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How many times have you done a Factory reset

If anyone is like me they when they get a new phone they play with it for the first couple days non stop. Finding what I can and can not do.
I think the first day I factory reset about five times and a total of Eight times the first week (this was just last week) lol
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M.leonard2 said:
If anyone is like me they when they get a new phone they play with it for the first couple days non stop. Finding what I can and can not do.
I think the first day I factory reset about five times and a total of Eight times the first week (this was just last week) lol
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why do you factory reset your phone that many tmes?i mean, i dont think its really bad for it but what was the reason? i just wipe mine when i flash different roms.

When I got the phone and signed into everything I use Market gmail Facebook etc it gave my all the junk and settings I didn't want. Settings and prefs I had on my captivate I had to do all over again. When it comes to my phones I think I'm a little OCD I just like my phone a certain way if I'm not happy with erase and start all over!
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I have had mine since 2-14 and have never done a Factory reset.

Not even once.
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Random restarts.

I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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It's definitely not normal. Try wiping fresh and installing only necessary apps then test again. If the issue persists trade it in for a new Infuse.

eallan said:
I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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The black screen vibrate and its off thing us what happens to me too.
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Hmm...interesting....
Are you all rooted? Changed any apps? Made any tweaks or all stock?
I've had my Infuse for a week now and it's been great....no reboots of any kind. No real bugs to complain about, though I have noticed it can lag quite a bit when looking at mms'.
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The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.

garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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I get it too... Do you guys run at 190 dpi? DO you guys run LauncherPro?

Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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garak0410 said:
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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Yeah I updated to UCKE5 with GTG's rom. Wiped my int sd and did a data wipe and very careful what to tibu back... So far so good...

Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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rjan22 said:
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe

rblankman said:
The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
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The vibration is a notification that you are running low in nemmoey and using too much. Check your apps it happens to me too only when I'm browsing and trying to open too much tabs
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slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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rjan22 said:
slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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Ergh... no....
It was exactly word for word:
ROM Pre-Installation:
Wipe Data and Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
So you put a check mark to tell it to do so.... Been flash roms almost a year now since the captivate.... I would think to do how to do that
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Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!

Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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This was in June!! June!!! And this is not a damn Windows phone forum....
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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Sell Your phone. Now.
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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WTF...... ? No. Mod.. I think you should close this..

Stock camera

Has anybody else had an issue with stock camera failing. Mine keeps failing. Shows a black screen then popup just saying camera failed. Master reset twice to see if that will fix issue but keeps happening
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I had that issue and a full factory reset back to stock fixed it.
What rom are you using?
I exchanged the phone just to be safe
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I would take it back. thats not normal.......

00mred00 said:
I had that issue and a full factory reset back to stock fixed it.
What rom are you using?
I exchanged the phone just to be safe
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Im complete stock. Not rooted. Tried diff camera apps and still same issue. Ive reset the phone 3 times in 2 weeks and still have issue. Just called amazon and they are over nighting me a new one.
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Was it a new phone out of the box from amazon?

Mine too. Didn't have this problem when I first picked up the phone but after a soft brick, I started receiving the camera failed error.

adrigavi said:
Mine too. Didn't have this problem when I first picked up the phone but after a soft brick, I started receiving the camera failed error.
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UPDATE: after completely draining the battery and fully charging the phone the camera started to work again. Not too sure if that'll fix your problem but it's worth a shot.

Phone occasionally locks and drops data

So, I love this phone but have one issue that seems odd to me. As an example I am currently running pandora and tried opening the xda app which caused what appeared to be a fc but my phone kept running pandora and went to a black screen for a minute then a faded screen which eventually lead to a drop in data (briefly). Every thing was briefly unresponsive... It acted exactly like a reboot without rebooting. When I was able to unlock the screen I had no data service (briefly) and all apps closed. Xda app often fc's which is not a big deal to me but causing the black screen and data drop is concerning to me. I also had this happen when opening the phone info app while running nothing else. Should I be concerned about this? Software or hardware? I am running stock.
Edit: Have also had to reboot due to dropped data but it may have been during a switch between 4G or 3g even 1x.
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Ryno77 said:
So, I love this phone but have one issue that seems odd to me. As an example I am currently running pandora and tried opening the xda app which caused what appeared to be a fc but my phone kept running pandora and went to a black screen for a minute then a faded screen which eventually lead to a drop in data (briefly). Every thing was briefly unresponsive... It acted exactly like a reboot without rebooting. When I was able to unlock the screen I had no data service (briefly) and all apps closed. Xda app often fc's which is not a big deal to me but causing the black screen and data drop is concerning to me. I also had this happen when opening the phone info app while running nothing else. Should I be concerned about this? Software or hardware? I am running stock.
Edit: Have also had to reboot due to dropped data but it may have been during a switch between 4G or 3g even 1x.
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same thing happens to me, not sure why. I went through and froze all bloat with titanium backup, and it still happens

It's not something I can make happen, just happens randomly. I have 5 days to return this so I would like to figure it out. If a software update would fix it I would just deal with it for now but I'm not sure what the problem is.
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I just talked to Samsung on their live chat and they recommended I return the phone and exchange for new. I am still in the 14 day return window so I will ask for brand new even if I have to pay their $35 fee.

