Good day gentlemen (and ladies),
First of all apologies if I don't post this in the correct place.
I have a problem with my Gionee Elife E5 phone and I suspect some of you will recognize the symptoms.
If the phone is set to 3G mode, every time I initiate a phone call, answer a phone call OR start data connection I receive the notification - Searching for GPS. Long pressing the notification - GPS search is started by SystemUI . Issue does not appear on 2G mode.
I did not install any abnormal apps - in fact I am not a Facebook/Twitter/ nagivation fan
Steps taken - I performed a factory reset - no results. Installed custom roms from needrom website - I am not allowed to post URLs - MIUI version and the stock Gionee version (I had a slightly customized rom from the factory - here it is sold with the name Cosmote Smart Xceed) - same problem. I installed an App Settings app to check the permission and basically disabled anything that asks for fine location and coarse location - still the same!
Now this is annoying but in the same moment this issue appeared (I bought the phone in April 2015 and the problem started in November) another odd thing started. I have a cheap smartwatch, U8 clone. For me it's extremely useful since usually I don;t hear/feel the phone in my pocket and I'm missing calls/texts. Watch connected and set to vibrate -> perfect! BUT when the phone is on 3G and the watch is connected, when I receive a call or initiate a call - from the watch or phone - the phone loses the signal and I see the message Radio Off exactly like I would remove the SIM card and put it back on. Issue does not appear on 2G therefore I suspect this is somehow connected?! (also, I tested the watch on another cheap phone with Mediatek, it works absolutely normal on 3G)
So now I have 2 options: 1. use 3G mode and see the annoying GPS notification and forget about the smartwatch and 2. use 2G mode, no GPS icon, watch can be used but low internet speed and lower quality in phone calls. I would prefer an option 3 where everything is normal - and hope this won't be throw away the phone and the watch.
I strongly suspect my network operator - Orange - is the root cause of the issues but they keep asking me to go to a phone service. I don;t think this is the case at all.
Any ideas are very appreciated.
My last question, did anyone test the new Lollipop ROM for Gionee E5? I see it appeared only a few days ago - I wasn;t aware of it. Not able to post the link but it is on needrom .
The description is not very encouraging - Lollipop rom not tested.you can brick your phone
[Edit 17/02] - indeed it bricks your phone, it was good I performed a backup first. The Lollipop ROM was deleted from needrom website. My problem still remains
Many thanks in advance for any help.
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Hello, my name is Calin and this is my first post on this forum. Even though I have been reading this forum since I bought my galaxy s3 (don't think at me as a regular user, I only visit this forum when I have a problem, since my device is not rooted many of the things aren't useful for me around here).
As a regular user as I am, I didn't have to post a new thread to find a solution to my problem, but this time it seems that I just have to. Before I proceed I just have to say that it drives me crazy, the fact that I don't know what the problem MIGHT (not is) be. I am clueless.
In the past 1-2 weeks I haven't installed any new app, from google play or from internet (.apk, yes I did this with few of the apps). Even though I have installed apps with an .apk installer (from the market) I have always scanned the file on my pc, and then after I installed it, AVG scanned it on the phone too.
Today, I was browsing the internet (9gag to be more specific), one of my daily/hourly routine. If it matters, I was in the bank and I had a strong network signal (I wasn't using wi-fi). Suddenly, after a few minutes of browsing my phone didn't recognize my sim and asked for a reboot. I clicked on continue (to reboot). After it rebooted (note that I had a lock screen numeric password: 3258) my lock screen password changed from a numeric one to a letter based one, which, ofcourse, I have no idea which is. I have tried all the passwords that came into my mind, I thought it may have sync with some of my google accounts. It didn't. I have tried to enter 3258 password (I can enter numbers too). It didn't work.
Even if it is locked, it's just some kind of screen lock because I can see apps running on background (like 3g watch dog) and I can receive calls (can answer them but I can't call back) and messages (can't read them). The only things that I can do with my phone right now are: Switch Airplane Mode: On and Off, activate or deactivate mobile data, switch from silent to vibrate or sound and ofcourse, reboot and turn off my phone.
I have tried every possible thing I could've tried to make this work, like removing the sim. It all seems to be a software problem.
Note that I don't wanna root my device in order to solve this. Thank you.
Hello
Background:
I bought Moto E on Italian Amazon (stock ROM was retail FR). Because of loudspeaker failure I was forced to send it to the service. I done that in Germany. I never unlock bootloader or install any custom ROM on this phone. Pure stock.
Present:
I got my phone from service, speaker is working again. Unfortunatelly radio is not working any more. Phone is not able even to discover any SIM card (on both slots).
Version installed in service: 21.20.40.condor_retde.retdeall.en.DE retde
What should I do?
Do you think, that this is hardware problem, or just faulty radio driver?
Should I send it back to the service?
Go back to the service center and yell at them!
1st step
Another visit in service is another week with old phone. Because I am travelling a lot recently, I can not afford that at this time. This is my last possibility, I hope I can solve this by myself.
