The problems I have in my SII(Rooted) is very unusual. First is what I have was the micro SD. It was suddenly write-protected. SO what I did, I opened root manager in ES file manager and made it from RO to RW but no difference, it still stays at RO. 2nd is, It only scanned SOME music files in my sd card and phone memory. It was like selected which will be put inside the music player. I did sdrescan but it only worked a bit and when I click to trigger to scan, it didn't work. It only read the other some (Not read) in the music player but still not the whole songs. And my 3rd major problem is my battery. I Did SetCPU and POWERMAX and Easy Battery Saver but the result is just the same. It sucks battery life like crazy. Every Music File I play (2-5 mins) It gets 2 PERCENT of the battery EACH. And only after 10 mins after plugging my phone out of my charger, it's 92 percent from 100 which usually have to be in 100 percent only or 99. This problem ruined also my datas inside my phone. All of my files are missing. Even the wifi passwords. Does anyone know the solution of this problems? The screenshot is my battery history. My battery crazy drain started when I went to a session where there aren't any cell signal. And when I got my phone back after the session it's only 56 from 92. And after that, my phone memory suddenly have 0.00B. Not kidding. My phone doesn't even have virus I checked it and all and I am forced to delete 8 apps. And then after that day my phone went to these problems. Changing to a new battery is not a solution. It's still a same result. And that's what I noticed is that the phone itself is the problem. The drain is going out of control.
seems like your SD card is broken? Can you run an integrity test on it?
Have you tried using your phone without the SD card for a day or two just to see how this affects battery life?
Also a Better Battery stats log would help analyse the source of the problem.
this will delete all your data on your phone (not full wipe)
go to settings>storage>scroll and when you see format sd card click it
Before you do this transport your foto's and important stuff on your pc or cloud storage.
and if this doesn't work try to format your external sdcard on your pc to fat32 i belief good luck!
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and for your battery do this:
while your phone is on charge it to 100%
and then go to recover mode and use clockworkmode or other recover mode's with wipe battery state avalible
and power off your phone and charge it to 100% and if it is 100% let it charge for 5 min
now pull your battery out and let your phone rest for 1 hour, and after a hour battery in phone on and hope that it work
I had some unusial battery drain (not so bad as yours) but it helped! good luck one again!
Try formatting you SD card in Fat32 mode via Windows
I got the same problem a years back with my SD card too.
When ever it's in my phone, it will keep in the restart loop, or restart normally then just shutdown itself until i had to remove the battery to on it again, or just shutdown randomly until i need to remove the battery to re-on it.
It even make my song or picture in the card unreadable or read in partial (song with annoying chirping sound, picture with annoying block/mosaic)...
Things get all good, when i just remove the SD card and use the phone without SD card.
I use a Kingmax 16G class 10, even format it into FAT32, scan the card (no bad sector at all)
So i contacted the manufacturer and stated my problem facing, they have no solution but change a new card.
Once the new card is put in, all the problem gone. i was wondering....
May be you can try change your SD card (if you have extra piece) to try it out.
Also I heard try not to use anything higher than class 4, but what makes it true, i'm still looking for the fact.
Jerryky said:
I got the same problem a years back with my SD card too.
When ever it's in my phone, it will keep in the restart loop, or restart normally then just shutdown itself until i had to remove the battery to on it again, or just shutdown randomly until i need to remove the battery to re-on it.
It even make my song or picture in the card unreadable or read in partial (song with annoying chirping sound, picture with annoying block/mosaic)...
Things get all good, when i just remove the SD card and use the phone without SD card.
I use a Kingmax 16G class 10, even format it into FAT32, scan the card (no bad sector at all)
So i contacted the manufacturer and stated my problem facing, they have no solution but change a new card.
Once the new card is put in, all the problem gone. i was wondering....
May be you can try change your SD card (if you have extra piece) to try it out.
Also I heard try not to use anything higher than class 4, but what makes it true, i'm still looking for the fact.
