Argh. Sleep of Death.

[bertoid]

The "sleep of death" has reared its ugly head again. Happened twice in a row yesterday, and a few other times over the past month. Five times total. Hadn't seen it for almost two years. (This was the third phone that I got when the Photon first came out, with the first two showing the SoD right away. I was able to swap them out, fortunately.)

Still, it seems a fitting end to the Photon. Good thing I only have a week left on my contract. I'll never buy Motorola again.

-m-

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[bertoid]

Re: Argh. Screen of Death.

D'oh! Been so long I forgot the name of the problem. "Sleep of Death". Not screen of death...

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[anon(409656)]

Re: Argh. Screen of Death.

So you are simply unable to turn it back on? Mine has been acting funky for a while now. I will click on a contact to dial and it just stares back at me. It may or may not go ahead and dial, sometimes minutes later after I have given up and gone about my business. Also when I press the power button to wake the phone, the screen remains black, but I have found that if I swipe to unlock even on the black screen, it unlocks and acts normally. This second is why I responded to you, is this similar to what you speak of?

 

[bertoid]

Re: Argh. Screen of Death.

I've seen that as well, but the real problem is the sleep of death, where it stops working and nothing but a battery pull will restore it. Once I do that (the battery pull) it's OK for a while. Usually. Just need to make time to go check out the HTC One now and get rid of the photon failure.