When my phone is connected via USB to my computer for charging purposes my touch screen goes all out of wack. Here's a way to test if it happens to your charge.
1. Connect USB to computer
2. Go to empty home screen (#5 for me)
3. Long press and choose widgets
(This is difficult to do at times with touch screen going nuts)
4. Choose any widget
5. Then long press on widget to move around screen, but just hold it in place. Is it jumping all around the screen, even though your not moving it? Mine does, but when I disconnected from computer it doesn't do this. Wall charger doesn't do this as well. Just got my phone a week ago, might exchange it at Best Buy unless this is normal. Any advice?
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Sounds like a voltage issue with your USB port. Have you tried replicating the issue on another computer? I just tried it now on my laptop and it didn't do it. Then again, I'm running the latest gingerbread release. Not sure what you're using.
is your mass storage option on? sometimes the widgets act weird because they are on the sd card.
It does it both with mass storage on and off. I'm currently fully stock, I'm going to try it on my pc, then I'll try a new USB cord as well. Thanks for your help guys.
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The same thing happens to me! It used to happen with my Fascinate too... now I just use a wall charger.
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This used to happen on my OG Droid. I never found out what it was but it would happen randomly.
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Can anyone tell me why my phone starts this rapid beeping, it started last night when I had it plugged in and an alarm went off saying unplug phone now, then again this morning and again just now. I tried to do the 3e rage in the cage fix last night and it failed could it have something to do with that
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http: dI.dropbox.Com u 19201431 Files 3e_fix-Unzip-CIickInstaH.zip, It was after I followed this step by step . It failed but thats when my captivate starting acting weird
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Wake up!! OMFG!!!!! Your phone is fully charged!!!! Its time to use it!!!!
That's how you know you have a good phone.
As alluded to above the phone (without a custom rom which turns it off) has an alert which turns the screen on and makes a sound when it is fully charged. Its annoying and is disabled in many roms. It asks you to unplug the charger to save power because chargers use a little bit of electricity Even if the phone is not connected to it.
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So why have I had the phone 3 months and this just started last night? Never before
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Also omfg...it does it while unplugged also,i think I know what a battery full notification sounds like.
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Could be a corroded USB/charging port. Try a little contact cleaner. I've got two SGH-i917's that have had corroded USB ports. Anoying random beeps when I am not touching the phone. Sometimes repeating for about 10 minutes. The alert played is the same as the alert played when I plug the phone into a charger. That and the fact that the phones had charging problems (not getting a full charge) were clues. I also kind of wonder about the little sliding door over the USB port. Maybe it would have helped if I had used it, maybe not.
Good luck with your phone.
This is weird. About 10 minutes ago, the car home on my phone suddenly launched. The phone was in car dock mode, and would not leave. I rebooted, and immediately upon startup, the phone went into desk dock mode, landscaped, and would not leave it. I immediately went into Titanium and backed everything up, turned off the phone.
The phone will not recognize USB at all. It will charge through USB, but it will not connect via USB...not to the sdcard, and not even through download mode.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? The phone is unusable in this state.
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This is weird. About 10 minutes ago, the car home on my phone suddenly launched. The phone was in car dock mode, and would not leave. I rebooted, and immediately upon startup, the phone went into desk dock mode, landscaped, and would not leave it. I immediately went into Titanium and backed everything up, turned off the phone.
The phone will not recognize USB at all. It will charge through USB, but it will not connect via USB...not to the sdcard, and not even through download mode.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? The phone is unusable in this state.
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I am no expert on this subject but it sounds like there might be a short in the usb contacts. Try turning the phone off and cleaning the contacts with an electronics safe cleaner.
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Bear55 said:
I am no expert on this subject but it sounds like there might be a short in the usb contacts. Try turning the phone off and cleaning the contacts with an electronics safe cleaner.
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Yea. That's what I'm leaning toward too. This morning, it started switching in and out randomly. When it was in dock mode, it wouldn't come out. When it was not in dock mode, it wouldn't go in. While I was driving back from lunch, it suddenly started working correctly, and went in and out of car mode perfectly fine. I can't test the USB connectivity right now, but I will after work. I didn't have a chance to clean it last night, but I will after work today as well.
I'll keep this thread updated with what I find.
