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I have already had 2 defective Atrix HD's. I am trying to decide if it is worth keeping at it, or if I should give up and switch to something else.
My first one had a sudden battery discharge issue, and my second one ended up having a dead headphone jack, after only a month of use.
Poor build quality, or bad luck?
AT&T has been good to me, and has sent out both replacements under warranty exchange. My third Atrix HD is on its way now.
Would say bad luck!
Build qual. is perfect for me!
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Would say bad luck!
Build qual. is perfect for me!
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I have to agree with him. I've had nothing but perfection with my AHD.
I think there's no need to make double threads with the same topic.
It might be a bad luck. I even got my Atrix HD in out of box condition and never had any problems till now.
I agree with the double topics, however he way i phrased it in the initial topic got it closed as pointless. (But the thread complaining about the at&t logo on the front goes on)
Thank you for sharing you experience with me. It tells me that it might be bad luck and i should continue with the atrix and not give up on it.
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I've heard nothing but rave reviews from my friends with the newer Motorola phones so I'd try out the third and see how it works out.
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I am having issues too, I never had these issues with my atrix 1.
1-> Rebooting itself (funny thing is it reboots during the standby(ideal on table or on sofa etc)
2-> Camera initialization error. It is not guarantee to work all the time if i got this error i have to reboot the phone.
3->If the battery is less than 5% screen getting unresponsive even charged fully i have to force reboot to avoid this situation
4-> I can see Android with error symbol during the boot sometimes
5-> No change even after recent OTA
Update: I deleted few apps and disabled all AT&T apps. Now phone working fine no reboots, no camera errors and improved battery. Looks like one App causing all these issues. Don't know exactly what app created these issues.
third phone seems a bit sluggish, but that likely is something I installed. So far so good. Time will tell.
I have noticed another bug, when rebooting while it is charging, I can lock this thing up good (The screen goes blank... but you can tell it is still on. Then the device becomes unresponsive to anything but the force reboot.). I found the force reboot option doing a Google search and got it working. The simple work around is that I never power it down and then re-boot it while attached to the charger.
Thank you for your feedback. It is reassuring to find out that I am the only one with these kinds of issues.
As for the previous poster, if you still have these issues after a hard reset to factory, then I would get an exchange on it.
usually when you shut it off while connected, the phone starts up again into the battery indicator screen, after that loads you can start the phone back up properly
I've got an issue when I tether. My screen goes blank and the phone is completely unresponsive. Once I shut wifi off on my laptop which was using my hot spot the phone awoke with an error that my home screen was unresponsive. :-\
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boufa said:
third phone seems a bit sluggish, but that likely is something I installed. So far so good. Time will tell.
I have noticed another bug, when rebooting while it is charging, I can lock this thing up good (The screen goes blank... but you can tell it is still on. Then the device becomes unresponsive to anything but the force reboot.). I found the force reboot option doing a Google search and got it working. The simple work around is that I never power it down and then re-boot it while attached to the charger.
Thank you for your feedback. It is reassuring to find out that I am the only one with these kinds of issues.
As for the previous poster, if you still have these issues after a hard reset to factory, then I would get an exchange on it.
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The sluggishness was actually a weather app that was trying to draw overlaying graphics onto my screen, and so every first touch cleared the "clouds" then the second touch was actually acted on by the device... foolish design. I have to figure that apps are/can be a significant factor to the build quality of a phone.
For example, maybe..just maybe my battery issue was driven by a misbehaving app, rather than a physical defect. The device talks to the battery, and the battery talks to the device, and they all talk to the charger. I know in 1 case, the battery was reporting as full. So the device was telling the charger that it did not need any juice. In reality the battery was almost dead, and then it shut off with a fully drained battery. Upon re-boot it was reporting a dead battery, so it then charged. There is no way to tell what caused that communications breakdown.
My headphone jack...well, no arguments, that was a defective part. But on other things you never know.
should I get a replacement?
Should I try to get a replacement based on my phone's bugs?
would a replacement likely be free of these bugs?
I got an unbranded AHD off of ebay, supposedly unlocked (but have yet to try a SIM to test it.. getting one in 2 days).
