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Xperia T SOD

Hi there everybody, I've been having sudden Sleeps of Death, doing some research have found that may be sd card related, however nothing focused to our beloved T. After some time of inactivity phone won't come on after pressing power button to wake.
Anybody of you having this issue as well? Any advise?
I'm running timin8r stock Rom .233 along with its corresponding kernel, rooted and deodexed and a HP micro sd card, 32gb, class 10.
Thanks and happy holidays everyone!
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I also have a 32GB microsd and haven't had any problems myself. Been on this ROM for a few days. It's been downloaded quite a few times and haven't had anyone else complain.

On stock kernel? If yes then sounds odd
Try a fresh install is all I can suggest or get a logcat
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Gonna try that, thanks for your support!
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I've got a 64gb card in mine and no problems so far. Had my phone for about 6 weeks now.
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Ok guys, made a clean install from scratch yesterday and the problem is virtually gone, just one sod after a couple of hours of inactivity. However Media Server app is killing my battery, will not cease for hours consuming from 40 to 50%, doing some research they suggest changing sd card and empty it at all, which I've done unsuccessfully.
Could be somehow related? Is it just me having this weird behaviour?
Thanks in advance!
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That's expected behaviour on a clean install. Android needs several hours to build all databases. Including media database.
Just wait another charge and see if it gets better
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Well, it happened again today´s morning, I´m kind of frustrated here... when everything seemed to be running at last fine and smooth... So I ran the Repair Phone from the PC Companion which just installed the same version that I previously had, .233. And now the waiting.
My T is bootloader locked and no cpu manage apps.
Here a screenshot of the logcat from the aLogcat app just before the last crash.
Will update how is going after the companion repair, and if it continues then will be hardware related I think.
However any advice is always welcome, thanks!
EDIT: Same issue after Companion Phone Repair, and the same at night when entering deep sleep mode. So I've downloaded an app to prevent my T from going to deep sleep and seems to be working.
By the way wise guys any of you have a clue in how often or after how many minutes in lockscreen the phone will go to deep sleep? No info at all in the web and, baseband 33 is supposed to work fine in every network around the globe? I know of course they are location specific but can't find much about radios.
Thanks for helping!

titusxperia10 said:
Ok guys, made a clean install from scratch yesterday and the problem is virtually gone, just one sod after a couple of hours of inactivity. However Media Server app is killing my battery, will not cease for hours consuming from 40 to 50%, doing some research they suggest changing sd card and empty it at all, which I've done unsuccessfully.
Could be somehow related? Is it just me having this weird behaviour?
Thanks in advance!
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I had some problems with my music database and had to clear the media storage app's database and then reboot the phone to rescan. When I did that the phone battery drained pretty fast for 30 mins or so and then settled down - and media server was shown by batt stats to have done most of the draining.
This might be linked to your problem. If your SD card has corruption on it then the media scanning may get part way through and get stuck, eventually causing a system issue that causes the SoD. It might not even be a corrupt file but some issue when it encounters a particular file due to a bug in the program.
My advice would be to backup card content, reformat and copy files back on slowly over a number of days to see if the SoD issue of happens after a particular file is copied onto the card.
Reformat is an important step here. If you empty your card and just copy the files back on it isn't a clean file system. Reformatting will give you a freshly initialised card to work from.

Thanks for the advise emuX, despite of have done this I could not get it to work. The SOD continued and every day it got worse. So I dropped my T to service via carrier. They held my device for a couple of days to find out that the hardware (just as I suspected) was the guilty department of these sod´s.
In fact they were not able to run a ftf or "flash cam" (never heard of that) since the hardware keys were not responding any more.
An exceptional case so far in the T but of course really annoying and disappointing.
They are to change my device as soon as they arrive, given they are sold out in my specific carrier store.
This could happen to any random device and there´s no software solution or walkthrough. If you have these symptoms do not hesitate to get an Exchange phone from your carrier. Hoping of course that will be the good one, just like me...
Flashing generics ftf´s, rooting, unlocking bootloader (officially done) etc, has nothing to do with this, it´s not somehow related and is not guilty of this bad. (Well, that said by the sony guy) Good luck with your device.
Happy holidays!

