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Can't pick up the phone! Anyone else?

Well, thats it, I actually can't pick up my phone when I get a call. I can push the green pick up button as many times as I want, but it wont respond, and I end up having to call people back. Anyone else with this issue? (phone info in sig)

I am only going to take a guess and say that you have a lot of programs that run in the background.
Maybe try not using auto rotate.

I agree with Neobbs although when I first read the subject, I thought maybe you needed to work out more....

Same problem here. I can have the phone in my hands looking at it straight up when the phone rings and the phone goes black for about 5 seconds (or about 2 rings) and then the caller id comes up and I start hitting the call/talk button to answer. It goes to VM eventually and me hitting the green button ends up bringing up the recent call list. Auto rotate is disabled, but I do have weatherbug, open home, caller lookup and IM running in the background. Oh... and I have the transistions/animations enabled. That's all i can think of. I'll try removing the caller lookup app to see if it eliminates the problem.

hi,im running rc33 stock rom on bronze tmo g1 in singapore..it happened many a times,even on a cold boot up..wonder what is the actual problem here,mine is not rooted at all..

screamsoflust said:
hi,im running rc33 stock rom ....wonder what is the actual problem here,mine is not rooted at all..
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why in the world would you do that? (j/k)

bhang said:
why in the world would you do that? (j/k)
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huh?what do you mean?

screamsoflust said:
huh?what do you mean?
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he means.. why would you not root your G1???
I think it's a good, fair and valid question.

Do you have installed a customer ring tone ? if yes, choose original ring tone and try again.

I had the same problem when I started using my phone. I dunno what changed but the prob. has disappeared or I got used to hold the pickup button down for a bit longer automatically. I got the feeling that this helped the issue.
My phone is RC33 not rooted... and to answer you question: I've tried but I'm still fighting with my XP to accept the USB driver.

Guess again!
neoobs said:
I am only going to take a guess and say that you have a lot of programs that run in the background.
Maybe try not using auto rotate.
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mine does the same randomly. Straight after a factory reset.
nothing installed, and my G1 is not rooted (yet).

has anyone found a solution for this problem?
Using RC33 with weatherbug running in the background, but it occurs with it installed and without it installed
I swear, the G1 must be the worst phone ive ever used
can't wait for the touch pro 2 now...
google can't release polished software if their lives depended on it.. selling a beta phone is just bs

n3rdftw said:
has anyone found a solution for this problem?
Using RC33 with weatherbug running in the background, but it occurs with it installed and without it installed
I swear, the G1 must be the worst phone ive ever used
can't wait for the touch pro 2 now...
google can't release polished software if their lives depended on it.. selling a beta phone is just bs
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Yep, must be terrible if about 4 or 5 people have this problem out of the thousands who have bought it....
I've never had any of these problems, but im guessing they're (probably) firmware related.

Meltus said:
Yep, must be terrible if about 4 or 5 people have this problem out of the thousands who have bought it....
I've never had any of these problems, but im guessing they're (probably) firmware related.
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most probably just call back and arent bothered to find out how to fix it on xda
anyways, when you say firmware related, what did you mean?
I installed JF 1.42, and before that, his earlier versions, and way before that my phone started out with RC18, which I then rooted. Would it be linked to that? I've wiped my phone like a dozen times, but the problem is reoccurring perhaps once or twice a day, out of about 30 phone calls a day
additionally, although this may be linked to t-mobiles ****ty service, have you guys noticed a large increase in dropped calls?
I use my phone in both austin tx and houston, and in both locations, about every 10 calls is dropped, I dont know if its just the horrible service they have, or when I move from a location with 3g to edge.
With the new radio, the dropped calls have reduced in number, but still occur randomly
Also, one more thing, and a little off topic, but this has been bothering me,
Is there anyone to get a SMS application that allows me to type using a numpad or something similar on the screen? or at least, have spell correct, cause chompsms' keyboard is way too small to use one handed and still have legible messages, unlike the iphone where the errors would be auto corrected