The "System version" on the phone says 77.55.17.MB886.BellMobility.en.CA, so I'm guessing it's a Bell Mobility model. :cyclops:
The bugs:
-Possible high-rate battery drain while off-
One day I was fiddling with it using WiFi and GPS, and turned it off for the night. The battery was around 60% when I turned it off. (I'm 95% sure it was turned off, rather than put in Sleep). The next day when I turned it on, the battery was down below 30%.
I had "Battery Mix" app installed, and it shows the battery level graph continuously (when the phone is off, on, or sleeping. Battery Mix showed the Battery was being used up at about the same rate while off, compared to the rate it was being used while it was on.
-Battery usage data not available-
Next is a commonly mentioned issue with ICS, although people at Motorola's forums don't seem to have ever seen the issue.
The Battery Usage screen displays : "Battery usage data not available". It will show the on-times for Mobile network, Wi-Fi, Awake, Screen On, and Charging.... but it doesn't how any battery usage for specific processes or apps.
-Mobile network signal, even when no SIM installed-
This is another bug with the Battery screen. For a couple days it was fine, then one day I was installing and trying a few mobile data on/off toggle apps/widgets. Starting after that, the Battery screen shows steady activity for "Mobile network signal", even though no SIM is installed.
(a system monitor app shows that there is no mobile activity).
I've done a factory rest, and after that and with no apps installed, it still shows steady mobile activity. So it's pretty clear that it started after installing mobile toggle widgets, but shouldn't a factory reset erase the cause and result in the absence of the bug?
.. Battery usage data not available-- it would be a helpful feature, but I wouldn't get a replacement because of it.
.. Mobile network signal with no SIM-- Since a monitoring app shows that there is no mobile activity, it's not actually using the battery. However, it makes me wonder if this bug could also suggest a bug with mobile operation.
.. high-rate battery drain while off-- this is more a matter of concern.
I just got my HD a week ago because i sent back my A2 for insurance and they didnt have any left. After a week of use the headphone jack took a poop. Getting my replacement soon...
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collieflower said:
I just got my HD a week ago because i sent back my A2 for insurance and they didnt have any left. After a week of use the headphone jack took a poop. Getting my replacement soon...
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Same problem but out of return period and motorola wants $160 to fix it.
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Same problem but out of return period and motorola wants $160 to fix it.
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Return for bugs? No. If they are the same issues that others are having, then most likely returning it for and exchange would not solve your problems.
The headphone jack. That's interesting. Part of me is hoping that the headphone jack is bad on my new one eventually, because this is my third Atrix HD and AT&T said that I can switch to a different model if this one fails.
I really do like the phone, but I should have waited for the Note 2.(completely different phone, I should have thought it through better)
I was going to return it to Walmart att store and get a one x, but I was out of that. So I then contacted Motorola to get it repaired and they're smoking something up there.
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Now on my 3rd hd. SIM card slot kept ejecting the card. Last chance moto. Then im switching to samsuck
I have an international S3 LTE i9305 (unrooted) and took the OTE update to 4.3 a few weeks ago, after much deliberation about whether to risk it. In the end it was more finger trouble than decision, I hit the wrong button when I meant to postpone it again!
It hasn't been too bad since the update but there are a few issues. I have googled it of course but much of the information relates to the i9300 not the i9305, and to the earlier versions of the update. I only got the notification of an update in Jan 2014 so I guess its a later build and maybe some of the original bugs have been fixed (or replaced with different bugs!).
Issues I have noticed:
Audio playback skips quite frequently regardless of which player I use or whether the file in on the internal or external SD card
Battery consumption is worse. After a day of light usgage I could previosuly still have 50-60% battery, now its regularly down to 30% or less.
Wireless charging behaviour is odd. If the phone is still powered on its works as normal (phone displays wireless charging message, screen goes off and charging light is on). If the phone is off it used to display a wireless symbol something like a battery with circles around it, then the battery with the remaining charge level in green, then the screen goes off and the red charging light comes on until its charged then the light goes green. Since the update it doesn't display the wireless symbol any more, it just displays the battery symbol but its all grey like its at 0%. Eventually the screen dims then turns off but the charging light doesn't come on. It does seem to charge normally like it did before though.
