Hello guys, I am having some problems with the official Update froyo for samsung vibrant. I can't answer any call and the status bar doesn't work. Anyone else is having the same problem. I am going to downgrade my phone with odin to android 2.1 and then instal the rom axura or Nero.
dont have this problem
Mine has been stock ROM since I bought it last fall, upgraded to the official 2.2 KA6 and experienced huge lag issues, status bar would sometimes take up to 5 seconds to open after a swipe, apps would lag, etc. GPS was never fixed for me. No problems with calls though. I went back to JFD and then flashed Axura. No lag, GPS works (<10s lock, excellent accuracy), etc. Just do it, I should have done it long ago.
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I am having a problem as well, have search not just this one but many. I can hookup mini kies and it starts the download gets about 1/3 of the way through and stops, says " cannot upgrade, try to pull the battery and reinstall and try again" have tried that four times? Suggestions anyone, I have not even heard anyone have this problem, have tried T-mobile, XDA, Android Community forums and nothing.
Anyone?
Have you tried resetting the phone?
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No have been trying to avoid that, I will try it though. Did not want to redo everything I have on the phone. Oh well, I will give it a try.
Thanks,
try to do this.
First check if you have checked on usb debugging. Samsung mini kies has to detect you phone now. Upgrade your phone
No I didnt, I will try that first. I have to charge the phone now, I did not realize that was not checked.
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Should I bite the bullet and try an upgrade? I'm still marinating on 2.1.
if you feel safe, and don't mind taking the phone back to the store for repair at any random day
then go ahead by all means.
PROS: you'll find out sooner, and get your phone warrantied before it expires, or your device might work perfectly and never dies.
CONS: you'll most likely be stuck without a phone for a few weeks
I've had JL2 for a couple of weeks and it's working well. I did have Darky's ROM on it for a couple of days but it was acting up so I put JL2 back on.
No lag, Great GPS, no issues at all.
Ian
I love JL2... But I have not had a single issue since the phone came out. I was the first person to buy the phone at the north Bell store in the Eaton Centre the day it came out on Aug 6th.
I flashed jk4 on dec 8th or so and had no issues and then moved to JL2 a few days ago. On 2.1 I always got a quick lock with GPS but did suffer from minor drifting. That drifting is now gone on 2.2 (both jk4 & jl2)
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And after reading the sd issue thread I would reccomend upgrading even more. If it bricks with sd failure it really sounds like Bell had stepped up with getting new phones and a credit out to people.
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been on jl2 since dec 24th, everything works fine for the most part. One issue though - i can't close the contacts, i have to press the home button and then when i check the task manager, it's still running in the background. This get's pretty annoying. Anyone else experiencing this?
EDIT:: also do you guys see 304 MB of ram that's accessible (through task manager->ram manager)? That's what i see (wasn't 2.1 also like this?)
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Should I bite the bullet and try an upgrade? I'm still marinating on 2.1.
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Do it now so that if you have any problems, it'll happen sooner than later, and you'll still be covered by your warranty, which you are almost 5 months through.
If I were you, I'd install it as soon as possible. Worst case scenario is they ship you a new phone within 7 days if your phone breaks. My phone had a failed internal sd when I did a factory reset before I went to try the jl2 upgrade since I was told by bell it would fix the problem, but unforunately my phone broke before I even got the chance to do it so bell did a work order and sent me a new phone which I should receive within 7 days, all I have to do is ship them back my broken phone when I receive the new one.
asicman said:
Should I bite the bullet and try an upgrade? I'm still marinating on 2.1.
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My buddy's phone died after going to JL2. The good thing was that Bell is giving him a new phone within the next 5 business days AND he got $100 credit for all the trouble.
I flashed the jl2 modem today on a jpu based rom. A couple hours later and I'm now stuck in a boot loop. coincidence? Who knows.
