i've just bought a second hand xperia x10 from someone who is somewhat of a phoneconsumer, he had only just bought it and then when the iphone 4 was available he wanted that one instead. so i got it quite cheap. i'm not sure if i did a good buy here, and i am totally new to android phones. so i have a couple questions. the only thing i bought was the phone itself, the battery and the micro usb with charger and car charger. he said he didn't think he had the rest for it anylonger not even the box that it came in just the receipt.
now my main question is this, i've been reccommended to format, or reset the phone. is this necessary? and if so, why?
i'm guessing there would be a cd or something following the phone with the operator system on it, but I don't have any cd, so will i even be able to reset it without any software backups?
Reset the phone is done to remove any old contacts, SMS, MMS etc.
Probably a good idea if you don't want to keep info of your friends activities.
The phone is NOT delivered with any CD's, at least not mine.
SE PC Companion will start when you plug in your phone to your windows computer using the USB cable.
It can be used for updating the phones software (firmware) and other tasks.
Other software, SE Update Service for example, can be downloaded from SE web site.
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I just got a new T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant. Running 2.1 Froyo Update 1, on JI6 modem and 2.6.29 kernel. Stock unrooted so far.
When I plug in my Samsung Vibrant into my Windows 7 64bit Machine, it is not being detected by Windows Explorer. I installed Samsung's Kies Mini and to STILL not being detected by the program. I installed 64 bit drivers and nothing. I've tried a combination of setting under USB settings Samsung Kies, Media Player, Mass Storage and Ask on Connection. None of them work.
I enabled/disabled USB Debugging in combination with some of the usb settings. I've disconnected and tried every single USB port on the back of my motherboard. I've reset the phone, and my computer. NOTHING WORKS. If someone can point me in the right direction if would be GREATLY appreciated. This is my first android phone and so far its not going so well....Will give THANKS to anyone who helps. What my main goal is to wipe the phone clean, and install a 2.2 rom on it or even Vanilla 2.2 With Root. Still new to this stuff....
Have you gone to the samsung website and downloaded/installed the drivers for your phone?
Here's a link for within XDA that has both the 64 and the 32 bit drivers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
I think my issue is my LG Data cable. I've read around and apparently I need a Samsung Certifed USB Data Cable?
Edit: And yes I got the EXACT same drivers off the Softpedia page. Gonna reinstall for a another try but I'm 100% sure its my gimpy USB Cable.
Ah. I suppose that's possible as well. It's the same with car charger sometimes too. If it isn't setup with the exact same pins that your phone has then it won't work. So, even if the connectors look identical, apparently they're not.
Ah. I suppose that's possible as well. It's the same with car charger sometimes too. If it isn't setup with the exact same pins that your phone has then it won't work. So, even if the connectors look identical, apparently they're not.
You need a samsung certified data cable.
The pins look the same, but they aren't. Once you get the cable (I'm sure it's not more then $5), it should work. If you have T-Mobile around you (you have canada, so go to the provider that offers the equivalent of the Vibrant), ask to buy a "SAMSUNG CERTIFIED DATA CABLE". Nothing else.
Ordered one off of ebay should be arriving shortly. Hopefully this fixes my problems.
Same Problem
I'm having almost the same issue. However, rather than not being recognized by Windows, it tells me that there's a problem with the driver. And that's after I reinstalled Samsung's driver.
I'm not sure if the problem is with the phone, or with the cable, or with my computer. I'll try again at work on Monday.
In the meantime, assuming the problem is with the phone, how do I hard reset the phone, wiping the Samsung update, etc.? If I do so, will the Android Store know that I purchased all my apps, or will I have to buy them again?
And what backup program do you recommend for copying all my user data to my micro-SC card so that I don't loose everything.
Used my old BB cable and voila. Thanks for the help guys it was the USB cable indeed.
I recently picked up a secondhand Fascinate for my father and have a desire to root it and flash CM for him. Unfortunately, I've run into a roadblock right off the bat: I cannot connect my computer to the phone via USB. The phone only recognizes it as a charger.
The phone is vanilla and is at latest firmware.
The cables I've tried are LG cables from my own phone.
The computer is Win7 64-bit and has Samsung drivers installed.
Help?
