I just wanted to share my story so that others might learn from it. You will read in almost every thread about flashing via ODIN, one-click rooting, etc. that if you have any issues you should try a different cable. You might also read in various threads about how the stock Samsung cable is a piece of garbage, yada yada yada.
I heeded that advice long ago and replaced my Samsung cable with some quality and yet inexpensive cables from monoprice.com and went about my flashing/rooting way.
Flash forward a year. Gingerbread started leaking and after a long time of being on midNIGHT my flashing/rooting activities started to pick up again. After some initial success I noticed that my ODIN flashes started taking longer and longer and that the percentage of successful flashes was falling. I chalked it up to leaky Gingerbread.
It started getting worse and worse and at one point I thought I had bricked my Epic. That when I noticed that my cable was no longer attaching to the phone with that satisfying snap. It was easily sliding in and out. It had started doing this after I had inadvertently pulled the cable and the phone fell off the table. So I went and grabbed another cable, fired up ODEN and voila... ODEN raced through the flash like The Flash and I was up and running on the leak of the day.
So let that be a lesson to you. You may read "try another cable" over and over and store it in the back of your mind but never really know what the symptoms are that would lead you to know that it's time to do so. Hopefully my story may add some color to those simple instructions and maybe, just maybe you might save your Epic like I did!
I completely agree...but for some reason the stock cable hasn't failed me. Never. If you take good care of them, I don't see why not use them.
Stock cable never failed me either but I just received BB cable from amazon for 2.50 and the quality difference is very noticable.
The stock cable fails on my wife's epic but not mine. Same with her cable. I have since been using my old palm pre's cable and even it's wall charge adapter. It works for both of our phones.
I wonder if the reason is due partly to the cable and partly to the port itself.
Stock cable never failed me either, but I copped 3 BB cables in case **** happens!
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Stock cable never failed me either and I flash a bit more than most. The funny thing is the cable that came with my Moto Finiti Bluetooth is twice as thick and fits much more snug. The stock cable works but they could have included a better quality one for a phone that was considered top tier at the time.
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stock cable never failed me either, nut i do have others just in case.
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stock cable never failed me either, nut i do have others just in case.
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Lol nut...
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i meant butt.
d'oh... wait thats not right either. damn auto correct gas a filthy mouth.
I wish we were allowed to thank multiple times. New cable is good cable. Thank you good cable. Dropbox and a good internet connection rarely fail me either, unless I'm rerooting.
I will have to admit that I was gonna call bs... because my phone has fallen off a ledge a few times. I attempted a ninja "catch a fly with chopsticks" as it plummeted to the ground, only to see a micro USB cable in my hand and an epic on the floor.
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i meant butt.
d'oh... wait thats not right either. damn auto correct.
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why has butt been used enough to be the 2nd in command of your swype dickshunary? mwahahaha
Stock failed first week used to use my jaw bone icon Bluetooth charger
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Blackberry cables are a bit too sturdy for this phone. I have 2 and recently I've had to revert to the Sammy cable because the bb cable won't maintain a snug connection. This happened to me and the phone constantly drops the connection if the wire is even budged a bit. Went back to the Sammy cable and all is good. Of cource I use the bb cable for flashing and just keep it really still lol
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Blackberry cables are a bit too sturdy for this phone. I have 2 and recently I've had to revert to the Sammy cable because the bb cable won't maintain a snug connection. This happened to me and the phone constantly drops the connection if the wire is even budged a bit. Went back to the Sammy cable and all is good. Of cource I use the bb cable for flashing and just keep it really still lol
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This.
Lol I noticed that too!
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Stock failed first week used to use my jaw bone icon Bluetooth charger
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Aah, that short cable. I forgot about that one...thanks!
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Sturdy but yes extremely short lol
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Same thing happened to me, could never odin my phone or use usb mass storage. Other cables would not work. So I went in and sprint gave me a new phone. It still wouldn't work untill sprint gave me a new samsung cable. It worked right away.
