Ok, this is a weird one...
Two weeks ago there was a problem with my GS3. (International GT-I9300, blue, from the very first batch that came to the UK on launch)
Something went wrong with some part of the hardware that prevented me making calls. Calls would connect but no audio could be sent or recieved, you jsut got a dead line on both ends of the call. Everything else worked great still, even SMS but calling was dead.
Reflashed every variation of stock rom and modems and CSC possible and eventually admitted it had to be a hardware failure. Went back to the stock setup i got with it and got in touch with samsung service who organised a warranty repair. I got a baggy in the post and instructions to send it to a place for repair that about 20 miles from my house. Convenient.
Got it back 6 days later (monday) and hadnt really played with it much till last night apart from to check it booted and calls worked again. All was well.
Last night i checked out sammobile.com and saw that the jelly beans were rolling out so i hooked the phone up in anticipation and ran into all this "Hardware ID not found" bull with win7 x64. Did all the driver and kies reinstall crap and got it working again.
By this point i still hadnt really done anything on the phone. Hadnt taken any photos or anything like that. I logged into facebook and posted a few times while i fannied about with the drivers.
Today, kies tells me JELLY BEAN IS AVAILABLE.... YAY!
So i just fired through that update on kies and its all working, except kies decided to update the damn windows driver again so that hardware id thing is back, but so what.
So im fannying about in the official jelly bean update, checking out the differences between it and the previous leaks and i discover something mental.
My 16gb phone now shows that it has 25GB of free space on the internal SD.
HOLY CRAP.
So either, samsung bumped me up 16GB or the jelly bean update did something cool, unlocking an extra 16GB of storage. Your guess is as good as mine, i wish i'd checked before i did the update to be certain of which is resposible.
Either way, a very nice story for me.
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Ok, this is a weird one...
Two weeks ago there was a problem with my GS3. (International GT-I9300, blue, from the very first batch that came to the UK on launch)
Something went wrong with some part of the hardware that prevented me making calls. Calls would connect but no audio could be sent or recieved, you jsut got a dead line on both ends of the call. Everything else worked great still, even SMS but calling was dead.
Reflashed every variation of stock rom and modems and CSC possible and eventually admitted it had to be a hardware failure. Went back to the stock setup i got with it and got in touch with samsung service who organised a warranty repair. I got a baggy in the post and instructions to send it to a place for repair that about 20 miles from my house. Convenient.
Got it back 6 days later (monday) and hadnt really played with it much till last night apart from to check it booted and calls worked again. All was well.
Last night i checked out sammobile.com and saw that the jelly beans were rolling out so i hooked the phone up in anticipation and ran into all this "Hardware ID not found" bull with win7 x64. Did all the driver and kies reinstall crap and got it working again.
By this point i still hadnt really done anything on the phone. Hadnt taken any photos or anything like that. I logged into facebook and posted a few times while i fannied about with the drivers.
Today, kies tells me JELLY BEAN IS AVAILABLE.... YAY!
So i just fired through that update on kies and its all working, except kies decided to update the damn windows driver again so that hardware id thing is back, but so what.
So im fannying about in the official jelly bean update, checking out the differences between it and the previous leaks and i discover something mental.
My 16gb phone now shows that it has 25GB of free space on the internal SD.
HOLY CRAP.
So either, samsung bumped me up 16GB or the jelly bean update did something cool, unlocking an extra 16GB of storage. Your guess is as good as mine, i wish i'd checked before i did the update to be certain of which is resposible.
Either way, a very nice story for me.
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Everyone knows that flashing JB upgrade your phone to 32GB. Nothing new. Just kidding
I guess you are lucky and your phone got replaced by one with 32GB.
_Man0waR_ said:
Everyone knows that flashing JB upgrade your phone to 32GB. Nothing new. Just kidding
I guess you are lucky and your phone got replaced by one with 32GB.
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:laugh:
It's deffo the same phone. All my dents are still there and my IMEI and serial are the same as they were before.
Very lucky indeed.
I'm guessing they only had a 32Gb main board and replaced......you lucky lucky person! Me jealous!
Have seen many cases like this in my Galaxy SL days.
They might have replaced your board with 32Gb one. That's the only possibility. Enjoy mate!!!
Damnit I need to get my phone broken to send it away (think if I surge my charger that would work?)
Or in case of the latter, where's the download for the extra 2GB RAM and LTE???
