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Hello everyone, im not one to post much, i bascily find what i need say what i must and im done... I purchased 2 samsung vibrants, made a contract and never been so happy with a phone... A few days after having the phone, i start having issues when trying to make a call... Phone stays in Dialing screen and doesnt go anywhere from there, or goes black, or just drops the call or doesnt make the call at all and goes rightback to the main screen... ALSO!!! text messeges wouldnt go through with a 3g signal full bars... soon after i started having issues with a few programs the sims would give me an error, other aps would get the shakes, freeze, market doesn load , just a black screen... so i called tmobile let them know what was going on.... made us do a reset lost everything on the phones.... waited a few more days same problems again this time we went and got the sim cards changed.... few hours later same thing again... so after we passed the 14 day period to return the phones or what not they gave us a bit of a hassle to have them replaced but they replaced them... Mind you this issues was random and everything happend while having a better then good enough signal... so we get the replacements and a few days later... same issues again... Now my concern is how lucky can i be to get 4.... FOUR!!! not 1... but 4 phones that do the same exact things...
Id like to know how many ppl are having any of these issues besides the gps one... cause tmobile reps keep saying "OH i know "Blank" has this phone and hasnt had any issues at all, we havent recieved many calls about this phone.. " Im sure its Bull but please if any of you have had these issues please post id like to get something done about this cause at this point i love the phone but i cant deal with not being able to use my phone when i want to... Ive taken a few pics of the errors and a video or two but i wanna have something to show inthere face that im not just the only one with this problem and i dont just want a new phone...
My Mytouch 3g 1.2 with cyanogen ran faster, better, and never gave me the issues this phone is giveing me.. its stupid and i dont believe this should be happening...
So please post lol thanks....
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I know i miss spelled im running late for work and typed in a rush sorry...
RE: Black Screens
It's your phone lagging.
Do you have Facebook or Twitter hooked into your phone.
It's probably updating statuses in the phone app, and that's why it's lagging. When it lags, it starts giving black screens. Happens a lot. If you want to stick with the phone, then some of the knowledgeable modders here can recommend some decent custom ROMs that get rid of much of the lag, and point you in the correct direction.
From what I've read FroYo doesn't fix this issue on Galaxy S phones, though some said the leaked 2.2.1 ROM for the i9k fixes much of it.
RE: Text Messages
T-Mobile's network is pretty bad, I've noticed. I get the failed text messages quite a bit as well.
RE: Shakes and stuff in other apps
See "RE: Black screens" The RFS file system is almost guaranteed to lag any application which accesses the forum, especially if they use a database.
90% of the people here have had the same issues. 80% of them run a custom ROM or Lag Fix, 5% of them are in denial, and 5% of them run such a slimmed down setup that the lag is rare and simply doesn't bother them.
Speaking of which. There are Lag Fixes and Custom ROMs (usually with Lag Fixes integrated in them) that can alleviate much of the Lag. YMMV, however.
HTH.
umm a user error? i wonder how you use your phone..
like when you download apps from the marketplace, do you at the same time to make calls? send texts? or other stuffs while downloading? orr are you multi tasking as lot? web, text, games ? do you even exit on apps ..hmm
and you've been a member since july when the vibrant launched, are you not making this story up? LOL im kidding.. just get a different phone i guess, not a vibrant..
He's past the return period. Read his post.
Phones are cheap I heard...
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My Vibrant doesnt regonize sd card
I rooted my phone the other day and flashed to Nero 3 Team whiskey Rom, ever since then my phone doesn't recognize my external sd card and when i plug it to the PC it only shows internal card can some one help me i posted this twice and no respond hope this one works and thanks to all of you...
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I rooted my phone the other day and flashed to Nero 3 Team whiskey Rom, ever since then my phone doesn't recognize my external sd card and when i plug it to the PC it only shows internal card can some one help me i posted this twice and no respond hope this one works and thanks to all of you...
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Check this out, this may be what you need: Internal/External Sdcard Mounting Fix - for all 2.2 roms - *11/20/10*
the SAME EXACT ISSUES WITH ALL PHONES?
Here's what i did before, not to a vibrant, but my g2 when it had a bunch of problems.
