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I got my Galaxy S II about 3 days ago and love it. Apart from some annoyances (I'm looking at you Touchwiz) no problems... installed Launcherpro and here we go
Today I woke up and bam. Flight mode.
Factory reset
Wipe USB storage and SD card
Wipe cache from recovery (stock recovery)
No change.
So now I have a very fancy Samsung Galaxy II Player. I called tech support and they asked me to try another sim (which I had done) then told me to clear the cache (which I had done) blah blah... then they ended up telling me to send it back to Amazon as faulty.
Great, just great.
Anyone else had this problem?
Nope, haven't had this.
Intratech said:
Nope, haven't had this.
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I'm wondering... if I flashed an update.zip from stock recovery if the issue might go away... it's clearly software.
Just need to find an update.zip file....
Also something quirky is happening with regards to lock screens. Had unlock pattern enabled and then switched off however it still remains on but only needs a press on the screen to unlock.
Personally wouldn't try flashing if it's being funky. Last thing you want is to get stuck with non standard firmware if you still need to return it.
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Personally wouldn't try flashing if it's being funky. Last thing you want is to get stuck with non standard firmware if you still need to return it.
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I want to flash and official update...
p.s.
This sounds similar except I can't turn Aeroplane mode on or off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083358
I have the same problem with the phone that I bought today (a problem I noticed after 15 minutes of purchase). Tomorrow I bring it to a Samsung service center to confirm it as DOA so I can do the replacement for the operator ... I am disappointed that I was wasting my time on these things ...
p.s after I try code *2767*3855# a have no problems for last hour...
today i have problems again and I replace my galaxy...I hav new one without any problems...
I have a somewhat similar problem.
My Galaxy S II randomly goes into flight mode every now and then. It's not a permanent thing like what you guys experience, but it is an annoyance.
Couple that with the "wifi sharing" bug and I think we can say that Samsung has some faulty radio firmware in the Galaxy S II.
flash the generic xeu of ke7 from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
this was tried but didn't work. Even a new radio package was flashed . Didn't help.
SGS2 running India distribution 2.3.3, unlocked. Not rooted. Stuck in flight mode, becacuse IMEI # cannot be read. Help !
could it be efs partition corruption?
It probably is /efs corruption. How do I recover it ?
Posting on behalf of my brother..
He to has this problem. Nothing we do fix's this resetting to factory defaults changing sim card formatting memory card..
Since it's done this.. it uses the battery from a full charge to near empty within ~5 hours
Bought 29th Aug 2011
They wont honor the warranty even though it broke down at only 2 months old.
DuttBeefe said:
Posting on behalf of my brother..
He to has this problem. Nothing we do fix's this resetting to factory defaults changing sim card formatting memory card..
Since it's done this.. it uses the battery from a full charge to near empty within ~5 hours
Bought 29th Aug 2011
They wont honor the warranty even though it broke down at only 2 months old.
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Have you gone through Samsung directly? (Register on their website and request a repair).
I had this problem just now. Couldn't get it out of flight mode. Saying no sim etc...
The way I fixed it was to remove the sim and battery, replace them, turn the phone back on, the hold the power button to bring up the power options and press turn off flight mode. It now works again.
Not good that after I googled this problem it seems to be quite common.
tpr007 said:
Have you gone through Samsung directly? (Register on their website and request a repair).
I had this problem just now. Couldn't get it out of flight mode. Saying no sim etc...
The way I fixed it was to remove the sim and battery, replace them, turn the phone back on, the hold the power button to bring up the power options and press turn off flight mode. It now works again.
Not good that after I googled this problem it seems to be quite common.
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I have this issue too, bloody annoying. I did a kernal update and I hope that fixes it. But will give your method ago.
My post is here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21557309#post21557309
I had an interesting problem. My phone sometime stuck on flight mode. I had to restart device 4-5 times to disable flight mode(flight mode menu becomes transparent or untouchable). After a while button becomes enable and phone starts normally. But it's annoying problem.
Now I'm using Lite'ning Rom v1.1 XXLPH. Even in stock LPH,LPB, KK5 2.3.6.... every firmware I had same problems occasionally.
