[issue] Need some feedback from GB users - Galaxy S II General

hello, I would like to know if I'm alone on this issue, right now I'm running stock 2.3.6 on my i9100 and I have found an issue.
When Power saving mode is activated (the default one), if I open the camera app and turn off the screen for 1 minute, the phone dies and I have to reset it to make it work again.
Some friends told me that on ICS it doesn't happen so I was wondering if I got a faulty unit or this OS has this bug.
I would like some feedback from you guys with gingerbread onboard, thanks.

ellokomen said:
hello, I would like to know if I'm alone on this issue, right now I'm running stock 2.3.6 on my i9100 and I have found an issue.
When Power saving mode is activated (the default one), if I open the camera app and turn off the screen for 1 minute, the phone dies and I have to reset it to make it work again.
Some friends told me that on ICS it doesn't happen so I was wondering if I got a faulty unit or this OS has this bug.
I would like some feedback from you guys with gingerbread onboard, thanks.
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This has never happened to me, but maybe try to turn off the device and take the battery out, leave it for a minute and reinsert the battery and restart. Then try to reproduce the problem.

Never happened to me or even heard of it
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have you tried to see if this bug would occur without power saver mode on?,i never had this issue before nor heard of it

thanks everyone for your answers and concerns, the problem has been isolated:
It was a bug caused by a underclock that I did have that so far only occurs on the circumstances that I had on my phone.
When your phone turns off the screen, it will go to sleep mode or deep sleep mode depending on the running apps you have in that moment, these modes allow the CPU to low the frequencies (CPU Clock) in order to preserve battery life.
Comes to public interest that when using the camera app, the phone uses a high frequency clock to process photos and videos taken with the camera.
As because I did have a custom kernel that tweaks the CPU in order to gain more battery life, when battery saver option (which slow the max freq. clock of the CPU) was ON in my phone, the phone couldn't jump directly from sleep mode to max freq mode to keep camera app running and the CPU kept "slept"
If serves as interest of anyone, the kernel I was using was Siyah Kernel (don't remember which version, just check out the date this thread was posted and compare it with siyah kernel log to know by that date which was).

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SET CPU problems with root?

Aside from being able to Wirelessly Tether my 3G connection from my Vibrant, I wanted to also control my CPU speeds. But with SET CPU, I tend to come across a particular problem. I would underclock to 100000 (min&max) with the screen off, but as a result, the screen won't turn back on and I would have to take the battery off and restart my phone. Clocking it to 400000 (both min and max) screen off leads to the same problem. Is anyone else going through the same situation? If not, what are you setting your CPU to, in regards to both screen on and off?
I have it set to 400MHz max/100MHz min for screen off, and it wakes up just fine so far.
What is your Governor setting? I was told to put it in "Conservative" for Vibrant.
lqaddict said:
I have it set to 400MHz max/100MHz min for screen off, and it wakes up just fine so far.
What is your Governor setting? I was told to put it in "Conservative" for Vibrant.
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Yeah I have all my profiles set to conservative. Do you guys think it has to do with the priorities, cause I have all of them set to 100.
It could, since there is no telling how to prioritize the settings, hardware/software might get confused.
you know I just noticed I got the same issue, sort of.
I have multiple profiles setup, and one is for charging via USB 800max/100min.
If the screen is off (400max/100min), and I connect the USB cable, guess what happens, three finger salute gets it back, hmmm.
OK I got it working for those who are having the same problem as I. All I did was I made my screen off frequency 200max/100min. For both charging and battery use, I have my cpu set at 1000max/800 min. It works flawlessly and I am noticing an increaSe in battery life...
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OverClock?
I used SET CPU on my G1 and really loved the new life it gave my old hardware. I would like to open it up and see what my Sammy Vibe can really do. Is there a way to get some real OVER clocking?
Battery life is really not an issue for me so far.
Halieus said:
I used SET CPU on my G1 and really loved the new life it gave my old hardware. I would like to open it up and see what my Sammy Vibe can really do. Is there a way to get some real OVER clocking?
Battery life is really not an issue for me so far.
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we need a kernel that will enable it. its apparently not possible on the stock kernel...
I have been having the exact same freezing issue when the screen times out, I'm unable to revive the phone without pulling the battery. I have tried many different setting in Setcpu including those posted here. I finally just uninstalled it and everythings right again. Best to avoid this app for now.
Hey man i did that and i still did not work any other way to set it up.
Vibrant wont come out of Blank Screen
I used Set CPU and put it to the max 1000 and then the max on the other readings it forced closed and after the tmobile and Galaxy animations it goes to a blank screen.
Yeah, I uninstalled it after a week because it was just too unstable. I was getting freezes several times a day, which is unacceptable. Other people might have better luck, but my phone did not like it at all.
So far the only way I can get the program to work 100% is to not have any screen off profile. If I just set it to 1200 max - 200 min / conservative it works fine. Yet once I use profiles and screen off at 100, 200 or 400 it won't turn back on. Every morning it's the same thing, battery pull.
I have similar problem. As long as I am not using "Profiles" at all it is fine. Playing with profiles setting for a while, but not being able to make them 100% stable.
Another thing, if your screen does not come on, you don't have to pull the battery out. Just keep holding on/off button for 5-7 seconds, it'll reboot. It's not a complete freeze, I believe only display system (whatever it is) fails.
Stuck at Recovery Mode
Guyz,
I have firetrap sugar on Spice Mi300. Installed Set CPU.
Tried entering the recovery mode, the phone gets stuck at 1st screen with a line "Enter recovery Mode" displayed on top.
Please help.

