Greetings All,
Hoping some are still here and riding the old school Fire tablet bus, i purchased a Fire HDX 7" when Amazon first thought they had a chance to grab a chunk of the high end tablet market (epic fail), I love the hdx both for graphics and sound and never had a single issue with it.
Then 2 days after the warranty was over on a typical reboot i get a screen telling me Encryption Unsuccessful (see the provided image of exact screen), read all the BLAH BLAH below that and then touch the Reset Tablet button below to do the only option of a Factory Reset. After trying that many times and then spending hours upon hours on the phone arguing with tech support where in a nut shell they said "YOU'RE SCREWED, IT'S OUT OF WARRANTY, BUY A NEW FIRE TABLET".
I chose the second option and said SCREW YOU AMAZON and bought a Samsung tablet, this all culminates up to this day and time where while cleaning out a closet I realized I still have that old 7" HDX. Thinking to myself "NO WAY THIS WOULD STILL POWER UP", well after less than only 10 minutes plugged in it did power up and booted right back to that exact same error screen from years ago.
So to shorten this rant just a bit let just get to me finally saying, I want to fix this hdx and use it again and could care less if it is in any way associated with Amazon upon getting it running.
Any advice whatsoever on how i could actually get it to boot to a usable condition would be greatly appreciated.
I am sorry but i do not recall the fire OS that it was running on when this happened, as well i do not own a PC at all so that limits the options i know.
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Just to add a bit more detail for clarification, I have also tried factory reset from the bootup screen using Power+volume up this seems to start the process of Erasing but once complete it returns to the encryption unsuccessful screen once again. The functions of the tablet seem to work fine as it will even take a screenshot while this error screen is visible, as well the volume is fully functioning and controllable. But the factory reset has never completed successfully and always reboots the tablet back to the same screen shown in the image provided.
I am completely stumped as to any next step to try.
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I have the chance to compare my 10.1v with an Ipad 1 so here is the first picture (both devices with medium brightness).
It'll be a work in progress. Tomorrow I'll have more time and I'll post a full review, with images and videos.
I'll post videos here.
Looking forward to seeing the review. I'm more interested in the 10.1 but the screen quality definitely interests me here.
i guess samsung tab should vs ipad 2
I don't have an Ipad 2, just the first one.
I returned my 10.1v, it became a brick.
myself11 said:
I don't have an Ipad 2, just the first one.
I returned my 10.1v, it became a brick.
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What happened ?
As a stated on another thread, I played around for half an hour. Due to a lot of forced closes on browser, decided to turn off the device. It froze on "Do you want to shut down?".
Pressed a couple of times the power button and the first screen "Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1v" appeared, but it never passed from there.
Tryed power + vol down and entered unlock mode with no problems. Pressed the power button to get out and restart, but same issue ocurred. The only way to turn it off is power + volume up and down for 10 secs.
I think even charging was affected, because when I plugged it, the symbol of a battery appeared, but nothing happened afterward.
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I think even charging was affected, because when I plugged it, the symbol of a battery appeared, but nothing happened afterward.
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Sounds to me like....
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early adopters penalty!
Are you getting it replaced? I'm sure it was just a dodgy unit. I've not heard of anyone else with that issue - the only issue that I know of is the light-bleed issue for which Vodafone AU have been replacing them.
I know of 2 Tabs here in Portugal whose screen, after 4 days of normal use, started malfunctioning. An error like mine, I never heard of it, not even in another tabs' fora.
I got a refund. Imagine if it happened again... The store might say I've been messing with something or trying to install custom Rom (there isn't any, I know eheh). My unit had bleeding too, I think they all have.
Hey guys, I'm making this thread basicly just to vent I sent my DHD in for repairs in late march because the volume rocker had come loose and it would be fixed under warranty, no biggie the phone did take a couple of weeks to get fixed but I knew that when I sent it in, now when I got it back I immediately tried to start it at my dealer but the phone wouldn't start I thought Oh well prob didn't have allot of battery when I put it in. So I came home but in the charger and turned it on, to my surprise they had tried to update my fw it failed and I was left with a phone that only had access to HBOOT, since it was fully functional when I put it in for the repairs (Stock rom S-ON) I took it right back and they tried to flash it at the dealer to no avail, I once again had to be without my phone for a few weeks, now this thursday I finally got word that my phone was ready to pick up *YAY* (they changed the mainboard) I was quite happy since I had been given an old desire bravo as a loaner while mine was being repaired thinking oh happy happy joyjoy these last two days having my phone back.
Now this evening when I went to look at the clock on my phone I saw right away some strange artifacts on the screen like green is bleeding through? I tried to restart right away and when the phone shows the htc logo the first time around it's clear no artifacts perfect white and green, and then as soon as it enters the OS the ****ups start to appear, what could be causing this?
I'm sorry for this wall of text but my patience for htc is wearing quite thin now and I'm not thinking I will ever buy another handset from them again
a still taken in the game Dream Hights on my dhd
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same game on my Transformer TF101
I have no idea why imageshack has the seccond picture upside down but you get the picture
Sounds like they botched the repair job.
theres either a break or a short in the displays ribbon cable
dude, if you've sent your phone twice, you should tell them to give your money back and you have right to do so. Once you do that, get yourself a dual or a quad core
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I had my rooted Nook Simple Touch froze on me.
