When my droid x was soft bricked my whole world came to a screaming halt. The first thing came through my mind was i didn't have a hard copy of any of my phone numbers how in the hockey stick am i gonna remember all these numbers? I had a very important call to make the next day, i felt like a rabid dog with eyes glued to the xda forums. I stayed up all that night till 3 a.m. in the morning and finally a ray of light, i had found the answer but to make a long story short i un-bricked my phone and felt the weight of the world lifted. So what was your near death soft brick experience?
Driving to work at around 7am for some reason I reset my phone (running apex). Now I NEED my phone for texts (im a doctor and its how i talk to the office while at the office and how nurses can call me so without it, Im screwed). So I reset it and...boom, stuck at the M logo. This has never happened so I didnt know what to do. Nothing was working and I couldnt get onto the internet to search for ways to reset it bc my phone didnt work. I got to work and in between procedures I finally found a way to get into my bootloader and could reset my phone without having to sbf. After resyncing....finally I was back, but I had this horror that I wouldnt be able to use my phone all day and would have to call the office every 30minutes.
oh wow friguy thats extremely good u fixed it. all that scared me was that i would have to work to buy a new one (and since im 16 it would take a while)
well my near death experience was when i loaded liberty rom on my phone
all i can say is im never using liberty again
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About 10 minutes ago, my HD2 froze up. If you pushed the standby button, the hardware buttons would light up then go out as soon as you released the standby button. The screen would not do anything and just stayed black.
I did a battery pull and when I put it back in, the phone attempted to start up thenfroze and restarted on It's own. I was then greeted by a FRESH install screen as if I had just flashed a new ROM and all my settings are gone. Has anyone ever had this happen before?
Happened to me about two weeks ago...just another one of the oddities of this phone.
That's it?
That's really a HUGE slap in the face from both HTC and T-Mobile to know I laid down some cash for this piece of hardware, not to mention we rack our brains tweaking and fine tuning EVERYTHING about these phones and now the phone can whipe itself at any given moment.
We all laid down money on this phone. If you people haven't already, I suggest you get a good back-up program and back-up often. I've had to hard reset twice after my HD2 refused to accept my password. First time I didn't have a back-up. Second time it was a minor 20 minute fix.
T-Mobile and HTC are working on a ROM update so give it time.
best news i heard all weeek
dkb218 said:
We all laid down money on this phone. If you people haven't already, I suggest you get a good back-up program and back-up often. I've had to hard reset twice after my HD2 refused to accept my password. First time I didn't have a back-up. Second time it was a minor 20 minute fix.
T-Mobile and HTC are working on a ROM update so give it time.
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AMEN!! they should def make it a little more user friendly and not sooo loaded with junk/useless apps, it wont let me log into market place i just want to get some things like trapster and netflix ie things the fone should of came with, who still goes to blockbuster??!!!
they should def offer a "stripped" version of what ever they decide to release
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AMEN!! they should def make it a little more user friendly and not sooo loaded with junk/useless apps, it wont let me log into market place i just want to get some things like trapster and netflix ie things the fone should of came with, who still goes to blockbuster??!!!
they should def offer a "stripped" version of what ever they decide to release
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While I agree it is wise to regularly create backups, I think this is a poor solution for these sorts of issues.
People with a device of this calibur should not have them in the first place. Same story as verizon and the BB storm. Everyone is so hurry to get the latest and greatest on the market they put quantity before quality.
Well looks like it happened to me again. Just 30 min ago...as much as I love the phone...it freaking pisses me off that this sh!t keeps happening. One more time and I'm contacting TMo customer service for a new handset (doubt that would help though).
mine did it. wtf!
Owned the Euro and the TMOUS, and it never happened to either of them.
My wife's HD2 formatted the SD card without any input from her. Weird.
Lesson learned, back your **** up on a regular basis and have a back up of that back up somewhere else just in case. People rely way to much and electronics and think they will never break. I don't care how expensive or nice you think something is, it will break eventually. I deal with these types of people all the time who have super important info that they cannot loose but yet they don't back it up anywhere and freak out when they loose it.
HD2 Reset
This happend to me not more than a week ago. I love this phone to death and put some major tweaks into it to suit me and everything was gone. APPs that I have paid for are now requiring that I repurchase them or provide serial numbers for full versions of them. Man what a slap in the face this was.... then two nights ago I was in town and it pulled up some home screens I have never seen before, I have been through this phone thoroughly and still have yet to discover where these screens came from or how. I cannot get them to come up again but I was very impressed with the lay out and definition of them........
