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My HTC Hero was a dream to mod. I plugged it in, ran some ADB, and it worked like a charm. I flashed whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and it worked fine with my computer which is running 64bit Win7.
Now the Samsung Epic... this is disappointing. ADB doesn't work any more. It says there are no devices attached and I can't mount my SD Card through the phone to my computer. I can't get the drivers to work properly. I've tried reinstalling the "proper" ones from the clockwork mod thread and also reinstalling the ones that windows update wants to install.
Nothing works. Modding this phone is a nightmare and now it doesn't work with my computer at all. ADB used to work, kind of. Now it doesn't even detect the phone.
Samsung did a bad job. I love the screen and the blazing fast hardware, but the difficulty with modding is ridiculous.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'm game. But if I can't get full control over my phone via command prompt like I could with my Hero, I'm going back to HTC before next week.
Leon H said:
My HTC Hero was a dream to mod. I plugged it in, ran some ADB, and it worked like a charm. I flashed whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and it worked fine with my computer which is running 64bit Win7.
Now the Samsung Epic... this is disappointing. ADB doesn't work any more. It says there are no devices attached and I can't mount my SD Card through the phone to my computer. I can't get the drivers to work properly. I've tried reinstalling the "proper" ones from the clockwork mod thread and also reinstalling the ones that windows update wants to install.
Nothing works. Modding this phone is a nightmare and now it doesn't work with my computer at all. ADB used to work, kind of. Now it doesn't even detect the phone.
Samsung did a bad job. I love the screen and the blazing fast hardware, but the difficulty with modding is ridiculous.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'm game. But if I can't get full control over my phone via command prompt like I could with my Hero, I'm going back to HTC before next week.
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Every time someone on here says that ADB doesn't work it has ended up being their computer that is the problem. Either they didn't install the drivers correctly or there is something else wrong. I suggest you try it on a different computer. The majority of us have never had a problem with ADB and as an ex-Hero user I think the epic works just as well over command line.
richse said:
Every time someone on here says that ADB doesn't work it has ended up being their computer that is the problem. Either they didn't install the drivers correctly or there is something else wrong. I suggest you try it on a different computer. The majority of us have never had a problem with ADB and as an ex-Hero user I think the epic works just as well over command line.
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I'm working on getting a fresh install of 32bit WinXP, but I don't see why it doesn't just work on my Win7 install. I've tried it on XP before with similar (non-working) results, but I'll give it a foolproof trial and try to troubleshoot if it's the computer end or the phone end.
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I'm working on getting a fresh install of 32bit WinXP, but I don't see why it doesn't just work on my Win7 install. I've tried it on XP before with similar (non-working) results, but I'll give it a foolproof trial and try to troubleshoot if it's the computer end or the phone end.
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ADB worked on my Win 7 64bit laptop when I was rooting my Epic. Had 0 problems.
PEBKAC imo.
Leon H said:
My HTC Hero was a dream to mod. I plugged it in, ran some ADB, and it worked like a charm. I flashed whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and it worked fine with my computer which is running 64bit Win7.
Now the Samsung Epic... this is disappointing. ADB doesn't work any more. It says there are no devices attached and I can't mount my SD Card through the phone to my computer. I can't get the drivers to work properly. I've tried reinstalling the "proper" ones from the clockwork mod thread and also reinstalling the ones that windows update wants to install.
Nothing works. Modding this phone is a nightmare and now it doesn't work with my computer at all. ADB used to work, kind of. Now it doesn't even detect the phone.
Samsung did a bad job. I love the screen and the blazing fast hardware, but the difficulty with modding is ridiculous.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'm game. But if I can't get full control over my phone via command prompt like I could with my Hero, I'm going back to HTC before next week.
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Ahh.. Why blame Samsung for having a phone that that is "difficult to mod". They never wanted you mod it, funny how you mentioned the awesome screen and "blazing fast hardware" in the same paragraph though, but still call it a bad phone.
ADB works just fine if you install the correct drivers.
Not insulting your decision to choose the Evo, they are both awesome, but the Evo won't save you from not knowing what you're doing.
PEBCAK.
First google search of the day = pebkac; good one!
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Not insulting your decision to choose the Evo, they are both awesome, but the Evo won't save you from not knowing what you're doing.
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But maybe the Evo will save me from this driver fiasco. I've tested the phone on WinXP and Ubuntu now, and ADB works on both. But for whatever reason, the drivers on Windows 7 are not working. I've uninstalled them and reinstalled drivers from three or four different venues now.
