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I've been using Android phones since the first Droid in November, 2009. My most recent phone (before my Thunderbolt) was a Droid Incredible. I loved the incredible but upgraded to the TB on the last day of unlimited data so I could lock it in for 2 more years.
However, there are some anomalies, aka problems, with the Thunderbolt that I didn't experience on the Incredible. I'm hoping you can help me decide if this is because of a faulty phone or I have to live with these.
1. GPS. I leave the GPS on all the time. I know, it's a battery hit, but I use it enough to just leave it on. However, on the Thunderbolt, after I've picked a destination in Google Maps, I often get a message at the bottom of the map stating: "Waiting for GPS". Yesterday I drove over 20 miles before it locked into GPS. This happens frequently. On the Incredible I never saw "Waiting for GPS" ever. Not once. Do I have to live with this? Is this the nature of the beast? Or do I have a faulty unit?
2. Data connection. Often when I try to do something data-wise such as the browser, etc. I get a message stating there's no data connection. I look at the notification bar and see that there are 3 or 4 bars in my signal strength area but no data information. There's no 3G, 1X or 4G indicator. Nothing. That area has just vanished from the notification bar. I've tried turning data on/off, I've tried going into and out of airplane mode, nothing turns data back on. I eventually have to hold the power button down and tap on "reset." That does the trick and I'll have data once it's reset. Again, is this normal or is there a setting somewhere where I can coax data into coming on. Or is this a faulty unit?
3. Screen dimming oddness. I have the car holder. I like it a lot. When I put it in the car holder I see the little lightning bolt over the battery indicator indicating it's charging. I have set the settings option to keep the screen on when it's plugged in so I can see the maps while driving. However, after a period of time the screen goes dim. It doesn't turn off, just dim. Touching the screen brings it to full brightness. However, that's dangerous while driving.
When this happens I notice that the lightning bolt doesn't appear over the battery any more. It's as if the charger stopped charging and I am running on battery. However, that can't be the case since the battery never drains. Even after 5 hours of driving the battery doesn't go down. It just doesn't have a lighting bolt and the screen will go dim. I can dismount and remount the phone in the car holder and the lightning bolt will reappear. As long as the lightning bolt is there the screen won't dim. But after a while the lightning bolt goes away and the screen will dim again. This is very annoying.
Any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Here are details on my phone. Stock Android, not rooted. Android 2.2.1 Build: 1.13.605.7
Thanks in advance
The GPS is sadly a known issue but a fix can be found here. I use OMFGB and have flawless GPS even w/o the fix.
Your issue with data is kinda odd. Perhaps you can try flashing a newer radio. A list of Radio's and ROM's that are compatible with them is here
I am also unsure about your Car Dock issue since I dont use that feature. The above link for radio's and ROMs might fix that issue as well.
I dont recall having any weird issues like that when I had my 1st Thunderbolt, a side from call quality problems and bad battery.
I ended up taking it back and got an Incredible 2. never had any problems with the Inc 2 but did not that the battery was only a little bit better then the Thunderbolt's(during heavy usage) & since I did like the bigger size of the TB I ended up trading with someone on these forums and now I have a T B again. Same battery issues & same call quality issues.
I think once Verizon gives the $400 deposit back after the 1st year im just going to buy somwtjing new.
I had I similar issue with the data connection disappearing all of a sudden. This started to happen after I flushed MR2 OTA radio. I have since tried MR2 leaked and R2 gingerbread radios and both did not have this problem. Good luck!
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Thanks for the quick responses. Currently, since this is a corporate phone, I don't intend to root or change roms. Any other ideas?
The new gingeritis roms and he new gb radio are both from the new gb base that's supposed to be released for the TB soon. I would try them, you might be on an old radio and kernel that's just not working for your phone, try the new ones and see if that helps. If not, it might be a hardware problem, cuz I have none of those issues on the new radio and gingeritis 3d, or the old radio and stock rom, or any other rom for that matter.
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Woohoo! The GPS Status program corrected my GPS issue. Thanks a bunch for that tip.
Now, how about the data issue or the dimming issue. Any thoughts on those two items?
