Hi All,
I have a problem with my Hero, and i am hoping some one could help, here goes:
I had my hero for about 6 month working perfectly including GPS with Waze.
Yestderday i decided to try out some new roms, i backed up my stock (with root) firmware 1.5 with nandroid. i installed Villainrom V12 everything worked exept Waze, it kept giving me messeges that there is no satelite reception (which is not possible cause i always used to get reception there). So i went back and restored my backup and now it's the same, no satelite reception . . .
Did i some how fry my GPS component ? or is it fixable.
Thanks in Advance
Can't really help you with a fix but last sunday I didn't get a sat fix at home, drive 50 miles to London, still no fix, tried turning the phone on and off, gps on and off still wouldn't get a fix all the way there. Stayed in London for three hours, turned gps on when I left and got a instant fix! Been working fine ever since!
I've had very similar problems with my GPS. It worked great on stock, but when I installed a custom ROM, I started having intermittent issues. I'm using VillainROM 12 and the most recent radio, and sometimes I get a fix right away, and other times I don't get a fix at all. When I can't get a fix, rebooting the phone almost always gets it working again. I had the same problem with an older radio and VillainROM 10. I do remember seeing a tentative workaround somewhere in these forums, but am having trouble finding it again...
I spoke to soon, I tried it with gps status last night, wouldn't get a lock, drove 6 miles, still no lock, left in on for an hour, still no lock. Did a hard reset last night, got an near instant lock with gps status. I've tried it about 4 times today, got a lock everytime. I'll test it all week and see what happens.
Well i had kept my stock radio , maybe i should try updating that and see what happens.
@marky33 When you say hard reset what do you mean ? did you take the battery out ?
Hard reset is just shut down the phone and turn it on again (rather than soft - i.e. reboot using buttons). This can fix GPS issues but in most recent ROM's it should be fixed by default. It can also be a radio issue - get the latest and you shouldn't have a problem.
Ive had this problem with villainrom 12, the fix used to be to switch on the gps before a reboot, and then after rebooting ( with the GPS switched on) it would work and find satellites.
I havnt had this problem since switching to Radio 63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.14
Radio I used which had this problem with villainrom was 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.09.26
btdag said:
Hard reset is just shut down the phone and turn it on again (rather than soft - i.e. reboot using buttons). This can fix GPS issues but in most recent ROM's it should be fixed by default. It can also be a radio issue - get the latest and you shouldn't have a problem.
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Haven't you got hard and soft the wrong way round?
solarporing said:
Well i had kept my stock radio , maybe i should try updating that and see what happens.
@marky33 When you say hard reset what do you mean ? did you take the battery out ?
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Like this below, wipes all user data
Power the unit off (removing the battery if necessary)
Hold down the Home and Back keys
Press the power button whilst still holding down the Home and Back keys
After a few seconds a message will be displayed on the screen prompting you to press the Menu button to confirm the reset process.
Release all buttons, then press the Menu button to hard reset the device
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Haven't you got hard and soft the wrong way round?
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No, a hard reset is usually a reset which removes all power from a device and then starts again - i.e. resetting the hardware itself by removing power
A soft reset is a software reset - i.e. rebooting the software of the phone
marky33 said:
Like this below, wipes all user data
Power the unit off (removing the battery if necessary)
Hold down the Home and Back keys
Press the power button whilst still holding down the Home and Back keys
After a few seconds a message will be displayed on the screen prompting you to press the Menu button to confirm the reset process.
Release all buttons, then press the Menu button to hard reset the device
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What you're talking about is probably a "factory reset" which should reset the device to factory defaults (i.e. just been sent from HTC's manufacturing factory). But i have never seen it referenced to as a fix for GPS issues - or any issues involving custom rom's for that matter.
I stand corrected about hard and soft
Just wanted to let the people know that the problem was solved after doing the same thing as nijnvy, the second i updated i am getting gps lock in seconds.
Thanks to every one
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I have had a problem for a while. My wifi settings (SSID, keys etc.) disappear when i soft reset making my thumbs sore entering SSIDs WPA keys, user/pass for my network shares etc.
