EDIT: Please jump to post #11 to pick up where current issues with the phone book and SYNC begin.
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Something has gone seriously wrongo with my EVO today and it's nearly useless in standard use. I hope I get all the particulars correct and easy enough to follow; buckle up... (Really pertinent details in bold):
My EVO has been remarkably hassle-free since I got it 5 weeks ago to the day. With judicious setting of Automatic Task Killer, calibrating and controlling battery hungry apps and Live Wallpapers, I've gone from 80% drain in 5 hours to getting a safe 14-16 and more hours between trips to the charger. The other day, I managed to grind it down to 8% in about six hours of almost non-stop surfing and texting, but that was an exception load day. Still not complaining.
However, today, something appears to have gone really wrong. Early this afternoon, the phone started to feel laggy and warm; this is through a Body Glove hard case. Checked SystemPanel Lite and it was showing the CPU pegged at 100% and running at full 1GHz speed. Usually the load and speed are throttled back, but even after resorting to a End All task kill, it still ran poorly and Battery Indicator showed an abnormally low percentage for the time of day and amount of use.
I powered down the phone and restarted and while the CPU usage returned to normal, it was still bleeding juice and Battery Snap's graphs showed a steep decline. At 3:30 in the afternoon, I had to go out to my car to throw it on the charger because it had fallen to 15% in only six hours of rather light use. I have a Rocketfish car charger that I'd gotten for my Pre a year ago and it has been fine with the EVO.
I went back after about an hour and it was charged to 45% which should get me to my 6 pm quitting time. I'd noticed my g/f had just called, so I called her back. When I got back in the building, she suddenly became garbled and inaudible, so I told her I'd call her back on my office line. I figured it was just a bit of signal weakness though I generally get 4-5 bars everywhere around here.
Here's where it all goes to hell. I was heading out tonight and I wanted to listen to a podcast on Google Listen. I've got my Evo paired with my car's Ford Sync system and it's been reliable for the most part, though it occasionally gets flaky about connecting, but toggling Bluetooth on the phone or shutting off the car, opening the door, closing and restarting resolved the glitch. My Pre used to do similar, so I've taken it for granted, but tonight went all sorts of wrong.
I started playback of my podcast and there's no audio. Check the dash and BT is lit; the phone is showing a little headphones icon in the status bar, but no sound is coming out. I'd been listening on headphones earlier today, but they'd been long disconnected. I try toggling the BT widget and it seems to take forever and then doesn't show it being off, while the car's BT light goes out. Very weird. Then it goes nuts: I get a Force Close error for Sense. It doesn't close. I hold down the power button; nothing happens. I get an incoming phone call and I hit the car's phone button to answer thru the BT and nothing happens. I press the Answer button on the phone. No response at all and it has to go into voice mail.
I'm driving by now and had to exit the freeway to pull over on the service drive to mess with this. My friend calls again after I'd somehow gotten the phone to reboot and the audio over the hands-free had intermittent bursts of sound that sounded like someone blowing a raspberry into a fan. We could barely communicate, but she got the meeting place I was heading to and I hit the road.
Arriving there, I park and mess with the phone and while I can open Gmail from the notification shade, I can't get to the Home screens at all. Pressing the Back button or Home; nothing works. I ultimately had to pry off the flimsy Body Glove case ($20 for a piece of plastic that cost about 15 cents to manufacture? Bah.) to get at and yank the battery. After restarting, it seemed fine and I thought I'd exorcised the ghosts, but no such luck. After the meeting, I tried to fire up Listen again and it worked for about two seconds thru the car sound system before dumping and giving a "Headphones Disconnected" message on the EVO. My g/f then tried to call and once again, no amount of button pressing, etc. could get the call answered. Pry apart everything and yank the battery again. These are the first times I've ever had to do a pull like this.
Rebooted, I called my g/f back and once again, the interference over the BT/Sync setup made for difficult talking so I toggled over from BT to handset and the sound was fine and we talked for 20 minutes without a hitch. The Sync displayed "In Privacy" which is normal. I've tried unpairing and re-pairing the car and EVO and again it doesn't seem to work. I tried voice dialing with Sync and it can't execute the call; it doesn't seem to be able to access the phone's dialer. After re-pairing, the phone didn't even offer a BT option during a call; the Sync lady said "Headphones disconnected" while the dash icon remains lit up.
This is pretty bizarre batch of problems to suddenly crop up. My phone isn't rooted, it's running nothing that's come from anywhere but the App Marketplace or the Swype beta. The last app I'd DLed the night before was the Flying Androids Live Wallpaper which lagged and chopped on the EVO, so it was deleted from the phone before the reboots, etc. SystemPanel Lite didn't report anything having too much fun and guzzling cycles; FA doesn't even show as a process, as it shouldn't. Whatever. Bottom like is that the only thing that had changed before the troubles has been removed from the occasion.
Anyone (who is still reading after War and Peace II above) have any suggestions, tips or hints other than "HARD RESET FTW!!!"? My photos are backed up and AppBrain will repush my 86 apps, but I'd hate to have to do that. It's just that after getting better and better in battery life and performance, now it's really crapped itself and I need a fix, STAT! TIA.
