OK so the weirdest thing happened just now. I was charging my atrix HD when I went on it to check a phone number. Then it started opening apps and going on xda then other apps. I had no control over it. I couldn't even turn it off. I had to do the power and volume down thing to shut off. It was very creepy. I was just looking for a minute while the person did what they did. It was like when a person from dell controls your computer if something isn't working right. At first I thought it was being laggy but no! It kept going settings were changed and the person tried playing music on it! I turned it off before he could but the wierdest part is that I had turned of my wifi and set my phone on airplane mode so it can charge faster. No communication what so ever. Right now its off and I plan to keep it that way until someone can tell me what to do to protect myself. Also this could have been happening before i went to go check my phone. Which was like 15 minutes before I checked it. Please help
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Maybe you installed an app that had a RAT or some other virus in it
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That's what I'm thinking. A bad app. The likely hood of it being hacked are slim.
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What apps have you installed recently? And have you sideloaded any apps?
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I haven't installed any new apps. Just updated.
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Anything I can do? Has anyone experienced this before?
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I'm guessing you handle it like you would handle a virus on a computer and just wipe everything and start over.
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Did you use any Samsung charger?
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Aingaran said:
Did you use any Samsung charger?
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no a blackberry one
The Android Attorney said:
no a blackberry one
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android is very hard to hack probably a virus delete data in cwm
Best thing to do is just wipe.
Easy way to do it is to go to Settings->Privacy->Factory Reset
It was probably a bad app.
Click thanks if I helped!
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Another thing to be aware of is I've noticed Motorola's screens (at least on the Atrix models) are kind of finnicky. If there's a little bit of moisture around they just start registering touches on their own sometimes.
With my battery life being... less than ideal.. I find myself plugging into all kinds of chargers along my travels. Some non moto chargers make my phone go nuts, exactly like what was described - apps opening etc. Have experienced this several times. Feel the other explanations are possible of course but highly unlikely.
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There was a story on the news recently that someone's iPhone was hacked by trying to charge at a public charging station. I would be weary of these charging stations.
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lucasantarella said:
There was a story on the news recently that someone's iPhone was hacked by trying to charge at a public charging station. I would be weary of these charging stations.
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Airport WiFi connections are VERY insecure. Basically they monitor everything that goes through. Text messages, calls, anything. Maybe they also have access to control phones?
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I agree with above post non oem chargers can make the phone act funny especially the cheap dollar store chargers get an oem cable the you will know that it will work for charging and data.
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Aingaran said:
Did you use any Samsung charger?
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Charger ??? Really ? ... u mad bro ?
[You just went full retard,Never go full retard!]
right...
Were you on a custom rom, or stock rom...?
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OK so the weirdest thing happened just now. I was charging my atrix HD when I went on it to check a phone number. Then it started opening apps and going on xda then other apps. I had no control over it. I couldn't even turn it off. I had to do the power and volume down thing to shut off. It was very creepy. I was just looking for a minute while the person did what they did. It was like when a person from dell controls your computer if something isn't working right. At first I thought it was being laggy but no! It kept going settings were changed and the person tried playing music on it! I turned it off before he could but the wierdest part is that I had turned of my wifi and set my phone on airplane mode so it can charge faster. No communication what so ever. Right now its off and I plan to keep it that way until someone can tell me what to do to protect myself. Also this could have been happening before i went to go check my phone. Which was like 15 minutes before I checked it. Please help
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Related
anyone else have this issue? seems like it keeps tapping the top half of the display constantly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVkvCXDKU2M
OH MAN, Looks like the devil got a hold of your N7 and is having his way with it!!
In all seriousness, tho, mine has not had that problem. Have you tried doing a factory reset?
Wow....
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OH MAN, Looks like the devil got a hold of your N7 and is having his way with it!!
In all seriousness, tho, mine has not had that problem. Have you tried doing a factory reset?
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yep, left it to update to latest OTA, reflashed stock Google image. nothing
ive contacted Google about this.
Make sure you aren't charging on anything but a stock charger. Low voltage charges usually have this effect
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Make sure you aren't charging on anything but a stock charger. Low voltage charges usually have this effect
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That's exactly the same issue I had with Motorola Cliq
Are you using the stock launcher or nova?
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Make sure you aren't charging on anything but a stock charger. Low voltage charges usually have this effect
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it was like this as soon as i powered it on for the first time, it already had about half a charge and i havent plugged it in since, apart from when going to fastboot to unlock the bootloader and flash the stock image.
@mtfsandlin everything stock. i havent even had the chance to use it properly :crying:
Whoops, never mind. Got a chance to watch the video and it has nothing to do with the launcher. I'm sorry.
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Same issue
I have the exact same issue with mine. Let me know how you go with Google on it.
I installed 'Touch Test' from play.google.com to confirm it.
