[Info][WIP] LET's FIGURE OUT the sleep of Death!!!! [NOT A ROM]

gee one · Aug 4, 2011

Disket said:
What do you mean by 'sane image' and 'franken-file'?

The franken-file was bits and pieces of the update blobs and other pieces of system images. I was trying to get a 8656 boot/recovery with an 3.2 system image. These all match in theory, but the system image came from a different nvflash batch.

The sane version is where the boot/recovery/bootloader all came from the same blob and I flashed the system via CWM.

There is something odd about the 3.2 OTA. I flashed back to stock 8239, but I couldn't flash the OTA, after sequentially upgrading. I think the fingerprint is off and the OTA hangs on the file checks.

I think my SOD's were caused by bad flashes, but that doesn't explain the SODs on stock systems.

msticninja · Aug 4, 2011

I had a few SODs a month ago. On the stock 7/11 FW, it seemed to be the "wifi scanning in nomadic situations" bug, same as my Archos. After a few of them in rapid succession, it seemed to go away.

On Prime 1.6, I had a couple SODs when I was using CIFS, and I set the CIFS mountpoint to /sdcard/Network. This meant that the stock Gallery indexer was trying to index all my network content. Once I moved the mountpoint to /Network, it stopped indexing, deleted about 500,000 media file entries, and never SODed again.

Sememmon · Sep 1, 2011

Has any progress been made on this? I am still having issues with random SoD's and am currently in discussion with Asus tech support about the issue.

-s

fonix232 · Sep 1, 2011

Sememmon said:
Has any progress been made on this? I am still having issues with random SoD's and am currently in discussion with Asus tech support about the issue.

-s

Had this problem only once, with stock ROM, since nvflashing Prime 1.8, it never ever happened!

The-Nazgul · Sep 1, 2011

Sememmon said:
Has any progress been made on this? I am still having issues with random SoD's and am currently in discussion with Asus tech support about the issue.

-s

My SODs got better after each Asus Update. Since I upgraded to Prime or Revolver I never had one again..

Popsiclestand · Sep 13, 2011

I get sleep of death every single time my tablet goes to sleep while it is connected to the dock. Without fail it will power off. Rooted or unrooted. Stock or other ROM. Battery saver checked or unchecked. It is really annoying because now I can't really use my dock with my tablet because each time I close it or accidentally let it fall to sleep it will power down.

After calling Asus over 6 times, I finally convinced them to send me a FedEx label as I had already RMA'd the tablet once and the dock once for other issues.

Beyond the fact that they seem to break something everytime you send it in for repair, the tablet works great!

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

Gwartan · Sep 14, 2011

Popsiclestand said:
I get sleep of death every single time my tablet goes to sleep while it is connected to the dock. Without fail it will power off. Rooted or unrooted. Stock or other ROM. Battery saver checked or unchecked. It is really annoying because now I can't really use my dock with my tablet because each time I close it or accidentally let it fall to sleep it will power down.

After calling Asus over 6 times, I finally convinced them to send me a FedEx label as I had already RMA'd the tablet once and the dock once for other issues.

Beyond the fact that they seem to break something everytime you send it in for repair, the tablet works great!

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

I'm having the exact same problem. out of the dock the tablet works fine, goes to sleep, wakes up. Once I attach the dock and let it fall asleep I have to hard power it down to use it again. Dam thing will even power itself back on when I know I turned it off before closing it and putting it in my bag.

Popsiclestand · Sep 29, 2011

Gwartan said:
I'm having the exact same problem. out of the dock the tablet works fine, goes to sleep, wakes up. Once I attach the dock and let it fall asleep I have to hard power it down to use it again. Dam thing will even power itself back on when I know I turned it off before closing it and putting it in my bag.

I don't know if you've been able to solve your problem yet, but after trying many many different kernels I installed Blades 8-24-11 kernel and it seems my problems are solved. I am also running the latest version of revolver. Been using my tablet all day with the dock. Put it to sleep countless times, closed the lid and it sprang back to life each time. The dock is now completely discharged and I am only using it for the keyboard function and still no problems (before I had noticed that if the dock got down to about 20% I would start to have very frequent shutdowns even while I was using the tablet).

It looks like my problems solved. Hope this combination can work for you too.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

kino13 · Oct 3, 2011

Does anyone have a method to wake up from the SOD?

My tablet just keeps hanging up and going into SOD and I have no idea how to start it up again.

I have done everything in no specific order:
hold power button
hold power button+volume down
insert card
connect power
connect docking
repeat and rinse

It always ends up starting up, but I have no idea how...

The tabled had this problem since day 1, before AND after rooting, so I do not know what to think about it. I am seriously thinking in return it to the shop.

