Hi all,
I've been a proud streak 5 owner for some years now and have been through quite a few of them. The one i'm on now has developed an issue where its constantly rebooting; it can be immediately after loading the android os or at the dell startup logo. Occassionaly i'm able to get it to stay on but its just a matter of time before it reboots again. Its got to the point where its no longer useable and i havent particularly used it in months due to this issue. I love the phone but i've been through that many of them i promised myself when i got this one it would be my last so i really hope it can be fixed.
I've tried various things myself to fix the issue including:
Factory Reset
Re-Flashed Rom
QDL tool, streak repair, and repairtools (all qdl tools sucesfull but still rebooting)
I've covered pretty much everything there. The only other possible solution i can think of is replacing the internal sd card but i dont have my tools with me as i've just moved house. I also have some spare streaks that dont boot up or have cracked screens so i'll try swapping about some parts when i get hold of my tools again.
In the meantime would anyone have other suggestions that wouldnt require opening up the device ?
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My Streak started acting word last month giving a lot of force closures and stuff. I first began batteling this by installing Streakdroid 1.9 and that was fine for a couple weeks.
Then the force closures came back. Along with random freezes and reboots. I was just living with that until my streak stopped communicating with the cell towers. It became stuck in airplane mode but I could still turn on wifi.
So I installed gingerstreak and enjoyed that for a day before the random restarts came back with a vengeance. I suspected the amss.mbn file.
I then used the QDL tool to get my streak back to the 309 radios. I installed 309 via the awesome multirecoveryflasher. I then allowed my streak to update itself to 351 and spots there.
And it was great for a day. I had no random restarts no fcs.
I installed a chess app and was playing a game when the capacitive buttons blinked 3 times and my phone shutdown.
That began the continuous blinking lights reboot cycle. I got my streak out of that by reapplying the update package and doing a couple factory resets.
So now it is working again, but sometimes it freezes, blinks the lights, and restarts maybe a few times before it fully boots up and allows me to use it for a while.
Is my streak hosed??
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Given that you had a done a factory reset, i take it that the restarts also happen with just the stock apps?
Could it be faulty ram or sdcard perhaps? Maybe try taking out/in the sdcard?
maximoz said:
Given that you had a done a factory reset, i take it that the restarts also happen with just the stock apps?
Could it be faulty ram or sdcard perhaps? Maybe try taking out/in the sdcard?
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Yes it was happening even after the factory reset.
That could maybe be the issue. I did recently get a new 32gb sd card for my Streak. But, I tested device with the built in diagnostics and both the internal and external sd cards passed.
htcjikelly said:
Yes it was happening even after the factory reset.
That could maybe be the issue. I did recently get a new 32gb sd card for my Streak. But, I tested device with the built in diagnostics and both the internal and external sd cards passed.
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Could either swap back to the old one and see if you still have problems or try dismount/mount/formatting the new sdcard again i guess.
Is there a chance it is my sim card?
I had the restart loop thing happen again today. So I pulled my sd card and still looping restarts. Then I pulled the sim card and my phone started right up.
Like I am going to put my sim card back in and see what happens now.
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Restart loop with my sim card in but phone starts with it out. Tried it with the sim out again and restart loop.
Tried it with another sim and phone started fine. Tried my sim again and my phone started.
So my sim card is back in now but I think I am going to get a new one from at$t tomorrow.
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Hmm that's weird haha
Well at least you narrowed down the problem
Hope everything works well after the exchange
Ok so new sim card and flashing lights restart loop.
Super happy not fun or really happy time. :-(
Guess I need to send my steak for repair?
It is working right now. Do you think I have anything left to try?