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That actually helped.... My battery stopped draining fast.... holy crud thank you!
Thank you guys!!!
Wow you have pretty similar case with mine. Here the battery drain fast. It suddenly drain after i try to force turn off the phone due to stuck "i don't know why the phone stuck suddenly"
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Wow you have pretty similar case with mine. Here the battery drain fast. It suddenly drain after i try to force turn off the phone due to stuck "i don't know why the phone stuck suddenly"
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So far, this has happened to me TWO times, both were fixed by doing a battery pull and removing the memory card.
Likely causes:
-I turned off fast boot, and powered the phone down.
-32GB Class 10 Wintec memory card.
-USB 3.0 extender cable.
-Nokia MicroUSB charging cable.
Problem:
After turning off fast boot (not sure if this is related) and completely powering down the phone, the charging light will go off, and not come back on. This prevents the phone from being able to be turned on and no amount of unplugging and plugging back in fixes it.
Solution:
Unplug the charging cable. I have had to do a battery pull twice, not only a battery pull but also removing my memory card and leaving it out. After putting the battery back in, the phone's charging light will come back on. At this point I unplug the cable again, pull the battery again, reinsert my memory card and battery, then plug it back in and the charging light will come on and the phone will power on.
I'm not sure if this is faulty hardware, a conflicting memory card, fast boot disabling, or just plain software issues, but I am going to try and see if I can pinpoint the exact combination of steps needed to reproduce this.
Can you guys please chime in if you've had this issue so I don't replace my phone for nothing? Thanks!
I have had this issue a few times now - but it could be because I have been um... well, hacking. I can't use my SD card anymore. I have to boot with it out of the phone until I can get home and do some repair work, haha.
Shinzul said:
I have had this issue a few times now - but it could be because I have been um... well, hacking. I can't use my SD card anymore. I have to boot with it out of the phone until I can get home and do some repair work, haha.
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Looking forward to the fruits of your destroyed 3D!
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Shinzul said:
I have had this issue a few times now - but it could be because I have been um... well, hacking. I can't use my SD card anymore. I have to boot with it out of the phone until I can get home and do some repair work, haha.
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Shinzul said:
I have had this issue a few times now - but it could be because I have been um... well, hacking. I can't use my SD card anymore. I have to boot with it out of the phone until I can get home and do some repair work, haha.
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Ahaha, definitely something microsd related. works fine with stock 8GB
Either a ...file.....or.....something....eheh.
freeza said:
So far, this has happened to me TWO times, both were fixed by doing a battery pull and removing the memory card.
Likely causes:
-I turned off fast boot, and powered the phone down.
-32GB Class 10 Wintec memory card.
-USB 3.0 extender cable.
-Nokia MicroUSB charging cable.
Problem:
After turning off fast boot (not sure if this is related) and completely powering down the phone, the charging light will go off, and not come back on. This prevents the phone from being able to be turned on and no amount of unplugging and plugging back in fixes it.
Solution:
Unplug the charging cable. I have had to do a battery pull twice, not only a battery pull but also removing my memory card and leaving it out. After putting the battery back in, the phone's charging light will come back on. At this point I unplug the cable again, pull the battery again, reinsert my memory card and battery, then plug it back in and the charging light will come on and the phone will power on.
I'm not sure if this is faulty hardware, a conflicting memory card, fast boot disabling, or just plain software issues, but I am going to try and see if I can pinpoint the exact combination of steps needed to reproduce this.
Can you guys please chime in if you've had this issue so I don't replace my phone for nothing? Thanks!
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161411 said:
Pros: First, I have to say I am coming back to write a review because of Wintec's support! I've been emailing them back and forth, and today, 2 days after my last email, they called me out of the blue to get more details - and to pass me straight to the tech. Impressive.
(back on topic) After reading the other reviews here, I put this card through the ringer from day one for about a solid week. Using www.iozone.org, I really loaded it up to beat on it for 2 hours at a time.
