yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gado45:
Ok, after finding this post and reading some answers (impossible to read them all) I came to say that Im a victim too.. In my case, my problem first started when I rebooted to recovery, in the OS battery was like 77% and after reboot just 8% (always looses more than half) At first this was only when entering recovery but then happened on normal reboots too.. So literaly I wasnt able to reboot my phone without having a charger near.. Funny thing when it power off after that, I press power button and boots, 0%, shuts down again, I connect to charger, boot, then charging starts at 77% (or when it was last time before the problem)

This happened to me since jellybean I think, I can't remember having this kind of problems on ICS..

Well, since last night problem just got horrible! Totally ramdom shut downs, always while using the phone, I dont use set cpu (some mention this) I tought that my battery was like **** but finding this post makes me realize that is a software problem maybe..

Im now using hellybean 4.2.1 devil kernel all stock (connected to charger like all the time)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Really sounds like a bad battery.

Although, your battery stats might be all messed up, have you tried going in recovery and resetting them?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dozyaustin:
I had that with the stock battery. When I replaced it, this went away - so far.

At first i used the 1800 mAh Samsung battery, but then it died and would not charge. Now, I bought an Anker 1800 mAh battery and it a) fits better than the Samsung, and it seems to work so far for more than a day of life!

With the new battery, I am now using Keep Alive - with only one SoD in a week.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meZQureshi:
Facing Same Problems on CM 10.1 Pre-Nightly. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Read the last few pages of this thread, we pretty much went through all the possible fixes.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gado45:
So with the sod and the speaker problem I think our phones sucks, after changing them no one will want them so It will be with us FOREVER :)

After having SO MANY Sleep deaths on hellybean 4.2.1 my phone was like impossible to use without being connected to the charger, so I went back to stock with heimdall one click uckb2 and unfortunaly tried to flash bootloaders. Operation went wrong, but I still can enter download mode pretty easy, flashed again without bootloaders but device won't boot. And also, tried to flash stock 2.3.5 with odin but windows 8 did not recognize the device (samsung drivers already installed) what a cappy mess!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1953930 for your connection problem.

Also, you will need to flash bootloaders, Odin KK4 with bootloaders is what you'll need.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gado45:
What does mean if neither heimdall or odin doesnt pass the "set pit" point when trying to flash bootloaders?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
Quick question, are you using Odin on a different USB port than with Heimdall? Heimdall instals it's on drivers so Odin won't work on the same USB port.

I'm thinking it is a connection problem if it doesn't get any further than the set pit. Is the light green (or yellow, red)?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gado45:
I was using heimdall on a mac and odin with windows. Solved the problem, Im back on kk4.. My battery is really dead, shame that I have no time for buying an anker, will have to buy a samsung standar one again

EDIT: aparently SoD has gone with brand new battery using uckk4, have to go back to 4.2.1 now, my fear is that sod (or other problems) appears again and kills my new battery, I think I'll have to try
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshlimes:
gado45 I went through the same thing. I bought a replacement battery off of Amazon and so far so good.

So after having no luck with the I9000 bootloaders, I awaited my new battery (that I had ordered two weeks prior) patiently. I received it the other day, So far, positive results. No restarts. After comparing my new battery with the stock Samsung battery, it seems that the stock battery had been warped and has a slight bulge on the cover-side of it. I mean your battery probably isn't that ruined but mine was definitely far beyond perfect.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnyrichter:
I've been suffering SoDs on my cappy. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any fix for it other than staying on stock software. I tried every possible solution that's been found with absolutely no luck.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecase-25:
I'm OC'd to 1200mhz and have bumped my voltages up 25mv across the board. Rock solid and my cappy is one that's plegued with the SoD issue. Not saying that 25mv will help anyone else's phone, but playing with the voltages seems to be a solution. I'm running Semaphore 2.9.5 with I9000 bootloaders. I've been on those bootloaders since GB. I had over 100 hours uptime (unheard of for my device) before I flashed a ROM update this morning.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigBozolini:
I encountered a few sod with early ICS builds but none with jb.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ConceptVBS:
A GPS fix/update is coming in September.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RexEscape:
Thanks for the info. This looks promising.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RexEscape:
OK. I haven't posted about this issue but it has become a problem now. Mine has shut down completely to the point where it can't be turned back on without removing the battery. This second device has a new problem in addition to the GPS problem.

