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Broken wifi hotspot

Okay so I remember reading somewhere that if you followed a certain tutorial to either root phone or get s-off. Can't remember which. But after you do it your wifi will be broken ie. hotspot will disconnect randomly. Well in that same tutorial they tell you how to fix it. I never bothered to fix it because I thought it was "connecting to a wifi" will be broken, not the actual hotspot (i never connect to a wifi) At first I just thought it was my phone acting up. But I think its cuz I never did the wifi fix. Can anyone tell me which post it was that tells you how to fix it? I did the s-off tutorial, then the ultimate s-off with CID, simunlock, root process iud that helps any. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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hawaiian.monzta said:
Okay so I remember reading somewhere that if you followed a certain tutorial to either root phone or get s-off. Can't remember which. But after you do it your wifi will be broken ie. hotspot will disconnect randomly. Well in that same tutorial they tell you how to fix it. I never bothered to fix it because I thought it was "connecting to a wifi" will be broken, not the actual hotspot (i never connect to a wifi) At first I just thought it was my phone acting up. But I think its cuz I never did the wifi fix. Can anyone tell me which post it was that tells you how to fix it? I did the s-off tutorial, then the ultimate s-off with CID, simunlock, root process iud that helps any. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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My phone is rooted with s=off and my Wi-Fi works just fine. Doesn't disconnect. Hotspot/wi-fi calling works great.
Not sure why yours is having issues. I never did any Wi-Fi fix either.
Sounds like (not trying to offend here) that you aren't too familiar with how things work and sort of barreled into rooting your phone cuz maybe you thought it was/would be cool. Now you have things not working.
Rooting is/can be dangerous and lead to broken processes and bricked phones. That is why there are always disclosures with the guides. Rooting is a risk taken by us wanting to own our phones, but the guides are not for beginners (not implying that you are).
I suggest you unroot, flash back to stable and wait patiently.
AGAIN; no intention of insulting or hurting anyone's feelings.

Thanks but I'm very familiar with rooting. I know the risks and warnings. But since ur not having the same problem it could just be my phone. I could have read it in a different forum because I'm constantly reading forums in the vibrant, g2, droid, and evo. But everything else works perfectly just the wifi is spotty for me.
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Oh and I am on a stock rom. All I have is perm root
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did you flash any of Gorilla's OC kernels? I know his earlier versions broke wi-fi

Rooted, S=Off, stock ROM, etc. and WiFi Hotspot is working just fine. Posting this reply while connected to it right now.

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did you flash any of Gorilla's OC kernels? I know his earlier versions broke wi-fi
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I think that's what was it. I flashed it and I completely forgot I was using his kernel. But I think I fixed it now. Hopefully I didn't say that too soon. But thankz guys for all your help!
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LG ally

Ok I know this is not a top device but I happen to own one and won't be able to get an upgrade till 2012 so I would like to get some froyo love on this. Anyone know of a Rom out there.
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VELOCITY V0.4 W/ CLOCKWORK MOD
OC TO 800+

http://savoxis.com/ally/
Only decent stuff I know of. Brother has it too. Same question. But really seems like an ok phone.
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Yeah thats where i got the rom to my ally. Very good stuff but no froyo. I will have to wait till verizon does the official update. For now velocity will do the trick. It is actually a very good rom. The stock 2.1 was making me go hulk on it.
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I'm in the same boat as OP. I and my girlfriend both have the LG Ally...(she won't let me root hers yet..
That's beside the point. What I really want to know is why XDA doesn't have a forum for this phone. It's been successfully rooted (through adb and with one click method), it has a few descent roms, and a custom recovery. Android forums has a section for this phone, but I honestly like XDA better, simply because there are more devs here. Plus, I think with it's own forum here, the Ally could have a lot more potential, and a ton more support. I just wish I knew where to go to "officially" make this request.lol

Well really losing hope for froyo on my ally. Guess i will have to wait for an upgrade from verizon
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lg aloha = lg ally?
i have an aloha and i want to remove my other account but it says that some application are using that account please use the factory data reset. while using factory data reset. it turns off and the it turns back on and nothing happens. the account is still there. some it dosen't turn back on all i got was this message
Fastboot Mode Started
udc_start()
please help
thanks

Why dont u try to clear the data on the app in the applications menu and if dont work uninstall it and install it again.
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wifi / bluetooth issues on Atrix 4g

Hello Everyone,
I have a slight problem, here goes, my friend was using my Atrix 4g and she started forceclosing apps and now my wifi / bluetooth wont turn turn on. The phone is updated to the 4.1.8.3 software and yes wifi/bluetooth was working before and after the update. So would anyone any intel on how I would be able to recover them back ? When turning on wifi it reads error and bluth does nothing they both try to go on and then nothing can you help. Thanks sstageboy5 later peace.
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Are you on stock 4.1.83, or are you rooted?
If rooted, do you have Titanium Backup installed, or anything like Bloat Freezer?
Have you tried just rebooting?
More info please.....................and go slap your friend!..............HARD!