TabGuy said:
I've been using Android phones since the first Droid in November, 2009. My most recent phone (before my Thunderbolt) was a Droid Incredible. I loved the incredible but upgraded to the TB on the last day of unlimited data so I could lock it in for 2 more years.
However, there are some anomalies, aka problems, with the Thunderbolt that I didn't experience on the Incredible. I'm hoping you can help me decide if this is because of a faulty phone or I have to live with these.
1. GPS. I leave the GPS on all the time. I know, it's a battery hit, but I use it enough to just leave it on. However, on the Thunderbolt, after I've picked a destination in Google Maps, I often get a message at the bottom of the map stating: "Waiting for GPS". Yesterday I drove over 20 miles before it locked into GPS. This happens frequently. On the Incredible I never saw "Waiting for GPS" ever. Not once. Do I have to live with this? Is this the nature of the beast? Or do I have a faulty unit?
2. Data connection. Often when I try to do something data-wise such as the browser, etc. I get a message stating there's no data connection. I look at the notification bar and see that there are 3 or 4 bars in my signal strength area but no data information. There's no 3G, 1X or 4G indicator. Nothing. That area has just vanished from the notification bar. I've tried turning data on/off, I've tried going into and out of airplane mode, nothing turns data back on. I eventually have to hold the power button down and tap on "reset." That does the trick and I'll have data once it's reset. Again, is this normal or is there a setting somewhere where I can coax data into coming on. Or is this a faulty unit?
3. Screen dimming oddness. I have the car holder. I like it a lot. When I put it in the car holder I see the little lightning bolt over the battery indicator indicating it's charging. I have set the settings option to keep the screen on when it's plugged in so I can see the maps while driving. However, after a period of time the screen goes dim. It doesn't turn off, just dim. Touching the screen brings it to full brightness. However, that's dangerous while driving.
When this happens I notice that the lightning bolt doesn't appear over the battery any more. It's as if the charger stopped charging and I am running on battery. However, that can't be the case since the battery never drains. Even after 5 hours of driving the battery doesn't go down. It just doesn't have a lighting bolt and the screen will go dim. I can dismount and remount the phone in the car holder and the lightning bolt will reappear. As long as the lightning bolt is there the screen won't dim. But after a while the lightning bolt goes away and the screen will dim again. This is very annoying.
Any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Here are details on my phone. Stock Android, not rooted. Android 2.2.1 Build: 1.13.605.7
Thanks in advance
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I have had these problems on stock, rooted, and custom ROMs, esp the data signal disappearing and also the screen dimming while using google maps. Not sure what the problem is. Make sure you leave wifi on when using gps also, this will help it get locks faster.
nrfitchett4 said:
I have had these problems on stock, rooted, and custom ROMs, esp the data signal disappearing and also the screen dimming while using google maps. Not sure what the problem is. Make sure you leave wifi on when using gps also, this will help it get locks faster.
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I actually have wifi hotspot turned on when I travel so I can use my Galaxy Tab on the Internet. So, leaving wifi on isn't a real option. However, the tips above seemed to have fixed the GPS lock.
I have been using the phone for 2 days now and I observed the following problems:
1. The WiFi signal is weak. I mean in the areas where my HTC Desire or iPhone 4 has one signal bar, the RAZR XT910 has no signal
2. The device does not wake-up sometimes. I have to press the power button several times. I guess this is lag from the android OS.
3. I have got some lags and errors from the android OS these two days. Hope some updates will come.
Please reply if you have similar issues with your device, especially the first two points.
Any 3G/UMTS problems?
I cant connect to 3G only EDGE.
I cant see 3G networks.
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I have no problems with 3G.
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I have been using the phone for 2 days now and I observed the following problems:
1. The WiFi signal is weak. I mean in the areas where my HTC Desire or iPhone 4 has one signal bar, the RAZR XT910 has no signal
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Agreed. I have an Australian Razr and have found the same issue. Haven't noticed an issue with speed but the signal strength indicator is definitely on average a bar down on my Galaxy.
2. The device does not wake-up sometimes. I have to press the power button several times. I guess this is lag from the android OS.
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Agreed too. Just happened then but instead of eventually waking it restarted. Has also happened once before but did eventually wake.
