I recieved this phone yesterday so plugged in to pc and was offered 2 updates.
The first went fine but the second crashed with an error showing in Zune.
Managed to get it to reboot and it now shows 7.0.7392.0 but is very unstable, it will reboot itself after a while and it doesn't matter what program I am using, all seem to make it crash.
It will get stuck at the "Samsung Omina 7" screen unless I take the battery out for 5 mins
I also can have problems turning the device off, sometimes it will just come back on and refuse to be turned off !
I am thinking its either overheating or corrupted software ?
Any ideas as what I could try before it goes back ?
Flash stock ROM, the update went wrong appearantly.
Try to recover in Zune maybe first
I was able to recover/roll back to previous firmware with Zune but it didn't fix the problems.
Replacement on its way for Friday
Thanks for your replies
It's your problem,not phone 's,friend.what I puzzle,why donot update to mongo beta?it runs stable and you will have a better experience.and how to flash stock rom or roll back to 7004,you should have a look at tutorial threads.
I now realise that the update failed due to the phone
crashing during the process.
I have updated the new phone and her sisters without a hitch this time
Don't want to play with Roms etc as I have had enough that on my
Galaxy S !
it seems like my problem .. I can't use my phone couse it's usually shut down by itself..
it's a hardware issue .. return it back and get a new one before you leave the place like I did ..
Hey everyone!
This is my very first " decent" post on xda even tho i do browse alot and read.
in ex when i rooted and changed roms to test out in my galaxy gio.. this place is truly a lifesaver and essence of everything what android is about.
now here is my deal.
recently ive ordered my usa imported nexus 7 from the swedish bazula.se
and was happy and everything. ive been reading alot about freezes and screenproblems, luckely i have not had those problems.. however,
yesterday ive decided to unlock and rood my n7 with the Nexus root toolkit v1.5.3.
installed the pda drivers and it all went well indeed without any problems.
exept now afterwards when everything went crazy.
after rooting, i couldnt open my f-secure mobile security app, no error msgs nothing,
also, as soon as started superuser app, it did quit after a second.
youtube videos are impossible to watch, it would stop the videos every 3 seconds. same with the games. freezes a second and meanwhile freazing, it brought up the game manu.. so impossible to play.
now, by that time it was really frustating and ive decided to install JB 4.1.2 that just got spitted out as a msg from the system that its avaiable.
root access was still there after the upgrade but in functionallity, no different, my problems did remained as above.
so i decided to do a factory reset. and problems still did remain.. so did the root. finally i did unroot the phone and reinstalled JRO03D and everything works again.. so does anyone of ya any idea wtf was going on? what could be the problem?
now should i try to update again to 4.1.2 without root?
thnks in advance
Just want to say Hi to all who contribute to this forum, which had helped me so much over the years of searching for a better experience with my electronic devices
This is more a heads up than a question so I'll keep it brief. Last couple of days, I had issues buying apps from playstore, but no issue downloading free apps. Whenever I tried to buy something I was receiving a message that my order cannot be completed. Yesterday I finally decided to flash a custom rom and after unlocking my device, I had to flash the stock rom again, since my device stuck in boot loop. When everything was restored on stock rom, I updated manually "TalkBack" and "Chrome" and the issue repeated. I flashed one more time and this time didn't performed update to "TalkBack" from google. Now everything is fine with purchasing. Does anyone else noticed same thing?
Verizon Note 3 here, I received the Lollipop ota today and thought no harm in taking it as I was already stuck without root on 4.4.4.
It worked ok for the first couple minutes, then a reboot, then same thing, about 5 minutes and a reboot. Sometimes ~2 minutes, seems using it in any situation made the reboots happen. I did a factory reset thinking that would clear things up. Unfortunately now it is even worse, as it's rebooting anywhere from the first touch to the screen, to about 15 seconds of activity, literally dozens of reboots.
I downloaded the update on my pc and installed via Odin hoping that the ota was just corrupted or some bad luck like that. Nothing changed at all.
It will idle after booting just fine, I just can't do much of anything, every touch of the screen feels like a roll of the dice. Every few reboots or so I can make it to settings maybe but haven't been able to actually change much of anything, not that it would seem to matter here.
I've flashed via Odin twice, cleared the cashe many times, factory reset 3 or 4 times. Am I screwed here? What else to try?