Series of events:
1) I thought it needed to be charged
-So I charged it
-Still Frozen but would restart when I plugged it back in
2) I thought the root had cause something so I reformatted it using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289233
-Still Frozen when unplugged and restart on being replugged in
3) Reformatted again for good measure then rooted using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343143
-Still frozen
4) Called B&N tech Support: No help, cycle nook, turn off, cycle nook, turn off, no change, said to let it power down to 20% and that you should only charge for 3-4 hours and that you can over charge the unit??????, thanks anyways.
5) Used Ifixit.com teardown to see if there was something going on inside: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nook+Simple+Touch+with+GlowLight+Teardown/9301/1
-Took off back, upplugged battery
-Found nothing loose or broken inside
-Found a port for a cell antenna, interesting
-Unplugged the screen from the motherboard
-Put it back together
-TADA!! it works again. I think that hard resetting the battery did the trick but also voided any warranty I had. (which was none since it is over 1 year old.
I searched for a resolution to this problem everywhere and could not find one so I am putting one here. Thank you for your time.
Sorry you didn't see this, and I'm glad to see the fix being bumped - this was the thread with the fix before you needed to do the work -- but congrats on a successful self-repair and clear documentation.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813384
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Sorry you didn't see this, and I'm glad to see the fix being bumped - this was the thread with the fix before you needed to do the work -- but congrats on a successful self-repair and clear documentation.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813384
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Damn, I never thought to search dead. Thanks, now I know it is not just me.
Voiding Warranties since 1981
Hi everyone.
I am having a big problem with my phone, and since I messed up my warranty by rooting my phone, I am gonna try to find help here, and I really hope someone knows how to fix this issue.
So I got my S7 Edge this summer straight out of the box and it was working perfect. A couple of months after that it started freezing and restarting once every week or so, but I didnt think much of it. Slowly it was doing that more and more, until the point where the screen would freeze and the phone would restart 5 times a day. Shortly after it got stuck in a bootloop. I went to the store I bought it from but since a had a small scratch on the screen they wouldnt repair it without me paying for the screen change. Since it was a lot of money I tried to repair my phone at home by rooting my phone and installing a stock firmware. That didnt work so I installed a custom rom, that worked for a day but then it got back in the bootloop. Now I cant even be in TWRP without it freezing and restarting. My question to you guys is, has anyone had this issue (I hope not because its the worst) and is there any chance I could fix this myself?
I found this picture on google that resembles how my phone looks when it freezes/crashes. It gets these small pixel on the screen, not on the whole screen like in this picture, just on parts of the screen and on different parts everytime.
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I have exactly the same problem. I think is somehow power related. Happens more frequently when phone is plugged in or when there's an increase in power consumption...
Is there a fix for it? I am having the same problem.
I found out that is the EMMC and the only fix is motherboard replacement... SAD
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I found out that is the EMMC and the only fix is motherboard replacement... SAD
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I guess you are right since the crashes were more frequent when I had a memory card in the slot. I thought that maybe my memory card was incompatible. But the eMMC seems to be the problem
Here is the deal both Google and System UI crashed on my S5e last night while I was reading and now I am unable to reboot/power down the tablet using either the Power button or the onscreen controls. As you can see it is just the 2 onscreen buttons that I get and n othing happens expect they dissapear when I try and tap either. Also I am unable to use ADB in this sitution to force a reboot/power down as can be seen in the second image. At this point I am at a lost on what to do besides wait for the tablet battery to die which in its current state could take days if not a week+ considering that nothing is showing up.
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You try a 20+ second long press on the power button (if that's correct for that model) to do a hard reboot?
Yes I have I have held the button for a bloody minute aka 60 seconds and no reboot/poweroff
Montisaquadeis said:
Yes I have I have held the button for a bloody minute aka 60 seconds and no reboot/poweroff
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The only other thing you can do is physically disconnect the battery or wait for it to discharge.
If you get it to reboot go into safe mode and backup all critical data. Then factory reset.
If that fails it will need reflashed or the hardware issue causing it fixed.
That is what I thought and as I said it can take up to a week+ for this to discharge since it was nearly full when it happened
If you used a SD card as a data drive and it's not encrypted at least the data can be salvaged.
It may not be as bad as it looks but I'm thinking a mobo failure. I've never seen this type of behavior with any of my Samsung's.
Recertified ones can be had for $200 or so but will likely be upgraded to the latest OS version for it. If you're running on Pie you may not like it.
I bought this one for $275 back in 2021 and ended up receiving a used one when Amazon said it was suppose to be new so yeah something like this was bound to happen sooner or later
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I bought this one for $275 back in 2021 and ended up receiving a used one when Amazon said it was suppose to be new so yeah something like this was bound to happen sooner or later
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I would've returned it. I use one vendor where I got a new N10+ a little over a year ago. His prices aren't real low but he's trustworthy. Their price is $600 for your model. He buys lots of unsold new devices. There's lots of scamming going on, something I noticed when I was shopping.
Apparently you have to hold power and volume down to force power off a Samsung device so you missed a step there. Also the tablet seems to be working fine now after doing so
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Apparently you have to hold power and volume down to force power off a Samsung device so you missed a step there. Also the tablet seems to be working fine now after doing so
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Correct. Hard reset is both buttons; something I never have to use. However long pressing just the power should force it to shut down.
Try clearing the system cache from the recovery menu.