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They might have replaced your board with 32Gb one. That's the only possibility. Enjoy mate!!!
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+1 Haha lucky one :laugh:
There's not that much Jelly Bean Magic :cyclops:
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Or in case of the latter, where's the download for the extra 2GB RAM and LTE???
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Too bad there isn't a firmware for that... :crying:
There is always moneyware, although that has some serious incompatibility the current wifeware I have installed.
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Too bad there isn't a firmware for that... :crying:
There is always moneyware, although that has some serious incompatibility the current wifeware I have installed.
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But joblessware has major compatibility issues with moneyware, and I don't have any wifeware I heard it's worse than malware
Lucky you..!
But there is only one firmware for all i9300 models, surely it should have appeared on ICS (Definitely should have if you cleared cache)
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But there is only one firmware for all i9300 models, surely it should have appeared on ICS (Definitely should have if you cleared cache)
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I think he was saying he hadn't checked his storage until he upgraded to jb
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I think he was saying he hadn't checked his storage until he upgraded to jb
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Correct. I hadn't expected it to change for any reason.
Lol @ someone voting for jellybean.
It's probably not the same but I remember the HTC HD2 has hidden memory that was unlocked by flashing a certain ROM.. could we be that lucky??
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It's probably not the same but I remember the HTC HD2 has hidden memory that was unlocked by flashing a certain ROM.. could we be that lucky??
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That's the sort of thing i was considering but it wouldnt make sense given that when i bought it they hadnt even released the 32gb version. I imagine that some of the more advanced tinkerers would have noticed by now if this were the case too.
Doesnt mean someone whouldnt investigate it. Could do a teardown i suppose, get the code off the memory chip and compare it.
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That's the sort of thing i was considering but it wouldnt make sense given that when i bought it they hadnt even released the 32gb version. I imagine that some of the more advanced tinkerers would have noticed by now if this were the case too.
Doesnt mean someone whouldnt investigate it. Could do a teardown i suppose, get the code off the memory chip and compare it.
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The hidden memory was only found by accident, no one knew it was there..
But to be honest I suspect when the phone was repaired they changed the board to a 32Gb board, makes more sense..
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Lol @ someone voting for jellybean.
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I did! I felt sorry for the option, since it was so obvious nobody would check that. So I did just out of pity for the option.
It's like the "7", "8" and the (specially) "9" keys on a microwave: nobody uses them!!!! So, everytime I am to cook something in the microwave, I set it to 1-3 seconds less than I need, just to use the 7, 8 and 9 keys and take the load off the "0" key.
The OP says that imei remained unchanged i doubt they wrote the imei to a new board.
I have seen this in some sandisk memory card a few years back. They were sold at 8gb and with a format with a certain firmware they doubled their capacity.
Anyway. However this happened good for him.
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Don't want to start an argument but there isn't one board, but 2 or 3 different boards (from what I can see on YouTube strip downs), so it is possible they replaced one faulty board and his unit still kept the imei number from an original board.
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1.) I just bought my T-mo htc hd2 a week ago and i didnt install anything into it yet and the phone will frezze 2,3 times a day when i try to unlock it from stand by mode. what sould i do to solve this problem?
2.) If i want my hd2 can able to read and write chinese what program or rom i should put it in?
3.) If i want to put rom into my hd2 the first thing is to install hspl and then the bootloader is that right?
please HELP!!!
OS 5.2.21889
Manila 2.5.20121412.1
rom ver 2.10.531.1
radio 2.08.50.08_2
ram size 576mb
flash size 1024mb
I am having that same problem too, I feel like throwing the phone at the wall am getting really pissed about this.
I got this from the Tmobile forums
After talking with some phone tech friends of mine.... unfortunately cant say which company in Austin, TX they work for..... I found out that the first batch of HD2s that were sent out had a corrupt file in them that was causing all kinds of freez ups and other issues. They told me about how to tell if mine was in the first flawed batch or the the batches that were sent after that been fixed by HTC prior to shipping them to tmobile. Here's how to tell:
If you remove the back battery cover and look for the factory reset button which is located below the battery to the left near the left edge where the cover snaps in place, you will be able to see that it is colored. If the color of the button is red, it is part of the first flawed batch that came out. If the button is yellow or any other color then it is part of the batches that had the problem fixed before they were sent out by HTC.
