I tried pulling the battery and the notification bar doesnt work. Everything else about the phone seems to work fine.
Help?
Is it stock or are you running, rooted with a custom rom? If you are modded I would try and wipe and reflash maybe try and use a different kernel
I'm on straight up stock. Never tried rooting before.
Borg1982 said:
I'm on straight up stock. Never tried rooting before.
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Good reason to root then.
On a serious note. Have you done a factory reset yet?
I just tapped Factory Reset seconds ago. Guess I'm about to find out what hpns.
Well this is an odd problem indeed..... factory reset is done and the bar still doesn't drop down -- but it does in landscape mode.
Something is wrong with portrait mode. Warranty time??
Yea, if you haven't rooted and modded, and you're experiencing that, a factory reset did nothing, I'd say take it in to sprint. Possibly the touch screen going bad in the upper area of your screen? (speculation) If that does happen to be the case, they can swap out the screen at the store, if they have a repair center there. So yea, yer Evo is sick, take her to the doc.
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Unplugged my phone this morning at 100%, went to charge it just now with factory charger and cable and nothing. Tried reboot and battery pull. Sitting at 60% right now. It's off in case I need to return to stock to exchange it. Any ideas?
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Unplugged my phone this morning at 100%, went to charge it just now with factory charger and cable and nothing. Tried reboot and battery pull. Sitting at 60% right now. It's off in case I need to return to stock to exchange it. Any ideas?
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I had a bad cable, it is not the phone...damn cables were cheaply made.
Tried 2 cables. When the phone is off I get the battery icon with the circle in it, but it just loops this icon. It comes up, vibrates, turns off repeatedly. I tried to wipe cache and it said error. I'm rooted, defrosted everything I had frozen.
What I don't understand is why I'm getting an error when trying to wipe cache partition.I unrooted, so as far as I know im now totally stock. Is it safe to try to do a factory reset?
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Tried 2 cables. When the phone is off I get the battery icon with the circle in it, but it just loops this icon. It comes up, vibrates, turns off repeatedly. I tried to wipe cache and it said error. I'm rooted, defrosted everything I had frozen.
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Sounds like kernel panic. Whatever rooting/custom mod/ blabla you have on that device is either buggy, badly flashed or something like that.
You need to have a good connection to Odin established, flash only stock rom (the untouched version/odexed), let it reboot normally from Odin, and wait. (it is important to have at least 50% battery left, you don't want it to quite on you in the middle of a flash)
Doesn't matter if it doesn't go all the way and setup the first time. Just pull the batter (after Odin rebooted), go into recovery, cleanup everything, and reboot.
Thank should get you back in the world of the living ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573&highlight=return+to+stock
So just do exactly what is written in this thread then? Do I have to go that far or can I try a factory reset from recovery?
Thanks BTW
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573&highlight=return+to+stock
So just do exactly what is written in this thread then? Do I have to go that far or can I try a factory reset from recovery?
Thanks BTW
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Easier things first, so if you haven't tried a factory reset yet then go ahead ( although that won't unroot you) try your factory reset first.
But then if your battery gets too low and still doesn't charged, you need to get it charged up first.
And yes that hotfile link is the original factory ROM dump, it is good.
That is the at&t stock file or you're on bell or rogers or ... get a samfirmware/sammobile account and download your ROM from there.
No dice on the factory reset, and I'm about 40%. I'm thinking I'm just going to exchange it. Device status says Official so I should be good, no?
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No dice on the factory reset, and I'm about 40%. I'm thinking I'm just going to exchange it. Device status says Official so I should be good, no?
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you should be ok exchanging it although for most devices rooting voids the warranty
that was my main reason sending you the odin flashing route in case you wanted to exchange it but it is no big deal.
Well I'll be...
Did another factory reset from the settings menu this time, ON THE WAY to the AT&T store(while parked, of course), plugged it into the 'ol 12v and she fired right up. I agree about the kernel panic deal. I've had strange things happen before. The only thing that changed on my phone from last night until the no-charge state was the installation of SugarSync. It kept FC'ing so I uninstalled it. I think it may have changed some items deep deep in the areas of the OS that I know nothing about and it freaked out the bowels of Android.
Back when I had my Atrix 4G, I installed Dolphin Browser, and it sent my phone into a whirlwind of FC's.
Thank you for your assistance, Commodore.
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Did another factory reset from the settings menu this time, ON THE WAY to the AT&T store(while parked, of course), plugged it into the 'ol 12v and she fired right up. I agree about the kernel panic deal. I've had strange things happen before. The only thing that changed on my phone from last night until the no-charge state was the installation of SugarSync. It kept FC'ing so I uninstalled it. I think it may have changed some items deep deep in the areas of the OS that I know nothing about and it freaked out the bowels of Android.