After 6 replacements, tmobile told me that they can't trust me anymore. so for this time i went to their store and let them see the problems, they told me they hadn't seen it before (obviously) then i asked if i could TRY OUT another phone in front of them, i took out everything, and put it in the new phone, and same issues.
They told me something was wrong and they'd do something... they went to the back, same back after 10 minutes, and everything was fixed, but they wiped EVERYTHING ON MY PHONE, the sd card etc.
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He's past the return period. Read his post.
Phones are cheap I heard...
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I read it.. do you realize that it's nnot hard to replace the phone on TMobile? Tmo might even offer him a different phone.. it's called customer service and it's not like he bricked the phone anyway.. even if you bricked it they'd still replace it.. are you that oblivious???
I only had my Vibrant running stock firmware for about 2mins so I do not know about your lag. I am using the latest PepperKake rom with the Voodoo lag fix. I do not have facebook or twitter running. Just my email and a PS3 trophy card. I have not seen any sort of lag or freeze.
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I read it.. do you realize that it's nnot hard to replace the phone on TMobile? Tmo might even offer him a different phone.. it's called customer service and it's not like he bricked the phone anyway.. even if you bricked it they'd still replace it.. are you that oblivious???
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I've been through 3 of these phones. I don't need tips from you.
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N8ter was the most helpful with his first post. JL5 fixed alot of the "lag" issues I had, but the only lag I was experiencing was using my exchange (corporate) connector.
Best bet is to flash to JL5 or a custom rom, or if you dont wish to deal with that return the phone and tell TMO what for.
JL5 "Stock" ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881542
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I've been through 3 of these phones. I don't need tips from you.
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then what's the point of you saying "he's past the return period..?" if you yourself were able to exchange it 3 times? can't he do the same knowing he's got faulty devices?
it's funny how some poster above me could praise you and say you were helpful when you cant even help yourself to make your phone become better and learn to like it, but instead you come in here parading your hate about the vibrant...
ughhh.. rolleyes**
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then what's the point of you saying "he's past the return period..?" if you yourself were able to exchange it 3 times? can't he do the same knowing he's got faulty devices?
it's funny how some poster above me could praise you and say you were helpful when you cant even help yourself to make your phone become better and learn to like it, but instead you come in here parading your hate about the vibrant...
ughhh.. rolleyes**
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You told him to get another phone - which I interpret to mean a different phone, because another Vibrant won't fix his issues, obviously. I've gotten two replacements (both were BNIB basically from the factory, since they were backordered when I put the tickets in).
He's past the return period, so his only choice would be to get a different phone, and those aren't cheap.
Furthermore, carriers (T-Mobile included) are always willing to swap the phone out for a different model to save a contract, but they aren't so dumb that they will let any random user get a free upgrade just because they called in *****ing about phone problems and threatened to cancel their contract (when you ETF, they get their subsidy back).
I know what I'm talking about. I've ETF'd from two other carriers in the past 6 months (Sprint and AT&T, due to poor signal issues) and have had all 4.
You can roll your eyes all you want, miss thing who is obviously a fangirl.
Sorry eveyone i lost my password for a while lol... To update you all on this, i ended up going thru 6!!! vibrants all had the same issues.. i didnt wanna root it i loved it as it was but after argueing with tmo, and samsung i didnt get anywhere with them, they only offered to exchange for the charm, HEll no! ...They WOuldnt exchange it for anything else.. so i ended up canceling the contract. It was cheaper to cancel the contract then to buy another phone at full price like they wanted me to.. it was $400 to cancel the contract plus the month, for the family plan... had i purchased two phones the "mytouch 4g" which is what we tried to get, at full price it was running about 900 to almost 1200 for both phones... havent had any issues with the mytouch ... But whats funny is , they now have the same vibrant phone with 4g service and a front facing camera... could it be they knew the vibrant had issues? so went ahead and remade it /fixed the issues instead of a recall. I saw several ppl everytime i went out who had one and actually ASKED them if they had any issues like i was and YES they did...
Basically in a nut shell Eclair is ****. The phone is awesome . Flash a good Rom and everything will be fine.