My hopes are that these ROM updates will come out soon and fix these issues, they are major killers for this amazing piece of technology!!!
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sorry my mistake
This happened to me right now too
I cannot believe this! Google threw this post as first result for my search. I did not notice any kind of strange behaviour in the past 2,5 years. (bought in Oct 2009) Only thing was (after about 1,5 years) that the internal battery have lost the set time and date, but that was not disturbing as I havent restarted the phone so often. Today Ive decided to restart it, and after the reboot ALL of my Sense settings are gone, the phone says that Co0kies Home Tab is not installed on my phone, so I do not have any proper home screen now. Although the memory card is recognized (photos and other data are not missing) and the internal memory of the phone is intact too (phone numbers, messages are available). I cannot believe that something like that could happen with a phone, for which I have spent a huge amount of money... This is REALLY sad, HTC! There is no ROM or any sw upgrade for the phone since about 1,5 years, and in the meantime HTC released at least 20-30 brand new phone models... This is where the profit has higher priority as to serve customers, and (I hope) that this will lead to a massive loss of trust against HTC from all of the customers. This has already happened to me...
Well, I had completely screwed up my phone after flashing some roms.
For the life of me I couldn't get it into recovery or download mode. My phone was hardware locked. But I never bothered to add the hardware fix to the phone because adb worked just fine and I didn't think it was going to be a problem. Yeah, big mistake I know and if all you want to say is "I told you so" you can screw off.
Anyway, was completely stuck. I bought the phone out right on ebay, I am running it on att so there was no where really to turn but sammy to get the phone fixed. I called them up told them about some of the problems I was having and eventually got them to take the phone in for repair. It took about a week total but I got my phone fixed and I am now up and running foryo but this time I added the hardware unlock first thing out of the gate.
Hmmm, I say good on ya for resolving the prob w/o trying for a replacement phone. Just a guess, but it prolly takes Sam 15 mins to zero out your vibe and place it back on the shipping cart?
Thumbs up to Samsung a well. Free support for an ebay purchase is cool to begin with..
Yeah, that is what I thought too.
And I agree about the turn around. The day they got it from UPS they fixed it and sent it back out to me the same day.
I am very happy with the results, and the new froyo rom from 11\7\10 is really nice the phone really runs smooth.
I thought it would be fun to share some stories about phone fails! whether that be development that went wrong or accidents or embarrassing stories involving your phone. I'll start...
I used to be in the Army and one day while on exercise in Scotland, I was running and tripped. I slid for about 10 metres on my front with everyone laughing at me. I didnt realise until i got back to my room that my phone had been in my chest pocket and was now smashed to smithereens .. That weekend i went to buy a new phone, i needed one because i was going on exercise again for 3 days. I decided on the old Sony with the sliding shutter on the back (i forget the model number). it was a great little phone. I spent the whole night in my trench watching videos on my new phone, so happy. The next day we were going back to camp so we packed our stuff, filled in our trenches again and headed off. It was only when I was unpacking my kit back at camp that I realised my phone had fallen out of my pocket in my trench, I had buried it under six feet of dirt and the next day i was shopping for a phone (for the second time in a week!) epic fail
i think it would be great if others could share their experiences here! i'd love to know im not the only idiot in the G3 forum!
Oh no.
I remember the times when I was extremelly adicted to xda (not that i am not). I used to download each and every rom and would flash it just too see something new.
I remember the time when i flashed some stock rom. I left the computer while the odin fladh thing was completeing. When i came back, i saw my little brother had disconnected the usb eventhough the flash process wasnt complete.
I was SO scared cause it had a bootloader and if you interrupt the flash you brick your phone. It hadn't been a month since i had the phone and i imagined what would be my father's reaction
Moreover it would be hard to explain him what had really happened as he doesnt know anything of this.
I secretly went to samsung centre and those idiots said my mother board had a problem. I hardly beileved this so i came back to xda.
Finally i found an unbricking program which worked flawlessly.
But yeah, lesson learnt. Now i always stay near the phone until i see the "pass"screen.
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I think the name of the sony phone is K850i
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That sounds familiar! You are probably right
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Had the trustworthy Nokia 6233 before this awesome G3!
Anyways once had gone for a picnic to a nearby beach. We hadn't planned on getting into the water; just have a good lunch, play a little and head back home. But well the obvious happened and we did get into the water. I handed my 6233 to a friend of mine who was just sitting on a rock nearby (not in the water though) Had a lot of fun, with absolutely no concern for the world! That's when my sister pointed out that the friend who I'd given my mobile to, was also in the water!!
