I have two Lumia 920s. My phone is completely fine, browses the web very fast. My wifes 920 is really really slow. Brings up google in like 10-15 secs. Her phone says it's on wifi, but seems like it's on the Edge network... I deleted the wifi profile and reconnected, same speeds. I rebooted her phone, same speeds. Again my 920 is fine, and we both have the same apps installed(I have even more). Only difference is she has the cyan, and mine is white.
Anyone else having this issue?
Now to the bricking...
So I was going to hard reset her phone, but I wanted to try a test backup/restore on mine first. So I went into the about screen, and did a full wipe reset. My phone rebooted, and had two turning gears up on the sreen for 30 mins before I turned it off. Then the phone wouldn't boot. I had to reflash the firmware to recover phone. Anyone try a reset yet? Wondering if I have a hardware issue, or if this is a 920 issue(others have posted this too). Now I can recover it just fine with Nokia Care Suite, but the average user would have just bricked their phone. Surpised this can happen so easily...
I've owned 2 Quantums and a Lumia 900, and never had a brick even installing cab's manually...
BTW pretty disapponited with the backup/restore. I almost like WP7's backup better, just wished it included text messages. The WP8 restore doesn't set all settings back(no start screen restore... what???) or application settings. Also you only get prompted to restore the first time setting up the phone. The first time I skipped the MS Acount login, and when I added my account after, it never prompted. I reflashed phone again to use my account during the initial setup which then worked. They should at least have the option in the Windows software to do a "Full" backup.
Hmmm...backup works ok in my book. True, no start screen, but reinstalls apps, adds the emails and logins for the primary accounts, saves SMS and ie favorites. This is a step forward imo. Strange about start screen, but I can more than live with this.
alodar1 said:
Hmmm...backup works ok in my book. True, no start screen, but reinstalls apps, adds the emails and logins for the primary accounts, saves SMS and ie favorites. This is a step forward imo. Strange about start screen, but I can more than live with this.
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I do think it's a step in the right direction, but I think they could add a few more options. First of all I should be able to restore at any time, not just during the phone's setup. The start screen is probably an easy thing, and will be included in a future update. I think the biggest thing is to have an option to save each application's settings/isololated storage if you want to. It still took me 30 mins to setup my phone after the restore, just wished "Apps + Settings" actually meant all settings.
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I do think it's a step in the right direction, but I think they could add a few more options. First of all I should be able to restore at any time, not just during the phone's setup. The start screen is probably an easy thing, and will be included in a future update. I think the biggest thing is to have an option to save each application's settings/isololated storage if you want to. It still took me 30 mins to setup my phone after the restore, just wished "Apps + Settings" actually meant all settings.
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This is obviously a topic where everyone is going to have different wants. Sure it would be nice, if...<insert your suggestion>.
Apple does it a little different, Android does it a little different. But I don't have those....<anymore>. I'm currently glad that MS does what it does now. A month ago, with 7.5, I didn't have that. A month from now, or the next version update, maybe we'll get more. Either way, I'm happier today than I was last month at this time....Progress....
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bought a HERO a month ago.
Initially things were fine, but then the phone has developed a lot of lag.
When I tap the PHONE button at the bottom of the home screen, it takes almost 3-4 seconds before the keypad comes up.
When I click on an Email account, it takes up to 5 seconds for the email list to load, and an equal amount of time before a tapped email opens up.
All this used to happen in less than a second earlier. I have not installed any apps from the market which are running at any time, and even loading up the phone in safe mode has not made a difference.
Also, the trackball is not being very responsive. It takes a good amount of pressing it before moving it around for the trackball to work. Is the trackball supposed to not do anything if moved very lightly, or if i just brush it softly with my finger and it moves, but nothing happens on the screen? It works only if there is significant pressure on the trackball.
htc has a stock answer for everything "HARD RESET". i don't even know if there is a way to backup all the data including contacts, messages etc and then put them back again after a hard reset.
I wonder if the phone is defective in some way?