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Yea. That's what I'm leaning toward too. This morning, it started switching in and out randomly. When it was in dock mode, it wouldn't come out. When it was not in dock mode, it wouldn't go in. While I was driving back from lunch, it suddenly started working correctly, and went in and out of car mode perfectly fine. I can't test the USB connectivity right now, but I will after work. I didn't have a chance to clean it last night, but I will after work today as well.
I'll keep this thread updated with what I find.
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I am interested to see what happens. Good luck!
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It cleared up last night only to start again this morning. I called Verizon and have a replacement phone on the way.
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It cleared up last night only to start again this morning. I called Verizon and have a replacement phone on the way.
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Any guesses as to what was causing the problem?
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Any guesses as to what was causing the problem?
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Almost certainly USB related. It cleared up again yesterday randomly when I cycled a USB cable in and out a couple of times.
Hey guys. So to "cheer me up" my buddy gave me his G2x because his service was discontinued. In attempt to use it i tried to turn it on. wouldnt turn on. So i figured id charge it. When i plug it in, the LG sign comes up, but then disappears after 2 seconds of being up. I figured, oh **** the phone is bootlooping. It bootloops so fast that i cant even turn on the phone in recovery. Im thinking the phone might be bricked, since its "dead" and is bootlooping. Any suggestions? I dont want to throw away a perfectly good phone.
When was the last time the phone was charged?... you might need to charge it a little longer... then try to turn it on... battery was probably drained completely
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If you only gave a slight tap on the power button, that will happen. Try pressing power button for 3-5 secs.
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when the phone charges, it boot loops while it charges. So i dont even think its charging. I charged it over night, and it still doesnt have power unless plugged in. I feel as if the phone is bricked. But i highly doubt its rooted in the first place. Suggestions?
Sounds like maybe the mini-usb connector may be damaged and its not actually charging the phone could explain why its in and out of power and screen. Try maybe holding it still and pressing the power button for about 3 sec. Other than that id try plugging it in on the pc and see if that makes a difference.
welp. ill try that. maybe itll work. See all i need to do is boot into recovery. and im straight.
i just did what you said, same thing.
Do you think im experiencing the sleep of death?
Did you try removing the battery and putting it back (after few seconds) before attempting to switch on?
This is considerably worse than sleep of death. What's happening is that the phone, for whatever reason, isn't storing the electricity. If the problem happens even with with battery completely out of the phone, the problem is probably in the usb port. You might have to take the phone apart and replace it.
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New battery if it isn't holding a. Charge... A voltage meter or switching it out can tell you.
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Well, I honestly think its more of a software issue. Since the bootloop is sooo short, the phone doesnt have a chance to charge. thats what i think is whatsup. But im not sure.
Weather the phone is on or off it should charge. Charging with phone off is a bit faster. As someone suggested the USB port may be bad or it may be a bad charger itself.
So how would i be able to get a usb port? just order it online? easy install?
Well its attached the actual mobo of the phone so some dissecting and a soldering gun is in order to replace the usb port
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WHOA WHOA WHOA before you start soldering your phone (lol) try flashing CWM on it with a computer. and even before this try different usb/wall wires and different usb chargers. perhaps your charge is too strong or something like that.
anyways try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
more importantly see if you get stuck at the part where, after removing the barrery, you hold both volume keys and plug in usb to pc and see if the pc detects an apx device or w.e. if it does then the problem is (probably) not usb related.
if after flashing CWM it STILL DOES NOT WORK then try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644
this uses your PC to flash an entire rom and everything. stock recovery rom actually
what friend he is, sending you a brick LOL
oh and this goes without saying but you DO have a g2x right?
I like that apx idea. That would determine if it's USB related. Only thing is, if it's not detected that could mean a bad USB but it could also mean just a ruined motherboard.
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Got a weird problem overnight, where it appears my tf is bricked.
Went to turn it on and no go. Tried the power + vol down combo to no avail.
Oddly enough, when I plug the charger in, after a little I hear a "bing"
Any ideas before I send back to ASUS? I'd prefer to get stock back on before Rma-ing, or fix the issue entirely.
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Have you tried holding down the power button for about 15 seconds to see of it'll reboot?
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One of the first things I tried.
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Damn! Idk then. Sounds like it may be dead
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That "bing" probably your camera coming on. Could be a dead screen.
See if you get anything using hdmi out
do you have a dock? and have you tried communicating between cpu and your TF
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do you have a dock? and have you tried communicating between cpu and your TF
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Yep, dock didn't help except to confirm the charger is working. I'll try the pc tonight when I get back home.
