I have had my Tab S3 for 3years now. Bought brand new from Amazon Prime Day.
Last night it just randomly slowed down and proceeded to a boot loop. Went on to boot to recovery and cleared cache and davlik cache. Still very very slow, CPU feels warm then reboot. Proceeded to factory reset still the same problem. Today I decided to flash latest stock firmware manually via odin still the same problem despite that.
Do you guys think the tablet is dying?
You can try flashing a custom ROM and see if it is better. Else, it could be running in it's last leg, which could be caused by a dying battery if the battery life is also short. And you could try replacing the battery.
Also install aida64 app in Google play and see if the CPU usage is normal.
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You can try flashing a custom ROM and see if it is better. Else, it could be running in it's last leg, which could be caused by a dying battery if the battery life is also short. And you could try replacing the battery.
Also install aida64 app in Google play and see if the CPU usage is normal.
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Back is warm and the very slow than usual processing as evidenced by choppy annimation anr random reboots if the tab just can't take it. Could the dying battery just cause the thermal throttling? Couldn't even get my tablet to connect to the internet to download aida64. It'll just reboot.
Will apps crash or 'unfortunately has stopped' before reboot?
Also bad battery can cause severe problems on iPhones but for Android, I don't know.
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Will apps crash or 'unfortunately has stopped' before reboot?
Also bad battery can cause severe problems on iPhones but for Android, I don't know.
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No. It'll just reboot once it starts up on desktop. It runs very choppy and even when I'm not using it (no wifi, no auto-sync, no location), it reboots.
Are you on stock ROM?
Can you actually get it up and running for like 5 minutes, even if it lag like crap?
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Hello, my wife and I both have Vibrants and she has been having battery draining issues for the past week or so. She obviously says she didn't do anything or put anything new on the device. I have installed the same ROM on both phones and other than apps/games, they are the same. We have Axura 2.3.1.2 and a battery meter mod installed.
I have tried swapping batteries between our phones, didn't fix the issue. Swapped back to original batteries.
Ran through the wipe battery stats, fully charge, wipe stats in recovery, fully drain till shuts down, charge completely without interruption. Still has the draining/shutting down issue
She mentioned having issue with updating her Facebook app, so I uninstalled that this morning and she continues to have her device drain very fast, shut down periodically, unable to restart without a battery pull.
Would reinstalling the rom help? what are some other options I can do before wiping clean and starting over in hopes that solves the problem?
If you need any other info, I will be glad to get it for you.
Thanks.
What kind of battery life are you getting? For instance, what's your idea of poor battery life? Also, what does your wife use the phone for?
You may want to simply try a different ROM. Axura hasn't been updated since March. The most recent Froyo ROMs are Toxic8 and Zendroid.
I am using Toxic8 with the Bali 1.2 kernel and Juice Defender Plus, ... and getting 30+hrs with music (mp3 and streaming) all day long, some surfing, a lot of XDA. Sleeps over night and JD+ kills radios from 12-6am so nothing is sending data btwn those times eating up battery.
I just rebooted today to make a back up JIC but my uptime was approaching 300hrs. Heard good things about Zendroid too but I'm on Toxic8 and like it quite a bit.
Is she watching vids (video player or Tubes) or listening to online music/shows all day? Is her Facebook/ G+/ Gmail set to auto-sync? She must be running something that you are not to get the off balanced battery power like you say.
had a similar problem on project v, turns out that sync was getting stuck on my picasa and wouldn't go any further, unchecked for it to sync and problem solved...
Basically, I installed cm9 RC1, and everything was working great.
Interface and all my apps were working super smooth.
I was getting 4 hours of straight use on a single charge! I was super impressed.
Yesterday, the phone froze out of nowhere. Couldn't get any response at all, had to pull the battery. The cpu was pretty warm too. It has gotten warm through normal use before on other roms, but that had disappeared when I flashed this one.
After rebooting, it tells me the battery is less than 4%, which is very strange since before freezing it was more like 20% full.
Now after this happened, I'm getting literally half the time on each charge. Instead of 4 hours with 15% left I'm getting 2.5 hours and 4% warnings telling me I need to charge.
Any idea as to what is going on?
