So 6 months down the line I have reached a time where something has gone wrong with the phone.
Unfortunately I am not into rooting and In general happy with the phones capabilities.
However after the 4.1.1update its been sticking and acting weird. The keyboard can never remember the default setting I put it in, lockscreen shortcuts cannot be deleted after a while, and screen types or number cannot be deleted either. Touchwiz crashes and sometimes it fixes itself by hard resetting, sometimes it doesn't. The gmail wasn't updating yesterday either nor I was given the option to re-enable sync. The email client kept counting the emails after deletion of the read ones as -1....
God knows how many times I had to redo my contacts- calendar, settings etc... because of course no backup program is actually that good.
I have contacted samsung and they want to see the phone and decide if it can be repaired. I'm going to be left without a phone which is a tool for my work. Do you think I ought to get a loan phone or replacement?
Is there anything I can try before I send it that might work?
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Gmail had some problems over the past couple of days.
If your deem it necessary, send it in for diagnostics, by all means. They will reflash your phone with new software and see what's what.
Thanks for that
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after sending the phone to samsung, i am told that they updated the firmware, so the problems were eliminated.
I am waiting to pick up the phone tomorrow, so hopefully it will be back in business.
in the meantime i have also bought the front panel and back cover along with some assorted parts to make my white phone into pebble blue. Cool stuff! Dont know how to root the phone,but im good with changing the appearance of it!:laugh:
just an update on this.
i got the phone back with all they have done is upgraded to 4.1.2
the phone once i start to put my info back on gets stuck on the following areas:
1) deleting screens on touchwiz, the screen taken to the dust bin, crashes touchwiz and are not able to delete it.
2) Default keyboard turns back to samsung on every restart, even though you set a different default. This was also found to be true from samsung technical team!!!
3) Lockscreen options delete, also crushes touchwiz.
What i usually do after each hard reset is to eliminate the animations(all off) as i want the phone to go faster, i there is speculation that this may be the cause. I have now used up to .5 animation and so far its ok.
However the default keyboard is the only annoying thing now, and i cannot get rid of the samsung keyboard as i dont know how, and im reluctant to root just for that at risk of warranty!
All this has started after the 4.1.1 upgrade by the way,
and as i went and bought a second S3 today, brown one which looks fab, it did EXACTLY the same thing! so i returned it of course.
If others test it similarly and the same things happen, maybe samsung may need to log this as a bug and issue an update in the future.
1. My S3 did not crash when I deleted 5 pages of screens.
2. I love the default keyboard.
3. Never test that.
not had any of those issues, just tested them once more to see and all works fine
Ive swapped and changed keyboards many many times and never once had an issue with the default one being changed.
Can only suggest you send it back to them making sure they know they didnt fix it last time
Clearing data for Touchwiz launcher can fix the launcher crashes.
Would that also clear my settings?
Also how can it be that 2 completely different phones in manufacturing times had the exact same problem?
Those who tried the above, did you take the animations to off?
skimminstones said:
not had any of those issues, just tested them once more to see and all works fine
Ive swapped and changed keyboards many many times and never once had an issue with the default one being changed.
Can only suggest you send it back to them making sure they know they didnt fix it last time
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Unfortunately the samsung technicians are at a loss themselves. My s3 on 4.0.4 had no such issues
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Unfortunately the samsung technicians are at a loss themselves. My s3 on 4.0.4 had no such issues
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so get them to swap the phone under warranty. They cant find/fix the problem, the problems you have arent generic to the phone so they should give you a working model
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so get them to swap the phone under warranty. They cant find/fix the problem, the problems you have arent generic to the phone so they should give you a working model
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What good will it make if they change the phone? Since a completely new phone does exactly the same. Should I be changing every phone until I get one that works? How long will that take?
I was betting that a new phone would work and hence I bought the new one which I returned immediately of course as id had the same issues. This is why it makes me think it may be a firmware bug
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What good will it make if they change the phone? Since a completely new phone does exactly the same. Should I be changing every phone until I get one that works? How long will that take?
I was betting that a new phone would work and hence I bought the new one which I returned immediately of course as id had the same issues. This is why it makes me think it may be a firmware bug
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well as not every phone is doing the same it would probably do some good but its upto you.
as i said earlier, not every phone has this faults, yours is the only one ive ever heard of with those faults. Its certainly not a firmware bug as its never happened on mine
Have you done exactly what I have above?
Jelly bean 4.1.2 or 4.1.1, animations to off, and also use a different keyboard and after setting the default see if samsung keyboard comes back as default?
I find it very hard to believe that I went and bought a random phone that once I did the above it immediately reacted as my previous one.And at the same time a technician from samsung also verifying that the samsung keyboard always flips back to default as well!!! The default only changes if you restart the phone, not on the fly
I cannot play a game with samsung to have the phone back and forth as its a daily tool for me. Unless I get a second handset as a replacement I cannot see any point me sending phones back and forth.
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Have you done exactly what I have above?
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yes...as posted above
skimminstones said:
not had any of those issues, just tested them once more to see and all works fine
Ive swapped and changed keyboards many many times and never once had an issue with the default one being changed.
Can only suggest you send it back to them making sure they know they didnt fix it last time
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still, if you dont want to believe me and think that every single gs3 out there is faulty its upto you i guess. Personally id be getting the phone swapped but thats just me
Thanks for verifying that at least your phone works fine. I will have to see what I have to do. So far I bet samsung wont do anything and according to them they have to try and fix it 3 times before they offer a replacement for it. What a shame
SGS III no usb connection only charges
Guys,
I bought my SIII on Monday(17th)....plugged it in my laptop and it worked fine.....But for the last couple of days whenever i plug it using the usb cable it only charges and the pc doesn't even recognize it. I tried checking this through the device manager but still it does not show any device connected to the computer.
