So somewhat concerned right now (I mean not reallly if its a bad phone It gets returned) First off the ringtones weren't working never had this happen on any android Ive ever had. So I did I reset and this seemed to fix this, however now my 32gb microsd card isn't recognized. Frustrated
confirmed my 32gb card got someone damaged while in this phone. Granted I've had the card a while and maybe it just gave up the ghost but still. Got a 128gb black friday card for 24 bucks (actuallly two). So hopefully this was a one time deal
Hope your troubles are over. My Sprint V20 has been flawless and I'm in love with my phone again. Was a huge Samsung Note 3, 4 & 7 fan. The 4 gps died. Known issue with gps antenna contacts. The 3 went up in smoke and the 7 got returned because of recall.
I would give your v20 one more shot. Strike 3 and I would exchange it.
SD card now isn't recognized did you encrypt the SD storage?
Had issue with V20 and i bought off Ebay thinking it was factory. 2 memory cards were giving me problems. Take photos, save to SD card and if i rebooted, pics were corrupted. Formatted each card again, didn't matter. I finally did a factory reset of the phone. No issues since, kinda extreme measure but it worked. No further issues with SD cards.
I've had an SD card suddenly go corrupted and break unexpectedly. Once it happened while booting up my G4 for the first time. On using new phone always try to enable it in settings/storage first. If that doesn't help format it via Android or on PC. I had to wipe/format my SD card before this phone would detect it.
I've tried opening the SD card on other phones and my computer it is not recognized. I got a pop up while it was in the V20 saying sdcard not ejected properly or something. I"m guessing this is when it quit (thats what I get for not backing the pictures up right). I have a huawei watch and one of the settings between the phone and watch was causing my ringtone not to work (fixed). So far rapid recharge works great, finding usb c cords a little hard to come by and I just missed the [email protected] earbud promotion by like 3 days. I'd love to root this for wifi hotspot but other than that this phone is really nice.
I'm on Sprint. Got the V20. Worked well for a bit, then kept freezing on me requiring daily battery pulls. After exhausting all troubleshooting, I finally exchanged the phone for another one. So far this new one is smooth as butter.
When I re-installed apps, I did the painstaking effort of downloading directly from the Play store instead of transferring from the old phone.
My old phone was a lemon. Get a new one if you can. It is a good one when it works.
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Hope your troubles are over. My Sprint V20 has been flawless and I'm in love with my phone again. Was a huge Samsung Note 3, 4 & 7 fan. The 4 gps died. Known issue with gps antenna contacts. The 3 went up in smoke and the 7 got returned because of recall.
I would give your v20 one more shot. Strike 3 and I would exchange it.
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Same here, I was on the Samsung wagon for the past several years (Since the first Note), and I just got rid of my Note 5 to go with the Sprint LG V20 and it's amazing.. The only thing I have a gripe about, is that in my house I don't get LTE throughout my home and in my living room my phone goes into 3G mode.. :/ my Note never did that with AT&T but I guess that's a Sprint thing I'll have to deal with for now..
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So for some odd reason, my S3 loves to delete the videos and pictures I take with my camera. To test this theory last night I took some random pix of my car. They showed up in my gallery and I could view them perfectly, so I close out and go to my home screen, and turn my screen off. 15 minutes later I go back into my gallery, and nothing..... None of the pix I took were in there, and nowhere on the card or phone. This POS phone has deleted countless priceless memories of mine, from my aunt's birthday, to my father's funeral...
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So for some odd reason, my S3 loves to delete the videos and pictures I take with my camera. To test this theory last night I took some random pix of my car. They showed up in my gallery and I could view them perfectly, so I close out and go to my home screen, and turn my screen off. 15 minutes later I go back into my gallery, and nothing..... None of the pix I took were in there, and nowhere on the card or phone. This POS phone has deleted countless priceless memories of mine, from my aunt's birthday, to my father's funeral...
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Bad SD card?
Highly doubt it. I save all photos and videos to the phone
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Bad SD card?
