ok,so here we go ,i gave this phone to my partner after i got a pixel 2,i wiped it twice,i just put a blank sd card in it for her turned on the phone and all my photos are back in phone?????wtf is this all about,anyone ever had this and if so how did you solve it,thanks for reading,
whooaaaaaaaaaa refreshed it and there are videos from 4 years ago ,wtf is happening ,never had this with any phone
tonybhoy said:
ok,so here we go ,i gave this phone to my partner after i got a pixel 2,i wiped it twice,i just put a blank sd card in it for her turned on the phone and all my photos are back in phone?????wtf is this all about,anyone ever had this and if so how did you solve it,thanks for reading,
whooaaaaaaaaaa refreshed it and there are videos from 4 years ago ,wtf is happening ,never had this with any phone
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The phone loves you so much doesn't wanna leave you after the update battle you had hahaha
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The phone loves you so much doesn't wanna leave you after the update battle you had hahaha
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freaky stuff,don't know how it has got all that stuff,i don't even have some of it on my phone,thankfully i never sold it,going to try and wipe again :good:
tonybhoy said:
freaky stuff,don't know how it has got all that stuff,i don't even have some of it on my phone,thankfully i never sold it,going to try and wipe again :good:
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Keep it in airplane mode so won't pull the stuff down from the cloud if you ever backed them up to the cloud
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Keep it in airplane mode so won't pull the stuff down from the cloud if you ever backed them up to the cloud
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i never used the cloud,i want to know why it has my photos,vids etc when it has been wiped twice and my partner uses it with her gmail account
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Tonight at Golfland in Mesa AZ, my sons 10th birthday, set my phone down for a second to grab my 3 year old daughter. Less than a minute later I realized that my phone was gone, and immediately began scouring the area. There was a line of people waiting to ride the gocarts and because of the location I had my prime suspects. I asked everyone in line nicely once, looked around again, and then asked again not-so-nice. (I'm 6'8" and not skinny) No one fessed up, so I gave a report to the security guard and had a Golfland manager announce the lost phone across the PA. (yeah right, that was going to work...)
The manager found me 15 min later with my phone in her hand! It was found in the mens restroom (about 150 yards from where I knew I lost it). The cover was gone and it was stuck in the boot screen. I pulled the battery to reboot and noticed my sim and 16gb microSD were gone. I've got the a19 Desire rom. Is it normal that it won't boot without the the SD storage? I can still get into recovery, but without the storage I have nothing to recover. Also, I had an older ROM where I had registered with WaveSecure, but never logged in or activated with the current ROM. WaveSecure wouldn't have saved me this time would it?
I wonder if the thief realized that the phone could be tracked via GPS and that was the reason they dumped it. Kind of a crappy story with an alright ending, but I'm still out a SIM card and $50 for another microSD.
I don't think the desire rom has anything running on the sd card except appstosd which wouldn't effect how it boots up , try getting a 512 mb card or somthing and reflash the rom.
Thats kinda wierd too, usually people take the phone and leave the sim card not take the sim card and leave the phone. Call at&t or tmobile and tell them your sim was stolen and they can see if the guy makes any calls on it or inserts it into another phone.
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I don't think the desire rom has anything running on the sd card except appstosd which wouldn't effect how it boots up , try getting a 512 mb card or somthing and reflash the rom.
Thats kinda wierd too, usually people take the phone and leave the sim card not take the sim card and leave the phone.
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If he had been using App2SD it would boot loop if the SD card was removed.
OP:
Wavesecure probably wouldn't have done anything in that case since you hadn't signed back in. Wonder why they took your SIM and SD card, but left the phone? Maybe they saw the wavesecure app in the drawer, and got scared?
damn sorry to hear that if you install wave secure on it you could log on to the Wave secure site and disable your phone, and if you're like me you can leave them a message asking them to return it, this message would be displayed on the phone..
but only if you had wave secure installed...
Good luck man
If he stole that SIM you better cancel your sim or deactivate it.
The phone will not boot right now, but I'll get a new memory card in the morning and try reflashing. I'm not using app2sd so I was surprised the phone won't boot. I don't have t-mobile or ATT, but a local Carrier. I'll also report the SIM stolen in the morning.
The more I think about it, the more i'm convinced that I spoke with the guy who had my phone when it was missing. I think my angry demeanor and menacing size might have made him think twice (causing him to dump the SIM and the memory card) and then think thrice (just decided to dump the whole thing). Who knows...
aww man that would have been sooooo funny if you had wave secure. You're asking the guy if he has your phone, he says no, you activate the alarm and your phone starts screaming from his pockets, he pees his pants, you knock his lights out and get your phone back, justice is served
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aww man that would have been sooooo funny if you had wave secure. You're asking the guy if he has your phone, he says no, you activate the alarm and your phone starts screaming from his pockets, he pees his pants, you knock his lights out and get your phone back, justice is served
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Lmao I would pay money to see that.
