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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
i want reactivate this thread, because I think there are some users who still have this problem like me.

As far as I recognized there seems to be more reasons for SoD.

All seems to have begun with Android 4.1.2 and just keeps on until now.

I have tried some kernels and runs now Dori 9.33 and see how it works.

It seems that there are some kernel issues as well as some apps and some constellations of SD-cards.

But no one has a real solution.

I read about a "indish kernel" for the i9100g models, but also some who reported SoDs with this kernel.

But I found no real solution for our i9100.

I have attached a logfile (catched with Catlog) which I recorded until my last SoD.

In my case, I can also call my phone and the caller hears it ringing, but my phone stays black without sound and unresponible.

The only thing is to hold the power button for 10 seconds and reboot it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
just to tell:

nearly 24h without a SoD with my combination :o

BUT: I have not used my camera so far! And I think camera & media scanning has something to do with it.

If everything is running until tonight, I will try my camera and see the result.

after nearly 2 days

:good: nearly 48h working, so I will keep my combination.

But it is interesting, that nobody has any problems although you can read a lot about this problem. :confused:

after more than 2 days:

and here we go. SoD :crying: but 48h is better than nothing :eek:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
a lot of things might come from corrupt files.

There are 2 scripts which will clean your partitions and try to fix broken files

1. GS2ROMclean made by hawkerpaul

2. Fix_Partitions_v1.0.2.zip made by Computoncio

you can run out of CWM and install as a zip.

So far it is recommended to run 1. GS2ROMClean, reboot, then 2. Fix Partitions to ensure you have clean partitions

Be patient! 2. runs very long, up to 2 hours and the phone becomes very hot. So I think power connection is absolutely recommended

BUT NOT TESTED COMPLETELY BY ME
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
what I do not know is, how often these scripts shall be used
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hopper8:
You could run the ROM clean as often as you want. If the other doesn't fix it after one time, no point running it again. In saying that, I'm not sure if there would be any benefit from running the first one more than once anyway.

Sent from a galaxy far, far away
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
1. runs very fast, took round about 10 seconds. Reboot was successful afterwards. All was working.

Now I run 2. - info will follow - would be great, if there were a kind of progress bar or a kind of information. So you don not know if it hangs or not.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
script 2. ended after 1h with a warning. Now run again?

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********

/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: 11854/131072 files (5.4% non-contiguous), 524288/524288 blocks

Checking preload partition:
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found. Create? yes

Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/dev/block/mmcblk0p12: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12: 544/32768 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 29992/131072 blocks

Automatic Fix Partitions finished at 30-07-2013 14:10:33

attached is the complete logfile

ATTENTION: My phone was connected to USB and lost 10% battery during this script operation!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
one more time

1. Recovery

2. Delete Cache & Dalvik Cache

3. Ran Fix_Partitions_v1.0.2.zip - this time 10 seconds!! Because of no cache & dalvik cache ?:confused:

4. Reboot system

Now let's see what happens. The logfile seems to be nearly clean.

Logfile

Automatic Fix Partitions started at 31-07-2013 05:45:57

Checking efs partition:
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1: 34/1280 files (2.9% non-contiguous), 2162/5120 blocks

Checking system partition:
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9: 4296/32768 files (1.2% non-contiguous), 120884/131072 blocks

Checking data partition:
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p10: 5114/131072 files (7.3% non-contiguous), 174778/524288 blocks

Checking preload partition:
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12: 544/32768 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 29992/131072 blocks

Automatic Fix Partitions finished at 31-07-2013 05:46:01

But have to mention: Since I have run these 2 scripts, I had no more SoD so far. Let's cross my fingers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
GRRRR :rolleyes::(:(

one more time a SoD - I hate it !!!

But I found out, that always after a SoD I have Google Play updates! May Google Play cause any problems? Can anyone acknowledge?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
now 28h of a running system.

Settings: Frozen Play Store and frozen K9

Always running WLAN & GPS - I have no impact on battery life, because they only used when necessary.

