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Hi.
I don't know what is causing my device to sporadically hard reset while charging: After a while the battery indicator stucks at a lever far below 100% and almost every application won't start any more. I than looked into the build-in explorer and noticed that many of the files that are cooked into rom were missing. But windows was still running and I could even go to preferences etc.
after a soft reset the "first booting" splash screen revealed and all the setting were gone. And the battery indicator shows nearly 100% again.
It does not happen every time I recharge my device. The last hard reset of that kind happened two weeks ago.
Any ideas?
Which ROM are you using??
I had this issue on either Bauners V7 WM6.5 rom and TAELs WM6.5 rom.
I've noticed a connection between charge level below 30% and enabled WLAN. I'm not sure about that. ROM data wasn't corrupted as I could reactivate my device by performing a hard reset (vol-down + ok + reset).
This has happened to me only once and never after that..
it already happened in the past, but it was some time that did not. I have revolution 26 (jb 4.1.2) + boeffla, no undervolt. I didn't change anything since when it worked well, it just starts to do it some periods. I also tried to change battery but nothing solved.
the problem is, when I turn off the screen sometimes battery crashes down as displayed in the graph, it's already the second consequent night it does that, even if it's offline with gentle alarm set (that obviously doesn't play). last evening it happened even with the phone not in flight mode e without alarm set, so I updated rom and kernel to try to solve but tonight it happened again, with consequent sleep through the alarm time.
what can I do?
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The graph shows the phone shut down. It is not the battery at issue, but the phone. The phone crashed adn this used up a lot of battery. It could have been stuck on an operation such as writing to NAND or Boot loop.
Please add English to your post. I canot read it.
sorry I completely forgot to write in English ahahah, I just edited
another detail: my gs3 always makes 2 "turn screen off sound" when I turn the screen off. I don't know why. Anyway, I seem to remember that when the problem comes out the phone has made only one sound at the previous screen turn off.
also I use swiftkey but it just started (same time as the battery problem) to load the original keyboard everytime I reboot the phone. maybe it's just a coincidence, but maybe not..
I think we're looking at a factory reset
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tonight it happened also if I left the phone on charge
A couple of questions:
1) should I try something (another modem, deactivating juicedefender or else) before factory reset?
2) after factory reset, should I avoid to install/flash things like my actual modem (though successfully used by a lot of people), boeffla kernel, juice def or else?
Factory reset and install as little as possible
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Hello to all,
Phone is Galaxy S3 running JB 4.3 stock. I ''played'' with options, more precisely I was clicking Developer options, until the end (7 times - activate it)... because of my stupid curiosity. Now, with developer options being enabled, I'm having problems with phone doesn't recognize USB, whether I want to connect it to PC, or charge via charger.
w.w.w.youtube.com/watch?v=-qnsU1yiH_w#t=22
On this link it's showed how to disable developer options, but you can't do it on Samsung phone (!!!). I know I have to do factory reset, but before that I want to backup everything I need. The thing is that currently I'm having 13% of a battery available, and I need to fix this USB/charger issue to be able to further work. Now it's turned off (doesn't charge in this state too), because if I run out of battery I'm scared I won't be able to start it up again.
P.S. I tried to check/uncheck USB debugging... nothing happens.
I know this is a 100% software problem, and I hope you guys know the solution. Googled it earlier, no similar topic.
Thanks in advance!
Sorted it out.
But what a crazy 1-1.5 hour is behind me. First activated ''Revoke USB debugging authorization'' at Developer options. Haven't recognise USB/charger. Then went to App manager -> All -> Settings -> Force stop. Then the party began. It randomly activated handsfree, car mode and S-voice. Then it locked itself while partying in backstage. Then it couldn't recognize my drawing pattern. Don't know my pin, can't type google account because of processes pooping from behind. Shut down, took me to ''downloading do not turn off target''. I was seconds from literally reset it through the window. Then it suddenly recognized pattern, I restarted it, and now it works like a charm. In short: never do force stop, especially on Settings.