Back when I had my Atrix 4G, I installed Dolphin Browser, and it sent my phone into a whirlwind of FC's.
Thank you for your assistance, Commodore.
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That is always good to hear. thanks for reporting back.
Plus if you did reset it while you were driving, not that some people haven't ... , at&t will start making new screen stickers saying :
"don't factory reset your phones and drive ... it can wait".
Oh well. Since im a junkie and couldn't wait to re root, as soon as it charged back up I re rooted. All was well until I started freezing bloat, then it stopped charging. Got a replacement on the last day of the return period. Wish I knew what was causing this. Looks like im staying stock until we get recovery.
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It's been a few days so I'm bringing this thread back from the grave, but I want to know if anyone else has experienced similar issues. It's really strange, what happened, and I'd like to know more about why it happened. I should have made a logcat but too late now. I'm not the type of person to experience something like that and take the easy way out with an exchange (I've experienced worse), but with my battery percent remaining an ODIN flash would have been risky at best. Like I said, everything was fine for days until I installed sugarsync.
I only froze bloat. Everything starting with AT&T, and some Samsung apps like S-Voice, ChatOn and push service.
Until I can figure this out or get custom recovery, I'm stuck stock because I'm not going to cheat again for another exchange.
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I had exactly the same thing happen to my rooted s4. Took it back to the shop i bought it ( Unrooted ) and they replaced it.
Same here.
I get it to charge sometimes for about 10 minutes and then it'll disconnect.
USB via the PC doesn't work as well.
I think replacement is probably a safest bet.
We aren't the only ones either...
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s4/275276-galaxy-s4-wont-charge.html
This has just happened to me. I plugged it in last night with about 19% remaining, woke up this morning and it was at 7%-- hadn't charged. I tried a couple different chargers and cables, and nothing has worked so far. The charge has since dwindled to 4%. I'm running slimrom, and I guess I can't risk flashing back to stock since the battery is likely to die completely during the process.
When I did a shutdown and then plugged it in, I got the "charging" icon, of the battery with the green bar repeatedly moving up through it. But after leaving it for half and hour, I tried to boot it, and that was the point where it had gone from 7% to 4%, so apparently it wasn't really charging. Might have to buy another battery and see if that's the problem or the charging circuit in the phone.
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Ok, so this is weird. I have been using some older chargers/cables that I had left over from my Captivate, and they've been working fine for a month, until now. But I went and got out the charger that came with the GS4 and tried that, and although the ROM still says "not charging/connect your charger", the battery % is increasing. Very strange.
I think u need to get back to stock rom to solve this issue..and u won't get warranty as your device is rooted even if u revert back to stock your bincounter will ramain same that's of you had flashed your device twice with custom rom your bin counter will be 2...so samsung can easily understand it by going into download mode...u can also see the number of bin counts by entering into download mode screen ....so u need to reset bin counter before taking it to customer care otherwise they will woid ur warranty:thumbup:
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I've searched and searched and search, to no avail! Those of you that had the S3, do you remember in the call log you could slide your selection to the right to make a call or slide your finger to the left to text.....instead of tapping to make the selection? Well it seems on the S4 you can only slide left for text and you have to tap to make a call. Is there any way to change that to slide right to make a call. I really miss that feature.
I can "slide right" from the log and it initiates a call. Same from contacts. Left if for text. I'm still on MDL...maybe something changed in MF9? Did you reboot and try again? Are you stock?
Try placing your fingers on the center of the screen of the contact you want as opposed to on the picture.
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I can "slide right" from the log and it initiates a call. Same from contacts. Left if for text. I'm still on MDL...maybe something changed in MF9? Did you reboot and try again? Are you stock?
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Stock rooted MF9....It's been that way since MDL when I bought the phone. It's driving me mad. It will only slide left and not right,no matter where I place my finger. I guess I have a hardware problem and a trip to Sprint is in my future.... Thanks for the input!
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I guess I have a hardware problem and a trip to Sprint is in my future.
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Well, they will have you do a full reset before they give you a new phone so you may as well back up your phone and try it before going to Sprint.
And it sounds more like a software problem...not hardware.
