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Lost USB Connectivity

I went to copy a file I had put on my g1 to my desktop and something was wrong with the usb. Now my phone will not give me the option to mount the sd card when connect via usb cable even though it will take a charge through it, I tried with 2 different cables and 2 pc's. Any thoughts?

nickland said:
I went to copy a file I had put on my g1 to my desktop and something was wrong with the usb. Now my phone will not give me the option to mount the sd card when connect via usb cable even though it will take a charge through it, I tried with 2 different cables and 2 pc's. Any thoughts?
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That happened to me a few days ago and I have no idea why. Tried it on two different PC's, to no avail. Then all of a sudden, a few hours later, it worked again.

Yeah, its been a few hours and several restart/batt removals already. The phone is still fully functional just cant transfer files :/

nickland said:
Yeah, its been a few hours and several restart/batt removals already. The phone is still fully functional just cant transfer files :/
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Can you access it through adb?
Can you connect to it through the bootloader?
Did you try another computer?
Did you try another cable?
By any chance did you try to connect it to a universal charger?
I messed up my Tilt because I used a generic car adapter to charge it. Now it won't charge unless it's turned on and it disconnects randomly when syncing with my pc (if it connects at all). It sounds like you may be having a similar problem.

Well, seems the phone is now 500 dollar garbage. It wont take a charge through usb and just gets really hot. Im not a t-mobile customer so its not insured. Back to the blackjack I guess :/

nickland said:
Well, seems the phone is now 500 dollar garbage. It wont take a charge through usb and just gets really hot. Im not a t-mobile customer so its not insured. Back to the blackjack I guess :/
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You have a one year warranty through HTC, you can probably contact them directly.
One question, does it charge with the AC adapter that it ships with?

nickland said:
Well, seems the phone is now 500 dollar garbage. It wont take a charge through usb and just gets really hot. Im not a t-mobile customer so its not insured. Back to the blackjack I guess :/
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Dude you're starting to scare me now. My phone started doing that just last night and I haven't figured out why. It will give me the option to mount but will not show up in windows explorer. I am also unable to use adb. I am not having any problems with charging it though, hopefully that won't change in the next couple of days.

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Dude you're starting to scare me now. My phone started doing that just last night and I haven't figured out why. It will give me the option to mount but will not show up in windows explorer. I am also unable to use adb. I am not having any problems with charging it though, hopefully that won't change in the next couple of days.
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exactly the same as me. the only way i can get it to mount is to reboot it with the USB cable in, then it will mount. but if i take the use cable out and try again it wont. have to reboot everytime. starting to piss me off.

Weird stuff for sure. Odd that it seems to be happening to a lot of people and that it started happening roughly at the same time, give or take a few days.

hmmm tried my extended battery again which i've not been using for a few days to see what the battery life is like compared to the normal one. ****ing terrible.
but anyway, that seemed to fix the problem. I unmounted, remounted about 5 or 6 times in a row. rebooted, still worked. turned it off and back on again, working perfectly. so i went back to the original battery. wouldn't work no matter what i tried. changed battery again, worked fine.
It's either the weirdest (and most reliable) coincidence ever, or the battery is somehow messing with the way the phone mounts the SD card

Hmmm after finding my wall charger I found it takes a charge just fine off of that, so thats a plus at least....

Aftermarket batteries

So this morning I woke up to my phone refusing to power up again, and also have lots of random shutdowns that require me to pull battery before powering back on. I have narrowed it down to the only culprit causing this being an aftermarket extended battery as my oem battery, although it was dead, powered the phone up and accepted a charge via the charge indicator staying on instead of blinking. Anyone else experience this?
Nonsense!