Now I'm gonna backup all, and do the factory reset. And I'll have trauma clicking on android version for some time...
Hey everyone!
I picked up a Gear S about a week ago and until today, I've had no problems. I took the watch off charge this morning and everything was working as fine, used some apps etc, no issues. Then I checked my phone for updates and saw that the Gear Manager app had an update and I installed it. Since then, the screen on my Gear S has been constantly turning on and off. It will turn for about 9 seconds, then switch off and back on 2 seconds later. Turning the screen on manually works but everything is pretty much frozen. I can periodically get as far as the pedometer (because there's an icon for it on the home screen) or to the Apps menu but no further and then the screen will switch itself off.
I'm not sure whether an update to the Gear Manager app should affect the watch itself but I know that when I wiped my phone a few days ago and went to set up the Manager again, it factory reset the watch so I assume there is a direct connection between the software. I've tried disabling both Bluetooth and the remote connection to check if Gear Manager is causing the screen to behave strangely but it's still turning on and off. It's impossible to do a soft reset through the Gear S itself as the screen switches off before I can get to settings and I've tried doing a hard reset but nothing works.
I tried searching on Google for anyone having similar issues and the only thread I can find was posted on Android Central (yesterday I think) with a few people saying that they're having the same problem which makes me thing that the update to Gear Manager is the issue.
Edit: The only screen that doesn't seem to be affected is the PIN lock screen. Screen switches off there as normal and does not come back on.
Edit 2: I've never reset the Gear S before (and I only noticed the factory reset mentioned above after it was finished) but when I attempt to do a hard reset, the watch just reboots as normal without anything happening and all info / data is still there. I presume this really shouldn't be the case?
UPDATE: I'm an idiot / Samsung's instructions on how to do a hard reset are awful.
I decided to Google how to do a hard reset and discovered that when in the Recovery Menu, you need to hold down the Power button to choose an option (Samsung's instructions just tell you to press the Power button until you highlight what you want and I assumed it would automatically choose that after a few seconds because the phone would restart for me). Watch is now factory reset and so far the screen issue appears to be resolved. Another four hours of transferring music it is then.
@BOZG can you post a link to that thread?
I have the Same problem. Sometimes changing a clock face or installing/uninstalling a program seems to make it stop. I have yet to find a good consistent solution. Restarts etc. don't help. Hard reset will fix it but last time I just changed settings on and off and powered the phone on and off and eventually it stopped.
It seems related to when the phone is connected remotely over a cell network. I have the AT&T unlocked with a T-Mobile regular line, not the wearable line since I have a 5 for $100 business plan and the 5th line was not being used. Doubt that makes a difference though.
Followup:
Just now I had the watch off and charged to 100%. Powered up with phone off. Same issue. Watch face loads, the hands change to the current time, then it slides down the screen and looks like a reload because when it comes back up the time isn't correct. The hands reset to the right time. This happens a few times. I power the phone up. Bluetooth connects. I open the gear manager on the phone and it stops.
Will try to repost if that's repeatable. I hope they fix it because it burns quite a bit of battery when it happens. It gets warm so it's running the CPU a lot whatever it is.
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BOZG said:
Hey everyone!
I picked up a Gear S about a week ago and until today, I've had no problems. I took the watch off charge this morning and everything was working as fine, used some apps etc, no issues. Then I checked my phone for updates and saw that the Gear Manager app had an update and I installed it. Since then, the screen on my Gear S has been constantly turning on and off. It will turn for about 9 seconds, then switch off and back on 2 seconds later. Turning the screen on manually works but everything is pretty much frozen. I can periodically get as far as the pedometer (because there's an icon for it on the home screen) or to the Apps menu but no further and then the screen will switch itself off.