It passed any and all tests, hands down.
Rated as a Class 10 for 10 MB/s substained write speeds, I averaged ~18 MB/s with this card, sometimes peaking to 24 MB/s. PASS
Also, read was much higher than expected.
Seek time, not so much (see cons).
Cons: Windows Phone 7 has the highest requirements in the industry for microSDHC cards. Specifically, it seems cards with a random seek time of 8 ms or faster is about the only cards that works in Windows Phone 7 (aka WP7).
This is not one of those cards. And you'll be hard pressed to find a microSDHC card that advertises as such, as they are pretty much a shoot in the barrel.
This card measured a very low 18 ms on random seek time. When installing this card in my WP7 device, as expected, random reboots happened and applications crashed, as well as sever delays in launching applications.
Sticking in the stock Sandisk Class 4 card worked fine. I ended up purchasing a Sandisk 32 GB Class 2 card and and it measured 7 ms, with a WRITE that matched the OEM Class 4 card of 6.8 MB/s. That card works perfectly in my WP7. This Wintect card, did not.
This card is not suited for mobile phones because mobile phones require near-instant lookups to random data.
Other Thoughts: Buy this card for cameras that need very fast write speeds. It will exceed your expectations (or at least any card you own).
Do NOT buy this card for your mobile phone (Android, WP7, WinMo, etc).
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I was also looking into getting a 32 gb class 10 card but came around this post in the NewEgg feedback section. It is regarding the Wintec Card no less. This may be your problem. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161411)
-reg
I agree, it's probably that card. I got one last Dec and it was so unreliable in my Hero I had to go back to my Sandisk.
hope my cheapy class 1 16gb works okay
Just kidding guys, I have been able to reproduce this problem every single time without fail now.
Steps:
-Plug charger in.
-Turn off fast boot. Settings>Power>uncheck fastboot
-Power down phone (while charger is in)
voila.
Remove battery and memory card, unplug charger, put battery and card back in, plug in charger. Problem solved.
Seems to do with having the phone plugged in while disabling fast boot/shutting down with a memory card in, because If I repeat the steps with a memory card already out, it works fine.
Interesting to see if this is just my unit.
Anyone wanna try?
My phone resets about 30 times in a row and gets INCREDIBLY hot to touch. Soon as it loads up, the "Media Scanner" goes off then it resets. Usually it's a soft reset, but it varies, sometimes the whole thing just shuts off and reboots.
I took the MicroSD card out (32GB) and now it works.
So how do I fix this ?
Does anyone know how to format an External SD card ? Steps ?
Should I just delete everything on the external then put the stuff back on ?
Please advice ?
If you still have your microSD adapter you can scan, copy over any files you want to keep and then format it using your CPU. If that doesn't work, buy new card.
Buddy of mine had random reboots with huge battery drain when rebooting.
His SDCard turned out to had failed on him, since he took it out, not a single reboot anymore.
Funkadelick said:
My phone resets about 30 times in a row and gets INCREDIBLY hot to touch. Soon as it loads up, the "Media Scanner" goes off then it resets. Usually it's a soft reset, but it varies, sometimes the whole thing just shuts off and reboots.
I took the MicroSD card out (32GB) and now it works.
So how do I fix this ?
Does anyone know how to format an External SD card ? Steps ?
Should I just delete everything on the external then put the stuff back on ?
Please advice ?
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You can format it in a PC that has a flash memory card reader, though you will probably have to slip the microSD card into an adapter first.
EDIT: mudferret beat me to it.
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EDIT: mudferret beat me to it.
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First off, I tried searching around and couldn't find anything relating to this. I found things relating to high temperatures and abnormal battery usage but found nothing about this being cause by a memory card.
Anyways, since inserting a 4GB SanDisk memory card into my phone the battery gets drained very quickly. What makes this even stranger, when I plug the phone in to charge, the temperature gets very hot (~48C) and the battery doesn't charge. I'm assuming it doesn't charge because of the high temperature.