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that sucks
Guyver96 said:
Hello everyone, im not one to post much, i bascily find what i need say what i must and im done... I purchased 2 samsung vibrants, made a contract and never been so happy with a phone... A few days after having the phone, i start having issues when trying to make a call... Phone stays in Dialing screen and doesnt go anywhere from there, or goes black, or just drops the call or doesnt make the call at all and goes rightback to the main screen... ALSO!!! text messeges wouldnt go through with a 3g signal full bars... soon after i started having issues with a few programs the sims would give me an error, other aps would get the shakes, freeze, market doesn load , just a black screen... so i called tmobile let them know what was going on.... made us do a reset lost everything on the phones.... waited a few more days same problems again this time we went and got the sim cards changed.... few hours later same thing again... so after we passed the 14 day period to return the phones or what not they gave us a bit of a hassle to have them replaced but they replaced them... Mind you this issues was random and everything happend while having a better then good enough signal... so we get the replacements and a few days later... same issues again... Now my concern is how lucky can i be to get 4.... FOUR!!! not 1... but 4 phones that do the same exact things...
Id like to know how many ppl are having any of these issues besides the gps one... cause tmobile reps keep saying "OH i know "Blank" has this phone and hasnt had any issues at all, we havent recieved many calls about this phone.. " Im sure its Bull but please if any of you have had these issues please post id like to get something done about this cause at this point i love the phone but i cant deal with not being able to use my phone when i want to... Ive taken a few pics of the errors and a video or two but i wanna have something to show inthere face that im not just the only one with this problem and i dont just want a new phone...
My Mytouch 3g 1.2 with cyanogen ran faster, better, and never gave me the issues this phone is giveing me.. its stupid and i dont believe this should be happening...
So please post lol thanks....
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I know i miss spelled im running late for work and typed in a rush sorry...
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that suck, r u able to reproduce the problems in front of the salesperson. i have four and all mine seem fine even when they were stock. they're all running cm7 #105 and seem to run without error -gps.
Well, After 2 years and a month or 3 I decided to upgrade from my trusty Hero and get an Evo 3D. With upgrade i managed to walk away with it for $100 so I cant complain to much. I do though have a few questions before I get to really playing with it.
First, I bought it from an online company (wirefly) and they said once I turn it on it will activate automatically and my Hero will no long work and no need to call Sprint or anything like that. Is there any way to prevent it from doing this right away so I can maybe mess around with it and get it all rooted and stuff before hand or should I just let it activate itself. I hate to be without a phone if something does go wrong.
And second, what is the best method for rooting (Permanent root) and s-off and all that good stuff? I am guessing this is the best method here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218193
I am so excited and I have been trying to read all I can but its a lot to take in. Also really looking at ViperRom as it looks like a great solid fast rom.
Well, Today I will officially be here in the 3D forums for the most part. I will not totally give up on my Hero. It will make a great MP3 player and stuff for out in the boat and what not and some GPS stuff and use when on the WiFi at home.
Hippie459MN said:
Well, After 2 years and a month or 3 I decided to upgrade from my trusty Hero and get an Evo 3D. With upgrade i managed to walk away with it for $100 so I cant complain to much. I do though have a few questions before I get to really playing with it.
First, I bought it from an online company (wirefly) and they said once I turn it on it will activate automatically and my Hero will no long work and no need to call Sprint or anything like that. Is there any way to prevent it from doing this right away so I can maybe mess around with it and get it all rooted and stuff before hand or should I just let it activate itself. I hate to be without a phone if something does go wrong.
And second, what is the best method for rooting (Permanent root) and s-off and all that good stuff? I am guessing this is the best method here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218193
I am so excited and I have been trying to read all I can but its a lot to take in. Also really looking at ViperRom as it looks like a great solid fast rom.
Well, Today I will officially be here in the 3D forums for the most part. I will not totally give up on my Hero. It will make a great MP3 player and stuff for out in the boat and what not and some GPS stuff and use when on the WiFi at home.
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Activation should be a completely separate issue from "updating". You can "activate" the phone number, but by no means whatsoever should you let it do a ("firmware update", ruu, OTA, whatever) at all.
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I used this for rooting. Worked like a charm.
As for activation... You can mess with it and all of that but its really easy to change out your phones if you have to and still have your old Hero. All you do is a battery pull, find out your esn, then go to sprint.com and do it there.
Well, I got my phone and first thing first was to root it and then back it up then flash away! Never even used it stock but I have a back up should I need to go back ever.