Hello , and yes im on stock 4.1.8.3 and I dont have Titanium Backup ya c its hard for me cause I dont have a credit card to buy any apps and the free ones just dont cut the mustard I was told. Do you have any suggestions ?
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I have the exact same problem, i tried flashing the stock sbf, and also a factory reset but still have the same problem. I had to contact AT&T and i'm getting a replacement phone soon.

sstageboy5 said:
Hello , and yes im on stock 4.1.8.3 and I dont have Titanium Backup ya c its hard for me cause I dont have a credit card to buy any apps and the free ones just dont cut the mustard I was told. Do you have any suggestions ?
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Apps like Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Bloat Freezer, etc. all require root access, so if you are not rooted, that's a moot point. Are you on AT&T? If so, you could try taking it to an AT&T store, or call customer support. Should have no issues as you haven't messed with your phone from stock.

I was having the same BT issue where it wouldn't turn on. I went through all sorts of methods to fix it and finally got it working ... been working perfect ever since. Off the top of my head, I can't recall what it was that I did, but I'll think on it and try to repost my solution. If I'm not mistaken, it was a 3rd party app that was causing the issue, but I'm not 100% on that.
Do you happen to have a banking app installed? I know that when .83 came out, the banking apps quit working and I did a work-around to fix it. I believe that was the issue. I uninstalled my fix and the banking apps. I've since reinstalled them and used Motorola's certificate installer. BT still works well.

No I dont any banking apps on the phone
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Banking apps shouldn't have affected BT. Didn't on my phone. The banking app issue was a blank screen after login.
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I had a issue where I couldn't turn my wifi back on (1.8.3)
When you toggled it on, it would show scanning, then turn back off. I had to flash sbf 1.2.6 to fix it, then OTA update again

Kool thanks much appreciated
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Banking apps shouldn't have affected BT. Didn't on my phone. The banking app issue was a blank screen after login.
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No, the banking apps weren't the issue...it was more likely the mucking around that I did with the certificates that created any issue. Perhaps it was just coincidental as it happened at the same time and I resolved it after removing the certificates and banking app. In any case....mine now works flawlessly, albeit I'm not completely sure what I did to resolve it.

sstageboy5 said:
Hello Everyone,
I have a slight problem, here goes, my friend was using my Atrix 4g and she started forceclosing apps and now my wifi / bluetooth wont turn turn on. The phone is updated to the 4.1.8.3 software and yes wifi/bluetooth was working before and after the update. So would anyone any intel on how I would be able to recover them back ? When turning on wifi it reads error and bluth does nothing they both try to go on and then nothing can you help. Thanks sstageboy5 later peace.
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see i have had this same problem for a while now myself..mine did it right before i got the update...thinking the update would fix it...no it didn...so...im due for upgrade and im thinking heck with it...i can do all this other stuff so i go in there and unlock bootloader put cm7 on it...put kernel on it...btw this is all stuff i had seen fix other peoples..i wanted to do for two reasons..one hey it could fix my wifi..two..i want to learn..to my prediction...im still wifiless and bluethoothless. anyone seen or heard of any other posts that might do it..thanks

PLEASE CLARIFY What Rom For Epic 4G Will Auto Act With SPRINT

there is 100 posts about people not wanting the automatic activation to start on their epic after flashinf a new ROM. i want the opposite, i can not for the life of me find a ROM that WILL work with automatic activation with sprint after flashing.
can anyone please point me towards a ROM that fits the bill?
thanks in advance
cheers,
disco

disco_y2k said:
there is 100 posts about people not wanting the automatic activation to start on their epic after flashinf a new ROM. i want the opposite, i can not for the life of me find a ROM that WILL work with automatic activation with sprint after flashing.
can anyone please point me towards a ROM that fits the bill?
thanks in advance
cheers,
disco
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Not sure what you are asking. Is it about the OTA to Gingerbread or hands-free activation? I have done hands-free activation on a few ROMs with no issues. No rooted ROM will let you get the OTA updates.

I infer that the OP is talking about hands-free activation. If that's the case, I have flashed a bunch of roms from 2.1 through 2.3 and hands-free always worked.
Can you elaborate?