Since removing the memory card the battery life has returned to normal and the phone charges as it should at normal temperatures.
I'll appreciate any help or tips on how to fix this issue.
ThatBadAssMofo said:
First off, I tried searching around and couldn't find anything relating to this. I found things relating to high temperatures and abnormal battery usage but found nothing about this being cause by a memory card.
Anyways, since inserting a 4GB SanDisk memory card into my phone the battery gets drained very quickly. What makes this even stranger, when I plug the phone in to charge, the temperature gets very hot (~48C) and the battery doesn't charge. I'm assuming it doesn't charge because of the high temperature.
Since removing the memory card the battery life has returned to normal and the phone charges as it should at normal temperatures.
I'll appreciate any help or tips on how to fix this issue.
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I would assume that the SD Card you have is faulty somehow. I would first try another SD Card to see if it also causes the same problem. If it does then it is likely a hardware issue and if it does not then you know it was a faulty card...
Just my opinion... Anyone else have any advice?
Use something like OS monitor to see if the media scanner process or DRM processes is going nuts.
It may be that you have some media on your SD card that the media scanner cant deal with and it causing it to get stuck, try backing up and formatting the card.
Also what rom are you on?
Well this is something, I re-inserted my memory card and now the phone doesn't boot up properly. I tried removing the memory card and it still doesn't boot up properly.
Usually the screen with the 'S' that says Samsung Galaxy S II goes away after a second or two, now it stays for about a minute and doesn't even take me to the home screen. It takes me to the screen that says "To begin touch the android" (the screen you see when you turn the phone on for the first time and asks you to setup a google account) but heres another twist, I can't interact with that screen because in the foreground there are several errors saying Sorry! --- application has stopped please try again and these errors just keep looping.
My rom is stock android 2.3.3
ThatBadAssMofo said:
Well this is something, I re-inserted my memory card and now the phone doesn't boot up properly. I tried removing the memory card and it still doesn't boot up properly.
Usually the screen with the 'S' that says Samsung Galaxy S II goes away after a second or two, now it stays for about a minute and doesn't even take me to the home screen. It takes me to the screen that says "To begin touch the android" (the screen you see when you turn the phone on for the first time and asks you to setup a google account) but heres another twist, I can't interact with that screen because in the foreground there are several errors saying Sorry! --- application has stopped please try again and these errors just keep looping.
My rom is stock android 2.3.3
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Your best if you don't want to have to format your phone is to use odin to flash your stock rom again (make sure its a non wipe package)
That should leave your user apps/data but you might lose stuff like sms's.
ThatBadAssMofo said:
Well this is something, I re-inserted my memory card and now the phone doesn't boot up properly. I tried removing the memory card and it still doesn't boot up properly.
Usually the screen with the 'S' that says Samsung Galaxy S II goes away after a second or two, now it stays for about a minute and doesn't even take me to the home screen. It takes me to the screen that says "To begin touch the android" (the screen you see when you turn the phone on for the first time and asks you to setup a google account) but heres another twist, I can't interact with that screen because in the foreground there are several errors saying Sorry! --- application has stopped please try again and these errors just keep looping.
My rom is stock android 2.3.3
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Is your phone brand new? Did you just get it?
I had a Motorola Xoom Tablet that was like that right out of the box and I had to Factory Reset / Wipe the device to fix it.
Follow the advice of the previous poster and try to flash your stock ROM again with Odin and see if that fixed the issue and if not then you will likely have to Factory Reset your device.
If THAT fails then it is off for a warranty repair or to a service center Id assume...
veyka said:
Your best if you don't want to have to format your phone is to use odin to flash your stock rom again (make sure its a non wipe package)
That should leave your user apps/data but you might lose stuff like sms's.
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After clicking force close about a hundred times (literally) I managed to get back to the home screen but I've noticed some stuff has changed, See where it says Phone Contacts Messaging Applications in the middle image for me it just says Applications.
