since ive moved on to smaller and brighter things(i now use an xda atom)ive totally forgotten about my old xda 1 left to gather dust in one of my drawers. ive recently discovered it again and decided to try to resurrect it from the pits of the GSM error bug to no avail. ive tried doing the SD card route but no luck there.when i put the SD card into the xda's slot, i get the "do you want to format.." thingy and choose "no". i do the hard reset but after staying a while in bootloader mode, it says GSM error and is stuck at that point. my PC/activesync does not even recognise the device and even goes as far as saying that it is not a smartphone or a PDA????anyone have any ideas how i can revive this old relic?
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I've seen similar posts, but nothing close enough to this issue that any of the suggestions have helped.
I lost power while updating the ROM. My SX56 froze on the screen telling me that the update would take about 5 mins. I attempted to follow some of the troubleshooting tips I found here to flash the ROM using an SD card, but I don't have an actual SD card reader, so I was using a digital camera connected via USB. I seemed to be making progress, but after trying to backup existing ROM from the Bootloader, the SD card was reading as unformatted when I connected back to my PC. I wiped the card and tried to start over, but now I can't even get into the bootloader. I just have a screen filled with black jagged lines and two white boxes (like text fields) toward the top.
Any advice, or did I just turn my phone into a paperweight?
from what i remember of the wallaby, it has been a few years since i have played with one, when you backup the rom to sd card it wont be readable by the pc as it is a raw image. Saying that the screen you describe you are seeing the black jagged lines and 2 white boxes just sounds like a corrupted screen. I'm afraid i cant give you any more info as like i have said it has been a long time since i messed with a wallaby0
Ok first off im a total noob when nit comes to Windows mobile. Ive been using a Palm treo for 2 years and was given an att 8525 for free i just have to see if i can fix it. i have searched for my issues in other threads and found some but not all of the issues, so here goes
~Screen fades to white and if squeezed on the left side will come back but then fades out again and it seems to be worse when slid open. (i believe this is the flex cable issue that ive read about)
~Radio drops out one min i have full bars and the next nothing. i havent found any patterns to it.
~When send sms it will send a few but then i will get a few that come back saying phone not ready.
~Power button has a almost exact 23 second delay from the time you push it to the screen comming on ( i noticed that after i did a fresh install of wm6 it went away for a little while and then came right back)
~Wifi wont connect to secure network (i enter the PW and it will connect then as soon as i igo to a website it says cannot connect and then asks me for the PW again)
~SD card inserted and phone doesnt show any signs of recognizing it including when you go to setting/system/memory it says card not installed, doesnt even light up when you insert the card
Thank you in advance for any help even iif its direction to a forum that has answers that might help.
Damn, your 8525 has alot of problems, iam guessing it was dropped??. There may be a chance that all these repairs will cost you the price of a working used hermes. Anyways, I had the same radio problem as you, and it was the most longest, and stressfull thing ever to get it to actually work. I was opening up hardware, flashing radio/roms, using mtty, numerous of times. Trust me, its not worth it. And if your flex cable is damaged its gonna cost $30 or more to fix. And if wifi or SD card slot is broken too, the device is practically an PDA of the past. You could try to fix it(With the possiblitiy of killing yourself from all that stress), or sell it on ebay for parts(sells for a decent price actually).
Thank you for your response. was kind of afraid that was the response i was gonna get. damn that sux. the $30 for the flex cable i could swing, but from what your saying it sounds like majority of my issues are hard ware and not software (like i was hoping) and ive priced most of that out and might as well buy a new one i agree. thanks though ill keep playing with it. but now i know not to get my hopes up.
For sd card problem, you might be able to get it to recognize the sd card if you insert then do a soft reset, others have had this issue. I'd also check to see if the sd card is registering on the pc with a card reader because if its not, you may need to get a new sd card.
Wifi, Might be a rom problem... Read up on the thread if others have this problem, might have a fix or might need to find another rom...
Here are Some of the Fixes that i have found and some of the issues i am still having~~
~Screen fades ---fixed Kinda, i have disassembled the phone checking all the connections and putting tape tightly over all connections, i still get the white screen on occasion but its %90 better and i can always press on the bottom ov the screen and bring it right back
~Radio drops out one min i have full bars and the next nothing. i havent found any patterns to it. (still an issue but am trying to update radio ROM to one that i read in the forums that is supposed to be better for my carrier. If i can get the RUU issue corrected)
~When send sms it will send a few but then i will get a few that come back saying phone not ready. (i have found it is realted to the radio issue above)
~Power button has a almost exact 23 second delay-- i have found it seems to be correctable if i make sure there are not alot of stuff running. (found a program that actually closes the apps with the x button instead of just minimizing them)
~Wifi wont connect to secure network--didnt really do anything but seems to be working again (who knows)
~SD card inserted and phone doesnt show any signs of recognizing it including when you go to setting/system/memory it says card not installed, doesnt even light up when you insert the card... still an issue but now it will on occasion recognize the SD Card.
