Hi all.
Just got the nexus and i installed the "pinch zoom" update via sd card method.
After the installation was over the phone rebooted and this "Android standing out of the box" image appeared.
What does it mean.
Just after this the screen turned off and the led on the top started flashing "orange and green".
I searched for it and came to know that it happens with batteries from ebay (chinese fakes) when they die down. I purchased my nexus from a local dealer in India and it seems like the battery was swapped. Now as the dealer is my friend i have asked for the replacement, which fortunately i am getting in day or two.
So does it mean that the installation of the update was over and it was just rebooting or it was trying to install stuff when the battery died down.....
My memory is not the best but with my g1, maxtouch and nexus I've always updated via sdcard and Im 95% sure the image you're describing is standard for installing an update. I don't know about the colors flashing but the image is normal.
It is normal and should go away in under a minute, if it is still there, that is NOT normal.
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It is normal and should go away in under a minute, if it is still there, that is NOT normal.
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So i presume that it shows that the phone is updated and would boot in a minute????
And i hope it turns on once i put in the battery.....and its not a brick
I don't know too much but I know enough to realise you're playing a dangerous game trying to do an update with a low battery. If the update was in the process of updating the radio when the power went then you could well have a brick on your hands.
Always have at least 50% battery when doing an update, or at least plug the phone in.
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I don't know too much but I know enough to realise you're playing a dangerous game trying to do an update with a low battery. If the update was in the process of updating the radio when the power went then you could well have a brick on your hands.
Always have at least 50% battery when doing an update, or at least plug the phone in.
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The phone had already installed the update and it also updated the radio.
Then the phone re booted when this image i am talking about was up...
Then is when the battery died. And the battery was 100% charged, but it was a fake battery as i have already mentioned. so it happened.
Cos i remember that i got the message update successful.
I have kept my fingers crossed....
dhavalg said:
The phone had already installed the update and it also updated the radio.
Then the phone re booted when this image i am talking about was up...
Then is when the battery died. And the battery was 100% charged, but it was a fake battery as i have already mentioned. so it happened.
Cos i remember that i got the message update successful.
I have kept my fingers crossed....
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You're probably ok then. You should be good to go when you get the battery.
Good luck
google has batteries on the nexus site for 25$ .. much better investment than some knockoff ebay 10$ special.. would you put 99 cent no name oil in your car? youre lucky the battery didnt die during the radio flash or you'd have a gorgeous brick
To the OP, I got an update notification last time I was on wifi and when the update ran I got the same graphic that you describe. So based on that I am going to go with it is normal and letting you know that you are getting updated. Oh and my battery didn't die during the process so I saw the same graphic twice. Just in case you see the same thing, should be normal.
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To the OP, I got an update notification last time I was on wifi and when the update ran I got the same graphic that you describe. So based on that I am going to go with it is normal and letting you know that you are getting updated. Oh and my battery didn't die during the process so I saw the same graphic twice. Just in case you see the same thing, should be normal.
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The worrying thing is you said you saw it twice.
Doesn't the phone continue to write files after the first reboot?...
That means it's updating something. NEVER UPDATE ANYTHING ESP. RADIO with low power. I'd plug in power and put that power on a battery backup. If you were updating radio and fail, you have a nice piece of paperweight.
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Hey, guys, I tried dong some research but I can't find anyone with a similar problem.
I've got a T-Mobile (USA) G1 and I've got Cyanogen's Eclair ROM flashed on it. Prior to flashing Cyanogen's ROM, I was using OpenEclair. OpenEclair was working [relatively] well until my phone randomly started shutting off. I thought it was a battery calibration problem, so I recalibrated my battery by letting it die completely and then charging it fully, but that didn't work. I flashed Cyanogen's Eclair and hoped that my problem would be fixed, but the problem still persists.