So far I am really liking it. Sad to see the Hero get set aside though...
not to be a downer but its most likely going to have boot loader 1.50 on it. which will mean only way to unlock and root will be to void your warranty the htc way. maybe you will get lucky and get a 1.30 or a 1.40 but i doubt it if its new.
edit seen your new post. you got lucky lol congrats. dont update the boot loader!!
Its already been rooted and flashed with ViperRom. And it has HBoot 1.40.000
Guess I got lucky.
Ok so I rooted this bad-boy I used the HTC unlock method, upon selection of my ROM audibly was miui I wiped and flashed but I did not flash in fastboot. I flashed in recovery and it actually took, problem is I noticed my signal had reduced to 1x speed. Upon flashing to a sense ROM which is cleanrom3.0 I used it to update prl and profile but didn't help stayed the same. So I called Sprint they tried to work some magic to no avail. I then took it upon myself to go complete stock and rid root. Once the ruu flashed and I booted, I noticed I had 3g I checked prl version number and it was the same as before I went to stock. So i didn't get to happy I still wanted more research info for the cause. I then did a speed test and oh god was it slow. Download was 0.02mb/sec upload was 0.70mb/sec strange that upload was faster. But now I would like help to see what I should do next, Sprint tried to say it was hardware. Remember my phone is brand new just died insurance claim. I was thinking flashing a now ROM but thus time make sure I do it in fastboot first. Advice would be nice?
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robdeezle said:
Ok so I rooted this bad-boy I used the HTC unlock method, upon selection of my ROM audibly was miui I wiped and flashed but I did not flash in fastboot. I flashed in recovery and it actually took, problem is I noticed my signal had reduced to 1x speed. Upon flashing to a sense ROM which is cleanrom3.0 I used it to update prl and profile but didn't help stayed the same. So I called Sprint they tried to work some magic to no avail. I then took it upon myself to go complete stock and rid root. Once the ruu flashed and I booted, I noticed I had 3g I checked prl version number and it was the same as before I went to stock. So i didn't get to happy I still wanted more research info for the cause. I then did a speed test and oh god was it slow. Download was 0.02mb/sec upload was 0.70mb/sec strange that upload was faster. But now I would like help to see what I should do next, Sprint tried to say it was hardware. Remember my phone is brand new just died insurance claim. I was thinking flashing a now ROM but thus time make sure I do it in fastboot first. Advice would be nice?
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I know if your stock sometimes you can get a lemon I had a brand new evo 3d on launch day and the radio part of the phone went bad data sucked and at times wouldn't work... I wasn't rooted.. That was in a week of using the phone....
Another thing is if you know you msl and some of the program codes you could do that reactivate your phone hands free thing it might help you...
I did it back on the EVO back in the day.....
If I remember it was something along the lines of that ##data## edit msl and somewhere in that you could do a reset...
Do this at your own risk tho.... The worst thing that would happen is your phone might not reactivate and you would have to do it again online sprints site...
Yeah sounds about right with the lemon thing, other things are going wrong now that I'm stock. I did the mos thing once before with sprint actually three times before. When I first got it and later when it started tweaking.
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Ok I have a few questions for the flashers out there. I have a EVO design from boost. I have successfully flashed my EVO 3d to boost butthere is a problem. It seems like if I do not use my phone any calls will go straight to voicemail. I have verified that it doesn't do this with the design. I'm at my wits end on this. I.have tried everything from being stock non rooted to New Roms , switching my cid, and this has been on 2 phones, 2 doferent donor phones. I'm just mot sire how to goto the next step. My donor phones are off with battery out of them. I need to know if anybody else has had this issue and if so how did I fix it..if u did.
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Ok I have a few questions for the flashers out there. I have a EVO design from boost. I have successfully flashed my EVO 3d to boost butthere is a problem. It seems like if I do not use my phone any calls will go straight to voicemail. I have verified that it doesn't do this with the design. I'm at my wits end on this. I.have tried everything from being stock non rooted to New Roms , switching my cid, and this has been on 2 phones, 2 doferent donor phones. I'm just mot sire how to goto the next step. My donor phones are off with battery out of them. I need to know if anybody else has had this issue and if so how did I fix it..if u did.
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Try making a call on the phone. it it gives you an error 16 you gotta call boost so they can fix it. Also, did you change the MIN and MSID?
i dont have a problem there the phone works fine when i use it as it has been activated for a little bit now. its when i let it sit idle for about an hour or so and it will send all my calls to voicemail even though i have good signal.