I am not sure if this info has been posted yet or not but if it hasn't then I hope this may give some insight to thoes who have been having some problems with their HD2. I am just guessing that if you were to sent your HD2 back for a new updated one, that tmobile would honor this issue and exchange it for you.
Thanks for all the info that ya'll post on here, it has come in handy!
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http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/HTC-H...d-some-don-t/m-p/354378/highlight/true#M11337
I just called customer service and they are going to exchange my phone for me.
help
is there any more people can give me some more advise ? Cause my phone still like that keeps on freezing every single day , can someone please help . Thank you
I got a new HD2 last evening from my Tmobile store. The soft reset button on my firsrt one was red, it had HORRIBLE problems, a freakin headache. This new one has a yellow soft reset button and it crashed really bad last night after I turn it off and on. SENSI UI didn't load for like 10mins and it was glitching from Start Menu to the Sense UI menu. Ive only had the phone for 7hours, stock ROM too. This is fustrating.
mine got a red dot but it's not freezing for the past month.
I've had mine 7 days. Yellow reset button. Stock Rom.
No freezing at all. Battery sucks. I turned off a few things in Sense UI yesterday and the seems to have improved.
From what I've read, most of the freezing problems are due to the slow MicroSD or with large number op SMS or Music files.
Try taking out your card for a few hours and see if its still freezing. If it is, ask for a new card.
Do yourself a favor return the phone your still with in the 14 day period. All of these problems are Sense U.I related and only custom roms can be fixed but your warranty will be voided..I wish i didnt buy this from Ebay and bought it from a corp store, so i could have returned it..
even with custom ROM.. less freezing but yes.. usually on the texting.. i think htc just released a new tmo rom the 26
ajftl said:
even with custom ROM.. less freezing but yes.. usually on the texting.. i think htc just released a new tmo rom the 26
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That one is for Tmo in europe, not the US, won't work on the US model. (just wanted to be clear )
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even with custom ROM.. less freezing but yes.. usually on the texting.. i think htc just released a new tmo rom the 26
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that rom might kill your phone. be careful.
I called HTC and was told they know about the freezing issues.It uss with T-MOBILE HD2 only and they are working ona firmware fix. I have yellow reset button and lots of freezes. wondering off I should return this and get the Incredible from Verizon. Its Android so much better?
get a new faster micro sd that will solve your problem for sure
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get a new faster micro sd that will solve your problem for sure
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New faster? What does that mean? Are you saying to get a new 1GB microSD instead of using the 16GB microSDHC card that came with the phone?
A card isn't "fast", the thing that determines the speed of which a card can be "read" is the size of the card (32GB would be "slower" than 16GB).
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New faster? What does that mean? Are you saying to get a new 1GB microSD instead of using the 16GB microSDHC card that came with the phone?
A card isn't "fast", the thing that determines the speed of which a card can be "read" is the size of the card (32GB would be "slower" than 16GB).
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Actually the speed that an SD card can be read at is rated by "class" (2, 4, 6, 8, and even some at 10 now)....the higher the class, the faster it can be read from. Unfortunately, HTC saw fit to provide us with a class-2 16GB from the factory, which can contribute to a number of issues, so even a class-4 card of any size would provide better performance than that
I upgraded to a class 6 8 gb micro sd and all freezing issues have ended except for sms freezing. I hope tmobile comes up with a firmware fix for it
the ugly truth is...
HTC did not do a lot to upgrade the ROM they sent to the US. Even with having a 6 month start and KNOWING the issues and complaints they were receiving overseas. Yes, you can flash, yes there are multiple tweaks, yes the people here are great at helping. However, the basic functionality that "should" but, did not come with the phone (sms lags, music skipping, sytem crashes when using proprietary sense UI) is really quite bad. Everone does not have these problems but there are more and more people asking the same questions.
I am going to wait until T-mo and htc get their @$$e$ in gear and release a fix. No timetable yet for it, but they have heard and earfull and are doing something . Then I will flash after all the manufacturers cures are applied.
ryan562 said:
I upgraded to a class 6 8 gb micro sd and all freezing issues have ended except for sms freezing. I hope tmobile comes up with a firmware fix for it
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Have you tried cleaning up your inbox? I had 700+ messages in there and cleaned it up, haven't had a SMS/MMS-related crash since...
ryan562 said:
I upgraded to a class 6 8 gb micro sd and all freezing issues have ended except for sms freezing. I hope tmobile comes up with a firmware fix for it
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I too just purchased mine. Class 2 file transfer for a 16 gig card is ridiculous. For this phone anyway. Also waiting for that sms freezing fix. It is definitely swype related and for some reason, swype (unlike any other input format) needs all messages loaded prior to being able to function. Blah...these are the ONLY issues I am having with the phone. Have had it since March 25th.