I've done a factory reset and still no hope.
Can anyone help me out here ????? this is really frustrating....
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Guys,
I bought my SIII on Monday(17th)....plugged it in my laptop and it worked fine.....But for the last couple of days whenever i plug it using the usb cable it only charges and the pc doesn't even recognize it. I tried checking this through the device manager but still it does not show any device connected to the computer.
I've done a factory reset and still no hope.
Can anyone help me out here ????? this is really frustrating....
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Why do want to connect it ? If you to transfer some data you can use airdroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid
We only have what we give
A small update on this.
Samsung has received my phone and I hope they replace the motherboard for this issue. I'm on i9305 now and I will be selling the s3 once its back from the repair.
I also bought a secondhand s3 and it didn't have any issues with these glitches. For all I know these could be issues of a dying motherboard of this sudden death issue.
Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
arnele said:
Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
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I'm just going to let you know right now... You're not going to get support in an official device thread for a clone.
I`m sorry you got scammed mate, try to get your money back or file a police report for fraude if the device was advertised as a genuine Galaxy S5.
There is no support for this (also not by the manufacturer) device and even finding a working rom wil be very difficult.
Good luck and hope you learn from this, if it sounds to be too good to be true, it usualy is
Sad to say, but he's pretty much out of luck. Scammers know they're selling a phone that's not genuine, so chances of getting money back are slim to none. Police also don't care. If you bought it with cash just take this as a life lesson, because there's pretty much nothing else you can do.
Hello, i have been bought two samsung galaxhy s5 900f after some time i have two problems one of the phones the screen touch dont works....and in the other one the screen start to be black and thats it. someone can help me please with this problem? thanks.
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We'd need a lot more information to even begin to guess at what your issues are. Are you saying that both were working fine and without any obvious event e.g. dropping the phone, harsh handling, etc that they have failed?
Also the meaning of "the screen start to be black" is uncertain at best. Can you elaborate and describe that in more detail? Screenshots usually help as well. There is a built in hardware test on the S5 that you can access to help determine if the screen is responding to touch or not, screen brightness and so forth
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If no apparent cause is apparent, you should back up any data you wish to save then try installing a full, stock firmware image (with the Odin software), followed by a factory data reset (from the Settings menu) to confirm that the issues are not a software issue.
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No I Buy two cellphones one of them the touch not work but the buttons are working....the phone dont dropped or something its new and the other one is the screen start to be dark and thats it....i dont know why hte cellphones are new...
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Broke the screen on my I337 *AGAIN*. It`s an easy enough task to replace it (done every galaxy I`ve ever owned, plus my LG G Pro. Yes, I`m rough on devices) but I`m not really feeling the $80 for a new screen and LCD for a second time, what with the thing being three generations old and all.
I`ve got some data store on it that I need, contacts and whatnot, and with the screen not responsive, I can`t get it to unlock, let alone into it to back anything up to the card. Is there a way to get into it with my laptop? I`ll put a screen on it if I absolutely must but I`d rather not.
If you have ever enabled USB Debugging in the Developer section of the phone you are very lucky as you can use ADB (DL) with the appropriate sgh-i337 driver for windows. Using this you can grab any file you want from your phone. Just check for a tutorial on how to do this. This will def work.
Otherwise check if Smart Switch would do the job. And I would recommend downloading the driver from the soulution i gave before then install Smart Switch - So it doesnt have to find the driver and all since its present (or maybe it wouldn't download at all). Second method, im not that 100% sure if it will succeed.
Thank you, that should help a lot. Debugging is generally activated the day I get a new phone because I just can`t seem to leave the ROM alone for long LOL.
Glad I could help you
hi there
i want to be sure that my mobo is dead, so i'll describe my situation and hope that someone in here will help me to revive my precious note4.
my phone worked just fine until 2 weeks ago, then it started to bootloop whenever it got too hot and got back to normal state after being shut down for a few minutes.
i never got any emmc errors, so i figured out that maybe a fresh start would help. it had MM already, so i flashed it with the latest firmware i could find (N910FXXU1DRF1) and wiped it... the phone worked after this, but the problem wasn't fixed, and unfortunately, it died the day after.
now (and for the last whole week) i cant turn it on no matter what, and even when pluging chargers to the phone it doesnt respond. i've tried using another battery, but it didnt help (also, the battery works fine with other phones).
i've tried to get into download mode/recovery, but... no respond to that either. pressing the power button for long periods with and without the battery also had no impact.
btw, the phone would usually got hot on the top-right area of the screen, where the sd-card should be placed. (and i dont use an sd-card)
any help, advice or diagnosis will be welcomed
It looks like eMMC problem - he ded - do some more reading just to make sure that this is the case.
If you want a new motherboard, here are the options:
a. 910F or any similar Snapdragon - u don't know how long it's gonna last + AOSP ROM's up to Android 8 (for now).
b. 910A - bootloader locked - afaik is not possible to get a custom recovery & custom ROM, but I might be wrong + plus above
c. 910C or any Exynos - forum still active with solid options for custom ROM's - even a 7.0 TouchWizz ROM - go check it.
If you have $$$ go for another more recent phone. If you don't have money for a more recent phone (new or second hand) then - if I'll be you - I would choose the Exynos (910C) motherboard.
The only problem is - good, reliable source for the motherboard.
I have a 910C - it's rock solid and very happy with it.
Any decision is totally yours, read and learn so that you can live with the consequences of your freedom to choose what's best for you. Please, don't blame me for it afterwards.
BTW - you can try also here https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/unbrick-samsung-galaxy-note-4-sm-n910w8-t3249970