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The OP speaks the truth. I can odin with the stock cable anymore so I've been using the one that cam with the gf's G2 and it works like a charm till I wear it out too.
My intent was not to disparage the Samsung cable. Mine was great for quite a while. I just wanted to let people know some symptoms that might point to a bad cable. I haven't tried the BlackBerry cables but the ones at monoprice.com fit well and work great. Until of course they fly across the room with the phone attached and get bent.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717204&highlight=charger&page=1
This is in continuation to this thread.
I believe that we should demand a recall from HTC of their junky chargers. As of a couple days ago, my charger stopped working. In order to get it to charge my phone, I need to unplug and plug in my phone 20-40 times and get the physics of the connection PERFECT... if my phone moves 1mm, it will stop charging, so I need to have the phone somewhere that it will not move...
This is not the case with my Car Charger, so I know it is simply the phone charger itself that comes with HTC... they supplied us with $0.10 charger cables to save money, and we should demand a higher quality cable be supplied to us after buying their "Flagship Device"
Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Yes. My charging/USB cable has gotten loose. The Radio Shack one I bought with the phone works great. I doubt a cable recall will occur, however.
Yes mine does the same thing and I HATE it. I thought I was the only one
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Compared with the older style cables this one is a lot better
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I wish they would have kept the mini usb like for the hero and most cameras.
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Demand a recall? No. Should you ask for a replacement? Yes.
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*Facepalm*
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Surprised nobody suggested a class action yet...
Apple did something similar, so this might work.
I had an iphone, and got a notice that I needed to get a new wall plug due to defects in the ones that were released with the iPhone. So my new wall plug had a bright green dot on it to indicate it was new.
HTC could do something similar, couldn't they?
Wait, are you complaining about the charger plug or the USB cable? Replacement cables are, like, a nickel on EBay. Or you can get an adapter and use your old micro USB cables.
If it's the charger itself, you may get some sympathy from OEMs, but I wouldn't even waste the stamp (or email) for a cable. Just my opinion, of course.
both me and my buddies cables have done the same thing their super weak
I took a chance and bought 3 (I have 3 EVO's) of these adapters:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.36150 - works perfectly.
Now all my BB and old phone chargers work - Take that HTC!
Mule
It's weird. I also have charging issues, here they are:
1. Occasionally, after charging for a period of time on the home charger, the EVO will light up and stop charging. I check the battery info and temperature is in the 20s, so i know that it's not a temperature issue. Then, after about 30 seconds or a minute, it will light up again and continue charging. I never touch the charging cable or connection and it does it on its own.
2. Using the car charger, the EVO seemingly decides that it doesn't like the connection. When i plug in the charger, the EVO will begin to charge, then after two or three seconds, go back to discharge mode. It takes me pulling the plug and reinserting (into the cig lighter port, not the EVO) anywhere from 3-100 times to get it to accept the charge demand.
Muledeer said:
I took a chance and bought 3 (I have 3 EVO's) of these adapters:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.36150 - works perfectly.
Now all my BB and old phone chargers work - Take that HTC!
Mule
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Exactly what I have. My wife and I can share one plug, she with her Hero and me with my Evo.
I don't even use the OEM one, I use my Treo Pro chargers and have not ran into an issue. The OEM just sits on my desk...I have had my EVO since launch date.
Treo pro OEM chargers are fairly cheap now.
Just my 2 cents.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
I am using Froyo update from HTC also.
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My Eris charger did the same thing after two months.. so now I'm using my ps3 controller charger usb cord, and its working teriffic lol.
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Then pins that hold the cable get pushed in when this happens you dont get a good connection. I have seen a few come in to my shop. usually give them a cable I have laying around. Leads me to wonder what others are doing differently. I havent had any issues with either of my chargers and I will test and play games with it plugged up so I know I put a little stress on it.
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I wish they would have kept the mini usb like for the hero and most cameras.
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yeah that would have been nice, nice all my car stuff was mini usb
The physics of my connection are perfectly fine.
It's not the charger it's the port. There was a bad batch and it was fixed. Mine had the same issue and I couldn't charge my phone.