I think this was really improved with 4.2.2, which I run now (see signature)

A lot of things might really come from corrupt files. What have I done right now:

There are 2 scripts which will clean your partitions and try to fix broken files and will keep ROM and settings

1. GS2ROMclean made by hawkerpaul

2. Fix_Partitions_v1.0.2.zip made by Computoncio

you can run both out of CWM and install as a zip.

My suggestion:

Run 1. GS2ROMClean (about 10 seconds)

Reboot

Recovery

Clean Dalvik-Cache and Cache

Run 2. Fix_Partitions_v1.0.2 (about 1 minute) - Logfile on root of internal SD-Card called Fix_Partitions_2013-xx-xx.log

My first logfile was about 5MB, maybe due to not having cleaned the caches (see below), my second one is very small

First time I run 2. without cleaning the caches and it took me about 1 and half hour to complete YES!!!

Do not interrupt or remove battery. This could cause data loss and you will have to reflash!

The phone became very hot and lost 10% battery although it was connected to power!

So I rebooted into recovery, cleaned cache and dalvik-cache and ran the 2. script again.

Now everything seems to be fine

PS: If you install any different kernel, think of cleaning all kernel parameters before. I always use the "Ultimative Kernel Aufraeum Script 2.6.8"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
I surrender, although partitions are clean :(

But last record: 41h without SoD :silly:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
now I got 48 running hours before I had it again. :confused:

But better than ever :good:

Maybe I try a different kernel :o

Did, but 9.33 gives me a SoD after 6 hours. So back to the roots :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
As nobody seems to have problems, I think of buying a different phone. S2 is nice but always SoDs is not nice.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hopper8:
I've been following all your posts mate. I haven't commented because I have no extra help for you, you've tried everything and more than could be expected to fix it. I can tell you that it's not all s2's that experience this, so it's not the phone in general. It seems you're quite unlucky. Sorry not to be of any assistance.

Edit: have you tried 9.14? It's regarded by many users to be the most stable release of dorimanx so far. Never had any issues with that release personally on a tweaked 'battery' profile.

Sent from a galaxy far, far away
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
back on Stock

hi m8s,

was a nice time with a lot of SoDs, but I can't live with it. So I'm back on Stock 4.1.2 + SU (see signature) and hope the best for the future.

Custom ROMs are much nicer and smoother but if they don't work for me I have to go back to the roots. Bad luck.

Keep on developoing guys. I wish you all the best, maybe I'm back one time to try a 4.3

BTW: There are always nice things in the Samsung ROMs out of the box which make life easier

e.g. Smart Stay, AutoBrigthness, FM Radio, FastGPS

but of course no real nice theme and some other things, but this is the price :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hopper8:
Maybe you could look at the NeatROM thread, it's a stock based ROM with a few nice touches. There's also many many mods to flash which will change the look of the ROM if you so desire. That's only if you want to change. I used it for a while & liked it. Top hunch of blokes on their thread to help out with any issues you may have too :)

Sent from a galaxy far, far away
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
running my S2 for 1 week now on Stock 4.1.2 XWLSS and what shall I say: No SoD, freezes or reboots.

So this is the best evidence for me. So I can use my phone as I want
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viliem:
Hi, SoD causes battery drain when the phone is frozen, or not? Sorry for my english
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
Yes as its still running. Frozen or not it's still powered up so it's still using battery.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viliem:
I meant that if my phone freezes, so the battery is discharged within two hours. I do not know if this is SoD or not.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
Was the screen on?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viliem:
The screen was off, the phone warm and buttons not working
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
Warm... CPU was running so yes it could well eat the battery in two hrs.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viliem:
I know, just wondering if these are symptoms of SoD, or it is some other problem.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
Does it power up
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lavemetoo:
Symptom is that you press any key but screen keeps black. And if you will not recognize that the battery dains your phone.

You can only press the Powerbutton for 10 seconds or remove battery to get out of this situation.

But I never had it again with a stock rom. Therefore I went back, although I was very lucky with the Custom Roms, but SoDs all the time was an absolutely no go for me.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.

Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.