Hi everyone,
I'm having a Galaxy ExhibitG and it starts to shut down constantly everytime I open too many apps or run something too heavy. And it won't let me power on the phone and even if I can the bettery status went crazy (from 90% to 0% then 20%)
One solution to this is to plug my phone in the charger constantly, but I need to take it to work and school.
The problem actually started to happen after I flashed Linaro CM 10.1 romm by smartguy(for got the number)
Any idea why?
Thank you.
Sounds like you might have a bad battery
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Sounds like you might have a bad battery
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So I should get a new battery now ?_?
I an positive its your battery myself and plenty of others have had this exact problem. Amazon and eBay are your friend if you don't want to spend $40+
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So I should get a new battery now ?_?
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Yea. Check the threads - I'd start with the q&a one- there is a lot of suggestions for which battery to buy and where
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My phone has not always been this way. Its started in the past week. The battery seems to dive at the end of the day when I quit using it.
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Here is a second pic that failed to upload.
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Anyone? Am I the only lucky person to get the bug?
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Something... Looks like "phone" in your screen shot, is keeping your phone awake for a crazy amount of time. Solve that and you're good again. Google it.
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it's the NSA!!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure the cause or a permanent solution. But if you see the battery dropping fast... Whether it's from "phone" or anything else.... A reboot should clear it up and you won't lose so much battery life.
That is, if you notice it dropping too fast. Sometimes you might not catch it till it's too late and you're running for a charger. Lol
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Which ROM are you running?
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Stock KK Rooted
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Any mods?
It's pretty obvious some app is keeping your phone awake once you have solid mobile network signal. Time for you to find out what it is.
I have Gravity box installed. That's it. last night I charged it all the way up before I went to bed. I woke up with a 50℅ loss! This time it was the media server. Whatever that is......if I look on the wakelock detector there are 1000 little things but nothing stands out. Tonight I'll do the same thing but do a reboot before I lay it to rest.
What's weird is I only get this problem when the phone is not being used. If its of any relevance I leave the WiFi on all night. And have it set to turn off when the phone sleeps.
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I have Gravity box installed. That's it. last night I charged it all the way up before I went to bed. I woke up with a 50℅ loss! This time it was the media server. Whatever that is......if I look on the wakelock detector there are 1000 little things but nothing stands out. Tonight I'll do the same thing but do a reboot before I lay it to rest.
What's weird is I only get this problem when the phone is not being used. If its of any relevance I leave the WiFi on all night. And have it set to turn off when the phone sleeps.
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you should know the drill. start getting rid of apps to see if it improves. or, go reverse and start over, installing one app at a time. other posters above are right. you've got something else polling, that's causing the wake lock.
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Seems like you could also just have some faulty hardware? e.g. a bad battery or charge sensor?
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Seems like you could also just have some faulty hardware? e.g. a bad battery or charge sensor?
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This is something fairly new. Unless it went belly up.....I still have more testing to do, which can take a while......since it only seems to be happening when I don't use my phone.
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There is a bunch of apps to help you out
Usually i use this two
Wakelock detector
battery widget
Use those and paste a print here
Last night I left the WiFi on. Cleared all tabs in the recent and I lost only 28% .
Making progress. It was some app left running that kept it awake. Not sure what though.
Tonight I'll leave the WiFi off.
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Last night I forgot to charge my phone, so I plugged it in on the way to work and notice the charge light went out on the phone and when I checked the plug to see if it came out out was hot and melting. When I got to the job I plugged it in with a wall charger thinking the car charger went bad and it was doing the same thing. I figured I'll turn the phone off to save my battery to transfer stuff to the computer when I get home to take it to sprint, I decided to try it again while it was off and now it's not doing it even now I turned the phone back on.
In running the latest 42one rom no custom kernel, I guess whatever was going on isn't happening because it rebooted now.
Anyone ever experience this issue, now I'm afraid to leave it plugged in when I go to bed if it happens again, there isn't no point in taking it to sprint because I'm not able to show them what was happening.
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Last night I forgot to charge my phone, so I plugged it in on the way to work and notice the charge light went out on the phone and when I checked the plug to see if it came out out was hot and melting. When I got to the job I plugged it in with a wall charger thinking the car charger went bad and it was doing the same thing. I figured I'll turn the phone off to save my battery to transfer stuff to the computer when I get home to take it to sprint, I decided to try it again while it was off and now it's not doing it even now I turned the phone back on.
In running the latest 42one rom no custom kernel, I guess whatever was going on isn't happening because it rebooted now.
Anyone ever experience this issue, now I'm afraid to leave it plugged in when I go to bed if it happens again, there isn't no point in taking it to sprint because I'm not able to show them what was happening.
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Really going to claim things melted without posting any pictures?. come on!
felacio said:
Really going to claim things melted without posting any pictures?. come on!
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what reason does the guy have to lie? I don't get it?