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I am having that same problem too, I feel like throwing the phone at the wall am getting really pissed about this.
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I am ready to throw it on the wall, I thought I had found a fix until the phone restarted all by itself when I was listening to music.
FTL
I am going to return it because of problems of phone shutting itself off automatically. This is my 3rd one, and they all did this. If I wait till october (after 2.2), will I be buying a different phone (hardware wise), or the exact same thing? Maybe a newer batch will be less glitchy? (gps, lag, shutdowns)
i was wondering if perhaps the phones that are rolling out in october/november, will work flawlessly out of the box? Maybe some hardware changes?
Thing is i got a good deal on a 3 year plan (the worker at bestbuy messed up and gave it to me $50 less than what he's supposed to), and if i return it now (since the 14 day return expires tomorrow), i will pay $50 more for it if i decide to buy it again in october.
My carrier will put my hardware upgrade back onto my account, and i can buy whatever phone i want at a later date (WILL NOT BUY AN IPHONE...EVER). But i dont think any good new phones better than SGS are coming out soon...are there any? thanks
I got no lag, never ever had a restart and gps should be fixed to some extent. October you will see the g2, will it be flawless ? No nothing usually is..
The lag I hear about but don't have myself so I can understand that, but the restarts have to be something you installed or a lemon. I'f you had that happen on all 3? Definitely something you installed
Dude, what are you doing to your phone(S)???? I have never had my phone reboot/shutdown unless I was messing around with installing system apps from another rom... and that was a super easy fix.
$10 says OP had crap like setCPU on his or her phone. Samsung has already tried to make it harder to get into recovery and download mode.....hmmm I wonder why?
s15274n said:
Dude, what are you doing to your phone(S)???? I have never had my phone reboot/shutdown unless I was messing around with installing system apps from another rom... and that was a super easy fix.
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dont have any apps installed except for adobe reader. Someone mentioned it could be my sim card, so i changed it and it has not happened since...but...its only been 4 days, and this shutoff thing happens every 3 to 5 days anyways..so if i wait to see if it was perhaps my sim card all along, then it will be too late. «9refund policy).
If you go over to the captivate forum, you will see that many people (almost one third of people) have this issue. It could just be bad sim cards, but i dont know for sure.
Singhman said:
dont have any apps installed except for adobe reader. Someone mentioned it could be my sim card, so i changed it and it has not happened since...but...its only been 4 days, and this shutoff thing happens every 3 to 5 days anyways..so if i wait to see if it was perhaps my sim card all along, then it will be too late. «9refund policy).
If you go over to the captivate forum, you will see that many people (almost one third of people) have this issue. It could just be bad sim cards, but i dont know for sure.
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There you go, adobe reader. Be sure to give it a 1 star review, and I apologize for my previous rude remark.
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Not a god idea because more phones will be out at that time and you won't be able to decide. Like the person above me. If adobe reader is the only app installed then that's most likely the culprit.
Why not just use thinkfree pdf reader? Works just as god as adobe's.
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Your sd card may be corrupt too.
To answer the OP question, I think it's worth returning the phone even if you have to eat the 50 bucks. The G2 is coming out this month and the MyTouch HD in November. Both phones could be strong contenders. If you can hold out til then you might even be able to get the vibrant for a reduced price.
WOw dude
never had my phone reset
that's sounds serious
yea i find it hard to believe all 3 have the same problem did u buy them all from the same place? i know the phone has it's problem but Ive never herd anyone have one were it randomly restarts on them.
It is because of adobe, others have had the same exact problem.
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Chalup said:
$10 says OP had crap like setCPU on his or her phone. Samsung has already tried to make it harder to get into recovery and download mode.....hmmm I wonder why?
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why do you think setCPU is a crap app?
Had the same problem with mine uninstall adobe and I'm good. Use thinkfree or vudroid
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*charles barkley voice*
Man, thats turrrrible..
I'd be less eager to point fingers at Abobe, personally. Userspace (i.e. non-kernel) code shouldn't be able to lock up phones in this manner. I can understand slating SetCPU - over-clocking is never guaranteed to be safe. But simple apps like a PDF reader? Even utilising SetCPU to just scale down CPU clock speed should be absolutely safe...