So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)

Thanks!
[HTC Inspire 4G] oFUNGUSo:
honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......

unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?

i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
+1

OP, if you're talking 6 hours to go from 100% to 0%, you've got something else going on. Big time. Especially of you're turning off all that stuff and *still* only getting 6 hours.

Now, if you had the screen on that entire time, I'd actually say you have great battery life, but I suspect that's not the case.

If it happens with both of your batteries, there has to be something else running on your phone, perhaps as a background service, that's sucking that much juice.
[HTC Inspire 4G] diablo009:
@ OP:

I get like 1 hour call per 18-20% battery on 3G/H. So 6 hours of call time from 100 to 0 is good in my opinion.

If not on calls: I did a stress test 2 days back. I got ~6.5 hours display time for movies from 100 to 5% battery with display at 25%.

So like people pointed out above, unless u r continuously on calls or having display on for atleast 3-4 hours with data transfer on 3g/h, something is wrong.

Here are my normal stats:

1 hour calls, 2 hours display exclusively with data transfer, all these on 3G/H, with about 12 hours standby, I come home with about 35-40% battery left.
[HTC Inspire 4G] alaimar:
I agree with the posters above there is definitely something wrong. Slightly UC & UV I get 6-7h screen time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Noobixide:
A lot of testing with legitimate lab equipment has proven that ProdiCell batteries are not actually 1600mah, rather 1060mah which is actually lower than stock. Sorry if you bought one of their batteries.

I wasn't able to find the blog I was reading last night, but I can link you to the amazon comment thread where I first started my online research. >> Link <<
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.

It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.

I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.

Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay ;) That could be it by itself hah.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
Have you tried a battery calibration? It's easy to do manually, but there's a convenient app on market called, wait for it... battery calibration, that makes it a one-click process.

I really doubt it's the phone hardware itself. Probably some combo of battery/calibration/rom/kernel/radio.

BTW, the phone just came out in mid-February, so technically it's not out of warranty. It's like a year or year and a half or something.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
I'll try that app for sure. Thanks!

When I called HTC in May to order replacement battery/SIM door covers, they said my warranty would run out in the next month. Maybe the CS rep was a moron.
[HTC Inspire 4G] dxwilliams40:
Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.

Sent from my Inspire 4G running TPGB Ninja
[HTC Inspire 4G] stryfe2010:
Also make sure to turn off WiFi & mobile data when not using it, that will extend your charge.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
I literally just rooted/flashed my ROM yesterday. I charged the phone back up to 100% today and used that calibration app, and so far it seems to have helped. It definitely uses more than 1% an hour. So far it's at 45% after having been unplugged for 5 hours and 37 minutes, with 2 hours and 4 minutes of display time, 10 minutes of phone calls on 3G, sent/received about 100 texts, checked/downloaded about 20 emails, and taken 10 or so pictures.

Of course, WiFi/Background data/auto-sync/bluetooth/GPS are off, and brightness is at about 40%.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
I've got a weird one on this particular battery cycle. I used the battery calibration app before I went to sleep last night and unplugged the phone at 100% charge. While I was asleep...the dialer used 16% of my battery according to my battery stats and the total battery was down into the 60%'s...I searched google, and other sources / forums report a reboot fixes it, and the issue likely occured from a "Wake Lock State" occuring at my last previous phone call the previous evening...ugh hell of a bug...I haven't rebooted it yet, and still notice even plugging and unplugging all day dialer still in low teens for batt. %...seems to be an Android thing although thre seemed to be a preponderance of HTC's...but they are popular devices and there was a Samsung tablet in there with the same thing...
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickel Dime Bay:
I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Wow, that's pretty good. What ROM are you using?
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.

That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.

So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.

Thanks again all!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickel Dime Bay:
Someone asked which ROM I'm using, its the one in my Sig...when you dont have signal I would put it in airplane mode because your phone will search and search for a signal and that kills battery fast.
[HTC Inspire 4G] doktor buknasty:
The reason why you are losing so much battery is your phone is trying to connect to a tower in order to gain service. Switch to airplane mode when at work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] diablo009:
There's the culprit!!! When phone does not have proper signal, it increases the radio power so that it may not lose connection. And when connection comes in, and is good enough, it starts to slowly scale down the power to the radio.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Hahaha, that's awesome. I was thinking the exact same thing as the three posts above me when I was working today... kind of an "oh, duh!" moment, then I come back and check the thread and ya'll confirmed it.

