Let me first say I'm writing this on my Captivate now, so it's not completely fried like you may think.
Earlier today I plugged in a flash drive to have it not work on my pc. I plugged it in a different pc and nothing so I assumed it just died after 4 years. I then plugged in my captivate so I could mount it real quick and get my homework on there to get to class. Now this time I got the errot message "usb not recognized." I installed drivers, restarted, and even reinstalled windows , and still the same problem.
I then tried on my bothers pc and it still said not recognized. At this point, I had my brother buy me a flash drive on his way home from work today. Took it out, plugged it in his pc, worked fine. Plugged it in mine, worked for 10 seconds, took it out and theus b connector was really warm. Reconnected to his pc to get the"not recognized" error again.
I took apart my old flash drive and it smells and had a burnt spot on a chip, my guess the usb controller.
Now anything plugged into my usb ports get fried and stop being recognized.
My phone still works but anytime I mount it via usb it can't recognize. No doubt the pc fried the usb controller chip in the phone.
would I be able too take this back to att? if they open it up they will most likely see a burnt chip on the board some where, equaling hardware failure, which they can't say that I caused. I also rooted my phone and deleted the att crapware. Any way to completely eeyore my phone to factory? Keep in mind I cant mount this phone any more so I'd have to download any files straight to the phone.
Thanks
I should also add that I had an external microsd card in my phone. After the while incident that I think fried my phone. The microsd no longer appears in my phone to mount, un mount, or see available space. But if I take the micro sd out and put it in a usb card reader it still works fine. It only can't be read if its in the phone, this leading me to believe something fried internally with regards to the usb controllers and what not
ShaneS429 said:
I should also add that I had an external microsd card in my phone. After the while incident that I think fried my phone. The microsd no longer appears in my phone to mount, un mount, or see available space. But if I take the micro sd out and put it in a usb card reader it still works fine. It only can't be read if its in the phone, this leading me to believe something fried internally with regards to the usb controllers and what not
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You could probably get away with a warranty replacement if you don't mind being dishonest.
#1) I doubt they would open it up and see the problem
#2) how can they prove that a hardware malfunction with the phone didn't cause it?
Im going in on friday to see what they can do. It wasn't like I was hacking it or modifying the hardware, just plugging it in got it fried. Even tho it was my pc that caused it, I guess they can't ever prove it was my pc or that the hardware didnt short out on its own.
So will odin restore me to stock and give my att apps back? Can I do it without access to a pc since I can never mount my phone any more?
you could probably post a bounty thread for a jf6 stiock rom in an update.zip.
then use myfiles to delete the updates & clockwork
JH7 I think is available as an update.zip in the development forum.
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Hi guys, I'm on Serendipity 3.5 rom and for some reason I am unable to copy files from windows 7 to my captivate using the mass storage usb mode. My sdcard folder shows up as a mass storage device in windows, and seems to work just fine. However when I copy and paste files to it it will copy several files before just stopping. The progress bar just sits there and nothing ever finishes.
This happens for both my built-in storage and my external micro sd.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty sure I've been able to copy files this way in the past, so I'm not sure what might be the deal now. I just reflashed to serendipity 3.5 rom, from 2.0, and that didn't resolve the problem. Both roms gave me the same issue.
Can anybody help me out?
Thanks in advance.
The same thing happened to me. Running perception 8, it would do the exact thing that you're describing. All I did was just copy about 10 items at a time and transfer them. Unless it was a big file, like music or pics, and those files or folders I would just transfer individually.
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The same thing happened to me. Running perception 8, it would do the exact thing that you're describing. All I did was just copy about 10 items at a time and transfer them. Unless it was a big file, like music or pics, and those files or folders I would just transfer individually.
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Did you find a solution? Or just try another rom? I just flashed to Phoenix 3.5, and I'm still having the same problem. Maybe it could be a bug with the newest component that both of those roms use?
Maybe an OS issue?
I've had the same problem on every ROM including the Stock image. Oddly; the phone works perfectly transferring the same files from my work XP box but freezes transferring the files to the vista / 7 machines at home.
I ended up just using astro & SMB to transfer files at home. If you have N wireless; it's almost as fast as USB. My windows 7 box eventually returns an error saying the destination (phone) is no longer available if I waited long enough.
I never had a problem with it before I flashed perception, which is based off of the canadian roms. I jumped from cognition 2.3b6 straight to perception 8, so it might just be a canadian thing, eh? I easily transfered files on stock, leaked JI6, all cog roms and those were all US based roms. Every rom has it's quirks, and some take longer to notice than others. So no I have not found any solution to this problem. Try switching back to any american version rom, just 2.2, not 2.2.1. I noticed some file problems when I tried cog3.0, paragon2.0, and a few other 2.2.1 roms.