I can't really isolate the problem. My phone can shut off in the middle of a call, in the middle of writing a txt message, or without me even using it while it's in my pocket. It shuts off regardless of the battery level (I've seen it shut off at like 97%). This wouldn't be THAT bad except the phone refuses to turn on right after it shuts off. When I press the power button, the phone will show the G1 logo for a few seconds and then shut off again as if it was dead. Sometimes if I press the power button, the phone won't turn on and I'll see the LED flash red which gives me the idea that the phone "thinks" it's dead. In order for me to turn the phone back on, I need to plug in the charger. This is becoming extremely annoying.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? I would try wiping/re-flashing but I don't wanna lose all my data :/
Thanks,
Gerard
I'm having the same exact problem ever since installing cyanogen 5.0.7 Test 1... so im not sure whats going on but i went to T-Mobile today... and they said my battery is warped or somethin not to tech savy... yet it was working fine like totally so... hmmm anyone know anything?
yea this has happened to me too! It shuts off randomly then i cant turn it back on until like 30 minutes later without touching it. I noticed that it happened after i flashed a open eclair rom that wouldnt start but i did flash it correctly. I have wiped battery stats and dalvik cache. Well i hope we can get some answers
I had the same problem I have tried just about every rom out there so dont remember when it started but i ordered a new battery off ebay for 10 bucks and havent had a problem since
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I had the same problem I have tried just about every rom out there so dont remember when it started but i ordered a new battery off ebay for 10 bucks and havent had a problem since
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So you think it's a hardware problem? I find it kinda hard to believe that all of us coincidentally got this problem after installing Ecalir ROMs...unless Eclair destroys our battery somehow?
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yeah same here but mine started with Amon Ra 1.2.3 and the blue haze rom. I updated my recovery to the latest 1.6.2 I think and switched to htcclay's superfast and the danger spl slso tmobile is comping me a new battery just to be safe, although switching rom's seem's to have helped my battery life a little. hope this helps someone.
Have you tried replacing the battery?
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Have you tried replacing the battery?
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Nah, I'm part lazy and part unconvinced that it's a hardware issue. I mean if the phone reads that the battery is like 95% charged, why would it just give out randomly? I don't know much about hardware though, so maybe I'm wrong...
I want T-Mobile to get a new Android phone that's like incredible I want a new phone already damnit!!
im just gonna buy a battery on ebay or something because my battery does look kinda swollen so it could possibly be the battery. Gonna give it a try though
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im just gonna buy a battery on ebay or something because my battery does look kinda swollen so it could possibly be the battery. Gonna give it a try though
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You think you could update us when you find out whether it changes anything or not? :/
This phone gets me really frustrated because first it started shutting off and now i have a unresponsive lock screen! I push all the buttons and the screen is black like if its turned off. I have to do a battery pull but theres a risk of the phone not turning back on and shutting off on the g1 screen. I was planning to buy the battery today but i think im just going to use a different phone for now. I hope someone can really resolve this problem. Cant wait for the samsung galaxy s
For what it's worth, I started having the same issue last week with my G1. I think it's entirely coincidental that you switched to the CM 2.1 Test branch and your phone started getting screwy.
I looked at my battery as the first suspect, and what did I find when I pulled it out of the case? A badly swolen battery. By the end of the week, the swelling had gotten so bad that it was visibly bulging the plastic backing on my G1.
I took it to 3 separate T-Mobile stores looking for a replacement battery. The first two were of no luck, but the 3rd finally had one in stock. The CSR saw my battery and almost freaked out. She says I was lucky that it didn't pop because it was ready to at just about any moment.
Long story short, since replacing my battery, I have had ZERO issues, and my battery life has once again been phenomenal (well, for the G1).
I just checked my battery and I think it's possible that it's swollen. On the side where it says "htc Innovation," is it supposed to be perfectly flat? There's like a rectangle that's slightly raised above the rest of surface. I'm a little hesitant to buy a $50 battery if that's the way the battery is supposed to be.
Thanks,
Gerard
Spontaneous power off - sunspots?
Yes, this happened to me fairly frequently about 3 months ago. Now it happens (maybe) once a week.
In my experience, it isn't a Cyanogen issue - it would spontaneous die when I used Enomther's official rom, SuperD (one of the previous versions), and some others. That made me think it was hardware, but ... I haven't changed hardware, and still drop the G1 into my pocket like usual.
So if it isn't ROM software and it isn't hardware, what is it - sunspots?