I'm using betterbatterystats, and according to it, my deep sleep mode is working properly. The apps I use are showing the same kind of usage they did before. I can't figure out what the hell is going on here.
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Questions belong to Q&A.
Do a full wipe. That's the best solution. After that, if it happens again, report here.
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Basically, I installed cm9 RC1, and everything was working great.
Interface and all my apps were working super smooth.
I was getting 4 hours of straight use on a single charge! I was super impressed.
Yesterday, the phone froze out of nowhere. Couldn't get any response at all, had to pull the battery. The cpu was pretty warm too. It has gotten warm through normal use before on other roms, but that had disappeared when I flashed this one.
After rebooting, it tells me the battery is less than 4%, which is very strange since before freezing it was more like 20% full.
Now after this happened, I'm getting literally half the time on each charge. Instead of 4 hours with 15% left I'm getting 2.5 hours and 4% warnings telling me I need to charge.
Any idea as to what is going on?
I'm using betterbatterystats, and according to it, my deep sleep mode is working properly. The apps I use are showing the same kind of usage they did before. I can't figure out what the hell is going on here.
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as stated by the guy above, do full wipe/data factory reset, about the 20>4% battery can be due to when the phone has been forced turned of or anything, happens to me when i get the same problem (almost)
Did full wipe last night. Battery life is still half and the cpu is getting very warm just while web browsing.
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Voltage problems ... just like mine. Freezing, overheating. Self rebooting too?
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Only completely frozen the one time. I did get a random lag spike earlier though. Haven't had any random rebooting that I'm aware of, but it could be doing it when I'm not looking..
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If you have booting sound notification you would know. If this happend only one time, then its hard to judge for me - my phone was living its own, mad, life constantly. ( freezes, reboots , sound looping ) And by this in the same time was destroying mine
Hope somebody else will be able to tell you more.
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Hello everyone, I'm using Motorola Atrix with Epinter CM10 4.1 ROM for last 2 months, I was very happy with battery life. Phone wasn't getting hot and with normal usage, even with 3G on (in my country only options are 2G and 3G), I could get %40 of battery end of the day. But for no reason, phone has started to get hot (only 2G on) and drains battery really quickly for last 1 week. I can't even get %5 battery left from morning to evening now. I didn't change anything, only installed Adobe Flash 11.1, then I deleted it but nothing has changed. Phone gets into deep sleep no problem with that, no background apps. I did a virus scan both on phone and from computer, both came out clean. I reinstalled rom. Nothing. I'm gonna crash my phone against wall it's really annoying. I think I'm gonna do factory wipe and reinstall rom again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Do you leave wifi switched on at all times?
I use MIUI on my Atrix (partially based on epinter's work, I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong), but I have found that the phone suddenly starts staying awake for no apparent reason a while (often a couple of days) after I've left wifi switched on. This obviously causes bad battery drain. I can usually get the phone to sleep again by rebooting with wifi switched off (I think) and a battery pull is invariably required.
I now just switch on wifi when I have large files to download then turn it off straight afterwards.
Not sure if it is the same issue or not, but Better Battery Stats (which can be downloaded on xda) indicated the Rilj process was stopping the phone from sleeping when this problem occurred. It is worth trying this app to see if it gives any indication what is causing your battery drain.
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Do you leave wifi switched on at all times?
I use MIUI on my Atrix (partially based on epinter's work, I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong), but I have found that the phone suddenly starts staying awake for no apparent reason a while (often a couple of days) after I've left wifi switched on. This obviously causes bad battery drain. I can usually get the phone to sleep again by rebooting with wifi switched off (I think) and a battery pull is invariably required.
I now just switch on wifi when I have large files to download then turn it off straight afterwards.
Not sure if it is the same issue or not, but Better Battery Stats (which can be downloaded on xda) indicated the Rilj process was stopping the phone from sleeping when this problem occurred. It is worth trying this app to see if it gives any indication what is causing your battery drain.
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No I switch between mobile data and wifi. Thank you for your suggestions and opinions but I really don't think my problem is about sleep. It started to get hot and drain when I actually use the phone. For example, I was checking Twitter for 10 min. with 3G and battery was dropping %1. Now it drops %5 with 2G on and gets really hot like 35-37 Celsius degree. I'm using Watchdog to oversee processes and nothing is working without my knowledge on background.