Questions about standby mode

I may have asked this before, but I'm not sure.
My A500 has a custom ROM on it, but its had this problem on multiple roms. I haven't tried on stock yet, but that's probably my next step. Anyways, here are my questions:
- How long can you usually leave your A500 in standby mode and still wake it up?
- Is there a way to manually put the tablet into sleep mode?
When I first got it, I remember leaving my A500 in standby mode (it should automatically go into standby when you idle, right?) and being able to wake it by hitting the power button almost a day later. Now I can only do it for a few hours and then it won't come out of sleep. I'll have to turn it off by holding the power button down (even though there is no indication that it is turning off), then I can turn it on again. Sometimes my battery will be depleted, apparently indicating that it did not properly go into sleep mode?
chairhome said:
- How long can you usually leave your A500 in standby mode and still wake it up?
- Is there a way to manually put the tablet into sleep mode?
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Usually I can leave it in sleep mode for well over a day, and it still wakes.
Press the PWR button will put it to sleep.
I would guess, the problem is Kernel related. This sometimes happens with kernels that supply Over/Under voltage. Usually for overclocking. Most of the newer kernels walk a fine line with trying to get maximum battery life, and your tab may suffer "the sleep of death" and require a hard re-boot.
I would advise one of the older kernels, like RTrips 3.4+ or Thors 3.7. Try to stay away from the most recent kernels.
Also, a few of the custom 500 roms, are really "cooked". Lots of changes to the rom itself.
You may want to try a lightly stock rom with a lower version kernel. This will fix the sleep of death issue.
As with your battery, the usual stuff like wifi/gps on, notifications, syncs, these all cause battery drain.
I leave my wifi on, but my syncs are set to every hour. Mail, Sms, and FB (silent). GPS is hard set to off. Widget refreshes also are 4 hrs.
I lose maybe 6% or so overnight.
All of the above is true there is one more issue that can occur . Google backup and restore.a bad app that you keep getting restored by the above.
if all else fails you can try the fallowing..
download a near stock rom.. with STOCK Kernel .
in cwm
of course wipe all
format all..
flash rom..
wipe all again.. (you know all of that)
if im having a app issue.. to find the app.
when your tablet boots the first time.. when you get to setting up your google account.. untick the boxes for backup and restore of data.. then install your apps one at a time back . to see what app is causing the trouble.. Of COURSE this all only applies if the rom flash does not work.. google often puts the problem back.. Ti backup will do the same .. put issues back.. Trial and Error is only way to solve this issue. ITS THE ONE MOST COMMON AND MOST TALKED ABOUT ISSUE WITH not only our tablet but all of android devices..
GOOD LUCK ..
Moscow Desire said:
Usually I can leave it in sleep mode for well over a day, and it still wakes.
Press the PWR button will put it to sleep.
I would guess, the problem is Kernel related. This sometimes happens with kernels that supply Over/Under voltage. Usually for overclocking. Most of the newer kernels walk a fine line with trying to get maximum battery life, and your tab may suffer "the sleep of death" and require a hard re-boot.
I would advise one of the older kernels, like RTrips 3.4+ or Thors 3.7. Try to stay away from the most recent kernels.
Also, a few of the custom 500 roms, are really "cooked". Lots of changes to the rom itself.
