I recently rooted using odin, and all seemed to go well, much to my relief as this was my first attempt. After rooting I downloaded a bunch of apps (all from google play) ad free, uninstallers, root checker, wifi password finder,titanium....... oh, and noMoarPowah by Chainfire, which I'll get to in a sec. I uninstalled Swype, did Nandroid backup......... Anyway, I noticed the other day that I couldn't run any videos on my phone, not just youtube, but onesthat I'd taken myself. I hear sound but have a black screen. If I tilt the phone left or right, I see a brief flash of the video, then back to black screen again.
I've uninstalled all the apps I downloaded since rooting, but it hasn't made any difference. Could uininstalling Swype have caused this?
The last couple of days too I've noticed a huge increase in battery useage. I had to change batteries at midday the other day, which previously was unheard of, and within minutes of rebooting, the newly charged battery was down to 60% ish. I noticed something called mobi.mgeek.tunnybrowser was the culprit, which was linked to dolphin browser, so I unistalled that along with jetpack too, but it hasn't made a huge difference to my battery useage, so that needs further investigation.
On to NomoahPowah. I installed that 'cos it seemed like a bit of fun, only to find that it didn't work properly on my phone, apparently, it hasn't been updated for ICS. So I uninstalled it.......or so I thought! Upon plugging the charger in, up it came again, large as life. Couldn't find any mention of it on my phone tho, so, I installed it again and tried another uninstaller this time..........same result! Seems I can't get rid of the damn thing.......any suggestions, guys?
Related
OK my Atrix just rebooted 2 times today. This is getting pretty annoying.
I saw few Threads on the forum about reboots already but couldn't find an answer weather or not replacing the phone fixed the issue for people who had it. And thought the pool will be useful to see what the current situation is. Should i replace mine or it is software related and all phones have same issue??
Some of the reboots are can be missed bu user as they happens when phone just idles the good way to check is to: do dial
*#*#4636#*#* and go to "battery Information" -> Time since boot:
If you see that this time is less then what you think it should be(you know when you last rebooted).
On the side note i saw few threads where people where complaining about the battery life, an it might be connected as those reboots do reset the battery timer.
What about an option for something like
Had random reboot issue, didn't do anything about it and haven't had another one
I vote for that one..
Was it completly random, or you where installing something/playing game/using app etc.
Also is it possible that you didn notice it? Mine rebooted atleast 3 times where i found out that it did only after checking service menue (battary information->Time since boot)
i have been using it for 2 weeks and not a single random reboot
Have had mine for a few days and have not seen or felt one random reboot...
dimammx said:
Was it completly random, or you where installing something/playing game/using app etc.
Also is it possible that you didn notice it? Mine rebooted atleast 3 times where i found out that it did only after checking service menue (battary information->Time since boot)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It was completely random although I'm sure something was running in the background that made it reboot. I've kept a very close eye on the phone since I got it so this was the only time it happened.
I'll vote once i've had my phone longer than a day lol
Had it since feb 22, no reboots so far. I would change it under warranty.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
i exchanged a phone due to a faulty usb port the other day, had it 2 weeks and it just stopped working. never had a random reboot.
got the replacement on sunday, and noticed today as i was putting it into the locker at the gym it rebooted. only time i've noticed.
I'll check some more this weekend, but I did have an issue while in the music player in car dock mode. Music would stop playing, the phone appeared to lock up, then it rebooted itself. Happened a couple times in this situation. I thought it might have been tasker (as that was the last thing I installed). I did a factory reset, loaded up pretty much the same stuff as previous, minus tasker. It did the same thing once. Hasn't done it again. Will know more later this week when I have time to force the issue, if it's going to occur again.
So, this wasn't really random, as it occurred during a specific activity (car dock, music player). Right now, too many variables to pin it down.
My reboots have only occurred during music playing...ive done numerous searches to find a fix to no availe...i'll give it til the end of the week, do a factory reset, see how it does and go from there...what the hell i'll keep it until the 20th and take it back if it still occurs
Interesting, vote break out almost evenly, as half of the voter have reboots and the other half doesn't. Also i thought a lot more people exchanged their phones but looks like most people (including me) with reboots are waiting on some kind of confirmation of what is causing the issue. Is it software or hardware???