When it works is just perfect, but most of the time is just SOD.

Danzano · Oct 3, 2011

Did you o/c i found mine got in boot loop then sod then boot loop when o/c was to high so reflashed kernel and its fine now

Also had a wierd one where the light sensor was constantly re adjusting untill it crashed it wasn't noticeable untill i looked at ram dump hasn't happened since

Sent from my tf101 using xda premium 1.4ghz

kino13 · Oct 3, 2011

Didn't overclock or anything.

The thing is, the tablet is now in front of me, dead. What do you guys do in this case? the power button for 10 seconds, wait, and then the start up does nothing in my case, do you always just wake it up that way? Because if that's the case, mine goes to RMA faster than light...

Danzano · Oct 3, 2011

kino13 said:
Didn't overclock or anything.

The thing is, the tablet is now in front of me, dead. What do you guys do in this case? the power button for 10 seconds, wait, and then the start up does nothing in my case, do you always just wake it up that way? Because if that's the case, mine goes to RMA faster than light...

You stated you had rooted it so a rma just yet probably would not be a good idea

Have you tried the same thing while plugged into adb to see if its just the screen?

If you can get the pc to read it and it is the screen you can blind flash it back to stock then rma it.

Sent from my tf101 using xda premium 1.4ghz

kino13 · Oct 6, 2011

Thanks for the answers, but I finally decided to return the unit.

I "nvflashed" the original rom in one of the times I got it to start up (took me five hours! to start, 10 minutes to flash), made sure all my data was deleted (twice!), and returned the unit.

Next day I got a call from the shop to go take a new one, they could not even pass the point of setting up an account.

On that question, yes, I tried to log on ADB whne it was blacked out without success, but the unit was faulty, it was not normal at all that level of inestability.

I got a new unit, I rooted it the moment I arrived home, put the latest prime, installed Klemsin kernel, and finally installed setcpu and LOCKED it to 1000Mh, yes, NOT overclocked (didn't overclocked the previous unit either).

I have had NOT A SINGLE hang up of the unit. NOT ONE.

So, what have I learned from this? **** happens.

If you have an stock rom unit doing the idiot, maybe it's not you, you just got unlucky.

Thanks to everyone

vittogn · Oct 7, 2011

I hope it is an HW problem

I had a very frustrating SOD (in my case it was more a "SOR(eeboot)").

My 3.2.1 unrooted and recently formatted B6OKA unit in whatever condition (dock or not, wifi or not, lock screen enabled or not) was randomly reebooting also 5 times in one hour. The most of time it was wile in standby.
I lost the mood for fighting and trying alternative ROMS and/or kernels.

I've just opened the ticket for RMA and I'll update you about my experience with the new unit, that really can not be worse than my first days in the Android Tablet world!!

matthian · Nov 26, 2011

Im runnning Prime 2.1 on my TF and now stucked in the SOD as well. Sadly enough, pressing buttons in any combination does not wake the TF. But I'm connected to the TF via USB and can open a shell.

It there any command on the shell prompt to wake the TF?

Thanks in advanced for your help.

the.joeba · Nov 28, 2011

matthian said:
Im runnning Prime 2.1 on my TF and now stucked in the SOD as well. Sadly enough, pressing buttons in any combination does not wake the TF. But I'm connected to the TF via USB and can open a shell.

I'm getting some really really hard to wake from SODs. I've been able to get out of them eventually by just waiting a few hours then holding power and Vol Down and releasing Vol Down after about 5 seconds (I have no idea if that's even a thing).

I just got this off ebay, and may have to return it. It freezes up after a few minutes off use, and then goes into what appears to be the dreaded SOD.

JAnthony419 · Feb 6, 2012

how do you get the logcat, I have this issue atbut least once a day so I can wipe mine and when it occurs again I can wordpad and post it here. But I need to know the procedure to do this.

gls9 · Feb 6, 2012

JAnthony419 said:
how do you get the logcat, I have this issue atbut least once a day so I can wipe mine and when it occurs again I can wordpad and post it here. But I need to know the procedure to do this.

You can use adb for logcat, see here
But also in the market there are a lot of logcat viewers (search fort logcat)

chmilz · Feb 9, 2012

I used to have some SOD issues, but haven't had any in months. I do recall though that I only had SOD when screen lock setting was enabled, and I always used the pattern thing.

That said, power button is garbage and everything about the on/off system in the TF101 is disappointing.

mrevankyle · Feb 9, 2012

gls9 said:
You can use adb for logcat, see here
But also in the market there are a lot of logcat viewers (search fort logcat)

a MUCH easier way to do this is in the android sdk folder hit tools then open the ddms.bat

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