Thank you in advance for any help even iif its direction to a forum that has answers that might help.
When I press gallery it says my SD card is unmounted. I powered off, removed card, cleaned card and phone, then I restarted it and it worked but now I'm getting it again. Pretty annoying. Also, is this the type of issue covered by the warranty?
I ran a search on Google and nexus one general forum before posting, thanks in advance for any help...
oh wow....i just unmounted the card, then i powered down. when i powered on it said the card was damaged and i may need to reformat it.
So i put it in my laptop and it says it needs to be formatted.
Have i lost all of the stuff on my card and, if so, what could have caused this? its kind of devastating for me.
The ONLY thing i did today that was out of the ordinary was install zumodrive on the phone.
its a class 6, A Data 8 gig and ive had it for a matter of 6 months, im guessing it was the phone or an app that caused it?
Unless you were constantly removing the card while a device was in the middle of writing to it, I dont think the phone it self would have caused much damage... I'm thinking it was more likely a defective card...
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Unless you were constantly removing the card while a device was in the middle of writing to it, I dont think the phone it self would have caused much damage... I'm thinking it was more likely a defective card...
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bummer, so i probably should just trash it as opposed to formatting it and using it again?
i have had a card fail on me, and was able to get it back and it worked fine. seemed to be just a tad bit slower the second time around, but nonetheless it worked.
it was weird thought, windows wouldnt detect it, and my phone wouldnt either. i had to go into drive management and it was seen there. once i got that squared away and go tit formatted all worked well.
as far as saving your files, im not sure... i try to backup my sdcard about once a week (simply overwrite any files that havent changed). you may be able to use a disk recovery utility, such as the ones that are used to retrieve files from dead HDD's.
i had this problem on stock
i ended up putting my sd card in the pc and backing everything up (everything was fine even after the phone showed it was corrupted)
reformatted my sdcard
tested and still got the error
so i pulled the sdcard back out, started the phone up without any sdcard inserted. after putting card back in and booting up never had the problem again
since rooting, i've never run into this problem either
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i have my streak for a week, the 2nd day i got it i turned it off and went to the +/-vol + power screen to do a factory reset but i changed my mind and rebooted phone again, after that the 16GB card wasn't being detected anymore and even formating it didn't bring it to life again. In windows sometimes it showed up as a 30MB card but i couldn't even format it, some error about bad blocks.
So i used a 8GB card during the week and yesterday i bought a class 4 16GB card, it was working fine untill this morning when i tried to do update of the os, i went to the same screen but forgot to rename the file to update.pkg so i rebooted the phone again to rename it, but again when it came onto the os, same thing, it detects the card as blank but it can't format it... so i have now another broken sd card...
i did a factory reset while using the 8GB card so i dun think the problem is just cause of going to the black update.pkg thing screen...
anybody has had any 16GB faulty card?
what do u guys think? my streak hates 16GB cards and is faulty? or i am the proud owner of 2 faulty 16GB in a row (a class 2 and a class 4, both sandisk)?
My streak came with 16 gig card. Had no issues with it so far. I've put DJ STEVES Rom on as well.
btw, on both ocasions i had the phone connected to the usb cable and to the computer... could that be a cause?
maybe i'll just go buy another 16GB microsd card and play around with it to see if it happens again!
update: tested the card now with the program "active partition recovery" and it gives me an errors saying "bad signature in sector 0 on 86h" ... dunno what it means tho
ok, been trying a bunch of bad blocks recovery programs, mbr fix programs, etc, none works so i guess the card is unrecoverable and is really physically damaged...
just 2 questions before i decide if i buy a new card or send the phone back to shop (it'll hurt having to wait 2 or 3 weeks for a replacement streak)
i was only just using the cards inside the phone, and it even worked well as a usb storage device in windows when i connected the mobile on usb, only after i went to the recovery screen did this happened, (the 1st card failed after i went to the fastboot screen now that i remember correctly) do you think that any of these actions could have damaged the card?
and is it even possible for a normal streak to even damage the card beyond repair just by rebooting and trying to flash an update?
if that were the case, i guess loads of ppl would have same problem as me ...
other than that the mobile works flawlessly, hence my reluctance to send it back, plus the fact that it worked fine during this week with an 8GB card... but then again .. what are the odds of 2 cards failing one after the other in similar circunstances... sigh...