n3rdftw said:
most probably just call back and arent bothered to find out how to fix it on xda
anyways, when you say firmware related, what did you mean?
I installed JF 1.42, and before that, his earlier versions, and way before that my phone started out with RC18, which I then rooted. Would it be linked to that? I've wiped my phone like a dozen times, but the problem is reoccurring perhaps once or twice a day, out of about 30 phone calls a day
additionally, although this may be linked to t-mobiles ****ty service, have you guys noticed a large increase in dropped calls?
I use my phone in both austin tx and houston, and in both locations, about every 10 calls is dropped, I dont know if its just the horrible service they have, or when I move from a location with 3g to edge.
With the new radio, the dropped calls have reduced in number, but still occur randomly
Also, one more thing, and a little off topic, but this has been bothering me,
Is there anyone to get a SMS application that allows me to type using a numpad or something similar on the screen? or at least, have spell correct, cause chompsms' keyboard is way too small to use one handed and still have legible messages, unlike the iphone where the errors would be auto corrected
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I'm in austin, tx too and I also get the black screen of death almost every time I get an incomming call so maybe it is a location based thing? My g1 is rooted and I have over 70 apps installed and I'm not about to uninstall them 1 by 1 to see which one could be causing it. In the past, rings extended was said to be the one causing the problem but I don't have that installed.
Also, there have been enough requests for t9 and auto correct with chomp, I'm sure it will be in the upcomming updates

Im running Haykuro now and haven't had a single incident so far. Also, I have 73 (yes, seventy-three) MB of free system memory as I moved pretty much EVERYTHING to the SD card. In return, my phone is unable to boot without my SD card... which is a bit strange.

My $700 smartphone can't keep track of time

Hello good people
I've had my I9000 for a couple of weeks now, and recently flashed it to JP3
At the version screen it says exactly:
PDA: I9000XXJP3
Phone: I9000XXJF5
CSC: Unknown
Build info: 2010, 07
The issue is that my phone follows a time on it's own. A couple minutes ago I set the time to 01:40. It's now 02:10, but my phone shows 02:05. After a few hours I suddenly find it 30+ minutes behind...
Here's the kicker though, I flashed it to JP3 to improve performance, but the damn clock is lagging. So I've voided the warranty, and my top of the line 1ghz smartphone can't even keep show me the right time.
Please.... help, I'm begging...

Go settings --> Date and Time. If automatic is ticked then untick it and set the time manually.

It's unticked, and I've manually set the time

Highfall said:
It's unticked, and I've manually set the time
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Does it do the same thing if it's receiving it's time update off the internet?

psychoace said:
Does it do the same thing if it's receiving it's time update off the internet?
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Yes, I've tried that too. When I set it to "automatic" and connect to the internet, the time doesn't correct itself, or even change. I've tried giving it some time, but it doesn't sync. Same issue, same lag. Even if it did fix, it would just be temporarily. I'd like to have it show time accurately even when it doesn't have access to the internet.

flash a new firmware, you can always go back to your old firmware anyway if you have to return it.
(i assume it was working fine before flashing)

Kilack said:
flash a new firmware, you can always go back to your old firmware anyway if you have to return it.
(i assume it was working fine before flashing)
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I'll try flashing to JP2, jp3 has given me nothing but trouble.
Do I just follow the same procedure or is there another way of downgrading to a previous firmware?

Most of the previous firmwares can be gotten from Samsung-Firmwares website.
JG5 was a good stable version.
JM2 is the next best thing.

Sheesh, just flash back (JM2 or JG5)...
You flashed some ultra beta/alpha firmware and now complain the phone isn't working properly? Not really honest.

From what ive been reading this is an issue with JP3, it really bugs me why such issues still exist these days, my Nokia 5800 also had an alarm bug.. its not really the same issue but a related one.

EarlZ said:
From what ive been reading this is an issue with JP3, it really bugs me why such issues still exist these days, my Nokia 5800 also had an alarm bug.. its not really the same issue but a related one.
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It is a beta (if that, perhaps even alpha) release. Quit whining about it, you haven't voided your warranty because there is no evidence of you ever doing something to it. If you flash an older firmware to it there is no history of different firmwares that have been installed.
BTW, I'm on jp3 and have no such issue with automatic time adjustment.