Oh, shattered, completely. Took the phone, opened it up, removed the battery and kept it for drying for 2 days. Alas it didn't boot ever again
But as they say everything happens for a reason. Went out and got G3 and like they say the rest is history
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But as they say everything happens for a reason. Went out and got G3 and like they say the rest is history
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Well we are glad to have you in the community so buy your friend a beer!
This was just the other night. I was at the gym doing my thing when my phone starts acting up. Freezing, dropping wifi connection and the apps were behaving oddly.
I contributed all of this to the lollipop that I decided to ignorantly update to my phone.
Anyway as just the other night I begin searching and piecing it all together to downgrade it back to kitkat. I was tired woke up at 4am and took me 7 hours to figure it out.
Once I finally did though I backed up my pictures, video and thought I was in the clear. Well during the flash process I made 1st mistake and put the file that was for nexus 5 kitkat not nexus 4. So it never booted up. I reflashed again to kitkat. It booted. And by this time I thought I was in the clear and all is well.
Come to find I being the stupid dumb animal I was forgot to backup my text messages.
I can't describe the loss. I am SO pissed at myself being I literally held them all in my hand not even a day ago. And it is burning me up to lose SOOO much so quick. On top of that feeling I have no control to get them back. I had the files all on my pc sitting there and I picked and choosed. I should of just moved it all over. Then maybe maybe I would have a chance. Ugh.
Now I prolly am screwed but I literally will do most anything to get these back. I am desperate. As I had many conversations going with a lot of my friends and others in fitness industry and now I have to start from scratch again.... I would rather most definitely not.
I contacted a forensic team to discuss possibility and they said less than 1% chance..... I have heard of developers being able to freeze phones, steal data, and everything else under the sun. Please is there anyone out there who can help me? A google developer who knows something he never was meant to share. Im looking for anything. I tried different recovery softwares and they found nothing. I really don't want to give up hope.
I am so sad and pissed to lose so much. It like someone took a nuclear digital bomb and blew up my world. My digital ecosystem. It never crossed my mind that they would be gone
Please if anyone out there can help and if they know something I haven't tried I would be indebted and most grateful if you would be willing to help me. If someone can will you help me please?
First, Hello to all of you XDA genuises!! I am so grateful I came across your site while trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my phone!
I am somewhat familiar with the general concept of rooting & unlocking from the bits and pieces of information I was able to comprehend from my ex, but have never attempted to execute any type of modifications to my phone whatsoever. I DiD find someone (thru OfferUp) that I met at a local Starbucks whom "Unlocked" my S7 EDGE (Sprint-not fully paid off ?) for me to use on MetroPCS. It was successful and I was extremely happy once I finally got the picture messaging to function. All was great with rainbows and fairies sprinkling glitter down the yellow brick road while I skipped along enjoying my wonderful phone without a care in the world. Until I decided one day to power cycle it (turn off for a few minutes, then power back on) because I have been told numerous times that should be done regularly. When I attempted to power the phone back on after approximately 2 minutes of being off, it was starting up like normal until it reached the Samsung logo screen.
Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....(times infinity)
It will get so freakin hot to the point it burned my hands and fingers and I had to lay it on top of a fan.
I CAN get into Recovery and Download modes, but not Safe mode.
Samsung lied and said my phone was still under warranty so I sent it in with the label they emailed me and once they had it in their possession they claimed it was out of warranty and would cost me $80 to have them fix it. I had a bF and told them to send it back to me because I didn't have $80 unfortunately and if i DiD I do not feel it is fair for me to pay to have something fixed by the company responsible for the problem in the first place (the representative confirmed the issue was not my fault/doing at all).
I am in no place to really pay to have this fixed. I do not have a computer either (yes, my life is pathetic).
I have had this happen with this phone before and by some miracle of the universe during another bF i was having in which I (somewhat violently) started randomly pushing every button on the S7 EDGE-in no known sequence-I somehow fixed it and it was back to operating normally. How I acheived that?? I have no freaking clue but wish like hell I did.
If my ex husband and I were on speaking terms I wouldve reached out to him for guidance/help, but that is not possible.
So here I am, a mom trying to show her kids that just because Im mom Im not illiterate and you dont just throw something away without attempting to fix it because we aren't blessed with the last name Trump or Gates....FmL....
