Edit: just realized I posted in the wrong area. Feel free to move it. Sorry about that.
Everything was fine until my phone died last night. Upon restart, Hotspot would turn on, but no other devices showed it as available to connect to. Like it wasn't even on. Did a little research and tried the many suggestion about soft reset, pulling battery while running, holding power for 30 seconds while battery removed, etc....all to no avail. My hotspot still won't actually show up in a WiFi list. So I started looking for a stock Verizon Hotspot apk with no luck. I don't have any backups done, either. It's been rooted with Kingroot. Tried to flash a different recovery on it and almost bricked it a few times. It actually got stuck in a boot loop at one point but I got it working in a few minutes. This was 3 months ago when I rooted it.
So has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix? Am I looking at a factory reset? It's not hard. I know lol. It's just doing everything to get prepared to reset and then the anxiety over wondering if you missed any backups or if there were any files that were forgotten lol. Hoping it's an easy fix. Been using Bluetooth tether for now but I'm not sure how much longer I can do that. 1 hour? Maybe 2? lol. thanks!
New issue. Cant do a factory reset. I get a big yellow caution triangle saying use software repair to fix. I assume it's got something to do with the recovery I tried to flash. If I could get that sorted out I could wipe the phone. I did set everything else back to stock with no help. So how do I fix the recovery system? Flash stock recovery back on it?
Edit: I tried to search for this info yesterday and couldn't find it. Ironically, I came across it today while looking at something else. I just need to flash a stock OF1 and start over. Or that's what the info said that I found. Hoping it cures my Hotspot issue. I can't believe it just stopped working because my phone died.
1 more question. Can I extract the recovery.img from a stock OF1 build and just use flashify to flash it instead of converting back to tar for Odin?
Just to give this an ending and In case anyone else has this issue, it's solved. I had Verizon suspend and reconnect my hotspot service and it cleared out whatever was keeping me from broadcasting a signal or however it works. I'm my opinion, the system thought I was still connected when my phone died. Resetting my hotspot reset the system. That's about the best explanation I could come up with as I know zero about this stuff.
Anyway. It's fixed. Terminating Hotspot service and reinstating cleared whatever issue was causing the problem. Hopefully this can help someone else in the future. I only figured it out after a bunch of testing and logical reasoning.
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I have never posted here before though I troll and check out what is going on about my Vibrant often and have not seen this directly answered yet, so here goes.
I downloaded and installed the official froyo the other day from Kies Mini.
I have never attempted to even boot in recovery mode.
I have never attempted to root, rom or anything that you amazing people somehow figured out.
OK, so that should help get us somewhere to start.
I noticed today that my notification bar showed the signal as the 0/ (i don't know how to place that symbal correctly) as no signal. I let it go for a few minutes because sometimes Tmobile loses signal in my building. I noticed it outside on break and I tried to reboot. It rebooted but kept rebooting. I removed to battery and its still kept rebooting after letting it sit without the battery. I tried rebooting in recovery mode and deleting the cache memory (don't want to delete user info yet unless that is my only option to get fully reset) and its still rebooting.
Basically after I rebooted the first time, its runs slowly at the S, finally gets into the homescreen, shows signal (but none of my apps, no screen responses at all, just vibrates a few times while switching from no signal to signal) then reboots.
I am pretty much at a loss here. Would love any helps I can get.
Bump, please I don't mean to be annoying, but is this something I am going to have to revert to factory on? I saw someone else had a bricked phone after download and reboot constantly like me. Ugh, to wait so long for Tmo and now this??
The BEST thing to do, if you havent modded, or rooted is to take it to yor local t-mobile store if you have one. If not, call customer support and have them send a replacement.
This is the deal:
I bought my wife and I Vibrants back in February and from the minute I got it I started looking into updating from eclair.
I was following the info on xda after researching about rooting phones, so I rooted my phone using the Superonclick method. Just before getting ready to flash custom roms, I read that froyo was available through kies. So I did that. It worked well enough for me, so I updated my wife's phone as well and hers works beautifully. I also changed the home launcher to LauncherPro. love it.
Mine however has been going on the fritz. I'm in the middle of using an app or I'm doing nothing at but turning on my phone and the screen will be all black with nothing but the notification bar showing.
The media scanner is constantly running.
No gsm is detected.
I keeps vibrating after touching the screen.
No amount of turning it on and off gets it past that state.
It just randomly decided to start working on its own.
Any Ideas?
Should I unRoot my phone. I don't want to,
I'm still researching changing the bootanimation, (waiting for a Portal 2 theme, also researching how to do it myself).
SOS guys.
sorry if tldr.
I would suggest restoring your phone back to stock Via Odin, and starting fresh. The problem you most likely had is that you updated to Froyo through Kie's while your phone was rooted.
Or, at the very least do a factory reset on your phone.
But if you need to go the Odin route, just search the forum, can't miss it.
oh wow, I didn't know that was an issue updating while rooted. I must have missed something while reading (so many threads -_-).
Guess I have some more light reading to do...
thanks.
