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Vibrant getting stuck

So both my Girlfriend and I have the vibrant, mine is rooted, hers isn't. Mainly having problems with her phone. Sometimes it will vibrate, but not ring. Ring and not answer (can't do anything on the screen). Get stuck vibrating and showing an incoming call but can't do anything and have to restart. Sometimes people say she sounds like a robot or like she is talking from across the room, in a cave or under water. I haven't had these problems with mine but once I was told I sound electronic. She had called support and they said to take out the battery for a but and if that didn't fix it to do a factory reset. I have already done that once on my phone so I could have all my calendars load, and not looking forward to doing it again. Anyone have any thoughts or have heard about problems such as these?
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Honestly, if a factory reset doesn't solve your problem on a non rooted phone, then I suggest getting an exchange at the t mobile store. The problems you're encountering does not seem normal.
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Goog1e Phone said:
Honestly, if a factory reset doesn't solve your problem on a non rooted phone, then I suggest getting an exchange at the t mobile store. The problems you're encountering does not seem normal.
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Yea definitely

Delayed texts suck.!

Don't you hate when you are having a great convo with someone, missed a great party, or showed up to work late cause of a delayed or getting no text at all. Arrrg I hate delayed texts. Freaking shocks me when I get a call and then all of sudden 20 texts come in all at once. Wish there was fix. Latest guys.
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marcusva79 said:
Don't you hate when you are having a great convo with someone, missed a great party, or showed up to work late cause of a delayed or getting no text at all. Arrrg I hate delayed texts. Freaking shocks me when I get a call and then all of sudden 20 texts come in all at once. Wish there was fix. Latest guys.
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It sucks.... Doesn't matter what rom or kernel you are using... ive spent hours trouble shooting with sprint to no avail... (Stock unrooted)

aimbdd said:
It sucks.... Doesn't matter what rom or kernel you are using... ive spent hours trouble shooting with sprint to no avail... (Stock unrooted)
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No **** man. I know starting threads is bad but I thought it be cool to talk bout this with others that are having this retarded issue. **** my ole school Nokia phone never had delayed texts and that was 10 yrs ago 0-o
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I've been having this issue too. Is it a problem on spirnt's end or a manufacturer hardware/software issue?

Best is when texts arrive out of sequence and delayed.
I hope most people realize texts are not as reliable as email, especially when sent between different providers.

No problems here but I did have this issue all the time with Alltell before AT&T bought em

Yeah, I get this problem quite often between my wife and me. It seems to be random when it happens. I'm thinking it's a Sprint issue, not hardware or software.

just stopped in to flame for your use of "convo" lol. I personally hate having a text conversation, that's why I have a phone. I try to keep texts short and sweet.
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That happened to me last night, I got 44 texts all at once and a pissed off girlfriend.

Happening to me as well. Texted my wife "Stopping for dinner - do you want anything?". Got her reply after I walked in the door - with food only for me!

wiltok said:
Happening to me as well. Texted my wife "Stopping for dinner - do you want anything?". Got her reply after I walked in the door - with food only for me!
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ahaha that must have went well...
A phone call will "normally" fix it. Sometimes it wont even make a call while this is happening.

Instant messaging seems to be the only way, other than a phone call, to ensure messages get through. And avoid pissed off wives/girlfriends.

I know, I am starting to rely on using google chat/trillian to get my message thru to the wife friends and all. I like the one about getting food for himself, that happened to me the other day and I was a unhappy camper sharing with the wife. But the thing is phone conversations i hate cause of akward silence. Texts is just straight to the point and easy to hide. hahaha

Look on the bright side.. You get free mobile-mobile. It takes 20 seconds to ask the question and receive an answer vs sending a text, waiting for it to be received and acknowledged.
This has to be one of those generation gap things. For years I hated texts and texting, still do. However it is beneficial to non time critical events.

gpz1100 said:
Look on the bright side.. You get free mobile-mobile. It takes 20 seconds to ask the question and receive an answer vs sending a text, waiting for it to be received and acknowledged.
This has to be one of those generation gap things. For years I hated texts and texting, still do. However it is beneficial to non time critical events.
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and for those times where you cant call.