It's going back to the store next week before I fly off to my vacation next Saturday. Good bye Captivate...for now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kungfugrip12:
same problem

My 1st captivate (launch unit) would randomly shut down (and not power on til I pulled the battery) and had GPS locking issues....I promptly RMA'd it after two weeks and now I am on my 2nd captivate. I still have the GPS issues (like nearly everyone else) but at least with a few of the posted GPS tweeks can find my location. (can't track at all though) and no random shut downs

Froyo and GPS fix (september) can't come soon enough - as soon as official Froyo hits, then offiicial stock Froyo will hit and THEN my captivate will be an awesome device
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtsuname:
Does anyone know whether the gps problem is software or hardware?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokestack76:
Software issue for gps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shuggins:
Still no restarts since I installed load monitor. However I do agree its sucking up a lot of battery when not in use.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rupertrupert:
Contrary to my previous assumption: I've had a new SIM card in for five days, and there have been no shut downs. Here's to hoping I haven't jinxed it...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rupertrupert:
Aaand now two shutdowns in less than 24 hours. Great.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RexEscape:
Bummer. I got my 3rd replacement last night.

1st device, good GPS, but had the shut down problem, 3-4 times a day, old Cingular SIM card

2nd device, GPS worked right out of the box but started to experience major GPS problems 3 days later, started to shut down 3 days later, old Cingular SIM card

3rd device, GPS worked right out of the box, new AT&T SIM card. Let's hope 3rd time is a charm!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproof1013:
//guess ill post my 2 cents...

MY cap. has always done this. since day one...a buddy with the g1. same issue.

Ive also had this happen in ubuntu on two different laptops. Coincidence, maybe.

but maybe no.

sudo apt-get install -FIX-PROBLEM-
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkamikaze:
i'm testing to see what app can be a culprit..

so far I believe its either Task Killer .. or NoLED..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbrouwer:
I don't have either of those apps.

However, I did the following factory reset by dialing:

*2767 *3855 #

*warning this will delete everything

Haven't had the phone shutdown for one week now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistm75:
Jack45 posted this... xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7856271&postcount=25

I was able to remove the Load Monitor installation and haven't had any issues following his guidelines, also helped get some of my battery life back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtysouthd:
Yeah well. I bought the phone 4 days after launch and for some reason randomly id pull it out to make a call and itd be off even with a full battery. I rooted it and a couple other minor things, same problem so I reflashed the stock firmware with odins and the same thing kept happening. I begrudginly went to att to exchange it for an iphone 4 and they were out, and I really still like the captivate cuz it seems more grown up than an iphone if that makes any sense so instead of waiting for an iphone in the mail decided to try another captivate. I was out of town for a couple days so the new one was untouched software wise and it was still doing the same thing. I came home, flashed the unhelpful kernel and installed set cpu, sre and a market app I wont name and a couple other things thinking maybe it would just stop on its own but it hasnt. Really Im at a loss cuz Ive been missing important texts and calls. I feel the need to look at my phone every ten minute to make sure its still on and once every hour atleast its off and I have to turn it on again. Ive tried it stock, slightly modded and heavily modded with two phones and still am having the same problem. I dont think its something that cant be fixed but it seems like a shot in the dark as to what the problem is. Maybe Ill call samsung.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack45:
Don't waste your time. Wait - let me be the Samsung rep.

"I have never heard of this. I suggest you do a factory reset."
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirtysouthd:
Yeah ur right. It makes me angry cuz I dont wanna erase everything again but I'm going to anyway. Maybe a new rom will fix it? Unless its hard ware which I doubt.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icebike:
Seeing the same thing on a stock Captivate. I mean directly from ATT stock.

Just shuts down for no obvious reason.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RexEscape:
aaaaand...shut down. My 3rd replacement, all-stock with a couple of apps (Google Maps update and Facebook for Android), shut down on me today. 3-day old phone. My third one. Missed a call AND a text message. This is ridiculous! Samsung. In addition to the GPS problem, now you have this. Are you listening?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkamikaze:
list your apps plz. and how often do you update your apps?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack45:
Again, it's

not

app related. As multiple posters have written that their shutdowns occurred with stock phones, that in itself rules out installed apps. Period.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkamikaze:
well considering I just tested my phone. and I went a week without crashing when I had my task killer options not to automatically kill applications at a certain time.

When I turned it back on the following morning my phone went into a coma.

Everything is a variable. Everyone could be crashing for different reasons.

I've seen posts saying they have crashed with stock phones but then they would write I just downloaded a couple apps here and there.

Forgive me for trying to see if your dilema could have been app related. So goodbye.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack45:
>>> I've seen posts saying they have crashed with stock phones but then they would write I just downloaded a couple apps here and there.

So, everyone writing that they have had shutdowns with stock phones is oblivious to whether or not they have installed a couple of apps here and there? They're all memory-challenged?