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is it a "bing" or a "click" when you try and turn it on. it does sound like a dead screen thats why i asked about the dock maybe its playing the bing sound like the dock is connected keep us updated always willing to help
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is it a "bing" or a "click" when you try and turn it on. it does sound like a dead screen thats why i asked about the dock maybe its playing the bing sound like the dock is connected keep us updated always willing to help
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It's definitely a bing, and I get it both with and without the dock.
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Hey I am getting this click too, the screen is not dead, I am stuck in clockwork and it won't read my sdcard, I hope I am not bricked. If anyone has any ideas, let me know please.
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That "bing" probably your camera coming on. Could be a dead screen.
See if you get anything using hdmi out
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Haven't tried hdmi out yet, but I plug it to the pc and the pc sees the storage, so that tells me it's not bricked. Have an ASUS RMA # and will be sending it in as it is still under warranty.
And we do the hokey pokey...
So I seem to have resurrected my TF101, here's how I did it:
1. Plug tf into computer
2. shut-down the tf by holding the power button for ~12 seconds
3. power-on the tf (still no screen display)
4. unplug and drain to <50% battery (just lucky guess)
5. Plug back in to computer
6. Try to turn off as it #2, instead get lock screen
7. Do happy happy joy joy dance
8. flash back to stock rooted ICS (US)
9. Take a break from rom flashing
dwhitehead said:
So I seem to have resurrected my TF101, here's how I did it:
1. Plug tf into computer
2. shut-down the tf by holding the power button for ~12 seconds
3. power-on the tf (still no screen display)
4. unplug and drain to <50% battery (just lucky guess)
5. Plug back in to computer
6. Try to turn off as it #2, instead get lock screen
7. Do happy happy joy joy dance
8. flash back to stock rooted ICS (US)
9. Take a break from rom flashing
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Awesome! Glad you got it back to life!
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Suddenly I'm having charging problems. It's not the cord going bad. It's actually the part that plugs in. If I wiggle it one direction it loses connection.. It also won't fast charge anymore. The other day I'd plug it in and it would say dock connected instead of charging... There's a possibility water or condensation got into the charging port on my phone but I'm not sure. Any ideas on how to fix?
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Factory Reset?
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Chadly said:
Suddenly I'm having charging problems. It's not the cord going bad. It's actually the part that plugs in. If I wiggle it one direction it loses connection.. It also won't fast charge anymore. The other day I'd plug it in and it would say dock connected instead of charging... There's a possibility water or condensation got into the charging port on my phone but I'm not sure. Any ideas on how to fix?
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I just started having the same problem a couple weeks ago, it's super finicky now. I was rooted on 5.02 and tried to fix it doing everything I could think of. Finally, ended up using the verizon software utility thinking maybe that could do something since even with my phone powered off, the phone would see the cable plugged in for a second but then would disconnect from it. Everything up to that point seemed to be a hardware issue to me but this seemed to be software or something else and was the reason I chose to use the verizon software. Anyway, using their support software only removed my root and brought me up to marshmallow and that didn't fix anything.
I've done tons of things and nothing has helped. I've just settled on the fact that something hardware has happened even though this began in the middle of the night while the phone was on the charger and untouched. I just ended up going through all my usb cables and found some that work better than others. Some fast charge sometimes others never do. I figure I'll just live with it until I get the S7 or htc 10 or something else.
It's a total mystery to me though as to what happened. The phone wasn't dropped or anything around the time it began doing this, just seemingly came out of nowhere. I do miss not having this problem!
Well, it's weird because if I plug it in and push the charger thing upwards it switches to fast charging.. I guess I'm gonna go buy another USB cable and see if it's the problem. No way am I going through another factory reset too much stuff on my phone.
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Chadly said:
Well, it's weird because if I plug it in and push the charger thing upwards it switches to fast charging.. I guess I'm gonna go buy another USB cable and see if it's the problem. No way am I going through another factory reset too much stuff on my phone.
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I wouldn't, didn't do anything for me.
With your phone off, what does the charging do? Every single one of my cables would show that they were plugged in and charging , even the ones that weren't doing anything at all when plugged in to the phone while the phone was booted up, but then immediately would disconnect.
Sometimes you can get dust or lint in the charging port. Turn the off, no power an gently use a needle to try to clean the port.
Hope this helps.
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There's also the wireless charging option in the meantime if truly a hardware defect.