Just flash a new ROM. Also, I know many people will disagree with me, but get TasKiller (the one by Thibaut Nicholas), as kill all the tasks. When the phone starts functioning again, go to TasKiller and ignore all the tasks that start up first (should be the bare minimum ones), and then turn on Auto-Taskkill. This way when you put the phone to sleep, all the running tasks except for the necessary ones will be killed. I've found this keeps my phone very fast
My 4G will be 2 years old in February. It is quite buggy now, it likes to lag a lot or glitch, it's definitely not the lightning machine that it used to be. I saved all of my data and am going to perform a wipe/factory reset and wipe the cache partition (hopefully I am allowed to do that, if not, oh well too late).
Is there something more potent then a factory data reset using the Android Recovery mode while not in the phone OS? It resets the phone but I have the latest OS, which I think could end up keeping all of my bugs. Can I go back to the original OS when the phone shipped and legitimately start over and re-update everything? I logged back in and an app widget was still there with writing on it, some of my pictures, and some icons I moved around. this is after I did a rest outside of the phone, then went in the phone and did another reset. So much for wiping all of my data I guess.
So, if this does not fix the buggyness of the phone, what should I do? The phone likes to press buttons randomly and I have to hit the power button to lock it, and then unlock it for the magic button pressing to stop. This is common. Apps are slow or time out a lot and it takes the phone FOREVER to reboot. It love to randomly restart, especially using pandora or spotify. It takes a long time to connect to Wifi, sometimes I have to go to the wifi settings to wait for it to automatically choose my saved network, which baffles me like crazy.I did have the most recent update of course. I think the finger print scanner also stopped working... or it never did work. Lastly, the vibrating unit doesnt always vibrate, it likes to vibrate on a few keystrokes and it randomly stops, then starts up again. **** this phone. It really makes me want to go to an iPhone... and I am a hardcore windows computer tech and I hate apple, but ****, why cant anyone build a stable OS?
So, assuming my phone works correctly, what should I do to it once it's up and running? I am ready to Root the phone and try some new apps and hacks and what not, especially if it makes the laptop dock mode faster, cause right now it's slow as ****.
Factory reset basically wipes the /data partition.
I would also recommend you do a format of the internal sd, after the factory reset (see storage in the system settings). This way, files on the sd will have no impact on apps as you reinstall things.
Regarding returning to an earlier Rom version, I would not recommend as being part of the solution. Newer Rom version are better usually. Gb by motto is solid.
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This is the second time I had to bring my phone back to factory settings. I don't remember the reason for the first but it was within a few days of purchase. Verizon walked me through pressing three buttons at once (power, volume and something), and I was back to factory settings, reloaded my apps from the app store and continued.
But this time was more complicated because I had downloaded an app full of ads and who-knows-what-else. I feel I did something that made it happen. My voice mail stopped operating - no notifications etc., although it could be reached fine by dialing *86. My phone also kept notifying my by saying "unfortunately, your voice mail has stopped working" and I had to hit ok to continue what I had been doing.
It was late and I called back to find out how to reset to factory and someone read me a paragraph from their manual which simply sent me to the settings menu and then back to factory settings. When I was told to do this, I was asked whether the phone came from Verizon itself or from their store. For reasons I won't go into, I wasn't sure - but it clearly made a difference and I don't know what that difference was.
So I now have another back to factory settings restored this time by the google app. I still don't have a lot of my data but I backed some of it up beforehand.
The phone looks and responds somewhat differently: I don't have the same choice of swipe screens, ok and cancel buttons are in different places, and I haven't done enough to know whether it's better or worse. It does respond to magnification at the slightest touch and then becomes gigantic. I could barely get my "old" phone to magnify. Definitely a different something. It is 2.2 and was set afloat in April etc.
Do I have a phone that is more Samsung and less VZ, the other way round, or just different? I tried to get updates but was told it was up to date.
Thanks for any experience/ideas, you can offer.
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I'm using it now a little less than one year. This morning everything still normal, used the phone and then all of a sudden, I get a screen saying something like "Your device is setup and ready to use. Okay" and I see a screen that immediately makes me worry: no accounts, another launcher, my icons, data and accounts all GONE. What?
I made a screenshot and without much hope hit "reboot". After that, voila, my OLD setup is back again. But after less than 20 minutes, I get yet ANOTHER screen: "Welcome back, guest. Do you want to continue where you left off or ...." you get the point, don't you? Rebooted again.
