I have what appears to be a demo device; this one will not do OTA.
So I installed the newer roms but then speech to text, the microphone would not work except only for calling. I downgraded to the stock rom and it was fine.
But I decided to keep trying I was hoping it might be something I did wrong and could upgrade. Still no microphone so I downgraded back to stock again. This time; Wifi completely stopped working. It will not detect any wifi networks. Some goggle searching said that it is possible the modem got messed up. Not sure what to do. I tried flashing again it didn't make any difference.
One thing I noticed though is the first time when downgrading I forgot to turn on USB debugging, but it still allowed me to do it and it went smoothly.
Having no wifi on a smartphone with no apps on it is a bad thing
Well some google search told me if this happens you can flash to the July Oreo update and your stuff will work. I did that and it worked. My ,ic still won't record sound so then I went back to the 7.1.1 and it works fine. Too bad I am stuck with nouget or my mic will not record stound and I cannot do OTA.
Here is the thread I found which was quite helpful.:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/help/wifi-android-p-t3790678
I just used the July Oreo update, the fastboot version.
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So here's my story of what's going on and hopefully a solution can come out of it.
Got my phone used it for a bit. I used the root and debloat found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2282367 and everything went fine. Waited a day or so and decided to flash LiquidSmooth ROM with KToonzes 7.2.13 . Again everything working fine. I then flashed 7.7.13 Ktoonzes and lost bluetooth functionality as far as the phone is concerned but the music portion is fine. My brother convinced me that the Google Edition ROM is where its at and I was having that bluetooth issue so why not. I flashed the AOSP Ktoonzes instead of the TW so my phone bricked. I did the ODIN back to stock with: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573&highlight=odin . When that went through and my phone was doing its set up, my wifi wasn't turning on. I continued by using the root and debloat again to reinstall the recovery. I recovered my phone to right before I flashed the Google Edition, and my bluetooth is not even finding my car in pairing mode at all at this point.
Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any recommendations to fix this issue.
I wanted to upgrade my firmware for my i9505. It was rooted so I went back to a stock firmware I had used a month or so ago. Xxuamdm. It went perfectly fine and after rebooting I set about upgrading the software. The first upgrade was nearly 400mb. This downloaded and then installed OK. The next one was about 50mb and the same happened again. Then there was a third one - about 50mb again - except when my phone rebooted it got stuck on the loading screen. I tried to reboot several times but I couldn't get past the Samsung loading screen. Eventually I decided to reflash the stock I had before using Odin again but this time when I went to update the firmware I couldn't turn my WiFi on and also I noticed my sound had stopped working. This is for calls notifications music YouTube everything. I have then tried to update via kies and still I get the same problem. I went to Sammobile and downloaded the most up to date firmware for my device and still no sound or wifi. I then tried a Google ROM I had flashed previously and the WiFi was able to turn on again but still I have no sound. All I want is the latest stock firmware and if I can then root it afterwards that would be a bonus.
I have searched for answers but I can only find two threads - both of which have not offered a solution to my particular issue.
Thanks
Sorry if I have posted in the wrong area but does anyone have any ideas on this? I have managed to flash several different custom roms today - Foxhound, Google Edition, Echoe - each of these has working wifi however none of them have fixed the no sound issue. When I call my phone it I hear ringing from one end but my phone does not even show someone is calling for a good 30 seconds - and I cannot hear anything when I pick up. Once I hang up my phone still thinks I am on a call and wont disconnect for a good 30 seconds.
When I get home later I am going to try and flash the following stock firmwares using Odin:
I9505XXUDMH8_I9505OXXDMHA_BTU
I9505XXUBMGA_I9505OXXBMG3_BTU
Is this a good idea or am I wasting my time and need to do something else?
I desperately need someones help on this - my only other option is to get a new phone and I really cannot afford to do that.
To preface the current issue with my phone, I guess I should probably give some history of what I've done to it. I got my S4 around November last year, where I kept TouchWiz for about a good 3 months. At the end of those 3 months, I downloaded and installed CM KitKat using their easy installer and it worked! However, when Lollipop came around, I got a little impatient and decided to get CM12 using Antares version. Initially, I noticed there were a few bugs/glitches, but ignored them for the time being. As time went on, it became increasingly aggravating and so a few dayus ago I tried to switch back to stock TouchWiz. When I was setting up the phone, I noticed that the wi-fi would just not turn it. It would stay at "turning on" for a very long time with no sucess. Thus, I decided to switch back to Antares version of CM, but now there were a few issues: service was VERY spotty and the piece de resistance: no sound at ALL, and youtube would never play videos. I searched around and saw that using the Sound Recorder would give me an error: "Internal Application Error. Microphone may be in use." Now I'm not the most techy person around and probably should not have been messing around with my phone, but now all I want is a properly working phone, doesn't matter if its kitkat or lollipop. Your help is greatly appreciated. (If you need to know more info, go ahead and ask, because I'm very new to all this) Thanks!
If you want the stock ROM back, flash it twice using Odin. General consensus here is that you need to flash the modem twice in order for WiFi and cellular radios to work properly. Flashing the ROM twice will do that without having to track down just the modem file and trying to flash that.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
If you want the stock ROM back, flash it twice using Odin. General consensus here is that you need to flash the modem twice in order for WiFi and cellular radios to work properly. Flashing the ROM twice will do that without having to track down just the modem file and trying to flash that.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working :/ When setting up my S4, it's still stuck at turning on the wifi
I switched back to Antares CM, and everything works fine except for sound/microphone (to my knowledge). Would there be any way to fix this?
so, i will try my luck. first thing is, i have a xt1684 retgb. atm i'm on full stock oreo firmware, a backup that i made where everything should have worked fine. after the issue appeared i restored the backup. but yea, it still persists. what a *****y phone.
now i have the problem, that in any case no voice is recognized neither via the build-in mics nor over a plugged headset.
neither a full stock flash to oreo nor to nougat changed it. everything else seems to be working as it should.
really guys, give me any hint to get rid of this. everything is welcome. :fingers-crossed: i count on you. cheers
okay got a little success in camera. in there i got my voice back after re-enabling mic permission in settings. but it doesn't help on google search e.g. .
i got my mic back working. but i still can't tell what caused it. maybe something equal to the problem that causes no touch issue. don't know. flashed a few stock and rom until it worked again. it was a work or die mission. as mentioned in the stock oreo thread it is really neccessary to let every stock flash finish with the initial setup (even if skip everything) till you are on launcher homescreen.
I had latest stock firmware and everything was working fine except it wasn't getting any updates so I decided to flash Linneage. I followed instructions, made sure to flash the copy-file on both slots etc. Everhything seemed fine untill I left my home and didn't have access to wifi, then I noticed that data didn't want to work. It showed having 4g connection (full strength) but it was so slow that I couldn't even check speed because the homepage barely load. There was a connection but since it was so slow I received timeouts almost everything I tried. I also noticed that bluetooth didn't work. It would connect/disconnect every 3 seconds from my bt headset. This was "fixed" by disable google on my phone. Very strange.
I thought It might have to do with Linneage so I tried Pixel experience. Exact same problem there.
I thought maybe the linneage files I flashed to both slots were bad so I reflashed stock rom. Now I have the same problem with stock rom as well. I eventually used the MSM tool and reflashed the latest stock firmware, locking the bootloader and all that. Still having the same problems. These two problems were non existant before any of this.
I've tried my sim in a different phone, even made sure the apns are the exact same on my working phone and my op6t.
Is there any other way to make sure the phone is completely factory restored other than MSM tool? Now I'm running stock oxygen, no root, locked bootloader etc but the problem persists. What is my next step to try?