Never leave a nice phone unattended! People suck. Put it in your pocket when you are done.
I unfortunately missed the deadline for free WaveSecure but I installed an alternative called Mobile Defense. It works well enough, I can log in and enable it to track with GPS and make it sound an alarm and or message. I even installed it as a system app so it has the authority to enable GPS if it is disabled.
I have never lost a phone before and I hope to keep it that way, but this gives some peace of mind.
Wouldn't be cool if Google added a tab to Gmail that allowed you to input your Android phones and track them via GPS etc?
Man, that would be awesome. Get on it Google!
about stolen nexous one
I know that WaveSecure does not let you have 3g our will not let you connect data without a password. Even if you don't sign up for it when someone else puts there sim in your phone it tells you on boot up that this phone is not your and its this persons number (our something like that lol lol )
I now because i bought my friends nexous one because he has att and could not get 3g and i had tmobile and wanted to sell my mytouch and buy his nexous
and he bought the new att nexous
Everything worked great when i bought the phone off him but i went from cyanogens rom to modaco r19 and it said that the sim card is not the owner of this phone. so i had to call him and he did not set up a code with wavesecure so we had to email them and do a reset and they email me back the code to reset it..
that is what saved your phone the punk put his sim in your phone and it would not work our told him its your phone.You should have kick someones A***
i hope you get it all fixed
sorry to hear about what happened... Golfland always has sketchy people floating around there at night so I cannot say I am surprised...
if u catch the thief wot would u do? kill him init lol?
let him eat your cooked rom lol
Bummer...to bad WaveSecure wasn't there to shut it down.
Hmm, Reasons why the phone wouldn't boot may be because he/she probably tried to flash any rom you had without wiping or tried wiping the phone and did something wrong. So its safe to say the person tried to do some type of wipe.
That means he/she must have had some previous knowledge on how to do so. Now go find the person you think has that knowledge....
Finally got home with a new microSD card and did a wipe and reflashed. It took a couple minutes but it finally came up. I'll be getting a new SIM tomorrow. I booted with no SIM, and there was a message waiting from WaveSecure: "This phone may be lost or stolen." in bold type. I'm guessing the thief booted the phone with no SIM and saw the same message and dumped it.
Yeah, I think who ever snagged it had half a clue what they had, otherwise they might have kept it.
For someone who loves gadgets, as corny as it sounds, I feel like I've got a second chance of sorts. I probably wouldn't have bought another Nexus, at least not for a few months. I guess I just appreciate it more now that I nearly lost it. I want to hack it some more to do more cool crap.
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Hmm, Reasons why the phone wouldn't boot may be because he/she probably tried to flash any rom you had without wiping or tried wiping the phone and did something wrong. So its safe to say the person tried to do some type of wipe.
That means he/she must have had some previous knowledge on how to do so. Now go find the person you think has that knowledge....
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There were litterally dozens of people I didn't know at a place 140 miles from home. The guy I suspected the most did look slightly computer dorky in a white trash sort of way. (probably how people would describe me as well, lol) Anyhow, I'll just taking the experience as a lesson learned...
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Also, I had an older ROM where I had registered with WaveSecure, but never logged in or activated with the current ROM. WaveSecure wouldn't have saved me this time would it?
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altarity said:
For someone who loves gadgets, as corny as it sounds, I feel like I've got a second chance of sorts. I probably wouldn't have bought another Nexus, at least not for a few months. I guess I just appreciate it more now that I nearly lost it. I want to hack it some more to do more cool crap.
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This is your sign (and everyone reading) to install and activate both WaveSecure AND Mobile Defense.
Both of them! Do it now! Yes, right now!
Do it!
yea... that's why I don't hang out in Mesa at night ;-)
Stick to Scottsdale ;-)
I am glad you got your phone back though. I am suprised someone in the line didn't finger the person for you.
i tried flashing eb13 odin to my phone it hung up so i turned off my phone now i can't get it to turn on, pulled battery over and over plugged phone in no light no nothing tried download mode 3 finger salute. phone is not responding to anything. help i sure hope i didnt completely fry it
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i tried flashing eb13 odin to my phone it hung up so i turned off my phone now i can't get it to turn on, pulled battery over and over plugged phone in no light no nothing tried download mode 3 finger salute. phone is not responding to anything. help i sure hope i didnt completely fry it
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I heard stopping Odin in it's process causes the phone to Brick. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is the case here.
