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Any ideas?
I was in TWRP at the main menu, instead of clicking power off, I pulled the battery to replace the sd card with another. Now it will not power up, when I plug it in..no red light?
Thanks in advance...Jim
rollrsk8ter said:
Any ideas?
I was in TWRP at the main menu, instead of clicking power off, I pulled the battery to replace the sd card with another. Now it will not power up, when I plug it in..no red light?
Thanks in advance...Jim
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See if you have any luck trying to boot without an sd card in there. Also, try holding down on the power button for at least ten seconds
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See if you have any luck trying to boot without an sd card in there. Also, try holding down on the power button for at least ten seconds
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Neither helped...
have no sd card in it now
holding power button for 20 seconds doesn't do anything.
Let it charge for about 10-20 minutes then try again
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Let it charge for about 10-20 minutes then try again
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This happened to me about a week ago. Charging it was what fixed it.
If charge it doesn't fix go to a sprint store and let them charged the battery the did the trick for.my EVO 4G once the happened, for.some reason the battery seems dead when is nor really dead
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Maybe check the battery connectors dood. I know some htc models have problems with those.
Coz i just saw it in 3D with the Shooter!
mines not powering up either.. Never turned it off, woke up this morning & it was off. Not powering up. been on charger all night
happens all the time to me. i know its a flaw, but ive learned to NEVER let my battery go all the way dead. If i see it get around 5-10% ill just put in on airplane mode til i can get to a charger. Also if you battery is very low, turning it off or pulling the battery will cause it to get an attidude and not turn back on for 15-20 min
Yeah, I have been having lots of "attitude" from my battery or power button or on/off code or whatever is making these things not want to power on reliably.... Not to mention the random charge-light-on-wont-turn-on antics. Has been happening more and more frequently and nothing i do works reliably so I just try them all until one works.
I can't have this. This morning I woke up to a locked phone, screen off, green light on, won't turn on.... And totally dead battery while plugged in? Good thing my nook is so reliable as an alarm clock or I might have been in deep **** at work.
It's not the rom or kernel... I've tested everything. I think it's deeper than that. I might not be able to wait for the nexus-prime.... Sgs2 might have to do.
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I've seen a lot of these posts. I usually never let mine get in the amber even but I recently flashed viper rom so i wanted to do a battery calibration...meaning..reset stats from full charge..then use it till it dies. After reading these posts I realized mine hadnt died on me any yet. After 16 hours of heavy abuse (12 hours of normal music streaming, calls, text, web surfing etc...and 4 hours of just playing youtube video's with all radio's on trying to kill the damn thing) it finally croaked. Worked just fine though.
Maybe something to do with certain shipments. I've seen a lot of posts on htis but no one ever puts out a batch number or anything. Perhaps all the ones having issues came from a similar batch...and have some designation of affiliation with said batch. Just a though..if we could discover some trend in this...perhaps they'd consider acknowledging it and helping users with issues...or at least help new comers to the thread avoid particular troublesome ones.
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Yeah, I have been having lots of "attitude" from my battery or power button or on/off code or whatever is making these things not want to power on reliably.... Not to mention the random charge-light-on-wont-turn-on antics. Has been happening more and more frequently and nothing i do works reliably so I just try them all until one works.
I can't have this. This morning I woke up to a locked phone, screen off, green light on, won't turn on.... And totally dead battery while plugged in? Good thing my nook is so reliable as an alarm clock or I might have been in deep **** at work.
It's not the rom or kernel... I've tested everything. I think it's deeper than that. I might not be able to wait for the nexus-prime.... Sgs2 might have to do.
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i think it has something to do with the non HTC s-off method. But im right with you. As soon as Sprint releases the s2 this 3D is going straight to ebay. I love it, but the signal weakness and power problems are MAJOR things that I cant take much longer
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i think it has something to do with the non HTC s-off method. But im right with you. As soon as Sprint releases the s2 this 3D is going straight to ebay. I love it, but the signal weakness and power problems are MAJOR things that I cant take much longer
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It did this before I did s-off.... Admittedly not as much, but it also hadn't done it any more afterwards.... Until a week or so ago, and it just seems to be getting worse. I have an unmodified eng hboot and radio, I doubt that there are remnants of revolutionary that would get progressively worse over time....but I have no idea honestly.