Mine works as advertised, slide right call, slide left text. I'm on stock rooted mf9. What mods do you have installed? Something you installed must have broke it. Unfortunately a factory reset won't fix it since factory resets don't touch the system partition which is where the mod would be. If you want to make sure that it is not hardware related, which it can't be or you wouldn't be able to slide right at all in any app, you need to return to stock. The only way to do this properly would be to odin the stock mf9 tar file. Although, for a quick test, you could dirty flash the odexed stock rooted rom in the development section. That would overwrite the modded system files but leave your data in place. Then you would know if it works on your phone without starting from scratch.
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Mine works as advertised, slide right call, slide left text. I'm on stock rooted mf9. What mods do you have installed? Something you installed must have broke it. Unfortunately a factory reset won't fix it since factory resets don't touch the system partition which is where the mod would be. If you want to make sure that it is not hardware related, which it can't be or you wouldn't be able to slide right at all in any app, you need to return to stock. The only way to do this properly would be to odin the stock mf9 tar file. Although, for a quick test, you could dirty flash the odexed stock rooted rom in the development section. That would overwrite the modded system files but leave your data in place. Then you would know if it works on your phone without starting from scratch.
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I didn't see this earlier.... I went back to Sprint and my hook just swapped out the phone after it received a large dose of electricity!
Hey guys,
HALP
Is there a good way to pinpoint exactly why my phone random reboots? So far I've already done a factory reset and it hasn't helped. Even with only installing basic apps (google apps, twitter/insta/snapchat/evernote)
Even with none of those apps installed, it would still reboot.
Tonight my phone was at 48%, I picked it up, sent a text message, put it down, picked it back up and it was on the Google splash screen rebooting.
I downloaded Catlog, will that help diagnose, and what should my settings be?
Thank you so much in advanced for any help yall can provide
PS, my phone has always been stock and never modded in any way.
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Hey guys,
HALP
Is there a good way to pinpoint exactly why my phone random reboots? So far I've already done a factory reset and it hasn't helped. Even with only installing basic apps (google apps, twitter/insta/snapchat/evernote)
Even with none of those apps installed, it would still reboot.
Tonight my phone was at 48%, I picked it up, sent a text message, put it down, picked it back up and it was on the Google splash screen rebooting.
I downloaded Catlog, will that help diagnose, and what should my settings be?
Thank you so much in advanced for any help yall can provide
PS, my phone has always been stock and never modded in any way.
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Have you tried flashing the factory images, along with formatting the internal storage? Factory reset was a good idea, flashing the factory images is the next step. Do that and don't install any apps, if the problem remains then you're probably dealing with a hardware failure.
xxxdc5 said:
Hey guys,
HALP
Is there a good way to pinpoint exactly why my phone random reboots? So far I've already done a factory reset and it hasn't helped. Even with only installing basic apps (google apps, twitter/insta/snapchat/evernote)
Even with none of those apps installed, it would still reboot.
Tonight my phone was at 48%, I picked it up, sent a text message, put it down, picked it back up and it was on the Google splash screen rebooting.
I downloaded Catlog, will that help diagnose, and what should my settings be?
Thank you so much in advanced for any help yall can provide
PS, my phone has always been stock and never modded in any way.
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Is your case "accidentally" holding down the power button? This was my issue.
Boot the phone in safe mode and check if the phone still does a constant reboot... in case it does.. there might be some hW issue as you already got the factory reset part going...
SENT... isn't that enough
Thanks for all the responses. I ended up losing patience and sending it back to my phone insurance for testing/replacement. They were the last to take it apart for a screen repair so I'm hoping to pin any hardware issue on them and they'll replace it under the warranty of the insurance plan I purchased with them.
If they offer me a definitive diagnosis I'll update as well.
Cheers
So I got the latest beta 10, and decided I wanted to start fresh cause it has been a minute. When it's all said and done Youtubes skip overlay does NOT go away on its own. Usually you can just tap the screen once and she's gravy but I have to manually hit the X and I hit the damn travel bar 90 percent of the time and it is driving. Me. NUTS.
I have factory reset the phone, factory reset the app, deleted the app entirely with SD Maid...I am at a loss. I cannot figure it out.
Anyone else have this problem before and know of a fix? Any halp would be fantastic. Lmao
Here is a screen recording of my problem with taps enabled
https://youtu.be/Yn_VpQvRLww
I put OB10 on my phone last night and mine doesn't do that...Only difference is mine wasn't a fresh install. Also I'm not rooted and bootloader is locked.
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I put OB10 on my phone last night and mine doesn't do that...Only difference is mine wasn't a fresh install. Also I'm not rooted and bootloader is locked.
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Yeah I have never had this problem until now. It is hilariously weird. Not world ending but confusingly obnoxious.