I think this started when i flashed rom/radio, but its hard to tell since i have long since lost count of how many flashes I've done just the last couple of weeks (damn you time stealin' WM6).
I'm now back on recent offical WM5, but this problem persists.
Anyone else have this problem?
Any fixes?
Did you try a power off by pressing and holding the power button for 4 secs????? A soft reset will not save registry settings.
Thats how i always do my softresets unless the phone locks up.
So here's a peculiar incident:
I have a CDMA TP with a stock ROM and a few basic apps I gathered from these forums and others. I've had it for less than a week.
Tonite, I went to check my text messages. Suddenly, the screen went black and the phone stopped responding. After pressing the power button and fiddling with the keys, I pulled out the stylus and did a soft reset. No response. Confused by this, I tried again, but still nothing. I removed the battery, and turned the phone back on. It froze at the "Touch Pro" screen with the rom/radio/etc info at the bottom. After repeating this a few times I decided to do a hard reset. So, I turn the device on and perform the hard reset. By this point the TP is only turning on SOME TIMES, and I have to take the battery out and put it back in often just to get it to start successfully. So, I finally get the device to boot up and it starts to configure WinMo. Suddenly, while configuring, it freezes. Now I try to turn it back on, and nothing happens.
Basically the device is stuck like this, shifting between not turning on at all and turning on but freezing at the "Touch Pro" screen.
So, my question is, what the heck is going on here? Has anyone else had this problem, or does this sound familiar to anyone? Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
p.s. Yes, the battery is fully charged.
kameisama said:
So here's a peculiar incident:
I have a CDMA TP with a stock ROM and a few basic apps I gathered from these forums and others. I've had it for less than a week.
Tonite, I went to check my text messages. Suddenly, the screen went black and the phone stopped responding. After pressing the power button and fiddling with the keys, I pulled out the stylus and did a soft reset. No response. Confused by this, I tried again, but still nothing. I removed the battery, and turned the phone back on. It froze at the "Touch Pro" screen with the rom/radio/etc info at the bottom. After repeating this a few times I decided to do a hard reset. So, I turn the device on and perform the hard reset. By this point the TP is only turning on SOME TIMES, and I have to take the battery out and put it back in often just to get it to start successfully. So, I finally get the device to boot up and it starts to configure WinMo. Suddenly, while configuring, it freezes. Now I try to turn it back on, and nothing happens.
Basically the device is stuck like this, shifting between not turning on at all and turning on but freezing at the "Touch Pro" screen.
So, my question is, what the heck is going on here? Has anyone else had this problem, or does this sound familiar to anyone? Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
p.s. Yes, the battery is fully charged.
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Time to take it in and get a new one.....
Same problem here phone started b not coming out of lock mode. Backlight is on but no display on screen (if i tilt the screen left and right i can see light coming from behind) did about 6 hard resets and still same problem. also power button works whenever it wants to. this phone sucks @ss, i want my mogul back. on a second note my replacement will be here on wednesday.
Touch Pro stock rom purchased back in nov when it came out
yeah, i've had the same problem, i found if i hit my phone on the back or side and then batter pull and hit the soft reset while off, not the power button to turn it back on, it comes back on with color on the screen not just blank black screen with backlight, this works mostly every time, but when it doesn't, i just hold the power button down and do battery pull and hit the power button and it works, its like its got a combo of things you have to do before it works.. weird
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I have also had similar problems. I for some reason sometimes have to remove my SD card and boot up without it for some reason. Not all the time, but every once in a blue moon. Not too sure how that affects anything, but you may try that too.
well i started a thread here ***help*** because i kinda have the same problem.
i downloaded some cabs, nothing fancy but i had some problems with a theme i downloaded. when i went to deleted i couldnt..... to make a story short, i took it to the sprint store where they tried to do a master reset/ hard reset and it wont take it. it wont do a thing... they say some important files are missing...
the phone works but not the way it should... the time on the home screen wont show up. and some other small things...
dont know how this happened but i would like to know... im worried about new programs to the phone now. ( getting a new one)
still want to see if i can fix this one.
