Well, I think my beloved Skyrocket is now pooched. It has been acting strange lately (won't turn off, and when I pull the battery and put it back in it just restarts). Now, most recently I am unable to sync it with my computer at all. I'm running stock 2.3.5 Rogers, got bored on the weekend and wanted to try CM9. But the computer won't do anything when its plugged in. The skyrocket will just charge.
I have tried 3 different PC's, my MacBook and 4 different Micro USB cables. All yielding the same results. What made me come to the final conclusion its definately my phone is because I tried a friend of mine Skyrocket and his works great.
Before I turn this thing into my kids bath time boat anchor, is it repairable or pretty much hopeless? If not, I'm getting a Note. Go big or go home, right?
g2tegg said:
Well, I think my beloved Skyrocket is now pooched. It has been acting strange lately (won't turn off, and when I pull the battery and put it back in it just restarts). Now, most recently I am unable to sync it with my computer at all. I'm running stock 2.3.5 Rogers, got bored on the weekend and wanted to try CM9. But the computer won't do anything when its plugged in. The skyrocket will just charge.
I have tried 3 different PC's, my MacBook and 4 different Micro USB cables. All yielding the same results. What made me come to the final conclusion its definately my phone is because I tried a friend of mine Skyrocket and his works great.
Before I turn this thing into my kids bath time boat anchor, is it repairable or pretty much hopeless? If not, I'm getting a Note. Go big or go home, right?
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at one point and time mine wouldnt connect to usb either. i did some searching around and found out that after i plugged it in i had to go to settings/more/USB utilities and click connect storage to pc wile i was plugged into the computer and HEEEEEY i could finally copy files and all that good ****. i have never ran the CM9 rom and i am also on ATT so i dont know if your phone layout is the sme and whatnot. hope that helped a little....if any
Do a battery pull and re start in recovery mode. Reload factory defaults and start over.
+1 any help would be appreciated
YAY got it working, clean the usb port of the phone. compressed air, rubbing alcohol whatever you can clean it with
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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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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 :/
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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?
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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....
I bought this Blackjack way back in the glory days of WinMo5 (used...) and it worked wonderfully for about a day, the screen started flickering and eventually went dead. It would never turn on again. I got it opened up and worked on what I could, the USB plug was jacked up and fell off. It was no longer usable. I gave up on the device and picked up the HTC Star Trek in my sig and put WinMo6 on it. Eventually moved on to Android and never looked back... HOWEVER I got into tinker mode and opened it up again this evening. I took a soldering iron to it and wicked up the worn solder on the USB plug contacts, and just did away with the USB plug all together. I can't solder that many tiny points so I will just charge the battery remotely.
Now on to me current issue... This thing is still on WinMo5, and I see some newer roms, namely some 6.5 roms I would like to mess with. Without a USB cable and connecting this to my computer... it is not flashable in this state? I really would love to get this thing out of relic status. I hope some of you have ideas on where to go from here!
right, without your usb in working condition you can't flash any roms.
wish i had better news for ya.
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.
Hi there,
My Nexus S (i9023) phone recently fell into a water bucket and I immediately pulled it out.
Not much damage was done to it except of one thing: after I put it in a bag of rice like stated on the internet for overnight, and then plugged it in again to the charger, it seems like something was different.
When I plug the phone to the AC power - phone DOES charge, but nothing else happens.
It doesn't turn on screen and informs "charging", and doesn't have the "charge when phone is off" option anymore. Instead it would just turn the phone on.
Also, when connecting the phone to the computer nothing happens, it's just charging the phone! can't mount USB anymore
I took the phone to a lab which handles these cases. They replaced the USB port and cleaned all the corrosion. They said it's fixed now, and indeed the USB port is new.
But then after coming back home it's still the same.
I'm sick of being dependant on other people and would like to fix it myself.
Any clue which part of my phone was fried? Where can I get it?
Thanks!
-zeek
Are u rooted?
Try a different ROM. Maybe one ur ur backups.
If it still does connect then it has to be the ROM assuming ur computer has the proper drivers still.
Good luck
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Thanks!
Thank you!!!
Problem solved after I loaded one of my backups.
Any explanation to that? even when the phone was turned off it couldn't charge it in off mode and now it can.
How come it's a software issue?
Thanks!
I can only guess that ur ROMs kernel had a "fast charge" option. If so this doesn't allow computer connection. How it got switched to that option... who knows .... maybe the sudden power surge.
If not that, then ... strange things happen when a phone get wet.. the sudden power surge could have changed the power output causing CPU adjustments... who knows.
I'm just happy it worked for u.
I'd recalibrate ur battery asap.
Good luck
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Hi, the same thing happened to me, only it wasn't a bucket, it was a pool, and changing the ROM didn't work (I've flashed at least three different ROMs since then, kind of hard when the USB port doesn't work but eh, what can you do).
Also, it's on a Gio, not a Nexus S, but the principle should still be the same, yes?
I'm not new to android whatsoever.. I've just returned from an Iphone 4s cause i was missing the openess of android. Now.. i've pulled out my old Nexus S 4g, Updated it to 4.0.4 and i cant get it to connect to my computer for the life of me! tried 4 different cables, 5 different computers, every driver i could find and nothing. I've come to believe this is a software failure... All i need is root and i will be able to sleep at night. Could someone package up .zip to give root and twrp recovery that i could flash through stock recovery? I dont know else i could do to get root... but this problem is becoming quite annoying.
Perhaps your usb port on your Nexus S is broke? Does it charge?
Try and I guess the term would be wiggle the micro USB cord and see if the computer makes the sound it makes when a device is plugged in.
My old phone was dropped by my brother. Would charge fine but wouldn't be seen by the computer without fiddling with port.
Sounds unlikely this is your case though. Since you said it worked prior to a update.