I'm not sure whether an update to the Gear Manager app should affect the watch itself but I know that when I wiped my phone a few days ago and went to set up the Manager again, it factory reset the watch so I assume there is a direct connection between the software. I've tried disabling both Bluetooth and the remote connection to check if Gear Manager is causing the screen to behave strangely but it's still turning on and off. It's impossible to do a soft reset through the Gear S itself as the screen switches off before I can get to settings and I've tried doing a hard reset but nothing works.
I tried searching on Google for anyone having similar issues and the only thread I can find was posted on Android Central (yesterday I think) with a few people saying that they're having the same problem which makes me thing that the update to Gear Manager is the issue.
Edit: The only screen that doesn't seem to be affected is the PIN lock screen. Screen switches off there as normal and does not come back on.
Edit 2: I've never reset the Gear S before (and I only noticed the factory reset mentioned above after it was finished) but when I attempt to do a hard reset, the watch just reboots as normal without anything happening and all info / data is still there. I presume this really shouldn't be the case?
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I left mine to use up all the battery,then when it switched off, i left for 2 days and when i switched back on... all fine again.
theroblog.com said:
@BOZG can you post a link to that thread?
I have the Same problem. Sometimes changing a clock face or installing/uninstalling a program seems to make it stop. I have yet to find a good consistent solution. Restarts etc. don't help. Hard reset will fix it but last time I just changed settings on and off and powered the phone on and off and eventually it stopped.
It seems related to when the phone is connected remotely over a cell network. I have the AT&T unlocked with a T-Mobile regular line, not the wearable line since I have a 5 for $100 business plan and the 5th line was not being used. Doubt that makes a difference though.
Followup:
Just now I had the watch off and charged to 100%. Powered up with phone off. Same issue. Watch face loads, the hands change to the current time, then it slides down the screen and looks like a reload because when it comes back up the time isn't correct. The hands reset to the right time. This happens a few times. I power the phone up. Bluetooth connects. I open the gear manager on the phone and it stops.
Will try to repost if that's repeatable. I hope they fix it because it burns quite a bit of battery when it happens. It gets warm so it's running the CPU a lot whatever it is.
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samsung gear s screen on and off..looping
There you go. Not much to read there though as it's just me and OP. The problem re-emerged for me after a few days again so I was forced to do another hard reset to actually use the watch. I noticed it when I woke up in the morning and noticed that another update had been pushed to the Gear app. That's twice now that this has happened shortly or immediately after the Gear app was updated.
I haven't been able to uninstall an app / change clock face to see if it works as the watch is completely unusable when it happens to me. The Gear app registers that it's connected but it's impossible to change anything from there either and if I turn the watch off and back on again, the Gear app will no longer connect.
petethepete2000 said:
I left mine to use up all the battery,then when it switched off, i left for 2 days and when i switched back on... all fine again.
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Not sure if I've actually tried letting the battery drain. I'll try that the next time it happens (if it happens).
I had the same problem after the update, a reboot didn't solve the problem. Eventually the battery drained. After a recharge most is fine but I never know which watch face will suddenly appear.
Same issue again. Didn't see the Gear app updating but there was an update released the day before. Going to switch off auto-updates and see if it definitely the problem. Just seems too coincidental that this problem starts right after an update is released for the Gear App.
petethepete2000 said:
I left mine to use up all the battery,then when it switched off, i left for 2 days and when i switched back on... all fine again.
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Started doing it again yesterday so let the battery die and charged it fully and it didn't help. Left it on the box overnight and brought it to a Samsung Service Centre this morning and of course it was working again when I took it out of the box! Left it with them anyway so I'll see what happens.
I've had my Gear S a few weeks and it has also started doing this, I will give some of the suggestions here a go.....
EDIT: So opening the Gear Manager App once Bluetooth was connected brought my Gear S back to life. Phew!
It's only entered this state after I turned it off at night and then turned it back on in the morning - so it had been off roughly 8 hours. Upon turning it on the screen would cycle from the right time and notification numbers and the wrong time and wrong notification numbers too off again.
@ BOZG - Just wondering if you got your S back yet and if so, were they able to tell you what was causing this on/off problem. Mine just started doing it yesterday.