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Something has gone seriously wrongo with my EVO today and it's nearly useless in standard use. I hope I get all the particulars correct and easy enough to follow; buckle up... (Really pertinent details in bold):
My EVO has been remarkably hassle-free since I got it 5 weeks ago to the day. With judicious setting of Automatic Task Killer, calibrating and controlling battery hungry apps and Live Wallpapers, I've gone from 80% drain in 5 hours to getting a safe 14-16 and more hours between trips to the charger. The other day, I managed to grind it down to 8% in about six hours of almost non-stop surfing and texting, but that was an exception load day. Still not complaining.
However, today, something appears to have gone really wrong. Early this afternoon, the phone started to feel laggy and warm; this is through a Body Glove hard case. Checked SystemPanel Lite and it was showing the CPU pegged at 100% and running at full 1GHz speed. Usually the load and speed are throttled back, but even after resorting to a End All task kill, it still ran poorly and Battery Indicator showed an abnormally low percentage for the time of day and amount of use.
I powered down the phone and restarted and while the CPU usage returned to normal, it was still bleeding juice and Battery Snap's graphs showed a steep decline. At 3:30 in the afternoon, I had to go out to my car to throw it on the charger because it had fallen to 15% in only six hours of rather light use. I have a Rocketfish car charger that I'd gotten for my Pre a year ago and it has been fine with the EVO.
I went back after about an hour and it was charged to 45% which should get me to my 6 pm quitting time. I'd noticed my g/f had just called, so I called her back. When I got back in the building, she suddenly became garbled and inaudible, so I told her I'd call her back on my office line. I figured it was just a bit of signal weakness though I generally get 4-5 bars everywhere around here.
Here's where it all goes to hell. I was heading out tonight and I wanted to listen to a podcast on Google Listen. I've got my Evo paired with my car's Ford Sync system and it's been reliable for the most part, though it occasionally gets flaky about connecting, but toggling Bluetooth on the phone or shutting off the car, opening the door, closing and restarting resolved the glitch. My Pre used to do similar, so I've taken it for granted, but tonight went all sorts of wrong.
I started playback of my podcast and there's no audio. Check the dash and BT is lit; the phone is showing a little headphones icon in the status bar, but no sound is coming out. I'd been listening on headphones earlier today, but they'd been long disconnected. I try toggling the BT widget and it seems to take forever and then doesn't show it being off, while the car's BT light goes out. Very weird. Then it goes nuts: I get a Force Close error for Sense. It doesn't close. I hold down the power button; nothing happens. I get an incoming phone call and I hit the car's phone button to answer thru the BT and nothing happens. I press the Answer button on the phone. No response at all and it has to go into voice mail.
I'm driving by now and had to exit the freeway to pull over on the service drive to mess with this. My friend calls again after I'd somehow gotten the phone to reboot and the audio over the hands-free had intermittent bursts of sound that sounded like someone blowing a raspberry into a fan. We could barely communicate, but she got the meeting place I was heading to and I hit the road.
Arriving there, I park and mess with the phone and while I can open Gmail from the notification shade, I can't get to the Home screens at all. Pressing the Back button or Home; nothing works. I ultimately had to pry off the flimsy Body Glove case ($20 for a piece of plastic that cost about 15 cents to manufacture? Bah.) to get at and yank the battery. After restarting, it seemed fine and I thought I'd exorcised the ghosts, but no such luck. After the meeting, I tried to fire up Listen again and it worked for about two seconds thru the car sound system before dumping and giving a "Headphones Disconnected" message on the EVO. My g/f then tried to call and once again, no amount of button pressing, etc. could get the call answered. Pry apart everything and yank the battery again. These are the first times I've ever had to do a pull like this.
Rebooted, I called my g/f back and once again, the interference over the BT/Sync setup made for difficult talking so I toggled over from BT to handset and the sound was fine and we talked for 20 minutes without a hitch. The Sync displayed "In Privacy" which is normal. I've tried unpairing and re-pairing the car and EVO and again it doesn't seem to work. I tried voice dialing with Sync and it can't execute the call; it doesn't seem to be able to access the phone's dialer. After re-pairing, the phone didn't even offer a BT option during a call; the Sync lady said "Headphones disconnected" while the dash icon remains lit up.
This is pretty bizarre batch of problems to suddenly crop up. My phone isn't rooted, it's running nothing that's come from anywhere but the App Marketplace or the Swype beta. The last app I'd DLed the night before was the Flying Androids Live Wallpaper which lagged and chopped on the EVO, so it was deleted from the phone before the reboots, etc. SystemPanel Lite didn't report anything having too much fun and guzzling cycles; FA doesn't even show as a process, as it shouldn't. Whatever. Bottom like is that the only thing that had changed before the troubles has been removed from the occasion.
Anyone (who is still reading after War and Peace II above) have any suggestions, tips or hints other than "HARD RESET FTW!!!"? My photos are backed up and AppBrain will repush my 86 apps, but I'd hate to have to do that. It's just that after getting better and better in battery life and performance, now it's really crapped itself and I need a fix, STAT! TIA.
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