BTW, I am running windows 7, 64 bit on my laptop, and android 2.2 perception 8 with setirons kernal.
Also, how old is your phone, or when did you get it/ how long have you been using it? What condition is your phone power/usb cord and micro usb port in?
I've had mine since the beginning of August, and just through normal wear and tear, charging, file transfers and just normal use of that nature, I've noticed that the connection with the phone and the charging cable isn't as snug as it used to be, and with it not being snug anymore, if I'm using my phone, whether it be texting or playing games or browsing the web, anything where the phone is being moved around basically, it doesn't keep a constant connection and keeps connecting and reconnecting during charging mode. And the same thing happens when I have it plugged into my laptop, if I mount it for usb mass storage, my external and internal SD cards both show up in My Computer and I can access them and everything seems peachy, but if I nudge my phone or move it on accident, it dismounts from the computer. I use different cords, one for the wall charger from a blackberry with micro usb, and I use the cord that came with the phone to connect it to the computer, and another blackberry cord for my car charger, so I know all the cords do work properly, and I even hooked them up to my blackberry to make sure it would charge and gave it a good wiggle test and it never read that it disconnected while charging.
So my theory, kind of, and it seems reasonable, is that while it's hooked up to the computer in mass storage mode for file transfers and whatnot, and there is a problem with the micro usb port on the phone which is only allowing, just for ****s and giggles, 98% connection instead of the full 100%, or there is dust/lint/hair in either the phones charging port or in the connector on the cord and its applying a certain level of extra and unwanted resistance on the mating surfaces of the charging port and the phone and the hardware and the mass storage mode itself were all calibrated to use that 100% to supply the proper amperage, voltage, and resistance to transfer data back and forth between the devices, but since it's not recognizing a full connection, it would result in mass storage mode operating incorrectly. So during a file transfer, you mount the SD's, find the files you want to move, copy and paste, the devices start relaying data to each other, but somewhere within that 2% of lost connection, some important info might not be getting relayed resulting in either an extended transfer time or or freezing of the transfer all together.
I've never had the patience to sit and wait to see if the progress bar would start moving again, so I just assume the transfer is frozen and start looking for an alternative transfer method. But if you've got time to kill or enough patience to sit and stare at your phone for awhile without touching it, next time it appears frozen, just wait it out. If after... I dunno how long really, until you feel it's a lost cause I guess.
Checking your connections is a good starting point. Unplug the cord from the charger and power down the phone and remove the battery. First, use a can of compressed air with a straw and stick it into the phone port and get any loose debris out of there. Same goes with the charging cord. Get some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip and wipe down the contact areas. I know it's an awkward and tight spot to get a q-tip into, but do the best you can, or improvise and use a flat head eye-glass repair kit screwdriver and put a little piece of paper towel, tissue, or toilet paper on the end of it and use that with the rubbing alcohol. Be gentile. Be careful. Don't completely soak the q-tip so it's dripping off and flooding the port, just dip the tip and squeeze off the excess so it has just enough alcohol to clean the area while applying a little bit of pressure. If you still have the can of air, use that, or just use your lungs, to blow dry the areas you wiped down and make sure all the moisture is gone. When you think it's dried up, go ahead and fire it up and try it out.
Do this with the battery out as well. Better safe than sorry.....
Try to re-snug the contact area by using the small flat head screwdriver and just see if you can move or flex the outer metal housing inward, or towards the center of the micro port so it grabs and holds the charging cord when it's plugged in. I'm pretty sure that the outer section supplies the ground for the circuit and since this is more accessible than the middle connector without disassembling the phone, I figure its worth a try......
In case someone doesn't know the area I'm talking about, read this or take it to a professional. When you open the charging port cover, there's a metal ring in the shape of the charging cable, and inside that ring is the small connector that goes inside the charger cord when you plug it in. DO NOT TOUCH THAT! That's where all the magic happens as far as proper data transfers and proper charging voltage distribution. So we're just looking at this outer ring area now....and if you decide to dabble and tinker with the inner connector and screw it up, I'm not responsible in any way whatsoever.
Sorry for the long rant, been a long day and I had enough red bull in the last hour to put a midget into a coma.
So the problem turned out to be the usb ports on the front of my PC! When I plug into the usb ports on the back of my tower then everything works just fine.
Thanks for the ideas everyone.
I'm glass you found a solution. Similarly, my windows 7 machine was returning an error, device not found, driver errors, would not connect ect. I system restored and it immediately found my phone, so there is another solution for people having problems the usb hub won't fix. After restoring though, I soft bricked my phone twice while flashing ODIN. Half way through I got Bright yellow screen on my phone and the progress bar stopped on ODIN. A fresh install fixed that.