I don't know if im clients or google voice would eat up more battery. I used to go the gv route since that goes through the internet and not sms with the carrier. Of course it helps if the other side had gv too.

sucks big time!

Try out the Phone app!

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Try out the Phone app!
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what phone app???

What phone app? I hated texting WHEN it first got introduced but ot has grown on me since i got a desk job now, its something that makes work go by alot faster along with XDA!
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Repeated text messages?

Recently, I added my buddy to my family account and had his evo set up just like he said he saw mine as. During the course of about an hour or two of rooting, flashing, and downloading; I started getting the same text message he sent me from the parking lot to ask what I needed from Wendy's, and so far I've received it 38 times TODAY.
I thought this was his doing because of some odd setting I must have set, or a wrong sequence of flashing... perhaps forgetting to wipe a cache at a particular time?
The problem is, I also got a text from my girlfriend, and although not as bad, I've been getting the same one about a dozen times. She's on USCC.
Has anyone else been experiencing this? I've become paranoid to the point to where I've flashed cm7, and wiped all data without a restore, but I still get the same problem. Anything I could do?
Thank you in advance for your time, all feedback is appreciated.
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Sounds like a network issue.
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Do you have an Airave? Apparently this is a known issue with them and it pisses me off badly. There's no ETA on a fix either.
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datajosh said:
Do you have an Airave? Apparently this is a known issue with them and it pisses me off badly. There's no ETA on a fix either.
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Oh wow! I actually do have an airave, but although the bulk of this was happening at home, I was still receiving some of these duplicates in the car.
That's pretty bad man, and it only started affecting me today :/
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Had the same issue. The problem starts with the airave. Unplug it, then call sprint, tier two support. They flush something and it goes away.
I've have mine unplugged now, since it was the root of the problem. I would rather roam then go thru sms hell again.
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I received about 50 from my dad the other day. I ahd no idea it was the airave because I received a couple more at work the next day... thanks

experienced repeated sms messages last night at home as well. unplugged the airave and the issue stopped... i also got flooded with what seemed to be backed up sms messages as well.

same problem and have the airave.

lol luckily i have never been the recipient of this, but i sure feel sorry for my friends... haha. Happened quite a few times.

its not the air rave, i have it but i received my duplicated txt's when i wasn't near it. try 30 something miles away from it.
i called in and im waiting on an engineer to call me back in an hour

AHA! Same thing happened to me last night. My dad kept sending me "Yanks and Sox are playing on channel 1127." I called him up bragging that there was something wrong with his recently purchased iPhone 4. Turns out it was me.

I had the same thing happen when i was with verizon unfortunately, seems sprint isn't the only one.

Atrix number 4 is being shipped.

Atrix #1 - wifi wouldn't stay on. Return to store.
Atrix #2 - blown speaker. Warranty replaced.
Atrix #3 - display won't come on but I can still unlock and click programs and they open. WiFi is buggy as hell and phone constantly loses wifi and microcell connection.
Atrix #4 - you better work or I go all crazy and beat some moto employees.
Just felt like sharing...
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I get my atrix in 9 hours, hope I don't have any of those problems
So I says to her I says....Get to tha chopper!!!

Sometimes you just have some bad luck. I have had problems with phones other people have loved and never had issues with. That's electronics for you.
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Made2Last said:
Sometimes you just have some bad luck. I have had problems with phones other people have loved and never had issues with. That's electronics for you.
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Maybe I am just too picky, but when I buy something I expect the damned thing to work. I am near ready to just say give me a different phone. I am tired of it not working.
For the record though, I love my Atrix. The only accessory I do not own so far is the lap top dock which I just can't justify the cost yet when I have so many other computers already.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease though I guess.