Hi,
I have the same problem on the nottachtrix roms since the last 2 weeks, I tried switching to epinter cm10 with no luck. Ordered a new battery to check if the battery is dead or if the atrix is faulty
if you find a fix, please post it here
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Hello everyone, I'm using Motorola Atrix with Epinter CM10 4.1 ROM for last 2 months, I was very happy with battery life. Phone wasn't getting hot and with normal usage, even with 3G on (in my country only options are 2G and 3G), I could get %40 of battery end of the day. But for no reason, phone has started to get hot (only 2G on) and drains battery really quickly for last 1 week. I can't even get %5 battery left from morning to evening now. I didn't change anything, only installed Adobe Flash 11.1, then I deleted it but nothing has changed. Phone gets into deep sleep no problem with that, no background apps. I did a virus scan both on phone and from computer, both came out clean. I reinstalled rom. Nothing. I'm gonna crash my phone against wall it's really annoying. I think I'm gonna do factory wipe and reinstall rom again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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install gsam battery monitor to see your phone's awake time. this drain happens to me also when i listen to music or take a photo. something with mediaserver keeps the phone awake and then only thing to do is kill mediaserver or a reboot.
Regardless of which other apps you are using to monitor app and process usage, I'd recommend trying Better Battery Stats as this is much more detailed and low-level than other apps I've encountered.
It's a free download for xda members:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Little update.
I turned back to factory settings, then did a full wipe, cache wipe, dalvik wipe. I was so annoyed I even did system wipe manually from advanced options in recovery. I reinstalled Epinter CM10 rom, got my apps back thanks to Titanium Backup. Installed GSAM (thanks to saldirai), downloaded SetCpu and chose Nvidia Tegra 2 T20/AP20H, underclocked to 912 mhz. Couldn't done any undervolting sadly, says something about governor.
Now I'm checking battery stats and temperature by GSAM, so far no complaints and better from yesterday BUT I haven't use my phone heavily yet. Temperature changes between 26-31 Celsius degrees, battery drops %1-2 percent on use -also it needs calibration- with only wifi use which is always on. I'll update this post if anything changes.
Update: I think I've found the problem. When I choose The Weather Channel widget to "use my location" phone immediately starts to get warm. Weird point is, this wasn't an issue before. Apart from that I'm playing New Star Soccer and Carmageddon for 3-4 hours with wi-fi full time on and battery drops to %30. I'm really happy about that. Normal battery temperature is about 25-32 during the day and different from before it quickly gets cold after I stop playing games. Just like before.
Hey, I've been using stock 4.1.2+ExperiencedKernel for a long time, it always worked great, but a few days ago I installed an icon pack for KKLauncher, and since then my battery consumption got really bad, around 15-20% per hour when the display is off! I've tried deleting the icon pack, but it's the same, I'm even checking BetterBatteryStats for details, but it doesn't show anything suspicious, although I'm using the app for the first time, so maybe I overlooked something. I have also reflashed the rom+kernel with full wipe, but no luck. Can anyone tell me what can cause this mess, or what should I upload from BetterBatteryStats for someone to check the problem? Thanks in advance.
btw it goes to deep sleep well, so it's not an app that wakes it up constantly (I use greenify too). also the phone itself is very hot, don't know if it's just the battery or the whole thing... but the phone functions correctly.
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Hey, I've been using stock 4.1.2+ExperiencedKernel for a long time, it always worked great, but a few days ago I installed an icon pack for KKLauncher, and since then my battery consumption got really bad, around 15-20% per hour when the display is off! I've tried deleting the icon pack, but it's the same, I'm even checking BetterBatteryStats for details, but it doesn't show anything suspicious, although I'm using the app for the first time, so maybe I overlooked something. I have also reflashed the rom+kernel with full wipe, but no luck. Can anyone tell me what can cause this mess, or what should I upload from BetterBatteryStats for someone to check the problem? Thanks in advance.
btw it goes to deep sleep well, so it's not an app that wakes it up constantly (I use greenify too). also the phone itself is very hot, don't know if it's just the battery or the whole thing... but the phone functions correctly.
