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So, I've been jumping back and forth between Atrix CM9 and CM7 roms and running the .36p radio. Yesterday on CM9, i started getting a large amounts of random reboots and finally got things settled by doing a factory reset in CWM and flashing a clean cm9 rom. However, whenever I turned on wifi, the phone would crash and reboot to the Dual Core logo. I tried flashing another CM9 rom and it didn't crash, but the wifi radio would never seem to pick up any AP's (i'm at home).
I've gone as far as changing to the .37p radio and going back to cm7 to no avail... I'm a bit worried I might have "fried" the wifi radio on the phone.
Did you do a full wipe? Use fastboot to wipe properly before flashing any ROM. Plenty of threads with instructions.
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Looking at the fast boot command, I'm not sure how that does anything different then the clockwork mod wipe... but I will give it a shot.
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Sorry, but your wifi/bluetooth card is dead. My Atrix got the exact same symptoms a few days ago. Both WiFi and bluetooth are on the same chip. When the system tries to reference them, it fails to locate the hardware and crashes/reboots.
In fact, in researching this topic, I found dozens of threads about this. We should make a sticky about it at this point. Best Buy was kind enough to take back my phone (unlocked bootloader, rooted, cwm, custom fonts, startup, etc.) if I restored it all to stock. If you want Motorola/AT&T/the store you purchased it at to not void your warranty, you should flash the 2.3.6 SBF. Just be cautious and read all about it. But that is the only way that Motorola will service a modded phone
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Looking at the fast boot command, I'm not sure how that does anything different then the clockwork mod wipe... but I will give it a shot.
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Nothing like the same. Clockwork wipe only does data and cache. You erase boot, system, preinstall, cache, user, webtop, etc., via fastboot. I've posted the procedure probably more than 20 times before.
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Yeah unfortunately even after a fastboot wipe, the phone's bluetooth and wifi were gone. I was also over the year warranty. Luckily, I picked up a barely used one on Craigslist and restored my backup to it. Now i've got an expensive battery charger (and spare phone should i need it).
If there were any tips you'd have on restoring to a new phone? I've restored my phone a lot and worked on a lot of android phones (I work at a repair shop), but I've never restored data/settings from one phone to another. Of course its the same model, but I can only imagine the issues that could arise out of such an operation
Thanks!
I just made sure I did a fastboot full wipe of the new phone, then placed my clockworkmod directory on the internal (external should be ok too) storage and did a restore. After the restore, I re-flashed the latest version of the rom I was running on top of it with Google apps and it booted fine. Afterwards, I made sure to do a permissions repair and reboot.
Yeah, it seems like a lot of people are having this problem. Like me for example :[
So far there is no solution that I'm aware of, after trying practically everything I could think of and find on the internet... I'm pretty sure it's hardware related. I bet the phone just isn't very high quality. How much did it cost again? $600? + all of the dumb accessories for it. Normally when you see a pattern of failures you would call it a design flaw, but apparently when it comes to expensive electronics they call it out of warranty.
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So, I've been jumping back and forth between Atrix CM9 and CM7 roms and running the .36p radio. Yesterday on CM9, i started getting a large amounts of random reboots and finally got things settled by doing a factory reset in CWM and flashing a clean cm9 rom. However, whenever I turned on wifi, the phone would crash and reboot to the Dual Core logo. I tried flashing another CM9 rom and it didn't crash, but the wifi radio would never seem to pick up any AP's (i'm at home).
I've gone as far as changing to the .37p radio and going back to cm7 to no avail... I'm a bit worried I might have "fried" the wifi radio on the phone.
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did your wifi
For anyone interested, here is a supposed solution to the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYz_RiuFVRk
It will require you to open the phone up, and solder the "wifi battery" into place. I'm not sure what the hell that thing is, but that guy in the video called it a battery. Voids warranty etc. Good luck.
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For anyone interested, here is a supposed solution to the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYz_RiuFVRk
It will require you to open the phone up, and solder the "wifi battery" into place. I'm not sure what the hell that thing is, but that guy in the video called it a battery. Voids warranty etc. Good luck.
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I'd give it a try, if I could understand what exactly he does. It looks like he just pries it up with a screwdriver and then pushes it back down.
