For the past day or two my phone has been enabling car mode.
I haven't made any major updates in a while either. What is really pissing me off is that it's disabling any sound coming from the phone and it is closing some apps instantly. It is happening whether my phone is plugged in or not, and if i want to use the phone for storage over usb and car mode decides to activate the computer claims it has been disconnected though the phone says it's still charging.
Is there any way to get rid of it? I don't have a car, or any sort of dock for the phone. I really have no use for whatever it was meant to do and I'd really like it gone...
Any ideas/suggestions?
I never had a problem with car mode activating at random, however I hate car mode and the Google car app with a burning passion, so what I did is...
- Uninstalled the Google Car Home app via Titanium Backup
- Downloaded (and subsequently purchased) the app NoDock. NoDock prevents your phone from going into car mode altogether, and its saved me a lot of frustration. I think its $1.99, but don't quote me. There's a trial you can get first for 7 days, I'd recommend that.
That;s obviously a road requiring you pay to fix the problem (and it might not even...) However, if your phone is acting abnormal for no reason, ie you haven't neglected it or played soccer with it, then vzw should replace it... But I have no experience with that, so that's all I've got for ya, sorry! Best of luck.
I looked for the trial version ad it doesn't seem to be out there anymore... The full version still advertises it as to use the trial before buying, but I can't seem to find it...
At this point the phone isn't making any progress charging and it is continuously connecting/disconnecting from the computer...
If it doesn't start working might have to un-root and bring it in >.>
my tbolt lately as well activates car mode when i am in the car but i hate it and want it dead... it happened after installing gingeritis.... but it also did it on das bamf gb... i refuse to give up my gb so i will execute the app!!
studiorat said:
my tbolt lately as well activates car mode when i am in the car but i hate it and want it dead... it happened after installing gingeritis.... but it also did it on das bamf gb... i refuse to give up my gb so i will execute the app!!
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Well, deleting Google's Car Home app will prevent that from launching, however, the Thunderbolt itself has a "car mode" that it will enable when the dock trigger is activated. So, unfortunately, simply deleting the Car Home app might not solve your entire problem, but its worth a shot nonetheless. Also, I'm not sure that NoDock will work with a GB-based ROM, but that, too, is worth giving a try!
bobz1993 said:
I looked for the trial version ad it doesn't seem to be out there anymore... The full version still advertises it as to use the trial before buying, but I can't seem to find it...
At this point the phone isn't making any progress charging and it is continuously connecting/disconnecting from the computer...
If it doesn't start working might have to un-root and bring it in >.>
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In all honesty, if its not even charging anymore, un-root, wipe, and nand that puppy and send 'er in. I know that the TB is unique in that it doesn't use a magnet to activate Car Mode like previous HTC phones, but instead it uses (to my knowledge) a short in the USB slot to decide whether the phone is docked or not. So problems with USB mounting, charging, docking when not docked, etc. would seem to indicate that you have some sort of problem with the port itself. That's just a shot in the dark, but man, I'd have sent that in yesterday
And as for NoDock, I just looked, and I can't find the trial either
To some extent it is still working. It isn't getting any charge, but if I unplug the phone it turns off almost instantly. Seems like it will be hell to move the stock stuff over to the phone to flash it, but looks like that's what its come to... Guess I'm bringing it in tomorrow...
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To some extent it is still working. It isn't getting any charge, but if I unplug the phone it turns off almost instantly. Seems like it will be hell to move the stock stuff over to the phone to flash it, but looks like that's what its come to... Guess I'm bringing it in tomorrow...
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If you have a friend with a smartphone or even any kind of bluetooth-capable storage device, you could send the files to yourself via BT... It may not be the fastest, but it might save you some major frustration. But yeah dude, that sounds straight messed up. Best of luck.
I just put the sd card into my laptop to transfer. Back on stock (feels soo different...) No more car mode... But the phone still isn't charging... Until I can bring it in I guess I'll make the phone look like it isn't brand new again...
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I just put the sd card into my laptop to transfer. Back on stock (feels soo different...) No more car mode... But the phone still isn't charging... Until I can bring it in I guess I'll make the phone look like it isn't brand new again...
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Either way, as far as I know, VZW checks for two things:
1) Obvious evidence of negligence and/or intentional damage
2) Something I don't remember that has nothing to do with root
So you should be in the clear, if anything just say you did a factory reset yourself to try to fix the problem
Well as it did when I rooted it, it recovered all of my apps w/o me having to do anything. So the phone already looks the way it did before excluding homescreen stuff and an empty inbox/contacts atm. And the most damage there is, is a small scratch where there was already an air bubble on my screen protector. If they would have ever made a case that fit the extended battery that probably wouldn't even be there =o
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Well as it did when I rooted it, it recovered all of my apps w/o me having to do anything. So the phone already looks the way it did before excluding homescreen stuff and an empty inbox/contacts atm. And the most damage there is, is a small scratch where there was already an air bubble on my screen protector. If they would have ever made a case that fit the extended battery that probably wouldn't even be there =o
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Haha yeah I feel you on that one. I think the type of negligence they look for is more like a mangled looking device with the customer claiming innocence. You should be fine in my opinion.
hmm... just woke up, about to bring in the phone, which did manage to charge overnight. noticed i still have a rotating rosie and it looks like i'm still undervolted as my kernel was doing earlier. well neither highly noticable as bad things... and car mode did come back today so, i'll be bringing it in now...