3. I have got some lags and errors from the android OS these two days. Hope some updates will come.
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Nothing here on this one.
Despite the above still loving the phone.
2. The device does not wake-up sometimes. I have to press the power button several times. I guess this is lag from the android OS.
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This might be caused by in pocket detection. Disable it, might help.
Semseddin said:
This might be caused by in pocket detection. Disable it, might help.
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Great point. Will disable now and see how it goes. Cheers
Seems razor australia ns seem to be having problems what are your guys build dates located in settings? Mines 19 october and camera seems to be fuzzy..
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I have an optus razr
I have none of the issues you are experiencing. The 'low' wifi signal strength is probably caused because you are connected to a wireless-g router. The razr is capable of wireless-n . I always get full signal bars connected to my 'n' router and 2-3 bars on my 'g' router.
No issues using the power button to turn the phone on/off. No lag in the interface. Miss my optical trackpad from my desire though
My router is wireless-n. I have just checked with the router and it have the weakest from all my mobiles.
Anyone else with this problem?
Try to set your router to support a/b/g + n WiFi. Sometimes WiFi chips can behave very strange.
the router is set to support a/b/g + n WiFi. I have htc desire with g Wi-Fi. the problem comes from the razr wifi.
okay so, I'm back on XDA Developers after owning an iPhone 3, 3Gs and 4 for a couple years (after I moved on from my old Nexus One) and I've had the RAZR for a couple days..
an issue I ran into on the first day of owning it, was constant rebooting when the phone was put to sleep.. I couldn't figure out what the issue was apart from that it only occurred when I was connected to wifi at home (didn't happen when I was connected to wifi anywhere else or when wifi was switched off)... so I went back to the store I got it from for a replacement.. hoping that the phone wasn't going to encouter the same rebooting issues, to my bad luck, it kept happening.. so I thought that maybe it wasn't just because I got myself a dud (both times)...
so today I did some diagnosing the issue which I localised to being my router settings... and luckily enough, it WAS the configuration of my router... I tried to see what the differences were between my configurations at home, and that of the wifi routers at work...
So apparently, the RAZR doesn't like the following (could be just one of them, or a combination of both):
- SSID Not Broadcasting (i.e. Hidden SSID's)
- MAC Address Filtering.
So I unhid my SSID and now it's broadcasting, and I also turned off MAC Address Filtering and using WPA security instead.. Now the phone doesn't constantly reboot. Just odd that the phone doesn't like those settings. Anyways, just happy the phone doesn't constantly reboot when put to sleep.
Hopefully these details help anyone else who ends up running into the rebooting issues when put to sleep.
Have a same problems with my RAZR. But all my wi-fi network is hidden and wpa2 personal secured, but phone randomly rebooting only at work.
home router - time capsule (apple)
work router - d-link DIR320.
P.S. if i disable wifi on phone- no rebooting at all.
Raze phone issues
I have a Razr sourced from Mobicity in Australia, bought from them to avoid the Optus bloat. I love this phone it is a gorgeous piece of kit, big beautiful screen, fast etc. BUT twice in the last two days I have received phone calls, answered them, and the caller was unable to hear me. And ultimately I need this to be a reliable phone first and a gorgeous bit of kit second.
Anybody else suffering similar problems. I hav had to revert back to my iphone4 because I have to have a reliable phone for work. I'd love to find the issue and am open to any suggestions. I am on Telstra by the way.
Ok. Problems I have encountered the 2 days I have used the phone:
Constant freeze. The first hour I used the phone it froze and rebooted 7 or 8 times.
Missing SocialLocation.apk. This caused a problem for the GPS in smart actions to work at all. Rooted phone and installed the app, and problem disappeared.
Tried to hard reset the phone because of all the rebooting problems. Guess what, on the first menu coming up where you can choose language, the phone froze and rebooted again. Now still it is constantly freezing and rebooting.
The freezing issues does not really have one specific app causing it. It can happen whenever doing whatever!
Anyone got a solution for this? Maybe a OTA update for Norwegian model?