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I just checked my battery and I think it's possible that it's swollen. On the side where it says "htc Innovation," is it supposed to be perfectly flat? There's like a rectangle that's slightly raised above the rest of surface. I'm a little hesitant to buy a $50 battery if that's the way the battery is supposed to be.
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Gerard
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It should be perfectly flat. A new, good battery does not have the bulging rectangle in the middle you are talking about. Mine did the same thing. In fact, both sides were swelling. The battery would no longer sit flush in the back. My theory was simply that some sort of movement was causing it to lose contact and shutting off the phone.
If you take the battery out and lay it flat the table, you shouldn't be able to rock it by pressing an edge. If you can, your battery is dying.
I just bought a battery yesterday on amazon for 15$ You should check it out. Hope this battery resolves my problem. I also fixed my lock screen issue. I had set cpu to 120 instead of 128 so it unresponsive.
I have the same problem, and indeed when i now look at it my battery seems a bit swollen. I ordered a replacement battery on dealextreme. They have a few different battery replacements for the G1 for cheap (and lots of other things, regular customer) with free shipping. So i hope that will fix my problem .
I found this thread because I've been having random shutoffs as if the battery were pulled (black screen immediately, no "Shutting Down" prompt first), and it would only do this when NOT charging. This started happening when I first ran Firerat's all-in-one script but I think it was coincidental. So anyways, I found this thread after wanting to pull my hair out because of the random shutoffs, and sure enough, I pulled my battery and it's a bit puffed out. Time for a new battery.
My question is : does anyone think this is a result of the extra strain placed on the battery / heat generated from being overclocked? Once I get a new battery, I'd like to prevent it from happening in the future.
definately a battery problem. had the same thing on my g1. got into a whole big argument about how it WAS NOT PHONE in the cyanogen6 thread. guess what....it was my phone.
its not the rom. its your phone. seriously.
also, just to point out, most of us here got our phones relatively early in its release, and lot of people are having this problem now apparently. battery has life of 2yrs by my calculations.
if you can mimic a reboot with the phone plugged into usb or wall charger...it may be rom. but if you phone DOES NOT DIE while PLUGGED IN...ITS YOUR BATTERY.
Had the same problem with my 2008 bought g1, swollen battery and random shutdowns. Just inserted an new bought battery. Hope it fixes the problem.
While at work today I had my phone on the charger as the battery was pretty much dead this morning.. towards the end of my shift I was doing some browsing using Opera and over 4G when I noticed the phone started getting hot. About a minute later I Got a pop up message saying the temp sensor has reached max temp and said I should pull the battery.. So I did... I waited for the Revo and battery to cool down and I put the battery back in and booted up... As soon as I could I launched my battery widget and the battery charge state graph showed that the battery had TANKED 47% instantly while being plugged in! The phone started getting hot again so I pulled the battery and decided to check into it again when I got home.
Now im home, and I had put the battery back in the phone and without even booting the Revo, the whole phone gets hot! Knowing something must be going on here I booted the phone anyways and checked my battery widget again and this time its reporting 3%!!
Anyone have a clue whats going on here? Phone or Battery?
Same thing happened to my sisters Droid 2 ... her fix ... iPhone 4s
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While at work today I had my phone on the charger as the battery was pretty much dead this morning.. towards the end of my shift I was doing some browsing using Opera and over 4G when I noticed the phone started getting hot. About a minute later I Got a pop up message saying the temp sensor has reached max temp and said I should pull the battery.. So I did... I waited for the Revo and battery to cool down and I put the battery back in and booted up... As soon as I could I launched my battery widget and the battery charge state graph showed that the battery had TANKED 47% instantly while being plugged in! The phone started getting hot again so I pulled the battery and decided to check into it again when I got home.
Now im home, and I had put the battery back in the phone and without even booting the Revo, the whole phone gets hot! Knowing something must be going on here I booted the phone anyways and checked my battery widget again and this time its reporting 3%!!
Anyone have a clue whats going on here? Phone or Battery?
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Known issue friend. Make sure you are running stock OS, no CWM, and take it to Verizon. They will reset it to factory default, because that fixes everything in their book, and it will for a short time till it happens again.