I'm on the stock firmware and have the same issue. The other problem with this is that the alarm not always going off! So I have to use the alarm in my iPhone!!! How ridiculous is that?!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

The android 2.2 firmwares do definitely lose track of time. Probably a broken network time implementation (time for phones come from your carrier's atomic clock) that doesn't sync properly or something.
Android 2.1 firmwares don't have this problem.

exstarosta said:
I'm on the stock firmware and have the same issue. The other problem with this is that the alarm not always going off! So I have to use the alarm in my iPhone!!! How ridiculous is that?!
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During the time in question, if you ever used a task killer, make sure you the alarm clock on the ignore list.
I initially had a problem, I think only once but maybe twice, where the alarm didn't go off. As far as I could tell, I think I used a task killer and killed the alarm clock, so since then I've had it on the ignore list and haven't had any issues. If you think this might be the issue, give it a week long test using dual alarm clocks.

exstarosta said:
I'm on the stock firmware and have the same issue. The other problem with this is that the alarm not always going off! So I have to use the alarm in my iPhone!!! How ridiculous is that?!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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Are you using a custom lockscreen? I found that the ICE lockscreen caused that issue for me. But otherwise, I've been using JG5/Modaco for a long time now, am using the standard lockscreen, and been using the alarm twice a day for 3 days now, and it's always gone off..
And I don't use task killers, but alovell83 is probably correct

dekeijzer said:
you haven't voided your warranty because there is no evidence of you ever doing something to it. If you flash an older firmware to it there is no history of different firmwares that have been installed.
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That, and generally, they don't care (unless you burnt out your CPU doing stupid stuff like overclocking, but most CPU's have thermal controls these days to help prevent that). But be aware, that if it is strictly a software issue, regardless of whether they care or not, you will possibly be charged (because no fault found), which is what happens with Apple.
That being said, just in case, I would suggest flashing back to the original firmware if there is an issue anyway, because there is subtle differences between many of the firmwares (and it's difficult to differentiate between beta and final ones)

alovell83 said:
During the time in question, if you ever used a task killer, make sure you the alarm clock on the ignore list.
I initially had a problem, I think only once but maybe twice, where the alarm didn't go off. As far as I could tell, I think I used a task killer and killed the alarm clock, so since then I've had it on the ignore list and haven't had any issues. If you think this might be the issue, give it a week long test using dual alarm clocks.
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I do have a task killer and I have the clock/alarm on ignore list. But it didn't help at all. In the evening I restarted the phone and didn't use the task killer and in the morning the alarm didn't go off.
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Are you using a custom lockscreen? I found that the ICE lockscreen caused that issue for me. But otherwise, I've been using JG5/Modaco for a long time now, am using the standard lockscreen, and been using the alarm twice a day for 3 days now, and it's always gone off..
And I don't use task killers, but alovell83 is probably correct
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No, I don't have a custom lock screen, just the stock one.
I am really starting to think about this phone as piece of junk. The Froyo update propably will fix some issues, but it will definetaly bring a lot of new ones....

exstarosta said:
I do have a task killer and I have the clock/alarm on ignore list. But it didn't help at all. In the evening I restarted the phone and didn't use the task killer and in the morning the alarm didn't go off.
No, I don't have a custom lock screen, just the stock one.
I am really starting to think about this phone as piece of junk. The Froyo update propably will fix some issues, but it will definetaly bring a lot of new ones....
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Perhaps it's best if you post a list of apps you jhave installed (maybe using Appbrain).
I've been using my alarm to remind me to take the medicine for my ear-infection, and it's been fine, and perfectly reliable.

dekeijzer said:
It is a beta (if that, perhaps even alpha) release. Quit whining about it, you haven't voided your warranty because there is no evidence of you ever doing something to it. If you flash an older firmware to it there is no history of different firmwares that have been installed.
BTW, I'm on jp3 and have no such issue with automatic time adjustment.
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Just to let you know, i dont have an SGS yet. ETA for those handsets in my country is still late august to late september or even first week october

Excuse me but this, as already have been said, is a known issue with JP3 firmware and there is a fix for that. If you read through the forum you'll find the answer.
The "solution" is to root your phone and then install clock sync, to sync every few hours...