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I'd give it a try, if I could understand what exactly he does. It looks like he just pries it up with a screwdriver and then pushes it back down.
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If I ha some solder I might try it
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If I power down it boots, starts loading, then reboots. not sure if that counts as a soft brick or not, but I've discovered a work around, if I re-root it using roloracer's instructions, and let it boot a few more times while plugged in, I can get it back, then I dare not cycle power. It's almost like a tethered jailbreak on the old iphone.
Anyway, I've been unsuccessful in finding anyone else mentioning this type of issue, so obviously it's never happened to anyone on the face of the planet before.
Does anyone have any links, search terms i may know have thought of, solutions?
I rooted a couple of weeks ago. Nothing is frozen, what I did freeze was on the list of thinks that were ok, and i un-froze it with TB.
Sorry, this is the AT&T Galaxy Note i717.
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Do u have cwm? ? If so get into recovery and wipe cache see if that works post back ill help as much.as i can
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I haven't installed cwm, nor anything beyond the rooting. I presume I should, then wipe the cache?
Install and flash clockwork mod recovery and then do a wipe BUT PLEASE make sure u have a back up before u do any wipes and changing Roms and such
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Do you have any backups?
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Do you have any backups?
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yes. I've now installed CWM and did a backup there, a rather lengthy one, as far as time goes.
I wiped the cache, with no positive effect. I ultimately wiped the dalvik cache, and now i simply get the AT&T boot screen. So I am now restoring my cwm backup, hoping at least I'll be back where I was.
As it stands now, or before I wiped the dalvik cache, which you did not mention so that may well be my error, I was in a loop. unable to connect via USB for any length of time. BUT I additionally have everything backed up, as far as apps, settings and my data seperately of the cwm backup.
I am considering trying the odin unroot process.
later that day:
I had to get some sleep I was falling asleep at my laptop. I reinstalled cwm, using the touch one here earlier this morning, I again wiped the cache, it still looped, I did another backup in cwm, then went to bed with it plugged in beside me after about 30 minutes I saw it was done, and I rebooted it, and left it, it rebooted once maybe more, but when I got up later it was up.
I'd intended to do all this today, but I accidentally had the power button resting on my finger and that began this early morning session. I have a phone back, but will wait before I intentionally cycle power again. I do have a number of flashes counted today that weren't there yesterday. i'll see about zeroing those out later.
In download mode it doesn't boot loop, so I do not think it's a hardware issue. But at least now it's up long enough to back it all up to my PC.
Thanks very much
that is cool
Man, being over 50 I can barely make out those image verifications!
So no one else has run across this with mashi/roloracer root? I did it exactly as it said to to a stock i717.
I'm going to wait to cycle power again, to test if it's fixed, when I know I will have a few hours to dedicate to trying to get it all back. I'd rather have it rooted and when an ICS ROM is out try that. Like I said I'm a complete android noob, but not to Unix/AIX/Linux, PC's or Macs. I had to do macs because no one else wanted to back in the `90's when apple was failing.
So is this a "soft brick" this boot looping?
Thanks again.
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Man, being over 50 I can barely make out those image verifications!
So no one else has run across this with mashi/roloracer root? I did it exactly as it said to to a stock i717.
I'm going to wait to cycle power again, to test if it's fixed, when I know I will have a few hours to dedicate to trying to get it all back. I'd rather have it rooted and when an ICS ROM is out try that. Like I said I'm a complete android noob, but not to Unix/AIX/Linux, PC's or Macs. I had to do macs because no one else wanted to back in the `90's when apple was failing.
So is this a "soft brick" this boot looping?
Thanks again.
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hey buddy sorry been realllll busy with work and such how did everything go are u all set? is it working let me know if u need help!!! as i said before sorry i didnt reply back man been very busy but please feel free to ask for help if u still need it
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hey buddy sorry been realllll busy with work and such how did everything go are u all set? is it working let me know if u need help!!! as i said before sorry i didnt reply back man been very busy but please feel free to ask for help if u still need it
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Well, it's still acting kind of like a tethered boot. It takes a few hours of it cycling power, plugging in/ unplugging and suddenly it 'decides' to stay up. No one else has reported this issue that I have found. I've uninstalled several apps I suspected, like 'The Weather Channel', and anything else I can find that runs in the background by itself, that I don't need... It does it everytime I power down... so I never let it get below 5% before I run to plug it in... Battery life is kind of sucky anyway.