What's the problem? There is nothing wrong with IMEI (but I can't see IMEI in flight mode).
go in it recovery and clear data and then go to fix permissions
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So is there a simple solution for this anoying problem, or it cames back every time ?
With Android 4.0 or 4.1 is the same?
I need to know as I am thinking of buying one that as this problem, at a good price.
Should i buy it?
thanks
Have you tried to reflash with kies?
I believe there is a recover option there? Atleast that wont get your waranty voided.
Never actually tried it since i only use heimdall & odin but might be worth a try!
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galaxy gt i9003 -stuck in flight mode, not reading SIM
pzayx said:
Have you tried to reflash with kies?
I believe there is a recover option there? Atleast that wont get your waranty voided.
Never actually tried it since i only use heimdall & odin but might be worth a try!
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kalpa108: galaxy gt i9003 stuck in flight mode, not reading SIM...and not recognised by recent version of KIES. Factory Reset does not fix this, device is not rooted, yet, but there's always a 1st time! Can this be done w/o any connection? Trying to download old KIES versions too.
Any layman ideas?
Yep. You're in the wrong forum, this in for I9100/variants.
Hi all, I figured this was the best place to ask this question as you lot seem to know alot
On friday evening my UK GS3 was updated to 19300XXBLFB via kies since then 90% of the time i make a phone call i get a com.android.phone stopped working message, if i press ok the call hangs up if i dont then i can still talk.
I cant recieve any calls as my phone just freezes, I have tried a factory reset and even tried a firmware and initilisation thing through kies but the problem is still happening.
I dont know if i could *flash* my phone and if i could would it solve the problem and or affect my warranty?
Cheers:crying:
jamsterdm said:
Hi all, I figured this was the best place to ask this question as you lot seem to know alot
On friday evening my UK GS3 was updated to 19300XXBLFB via kies since then 90% of the time i make a phone call i get a com.android.phone stopped working message, if i press ok the call hangs up if i dont then i can still talk.
I cant recieve any calls as my phone just freezes, I have tried a factory reset and even tried a firmware and initilisation thing through kies but the problem is still happening.
I dont know if i could *flash* my phone and if i could would it solve the problem and or affect my warranty?
Cheers:crying:
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It's your phone rooted?
If it is, try a custom ROM
Just 're flash it with Odin
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jamsterdm said:
Hi all, I figured this was the best place to ask this question as you lot seem to know alot
On friday evening my UK GS3 was updated to 19300XXBLFB via kies since then 90% of the time i make a phone call i get a com.android.phone stopped working message, if i press ok the call hangs up if i dont then i can still talk.
Backup data and factory reset first .
You can if not fixed try flashing the firmware for your phone or a stock Samsung rom from the stock rom threads ,
Ignore root and custom rom fix .
jje
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Um I don't know how to rom or do anything like that :/
My phone is unbranded that's all I cab really say :/ sorry
jamsterdm said:
Um I don't know how to rom or do anything like that :/
My phone is unbranded that's all I cab really say :/ sorry
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Take it back to the shop you got if from
jamsterdm said:
Um I don't know how to rom or do anything like that :/
My phone is unbranded that's all I cab really say :/ sorry
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Stock firmware flash via Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671969
Or as said return under warranty Kies failure .
jje
do a factory reset. see if that fixes it. if not reflash. if none of the above works, try another firmware. if still fail, exchange your phone.
jamsterdm said:
Hi all, I figured this was the best place to ask this question as you lot seem to know alot
On friday evening my UK GS3 was updated to 19300XXBLFB via kies since then 90% of the time i make a phone call i get a com.android.phone stopped working message, if i press ok the call hangs up if i dont then i can still talk.
I cant recieve any calls as my phone just freezes, I have tried a factory reset and even tried a firmware and initilisation thing through kies but the problem is still happening.
I dont know if i could *flash* my phone and if i could would it solve the problem and or affect my warranty?
Cheers:crying:
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For you, a simple fix would be to back up all your settings, information, etc through kies. And then factory reset your phone in the settings and have it delete "everything."