Go for it bro, I really doubt they'll check for little stuff like that, especially considering the bigger issue of car mode and your charging problems. Good luck though!
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never herd of this before
Unable to get out today, so I've been looking into other options for now.
This seems to be what it's used for though I've never been given these options when the phone goes into car mode. The icon shows up in the notification bar identical to the picture.
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On the VZW site these are their solutions. (none worked for me being there is no water damage and the port looks fine from what i can see, still gonna have to bring it in...)
Maybe this can help someoneelse if anyone runs into this problem or bring more options to try to help me fix it.
From what I can see, the first picture is of HTC's car home application, as opposed to Google's. When your phone enters car mode, the default action is to launch one if those applications, unless you've manually removed them. The fact that your phone enters car mode but launches nothing is abnormal in and of itself, not to mention the fact that it shouldn't be activating car mode in the first place.
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I did manage to make it to the vzw store and they were surprised to see car mode on the phone at all. The lady at the store took out the battery, restarted the phone and concluded that I would get a replacement after the bill that was just paid like yesterday clears with them.
Good! Hopefully all goes well and you'll have a functional device soon
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I had my Gtablet for a week and after the update, it works fine. Today, when I power up the tablet, the screen just went blank (white screen). I am a novice thus I did not mod the tablet. What happens? I hate to return the tablet since I was starting to enjoy it. PLease advise.
You might try to reload a working firmware. If you have clockworkmod, and a saved image, restore it and see what happens, perhaps a driver got corrupt somehow. If that does not work, it may very well be hardware failure. Take it back to Sears a white screen is just that. Not useable.
Thanks. Guess I need to run over to sears again for another exchange.......This was my second one. The first one just doesn't boot up and this one was working fine until now.
I am having this white screen of death issue. I'm hoping that getting the battery completely drained will reset something and allow me to see the birds again...never thought I'd be wanting to see those birds, but here I am.
Has anyone ever had the blank white screen of death and gotten their gtab to work again?
damn it, same thing just happened to me. I left it unused for 2 weeks, now I turn it on and white screen! not nice
Bump for the sake of my gtab? anyone??
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and bump again? anyone?
White screen follow-up
I believe that this "white screen" is the equivalent of when you see a "No Signal" notification on your HDTV. I'm pretty sure that the tablet is running fine, it's just not outputting video to the LCD. I didn't have a dock to do video out to verify this, but I am fairly certain that's what was happening here.
I had to RMA mine. If anyone has other results/info, please let me know.
The first gtab I bought when it started had a white screen that you could hardly see anything and it blinked. I took it back to office depot and got a new one.
Follow-up White Screen (more info), using HDMI output
Have the same problem with my second GTablet. However, I bought an external dock that has an HDMI output for the GTablet. With the working GTablet, when I plug it into my television, the television mirrors the output of the screen perfectly. With the white-screen tablet, only the television shows something. As I am a basic hardware guy, I guess there are two reasons for this:
1. The flex cable between the display and the computer is loose/broken.
2. Something in the electronics is wrong.
I have received an RMA number for this problem from Viewsonic, although they may just look at it and send it back to me. Any other experiments that people want me to try while I can still see on the external?
Otherwise, I'm just gonna send it to Viewsonic in a couple of days and wait 15-20 business days.
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I have had this lately too. Once in a while when i turn my Gtab on the screen is white. When it first happened, i assumed it was bricked. I tried doing a update.zip back to stock...nothing...just white screen. Then when i was in the process of doing the update.zip flash again, i bumped the bottom, right corner of the tab on my desk and the screen all of a sudden when back to normal, showing the home screen. Now, if it does this white screen business, a simple tap on the right side usually brings it back to normal. I would also assume this is a loose connection of some sort. Anyone cracked the gtab open and been able to find where the screen connection is located? I bought my gtab Jan 14 2011 so it is out of the return window to Sears, and i haven't called Viewsonic for assistance yet as i fear i won't get very far with them. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Triple Love Tap Fix on Bottom Right Corner for White Screen Fix ... Back to Normal
After reading the last post, I tried a triple love tap on the bottom right corner on a white-screened g-Tablet, and voila. It's working again. The Internet is a grand thing. This love-tap thing is clearly undocumented Viewsonic security feature.
As for reference, I did break it open and tried to figure out where the flex cable went, but it's a pretty tight SoC design and when I removed the cover, the connection seemed to be sandwiched between the motherboard and the touchscreen itself. Not wanting to remove the 5 various cables and 3-4 various buttons floating around, I gave up at this point.