I am using an HTC USB power supply with the wireless charger. When I used the Samsung one sometimes it appeared to be charging but after being left overnight the battery level had barely increased. It sometimes does the same thing with the Samsung charger plugged in ie not wireless.
I have 3 (dumb) questions. I apologise for my lack of knowledge!
Is a factory reset likely to fix any of these, or alternatively make anyting worse?!
I have the options checked to backup settings to google and automatically restore. If I do a factory reset, what happens? I think I did it once and it downloaded all my apps from the Play store automatically but how much of the settings will be restored? I also have MyBackup Pro which should be able to restore a lot of stuff but not the app settings. I have a lot of stuff installed so I don't want to go through the pain of setting it all up again if its not going to fix the problems anyway.
I have included all the versions numbers below from my system info, can anyone tell me what they mean?
On the plus side, since the update my phone remembers Swype it the default keyboard and I don't have to select it every time I turn the phone on.
Small update - I enabled the CPU usage overlay in Developer Options this morning to see if it would tell me anything, then disabled it again because I couldn't even read it. Since then the audio playback seems to have been OK, but its only been a couple of hours.
Android 4.3
Baseband I9305ZHUCMK1
Kernel 3.0.31-2377771
Build JSS15J.I9305ZHUCNA1
OTA update problems yes backup data and factory reset .
Thanks.
Are any of the app settings backed up to my google account? If not is there any way to back them up so I don't have to configure everything again, without being rooted?
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Thanks.
Are any of the app settings backed up to my google account? If not is there any way to back them up so I don't have to configure everything again, without being rooted?
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Your Google account does not back up a lot of things - settings for downloaded apps and among other things SMS texts. I use the free app Mobile Backup & Restore from Trend Micro.
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Your Google account does not back up a lot of things - settings for downloaded apps and among other things SMS texts. I use the free app Mobile Backup & Restore from Trend Micro.
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Contacts is backed up to. Its an important part. As long as you created them for the google account.
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I opened a similar topic few weeks ago, did a full reset, mainly for problems regarding the battery, haven't noticed significant changes, my only solution was changing the battery with the original extended, 3000 mah, now I can reach evening without problems... But with the regular 2100 with heavy use I wasn't anymore able to get past 6 pm.
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I opened a similar topic few weeks ago, did a full reset, mainly for problems regarding the battery, haven't noticed significant changes, my only solution was changing the battery with the original extended, 3000 mah, now I can reach evening without problems... But with the regular 2100 with heavy use I wasn't anymore able to get past 6 pm.
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Well. That depends on individual usage. It could be helpful to know screen on time, network connection, used apps/sync.
Always after update it's suggested to perform factory reset. About backup... Well. Tons of apps work better after clean install on newer version of OS. Ofc I'm not taking about small updated related to bug fixes/optimalisation but upgrading from 4.1 to 4.3 for example. It cost less effort than searching which app cause the problem and usability of Rom in our android devices.
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I figured this would be a good place to have a General thread discussion the problems and solutions for the newly released Verizon Lollipop update.
- Excessive Battery Drain seems to be the main issue
- Power LED Notification light stays lit - may have been fixed by using updated partition components
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I figured this would be a good place to have a General thread discussion the problems and solutions for the newly released Verizon Lollipop update.
- Excessive Battery Drain seems to be the main issue
- Power LED Notification light stays lit - may have been fixed by using updated partition components
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The power led does not stay lit. it's due to the new feature in the rom that allows the rear lights to stay on with new downloaded apps. unclick that and its fine.
-Slow AC charging. Even when using the OEM cable and adapter.
Anyone else have gps issues? No lock.
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LTE
I do not have access to LTE, It doesn't show up under network type and strength.
Any ideas?
I've had no major issues with xdabbebs stock ROM. I can't seem to add widgets to the lock screen. Is this no longer an option ?