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If you don't have any wakelocks keeping it awake and you've reflashed the ROM, kernel and did a full wipe and the battery drain still exists... Then I'd say your battery is failing, especially if it's getting hot. My L9 never gets hot, even under heavy use.
The only other thing you could really try is flashing back to stock and see if the problem is still there... Really though, I'm pretty sure it's your battery.
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If you don't have any wakelocks keeping it awake and you've reflashed the ROM, kernel and did a full wipe and the battery drain still exists... Then I'd say your battery is failing, especially if it's getting hot. My L9 never gets hot, even under heavy use.
The only other thing you could really try is flashing back to stock and see if the problem is still there... Really though, I'm pretty sure it's your battery.
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Hi, thanks for your answer. The problem is, the phone gets really hot on the upper side of it, near the camera. The battery never gets hot at all. Is it possible, if it's battery problem?
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Hi, thanks for your answer. The problem is, the phone gets really hot on the upper side of it, near the camera. The battery never gets hot at all. Is it possible, if it's battery problem?
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I thought you meant that the battery was getting hot. The last time I had a battery go out, it was getting hot and it was draining fast. Shortly after that it wouldn't take a charge anymore.
It is possible that it's a hardware issue. WiFi, GPS or the camera could cause it to get hot also.
You can also try and boot the phone into "Safe Mode" and run it like that for a day or two and see if the problem still exists. If it problem disappears while in Safe Mode then you have a rogue app or something that's causing the issue.
Then to narrow it down you could try downloading Wakelock Detector and see if something is keeping it awake, making it hot and drain the battery.
Monitor it with Better Battery Stats and Wake lock Detector. Post some screen shots of BBS and Wakelock Detector here too. That way we can see if something is going on.
This is one of those issues that will take a process of elimination to figure out.
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I thought you meant that the battery was getting hot. The last time I had a battery go out, it was getting hot and it was draining fast. Shortly after that it wouldn't take a charge anymore.
It is possible that it's a hardware issue. WiFi, GPS or the camera could cause it to get hot also.
You can also try and boot the phone into "Safe Mode" and run it like that for a day or two and see if the problem still exists. If it problem disappears while in Safe Mode then you have a rogue app or something that's causing the issue.
Then to narrow it down you could try downloading Wakelock Detector and see if something is keeping it awake, making it hot and drain the battery.
Monitor it with Better Battery Stats and Wake lock Detector. Post some screen shots of BBS and Wakelock Detector here too. That way we can see if something is going on.
This is one of those issues that will take a process of elimination to figure out.
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I've been using BBS, it shows that the phone is in deep sleep in most of its off time, no app wakes it up. Also, wifi seems to lose its signal very often, even though it's strong (there wasn't any problem with that before).
I'm using the phone now without SD and SIM cards, it doesn't seem to be that hot than it used to, but charging and draining are still very weak. I'm gonna try safe mode as you suggested, and also using the phone without wifi turned on, if that is the issue. Thanks for your tips.
So, the phone cooled down after I turned off wifi, then I rebooted to safe mode, and it became hot once again, but after the media scanning, it cooled down once again. So I guess it may be the CPU? I've been trying to get a picture of the phone's circuit board with no luck, because the phone is only warm in the upper 1/3, the other parts seem to be cooled down all the time.
I'm gonna return it to T-Mobile on Monday, hopefully they won't notice the unlocked bootloader.
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So, the phone cooled down after I turned off wifi, then I rebooted to safe mode, and it became hot once again, but after the media scanning, it cooled down once again. So I guess it may be the CPU? I've been trying to get a picture of the phone's circuit board with no luck, because the phone is only warm in the upper 1/3, the other parts seem to be cooled down all the time.
I'm gonna return it to T-Mobile on Monday, hopefully they won't notice the unlocked bootloader.
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Yeah it might be the CPU. Also if it's dropping and/or scanning a lot for WiFi, then it will definitely get hot and kill the battery quickly.
I don't think that T-Mobile will notice that it's unlocked. As long as you flash back to stock ROM before taking it in, then they probably won't notice. They would have to be purposely looking for it to be unlocked.
You might want to flash back to stock anyway and see if the problem is still there... It very well could be a ROM/kernel issue causing the problem.