Get rid of it! Its junk! I was getting constant odin flash fails. You know where as u get a colorful screen, forcing you to pull the battery and re odin and pray it works.
ITS A BAD USB WIRE!
I bought a new one for 20 dollars. Now out flashes 100% of the time.
yes this is known.... Samsung cables are a POS.
No need to spend $20.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10303#1030307
The stock usb cable has widely panned on this forum, but I haven't had a single issue at all. I use usb storage, charging, odin, plugged into the wall adapter. Its worked flawlessly every time. I don't get the disdain for this plug
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The stock usb cable has widely panned on this forum, but I haven't had a single issue at all. I use usb storage, charging, odin, plugged into the wall adapter. Its worked flawlessly every time. I don't get the disdain for this plug
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You are one of the lucky ones lol i can relate to the OP .... stock worked flawless for the first 3 months but after that it was worthless except for charging.
Odin failed constantly for a few days straight, ended up having to get rid of traces of root and take it to sprint. They reset it for me but i bought a new cable and it works amazing.
It's not just the stock Samsung cable, its stock cables as a whole (with a few exceptions) that are very poor quality
I've always been a supporter of the stock cable, having used it for mass storage or flashing dozens and dozens of times since September without a problem.
Yesterday I went flash the EB13-EC05 tar and it barfed about 10 seconds into it, soft brick. No big deal, just start over, I've had soft bricks before... no dice. I spent the next hour trying various things with no luck, different cable, reloaded drivers (probably 5 different versions), different PC, nothing.
Finally I was able to flash it using the advice of someone here, by leaving the (non stock) cable attached but the battery out and that worked.
Went back to it this morning and same thing, no communicado... put the other cable on, works fine :/
So yes, now mine is a POS too, and nearly poofed my phone. Another one bites the dust
I actually had alot of success with my stock samsung USB cable.... It worked for transfers and charges and everything in between up until last month, where my computers couldn't recognize the phone anymore.... I thought it was my computers, so I uninstalled and reinstalled all my drivers, ETC ETC, still no go.
I got this Micro USB cable which is made for Blackberry's for $1.50 with FREE SHIPPING off amazon.
AMAZON LINK
I also ordered another one of Samsungs OEM Micro USB cable for about 80 cents.
Both cables work PERFECTLY for charging, and data transfer, but I prefer the Blackberry USB cable. Its VERY thick, sturdy, and clicks into the MicroUSB slot on my phone with NO wiggle or loose-ness. It transfers data perfectly, and in general is about 1000% better than the Samsung OEM bulls***!
Yeah, you can get great usb cables for under $2
All I use it for is charging in the bedroom. When I bought the phone I went to amazon.com and found 4 cables for $10 including shipping. Now I can keep one in the car, one with my laptop, one with my desktop and one in the living room. On the other hand, all the cables have worked fine.
20 dollars, wut?
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20 dollars, wut?
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That's crazy cuz there are soooo many posts here of people finding good reliable usb cords for cheap. Now it really costed you for not searching. :-D
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All I use it for is charging in the bedroom. When I bought the phone I went to amazon.com and found 4 cables for $10 including shipping. Now I can keep one in the car, one with my laptop, one with my desktop and one in the living room. On the other hand, all the cables have worked fine.
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Are those decent cables? Please link if they are I need a few.
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jbadboy2007 said:
Are those decent cables? Please link if they are I need a few.
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yea you can get very good cables for like $ 1.xx
forgot what the site was though -_- sorry dude
monoprice.com 1 dollar for a 3 ft. gold plated and you even get to choose black clear or beige to match leather interior. only 2.02 for 15 footer. ill link...
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10303#1030307
I use my wife's evo cable. Never failed me once. My stock cable was so ****ty I couldn't even transfer roms from my computer to my phone without a lockup
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iSaint said:
You are one of the lucky ones lol i can relate to the OP .... stock worked flawless for the first 3 months but after that it was worthless except for charging.