titusxperia10 said:
Thanks for the advise emuX, despite of have done this I could not get it to work. The SOD continued and every day it got worse. So I dropped my T to service via carrier. They held my device for a couple of days to find out that the hardware (just as I suspected) was the guilty department of these sod´s.
In fact they were not able to run a ftf or "flash cam" (never heard of that) since the hardware keys were not responding any more.
An exceptional case so far in the T but of course really annoying and disappointing.
They are to change my device as soon as they arrive, given they are sold out in my specific carrier store.
This could happen to any random device and there´s no software solution or walkthrough. If you have these symptoms do not hesitate to get an Exchange phone from your carrier. Hoping of course that will be the good one, just like me...
Flashing generics ftf´s, rooting, unlocking bootloader (officially done) etc, has nothing to do with this, it´s not somehow related and is not guilty of this bad. (Well, that said by the sony guy) Good luck with your device.
Happy holidays!
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I have the same problem like you ....
Sometime my phone will not wake up and i nedd use vol. up + power ....
So your advice is to change phone ?

Hi everybody well... Again writing from my new T and guess what... The same issue again so dont really know what could be happening. From now I'll be looking from Sony Support advise since this is inaceptable indeed.
Have done nothing to my phone at all, no root, no mods, no sd, no nothing. Even running it with all the brand bloatware.
Let's see what happen to our device in the future.
Merry Christmas.
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Have you by any change installed adw launcher? I read in another thread that that was the problem for that user.
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crazymister said:
Have you by any change installed adw launcher? I read in another thread that that was the problem for that user.
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Hi, i dont have any adw launcher,any SD card.Nothing just plain system.. And guess what.1.time when this happend to me was after when i open the box with new phone unbox it ,charge battery, after that power on my device play with phone maybe 10 minutes (it was without sim card,without,sd card, just on wifi).After that i leaved new phone on the table maybe for 20 minutes and than i couldnt wake up my phone -just with volumeUP+power.
So I dont think so its problem with some app or launcher....i think i need to change present sony to another sony xperia t and i will see. I think its a hardware problem...

Then you really really have some bad luck mate. Hope your next XT goes better. I personally never had an sod. So musty be either an app or hardware. Maybe some carrier app? Don't know which carrier you are on, and which carrier any other user with sod has.
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Yep I know! Well I'm going to try to find out by myself what could be the cause of this problem, playing around with the phone and looking also for Sony assistance. In the mean while thanks all of you for replies.
This of course is not solved until we get an absolut answer.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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titusxperia10 said:
Yep I know! Well I'm going to try to find out by myself what could be the cause of this problem, playing around with the phone and looking also for Sony assistance. In the mean while thanks all of you for replies.
This of course is not solved until we get an absolut answer.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Any news ? Today i will reclaim my phone so we will see whats going on..

I've had the same issue. Took my first t back and got it swapped. This one's not doing bad so far. Only issue I have is the fact that I've fitted a 16g sd card and no matter what I do files that I have moved onto the ext card always end up back on the original card. Don't know how to resolve this.
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Hello again guys, updating this thread well... I´ve got to tell you, I´ve tried everything to live with this *** issue, with no need for this of course, and non of my "tricks" have given relief for it.
Installed wakelock apks to prevent this SOD or Sudden death, wathever... Obligate my T to stay awake by using EVERY SINGLE MINUTE doing whatever it took and usually didn´t know what to keep it that way.
Not to say I tried flashing ftf´s from here to there expecting that could be the expected medicine. Nothing worked.
So today I finally got an exchange phone from warranty at my carrier and got a SGS3, can´t be happier.
Despite of knowing some sIII have begun behaving bad as the T, my III doesn´t seem to match the faulty criteria and I´m enjoying a very reliable phone.
A blazzing fast, Bond deserved phone.

I noticed that this bug happens very rarely when I disable the wi-fi and normally it happens when I receive the notification of an upgrade from the Play Store.
While the wi-fi is enabled the SOD happens almost every 30 minutes.
Does it happens to somebody else?