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Are you saving them to your external SD card or the phone's storage?
If external. Most likely culprit is just a bad/old/failed/corrupt(take your pick) card. My last two Patriot cards bit the bullet way too early in their life.
Or maybe an issue specific to a rom your using???
I know it isn't a permanent solution, but if you enable online backup to Dropbox or Google Drive then your pics will at least be saved there until you can figure out what's going on with your phone.
That's what it looks like I'm going to have to do. Also my stuff is saved to the phone, and not the card
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If you are running stock then I would go get it exchanged. If not stock then go back to stock and test
Well the screen on my streak finally bought it, the PDMI port had broken last year around october time and had been stuck on same baseband with issues since that time, so its onwards and upwards!
I am moving to the Galaxy Note 2, have a N7105 coming.
Thank you to all developers, rom and kernel, you guys rock, and made the device have a shelf life far longer than I ever expected.
Things I resented towards the end, almost everytime someone called me, I would answer and they could not hear me, and had to hang up and call again!!! What a pain. The sheer fragility and pointlessness of using a PDMI port and the poor battery life on the rom I was stuck on.
Too all those who carry on using the device, good luck to you and enjoy, Dell never really appreciated the hardware they had created, and never really understood how flexible it could have been, ie, HD over the port, and access to the internal sd from the beginning.
Too all of you who haven't done it, gain access to the internal sd and put the fastest microsd card you can in there, 8gb is a good size, its well worth it I promise you.
Thanks to all and maybe I will see you in the note 2 forums.
I'm about to buy a used Nexus 4 off of craigslist to use in Taiwan and Japan and possibly through T-mobile in the US later this year. It should work for all of those, right?
Anything in particular I should inspect when I meet up with the person? Stuff unique to Nexus 4 maybe, but also stuff in general, since I've never bought a used phone before!
Thanks a bunch guys!
To be hones, stay away from the N4. Before I bought the N4 I had a Nexus S and was happy with it.
In my opinion there is no "perfect" phone, but the N4 has critical bug: e.g. the N4 will stuck in "deep-sleep"-mode over night if you don't plug in the charger, ALTHOUGH it was fully charged.
I had this bug not only over night. Sometimes it happened when I had this phone in my pocket.
This is DEADLY when you are using the phone as a alarm glock and have exams and I am not the only one with this problem.
I also had other problems like bootloops after random reboots. I tried stock and custom roms and kernels.
I don't know if the N5 has similar problems. If not (I hope so), I would recommend you the N5.
# EDIT: About 2 month ago, I changed the SIM-Card and configured it. After I finished configuring the SIM-Card I put my old back on my N4 -> got stuck in booloop again.
Check for dead spots and ghost touches, its a pretty common on the 2nd edition of of the G4's.
My Nexus 4 is currently facing these problems.
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To be hones, stay away from the N4. Before I bought the N4 I had a Nexus S and was happy with it.
In my opinion there is no "perfect" phone, but the N4 has critical bug: e.g. the N4 will stuck in "deep-sleep"-mode over night if you don't plug in the charger, ALTHOUGH it was fully charged.
I had this bug not only over night. Sometimes it happened when I had this phone in my pocket.
This is DEADLY when you are using the phone as a alarm glock and have exams and I am not the only one with this problem.
I also had other problems like bootloops after random reboots. I tried stock and custom roms and kernels.
I don't know if the N5 has similar problems. If not (I hope so), I would recommend you the N5.
# EDIT: About 2 month ago, I changed the SIM-Card and configured it. After I finished configuring the SIM-Card I put my old back on my N4 -> got stuck in booloop again.
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Unfortunately, my budget won't allow for a Nexus 5, so Nexus 4 is where it's at for me. I'm going to be buying the N4 for $150, so the N5 would be almost double of that.
Looking around on google, I can find some, but not too many people with the deep sleep freezing bug. I wonder how common it is.
The deep freeze bug isn't that common, nor is it something I've ever had a personal problem with.