If I have to periodically do a love-tap, well so be it. At least, I'm not spending $600 for Motorola Xoom. Thus is the fate of cheap bastards like myself who like to play Fruit Ninja on the cheap.
I can't believe this worked!! "Love Tap" to the right corner brought my white screen back as well.
Bump really works, thanx!
i can't believe the bump worked. I took it apart and looked inside at every connection. I was about to throw it away and then i found this post. I did the bump and it's back to normal.
Another "love bump" success!
Just had it happen to mine this morning -- blank white screen. I did a love bump as suggested, and the screen is back! Definitely sounds like a connection issue, but I don't recall bumping it before it blanked out. I'll just keep fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again.
BTW, for anyone else who needs to do this -- it's definitely a "bump" compared to a "tap". I had to give it enough oomph that I could have craked a walnut with my palm under the same force. Not a "whack" but a "bump" compared to "tap"
WTF WITH VIEWSONIC/USMERCHANTS! I Live in Mexico, I sent (paid..) my tablet to the US for warranty (white screen, the tapping doesnt seem to work with me..) they recieved it, send it back to a friend in the US and he sent it back to mexico (PAID AGAIN).
Just recieved my gtablet, turn on, white screen, nice they didnt even touch the friggin thing!
WHAT THE F...
Ok, bumping this thread again, and letting you know.
Since I was pissed, I opened up my gtablet! Well to letting you know, the CONNECTOR that goes FROM the motherboard to the LCD...was completely loose and not completely connected. This has to be a factory fault, since well, its almost impossible for it to disconnect! Anyway, My tablet is working just fine now, (after 4 months ¬¬)....I will try to get my shipping money back from US Merchants, bastards.
RAWR!
[REQUEST] A permanent solution than periodic love "tap/bumps"
Can you post a picture of the connector? I broke open my tablet before, but I was unable to locate this loose connection. Although I find the current solution very amusing/charming , I would like to have a permanent solution on this thread.
For long term care of the tablet, I've had to do this solution about once every 2-3 months on my 6 year old son's tablet. He had the tablet with the original problem and he may occasionally drop/jostle the thing more than I. So, for the lifetime of this product, the love tap/bump may be an acceptable solution. However, it is clearly a loose connection problem, and more information on your solution would be very helpful to the community.
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Ok, bumping this thread again, and letting you know.
Since I was pissed, I opened up my gtablet! Well to letting you know, the CONNECTOR that goes FROM the motherboard to the LCD...was completely loose and not completely connected. This has to be a factory fault, since well, its almost impossible for it to disconnect! Anyway, My tablet is working just fine now, (after 4 months ¬¬)....I will try to get my shipping money back from US Merchants, bastards.
RAWR!
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My solution to the white screen!
I though how stupid I was since I didnt took pictures, but let me explain.
Using the hardware breakdown pics.
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I draw a Red Square in the "affected part".
In the top of the square is one end of the cable, in my case this was correct. The other end is underneath the motherboard, so you have to take out all the screws for the motherboard to check the other end, this was completely off.
I dont know if this will help everybody, because I gotta say for myself, the bumping in the bottom right didnt worked for me, not even once and I SMASHED the thing really hard!
Cheers
Paul
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BTW, US MERCHANTS warranty told me someone screwed up on their side, I should have gotten a new tablet ¬¬. Anyways, I'm trying to make a deal with them, since I paid like 50 dls for shipment (I live in Mexico..) and they didnt do anything. Will let you know maybe I get a free dock!!!
I bought my HTC Flyer few months back. It works really well for me.
However, unfortunate things happen. I was restarting my Flyer when suddenly the power went off, screen blank. I held the power button, 2nd attempt with the volume up button; no go. I put it on charge, the LED did not turn on charging. I realised that when i held the power button for 10 secs, short red blink observed, but nothin happens.
I read bout how other HTC smartphones having the same problem. but they manage to restart it by pulling the battery off and put it on again. In flyer case, there's no way to do that, since the battery is well cased in Flyer.
anyone have the same problem? and solve it? appreciate your help guys. thanks.
btw, I love My Flyer.. huhu
hmm do you have adb setup? if so, try plugging the flyer into the computer, then type in "adb reboot" and see if that will turn it on. this happened to me on my phone once and doing that turned it back on
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hmm do you have adb setup? if so, try plugging the flyer into the computer, then type in "adb reboot" and see if that will turn it on. this happened to me on my phone once and doing that turned it back on
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Hi Gumby63,
Thanks for the response. I'd just downloaded the adb. will let you know if it works.. Thanks.
Hi Gumby63,
Its not working. it does not detect my device. I guess this must be an hardware issue..
are you positive you have adb setup correctly? that could be the problem but if it's not, i'm not sure what else there is you can try. maybe contact htc and see if they will repair it?
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anyone have the same problem? and solve it? appreciate your help guys. thanks.
btw, I love My Flyer.. huhu
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had the same problem last week! plug your Flyer into computer, and hold power button down and vol down for at least 15 seconds...this works for me! I hope it helps.