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i dont have a problem there the phone works fine when i use it as it has been activated for a little bit now. its when i let it sit idle for about an hour or so and it will send all my calls to voicemail even though i have good signal.
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You would have to call boost mobile so they can do something about it since they allow flashed phones and they would be cool with it.
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Yea they may allow flashed phones but they will not.support them im sure. I dont think that calling them will help on thespecially especally sin e the donor evo design works great
Also i have been testing this flash on a samsung gs2 epic touch and all seems well as of now. Been using it since i bootlooped my 3d last night. Nothing major kust need to re rom it. But this wouldean that the 3d is at fault somehow. If someone has flashed the 3d can u givee some direction if u have had this issue.
I'm testing using an older radio and pri to see if that is the problem. I feel like the pri could be an issue after reading it does the work for the voice and data for the phone connecting to the network. Although my pri still says 1.43.003 I think some other people said if u flash an older one it will be there just not show in the pri. Any ideas or advice
Yes I have some advice. You cannot ask for help on changing your msid or esn number on xda. It is illegal and xda doesn't engage in "illegal" activities. You'll have to google your answers on your own. I am simply repeating what mods have said in the past. If have questions about that you can ask them in the ask a mod thread. Not being a douche. Just telling you what's been said.
Let me ask u a question. Where in the hell do u see anything about asking how to flash or change the esn or meid in my post..nowhere because there is nothing in any of my posts asking how to change my esn or meid. I already know how to do this and what I was asking was about the pri and if anyone else was having a problem like I was.
Now I'm testing the virgin mobile pri since on a prepaid. I figured what do I have to lose. So far it lasted over the hour mark. Let's see how the night goes for it.
Ok so that didn't work. I'm going to ruu back to 2.08.651.1 to get the pri back to 1.24.003 then I will flash meanrom ics. Blah a lot of crap just to test older pri. Just wish I could get this fixed once and for all.
Evo 3d to Boost error 16
after i flashed my evo 3d i got an error 16. So what i should do? Call boost? And what i should say, so they will not suspend my account
Hey guys I have a quick question. I've done some searching and am not sure about this. I bought a evo 3d from a friend of mine. It was a sprint phone that is now on frawg. Last week the internet and everything worked fine. I activated it under my number this week and now the internet no longer works. It just says no connection when you try anything internet related if you are not on WiFi. I called frawg and they said it was the flash coming out. Is this something I can fix myself or do I really have to pay these guys $50 to fix the flash.
Come on guys somebody's gotta know about this.I've been googling but don't really understand what I need
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Come on guys somebody's gotta know about this.I've been googling but don't really understand what I need
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Going to need more info before anyone can attempt to help. What exactly was flashed (ROM, radios, etc)? Where did the content that was flashed come from, along with a link to it. No one can help without being able to see what it is.
That being said, a flash doesn't "come out."
Your friend should be able to help you or have the info. Maybe paying the $50 to have frawg fix it would be best as it seems you aren't familiar with flashing.
It is running the stock rom 4.0.3. As far as I know the ntelos radio and prl were flashed by an employee at the ntelos store. He has tried to take it up there for me but she took a few days off this week. I know a little bit about flashing ROMs but I don't know if this is like a ROM or completely different.
So is this something I can do myself?
It is if you have the radios and prl to flash
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Can those be found on line? Apparently the person that flashed it does not work there anymore or they just don't want to fix it. It looks like I'm stuck fixing it my self
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Can those be found on line? Apparently the person that flashed it does not work there anymore or they just don't want to fix it. It looks like I'm stuck fixing it my self
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If it worked before you activated it on your account and you didn't change the phone (flash new rom or RUU) then it isn't the phone. Like I said before, a flash doesn't "come out" like they told you. Flashing the radios over again won't fix it. To me it sounds like it's service related, and only frawg can do something about it. They need to reprovision your phone from their end. The only other thing to check is the network setting on your phone and make sure that mobile data is enabled.
No I haven't tried to flash a Rom or anything on the phone. I also do not receive voicemail notifications. I have talked to a few people at their customer service and in the store and they all say the same thing. ill try to call after work about what you said. Mobile network was enabled but it does. Not connect.