Phone Malfunctions Coming out of Sleep

Hi,
Couldn't find anything in the forum, but it could be detailed a 100 different ways...
I'm having a problem where my x10 won't come out of sleep properly - it doesn't happen all the time, but often enough for it to be super annoying...
Basically I cannot get it out of sleep - the screen will turn on, but without backlight, and without the ability to interact with the touchscreen. to get out of it, I have to pull the back off the phone, and pull out the battery.
So in short, I'd say the digitizer and the backlight frequently fail (together) coming out of sleep (everything else 'works')
Anyone else had experience with this issue?
P.S. I'm not rooted.

Happened like 2 times to me, I leave it for 1 min and press again and it works.
No big deal.
sent from my x10i that is banging for a 2.1 upgrade. ...

mezo9090 said:
Happened like 2 times to me, I leave it for 1 min and press again and it works.
No big deal.
sent from my x10i that is banging for a 2.1 upgrade. ...
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Normally I need the phone there and then, but worth a try waiting... I just upgraded to the latest FW, so hopefully it's the last time it happens...
Thanks!

Hmm.. tried the waiting option... left it for more than 10 min, and all it did was stay frozen and drain my battery...
Might try a full re-flash

Strange. I thought a Firmware upgrade would have sorted it. Do you have any apps installed that may be relevant, a lock app or anything? And did it do this from the moment you got your phone?

jas0607 said:
Strange. I thought a Firmware upgrade would have sorted it. Do you have any apps installed that may be relevant, a lock app or anything? And did it do this from the moment you got your phone?
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It started happening fairly soon after I got the phone... couldn't say when, but it's now happening really frequently - at least 3 times today already...
I don't have any apps I could pinpoint, although I'd guess it would have to be something I installed fairly early on.
Strange that it's getting worse though.

Hmm, it seems that this has happened to a few other people online, but mostly with HTC devices. Do your hardware buttons (at the bottom) wake it up differently at all?
http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/115869-phone-sleeps-does-not-wake-up.html
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b57dc33e2c148aa&hl=en

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Hmm, it seems that this has happened to a few other people online, but mostly with HTC devices. Do your hardware buttons (at the bottom) wake it up differently at all?
http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/115869-phone-sleeps-does-not-wake-up.html
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b57dc33e2c148aa&hl=en
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Thanks for the links...
Yeah, the HW buttons wake up fine (at least from what I can tell) but they're basically useless when the phone is stuck on the lockscreen
I did a full re-flash last night, so hopefully that fixes it...
It had better since all of the backup programs I had faith in failed me completely... man I'm annoyed... have to spend a bunch of hours putting everything back on my phone and setting it up again.

[Q] Time Issues

Hi guys and girls,
Been using WP7 about a week now and one niggling little issue is doing my head in. Sorry if it has been mentioned before or is covered under some other issue, I did try a search and got nothing relating to it.
My issue; the clock on the phone keeps jumping to random times.
I am using YukiXDA latest build and could find nothing relating to this isue there either.
Would like to know if others have had this problem and what have they tried to remedy it?
Is it a ROM issue or is it a hardware issue?

Okay, An update
This is happening when I reboot the device.
Is there something in settings that I am missing, or is there a registry setting I can change?

do you have your "date & time" settings set automatically?

Yes
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do you have your "date & time" settings set automatically?
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Yes time setting is automatic, even tried setting it in the registry.
It got that bad yesterday my phone reset itself to Jan 1980.

It sounds like the battery *may* be ****ed up, I have no idea about the htc hd2 (I've only had mine for a couple of months), but on my old phone(s), some of them have had that "time resetting" too, and the people at the tech support said the battery needed to be replaced.
Sorry for hijacking your thread:
I have a similar error with my phone (yukixda v4):
If I send myself a text message at say... 01:35... it's sent 01:35, but the one i recieve has the timestamp at 01:34... this is both with and without automatic time settings..
any ideas?

h0ng said:
It sounds like the battery *may* be ****ed up, I have no idea about the htc hd2 (I've only had mine for a couple of months), but on my old phone(s), some of them have had that "time resetting" too, and the people at the tech support said the battery needed to be replaced.
Sorry for hijacking your thread:
I have a similar error with my phone (yukixda v4):
If I send myself a text message at say... 01:35... it's sent 01:35, but the one i recieve has the timestamp at 01:34... this is both with and without automatic time settings..
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Truth is no matter what is causing this... TWO big issues for me when choosing a phone software set up.
The phone knows what freakin time and date itis
The phone nor the software on should destroy batteries
but thanks guys it really was fun to play with.