EDIT:
Derp. Perhaps the issue is the cable. I've ordered an OEM cable to test this theory. Thoughts?
Cable could be the issue, I know it has been for some that have used after market USB/data cables. Worth trying in order to rule it out.
I would also strongly suggest using Droidstyles guide. Look in General section. Also, on my device, I sometimes have to "jiggle" the connection to the phone. Sounds odd but it works. You will know right away, pull battery and with ODIN open, plug phone in. Should show up in YELLOW.
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Ronjoe said:
I recently picked up a secondhand Fascinate for my father and have a desire to root it and flash CM for him. Unfortunately, I've run into a roadblock right off the bat: I cannot connect my computer to the phone via USB. The phone only recognizes it as a charger.
The phone is vanilla and is at latest firmware.
The cables I've tried are LG cables from my own phone.
The computer is Win7 64-bit and has Samsung drivers installed.
Help?
EDIT:
Derp. Perhaps the issue is the cable. I've ordered an OEM cable to test this theory. Thoughts?
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Ouch, you may be in a jam. I bought a Fascinate on craigslist. I went home, and fired up Heimdall to install CWM [for cm7], and I got "No device found."
It was charging, but that was all. It would do nothing else. I did get it to connect just a few times, after cleaning the USB connector with a small brush [It was a dental brush actually ]. But it clammed up on me again.
I called up Samsung, they said "You need to have the OEM cable. If it's still not working with the OEM cable we will set up a repair." So I went on amazon and bought the cheapest OEM cable I could find [I think it was $2 or $3, it's OEM samsung, but it's shorter than I thought. :-S ]
I was lucky enough to have 1 month left on the warranty. Unfortunately, you might not be so lucky.
After the repair, my USB worked fine. But then, every morning, I would wake my phone up and it would be in a frozen state. [with about 1 frames per second on the Screen-on animation]
I sent it in again, they replaced the main board, and I have not had any problems since.
If you don't have any warranty [there is a 1-year warranty from the date of purchase], I really hope the OEM cable will work for you. If you're out of warranty, the the OEM cable doesn't work, I guess you might try cleaning the port with a brush, maybe you'll get lucky!
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I've received the replacement cable and it seems to be working. My question is answered.
As a side question, what modifications you guys recommend for the phone in terms of stability and speed? Experience tells me to go for CM7 and CWM, but this phone's developer forum is quite a mess, with different variations of both.
I'd recommend either makelegs' CM7 kangs (in the dev section), or teamhacksung's ICS (find it at rootzwiki). Droidstyle's guide in the general section will get you up and running regardless of what rom you want to go for.
Thanks, k_niv, I've decided to go with makelegs's build. The ICS rom seems a bit... fresh. Keep in mind, this is actually for my father, who doesn't need to be dealing with bugs. He just wants his phone to work the way Android should: fast and Bingfree.
(I'm quite happy with my LG VS910, Gingervolt'd, but don't get me wrong, the Fascinate is damn nice for a year-old phone)
Thanks for the prompt help, my expectations were exceeded on this forum.
Some days ago, my o1 fell down but it doesn't semmed to have broke anything. The phone was acting perfectly normal.
Yesterday, i tried to charge it via AC and USB but none of those had any effect. I tried diferrect cables, different computers and wall sockets. None worked. Also, no computer detected the phone.
I tried different roms (G-T-R and PerfectPeso). Adb didn't recognized it neither did the kdz updater (was trying to get back to stock rom).
However, i discovered that the battery can be charged if the phone is in emergency mode, and this is why i haven't lose my hope yet (if it can be charged this way it means it might not be a hardware problem, right?)
Help, guys, don't know what else i can try.
Sorry about my English.
Thank you.
Renan_S said:
Some days ago, my o1 fell down but it doesn't semmed to have broke anything. The phone was acting perfectly normal.
Yesterday, i tried to charge it via AC and USB but none of those had any effect. I tried diferrect cables, different computers and wall sockets. None worked. Also, no computer detected the phone.
I tried different roms (G-T-R and PerfectPeso). Adb didn't recognized it neither did the kdz updater (was trying to get back to stock rom).
