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Flickering screen at below 50% of batt

Im hvg this flickering screen symptom right after my phone drop at 50% of battery. It will suddenly shut my phone off if i continue using it. And the worst part is, i cant turn it on until i charge it again. Any ideas?
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same problem happened to me. It is time to buy a new battery.
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jasonhoch said:
same problem happened to me. It is time to buy a new battery.
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Gosh... Its only one n the hlf year of usage.
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You were right jason. My batt is dead and bloated. Gonna change a new one now. Thx again
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was it stock battery?
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baz77 said:
was it stock battery?
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?????

Yup buzz. Stock batt
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Suprisingly still hvg that flickering screen at 2% after changing new batt ( original ).
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yes the screen flickers at <3%.. i have seen it in 3 notes... so i guess it happens

Usually this happen when the battery isn't original.
Its happened to me with fake battery. No problem with stock one.

I think battery issues could be case. Many nowadays including myself
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nokiamodeln91 said:
yes the screen flickers at <3%.. i have seen it in 3 notes... so i guess it happens
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Thnks dude
Glad to hear that its a norm. But never happend to me before till recently. I thought its the hardware issue.
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baz77 said:
I think battery issues could be case. Many nowadays including myself
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Bazz, u meant to say that even on stock batt this thing would happen?
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safuan7822 said:
Bazz, u meant to say that even on stock batt this thing would happen?
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it could happen with any battery if quality is not good or diminished. I think so at least Check your battery, does it look out of shape?
You could try a friends battery, or an alternative rom could also be another issue.
You can also experiment with the power saving features to turn them of.
Uninstall if any, power saving apps/ screenfilter apps.
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i have the same issue. i just wanna say im very disappointed. less than a year of usage and now gone.

safuan7822 said:
Gosh... Its only one n the hlf year of usage.
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My stock batt got bloated and died at 10 1/2 months.

My also battery bloated after 10 mnths
The screen used to flicker at 50%
Also at 35% phone used to shut down
I changed the battery now all is well
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Doesn't the warranty on batteries last for 12 months ? Why not get Samsung to replace it if it fails withing that time frame.
Then again, For the price of one, Is it worth all the aggro of sending it to Samsung, Waiting, Waiting some more, Then having it sent back ?
They do go pretty cheap online, And the Anker 5000mah are worth considering (except the size increase)

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Doesn't the warranty on batteries last for 12 months ? Why not get Samsung to replace it if it fails withing that time frame.
Then again, For the price of one, Is it worth all the aggro of sending it to Samsung, Waiting, Waiting some more, Then having it sent back ?
They do go pretty cheap online, And the Anker 5000mah are worth considering (except the size increase)
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As they're classed as consumables I believe warranty on batteries is only 6 months, but I think it would be great if we could somehow make samsung aware of how short the battery life is on these, maybe some sort of petition.
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I saw a blue screen

this morning when i unlocked my phone i saw blue screen for 0.1s before it turned to pattern unlock...it happened twice, never saw that before today...
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Astr0naut said:
this morning when i unlocked my phone i saw blue screen for 0.1s before it turned to pattern unlock...it happened twice, never saw that before today...
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No idea what causes it but I get it sometimes too. It happens on my phone once every 3 weeks or so..... it's strange.
Im on Perseus kernel.

thanks for replying. i am on stock kernal. is this relate to crt off animation?
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To be honest I have absolutely no idea what it relates to. It happens so infrequently to me I haven't ever been bothered by it or tried to figure out what it was.
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I get this as well, and I'm on completly stock and unrooted so I wouldn't worry about. I thought it was just because I used widget locker but obviously not.
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Same here! This morning for the first time.
Completely stock phone, XELLA H3G. I bought it 2 months ago
Strange

It happened to me too for 3/4 times over last few months. My I9300 S3 is close to its 7th month. I can tell that thing had not happened until last few months. I have crt-off.

I used my i9305 for about 8 weeks and saw the blue (and sometimes green) screen sometimes for just a sec when i unlock the screen.
Unfortunately this handset died on monday afternoon. Hope this is only a bad coincidence.

Hi,
Don't worry about that....See a Blue screen can give a bad feeling (mainly to Windows user...)
But nothing to compare with BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) you can get when Windows crash

archibald_schlick said:
I used my i9305 for about 8 weeks and saw the blue (and sometimes green) screen sometimes for just a sec when i unlock the screen.
Unfortunately this handset died on monday afternoon. Hope this is only a bad coincidence.
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what you mean died, cant boot up at all?
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Astr0naut said:
what you mean died, cant boot up at all?
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Completely dead. No boot, no download mode, no recovery. Had to bring it to my service provider, but they change it without any problems. Hope I will get the new one back today.

Other two times today...first yesterday.
Hoping this will not be a new strange issue causing SoSD or similar!
Atm no other strange problems
I'm on XELLA (H3G)
Handset bought on Dec 21

Shutting down constantly

Hi everyone,
I'm having a Galaxy ExhibitG and it starts to shut down constantly everytime I open too many apps or run something too heavy. And it won't let me power on the phone and even if I can the bettery status went crazy (from 90% to 0% then 20%)
One solution to this is to plug my phone in the charger constantly, but I need to take it to work and school.
The problem actually started to happen after I flashed Linaro CM 10.1 romm by smartguy(for got the number)
Any idea why?
Thank you.

Sounds like you might have a bad battery
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smartguy044 said:
Sounds like you might have a bad battery
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So I should get a new battery now ?_?

