I've done a lot of searching, on here and on google in general, and still can't find a solution. Maybe I'm just not asking the right question...
I'm using Dutty's newest ROM, but had this problem when I was just using the stock Tilt ROM as well as when using an older one of Dutty's ROM's. I have the screen turn off after about 20 seconds, and when it comes back up the time is always off. It updates properly after about 1-2 seconds, but it's incorrect for the entire time the screen is off. This isn't normally an issue unless I want to use an alarm. With the clock not updating itself continually (like every non-PDA-type phone I've ever used), alarms don't work at all. I installed S2U2, and even with the screen waking up, once I hit the slide to unlock the phone that's when the clock updates. Not before. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Or am I missing something so obvious that I'm bound to get flamed for the question? Thanks in advance!
Mine does this too, stock AT&T Tilt OS for now, but my alarms and PhoneWeaver have absolutely no problem going off at their appropriate time. It looks like it's just not updating the video card with the current time while sleeping since the display isn't on. Not too much of a problem for me as I'm accustomed to wearing a watch, but I can see how it would be annoying for others.
Seems to me that's just normal for any computer when sleeping. My Vista machine and my Apple machines all do that too. When you wake them from sleep, the clock display is behind, but instantly updates once the system is back on line. The internal clock is still running the whole time of course, just the display does not update since the graphics system and cpu are in suspended mode.
Ya' can't very well have a computer go into power saving suspended mode AND keep real time things like screen graphics updated constantly.
P.S. My Tilt does it too, but alarms and reminders all work just fine.
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Ya' can't very well have a computer go into power saving suspended mode AND keep real time things like screen graphics updated constantly.
P.S. My Tilt does it too, but alarms and reminders all work just fine.
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I agree that the screen shouldn't need to be updated constantly during power saving mode, but my problem is that none of the alarms work, and I'm just assuming that the system clock isn't updated because the display is so far behind. I'll do some more testing today... thanks for the replies so far!
Hey guys, my nookcolor has been randomly rebooting since i rooted it. Never while i was using it, i just sometimes hear the bootup sound, and look to find that my book is now on.
Im just concerned this will affect my battery, and i also don't want it rebooting while im using it.
I noticed it doing this one time, but right after i powered it off. In use, it has never rebooted on me (yet)..
This is why we so desperately need a custom ROM. Remove the B&N bloat, and start with a clean 2.2 (or even 2.3 now) base, and really open her up..
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I noticed it doing this one time, but right after i powered it off. In use, it has never rebooted on me (yet)..
This is why we so desperately need a custom ROM. Remove the B&N bloat, and start with a clean 2.2 (or even 2.3 now) base, and really open her up..
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I still want to use the B&N stuff. Any rom that emits them, I will not be installing.
I think it likely that there are NC users in both camps-
Those who want the B&N stuff and those who don't.
I am one of those who don't; the Nook for Android software does better for reading ePub, imo and I am rarely near a B&N store.
Right now we have root and Market plus B&N and I would guess (could easily be wrong) that the first custom roms will be pure Android with no B&N.
We will probably end up with an option to set while flashing: retain B&N customizations or straight Android.
I base this guess on what I have seen in the other roms for various devices (mainly Droid) I have looked at.
Same here. If I want to read B&N books, I could still use their Android app on a custom ROM.
After switching to Cyanogen on my phone, it's been quite relaxing to not have to worry about provider updates bricking the thing or otherwise screwing up the rooted customizations (or just randomly resetting the thing back to factory defaults because I started up one of their apps and it got confused). Not to mention that the CM team does a far better job supporting the device than the manufacturer and my service provider does.
And yes, like other Android devices, there will probably be ROMs in both categories: completely built from scratch with no B&N portions at all, and improvements on the B&N system to add more functionality.
Fair enough for those that are interested in the reader portions - i have to admit, i bought this as a tablet, with literally 0% in it as an e-reader; i already have a Sony 505 for that. I may use it on occasion, but only as an afterthought.
However, this topic is really drifting - perhaps we should just bring it back to the rebooting issue?
Yeah, I installed the Uptime Widget on my NC today and picked it up a few ago and its uptime was 1:30; max 15h (from before it rebooted 90 minutes ago). I'll keep running it.
What we need to do is get a logcat when it happens.. So maybe overnight I'll leave it running or something. It just rebooted on me and I was semi-watching it, didn't even notice but Uptime Widget was reset to 7m up, 15:30 max..
I have started up a logcat and I'm going to leave it running while I get ready to go out for the day.. Although I just installed and fiddled with Google Earth, which failed badly, so I wonder if it caused some problem. Also saw it happen after playing with Google Maps, so I wonder about Location stuff maybe doing it.. Dunno. I just launched Maps a few ago and it's been up since. Hopefully a logcat will capture some info.