Ryno77 said:
I just talked to Samsung on their live chat and they recommended I return the phone and exchange for new. I am still in the 14 day return window so I will ask for brand new even if I have to pay their $35 fee.
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The policy is there is no $35 reatocking fee for the same phone swap. Don't let them tell you different. Your phone is DOA. Its a warranty exchange.
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ancashion said:
The policy is there is no $35 reatocking fee for the same phone swap. Don't let them tell you different. Your phone is DOA. Its a warranty exchange.
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Thanks. I already exchanged and they did not charge me anything. Hopefully I won't encounter that problem again.
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Replacement phone just did the exact same thing..... Seriously only one other person has this problem?
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No.. tons of us have data issues. My phone hot booted in my hands the other night and it was the first time I experienced it, but I've seen reference to it before.
Your issues are not isolated.
I gave up with tech support and wishing a new phone would fix it and turned to third party development. My first time flashing a ROM. I used synergy and have been really thrilled with it.
Sucks to have to fix a brand new phone. Sucks to be a beta tester for Samsung and vzw.
Sorry for your troubles though.
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Not the dropped data, the unresponsive black screen... Sorry, should have been more specific.
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Ahh.. no. Sorry. Have you tried wiping/restoring the phone? Lame, I know...
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I did not try wiping the phone because the first one was only nine days old and I had not done much with it. The second one lasted a day and now I am on my third. I really hope this does not happen again. The people at the Verizon store said they have never heard of this..... They think it's an app... I only have 12 apps installed. I don't know what I'm going to do if this happens with this phone. This is frustrating. I do not want to get stuck with a phone that has a problem like this.
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Ryno77 said:
I did not try wiping the phone because the first one was only nine days old and I had not done much with it. The second one lasted a day and now I am on my third. I really hope this does not happen again. The people at the Verizon store said they have never heard of this..... They think it's an app... I only have 12 apps installed. I don't know what I'm going to do if this happens with this phone. This is frustrating. I do not want to get stuck with a phone that has a problem like this.
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Mine does the same thing. Besides the stock stuff, I loaded Pandora, Google Music, Amazon MP3, and Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas game. It was nice enough to wait until just after the 14 day return window to start locking up and misbehaving. The only way I could get it back was to do a battery pull. Of course, when I brought it to the store it ran like a champ! If you can get another replacement, make sure it says 'UPDATED' on the box. Those have a newer kernel / baseband and seem to be working better.

All of mine have said updated on the box. I am trying to limit apps for now and will slowly add them if I have no issues.
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Help Data usage question

Just flashed carbon Rom to try 4.2 and literally watched my entire months with of data evaporate before my eyes in seconds... Verizon is saying I used 3 gigs in 1 hour..
Wtf happened? Has anyone else experienced their data go berserk after flashing a rom?
Thanks
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Never had it happen but I think someone said the gallery used a bunch of data, maybe syncing picasa or something like that.
That really suck man.
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Bahh
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This was literally the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen, I got a text one minute that said. "You have reached 50% of your data for the month" 2 minutes later "75%" and a minute later, "you have reached your data for the month"
I wasnt even doing anything. My phone was just sitting there and I had not even downloaded 1 app yet. It was right after the flash.

Go to System settings > data usage. You can move the bars to specify a time period and it will tell you what ate up your data during that time.

BattsNotIncld said:
Go to System settings > data usage. You can move the bars to specify a time period and it will tell you what ate up your data during that time.
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What's crazy is my data usage only shows I have used 85mb... and out shows that all on one day...?
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Did you sign into My Verizon to see what it says there?

Yea....it says I have used SIX gigs this billing cycle..
This image only shows a small amount because I wiped my phone clean after it went crazy
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bajasur said:
Yea....it says I have used SIX gigs this billing cycle..
This image only shows a small amount because I wiped my phone clean after it went crazy
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I know you said you didnt install any apps but did you by chance install the google wallet via "Google Wallet Installer" and forget to revert back?
I only asked because the same thing happened to me and that's what I did. Just a thought....

officer629 said:
I know you said you didnt install any apps but did you by chance install the google wallet via "Google Wallet Installer" and forget to revert back?
I only asked because the same thing happened to me and that's what I did. Just a thought....
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Never installed Google wallet.. I'm at a loss for what happened.
I think it's fixed though, my data has settled back down and seems to be running smooth after reverting back to stock and then flashing a touch wiz rom
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