tackleberry said:
So this morning I woke up to my phone refusing to power up again, and also have lots of random shutdowns that require me to pull battery before powering back on. I have narrowed it down to the only culprit causing this being an aftermarket extended battery as my oem battery, although it was dead, powered the phone up and accepted a charge via the charge indicator staying on instead of blinking. Anyone else experience this?
Nonsense!
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What battery are you using? Is it knocked off ones from ebay?
You can try and buy the oem battery, mugen or chichi batteries.
OROROR its possible that Ur having random issue that some people are having resulting many bricked g2s. There is a thread in general section called e:log/ something like that
Mine was bricked compeletely
Was running cm7 fine for about a week
Then it was cuasing random freezes and had to pull battery to get it working again
Now careful with what you do or u will brick urs like mine
Can u connect to the charger and open hboot or access to recovery?
If you do using adb reflash recovery..
Thisis what I did and ended up with bricked g2
I was tried of getting random freezes(I never overclocked it)
Booted into recovery did factory reset and got e: log/recovery or something like that( buch of em)
Then I flashed new rom
Rebooted got stuck at htc logo for 20min
Pulled battery...it never turned back on. No hboot or recovery no adb nothing.
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Aftermarket batteries are often cheap knockoffs, and are infamous for failing quickly. I've seen a post on here by a person that purchased 3 from eBay, and all 3 failed within 2-3 weeks.

redpoint73 said:
Aftermarket batteries are often cheap knockoffs, and are infamous for failing quickly. I've seen a post on here by a person that purchased 3 from eBay, and all 3 failed within 2-3 weeks.
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+1 if your really looking for extended after market batteries go with chichi or mugen. People are getting great results. They are a bit pricy though.
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tackleberry said:
So this morning I woke up to my phone refusing to power up again, and also have lots of random shutdowns that require me to pull battery before powering back on. I have narrowed it down to the only culprit causing this being an aftermarket extended battery as my oem battery, although it was dead, powered the phone up and accepted a charge via the charge indicator staying on instead of blinking. Anyone else experience this?
Nonsense!
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Its not non sense lol. It happened to me, no need to panic, leave the battery in unless your CWM is updated to the latest version whereas you don't boot into recovery while charging.
If its updated to the latest CWM:
1. Put back your OEM battery or any other battery that will boot up your phone.
2. Go to ROM Manager and go to a previous recovery version before the the fix for charging and not going into recovery.
3. Let it flash, and then pop back in your extended battery.
4. Plug in your USB to your computer. Let it go into recovery.
5. Type "adb devices" your phone should appear.
6. Then type "adb reboot"
There it should be fixed now. If your CWM isn't to the latest, you can skip the flashing to older ones.

Lol the nonsense is my signature on my phone, meaning my phone is a non-sense phone lol
Its been working fine all day, just drops calls in the same area so no different. I haven't tried the am battery since, but when it was plugged in the orange charge led was blinking, and would act differently when power button was pressed. Put oem battery in and no power, but the battery was dead. After ten min it powered and booted right up.
Mostly I am concerned and made this thread because my previous g2 bricked and wondering if the battery messed up volatge or something because the phone got a little hot before it locked up and bricked. I was reflashing roms and I did it 20 times before and never had a problem so its not like it was my first time. Totally weird.
Nonsense!

Yeah it happened to me like twice. I just pray that when I have to do a battery pull when I'm out it this problem doesn't occur lol. Well yeah the orange light blinks cause of the new CWM. If it was on the old one with no fix, it would stay orange and go into recovery. At first I thought the same until I put a different battery back in and booted, so I thought the battery was now defective, so I went back to eBay and purchased 2 more. After a week of the purchase I tried those adb commands and it fixed it. So now I have 3 extended batteries lol, it kinda messed me up since I had to pay for a new one .

Just wanted to say after almost a week on the oem stock battery since my failure, I have not had issues with my phone shutting down, random rebooting attempts, or a need for a battery pull. No pulling the phone out of my pocket and it is blank dead and useless unless I pull battery.
I'm assuming that the battery was my problem. How? I don't know unless it was a voltage issue? If anyone wants my am battery to just mess with it, you can have it for free just pay shipping.
Nonsense!

