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What is the fastest way to shutdown unrooted Android phone?
In fact without removing battery it's not possible to shut down a device completely in order to avoid the loss that could possibly occur due to short circuit caused by water.
Let's have a brief look ...
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How can I shutdown my Android phone using an adb command?
In the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) shutdown doesn't work. Instead, try doing
adb shell reboot -p
or
adb shell
reboot -p
PS E:\platform-tools> .\adb.exe devices
List of devices attached
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Is it possible to send a text as my un-rooted device is shutting down using Tasker or any other method?
You should use State > Battery Level as a profile context with minimum and maximum battery as 3%.
In the task, You can use %SMSRN to get phone number of last received SMS.
Then to check the ...
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Power saver or shutdown - which conserves charge better?
Power save conserves better battery since rebooting or switching the device on typically drops battery charge by a minimum of 1 to 1.5 % , as you can test yourself. This is hardware related and ...
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Apps stay in background even after turning the phone off
That is the default behavior of Android from Lollipop onwards. See this blog which talks of that ( Recents (or Overview)). It is only a list of apps that you used is shown and it doesn't mean that ...
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Why does the phone shutdown and battery drains super fast on 20% or less capacity when taking pictures?
Long read with plenty of links. I will summarize so that one gets the key points and if needed dive in for details
Battery levels are not accurate
Firstly, battery levels based on voltage are an ...
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An Pixel XL phone shutdown by itself
Based on the provided logcat it seems like the shutdown is initiated by the healthd that manages for example the battery status:
healthd : battery l=63 v=3913 t=72.7 h=3 st=2 c=5 chg=u
This line ...
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What is the fastest way to shutdown unrooted Android phone?
You can shut down your device by holding
Volume Up + Power Button
simultaneously for several seconds.
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Is there an advantage to powering-off the device "properly"?
Shutting down an Android device isn't that much different than shutting down a computer — it gives any apps that want it notice the device is being shut down (allowing them to save data, cleanly ...
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Eight seconds after powering on, my phone goes dark and becomes unresponsive. What can I do?
I have owned several Samsung galaxy devices (including an S3 which is somewhat similar to your phone). Often I find that the battery becomes faulty after 2 years of usage. The symptoms you mention ...
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