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I've had no major issues with xdabbebs stock ROM. I can't seem to add widgets to the lock screen. Is this no longer an option ?
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Was it available on stock? I think we forget what functionality stock has since we probably haven't used it in so long. You could kdz back to KK and see.
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Was it available on stock? I think we forget what functionality stock has since we probably haven't used it in so long. You could kdz back to KK and see.
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It was an option on his 2.3.0 ROM which was basically stock LG. I updated my N10 to 5.1 and lost the feature on it as well. I was using dashclock widget for quite some time on both.
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Was it available on stock? I think we forget what functionality stock has since we probably haven't used it in so long. You could kdz back to KK and see.
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It was an option on his 2.3.0 ROM which was basically stock LG. I updated my N10 to 5.1 and lost the feature on it as well. I was using dashclock widget for quite some time on both.
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Google removed lockscreen widgets in Lollipop
Lock Screen
I'm trying to figure out what clicking on a notification on the lock screen is suppose to do. When i click on it it just shows an empty box. Kind of looks like a blank, missing lockscreen widget. Am I missing something here? I would think it would take me to the app or maybe give me an un-truncated version of what I clicked.
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I figured this would be a good place to have a General thread discussion the problems and solutions for the newly released Verizon Lollipop update.
- Excessive Battery Drain seems to be the main issue
- Power LED Notification light stays lit - may have been fixed by using updated partition components
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Battery drain is an issue. I'm hoping after a few days of the new update settling in it will get better..
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I'm trying to figure out what clicking on a notification on the lock screen is suppose to do. When i click on it it just shows an empty box. Kind of looks like a blank, missing lockscreen widget. Am I missing something here? I would think it would take me to the app or maybe give me an un-truncated version of what I clicked.
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Wireless charging
I still need to do more testing and observation with this, but my phone hasn't charged at all the last 2 nights while sitting on my wireless charger at home. It's a cheap charger that claims 1A max input (I think) plugged into the LG official charger which is 1.8A. Meanwhile, at work I have an official LG Qi wireless charger using another official LG power supply @ 1.8A. I installed Ampere just now and my wireless charger only registers +20mA. My battery was at 78% and wasn't hot, so it should have drawn more power. I plug the USB cable directly into my phone and Ampere reports around +930mA. I put it back onto the Qi charger and it still says 20mA, yet the battery is charging at a normal rate (from 78% to 92% in like 20 or 30 minutes). i'm curious what Ampere will show on my other wireless charger, the one that has failed to charge my phone the last 2 or 3 nights.
I tried searching for this app I used to use that had a widget that would show you current power draw, then also had historical data with graphs and all. Ampere is bare-bones just shows you current power draw, so it's not nearly as useful. I need to find that other battery app but there are like 30 apps named Battery Widget...does anyone know which app I'm talking about? (EDIT: Found it. It's Battery Monitor Widget, by 3C. It only shows +15mA on wireless charger and +300mA with direct charging while battery at 96%).
UPDATE: Battery Monitor Widget (BMW, hehe) is showing me some more stats for wireless charging and it's not stuck at +15mA the whole time. I think I'll pay the $1.13 to remove ads since AdAway isn't blocking them. I just need to drain my battery and charge it up a few times to get some more info. My battery was already at 96% when I started looking with this app, so the numbers should be low. I see a few entries where it was at +61mA or +42mA, which seems about right for when it's at 99% or 100% battery level.
I don't have a g2 anymore. I have a g3. I wanted to know if anyone is having a audio Bluetooth streaming issue in their car. I use a pioneer avh x4600bt and the music skips excessively after 30 seconds of play.
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I don't have a g2 anymore. I have a g3. I wanted to know if anyone is having a audio Bluetooth streaming issue in their car. I use a pioneer avh x4600bt and the music skips excessively after 30 seconds of play.
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Not on 4.4.2. Stream audio for 50 mins each way to and from work almost every day and no issues. Haven't made the lollipop upgrade yet, phone works pretty good as is and don't want to take a battery life hit.