Mine rebooted also today while I was using the music player and the last app that I installed was an app killer watchdog lite. this is the first time I've seen it but it might have rebooted by itself without me noticing it
The culprit might be the music player but I wanna make sure if it will happen again during music play
I forgot where I read this but apparently there's supposed to be a fix for this but they weren't sure why it's not being pushed out yet.
I got my Atrix on Friday night and had it reboot several times, before finally freezing, then crashing while running an app. I took it back to AT&T the next day and switched it out for a new one totally free. With the second I have been having no problems at all, so I think it is just a problem with certain, random, handsets rather than a problem for all of the phones.
Atrix random reboot
Have had my Atrix for one week. The first 24 hours it rebooted 2X, the second day it rebooted 6X. I have been reading these and many other posts. Uninstalled Advanced Task Killer and phone stayed alive for a day. Opened the back and double-checked the insertion of the SIM card and it's been up for 44 hours without a reboot. I will be near an AT&T store on Sunday. Think I'll try a new one. I love the phone otherwise.
still haven't experienced any reboots..
Audible's app (version 1.1 from the market) FC's like crazy and finally caused a reboot last night,the first one since buying 10 days ago. There is a beta version of the audible app that is much more stable than their piece o' in the market.
SIM Card
So... After complete insertion of the SIM card I'm up 66 hours now without a reboot. Others should check their SIM card and post if it helps.
I haven't had a single reboot until today; it rebooted twice on me. I've had the phone since Feb 22nd.
The only thing that's changed is that 2-3 days ago my 32GB SD card came in. I'll do what the above poster said (reinsert SD card) and see if that fixes it.
EDIT: Maybe it is due to heat? I've noticed that, since I got my car dock, anytime I remove my Atrix from the car dock (while in the car dock I use Slacker Radio, Navigation, and a car dock application) its always around 58-60C. I have a SetCPU profile where it underclocks after 60C, but still that is extremely hot.
Has anyone else had any problems similar to the below? I've had my phone for about 6 weeks and its been fine apart from the standard issues others are having, it''s not rooted and apart from maybe 10 apps installed is as it arrived.
Today I noticed it was exceptionally warm in my pocket (Top shirt pocket not trouser) to the point where I was getting worried, when I checked the screen it had used about 50% battery in less than 2 hours! So I checked what was rinsing the battery and it reported Android OS, the screen and phone idle all as top players.
I decided to reboot to see if that stopped it getting hot, still the same used another 25% battery in 30 minutes. Shut down took battery out rebooted still draining the battery and getting hot.
At this point the strange behavior started when the phone rebooted it said I had 5 missed calls and a text message. Checked missed calls non there, tried to read text message and it wasn't there but the notification was still at the top so I accessed the message from there and replied. Went back to message inbox still no message locked screen and still reports 5 missed calls that are not in the call log!!!!
Battery has now died and it's only been on a few hours!
The getting hot thing has worried me more than anything as the phone wasn't doing anything......anyone got any ideas please?
Restore factory settings or use the pc suite to repair the phone.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
yeah, i experience it too... n my phone goes crazy, constantly vibrates.. back key n menu key also go crazy.. they activate automatically..
have a look at this...
http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/111285#111285
I also had a battery problem. It was the facebook application that caused the trouble. I deleted all the facebook's data, and today I have no more problem
Thank you for all your replies, I tried resetting the phone settings and that made no difference at all so I did a factory reset...........just spent the last few hours re-installing everything and setting everything up .
The battery performance has gone back to normal but I think the phone is definately running hotter than it was, I can actually feel it in my shirt pocket now whereas before I could just feel the weight of it.
Total newbie question I know but now the phone seems to be running normally again is there a way to back it up exactly as it is? I.e. keeping all my K9 mail settings, installed apps etc etc, it's taken hours to put it all back and I don't fancy doing it again.
Land Rover Defender said:
Thank you for all your replies, I tried resetting the phone settings and that made no difference at all so I did a factory reset...........just spent the last few hours re-installing everything and setting everything up .
The battery performance has gone back to normal but I think the phone is definately running hotter than it was, I can actually feel it in my shirt pocket now whereas before I could just feel the weight of it.
Total newbie question I know but now the phone seems to be running normally again is there a way to back it up exactly as it is? I.e. keeping all my K9 mail settings, installed apps etc etc, it's taken hours to put it all back and I don't fancy doing it again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try using mybackup pro.