Had same problem yesterday,just pluq into pc and after 10 minutes works again.
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Had same problem yesterday,just pluq into pc and after 10 minutes works again.
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my happened today, and all the method mentioned in this thread does not work for me .. anyone got other solution for me ....
onemessagereceied : have u solved your problem ? and how ?
apollo2008 said:
my happened today, and all the method mentioned in this thread does not work for me .. anyone got other solution for me ....
onemessagereceied : have u solved your problem ? and how ?
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I have the same problem bought a few month ago and now the light does not go on and the flyer does not charge the battery Please help
Have you tried a different charger or leaving the Flyer connected to a USB port on the computer for a couple hours to charge it? If the battery is not charging and its below 10% it will not turn on.
I have the same problem, I can't turn my flyer on into bootloader.
The thing I did: tried downloading the official HTC upgrade from GB to Honeycomb and install it... didn't work, it just restarted and I get the screen with a droid by an exclamationsign, so I simply restarted it and choose factory reset in bootloader, but I didn't come longer than the htc letters so I simply restarted it again to bootloader and it couldn't find any bootpictures suddenly.
Afterwards it turned itself off and now I can't get it turned on by any way.
When it charges, the LED-light only flashes amber.
I've asked HTC about it and they recommend that i send my flyer to repair at a HTC-workshop.
Is to get it repaired my only choice or have some other other choices about my problem?
BTW! It is pretty new so I still have warranty on it (won't endanger my warranty by any way)
Basically what has happened in your case is that the aborted upgrade has left you with a recovery that is incompatible with your hboot. Recovery is used to control charging of the flyer when it is powered off, as a result your flyer is not charging and your battery is discharged.
Some people have been able to get some charge into the flyer by leaving it plugged into the wall charger overnight and have been able to fix the problem by reinstalling the software, others have not.
If overnight charging doesn't allow you to power on to the bootloader then you will need to send it in for repair.
my flyer just give me a huge shock.
it shown that cannot charge, cannot turn on.
luckily im stubborn enuf, i tried to plug in the power adapter, then hold the power on button, after around 10 second, the red LED blink once, continue hold, after around 20 second the red LED stay on, & my flyer turn on!!
Thanks god i dont need to send it for RMA, i have so much personal data in it!
If you are not under warranty and/or willing to unhook the battery yourself it is actually pretty easy.
1. Take the back cover off that hides the microSD card and remove the two screws, one under a black sticker the other a red. (remember it will void your warranty)
2.You can now separate the casing, the volume rocker switch will be lose so don't lose it. You can use you fingernail, plastic butter knife or plastic pry bar that comes with screen replacement kits.
3. Unplug the battery for a few seconds and re plug.
Re install the same manner.
I can post a picture or two if needed.
Take the two screws on either side after you open the back top portion to access the microsd card.
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Next you can separate the unit from the back cover.
and remove the white battery connector.
This link here has a complete tear down if needed.
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/cracking-open-the-htc-flyer/6256123?seq=19&tag=content;siu-container#photopaging
Whether or not that is a suitable course of action depends on the casue of the problem. If the battery is completely flat then unplugging it will not help.
I got an Evo View 4g for Christmas from an online retailer (DailySteals) that was selling them for $239. Bye-bye Kindle Fire. That was a no brainer.
But all of a sudden it stopped accepting charges from the wall charger. I tried using the USB cable but no help. I left it plugged in all night, no difference. I did the soft reset but it didn't help or make a difference. It's like it can't get a physical connection through the mini usb port on the device any more. It has a blinking orange light until it quits and the entire screen goes dark because the battery is so low.
I took it to the local Sprint store. BIG MISTAKE. Unless you bought it from them they will not even talk to you. That was a big waste of time. Next I called Sprint, another big waste of time. Without a 4G service plan, they don't want to talk to you either. WTF? Hmmm, not sure I want to go to Sprint anytime soon. T-Mobile here now.
I called HTC and they were very helpful. The technician walked me through a few things but nothing worked. They are sending me a box so it can be returned to the service center. WAY TO GO HTC! I'll let you all know how it turned out.
I have never personally returned hardware to HTC for repair, but all reviews that I have seen have given them excellent marks for repairs.
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I got an Evo View 4g for Christmas from an online retailer (DailySteals) that was selling them for $239. Bye-bye Kindle Fire. That was a no brainer.
But all of a sudden it stopped accepting charges from the wall charger. I tried using the USB cable but no help. I left it plugged in all night, no difference. I did the soft reset but it didn't help or make a difference. It's like it can't get a physical connection through the mini usb port on the device any more. It has a blinking orange light until it quits and the entire screen goes dark because the battery is so low.
I took it to the local Sprint store. BIG MISTAKE. Unless you bought it from them they will not even talk to you. That was a big waste of time. Next I called Sprint, another big waste of time. Without a 4G service plan, they don't want to talk to you either. WTF? Hmmm, not sure I want to go to Sprint anytime soon. T-Mobile here now.