You can buy 1450mah Droid Incredible 2 battery or the Evo Shift's 1500mah battery.
EDIT: Just got the Sprint Evo Shift battery in. It will need to be modded and sanded down a bit. I was in a hurry so I just sanded it down with the sticker still on it.. after about 5 minutes of that, some clean up with goo gone and alcohol, I have a working 1500mah battery straight from HTC.

The incred 2 batt, does it need modding?
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tackleberry said:
The incred 2 batt, does it need modding?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076608
Nope

Power issue

I went kayaking yesterday and got some water on the phone. The zip lock bag I had it in opened up somehow. I turned the phone off and it wouldnt turn back on. It vibrated 3 times and then kept blinking a orange LED. I left it in the sun for about an hr and then it worked again. Today I am having the same issue. I rebooted my phone because the touch screen wasn't being responsive and it won't boot up. 3 vibrates and then orange led keep blinking. I tried booting into recovery and no luck. Any tips?

vandeec5 said:
I went kayaking yesterday and got some water on the phone. The zip lock bag I had it in opened up somehow. I turned the phone off and it wouldnt turn back on. It vibrated 3 times and then kept blinking a orange LED. I left it in the sun for about an hr and then it worked again. Today I am having the same issue. I rebooted my phone because the touch screen wasn't being responsive and it won't boot up. 3 vibrates and then orange led keep blinking. I tried booting into recovery and no luck. Any tips?
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try to leave it in a bag of rice overnight? is your battery alright? not shorted or anything? other than that i got nothing. sorry

nhshah7 said:
try to leave it in a bag of rice overnight? is your battery alright? not shorted or anything? other than that i got nothing. sorry
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Do i need to keep all the covers on and leave it in a bag of rice? do I keep keep the battery in? The battery is fine. I just rebooted the phone and was able to get into recovery but I noticed the Volume up key was not functional. I rebooted again and it did the same 3 vibrate and orange led

vandeec5 said:
Do i need to keep all the covers on and leave it in a bag of rice? do I keep keep the battery in? The battery is fine. I just rebooted the phone and was able to get into recovery but I noticed the Volume up key was not functional. I rebooted again and it did the same 3 vibrate and orange led
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Open everything up and take it all apart. Rice absorbs moisture so you want it to be able to absorb from inside as well. Make sure it's in a ziplock so it absorbs from inside the bag and not outside
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I got the phone up and running, the volume up key does not work. Now I gotta return things back to stock and get a replacement.

Ok here is my situation.
1. Everytime I restart my phone, the phone vibrates 3x with flashing orange. I have to wait like an hour or so then I can turn on my phone and it will boot normally.
2. The Volume up key does not work
3. This is a work phone, I need to get back to stock
4. I can boot into bootloader and recovery
My question is, how do I go back completely to stock through the bootloader?, so that I can send my phone back to ATT for warranty. Having to wait an hr before I my phone will load is a pain...Can I put an image on the SD card and flash it through bootloader to go back to stock?

Before you go through all that trouble, verify that the water indicator isn't red/pink. It's located under teh sim/micro SD cover, look for the FC and Bluetooth symbols then look through the opaque plastic for a white rectangle.

I have personally had my first inspire go down due to water damage. My inspire did the same thing of vibrating 3x and flashing the led. I'm pretty sure that this also indicates water damage. They have ways of identifying water damage, so its just best to be honest about that, because when they find out that it is water damage, they will be charging you full price of the phone because water damage is not covered by warranty....should have bought insurance. My advice to you is, see if you can buy insurance. And then wait a week or two, and then file a claim. You will have to pay the deductible though. When I filed, the deductible was $125, but I've heard that they are bumping it up. Best of luck.
To get back to stock, go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353
Scroll down to MISCELLANEOUS: > Returning to Stock:

I checked the back and it's not red so I am in good shape.
This phone was issued from my work so I get it for free, I just want to return it to stock so that my company won't know that I rooted my phone.

I just tried to downgrade and I was unable to, the RUU will try to boot into bootloader but my phone wont boot into it, I have to give it maybe 5 minutes before it will boot into boot loader. It will just keep vibrating. Is there a stock Rom that I can flash through recovery and somehow remove the superuser icon?