Mayonesa said:
well i started a thread here ***help*** because i kinda have the same problem.
i downloaded some cabs, nothing fancy but i had some problems with a theme i downloaded. when i went to deleted i couldnt..... to make a story short, i took it to the sprint store where they tried to do a master reset/ hard reset and it wont take it. it wont do a thing... they say some important files are missing...
the phone works but not the way it should... the time on the home screen wont show up. and some other small things...
dont know how this happened but i would like to know... im worried about new programs to the phone now. ( getting a new one)
still want to see if i can fix this one.
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Have you tried re flashing the ROM?
it wasnt HTC's fault for your phone's not booting...thats what happens when u try to mess with the hardware too much and you dont know what your doing
Would you want to sell???
Reboot Brick HTC process
****DOn't take battery out after hard boot***
1.just watch videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk56olMkCtU and do what they do but dont take battery out. LEAVE phone STUCK on BOOT screen. Nothign else will move or work but you want phone just like that.
2. connect usb cable to active sync. (this may not link up but leave usb connected anyhow) Do not delete phone profile.
3.use rom like Download MightyROM6_Herman.exe avail at: http://www.lilrico.com/Mighty/mightyromblog/?p=454
4 although active sync is still attatched but may not be connecting. It will connect thru usb anyway when you run the rom software. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2I2WAFkg4&NR=1
This worked and kept phone from cutting on and off. and restored ROM. don't know about original htc boot. but your phone will work under this rom for now and you can go from there.
hey thanks plain ole dumb, it works now.
man I thought it was over.
thanks again
So by accident I launched a CHT file from my SD Card which essentially crashed sense. No biggie, did a hard reset and thought I would be okay.
Wrong.
When I hold down the end key (to either load johcos' end key or even if i uninstall it) my screen is dead. The hard keys work, but not the screen.
Anyone have a suggestion? I have been using tmo-us stock rom without problems until yesterday when this started. I realize I could flash a new rom and maybe it is time...but tis very annoying this is happening after a hard reset.
Thanks.
still not working after flashing energy rom
argh.
flashed energy.
same problem.
now have to work...but any suggestions? my long hard key is dead and freezes my phone. hard reset/ new rom did nothing.
thanks.
same with android
so now anytime my phone goes to lock screen the screen stops functioning though the hardkeys work just fine.
thought i would try android and be savvy...but wrong.
same problem.
any ideas? i am ready to take a hammer to this damn thing...
This recently happened to my GF's phone, She said she was just playing a game one day, it froze so she popped the battery out and rebooted. Now every time she uses the End/Power ( red ) hard button to shutoff or wake up the device, the screen stays locked and won't respond.
I have tried soft reset, hard reset, different lock screens and what not. The only solution I found, besides sending it in, is to let the screen shut off by itself, and then wake it up with the Call/Send ( green ) hard button.
You can also try using the End/Power hard button to lock it, but then as long as you wake it with the Call/Send hard button it should be fine.
It has worked every time now. Try it and see if it helps! It's a little annoying but it saves money and insurance!
Going to repost this in all those previous listed threads to see if it helps anyone else.
Good Luck!
Hi, I have a 2 week old handset which has now twice displayed a pretty strange/annoying bug.
I have been using no Stamina settings other than location based WiFi and queue background data for the most part to gauge battery life under my normal work schedule but I noticed last week that my saved WiFi at home wasn't on, so instinctively I tried to click the WiFi symbol but to no avail.
I then tried to restart the phone, but when pressing the power off option, it simply booted me back on to the screen I was on before hand. This continually happened until I got pee'd off and repaired it.
Again today I ran into the exact same problem. No WiFi and I could not power off. After several attempts at powering off I managed to get it to boot into safe mode where I started uninstalling apps to rule out any rogue apps. I still couldn't reboot forcing me to repair and wipe the phone.
I keep telling myself that this is merely a software bug and I can't seem to find other posts where people are suffering similar problems.
So I futilely ask, has anyone ever had anything similar happen to theirs?.
Yeah I think this is a software bug too, a similar thing has happened to me a couple of times with the wifi becoming "stuck" and rebooting the phone fixed it but if you're having trouble shutting down your phone, have you got quickboot enabled? Regardless of that though, you do have two options to force a restart, either hold volume up and power, this will force shutdown or press the small red button next to the sim card tray.