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I heard stopping Odin in it's process causes the phone to Brick. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is the case here.
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i've had to do it before because odin wasnt doing anything it sat at the same place for half hour. !#@*%
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i've had to do it before because odin wasnt doing anything it sat at the same place for half hour. !#@*%
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You sure you had PDA selected? Another user bricked his phone because he flashed his Epic through Odin and didn't check PDA so his phone was wiped of EVERYTHING. lol
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You sure you had PDA selected? Another user bricked his phone because he flashed his Epic through Odin and didn't check PDA so his phone was wiped of EVERYTHING. lol
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yeah i was having problems with eb13 none of them would work it would just hang up. so theres nothing i can do is there
try download mode?
if not, sounds like you got a nice brick there. bring it to sprint store and say, "it jUSt wont turn on one day!!"
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try download mode?
if not, sounds like you got a nice brick there. bring it to sprint store and say, "it jUSt wont turn on one day!!"
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Or he could say a software update made his phone break. (Which is the truth, really). LOL
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try download mode?
if not, sounds like you got a nice brick there. bring it to sprint store and say, "it jUSt wont turn on one day!!"
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tried download mode literally not a damn thing will sprint even do anything?
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tried download mode literally not a damn thing will sprint even do anything?
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Nah, just say that you tried to update your phone because there was a software update and they'll exchange it for you.
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Nah, just say that you tried to update your phone because there was a software update and they'll exchange it for you.
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i hope its that easy. good thing i live nowhere near a sprint store got att verizon and us cellular nice n close
sweepingzero said:
i hope its that easy. good thing i live nowhere near a sprint store got att verizon and us cellular nice n close
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If the first rep says no, try another one. I've had to trade in a phone before and some associates help you and some just don't care. If the first store doesn't work, try one more. you'll get a replacement nice and quick.
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If the first rep says no, try another one. I've had to trade in a phone before and some associates help you and some just don't care. If the first store doesn't work, try one more. you'll get a replacement nice and quick.
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thanks . i have a friend that works for sprint but i cant call him . oy
sweepingzero said:
thanks . i have a friend that works for sprint but i cant call him . oy
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how did it go???
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If the first rep says no, try another one. I've had to trade in a phone before and some associates help you and some just don't care. If the first store doesn't work, try one more. you'll get a replacement nice and quick.
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I second that, the guy that replaced my 1st Epic when it was stuck in stock recovery said "just rate me 5 stars so I get my $5 lol). I was reluctant to go in for no reason, didn't even charge me the $100 deposit. Hope it worked out
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Yeah, I went to Sprint with the computer/android icon and they gave me a completely new phone in the box.
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Yeah, I went to Sprint with the computer/android icon and they gave me a completely new phone in the box.
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Glad things worked out. :>
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Glad things worked out. :>
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Thaats not the OP..
From My Samsung Epic Using TapaTalk.
lol going to try and go to sprint tommorow hopefully this is quick and painless. ill let you guys know, and thanks for the help
I did have a similar problem and all I did was let the phone sit for about an hour with the battery out and then put the battery back in and was able to turn the phone back on and boot into downloader mode and used odin to recover my phone. now it works like a charm,
yea i just went threw that last month just had my phonee eplaced xD i was so mad for a week because i couldnt use my baby<3
Hey guys, sorry this is so long. So i posted something here about a week or two ago stating that my Evo which I bought on craigslist is resetting. The info I have for this evo is as follows:
Rooted to Metro pcs
Firmware version: 2.1
Kernel Version: 2.6.29-a2443432 htc-kerneland 18-2 #1
Build number Bugless beast to0mod vo 0.1
Software number 1.32.651.6
Let me start off by telling you what I have done so far after extensive research. I have done countless factory resets. Bought two new batteries. I have wiped data, and cache dalvik etc. I have (which was a recommendation by someone on here) installed metro droid 2.0. Which actually just made things worse and wound up having to boot into recovery to revive my phone.
I can't even finish watching a video on you tube. It will reset when music is playing, in the middle of a call or text, if the battery is hot or cold.
Sometimes it will get into a reboot cycle where the only screen that I see is the white evo screen. Other times it will get all the way to the android screen and then reset. Sometimes the white screen will just stay there. Usually this will go one for about a half an hour to an hour when finally by the grace of God himself will finally stay on and fully boot on.
I don't have astro or any task manger installed.