Leon H said:
My HTC Hero was a dream to mod. I plugged it in, ran some ADB, and it worked like a charm. I flashed whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and it worked fine with my computer which is running 64bit Win7.
Now the Samsung Epic... this is disappointing. ADB doesn't work any more. It says there are no devices attached and I can't mount my SD Card through the phone to my computer. I can't get the drivers to work properly. I've tried reinstalling the "proper" ones from the clockwork mod thread and also reinstalling the ones that windows update wants to install.
Nothing works. Modding this phone is a nightmare and now it doesn't work with my computer at all. ADB used to work, kind of. Now it doesn't even detect the phone.
Samsung did a bad job. I love the screen and the blazing fast hardware, but the difficulty with modding is ridiculous.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'm game. But if I can't get full control over my phone via command prompt like I could with my Hero, I'm going back to HTC before next week.
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I had a similar problem but instead, I blamed Windows 7
Install PDAnet.. pick the appropriate device, then you can have full control over your "blazing fast hardware" P.O.S.
PEBKAC .. LMFAO...
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But maybe the Evo will save me from this driver fiasco.
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yeeeeeaaaahh... that'll happen...
I've tested the phone on WinXP and Ubuntu now, and ADB works on both.
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But for whatever reason, the drivers on Windows 7 are not working. I've uninstalled them and reinstalled drivers from three or four different venues now.
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To kinda go along with my previous post, it appears as though ITS NOT THE DAMN PHONE...
Did you read what you posted ??? seriously... honestly ???.. it's not ur phone.
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yeeeeeaaaahh... that'll happen...
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It did with the Hero. My experience with HTC drivers has been much better than Sammy drivers so far.
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To kinda go along with my previous post, it appears as though ITS NOT THE DAMN PHONE...
Did you read what you posted ??? seriously... honestly ???.. it's not ur phone.
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I get that now, I was in the process of installing a new OS to test this. I blamed the phone at first, before I got around to testing it properly, but now I know where the problem lies.
I'm not blaming the phone anymore. It seems to work fine (besides the sd card mount, that will only work on linux). I'm blaming Samsung for their Windows 7 drivers. You can throw acronyms around all you want, but I think the problem is actually somewhere in how Samsung develops for 64 bit.
Also, I can praise the phone's hardware and curse the software. That's perfectly logical, by the way.
algorhythm said:
ADB worked on my Win 7 64bit laptop when I was rooting my Epic. Had 0 problems.
PEBKAC imo.
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Thanks for your anecdote. Unfortunately, my setup is not working the same as yours. If you'd like to be helpful and tell me how you installed the working drivers, I'd appreciate it.
to OP, what you should know is, that even without any modding, and running on 2.1 , my epic will always be WAY faster than any evo.
now imagine how fast it is for me now, with my Quantum froyo...
I had the same problem with my phone not showing up on the computer, i know this may sound stupid but it works. I have 2 usb ports in the front of my computer and thats what i tired using for the phone it wouldn't work, so i plugged it in the back of the computer and now it works fine shows up everytime on my computer.. So i just bought a extra usb cord off ebay and have it constantly plugged in the back of the computer.
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to OP, what you should know is, that even without any modding, and running on 2.1 , my epic will always be WAY faster than any evo.
now imagine how fast it is for me now, with my Quantum froyo...
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I agree, that's why I bought the Epic in the first place. I just wish I could ADB into it with my Windows 7 machine that I'm using 99% of the time. The posters in this thread don't seem to understand that I like the phone, I just don't like the way it interacts with my computer.
Maybe their installation of 64 bit windows 7 can ADB fine, but that doesn't help me any. I wish I could get some help instead of being called an idiot. From my experiences, these Samsung drivers are worthless.
Phone good, drivers bad.
my intention was not to insult, just to convince you to keep it, and try to find the solution, which is what youre doing. wish i could help
ericizzy1 said:
my intention was not to insult, just to convince you to keep it, and try to find the solution, which is what youre doing. wish i could help
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Haha, not to worry, you've been one of the most helpful in this thread. It's nice to be reaffirmed that my choice to go with a Samsung phone for the first time wasn't a mistake.
I'm just put off by all of the suggestions in this thread that the problem lies between the chair and keyboard instead of anything helpful about how to get these absurd drivers ironed out. Never had problems with HTC drivers, just sayin'.
You can get drivers to install better with one of 2 ways:
1) Use device manager to go to manually load the drivers in the 16_Shrewberry folder
2) Install Kies..even if it doesnt work it seems to install the drivers better
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also if your using a desktop..back ports are more efficient.
gTen said:
You can get drivers to install better with one of 2 ways:
1) Use device manager to go to manually load the drivers in the 16_Shrewberry folder
2) Install Kies..even if it doesnt work it seems to install the drivers better
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also if your using a desktop..back ports are more efficient.