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Yeah I think this is a software bug too, a similar thing has happened to me a couple of times with the wifi becoming "stuck" and rebooting the phone fixed it but if you're having trouble shutting down your phone, have you got quickboot enabled? Regardless of that though, you do have two options to force a restart, either hold volume up and power, this will force shutdown or press the small red button next to the sim card tray.
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I am pretty sure it is the quick boot option now. Stupid bug.
Phew...don't have to return it now.
I think sony have disabled the quick boot functionality for some reason, I ticked it thinking it might be almost like a reboot instead of power off & then power on, later I noticed the power off menu wasn't doing anything when tapping it, was almost about to do a reset but then remembered I ticked the quick boot option.
Hope they enable it in future updates.
Hello, I have some big issues with my S3.
I have been using Android Revolution HD v29 for a long long time and a week ago I decided to update it to v52. Everything was working well, but then the camera started acting weird ( it had some pink lines ) but it wasn`t such a big problem and I let it go. Today, the power button became very sensitive. Even a simple touch turns the screen on and a press opens the power off menu.
Now, it is restarting itself all the time, I took the battery out and now when I put it back on, the phone starts without touching the power button. I tried going to download mode but after a time it restarts again. I am worried that if I try to install a stock rom, it will restart again and I can do more damage to my phone.
What should I do ? I am posting here because I don`t think this is a ROM issue because everything was working fine, it seems to be a hardware problem. My phone is still in warranty but it is rooted atm.
I hope you guys can help me
Axxell19 said:
Hello, I have some big issues with my S3.
I have been using Android Revolution HD v29 for a long long time and a week ago I decided to update it to v52. Everything was working well, but then the camera started acting weird ( it had some pink lines ) but it wasn`t such a big problem and I let it go. Today, the power button became very sensitive. Even a simple touch turns the screen on and a press opens the power off menu.
Now, it is restarting itself all the time, I took the battery out and now when I put it back on, the phone starts without touching the power button. I tried going to download mode but after a time it restarts again. I am worried that if I try to install a stock rom, it will restart again and I can do more damage to my phone.
What should I do ? I am posting here because I don`t think this is a ROM issue because everything was working fine, it seems to be a hardware problem. My phone is still in warranty but it is rooted atm.
I hope you guys can help me
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did you tried to make a factory reset?
Axxell19 said:
Hello, I have some big issues with my S3.
I have been using Android Revolution HD v29 for a long long time and a week ago I decided to update it to v52. Everything was working well, but then the camera started acting weird ( it had some pink lines ) but it wasn`t such a big problem and I let it go. Today, the power button became very sensitive. Even a simple touch turns the screen on and a press opens the power off menu.
Now, it is restarting itself all the time, I took the battery out and now when I put it back on, the phone starts without touching the power button. I tried going to download mode but after a time it restarts again. I am worried that if I try to install a stock rom, it will restart again and I can do more damage to my phone.
What should I do ? I am posting here because I don`t think this is a ROM issue because everything was working fine, it seems to be a hardware problem. My phone is still in warranty but it is rooted atm.
I hope you guys can help me
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It's a hardware problem, the power button is daamaged or stuck (thats why it turns itself on with battery). Also, pink lines on the camera are symptom of a bad contact, you should also get that camera checked.
Try and get it stable. Maybe open it and try to get the power button to stop resetting the device.
Next, triangle away, and flash a stock rom with odin (follow the guide on getting back to factory state with 0 flash counter). Remember that to avoid having the binary flash count at 1 you have to turn it off after triangle away finishes resetting the counter and before the phone boots android. Then flash a stock rom with odin.
Best of luck.
I did a factory reset right now and it seems to be better. The autoreset has stopped, I don`t know it it is because of the factory reset or the button is working fine for the moment, but at least I can flash a stock rom now.
Anyway, the camera issue and the sensitive button are still there.
L.E : I am now back to full stock and everything works fine, if the problems come back I will take it to warranty.
Thanks for your help !!