Hello,
I got my Vibrant for a year now and its been woking great.
I rooted it and got HoneyBee rom, android 2.2.1.
A few days ago it started behave strange.
Sometimes when I plug it to charger(original) it wont charge and when I disconnect it, it shows the charging icon.
I read that it might be the micro usb port so I cleaned it up..and it sort of half fixed the problems, now it charges but sometimes it just crashes.
When I need to turn my phone on I cannot without having to connected to a charger or a pc usb cable.
Tried opening the phone and cleaning from the inside, rerooted, tried deiffrent rom, factory reset, nothing really worked.
Now the phone is working but its so unstable and I am not really sure of what to do next..
Any help?
Thanks
Hope this helps!
I would try flashing back to orginal stock ROM first. If its an issue with the software then that will work. If still having issues then try changing out battery and see if that helps. Hopefully its that easy and good luck
Thanks for the reply.
Already tried original stock rom, didn't help.
I think its the micro usb port because sometimes I just stick a woden pin inside it when it doesnt work properly and then suddenly it srats to work for a while..
I am really out of ideas, not warranty left so I cant just send it to the dealer..any ideas?
Have you tried wiggling the cable on the port side until it does something? Also have you tried a different cable. If you have it's definitely a port problem
Running Pa#*ion 13.1 RC and Lovin' It
Yes, I tried a few cables, it does charges now.
The problem is that sometimes the phone turns itself off if it gets any little shock, any little hit..
Tried checking the battery if its loose maybe, everythnig seems fine I even tried putting a piece of paper between the battery and the closing for a better sealing..nothing seems to work.
Some updates:
The phone charges without any problems, the icon of the charging is not stuck anymore after I disconnect it from the charger.
The only problem that the phone turns off at any small shock or movement..
Now, another phone at my work from another person is having the same problems and the only thing we have in common is that we charged with the same charger.
I think it was wet or something and just did some damage to my phone and to his phone.
What can I do? I already opened my phone and cleaned with toothbrush and 95% alchool, everything is clean, dry and stable.
Can it be the battery? I mean, what are those damn turn offs I'm getting..battery? usb port? any idea? I am out of warranty..
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Has anyone had this problem?
After three trouble free months, my phone has developed a a very strange problem.
After charging, it behaves as if I'm constantly connecting and disconnecting the phone to a PC. It bleeps whilst showing the battery being connected to a charger and then imidiatly acts like its been disconnected by bleeping and running media scanner on both SD cards. It also shows that its connected via Kies, even though all this is happening whilst only being connected to a charger!
I've already done a full reset, which helped for a few days before it came back. It normally sorts itself out after a few minutes but the period before it "calms down" is getting longer. This morning I removed the battery for an hour but it continued in its "loop". Another, possibly related symptom is that as soon as the battery is installed, the phone boots up without being switched on. The same thing happens if I shut the phone down, it just powers up again!
Any thoughts?
had you if ever dip the bottom part of your phone? sounds like short-circuit issue or I maybe wrong.. try bringing in on to the nearest service center for warranty
Sounds a plausible theory but as far as I can tell, it hasn't got wet. Its been doing it for a few day now, so I think if it was damp, it would have dried out by now.
Thanks anyway.
I got the same problem. Let me know if you figure it out.
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my friend had a simmilar issue and it was damage to the usb port , it kept thinking it was connecting to the pc or charger , it also wouldnt charge when plugged into a wall point and went into usb mode and vice versa when he put it into a pc
he sent it back for repair and they sent him a new phone
it may not be what you have but it does sound simmilar
i would try a few things like a reset , format the mass memory , install firmware again , dont restore back ups but set phone up fresh like you would do if you just bought it , then see how it goes , it could just be a corrupted file or system error that could be fixed bya full wipe and fresh install or it could be like my friends and the usb could be on the way out
on the topic of usb ports i do think they could have been better designed and iam hoping mine doesnt break as its needed for hdmi out , charging , docks , etc etc
Thanks Buxz,
As a follow up, I put the battery back in after taking it our for about 3hrs and all seams fine. I know that it isn't a permanent fix but I think it points more to software than hardware, which in a way is more annoying as its all about trial and error, as you described. A mechanical fault is more straight forward.
I just dread having to charge it again!
Regards, Woolly.
UPDATE
Charged it overnight and no problems when disconnecting it this morning. So far!
If anything, the battery life it better than before the problems. The fact that removing the battery for 3hrs broke the cycle of connect/disconnect, makes me think its soft/firmware related.
Woolly.
Hello there,
yesterday i got my phone back as it should get repaired (which it wasnt as it was not a warranty case) and so i rooted it and reinstalled cm10. all went fine and everything worked as it should.
installed a few apps and sync was all good. no force close or errors in general. During the night I kept it connected to my notebook (in standby) so it gets charged.
Bad surprise: I woke up and it didn't react at all. Black screen. nothing happens when removing the battery putting it back in and plugging in the usb-cable. no touch lights or whatsoever. no recovery, no download mode. just nothing at all.
i do have a wobbly usb port on my phone but yesterday it charged just fine without any interruption. just data mode wont work perfectly (loses connection and connects again) actually it always charges fine. so i dont think it is because of the usb port.
so what shall i do? i didnt use the phone overnight, it wasnt connected in wifi. just idling and now it isnt responding anymore...
hope that somebody can help
cheers
lolmensch said:
Hello there,
yesterday i got my phone back as it should get repaired (which it wasnt as it was not a warranty case) and so i rooted it and reinstalled cm10. all went fine and everything worked as it should.
installed a few apps and sync was all good. no force close or errors in general. During the night I kept it connected to my notebook (in standby) so it gets charged.