I've been on JL2 since it came out on Kies. The day before while I was on JK4 my phone was starting to get some FCs and at one point I got the "Internal SD Unexpectedly Removed" error so I'm pretty sure my internal SD was on the brink of failing. I'm glad a new firmware came out. I immediately upgraded and did a factory reset and formatted the internal SD. It's been smooth sailing ever since and I do take a lot of pictures, video, etc. on my phone with no issues since JL2.
I love JL2 so far. It's fast (just as fast as JK4 was) and after some tweaking via instructions I found here GPS is good. I have had ONE force close since upgrading and I think that was just the Winamp app being stupid.
I haven't really seen anyone posting here about actually being bricked after JL2. Has anyone actually upgraded to JL2 and got the internal SD error?
Thanks for the input everyone. I'm a little more confident now with upgrading. And it of course makes sense to do it now to find out problems whilst there is still warranty.
I'll give it a wack tonight. Btw, with an upgrade, do things like music and contacts get wiped out? Its my first android upgrade and I plan on using kies. Any caveats with kies?
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asicman said:
Thanks for the input everyone. I'm a little more confident now with upgrading. And it of course makes sense to do it now to find out problems whilst there is still warranty.
I'll give it a wack tonight. Btw, with an upgrade, do things like music and contacts get wiped out? Its my first android upgrade and I plan on using kies. Any caveats with kies?
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You should be ok with a straight upgrade, but I'll always recommend doing a factory reset - it clears out the crap that could cause problems.
As for your music and stuff, that depends where you store it. If you have it on your internal sd, and you do a factory reset, then yes. If its on your external sd, then no. Contacts are fine if you store them on your SIM or sync with Google.
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been on jl2 since dec 24th, everything works fine for the most part. One issue though - i can't close the contacts, i have to press the home button and then when i check the task manager, it's still running in the background. This get's pretty annoying. Anyone else experiencing this?
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I am and it's very irritating indeed. It's the same with the internet browser (always has been)
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EDIT:: also do you guys see 304 MB of ram that's accessible (through task manager->ram manager)? That's what i see (wasn't 2.1 also like this?)
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Yes
gtg2 said:
I flashed the jl2 modem today on a jpu based rom. A couple hours later and I'm now stuck in a boot loop. coincidence? Who knows.
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Is it really safe to combine different files from different ROMs? I would think mixing and matching can cause some problems.
Ian
I do have one complaint after going to JL2 -
In my Picasa albums in Gallery, the photos are no longer sorted by date as they were in 2.1. Also, sometimes the Gallery fails to load/display the full resolution image instead just displaying the pixelated preview while flipping through images.
Never had this problem in 2.1 (JH2) - I wonder if it's possible to revert the Gallery app to the previous version?
I got my phone in september and never had any trouble with it. I have rooted it, applied different lag fix and enen managed to stupidly brick it but it always survived.
I like JL2, but I had no problem with JK4 either. However, I don't find TouchWiz as smooth as it was with JH2. It lags a little when switching across apps or homescreens, so I use LauncherPro which is perfect.
BUT, my GPS doesn't work at all
It worked ok before installing JL2, but now its totally useless. I can see satellites but can't get a fix....any advice?
Smooth ride so far. Went from stock 2.1 (end-of-August purchase) to JL2. I did not do the JK4.
So far ok.............. I seem to get FC on the Samsung hub everytime I pull the battery out and I have to re-install the app. GPS locks but it takes awhile.
Just do it! My phone was bricked on Dec 25 for no reason. I updated to froyo 2.2 via Kies about a month ago. I called Bell and told them my issue, internal fried sd card! They gave me Bell's Data Support line. I'm getting a brand new Samsung Galaxy with the latest Dec 24. froyo 2.2.1 update installed. I'll be without a phone for about a week or so but there customer service is awsome. I also go a $100 credit to my account for the inconvience.
If you update and phone is bricked call this number 1.877.328.2123 and they will send you a new phone in 3-5 days.