Odin failed constantly for a few days straight, ended up having to get rid of traces of root and take it to sprint. They reset it for me but i bought a new cable and it works amazing.
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lol. Exactly what happened to me. Except I didn't go to sprint. I tried my gf 2nd cable and ir made odin react different. Instead of getting colorful screens, it would let my pc detect the phone at all. So I went out and bought a good one. Now instead having to reflash odin for over 2 hours, it takes one 3minute flash with no crashes.
Amazing how the cable fooled me. It charges fine, but odin data tranffer is dead.
Mine is bad too, I use my old blackberry, moment, and pre cables, depending on where I'm at.
im aware theres cheaper cables online for about a dollar or 20 cents. But I don't want to have to rebuy another 1 dollar cable after it fails cuz it was super cheap. I went to best buy and picked up the best quality in there. Now no more worries about a cheap POS from the web that's probably gonna fail like the samsung. Think about.. Samsung most likely bought the cheap cables like everyone in here from that website. And sure, the 20 cent one from online works, but give it a few days... Youll be running our to buy another.
what fooled me was how alot of members here said to reflash again if odin crashes. Or to try a different pc cuz it don't detect the epic. Or reload the usb samsung drivers if it dont work. I did all the steps. It lead to either a 3 crash odin attempts to a 4 hour frustrating color odin crashes. I would put the epic on its back, standing up, on the ground, on top of my pc tower, on my lap. One of those would eventually make odin flash all the way thru. But as days wenr on, the more crashes odin had. It got to the point where I would have to try for 4 hours to finally make the flash go thru. That was the hint that made me believe that the wire was bad.
Ok, so it goes like this.. Basically, everytime I plug my phone into my laptop via charger, the controls become erratic like unresponsive touch gestures, me having to repeatedly touch the same spot before it recognizes. I usually use my phone to tether wireless networks. Oh, it also does this on other roms. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks.
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Maybe you got a lemon?
Take a look at the micro connection on your HTC cable.there's a thread in the evo forum explaining problems with it shorting.
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Ok, so it goes like this.. Basically, everytime I plug my phone into my laptop via charger, the controls become erratic like unresponsive touch gestures, me having to repeatedly touch the same spot before it recognizes. I usually use my phone to tether wireless networks. Oh, it also does this on other roms. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks.
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Are you using the cable that came with the phone? I know if I try to use certain brands cables I get a range of problems. Motorola cable for example give the same symptoms you have. When I tried a friends LG cable my phone started randomly opening apps and resending texts.
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Are you using the cable that came with the phone? I know if I try to use certain brands cables I get a range of problems. Motorola cable for example give the same symptoms you have. When I tried a friends LG cable my phone started randomly opening apps and resending texts.
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cable that came with backflip doesnt cause this for me?
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cable that came with backflip doesnt cause this for me?
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My friend's Backflip won't charge with my cable l:
This is weird
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My friend's Backflip won't charge with my cable l:
This is weird
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backflips anger me
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backflips anger me
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Lol why?
I was almost gonna trade my Aria for his Backflip, but idk I couldn't go through with it
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Lol why?
I was almost gonna trade my Aria for his Backflip, but idk I couldn't go through with it
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just painfully slow even with cm6 on it....
quadrant of 300....
my girlfriend has one the only thing thats good about it is the keyboard and to me the keyboard feels cheap
she cant wait to get this aria once i upgrade in july
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just painfully slow even with cm6 on it....
quadrant of 300....
my girlfriend has one the only thing thats good about it is the keyboard and to me the keyboard feels cheap
she cant wait to get this aria once i upgrade in july
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But i think the aria is discontinued
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my aria im saying, once i get most likely, Inspire"4g"
Yeah, I'm using the charger that came with the Aria. It didn't use to do this, but it just happened one day. What I don't get though, is if I put it on charge in the wall, everything's fine and nothing weird happens. Eh, I just don't know.
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Yeah, I'm using the charger that came with the Aria. It didn't use to do this, but it just happened one day. What I don't get though, is if I put it on charge in the wall, everything's fine and nothing weird happens. Eh, I just don't know.