Battery problem

My gsa always shows charging even if it s unplugged. The graph under battery setting is keep on increasing. Anyone help plz
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Running a custom rom? Try reflashing or a full wipe/factory reset. I have been facing the same problem but it disappear from itself.
If the problem stays I think it's a hardware problem.
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I already tried that even I changed my kernel bt not working
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Battery issue
arunrawat2112 said:
I already tried that even I changed my kernel bt not working
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I have a similar problem, Some times, my phone just go in charging status when no cable is connected. Also, some times, the cable is connected and charging is shown on the screen but actually battery is not charging instead draining battery much more rapidly.... I connected my phone to PC when it had 13% battery.... and after an hour its left with just 2% showing charging status .... it not happens every time but happens a lot!
So far I have reflashed different ROM 2-3 time with full wipe/reset. I have also updated to XXLQB fimware using odin.... so far no improvement! :crying:

the situasions you guys having will finally end up in bricking the device.
i had exact the same problem, it started with random charging while not plugged, then not charging when plugged in. next thing was that my phone didnt get discovered by a pc in any mode. last thing happen was it never turned on after a restart.
ssc replaced a part where you plug the cable and earphones in. everything is back to normal since then.
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rajman said:
the situasions you guys having will finally end up in bricking the device.
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Ohh merciless dear ... you just caused a mini heart attack !!! :laugh:
I am having the issue for a couple of months.... and my device is some how alive! And the usb connection with PC also works fine. Some time my system with win xp fail to recognize the phone, but Kies diagnostic always fixes that issue... so I believe it is some bad with my PC....
I could not get the ssc replacing part stuff... could you explain it a bit. Any suggestions to make it live a bit longer?.... my original plan is to by a new phone by the end of 2014 ... I know its not gonna make that long :crying:

SBH03 said:
Ohh merciless dear ... you just caused a mini heart attack !!! :laugh:
I am having the issue for a couple of months.... and my device is some how alive! And the usb connection with PC also works fine. Some time my system with win xp fail to recognize the phone, but Kies diagnostic always fixes that issue... so I believe it is some bad with my PC....
I could not get the ssc replacing part stuff... could you explain it a bit. Any suggestions to make it live a bit longer?.... my original plan is to by a new phone by the end of 2014 ... I know its not gonna make that long :crying:
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well, mine was 'fine' too, but all of a sudden it wasn't.
there's propably no easy way to avoid anything that has sth to do with hardware. using originall accesories is the only thing that comes to my mind.
tbh, i have the invoice somewhere, for the parts that've been replaced. thats the only lead what went wtong with my phone.
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So it is a hardware problem. I was truly wishing it has some thing to do with firmware... I have one last hope by trying to downgrade to GB.
rajman, have you tried that or you never got chance for that?
I would love to hear an angel saying that it is a software/firmware issue and can be fix without fiddling the hardware. Is there any?

SBH03 said:
So it is a hardware problem. I was truly wishing it has some thing to do with firmware... I have one last hope by trying to downgrade to GB.
rajman, have you tried that or you never got chance for that?
I would love to hear an angel saying that it is a software/firmware issue and can be fix without fiddling the hardware. Is there any?
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i didnt have the opportunity. i've tried everything to make it visible to pc. nothing helped.
i was using it tho, till it get bricked. so i was unable to try reflashing it.
hope you'll sort your things asap.
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I got an impression that the problem can be reduced if wifi is disabled while charging or connecting to PC. Now i only enable wifi when I need and phone is behaving quite good.

I have the same problem descripted here (((
I tried everything, it really does seem like a hardware problem.... lets hope mi carrier technical service can do something about it

Same Problem
i am also having the same problem now.... it all started after i flashed cocore 5.. what to do now!!

punkypank said:
i am also having the same problem now.... it all started after i flashed cocore 5.. what to do now!!
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Flash another kernel to try performance'
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strange startup glitch

Since flashing 4.2.2 I have had a strange issue when starting up. It is not a problem as such, more annonying (but for all I know a sign of a problem). When starting, just before the Sony logo appears, something has started flashing on the screen - I saw it once or twice and so tried to see what it was.
It appears to be an image of the screen as it was just before I turned the phone off (I can see the clock with the time)! It happens everytime, anyone have an idea what the hell is happening?
I couldnt think of what to search for to see if anyone has this problem, but I had a look around and didn't find anything.

Did you do a full wipe?
Repair your phone with sus.
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gm007 said:
Did you do a full wipe?
Repair your phone with sus.
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I did a full wipe with sus to install it in the first place, and then also a reset after. I wanted to avoid wiping again if I could, but I will give it a go and see.
Seems like a strange problem though, I have never heard of anything like it and can't imagine why it would happen.