You may want to try a lightly stock rom with a lower version kernel. This will fix the sleep of death issue.
As with your battery, the usual stuff like wifi/gps on, notifications, syncs, these all cause battery drain.
I leave my wifi on, but my syncs are set to every hour. Mail, Sms, and FB (silent). GPS is hard set to off. Widget refreshes also are 4 hrs.
I lose maybe 6% or so overnight.
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erica_renee said:
All of the above is true there is one more issue that can occur . Google backup and restore.a bad app that you keep getting restored by the above.
if all else fails you can try the fallowing..
download a near stock rom.. with STOCK Kernel .
in cwm
of course wipe all
format all..
flash rom..
wipe all again.. (you know all of that)
if im having a app issue.. to find the app.
when your tablet boots the first time.. when you get to setting up your google account.. untick the boxes for backup and restore of data.. then install your apps one at a time back . to see what app is causing the trouble.. Of COURSE this all only applies if the rom flash does not work.. google often puts the problem back.. Ti backup will do the same .. put issues back.. Trial and Error is only way to solve this issue. ITS THE ONE MOST COMMON AND MOST TALKED ABOUT ISSUE WITH not only our tablet but all of android devices..
GOOD LUCK ..
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Thanks to both of you. I needed reassurance that my tablet wasn't just messed up. I have a warranty on it and was thinking about getting it replaced and seeing how the new one behaved, but I'll try the suggestions. I'll probably try to reload my ROM after formatting and start with just the base apps and add one at a time as you suggested. If that doesn't work, I'll try a different kernel or ROM with a different kernel. I've already tried not using SetCPU to under/overclock, but that didn't work. Thanks again!
Another (relatively rare) issue is that the kernel you're using actually is flawed and fails to wake the GPU after it went to sleep (this may be a lot later than the device itself, depending on background services!). In this case using a different kernel will solve the issue (stock kernel is works).
EDIT: Posted at the same time... By all means try another kernel, this is a known evil with custom ones.
Okay, so I've tried installing the stock, rooted 3.2 ROM which uses the stock kernel. Did not restore any apps from Google Backup. Still getting the same issue. Does this point to a hardware issue? I have a warranty on this tablet, so I want to know if I should try trading it in.
OK, before you take your tab back, personally, I wouldn't worry about it.
I have noticed, on some occassions, (yes, I do run stock rooted on occasion), that sometimes, the tab will get what we call the sleep of death. And usually, this may occur over a long period of time. Also, sometimes, I have to hit the pwr button several times, before it wakes.
+1 with the PP on overclocked kernels. This happens with the most recent ones.
Fortunately, System Tuner Pro, will increase MB voltages, so you don't get this.
If it does it again, and you are on stock, try to press the pwr button several times.
cool, thanks. I'll try this today.
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Okay, so I've tried installing the stock, rooted 3.2 ROM which uses the stock kernel. Did not restore any apps from Google Backup. Still getting the same issue. Does this point to a hardware issue? I have a warranty on this tablet, so I want to know if I should try trading it in.
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Mine has never worked on any rom with any configuration. Turning off wifi helps sometimes.