He may have odined with efs clear or whatever checked off. I don't remember exactly what it was but phones weren't reactivating without calling sprint.
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Mine reactivated fine. 3 days later it wierdly disconnected and the call went to Sprint and they reactivated it. Had nothing to do with the ROM.
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Mine reactivated fine. 3 days later it wierdly disconnected and the call went to Sprint and they reactivated it. Had nothing to do with the ROM.
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Some did reactivate while others had to call sprint to get it going again.
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i dont get what the issue is here, when i flash a rom i dont have to go through any hands free activation. only an efs clear
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I flash any rom and it just works. No activation at all... Even after an Odin.
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OP has not been back to clarify what he meant.
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When I fist got my epic and was switching phones I contacted the sprint chat support and they had me enter a dialer code and enter my # in a couple fields. The phone rebooted and was active. Not sure if that helps, I was on stock rom and even it didn't auto activate.
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sorry, to be clear, i am having a hard time with the handsfree activation after flashing a rom to this device.
many folks seem to request the exact opposite built into roms for this phone. meaning upon install and reboot, the rom will not run and complete handsfree activation.
no roms seems to have in the description that handsfree activation is supported.
does that make a little more since? if not let me know and i can give more details
thanks all
cheers,
disco

All roms have hands free supported that's why you don't see it mentioned. You only activate once brand new out of the box not everytime you flash a rom. Unless you mean the google activation then just open then market and sign in then your google acct is then activated
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I agree, you only have to activate once ever, until you get a new phone. This is a non issue as a result.
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That makes a little more since...
I just got my phone.
Ohhhhh!
Get it? Sense the OP didn't spell it right?
Ohhhhh!
Just flipped it on my ass. Like a boss.
Sorry. Drank a Steel Reserve, a couple "C-"s and smoked a blunt during my horrible loss in softball tonight. Thought that was funny.
Good night everybody. Love you all.

I was referring to a while back noobnl started a thread about checking off extra things in odin in relation to clearing nvram or something back when we were trying everything under the sun to fix the gps. I don't remember exactly but when you did it your phone went back too literally out of the box condition deactivated and all.
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disco_y2k said:
sorry, to be clear, i am having a hard time with the handsfree activation after flashing a rom to this device.
many folks seem to request the exact opposite built into roms for this phone. meaning upon install and reboot, the rom will not run and complete handsfree activation.
no roms seems to have in the description that handsfree activation is supported.
does that make a little more since? if not let me know and i can give more details
thanks all
cheers,
disco
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Never saw anyone requesting on the Epic threads that their phone not activate when switching ROMs. Maybe you saw that on a different phone. The only thing requested here was to stop the OTA update notification.

How did the phone become deactivated
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the phone was completely wiped, it was a gimme from a friend, i wiped it totally and started fresh. rooted, flashed rom, etc, (froyo) and now after rest it of course starts handsfree act but it crashes before activation finishes.
depending on rom, sometimes the MIN/MDN updates before crash which allows voice/txt only. thats about it. maybe its not the rom's, but i assumed since some will at least go that far. i can not see how it would be anything else because the phone started out as if it came from manu. fresh.
thanks for input everyone, much appreciated
cheers,
disco

How about using stock rom to activate before flashing a custom? You can nandroid your current setup and restore to it after you activate.
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have you updated the profile?

Camera not working anymore?

So yesterday I accidentally dropped my phone in milk. I picked got my phone out of it almost immediately, and dried it off. I didn't really think much of it, because everything was still working properly. Today, I tried to use my camera, but when I hit the camera button, the camera app FC'd. I reopened it and I got an error saying "Can't connect to camera". I thought maybe something happened in the ROM, so I restored a backup from about 2 weeks ago, and I got the same message.
Currently, I've got the phone in rice, just in case. Is it possible that the milk is what is causing this? If so, is there any chance that I can fix the camera without sending it in? (I don't have insurance)
The only thing that's keeping me from thinking that the milk is what's causing this, is the fact that everything else is working normally on the phone. I've called people, texted, games, everything is working fine, but the camera.
I'm running Zips most recent build, and my backup was IceColdSandwich. In a few hours when I take my phone out, I'll try a GB rom, but for now, does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

Yea, MOST of the time, but NOT always, you can go into the phones settings, then into Applications, select the 'All' tab, and find the Camera on the list. Clear the cache, also clear data...that usually works. If not, maybe fix permissions? I always try those methods. But I don't care for ICS so I don't know if its the same as 3.5.....but try that.
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Yea, MOST of the time, but NOT always, you can go into the phones settings, then into Applications, select the 'All' tab, and find the Camera on the list. Clear the cache, also clear data...that usually works. If not, maybe fix permissions? I always try those methods. But I don't care for ICS so I don't know if its the same as 3.5.....but try that.
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None of that worked. Neither did going back to GB. Thanks for trying though!
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Have you tried flashing just a camera? You can go into the Apps and theme section and there is a thread with a few camera packs that you flash in recovery?
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jjbadd385 said:
Have you tried flashing just a camera? You can go into the Apps and theme section and there is a thread with a few camera packs that you flash in recovery?
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That didn't work either :/

Well I'm out of ideas...
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Well I'm out of ideas...
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Haha so am I. Thanks for the help though, I appreciate it.

