After I left my previous employer my was lazy and didn't delete the Google Apps e-mail account from the company.
When my old boss deleted my account he actually first clicked the "Erase device" button out of curiosity before actually deleting the account.
I found out because my phone completely factory reset and also did another colleague who left the same day.
After setting my phone up again, without adding the aforementioned e-mail account, I experienced these factory resets nearly every other week or so. They happen randomly and I am not sure what is causing them, but doing something a bit more intensive or "new" seems to trigger it in some occasions.
It's very annoying as it deletes all my photos, music and what not, and as it happens randomly my back-ups are never "enough".
I had it sent back to Nokia, and they reinstalled the phone and now it comes back after a factory reset with different home images and what not.
But it still resets.
Any ideas?
Ive been having issues with my phone not allowing background data in most situations, apps will not update until I turn on wifi, apps i already have that are online ( clash of clans, simpsons tapped out, Show box, Google maps, etc ) will either not load until wifi is on or take multiple retries before they work. Ive flashed the stock rom back to the device, factory reset, wiped dalvik multiple times, even got another sim card from Verizon and it still isnt working unless im on wifi. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Why is it the only thing that uses data even when not even using the phone? I tried everything. Disabled background data, sync off. Every little setting, I went into and turned everything off. I restored my phone to factory settings and didnt log into my google account when they asked. I skipped everything. I tried everything and it still uses data.
Anyone know why? I have the moto g 2nd gen US version.
While seems it does do something since when resetting up my tablet this morning after a factory reset it gave me a few apps to restore. However, in the manage backups in the Google Drive app, and in the Google Dashboard no backup data is listed. If I go to manage my backups, it just says there are none and to turn it on, and wait. Except that it has already been on. It is very frustrating because my LG V10 died on me getting stuck at the "Life's Good" screen, and I've been trying to find a good backup solution for future devices and it just seems that there is no good backup solutions without root. Does anyone else have this issue?
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I've had a Samsung Galaxy S3 for ages, unfortunately for me, the phone recently just switched off, then on, then won't go past the "Samsung" screen. Ah, I thought (well, something a bit more sweary) - but I had a backup identical model phone in case one broke, so I started using that. Moved all my apps, installed banking app etc, and then happy.
Or so I thought...
The new (well, it's an old phone, but one I haven't been using, bought as back up) phone now switches off when charging every night, an issue which was going to switch to me charging it during the day when I can stare at it and see if anything happens to make it switch off, but then I realised it switches off each night even when it isn't charging.
I have a bigger battery to hold a charge for a few days, and so even when I don't charge it, just have it next to me as I sleep - and next morning it will be off. I presume it might be switching off around 5am... this is only a rough guide as if I switch it back on, and flick through the phone, I see my unread emails are up to around 5am, and then after a few minutes it logs back into the internet etc and brings me newer emails.
I first thought it was that it kept switching off when charging... but now I know it does it at (I presume) the same time every night even when it's not charging. Can't use it as an alarm clock anymore, as it's off before the alarm goes off. Anyone have any idea what's happening?
Did you copy all of your data and settings?. Most likely you have a software conflict going on.
I highly recommend you backup your data from all 3rd party apps. Do not backup your system apps data, google data, apps or games that cloud sync or phone settings, ie wifi passwords etc.
You must allow samsung apps, google and other cloud apps to sync their own way and you must calibrate the phone for wifi manually.
Beyond that you'll need to reflash stock firmware and start over using the guidlines I have given you above after restoration of the firmware (and root if required).
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I assume when I installed on the other phone, it switched settings when I log in to various things. Because I installed everything asap, I've no idea if one thing is causing the issue.
How do I get the phone to calibrate manually? Apologies, I'm not great with techie stuff I add the wifi details, and logged into settings - is that manually? Things are backed up to themselves, so when I log back in it resets to previous settings when it syncs. Should I try and work out how to prevent all things from backing up manually? Haven't logged back into any games, although they might be installed, haven't actually signed in or used them.
How would I go about reflashing stock firmware? Doesn't sound like anything I've ever done before, but up for a challenge
By manually i mean just setup wifi yourself rather than allowing a backup. Same for system apps.
The app data will contain references to the old phone which will confuse it. All of that must be rewritten on the specific device to match the phones identity.
3rd party apps are usually OK with backups but still shouldn't be trusted, but they don't usually bootloop the phone. They just force close instead.
Flashing firmware will reset the phone back to factory and rewrite the operating system, removing any software bugs in the process. To learn how to use odin you can find countless guides online too.
A straight forward "factory reset" via either the phone software or the recovery menu could solve the problem rather than flashing.
If I were you, I'd just factory reset it and then allow the phone to run for a few hours to see if the problem reoccurs in a factory state. If the phone asks for a google login just use the normal account and allow all updates to happen but switch off backup and sync for the short term. If all seems good then you know there was a bad app somewhere.
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shivadow said:
By manually i mean just setup wifi yourself rather than allowing a backup. Same for system apps.
The app data will contain references to the old phone which will confuse it. All of that must be rewritten on the specific device to match the phones identity.
3rd party apps are usually OK with backups but still shouldn't be trusted, but they don't usually bootloop the phone. They just force close instead.
Flashing firmware will reset the phone back to factory and rewrite the operating system, removing any software bugs in the process. To learn how to use odin you can find countless guides online too.
A straight forward "factory reset" via either the phone software or the recovery menu could solve the problem rather than flashing.
If I were you, I'd just factory reset it and then allow the phone to run for a few hours to see if the problem reoccurs in a factory state. If the phone asks for a google login just use the normal account and allow all updates to happen but switch off backup and sync for the short term. If all seems good then you know there was a bad app somewhere.
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Ahh, cool, gottcha! Ok, will try soon. Surprisingly, I've switched off the phone every night instead of it auto-switching off at around 5-6am, and surprisingly it's so far going well. Had it on for 3 days and only at 47% now, so it's promising, still does switch off occasionally during the day, but I've just ignored that. Will do a factory reset in the next couple of days and report back Thanks for the help