I hate to post a thread like this, but after searching and basically pulling my hair out, I've decided it was time.
Anyway, as title suggests I have an I9000m with the 2.2 UGJL2 *Typo in title, sorry!!*
Heres the problem with the phone...
Its a bell phone, unrooted or modified. Its running 2.2 JL2. When used with an bell SIM it will dial out and receive, receive texts, send them. However it won't receive picture messages, well it receives but just says downloading (and the plan does have it)
It also won't connect to the mobile network. If I manually set APN it does, but then its ability to call out is brutal for some reason. Also I threw my virgin mobile sim in it, set apn and it would go onto the internet no problem, but calling and text suffered big time.
It also seems to lag huge all the time, it'll freeze, you hit the center button and it just takes screen shots.
Its a refurb phone if that helps. Its actually my gfs phone, I picked her up a HTC incredible S... she says if we can fix the old one she kinda wants the samsung back.
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
Have you tried a factory reset to see if that fixes the problems? That would be the best starting point.
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Have you tried a factory reset to see if that fixes the problems? That would be the best starting point.
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Been done twice. Also have had two new sim cards installed aswell. I figured before I tried rooting it would be best to consult you guys. Is it possible that there's a hardware issue?
Thanks
Mike
Based on your description it doesn't sound like a hardware issue, but no way to know for sure.
I think your next best bet would be to try reflashing JL2 (or KC1 even) using Odin; as long as you can get to download mode via the 3 button combo. If you're still having problems after that then probably it is hardware.
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Based on your description it doesn't sound like a hardware issue, but no way to know for sure.
I think your next best bet would be to try reflashing JL2 (or KC1 even) using Odin; as long as you can get to download mode via the 3 button combo. If you're still having problems after that then probably it is hardware.
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Got er fixed. After I put the phone down and enjoyed a beer for a bit, I went back and basically wiped the phone clean, I think I did it 3 times in a row, using both the 3 button download mode one, and two different ones than can be accessed via the dialer. After doing that I retryed the APN settings again and ALAS it finally worked correctly. Its now connecting to the HSDPA and is also downloading MMS messages like it should. Its also yet to lag again. I'm assuming it was an app that was causing that aswell.
Regardless, the misses is happy, I might keep the Incredible S (currently have the HTC legend, lovely phone, but it does feel under powered compared to the I9000 and the Incredible S)
Sometimes I think a guy has gotta step back and relax for a minute lol!!
Thanks again
I have absolutely no idea what is going on with this. Currently when i try and turn on bluetooth it will sit and think for about 15 seconds like it's turning the radio on, then just fail and go back to thinking the radio is off. When i try to activate wifi it does the same, but says error.
I am running neutrino 2.7, but was seeing this on 2.6 as well. I did a full wipe and re-install last night, and installed apps one by one to try and find what broke it. I thought i had identified google voice as the culprit, but with that uninstalled and almost no other apps installed bluetooth and wifi broke this morning.
if i flash a radio it will fix it maybe once in 5 tries, and only for about 20 minutes or so, then it fails again.
this started last week around the same time AT&T started throttling my data for going over 3.5gigs. No idea if that is related.
any ideas, things to try, etc?
Make a backup and flash the stock rom and stock radio for that rom, see if it still happens. I've read of others having wifi and bluetooth problems, you may try reading in those threads.
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Problem!!
you resolved the problem??? any idea???
nope, not yet. I've tried other kernels, and other versions of neutrino (was on EE, tried GT), nothing. Even with a clean wipe it's being dumb.
Downloaded the stock AT&T rom in fruitcake form, going to try that next.
From some reading i think there might actually be some phones with a hardware defect where some soldering wears out and starts messing up the bluetooth/wifi. I'm praying that isn't my phone because i'm well out of warranty.
i have the same issue on CM9 as of yesterday. no amount of wipes or different CM9 roms helps, haven't tried any GB roms yet though.
check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205775&highlight=wifi+error
i've read that.
flashed stock AT&T rom today, still have problems. not amused.
backing up my data, formatting all sd cards, wiping everything and trying again.