[Guide][Theory] Samsung Galaxy Note ICS Build SOD Fix!

I have found the fix for SOD's on ICS builds (based on i9220 leak kernel)!!
THIS YOU DO BY YOUR SELF! I TAKE NO PART IF YOU HAVENT READ THIS THRU AT LEAST 2 TIMES BEFORE DOING THESE STEPS!
First of I had a theory of the i9220 kernel and its CWM that in one way it does not represent our hardware right. It has its differences and they are more on a file level then anything. This can be shown easy by trying to format /system. By doing so you will get in to a world of trouble (so don't try it, just trust me)
So my first thing as I have never had a SOD was try to RECREATE a SOD. So my theory is/was that the kernel provided for the i9220 is the real culprit in this scenario and that by flashing RADIOS with its built in CWM is a MISTAKE!
And boy was I right! I installed a random N7000 radio .zip thru CWM (Now when I say CWM I do NOT mean some crappy .apk or app that does it FOR you. I mean the CWM you enter by starting the phone with Power + volume up + home button) and rebooted the phone.
I played around with it and let it rest for 30min. When I was going to wake it up again... SOD!!
Mission Accomplished!! Recreated Error!
So now ... how to fix it...
First off wee need to learn how Mobile Odin works and why this method works to fix it. When Mobile Odin is instructed to flash a ROM or anything else (like a radio) it boots to ITS OWN KERNEL! That is the file that Mobile Odin downloads on first run!
Now IF you are going to use Mobile Odin while on any ICS build (except the original i9220leak! Important! Mobile Odin will NOT work on stock i9220 leak!) you have to be 100% sure that you are PROPERLY ROOTED!
So Steps...
Step1: Get ZCLP1.zip Radio from the Radio Thread and extract the modem.bin file.
Step2: Get Mobile Odin and just flash modem, nothing else. The modem.bin you just extracted.
Step3: It should reboot and enter the Blue Odin Droid Kernel and flash radio.
When its done it will reboot again. And you will probably be SOD Free!
Hit the thanks button if this worked for you guys. Thanks for reading.
Oh btw I don't think that it is locked to use only that modem. I had la3 radio before and I didn't suffer any sods so don't get to blind on just the Chinese radio...
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im on midnight 2.0 ics.i done what u said in the post.i just had a sod.
here is how it happened.i pressed wifi in pull down notification.it was stuck ..wifi would not turn on after the screen turned off and try to awake by using power button.it was dead.it would not do anything.had to hold power button for couple of min to restart.
Im currently on gb, used ics for a couple of weeks since chinese leak. Im not a 100% sure, but i really think it has something to do with wifi. I never really tested but I always had the most sod at home while connected. Rarely had sod at work, which was cellular data H+.
There is another method and that is to increase min CPU speed from 200 to 500mhz. Has worked for some...
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Thanks mate, i'm gonna try some of that.
These SOD are making me crazy :/ Some day i can have 0 SOD and the day after 1 per hour...
You can use Wakelock and no more Sod...
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You can use Wakelock and no more Sod...
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But wouldn't that drain the battery faster?
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I only get sods when wifi doesn't activate too. If it doesn't switch on immediately then the phone won't come out of sleep. I just restart manually when this happens instead of letting it sleep.
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I get SOD with or without wifi completely randomly. I'm going to try increase CPU see if that works.