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ok, been trying a bunch of bad blocks recovery programs, mbr fix programs, etc, none works so i guess the card is unrecoverable and is really physically damaged...
just 2 questions before i decide if i buy a new card or send the phone back to shop (it'll hurt having to wait 2 or 3 weeks for a replacement streak)
i was only just using the cards inside the phone, and it even worked well as a usb storage device in windows when i connected the mobile on usb, only after i went to the recovery screen did this happened, (the 1st card failed after i went to the fastboot screen now that i remember correctly) do you think that any of these actions could have damaged the card?
and is it even possible for a normal streak to even damage the card beyond repair just by rebooting and trying to flash an update?
if that were the case, i guess loads of ppl would have same problem as me ...
other than that the mobile works flawlessly, hence my reluctance to send it back, plus the fact that it worked fine during this week with an 8GB card... but then again .. what are the odds of 2 cards failing one after the other in similar circunstances... sigh...
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I feel your pain man. I just got mine yesterday from my local best buy. Within the first 6 hours it shut down randomly while idle. Had to connect it to a power supply and then reboot it to get it started again. On top of that, after the random shutdowns, the phone wouldn't recognize the sd card. It came up on error in the notifications. It gave the option to reformat it right in the streak but when you clicked on reformat...nothing happened. Could write to the card at all. No pictures, music...nothing. So I returned it the same day I bought it and exchanged it for another.
My replacement streak has been perfect (besides my noob experiment in flashing steve's froyo)!
I'm pretty sure it was a hardware issue. It sounds like you got a faulty streak as well. My advice would be to send it back...ask for expedited shipping or whatever it takes to get it back asap. These things are too expensive for them not to work as promised.
Good luck bro!
Try here http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/ & see if you can reformat the cards
worth a try
So for a while now (probably 3-4 months) I've been having SIM card issues and I don't remember if they started before or after my phone was rooted and running CM...Anyway, a little SIM card thing shows up in my status bar and it says like "SIM card not recognized" or "Please insert a SIM Card" or something along those lines. It doesn't let me use the network at all. Usually I fix it by turning the phone off, taking the SIM Card out, putting it back in, and turning the phone back on. Sometimes it'll work, other times, I'll have to repeat it. I thought the problem was the SIM Card because it had 3 scratches on it from the contact points, so I got a new SIM Card yesterday but it's still doing the same thing. When it started I was either on the stock ROM (unrooted), CoreDroid, or CM7 (stable). About a month ago I started using the CM7 nightlies.
Does anyone know what the problem might be? Could it be the phone itself?
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So for a while now (probably 3-4 months) I've been having SIM card issues and I don't remember if they started before or after my phone was rooted and running CM...Anyway, a little SIM card thing shows up in my status bar and it says like "SIM card not recognized" or "Please insert a SIM Card" or something along those lines. It doesn't let me use the network at all. Usually I fix it by turning the phone off, taking the SIM Card out, putting it back in, and turning the phone back on. Sometimes it'll work, other times, I'll have to repeat it. I thought the problem was the SIM Card because it had 3 scratches on it from the contact points, so I got a new SIM Card yesterday but it's still doing the same thing. When it started I was either on the stock ROM (unrooted), CoreDroid, or CM7 (stable). About a month ago I started using the CM7 nightlies.
Does anyone know what the problem might be? Could it be the phone itself?
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Same exact problem here. I don't run nightlys but I really need to try something that I'm not ripping my phone out of the OtterBox in the middle of school.
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hey yall, let me start off buy sayin i mad,tired , and sleepy. last night i finally unbrick my phone after 4 days of surfing the and tryin thing to unbrick it well last night i finally unbrick my samsung admire just to hard brick it within a 1 hour period!! now i dont have no phone,i cant get in touch with nobody,and im hungry!!!! i rather have another phone then eat because it was my life line, and i just learn how to "customize" my phone!! thats right im a newbie, now im a has been with no phone!!!! i dont kno wat im gonna do!!!! is their a place or a person who can donate a phone to me??? hope so, i stayed up all last night tryin to find a free android, but their is no such thing!!! if anybody kno a company that will give me a free android if i get a tattoo of their company on my neck or forehead?? if cyanogen want to do it im down even tho its their ROM that brick my phone, its not their fault, any help yall?????