Sent from my SK17i using xda premium
i think this have been fixed by a Touchpad Calibration update by service centers since late last month.
anyone can confirm this? i am about to get a 'grey market' phone that have the exact same problem. if the calibration will have it fixed, then i'm going to get it for sure
yea u can even install astro file manager from android market which helps keeping your application ..
Not much activity here eh?
I just want to find out if the touch screen unresponsiveness, overheating, and crazy menu/back button behavior has been resolved by the touchpad calibration done by SE service centers? Is there a way we can resolve, or update the touchpad drivers ourselves?
Thanks in advance!
Sent from my U20i using XDA App
I think something's gone wrong with my player, but I'm not sure because I'm new to these types of devices. In any event, here goes: three days ago I got a brand new Samsung Galaxy player. Because it was new, I basically used it to death on the first day exploring all the features, setting up accounts, downloading a few apps, etc. With that amount of heavy usage, I got 5 hours worth of battery life-- YouTube, Angry Birds, GPS, wifi, typing, browsing the net, radio station, downloading apps, snapping pictures, transferring/playing media files, etc.
Then the battery went low, so I recharged. Having gotten everything out of my system, I started using the player casually. I thought, "If I used the player insanely the first day and got 5 hours of it, I'm bound to get at least 8-10 hours now."
Nope. Battery drain became massive-- at the most I got 2 1/2 hours before the battery went low. Charged it again. Not only was the massive drain still there, but now something new developed-- the unit started becoming hot to the touch after a few minutes. I hoped it was just a temporary problem, but nope, the problem remained, getting worse when I would type.
I also had some weird stuff happen the second day I used the player. I got a "bootup screen" when powering the unit back on. Later that same day I got the "Downloading... please do not turn off target!" screen with the yellow Android robot sign.
On my third day, things seemed to go from bad to worse, to the point where at times I would lose 1% of battery power every 1-2 minutes just playing one mp3 song or switching on radio. In fact, in one instance just 3 minutes after powering up the device I would go from 100%-97%.
I Googled myself silly about this and tried everything to no avail--uninstalled all 3rd party apps, factory reset, turned syncing off and avoided wifi like the plague (stats for battery usage never went above 5%). I double and tripled checked my stats. Battery stats would only show a handful of about 6 basic apps running at any given time, each having between 1-10% of usage at the most, with the display always using the battery the most (between 55-89%).
I don't know if this means that the display is the culprit, but if it is, something's wrong because it's set to "automatic brightness" and I also have "power save mode" on.
In any event, no matter what I do now, I'm lucky to get 2 hours on this player. Remember, it's only a few days old. I'm wondering if there's something I missed in troubleshooting this issue or maybe there's something faulty and I need to return it?
Thanks.
Download easy battery saver from google play i had the same problem and my battery increased alot my settings are
Advance mode: lock & unlock is checked WiFi is checked brightness and battery saving brightness is checked and sleep schedule is also checked
You should also install easy task manager and use the widget both combined work great
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA
I suppose you haven't rooted your device or installing any custom ROM, right? If that's correct, seeing download mode when rebooting sound odd to me.
When your device is heating up, that means some apps are running wild and using lots of cpu. What I can suggest is to boot into recovery (power+vol up+home) and perform a factory reset there.
If that still doesn't work, you may need to return it.
Thanks for your response, guys...
j21098, I'll try what you suggested and come back later with the results. But I can't download any apps right now because the battery has once again gone low... it only lasted around 2.15 hours this time. *sigh*
WT Ho... No, I did not root the player and I did the factory reset both ways-- in the player itself and the Vol+Power Button thing. That's why I was unnerved by the Downloading Target thing... I hadn't downloaded or done anything.
Incidentally, after making my post, I tried using the player with head phones in the entire time and that seemed to have resolved some of the heating issues. That's weird, because it's not like I've been using the speakers to play hours and hours of music at 100 decibels. I had them on just to navigate through the screens/ surf the web, play Angry Birds (now uninstalled), and type.
And the entire first day I had the player I used speakers to play an hour or so of YouTube with no heating issues. But now just five minutes of merely clickity clacking on the keyboard and the thing turns into a toaster. Is it normal for speakers to cause that much overheating?
In any event, I'm currently waiting for the player to charge up so I can download the apps that j21098 and let you know what happened. Thanks for your responses once again. I'll be back.
Thanks!
Hi, guys! I'm back!