I called HTC and they were very helpful. The technician walked me through a few things but nothing worked. They are sending me a box so it can be returned to the service center. WAY TO GO HTC! I'll let you all know how it turned out.
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In defense of Sprint, they don't manufacture the device nor did they sell it to you. I don't think the mere fact that it is able to be activated on their network gives them the responsibility to service it when you don't have a plan with them.
I am glad that HTC is standing up to their warrranty.
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I took it to the local Sprint store. BIG MISTAKE. Unless you bought it from them they will not even talk to you. That was a big waste of time. Next I called Sprint, another big waste of time. Without a 4G service plan, they don't want to talk to you either. WTF? Hmmm, not sure I want to go to Sprint anytime soon. T-Mobile here now.
I called HTC and they were very helpful. The technician walked me through a few things but nothing worked. They are sending me a box so it can be returned to the service center. WAY TO GO HTC! I'll let you all know how it turned out.
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Why would you expect Sprint to help you? You bought it from a third party retailer and it never had a Sprint contract attached to it. So at that point it's just an HTC product, nothing to do with Sprint.
This is a Sprint HTC Evo View 4G. So where Sprint's responsibility ends and HTC's begins is bit murky to me.
The delivery box has Sprint all over it. The printed users's guide has Sprint all over it. The device has the Sprint logo printed on it. When it booted it comes up with Sprint logos. It initially guides you through a Sprint registration.
So using it as a Wifi only tablet without a 4G service plan removes Sprint from the equation is questionable at best.
Noticed that sometimes no matter how careful i was about swyping the correct word, it would come out wrong.
I checked "show complete trace" in swypes settings to see where i was messing up, and i noticed something much worse than my own mistakes.
Sometimes, my swype sensor goes nuts for no reason. You can see the trace jumping all over even though my finger is moving in a straight line. Heres a screenshot of just moving my finger left and right to see how the trace jumps everywhere:
normal trace
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crazy trace
Sometimes its worse, but it makes swyping very frustrating. Im wondering if this is a touchscreen issue, and not just confined to swype. I have had trouble in the past moving desktop icons around, and it seemed like something was just off.....
anyone else have this problem?
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Sometimes its worse, but it makes swyping very frustrating. Im wondering if this is a touchscreen issue, and not just confined to swype. I have had trouble in the past moving desktop icons around, and it seemed like something was just off.....
anyone else have this problem?
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My screen seems to be 'off' every so often. Most often near the top quarter of my screen when in portrait. Even in landscape it's stays off. So I know it's not software.
Swype messed up for me too a couple times. More jagged than even what you posted. Though it cleared up after an evening or so. Though most times I use SwiftKey. So it could still be doing that.
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My screen seems to be 'off' every so often. Most often near the top quarter of my screen when in portrait. Even in landscape it's stays off. So I know it's not software.
Swype messed up for me too a couple times. More jagged than even what you posted. Though it cleared up after an evening or so. Though most times I use SwiftKey. So it could still be doing that.
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thank god im not the only one. Im starting to think i might just have a bad phone. This did this to me on cm and stock. And yes ive had super jagged lines too, i just couldnt replicate it for the screenshot.
What other issues have u had with your device (battery), and is your screen abnormally dim?
Just that screen issue. I exchanged the phone once, only because of screen issues. Dead pixel and touch was off by a bit on the top and bottom of the screen.
I feel bad with all the issues you're having with yours. Mine has been great on nearly everything.
Hopefully you'll get yours figured out. I'm regularly on here as I'm recovering from surgery. Literally nothing else to do. Feel free to message me if you have a minor issue that isn't quite thread worthy. Gives me something to do.
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swype sensor?
tell me, is it plugged in when it is messing up? or does it become worse when plugged in. i found that i had a defective charger and the "cursor" or where it was registering y input would jump erratically around the screen! eventually my phone died and i had o get it replaced.
Nope, plugged in or not it doesn't mess up anymore. Hopefully my phone won't die 0.o
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swype sensor?
tell me, is it plugged in when it is messing up? or does it become worse when plugged in. i found that i had a defective charger and the "cursor" or where it was registering y input would jump erratically around the screen! eventually my phone died and i had o get it replaced.
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Nope, plugged in or not it doesn't mess up anymore. Hopefully my phone won't die 0.o
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Think I've finally got some issues straightened out. Battery life is now incredible (literally the best ive ever seen on a phone) running cm7, and havent had issues with swype since last night.
Will report back if it happens again/my phone craps out. Fingers crossed!
spoke too soon. got home and while typing while the phone was charging i got this:
it seemed really bad, but what ive noticed is sometimes its worse than others, so its not just good or bad, but varying degrees of bad.
Battery life seems fixed, but i cant learn to live with this either. I might try to swap it at radioshack before by 14 (or 30 days) is up.
im telling you, its the charger. im actually using my old moto charger an i havent had any problems
for me it does it when my phone is plugged in charging
agree with some now. Ive only noticed it when plugged in.