Flashing Gingerbeast right now, so hopefully that will show if it's the ROM or my hardware that's causing the battery drain. Gonna try it out for the rest of the day, though I will miss my Sense 3.0 :(
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
You're going to have to have a little more patience than that if you want a reasonable evaluation of a ROM. One days worth of time isn't enough.

Let the battery/rom adjust to each other and stabilize... Give the ROM a clean slate and give it a chance to perform. ;)
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Good advice. So far though, I can't even get it to flash hah. Gets stuck on the HTC loading screen, after a full wipe and everything. Might just wait until my 32GB card comes in. Right now I have a 4GB, so it's really one ROM on there at a time :/. Luckily I have the ones I've been wanting to test out on Dropbox so I can download them to my SD when I need to.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mshen11:
with the screen completely off and no activity for 8 hours straight i lose 12% battery - is that consider good or bad?
[HTC Inspire 4G] tekkeun:
yeah i feel like you have to give it some time. i just installed cm7 and new radio/ril. after a couple days battery life seems to have gotten a lot better.
[HTC Inspire 4G] oxlong27:
If you do get gingerbeast flashed I would definately recommend keeping the default kernel. Di11is kernel performs well and gives me the best battery life I have ever had on any smartphone (i also had an aria and a captivate)
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
Exactly. I work 12 hour shifts, but some of that time I get no signal, Alothough I use my phone for a PDA. Battery usgae rate much slower with the radios off, even though I am typing notes in it and have the screen on.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nismax:
try juice defender form market? it helped me.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Thanks, I'll definitely try it out. So far I'm 14 hours and 24 minutes on my battery, with 3 hours 20 minutes display time, 20 minutes of calls over 3G, about 200 text messages sent/received, about 60 emails sent/received, 2 hours of music streaming from Pandora over 3G, about 10 minutes on the browser, taken a few photos, and I've manually synced all my data about 10 times. I have wifi/auto sync/bluetooth/gps off, background data on, and brightness has been at 50%+ all day. This is the best I've gotten out of my battery so far! About double what it usually lasts me. And it's still at 35%!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
That looks pretty reasonable, all things considered. Certainly better than what you were dealing with before.
[HTC Inspire 4G] elijahpr:
Yeah definitely. Airplane mode was on for about an hour, too. When using battery calibration, I noticed that the voltage on my '1600mAh" battery is actually LOWER than it is on my stock battery... does this mean that it's not actually 1600mAh?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Scott_S:
Probably. It's a pretty well-known fact that these after-market batteries that claim a higher capacity aren't truly higher capacity, and, as it seems you've experienced personally, are actually *lower* than a stock battery.

These after-market battery manufacturers apparently are counting on the fact that most of their customers aren't going to be savvy enough to actually look under the hood of their product.

By the time someone does, it's probably too late to return it and/or not worth the hassle.
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] MasterJack:
I was at Fry's today and decided to look at cases. They had none for the Asus but they had one for the Toshiba 10.1 Tablet. I did not have the EEE with me but I went ahead and got it. List was $59.99 but they matched online price so I got it for about $42. Here it is:

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Thriv...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1309054174&sr=1-11

So far I love it - it fits well and has access to all the important stuff (except camera). I don't know if I will keep it. I also love the quality and the fact that it rotates 90 degrees from Portrait to Landscape.

It does say TOSHIBA on it but that is also a good thing - if it said ASUS there would be a much bigger chance that it would get stolen.....:)

Anybody else have this?
[Eee Pad Transformer Accessories] dezel29:
i bought a case for the Toshiba too from best buy, $40...lil different from yours but made for the same tablet...i am happy with it...it works just fine...excellent build quality too...no camera access without sum modifying but overall just wat i needed...

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?poid=512069