So on Saturday (day 3 of my owning my X1), my phone was acting as the music for a little house-party.
I left it playing for a good six hours or so, before the battery started to die and it was giving the warning signals.
We just left it until it eventually turned off.
So when I got home, I charged it up again, but now the headphone indicator is constantly active, and sound will not play out the normal loudspeaker.
I've tried plugging headphones in again, and they work but when I remove them it still reckons they are plugged in. Did a soft-reset, still no joy.
Has anyone else encountered something similar? I'd rather not hard-reset if I can avoid it, I spent the better part of Friday customising it to my liking, doh!
The connector has a phyical switch inside which tells the speaker to stop working and direct the sound to the headphones. Sounds like that is still on. You can try plugging in and out, wiggling it, then it will be a trip to the repair shop. Should be covered by warranty though.
Thanks, that worked a treat!
Managed to click it with the stylus and it's all fine again
head phones
hello yeah i had same problem with my x1 just plugged n unplugged head phone a few times then was fine. not noticed it for a few weeks changed head phones to a better pair with out the inline mic.
I had the same issue until I wiggled it every time it got stuck so much that it stuck there for good. Returned for repairs 2 weeks ago and got it back today. Everything fixed now.. they even replaced the plastic cover over the camera since it was cracked a bit.
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hi, Just have to tell you about a weird fault with my XDA2. Last november I dropped my XDA2, and it was replaced under the Silver insurance that O2 offer. Since receiving the new unit, I have had random Hard Resets due to a totally discharged battery. I changed the battery but still the same problems. I had to check my charge level very frequently and put on-charge to prevent wipe-outs. This morning I noticed that as I put my phone in my pocket it was vibrating very weakly. It would stop if the phone was turned upright, or laid flat on its back. If the phone is placed on its left edge and given a slight tap on the connector end it will start to vibrate, whether the unit is off, on. Ah-Ha, this must be the culprit. The vibrator is very battery hungry even though the vibration is weak. I have sent it back for repair. Really pissed as I have to use my old nokia 3650 till it comes back! :evil:
Anyone else had this problem. Clearly a short of some kind....
Jerry,
I have had this problem recently. MyXDA2 is secondhand so not sure of its history. The bottom of my unit kept getting very hot, very worrying. I narrowed it down to the vibtator, which is now electrically disconnected. Watch this spot to see if it is curred.
Fred
Hi Derf. My XDA2 didn't get hot, but I reckon there is a weak spot regarding the wiring of the vibrator. In my case it may be shorting through to a low current track causing the motor to run, in your case it may plain shorting out. Not nice at all. I would have tried to attempt a repair on mine, but it is insured and I didn't want to invalidate the guarantee. Good luck with sorting yours.
Jerry,
Just an update on the vibrator problem. It has been about 4 weeks now and I've had no probs at all. I will investigate if it is a PCB problem or vibrator fault. I suspect PCB as I have never turned the vibrate function on on purpose.
Fred
My Focus all of sudden started continuously playing the notification sound that is played when we connect the charger. Even after restart its still there. I took out the battery and when booted the phone started playin the charger connected notification sound.
Same Here
I have the same problem. Called Samsung and trouble shot the problem with no success. Called AT&T Warranty Support Technical Service and spent a half hour with no success. Was told by AT&T TS:
. Known MS WP7 issue
. MS is working on it
. Will be fixed in upcoming update
. Probably caused by a virus while web browsing (laughed at that one)
. They have seen many complaints about this issue
One guy on YouTube actually had his mini USB plug and connector melt. This issue also does not let your screen shut off. I found that you need to experiment with the unplug sequence when unplugging from PC and charger. Mine does it rarely anymore, if I can remember how I did this I will post.
Theres a hack in the registry that will lower the sound , Im sure you might be able to turn it off from there as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907971&page=36
I also have this problem. I tried replacing the battery, soft & hard resetting. nothing changed. I have tried multiple ways to disconnect and connect the phone to the charger and that doesn't do the trick also. the battery charging indication and beep are constantly playing, so the screen cannot be locked and the battery drains.
After doing a soft reset the phone doesn't stay off, it inmediately comes back on again. The same happens when I remove the batt. The only way for it to stay off is if I remove the battery and wait a while, like a minute and something. I reinsert the battery and the phone stays off.
I looked in MSFT forums and all over the internet and the amount of information is quite limited. No solution has been posted (at least none that I have found).
Also, I cannot exchange the phone 'cause I bought it unlocked over the Internet.
If anyone has any info I am sure that all the affected people will really appreciate it.
Oh. Good to know that I am not alone on this issue. I had searched the net and didnt see anyone with this issue.. I hope this gets solved in the coming update. Cause my Focus all of a sudden at anytime starts doing this. Its embarrassing when this happens in the elevator and public places and especially when you are the only one in ur friends havin a WP7 and others a Android or iPhone.
It so wierd that for any issue the TechSupport people say that 'this issue will be solved in the update'.. I hope it does!!
Hey found this forum while searching for people with this problem - so hey.
My phone (which I bought on eBay) started doing this a couple of nights ago, I eventually got to stop by doing the following (think I read this elsewhere on the net, but don't recall where):
Plug phone into charger (and charger into wall socket).
Unplug the charger from the wall socket.
Unplug the charger from the phone
Plug the charger back into the phone and out again.
Amazingly that worked for me and 3 days later I'm still ok. I've no idea if I just got lucky, or whether that sequence actually does something. Be interested to hear from others.