However, i discovered that the battery can be charged if the phone is in emergency mode, and this is why i haven't lose my hope yet (if it can be charged this way it means it might not be a hardware problem, right?)
Help, guys, don't know what else i can try.
Sorry about my English.
Thank you.
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best solution: lg service center
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Well, i went to the nearest authorized technical support and after some time waiting i was told that it may be a software problem and that it would cost me a value that ive calculated to be greater than 25% of the money i've originally paid to buy the phone. Also, for "some reason" the technician couldn't run his repair software.
Tried flashing a rom with a different version of android (CM9), it didn't work. Discovered that i can't restore, in a nadroid backup, the cache partition or the sd-ext partiton (i'm not sure of wich one), or i'll have bootloops.
Really, should i give up?
WHATEVER HAPPENS INSIDE YOU PHONE DOESNT MATTER AT ALL MAIN POINT IS THAT IT SHOULDNT BE VISIBLE
IF THIS IS YOUR CASE GO ,GO TO LG PEOPLE AND SAY please repair it
This is the best method adopted by any dev to overcome any majour problem in our beloved optimus one
njoy
EDIT :
I think you shouldnt get it repaired if its costing more than 25% as its technology is now very old and its not worth that much
Save some money and buy a new android phone
Well, i'm kinda out of options now, since i was stolen today and my O1 was taken from me =\
Btw, tha Plan B app really works???
Problem:
After flashing to 2.3.3 x10i on my x10a after a couple of months the phone _stopped_ charging (and giving any kind of usb connectivity to the computer too).
I was trying to use : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054818
However for it all to work I need to have my phone rooted (which it isn't).
I could not find any way to root the phone locally (Gingerbreak just said "exploiting" for half an hour and didn't anything). ZergRush requires adb from a computer over usb, but usb doesn't connect in anyway :/
I am a bit constrained in terms of battery since I have only 50% left to get this phone back to life.
I'm very knowledgeable in regard of linux so throw anything at me guys.
It seems to me like I would need an another exploit all together to actually pull this off.. but I'm hoping that you guys have some slightly easier or better ideas..
Thank You! :laugh:
That happened to me man, it's not actually a problem with your ROM, it's probably with the phone itself.
Some XPERIA X10 phones went off the to market with USB connectivity problems. I had to ship mine to warranty to get it solved, and the only option they ended up with was giving me a new phone.
I wouldn't worry much about rom, my phone took a little while to come, but they disregarded any root/software-related loss of warranty, as the problem was with the hardware itself.
Try contacting the store where you bought your phone and they will aid you in replacing it. In case your warranty is already expired, you can always send it to the tech and ask them for the replacement of your USB connector, it's not very expensive. The values I got in Brazil were R$150,00 (~U$75,00).
Anyway, rest assured it's factory malfunction. Just search Sony's forums and you'll see lots of people with the same issue.
Peace
Hi there I am new here..
I bought a 'strange phone' at low cost, the model tag is 'HTC M9et', but the setting shown it is HTC Me, and it looks and works exactly like the Me, but it got dual SIM for the Chinese market sold by China Mobile, so I guess most of the h/w are the same as the Me except the radio. I got 2 problem with it, first it misses the update option on the settings so I couldn't do OTA update, it is still running on Lollipop. Secondly the USB mass storage doesn't work, when I connect it to the PC via USB nothing happened except the charging light, actually it does show briefly a lightning icon inside a square box, but nothing happened on the PC side, I tried both Linux and windows both the same., but I can connect card reader via it's USB, so the port is working normally. Because of the above problem I couldn't do USB tethering with it, I used my phones for internet via USB and Bluetooth for long time without problem regardless the computer OS in use. I suspect it is a locked phone the carrier removed some features, but strange is that I can use any SIM with it without problem. What I am trying to do is to get a custom ROM for it hopefully I can get back the full features, but first I must know the correct ROM to use, I don't want to spoil the phone although it is cheap, and I've little experience flashing my Motorola Droid Razar with CM ROM, please help me out many thanks !!!
To give a bit more info I just find out, the model type is
htc_hima_ace_ml_dtul
mmmh.... I found this post, after trying to solve very much the same problem. However it seems that this has not been resolved, so apologies for hijacking your thread. Hope someone has some answers or can point us in the right direction.