I'm with this problem too, Im running morrisoft rom since last month and I didn't any update, change configs or flash anything before It starts, so wierd...my wifi+bluetooth was working at night them in the next day it wasn't anymore lol..
(it happened today btw)
i ill try change my rom and see what happens...
same issue on a completely clean wipe. pretty sure at this point it's a hardware issue and not software.
I'll try the "fix" posted in the other threat at some point.
clean wipe has no effect. Wifi will sporadically work, bluetooth won't. I'm pretty sure based on how inconsistent the issue is this is a hardware issue. Not amused at all. No warranty left on this phone, and no upgrade until october.
This must be a pretty common problem. I had the exact same issue as OP, tried everything to fix it and nothing. Thankfully, I had an upgrade waiting for me. I tried to send mine in for warranty repair but no dice because of the bootloader being unlocked. (I even flashed it back to stock so that it didn't say "UNLOCKED")
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This must be a pretty common problem. I had the exact same issue as OP, tried everything to fix it and nothing. Thankfully, I had an upgrade waiting for me. I tried to send mine in for warranty repair but no dice because of the bootloader being unlocked. (I even flashed it back to stock so that it didn't say "UNLOCKED")
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They didn't want to repair it because they knew it had been unlocked? Are we talking about motorola?
same thing happened to mine..... it was a hardware issue, had it replaced...sorry..
The ICS update finally appeared in France for stock Note.
It appears the update was pulled shortly after because a lot of users bricked their Notes in the process.
Moral of the story: don't update as soon as you see an update, but wait...
Samsung really sucks at software development.
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as tu une source s'il te plait merci
Samsung france facebook page for the source.
SFR update and XEF for the short time i spent there.
i'm in the same case except that i'm booted and running( for me was a FOTA update, wich installed nicely except with a "failed " message after the fist boot), but the phone cannot be mounted by any ways under windows now ( even with drivers reinstalled ).
But some seems to be blocked in bootloop
Epic fail on this one, especially just before a week-end.
I'm one of the lucky few that got it to boot - sigh come on Samsung!
Managed to upgrade to ICS with 'failed to upgrade firmware' warning.
Missing S Note application, not sure whatelse it might be missing.
You can manually install S Note app by looking up apk file.
Search 'S Note app xda' from google if anyone having similar problem.
Kies 2.0 is recognizing phone as well. I can link screenshot if anyone need for w/e reason if it may help them.
Also, battery drainage problem still there i believe.
Tried the infamous aeroplane mode method, not so sure if it helped:
1. Turn off touch sound and screen lock sound from setting->setting
2. Turn on aeroplane mode
3. Switch off phone
4. Take out battery for 10sec
5. Boot and wait till everything loads
6. Turn off aeroplane mode
App called 'Play Movies' was installed along with ICS, but it gives 404 connection error for 'movie rental' section.
Other than that, Note is running really smooth with ICS.
Firmware version shows up as PDA:LQ3 / PHONE:LPT / CSC:LP1 (XEF)
Wasted time trying to download this so-called update
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When I see that, I'm happy to install safe custom roms...
It's a shame for such a company to provide such crappy roms...
Well I am one of those who got stuck on the infamous Samsung logo...
Stock Note, purchased in November, never rooted, 2 GB updates via OTA since November, CSC XEF.
Yesterday morning I got the upgrade notice, did it OTA and on rebooting stuck on Samsung screen...
As an idiot I had been waiting for the "official" ICS ROM.
Thanks Samsung, lesson learned.
Many phone manufacturers will tell you to stay away from custom roms to avoid bricking your phone but to brick your device when updating on an OFFICIAL stock rom after receiving a notification is definitely UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! What is Samsung doing to this expensive device - after the EMMC Bug episode where many people have bricked their Note, now we have another update problem!