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That's what I'm talking about. Awesome information, I'll do some driver wiping and see how these methods work out from a clean slate. Thanks a lot.
SamsungEpic86 said:
I had the same problem with my phone not showing up on the computer, i know this may sound stupid but it works. I have 2 usb ports in the front of my computer and thats what i tired using for the phone it wouldn't work, so i plugged it in the back of the computer and now it works fine shows up everytime on my computer.. So i just bought a extra usb cord off ebay and have it constantly plugged in the back of the computer.
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Good point! My 2 front USB ports are useless for connecting my Epic as well.
I installed the Samsung drivers for win 7 x64 from Sammys site and no driver issues here. Maybe try uninstalling the drivers you already installed and start from scratch?
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I installed the Samsung drivers for win 7 x64 from Sammys site and no driver issues here. Maybe try uninstalling the drivers you already installed and start from scratch?
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I just got that step done through the driver program that Samsung installed, next I'm going to delete every trace in the Device Manager and try again with gTen's new methods.
After months of no problems yesterday I plugged my phone in for its nightly charge and noticed that it did not trigger the usual USB mount prompt.
I assumed it was Windows, but I have a bunch of machines and operating systems so I checked and they all has the same result. I switched out cords and did a complete power reset (taking battery out) no change.. The Phone charges through the USB but the computers say "unrecognized usb device" and cannot mount the phone as a drive and the phone does not offer the option as it used to???
I don't recall getting any sort of update that might have related to this?
This is the original T-mobile version
This happens to me all the time. However a restart of my phone and computer solves the issue.
DarkAgent said:
This happens to me all the time. However a restart of my phone and computer solves the issue.
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Neither of those things worked for me. There's gotta be something else to it.
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Neither of those things worked for me. There's gotta be something else to it.
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Go over changes you made to your phone recently.
only flashing another ROM worked for me... try reflash ur ROM, and wipe stuff if it doesnt work
DarkAgent said:
Go over changes you made to your phone recently.
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This all started when I manually installed 2.3.4. Everything else works fine. I'm not the only one with this problem.
roshga said:
only flashing another ROM worked for me... try reflash ur ROM, and wipe stuff if it doesnt work
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How do you do that without USB connectivity?
It is very frustrating, maybe a hardware fail? I see just enough post relating to the issue that makes me know it is real but not sure how to resolve,, Do we have to go to Best Buy? or is there a direct Samsung route?
This too happens to me. Whenever I plug it into my laptop on the top USB slot, it doesn't recognize it. If I plug it in on the bottom USB slot, it does. Not sure why. This, however, is only the case if I'm using a different USB cable than the one that came with the phone itself. Once again, not sure why.
Perhaps you are using an alternative USB? Or plugging in on the top? Not sure how I can help you more than that, sorry. Hope you find a fix!
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Have you tried a different USB cable?
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unforgiven512 said:
Have you tried a different USB cable?
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Using official OEM cable that came with the phone. And, again, USB worked fine until I manually installed 2.3.4.
Well It is off to Samsung for repair
After time on phone with them and a factory reset belief is that the usb connector is defective. BTW Best Buy just hands off to Samsung 1-800 #
So Back to a barely functional G-1 for a while, glad I could find it!
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This happens to me all the time. However a restart of my phone and computer solves the issue.
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Recently started happening to me, needed to transfer some files off, had to resort to dropbox etc.. rebooted phone+computer ,still not working.
Came good a few days later using same equipment, same cable,
Mysteriously fixed itself ?
Last week when I plugged my USB cable into my phone, it acted normal. The screen where it asks me if I want to connect USB came up, and I said yes. Everything was normal. It was baller.
Today, that doesn't happen. The screen doesn't come up and all the USB cable does is charge my phone, much like the wall plug does.
I've tried to install USB drivers, but they always require me to find "Android" in Device Manager, and it's never in there. The USB cable is doing nothing but charging my phone.
I managed to add a few mp3s over wifi, just to make sure that was actually working.
The phone is not rooted, (I was actually just going to try to do that) and everything is stock aside from a few apps.
I would really like some insight on this, please.
Do I need to get the phone replaced? Am I doing something wrong?
OK, I new to this, but thought I'd comment. If USB debugging is turned on, my seems to do that.
Settings -> Applications -> Developement -> USB Debugging
Beowins said:
I would really like some insight on this, please.
Do I need to get the phone replaced? Am I doing something wrong?