For anyone mentioning the loss of WiFi signal, i think its suffering from what the iPhone 4 did, its dependant on where you hold the phone, i think the WiFi receiver on the phone is right about where youd hold the phone (in the middle at the back of the phone)
I noticed i was getting the dropping of signal bars, so decided to test it out, holding the phone normally the bars would drop 1 maybe 2 (in my living room where my desire gets full bars) then held it around the edges of the phone and instantly got full bars again.
I cant say this IS the problem you lot are having, but i definitely find holding the phone a little differently from what i normally do makes a huge difference for me.
Anyway just my 2 pence, hope this helps some of you guys.
nafpez said:
For anyone mentioning the loss of WiFi signal, i think its suffering from what the iPhone 4 did, its dependant on where you hold the phone, i think the WiFi receiver on the phone is right about where youd hold the phone (in the middle at the back of the phone)
I noticed i was getting the dropping of signal bars, so decided to test it out, holding the phone normally the bars would drop 1 maybe 2 (in my living room where my desire gets full bars) then held it around the edges of the phone and instantly got full bars again.
I cant say this IS the problem you lot are having, but i definitely find holding the phone a little differently from what i normally do makes a huge difference for me.
Anyway just my 2 pence, hope this helps some of you guys.
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I have problem 1 and 2 and weak wi-fi even when the phone is on my desk (not touching it with my hands that is)
1、yes, the wifi is weak
2、when the phone is being charging, sometimes I press the power button it wakes but go dark quickly, and I have to press the button again
I'm on my second Razr right now. My first had the blotches on the screen when using a black background. My second Razr has an unresponsive touchscreen a few times a day. I used to assume that my phone was locking up, but it went to sleep when I pressed the power button, and woke up with a working touchscreen. It will also respond to volume and screen rotation, just no touchscreen until you sleep/wake it.
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1、yes, the wifi is weak
2、when the phone is being charging, sometimes I press the power button it wakes but go dark quickly, and I have to press the button again
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Maybe you have pocket detection enabled, and when you put your hands in front of the sensor the phone screen shuts off, you don't even need to put your hands in front of the screen, sometimes all you need is to make a shadow in front of the sensors and you will see the phone screen shut off.
Happened to me sometimes, but i knew right away it was pocket detection shutting off the screen.
Thank God i have no complains at all about my phone, maybe a the wifi weakness problem, but for me it still have a very good speed at home on wifi, so don't care about the bars at all.
So is this a problem with the Rezound, or the program? I went for a short 20 mile ride today, and Map My Ride showed it to be 28 miles. It's a 20 mile loop by my cycling computer and by google maps, and this is hardly a small margin of error. I've generally had good luck with the GPS but this is a little extreme.
well, one time just using the standard gps, i punched in an address & it showed it to be in the middle of a lake on the screen... õ_Ô
Solar flares interfering maybe. No, seriously they're high at the moment.
Rezound GPS is not very good with any of the sports tracking apps. Someone posted a thread where clearing agps cache helped but it didn't work for me. I still use my incredible for logging my runs. I haven't tried any of the ics roms but I'm hoping they address the problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500516
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The GPS on the Rezound sucks! I came from the Samsung Galaxy S and it had its GPS problems as well but it got better and better as time went along. Hopefully this will happen again. But I can be in my back yard and when I start Maps it locks right away and says 5meter accuracy, yet it shows me 100-150 feet away from where I really am. So its basically worthless. While driving it shows me driving through buildings and people's yards all the while saying its got a 5 meter accuracy lock.
Part of the problem may actually be solar flairs, but it does seem to be a larger issue of the Rezound doing fine-grained tracking. Here's my supposed ride yesterday--I was riding like a drunk sailor, apparently!
This problem has definitely been happening since before the current solar activity
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Hmm. That's odd, GPS on my stock Rezound locks on quickly and is rock solid. I use Google Nav all the time and it works like a charm.
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Hmm. That's odd, GPS on my stock Rezound locks on quickly and is rock solid. I use Google Nav all the time and it works like a charm.
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Google Nav doesn't have a problem for me either, but all the sport tracking apps (map my run, Run Keeper, endomondo, etc.), have problems.