I've had my phone now for just under a month and in the last week it's developed this issue where it'll crash/shutdown when left idle. And no, I'm not running any stability-compromising apps, zero mods, nada. Not even rooted it. Just stock firmware and a handful of apps - apps I've not even run since installing them weeks ago. And for what it's worth, I wiped my handset this evening and after roughly 15 minutes of being left idle while I was eating dinner, it died again.
Now I've not got a Vibrant myself; I'm an SGS owner. But if you search the Samsung sub-forums here at xda-developers, or do a Google search, you'll find hundreds of Vibrant, Epic and Galaxy S users who are reporting exactly the same issues. Which leads me to think that this really has nothing to do with userspace code at all. Instead it points back to Samsung's sloppy business practices of releasing Android-based phones before they're fully cooked...
Warning : This survey is only for i9000M (Aka Bell Samsung Vibrant)
Hey,
So i know theres already another thread. Problem is, only those who have got corrupted internal sd's ever visit that thread, and hence we end up with a lot of "non working" data.
I want both sides of the story. What causes it to screw up and what causes it not to.
Ive created a form at Link
The data from the form is at Link
These questions are a lot more focussed than the ones in the original thread.
Current Maintainers in charge of modifying data upon a user-request / Keeping data clean:
wang1chung
daneshm90
Suggestions are welcome to improve the questionnaire.
Hopefully this will help us find out what is causing these corruptions.
bump... keep this on the first page so that we get more and more data entries...
Interesting poll. Hope we get a bigger data set.
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aphoebic said:
Interesting poll. Hope we get a bigger data set.
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Yea we've gotten a lot of entries so far.
So far seems as though anything through odin eventually screws up these phones :S
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Nice to see.
it seems it's all over the board and does not matter if you had made changes or not. rooted, lagfix, Rom...makes no diff. i didnt change anythign and got the problem.
At one point there were no SGS's to be found. this dry period of about 2 weeks before a new shipment came in. Could they have corrected some hardware issues for this 2nd batch (i think it was in September)?
I'd like to know how many phones after the dry period are experiencing this issue.
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Replied (oops, set name as groan instead of Groaner. Owner can correct this if you want.)
Nice to see.
it seems it's all over the board and does not matter if you had made changes or not. rooted, lagfix, Rom...makes no diff. i didnt change anythign and got the problem.
At one point there were no SGS's to be found. this dry period of about 2 weeks before a new shipment came in. Could they have corrected some hardware issues for this 2nd batch (i think it was in September)?
I'd like to know how many phones after the dry period are experiencing this issue.
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Im starting to consider whether those who say they didn't do nething and it still bricked have "used phones" where the previous user mightve flashed stuff.
Yea ill change ur name on it.
I added my info..and bumping the thread at the same time.
I forgot to put in other that i removed OCLF after a couple weeks due to all the problems I saw ppl were having. You can update my info if you'd like
by the looks of things, im REALLY glad ive never used odin
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by the looks of things, im REALLY glad ive never used odin
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I know eh. By the looks of it, odin screws up our phones, aside from a few odd cases where even stock phones got corrupted :S
But yea im on my 3rd sgs and im just using stock + voodoo. Gonna wait it out for froyo.
My first entry, row 52, was an error.
I repartitioned with odin last month while returning to stock JH2 from the aborted Scandanavian Froyo. No problems yet with an August 21st battery manufacturing date.
Good idea !
I've been lucky with my phone. I flashed twice with ODIN using the JH2 rom. Once with re partition and it's been ok.
From the looks of things there is no real rule as to if you flash then your phone will screw up... But seems like the chances of getting a brick increasing with flashing. If thats the case, then whats the point of having this phone... it sucks all the fun out of android (to me atleast...)
Whats the warranty on these things ?
1 yr no ???
Here are the 2 combos im interested in :
1. Has anyone bricked their i9000m using only heimdall ?
2. Has anyone bricked their i9000m w/o using odin but flashing roms/stuff through recovery (for eg Doc's rom)
from my understanding, heimdall doesn't repartition, so it would be equivalent to using odin without repartition.
i'm going to have to agree though, when i get my phone back, no more odin flashing. only clockwork. clearly, there's a pattern there.
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Whats the warranty on these things ?
1 yr no ???
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Yea there is 1 year warranty...
