Hey
I have been flashing ROMs over the past year. Not sure if its related but I eventually managed to almost blow up my battery (excessive bulging), and my phone started experiencing massive heat issues. (Though I think its predominantly due to bad charging habits)
Got a new battery but the phone still heats up with basic phone usage (browser,BBC app ) around the camera,though not as much as before and eventually the SIM card stops being detected.
The problem with the heating and sim card detection came first during MIUI Rom. Since then I have tried revolution and carbon ROMs and still the phone heats up and sim card stops being detected. I eventually need to restart the phone and wait for it to cool down before the SIM is recognised. (The IMEI is intact)
Sorry I dont have actual temperature ranges but even basic usage causes this. I can barely get through a call before the call drops due to the same issue.
Can you help me in understanding if this is a software issue - incorrect baseband?kernel?ROM issue?
Or if I have done permanent damage to my hardware when the battery bulged and the phone overheated?
I have a i9100 bought in India currently being used in UK on Revolution ROM XWLSW V4.0.
Thanks
My wifes phone(the one i now use) was the same using 4.0.4,so now i use 2.3.5 with speedmod and i never get any problems.
For me,it must be the hardware that doesnt like certain roms.
Have you tried Neat ROM lite?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569686
theunderling said:
For me,it must be the hardware that doesnt like certain roms.
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rebel24 said:
Have you tried Neat ROM lite?
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Thanks for your replies.
I haven't tried Neat. The issue first came in MIUI. I am inclined to think that had to something with this issue. I recently tried 4.3 based Carbon but absolutely the same issue. That made me think it's the hardware or something wrong with the sim tray.
Just keep trying different roms til your phone likes one of them.Different roms have different effects on each phone.
Just decide whats more important for you.
Yeah try NeatROM lite, as it's close to stock it might help you
Tell us how it works out
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Hey XDA
I've a problem with my SGSII.
I've tried a lot different roms like CM7, CheckRom, Oxygen, miui to find the perfect rom to fix my battery usage(my phone usally last for MAX 1 day, even on low usage. (Is this normal??, my friend get like 5 days with his SGSII)
Anyway, on pretty much all of the ROMs above I've occurred a problem with my internet connection - When my phone is idle for a while I looser internet connection and then I have to restart my phone to fix it.
Anyone with similar problem?
Is my phone defect?
Any way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
This is my first thread on XDA, I hope I did it correctly (I've checked out suggested threads btw)
the problem with the internet connection is because of the signal is not resetting itself. You can use signalreset (market) app as a solution otherwise flash a stock firmware ROM from sammobile and see whether the problem is solved!
My Wi Fi stops working the same way too. All I do is that I reconnect WiFi from the notification bar.
Sent from my GT-I9100
grgsiocl said:
the problem with the internet connection is because of the signal is not resetting itself. You can use signalreset (market) app as a solution otherwise flash a stock firmware ROM from sammobile and see whether the problem is solved!
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Thank you for such a great and fast answer!
I will check out Signalreset asap, however if it just en/disable flightmode I am not sure if it helps. Because when it happened I always try en/disable flightmode, without luck - I have to restart to make it work :-/
Soo... it's a generel failure in some deeper laying hard- or software, that's not dependent of the generel software-version.
I'm starting to hate my phone, as it is loosing connection again and again, but only after updating to KI8_NEE. There has not been ANY problems with KI3_NEE, which worked perfectly and rocksolid - and solved the same problem from the previous versions... KI8 may be smoother, but i prefer stability over this generel failure (there's a lot of generel faults, not just lost data-connection).
If that the case, i'm going to smash this phone, or put KI3 back on it... i have been so happy with it, but after upgrading to KI8 - i'm starting to develop a hate-relationship with it...
My old HTC might be slow - but it is dead-on stable...
After trying the signalreset it still doenst work properly.
Any suggestions?
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After trying the signalreset it still doenst work properly.
Any suggestions?
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What baseband are you on?
I'm on XWKI1 on AT&T in south Florida and my connection is rock solid now.
That was not the case when I first got the phone with the factory ROM and baseband.
Joe
jpasint said:
What baseband are you on?
I'm on XWKI1 on AT&T in south Florida and my connection is rock solid now.
That was not the case when I first got the phone with the factory ROM and baseband.
Joe
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I'm on XXKI4
Rallerbabz said:
Hey XDA
I've a problem with my SGSII.