Did you get each of them from the same location? Did you record the serial numbers by chance.
Some people seem to be having quite a lot of trouble while others are not, so maybe there is a bad batch out there. It would be nice to be able to identify it.

Sounds like my Samsung Galaxy S days.
Ugh, painful.

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Did you get each of them from the same location? Did you record the serial numbers by chance.
Some people seem to be having quite a lot of trouble while others are not, so maybe there is a bad batch out there. It would be nice to be able to identify it.
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No, only the current one and the new one are from tge warranty department. I will write the information for the last three as i will have all of the info and will see if there are any correlations.
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I need to call warranty and get my phone changed out, the power button doest work all the time and the wifi ****s out. I'm hoping that this won'tbe a repeat of my Captivate, I went through 6 of them due to random rebooting.
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I am also waiting for my second atrix The first one had network issues
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I just had to call for a replacement today. I have the phantom ghost finger issue where the touch screen will go bezerk. So frustrating!
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Wow, I must be really lucky because mine has been absolutely flawless. The microphone is on the weaker side, but that seems to be a characteristic of this model.
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I am just as lucky as you are. 3 Phones later:
#1: Flawless, fast, perfect, no lag no glitch no hangup. Purchased the day the phone came out. 1 Month and 2 weeks later...I went to check a text message and it never turned on again (tried everything). I miss that perfect phone, it was too perfect it probably killed itself.
#2: They sent me a used/refurbished/barely touched phone...I don't care what you call it. It would glitch and randomly restart a lot, the LED notification would blink when I had no messages, emails, etc. The unlock slider would move and freeze for a few long seconds before unlocking the phone.
#3: I am currently using this phone. It works well enough for me not to send it back for yet ANOTHER used/refurbished/barely touched phone. The camera app likes to not work when I need it the most and my LED light app does the same thing, it likes to disappear or not work. I re-installed these apps but same thing. Its probably just Android. The phone, while fast, does not seem as fast as my 1st phone. It has its hangups and issues but not enough for me to bother. Hopefully not a hardware issue.
And I am 90% positive that if I need a 4th phone, even after the first 3, they still will not just give me a new one.

[Q] Found Phone, what now?

Dear community,
Recently I found a Samsung Galaxy S5 on a football pitch, while playing. I'm living in the middle of nowhere, so i decided to wait for somebody to call it. There were no contacts or something like that, only 2 pictures of some strange stuff:laugh: Now I've waited for 2 weeks, and nobody has called the phone or anything. Now I decided to keep the phone. I factory resetted the phone and deleted all data and cache, it's completely empty now. My question is, can the phone be tracked by using findmyphone even though I've resetted it, or do I have to install a new Rom on it?
Sorry for my English btw
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ErKo_Ace said:
Dear community,
Recently I found a Samsung Galaxy S5 on a football pitch, while playing. I'm living in the middle of nowhere, so i decided to wait for somebody to call it. There were no contacts or something like that, only 2 pictures of some strange stuff:laugh: Now I've waited for 2 weeks, and nobody has called the phone or anything. Now I decided to keep the phone. I factory resetted the phone and deleted all data and cache, it's completely empty now. My question is, can the phone be tracked by using findmyphone even though I've resetted it, or do I have to install a new Rom on it?
Sorry for my English btw
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At this point I don't think phone can be trackable, if you waited for 2 weeks that was enough time for them to tracking it down if phone was set up for some kind of tracking app. Have you checked the ESN/IMEI? may be reported as lost now

Would be interesting what strange stuff was on the pictures. Was the phone part of a crime? Were it nude photos?
We will never know because you just deleted everything.
Depending on what was on the phone I would have brought it to the police or to a shop of the carrier used (if found with sim card). They could have found the owner within minutes or at least a few hours.
Despite that every phone has a so called IMEI number which can be tracked down independent from the sim used. You can change that number if you know how but there is a high risk of hard bricking the phone. And in fact I hope you hard brick it because you just deleted someones phone without trying to find the owner.
Have a nice day.
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So you're trying to prevent the real owner of the phone from tracking/finding his own phone?