I have noticed that I've seen some crashes that don't show the Crash dialog.... TweetDeck is particularly bad about crashing viewing some Facebook posts, and in this case it just goes black for half a second then back to the list of posts. A logcat shows it crashed. But I don't know the two are related (not having the crash dialog stuff and the reboots that is).
I had it reboot on me twice last night, one time I didn't know about it until I picked it up later and noticed the uptime widget was down to some 30 minutes, and another time right before bed I hit the power button and about 10s later I saw the boot up text and a reboot happen.
Still haven't caught it on logcat.
My doesn't reboot spontaneously, but it does "lock up" and won't turn on with the power button from standby occasionally. If I remember to use the Nook Button to wake from standby, I don't seem to have this issue. If I use the power button, and it won't wake, I need to hold it down for ~15 seconds and it reboots.
AFIAK, it has done this since I purchased it (I rooted after about 1 hour with the NC in my hands).
Mine has never reboot WHILE I'm using it, it's sneaky about it. But I suppose I'd much prefer it reboot while I'm not using it than while I'm using it; I have yet to have it do a full reboot while using it.
Trying to set up a Delicious account.. yeah, that rebooted the Java VM. But only time I've made it reboot at all.
Hahah, damnit, it just rebooted after it went to sleep. I seriously think it has something to do with going to sleep. I've been sleeping it and waking it repeatedly on adb logcat and it won't crash. Figures.
I had this same issue a while ago. I don't have the logcat from it, but from what I could tell is was some sort of error coming from the system dimming the brightness before turning the screen off. I had Extended Controls installed and was using the widget to adjust my brightness. Whenever the screen would dim before turning off I would get a reboot. I have since uninstalled it and have had no issues with reboots. I'm not sure if this is the issue youre facing but thats my story.
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I had this same issue a while ago. I don't have the logcat from it, but from what I could tell is was some sort of error coming from the system dimming the brightness before turning the screen off. I had Extended Controls installed and was using the widget to adjust my brightness. Whenever the screen would dim before turning off I would get a reboot. I have since uninstalled it and have had no issues with reboots. I'm not sure if this is the issue youre facing but thats my story.
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Actually not using any of those on mine.. I have Beautiful Widgets in ADW and Beautiful Widgets + Note Widget in WidgetLocker.. Not adjusting the backlight at all either, in fact I don't think I have at all since getting it now that I think about it.
I have the same issue: rooted Nook Color reboots occasionally and it does seem to do it whenever I put it to sleep or it goes to sleep by itself (when the screen dims). It hasn't rebooted while in use, but it does reboot occasionally when left alone. Have no idea why.
From apps that control dimming I have Advanced Task Killer installed besides the stock app that controls dimming... Could it be the issue? I will uninstall Advanced Task Killer and see if that help.
Otherwise I love my rooted NC. It's fast, beautiful and works great as an E-reader and an Android tablet.
to summarize: Do you think it's the hardware issue or software. I've heard of people who have non-rooted (stock) Nook Color having the same rebooting problem, but apparently it doesn't have to do with rooting. Do you think it will adversely affect the Nook?
If anyone finds a solution please post here. It would be tremendously appreciated.
Thanks and have great holidays.
mastroiani said:
I have the same issue: rooted Nook Color reboots occasionally and it does seem to do it whenever I put it to sleep or it goes to sleep by itself (when the screen dims). It hasn't rebooted while in use, but it does reboot occasionally when left alone. Have no idea why.
From apps that control dimming I have Advanced Task Killer installed besides the stock app that controls dimming... Could it be the issue? I will uninstall Advanced Task Killer and see if that help.
Otherwise I love my rooted NC. It's fast, beautiful and works great as an E-reader and an Android tablet.
to summarize: Do you think it's the hardware issue or software. I've heard of people who have non-rooted (stock) Nook Color having the same rebooting problem, but apparently it doesn't have to do with rooting. Do you think it will adversely affect the Nook?
If anyone finds a solution please post here. It would be tremendously appreciated.
Thanks and have great holidays.
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I suspect it's a software thing, as it doesn't randomly reboot in use, it ONLY seems to happen going into standby, and I have YET to make it happen connected USB for adb.
You know actually, I think alogcat can log automatically now, maybe I should try that.. but it'd have to run for a day or so, as I only see this happen like twice a day at most.
Do you have setcpu installed? I was getting random reboots when I had it on conservative. Switched to ondemand for all profiles, and no more reboots!
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Do you have setcpu installed? I was getting random reboots when I had it on conservative. Switched to ondemand for all profiles, and no more reboots!
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I myself had not played with SetCPU at all. So had you in the past and set it to conservative, and switched it back, or you switched it from its defaults? Reminds me, per my observation that it never has rebooted while on AC or USB, was there a default profile when plugged in that it's set to ondemand vs conservative? This could start making some weird kind of sense. I'll try it, but using something called CPU Tuner since it's free..