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Did you change your kernel recently?
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sagech said:
Did you change your kernel recently?
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I've done nothing to the phone. Only installed a few random apps.
sorry to hi-jack your thread!
mine does exactly the same, but all i've done is manually update to 2.3.4 and my usb hasn't worked since, like you i've tried installing the drivers and that's done nothing and its also in usb debugging.
i don't know what to do or how to get it to work again, all my searching on here and via Google don't bring up much
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Last week when I plugged my USB cable into my phone, it acted normal. The screen where it asks me if I want to connect USB came up, and I said yes. Everything was normal. It was baller.
Today, that doesn't happen. The screen doesn't come up and all the USB cable does is charge my phone, much like the wall plug does.
I've tried to install USB drivers, but they always require me to find "Android" in Device Manager, and it's never in there. The USB cable is doing nothing but charging my phone.
I managed to add a few mp3s over wifi, just to make sure that was actually working.
The phone is not rooted, (I was actually just going to try to do that) and everything is stock aside from a few apps.
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Put your phone into bootloader mode and try whether it detect or not?
And also, see if there is two line of words written
USB init start
USB init end ;-)
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Try another usb cord, and especially if you're using the samsung cord.
I had the same issue but when I switched to my Htc cord and my blacbkberry cord, everything worked as it should.
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plmiller0905 said:
Try another usb cord, and especially if you're using the samsung cord.
I had the same issue but when I switched to my Htc cord and my blacbkberry cord, everything worked as it should.
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ive just tried my works blackberry usb cable and it works fine now! very odd! thanks for your help
onslack said:
sorry to hi-jack your thread!
mine does exactly the same, but all i've done is manually update to 2.3.4 and my usb hasn't worked since, like you i've tried installing the drivers and that's done nothing and its also in usb debugging.
i don't know what to do or how to get it to work again, all my searching on here and via Google don't bring up much
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Wow, this is my post, verbatim. Any ideas or fixes?
plmiller0905 said:
Try another usb cord, and especially if you're using the samsung cord.
I had the same issue but when I switched to my Htc cord and my blacbkberry cord, everything worked as it should.
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Wow, you're right. My HTC cord worked. Thanks a lot.
I have had this happen on to me and have determined that a) the long cable that came with the NS4G is unreliable when used for USB connectivity with my PC. Shorter cables (even the shorter Samsung cable that came with my Epic) work consistently. I am guessing that this is a USB Bus power issue and some people will have better mileage than others using the stock cable, depending on their PC.
b) on a few occasions, it seems I've somehow borked the PC's USB controller and the PC wouldn't recongnize anything until I rebooted it.
window7 said:
Put your phone into bootloader mode and try whether it detect or not?
And also, see if there is two line of words written
USB init start
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I am getting the
USB control init
USB control init end
when in bootloader and when doing the i press vol up and vol down (triangle with android in it" with downloading below).
I would like to flash my phone to factory using Samsung Simple downloader for NS4G.
Background, installed Ice Cream but didn't have radio.img so used an SU to downgrade back to 2.3, did that but no mobile network. Then the phone updated to 2.3.6 and now getting that error. Any help will be appreciated.
I searched a few times on this forum and on google.com no luck. tried to adding a recovery file manually and zip it as update.zip and install from bootloader no luck. (use file explorer and dropbox to get files on to phone).
Thanks
Amar Bar
i had this issue a few months ago, turns out the usb port on the phone got defective so i could only charge it but not use the mass storage function, had to get it replaced under warranty! hope this isnt the issue with you guys
innisdb said:
i had this issue a few months ago, turns out the usb port on the phone got defective so i could only charge it but not use the mass storage function, had to get it replaced under warranty! hope this isnt the issue with you guys
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Was your phone rooted at any point before the issue? Not sure if they would fix it under warranty for me. I will call Samsung and see.
Thanks, I tried that but no luck. Still need to tried other cords. Also.
My phone developed this problem a couple days ago. I haven't done much to troubleshoot it...figured the port must be damaged.
(Not using the Samsung cable, btw)
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My phone developed this problem a couple days ago. I haven't done much to troubleshoot it...figured the port must be damaged.
(Not using the Samsung cable, btw)
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It might be the port. I will have to get a samsung cable and try it, but i doubt it will help. Plus i can tell Samsung I tried everything. (I looked a ticket, but they said get a samsung cord, they don't trust the Palm Pre cord i am using).
I had to downgrade to the HTC Hero until i get the phone fixed.