My PC healed itself regarding seeing the phone MTP style.
I wipe the cache, re-root it ala mashi/roloracer then it'll start to settle down some. Curious about UNrooting it, but not real clear on how that's done, as most instructions are in shorthand leaving out (to me) an obvious step here and there.
I'd rather have it rooted, I've bought titanium backup, and use a few others utils that require root.
If I installed a different ROM that might help... or might not... I'm fairly certain it's not the phone, at least not a 'short' type thing where it reboots on it's own... I SAY reboot, it's actually not rebooting since it doesn't show the samsung and at&t logo, it just reloads the UI.
Point me anywhere and thanks again. I clicked the 'thanky' button.
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Well, it's still acting kind of like a tethered boot. It takes a few hours of it cycling power, plugging in/ unplugging and suddenly it 'decides' to stay up. No one else has reported this issue that I have found. I've uninstalled several apps I suspected, like 'The Weather Channel', and anything else I can find that runs in the background by itself, that I don't need... It does it everytime I power down... so I never let it get below 5% before I run to plug it in... Battery life is kind of sucky anyway.
My PC healed itself regarding seeing the phone MTP style.
I wipe the cache, re-root it ala mashi/roloracer then it'll start to settle down some. Curious about UNrooting it, but not real clear on how that's done, as most instructions are in shorthand leaving out (to me) an obvious step here and there.
I'd rather have it rooted, I've bought titanium backup, and use a few others utils that require root.
If I installed a different ROM that might help... or might not... I'm fairly certain it's not the phone, at least not a 'short' type thing where it reboots on it's own... I SAY reboot, it's actually not rebooting since it doesn't show the samsung and at&t logo, it just reloads the UI.
Point me anywhere and thanks again. I clicked the 'thanky' button.
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Have u done a factory reset before flashing to ur back up?? If not it will cuase serious issues factory reset/wipe cache/wipe dalvik cache
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Do all three wipes like I said earlier then flash a fresh rom and u should be fine man hope that works for u pm me if need better instructions or help
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.
I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.
Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
Flashing with ODIN did not good either. I tried to revert back to stock. It uploaded with no issues apparently, and then when it rebooted I was back in ICS with everything as it was... argh.
Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
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Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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johnnyb82 said:
Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
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I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
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Greatly appreciated! Thanks for posting the link. I will try it tonight and let you know how it works out.
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash.
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I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
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Well I was impatient and tried 2 different roms right away. Neither worked. Odin showed "pass", no errors. Then it does its auto-restart and bam, back where I was. Not having the best of luck with this right now.
Any other ideas would be appreciated!
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I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
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LOL I actually waited a few days before posting here too. I was hoping that maybe uninstalling and reinstalling some, or updated, or clearing cache and all that would help. As you can see, it did nothing. Heck, after I restart my updates didnt even stick and Google Play is trying to download them again!
Well... still no luck.
Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.
And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
Try taking out your sd card and running it for a while. First note i got was acting that way from the get go. Took it back and got a new one. It started doing the same thing. Finally took out sd card and ran great. Card was going bad. I had replaced the 8 gb stock card with the 16 gb one i had in another phone and apparently the mote didn't like it.
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Well... still no luck.
Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.
And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
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Did you, by any chance, install a custom kernal? IIRC, one of them messed with the mount points. By far, the only way to fix your issue immediately will involve restoring to stock through ODIN, then rerooting and reflashing CWM. This will 100% mark your Note as either defective, or prove that it's a problem in another area. However, I don't believe your problem is with your SD Card, unless you've been using an app like apps2sd.
If you're weary about doing this, try to reflash CWM, or TWRP to figure out if it's something going on with the recovery partition and/or settings. I'm no expert, but the only thing I'm aware of that sticks around through a wipe, and multiple flashes are our recovery, our internal SD files (possible), and sometimes the modem. Also, the one click leaks include a not loader, which could prevent you from restoring a GB Nandroid.
By flashing CWM, then TWRP, then CWM again, or sticking with TWRP, you at least knock out one variable...and by reformatting your internal SD, you ensure no resources are sticking around.