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Not on 4.4.2. Stream audio for 50 mins each way to and from work almost every day and no issues. Haven't made the lollipop upgrade yet, phone works pretty good as is and don't want to take a battery life hit.
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Thanks for the response. I didn't have any problems when I was on kit kat either. I was wondering if anyone had this problem with Bluetooth streaming on lollipop.
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I seems to have battery drain in only stand by mode. I don't know if there is a way to find out if device deep sleeps without a root.
Anybody?
Mainly it will not charge properly (6-10 hours for full charge), and it loses charge if you're navigating or using Pandora while plugged in.
Sometimes the whole OS becomes unresponsive, but I think that's mainly from the task manager that was set to clear ram every 12 hours. I turned that off.
The dismal GPS was promised to be fixed with lollipop, and it still sucks just as much as ever.
2 things they got right, however. Auto screen brightness is almost perfect except when it auto dims because it gets warm. Also the camera is faster in the dark! Finally.
It's like the wired charging is being limited. Wireless charging feels the same to me as it did on KitKat, but I wasn't measuring the charging while on KitKat. I have almost never charged my G2 by plugging it in, but when I do I see really low values and it takes just as long as wireless charging takes. However, I don't lose power if charging while doing stuff like Pandora, at least I don't think I do. I will do a little test and see, but I'll use something a lot more power-hungry than Pandora, like maybe Trials Frontier with full brightness.
EDIT: OK I have some results of a little test:
I played Trials Frontier @ full brightness and no charging for 30 minutes or so. The battery was draining at around 27% per hour or -300mA (-300 seems wrong. I would expect something more like -750mA). I went from 98% to 83%.
I then put it on the wireless charger in landscape, which makes it a little bit of guess-work trying to line it up perfectly with the Qi charger. I continued playing the game for 25 minutes or so. When done, I had 84% battery. It barely gained any charge, but it charged nonetheless. I see two readings in this time frame: first one says I gained 6% an hour and 68mA, the second one said 0% change per hour and -127mA (not sure why it claims 0% for that).
I think what happened was the battery got warm and it cut the charging rate, but I don't know at what temps it does this and stuff. I believe I would lose battery level if I kept playing but I'm not sure. Battery was at 41°C at the time it said my usage was 0% per hour, -127mA.
I think I need to have a lower battery level to start with, then try wireless vs wired and stuff. Has this already been done and I'm just wasting time? I am just curious about wired vs wireless at this point I think.
I want to report something. I found why my battery was draining. It was Google Now. I never used it, but somehow it got activated during upgrade. I signed out and drain stopped. I hope this would help somebody.
After two days on stock 39A
Battery seems to charge A LOT slower on non LG charges. Using the Lg charger and cable seems a bit slower but Ok. I have two G2s one on 27A and one on 39A. Using the stock charger and cable the phone on 27A draws about 1200 mA the one on 39A draws 700 mA. If I use an older charger the phone on 27A draws 800 mA the one on 39A draws 200 mA or less.
Battery drain seems a bit worse on 39A but not terrible. I am comparing to the 27A rooted and debloated. Considering all the extra junk that now runs in the background it's not unexpected.
BT streaming in the car has greatly improved for me with the 39A update. I can now use Viber and Skype call in my car and even switch between phone calls and skype calls. Music streaming also works much better.
Hello Everyone! My phone has been wonky and I gotta know why
SO my N6 likes to shut off in the middle of doing something, most notably using google maps and the camera, I did some searching and someone suggested its related to the phone using apps that require location (Google Maps GPS / Google Camera Save Location Option), but there wasn't much input on that thread. Have any of you encountered anything like this yourselves? My phone would whir after opening Maps or after taking a picture from Camera (the whir sounds like its coming from near the top part of the phone btw) and then it would shut off, anyone have any clues as to what's the problem?
Yup same here for a long time. It's not related to location.
It's definitely something with voltage and battery.
I'm compiling my kernel and I've tried many things.
1/ Bcl needs to be on.
2/It's happening only on high cpu load. And so with camera and gps active.
Because those will use more voltage from our poor Motorola battery.
Using os monitor I've see my battery go to 3800mv from 3500 without big problem but clearly below 3600 there's a chance for the phone to shut down as you describe the thing.