This thread on MS Answers is also worth a read:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp7-wpdevices/samsung-focus-constantly-thinks-it-is-charging/3660876b-83af-454c-8584-3970d0f830f2
HTH.
Hardware issue, not software
Hi all, according to an ATT rep "this is caused by a manufacturing problem where the micro-usb power/sync connector is not always reliably soldered to the PCB". I tend to believe this because none of the software solutions seem to work (rebooting, putting it back to the previous version, etc).
Go to the ATT support forum and seach Samsung. There are a few threads about this issue. I was trying to post the links but I guess since I'm new here, they dont let me.
if it is a hardware defect (which it does seem to be) i'd contact samsung and they should have you send it in for repair/replacement regardless of if you bought it from ebay or CL or whatever, all the phones should still be under 1 year old, and as such, under warranty.
mine did the same thing i had it in my front pocket and it started to rain kinda got the top a little wet... and had the charging port open.... it started dong the charging sound after about an hour.... everthing i did didn;t work.... come to find out i had a piece of lint in the charging port and when it got wet i shorted out...... got the lint out and has been fine.... been three months now and still working great....
It definately has to do with the USB port shorting, i read somewhere that separating the flap inside the micro USB from the wall, it seems if some kind of debris inside the port can short, or also the flap seems to bend if you plug the cable the wrong way.
In mi case it seems the flap was bent, what i did was carefully separate the little flap from the wall, and it worked, the first time it did not work, but i inserted an old simcard in there and left it for a couple hours, it seems it was enough to fix this
PS. Sorry for my bad english
Hi everyone,
a friend of mine's Nexus 4 has this strange behavior.
It went into water for about 1 second: unfortunately, she was working far from home and needed to keep the phone on for working reasons, I know and told her that the best would have been to switch it off and put in a bag of rice.
In any case, after few minutes where she was not able to listen to the people speaking, and the same on the other side (she was not listened), she kept the phone in a pocket and under the sun, and suddenly everything went fine: probably some water in the audio jack made the phone think the earplugs were plugged, and then this was fixed.
In the rest of the day everything was working, and we thought that, thanks to the hot day and the phone under the sun, the humidity has dried up.
At night when she came back home, she switched the phone off and put in the rice for the night.
The day after, she tried to switch the phone on, and nothing happend.
Screen black, no signals.
After reading something on the internet, she plugged the charger, and kept power+volume down buttons pushed: after some time, the red light appears, just one fast blink and then dark again.
So, we ordered a replacement battery (I have already substituted a Nexus 4 battery of another friend of mine), which arrived yesterday. I proceeded with the substitution, everything went fine (and I noticed that the internal water detectors are still perfect white, only the one in the sim tray is pink), but when I plugged the usb charger, again nothing happened. This time, holding power+volume down made the red light appear and stay solid, no blinking, no disappearing, until I unplug the phone, at that moment it disappears.
I let her charge the phone for the whole night, but still the same issue this morning.
What can the problem be?
It sounds strange to me that at first the phone worked and then it stopped at the first switch off (and I think that she powered off and on the phone right after the incident, and was still working) :-\
And I'm not able to understand the red light behavior...can someone help please?
Many many thanks :-[
Hi,
yesterday we've done some sport with music on. My shirt was full sweaty. The phone was all the time under the shirt.
Now I have the problem that the phone cant recognize when the headphones are pluged in or out. The symbol for it is all the time on the notifcation bar. I can hear only through the headphones anymore. Sounds like for the alarmclock are working normaly.
After I arrived at home the phone rebooted about 10 times in a row and had no signal for about 1h. I dont know If there is now the problem because of the sweat..
I tryed to clean the headphone jack but it doenst help. Any suggestions are welcome.
Try powering the phone off for a while and flash a clean install of the rom. It may or may not help. If it's a hardware issue (chances are there), then you may have to get it repaired.
Turn off the phone and put it in a sealed bag with a drying brick or some plain rice to help dry it out. There may be moisture inside the phone that's causing the problem.
Yeah I second audit13, let it dry for a day at least, with some rice.
Hello guys,
This just happened.
I left my phone charging, and when it hit 100%, I disconnected it from the charger and then I was going to put it in airplane mode, so I could go to bed. When I pushed the status bar down, the phone froze, 5 seconds later the screen went black and it wont turn on now.
When I plug the phone on my PC, there's a sound notification from windows, just like when you plug whatever USB device, but the phone is absolutely dead.
Holding the power button doesn't help. It just got out from warranty last month.... Full stock phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
50/50 chance a new battery might fix your problem. But if your not gonna do it yourself might be time to throw in the towel.
Similar event happened with me, phone died abruptly service center people told me that pcb has died and needs to be replaced, will cost more than 300$ for a new pcb. This phone has got really poor quality hardware component can die any time. Never gonna buy huawei built phone in future
Exodusche said:
50/50 chance a new battery might fix your problem. But if your not gonna do it yourself might be time to throw in the towel.
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I haven't had any problems with the battery whatsoever, it was fine since day one, a little but totally normal wear. The phone charged fine everytime also.
I stopped by in a service shop, they don't mess with nexus devices and they don't know anyone who does (Nexus never came to my country, so it's a rare device to see, iPhones, Galaxies and Moto G are kings here)..
Anyway, I tried everything I could. Hair dryer, downloading build with QFIL, holding the power and volume for more than 20 minutes, leaving the charger on for 24h and everything else I found online and the phone didn't even tried to recover, so I pulled the trigger on a OnePlus 5T. I hope this one lasts me for 5 years, like I was planning with the N6P.