Edit:are you using TiBu to backup and restore/migrate after a flash? Verify your backups under the batch lost.
What could be happening, is you're restoring data in CWM, or TiBu, or w/e ap you're using, and then the Google account sync restore is restoring your settings, and replacing the desired ones, or vice versa.
Edit again: Which launcher are you using? Which utilities do you use? What are your main root apps?
The backup verify is a must...but some launchers will scoot icons out of the way. If you're having a touch screen issue, or an S Pen issue, you could be draggn items around when you're not aware of it.
I'll see this through. You've caught my interest.
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johnnyb82 said:
So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.
I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.
Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
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Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.
In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.
How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
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Jamesyboy said:
Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.
In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.
How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
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I had installed a custom kernel on Gingerbread before, but obviously that was replaced with the one I used with FJmod. It had been operating fine for over a month.
Also, I removed my SD Card, and tried everything without it. I have tried restoring gingerbread stock and ICS stock through both ODIN and CWM. Even formatting through CWM does nothing as when I restart I am back to normal.
As for root, I only had 2-3 programs with access. ES File Manager/Task manager, and I tried one called Lucky Patcher (I will verify this evening). All of these had been on for at least a week prior to all this beginning.
I havent been using TiBu for anything at all actually.
The launcher I am using at the moment is Nova.
Other than that, I am going to try a few of your suggestions once I am done work. I will post my results tonight!
Thanks for the suggestions and info, greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Just to be clear. I am formatting then restarting and all my apps, icon placements and wallpaper return. Even my call history is stuck up to the 13th and erases recent calls. I am also trying to revert to stock ICS and Gingerbread through both ODIN and CWM. After it is done installing through ODIN and reboots, I return to the way my phone was before. Same with CWM. After flashing through CWM I return right back to the way it was. I am not doing any restoring or anything. I have done this plenty of times in the past before. The only thing I can possibly imagine at this point is that my SD is somehow stuck on read only. Yet it is weird because again, I can delete files and apps (and even windows shows them as gone), but after a restart they are all back! I can remove apps, but they are still in the app menu too.... I can even run them lol (even after deleting their folder). The phone is stuck in stasis.
All of this just happened one day out of the blue. No new apps (for at least a week) too.
I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
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I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
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Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
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Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
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No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
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No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
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No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.
Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.
Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though
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No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.
Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.
Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though
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If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
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Jamesyboy said:
If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
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Well its currently stuck on FJ Mod (which I think is a great rom), and then it just started acting up. I cannot restore Gingerbread stock, or ICS stock, or anything else. ODIN and CWM both show completed on my attempts, but upon reboot my device is back exactly where it left off on the 13th.
I picked up the S3 and I like it, but I miss my note badly
So here's the rundown - Any ideas helpful. Love the phone, but a new one is already shipping and if I can't fix this one I'll keep it when it arrives.
Here's what I was doing and what happened (nothing rooted/modded) - I was hearing clicking in call with Sprint and it was suggested to change roaming settings because I'm in an iffy call area and he thought it was a roaming notification.
After we hung up I made a couple of changes under roaming and the phone asked to reboot. On reboot I get nothing but the Sprint screen. Pulling the battery hasn't helped. Any ideas?
Sure missing my phone. Had to go back to my Evo 4G LTE and I am NOT happy. :crying:
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So here's the rundown - Any ideas helpful. Love the phone, but a new one is already shipping and if I can't fix this one I'll keep it when it arrives.
Here's what I was doing and what happened (nothing rooted/modded) - I was hearing clicking in call with Sprint and it was suggested to change roaming settings because I'm in an iffy call area and he thought it was a roaming notification.
After we hung up I made a couple of changes under roaming and the phone asked to reboot. On reboot I get nothing but the Sprint screen. Pulling the battery hasn't helped. Any ideas?
Sure missing my phone. Had to go back to my Evo 4G LTE and I am NOT happy. :crying:
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If you can't get it to boot up, as a last resort you can try a Factory Reset. Power down and then press the Volume up + Home + Power buttons. This will take you into the Recovery screen. When it comes up, release all of the buttons and then use the Volume button to move to the Wipe Data/Factory Reset. Press the Power button to select it. Confirm by selecting Delete all User data. I thnk you have to select Reboot System. When it finishes, it should be just like it came out of the box.