Also, how did you find the "Samsung Service Centre"?
holding the screen seems to cause it...
Had to send mine to Samsung for a new charging cradle and they updated the software to latest, when i got it back it seemed fine. Then i was messing about with it and was holding the screen to my chest for a while and that seemed to cause it to happen. It seems to be the screens gets too much activation and it flips out. I think this is what started the problem last time it happened.1
Switching to power saving mode seems to fix it for me... have to wait until it gets low on battery and when the low bat warning comes on, switch then... leave for a bit then switch back to normal.
I called Samsung Thursday and they sent me a UPS label and told me to send the watch, charging cradle and AC charging cord back in for service. She told me it takes about 7-14 days. We shall see.
Happy to have found this. </rant>I'm starting to get enough of this Samsung stuff. I had the note 2 and now I have the note 4 and gear S. That is mote then 1000 euro of equipment. And today when I tried the restore to fix this, both the phone and the watch rebooted. Crazy that they can not build good software and hardware for this price. </rant>
To me it seems that is freezes somehow when this happens. It kept jumping back to 22:10 time and changed to the watch-face and settings keep rolling back. It seems to happen to me, when the watch is off for some hours. The samsung way... no update to fix this.
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hi first of all sorry if i do any mistakes because English is not my language
i had similar problem and i found the solution at least in my case . THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH THE GEAR S
all was ok using 4.4.2 kitkat on my note 3 before few months i upgrade with lollipop 5 official from sammobile via odin
from that moment the problems begin with the reconnection of the gear with the note
long time to connect and no auto reconnection only manual by turning off-on the bluetooth
i was boring to do format to the note3 so i left it as it
few weeks ago probably of gear manager update the gear start freezing and the screen turning on and off
first i do a factory reset and the gear was ok for a while but after it do the same but the next time the screen was not ok the colors was different so i send to service in Athens
the service in Athens is very fast and very helpful , is one of the reasons that i will difficult go with other manufacture , so they return me the gear saying that they change the motherboard and now there is new imei
but the gear that they send me was brand new except the band and the box. BUT after some time the same problem ..... i call them and they tell me to send it back so i send it and i receive it again but this time the say that the watch is ok
GUESS NOW .... i turn it on and after a while of the connection with my note AGAIN the same problem the screen on and off and freezing plus was overheat underneath
i was ready to call them and to say few words but they was closed ..... then i search the net and i found this post and i thing probably is not the gear the problem ,no hardware problem, i decide to do a test
i download the last working rom to my phone 4.4.2 and magically the problem disappears .... but now there is a software update on my phone lollipop 5 so i do the update and i was ready if the phone cause again the same problem
to return and stay with 4.4.2 But now all is ok the problem solved .... now is more of 24h and all are ok
i hope this will work for you also
Same problem
I have the same issue exactly - Note 4 with latest lollipop upgrade - it is very frustrating......I don't particularly want to have to move back an OS just to use the watch !
JALUK said:
I have the same issue exactly - Note 4 with latest lollipop upgrade - it is very frustrating......I don't particularly want to have to move back an OS just to use the watch !
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Ok but doing a downgrade and all working ok you can do update again.... i am not with 4.4.2 i went to the latest 5.0 for me now and all are ok.
Maybe something was wrong with the update procedure.
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the touch function of the 2nd gear stop working so i send it back and they send me new device
for a few days all was ok . But today when i restart the phone while the gear was disconnected the problem with screen turning on repeatedly appears again .
for sure is not problem of the gear , this is the 3rd device in my hands, something is wrong with the gear manager software .
i have also reconnection problems .... if the phone is far away and they lost Bluetooth connection the most of the times i must reconnect manually , the gear say disconnected but the note think is still connected
I wonder has anyone tried to reset the watch as a stand alone device and see if the problem happens? I know you might lose a lot of the blue tooth functionality but I think I will test it and see if the problem still happens.
Hello and good evening.