excuse me wt is SOD issue meaning ?
i know its a very stupid Que
but i hoppe to till me wt is it
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It's not specific to the radio. I've done Mobile Odin Pro to try many different radios. Each time, I'd get an SOD.
Folks have also reported getting an SOD WHILE in Airplane mode. This completely puts the baseband issue out of the picture together.
If it's in airplane mode, it can't be a WIFI issue too.
The kernel itself is just bad and it has its quirks.
Due to the inability to get a logcat when it is in a SOD state, it makes it very hard to pinpoint what is causing the SOD.
MaZaGnGy said:
excuse me wt is SOD issue meaning ?
i know its a very stupid Que
but i hoppe to till me wt is it
thnx
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SOD is Screen Of Death or Screen Of Darkness; meaning that the screen will not wake up up after you turn the phone on and you have to restart/reboot the device. Various things cause it... Have a search and you will learn more about it!
robmeik said:
SOD is Screen Of Death or Screen Of Darkness; meaning that the screen will not wake up up after you turn the phone on and you have to restart/reboot the device. Various things cause it... Have a search and you will learn more about it!
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Nope, it's Sleep Of Death. The rest is correct
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We need a SOD-off app
Look for wake lock power manager in play store. It creates a wake lock, preventing deep sleep, and consequently a SOD. For the price of a low battery autonomy.
I was having lots of sod's on aosp v7 and the reason was not related to ROM. it was something to do with the cpu frequency and voltage in the chainfire ics kernel.
Steps I performed to reproduce.
1. Use setcpu or system tuner to set the cpu frequency to 500 mhz when screen off.
2. As soon as the screen is off you can see that note is not responding to keys. Sod reproduced !!!!
In my opinion it has some thing to do with the voltage at frequency 500 mhz, may be the voltage is a little bit less for that frequency and it refused to wake.
Hope it helps some one with the similar sods.
masiullah said:
I was having lots of sod's on aosp v7 and the reason was not related to ROM. it was something to do with the cpu frequency and voltage in the chainfire ics kernel.
Steps I performed to reproduce.
1. Use setcpu or system tuner to set the cpu frequency to 500 mhz when screen off.
2. As soon as the screen is off you can see that note is not responding to keys. Sod reproduced !!!!
In my opinion it has some thing to do with the voltage at frequency 500 mhz, may be the voltage is a little bit less for that frequency and it refused to wake.
Hope it helps some one with the similar sods.
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We know that ICS leak comes from i9220 and that it's set to work at maximum 1200Mhz.
Now the question is - do i9220 and n7000 use exactly the same CPU ? If so, then we can rule out voltage problems - unless engineers at Samsung f....up.
For all it's worth, that's an early build leak...when official update will be here, i think our problems will be over as we'll just use the proper kernel with our ICS roms.
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We know that ICS leak comes from i9220 and that it's set to work at maximum 1200Mhz.
Now the question is - do i9220 and n7000 use exactly the same CPU ? If so, then we can rule out voltage problems - unless engineers at Samsung f....up.
For all it's worth, that's an early build leak...when official update will be here, i think our problems will be over as we'll just use the proper kernel with our ICS roms.
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Is there any way or app which stops using certain frequencies.