Ha! I'm all thumbs today. I did what you said but hit the wrong thing and it rebooted all the way in. Yay! Thank you! Now to figure out if I keep this one or go with the new one. Need to get the clicking stopped.
Thanks!
toenail_flicker said:
Ha! I'm all thumbs today. I did what you said but hit the wrong thing and it rebooted all the way in. Yay! Thank you! Now to figure out if I keep this one or go with the new one. Need to get the clicking stopped.
Thanks!
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As long as it ended well! :good:
Exactly. :good:
Turns out that it was my SD card creating the stuck boot issues. Makes no sense. N3 sees the card fine and I can reformat in phone. If I reload my SD info it jams again. Trying other ways. I'm pretty sure this issue was created by using the Move Apps to SD function.
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Turns out that it was my SD card creating the stuck boot issues. Makes no sense. N3 sees the card fine and I can reformat in phone. If I reload my SD info it jams again. Trying other ways. I'm pretty sure this issue was created by using the Move Apps to SD function.
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You might try uninstalling those apps that you moved to the SD card, put your SD card back in, format it and then reinstall the apps that you just deleted...see if that fixes the issue. I had a problem once on my HTC EVO 3D that was similar...
Thanks. That's exactly what I did to fix it. Came here after to see your post.
Can't really use apps to SD with this phone. Used my backup to reinstall the missing apps and it mostly worked. A couple didn't reinstall. It's going back anyway. I tried hard to find a reason for the clicking every 45 seconds or so and can't. What ever it is, it's not for me. New one should be here Tues.
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Thanks. That's exactly what I did to fix it. Came here after to see your post.
Can't really use apps to SD with this phone. Used my backup to reinstall the missing apps and it mostly worked. A couple didn't reinstall. It's going back anyway. I tried hard to find a reason for the clicking every 45 seconds or so and can't. What ever it is, it's not for me. New one should be here Tues.
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It definitely sounds like it is defective. Mine doesn't make any noise (unless I want it to).
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Ha! I'm all thumbs today. I did what you said but hit the wrong thing and it rebooted all the way in. Yay! Thank you! Now to figure out if I keep this one or go with the new one. Need to get the clicking stopped.
Thanks!
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The "clicking" was a "known" issue with MI5 and with MJ4 update it should have went away, have you taken the update and if not go into General/ System Update and do that.
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It definitely sounds like it is defective. Mine doesn't make any noise (unless I want it to).
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Yes, it does. And, the thing is - I just received this phone Monday 10/28 and two different Sprint reps tried to get me to "file an insurance claim". I told them no, and told them it didn't make any sense on a new phone less than a week old. I paid my dues with the Evo 4G LTE. This time I'll make sure I get a good phone.
If it wasn't for the clicking when calling the phone would be perfect and I would be totally happy. Can't use it the way it is.
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The "clicking" was a "known" issue with MI5 and with MJ4 update it should have went away, have you taken the update and if not go into General/ System Update and do that.
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Thanks. I knew about the issue before I bought so I knew I had to update. My phone came in and had the issue. I updated all the way to MJ4. The garbling, fading in and out, weak signal, etc. was fixed so I thought it was all fixed. Called Sprint on an unrelated matter and heard the clicking while on with Sprint and they heard it, too.
I've uninstalled apps, removed notifications, etc. and it's still there.
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If you can't get it to boot up, as a last resort you can try a Factory Reset. Power down and then press the Volume up + Home + Power buttons. This will take you into the Recovery screen. When it comes up, release all of the buttons and then use the Volume button to move to the Wipe Data/Factory Reset. Press the Power button to select it. Confirm by selecting Delete all User data. I think you have to select Reboot System. When it finishes, it should be just like it came out of the box.
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Since I was returning the phone anyway, I did the Factory Reset and Cache Wipe just to see if the problem would persist. After rebooting and setting it up again the issues are gone. Amazing phone!
I know to do factory resets when a device is acting up, but wasn't sure how to do it on the N3 and your help with the process was the key. Thanks again! :victory:
toenail_flicker said:
Since I was returning the phone anyway, I did the Factory Reset and Cache Wipe just to see if the problem would persist. After rebooting and setting it up again the issues are gone. Amazing phone!