Don't use automatic, mine does the same if I set to automatic.
I thought it was something with Giffgaff as I would set automatic and the time would be right but later on during the day it would be some crazy time and date.
Set to manual and your clock will be fine

dunno about any of that but, i do know that if i boot in to MAGLDR is gets buggered up, doesnt matter if the time is manually set or auto set, it always buggers up, dont boot to it and all is good
, at least for me anyway

I'm having the same issues. Time and sometimes dates getting screwed up. Only started happening to me about a couple of weeks ago now. But it's frustrating at the least. I've switched mine to manual setting at the moment. Gonna see how it goes over the next week.
One thing though, it isn't happening to my wife's HD2. She is using the older version of WP7, I'm currently on Yuki's more recent NODO version...

as per my post above yours if you use magldr or even the bootloader it gets messed up, so dual booting droid may be a reason, or using bootloader / magldr to charge, other than that i dont have this issue

Not got dual-boot on my phone, neither do U boot to magldr to charge... But it's happening to my phone every few days so far. Today it was out by 28mins. I want to see if having it on manual time/date does any better...

i also have a problem with my hd2,
9 times out of 10 when i reboot the phone the time and date will be wrong with no pattern i can spot (started to do this out of the blue- no updates or new roms).
im currently running with a cooked win mo image and android on the sd card.
battery still has a respectable life although seems to run out quicker than it once did so i may purchase a new one. (the old one is just over 12 months old)
also my phone has started to freeze on pin request after receiving a text so im gonna try a new image too
if anyone else has seen problems like these and solved them drop a noobie a helping hand pleeeeaaasseeee....

It's not HD2 related
The same issue happens to me (phone jump approximately 36 hours foward randomly)
The phone was a LG Optimus 7 on official rom but never managed to fix this issue (automatic date or not)

ForgetfulGuru said:
Hi guys and girls,
Been using WP7 about a week now and one niggling little issue is doing my head in. Sorry if it has been mentioned before or is covered under some other issue, I did try a search and got nothing relating to it.
My issue; the clock on the phone keeps jumping to random times.
I am using YukiXDA latest build and could find nothing relating to this isue there either.
Would like to know if others have had this problem and what have they tried to remedy it?
Is it a ROM issue or is it a hardware issue?
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I have the same issue! It happened some months after flashing xboxmods v. 1.11 Rom. It can't be a battery problem because I use 3 different batterys ^^

Screen timeout options in new firmware

Updated to the latest firmware and noticed that they dropped the Never option for screen timeout. I'm kinda pissed because I have been using that for the past week or so and my Live Tiles were doing a much better job with it set to never turn off.
I'm one of the few people around here lucky enough to have a problem free phone. I've never had any of the problems that this new firmware is supposed to fix, so I really don't need it. I am seriously considering rolling back to the old firmware to get the Never setting back. Before I go through all the trouble with that, I just wanted to double check that the the Never setting is gone for everyone with the new firmware.
Does anyone out there with the new firmware still have Never as an option for the screen time out?

Nope, gone for me too. But, I kept mine set to 1 minute anyway.

Oops I posted a new thread before I noticed this. I'm pissed too. I used it with my car stereo and Zune. I used to be able to control music easily at a glance while driving (using cradle). Now it's too much of a process and dangerous. I also liked keeping it on while charging (why do I need a locked phone at home, sitting right next to me, not drawing power from battery?) What genius made this decision!

I have yet to find a single benefit for the new firmware on my phone. Seems exactly the same to me but with the Never option removed. I think I may try rolling it back with the Zune backup.

The Dell tech I spoke with in India actually told me to re-sync the phone, factory reset it and sync it again (at least that's what I think he said, I had to ask him to repeat himself several times as I don't think our English dialects were compatible). I'm afraid to try this. He also offered to send me my third replacement phone if this was unsuccessful. I think I'll just live with it. I'm so tired of dealing with Dell. According to my logs I've clocked in well over 7 hours of phone time with them. I try to remain loyal to Microsoft, but I think it's Android time. I feel so embarrassed when my buddy uses his Evo in my presence.