no idea what firmware I have and I have no idea how to check. I never tried to root my phone or install other roms.
OK so if you have no idea what firmware you was on don't reset Cuz if you was on 4.0.4 kiss good by to your phone. Was it ICS or jb? Do you know this? Pull battery out leave for a bit "5 mins" and try again. If that don't work and your not sure on firmware you need Odin to replace firmware yes data will be lost. Can you get to download mode?