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So after playing around with ROM manager and getting the new CW recovery to work, I think I legitimately bricked my poor Xoom wifi.
Here's where we are now.
Power button doesn't work. Hard reset doesn't work. Getting to RSD/Fastboot doesn't work. USB connection isn't recognized (windows/linux). No lights work. A/C charger doesn't appear to work. Nothing happens at any direction.
So far, there is zero indication that the device is even powering at all. Yes, it's charged. Just a giant, solid black screen that is mocking me. :[
The last thing I did was partition the SD card. (trying to install new Tia kernel). Rebooted, worked fine. Powered down. Now it won't respond to anything.
Think I'm going to go sacrifice a virgin and see if that helps.
Thoughts? Or should I just go back to Best Buy and beg?
Sorry if this is all over the place. Having one of those "holy $ I have a $600 paperweight!" moments. Heh.
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THE CHARGING LIGHT WORKS!.. when connected to A/C now. Nothing else does.. but that one light works.. progress is progress..
Hope you're still within your return period. My understanding is the Xooms internal storage is labeled as sdcard and the actual sdcard is sdcard2. So by "formatting the sdcard" you essentially formatted the Xooms 32GB internal memory.
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I partitioned a 4M chunk of it to put the recovery image on it. So.. would that explain it being completely nonresponsive? The only thing I got out of it today is that the charging light was white and then green when it was fully charged. Otherwise nothing works I am within my return period but I'm traveling...until my return period is up. Boy, this is just a bad situation, is it not? Haha
That would explain it being non-responsive.
Anything that can be done? Or do I have to start playing phone and shipping tag with Motorola at this point?
And if I do send it to motorola and they get the OS back on there.. how would they do it?
First off: did you partition the internal storage or are you running Tiamat with sdcard support?
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In the recover module, I went to partition SD card, then partitioned it to 4MB. (The image is 3 and change). Whether or not it was internal or external, I couldn't tell you. I don't have an external SD card. So yes, I made a rookie mistake on that one.
I'm glad I wrote this down: Another thing, when I had it hooked up via USB and mounted the USB storage in recovery, a prompt came up in windows saying "you need to format this drive in order to use it." so.. I copied the /sdcard/ contents (cause that's what I thought it was talking about) to my PC and formatted it. I could only format it to 3MB. That's what led me to trying to partition the SD card so I could put the recovery image on whatever drive was there.
Yeah.. the more I think about this the more of a rookie mistake it was. I'm sure I formatted something that had critical operating system files on it and that's why I can't even get the thing to boot. A:LKFJ;-
ok, i've been dabbling around with different roms, and have basically gotten the general concept of how to flash custom roms, using odin 1-click and what not.
well thats exactly what im trying to do now. i was in the middle of flashing my phone to a stock rom when all the sudden it said removed. i did nothing for this this to happen.
well, anyways, i was like oh well i'll just put in this here jig and restart the entire process over again. so, i put the jig in the phone, which takes me directly to dl mode. i removed the jig and placed me usb port into the phone, which is where the issues started. for some reason, my computer now wont recognize my phone, therefore making it to where odin wont recognize my phone. so like any other 20 year old male i say wtf and destroy my phone furiously.
not really, i actually removed the usb port and the battery, then reinserted the battery, and tried pushing the power button. after doing so, nothing. like literally nothing, yet when i put my jig in it takes me directly to download mode???
so pretty much im just confused as to whether or not my phone can be fixed via recognition from my computer, or should i say fml my phones hard bricked, and now i gotta do the insane bootloader thing or just complain to customer service about my phone?
read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049294
if your phone can get into download mode its recoverable...any sign of life is not a brick... your problem now is your computer not recognizing it.
uninstall drivers,reboot, reinstall, reboot, switch usb ports making sure its one in the back connected to the motherboard, use oem cable that came with the phone...
so, the magic way to make it work again is simply to do nothing but what your already doing. lol.
i pretty much just got really agitated and started plugging the phone in and out of the computer, waiting on the unrecognizable thing to pop up, and BAM odin works outta nowhere and my phone is recognized. damned computers. lol
The port on my phone has stopped working. My phone will not recognize that a cable is plugged in at all. Whether it is a cable plugged in thru ac adapter or computer or car charger. I have tried 2 diff cables thats all i have to test. Thing is I am on refuse and have no way to get back to stock since phone doesnt recognize that a cable is connected. I have tried rebooting, battery pulls. any ideas or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
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The port on my phone has stopped working. My phone will not recognize that a cable is plugged in at all. Whether it is a cable plugged in thru ac adapter or computer or car charger. I have tried 2 diff cables thats all i have to test. Thing is I am on refuse and have no way to get back to stock since phone doesnt recognize that a cable is connected. I have tried rebooting, battery pulls. any ideas or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
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If even ODIN mode is not working you have a hardware failure.