As far as I know, the only way to install true unrooted stock roms are either by the RUU or by flashing a zip file in the bootloader. Either way, you will have to get into bootloader. Anything else will be custom roms. You can install a custom stock rom and try uninstalling superuser, but it will reflect custom software in software information. Going about it this way, may apear to be unrooted/purely stock initially, but anyone with general android knowledge will be able to tell that its been fooled with. Especially if they try to perform an OTA software update from AT&T and it won't work because it's been rooted. And then, of course, you can't forget about your phone being s-off.

I went into recovery and restored a backup I did right before I installed a custom rom which I remember I always do in case stuff like this happens. I then installed root explorer and removed super user and rom manager then removed root explorer itself. I went and try to do an OTA update and it did allow me to but I didn't do it. Right now S is off but my phone is looking as stock as it can be for now. At least I tried...

Your water indicator is on the side of the battery, pink indicates water damage which can only be replaced through insurance. What I did when I took a spill into a pond while fishing with my phone in my pocket was remove the battery, both covers, sim card & memory card. Took the phone & submerged it in a bowl of rice overnight. Put the battery, sim card & memory card in it's own bowl of rice over night. Next day I was able to use the hack kit to get s-on then plugged it into the pc & run the stock ruu before I sent it back to the insurance company. If you send it & they discover that it's still s-off they will charge you full price for the phone.
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stryfe2010 said:
Your water indicator is on the side of the battery, pink indicates water damage which can only be replaced through insurance. What I did when I took a spill into a pond while fishing with my phone in my pocket was remove the battery, both covers, sim card & memory card. Took the phone & submerged it in a bowl of rice overnight. Put the battery, sim card & memory card in it's own bowl of rice over night. Next day I was able to use the hack kit to get s-on then plugged it into the pc & run the stock ruu before I sent it back to the insurance company. If you send it & they discover that it's still s-off they will charge you full price for the phone.
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Yea i'm pretty much screwed because I can't run the RUU or the hack kit, if it's anything dealing with the phone having to reboot, I can't do it. If i restart my phone, I have to take the battery out for about 30 minutes before It will boot again. If I can get S-On somehow either through boot loader or anything that doesn't require reboot then I will be fine....

Ns4g ics battery charge

I'm trying to figure out if this problem is just my phone or an actual issue. I just got this phone 2 days ago from craigslist after being with the evo for almost a year. As soon as I got it, I rooted it n tried flashing ics roms themed and original leaked update. On every rom I flashed, the phone wouldn't recognize the charger or usb or it would tell me its charging but it would take 6 hours to gain 6% more battery? I also tried turning the phone off to charge but that didn't work either. Anyone know anything about this n what I did wrong or didn't do?
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I've had the exact same problem, i bought a NS4g from craigslist that wouldn't charge or turn on without a charger being plugged in. Long story short, i eventually got it back from Samsung with the warranty being voided due to water damage. So i opened it up and found some oxidation resudue and cleaned it off by scrapping it off. Luckily it worked!!. For you it might just be the battery since it actually says 6%, try to replace with another battery or place the battery in the freezer for 5 mins and try it again.

I flashed the unofficial leak rom again n it charges now but it doesn't say its charging on the lock screen or on the battery icon, but in the system info it says its charging? I have never ran into this type of issue before?
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Exact Same Problem
I was given ICS 4.0.4 via OTA update by google... It worked fine for like 2 months then exactly the same problem arises with my Nexus S i9023 (unrooted).
1. It's doesn't indicate on the lock screen that it's charging nor it indicates on the battery icon, however it does tells me that the battery is charging when I check the battery in the settings. This issue exists on both wall chargers and usb cable.
2. It doesn't asks me to mount mass memory of my Nexus S and my windows 7 machine says it cannot recognize the device..
I strongly suspects it's a bug in the ICS...
I would appreciate any help that I can get on this issue... but to be honest I read many threads here and I can't understand half of what people are trying to say, so I request to keep things a bit simple because I know nothing about how to root or flash or doing any other super geeky stuff ...
thanks

Some people have had luck just cleaning the USB port with a dry toothbrush and a can of compressed air. Might just be dirt. Worth a shot.

thanks mate,
Yeah, tried cleaning it with a brush... still no luck..