Ive been trying to root my KF for about a week and for some reason i am completely unable to do it even though i followed multiple guides to the exact letter, my problem i that no matter what i do my KF will not show up under "adb devices". so i would rele like some help if you guys r willing to give it, also dont feel the need to simplify things, definitely not a noob at this kind of stuff lol.
would suggest to uninstall all the old drivers:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539/en-us
then use this ones:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20855280&postcount=54
unplug and long power down the kf then power down (not restart) the computer sometimes helps (computer still thinks it's connected)
if computer is up again connect whithout powering the kf on (will do it itself)
allthrough i think you have gone through all this
no more ideas ...
Did you try using adb under linux ???
I just found the linux usb drivers much more stable than the windoof once.
But maybe uninstalling the old drivers under win will do the trick too.
Talk to vashypool in irc he could help u
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i got epically pissed yesterday as well because of something similar. tried on my wifes computer and it recognized but wouldn't on mine. mine also didn't recognize my phone or as a removable disk though so i figured something was screwed up. i just reinstalled windows, it was about at it's 6 month format time frame anyway and had the day off so figured why not lol
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i got epically pissed yesterday as well because of something similar. tried on my wifes computer and it recognized but wouldn't on mine. mine also didn't recognize my phone or as a removable disk though so i figured something was screwed up. i just reinstalled windows, it was about at it's 6 month format time frame anyway and had the day off so figured why not lol
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On my pc it won`t recognize to (Windows 7 x64 ) so i had to use my moms pc (Windows 7 x86 ) but i didnt have this issue when rooting my nexus s with the stock SDK drivers .
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I had a similar experience. The first time installing TWRP, it was stuck on the FFF boot screen. I installed the drivers but every time I connected the KF to the PC, it would not detect properly. Several connects and disconnects later it showed up properly in the device manager.
I have seen this before with other Android devices. Some computers USB bus can't detect certain USB devices. Annoying. Maybe try another computer?
Hello All,
I have an LG G2-D800 (ATT model). It is just turning off and on by itself. I have been using the phone from almost 1year and it worked very well.
This issue has started happening couple of days back, and switches off all of a sudden when in middle of something.
I have tried factory reset and also encrpted the phone for BYOD purposes at work.
I havent installed anything new recently and was working well all long except this problem. it has become almost unusable now.
ANy suggestions on how to fix it? I am on lollipop
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Hello All,
I have an LG G2-D800 (ATT model). It is just turning off and on by itself. I have been using the phone from almost 1year and it worked very well.
This issue has started happening couple of days back, and switches off all of a sudden when in middle of something.
I have tried factory reset and also encrpted the phone for BYOD purposes at work.
I havent installed anything new recently and was working well all long except this problem. it has become almost unusable now.
ANy suggestions on how to fix it? I am on lollipop
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Without a logcat or crash message there is not way to find the cause.
I am not sure how to get it, can you let me know how to do get it
There are plenty of tut around the site. Follow the rules and you will find it.
zelendel said:
There are plenty of tut around the site. Follow the rules and you will find it.
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I tried crash log app from google store, and it never sent me an email which I opted for with the crash log file
akusbharat said:
I tried crash log app from google store, and it never sent me an email which I opted for with the crash log file
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Update to this now. My phone is not responding at all when I press power, volume up and down buttons.
Also when I connect to windows PC, it says USB device not recognised. I have all the drivers installed. Cant get into recovery or download mode at all.
When I check for devices using fastboot or adb, it doesnt show the device connected. my phone might have been bricked, but do not know how that happened.
Searched so many forums and threads here, but nothing helped in my case.
Can someone please let me know what to do now.
Uhm dead motherboard? You didn't flash anything recently so it's not a brick probably. Take that thing to the service if it's not reacting on pressing physical buttons. I wouldn't have high hopes for it tho.
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Your phone doesn't turn on at all, right?
MilanStojkovic said:
Uhm dead motherboard? You didn't flash anything recently so it's not a brick probably. Take that thing to the service if it's not reacting on pressing physical buttons. I wouldn't have high hopes for it tho.
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Your phone doesn't turn on at all, right?
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Yes, doesnt turn on at all now..... it turned on when I tried over the weekend, battery was almost zero , so it came on ( I think so)
When connected to a PC, it is showing up as "QHSUSB_BULK"
From my reading online, it means hard brick..... I cant get into recovery,download modes or anything at all now..... definitely not motherboard
Can someone tell me how to fix this phone.
"fastboot devices" doesnt return any device
ADB or fastboot doesnt detect the phone at all.... just "waiting for device....." message
Any help here please?
Can you get on team viewer?
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After going through your post, i'm 70% sure it's a hardware problem. Take your device to nearest service center and them know your issue.