I've tried a lot different roms like CM7, CheckRom, Oxygen, miui to find the perfect rom to fix my battery usage(my phone usally last for MAX 1 day, even on low usage. (Is this normal??, my friend get like 5 days with his SGSII)
Anyway, on pretty much all of the ROMs above I've occurred a problem with my internet connection - When my phone is idle for a while I looser internet connection and then I have to restart my phone to fix it.
Anyone with similar problem?
Is my phone defect?
Any way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
This is my first thread on XDA, I hope I did it correctly (I've checked out suggested threads btw)
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5 days? really? what rom & kernel he using ? using extended battery too?
you using any apps to help monitor battery life like juice defender? They can also cause problems with internet sometimes
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5 days? really? what rom & kernel he using ? using extended battery too?
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Yah 5 days.
He doesnt use the extended battery, just the standard. He's on CM7 and Cm7's kernel.
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you using any apps to help monitor battery life like juice defender? They can also cause problems with internet sometimes
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No I dont, I've tried Juice Defender but it didnt help my battery life so I uninstalled it..
I've tried a few days with the stock unrooted and the problem didnt occur, however the internet was still extremely slow, even when I had full signal.
Is there an application to boost signal/speed and/or fix problems?
I have two galaxy s2s. one is i9100 and the other one is i777 on at&t.
SoD happened once on each phone. The i777 was running stock gingerbread and the i9100 was running resurrection remix 1.9.1 with the siyan kernal I believe.
The screen just wouldn't turn on so I just pulled the battery out (is it safe for the phone?)
This doesn't happen often,well just once each on each phone as stated before, but it does bug me as it makes me think there's something wrong with my phones, and pulling the battery out doesn't seem like it's good for the phone.
I searched around the forum a bit and saw other people are having this issue as well. And not just the galaxy s2, but other phones too.
only sleep of death in almost 10 months of use is when i tried xwlp9.
so no its not common
It's fairly common yes, a lot of people running non-stock ROMs get this. I had this ~25 times on numerous Resurrection Remix ROMs, but since v1.9 I haven't had this issue fortunately. If it's causing you a big problem, try fixing permissions from CWM recovery, that seemed to make a big difference when I was having the problem.
SOD usually occurs when the kernel UV the CPU or GPU a little to much. Not every device is the same and not handle same kernels, UV values etc
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From the sound of it, it seems to be a software problem.
I got it on the i777 which wasn't running a custom rom. But I think it could be caused by that battery management app that I installed.
anyway, my main concern is that if there's anything wrong physically with the hardware. ( having the SoD caused by software problem is much easier to swallow as to it being caused by hardware problem, as I can just reflash the kernal, roms, factory reset, etc. )
and did removing the battery while in SoD mode damage the phone?
It's normally a firmware issue, or a conflict between an app & the firmware. You'd find it's pretty rare for an 'untouched' (I.E not modded) phone running stock firmware to have SOD's. And obviously if you're flashing custom firmware that's constantly evolving/changing, then sometimes you're going to get SOD's, tho with most well crafted firmware these are fairly rare.
I reckon I've probably had <10 in the 8 mths I've had my phone & I've been running non-stock firmware the whole time save for the week I got my phone, which is nothing when stacked up against all the mucking around I've with my phone.
Edit to add - One way you can test to see if SOD's you're having are possibly hardware related is to do a completely clean install of stock firmware & see if they still happen. If they don't, then it's obviously whatever firmware you were running. If they do, then it might be hardware-related. Re: your question about pulling the battery after a SOD, normally this shouldn't cause you any problems (it's sometimes the only way you can successfully reboot the phone).
The only known SOD issues on I9100 are the old 2.3.3 (don't remember which one) and the XWLP9 kernel.
Custom roms... well. No need to elaborate I guess.
Most of them have undervolted settings as default.
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The only known SOD issues on I9100 are the old 2.3.3 (don't remember which one) and the XWLP9 kernel.
Custom roms... well. No need to elaborate I guess.
Most of them have undervolted settings as default.
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Im pretty sure i rooted my phone on the we with LP9 kernel. Since Sunday, I've had about 10 sods and never had one before... no doubt here as to what's causing it. I plan to change the kernel on the we and hopefully no more sod.