Edit: Here are some threads about this problem
http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-htc-rezound/151969-gps-tracking-issue-bug-glitch.html
http://androidforums.com/htc-rezound/505477-rezound-gps-sucks.html
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-rezound-help/194000-gps-accuracy-issues.html
Just tried an ics rom based off the latest leak, same problem
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k_flan said:
Just tried an ics rom based off the latest leak, same problem
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I will have to try this.. I've never had a gps problem on HTC phones. On my Samsung charge.. if the wind was blowing you couodnt get a lock.. my buddies Samsung captivate can't get a lock unless he's holding still in clear view of the sky. If he's driving.. it won't lock at all.
Every HTC phone I have used locks in seconds.. every time, all the time and always accurate.
And you guys realize that if for whatever reason the GPS connot find.you, its going to triangulate off ccell towers, which is never accurate.
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k_flan said:
This problem has definitely been happening since before the current solar activity
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The current solar activity has been present since before the rezound was released.. we are in the middle of an 11 year cycle of solar hyperactivity.
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Please do try, then I think you'll see what the problem is.
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For clarification, this is the solar activity being referred too - http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/08/solar-storms-causing-few-problems-on-earth/
I just noticed that in GB and ICS, it seems to be having the problems start up around the same time (a little more than a minute after the screen goes off, it always seems to start out right though). I'm wondering if it has to do with the phone going to sleep or the apps not being able to prevent the phone from sleeping. I'm going to see if the problem happens if I set the phone to never sleep.
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And you guys realize that if for whatever reason the GPS connot find.you, its going to triangulate off ccell towers, which is never accurate.
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The phone was in airplane mode because there's no signal out where I was riding. Wasn't triangulating.
I think it's probably the uptick of solar flares, or there's a problem with how the Rezound tracks w/GPS. Or both.
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The phone was in airplane mode because there's no signal out where I was riding. Wasn't triangulating.
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Note that aGPS (the a is the assist part) uses the network to provide the assist to the GPS to get a lock. If you turn Airplane mode on, you are turning off part of the ability of the Assist in getting the lock faster. So you can be making the use of the GPS much less accurate as it takes longer for the GPS to get a lock.
Once the GPS gets the lock, it doesn't need the assist again, but some apps don't keep using the GPS steadily, and need to reacquire the lock over and over.
Example, if you are using Gmaps, you will notice that the GPS satellite image will show in the top of the notification area while you are using the app. But when you move away from Gmaps, the symbol disappears. That is because it stopped accessing the GPS.
If you don't see the GPS satellite in the notification area, the GPS chip is not currently being accessed and it is is using next to no power during that time.
Not being familiar with the app mentioned in the OP, you would need to check that the GPS is being used continually.
It is not unusual for stand alone GPS trackers (non-phone types) to have glitches in their tracking as you travel, depending on the speed and access to the sky for the GPS signals. Devices like Garmin compensate for that by keeping you on the road, even if the temp position places you a distance from the road so you don't notice it much there. But if you are just tracking position (no locking to a road), you will end up with jutting points that can be a distance from where you were at the time.
A nice thought, but all these app should be pulling accurate gps even if the app doesn't have the foreground and they should prevent the phone from sleeping.
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A nice thought, but all these app should be pulling accurate gps even if the app doesn't have the foreground and they should prevent the phone from sleeping.
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So I tested the app, 'Myrun' And I found your problem. when the app is in the background, it does not update at the same rate as it does when it is in the foreground.
On my attachment, the green dot is where I started, I went out, up the road, and turned around. The screen was on this entire time, notice how accurate it tracked me. It even has me on the correct sides of the road..
at the Yellow dot, I turned the screen off, notice how it jumps from point to point , making it very inaccurate. If I had to guess, I would assume that the app either A, does not utilize the GPS radio while the phone is 'off', or, it polls it less frequently. Either way, this is not a fault of the phone, as you can navigate with the screen off accurately with google nav/maps. So the phone is capable of allowing apps to use GPS data even in an 'off' state.
I would contact the App developer and see if they can fix it. In the mean time, make sure your phone is charged 100% and set the screen to never time out, and turn the brightness all the way down and you'll get accurate tracking with those apps.