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It did this before I did s-off.... Admittedly not as much, but it also hadn't done it any more afterwards.... Until a week or so ago, and it just seems to be getting worse. I have an unmodified eng hboot and radio, I doubt that there are remnants of revolutionary that would get progressively worse over time....but I have no idea honestly.
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gotcha..
no matter how we cut the cake its still unacceptable for a flagship device. Idk how they missed something huge liike this in testing before it released
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gotcha..
no matter how we cut the cake its still unacceptable for a flagship device. Idk how they missed something huge liike this in testing before it released
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Agreed. I stopped into my local radio Shack two days before release to play with their demo unit.... Turned on... Played with 3D... Turned off... Never came back on again, ever. Tried everything.
Sucks cuz I do love htc build quality. It just feels good in the hand. LOVE qHD, definitely gonna miss that. But this is bad and getting what worse.... And that's without mentioning the awful signal strength..... We'll see...
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Agreed. I stopped into my local radio Shack two days before release to play with their demo unit.... Turned on... Played with 3D... Turned off... Never came back on again, ever. Tried everything.
Sucks cuz I do love htc build quality. It just feels good in the hand. LOVE qHD, definitely gonna miss that. But this is bad and getting what worse.... And that's without mentioning the awful signal strength..... We'll see...
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AWFUL signal strength. actually, worse Ive ever had on a phone.
my EVO never came back. I was at 60% batt life when I put on charge last night & was dead ass hell this morning.. no life at at.. Sprint tech took it apart it said the phone apears like new, just lifeless. swapped battery with 3 others, no good. So I figured it would be a long shot but I took it back to the store I got it from 36 days ago.. & Explained what happen.. Swapped me out with another one right then & there!..
BTW this is my 5th NEW Evo3D. thats sad...
I plugged my eleven-day-old Galaxy S II up last night to the Samsung charger connected to the Samsung AC adapter that came with it. I then put it underneath the pillow beside me (not the pillow I sleep on; I do this so that I don't knock it off during the night) and went to bed. When I went to grab it this morning, the phone pretty much burnt my hand. I dropped it quickly and let it cool down for a moment. I had no success with turning it on and, when I got back from school, still had no luck. I ended up taking it back and exchanging it for another one.
It really doesn't bother me that much considering the volume up button on the other one stuck a little. And now I can't get CWM to flash on this one. It seems like nothing is going right for me today.
Woah!!
Definitely gotta be careful with that. These phones do need to breathe in a sense but glad it wasn't worse and you were able to return it. I bet you won't do that one again.
Yeah, definitely do not charge any electronic device while under a pillow because charging generates heat and there is no way for the heat to escape while it's under a pillow, so it builds up. As for flashing CWM, what happens when you use odin?
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The exact same thing happened to me w a NS4G, never again.
That happen to me but not to that extent, i did it all the time with other phones but I guess I should avoid doing that from now on.
It happened to me a couple of times with different phones. I think when I checked the temp it was like 127F lol
By far this phone is the hottest device i have. The thin profile of the phone can't really dissipate the heat that well. But anyway sorry to hear this about your phone. Good luck with fixing things.
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coduyen said:
By far this phone is the hottest device i have. The thin profile of the phone can't really dissipate the heat that well. But anyway sorry to hear this about your phone. Good luck with fixing things.
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ever owned a sensation? it doubles as a griddle. lmao
I actually was able to flash CWM. For some reason it just wouldn't allow me to do it from ROM Manager. But all is good now.
**** man im glad your bed didn't catch fire. That would have ruined your morning.
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What does it say in BIG RED LETTERS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE FAQ?
Don't use Rom Manager on our phones.
jtc276 said:
I plugged my eleven-day-old Galaxy S II up last night to the Samsung charger connected to the Samsung AC adapter that came with it. I then put it underneath the pillow beside me (not the pillow I sleep on; I do this so that I don't knock it off during the night) and went to bed. When I went to grab it this morning, the phone pretty much burnt my hand. I dropped it quickly and let it cool down for a moment. I had no success with turning it on and, when I got back from school, still had no luck. I ended up taking it back and exchanging it for another one.