Any idea as to whats going on here?
EDIT: I just noticed if I try to open an app, the app crashes instantly.
yiannisthegreek said:
Is your phone brand new? Did you just get it?
I had a Motorola Xoom Tablet that was like that right out of the box and I had to Factory Reset / Wipe the device to fix it.
Follow the advice of the previous poster and try to flash your stock ROM again with Odin and see if that fixed the issue and if not then you will likely have to Factory Reset your device.
If THAT fails then it is off for a warranty repair or to a service center Id assume...
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I've had this phone since July (when it became available in Canada). It worked flawlessly until I decided to put in a memory card a few days ago.
EDIT: And I just tested the memory card in my old phone and it works just fine there.
I have a 4gb micro SD card and today I had to do a battery pull because my phone decided to have one of it's 'random freeze moments' as I was downloading a song. When I turned my phone back on, my phone didn't recognize my SD card, just acted as if there wasn't one, so I took off the battery cover and pulled out the SD card and it was really hot. It was also very slightly bent out of shape and had a tiny crack across the halfway mark. I'm scared to try and bend it back because I don't wanna break it in half. Later I put it into an adapter (it somehow fit enough to slide in) and plugged it into my computer. The computer did nothing for a few minutes, so I decided to just pull it out. I put my fingers on the adapter (it's a usb cord that I can put my micro SD card in) and it almost burned my fingers off.
I know now not to be an idiot and buy a not-so-great card and to backup everything I have, but is there any way I can get the stuff on the card back or is it gone? And am I safe to put another SD card in my phone or will it turn it into a stove?
Any help greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Me too
magnoidgoat said:
I have a 4gb micro SD card and today I had to do a battery pull because my phone decided to have one of it's 'random freeze moments' as I was downloading a song. When I turned my phone back on, my phone didn't recognize my SD card, just acted as if there wasn't one, so I took off the battery cover and pulled out the SD card and it was really hot. It was also very slightly bent out of shape and had a tiny crack across the halfway mark. I'm scared to try and bend it back because I don't wanna break it in half. Later I put it into an adapter (it somehow fit enough to slide in) and plugged it into my computer. The computer did nothing for a few minutes, so I decided to just pull it out. I put my fingers on the adapter (it's a usb cord that I can put my micro SD card in) and it almost burned my fingers off.
I know now not to be an idiot and buy a not-so-great card and to backup everything I have, but is there any way I can get the stuff on the card back or is it gone? And am I safe to put another SD card in my phone or will it turn it into a stove?
Any help greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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Almost exactly the same thing happened with my 16BG Micro SD in my Droid 4. There was no obvious crack or deformity, but my phone battery was draining really quickly so I plugged it into the USB charger. A few minutes later, when I needed to move the phone out of my way it was CRAZY hot. I could not get the phone to "wake up" and tried shutting it down and restarting it, with no success. I plugged it back into the USB cord and the green light on the phone lit up, but the computer did NOT ask if I wanted to view the contents of the attached mass storage device. It generally does that hourly while attached. I called Verizon Tech Support and after being transferred to "Tier 2" I was told a replacement phone would be sent. I got to thinking about why the phone battery was draining so quickly and remembered I had turned on ALL the GPS/Location Service options for some app I ran the night before. I thought MAYBE I could somehow get the phone to turn on just long enough to turn those battery killers off. I left it attached to the PC, twice it started to turn on (Batwing/Droid logos) but changed its mind.