Ok not sure wtf happened but will give yall the run down.
BTW thanks for the reply Entropy512
OK could no longer charge or connect to comp so no going stock for me so what was i to do my phone was fubar.
Ok after talking with all the devs and tech support and general folks in the irc that were available I deleted the system folder thru file expert. If cant boot they cant tell that i had rooted and put a rom on there right.
So jump in truck and for grins plug it in to charger and bam get the samsung logo. But i continue to ATT just in case a fluke. Well of course im bricked at this point. They try charge it, put new batt in (not sure if they left it in). Still wont boot (of course) I go thru the dance and of course they cant get it to work. So I have to go thru warranty. They sending me another phone and they give mine to send back once i get the other.
So get back in truck throw my external sd back in and throw on charger for grins again. Bam I get charge screen. I leave there for good hour. Get my baby home run to comp throw it recognized crank up Odin, go stock, and am in process of flashing it back to the way it should be.
Got replacement phone and sent the other one back it never was right always thought it was connected to comp after it finally connected again. And never another word from att.
Not to revive an old thread, but what happened that got it to work in the truck again? I am helping a friend with your exact same issue, and another thread led me here. His port feels like broken solder connections, and the problem got worse and worse, till now it's pretty useless. He's already got his replacement device, but we're kinda scrambling what to do with the old one before sending it back.
He is bone stock rom, stock recovery, etc so the ONLY problem is that pesky Super User Icon lol. Think he'll be alright?
Not sure what got it to work tbh. It just started working. Of course all it would do is charge cuz i had deleted system folder. But it would not boot so of course att rep couldnt get it to boot so said i would have to wait on replacement phone. So just limped it along till it showed up. Sorry that doesnt help u any but. Only thing i can suggest is to delete system folder or brick it to point it stuck at samsung logo. If bricked cant see super user. Thats how sent mine back. Sorry if not much help.
Same. I have a captivate and my Micro USB won't charge.
So I hadn't really messed with my tablet in quite some time, but I recently came across a ROM I wanted to try (Team EOS 4 - Nightlies TF101 ). My tablet was already rooted running TWRP 2.4. I tried connecting my tablet to my PC to copy the ROM over to my microSD, but it would not recognize as a MTP Device. It would show up under USB Controllers in Device Manager, but as Unknown. I tried to reload the drivers, but was unable to get them to load. I just figured something was going on with my PC. So I copied the ROM straight to my microSD card and put it back in my tablet and flashed. Something went wrong (probably user error), because the tablet would't boot afterwards. So I thought no big deal, I'll just use EasyFlasher and take it back to stock. Put my tablet in APX Mode, but same thing. Unrecognized USB Device. Tried loading Naked Drivers, but it didn't see my tablet as compatible device. So I connected it to my laptop, same thing. So then I downloaded the stock firmware, put it on my MicroSD card, put the card back in my tablet and flashed it back to stock through TWRP. It booted up just fine, but I ran out of time to mess with it because I had to be at work. I just took my tablet and cable with me to work and figured I'd do it there if I got a chance. Later in the day, I connected it to one of our PCs at work, and now it wont ever recognize anything at all is being plugged in. Tried on multiple PCs and even brought it back home, and same thing. Tried to scan for hardware changes, and still nothing. What are the chances there is something wrong with my cable? I have rolled the cable up and carried it around with me in my pocket multiple times. The fact I can't get it to be seen as a MTP and / or APX device is what makes me think it could possibly be my cable. Any suggestions?
Thanks in Advance.
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Yeah first thing to try would be the cable. Sadly there's no other way to access APX than through USB. I'm guessing if you can push/pull using ADB or other tools, the tablet itself is just fine.
I bought this cable and it works fine for both data and charging, it just takes a long time to arrive.
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Yeah first thing to try would be the cable. Sadly there's no other way to access APX than through USB. I'm guessing if you can push/pull using ADB or other tools, the tablet itself is just fine.
I bought this cable and it works fine for both data and charging, it just takes a long time to arrive.
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Thanks for your reply Lethe6. I was able to get in-touch with a friend I hadn't talked to in awhile and use his cable (TF300) and it worked just fine as MTP and APX. I even flashed back using EasyFlasher. Also thanks for the link. It's worth the wait IMO. I was scared to order just any ol'cable and find out that it only works as a charging cable, and not data.
Sweet, glad it all worked out!