That is an issue seen with many users..it doesn't cause any problems whatsoever..I'd advice u to download the ftf from another source and flash it if u wanna get rid of it or if u could live with it then hopefully there will be an update coming soon to fix the lags that many ppl are experiencing..u could flash that fw instead..cheers.
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I have exactly the same issue. Repaired twice with SUS and twice with PCC, also did hard reset. Issue remains. But don't think it will do any harm.

cordonbleu said:
I have exactly the same issue. Repaired twice with SUS and twice with PCC, also did hard reset. Issue remains. But don't think it will do any harm.
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It is still there for me as well. It seemed to go but is back again - I was wondering if you have rooted as maybe that is what causes it? If not then I have no idea.

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It is still there for me as well. It seemed to go but is back again - I was wondering if you have rooted as maybe that is what causes it? If not then I have no idea.
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Completely stock, generic NL. But I don't think this glitch is really a problem, is it?

cordonbleu said:
Completely stock, generic NL. But I don't think this glitch is really a problem, is it?
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Doesn’t appear to be a problem, but not knowing what causes it means if it does do something either now or in the future we wouldn't know why or how to fix it. Or it could be absolutely nothing, and never be a problem - I tend to be a bit cautious with things like this

I get it too but just put it down to being relatively new FW, so hopefully such issues should be addressed in future updates.

I didn't see this glitch,i am on the Spanish firmware.
It seems some firmwares has different bugs.
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[Q] Memory Leak?

So I have recently bought a Z3 Compact.
I've had this problem since I bought it. It seems as though there is a memory leak as when I start the phone up for the first time, it works perfectly and I receive notifications as normal, then slowly after time(about a day of uptime), I notice that I stop receiving notifications. Looking at the running app view, it shows that there's only 99MB or RAM left!? There's like nothing running. It shows all services as "restarting". So it seems to me that Android is closing tasks as there is "insufficient ram", even though there really should be. I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing it though.
Is there anything I can use to try and further diagnose the problem? I imagine that finding out which app is taking up all the RAM would be the right place to start?
Thanks for the help!

So I had to restart so I could post these pictures(the tapatalk app would get closed when opening the gallery to add attach the pictures...)

Have you updated to the latest .77?
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Sadman Khan said:
Have you updated to the latest .77?
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I have indeed. It is doing it on the new version and the old version

Moist said:
I have indeed. It is doing it on the new version and the old version
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I think you should try flashing an ftf of a different region via flashtool. I had this problem on an Xperia SP that i used to own. The problem was present in the Australian firmware but not in the European ones. It was weird. You don't have to wipe date while flashing.
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Sadman Khan said:
I think you should try flashing an ftf of a different region via flashtool. I had this problem on an Xperia SP that i used to own. The problem was present in the Australian firmware but not in the European ones. It was weird. You don't have to wipe date while flashing.
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Hmm... Interesting, I think I did however do that as the OTA wasn't available yet for my phone(think it's UK version) so I flashed US version. It's present on both though... I'm having a look regularly at which processes begin to grow in their usage. Not sure how long it's gonna take for it to be really noticeable though...

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Hmm... Interesting, I think I did however do that as the OTA wasn't available yet for my phone(think it's UK version) so I flashed US version. It's present on both though... I'm having a look regularly at which processes begin to grow in their usage. Not sure how long it's gonna take for it to be really noticeable though...
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Well to be very honest, it should take quite a few processes to even take up 2 gigs of ram. On SP it was a kernel issue. Who knows why this is happening on your end. You're the first one i've seen with this issue on z3c. Sorry i couldn't help man
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Sadman Khan said:
Well to be very honest, it should take quite a few processes to even take up 2 gigs of ram. On SP it was a kernel issue. Who knows why this is happening on your end. You're the first one i've seen with this issue on z3c. Sorry i couldn't help man
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Thanks Sadman. I'm already on 300 megs left... :< It looks to be like it's got to do with Google's services? Like Google plus is using like 60MB and I haven't opened it once since I got the phone. The other google services are also using up quite a bit by the looks of it, but still seems like it's not showing something :< Wish I had root an this...

This is my usual situation.
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Hmmm, have you disabled or uninstalled anything?