One thing to watch out for: as you can see by this board the Nexus is a very customizable device. Make sure you understand what you're getting and if it is truly stock or if the seller installed any custom kernels, patches, etc. Mine for example is running the stock ROM but is rooted w/ custom recovery and has Franco's kernel, an old modem to enable LTE, and the Dalvik optimization patches. The extras aren't apparent at first glance. Asking for an assurance that the phone is truly stock or that seller lists any changes isn't unreasonable. Getting a screen cap of the setup/phone screen might be useful too or at least a look at it if you pick up locally.
For hardware, it's an all glass phone so watch for scratches and cracks. The power button takes abuse so make sure it works properly. Camera is a common complaint so maybe snap a photo of two with it. Finally, you want a clean IMEI so for a Craigslist sale I'd want to see the phone working on a network before I took possession. Ideally seller will have it working, you check it, then they remove their SIM and factory reset it in front of you.
I bought my N4 used off of eBay for under $200 and couldn't be happier. Good luck.
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I'm about to buy a used Nexus 4 off of craigslist to use in Taiwan and Japan and possibly through T-mobile in the US later this year. It should work for all of those, right?
Anything in particular I should inspect when I meet up with the person? Stuff unique to Nexus 4 maybe, but also stuff in general, since I've never bought a used phone before!
Thanks a bunch guys!
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First, I am going to say I agree with everything @rhavasy said... That being said, my honest opinion for the price of used Nexus 4, you may want to consider the Moto G 16GB GPE (Google Play Edition) for $199, you will also have a warranty and no worries that it has been modified or abused significantly (I once knew a guy that bragged he had overclocked his phone to the point it nearly burned his hand, then he restored it and sold it as "stock")
At first glance it looks inferior to the N4 in most respects, and technically speaking for the most part that is correct, but my son needed a new phone recently and the N5 and other GPE models were way out of his budget at the time, and Moto G was so well reviewed we got one, and it is amazing... it is on par with the N4 in all real world uses, including gaming, plus the battery life is easily double my N4.
If you really are set on a N4, be careful, otherwise, consider the Moto G... Plus the "water resistant" feature of G makes it a pretty amazing phone, check out some of the Moto G water test videos on Youtube from reputable review sites, 30 minutes immersion in water well powered up and no ill effects.
There are many horror stories with used N4s. Because it was a pretty highend phone for a low price at the time many people who bought it didn't take proper care of it so the market is flooded with damaged units with some very nasty scratches. I saw one once, mint condition with its original box and everything yet the screen looked as if someone had taken a fork to it, with a hammer.
Still an excellent phone which should work for you for years:good:
If the guy has the phone insured he can always claim it stolen after he sells it to you and then you'll have a barred phone, a danger with buying any 2nd hand phone privately.
I've had my nexus 4 for 16months and is still perfect, buy the phone and enjoy it
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I still love my N4. I have had it for about a year, and rooted and installed a LOT of stuff, absolutely NO problems. I don't see anything wrong. You should get it.
I've had my N4 for about 2 years. It's the best phone I've ever had.
yes, nothing wrong with nexus 4.excellent phone.
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After updating to 6.0.1 (Alexandar rom - which is pretty much stock + TW) from the 5.1.1
- worked ok for 1 week but used to get constant freezes and reboots
- suddenly one day - it became unbearable
- came up with eMMC failure
- could not flash with ODIN
- would boot up occasionally - but then after a few hours would go into download mode showing ODIN failure with eMMC write failure.
- Occasionally would flash new rom and would work - struggled with this for a couple of weeks, but needed constantly taking out the battery and keep pressing the power button.
- tried multiple factory reset, erasing the SD card, changing sim etc etc etc.....
- Tried PIT flashing - failed a few times, but ultimately went throught -> phone was pretty much useless, constant reboots
- was nearly giving up - thinking it would be a NAND failure
I realised that after installing stock rom with android recovery - it used to function properly. Once TWRP was installed, it would become slow and get random reboots and freezes.
Installed latest firmware using Kies - 6.0.1; phone seems to work a lot better.