Personally, my phone is set to never turn off, and my bike has a phone mount with a charger that gets power off my front wheel hub.
So all the tracking apps have the same problem and only with the rezound but it's not the rezound?
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So all the tracking apps have the same problem and only with the rezound but it's not the rezound?
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I can test it on my DINC of you want, I have it laying around here somewhere.. give me a bit and ill run the same route using it instead
unless you want it to be the rezound and not the app
I know for a fact the incredible doesn't have a problem, because that's how I've been tracking my runs.
You should still test it though.
I wish it wasn't a problem, I love everything about this phone except for the fact that I can't use it for my running program.
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I just received my new Incredible and am very excited as it is a huge upgrade from my trusty old Eris. I have one very annoying issue though. The phone randomly turns off on its own, and I have to press and hold the power button multiple times for it to restart. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, does anyone know how to turn off the annoying 'DROID' noise at startup? I tried the Silent Boot app, but it doesn't seem to work on this device.
Thanks!
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I just received my new Incredible and am very excited as it is a huge upgrade from my trusty old Eris. I have one very annoying issue though. The phone randomly turns off on its own, and I have to press and hold the power button multiple times for it to restart. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, does anyone know how to turn off the annoying 'DROID' noise at startup? I tried the Silent Boot app, but it doesn't seem to work on this device.
Thanks!
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Not normal. Make sure a program you installed isn't causing the issue first then think about returning it.
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Definitely not normal. Perhaps your battery cover is loose?
I used to have to do something really ghetto to my original Incredible while it was near the end of its life. I put a folded business card between the battery and cover so it wouldn't jar itself loose and shut off the phone.
However, does not seem normal at all for a new phone.
The same thing happened to mine a few times. I think the power button is very sensitive. Just a small amount of pressure is needed to close the circuit and if its held that way for over 1 second then phone thinks your trying to initiate a shut-down so it does so.
Just thinking out loud here, not totally sure....
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The same thing happened to mine a few times. I think the power button is very sensitive. Just a small amount of pressure is needed to close the circuit and if its held that way for over 1 second then phone thinks your trying to initiate a shut-down so it does so.
Just thinking out loud here, not totally sure....
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That should pop up the shut down menu though and it sounds as if the OP isn't seeing that. Unless I missed something.
Yea, your absolutely right, I forgot about that.... Hmmm.
anyone else notice how long it takes to turn the phone one??
I have to hold the power button for what seems like doubt the time for my old rez,inc1,inc1,eris, ect.
kinda annoying lol, feels like its not working or something.
not really a complaint, but just a comment.
also if my phone were rebooting I'd go to store before that 14 day and get a NEW phone before Verizon trys to pull that crap and give you a refurb!
BS
andybones said:
anyone else notice how long it takes to turn the phone one??
I have to hold the power button for what seems like doubt the time for my old rez,inc1,inc1,eris, ect.
kinda annoying lol, feels like its not working or something.
not really a complaint, but just a comment.
also if my phone were rebooting I'd go to store before that 14 day and get a NEW phone before Verizon trys to pull that crap and give you a refurb!
BS
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Yes I've noticed it takes a little longer comparing from my Thunderbolt. I can hold pwr button down, count to ten and it starts booting up. But with the Dinc4G, it does take a little longer holding down but it may be a quicker boot up time overall. This from just the two times or so how it seems to me ...I just got it so still acclimating and had already thoughts that the extended battery may be nice to just give me a little more to hang on to .
cycledude02 said:
I just received my new Incredible and am very excited as it is a huge upgrade from my trusty old Eris. I have one very annoying issue though. The phone randomly turns off on its own, and I have to press and hold the power button multiple times for it to restart. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, does anyone know how to turn off the annoying 'DROID' noise at startup? I tried the Silent Boot app, but it doesn't seem to work on this device.
Thanks!
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What apps do you have? I have looked at my phone realized it was not on. I was like wtf. This has happened twice in the past two days. Maybe we can see what apps we have in common?