Samsung's reputation will take a hard punch with these things if the press writes about this. I think most people who bricked their Note will be fed up and avoid Samsung's phones in the futur.....
For those who want to follow this :
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileFrance
Final5k said:
Many phone manufacturers will tell you to stay away from custom roms to avoid bricking your phone but to brick your device when updating on an OFFICIAL stock rom after receiving a notification is definitely UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! What is Samsung doing to this expensive device - after the EMMC Bug episode where many people have bricked their Note, now we have another update problem!
Samsung's reputation will take a hard punch with these things if the press writes about this. I think most people who bricked their Note will be fed up and avoid Samsung's phones in the futur.....
For those who want to follow this :
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileFrance
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totally agree... it would have been good for them if they silently provide fix for the emmc bug... staying on GB has become the best solution to all this crap..
I have to say that I'm glad to hear of this. At least it's not just me!!!
My French note got the update yesterday and although it's not hung up or bricked, it certainly has huge issues. Running so hot and battery discharging even when connected to PC by usb. Using wall charger is barely keeping up with the drain even when not using phone.
Have done battery pull and cache wipe twice. No change. Factory reset, nothing either.
Swype not working. Premium suite totally missing. Really disappointing.
Probably not worth waiting for them to figure it out. Downloading UK version now.
I left my note on overnight under the following condition.
Wifi off
Bluetooth off
Data off
Auto rotation off
Gps off
Silent mode on
Power saving off
Between 1am and 10am battery % changed from 81% to 79%.
Quite satisfied with standby drainage.
I just did aeroplane methid as i mentioned on page 1.
Not using any battery save apps.
However when using apps such as dolphin browser, s note, s memo, there seem to be heavy battery drainage issue.
Charged fully then used the browser for approx. 30min and it was on 90%.
Hello folks, new to the forum here. My wife and I both recently got Galaxy S7s from Sams, and our carrier is AT&T. For whatever reason, the push updates never happen on my phone, so I am still in 6.0.1, but my wife's has gotten 7.0 pushed to hers. Problem is that after a while (perhaps a couple of days), her phone starts to develop a persistent lag, where she can't really do anything at all, like typing or changing apps, so severe is the lag. The phone was basically useless at that point, so she would have to restart the phone to restore its normal function. But the lag would always return, and she would need restart multiple times per day.
Talking to Samsung and AT&T proved fruitless at getting any troubleshooting done other than factory resetting the phone. That of course fixed the problem, but as soon as the 7.0 push update happened, the lag came back. We eventually got AT&T to send us a new phone on warranty. But just recently her phone got 7.0 pushed and sure enough the lag is back. Clearly the problem is software related, as my phone is still 6.0.1 and runs perfectly.
I am pretty uninitiated in the Android world, and so I was hoping you folks might be able to help us restore her phone, as I am certain we will get no useful help through the "official" channels. We aren't looking to root or anything, but if there is troubleshooting or a guide we could walk through, we would sure appreciate the help.
Thanks!
I had the same problem when my S7 did the update from 6.0.1 to Android 7. I asked AT&T to change the phone and they did. When the new phone did the update the lag problems started again. I downgrade to stock 6.0.1 and disable the update service with Package Disabler. Now I keep on android 6.0.1 (which I like more than the Nougat) and I do not have lag problems.
You could try to flash the Nougat update manually. It's not exactly simple, but a fair amount of reading up on it should prepare you. Obviously you'll lose all personal data, and there's even a chance it might still be laggy for you. There is a guide on how to do this on droidviews.com that helped me tremendously. Make sure that if you try this, you plug in the phone only after it is in download mode and only after Odin is open. Plus you'll need the drivers and to make sure the phone is in USB Debugging mode via developer options, as well as turn on OEM unlock before you try this. Good luck!