After work, I plugged into my wall charger figuring it wouldn't hurt, since a new phone is due to arrive Monday. After a few hours I could turn it on while attached to the charger, turn off the location services, and it slowly began to charge. It felt hot when I unplugged it, and the battery still seemed to be draining fast. Furthermore, it said my SD card was using an unrecognized file system, and offered to format it, but failed when I agreed. Next, I tried the MicroSD card in my tablet, which could not read it. It seemed the card was quite hot upon removal 20 minutes later. I put it in an adapter, and tried it on my laptop. I could see it listed as a drive "Removable Media" but could not access it as it was "unformatted". I tried formatting it within Windows but was unsuccessful. I dropped to DOS and tried running chkdsk, but was informed that chkdsk can not run on a RAW format drive. I haven't a CLUE what an RAW formatted drive is, but plan to Google it to find out. I tried formatting,(from the command prompt) and it would get most of the way through, then tell me that then FAT sector was bad. I tried again, before removing the "very VERY hot" card and adapter. Without an SD card, the phone was cool. I put in another card, and the battery is not draining particularly fast, the device seems cool, and I learned something new about SD cards, I had thought the advantage of solid state storage was cool operation, low power consumption, and less risk of data loss or corruption. But when it fails, it seems that all three qualities degrade simultaneously, and it runs hot, eats battery power, and you lose everything on it. Live and learn.
it is better not to insert one coz I think u might go to service center and check the hardware.
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Based on the statements youve made, Ive come to think that it is your phones overheating battery/CPU/GPU. Is your phone under warranty?
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Lisa21222 said:
Almost exactly the same thing happened with my 16BG Micro SD in my Droid 4. There was no obvious crack or deformity, but my phone battery was draining really quickly so I plugged it into the USB charger. A few minutes later, when I needed to move the phone out of my way it was CRAZY hot. I could not get the phone to "wake up" and tried shutting it down and restarting it, with no success. I plugged it back into the USB cord and the green light on the phone lit up, but the computer did NOT ask if I wanted to view the contents of the attached mass storage device. It generally does that hourly while attached. I called Verizon Tech Support and after being transferred to "Tier 2" I was told a replacement phone would be sent. I got to thinking about why the phone battery was draining so quickly and remembered I had turned on ALL the GPS/Location Service options for some app I ran the night before. I thought MAYBE I could somehow get the phone to turn on just long enough to turn those battery killers off. I left it attached to the PC, twice it started to turn on (Batwing/Droid logos) but changed its mind.
After work, I plugged into my wall charger figuring it wouldn't hurt, since a new phone is due to arrive Monday. After a few hours I could turn it on while attached to the charger, turn off the location services, and it slowly began to charge. It felt hot when I unplugged it, and the battery still seemed to be draining fast. Furthermore, it said my SD card was using an unrecognized file system, and offered to format it, but failed when I agreed. Next, I tried the MicroSD card in my tablet, which could not read it. It seemed the card was quite hot upon removal 20 minutes later. I put it in an adapter, and tried it on my laptop. I could see it listed as a drive "Removable Media" but could not access it as it was "unformatted". I tried formatting it within Windows but was unsuccessful. I dropped to DOS and tried running chkdsk, but was informed that chkdsk can not run on a RAW format drive. I haven't a CLUE what an RAW formatted drive is, but plan to Google it to find out. I tried formatting,(from the command prompt) and it would get most of the way through, then tell me that then FAT sector was bad. I tried again, before removing the "very VERY hot" card and adapter. Without an SD card, the phone was cool. I put in another card, and the battery is not draining particularly fast, the device seems cool, and I learned something new about SD cards, I had thought the advantage of solid state storage was cool operation, low power consumption, and less risk of data loss or corruption. But when it fails, it seems that all three qualities degrade simultaneously, and it runs hot, eats battery power, and you lose everything on it. Live and learn.
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I registered to say me too.
This is almost identical to what happened to me.
I lost some work too.
I had to reset my phone.
Shortly afterwards, the phone did an operating system update.