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It's possible the cable got bent a weird way at some point and caused a short in the cable. When you use the wall charger it doesn't use the data pins on the cable so if the short is in the data pins, that might explain why it only happens when connected to a computer.
I'd definitely try a different USB cable. If you don't have another micro-USB cable on hand, I'd suggest buying one of these: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10303&cs_id=1030307&p_id=5458&seq=1&format=2
Even if it doesn't fix the problem, it's super cheap and will be useful just to have a spare.
I've had the same problem with an aftermarket charger as someone else had mentioned. However, I believe the cable itself was not the issue but the wall-pack itself.
My theory is that is has to do with the power quality. In my case, the cheap aftermarket ac/dc adapter. In your case, the usb power supply on your laptop.
Buy a Better damn MicroUSB. I forgot my good cord at friends so i decided to try using the crappy one and well, it failed to connect half way. (wth?) but really many user's know there only good for charging.
waste of a thread but seriously, today i officially found out the stock ones just suck ass. You'll have like a 200% better ODIN rate after getting a good new cord.
that is all thanks =)
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Well, yup.
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Thanks for reminding me, I played the odin dance today, almost bricked my phone it took like half an hour to get download mode back. It just hangs at factoryfs.rfs and makes the phones scren go green like hlf the time.
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Mine stays pluged in the OEM charger. It does not come out unless some one wants to charge ipod zune or sumthing.
How could they design a cable u can plug-in in the dark so ez but not put good conduters in the cable itself? I tell u samsuck idk why they even gave it to us? My car did not come with ****y ass jumper cabels
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As Dave would say.... Yuuuuuup! Monoprice has some very nice ones for cheap. I picked up like 5 or 6 so I would never be without one.
Someone should of made a warning sticky a longtime ago saying...
"Sprintsung's stock/OEM usb data/power cable blows major donkey peenor!"
Would of saved a lot of users a hard learned valuable lesson.
I've been extremely lucky then; I have only used the cable that came with my phone and have never had an issue ... <knock on wood> my next odin will brick my phone now
I've used an old palm pre cable from day one, it just seemed so much more stable. Never had a problem.
If I was as prone to user error as the average user, then I would say that I'm one of the lucky ones... But I also see a lot of people blaming other user errors on anything but user error, so I'm still not convinced that the cables are really that bad (I've flashed three different Epics several times with their own stock cables without issues)
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If I was as prone to user error as the average user, then I would say that I'm one of the lucky ones... But I also see a lot of people blaming other user errors on anything but user error, so I'm still not convinced that the cables are really that bad (I've flashed three different Epics several times with their own stock cables without issues)
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Nah I learned the hard way that the stock cable really sucks.
A long time ago my phone just stopped connecting to my pc. It wouldn't install any drivers blahblahblah, and since my cable was working the nightbfore, I thought it wasjust my phone.
So I worked with it for a few weeks and I was confident my phones usb port got f-ed up, but then while I was in my friends house, I plugged my phone into his pc (using his HD2 cable) and suddenly, drivers automatically installed
When I got home I tried on my computer and it didn't work so I started blaming my wack ass computer. But then I lost my cable and had to use a family members Blackberry cable and now I can't get my phone to stop having sex with my pc
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I must have won the Epic Stock Cable Lottery, because I've never had a problem with mine.
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Thanks for reminding me, I played the odin dance today, almost bricked my phone it took like half an hour to get download mode back. It just hangs at factoryfs.rfs and makes the phones scren go green like hlf the time.
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I aways use blackberry usb for transfering files,its thick and fast.
But when I used it with Odin it got me to where u at-stuck with fully yellow,white or blue screen.But I could alway get it back into recovery mode.
So I got my old Samsung Memoir usb cord(my Epic usb cord went dead some time ago).
When I used mt Memoir's usb cord with odin BOOM!-No more getting stuck,everything went through,but I had to repartition,i think repartitioning is good idea after odin gets stuck.
