Oh no! Battery Pull

[TucsonChuck]

OK so I'm laying in bed, surfing the inter tubes, and my phone freezes. My first battery pull, hope this isn't something that's going be a common practice in the life of my Incredible....

Anyone else have this issue yet?

 

[mistyinca]

Say it isn't so!!

 

[bulldogmoe7]

battery pull !!

wow i had to do my first battery pull this morning. i was playing with the apps and loaded an audio book app. installed it and starting to play a book. i layed it down to listen. 1 min into i picked it up and a target page was pulling up and kinda flashing strange. touched the screen to get out of it, NOTHING. hit the power button to shut off. well you need the screen tap to tell it to turn off. so had to do a battery pull

 

[TucsonChuck]

It's true, It's true! (My best tweety bird voice) I'm a little concerned...

 

[bulldogmoe7]

funny we posted this at about the same time. had to pull mine this morning also.

 

[LiQuidZero]

Are you using a task manager/killer app? I saw on other threads that the Android OS is pretty good at terminating unused apps, and a task manager "may" do more harm than good. Meaning, task managers may create instability in the OS. I opted not to install a task manager and haven't had any battery pulls.... yet.

 

[rijc99#WN]

On the Incredible if you hold the power button for a while will that simulate a battery pull? I don't want to have to remove the phone from a hard case if I don't have to.

 

[zhelf]

Are you using a task manager/killer app? I saw on other threads that the Android OS is pretty good at terminating unused apps, and a task manager "may" do more harm than good. Meaning, task managers may create instability in the OS. I opted not to install a task manager and haven't had any battery pulls.... yet.

yea it is funny you mention this more times than not the task killer is always what the culprit is on 2.0+ devices i noticed my local vzw store put the task killers on the phones and they ran so laggy i was in the store at opening and the phones were garbage. so please anyone that is using a task killer please delete it for it really not needed and does mess with performance

 

[Matt_AC]

Do you have a task manager installed, like ATK (Advanced Task Killer)? If so, uninstall it. You likely do not need it, and there are reports that they can cause environmental variables that require a battery pull to fix. This may fix your problem. If you don't have a task manager installed, then I'm not sure what to tell you other than not every device is perfect all of the time.

 

[TucsonChuck]

Do you have a task manager installed, like ATK (Advanced Task Killer)? If so, uninstall it. You likely do not need it, and there are reports that they can cause environmental variables that require a battery pull to fix. This may fix your problem. If you don't have a task manager installed, then I'm not sure what to tell you other than not every device is perfect all of the time.

I don't have ATK installed... Doesn't look like I will in the future... I'm hoping its a rare occurrence

Thanks

 

[NIKSTORM]

I do realize that this is off topic but does this task killer info also go for the moto droid running the new 2.1 update?

 

[04redgto]

Yes, task killers ARN"T needed for android! Also, you can't blame a phone for lockups always. Some apps in the market are good, some are poorlly written and cause problems, always look at app reviews before installing!!!!!!!!

 

[mike pertz]

Does this include Juice Defender? Im new to the whole smart phone/android, so just making sure.

 

[h3seaking]

Evidently juice defender has cdma isses. Other power managers have the same issue. Somrthing with 2.1, CDMA and the power manager programs.

 

[TBolt]

Maybe the audio book app wasn't ready for Android 2.1? Just a thought.

I deleted Advanced Task Killer after seeing other threads, like this one.

 

[magellanous]

Coming from a blackberry, that's something I'm used to. I had to do a pull every morning so even if my HTC needs one every couple days or once a week, I'm really okay with that!

 

[Cory Streater]

I'd be okay with that too, if I could buy the Incredible battery covers by the dozen.

 

[jared916]

On the Incredible if you hold the power button for a while will that simulate a battery pull? I don't want to have to remove the phone from a hard case if I don't have to.

I'm also curious about this. Anyone?

 

[Cory Streater]

If you hold the button in for a few seconds, and then choose Power Off, it will shut down the phone. Then you can hold the button again for a few seconds to power it back up. That will simulate a battery pull and is actually the cleanest/safest way to reboot the device. If your phone is totally locked up, and you can't get to the screen that allows you to power off the device, then your only option at that point is to pull that battery. I've never once had to do this with an Android device.

 

[vblok0910#WP]

I had to pull my battery aswell for the same reason