[Q] Rooted 4.1.1 GS3 Possible Sudden Death Syndrome?

Hello All!
Three days ago I updated my GS3 to JB 4.1.1. I also ODIN'd TWRP onto my phone as a recovery and loaded SuperSU with an unlocked bootloader onto my phone along with BusyBox. I fell in love with my phone again as JB ran smoothly and I was even able to use Wallet Installer to get Google Wallet onto my phone. However, tonight, my phone seemed to experience a case of Sudden Death Syndrome. A common issue found by googling why my phone's failure to respond to boot commands and power commands.
It will not respond to attempts to boot into ODIN mode, my TWRP recovery and the only sign of life on my phone is a solid red LCD that lights up only if I remove the battery and leave the device plugged into a wall charger. Once I try to reinsert the battery, however, the LCD goes away and the phone once again turns into a coffee coaster. It's taking a lot of strength not to throw it against the wall. (I picked the worst week to quit smoking.)
I don't believe I hardbricked the device because three hours ago at the time of this post, I went to sleep and the phone was working and I was able to send and receive messages. I believe that rooting my phone actually made it even more stable than normal. I just can't believe my phone could just suddenly die. Could it be another case of Sudden Death Syndrome? (Corrupted NAND?) I bought this phone in August and many cases of SDS for the GSIII seem to occur within 150-200 days of activation, which would put me in that window. If I answered my own questions, please feel free to tell me. I'm just trying to explore all options as an exasperated user dealing with what seems frustration after frustration and the one release I have from that stress just **** a brick.
I am covered by Asurion Insurance (and if the crack on my screen will not be enough I plan on running it over with my car for good measure to get my money's worth) but I really do not want to have to file an insurance claim unless it is absolutely necessary.

Phone died just last night 12/29/12. The battery was running down, then beeped once like a warning to charge it. Plugged into the charger and no light whatsoever! The battery icon would come on for a second and then nothing. Left it on the charger over night. Nothing. No red charging light, no boot. Pulled the battery and re-plugged into charger. Same charging icon on screen but nothing else. Tried every combination of removing battery, sim card, memory card, and plugging it in to the charger and still won't boot. Tried a different charger and also my laptop. Nothing. The S3 is a USA Verizon variant. 16gb. Black. I guess it's off to Verizon this morning to get a new phone. Phone is only 45 days old!!!

You could try leaving it on the charger for a couple hours then booting into recovery and reflashing your rom. I've seen a couple instances reported on xda where the battery simply just gave up below 23% and refused to turn back on.
Edit: example, not even a couple weeks old...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2056539
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If it is a case of "sds" Samsung will replace the board for free.

Ryno77 said:
If it is a case of "sds" Samsung will replace the board for free.
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Only reports of SDS in the 150-200 day time frame that I saw was with the International Version and it is completely different motherboard.

What do you kids do to your phone? How old are you? I'm going to start a survey. Age please?
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Update: Brought the S3 into Verizon. They pulled the battery (Like I did a few times!) and somehow got it working again!! FM ! Phone reboots and turns off and then back on. BUT..... if you turn it completely OFF and plug it in to charge then the same as I mentioned happens again. STRANGE. The only way to get it to reboot is to pull the battery and keep it out for about 30 seconds. Put the battery back in and it'll reboot again!!!! Is it me or is this a strange quirk???? The previous times I pulled the battery it was out then back in. This time I took it out, waited 30 seconds and VOILA! It works. Thought you might like an update. Verizon S3 bought on 11/17/12. Rooted and not oc/uc'd. Using Clean Rom 5.5.1
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prdog1 said:
Only reports of SDS in the 150-200 day time frame that I saw was with the International Version and it is completely different motherboard.
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That's good news..thanks for the correction.