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Im pretty sure i rooted my phone on the we with LP9 kernel. Since Sunday, I've had about 10 sods and never had one before... no doubt here as to what's causing it. I plan to change the kernel on the we and hopefully no more sod.
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Or just flash the newer build. No SOD there.
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anyway, my main concern is that if there's anything wrong physically with the hardware. ( having the SoD caused by software problem is much easier to swallow as to it being caused by hardware problem, as I can just reflash the kernal, roms, factory reset, etc. )
and did removing the battery while in SoD mode damage the phone?
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How about this?
I answered your question. Read the edit I made to my post.
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How about this?
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I answered your question. Read the edit I made to my post.
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Thank you for the answer.
Since it's kinda hard to recreate the SOD. I'll reflash the rom and kernal and do a wipe and see if the SOD still happen
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Or just flash the newer build. No SOD there.
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Victorator, forgive my ignorance, but are you saying i should just flash the latest build, XWLPD, onto my fone rather than re-rooting it using a different kernel (i.e. CF-Root-SGS2_DX_SIN_LP9-v5.4-CWM5.zip) in order to stop the SOD?
Never faced such issues ever.
Sleep of death
Hi all, the SLEEP OF DEATH on android phones has even become worse; somebody said this issue is resolved in ICS 4.0.3; thats not true. As of now; i have a galaxy S2 i900, 1 month and 2 weeks old, running ICS 4.0.4 and I have been experiencing this problem lately and took back my phone for repairs last week, got back the phone yesterday and this morning the sleep of death happened 3 times in 1 hour. I took the phone for repairs again later this evening and i made it clear to them that problem still hangs around and i told them that if it comes back with the same problem, they got to give me a new one because it happens on some devices only and im dead serious because SAMSUNG knows about this issue very well and they do nothing. NOW CHECK THIS OUT: the new SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 features this disease too; i was in the queue with two S3 clients reporting this problem. Android is really bad at times; im moving to APPLE
Will keep you Updated
MALCOM
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Hi all, the SLEEP OF DEATH on android phones has even become worse; somebody said this issue is resolved in ICS 4.0.3; thats not true. As of now; i have a galaxy S2 i900, 1 month and 2 weeks old, running ICS 4.0.4 and I have been experiencing this problem lately and took back my phone for repairs last week, got back the phone yesterday and this morning the sleep of death happened 3 times in 1 hour. I took the phone for repairs again later this evening and i made it clear to them that problem still hangs around and i told them that if it comes back with the same problem, they got to give me a new one because it happens on some devices only and im dead serious because SAMSUNG knows about this issue very well and they do nothing. NOW CHECK THIS OUT: the new SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 features this disease too; i was in the queue with two S3 clients reporting this problem. Android is really bad at times; im moving to APPLE
Will keep you Updated
MALCOM
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bah bye
SOD
im having the same trouble with stock android 4.0.3 and know with
super nexus rom, the only way to solve it, is to use a program that
prevent phone lock, at the costo of more batery use
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darkm1st87 said:
im having the same trouble with stock android 4.0.3 and know with
super nexus rom, the only way to solve it, is to use a program that
prevent phone lock, at the costo of more batery use
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Could u please test something for me...because i am trying to solve this problem since a long time..
Could u put your phone while open screen on refrigerator for 30' .There is no fear of destroy the phone.I have test already 2 phones with sod and both are doing it with low temp.I want to see if it is sw or hd problem
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Could u please test something for me...because i am trying to solve this problem since a long time..
Could u put your phone while open screen on refrigerator for 30' .There is no fear of destroy the phone.I have test already 2 phones with sod and both are doing it with low temp.I want to see if it is sw or hd problem
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Hi,
I'm also trying to solve this problem, since weeks.
My observations:
SOD happens most on higher battery status (e.g. more SOD's at 80% battery then at 20%
The Phone gets hot after SOD and also before the SOD comes.
While loading the Phone SOD's happen more often
The battery status drains rapidly while SOD (cause of the resulting heat)
My SOD's are independent of kernel, rom, firmware or what ever.
I think it's a hardware problem, but I've no warranty and what to solve the problem without changing the mainboard. It couldn't be a really defective of an important part, cause the phone works apart of this SOD-problem.
Maybe we could find out together howto solve these anoying sod's
Hey. Im trying to solve the SOD problem myself cause its been happening every day and its really annyoing since the phone isnt even a month old.