Is this rom specific, or does it happen to every rom? I sill have a month to exchange if i need to.
Im using the newest CM7 KANG build btw
This generally happens with non original chargers, feeding the wrong current and driving the touch sensor insane, is what I've heard... That explanation worked for me. No erratic behaviour with original charger, but crazy behaviour with the blackberry charger...
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Can also occur with the original charger if plugged into noisy power.
I almost thought my Infuse was defective when I first got it because I tried to charge it using the factory charger on an inverter - that combo made the touchscreen VERY unhappy (as in, unusable, you couldn't even unlock the phone)
Factory charger in a real wall outlet was fine.
I've had the same kind of problem before when I was using my cousin's droid x charger(probably wasn't the best idea any way). It would cause swype to get really unhappy, even worse than yours. I have not experienced it with the stock charger but then again I rarely use my phone while it is plugged in.
hmmmm, well currently using my captivate wall charger/usb cord. Ill have to try it with the original when i get a chance to switch them.
They looked exactly the same to me.
If this does end up being the case, where can i buy a stock usb cord, if i need extras?
Mine does it while plugged in with the stock charger. its almost impossible to text sometimes while its plugged in.
anyone considering returning phone? Is this cause for concern? Do all phones do this?
My Atrix was even worse at that...
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It may be more of a function of how "clean" your wall power is.
As I said - mine works fine on the stock charger at home, but it basically froze the touchscreen when connecting the stock charger to an inverter.
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Can also occur with the original charger if plugged into noisy power.
I almost thought my Infuse was defective when I first got it because I tried to charge it using the factory charger on an inverter - that combo made the touchscreen VERY unhappy (as in, unusable, you couldn't even unlock the phone)
Factory charger in a real wall outlet was fine.
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I had the exact experience with my GSII. Took it out of the box on the way home with it, plugged it into an inverter while I fired it up the first time, and thought I had gotten a defective phone. Touching the screen to slide off the stock lockscreen it looked like I was shaking all over the place. Typing was impossible. The stock charger did the same. I also got no in call audio, but that could have been from the touch screen being freaked out by any slight touch. Unplugged the phone and it was perfectly fine.
I later found one of my old USB chargers did the same thing on wall power. I'm now using a USB lighter plug charger on the go and it works fine. The inverter I have is an older black and decker 400watt and it tests out to be as good as it ever was. Must be something in samsung phones that really dislikes anything but a nice clean sine wave power output.
my s2 has gone mental tonight.
i charged it up to 100% before i left. then tonight for some reason it kept showing this when the charger wasnt plugged in
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so i kept restarting and taking out the battery til it stopped.
you can see the charging period didnt seem to show up on the graph. the charging period shown there i was not charging but the phone seemed to think it was. so as i was restarting it a few times it went from about 70 to 49 to 17 to 49 again
and also i havent been able to get a phone signal for ages and then when i can it wont let me register a network.
my phone is now basically just a wifi web browsing device until i get it sorted :crying:
Sounds like a battery failure.. Not sure tho.
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oh ive just seen this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...unable-make-calls-text.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
thats a relief. o2 is down nationwide
EVERY single time I've heard of this issue (and there are a TON of threads all over XDA about this, not to mention all over other forums - seriously, just google "i9100 charging paused voltage too high", and watch how many results you get), it is due to a dirty or failing USB port.
Steps to take.
-clean USB port with a clean, dry brush. (don't be TOO rough)
-if that doesn't work, take out the battery, and with a q-tip and small amount of isopropyl alcohol, clean the USB port. Let it dry, then replace the battery.
-if THAT doesn't work, you'll probably have to get the part for the USB port replaced.
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elquango said:
oh ive just seen this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...unable-make-calls-text.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
thats a relief. o2 is down nationwide
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This has nothing to do with what you posted...
yeah i know. i had both things happen at the same time so initially i thought it was my phone on the fritz and they were related
so i tried those things and it still having problems.
I bought this replacement in Nov off Ebay. After i lost my original one. Do you think I can still take it anywhere to be repaired?
will the o2 store look at it for me?
such a hassle. im gonna have to unroot it and stuff
oh great and now it keeps randomly vibrating and going to this screen and then back to my home screen
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so i tried those things and it still having problems.
I bought this replacement in Nov off Ebay. After i lost my original one. Do you think I can still take it anywhere to be repaired?
will the o2 store look at it for me?
such a hassle. im gonna have to unroot it and stuff
oh great and now it keeps randomly vibrating and going to this screen and then back to my home screen
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By "those things" I'm guessing you didn't actually replace the part for the USB port. Just the cleaning steps?
That image is "desk clock" mode. It gets activated when certain pins in the USB port are shorted with a specific resistance. If you thoroughly cleaned the port as best you could, and are getting random desk clock mode and still randomly getting the charging paused message, then I'd say your USB port is dying a slow death. You'll need to get the part replaced.