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You can also try flashing the 351 "amss.mbn" and "dsp1.mbn" file from http://<<mirror2.streakdroid.com>>/manii//351/ (remove the << and >>)
Amazing! I have exactly same problem as you, and with similar timeline! (starting to think it's like some Dell timebomb to force us to buy new tablet ;-)
Already tried everything like you. When works, it's OK until it start to connect to 3g, connection works for some time (minute or so) and then streak freezes (i need to remove battery) or reboots with flashing buttons. After that, it simply turns into Dell logo bootloop with battery draining (and overheating) fast or it reboots to android gui and when connects to mobile network buttons flashes and reboot again.
When i remove simcard, it often boots almost normally, although i noticed few times that it was reboooting without simcard, but much less frequently.
Then i need to remove battery for few hours, after that, it usually it turns on (better luck if i remove sim card).
Hoped that it's some kind of software error, but when i tried almost every available rom (stock or modded) i'm pretty much convinced it's hardware problem: some electronic failure, possible overheating sensitivity (although i did checking battery temperature when reboots happened - it was not as much - 30-33°C) or internal sd failure (although i can't see what it has to do with simcard as a source of problem...).
I tried 351 stock and amss and dsp, and did not help.
htcjikelly, please report if you have find some info about our problem (i'll do same)
unfortunately, i noticed that normal working periods are shorting rapidly, so i think that problem is progressing, and wouldn't be surprised to se my streak dead soon :-(
hopefully not before i try my warranty...
dmandic said:
Amazing! I have exactly same problem as you, and with similar timeline! (starting to think it's like some Dell timebomb to force us to buy new tablet ;-)
hopefully not before i try my warranty...
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I have not been able to restore my Streak to total rock solid function. My brother had one lying around and he gave it to me.
So now I have one of the white streaks with 1.6 on it. I want to pull a backup from this new phone to see what that will do to my old one. I've got to figure out how to do that first though.
There's got to be a way. Maybe I can copy everything off the white one's internal SD card and copy it to my old one.
The warranty. I purchased one from squaretrade and I supposedly have one with AT&T as well. Maybe I should look into that.
Same problem here
I have the same problem with my streak, it randomly reboot, the lights flashes some times and it stay in a loop for a while.
But I live in Brazil, and can rma this thing, actually, I can do nothing, because it wasn't launch in Brazil oficially, and it's second handed.
I need some help.
I'm debating on getting a Mini Streak 5 from someone who installed a new screen lcd digitizer and they now it just keeps rebooting... I don't think they ever did a hard reset, everythings working touchscreen and all except it loaded up to the actual os and stayed there for 15 minutes and then started rebooting and cycling through the bootup dell splash screen.
Could installing a new rom from safe mode fix this?
The Streak isn't bricked, just bootlooping. So installing a ROM may fix the bootlooping.
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Turns out when the guy replaced the screen he fried the mobo... Me and a friend at a small local pc store tried everything from rooting with new rom to factory resets. Always had the same problem.
But the guy at the pc store sells phones also and said he'd give me $100.00 credit to a new factory refirbed, rooted and unlocked dell streak mini if I gave him the one we tried to repair.
Hello everyone, I have a two month old trio stealth pro tablet, and I have been having issues with it. For some reason it freezes on startup after the android logo. I have tried combinations of keys to try to get into a recovery mode, but have been unable to do so. I am not sure what other things
I could try to get this tablet back on its feet. I have looked at getting a different rom, however I do not know enough to feel comfortable taking the risk and possibly bricking my tablet. I wonder if I can use livesuite if the android system itself is not fully loading. Every once in a while ( once every few days) I am able to get past the screen and am able to do stuff on the tablet, but then I get constant errors, for example google maps has stopped responding, contacts has stopped responding, and other random programs. For now my goal is to at least get it to load, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
pancerny1 said:
Hello everyone, I have a two month old trio stealth pro tablet, and I have been having issues with it. For some reason it freezes on startup after the android logo. I have tried combinations of keys to try to get into a recovery mode, but have been unable to do so. I am not sure what other things
I could try to get this tablet back on its feet. I have looked at getting a different rom, however I do not know enough to feel comfortable taking the risk and possibly bricking my tablet. I wonder if I can use livesuite if the android system itself is not fully loading. Every once in a while ( once every few days) I am able to get past the screen and am able to do stuff on the tablet, but then I get constant errors, for example google maps has stopped responding, contacts has stopped responding, and other random programs. For now my goal is to at least get it to load, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
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I am having the same problem. Luckily I took a dump of all of the partitions and have a lot of the info about it saved (partition info, boot layout, etc) while I was working on getting a working recovery for it, so maybe I'll be able to figure something out to bring it back to life.