Bcl start limiting and hotpluging core when battery reach 3800mv.
The default value is 1.9 ghz
But on stock kernel the phone is limited at 1.7. I think it's mpdecision and/or thermal that doing this. But I'm not sure.
Anyway nexus 6 is not made to handle 4 cores at the same time on low battery. + camera gps Bluetooth etc...
So voltage can drop to 3800mv to 3600 and then go back to 3800 because there's voltage work on kernel and rom side to prevent those things.
For exemple I've see my phone after unlocking it. Coming back to home. Have 3500mv and then after one minute. Come back to 3700.
So maybe WiFi and cpu was using the maximum voltage they could to sync then when job was over. Go back to a normal voltage use.
Not every phone are affected.
Cpu binning level is important i think.
Mine is 7.
0 use the maximum voltage and 15 the minimum.
I've use a pvs 5 phone and problem was the same with my kernel. So I've changed some stuff and it worked.
So for me my battery is bugged. I mean on low mv battery send bad info and doesn't have enough juice.
I've try rma my phone but Google send me a refurbish phone (the pvs5 one) which have screen burning on it. Yes they send me phone with a navbar stuck....
So I've send them back and I'm planning to change the battery myself
In the hope it solve the problem.
Also my turbo charger make a weird noise when phone battery is full. So maybe my charger have always be bugged and broke the battery in some way.
I'm still trying to understand this. But it's what I've test and understand from this. More or less because I've probably forgot something in there
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Hello Everyone! My phone has been wonky and I gotta know why
SO my N6 likes to shut off in the middle of doing something, most notably using google maps and the camera, I did some searching and someone suggested its related to the phone using apps that require location (Google Maps GPS / Google Camera Save Location Option), but there wasn't much input on that thread. Have any of you encountered anything like this yourselves? My phone would whir after opening Maps or after taking a picture from Camera (the whir sounds like its coming from near the top part of the phone btw) and then it would shut off, anyone have any clues as to what's the problem?
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You can try https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwCC2VJYgCavbHEwMk9CSFR4Snc
this is the version of my kernel i use (it says beta because it's not yet release, don't worry it will not break anything)
Make a backup of /system /data /cache /boot through twrp and flash the zip file
default settings will normaly make your phone not shut off. i've just go into 29% without problem
i can ear a noise from top speaker sometimes but i just stop touching the phone and it go back to normal.
Like i said above i still think a need a new battery
also i've see some users report a same problem on 6p after nougat update maybe we're on something
Anyone found a consistent way to limit battery charge % on Android 11? The custom settings I used with Battery Charge Limit app on 10 work intermittently on 11. Often times I'd wake up to 100% charge.
Currently I'm using Advanced Charging Controller magisk module with it's accompanying AccA app but often AccA gets killed in the background even after not optimizing it in battery optimization. The only workaround I've found is to create a macro that opens AccA every time I plug in the charger. With that step it's consistent but I'd like to find something not so hacky.
I've been running A11 for about a week and did not encounter any issues with Battery Charge Limit. Maybe make sure that it's not battery optimized? I have it "not optimized" because I'm paranoid about it, rather than having direct problems.
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I've been running A11 for about a week and did not encounter any issues with Battery Charge Limit. Maybe make sure that it's not battery optimized? I have it "not optimized" because I'm paranoid about it, rather than having direct problems.
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I made sure battery charge limit wasn't optimized. You're using the same custom setting from android 10? Maybe I'll try it again
This the settings you have?
Path Data: /sys/class/power_supply/charger/charge_disable
Enable Value: 0
Disabled Value: 1
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I made sure battery charge limit wasn't optimized. You're using the same custom setting from android 10? Maybe I'll try it again
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I didn't change anything at all... and honestly with all of the other A11 problems I've been having... I didn't even think to check that it was working. It just has been. I also double-checked with AccuBattery and the history never shows above my limit.
This is my control file settings as seen on the main screen:
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I didn't change anything at all... and honestly with all of the other A11 problems I've been having... I didn't even think to check that it was working. It just has been. I also double-checked with AccuBattery and the history never shows above my limit.