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cycledude02 said:
I just received my new Incredible and am very excited as it is a huge upgrade from my trusty old Eris. I have one very annoying issue though. The phone randomly turns off on its own, and I have to press and hold the power button multiple times for it to restart. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, does anyone know how to turn off the annoying 'DROID' noise at startup? I tried the Silent Boot app, but it doesn't seem to work on this device.
Thanks!
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I have:
google play music
ringdroid
twitter
adobe flash player 11
astro file manager/browser
battery widget (geekyouup)
circle battery widget (cedric depoortere) <--- might be this, i recently installed it
chrome
critical strike portable
directv
ds audio
ds cam
ds file
ds photo
e!online (don't judge)
facebook
gmail
google chrome to phone <-- just recently installed as well
google currents
google playbooks
google play
google +
hbo go
here i am 2
iheartradio
lte onoff-htc thunderbolt
maps
movies by flixster
my verizon
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shadowgun
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speedtest.net
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youtube
turn down your "media volume"
I think that controls the boot up sound level iirc
Happened to my friend on the evo lte I think it might have to do with the ROM. R u on a custom ROM or still stock
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I received a warranty replacement that did that (randomly turning off). Was irreconcilable after talking with tech support.
My recommendation is to perform factory reset if you can, remove sd card, and see if it works properly.
If not you most likely have a hardware defect of some kind. Return or replace.
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devinhfox said:
I received a warranty replacement that did that (randomly turning off). Was irreconcilable after talking with tech support.
My recommendation is to perform factory reset if you can, remove sd card, and see if it works properly.
If not you most likely have a hardware defect of some kind. Return or replace.
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I did a factory reset and it still does it randomly. And it only does it when its in my pocket. I thought it was my case (i have the otter box commuter) so I cut it around the power button. Still it happened to me today. About getting a replacement, since it happens randomly far inbetween, there is no way for me to prove there is a problem.
devinhfox said:
I received a warranty replacement that did that (randomly turning off). Was irreconcilable after talking with tech support.
My recommendation is to perform factory reset if you can, remove sd card, and see if it works properly.
If not you most likely have a hardware defect of some kind. Return or replace.
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Did you go through Verizon tech support or HTC tech support. Did u do the return through Verizon store or how did you do it?
Verizon tech support.
Did it over mail with Verizon.
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andybones said:
turn down your "media volume"
I think that controls the boot up sound level iirc
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No boot-up sound at all if phone is set to vibrate prior to shutdown/restart.
I've had my gear S for 3 weeks now and really enjoy the device. I'm a everyday watch guy, so my biggest gripe about the gear s when it came in was the screen going black. I hated the motion activation or pressing the screen/button to wake up the device. I found that under settings-style-clock there is a clock always on setting. Once I turned this on, and turned off motion wakeup, very happy with being able to see time at an glance.
So this brings me to my question, why only do the first couple included watch faces have a nice analog always on black and white faces, every other one I've tried is just a simple, boring, and small digital time? Do people not use this feature, can you create this black and white always on face in watch styler and other watch face creation tools? Anyone know if a downloadable watchface in the gear store that has a nice always on black and white face?
New to the tizen camp and have been reading for days on the forums, having come across anything that addresses what I'm looking for. Thanks for reading
I purchased something called big watch and arranged for the screen to have an always on future. Battery life was nominal but you can also use the minimal watch face black and white. There's also some very light colored white dot matrix clocks as well. Just look through the Samsung store and you will find something.
Biggest problem with Clock Always On is the fact that the screen will be responsive to touch all the time. That results in random operation by the gear. The other day i was wearing long sleeves and ended up calling 2 people randomly.
Try it yourself, put it on always on and touch the screen, device will wake up, and you can end up calling people or any other random operation. Definitely not great.
hmm, I'm 3 weeks into always on mode, and yes the screen does respond to touch. Yet I havent had any real issues with unit being activated by my sleeves. I've been wearing a jacket everyday since owning the unit. Without Always ON Clock, I would not have kept the watch. I'm just disappointing with the the always on options from other watch faces.... looks like I'm sticking with stock faces for now.
I will try again and see if my sleeves will operate the watch on their own. Maybe that day my sleeves were full of static or something. It just freaked me out immensely because it ended up calling a business contact at a very late hour.