These
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Try 'adb shell dumpsys meminfo' to see what process is using all the memory.

cschmitt said:
Try 'adb shell dumpsys meminfo' to see what process is using all the memory.
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So it seems that "mediaserver" is the culprit?
http://pastebin.com/FnMriMyd

Moist said:
So it seems that "mediaserver" is the culprit?
http://pastebin.com/FnMriMyd
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Wow, I would say so. Anything special about the device? I'd try disabling or uninstalling apps until you find what's causing it. Possibly a bad external SD card, try removing it?

cschmitt said:
Wow, I would say so. Anything special about the device? I'd try disabling or uninstalling apps until you find what's causing it. Possibly a bad external SD card, try removing it?
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Hmm.. Nothing special I'd say. It's basically brand new...
I've been disabling a bunch of the stock programs that I can and it still seemed to "leak". I have removed my external sd card. Would that have an immediate effect on it? Or would I have to restart and then start monitoring it again?

Update: so I formatted the external sd(it was a Samsung evo bought from Amazon). I initially just removed it from the packaging and popped it in.
Lesson of the day, always format new storage media before using it.
Thanks for all the help guys! Really appreciate it!
edit: Seems to have improved, but it's still leaking! :|

So I quickly had a look at my z3c in windows, and thought i'd look for "strange" things.
Are the following first two folders normal? They both contain only .nomedia files. Not sure if that's causing some issues with the mediaserver?

This is so #@*&[email protected]# annoying... If we could have root without losing DRM, this would be much easier...

Would the AudioMix wakelock cause my issue?

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Would the AudioMix wakelock cause my issue?
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Really don't think so
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Newer update available

Just wanted to inform people that there is a new minor update available. It didn't pop up on its own. I found it this morning by manually checking for one. Haven't tested improvement yet.

Awesome, just updated
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Not sure what else it changes but it brings the phone up to December security patch level!

My battery seems a little better

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My battery seems a little better
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Wtf.. How are you possibly gauging that your battery life is better? Patch just came out!! You need to cycle your battery a couple times before getting an accurate reading.
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Yes, this update is better than last update. Good work, Samsung

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Wtf.. How are you possibly gauging that your battery life is better? Patch just came out!! You need to cycle your battery a couple times before getting an accurate reading.
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Because my battery would drain rapidly visible to the eye just by using it. I've had my phone in my hand a lot today and the battery by a 1% basis is just not going down the way it normally does.

glcK23 said:
Wtf.. How are you possibly gauging that your battery life is better? Patch just came out!! You need to cycle your battery a couple times before getting an accurate reading.
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Chill out brow!

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Chill out bro!
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FTFY
Anyway, I have been using DOJC now for three days. Have not noticed any improvement or decrease in battery. Same screen on time and such. Still lasts me the whole day.

Not sure if anyone else was affected, but this update bricked my modem. Bluetooth audio crashes the phone and the cellular radio will no longer connect to towers. I'm stuck on WiFi until my warranty replacement arrives.

Daedalus-420 said:
Not sure if anyone else was affected, but this update bricked my modem. Bluetooth audio crashes the phone and the cellular radio will no longer connect to towers. I'm stuck on WiFi until my warranty replacement arrives.
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I'm not totally sure if this will fix your issue, but try using kies or smartswitch to download stock firmware and wipe it and reinstall stock.

DarkZal said:
I'm not totally sure if this will fix your issue, but try using kies or smartswitch to download stock firmware and wipe it and reinstall stock.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't get much grief on the warranty replacement, so I'll wait for that to arrive.
I've been running stock with package disabler on this for a long time (upgraded with everything re-enabled). Wanted to try a t-mobile version of xlite but it looks like the dev dropped support for that build in favor of the international one.
Haven't tried a factory reset yet since I've got a bunch of tokens I need to keep until I can move them and don't want to risk losing more functionality with a reset or image. [emoji28]

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Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't get much grief on the warranty replacement, so I'll wait for that to arrive.
I've been running stock with package disabler on this for a long time (upgraded with everything re-enabled). Wanted to try a t-mobile version of xlite but it looks like the dev dropped support for that build in favor of the international one.
Haven't tried a factory reset yet since I've got a bunch of tokens I need to keep until I can move them and don't want to risk losing more functionality with a reset or image. [emoji28]
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For what it's worth, I've been able to move tokens over by rooting and using titanium backup with great success. Just a recommendation if the warranty doesn't show up for a long while.