I'm having two problems with my HTC Rezound, which I've had since this past April. To preface, it's stock and unrooted.
First, my phone has started to randomly switch the ringer to silent. Now, it only does this when the phone is already on vibrate. When the ringer is on, it doesn't ever switch to silent. I've downloaded Ringuard to try and stop this from happening, but it's had no effect.
Second, my phone has developed a bad habit of ringing for only a second or two before going over to voicemail. It doesn't do this every time, but it's done it enough to the point where I'm getting very concerned. If it happens and my phone is across the room, I literally don't have time to pick it up before I've missed the call.
I'd prefer not to have to do a factory reset, if I can avoid it. I've had just about as many phone issues over the past few years as humanly possible and while that means I've become fairly adept at the process of rebuilding my preferences from the ground up, it doesn't mean I enjoy it in the slightest. I mean, who does? Besides, if this is otherwise unresolvable, I can probably just call Verizon and have them send me a new non-Rezound phone given the excessive troubles I've had with their HTC phones in the past.
Bottom line, both of these issues are starting to cause some serious problems. Help?
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Sorry to sound a bit down. It's just that after 6 weeks of increasing hell with my Hero, sorry, Halfwit, I'm really, really missing my Touch Pro2.
1. Phantom Screen Flipping: No one knows the solution to this problem. My home screen now constantly flips to the right. In fact, any screen with an option causes erratic flipping (contact screen, email screen, menu screen etc). It's worse than a landed fish.
2. Random Battery Draining: Usually my Halfwit lasts a full day. Sometimes, though it drains within an hour, for no apparent reason.
3. Ringtone Madness: A couple of days ago I took a call. The call was instantly dropped. But the ringtone kept going. And going. And going.
4. Dropped Calls: probably 3 in 10 calls are dropped, either coming in and going out.
And just to be a little unfair, (but I feel justified): Sense. I've given up switching between "Home", "Office", "Travel", and so on. I could make breakfast in the time it takes to change.
Like I say, I know the entire Universe has had an excellent experience with the Halfwit, so before I return it, can anyone suggest a reasonably polite solution?
You could try flashing the new rom (again) to make sure that process went well.
If the problems consist send it back to htc cos it's not normal to have all these problems.
Yes, to have some many of these non standard issues at the same time, you must have a faulty unit.
I have never heard of a Hero behaving like that. Send it back and get a new one!
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1. Phantom Screen Flipping: No one knows the solution to this problem. My home screen now constantly flips to the right. In fact, any screen with an option causes erratic flipping (contact screen, email screen, menu screen etc). It's worse than a landed fish.
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Thats a bug when you open the 2G data connection
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=546206
Take that thing back and get one that works! That stinks you've had so many problems, definitely not normal or acceptable. It's a great phone, sounds like you got a lemon.
Sounds like a software malfunction or maybe your device could have liquid damage in it.. Not sure though, you should take it back to the store!
I love the Vibrant. Most things work fabulously, however, I'm on my 3rd one (for completely different and unrelated reasons), and this issue just won't go away. It's ironic, all of the whiz-bang functions work flawlessly, but the issues with the basic functioning as a PHONE are getting old. When I'm on the road, more times than not I will be in the middle of a call, and it will plain drop. I NEVER had a call drop with the trusty dusty G1 for almost 2 years. I may have narrowed it down to one of 3 things, but they are not consistent: 1) If I have rebooted and forget to turn off the "auto update of time" function, and it does it's thing, it drops then. If I get another call while I'm on a call, it will do it then. If I'm using Google Voice, it seems to happen even more frequently. The other annoying thing is that every day, at least several times a day, I will try to make or answer a call and the Bluetooth will have plain disconnected randomly. I have Jabra JX10's for both home & the car. Is there anyone else who has had these issues, and have any insight as to what may be causing them? It did both when I had just gotten each, so I can't see that it's the ROM, kernel or lagfix. I've asked this before, and I hate to use the "F" (Froyo) word, but if it comes, will it include a new/stronger radio that maybe the issues will be solved? Oh yeah, one final thing, and this may be solely Google Voice related, but often when a call drops or fails to connect, if I try to make another, I hear an ear piercing ridiculous static sound until I reboot. Someone please tell me that I am not the only one who has ever had these issues and that my phone is possessed by aliens. TIA...
Hi guys,
Ever since I flashed a sense less version of ICS (not blaming the ROM here, could be a coincidence), I've been hearing white noise on the left channel when I have headsets on. I tried 2 pairs and I hear the noise with both so I know it's not the headset.
The weird thing is that the noise starts immediately after I power up the phone. I did a battery pull, connected my headset, powered up the phone, and even before the HTC logo comes up, the noise will start.
Not ROM/Software related it seems, but here's the kicker, if I flash a new ROM, the noise goes away but only for a little bit of time, after a bit of usage, it'll come back. If I listen to music, sometimes it goes away, sometimes it just reduces a bit, sometimes nothing changes.
So I doubt it's the phone that's broken, it did happen right after flashing a senseless ICS Rom. I don't want to flash a full RUU yet because there might be a solution out there that doesn't require me to go back to stock so that I can install a full update.
Has anyone experienced this?
In case anyone is interested, I went to the Verizon store and I was told that although this is not a wide spread issue, it is actually a known problem. In some units, constant noise (even as the phone is booting up) will start happening when using the headset.
The person at the store didn't even check my phone, he simply started the process for a warranty replacement.
So if that happens to you, it's not the ROM, it's the phone itself.