I got the newest cyanogen mod running.
The phones model is GT-i9100
Android is 4,2,1
I still have warranty on it, do you think I should go back to stock, go exchange my phone where I got it and see if the new one has SOD too or should I just try fixing it first.
Also apps I use constantly : go launcher and dragonvale
I have a 8 gb micro SD inside as well, dunno if that could cause this.
Hello all,
I've been experimenting with custom roms lately. First I tried resurrection since it got lotsa attention and then I tried sensation, all causing the same problem.
I was lucky to have a NAND backup so I quickly went back to my stock rom. But now I am wondering why are these roms causing heating problems but not the stock rom? Interestingly, many people are using them without any complaints.
I thought this might be a problem with my phone. I contacted amazon and asked for a replacement, they were nice to replace the product even after 3 months! (kudos to them).
But now I'm wondering if this will solve my problem. Moreover, I sometimes had heating while charging the phone, bolstering my thesis that the phone is faulty. Any ideas anyone?
you returned your phone for no reason!
If it works fine on stock, phone is fine.
Learn how to use custom roms, read how to flash each Rom in their thread.
Basically, modem and kernel are related to heat. Plus one needs to wipe his/her phone completely at least once before going to custom.
atifsh said:
you returned your phone for no reason!
If it works fine on stock, phone is fine.
Learn how to use custom roms, read how to flash each Rom in their thread.
Basically, modem and kernel are related to heat. Plus one needs to wipe his/her phone completely at least once before going to custom.
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Lol calm down! I've not returned it, I am going to replace it. I've had heating problems with stock rom as well, especially while charging. I've changed the battery, thinking the problem was the battery but it didn't help at all. Also today, after being back to stock rom, it still heats up even with simple tasks. So I assume there is some kind of fault.
It's normal for your phone to heat up. If it heats up its perfectly normal because the cores are working fine. If u got battery heating warnings or any other phone heating warning thats the problem and you should investigate =D
Hi
I've got Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 running as follows:
OS: 4.0.4
Baseband I9100XXLQ6
Kernel 3.0.15-I9100XWLPT-CL941023
Build:IMM76D.XWLPT
The handset is misbehaving in an odd way and I was wondering if you could recommend some troubleshooting steps or let me know how to resolve the problem if you've seen something similar before.
I own the handset for 13 months and so far it was working fine.
I've never root it or install custom firmware on it and all version of the OS were downloaded from the update service on the device.
Problems started with Android 4 update.
The battery efficiency has dropped dramatically down and remain poor until present update.
4.0.4 seems to improved battery life but didn't resolved any of the other issues that started in Android version 4.x.
Handset is loosing it's network connectivity in the middle of web browsing session or the call, even in the areas with excellent network coverage (occasionally without network activity too).
Sometimes device hangs on application or web browser and the only way to start it back is to pull the battery out.
After that device starting up and if the battery was charged to 100% at the time of crash it will drop down to 5-7% after reboot, even if the handset was immediately rebooted after crash. If device had less that 70-80% of the battery at the time of crash the battery level will drop down to 1% and phone won't start without the charger.
Once it's started back I can observer weird battery behaviour. Even without the charger connected to the handset the battery will "charge" itself.
It seems that phone is magically retrieving battery power back to the pre-crash level within 45-60 minutes.
Handset is in good overall condition and although it may sound odd for UK never been exposed to water or very high humidity.
There is no memory card installed, just SIM as the built in memory is OK to me.
Problem happens with handset working on both the battery as well as on USB charger.
Issue seems to be more intense in the applications with high power demand or/and network traffic.
The average battery life time with moderate usage is 11 hours.
At the time of incident handset getting a bit warm on the left hand side of the camera lens (looking from the back) but it's not hot.
As the part of troubleshooting I've formatted USB storage in the device and whipped it to the factory default (from the boot menu).
No luck, problem still happens and it's extremely frustrating as handset doing it even twice a day.
At the moment I've got only 10-15 applications installed (mainly light weight and all from Play Store).
Handset is protected by Kaspersky AV that runs full scan over the night so should be free of viruses.
What should I do next?
Is there any chance to collect logs?
What should be next troubleshooting steps?
Do you think that it's the hardware or software issue?
Any help would be much appreciated.