Yesterday I had some time and I discover that, when phone is connected to PC it is recognized as XT1021 (1-sim version). Because of that I flashed using fastboot the stock Kitkat for XT1022. After that, my phone can recognize that I have inside two SIM cards (phone ask for PIN number), but it is not able to turn them on. I see always that the airplane mode is ON, but there is no icon of airplane next to the clock (navigation bar, icons of signal are empty). When I turn the airplane mode on, I see that icons of carrier signal are replaced with icon of airplane. When I turn the airplane mode OFF, I have again signal icons, but they are empty (no signal) and in power menu is written that I am still in airplane mode. So I can not made any call, because radios are turned off.
I think I have faulty drivers of radio/modem. Did anyone except something like this?
Hello All,
I just got a new XPERIA E4 (Model E2104) from CLARO RD, its running on 4.4.4 KitKat , 24.0.A.2.12 Firmware and 3.4.67 Kernel. The thing is i have encountered a lot of problems and would like to know if its possible to update to a newer Firmware version (24.0.A.4.14 at least) in hopes of fixing them. I downloaded FlashTool and XperiFirm, and got the latest firmware from the XperiFirm database for this model (24.0.A.5.14) but im unsure of the flashing process, since ive never done it before. I went through some tutorials and saw that there was a bundling process involved but apparently the E4 is not supported since it doesn't show on the devices list for bundling that the program has, also saw another method that was done directly without the bundling but im unsure of what to check and what not to on the wipe options.
Problems include:
-Phone shutdowns and restarts automatically if left untouched for random intervals, sometimes it does it in short intervals ending in a "no screen lock position" (power button doesn't lock the screen and screen doesn't "sleep"), having to restart the phone by long pressing the power button and selecting Restart option to fix it.
-WIFI stops receiving data and stops working after extended streaming on YouTube (somewhere from 15 to 30 minutes), shutting down and turning back ON the WIFI doesn't work, Restarting the phone fixes this also.
-Doesnt allow 420p quality on streams either nor HD (but i think it doesn't support 720p on the E4 anyways).
-Battery doesn't last as much as its supposed to, screen sometimes uses 70% power on low brightness and nothing open.
I replaced the first phone i got for a new one and still having the same problems, so i figure it must be software related or a faulty line of phones.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
First, I would have posted this in the development forum but I don't have enough posts to do that...
I have the NC5 bootloader with SS 3.72 and flashed Albe95 S6 FULL PORT 4.6 to the stock slot after wiping it. First time it booted up it went to a completely black home screen with only the signal, time, and battery percentage showing. Then shortly after it showed a "system UI is not responding" or similar message. Pulling the battery and rebooting fixed this. Overall, the rom has been working great since then despite the following minor issues:
1. Lost cell signal a few times with "no service" message. Last time this happened was a few minutes after a fast reboot and entering airplane mode and back again fixed it.
2. Screen rotate doesn't work sometimes, but a reboot seems to fix this. I should also note that I usually turn my rotate off and only turn it on when I need it, but the last few times it hasn't worked on demand and I had to reboot to correct this.
3. Proximity sensor doesn't work (as others have reported) when on a call.
On the plus side, whereas others have reported problems with their hotspot function, mine has been working great and activating it doesn't seem to cause other issues. I have an android headunit in my car and I use trigger on the phone to activate my hotspot when my phone connects to my headunit via bluetooth, it turns it off again when I get out of the car. So I use it a lot and haven't had problems.
Keep up the good work guys! Let me know if I can help test or help out somehow. I'm not a programmer but I do have almost 20 years of IT experience.
I've been dealing with connection issue on my Asus Zenwatch 2 since updating it 2.0. Sometimes when I try to use Google Assistant it comes up with error saying "Can't reach Google at the moment." When this happens the watch will show Bluetooth is disconnected in the connectivity settings, however my phone shows it's still connected and I still receive notifications as usually. The only thing I can't do is use voice features. Now when I'm connected to Wifi works perfectly fine, it just happens mainly on a mobile data/Bluetooth connection. If I reboot my phone and watch the issue will correct itself for a while.
Things I've tried:
-Factory resetting at least 5 times.
-Wiping the cache through recovery mode.
-Factory resetting my phone.
My devices and builds
Phone - ZTE Blade X Max (Z983) - Android 7.1.1
Build Z983V1.5.19
Watch - Asus Zenwatch 2 - Android 7.1.1
Build NWD1.170706.001
I apologized if this isn't the place to post this here. I'm new here!
Just not sure if it's man issue on the watch or phone side. Any insight is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
I've had similar issues when music is playing. If I use my watch to pause the music, then voice commands start working again. Try playing/pausing music with your watch, then try using voice commands again.
I don't mean to revive a dead thread, but I too am having the exact same problem as OP
/me too.
Me too, Ticwatch E, so recent watch.
Hi all,
maybe this will help you. I have had the same issue. But it's solved now:
https://support.google.com/androidwear/thread/41855