*UPDATE* I flashed back to 4.4.4 with Odin and no more issues. It appears that my device alone is completely incompatible with the new firmware.
I should also note that I tried airplane mode, safe mode, and removing the sd card with no improvements.
After hours of messing with this thing and nearly giving up, not half an hour after I post here for help, I seem to have found a solution, although hopefully not a permanent one. The problem was happening when I would touch the screen, not scrolling ever, but making selections. On a whim I turned off sound and bam, no crashes.
I would still love it if someone had some insight about this problem, or better yet a solution.
I'm not sure yet if it is just the keypress sound that is killing it, or all sounds. I never did have any issues with the stock keyboard clicks now that I think of it, only the menu press sound. In any case it's not every time it made the sound, just half the time or so. Anything anybody could add to this would be appreciated.
*Edit* Not a solution, but it did help.
Well it's not as stable as I'd hoped. More like before the first factory reset now, but still not good at all. The various sounds definitely trigger crashes quickly(menu options, volume pings, mp3 songs from sd card), but regular silenced menu presses do sometimes as well still. Phone also bootloops several times often before it can get booted stable and 100% always crashes immediately if I try to unlock the screen in the first 5-10 seconds after booting up. Not sure if I'll be able to call or text as it's too late to test that atm. I'll update tomorrow, any insight appreciated.
I would say a bad download but I don't remember if ODIN checks MD5 sums (pretty sure it does). I would do a full wipe and reflash the stock image with odin
I am 100% stock not rooted never been rooted 5.0 vzw and I have had a couple of reboots. Never ever had one on this phone before. My old note 3 was rooted but I got this replacement after the root exploits had all been closed.
ehh not all have been closed
What is the root exploit for Verizon Note 3 with 5.0?
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What is the root exploit for Verizon Note 3 with 5.0?
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None at the current time but CVE-2014-8609 seems like it could be some use
I spoke too soon when I said the phone was usable now. At best 5 minutes of light use as anything seems to crash it now. I did get a fresh image and used it with Odin with exactly the same result which makes me think its my phones hardware or something. Just seems crazy that it was working just fine before the update. The reason I pushed to 4.4.4 and lost root is because my phone suddenly started an issue where it would crash when making or receiving calls. It wasn't caused by any new apps or anything, just out of nowhere. I tried everything then updated as a last resort, carelessly I went to 4.4.4 instead of staying at 4.4.2 and lost chance of root, but it solved the problem I was having. I wonder if the issue is related somehow.
I was able to odin back to 4.4.4 and it's working fine so far, I assumed that you would not be able to revert back like the last ota and just tried it as a nothing to lose last effort. This is very important news to anybody that is having major issues with 5.0. Maybe, just maybe I'll try it again if they make an update patch for reported issues.
But for now, 4.4.4 it is for me.
VZW Note 3 update to Lollipop
I just finished the Lollipop update and my phone is working great for the past 30 minutes. Seems a little slower then usual but have had no issues besides my phone locking up after downloading the update, may have been due to my phone running down to 14%, but after removing the battery for 20 secs and putting it back on, phone came back on, I plugged into charger and started the update. Will post later if I have any issues.
I have been trying unsuccessfully through odin to downgrade but it keeps failing in odin, I downloaded the official firmware from sammobile.
Just curious if u r tried reinstalling newer odin? Try different USB port and cable. At this point maybe even try different pc if u have access to 1
I have a sprint galaxy s4. It has been rooted, the Sim was unlocked. I recently upgraded to CM12.1, and I has some issues, so I decided to try a different ROM.
This is probably where I went wrong. I figured, heck, let's update the radio/modem while we're at it. So I went through ODIN, tried to update, and it never took. The download always failed when flashing. Eventually it would only load into the download bootloader. It was late, so I just charged the phone and left it alone. The next morning, it loaded back into cm12.1. I decided to forget about the radio/modem, and installed the new optimized cm12.1 ROM.
Now, whenever I try to use anything with audio or the microphone, the audiofx force closes. Or on another ROM, DSP manager force closes. I cant hear or speak in phone calls, YouTube and music players say they can't play the audio/video.
I currently have baseband ending in mdc which is what I had to use to unlock the Sim. When i tried and failed to update the baseband i was trying mf9. I don't know why, really...
I have tried 3 different versions of a 5.1.1 ROM, all with the same result. No audio, phone calls are useless.
Please help! I'm not sure what to do from here.