I'm running a fully stock Poco F1 on the latest 11.06 ROM. Just a week ago I noticed that my phone wasn't going into deep sleep. I noticed it only because one morning my phone was unusually warm and my battery had halved overnight.
Since that day I've noticed my phone battery usage bar showing as always "awake". Even overnight there isn't a single gap in the "awake" bar. Thinking it was probably a bad update or a misbehaving app, I checked for new updates and found none. I also uninstalled all apps. Last resort I did a factory reset.
Today is day two after factory reset and the phone still refuses to deep sleep. Phone is fully stock, unrooted, bootloader locked.
Location is always off.
Sync is always off.
WiFi and Scanning is always off.
Bluetooth is always off.
All settings in apps are manually set to not use data or battery.
What could be causing this?
One more thing, I get random names that show up in battery list. None traceable to an actual app. Just random names that look like system services but I've never seen them before.
I was going through some other posts on this same issue and I've read that dust/damaged charging port can also maintain a wake lock. (It was one of the moderator who made that comment and was also supported by other users who agreed.)
Coincidentally, this whole issue also began the same time my charging port was misbehaving.
I cleaned the port with a toothpick and isopropyl alcohol but this wake lock issue still persists. I will be getting my charging port replaced anyway, but with this Covid situation, no service centers will be open.
Alrich said:
Hello and good evening.
I'm running a fully stock Poco F1 on the latest 11.06 ROM. Just a week ago I noticed that my phone wasn't going into deep sleep. I noticed it only because one morning my phone was unusually warm and my battery had halved overnight.
Since that day I've noticed my phone battery usage bar showing as always "awake". Even overnight there isn't a single gap in the "awake" bar. Thinking it was probably a bad update or a misbehaving app, I checked for new updates and found none. I also uninstalled all apps. Last resort I did a factory reset.
Today is day two after factory reset and the phone still refuses to deep sleep. Phone is fully stock, unrooted, bootloader locked.
Location is always off.
Sync is always off.
WiFi and Scanning is always off.
Bluetooth is always off.
All settings in apps are manually set to not use data or battery.
What could be causing this?
One more thing, I get random names that show up in battery list. None traceable to an actual app. Just random names that look like system services but I've never seen them before.
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I would suggest deleting your internal storage before changing the port.
Some apps leave "stuff" back into the internal storage, so even if you did a factory reset, they might be messing up your setup.
You could save the things you specifically want in one folder and delete everything else (you should factory reset once more afterwards).
It's a long shot, but I would give it a try
How do I delete my internal storage?
I am unrooted and do not plan on root. (Business phone).
The only way I'll be able to fix my port is at the service center. And at that time I can request them to clean flash ROM.
Alrich said:
How do I delete my internal storage?
I am unrooted and do not plan on root. (Business phone).
The only way I'll be able to fix my port is at the service center. And at that time I can request them to clean flash ROM.
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Connect to a pc -> choose all the folders-> right-click -> delete
sotosgolf said:
Connect to a pc -> choose all the folders-> right-click -> delete
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But isn't this the same as factory resetting?
Because the factory reset does format the internal storage and the files you see after first boot are created after ROM initialization. And either way before I factory reset or give the phone to service center, I always manually delete (secure with overwrite) files. Is this the same?
Phone connected to pc via USB in normal mode does not have access to root/system/recovery/boot.
If I'm missing anything or am wrong, I'd really want to know.
Alrich said:
But isn't this the same as factory resetting?
Because the factory reset does format the internal storage and the files you see after first boot are created after ROM initialization. And either way before I factory reset or give the phone to service center, I always manually delete (secure with overwrite) files. Is this the same?
Phone connected to pc via USB in normal mode does not have access to root/system/recovery/boot.
If I'm missing anything or am wrong, I'd really want to know.
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I use custom recovery and i was under the impression that, after factory reset with stock recovery, your internal storage (data/media) was kept intact.
If none of your files is available after reset (e.g. your downloads) then you are right. What i'm suggesting is the exact same thing.