This is my control file settings as seen on the main screen:
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I think that's the custom setting probably restored from your Google backup. Same one I was using. I'm gonna try it again though, thanks
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Anyone found a consistent way to limit battery charge % on Android 11? The custom settings I used with Battery Charge Limit app on 10 work intermittently on 11. Often times I'd wake up to 100% charge. Currently I'm using Advanced Charging Controller magisk module with it's accompanying AccA app but often AccA gets killed in the background even after not optimizing it in battery optimization. The only workaround I've found is to create a macro that opens AccA every time I plug in the charger. With that step it's consistent but I'd like to find something not so hacky.
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Have you tried Accubattery? Along with charge limiting it has other useful features, including reporting battery capacity vs. new (under health).
v12xke said:
Have you tried Accubattery? Along with charge limiting it has other useful features, including reporting battery capacity vs. new (under health).
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Accubattery is fine and all for reporting and giving an idea of where you want to stop charging... but it has no ability to limit charging. The only thing it can do is nag you to take the phone off the charger. This thread is about root applications actually blocking the phone from charging past a certain level without making the user do anything or even notifying the user about what's being done.
I realize this is a couple of months old. but I just got a new OnePlus 8T, now rooted, and I'm trying to use Battery Charge Limit on it. I can't quite figure out the settings to have it work consistently. Let's say the phone is already at 100% when I plug it in. Battery Charge Limit starts, but then it flip-flops between Charging and Not Charging, starting and restarting. The phone woke me up last night because it was making a ding every time Battery Charge Limit flipped between charging and not charging. One would think that if the phone was at 100% Battery Charge Limit would turn off charging and let it drop down to my 85% limit and then back up to 91%, but never got above 91%. Thoughts? Thanks.
rcbjr2 said:
I realize this is a couple of months old. but I just got a new OnePlus 8T, now rooted, and I'm trying to use Battery Charge Limit on it. I can't quite figure out the settings to have it work consistently. Let's say the phone is already at 100% when I plug it in. Battery Charge Limit starts, but then it flip-flops between Charging and Not Charging, starting and restarting. The phone woke me up last night because it was making a ding every time Battery Charge Limit flipped between charging and not charging. One would think that if the phone was at 100% Battery Charge Limit would turn off charging and let it drop down to my 85% limit and then back up to 91%, but never got above 91%. Thoughts? Thanks.
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It's possible it's not configured correctly for your phone. You can also just disable that notification channel, since mostly it's just annoying. It constantly fliping might mean that there's more than one control file for your phone type and it's using an ineffectual one that the OS is overriding immediately. For example, the default one it detects for Pixel 4's is not the one it should use.
jljtgr said:
It's possible it's not configured correctly for your phone. You can also just disable that notification channel, since mostly it's just annoying. It constantly fliping might mean that there's more than one control file for your phone type and it's using an ineffectual one that the OS is overriding immediately. For example, the default one it detects for Pixel 4's is not the one it should use.
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Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I use the notification to trigger Tasker profiles, so I was hoping to figure out a way to get it to stop flipping back and forth while also retaining the notification. I think it's just the standard control file since it's a OnePlus phone, but I'm not sure I can figure out otherwise. When I first start using BCL, I found the control file and was able to manipulate it with a SQL editor and Shell commands in Tasker, but I haven't poked around the OnePlus 8T that much yet.
Just as a PSA, I think Adaptive Charging from the January update can conflict with this. On days where I set a morning alarm, I found that my battery was more full than it should be. I suspect that Adaptive Charging does something that Battery Charge Limit cannot block. I won't know for a few days if turning this off in settings fixes things 100% or the January update just really screws with this.
Battery Charge Limit settings for pixel 3
Hi all, I like the app, Battery Charge Limit (root required), but was wondering how to set the control file. I works fine with Xperia (with/without Lineage), but doesn't work with Pixel 3 stock firmware (Android 10). And finally found how to...
forum.xda-developers.com
Well, as a root method it does seem to work. Depending on your taste, it might be cleaner than an app toggling a different variable. Of course you need an app to set the file back to 100 when you want it. Some Tasker widgets work for my purposes... could probably make it a QuickSettings toggle in the shade, actually.