Then sync all your apps, settings, contacts, etc through kies. Give this a try.
Later on if you feel more comfortable with hacking and flashing after doing tons of research, and I recommend doing a lot of research by reading all the stickie topics here. Then go right ahead. It does void your warranty but you can undue the hacks.
Thanks guys, I've just found that there is a repair center about a hour away so will be popping in there as soon as I can and I will call Samsung tomorrow and see what they advise
Don't use kies, its rubbish, broke my sgs1, stick to odin, flash latest stock for your area after full wipe, will be fine
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If you've backed up your contacts and used Facebook contact sync app then simply don't restore your contacts after a factory reset. Worked for me
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I recently brought a Galaxy s advance, i installed too many apps in it. it was working fine. But few days ago some problems Started, like whenever a phone call came and i received it, it started to Hang in between and the call got STUCK. While i am playing games or doing any work it also got HUNG even while opening YOUTUBE App. The biggest thing I never ROOTED my device and these problem started. I had setup AUTOMATIC UPDATE means by going to settings > About phone > sotware update > Automatic update. Then my phone showed a software update notice that a update i available. I first had Android 2.3.6 then i updated my phone. while updating it first rebooted and went into recovery mood and started updating. but as the update finished it got shutdown and never started again. I tried every thing i could ,tried to start it in recovery mode and other things i also tried but to no avail.
Please help me its my new phone and i am new to android. Thanks
shehrozali said:
I recently brought a Galaxy s advance, i installed too many apps in it. it was working fine. But few days ago some problems Started, like whenever a phone call came and i received it, it started to Hang in between and the call got STUCK. While i am playing games or doing any work it also got HUNG even while opening YOUTUBE App. The biggest thing I never ROOTED my device and these problem started. I had setup AUTOMATIC UPDATE means by going to settings > About phone > sotware update > Automatic update. Then my phone showed a software update notice that a update i available. I first had Android 2.3.6 then i updated my phone. while updating it first rebooted and went into recovery mood and started updating. but as the update finished it got shutdown and never started again. I tried every thing i could ,tried to start it in recovery mode and other things i also tried but to no avail.
Please help me its my new phone and i am new to android. Thanks
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Dude it's not rooted a new phone then what are you waiting for go to service center if you try something yourself you might void warranty
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sak-venom1997 said:
Dude it's not rooted a new phone then what are you waiting for go to service center if you try something yourself you might void warranty
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I all ready have given it to the service center, BUT wanna know what happened to my phone. The update was official. so why my phone bricked.
shehrozali said:
I all ready have given it to the service center, BUT wanna know what happened to my phone. The update was official. so why my phone bricked.
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I don't think the updated would have caused an issue coz companies like samsung test their updates before they release it for users
The issue would be something else
What r u waiting for hit the Thanxxx Button
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Thank you man. But can you give me a hint about the problem, what caused it.
shehrozali said:
Thank you man. But can you give me a hint about the problem, what caused it.
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U said that u install many apps so probalbly you would have corrupted you system / partition
Don't jus say it press it
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same same problem..
shehrozali said:
I recently brought a Galaxy s advance, i installed too many apps in it. it was working fine. But few days ago some problems Started, like whenever a phone call came and i received it, it started to Hang in between and the call got STUCK. While i am playing games or doing any work it also got HUNG even while opening YOUTUBE App. The biggest thing I never ROOTED my device and these problem started. I had setup AUTOMATIC UPDATE means by going to settings > About phone > sotware update > Automatic update. Then my phone showed a software update notice that a update i available. I first had Android 2.3.6 then i updated my phone. while updating it first rebooted and went into recovery mood and started updating. but as the update finished it got shutdown and never started again. I tried every thing i could ,tried to start it in recovery mode and other things i also tried but to no avail.
Please help me its my new phone and i am new to android. Thanks
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Hi shehrozali,
i have the same problem. my 20 days old galaxy s advance wont turn on and also not going to recovery mode by pressing vlume, power and home button . i just updated my software through automatic update in the setting menu and now my mobile is just like dead. plz help me if u now know abt this problem and by rpairing how much it will cost, plz send me ur cellphone number.