Ya it definitely sounds like you nuked a critical component of the camera. Definitely lucky it didn't fry any of the other parts. If you've tried doing a factory reset and completely wiping your disks, don't think there's anything else you can do other than sending it in or attempting to fix it yourself which would require quite a bit of skill and probably some soldering expertise.

I'm using the same rom as you and the same thing happened to me at one point. I managed to fix it though by clearing camera cache, disabling and re-enabling it, and then clearing the dalvik cache and fixing permissions just for kicks. One or all of those things fixed it for me. Try that maybe?
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AlanB412 said:
I'm using the same rom as you and the same thing happened to me at one point. I managed to fix it though by clearing camera cache, disabling and re-enabling it, and then clearing the dalvik cache and fixing permissions just for kicks. One or all of those things fixed it for me. Try that maybe?
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Alright. I'll try it haha. I've been given new hope because the flashlight is working now, so I'm hoping the camera might start working again.
One question though, what do you mean by disabling it and re-enabling it?

When you go to clear the app cache you'll see a button next to the force stop option that says disable. From my understanding its basically like turning off the drivers for the camera. When you re-enable it (same button btw) you reactivate the drivers and it will communicate with the camera again hopefully.
If I'm wrong about any of that someone can correct me. But it still worked to fix my problem anyways
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AlanB412 said:
When you go to clear the app cache you'll see a button next to the force stop option that says disable. From my understanding its basically like turning off the drivers for the camera. When you re-enable it (same button btw) you reactivate the drivers and it will communicate with the camera again hopefully.
If I'm wrong about any of that someone can correct me. But it still worked to fix my problem anyways
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Nope, didn't fix it :/ I appreciate the help though!

theholyfork said:
Nope, didn't fix it :/ I appreciate the help though!
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Np man. Hope you find some way to get it working again.

AlanB412 said:
Np man. Hope you find some way to get it working again.
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Thanks haha. I'm debating ordering a replacement camera and attempt fixing it myself.
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If you do plan on doing that make sure to search the general threads. I saw a really good video there once with someone walking through how to properly disassemble this phone.
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AlanB412 said:
If you do plan on doing that make sure to search the general threads. I saw a really good video there once with someone walking through how to properly disassemble this phone.
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Alright, I'll try to find that. The website that I'm ordering the camera from apparently sends step by step instructions.
I guess that's one thing I enjoy about iPhones. They come apart and can be repaired very easily haha

Hope?
Okay, so I randomly tried opening the camera again today, and to my surprise, the app didn't force close or give me the message saying it couldn't connect. Nothing was appearing though, so I didn't think much of it. Then I remembered in Zips build you had to turn force preview on, so I did. Nothing happened, but I tried to take a picture, and the screen turned green with a weird little brownish area in the middle.
I'll upload a picture of it later if anyone wants and thinks maybe they can help me figure it out a little more.
The fact that it's working all of the sudden makes me think it might just randomly go back to normal. However, it might not.
But the fact that the camera is actually turning on now, that means that if anythings broken, its the camera itself, right? Not the hardware around it?

Hmm, upload a picture. My camera started taking those glitchy looking photos before it died on me. If you hadn't mentioned the green and brown detail I would have forgotten.
I'm not saying I can give any more suggestions than I already did but if you're getting the same problem I had then maybe you can categorize this back in the realm of software issues. Better than a hardware failure at least...
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Here it is.
But I tried to change the megapixels of the camera, and it "died" again. So I have no idea what to think anymore lol
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Must be a picture of your phone's soul
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Here it is.
But I tried to change the megapixels of the camera, and it "died" again. So I have no idea what to think anymore lol
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So, the MyTouch 4G has shown several camera issues; from a black screen to FCing when opening the app. It seemed to be like an update issue to the newest GB but even stock phones that hadn't been updated were also having issues. If anyone has anymore info on this subject please reply here or PM me. I am very interested in this issue as I have a coworker witht the same problem. It has also been shown to reoccur after people think they have "fixed" it with a factory reset or such.