fuel_alerted Kernel wakelock bug in India ICS

Yesterday I got the ICS update via Kies.
Saw that my CPU was not going into deep sleep.
BetterBatteryStats showed the problem
fuel_alerted is forcing a kernel wakelock.
I tried searching the forums, and there are some fixes in some custom kernels.
However, I could not find out what exactly is fuel_alerted, why does this happen, and does it happen on all phones?
I believe taking out battery and putting it back in should fix the problem. Right?
Will it come again?
Whats the root cause of this problem?
I powered off, removed battery, and then put it in, powered up the phone. Now phone is going into deep sleep.
But I still cant figure out what is fuel_alerted, and whats the issue, why does it come?
i dont have this issue. i flash DDLP8 india yesterday.
tsk1979 said:
I powered off, removed battery, and then put it in, powered up the phone. Now phone is going into deep sleep.
But I still cant figure out what is fuel_alerted, and whats the issue, why does it come?
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I had this on LPY, Did same as u did and its gone. Now yesterday i flashed LP8, its not yet there. Let us know if it comes again.
weng_cas said:
i dont have this issue. i flash DDLP8 india yesterday.
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All ICS roms have this issue. You just have not hit it. Its a bug in the kernel. Somebody has fixed it in an open source code. I googled quite a bit, and also found the offending function
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/samsung-kernel-c1/commit/5f6d8422629002c530dcf30891c241fe3ee2e0ab
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I had this on LPY, Did same as u did and its gone. Now yesterday i flashed LP8, its not yet there. Let us know if it comes again.
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Will do
Here is what the bug report says
"However, when the SOC starts rising, the wakelock was only destroyed"
Now what is SOC referring to? System on Chip? Does not make any sense. Can somebody look at the github page?
Try disabling the power saving mode and restarting.
Don't use power saving mode. I've only seen this Wakelock after I've checked the powersaving option.
Ironic. But true.
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SoC = State of Charge in this case.
It's another classic case of Samsung failing to fix well documented and fixed bugs. Not as severe as the eMMC brick bug (documented since before November by Google during Galaxy Nexus development), but still - documented and fixed by the community for many months.
I fixed this in I777 Gingerbread kernels back in October, I9100 kernel developers pulled in the fix fairly quickly. Despite the bug being documented and fixed by the community for months, it is still present in all of Samsung's ICS kernels.
It has been fixed in the CM9 kernel since the day I9100 Update4 sources were released.
It's also fixed in DAFUQ. (However a lot of other stuff is currently broken in DAFUQ.)
No need to pull the battery when you encounter it, just reboot. Rebooting is the only fix without flashing a kernel that has the bug fixed.
Thanks entropy!
Actually reboot did not make the bug go away. I had to pull out battery.
I am on DDLP8(India ICS)
I guess, with kernel source released, we should see everything like FM etc., supported in CM9. I will move to CM9 then
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Thanks entropy!
Actually reboot did not make the bug go away. I had to pull out battery.
I am on DDLP8(India ICS)
I guess, with kernel source released, we should see everything like FM etc., supported in CM9. I will move to CM9 then
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I just noticed this param, I am not sure it was there before (I am on LPY)
Rebooting and it's still there!
Doing Power off now..
tsk1979 said:
Thanks entropy!
Actually reboot did not make the bug go away. I had to pull out battery.
I am on DDLP8(India ICS)
I guess, with kernel source released, we should see everything like FM etc., supported in CM9. I will move to CM9 then
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No - FM is a userspace issue, as is MHL.
For CM9, the only things the source release affects are:
1) Speakerphone (already fixed)
2) Possibly a more reliable wifi driver (although CM9 may just kangbang pawitp's great work on the Aries kernels)
3) Backporting some performance features such as improved busfreq control
Entropy512 said:
SoC = State of Charge in this case.
It's another classic case of Samsung failing to fix well documented and fixed bugs. Not as severe as the eMMC brick bug (documented since before November by Google during Galaxy Nexus development), but still - documented and fixed by the community for many months...
...No need to pull the battery when you encounter it, just reboot. Rebooting is the only fix without flashing a kernel that has the bug fixed.
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Found this thread after seeing this causing wakelocks in my i9100 S2. Thanks for the explanation.
However, rebooting - as well as powering off and switching on again still did not eradicate the fuel_alert problem and CPU Spy was showing my phone couldn't enter deep sleep.
Only after pulling out battery (and waiting for 1 minute for good measure) and powering up again did the bug go. CPU spy then reported my phone had entered deep sleep and the fuel_alerted entry was no longer showing in BetterBatteryStats.
Remove the battery and wait for 1 minute and reboot the phone , it will fix the problem.
To avoid it from happening again , remember to wake and unlock the phone every time before removing the phone from charging(Data cable & charger both).
I never unlock the phone before plugging and unplugging, and inspite of that problem is not reappearing.
So it may be completely random. I looked at the github code, but somehow could not figure out any relation to lock/unlock while charging.
It happened to me once and i removed the battery for 15 mins and it disappeared. But today it happened again. I do have power saving mode enabled but i dont want to again and again remove the battery to fix it. I charge my phone by turning it off and once its charged i remove the charger, let the display go off and then only turn on the phone. Do i need to turn on the phone before i remove the charger?
I think the power save mode has something to do with it. I didn't check the battery history before turning it on though but after a few days the Note didn't last 12 hours with only 1 hour of usage. The processor was awake even when the screen was off.
As suggested here I removed the battery for a few mins. I reinstalled the battery and charged it while the phone was still off. After a few hours of charging I turned the phone on and date/time defaulted to base time as expected. I observed battery behavior for a few days and the processor is now sleeping when the display is off and only wakes up every once in a while maybe to sync. BTW I only have Gmail sync on everything else is set to manual. And I haven't touched the power save option since

Phone freezing in deep sleep; should I request an RMA?