I'm really at a loss here folks. I called htc and they said that they would RMA it for me and as a last ditch resort I will do that but I was hoping the powers here might be able to lend me a hand. Thanks for all insightful help. PLLLEEAASE HELP!
Cheers, Jason
You're definitely going to need a new one. Mine was doing the same thing and its not fixable :/ but I got it swapped out same day from sprint, maybe you can ask HTC really nicely haha
devonparrish said:
You're definitely going to need a new one. Mine was doing the same thing and its not fixable :/ but I got it swapped out same day from sprint, maybe you can ask HTC really nicely haha
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ok great, well thank you for letting me know. Hopefully they will either repair it or rma it. i am now off to return my evo to stock. Wish me luck....
oreo632 said:
ok great, well thank you for letting me know. Hopefully they will either repair it or rma it. i am now off to return my evo to stock. Wish me luck....
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Good luck man, hopefully they get it fixed for you!
Have you tried using the phone without the SD card?
I used to have a similar issue, took the SD card out and no mor random reboots/resets.
freditoj said:
Have you tried using the phone without the SD card?
I used to have a similar issue, took the SD card out and no mor random reboots/resets.
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I knid of tried that, even reformatted my sd card. Etc and yet it still resets.
Oh well went to metro today to purchase a cheapy phone to hold me over while the evo is rma 'ed. HTC did say that they would tell me what is the matter with the phone when they determine whats up with it. IF I am told anything pertinent I will share it with everyone as I see this issue is quite a pain for a lot of people.
Cheers,
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I knid of tried that, even reformatted my sd card. Etc and yet it still resets.
Oh well went to metro today to purchase a cheapy phone to hold me over while the evo is rma 'ed. HTC did say that they would tell me what is the matter with the phone when they determine whats up with it. IF I am told anything pertinent I will share it with everyone as I see this issue is quite a pain for a lot of people.
Cheers,
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Thanks, good luck!
I just lost my second Galaxy S 2 at the weekend.
I lost my first one 3 days after receiving it... managed to get money for a replacement via house insurance and then lost my new one.. seriously... imagine how bad I feel.
Some git out there is running round with a £500 phone with a custom rom and all my apps....
Totally depressing.
Pretty sure I'm one of the only people in the world that has lost 2 Galaxy S 2s since release date.
Fmylife.com
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Sorry to hear that man. You gonna get another one?
3rd time lucky?
Use the lookout last resort app from web market. It'll push to your phone so at least you can take it out
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kickassdave said:
I just lost my second Galaxy S 2 at the weekend.
I lost my first one 3 days after receiving it... managed to get money for a replacement via house insurance and then lost my new one.. seriously... imagine how bad I feel.
Some git out there is running round with a £500 phone with a custom rom and all my apps....
Totally depressing.
Pretty sure I'm one of the only people in the world that has lost 2 Galaxy S 2s since release date.
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all that and u didnt install any anti theft software ?
ie getting the persons number and location
Maybe you should take more care of your things...?
Did you sign into your samsung mobile account? If yes, try http://www.samsungdive.com/ You can locate your phone with that service
i got home drunk and couldn't think coherently... think the phone was off as well as I tried to phone it right away.
Also... in a panic I changed my Gmail password and Facebook passwords to make sure when the device was back on even with a different SIM they weren't synching and accessing my accounts.
In other words... I'm totally f*****
sad times... and yes.. I like the phone so much.. I'll get another one.
Buy a cheap and cheerful phone for taking with you when you go out drinking.
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Did you sign into your samsung mobile account? If yes, try http://www.samsungdive.com/ You can locate your phone with that service
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trying this now... good shout. forgot about that one
Unlucky son
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buy another one and let me know your location next time your out drinking so I can come and pick one up too.
jojo2peter said:
Did you sign into your samsung mobile account? If yes, try http://www.samsungdive.com/ You can locate your phone with that service
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Is it better than Seek Droid?
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Is it better than Seek Droid?
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I only know, that it's already implemented into the Galaxy S II, so you can use both of them. I don't know, if samsung dive is relating to SIM or IMEI, IMEI would be very nice , then our thread opener will probably eventually find his device
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buy another one and let me know your location next time your out drinking so I can come and pick one up too.
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rofl
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This most be one of your costly round of drinks for you .
Hope you locate it good luck on your 3rd one.
Locster126 said:
buy another one and let me know your location next time your out drinking so I can come and pick one up too.
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i want in on the action too...
Takes some courage to write here and admit you managed to lose two phones in such a short period of time. Good luck with the third one.
when i go out drinking etc.. i leave my main phone in the house and take out a cheaper.. but still good phone(taking pics n stuff).. so if i do lose it.. its no big deal.