Did a little research, should I unroot my phone first before factory reset? or is there a method that will take care of removing the root?
Hi,
Sometime today I lost my phone signal on my SG2. I'm not sure exactly at what moment as I first noticed that I had a couple of bars but no 3G when I tried to browse the web. So I restarted the phone but to no avail. Since then I've lost all bars and can't make any calls either.
The only thing I have done today "out of the ordinary" was to connect to the phone using Wifi File Explorer to transfer a file, which I tried to connect to without being on a wifi network by first trying the "Wifi Direct settings" in Settings, which didn't work, and then by tethering by Wifi which worked. Maybe some setting got stuck in the process, but I'm not sure since never checked if it worked right before and after.
If anyone has any idea what could be wrong please let me know, as I am literally without a phone!
I recommend downloading http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/communication/no-signal-alert-pro_fyyo.html this will definitely be of benefit to you if your suffering from signal problems, it has been of good use to me.
Check your IMEI is the correct one for your phone .If not restore your backed up EFS folder .
Or try backup data and factory reset as a first step.
jje
Thanks for the quick replies!
The IMEI does not correspond to the one I have written down, though I'm not 100% I what have on my note is the latest IMEI; but how could that change though by itself, if my note is correct??
Also, I just saw something very strange: I turned on my phone and had full bars (no 3G though), and right in front of my eyes all bars dropped, one by one, during the course of 5-6 seconds. Something is VERY off...
Regarding factory reset: my phone is rooted (thanks to XDA!) and I have Tit.backup: can I will my phone still be rooted if I do a factory reset?
Something went probably wrong when rooting it (not neccesarily any errors) and effed up tge EFS folder.
Try to flash back to stock ROM, it might work to restore your.folder.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
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bruflot said:
Something went probably wrong when rooting it (not neccesarily any errors) and effed up tge EFS folder.
Try to flash back to stock ROM, it might work to restore your.folder.
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I should have been more clear on that, but I rooted the phone about a month ago and it has worked flawlessly since then, so it couldn't be that.
Anyway, I looked around a little and found this post:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...connectivity-but-no-idea-why.html#post2722784
He seemed to have had the exact same problem that happened to me, so I decided to wait, and sure enough the connection reestablished itself about an hour ago and while I was watching for it, with the signal slowly creeping back up during a couple of minutes, and several hours after I lost it. Very odd.
This surely has to be an Android bug but that only shows up under certain and rare conditions.
To be sure I made a speed test and got 4.84 Mbps/up, 1.19 down, which I guess is fine; I never did one prior to this so I have nothing to compare to.
Again, appreciate the advice!
EDIT: For posterity, I should add that during these hours, even when I briefly apparently had a (non-3G) signal, I had a notification during all this time saying that I could only make emergency call.
I'm having the same issue. No Bars at all most of the time and when I have some, it never connects to 3G, G at most, and can't load any thing at all.
Very frustrating. I have been using Lite'ning rom 6.1 for a few months and had no problems at all until about a week ago.
I flashed back to a stock rom and still having the same issue.
I've also seen the bars drop down one by one in a 5 second window, bizarre!
Anyone find a fix for this? Or could the phone be faulty?
malicedix said:
I'm having the same issue. No Bars at all most of the time and when I have some, it never connects to 3G, G at most, and can't load any thing at all.
Very frustrating. I have been using Lite'ning rom 6.1 for a few months and had no problems at all until about a week ago.
I flashed back to a stock rom and still having the same issue.
I've also seen the bars drop down one by one in a 5 second window, bizarre!
Anyone find a fix for this? Or could the phone be faulty?
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I was on Lite'ning about 3 weeks ago and actually completely lost signal several times. Reboots and hard resets solved the problem temporarily. I then flashed Batista FH 2.4 with ICS and things were great. I'm now on GingerMod. No issues.
I don't know how it could be kernel related though, especially if you are 100% stock again.
Hi guys,
Lately I've been having problems with the WiFi and BT.
I know it has been like that for a while but I only noticed it yesterday.
The BT on the phone doesnt work - when I try to turn in on it just doesnt... I press the button and it stays the same way.
The WiFi doesnt work - when I try turning it on it says ERROR. and stays like that... not on and not of.
And not only that, another thing is that my phone started crushing A LOT.
I have no idea what's going on... it can crash at any moment without worning... not always coming back (sometimes I have to pull the battery out).
it can happen after 1 minute or after 3 hours...
the 2 things that changed on the phone lately are:
1. swiched from neutrino 2.8EE to 2.9EE.
2. I was in a vecation and when I tried to charge the battery it got only upto 82%. didn't cross it no matter how long it was in...(it was like that for a week).
I have to phone for like a year and a half.
help? anybody?
This is a known problem and it's been reported countless times already. Unfortunately the most likely reason is that your wifi/bt chip is fried. This is a hardware issue (more specifically, a design flaw) and there is no workaround. It has affected many others and they are just as pissed off about it as I'm sure you are. Some even say all Atrixes will sooner or later end up this way because of this design flaw.