Bottom of that thread, I was wondering specifically if there might be way to force an unrooted device to think it met one of these conditions, so it only charges to 80%.
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Battery Charge Limit settings for pixel 3
Hi all, I like the app, Battery Charge Limit (root required), but was wondering how to set the control file. I works fine with Xperia (with/without Lineage), but doesn't work with Pixel 3 stock firmware (Android 10). And finally found how to...
forum.xda-developers.com
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... your phone automatically limits charging to about 80% under certain conditions:
Continuous charging under high battery drain conditions, like game play.
Continuous charging for four days or more.
I've done very little research on this, but I expect the ways to fool the phone into thinking those things are happening is even more complicated than using that root file control. Meaning also requiring root but manipulating other control files.
I suppose you could have a case and a ribbon USBC connector that fools the charging logic into thinking it is constantly connected to a hardware charger even though it's still at a net negative power. After 4 days of having the case on, it might work. I don't know why anyone would have already built something like that, however.
I would root my phone but, as my daily driver, I need things like banking apps to work. They (at least some) detect rooted phones and refuse to load as a security measure (which is probably a good thing) :-(
Banking apps are usually just a frontend to their website used API. They have no problem with you using a browser on a rooted phone or Linux PC, etc. Any app that stores sensitive data on your phone and relies 100% on the filesystem being locked down was created wrong and lazily. The only thing about banking apps that might be legitimate is when things like unique CC info is stored for NFC and using a TPM can't be assured. Most banking apps, however, do not store anything sensitive on your phone aside from a login token which all websites also do. (it's called a cookie)
My personal preference is that no app is better for me than being able to root my phone. I don't play mobile games that want to keep you from cheating and I don't even care about Google Pay, which I'm not sure has legitimate need to block root either... they just do it to keep banks happy, which as I suggested, I think they're full of BS.
The only thing more BS than this no-root nonsense from app companies is when carriers do it by locking bootloaders. I try to re-use my phones for as long as possible and without the ability to limit battery charge, the batteries swell and die quickly, every time. It's good news that Google added code where phones plugged in constantly will limit charge automatically... but I doubt there is a way to trick it from the outside. (without root)
Hmmm. Maybe lazy programming, but I'm not ready to change my Bank so I can root my phone
Back to the topic... I don't think I'm ready to trust the /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:google,charger/charge_stop_level method. Several times I found my phone at low battery and not pulling any current from the USB port, but not losing charge either. It had put itself into a stalemate where it was stuck below 10% for hours. Resetting the value from 60 to 100 allowed charging again. The battery charge limit app never really caused this. So I guess I'm going back to the full app method.
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Back to the topic... I don't think I'm ready to trust the /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:google,charger/charge_stop_level method. Several times I found my phone at low battery and not pulling any current from the USB port, but not losing charge either. It had put itself into a stalemate where it was stuck below 10% for hours. Resetting the value from 60 to 100 allowed charging again. The battery charge limit app never really caused this. So I guess I'm going back to the full app method.
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I would like to definitely solve this problem I have been struggling with for years. What did you do, can you please help me? It seems extremely similar to what you wrote here.
I have been using battery charge limit on my Xiaomi Mi Mix (1st model) since android 7.1 (lineageos) (and I might have messed with a couple files, not sure, can't remember). When updating to android 9 (lineageos) couple years ago I started having the problem you described. Also I notice sometimes I plug the phone at safe levels such as 35% or 60% and it doesn't charge same thing. Also it only charges with certain chargers and not others.
Earlier today it was 11% battery, could not boot android, didn't charge. I got the idea for the first time to try booting in TWRP (on+volume up buttons) and it immediately started charging at full speed. So there's obviously nothing wrong in the hardware, it's software or just config.
I would like to definitely solve this problem, but I don't understand exactly what you did on your side to fix it. Please reply or message me if you have any suggestion Thank you!