I an positive its your battery myself and plenty of others have had this exact problem. Amazon and eBay are your friend if you don't want to spend $40+
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quyenqchau0813 said:
So I should get a new battery now ?_?
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Yea. Check the threads - I'd start with the q&a one- there is a lot of suggestions for which battery to buy and where
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Help!!! My phone was hacked!

OK so the weirdest thing happened just now. I was charging my atrix HD when I went on it to check a phone number. Then it started opening apps and going on xda then other apps. I had no control over it. I couldn't even turn it off. I had to do the power and volume down thing to shut off. It was very creepy. I was just looking for a minute while the person did what they did. It was like when a person from dell controls your computer if something isn't working right. At first I thought it was being laggy but no! It kept going settings were changed and the person tried playing music on it! I turned it off before he could but the wierdest part is that I had turned of my wifi and set my phone on airplane mode so it can charge faster. No communication what so ever. Right now its off and I plan to keep it that way until someone can tell me what to do to protect myself. Also this could have been happening before i went to go check my phone. Which was like 15 minutes before I checked it. Please help
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Maybe you installed an app that had a RAT or some other virus in it
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That's what I'm thinking. A bad app. The likely hood of it being hacked are slim.
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What apps have you installed recently? And have you sideloaded any apps?
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I haven't installed any new apps. Just updated.
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Anything I can do? Has anyone experienced this before?
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I'm guessing you handle it like you would handle a virus on a computer and just wipe everything and start over.
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Did you use any Samsung charger?
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Aingaran said:
Did you use any Samsung charger?
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no a blackberry one

The Android Attorney said:
no a blackberry one
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android is very hard to hack probably a virus delete data in cwm

Best thing to do is just wipe.
Easy way to do it is to go to Settings->Privacy->Factory Reset
It was probably a bad app.
Click thanks if I helped!
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Another thing to be aware of is I've noticed Motorola's screens (at least on the Atrix models) are kind of finnicky. If there's a little bit of moisture around they just start registering touches on their own sometimes.

With my battery life being... less than ideal.. I find myself plugging into all kinds of chargers along my travels. Some non moto chargers make my phone go nuts, exactly like what was described - apps opening etc. Have experienced this several times. Feel the other explanations are possible of course but highly unlikely.
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There was a story on the news recently that someone's iPhone was hacked by trying to charge at a public charging station. I would be weary of these charging stations.
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lucasantarella said:
There was a story on the news recently that someone's iPhone was hacked by trying to charge at a public charging station. I would be weary of these charging stations.
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Airport WiFi connections are VERY insecure. Basically they monitor everything that goes through. Text messages, calls, anything. Maybe they also have access to control phones?
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I agree with above post non oem chargers can make the phone act funny especially the cheap dollar store chargers get an oem cable the you will know that it will work for charging and data.
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Aingaran said:
Did you use any Samsung charger?
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Charger ??? Really ? ... u mad bro ?
[You just went full retard,Never go full retard!]

right...
Were you on a custom rom, or stock rom...?
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OK so the weirdest thing happened just now. I was charging my atrix HD when I went on it to check a phone number. Then it started opening apps and going on xda then other apps. I had no control over it. I couldn't even turn it off. I had to do the power and volume down thing to shut off. It was very creepy. I was just looking for a minute while the person did what they did. It was like when a person from dell controls your computer if something isn't working right. At first I thought it was being laggy but no! It kept going settings were changed and the person tried playing music on it! I turned it off before he could but the wierdest part is that I had turned of my wifi and set my phone on airplane mode so it can charge faster. No communication what so ever. Right now its off and I plan to keep it that way until someone can tell me what to do to protect myself. Also this could have been happening before i went to go check my phone. Which was like 15 minutes before I checked it. Please help
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Slow GPS positioning.

I don't know if it's just my handset that has this issue. If it's an issue at all.
My GPS takes forever to find my actual location. Leaving central London yesterday on the M4 the GPS around 25 minutes to find where I was. It isn't really acceptable to be quite honest.
Is there an issue or is it a handset fault solely affecting me?
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My GPS locates my position in a couple of seconds.
Have you tried the GPS Test on service menu?
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No I will have a try though. What's the code again? :/
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Done. It took nearly an hour to find a signal. But it found one... I don't understand. If the hardware is working why isn't the signal being detected in a normal time frame.
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Kirkymole said:
No I will have a try though. What's the code again? :/
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To service menú is *#*#7378423#*#*
You must dial it, and service menú Will pop up
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Problem isn't solved.
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Kirkymole said:
Problem isn't solved.
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- I use gps Status to download A-gps state

Nope outside in the open. No power lines or anything in the way.
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Have you tried reflashing a stock rom. And see if the problem persists. If it doesn't, you probably have some tweak or module doing stuff to the gps.
If the problems still there it could be your carrier or a faulty device.

Flashed back already. Several times. I haven't got any tweaks or changes going on, the only reason I rooted was to rid myself of the bloat.
This is really annoying me, if I have got another crop handset off Sony I will definitely be going back to HTC phones.
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Kirkymole said:
Flashed back already. Several times. I haven't got any tweaks or changes going on, the only reason I rooted was to rid myself of the bloat.
This is really annoying me, if I have got another crop handset off Sony I will definitely be going back to HTC phones.
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Are you removing fast dormancy? For some carriers it's needed.

I think so. I have basically now gone down the route of stopping the phone cutting any process off for any reason. Still the issue persists though.
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this is just a wild guess, but worth a shot.
try redownloading the stock rom, check md5 and be sure to make a clean install.
try download "FasterGPS" from playstore, to get the time from a ntp server near you, to avoid wrong time for the fix due to delay on a long travel from the ntp package