Not sure about the crashing, but it could be related to broken wifi/bt.
Hi
I have same problem. I have Atrix 4G from UK Tmobile, with stock froyo. I flashed the stock 2.3.4 with RSD successfully, and i unl*cked the carrier.
Then i noticed, that Wifi don't work good. I don't know turn on: Wifi (error). The other problem, that the finger print scanner isnt work...
These actions do not help: factory reset, unlock BL, custom ROM (i tested Nottachtrix, any ICS ROM, stock froyo), erase all at fastboot, full wipe with CWM...
I am sure, that it is a software bug! (before flash 2.3.4 and carrier unlck, phone works fine...)
Some solutions? (I think, if we restore back to stock, the problem is solve) How can i make a fully reset, which is stronger than RSD flash stock sbf?
edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13754274#post13754274
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035139
rain91x said:
Hi
I have same problem. I have Atrix 4G from UK Tmobile, with stock froyo. I flashed the stock 2.3.4 with RSD successfully, and i unl*cked the carrier.
Then i noticed, that Wifi don't work good. I don't know turn on: Wifi (error). The other problem, that the finger print scanner isnt work...
These actions do not help: factory reset, unlock BL, custom ROM (i tested Nottachtrix, any ICS ROM, stock froyo), erase all at fastboot, full wipe with CWM...
I am sure, that it is a software bug! (before flash 2.3.4 and carrier unlck, phone works fine...)
Some solutions? (I think, if we restore back to stock, the problem is solve) How can i make a fully reset, which is stronger than RSD flash stock sbf?
edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13754274#post13754274
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035139
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looks promising... did you try it?
I donnot if I can even try it... the first step is "close WiFi"... and I can't. it doesnt go off and doesnt go on... just stays on "Error".
should I just except the fact that I have to get a new phone?
should I send it to Motorola?
Alonleibo said:
looks promising... did you try it?
I donnot if I can even try it... the first step is "close WiFi"... and I can't. it doesnt go off and doesnt go on... just stays on "Error".
should I just except the fact that I have to get a new phone?
should I send it to Motorola?
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I try it later, but i dont know now SD card. I hope, that it is a correctable bug.
edit: i tryd it, but still not good. Other solutions?
I have the same problem (wifi error, bt does not open). I guess it is a hardware problem but when I installed TopSmart rom (coming from Neutrino) they worked for 10 minutes then they crashed again. If it is a software problem (but i dont think so) there must be the answer that everyone's looking for. I hope it ends up as a software problem.
Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G
It's most certainly a hardware problem. Clearly the WiFi chip in this phone just dies. This is also why your phone is crashing. You'll just have to leave WiFi off (if you can get to the switch before the phone crashes).
This issue started a couple months ago for me, and today I managed to accidentally flip the WiFi switch on again, sending my phone into an endless cycle of crashing and rebooting. I had to factory reset and re-flash CM10 about three times just to get it to stop rebooting repeatedly (which sucks because I didn't have a recent TiBu backup...). You might have to do this as well if your phone doesn't stop crashing.
I'd say just get a new phone. Don't send it in to Moto because even if you're in warranty they'll likely send you back a unit with a permanently locked bootloader, which isn't worth it.
It is frequent bug on Android phones. (wifi - error)
https://www.google.hu/#hl=hu&gs_nf=1&tok=EBl1OHx7E49rfa9s8zPj_A&cp=13&gs_id=1f&xhr=t&q=android+wifi+error&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=android+wifi+&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=aee7b1a090091e6a&biw=1680&bih=949
MdX MaxX said:
It's most certainly a hardware problem. Clearly the WiFi chip in this phone just dies. This is also why your phone is crashing. You'll just have to leave WiFi off (if you can get to the switch before the phone crashes).
This issue started a couple months ago for me, and today I managed to accidentally flip the WiFi switch on again, sending my phone into an endless cycle of crashing and rebooting. I had to factory reset and re-flash CM10 about three times just to get it to stop rebooting repeatedly (which sucks because I didn't have a recent TiBu backup...). You might have to do this as well if your phone doesn't stop crashing.
I'd say just get a new phone. Don't send it in to Moto because even if you're in warranty they'll likely send you back a unit with a permanently locked bootloader, which isn't worth it.
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I did turn it off... eventually.
but my phone still crashes... at the same frequency...
*added alogcat files of 2 of the crashes... if anybody can understand it...
Unfortunately, on my stock, rooted Sprint Galaxy S5, this app completely destroyed my wifi. Probably because I used it wrong somehow...I have tried the fix posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49978258&postcount=102
several times, but my WiFi will not even so much as turn on. I'm sorry to ask this of you guys, but I am not sure what else to do besides flash another ROM. I'd rather it not come to that. If you could think of some way to troubleshoot this with me or if you know an alternate solution, I would be forever in your debt.
If I try to slide the wifi switch from "off" to "on" it just sits there grayed out for a bit then switches back to off.
Edit:
As an update, I just did a system restore and that did NOT fix the problem...a bit freaked out now.