EDIT: I looked on USB and on Battery, both times was conservative, so looks like that's the default... Does the Nook have an automatic switching utility like cpuspeed in it? Hmm.. /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor is the file if anyone else wants to look.
BTW, has anyone on 1.0.1 auto-nooted etc not seen these random sneaky ninja power-off reboots? I swear mine waits until I'm not looking and reboots. I've only SEEN it do it once or twice, but in the last 5 or so days it's rebooted at least 10 times while powered off. Again NEVER while I'm using it, so I'm at least thankful for that. If it were rebooting while using it that would not be acceptable.
I have the Uptime Widget, kinda wished I had an uptime graph to see if there is a pattern.. I'm about 99% sure it never happens when plugged in AC or USB.
EDIT2: IT IS CLEARLY MOCKING ME. It just rebooted after I peeked at the governor files and let it idle to sleep.
I have the same random reboot problem since I upgraded to 1.0.1 and used auto-nooter. I only see it when it goes to sleep...or so I thought. This morning I heard it reboot and i hadn't touched it since last night. FYI, it was not plugged in when it happened. Thankfully it never reboots while in use.
Oh...ad i havent used any CPU clocking tools. Also...never saw this on 1.0. So weird but I am sure someone smarter than I will figure it out.
UPDATE- Just got out of the shower and while getting dresses...heard the Book reboot twice within a minute or two.
Wondering if its an app that is causing a fatal crash when it tries to update.
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I haven't had a random reboot in 3.5 hours and i have used the Nook on and off. I did remove my email account from the Google email app (not gmail) and its been good for awhile now. I will update if this changes but I am feeling confident this fixed the random reboot.
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I haven't had a random reboot in 3.5 hours and i have used the Nook on and off. I did remove my email account from the Google email app (not gmail) and its been good for awhile now. I will update if this changes but I am feeling confident this fixed the random reboot.
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I've had one unexpected reboot today that I know of, I think this has helped, although I keep finding my Wifi turned off, even though this program I installed is only set to turn it off when the battery is extremely low. So I changed that profile and it hasn't turned itself off since, so seems to me maybe the battery reporting is a little wonky sometimes.
I've been watching, and I'll keep an eye out, but I think wvcachi is onto something.
BTW, the Nook has been primarily idle for the last 5 hours, just popped it on a few times to read an email, check on something, or see if it reboots so I haven't used it a bunch but it's lost a whopping 2% battery in that time. I also disabled the Phone stuff too, per this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883908
I am at 6.5 hours now....no rebooting so far.
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I have been having some issues with the torch/flashlight LED programs recently. I didn't used to have problems and prior to this when I used the HTC torch it had the same problem. When I used older versions of MIUI I didn't have this problem with flashlight apps that I had. But now with the most recent versions (since December or so I think when they added the torch button in the notification bar) I am having the problem again.
The problem when using a flashlight app (or the button in the notification bar) the light will turn on for about a second and then turn off. It will still show it off in the app or on the notification bar. If it does not do this it does one of 2 other things. It turns on and then after one second becomes brighter and then after about 1 more second turns off. On rare occasions in an app I can turn it on and it will stay on... but then when I try and turn it off there is usually a delay of a few seconds before it actually turns off. Then it is back to turning on for a second then off.
I had seen this same problem when I used the HTC Torch previously but it went away when using different ROMs and such so it makes me believe it is some kind of software problem. Seeing that the LED does seem to work and if I use the camera it seems to actually work properly with the program I am pretty sure there is nothing actually wrong with the hardware. Has anyone else seen this problem or know what could be causing it? Is there some way or some test program I could use to find what exactly is causing the problem? If someone has had this issue before... do they know how to fix it?
EDIT: I tried manually turning on the flashlight via "echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness" and it turns the light on but then after about a second gets brighter then after another second turns off. When I did a "cat /sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness" it seems something changed it from the "1" which I wrote to the file to "127". Also, when I tried to "echo 0" to the file... the change did not stay. After doing the echo and then trying to cat the file it was still "127". I then tried to the torch app in the notification bar to turn it on and then off. After I turned it off via the application, I check the file and it was then set back to 0.
EDIT: I have witnessed the issue on 3 seperate Nexus One phones... surely someone else has had the same problem and possibly come up wit a solution.
you have to be careful with the flashlight apps esp with the high brightness setting. the LED is not designed to be on constantly on the nexus one and i have heard of people burning out their LED's from leaving it on too long both in normal and high brightness modes.
i have found out while using mine esp in high brightness if its left on too long it will overheat it and flicker. ever sense i seen mine do that i never use high brightness in fear of burning it out and when i use it in normal mode i try to keep its use as short as possible and i have not had it shut off on me sense. if yours is shutting off in normal mode then i'm afraid you may have already damaged it too much and that is why its turning itself off. thats my opinion anyways.