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what reason does the guy have to lie? I don't get it?
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Never seen this guy around here before so I have to assume he is a Samsung troll until he posts the pic
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Never seen this guy around here before so I have to assume he is a Samsung troll until he posts the pic
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oh so he is just trying to spread crap. my bad, im so naïve! haha thx!
I was just messing around and wanted to see pics, honestly.. lol
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I was just messing around and wanted to see pics, honestly.. lol
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This is the internet, where everything is made up, and the points don't matter... Wait that's whose line...
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josh030181 said:
Last night I forgot to charge my phone, so I plugged it in on the way to work and notice the charge light went out on the phone and when I checked the plug to see if it came out out was hot and melting. When I got to the job I plugged it in with a wall charger thinking the car charger went bad and it was doing the same thing. I figured I'll turn the phone off to save my battery to transfer stuff to the computer when I get home to take it to sprint, I decided to try it again while it was off and now it's not doing it even now I turned the phone back on.
In running the latest 42one rom no custom kernel, I guess whatever was going on isn't happening because it rebooted now.
Anyone ever experience this issue, now I'm afraid to leave it plugged in when I go to bed if it happens again, there isn't no point in taking it to sprint because I'm not able to show them what was happening.
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I actually did have this happen to me. It was serve melting but it was extremely hot to where it was uncomfortable to touch. I reported it to HTC got a new charger and all has been well since. I was running Bad Boyz and have no idea what the heck happened. I had it charging over night. I'll find the wall piece and upload a pic in the am to show. Hopefully the damage will show well.
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I don't get it?
The OP probably was using the OEM charger, so I think this is a rarity, but a word of caution to everyone: Not all USB chargers are made the same. You should only use high quality OEM charges for your phones, there's no reason to have a fire hazard to save a couple bucks on a charger.
This happened to me a couple of days. I got to work and plugged it in as usual. After a few minutes i noticed the red light went out. I noticed the bottom of the phone was really warm so i unplugged it and the tip of the charger burnt the crap out of my fingers.
I tried other charges and they didn't work and my Mophie won't charge my phone anymore so just like the OP, I ran a Nandroid back-up along with a Titanium back-up preparing to have to swap it out and then having to worry about getting it s-off'd.
As of today, it's charging with another charger but i did scrape the charging port with a needle because it looked like it might have had some char on it.
Fingers crossed!
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Oh and this isn't a "Butterfly" whatever that is; that started happening after flashing ViperOne.
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Here's the pictures of burnt charger, still had problems charging with new charger, getting a replacement phone tomorrow.
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Here's another
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felacio said:
Really going to claim things melted without posting any pictures?. come on!
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There's the pics
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There's the pics
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Alright man, fair enough. Were you rooted on a custom rom and kernel tho?
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Alright man, fair enough. Were you rooted on a custom rom and kernel tho?
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Yea, on 42one Rom with the kernel that's built in that Rom that I believe is stock.
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That's not the OEM charger thus the issue. When I used a cheap charger with my old HTC HD7 it some how was corrupting the digitizer causing the screen to stutter not allowing me to unlock
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That's not the OEM charger thus the issue. When I used a cheap charger with my old HTC HD7 it some how was corrupting the digitizer causing the screen to stutter not allowing me to unlock
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That's most likely attributed to a bad ground on the charger
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That's most likely attributed to a bad ground on the charger
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Most likely a bad rectifier that's allowing some noise on the (what should be) clean DC.
Dirty DC will cause all sorts of ugly on a digital device.
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I had a similar problem with my first One. I was charging it on a crappy work computer, and one of the points got zapped. I could still charge my phone from a plug-in, but it wouldn't connect to any computer. $50 later (thanks Sprint), I had a brand new phone. That I may or may not have promptly bricked.
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Just curious on everyone's thoughts on this power save mode.
I actually love it. Who uses it? How often do you use it?
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Just curious on everyone's thoughts on this power save mode.
I actually love it. Who uses it? How often do you use it?
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I think its a great feature, although with the great battery life I am experiencing I have yet to really need to use it. I may just not charge my battery next weekend so I am forced to use it, but it sounds awesome.
I haven't really used it since I'm always near a charger. However, I think I'll probably utilize it when I'm out camping over a weekend or on a long hike to save juice. seems promising for that.
Turn it on as soon as I clock in, and only turn it off for lunch...something about clocking out with 90-93% battery, putting it on my car charger, and getting home with 100% battery is life-changing (not that serious but I'm sure u understand)...imo best feature aside from toolbox
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Turn it on as soon as I clock in, and only turn it off for lunch...something about clocking out with 90-93% battery, putting it on my car charger, and getting home with 100% battery is life-changing (not that serious but I'm sure u understand)...imo best feature aside from toolbox
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I like that idea lol
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I definitely like the idea of it. I would use it a lot more if Gmail was one of the apps you could use.