Bad surprise: I woke up and it didn't react at all. Black screen. nothing happens when removing the battery putting it back in and plugging in the usb-cable. no touch lights or whatsoever. no recovery, no download mode. just nothing at all.
i do have a wobbly usb port on my phone but yesterday it charged just fine without any interruption. just data mode wont work perfectly (loses connection and connects again) actually it always charges fine. so i dont think it is because of the usb port.
so what shall i do? i didnt use the phone overnight, it wasnt connected in wifi. just idling and now it isnt responding anymore...
hope that somebody can help
cheers
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Does anything happen when you charge it with the normal wall charger?
Any way to try with another battery... just to see if the phone is really bricked or maybe there is no juice left in the battery...
also clean out your USB port with a toothbrush.. I had a similar issue with USB connection.. cleaning it out resolved that...
s_vohra said:
Does anything happen when you charge it with the normal wall charger?
Any way to try with another battery... just to see if the phone is really bricked or maybe there is no juice left in the battery...
also clean out your USB port with a toothbrush.. I had a similar issue with USB connection.. cleaning it out resolved that...
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thank you for your tips.
nothing happens with the normal wall charger. trying another battery will be possible tonight and i will report back.
did the cleaning. didnt change anything with not charging but maybe if the phone will boot with the other battery it might have helped ^^
i read the other bricked thread and that was quite disapointing. still have warranty on it so maybe i'll send it directly to samsung rather than amazon.
thanks anyway for your help.
just might be interesting for cm10 users. I mean I did absolutely nothing with it. or maybe it was nand failure. idk
Hi guys, I have very big problem with my xperia. Few weeks ago i installed cyanogen mod (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/p-development/-t2626639) evrything was working fine, but suddenly when i connected my charger to phone, it do not recognized it is charging. After some time of charging battery level goes up, but phone is hot as hell. After charging to 100% phone is rebooting and staying on sony logo, its turning on only after disconecting a charger. Battery life is like 15 minutes. I have tried to reflash cyanogen, didnt help. Then i wanted to reflash stock rom but after connecting phone to computer nothing happends, computer dont see phone. I have tried a lot of chargers and cables, nothing is working fine. I was thinking tahat maybe usb port is somehow destroyed, but phone is "charging".If you can please help. Cheers.
@krzywy1121
Change you battery.
soft
I think it is not battery becouse i can not even connect my phone to computer. I think it is some kind of soft problem, but i don know how can i flash stock rom over cyanogen without using flashtool.
krzywy1121 said:
Hi guys, I have very big problem with my xperia. Few weeks ago i installed cyanogen mod (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/p-development/-t2626639) evrything was working fine, but suddenly when i connected my charger to phone, it do not recognized it is charging. After some time of charging battery level goes up, but phone is hot as hell. After charging to 100% phone is rebooting and staying on sony logo, its turning on only after disconecting a charger. Battery life is like 15 minutes. I have tried to reflash cyanogen, didnt help. Then i wanted to reflash stock rom but after connecting phone to computer nothing happends, computer dont see phone. I have tried a lot of chargers and cables, nothing is working fine. I was thinking tahat maybe usb port is somehow destroyed, but phone is "charging".If you can please help. Cheers.
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Im having the same problem here. HAve you managed to solve this?
Thanks
I've changed the battery, and it didn't make nothing. Phone can't recognize the cable plugged in, if i plug charger in, it charges, but don't indicate it. I can't connect my xperia to pc and flash stock rom. Any ideas how to solve my situation ?
I have never had this issue before so i'm coming for some help as i'm guessing it's something to do with CM. Last night i flashed cm-10.1.3-quincyatt with no problems at all. Everything was working flawlessly. Once i got my phone fully charged and most of my apps setup ect. I did a battery calibration, then used a drainer app to drain the battery completely as normal. plugged the charger back in and it charged to about 75-80% i picked my phone up a bit later to check messages and noticed it was not charging. I unplugged and replugged the charger cord with no success in getting the phone to charge. I've tried numerous cords, usb cables ect. Nothing will charge. It won't even recognize the phone when plugged in usb on the computer. the battery charges fine with an external charger, but obviously i cannot use the phone while the battery is out on an external charging unit. I know someone is probably going to suggest the charging port went bad...i highly doubt that because it was just replaced not a week ago. also, any time i've had a charging port go out, nothing will work in the port, not even a dongle jig. I powered the phone down and inserted my dongle jig to test and make sure, and sure enough, the second the dongle jig is inserted the phone powers on and boots into download mode as it should. I've reset dalvik ect. tried everything i can think of besides wiping and reflashing, as i'm trying to avoid that since i have about 4 hours or so in setting up custom settings/apps ect. on the phone lol. I've noticed browsing the web i'm not the only person experiencing this issue, so can someone please help me in fixing it asap? Thanks in advance for the help, and if a thread was already posted on how to fix this, please direct me to it, because i could not find it.
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I have wiped and reflashed just to test and see if that would fix the issue, sadly it still will NOT charge.
Hello
For the past two days car mode has been turning on and off on my s2, it turns on the screen and makes sounds, it has now even started to turn itself on(when power off is selected) after a few seconds.I have tried reflashing the stock rom, but the same thing happened.So I flashed a custom stock based rom and the same thing happened again, I even flashed cyanogenmod but the same thing still happens,i took a look at language and input but driving mode isn't even present, can anyone help me here as this is draining the battery and is making the phone unusable.
Thanks
had that same thing happen.. try cleaning out your usb port.
ultimately i had to change my usb flex cable to completely stop it. seems like something (maybe a loose pin?)
was triggering car mode.
rgomia said:
had that same thing happen.. try cleaning out your usb port.
ultimately i had to change my usb flex cable to completely stop it. seems like something (maybe a loose pin?)
was triggering car mode.
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Hello, thank you for your help,I cleaned the port and messed a bit with it, now everything is working just as it should