Hi everyone...I just wanted to suggest that the form should also include a manufacture date field (the battery or the phone's doesn't really matter) because if it is a faulty batch of memory (internal sd), then maybe we can pinpoint the timeframe in which that faulty batch was present. btw: my battery says 28 august.
EDIT: on #43 on the results says that the battery is manufactured in sept but the phones bought in aug... a new battery?
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Hi everyone...I just wanted to suggest that the form should also include a manufacture date field (the battery or the phone's doesn't really matter) because if it is a faulty batch of memory (internal sd), then maybe we can pinpoint the timeframe in which that faulty batch was present. btw: my battery says 28 august.
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I did consider adding that before. Thing is how do you find this info ?
Are you going by manufacturer date on battery ?
Cuz in a lot of cases if sent for repair the battery is not replaced.
Also the battery manufacture date has no relation with the phone's manufacture date.
submitted.
So I went to the sprint store today cuz my battery took a ****. The repair guy was telling everyone not to run the OTA update to 2.2, apparently it's bricking phones and breaking camera. He said Sprint will have their own update in a couple weeks. I lol'd as I walked out with my deodexed rooted EB13...
well that would probably explain why my wife hasnt received the update.. oh well.. I already updated with the zip files as well.
Go figure and they keep rolling it out.
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well that would probably explain why my wife hasnt received the update.. oh well.. I already updated with the zip files as well.
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My wife just got hers a couple of hours ago.
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Damn it booiii...more dissapointment...and after such a long and druamatic wait for the release...smh, will the corrected version be another rolled out OTA or will they release it on the samsung website?
Loving the official 2.2. 12hrs unplugged so far and 60% battery left. Usually my exchange email kills it during the day since the tower is overloaded downtown with awesome 20-60 kilobit speeds. So my 3g radio gets a work out constantly trying to communicate.
Good job sprint smh
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I updated my buddies phone to official 2.2 last night and his phone turned into a brick. Nothing would power it on. No boot, no recovery, no download mode, no nothin... I was using odin and the tar file though and not the update.zip
I did the same procedure twice to my epic and it worked great.
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Calling B.S. unless otherwise proven.
I'm skeptical that they are still rolling it out in force... My mom and sister have yet to get it. I'm just sitting on dk28 for a bot myself so I'm not sure how eb13 is actually performing... The forum posts don't make me particularly optimistic
i can believe it, it was a ***** for me to update my phone using odin and the eb13 tar, it just would not work, my phones screen kept turning a different color like purple or green then odin would just freeze. Tried another computer and was able to do it using the samsung .exe file and it wiped everything and i thought i was good, running real quick and snappy, but i opened the camera and went to record a video with it and as soon as i hit the button to switch to video i got an error saying the camera has crashed and it kicked me out :/ I thought, according to sprint, that we waited this long so they could iron out the bugs and make sure there was a release that was worth of releasing!
This official release is flawless for me. I did get the orange screen thou with the samsung tool, I just reran it and its 100 % flawless. Recorded vids with no issue.
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?
Btw. Everyone owes a oppology to noobl. Remember he warned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And some in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
I don't know how to prove that the phone was bricked, but it definitely was. It got stuck at param.lfs (or whatever that file extension is) in odin, so I retried it a few times, next thing I knew it would not turn on. He should be swapping it at the sprint store tommorow I think.
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abduljaffar said:
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?
Btw. Everyone owes a opt to noobl. Remember he weaned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And done in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
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I was on DK28 and since I followed instructions correctly, my phone is still in working condition. HA!
That's misinformation from the store. Here's the deal with the update... Yes, it's still being pushed and all devices should have it by Friday. There have been some reports of issues with the camera and browser force closing but those are resolvable in most cases with a hard reset (sucks I know). I haven't seen any reports of a phone that was truly bricked, although custom roms will be more likely to have issues with the OTA update. I've personally updated 8 of these both OTA and with the Samsung installer and haven't had an issue with any of them after the update.
Currently looking for a custom rom though because I don't like some of the changes that were made. It does feel like the screen is a bit laggy after the update and I hate the new messaging app but overall no performance issues
Overstew said:
I was on DK28 and since I followed instructions correctly, my phone is still in working condition. HA!
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lol. Me too. I used the 200mb samsung tool. No old odin with modified eb13 deodexed junk. Follow instructions nerds!