It really doesn't bother me that much considering the volume up button on the other one stuck a little. And now I can't get CWM to flash on this one. It seems like nothing is going right for me today.
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Sounds like a faulty battery pack or charging hardware in the phone - for safety reasons, charging of Li-Ion batteries is suspended if the pack reaches 50C (122F) or less. It sounds like either your pack has a faulty temp sensor or your phone did not terminate charge when the temp rose too high. (I assume that Samsung has such termination circuitry onboard as they would never receive certifications otherwise). You are very lucky, as Li-Ion batteries have a propensity for exploding/catching on fire when overheated during charge.
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I think Im going to run an auto-script that looks for people saying they use Rom Manager (or try to use it because it sucks and never works right) and then give them an automatic infraction.
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What does it say in BIG RED LETTERS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE FAQ?
Don't use Rom Manager on our phones.
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Ah, I see now. It doesn't really matter, though. That wasn't the purpose of the thread to begin with.
Red5 said:
I think Im going to run an auto-script that looks for people saying they use Rom Manager (or try to use it because it sucks and never works right) and then give them an automatic infraction.
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Just weed out any cm7 threads though as it works perfectly. I understand your point though.
Also when we first got these phones and this issue came up i was able to get it to work with the samsung based roms and made a video to show how. Feel free to delete it if you want to. Dont want people to get confused...
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I left mine under the pillow one night - woke up the next morning and was wondering why "This thing is HOT!". It wasn't ruined but I never leave it under the pillow charging anymore. This is why they made night stands LOL.
It locked up once and I restarted it.
Locked up again after a few minutes, shut itself down and no matter what I do, I can't get it to restart.
Kind of a suck way to start the day.
Just this afternoon picked up my shiny new replacement from Best Buy...totally new shipment which had just came in. I added no apps and 15 minutes later the first random reboot. It rebootted7 times in two hours and then just t turned itself off and won't come back to life.
No...the battery isn't dead.
Plug it into any charger and the charging light doesn't come on.
Seriously....this is frustrating.
maybe its your battery
let it charge for a bit with the device off
did you unlock the boot loader
can u flash roms?
can u even get to the bootloader?
Phone is fully charged. It was working fine during a call and when I hung up the call, the screen locked up then quickly blinked twice and that was that.
I tried pushing the power switch for almost two minutes and noting happened.
Better now than when I am traveling for work I suppose.
Take it back before the grace period. Lolz?
My tpu case seems to be making the power button stick causing reboots. If you have a case, take it off and I would also remove the shiny top back cover and try again. If that doesn't work, call for replacement.
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Do a battery pu...... Oh wait
tkemack said:
My tpu case seems to be making the power button stick causing reboots. If you have a case, take it off and I would also remove the shiny top back cover and try again. If that doesn't work, call for replacement.
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If you take the shiny back cover off you maybe removing something important. Look on the inside surface of the cover and you will see copper contact points. Is this the NFC antenna. I'm ignorant to how it works, just speculating.
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If you take the shiny back cover off you maybe removing something important. Look on the inside surface of the cover and you will see copper contact points. Is this the NFC antenna. I'm ignorant to how it works, just speculating.
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I suggested taking it off just to try to get the phone to boot in case the power button us stuck. I didn't intend for him to leave it off forever
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I understood what you meant
I did try it minus my TPU cover just in case that was the issue although the power button seems perfectly free..
Maybe they new camera will somehow magically be better
jfenton57 said:
I understood what you meant
I did try it minus my TPU cover just in case that was the issue although the power button seems perfectly free..
Maybe they new camera will somehow magically be better
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Unclear if you got it to boot?...
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Well.....it sprang back to life all by itself sitting on my desk at work this morning (it is sitting there waiting for BB to call me and tell me they have a new replacement). It simply powered up, booted and came to life sitting there.
It now reboots a couple of times an hour just sitting there and at times actually turns Mobile Networks OFF all by itself.
Perhaps it is possessed?