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Yeah it might be the CPU. Also if it's dropping and/or scanning a lot for WiFi, then it will definitely get hot and kill the battery quickly.
I don't think that T-Mobile will notice that it's unlocked. As long as you flash back to stock ROM before taking it in, then they probably won't notice. They would have to be purposely looking for it to be unlocked.
You might want to flash back to stock anyway and see if the problem is still there... It very well could be a ROM/kernel issue causing the problem.
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I have flashed back stock one I've been using (cwm flashable), of course I will remove root and any suspicious apps. I appreciate your help.
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Just bought a Samsung S6 Edge, my first venture into samsung devices since before I purchased my first HTC the G1. I have always been an HTC fan but I thought this phone look pretty special and so I took the plunge.
Since then however I have been nothing but disappointed. When I first started to use the phone it was very responsive and the screen and features are very impressive, however my HTC M8 is at the moment considerably faster with Lollipop 5.02 and M9 ported software than my S6 Edge despite having considerably more power. When I open the smart case the screen only turns on for 1 second then turns itself off, the phone is laggy and it can take some apps several seconds to launch. Side by side with my M8 it just isn't coming close using the same setup and the same apps.
After having brushed of the fiasco over the charger of my Samsung Gear Live watch breaking the rear of the watch I am not sure I trust Samsung?
What is wrong with this device??
I came from the HTC One M8 and s6 Edge is faster.
Maybe you got a defective device?
I have no lag at all on mine and I haven't heard anyone complain about lag so far.
Its not laggy, you're laggy!
Mine has been lagging considerably and overheating quite a bit. It's very frustrating. Also, the battery is terrible.
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Mine has been lagging considerably and overheating quite a bit. It's very frustrating. Also, the battery is terrible.
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My HTC has always lasted a day with plenty to spare, my S6 requires charging as soon as I get home
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Its not laggy, you're laggy!
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Huh?? strange response!
I will just leave this...so you know I'm not blowing smoke. All that on netflix and on data LTE only. I easily hit 14-18 hrs on battery daily.
Edit 5hr 58mins on Netflix....
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Mine has been lagging considerably and overheating quite a bit. It's very frustrating. Also, the battery is terrible.
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Your issues point to a rouge app. It sounds like the app is sucking CPU time constantly and thus your phone is overheating. This also causes big time lag and battery drain. Get an app like GSAM or Better Battery to see which app is causing the issue and then kill the app!!
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Your issues point to a rouge app. It sounds like the app is sucking CPU time constantly and thus your phone is overheating. This also causes big time lag and battery drain. Get an app like GSAM or Better Battery to see which app is causing the issue and then kill the app!!
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Downloaded GSAM and the root companion. No apps are killing my battery. The leading culprit is Android System.
could be the no sleeping bug..please check if your phone hits the sleep...
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Downloaded GSAM and the root companion. No apps are killing my battery. The leading culprit is Android System.
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Download Better Battery Stats and see what your leading kernel wake lock is. Mine was something no one had heard of and Google had NO info about. It kept my phone awake 60% of the time or more - no amount of flashing stock firmware or factory resetting helped. I had to exchange the device. The wakelock in my case was lli_pm_wlock
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Download Better Battery Stats and see what your leading kernel wake lock is. Mine was something no one had heard of and Google had NO info about. It kept my phone awake 60% of the time or more - no amount of flashing stock firmware or factory resetting helped. I had to exchange the device. The wakelock in my case was lli_pm_wlock
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Oh wow. I've got the exact same issue. So this is something that can only be remedied by replacement?
Your chart looks crazy. They're ALL at 100%. I'd return it if flashing stock firmware didnt fix it.
Use smart switch to back up your apps and data, then use it to reinstall the firmware. Restore your apps/data and see if you're fixed. You'll be all stock again but its worth a shot before doing the return.
Maybe it's caused by memory link.
I believe all this lagging issue is caused by memory link. My Ram is always on 87% (2.2 GB of Ram) yet i'm not running any app, sometimes i tap and it doesn't respond, then after a couple seconds it responds to all the taps made which drives it nuts. Otherwise, i love it, it's very fast and smooth most of the time. Been a fun of HTC for years, S6 Edge is my first Samsung Phone and i don't regret changing. Hope they fix the few problems some of us got.