I'm not buying it. I know there are isues out there (myself included) but I would think if it was a serious problem we would have people on the forums saying it happened to them by now.
I updated my phone via the Samsung .exe file which I knew would wipe my phone which wasn't a problem for me since I use gmail to keep records of my contacts, call logs / sms (using sms backp+) and etc. So no worries there. I did get a little miffed about losing the apps but that is expected for a phone wipe.
There are few quirks and some changes in the GUI I didn't like. Big issue is the stupid SMS client they had to change so will be looking for a altnative version for it. No big deal but why change something when it works in DI18??
Screen rotation lag is fixable via screen calibration (posted elsewhere in this forums).
Least now the Devs have the source code they should be coming out with some nice ROMs soon. Rumored for Sprint to come out with an update in a couple of weeks? Not worried about it, by then most of us will be on custom ROMs anyway.
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abduljaffar said:
could this be the EVO curse we were dreading?
Btw. Everyone owes a oppology to noobl. Remember he warned us about the leak dk28 bricking some phones? And some in here claimed the epic is unbrickable? Uhhuuu... Everyone... Form a single line and appologize.
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i still think its effing impossible.
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I don't know how to prove that the phone was bricked, but it definitely was. It got stuck at param.lfs (or whatever that file extension is) in odin, so I retried it a few times, next thing I knew it would not turn on. He should be swapping it at the sprint store tommorow I think.
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flashing kills the balls out of the battery. i have had a fully charged battery die in half an hour running odin multiple times trying things out. id bet almost anything that if you had an external charger to throw your battery in for a bit the phone would boot in to download mode with no problems.
The Vibrant looks to have been completely removed from TMobile's website. What the hell?
IT is gone, but the stores are still selling it. It just got replace by the 4g that is coming out, nothing new. It is still a good phone and wont trade it in for less. I dont live in a 4g area so whats the point of having a 4g phone.
I'm just worried that I won't be able to get the Vibrant for a warranty replacement or insurance claim. I don't want the 4g.
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I'm just worried that I won't be able to get the Vibrant for a warranty replacement or insurance claim. I don't want the 4g.
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you'll either get a refurb (business as usual), which i'm sure they have plenty of or an option for a new phone (like maybe the sgs4g). i wouldn't worry about it, either way.
I read somewhere that a guy was given a 4G in exchange for his broken Vibrant. It's not like they will tell you that you're SOL. If you're under warranty they'll give you a refurb or something comparable.
i just messed up my phone big time... this sucks so bad... i flashed this rom and it wiped my whole internal sd and my external and i cant use my usb to flash back to stock because none my computers can reconigize my phone... AND it wont let me download any apps cuz it says the internal one is too full... WTF!!! I Knew in my heart i should of never flashed tha rom =(
What rom was it?
rayz8701 said:
i just messed up my phone big time... this sucks so bad... i flashed this rom and it wiped my whole internal sd and my external and i cant use my usb to flash back to stock because none my computers can reconigize my phone... AND it wont let me download any apps cuz it says the internal one is too full... WTF!!! I Knew in my heart i should of never flashed tha rom =(
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Rockin that Bionix V 1.2.1 w/ Androdena V5.1
Wrong thread to report ur flashing problems. There is a lot of how to get it back. I had the same issue when i updated my rom to the tmobile rom and not knowing how to get back to root. ODIN is your friend. Search it.
that could be good or bad. I need to go to the stop and ***** about the GPS on both my Vibrants since after dealing with the executive response team and getting them replaced once before they said next time I'll have to go to a store to prove I have a GPS problem. So one of these days I better flash back to stock and go show them before they don't have any refurbs or new ones to give me. I don't want to 4G either. I get just as fast downloads here as the people I know with the Mytouch 4G and the G2.
That's good news to me, my Vibrant's GPS is terrible.
I heard some good comment of the 4G's GPS.
They get rid of the vibrant but keep Samsung Behold II how smart is that
rayz8701 said:
i just messed up my phone big time... this sucks so bad... i flashed this rom and it wiped my whole internal sd and my external and i cant use my usb to flash back to stock because none my computers can reconigize my phone... AND it wont let me download any apps cuz it says the internal one is too full... WTF!!! I Knew in my heart i should of never flashed tha rom =(
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This is the second thread I've seen this exact same post in and I'll say the same thing I said last time. Read the noob guide and learn to use ODIN.
no more vibrants for sale ? ? ? awwwwhhhh few less nobs asking questions