Guys, it's been 2 weeks since he found the phone, he said he didn't get any calls, is not like he found the phone this morning and couple hours later he did a reset. If he is telling the truth

haulero said:
Guys, it's been 2 weeks since he found the phone, he said he didn't get any calls, is not like he found the phone this morning and couple hours later he did a reset. If he is telling the truth
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2 weeks don't make a difference. This is not right. He could still try to find the owner. And at least not try to prevent being tracked. Too sad that you support such behaviour.
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ktp1976 said:
2 weeks don't make a difference. This is not right. He could still try to find the owner. And at least not try to prevent being tracked. Too sad that you support such behaviour.
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Yeah... if the owner wanted his phone back, why didn't he look for it? 2 weeks not even a call!

Depending on where you live like in UK the network could sim block it if the owner decided to by calling their provider meaning it couldn't work on any network, so if you ever decide to sell it just remember there's always that risk.

I smell some fishy fishy business. How plausible is it for OP to find a phone with no contact/log/message list whatsoever?
I mean, not even a single text message?
Then OP would like to modify the phone to prevent it from ever being recovered. Sorry buddy, you won't find assistance here.
Classic symptoms of a "I illegitimately acquired a phone, and do not wish to return it!"

The phone is trackable through IMEI. Your local telecom commission has the power to block usage from the phone rendering it useless to you.

Well, if it has a Sim card in it, it should display what carrier network it's on...take it to them or the police. Doesn't sound like you tried very hard to find the owner or you stole it.
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Well you did a factory reset so i guess you had the intention to keep the phone.
Finders keepers???
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haulero said:
Guys, it's been 2 weeks since he found the phone, he said he didn't get any calls, is not like he found the phone this morning and couple hours later he did a reset. If he is telling the truth
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two weeks....Two months or 2 years won't matter...he isn't the real owner of the phone...and trying to blocking it from being tracked by original owner is the part that I have a beef with....He needs to turn it in tot he local police station and they will decide to give it back to him after a while that it's been unclaimed. He doesn't have the legal or moral authority to decide when he's gonna magically turn into the owner of the phone.

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two weeks....Two months or 2 years won't matter...he isn't the real owner of the phone...and trying to blocking it from being tracked by original owner is the part that I have a beef with....He needs to turn it in tot he local police station and they will decide to give it back to him after a while that it's been unclaimed. He doesn't have the legal or moral authority to decide when he's gonna magically turn into the owner of the phone.
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And what is the police going to do? nothing. They are busy resolving REAL crime not trying to find the owner of a lost cell phone, whom by the way may not even filed a lost report

haulero said:
And what is the police going to do? nothing. They are busy resolving REAL crime not trying to find the owner of a lost cell phone, whom by the way may not even filed a lost report
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As someone said he could open it up check the sim and contact the network carrier.
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I don't care what police is going to do ...point is this is not his phone to own and use
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I don't care what police is going to do ...point is this is not his phone to own and use
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Yeah... because in the real world you find a phone and you waste time and effort to try to find the owner, when the owner doesn't even care.

Around 80% of my contacts doesn't memorize their own number, moreso memorize other people's number which are already saved in their contact list. If he doesn't make a backup (gmail or not) he won't have any way to contact his own number. He can probably return the phone and sim to the carrier and they will contact the owner.
I'm saying that there is no real effort on his side and he clearly has intention not to return he phone. If there's a will, there's a way.

Report it as found at the local police and at the provider and wait if the owner will claim it.
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I have to agree... doesnt matter how long its been. It matters what you've done to find the owner. The most obvious thing would be to get the number/carrier off the phone and take it to one of their stores as they can easily look up the number and know who it belongs to