Back up your data because they are gonna wipe that bad boy clean. They told me ALL DATA WILL BE LOST, that's when I grabbed my phone and ran. I reset it to factory on my on and had no more issues except now it just shuts off on its own occasionally. It happens with all roms so it's a phone issue.
I am with Android Power... Except, get a nexus prime not shatter glass iPhone 4s.
ok cool.... Thanks Hax. Where can I read up on the known issue? Nevermind I found everything i needed... on a side note I took the phone into verizon on my lunch break and they confirmed the battery was toast.... so they gave me a brand new one. By the time I got back to work the new battery was toast as well! So I guess something got cooked in the phone. i'll be going back to the store after work to exchange the phone. Im not going to be able to remove CWM or go back to stock since it wont boot.... but they shouldnt care either since they wont be able to boot it as well.
Hi,
A few days ago I upgraded my Note from a very ancient (stock) Gingerbread ROM to (stock) Jellybean. I hadn't been getting OTA updates because the Gingerbread was originally German rather than UK, so quite a long time had passed without any updates. Anyway, because of the no OTA, I used Odin. Everything went fine and I had a nice few days of usage, although the battery consumption seemed to suddenly be quite high, mainly due to additional wakelocks from the new Google Search it looked like. The night before last at about 3% the phone turned itself off, which is unusual as normally the battery will run itself lower than that. BTW, it's an official battery bought just a few months ago to replace the one before, which was getting old.
Yesterday evening when I went to use the phone it was dead. Completely unresponsive. It wouldn't charge either. (The battery had been at about fourteen percent I think, so it should have still had a lot of juice left.) Turning it on would leave it stuck on the Samsung logo only. Recovery mode didn't work, but I could get download mode up, so I installed the Philz kernel as people have said, and then did a reset using that, and all was okay again and after reflashing the ROM I could use the phone again, although because of the reset I had to set everything up again.
Just wondering what people think caused it. Just a weird coincidence, or something else? As far as I'm concerned, the problem has been sort of mitigated for now, but definitely not fixed, because what's to stop it happening again? Has anyone heard of strange things going on with Jellybean? I know there's an issue with flashing/resetting from ICS, but I never used that so I don't think that's an issue, and it looks like it was just a soft brick only. Still, a bit weird and worrying. Does anyone have any ideas?
That was caused by an unexpected shutdown of your phone - if you remove the battery without it fully turning off then you will get it and yeah, blame samsung.
The only way not to have it again is to flash philz kernel with the bootloop fix BEFORE you get the bootloop. Alternativly, if you get it again then you can try what is in this post:
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That was caused by an unexpected shutdown of your phone - if you remove the battery without it fully turning off then you will get it and yeah, blame samsung.
The only way not to have it again is to flash philz kernel with the bootloop fix BEFORE you get the bootloop. Alternativly, if you get it again then you can try what is in this post:
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I didn't take the battery out though. It was low but not dead.
Since then it has happened once again, a few days ago, this time at 93% full. I was doing nothing at all taxing to the phone. I was just in a shop listening to an mp3 with the screen off, and then it stopped and the next thing I saw was the bootloop. Luckily (thanks to the new kernel?) I could just delete cache/dalvik and be back up and running again without having to reinstall everything. Today my screen temporarily went a weird purple colour like in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2216867 . Sounds like it's just dying in general really, rather than anything else. My phone contract upgrade date is in two days. Purely a coincidence of course. Weird how phones tend to last about the length of a mobile phone contract. Until then I'm just running on power saving mode and hoping for the best.
Anyone else having extreme battery drain issues?
Just started out of nowhere. I woke up, checked my phone as usual.. it was cool when I picked it up, but after 5 minutes on it, it started getting hot.
Battery is draining 20-30 in 15 minutes.. I've wiped the phone and installed a fresh ROM, both AOSP, and Sense-based. If I take it off the charger it will drain and die. I've had this happen to a previous HTC One.
Does anyone have any ideas?
It doesn't make much sense to me.. if I wipe the phone, and all it has is a bootloader and recovery, what could the problem be? I wipe the phone and turn it off, and it still gets hotter and hotter. I'm barely keeping it alive on the charger.. I can manage flashing a ROM, et.c. but if I leave anywhere with my phone and use it.. it will be dead in an hour I feel. Then it will be a brick.