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Well.....it sprang back to life all by itself sitting on my desk at work this morning (it is sitting there waiting for BB to call me and tell me they have a new replacement). It simply powered up, booted and came to life sitting there.
It now reboots a couple of times an hour just sitting there and at times actually turns Mobile Networks OFF all by itself.
Perhaps it is possessed?
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Bad battery contacts?
Just this afternoon picked up my shiny new replacement from Best Buy...totally new shipment which had just came in. I added no apps and 15 minutes later the first random reboot. It rebootted7 times in two hours and then just t turned itself off and won't come back to life.
No...the battery isn't dead.
Plug it into any charger and the charging light doesn't come on.
Seriously....this is frustrating.
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Just this afternoon picked up my shiny new replacement from Best Buy...totally new shipment which had just came in. I added no apps and 15 minutes later the first random reboot. It rebootted7 times in two hours and then just t turned itself off and won't come back to life.
No...the battery isn't dead.
Plug it into any charger and the charging light doesn't come on.
Seriously....this is frustrating.
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It must be you. I think you need Jesus in your life.
Yeah.....maybe that's my problem. My heart sunk with the first lockup and reboot. I said some rather ugly stuff to my phone in the car.
BB stated they had taken back two out of the 7 preorders and when I asked for what reason, he said he wasn't sure.
Tomorrow I will exchange it one more time at a BB 100 miles away from the first one since we are away this weekend and they are already holding it for me. Maybe a change of venue will help
Sounds like some serious bad luck. I haven't heard of anyone's dying until you. I hope the different BBY return will do better for you man...
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shook187 said:
It must be you. I think you need Jesus in your life.
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or Cthulhu. but we all know both are fiction
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or Cthulhu. but we all know both are fiction
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Cthulhu isn't fiction bro.
Don't know who the other guy is.
jfenton57 said:
Well.....it sprang back to life all by itself sitting on my desk at work this morning (it is sitting there waiting for BB to call me and tell me they have a new replacement). It simply powered up, booted and came to life sitting there.
It now reboots a couple of times an hour just sitting there and at times actually turns Mobile Networks OFF all by itself.
Perhaps it is possessed?
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Man, you got to break two EVO's already.
I'm just waiting to get the chance to break my first.
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or Cthulhu. but we all know both are fiction
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Speak for yourself, troll.
Well my awesome sauce with the note 2 seems to be doing downhill... I LOVE my phone... then all of a sudden yesterday I had it sitting on the arm rest of my recliner.... I accidentally knocked it off on to the hardwood floor and it must have hit just right as it cracked the screen. The phone still functioned fine, but the screen was cracked. I took it to a local cell phone repair shop to have the screen replaced. When they put it back together it wouldn't boot... well then after replacing a button, it booted and they thought that was it. Well after it booted I made a call, and as I set the phone down, I noticed it turned off. So after a couple of more boots and confirmations that tapping it at the top of the device did this, I got a charger. Well with the charger plugged in it does the same thing, which tells me it's not a battery connection as google searching would lead me to believe. Please tell me someone knows something to try and fix this? Should I just cut my losses and buy a used device? I see beans has his on swappa and it's making me consider coming up with the money to do that. Thanks for any input/advice!!!!
Michael
Damn! They're supposed to test it out after they replace the screen and give it back to you. These screen replacements are very sensitive and you have to really use caution when messing with them. I've never heard of this but do you have a case on it or around it at the moment? sorry man. Have you discovered anything else?
Well after he spent some time with my phone last night, he said he thinks he found a loose cable. I picked it up today and it hasn't shut off yet. The screen looks beautiful by the way. Back to playing around with Trents Rom!
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Well after he spent some time with my phone last night, he said he thinks he found a loose cable. I picked it up today and it hasn't shut off yet. The screen looks beautiful by the way. Back to playing around with Trents Rom!
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Glad the store solved that out. I've had a similar thing if I tap my phone on a table around the camera area it just shuts off as well. Only solution I've found is using the massive case from the 9300mah zero Lemon battery. Adds a sought bit of bulk
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This is why a ZAGG and good case are worth every penny
How are you liking your new device so far? What device did you com from, and what are your likes and dislikes?