Using odin - reflashed stock 5.1.1, rebooted and then installed TWRP - everything seem to work smoothly!!!
Installed Alexandar ROM ver 2.7 - phone is back to smooth functioning.
has anyone faced similar problems??
Sounds like it a problem with TWRP. Have you tried installing the latest version of TWRP on your device?
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Sounds like it a problem with TWRP. Have you tried installing the latest version of TWRP on your device?
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Yes - same with all old and new versions
Post wrong..delete...thz.
I had the same problem.. Contacted samsung and they swap my mainboard...
I think you have contact samsung for it..
Yes I've gone through 2 note 4s so far. And people complain about lg. Second one failed today. The emmc lasts about a year then dies at the exact October
My God! This news are scary! Same happened with Note 3 for me. If this happens with this one too then I am out of Samsung for good.
same here...after exactly two years. BOOM. emmc boot fail. I'm out of guaranty now.. and now my phone is at a center specialized care who will try to regenerate the motherboard without replacing it
same, emmc failure ratio seems to be quite high with note 4s
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same, emmc failure ratio seems to be quite high with note 4s
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I wonder if one could replace the faulty chip on the mainboard...have 2 Note's, a third in spares with a faulty mainboard and another good replacement mainboard in case one of the our good note's may need them!
Came across this on my S3 where overnight I lost all data as the mainboard failed. Still cannot get my head around that a giant company like scamsung can continue producing crap like this and getting away with it.
They even have the nerves to ask prices at the same insane level as the gay-phones.
Who's willing to fork out 650€ and plus for a device like this and a year later its main memory chip fails?!
The only reason I am hanging onto my Note 4 is for the S-pen function. My Lenovo Zuk1 performs equally if not better than the flagship Note 4 and has only cost me around 200€...does not have the S-pen but come with dual SIM. I will never buy a new Samsung if I ever buy another Samsung, lots of cheaper alternatives that do the job equally.
edit. Sorry I misundersood your post, but I am leaving my reply as it is. Yeah it is sad when you pay so much for a phone and it fails after 2 years when the warranty is gone : (
I think the replacement of emmc can be done by skilled professional (only). You can buy emmc chips, but that would be very difficult repair. This is why changing the whole mobo swap is the most popular solution. Btw, I thinking about buying chinese n9100 mobo with dual slim slot. It is probably the cheapest you can get and it looks like maybe it would fit in n910x, maybe somebody can confirm this.
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There is quite a lot of N4s with this issue on ebay nowadays, people buy them thinking they will root it, flash a cool rom and it will work flawlessly. Just another thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/note-4-freezing-restarting-t3348821
You are right...bought one of them with a "non working" display on ebay. Display remained black, on reboot the blue light would come on including audio...phone was recognised when connected to my laptop. Replaced the display only to confirm the mainboard was ready for the bin. There are several similar listings with so called broken displays while in reality these phones have mainboard issues...I stay well clear from Note 4's now, mine is not even 6 months old while the Note 4 from my wife is now 1.5 years old. Guess that's the one who will benefit first from my "spare" mainboard although I am not sure if the N910P ( American models) are affected as the N910F.
Here is a 100% hardware fix for this issue that anyone can do with no tools or special equipment.
It really works. Give it a try. ?
https://youtu.be/jLPHWtb0StI
Yes I've moved to a newer handset (Umidigi F1) but still had a thing for the Idol 3 besides being a nice audio player, AAMOF it was still running great with MM Lineage. I was going to lend it to my niece who "misplaced" her phone, but when trying to pull out the old Sim card, the tray got stuck and as much as I tried it wouldn't come out so I had to pull it out, and out it came... along with two tiny pieces of metal. So this not only killed the SD card, but now it doesn't recognize any SD card o sim. Oh well.
I liked this model so much that I bought this second one when my first idol 3 was stolen and got a BLU life One as replacement.
Still have both boxes though, the first one still has the original accessories untouched.
Thanks to all who helped developing ROMs and all.
David C.