CPU interference
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superchilpil said:
CPU interference
Hit thanks or ill hit you
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Definitely interference from something because the noise changes as I open/close apps or just flip through launcher pages.
I have the same exact issue but my warranty through Verizon is void since I traded my iPhone 4S to someone for the Rezound. Mine was working fine and one day it just started having this issue. Took it in and they told me they couldn't help me since I voided my warranty by trading (plus I don't have insurance on the phone).
Contacted HTC and the told me that it was a known issue and to contact their warranty company to get it replaced/fixed. The warranty is still good on the phone, I just have to send it to NY with a letter explaining my issues. Kinda worried about just putting the phone in a box and sending it on it's way without a paper trail of some sort.
Glad you were able to get your phone replaced. Good to know I'm not the only one here that had this issue.
I also started having this issue, it didn't show up until about a week after having the phone, though. Nice to know it's one of the things covered under warranty that's easy to get worked on, though.
I've had the cpu noise issue on three different Rezounds now, HTC says it's fixable in software. I don't know when we will see a fix though, if ever.
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This is happening on CM7DX2. Never happened before, but it is very annoying and can potential cause me minor trouble in class. I will test it again to check if it is still doing it.
What a piece of turd. This phone should get an award or something for the worst piece of ****ty tech in the whole wide world. Unless there is a setting somewhere that I set incorrectly. But why would such a setting exist? It is useless and I think my phone is misbehaving here..
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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This is happening on CM7DX2. Never happened before, but it is very annoying and can potential cause me minor trouble in class. I will test it again to check if it is still doing it.
What a piece of turd. This phone should get an award or something for the worst piece of ****ty tech in the whole wide world. Unless there is a setting somewhere that I set incorrectly. But why would such a setting exist? It is useless and I think my phone is misbehaving here..
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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I use silent mode 2-3 times per week while in meetings that can last up to 3 hours and have never had this problem. And those times when I forget to turn it off it stays silent. I also don't have it set to vibrate at any time so if you have that on it may be part of the "scenario" that causes your problem. Sorry i don't have any more info to offer.
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I've had that problem for a long time. I'm on stock 2.4. Seems to go out of silen mode most often when the battery is drained to less than 70%. I have a habit now of double-checking every now and then that it's not slipped out of silent mode. It makes for some embarrassing situations when it does. It's also against company policy where I work to let your cell phone be heard during meetings.
I have only had that issue at work a couple of times but I think it happens when I hit the volume button by mistake. I keep my volume off while at work since I am in and out of meetings all day.
Im on cm7dx2, my phone is on silent /vibrate 85% of the time, ive never had this issue.
from my X2 roaming the north
Hmm I'll check it. Next time it does it I'll push the volume button once up, then if this is the cause, it should be on the second volume increment.
Ok so this morning I had a little bit of a frustrating time getting out the door and I'm wondering if anyone has good info to help me and others. Specifically, I'd like to hear from those that actually understand what is going on under the hood so that I can have a morning routine with my phone that gets me out the door with minimal frustration...
First off, I know that the easiest solution is to revert back to an ICS rom. I know that until source drops the JB roms are experimental and that issues are to be expected. We are so lucky to have the devs that support our phone. They have brought us this far and we should show appreciation through the "thanks" button and, as means allow, through donations. Don't get me started on the ridiculous lament of some that can't afford it - Guys if you can afford a phone plan (or a cup of coffee), kick the dev a fiver (not much, but if everyone did it would add up)- side rant off
Back on topic - my two issues are my paranoia over the deep sleep issue when pulling phone off charge and losing in call volume. For me the two issues are related. Like many, I need my phone to maximize it's battery potential. I can't afford to pick up my phone in the afternoon to place a call only to find that it has been draining battery because it was not properly sleeping because of how it was pulled off the charger. I have no rogue apps running and I am not entirely convinced that unlocking it before removal from the charger fixes the deep sleep issue. I am further convinced that nobody, not Samsung nor our amazing devs can fix this issue. It must be a hardware problem as Samsung had to be aware of it before the ICS update and were not able to fix it. My solution currently is to reboot my phone every morning after I take it off the cradle.
This leads to my second issue. After I reboot my phone, I immediately dial my home phone number to verify that I have in call volume. In most instance I know immediately if I hear the phone ringing through my note's ear speaker even before my home phone starts ringing. If I hear this, I am good to go - as long as my phone does not randomly crash throughout the day I am sure that if someone calls me, I will be able to hear them or if I need to place a call the phone will act as a phone.
Through the work of our devs, we have some very stable roms and random crashes are minimal. I am going into my third day on Manelscout4life's eclipse rom and have yet to experience a random reboot! My problem this morning was that I lost in call volume after my voluntary reboot and had a hell of a time trying to get it back. For those, who understand what exactly is happening, I would ask - how is the quickest way to get up and running so that I can get out the door?
-I know that the issue has been linked to rebooting while connected via wifi so I toggle it off before rebooting
-I know that sometimes a simple reboot fixes it so I try that -however today three simple reboots served only to waste valuable morning time and drain 3% of precious battery life.
-clear app data and force stopping phone and related apps before rebooting sometime works - no dice this morning
-clearing caches and fixing permissions in recovery sometimes works- this was the kicker today, but only on second try...
I know that the in call volume issue will more than likely be fixed once JB source is dropped by Samsung. It is a known issue that affects all JB roms currently out and I know the devs are working hard to fix it without Samsung's help. But I think if someone can give me a sure fire morning routine (preferably under 5 minutes). I would be good to go with the present state of JB stability....