>>> Forgive me for trying to see if your dilema could have been app related.

I have no "dilema." My phone doesn't shut down without me instructing it to do so.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
you know this is my 3rd time with android, g1, nexus 1, and now the captivate. I wanna give it a chance because I really do like android but if my phone doesnt stop doing random sleeps Im gonna have to throw it on cl and go back to an iphone :mad:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack45:
Other glitches can be lived with until a fix is offered. Random shutdowns? No way.

I'd like you to try something if you don't mind. First, never let your phone go to sleep by itself. Set the default timeout to the longest - 30 minutes - and always put it to sleep yourself using the button. Second, make sure that the power saving mode is not checked. Let us know if there's any change in your phone's behavior. Thanks.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I am going to try this. I just flashed back to a backup which i know is on jh3 but i cant remeber which version of sre. If i had to guess i would say 1.0 with lag fix installed via sl4a
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkamikaze:
When did I write

everyone

?

and the reason why I said "your" dilema was because I thought you were the user I was quoting. Sounds like to me you're just looking for a fight when I was just trying to see what advice I can offer. Period.

See what I did there?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zielins1:
Interestingly enough, the only time it ever does this to me is when I leave my phone plugged in overnight. Any chance Samsung tried to throw in something to save the battery from being overcharged? (I'm thinking of that /really/ annoying unplug your phone screen.) When I see it in the morning, it's not even on the 'power off charging' screen, it's just totally black. I have to hold down all the buttons to get it to restart.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rupertrupert:
I tried changing the timeout setting, and if anything, it made it worse -- two shutdowns each of the last two days (about since I changed the setting), which is double my usual rate.

It was stated earlier that things seem to be worse when the battery has more of a charge -- it's been the same for me...maybe >75%?

I have my phone sitting next to me right now, and I noticed that the screen turned quickly on and off by itself. It only happens once (have noticed in the past, never really thought much of it), but does this happen to anyone else? Seems like a thing that shouldn't be happening, as well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noequaliz:
Hi, I have an UK Galaxy S with the same problem. I´m from Spain.

I have changed roms, apps and nothing solves the problem.

Now the phone is ON since 3 or 4 days without shutt downs, not even charging at night. The only thing I changed was the battery.

I purchased 2 "made in china" batteries the last week on eBay.

I will give you feedback about my phone and the new battery, hope the problem were the original battery from Samsung.

Greetings from Spain.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captivating:
Hi all, I'm on the same boat as most of you. My phone shuts of continuously in sleep mode after a full charge. I've done a restore, uninstalled apps, tried different power settings, the whole 9...

It seems like mine will only go in to a coma after a full charge (100% = 4.156V), when I unplug it it will turn off in sleep mode. It will continue to do so until the battery drains to ~80-87% (4.076V), after that it seems fine. I will get a ramdom shut down once in a while but not continuous like when I fully charge.

Thinking that it was a bad batch of batteries I swapped out my battery with another "known good" captivate oem battery, charged it to 100% and waited... the phone still shut off. I have ebay batteries/charger on the way, I'll see if they work and report back.

Hopefully this problem gets resolved soon, it's frustrating!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RexEscape:
Greetings from Poland! I'm on vacation right now (hometown San Diego, CA) and while I'm roaming I have the Data Roaming feature turned off. Also I don't have the Use GPS and the Use Cell Tower turned on all the time to get My Location. It hasn't shut off on me. (It has shut off on me while back home but while away and I've limited my connectivity maybe that's why it's been working fine.)

I still think it has something to do with the poor GPS feature which is why it's continuing to shut down on its own *maybe* after trying hard to resolve its issues. Still just a theory.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmpntl:
everybody vote to see how the bad the problem really is:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=767361
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smurfgod:
I found a solution that works. I have been doing it and haven't had my phone shut off for 2 days.

Get a BT headset...With the BT paired to the phone, it stops it from going to sleep thus preventing it from turning off.

I got a cheap one from my dad and it works like a charm...lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zielins1:
Heat?

Somehow last night I must've looked at my phone, because when I woke up it was underneath my pillow ... and off. I'm trying to remember the other times it shut off, and it was placed on the bed before. My charger is on the bedstand, but sometimes I get lazy after setting my alarm.

Does charging create heat? Because a lot of people seem to have this problem while charging.