From what I hear the part itself is pretty cheap (like $15) and not hard to replace. I don't know if O2 will do it for you though, since you didn't actually buy the phone from them. You can try... but I doubt it, since it was a second hand purchase. Or just take it to a local cellular repair shop.
My phone is also having a similar experience. I running an AOKP rom so it keeps charging instead. How long will the usb port work for. It's being sent back to Samsung to have the screen replace and have notified them about this. So will the usb port work till next week or could it die in hours or days?
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My phone is also having a similar experience. I running an AOKP rom so it keeps charging instead. How long will the usb port work for. It's being sent back to Samsung to have the screen replace and have notified them about this. So will the usb port work till next week or could it die in hours or days?
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I'm not sure how someone on a different continent than you can possibly answer a question about the state of the USB port on your phone and how long it will last.
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By "those things" I'm guessing you didn't actually replace the part for the USB port. Just the cleaning steps?
That image is "desk clock" mode. It gets activated when certain pins in the USB port are shorted with a specific resistance. If you thoroughly cleaned the port as best you could, and are getting random desk clock mode and still randomly getting the charging paused message, then I'd say your USB port is dying a slow death. You'll need to get the part replaced.
From what I hear the part itself is pretty cheap (like $15) and not hard to replace. I don't know if O2 will do it for you though, since you didn't actually buy the phone from them. You can try... but I doubt it, since it was a second hand purchase. Or just take it to a local cellular repair shop.
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hmm i'll have to look into it then. no idea where to start buying parts and where to take it to repair.
will have to do some research
It can by caused by humidity too in my opinion. Had this problem few times. My friend had too. It was gone after putting out battery for few hours in warm place. Even when I was keeping my phone in locker at roofed swimming pool it was happening.
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I'm not sure how someone on a different continent than you can possibly answer a question about the state of the USB port on your phone and how long it will last.
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I'm going on average, like how long would be last. Roughly. Mine's been doing it for the past 3 days.
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I'm going on average, like how long would be last. Roughly. Mine's been doing it for the past 3 days.
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It depends on the severity of the damage specific to your phone. If it's damaged more severely, then not long. If it's not damaged so severely, then longer. How long it's been doing it doesn't mean anything.
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It depends on the severity of the damage specific to your phone. If it's damaged more severely, then not long. If it's not damaged so severely, then longer. How long it's been doing it doesn't mean anything.
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Well it's still charging but my pc no longer recognises it so I don't thin it's going to last too long.
ok its getting worse now. ive requested a repair from samsung.
before i send it off should i remove all my google and facebook accounts or should it be ok to leave that kind of stuff on there?
As long as it's unrooted, running stock firmware, has the flash counter reset if necessary, why would you need to remove stuff like that first ? I probably wouldn't.
Always remove personal data. Fully wipe your phone. You never know who works in service and what will di with your personal stuff. Thats my opinion.
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As long as it's unrooted, running stock firmware, has the flash counter reset if necessary, why would you need to remove stuff like that first ? I probably wouldn't.
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what are they gonna do if its rooted?
i dont have warranty anway so im gonna have to pay for the repair
look how mental the battery is being.
having to back up things through airdroid cos i cant use the usb now
If rooted they CAN cancel warranty.
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I got a brand new s2 two and a half weeks ago, 1 week ago when unplugging my charger it sort of went crazy bringing up the car mode, desk clock, charging when it wasn't and the voltage too high popup every 30 seconds. I took it back and they exchanged it straightaway however i have had this one for 3 days and its done exactly the same thing. I rooted and installed a custom rom on the first but left the second totally stock. It also happened to the girlfriends note too.....
Luckily i haven't had the phone for a month yet so i'm still entitled to an exchange but this has put me off samsung and i'm thinking of an alternative if they'll allow me to take a different handset.
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I tried to replace the cracked screen on my i545 and wound up messing up the lcd/digitizer. The phone boots and is recognized on the PC but the screen is black. Replacing the lcd would be $80 to $100...not worth it.
BUT...I was wondering if I found a broken S4 for maybe $40 or less (bad mother board, bad esn, etc...) that has a working screen, could I just swap out the guts of my phone to the other one? Would it have to be an i545, or would one from AT&T, Cricket, TMobile, Straight Talk work? I only need a working screen and believe what I want to do is feasible. Let me know if I'm off base or not.
Thanks for the feedback.
I did this with the galaxy avant with no issue. so yeah, you can just frankenstein it.
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I did this with the galaxy avant with no issue. so yeah, you can just frankenstein it.
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so long as its anouther i545 the i545 and i9500/9505 are differen't
IIRC some parts of the ATT/TMO versions work on the VZW mobo but the home button won't work. Also the motherboard on the i545V has a ever so slightly different shape than the i9500/505
Another thing you can try is find a local repair shop and offer to buy functioning but cracked S4 LCDs. There are no compatability problems between the i9500/i9505 screens and the VZW screens (source: my S4 is using an ATT screen).
This is going to be harder than I thought...everyone wants wayyyy toooo much for their old broken i545.