Anyone?
I've tried the PWR Volume +/- too..
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Anyone else having extreme battery drain issues?
Just started out of nowhere. I woke up, checked my phone as usual.. it was cool when I picked it up, but after 5 minutes on it, it started getting hot.
Battery is draining 20-30 in 15 minutes.. I've wiped the phone and installed a fresh ROM, both AOSP, and Sense-based. If I take it off the charger it will drain and die. I've had this happen to a previous HTC One.
Does anyone have any ideas?
It doesn't make much sense to me.. if I wipe the phone, and all it has is a bootloader and recovery, what could the problem be? I wipe the phone and turn it off, and it still gets hotter and hotter. I'm barely keeping it alive on the charger.. I can manage flashing a ROM, et.c. but if I leave anywhere with my phone and use it.. it will be dead in an hour I feel. Then it will be a brick.
Anyone?
I've tried the PWR Volume +/- too..
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Batterycell problem, assuming you've always used the original charger that came with the phone?
Anyways it sounds like a warranty issue. I would return the software to stock and deliver it back saying it's always been like this. You should get a new.
Whatever you do, turn it off at night. Assuming the cells are unstable, it may actually overheat and explode. I wouldn't want to be asleep at that time if I were you...
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Batterycell problem, assuming you've always used the original charger that came with the phone?
Anyways it sounds like a warranty issue. I would return the software to stock and deliver it back saying it's always been like this. You should get a new.
Whatever you do, turn it off at night. Assuming the cells are unstable, it may actually overheat and explode. I wouldn't want to be asleep at that time if I were you...
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Ugh.. this is already my 4th One in 3 months. Tired of this problem.
I'm probably going to request a different model of phone. Too many problems here.
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Feel for you bro... I've fortunately never had any problems with mine, nor have my friends with their One's.
Well, sounds pretty bad, sorry for you
But i would sent it back (again) and make some pressure and tell them you want a fully functionally phone already! I dont know what i would do, i'm fine with mine ('knocking on the table*) but if had such issues and already had THREE phones because of issues i would go enrage lol.
Have had issues with a new laptop the first one had heating problems with graphic processor, so i sent it back, made some pressure and got a new one which is fine now
What i will say, always make a little pressure and don't say "okay" to everything you will get
My Droid Turbo was at 4% and displayed ''powering off'' and it turned off shortly after. When I tried to turn it back on, it displayed 0%. But when I plugged it in to charge, it displayed 4%. Any idea on whats going on?
Anyone have a solution????
I understand that when battery gets old, it may be getting unable to correctly reflect the remaining power as it reaches zero. If that happens, the only way to rectify is replacing it with a new battery.
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I understand that when battery gets old, it may be getting unable to correctly reflect the remaining power as it reaches zero. If that happens, the only way to rectify is replacing it with a new battery.
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I've only had this device for a few months. So I don't know if that's it. Does yours do the same thing? Please get back to me.
I'm running the latest marshmallow update from March if that matters too.
SuperBrolySSJ said:
I've only had this device for a few months. So I don't know if that's it. Does yours do the same thing? Please get back to me.
I'm running the latest marshmallow update from March if that matters too.
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Mine does the same thing, at even higher battery % than 4% (usually around 15% or so).
That seems to be normal. I don't know when it started, though, as I avoid letting the battery get that low.
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Mine does the same thing, at even higher battery % than 4% (usually around 15% or so).
That seems to be normal. I don't know when it started, though, as I avoid letting the battery get that low.
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Quick question. Are you on a custom or stock ROM when this is happening?
Custom (lineageOS), though it happened on stock as well.
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I've only had this device for a few months. So I don't know if that's it. Does yours do the same thing? Please get back to me.
I'm running the latest marshmallow update from March if that matters too.
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Are you sure you got the device brand new unused? It is not a new model so even if you get an unused one, the battery may not be as durable as a new one. But I would say unless you abused the battery in these few months, it would not have gone bad this quick.
Although mine can't hold charge as good as before, after 2.5 years of use it can still last for one day. I seldom let it go down to 1%, but the case you mentioned have not happened to me. But this is a rather common problem, across different brands of devices.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74878598&postcount=9