To make it short,i think that there is something special about Samsung usb cords,i only use them for Odin(recovery mode) and for everything else blackberry cords are probably best quality.And its $3 on ebay new.
While I've purchased multiple Monoprice cables, I've used them only for charging. Not only do I have absolutely no trouble flashing via the stock cable, but I keep it rolled up in a bag in my pocket wherever I go. It probably gets drastically more abuse than is reasonable. Still never had a single problem flashing with it.
For you user's who seem to like the stock cable, yes it can work. However the build quality of the cable is cheap. If you'd rather not spend 2-3 bucks and save urself some possible hassle's, then that there is user error.
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I bought these:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10303&cs_id=1030307&p_id=5457&seq=1&format=2
No issues...
I've used the stock cable a handful of times with no issues, as well as i have a couple blackberry cables that i got from amazon a while back for about $1 each.. never seems to be a cable issue so much as a pc/driver recognition issue.. windows throws a fit, my linux laptop sees my phone with any cable every time..
I love my Logitech mouse recharger cable. its very high qualty and are 10 feet long.
Ok. I've got four usb cables. Each of them look different. Where did I get them? Who knows. All I know for sure is one came with my Epic. How can I tell which one that is? I don't think Samsung is stamped on any of them.
Ideas? Or did I miss the Samsung stamp.
Samsung one is one with fairly stiff thin cable, with microusb end that looks like its offset to one side.
Just an FYI. LG cables are not vary good. My GF has a few from old phones and the phone she's using now. And you can't USB tether with them your lucky if you can get UBS mass mode working. I'll give the crapy samsuck cabel about 65% ~ 75% on tethering.
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Just a quick bit of information.
Not 100% sure it caused it but it couldnt have helped.
My phone completely died the other after unplugging my charger.
When I mean died I'm mean, no charge what so ever, no light and no response from any button combinations.
I checked the port and it was full of dust and lint so removed it and sent it back.
Lost all my Videos though
The dust could have created a short on the port and killed the main board so keep it clean peeps
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DJGurth said:
Just a quick bit of information.
Not 100% sure it caused it but it couldnt have helped.
My phone completely died the other after unplugging my charger.
When I mean died I'm mean, no charge what so ever, no light and no response from any button combinations.
I checked the port and it was full of dust and lint so removed it and sent it back.
Lost all my Videos though
The dust could have created a short on the port and killed the main board so keep it clean peeps
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I've had problems with a dirty charge port too. With a toothpick, thin cloth and methanol hydrate it's a pretty easy clean. I wonder if there is a plug you can get like for headphone jacks.
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Covers would be a great idea I'm not that fussy about how they look
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Tw1tchy said:
I've had problems with a dirty charge port too. With a toothpick, thin cloth and methanol hydrate it's a pretty easy clean. I wonder if there is a plug you can get like for headphone jacks.
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I had a Samsung Infuse and after 2 years the USB port stopped working. At first it wouldn't connect to a PC, then it charged slowly and sporadically on AC, then not at all. I just assumed it was broken. I wonder if it just had to be cleaned... My contract was almost up though so I didn't care.
Off-topic, but the One is seriously 1000x better than the Infuse. Samsung's update support and TouchWiz were so bad the phone practically screamed "root me!!!', and even after rooting it sucked. The difference after switching to the One was incredible.
Thanks for the info
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I had a Samsung Infuse and after 2 years the USB port stopped working. At first it wouldn't connect to a PC, then it charged slowly and sporadically on AC, then not at all. I just assumed it was broken. I wonder if it just had to be cleaned... My contract was almost up though so I didn't care.
Off-topic, but the One is seriously 1000x better than the Infuse. Samsung's update support and TouchWiz were so bad the phone practically screamed "root me!!!', and even after rooting it sucked. The difference after switching to the One was incredible.
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Same, I came from OG note, usb port broke twice while under warranty and once more afterward. After that I ditched plastic, and went for build quality over everything!
There can only be one, the chosen ONE.
Can we use denaturated alcohol instead?
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