Found a dead I545 on ebay with a perfect screen for $40. Took a chance and offered $20 - he accepted. Yay! Put my motherboard in and it powered right up. So sweet and so easy! Having problems re-attaching the antenna cable but will get that done after work tonight. Most importantly, I don't have to use my cruddy, old LG F6 anymore. I didn't realize how SLOOOOWWW that thing is.
It's got me wondering though...which version of Android does the MDK bootloader run. Found a guy selling used motherboards supposedly running Android 4.2.2 - could be a cheap way to swap out for the elusive MDK bootloader.
Dang...new problem! Got the antenna connected and I can make and receive calls...I just can't hear the phone ring. The earpiece and microphone work but for some reason the speaker is not working. So i can't hear music, ringtones, or notifications. I've swapped in my original speaker that was working just fine but now that one fails too. WTF???
Any advice??? I refuse to sink any more money into this project. If I can't get sound I'll sell it for parts and buy something better that I can have more ROM flexibility.
Thanks.
Almost there. The speaker contacts were not making a clean connection. Another forum suggested taking the speaker off and prying the gold contacts on the USB connector up a bit. Did that and sound started working right away. Unfortunately, in my haste, I snapped the red antenna cable and lost my signal. Replacement cables are ordered for $3. So I'm into this rebuild for a total of $31 ($40 if you count the original screen I bought but didn't use since I ruined the LCD). So, for a little aggravation and $31 I get a nice working phone again. Doubt I'd get anything new for that price.
Keep updating us, OP! I'm pretty interested myself in what you're producing
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Keep updating us, OP! I'm pretty interested myself in what you're producing
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Not sure if that's sarcastic or not
Anyway, got my new antenna cables installed and the phone works awesome! The whole process was actually easy but tedious. The actual process would have just been swapping motherboards but the speaker threw me for a loop (which was easily fixed).
No sarcasm at all! I'm trying to do something similar, but with the main board
I took the frame and display from my bricked I545 OF1 and put the main board from one with a broken display that was discarded. The results were outstanding.
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No sarcasm at all! I'm trying to do something similar, but with the main board
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Basically all I really did was switch the mainboard as well. Before I started I thought there was more to it than that, but like bg260 wrote, simply swapping the mb from one to another is all that needs to be done. Since it was apart I swapped the usb/sound board because I didn't know any better at the time, and I thought it was related to my speaker/sound issue. Essentially, I did the same thing as bg260 with a bunch of extra (unneeded) steps.
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Basically all I really did was switch the mainboard as well. Before I started I thought there was more to it than that, but like bg260 wrote, simply swapping the mb from one to another is all that needs to be done. Since it was apart I swapped the usb/sound board because I didn't know any better at the time, and I thought it was related to my speaker/sound issue. Essentially, I did the same thing as bg260 with a bunch of extra (unneeded) steps.
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It has to be the same carrier though. A Sprint Mobo will not fit (completely) in a Verizon box. I've tried. Subtle differences that become huge when considering the limited space inside these devices.
Well, this was short lived. I was texting with a friend Saturday just fine. An hour later I checked my phone & could not swipe the screen open. The screen was totally unresponsive...couldn't answer calls, reboot the phone...nothing! The power button worked fine as did the capacitive buttons, and the screen displayed, but would not respond to any touch. Pulled the battery for a reboot - no love. Reset the phone - no dice. Odined back to stock - nada. IT'S DEAD!
That sucks! I had no functioning backup phone either so I bought a Moto G4. I was not going to sink anymore time or money into the S4, although I really liked it despite the unlockable bootloader. Marshmellow is going to take some getting used to.
Thanks to everyone here for all the help. Good luck to everyone.
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Well, this was short lived. I was texting with a friend Saturday just fine. An hour later I checked my phone & could not swipe the screen open. The screen was totally unresponsive...couldn't answer calls, reboot the phone...nothing! The power button worked fine as did the capacitive buttons, and the screen displayed, but would not respond to any touch. Pulled the battery for a reboot - no love. Reset the phone - no dice. Odined back to stock - nada. IT'S DEAD!
That sucks! I had no functioning backup phone either so I bought a Moto G4. I was not going to sink anymore time or money into the S4, although I really liked it despite the unlockable bootloader. Marshmellow is going to take some getting used to.
Thanks to everyone here for all the help. Good luck to everyone.
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Take it apart and recheck the digitazer connection. Don'r throw away your phone, worst case scenario you find a spare phone at thrift stores or flea markets.
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Take it apart and recheck the digitazer connection. Don'r throw away your phone, worst case scenario you find a spare phone at thrift stores or flea markets.
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Already did that. I plan to keep it just in case I can find another cheap "for parts" S4 on ebay. If so, I'll have the S4 as a backup.
After sitting for a week powered off, I decided to turn on the S4 for giggles...AND IT'S WORKING NOW. Been on for 24+ hours and all touch response seems to be fine. Very weird. Now I'm not sure what to do with it. Not sure I can trust it to keep working?