I've been having a recurring problem where my phone will lock up in a deep sleep, leaving the phone completely off. In order to restart the phone, I have to hold Power and Vol Down which takes me to a charging logo, and then hit power again. This generally happens overnight when the phone is charging, but I've also had it happen once while making a VoIP call. I thought I resolved the issue by wiping the phone and flashing the stock 4.2 ROM. However, the issue just occurred last night after 4 days of bug-free usage.
My question is whether this is some sort of weird software bug or a hardware issue. I haven't seen others report identical behavior but I've seen lots of complaints about freezing and random reboots that seem to be due to software. Should I request an RMA?
+ 1 . I am having the same issue. I would say hang tight. Call the support team and let them know you are having issues. If atfer a few weeks the problem persists perhaps go through an rma. I suspect it is software related. Lets say you did RMA still had the issue then had a dead pixel or other problem? It would suck and you would have to go through the whole process again. rinse and repeat. Only if you want to return the device for a full refund, then I would say hurry up and make that call. My .02 Good luck.
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+ 1 . I am having the same issue.
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Having the same issue. Although no clear pattern is visible. Sometimes I find the phone dead-locked after putting it aside for 10 minutes and sometimes it seems to run for a day or even two without issue. Running _motley kernel right now without any change on this front.
I rather think it's a software issue than hardware. So I am not going to RMA it.
Strangely when I power off the phone on such a lock-up and then reboot it I will see a substantial drop in battery after the reboot. So the phone seems to be in some state where it still drawns more battery than in normal operation. E.g. with _motley kernel and limited clocks I typically see 3-5% battery drop over night only. When it locks up during the night and I reset it in the morning then battery usually drops much more (e.g. 30-50% is gone). Maybe it's caused by some hanging/deadlocked driver.
If you full factory reset and flashed then i'd say some app of yours is causing the issue.
shotta35 said:
If you full factory reset and flashed then i'd say some app of yours is causing the issue.
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In fact I got the device in dec 2012. Started to set it up and then decided to root it (including full factory reset). I only have a very minor amount of system-level applications installed. Actually the main reason to root was to use Voltage Control as I intended to limit clock rates and (if possible) voltages the same way I was used to do it on my Galaxy Tab 7 (P1000) where I was very pleased with 6-days battery lifetime.
Initially I found the minimum clock rate was set to 1GHz and I have reduced it to 304MHz (minimum with stock kernel). When I discovered first freezes/lock-ups then I reverted to default settings and found it still locking up occasionally. Meanwhile I am using _motley kernel which seems to include some voltage mod as well. Although Voltage Control does not show options to modify voltages. Then I found Trickster MOD which shows some voltage control but it seems to have no effect (at least I was used my galaxy tab to crash when undervolting too much and it's pretty "strange" to be able to set all clock voltages to 0.6V while still running stable; so I guess the settings won't have any effect right now).
I have also tried to remove all modifications and applications and/or profiles which could cause the issue without any difference. Even when run stock settings it occasionally completely locks-up the device.
Edit: I was wrong regarding voltages. In fact I found my device happily works at 1134MHz using 600mV. Since I am used to limit max clock rates to 810MHz I could simply put all voltages to 600mV without seeing a crash/reboot.
CAUTION: This does not necessarily have to apply to all devices. My one is "faster" binned Rev. 11 device. Some voltages of different users are collected here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnlqtEwFJwR6dE55WkZYSThEM3U4SGtKMVl2V1VqMmc#gid=0

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