I wound up figuring out the problem. A lot of the overheating seemed to have come from the little vibration the player makes when you tap the screen or use the keyboard. Using the speakers too much seems to contribute to battery drain but not as badly as the vibration. I turned off that setting and now everything seems to be okay.
P.S. Thanks for the great advice about managing energy levels/ factory resetting, anyway. I definitely will be using the app to manage CPU usage and now know how to "factory reset" using the buttons (as opposed to using the menu).
minababe said:
Hi, guys! I'm back!
I wound up figuring out the problem. A lot of the overheating seemed to have come from the little vibration the player makes when you tap the screen or use the keyboard. Using the speakers too much seems to contribute to battery drain but not as badly as the vibration. I turned off that setting and now everything seems to be okay.
P.S. Thanks for the great advice about managing energy levels/ factory resetting, anyway. I definitely will be using the app to manage CPU usage and now know how to "factory reset" using the buttons (as opposed to using the menu).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should disable the unnecessary
vibrations it wastes more battery im a heavy user i play hd games, listen to music,and watch movies
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA
So, Here's a little back story on my TB.
I've been rooted for over 1.5 yrs and have had no issues until this past month or so.
Running Froyo 2.2 on stock HTC. No ROMs.
Haven't changed anything and haven't loaded any games since I got my Nexus 7.
At work I leave the phone in the cradle on charge, especially when I try to use Wifi.
So the issue at hand.
It does not matter what app I use, OpenGarden, Camera, Video maybe a game or 2. Seems to be the more high end apps that cause the problem.
When I start these apps, not together, it will work for a while (on full battery) then the phone will shut down.
I'll restart and the battery will show as 1/8 to 1/5 charge.
I have changed batteries and it will still do the same shut down.
I haven't tried a restore or a re-root. Haven't touched in a long time and don't want to mess it up. I originally rooted the long method then went through the Revolutionary Easy Root and have been there ever since.
Any general ideas as to why these apps are sucking my battery dry? It is just a weird scenario and haven't found similar issues with a rooted phone.
Or should I take the plunge and get the Samsung Galaxy S III (and root with ICS)?
I really love the TB, but it is getting slow, especially compared to running apps on the Nexus 7.
Try updating to the latest ruu.
Sent from my ThunderBolt using Tapatalk 2
Thanks.
Can you point to the latest RUU and instructions?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...t-no-its-not-ics-but-it-does-fix-some-things/
Try this site. I don't know if it works or not.
Sent from my ThunderBolt using Tapatalk 2
Also can try cleaning battery terms and making sure they're all out and straight. When battery amp draw goes higher, I could see that causing the phone to freeze or reboot from amps/volts being too low. Just something to try before unrooting with an ruu...
Already checked the terminals. Happened with several batteries.
OK. So I noticed the anomalous shutdown recently and actually found what the problem was. I had installed Ninja Royale and Blood Brothers, but never actually ran them since I've been running them on my Nexus7.
On the N7 I was noticing short jumps to the start splash screen of these games during game play. So I decided to UnInstall them from the TB and now no longer have any random shutdowns or battery crunch and reboots.
Might be a combination of Froyo on the TB and a newer game, but this seems to have worked.
The N7 seems to be able to handle the load and the jumpi-ness of the splash screen and the battery holds up as well.
So, my fix was to uninstall Ninja Royale and Blood Brothers from the TB to fix the reboot issue.
I was having similar problems. Ended up replacing the battery.
Alright, been helping out a friend with his P80000, some background incase that helps to figure this one out, the phone had a battery drain problem where it could say it was at 70% then drain rapidly, seemed to work with trying to use the battery calibration apps so far so yet (He mentioned it happened often so it seemed like it got improved) then the phone didn't keep itself properly connected to the WifI (disconnected multiple times) seemed to solve it by just setting the phone to a static IP.
Now a new problem has been born that ive never personally experienced nor heard. He was charging the phone the whole day, but it stayed at 37%. So he restarted the phone which lead to him not being able to press any of the apps that he had. He uninstalled and reinstalled the apps but when he tried to use the reinstalled apps it just directed him back to play store. He restarted it again and it didnt work, restarted another time and this time it worked, so far.
Any of ya boys have gone through anything similar to this? I mean it seems clear that the battery probably is whacked and the software is not feeling that good anymore, but I'm curious what the cause of this is, is it just a rare software problem or have I been outside too much.