However, my second biggest problem with always on (even with the fancy samsung analog dials) is that you don't see anything except time. No pedometer, no notifications, no weather, nothing but time. You would still need to tap the screen to get any of that information. Even with the motion gesture you don't get to see anything more than time until you click, even though it gives the impression that the whole dial is lit up (this part is especially annoying).
ozaghloul said:
Biggest problem with Clock Always On is the fact that the screen will be responsive to touch all the time. That results in random operation by the gear. The other day i was wearing long sleeves and ended up calling 2 people randomly.
Try it yourself, put it on always on and touch the screen, device will wake up, and you can end up calling people or any other random operation. Definitely not great.
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I've been using clock always on for the last two weeks and have had no issue with my sleeves waking the device accidentally. as the above poster alluded to, it really does make it a better experience.
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And this brings me back to, are there any other watch faces that have a analog style, always on face? Even the low power faces on gear store, when you go to the always on clock face, its a crappy little digital clock... frustrating. If you make a watchface in watch styler, can you dictate what the always on clock face is??
I suppose that I will have to try the time on option and see if there are any accidental operations performed.
What is battery life with clock always on? Right now I get two days.
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What is battery life with clock always on? Right now I get two days.
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How do you get 2 days? Got mine 2 days ago and I'm barely past 14 hours and I only have 12% left and I just enabled Power Save mode. Please help. Thanks.
NeoAndroid said:
How do you get 2 days? Got mine 2 days ago and I'm barely past 14 hours and I only have 12% left and I just enabled Power Save mode. Please help. Thanks.
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(1) The more time you spend with the watch's cellular radio on while not being connected to your phone via bluetooth, the less battery life.
(2) The more you stream music via the watch, the less battery life.
(3) The weaker cellular zone you live in (or pass through), the more battery drain. If cellular is on and your device has a weak connection or is searching for connection, the more battery drain.
(4) What network is your watch on? What network is your phone on? How good is your signal where you live? What phone are you using with the device? Is it running stock 4.3 or higher? Is it running a ROM?
I usually get 1.5 days with the always on clock. Typically 30-50% battery left when I charge at night with moderate to heavy use throughout day. I'm connected via BT to my phone 99% of the time.
WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE/CHANGE SOME ALWAYS ON CLOCK FACES, ESPECIALLY IN WATCH STYLER!!!!!
NeoAndroid said:
How do you get 2 days? Got mine 2 days ago and I'm barely past 14 hours and I only have 12% left and I just enabled Power Save mode. Please help. Thanks.
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I do not have any motions turned on. WiFi off. Only remote connect for an hour run and when I have to at the barn. I don't get a ton of emails.
At first it i didn't get 2 days. After several cycles the battery broke in and getting 2 days just sort of happened.
Sampson0420 said:
WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE/CHANGE SOME ALWAYS ON CLOCK FACES, ESPECIALLY IN WATCH STYLER!!!!!
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I suspect that it's something more complex than Watch Styler is likely to support, at least in the near future.
I was having a quick look round online the other day and even on a Tizen Developers forum, nobody seems to know how to make use of the 'Always On' feature.
I am a watchface developer and Iam trying to figure out how to make watchfaces like the first 2 native watchfaces.
I could not find the info yet.
If anyone has any idea, please share here...
mrmrmrmr said:
I am a watchface developer and Iam trying to figure out how to make watchfaces like the first 2 native watchfaces.
I could not find the info yet.
If anyone has any idea, please share here...
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Good thinking. Please do. We all would love to see nice looking watchfaceses in "clock always on" mode.
eclipse05x said:
Good thinking. Please do. We all would love to see nice looking watchfaceses in "clock always on" mode.
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Good idea as long as the power drain is not that much more.
ronaldheld said:
Good idea as long as the power drain is not that much more.
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According to my test it's about 13% of battery more consumed during 10h so it's not that bad I think...
NeoAndroid said:
How do you get 2 days? Got mine 2 days ago and I'm barely past 14 hours and I only have 12% left and I just enabled Power Save mode. Please help. Thanks.
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Also try turning off the location setting on your gear S when you don't need to use it. Should help the battery last longer.
I'm using the motion to wake feature.