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So I got the latest beta 10, and decided I wanted to start fresh cause it has been a minute. When it's all said and done Youtubes skip overlay does NOT go away on its own. Usually you can just tap the screen once and she's gravy but I have to manually hit the X and I hit the damn travel bar 90 percent of the time and it is driving. Me. NUTS.
I have factory reset the phone, factory reset the app, deleted the app entirely with SD Maid...I am at a loss. I cannot figure it out.
Anyone else have this problem before and know of a fix? Any halp would be fantastic. Lmao
Here is a screen recording of my problem with taps enabled
https://youtu.be/Yn_VpQvRLww
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Is it the stock YT app or Vanced?
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Is it the stock YT app or Vanced?
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Stock. I couldn't fix it. I had to Qdownload the latest beta 10 to get everything to work. the phone started freaking out out of nowhere and got the red bootloader message. Idk WHAT happened. I don't do any mods, just updates, magisk and a kernel. lol
All is well again.
This is really starting to get on my nerves now. Ever since I got my new S10+ from AT&T, it's occasionally done this thing where after I reboot the phone, I unlock it, and it briefly says "starting phone" on the home screen, and then will mysteriously do a quick reset, where it skips the AT&T logo and jingle, and just shows the Samsung splash screen , then takes me back to the lockscreen and it's usually fine after that.
However, Just now I decided to reset my phone, like one should do periodically, and it did the strange double reset after unlocking... Then when I unlocked it, after the "starting phone" message I tried to open a browser, and BAM! Quick reset again! Unlocked, let it start up, tried to open an app, BAM quick reset again after the screen briefly shifted from landscape to portrait mode (even though I was still holding it long ways in landscape position). Its never done this before and I'm getting concerned. It's never randomly reset while using the phone, this only happens right after a reset.
Any ideas? I've already tried wiping partition cache after big updates, doing soft resets. I'm worried that I'm going to have to end up resorting to a factory wipe, as others suggested I do when I was having battery drain issues on the ASD3 firmware, possibly because of restoring everything from a backup of my last phone when I got this one. Because supposedly restoring from backups from AT&T, Google or Samsung has caused all sorts of problems for people. I really don't want go wipe everything and spend hours try to get it all back on here manually if i don't have to.
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This is really starting to get on my nerves now. Ever since I got my new S10+ from AT&T, it's occasionally done this thing where after I reboot the phone, I unlock it, and it briefly says "starting phone" on the home screen, and then will mysteriously do a quick reset, where it skips the AT&T logo and jingle, and just shows the Samsung splash screen , then takes me back to the lockscreen and it's usually fine after that.
However, Just now I decided to reset my phone, like one should do periodically, and it did the strange double reset after unlocking... Then when I unlocked it, after the "starting phone" message I tried to open a browser, and BAM! Quick reset again! Unlocked, let it start up, tried to open an app, BAM quick reset again after the screen briefly shifted from landscape to portrait mode (even though I was still holding it long ways in landscape position). Its never done this before and I'm getting concerned. It's never randomly reset while using the phone, this only happens right after a reset.
Any ideas? I've already tried wiping partition cache after big updates, doing soft resets. I'm worried that I'm going to have to end up resorting to a factory wipe, as others suggested I do when I was having battery drain issues on the ASD3 firmware, possibly because of restoring everything from a backup of my last phone when I got this one. Because supposedly restoring from backups from AT&T, Google or Samsung has caused all sorts of problems for people. I really don't want go wipe everything and spend hours try to get it all back on here manually if i don't have to.
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Had an issue with this early on but seems to have been fixed at some point, I'm I'm exynos though so probably not much help!
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Had an issue with this early on but seems to have been fixed at some point, I'm I'm exynos though so probably not much help!
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Dang... So it does appear to be an issue experienced on both Exynos and Snapdragon variants. I wonder if there is or will be a fix for this. I've been asking around and haven't gotten many responses about this problem at all. I'm concerned because it seems to be getting worse than when I first got the phone.
I'm having the exact same problem. Sometimes it goes through quick reset, full reset, a couple more quick, then back to the Verizon logo, then starts up. Opening an app at that point usually does another quick, then full, then everything works. Glad I'm not the only one, but I haven't found any solutions either.
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I'm having the exact same problem. Sometimes it goes through quick reset, full reset, a couple more quick, then back to the Verizon logo, then starts up. Opening an app at that point usually does another quick, then full, then everything works. Glad I'm not the only one, but I haven't found any solutions either.
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Mine does the same. Unlocked bought directly from Samsung. I don't reboot the phone very often so it doesn't bother me that much.