I am under the impression that they are evolving and becoming self aware, this is a plot from google to take control of the world.

but in all seriousness Im not sure what to tell you. is there any way you might of hit the camera button before putting it to sleep? I just tried this turned on the camera and put the device to sleep, the woke it up and unlocked it and the camera was still running.

 

Remember the phone will turn on by the button on the side. You sure you didn't smash that button while it was in your pocket?

I don't know if you can disable that button at all with settings though.

 

It looks like you purchased an Imperial Probe Droid.

StarWars.com | Imperial probe droid

My suggestion: get into your X-wing and escape to the Dagobah system ASAP. You don't have the Jedi training required to defeat Darth Sergey or Darth Larry just yet, let alone take on Emperor Schmidt.

 

I just had an experience yesterday that I wanted to share. The symptoms were the same as described above - phone hot, screen on, battery dead. The cause may be similar too.

I'm 90% sure what caused it for me: the GPS app that I was running ("My Tracks") set a property that told the Droid not to let the screen go to sleep. This combined with the app's increased CPU usage, GPS usage, network usage, all at once, combined to give me a hot phone, dead battery, with the screen not automatically going asleep after 15 seconds as normal.

The blame should be shared equally between the app and the droid. First, the app should have allowed the screen to go blank IF its activity was backgrounded - in onPause(). Second, the Droid should have noticed that the activity was paused and so it doesn't need for the screen to be kept awake because its activity is no longer active.

So it seems if there is an app that sets the "don't let the screen go to sleep" property, that app must relinquish that setting when it gets paused, otherwise the droid won't be allowed to go to sleep automatically.

 

So, you're blaming the DROID for staying on because a third party app doesn't know what to do?

 

Don't try and over-simplify what I said. Re-read what I said and answer your own question.