Now I'm copying all my stuff to SD card (fortunately there's one supported), along with the two screenshots that were not accessible in my setup, but got them copied when the second "wipeout" happenned. What's going on?!?
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I've had a Samsung Galaxy S3 for ages, unfortunately for me, the phone recently just switched off, then on, then won't go past the "Samsung" screen. Ah, I thought (well, something a bit more sweary) - but I had a backup identical model phone in case one broke, so I started using that. Moved all my apps, installed banking app etc, and then happy.
Or so I thought...
The new (well, it's an old phone, but one I haven't been using, bought as back up) phone now switches off when charging every night, an issue which was going to switch to me charging it during the day when I can stare at it and see if anything happens to make it switch off, but then I realised it switches off each night even when it isn't charging.
I have a bigger battery to hold a charge for a few days, and so even when I don't charge it, just have it next to me as I sleep - and next morning it will be off. I presume it might be switching off around 5am... this is only a rough guide as if I switch it back on, and flick through the phone, I see my unread emails are up to around 5am, and then after a few minutes it logs back into the internet etc and brings me newer emails.
I first thought it was that it kept switching off when charging... but now I know it does it at (I presume) the same time every night even when it's not charging. Can't use it as an alarm clock anymore, as it's off before the alarm goes off. Anyone have any idea what's happening?
Did you copy all of your data and settings?. Most likely you have a software conflict going on.
I highly recommend you backup your data from all 3rd party apps. Do not backup your system apps data, google data, apps or games that cloud sync or phone settings, ie wifi passwords etc.
You must allow samsung apps, google and other cloud apps to sync their own way and you must calibrate the phone for wifi manually.
Beyond that you'll need to reflash stock firmware and start over using the guidlines I have given you above after restoration of the firmware (and root if required).
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I assume when I installed on the other phone, it switched settings when I log in to various things. Because I installed everything asap, I've no idea if one thing is causing the issue.
How do I get the phone to calibrate manually? Apologies, I'm not great with techie stuff I add the wifi details, and logged into settings - is that manually? Things are backed up to themselves, so when I log back in it resets to previous settings when it syncs. Should I try and work out how to prevent all things from backing up manually? Haven't logged back into any games, although they might be installed, haven't actually signed in or used them.
How would I go about reflashing stock firmware? Doesn't sound like anything I've ever done before, but up for a challenge
By manually i mean just setup wifi yourself rather than allowing a backup. Same for system apps.
The app data will contain references to the old phone which will confuse it. All of that must be rewritten on the specific device to match the phones identity.
3rd party apps are usually OK with backups but still shouldn't be trusted, but they don't usually bootloop the phone. They just force close instead.
Flashing firmware will reset the phone back to factory and rewrite the operating system, removing any software bugs in the process. To learn how to use odin you can find countless guides online too.
A straight forward "factory reset" via either the phone software or the recovery menu could solve the problem rather than flashing.
If I were you, I'd just factory reset it and then allow the phone to run for a few hours to see if the problem reoccurs in a factory state. If the phone asks for a google login just use the normal account and allow all updates to happen but switch off backup and sync for the short term. If all seems good then you know there was a bad app somewhere.
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By manually i mean just setup wifi yourself rather than allowing a backup. Same for system apps.
The app data will contain references to the old phone which will confuse it. All of that must be rewritten on the specific device to match the phones identity.
3rd party apps are usually OK with backups but still shouldn't be trusted, but they don't usually bootloop the phone. They just force close instead.
Flashing firmware will reset the phone back to factory and rewrite the operating system, removing any software bugs in the process. To learn how to use odin you can find countless guides online too.
A straight forward "factory reset" via either the phone software or the recovery menu could solve the problem rather than flashing.
If I were you, I'd just factory reset it and then allow the phone to run for a few hours to see if the problem reoccurs in a factory state. If the phone asks for a google login just use the normal account and allow all updates to happen but switch off backup and sync for the short term. If all seems good then you know there was a bad app somewhere.
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Ahh, cool, gottcha! Ok, will try soon. Surprisingly, I've switched off the phone every night instead of it auto-switching off at around 5-6am, and surprisingly it's so far going well. Had it on for 3 days and only at 47% now, so it's promising, still does switch off occasionally during the day, but I've just ignored that. Will do a factory reset in the next couple of days and report back Thanks for the help