Is there some sort of overheating failsafe that shuts the phone down?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esox23:
Mine seemed have started when I switched from pattern to unlock, I just switched the phone back to pattern to unlock and haven't had any shutdowns, I will keep an eye on it and update as I go.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neptronix:
Turning off power saving im settings has worked for me.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esox23:
Well now that was short lived, all it has done is make the random shutdown less frequent... how irritating...

and here I thought this might be the best phone on the market.

esox23
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vksf01:
mine started to shutdown about a couple of weeks ago. it did this daily for about 5 days. after reading a posting on the att site, i now dismiss the "fully charged" dialog box before unplugging the usb cable. so far, so good. it's been a week without any more shutdowns.

it worked for me, maybe it'll work for someone else too
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcylcruzin:
vksf01,

I've noticed much the same, although if I forget to dimiss the dialog that very first time then I'm in for a bad day of constant phone coma.

Have you experienced the same? How do you then make it stop? I'm testing to see if by fully charging and dismissing the dialog again will yield any better results.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esox23:
Just rambling here I'm sure, but what if these random shutdown problems are happening because the phone percieves there to be a zero battery level and shuts it's self off. I know my battery indicator has been jumpy and kind of all over the board. For instance, I was charging my battery just now and the phone said it was at 25%, I let it chaarge to 30% turned the phone off and plugged it back in and while powered off and charging it was stating battery level at 72% +/-, so I powered the phone back on 5 mins later and the phone was recognizing the battery level at 77%, this all took place over a 10 min +/- time frame.

Obvisouly these shutdowns are OS related and I'm really begining to wonder if it is infact the way the OS computes battery levels.

esox23
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vksf01:
i've been dismissing the dialog pretty religiously every morning for the last week and the phone has stayed on. is that what you mean?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rupertrupert:
I've noticed the same thing -- turning the phone on/off while it's charging definitely messes with the % charged readout. Also, when it's discharging and hits 57%, it jumps to 51% (I'm not confusing digits, promise), and then sits there for awhile and goes back up to 54%. Strange.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silencer_007:
Hey guys, maybe this is helpful. I think there may be something to the heat suggestion here. I use PDANet frequently to tether, and I notice when I'm doing a lot of activity, say, streaming a few videos while downloading an app, the phone will automatically shut itself down.

I notice right after it does this the phone is REALLY warm to the touch. I think there may be a sensor inside the phone acting as a failsafe and shutting the phone down, but this is speculation at best. Hope this is helpful
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FireRaider:
I have the random shut-down problem also. Not as bad as some though. Mine tends to shut down in the afternoon. I tried acknowledging the charged notice in the morning and that didn't help. I am leaning towards a battery/power level issue as mentioned a few posts above. If I plug it in right after the first crash it doesn't do it again. If I don't throw it back on the charger it seems to crash repetitively. Although it seems some have problems with it crashing while on the charger.

I am going to hold on to this phone until the update and then if its no better its going to be retired.

My Tilt and Tilt2 may have had poor GPS but at least they never turned themselves off at random.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esox23:
Just got off the phone with Samsung regarding this issue, apparently it's a battery, device and charger issue and they won't do anything about it without sending it in to them for diag. (minimum 1 week with out the phone). He did state it's case by case and that not all phones have this problem. If i get a phone that shuts down like this again I will keep bringing it back to the store until I have one that doesn't.

I'm still with in my 30 days so she is going back.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSasak:
This seems like the most feasible cause...mine seems to only have the issue right after a full charge and is fine after it goes down to 80% or so battery life. I don't have any of the apps that people are speculating are the cause so something more universal like a battery/charger issue would make more sense.

Guess i'm taking it back for a replacement - i refuse to got back to the iPhone. BTW - if you just return it, then rebuy (vs. exchange), your 30-day period starts over.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paladuck:
Happened the first day I got my phone, then was completely fine until it happened again today. I think it was waiting for the return period to expire.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futbolfreak:
I am on my first replacement unit and have been for 2 days. No issues yet. The original unit powered off overnite during the first 24 hours. It then began to randomly power off several times a day. I could not associate the power offs with any one single cause. However, a wierd note is that while at home/work, if I had wireless ON, it would power off several times a day. If I turned wireless OFF, It powered off a LESS mount of times. Explain that one. Anyways, I'll check back in if the new unit acts up. Oh, FWIW, the troublesome unit was purchased at AT&T in Covington, LA on Aug 20th. My replacement unit was given to me from AT&T in Wilmington DE 2 days ago.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paladuck:
In every post in this thread the same problem is being reported, yet there are 2394823048923 alleged causes.

I can only conclude that the problem is probably mostly random, people of all phone congifurations, unrooted, rooted, stock, etc etc are having this problem. I am just waiting for someone to tell me that its a software problem so I can wait for a fix instead of now having a phone I can no longer return.