I know to do factory resets when a device is acting up, but wasn't sure how to do it on the N3 and your help with the process was the key. Thanks again! :victory:
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Glad you figured it out. This is good infor for others if they have the same issue down the road. :good:
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Glad you figured it out. This is good infor for others if they have the same issue down the road. :good:
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Thanks. Me, too. That's why I posted it. To bring it to the surface. Hopefully it will help someone else. :fingers-crossed:
Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!
Pandora1331 said:
Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!
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could you just do a factory reset with the buttons on it?
or has that been tried before
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btw, i havent been here that long but i dont think you will get much responds because this is on a general thread, i think it would be better if it was in a helping section
Phurkus said:
could you just do a factory reset with the buttons on it?
or has that been tried before
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btw, i havent been here that long but i dont think you will get much responds because this is on a general thread, i think it would be better if it was in a helping section
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I mentioned that I did a factory reset - but I didn't mention I did it several times (more than that even). Again, the enlighten doesn't really give you a lot of options when you do one. It shows a picture of the android and a file folder for a few seconds - maybe 10... then it boots. there's no option, no text, no choices, nothing. A bit confusing to be honest. Then it boots up, you get the language choice and activation call (which goes through fine) and then wham! back to hell and that freakin' error message.
BTW I posted here because there is no specific forum for the enlighten phone - I didn't want to post in a forum for another phone and get yelled at. Suggestions on a forum? and thanks for taking the time to reply! :0
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I mentioned that I did a factory reset - but I didn't mention I did it several times (more than that even). Again, the enlighten doesn't really give you a lot of options when you do one. It shows a picture of the android and a file folder for a few seconds - maybe 10... then it boots. there's no option, no text, no choices, nothing. A bit confusing to be honest. Then it boots up, you get the language choice and activation call (which goes through fine) and then wham! back to hell and that freakin' error message.
BTW I posted here because there is no specific forum for the enlighten phone - I didn't want to post in a forum for another phone and get yelled at. Suggestions on a forum? and thanks for taking the time to reply! :0
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I just thought I would post how I just resolved this. I got passed it by getting a PHONE CALL! I flipped the screen up to answer, yanked away. After the call was done I didn't do anything, the other party hung up. Then there was a REALLY long pause on the phone - the screen went black. I waited a couple of minutes, pushing the buttons did nothing. Then finally - the home screen came up. NO MORE BEING PROMPTED FOR A FORCE CLOSE! Yea! And it appear everything is working. Now before it decides to break again I want to flash the rom (I am running the bloated stock rom). Thanks for checking this out. and if you're looking at this cause you're having the same problem, I really hope what worked for me works for you too!
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I just thought I would post how I just resolved this. I got passed it by getting a PHONE CALL! I flipped the screen up to answer, yanked away. After the call was done I didn't do anything, the other party hung up. Then there was a REALLY long pause on the phone - the screen went black. I waited a couple of minutes, pushing the buttons did nothing. Then finally - the home screen came up. NO MORE BEING PROMPTED FOR A FORCE CLOSE! Yea! And it appear everything is working. Now before it decides to break again I want to flash the rom (I am running the bloated stock rom). Thanks for checking this out. and if you're looking at this cause you're having the same problem, I really hope what worked for me works for you too!
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Ayy greate job OP! glad to hear that. hope you dont do the same mistake twice
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Ayy greate job OP! glad to hear that. hope you dont do the same mistake twice
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lol you and me both!
This was a learning experience, it was the first time ever I have had a phone with an external micro sd card which holds more data than the actual phone. Also, my first Android. So I am thrilled to have my phone back - I had been messing with it late last night when this happened and didn't sleep at all because, well, I thought I just bricked my phone!
Lessons learned:
You can move just about any app you want to the sd card, no problem - but what you don't want to move are the operating system files/apps. Nor do you want to convert them to "user apps" and move them. Or at least I don't. Since I don't quite understand how it works, and what that does. I had THOUGHT it would just mean everything would run from my sd card - maybe a smidge slower - but it would run. Well, I was wrong. lol. So I am passing that tidbit along.
Also, in the future, if anything like this happens - don't be so quick to do a factory reset, cause you now take away the ability to connect via usb... It is a last resort, not a panicked, go to move. At least not for me.