Same Problem here
ghufrankhan said:
Hi shehrozali,
i have the same problem. my 20 days old galaxy s advance wont turn on and also not going to recovery mode by pressing vlume, power and home button . i just updated my software through automatic update in the setting menu and now my mobile is just like dead. plz help me if u now know abt this problem and by rpairing how much it will cost, plz send me ur cellphone number.
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after one hour of buying the phone i made automatic update in setting menu phone succesfuly update and bricked.
pleeeeeease any one can help me i did not use the phone yet.
kristova86 said:
after one hour of buying the phone i made automatic update in setting menu phone succesfuly update and bricked.
pleeeeeease any one can help me i did not use the phone yet.
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kristova
samsung customers care replied to me that your phone needs a new motherboard and it will cost Rs 13000. thats for my glaxy s advance.
ghufrankhan said:
kristova
samsung customers care replied to me that your phone needs a new motherboard and it will cost Rs 13000. thats for my glaxy s advance.
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Huh? 13k?
The phone itself costs around 16k.
They should do it under warranty (unless the warranty period is over).
Since it's not just a person with this problem, it seems to be a mistake from Samsung.
Tell them to stfu and fix it.
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Samsung S Advance Bricked
I am using Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070) for 10 months. Its Android version was Ginger Bread. Yesterday I checked my phone's Settings for Update. Then i got New version and I Download it. While installing that, My phone had 79% Battery. But Unfortunately it automatically Dead. Now Nothing is coming....!!! Any one can help me??? If I will not get any technical answer from here now, I will try to get solution from The same shop which I Purchase this phone, And I will Post it here, For future reference for others who are facing same problem.......!!!
Don't try to update software in Samsung Galaxy Advance Even If it is Official
Dears,
I tried to update My Samsung Galaxy Advance from settings as official. When the process was going on, Phone Bricked. I went to same shop which I purchased this phone with Warranty card. they said that you have to wait at least 15 days, They have to send it to Samsung Service center, And finally I got my phone after 15 days. Now phone is OK, with the same software GB. Then They Said that It is normal to this phone Don't try to update this phone again... "Even if it is Official"
I'm sorry that I don't know about the manual update From GB to JB. I didn't try it. If any one tried and succeeded....!!? Let me know How can I do it???
real background of updates
i had same phone as you but i had it after one month i brought My phone . It was the update that causes the problem. before that my mobile used to hang a lot sometime while calling or surfing the internet. then one day i got a update for my phone. (S advance . I kept it on charging while updating so that there can be no power failure at all. The update completed successfully . But when after update my mobile did not start up IT WAS A HARD BRICK . But i had it wareenty . so it went to the store from i brought it and After 1 and half month i got a new one back. It was terible time going daily to the store, asking waiting in lines blah etc. NOW HERE IS AN IMPORTANT THING I WAS ABLE TO DISCOVER . first lets take a example of windows pc as windows is the most common OS Around. sometimes when you update you windows xp vista 7 8 any one some programs do not function correctly give you errors , slow speed , hanging your PC. in many conditions removing the corrupted software might work. The new update make the previous system files changed means over right them. some of these over righted files are used my some installed software who become faulty as result of update and cause havoc in your pc by doing unstable function in your pc ultimate the pc breakdowns and every thing has to be re installed again even OS. ANDROID would be having same characteristic. means that the more apps you have on you android device the more likely it to get BRICKED. because after update some would become corrupted and brick the phone. HERE IS MY SCHEME TO update successfully your android device BE CAREFULL ! THIS METHOD IS NOT SUCCESSFUL ON EVERY DEVICE DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK. IT FOR EDUCATION PURPOSES ONLY
FOR updating you android device
1. Backup your important data like photos music etc
2. Then format your phone completely and make sure before updating there is at least 80% battery left
3. Then update it and restore you data back.
IT looks easy but its not as i said,do it on your own risk as it is still beta method. I Will not be responsible for anything. if you cant update it yourself go to a mobile repair shop they should be able to do that for you. IF you liked my information hit THANKS BUTTON:laugh::angel::crying::silly:
Hi everyone,
Complete Noob here, and not proud of it.