FYI, it didn't break it doing the recovery mods... I was actually well on my way with that one. it happened after letting it sit for couple weeks. I'm hoping it's not a bad flash chip.
You can check out my Guide found on this Thread: Help for the TRIO STEALTH PRO 7C
This might be able to help you flash a fresh ROM and hopefully fix your device.
Hi All, this is my first post here. I'm fairly new at this, having only recently flashed my Nexus 4 with CyanogenMod.
My brother gave me his old vibrant to setup for our mom, and it was working ok with the stock Android 2.1. I started to transfer some data out of it (old pictures, etc) and the thing crashed and got stuck on a bootloop. This is before I ever attempted anything flashing related.
I tried various procedures that I found here and elsewhere to flash the phone, using both Heimdall and Odin and ran into various issues with each. One of the problems that I had is that a lot of the downloads linked from articles (like ROMs and other files) are gone since it's been a few years since they were posted. I scrounged pretty hard for a few days and was able to get bits and pieces here and there, but no success yet. These were not the only issues either. I had problems with both Heimdall and Odin doing the actual flashing. Various errors with handshaking and flashing in both, from what I recall (this was actually a couple of weeks ago).
In fact, I ended up making things even a little worse. The phone used to show the large battery gauge screen when it was plugged in and powered off, but now I got it to where it just shows the phone---!---PC screen. However, I can still get it to download mode so I'm thinking that not all hope is lost!
Anyway, to make a long story short I hope that someone here could perhaps point me to a reliable article that would help me go from the current state to a working phone, or provide any other pointers or files that may help me resolve this.
Thank you in advance, I appreciate any help you can provide. I would just hate to throw this phone away if there's any way it can be saved. It just feels wasteful, regardless of it being old and cheap.
Hi, I'm new in this but I'm also desperate for help. For starters, I live in Venezuela so it's a bit troublesome to visit a proper tech service and stuff. Well, as I said in the title, the problem with my phone is that it keeps getting stuck in the LG logo. I've already flash it several times, but this solution only seems to work for a few days. I'll explain the problems in a chronological order
1) I dropped my phone in january and the screen broke, so I bought a new one along with a new touch screen. At that time, the only problem that I had was that, even though I had a SIM card in my phone, it didn't have any mobile network signal. I tried many things but gave up on that and the problem's still with me
2) In an attempt to fix that issue, I factory reseted my phone and since that time I got the feeling that something was off with my device but I dind't pay attention to it cos my phone was working appareantly fine
3)After that my device started to get laggy and I tought it was the battery because sometimes it was at 87% and when you turn it off and turn it on again, the battery was at 67% in an instant. It wasn't that bad so I kept using it like that
4) Sometime around last month my phone reboot itself (it was usual that when my device got reaaally laggy it reboots itself). The problem was that it got stuck in the LG logo so I look for solutions and end up flashing it.
5) It worked for a few weeks but the cycle started again. Laggy and then stuck in LG logo. I bought a new battery (wich works fine) thinking that this would solve the problem so I did a factory reset, flash it and then turn it on but the problem still didn't go away.
I'm desperate for help cos I need my phone to work and since I live in Venezuela, I really need the money and obviosuly, I can't afford to buy a new device. Could someone help me?
A little note here. I tried upgrading the software using "LG Mobile Support Tool 2014" but the app shuts down before downloading the upgrade. I don't know if it's due to my laptop being really old (Acer Aspire 5920). I know I have A LOT of troubles but I'm in need of a friendly help!