I suggest you do the same knowing that you have already lost two of them.
Sorry to hear that man, that sucks.
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Well,just this week nobody can hear me when I make calls or they call me.
I've had my phone work perfect since September 2nd when I bought from Verizon.
It runs 4.4.4 totally stock. Tried clearing out the microphone port and only helped a tad.
Is there a way to fix it without a return exchange?
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Well,just this week nobody can hear me when I make calls or they call me.
I've had my phone work perfect since September 2nd when I bought from Verizon.
It runs 4.4.4 totally stock. Tried clearing out the microphone port and only helped a tad.
Is there a way to fix it without a return exchange?
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I would take it back, mine has been flawless since I got it shortly after the release date.
maybe
I was thinking about that. But maybe a factory reset would help
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I was thinking about that. But maybe a factory reset would help
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That's the first thing I would've tried !! I mean heck, if my phone isn't working, it's time to drop 5 yards and punt ...
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That's the first thing I would've tried !! I mean heck, if my phone isn't working, it's time to drop 5 yards and punt ...
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Well yeah, but hard resets are always a pain. And most of the time don't fix what's wrong
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Well,just this week nobody can hear me when I make calls or they call me.
I've had my phone work perfect since September 2nd when I bought from Verizon.
It runs 4.4.4 totally stock. Tried clearing out the microphone port and only helped a tad.
Is there a way to fix it without a return exchange?
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Go exchamge it. My first S5 (this is my third) had a microphone issue where my voice was muffled and hardly audible. Exchanged it and never looked back.
BigBot96 said:
Go exchamge it. My first S5 (this is my third) had a microphone issue where my voice was muffled and hardly audible. Exchanged it and never looked back.
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I'm gonna go Monday to exchange it. Hopefully it doesn't decide to work while I'm there. Happens a lot to me.
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I'm gonna go Monday to exchange it. Hopefully it doesn't decide to work while I'm there. Happens a lot to me.
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Lol yeah... Same here. They didn't believe me but I was within my 14 days so they swapped it with a new one. My second S5 had a black speck right in the middle of the display.. Like a peice of bark under the digitizer. 3rd times the charm lol
Good luck!:good:
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Lol yeah... Same here. They didn't believe me but I was within my 14 days so they swapped it with a new one. My second S5 had a black speck right in the middle of the display.. Like a peice of bark under the digitizer. 3rd times the charm lol
Good luck!:good:
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Unfortunately I'm beyond the 14 day exchange policy... Hopefully they be nice about it. Since I can't really use like intended
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Well yeah, but hard resets are always a pain. And most of the time don't fix what's wrong
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You said U R running totally stock. What's the pain of a hard reset? Backup appz and it's a snap to restore phone to pre-wipe state. I have odined back to stock, gone through the whole process to root again and restore everything a couple of times now. If anything, that would be considered a pain but it really ain't chit ...
You can be sure that's prolly the first thing the rep is gonna try in the store before giving you a new phone.
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You said U R running totally stock. What's the pain of a hard reset? Backup appz and it's a snap to restore phone to pre-wipe state. I have odined back to stock, gone through the whole process to root again and restore everything a couple of times now. If anything, that would be considered a pain but it really ain't chit ...
You can be sure that's prolly the first thing the rep is gonna try in the store before giving you a new phone.
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Yeah I know.... I just don't like the whole hard reset process. I'm lazy about it
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Yeah I know.... I just don't like the whole hard reset process. I'm lazy about it
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If there is a problem might be best to go through Samsung for a repair instead of Verizon to just get a refurbished device. That's what I'd do.
Before you reset/return...take your battery out for 10 min. or so...and then restart your device...maybe the battery voltage or calibration is causing the speaker interference...it's worth a shot.
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Before you reset/return...take your battery out for 10 min. or so...and then restart your device...maybe the battery voltage or calibration is causing the speaker interference...it's worth a shot.
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I did notice its been getting rocket hot a couple of times this week.
I haven't made any calls or received any since I factory reset it 2 days ago. Maybe it works again, I'll try tomorrow than go to Verizon
Well I think it was the battery. The microphone seems to work now. Did 3 voice recordings. All of them came out crystal clear with and without background noise.
Good to hear...it wouldn't hurt to purchase a new charger too.
I'm gonna hang on to the charger, its the first offical charger I've had in awhile. My DINC, nexus and gs3 all burned through their real charger oddly quick. I think its the weather where I'm from its been 111°-120°f for all of September
Hot damm...try to stay in the shade...lol
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Hot damm...try to stay in the shade...lol
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Yeah, i leave it inside now unless I need to bring it with me