First thing lol weather in uk ent that bad. Yeah I just lied it is. Second dont wipe anything on 4.0.4 as you may set of the brick bug. Thrid install 4.1.2 through odin. See if that helps
i9100
alliance 7.3
All ur problems suggest 2 possible causes:
1. Buggy firmware
2. Old battery
As for the firmware, again 2 options:
1. Either upgrade it to JB 4.1.2, or re-flash ICS. You can also try 4.0.3.
2. Factory reset and wiping cache partition (NOT RECOMMENDED on 4.0.4 stock kernel)
Regards battery:
1. Try to calibrate battery manually
2. Check if battery is swollen. If yes, buy a new battery.
As for how these are done, use search.
And get rid of that antivirus!
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
Thank you guys.
So it seems that 4.0.4 is a piece of |&*\$.
Is here any particular version of ODIN that needs to be used with my model?
I would also appreciate if you could send me the link for stock 4.1.2 if you can.
If there is anything else required for the 4.1.2 like the radio driver or something?
The battery seems fine to me. It's not swollen and if the phone isn't crashing seems to be OK for nearly all day.
However I was considering to put the bigger battery to the handset anyway so I may try that latter too.
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Thank you guys.
So it seems that 4.0.4 is a piece of |&*\$.
Is here any particular version of ODIN that needs to be used with my model?
I would also appreciate if you could send me the link for stock 4.1.2 if you can.
If there is anything else required for the 4.1.2 like the radio driver or something?
The battery seems fine to me. It's not swollen and if the phone isn't crashing seems to be OK for nearly all day.
However I was considering to put the bigger battery to the handset anyway so I may try that latter too.
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4.0.4 is risky only on handsets with insane chip.
Use Odin v3. If it doesn't work, use v1.
U can download the software for ur region from sammobile.com, or from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23562820
The firmware includes the radio (modem) also.
Seems ur battery is not to be blamed then.
If you do decide to flash, read this:
How to flash stock firmwares using Odin
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
@ immortalneo
Thank you Mate!
I appreciate your help.
I'll post an update as soon as I'll install new firmware.
@ Sewrizer
What would be the benefit of having it rooted in this particular instance?
All of the above plus being able to freeze or uninstall some of the bloatware that Samsung and your carrier put on your phone before you even got it out of the box....and for info....you don't necessarily have to use a PC and Odin to root your phone.....search for PhilZ kernel for more info......
Sent from my Rooted, De bloated Stock JB powered S2 via PhilZ kernel and Tapatalk 2....
Thanks guys.
It sounds very interesting.
I would appreciate if you could drop me a link to relevant rooting guide on the forum if there is any.
I think that I'll go for it as the benefits are obvious.
Regarding network problem I've just noticed that phone is reporting missing SIM card when I'm trying to manually refresh the mobile networks.
Do you thin that the other symptoms could also be related to faulty SIM card?
Just reviewed your OP, and you seem to be having issues in two main areas....battery and network.
The age of the handset could indicate a failing battery....they don't last forever.....
The network issues could very well be caused by a faulty sim card....unless you are seeing these issues while using wi fi too.
Mobile networks are constantly evolving too, so it's also possible that your sim card *may* be simply becoming slowly incompatible with the network....the same thing happened to me in the time before I got my first smartphone. .....
Sent from my Rooted, De bloated Stock JB powered S2 via PhilZ kernel and Tapatalk 2....
Oh the reflash.....
Sent from the little guy
Howdy,
I recently had my phone repaired.
I was running Anono ROM before it died. No issue on that ROM cool as a cucumber. I try another Sammy Base ROM and my phone now heats up during lightweight tasks. I installed an AOKP ROM and I had to shut my phone off or risk it melting.
I'm confused on why it overheats. I'm not charging or playing games. I call someone and it becomes ridiculously hot. Even looking at images on my SD card. What in the world is going on?
Take it back to where you had it repaired, sounds like the motherboard is faulty or the phone hasn't been properly assembled.
I'll contact the engineer and talk to him.
Why dont you try to install a stock rom first and test if the problem continue. I experience the same issue once and it was rom related problem.
Stock is fine, all 4.1.2 Sammy based ROMs fine. Only happens on 4.2.2 ROMs.
have you
Have you tryed another battery?
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Have you tryed another battery?
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It's only in 4.2.2 leaks and it's a known issue.
That solves the problem. Thanks.
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It's only in 4.2.2 leaks and it's a known issue.
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