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07/27/2010, 11:58 PM
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My Pre (Sprint) has been working well, finally. All of a sudden tonight I noticed it got very, very hot and my battery (Seido 1350) was draining at an alarming rate (like 20 percent in a few minutes!) The phone was almost too hot to hold. The only change is that I updated to the new beta release of Facebook earlier this evening before all this started, although it seems unlikely it could be related.
I turned airplane mode on, thinking it may be because I was in an area with not great coverage (I had driven about an hour from my house, and when I arrived at my destination and noticed the problem, my battery was in the mid-80's, so the problem must have somehow started while I was in the car and the device was not being used).
I powered off, did a battery pull, a few times in fact, and the problem continued.
I thought maybe something went wrong with the Seidio battery, so I took the battery out and left the phone off because it just kept getting hotter and hotter (looking at both Govnah and Battery Monitor, the battery seemed hotter than the CPU, although the CPU was fast catching up and eventually I got the critical temp warning as I was turning it off). Govnah, when I checked it, was also showing battery drain of 1200+!
Came home and put in the OEM battery, hoping all would return to normal. But it instantly got hot again--it would heat up as soon as the battery went in, even with airplane mode still on, and the battery was draining at an incredible pace again.
So finally, I doctored the phone, reluctantly, figuring that would surely solve the problem. I wasn't sure it would make it through the doctor successfully, but it did. However, no dice--the phone, running immediately after the doctor, is heating up the same even before I have re-synched my Palm profile.
I called Sprint; they really don't know what the problem is, of course, but made an appointment for me with repair tomorrow at a local store. I suspect they will just replace it (and I was able to copy everything over on USB, so hopefully I did not lose anything).
Has anyone else seen this before? I follow these forums pretty closely and don't recall anything quite like this. And does anyone have any solutions other than replacement?
(It won't even power on now if I try putting the battery back in--I just get the plug and red battery, suggesting the battery is already dead).
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