Any help is so very genuinely appreciated!!
[email protected] said:
First, Hello to all of you XDA genuises!! I am so grateful I came across your site while trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my phone!
I am somewhat familiar with the general concept of rooting & unlocking from the bits and pieces of information I was able to comprehend from my ex, but have never attempted to execute any type of modifications to my phone whatsoever. I DiD find someone (thru OfferUp) that I met at a local Starbucks whom "Unlocked" my S7 EDGE (Sprint-not fully paid off ?) for me to use on MetroPCS. It was successful and I was extremely happy once I finally got the picture messaging to function. All was great with rainbows and fairies sprinkling glitter down the yellow brick road while I skipped along enjoying my wonderful phone without a care in the world. Until I decided one day to power cycle it (turn off for a few minutes, then power back on) because I have been told numerous times that should be done regularly. When I attempted to power the phone back on after approximately 2 minutes of being off, it was starting up like normal until it reached the Samsung logo screen.
Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....(times infinity)
It will get so freakin hot to the point it burned my hands and fingers and I had to lay it on top of a fan.
I CAN get into Recovery and Download modes, but not Safe mode.
Samsung lied and said my phone was still under warranty so I sent it in with the label they emailed me and once they had it in their possession they claimed it was out of warranty and would cost me $80 to have them fix it. I had a bF and told them to send it back to me because I didn't have $80 unfortunately and if i DiD I do not feel it is fair for me to pay to have something fixed by the company responsible for the problem in the first place (the representative confirmed the issue was not my fault/doing at all).
I am in no place to really pay to have this fixed. I do not have a computer either (yes, my life is pathetic).
I have had this happen with this phone before and by some miracle of the universe during another bF i was having in which I (somewhat violently) started randomly pushing every button on the S7 EDGE-in no known sequence-I somehow fixed it and it was back to operating normally. How I acheived that?? I have no freaking clue but wish like hell I did.
If my ex husband and I were on speaking terms I wouldve reached out to him for guidance/help, but that is not possible.
So here I am, a mom trying to show her kids that just because Im mom Im not illiterate and you dont just throw something away without attempting to fix it because we aren't blessed with the last name Trump or Gates....FmL....
Any help is so very genuinely appreciated!!
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Have you tried holding vol+ with power and home key to put into recovery and clear your cache then booting from their
[email protected] said:
First, Hello to all of you XDA genuises!! I am so grateful I came across your site while trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my phone!
I am somewhat familiar with the general concept of rooting & unlocking from the bits and pieces of information I was able to comprehend from my ex, but have never attempted to execute any type of modifications to my phone whatsoever. I DiD find someone (thru OfferUp) that I met at a local Starbucks whom "Unlocked" my S7 EDGE (Sprint-not fully paid off ?) for me to use on MetroPCS. It was successful and I was extremely happy once I finally got the picture messaging to function. All was great with rainbows and fairies sprinkling glitter down the yellow brick road while I skipped along enjoying my wonderful phone without a care in the world. Until I decided one day to power cycle it (turn off for a few minutes, then power back on) because I have been told numerous times that should be done regularly. When I attempted to power the phone back on after approximately 2 minutes of being off, it was starting up like normal until it reached the Samsung logo screen.
Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....(times infinity)
It will get so freakin hot to the point it burned my hands and fingers and I had to lay it on top of a fan.
I CAN get into Recovery and Download modes, but not Safe mode.
Samsung lied and said my phone was still under warranty so I sent it in with the label they emailed me and once they had it in their possession they claimed it was out of warranty and would cost me $80 to have them fix it. I had a bF and told them to send it back to me because I didn't have $80 unfortunately and if i DiD I do not feel it is fair for me to pay to have something fixed by the company responsible for the problem in the first place (the representative confirmed the issue was not my fault/doing at all).
I am in no place to really pay to have this fixed. I do not have a computer either (yes, my life is pathetic).
I have had this happen with this phone before and by some miracle of the universe during another bF i was having in which I (somewhat violently) started randomly pushing every button on the S7 EDGE-in no known sequence-I somehow fixed it and it was back to operating normally. How I acheived that?? I have no freaking clue but wish like hell I did.
If my ex husband and I were on speaking terms I wouldve reached out to him for guidance/help, but that is not possible.
So here I am, a mom trying to show her kids that just because Im mom Im not illiterate and you dont just throw something away without attempting to fix it because we aren't blessed with the last name Trump or Gates....FmL....
Any help is so very genuinely appreciated!!
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