(if roms matter, i've always ran CM6 and now currently have been running CM7 nightlies and RC's
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you have to be careful with the flashlight apps esp with the high brightness setting. the LED is not designed to be on constantly on the nexus one and i have heard of people burning out their LED's from leaving it on too long both in normal and high brightness modes.
i have found out while using mine esp in high brightness if its left on too long it will overheat it and flicker. ever sense i seen mine do that i never use high brightness in fear of burning it out and when i use it in normal mode i try to keep its use as short as possible and i have not had it shut off on me sense. if yours is shutting off in normal mode then i'm afraid you may have already damaged it too much and that is why its turning itself off. thats my opinion anyways.
(if roms matter, i've always ran CM6 and now currently have been running CM7 nightlies and RC's
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Well... I would expect... if the LED was "burned out" then it shouldn't turn on at all. The simple fact that it turns on at all means the LED isn't burnt out. Also, I would suspect that to be the case if I had not witnessed it happen on a brand new Nexus One (Old one of a friends was replaced because it was stolen). Her's had to go in for repair (turns out a cable inside the phone going to the camera was loose) and I had reverted it back to an original ROM. Once it was reverted the LED didn't have problem. Another thing that indicates to me that it is a software problem is I have seen the exact same thing before on previous versions... and it went away when changing to other ROMs. Tonight I am thinking I will wipe and flash CM7 and test it with a light app and make sure... if that has the same symptom I will flash to a shipped ROM and test it. I am pretty sure it is a software issue though. I just don't know... what... is causing the problem.
EDIT: I also forgot to mention... when it was working properly... I never witnessed it overheat and flicker though I never had it on for long periods of time. One last thing, I only saw the symptoms after a flash to a new version. When it was working properly it was always working properly. When it was acting like this on a ROM it always acted like this.
UPDATE: I did flash to CM7 nightly and the torch app works perfectly as do other apps on the market. After being back on CM7 and with the advent of the theming engine for it... I think I may just end up moving back to CM for daily use. I would like to know if anyone else has run into this issue still and/or has a solution just in case I run into the same issue later. For now I think I will just chalk it up as a kernel/ROM problem... though it doesn't explain why others didn't have the same issue =/.
Hello, l use cardio trainer app since I bought the phone 3 months ago. It is very useful app it worked nicely (well I never got gps lock).
However 3 days ago I flashed new rom (Revolution HD from 3.1 to 3.2 with full wipe) and the pedometer stopped working with the screen off. For 3 months I used Cardio trainer with the screen locked and off and everything was ok (I got avr speed, distance, steps...) Now I can only use the timer.
I flashed back to 3.1 - no good. Flashed with full wipe 2.0.15 - no difference. The pedometer doesn't work any more. When the screen is on, pedometer works fine. I uninstalled the app, reinstalled it, no difference, only that I lost my goals.
I know that the accelerometer doesn't work when the screen is off, but how the pedometer worked perfectly for 3 months?!
Can anybody help me?
Thanks!
I have a similar issue, but with Sleep as an Droid. Screen off/Accelerometers on seemed fine on Rev HD 3.1 but not working on 3.2 (or 3.3).
BTW, Which radio are you using now?
I haven't tried going back to an old radio yet as I don't really need Sleep as an Droid so not too fussed about it. I'm currently using 12.41.60.19_26.06.04.14_M, but the sensors were working with 12.35d.60.140f_26.06.03.24_M2 (and Rev HD 3.1)
Maybe changing radios might help?
-Nugs
I tried 12.35d.60.140f_26.06.03.24_M2 but no difference
Thanks anyway!
edit: I tried all radios (took them from the radios thread), the accelerometer still doesn't work. So I think this is not connected to the radio.
update:
hmmmm, after one-two weeks without accelerometer in standby (but still daily using cardio trainer for timer and logs) something peculiar happened today. I went for a run, as always no accel. only time. After 30minutes I took a break for 5-10minutes, cardio trainer was on pause (after 30 minutes - 0km/h, 0km, 0steps). But after I continued my run after I turned the screen off, the accelerometer started working! With screen off! Actually I got very accurate distance and speed. The gps was on, but I never got a gps lock. Also I noticed a very nice feature, I can pause the timer from my hands-free (play/pause button).
After the workout I tried again (new workout just shake the phone with the screen off), the accelerometer didn't work.
I haven't changed ANY settings, no wipes, no re-flashing, no nothing. Out of the blue sky it started working. Tomorrow I will try again and report.
Any ideas?!?!
Give Runkeeper a try.