So far I have played with the phone, at the Verizon store. Its pretty amazing considering its pretty much an galaxy s6 edge, with a bigger screen, pretty much yeah. Pretty much sums it up for me. Yeah. Pretty much.
Coming from LG g3 and I am loving it. Call quality is great. Excellent battery. Zero lag. I don't have any complaints yet.
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Two screen of deaths and broken wireless charging here. Gonna have to return it.
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Two screen of deaths and broken wireless charging here. Gonna have to return it.
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Agreed lol
Phones is awesome.
Have a slight bug that comes and goes where sometimes I wake the screen, I don't have a background image but I have the edge contact/app tab on a black dimlit screen. If I hit the home key once more I get my unlock screen.
If I swipe it I get the menu's and if I choose a contact or an app i am prompted to unlock then and the screen lights up fully.
Happened a few times over the weekend but once today and it's not a big deal.
Came from S6. Loving the edges and size. Lightning fast and battery life is solid.
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I find that i keep misspelling words. It doesn't matter which keyboard i use. Touchscreen maybe?
Came from the m8 and im loving this phone. Ive always been an htc fanboy but i decided to try sammy and im very pleased with my choice.
Ended up exchanging ours for a Note 5. Night and day difference in stability. Much better off now. The Edge is sex but ours was riddled with bugs. It was so bad my wife wanted her HTC One M8 back....
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I find that i keep misspelling words. It doesn't matter which keyboard i use. Touchscreen maybe?
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I'm a big fan of SwiftKey. It will actually learn how you type and what words you use as you use it. It has a heat map that it uses to more reliably figure out what words you are attempting to spell. It's very good. You just use the predictive words if you aren't sure how to spell a word. As you type it gives you the three most likely solutions so you don't have to type out the words.
Just got mine today and LOVE it. I've always been a nexus & opo person due to price and their dev community, but as soon as I played with this bad boy at Verizon I knew I had to get it. I always loathed TouchWiz, but I actually like what they have done with it now.
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FML what do you know, i read this thread then try to log in, what do you know mine freezes LOL and reboots, but so far it's been better than the foul tastes the galaxy s3 left with me since i had to put stock android on that, it was a must for that phone.
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Came from the m8 and im loving this phone. Ive always been an htc fanboy but i decided to try sammy and im very pleased with my choice.
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Same here, although I briefly had an S4 (for 2 days) when I first came to Verizon before they released the M7 for Verizon. I came from the M9 to this phone.
I've only read bits and pieces, but I take it these phones are locked down tighter than Fort Knox?
Leaving my note 4 developer edition was very hard but im handling the no SDcard and no root well. Ive never not had root so this is a new experience for me, so far the speed of charging and stability of things im really happy.
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Leaving my note 4 developer edition was very hard but im handling the no SDcard and no root well. Ive never not had root so this is a new experience for me, so far the speed of charging and stability of things im really happy.
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Same here, but i want some partial battery improvment, such as why make it thin and leave a big ass humping camera, fill the rest of dat space with a bigger BOOOOTERY. Also the rectangular fingerprint seems less accurate than the iphone, however looks faster. But overall, it's a flashy phone lol
So....I'm recently divorced and I get a little drunk around the apartment.
Sunday night dropped the phone in the toilet while taking a whiz and texting. I got it out in about 2 seconds and it seemed OK, worked for another hour until I fell asleep around 10 and had set alarms on my edge+ and my work iPhone to wake me up at 2:00am to kick off some work task...iPhone went off, edge+ didn't.
Screen was dead, speaker was in and out...phone fully functioned otherwise.
I didn't have any rice so I got the bright idea of putting the toaster oven on warm and putting the phone over a few towels...after 8 mins or so my screen came alive for about 20 seconds then died again.
I bought rice early the next morning and left the phone in my car in a paper bag of rice out of the sun. There was still no sign of life even after I got back home from work that evening. I gave up, called asurion who had me fill some form out before sending me an exchange because I made a claim on my previous note 3 before trading up for this one.
My phone sat until last night, my alarms going off and connecting to my wireless headset I was desperately trying to pair with y work iPhone.