I've been searching through your awesome forum now for the past few days trying to get an answer to a problem I have with my GT-I9300, but unfortunately i just seem to keep coming up with more and more problems. So begrudingly I have come to beg for help in the form of a new thread.
I had the phone running rooted with CWM and Cyanogen 10.1 with a fair amount of problems, it kept locking up.
So i was advised one of the best solutions would be to use a more stable version of Cyanogen so re flashed with 9. It worked pretty brilliantly up until some apps were updating and it just completely froze, at the time this was not a strange occurance because of the previous freezing issues i had. So i just restarted the phone.
I then get a message that the firmware has become corrupted and i need to re-install emergency firmware with Kies, tried this. nothing happened.
It has now come to only allowing me to boot into download mode, if i attempt a standard boot, or a recovery boot it goes into a white screen, which almost looks like static on an old analogue TV.
I am at my complete end with this phone, I have tried many re-flashes and versions of PDA files via ODIN and nothing has worked, I always seem to get a PIT Partition error.
I have now been trying to get this to work for at least 20 hours of my life and its finally enough, I would just be incredibly thankful if someone could let me know the problem and if there is a solution to this, I am yet to find anyone else suffering with this white static picture on boot.
When i boot into download mode, i get the red ODIN MODE setting, no product name, no custom binary download, the current binary is 'Samsung official' and the system status is custom.
I have tried reflashing to samsung stock, and that even fails.
Many thanks in advance. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Reads as you need a service centre either damaged PIY or more likely damaged Nand .
jje
JJEgan said:
Reads as you need a service centre either damaged PIY or more likely damaged Nand .
jje
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Agreed.
Please people, don't go back to ICS! It is unable to prevent your eMMC from death.
I heard that version 9 doesn't have the sudden death fix :/ Sorry mate you gotta take to to repair center.
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cheers everyone. I think deep down i knew that this would be the case.
Big expensive bill for me coming up i imagine.
Thanks again.
Service centre say my phone wont boot i this the sudden death syndrome .
Is what i would ask and just look dumb .
jje
coop_80 said:
cheers everyone. I think deep down i knew that this would be the case.
Big expensive bill for me coming up i imagine.
Thanks again.
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Sudden death :/
So this guy online tried to make me send come cash via Western Union to China so that he can "buy my car and freight it over". I knew it was a scam so i kept msging on my Samsung Galaxy S3 with CM mod. In the end he got the ****s and next thing you know my whole OS is gone, i enter recovery mod there is nothing there, everything has been wiped out.
I can still go through all functions but i cannot mount anything. Is there any way to get my OS back?
I tried to use KIES to recover by default but it says i cannot update the device, i think its because i run CM?
Thanks
okay first 1.Why would you keep messaging with a guy who tries to scamm you ?
2. I don't think this is possibile for someone to "hack" into your phone just like that .
3. perhaps your phone died ,suddenly ?
4. flash the rescue firmware ,maybe it can help .
5. I still don't believe it
alecore said:
okay first 1.Why would you keep messaging with a guy who tries to scamm you ?
2. I don't think this is possibile for someone to "hack" into your phone just like that .
3. perhaps your phone died ,suddenly ?
4. flash the rescue firmware ,maybe it can help .
5. I still don't believe it
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Yes i was like you, i believe it is not possible for him just to hack my phone so i kept messing with him. But the fact that after i lead him on for 5 days and right after the last email i sent him my phone just went dead. I cannot bypass the Samsung screen during startup, and it seems like it might have been bricked.
I don't see how i been using CM for last year and nothing happen and next thing this happened because then it would have happen to alot of other people using CM mod.
i have been using cm for almost 2 years ( alot of nigerians tried to scamm via email ,but i don't respond to emails ( unknown ) via phone because of data scripts)) , and i have to say ,happend to me once while playing a game ,phone suddenly turned off ,tried to turn on and ended in a bootloop .
Once you roooted your phone and changed the rom kies become unavailable for firmware upgrades . Try use odin and flash rescue firmware maybe it will help with something . Follow this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6