And, there is something called Rom Managers - install one on your freakin' phone. I didn't know about them. So I didn't have one. I could have resolved this whole thing sooner if I had (maybe).
Lastly, before you do too much - have someone call you or call yourself from another phone to see what happens. It fixed my problem. Of course I won't be rebooting before I flash my rom (wow, that sounds dirty lol) cause I fear the same thing happening...
That's all I wanted to share - cause that's what I learned. Sorry if this is super obvious to people - it sure wasn't to me.
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lol you and me both!
This was a learning experience, it was the first time ever I have had a phone with an external micro sd card which holds more data than the actual phone. Also, my first Android. So I am thrilled to have my phone back - I had been messing with it late last night when this happened and didn't sleep at all because, well, I thought I just bricked my phone!
Lessons learned:
You can move just about any app you want to the sd card, no problem - but what you don't want to move are the operating system files/apps. Nor do you want to convert them to "user apps" and move them. Or at least I don't. Since I don't quite understand how it works, and what that does. I had THOUGHT it would just mean everything would run from my sd card - maybe a smidge slower - but it would run. Well, I was wrong. lol. So I am passing that tidbit along.
Also, in the future, if anything like this happens - don't be so quick to do a factory reset, cause you now take away the ability to connect via usb... It is a last resort, not a panicked, go to move. At least not for me.
And, there is something called Rom Managers - install one on your freakin' phone. I didn't know about them. So I didn't have one. I could have resolved this whole thing sooner if I had (maybe).
Lastly, before you do too much - have someone call you or call yourself from another phone to see what happens. It fixed my problem. Of course I won't be rebooting before I flash my rom (wow, that sounds dirty lol) cause I fear the same thing happening...
That's all I wanted to share - cause that's what I learned. Sorry if this is super obvious to people - it sure wasn't to me.
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there you go OP! what i do is i have an old LG phone that i like to mess with or put apps to try them out from here. and it its good, i put it on my regualr phone.
sounds like you learned and just bumped yourself up the ladder of software knoledge today!
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there you go OP! what i do is i have an old LG phone that i like to mess with or put apps to try them out from here. and it its good, i put it on my regualr phone.
sounds like you learned and just bumped yourself up the ladder of software knoledge today!
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Absolutely! I love to learn especially stuff I don't know much about - but... I wish it didn't happen in such a panic lol. Oh well, lessons learned... I wouldn't have been in a panic if it weren't my only phone, but it is. :0
I also wish it were easier to learn - it seems (at least to me) that every phone has enough unique characteristics that you really have to be specific about model and o/s. It makes searching for answers that much more difficult. What works for one person won't work for all or even most. You have to do a lot of trial and error. I suppose if I were a programmer perhaps it would be more clear to me on how these things tick. I am tho, just a tech - I fix and build stuff. Although I do have some programming ability, I would never even dream to call my pathetic scribblings code. lol Scripts yes, but really, really simple ones and thing more complex is just greek to me.
Is there any good place to see what kind of custom roms work best with the enlighten? I am thinking of putting one on there... I hate the bloatware stock rom.
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Absolutely! I love to learn especially stuff I don't know much about - but... I wish it didn't happen in such a panic lol. Oh well, lessons learned... I wouldn't have been in a panic if it weren't my only phone, but it is. :0
I also wish it were easier to learn - it seems (at least to me) that every phone has enough unique characteristics that you really have to be specific about model and o/s. It makes searching for answers that much more difficult. What works for one person won't work for all or even most. You have to do a lot of trial and error. I suppose if I were a programmer perhaps it would be more clear to me on how these things tick. I am tho, just a tech - I fix and build stuff. Although I do have some programming ability, I would never even dream to call my pathetic scribblings code. lol Scripts yes, but really, really simple ones and thing more complex is just greek to me.
Is there any good place to see what kind of custom roms work best with the enlighten? I am thinking of putting one on there... I hate the bloatware stock rom.
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i learned that lesson too when putting a rom on my phone, not everything works for everyone.
the best place i can think of is on here lol. i just assume the rom with the most replys and views is the most popular. you can try googleing because i know there are other mobile development forums out there that work on other roms. but i know this is the most popular forum.