In a drunken rage I plunked my already broken edge+ into a bowl of water determined to kill it forever and ensure it got no new life as a refurb. after 5 mins submerged the condition of my phone did not change, my notification light blinked along and my back lights continued to respond to the touches of my dead dark screen.
Today I come home to make lunch and my phone was laying on my desk, I hit the home button and the screen lights up with the battery dead indicator.
I plug my phone in and the fast charging screen comes to life! I power it on and have startup music, my fingerprint scanner unlocked the device, I connected to WiFi, mobile network and Bluetooth and the phone has ran strong for the remainder of the day so far.
I got my replacement today and haven't even opened it. If the edge+ runs strong through the weekend i'll send it back for a refund. I'll also buy Samsung 4eva.
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So....I'm recently divorced and I get a little drunk around the apartment.
Sunday night dropped the phone in the toilet while taking a whiz and texting. I got it out in about 2 seconds and it seemed OK, worked for another hour until I fell asleep around 10 and had set alarms on my edge+ and my work iPhone to wake me up at 2:00am to kick off some work task...iPhone went off, edge+ didn't.
Screen was dead, speaker was in and out...phone fully functioned otherwise.
I didn't have any rice so I got the bright idea of putting the toaster oven on warm and putting the phone over a few towels...after 8 mins or so my screen came alive for about 20 seconds then died again.
I bought rice early the next morning and left the phone in my car in a paper bag of rice out of the sun. There was still no sign of life even after I got back home from work that evening. I gave up, called asurion who had me fill some form out before sending me an exchange because I made a claim on my previous note 3 before trading up for this one.
My phone sat until last night, my alarms going off and connecting to my wireless headset I was desperately trying to pair with y work iPhone.
In a drunken rage I plunked my already broken edge+ into a bowl of water determined to kill it forever and ensure it got no new life as a refurb. after 5 mins submerged the condition of my phone did not change, my notification light blinked along and my back lights continued to respond to the touches of my dead dark screen.
Today I come home to make lunch and my phone was laying on my desk, I hit the home button and the screen lights up with the battery dead indicator.
I plug my phone in and the fast charging screen comes to life! I power it on and have startup music, my fingerprint scanner unlocked the device, I connected to WiFi, mobile network and Bluetooth and the phone has ran strong for the remainder of the day so far.
I got my replacement today and haven't even opened it. If the edge+ runs strong through the weekend i'll send it back for a refund. I'll also buy Samsung 4eva.
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Sounds like a hate/love story LOL
Honestly, if you just want the short of it, buy a Note 5.
The screen is really nice. I don't like the curved edges. I do not use any of the edge functionality at all.
The battery life is OK, and my S5 lasted eons. I never touched lollipop with the S5 and just tweaked the stock OS and removed some junk.
The speed is quite nice. It is snappier than my aging S5. But it should be.
The camera seems to be better. The S5 wasn't bad, the Note 4 wasn't bad. But this seems slightly better.
Wireless charging isn't very convenient. It was absolutely not worth losing SD card support, or a replaceable battery. I loaded my music and literally nothing else.
The flip case hasn't stopped my screen from acquiring small scratches. I haven't dropped it. I know when I do it will break. I haven't yet. I'm terrified. I miss the safety of my tempered glass screen protector.
No root means none of my stuff can be restored the way I have done for the last 5 years. Which means I lost some of my streaming apps that have closed access to new users.
This new non-root thing is difficult.
If I could root it, I'd be fine. It's a good phone. But the pen would have brought real functionality and a flat screen that was easier to protect with a case and a screen protector. Even if I didn't really care about the pen. I think it's a more practical choice over the long haul because it will easier to keep alive.
My S5 looks unused after all this time. I will be hard pressed to do the same with this one. I'm not ragging on it, but that's my honest take. If you're coming from a phone that didn't spin your whole world without fail or so much as a peep. You'll love it. But my S5 did. Big shoes to fill, and lots of sacrifices not just related to the phone itself complicating my opinion.
The whole no root thing is killing me with Verizon. The phone's display is stunning it's quick and responsive. Just hare no development.
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