I posted in the off chance that someone knows how to retrieve the data from the SD card in the future
Thanks
Lisa21222 said:
Almost exactly the same thing happened with my 16BG Micro SD in my Droid 4. There was no obvious crack or deformity, but my phone battery was draining really quickly so I plugged it into the USB charger. A few minutes later, when I needed to move the phone out of my way it was CRAZY hot. I could not get the phone to "wake up" and tried shutting it down and restarting it, with no success. I plugged it back into the USB cord and the green light on the phone lit up, but the computer did NOT ask if I wanted to view the contents of the attached mass storage device. It generally does that hourly while attached. I called Verizon Tech Support and after being transferred to "Tier 2" I was told a replacement phone would be sent. I got to thinking about why the phone battery was draining so quickly and remembered I had turned on ALL the GPS/Location Service options for some app I ran the night before. I thought MAYBE I could somehow get the phone to turn on just long enough to turn those battery killers off. I left it attached to the PC, twice it started to turn on (Batwing/Droid logos) but changed its mind.
After work, I plugged into my wall charger figuring it wouldn't hurt, since a new phone is due to arrive Monday. After a few hours I could turn it on while attached to the charger, turn off the location services, and it slowly began to charge. It felt hot when I unplugged it, and the battery still seemed to be draining fast. Furthermore, it said my SD card was using an unrecognized file system, and offered to format it, but failed when I agreed. Next, I tried the MicroSD card in my tablet, which could not read it. It seemed the card was quite hot upon removal 20 minutes later. I put it in an adapter, and tried it on my laptop. I could see it listed as a drive "Removable Media" but could not access it as it was "unformatted". I tried formatting it within Windows but was unsuccessful. I dropped to DOS and tried running chkdsk, but was informed that chkdsk can not run on a RAW format drive. I haven't a CLUE what an RAW formatted drive is, but plan to Google it to find out. I tried formatting,(from the command prompt) and it would get most of the way through, then tell me that then FAT sector was bad. I tried again, before removing the "very VERY hot" card and adapter. Without an SD card, the phone was cool. I put in another card, and the battery is not draining particularly fast, the device seems cool, and I learned something new about SD cards, I had thought the advantage of solid state storage was cool operation, low power consumption, and less risk of data loss or corruption. But when it fails, it seems that all three qualities degrade simultaneously, and it runs hot, eats battery power, and you lose everything on it. Live and learn.
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That almost sounds like the card internally shorted so it was drawing a bunch of current which would lead to heat and battery drain issues. Flash memory is usually more reliable since its solid state but theres always the possibility of hardware failure. Was this card brand new or did it just start acting up one day? If it was relatively new I'd try getting it warrantied, since this sounds like a hardware defect.
yup.. I got a problem aftwr trying to put it on my rasp pi 3b plus.. then when i try to check or insert again on my laptop.. my 128 gb.. got hot so quickly.. i think its hardware.. but damn.. i just bought it few days back
Hey so today I woke up to find my phone dead while connected to the charger, I couldn't unlock it and it had the red led on all time like a warning light since it should be charger after all night. The phone was extremely hot, so I guess I shot down due to excesive heat. When I removed the battery and then put it back in, it turned on and everything was normal.
I don't know what happened though here are my details: I had been having some trouble with "media" draining my battery like crazy, running stock JB rooted with phenomenal kernel extreme, AND i don't know if it has to do with it, I have a hyperion 4200mAh battery.
This happened to my twice with the hyperion battery on and overnight, haven't actually tested if it happens with the stock battery. This started happening after the so called media battery drain appeard.
Please if someone has an idea help me
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You can clear the media scanner bug by wiping sd, or you can use the media scanner toggle from play store to disable it,
That indicates there are problems with the SD card, and possibly loss of data. That happened to me once with the S II.
First of all, remove the SD card from the phone and connect it to the PC (using and USB adapter or built in sd-card media reader).
If Windows asks you to fix the sd card, say NO.
If the sd card is readable, backup all your data.
Now format the sd card and copy the data back to it. Insert into the S III, power on and good luck.
I'll have to try that
Thanks! I think I'm going to have to do the wipe since I tried the other methods and they didn't work!
Thank you, I will report back as soon as I can
it worked!
Thank you guys the formatting worked like a charm! Appreciate it!