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Hey guys.. So I've had my inspire for about 2 or 3 months now, and this thing is driving me apeshhh. Here is why...
For a few weeks now, the phone would randomly restart in the middle of doing something, always random. Sometimes while writing a msg in the stock facebook app. Sometimes when browsing market, sometimes when browsing using the web browser. Today I wanted to download Astro to see if the music I put on the phone went to external or internal SD. As soon as the download finished, the phone restarted. After it booted back up I looked through apps, and it never installed. I went back to market and searched it, pulled it up, and it shows installing.... let it sit for 5 minutes... nothing. Restarted, same thing. Pulled the battery... same thing... I can't cancel it, or try again. It will now no longer install anything else.
I figured maybe it needs to download something that it just doesn't have the network speed to use, and trying turning on wifi. IT WONT EVEN TURN ON. Under the settings menu to turn it on, it says error. When i tap on it, the error msg just goes off then comes back right away.
Anybody else experience this? I really wish SOMEBODY would come out with a decent f**king phone on the AT&T network.... I guess I can now add HTC to the list of people that can't build a decent phone. Just below Samsung... (What a POS line of phones they have released).
Anyway, phone is stock, not rooted, nothing turned off, completely stock.
How does the warrenty work now? I bought the phone outright, cash, $500... for this....
Thanks for any help.
Could be your phone mate. I've had this phone maybe about three months and haven't experienced those issues. Just might be a lemon you have. Where did you purchase the phone?
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I bought the phone at an authorized AT&T retailer store. The kind you find in common shopping strips.
Try to see if they will give you a replacement
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GTIVRon said:
Hey guys.. So I've had my inspire for about 2 or 3 months now, and this thing is driving me apeshhh. Here is why...
For a few weeks now, the phone would randomly restart in the middle of doing something, always random. Sometimes while writing a msg in the stock facebook app. Sometimes when browsing market, sometimes when browsing using the web browser. Today I wanted to download Astro to see if the music I put on the phone went to external or internal SD. As soon as the download finished, the phone restarted. After it booted back up I looked through apps, and it never installed. I went back to market and searched it, pulled it up, and it shows installing.... let it sit for 5 minutes... nothing. Restarted, same thing. Pulled the battery... same thing... I can't cancel it, or try again. It will now no longer install anything else.
I figured maybe it needs to download something that it just doesn't have the network speed to use, and trying turning on wifi. IT WONT EVEN TURN ON. Under the settings menu to turn it on, it says error. When i tap on it, the error msg just goes off then comes back right away.
Anybody else experience this? I really wish SOMEBODY would come out with a decent f**king phone on the AT&T network.... I guess I can now add HTC to the list of people that can't build a decent phone. Just below Samsung... (What a POS line of phones they have released).
Anyway, phone is stock, not rooted, nothing turned off, completely stock.
How does the warrenty work now? I bought the phone outright, cash, $500... for this....
Thanks for any help.
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Back up your stuff and factory reset. If that doesn't work then either Root it and try a different ROM or get a replacement phone.
You might want to look at the thread in here about random shutdowns. It looks like the batteries on these phones can be the culprit. My phone randomly shutdown, sometimes restarted. I thought it was a ROM I had loaded at first. The problem got progressively worse no matter what ROM I used. It would do it maybe once a day & then within less than 3 weeks I have to keep it plugged in all the time. It happened when I opened a power-intensive app like navigation or a game. The battery is covered under warranty.
This issue seems to be rather uncommon, but it does exist.
Nothing compared to what Captivate owners went through.
Lemons do happen, but as suggested, I'd try another battery first. If that doesn't solve the problem, there shouldn't be any issue with getting a warranty replacement.
And that warranty replacement will, with near certainty, be a good one. Again, unlike the Captivate.
I've had mine for about 3 months with none of these issues. HTC phones for me have been great. Even their customer service and support if their products. And I have had Samsung,motorolla, and LG none at the same level of build quality. If you continue having problems get in touch with the HTC support they will help if not let u know if you can get a replacement.
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I am a former captivate owner. That phone was so bad that it destroyed it's own internal memory. Every app continously force close, every process, upon startup one day. Restored a backup, got nothing, reflashed, got nothing, mounted it and formated it then ran a memory checking utility on my computer with it, and it showed like 46% of the sectors being bad, after then 2nd test somewhere in the high 50s. I promtly punched in the screen and folded the phone in half, and tore it into 2 pieces... So i think that may be why I'm relatively patient with this phone.. (that was also my 3rd captivate replacement). (Debating using a picture of the phone as-is in a DIY to fixing captivates and post it in that forum... get all your frustration out and buy a new phone.. ha ha.)
I will call HTC and see talk to a rep, maybe they know more about the problem and will be able to determine whether the phone or the battery is at fault.
Also, factory reset did not fix the wifi problem. Instead of immediately going back to error under it's status, and spent about 10 seconds trying to connect, then came up with error. This leads me to believe it's hardware related.
I will most likely push for a replacement phone then. I do have a concern with that though... My phone has never gotten wet, and only has a small indication of falling out of my pocket while sitting in a stadium chair (maybe a 12 inch drop onto concrete). Will this void my warrenty? The scar left behind is hardly noticeable, but if they looked for it, it will be seen. Another thing is, when I pull my battery cover off, there are 2 screws along the side, one is covered by a sticker that reads VOID, black sticker with white text. Is that some kind of indicator of water damage? I'm more familiar with white stickers turning red or pink from water damage... and as said, this phones never been wet.
Thanks again for the help.
At&t is usually good about replacing defective phones and will be faster than dealing with htc. You obviously have experience with at&t warranty having owned a captivate.
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I am a former captivate owner. That phone was so bad that it destroyed it's own internal memory. Every app continously force close, every process, upon startup one day. Restored a backup, got nothing, reflashed, got nothing, mounted it and formated it then ran a memory checking utility on my computer with it, and it showed like 46% of the sectors being bad, after then 2nd test somewhere in the high 50s. I promtly punched in the screen and folded the phone in half, and tore it into 2 pieces... So i think that may be why I'm relatively patient with this phone.. (that was also my 3rd captivate replacement). (Debating using a picture of the phone as-is in a DIY to fixing captivates and post it in that forum... get all your frustration out and buy a new phone.. ha ha.)
I will call HTC and see talk to a rep, maybe they know more about the problem and will be able to determine whether the phone or the battery is at fault.
Also, factory reset did not fix the wifi problem. Instead of immediately going back to error under it's status, and spent about 10 seconds trying to connect, then came up with error. This leads me to believe it's hardware related.
I will most likely push for a replacement phone then. I do have a concern with that though... My phone has never gotten wet, and only has a small indication of falling out of my pocket while sitting in a stadium chair (maybe a 12 inch drop onto concrete). Will this void my warrenty? The scar left behind is hardly noticeable, but if they looked for it, it will be seen. Another thing is, when I pull my battery cover off, there are 2 screws along the side, one is covered by a sticker that reads VOID, black sticker with white text. Is that some kind of indicator of water damage? I'm more familiar with white stickers turning red or pink from water damage... and as said, this phones never been wet.
Thanks again for the help.
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Those stickers are intact right? As long as their intact and not "punched in," which would indicate a screwdriver has penetrated in order to get the phone open, you should be good, as far as that's concerned.
Uhh well bad luck for you... I dont think this is a common problem...
Im guessing the iphone is on top of your list xD
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I'm going to start by saying a have a pretty awesome g2x, never had any problems with it and it runs like a champ, very minor screen bleed. Me and my best friend both got our g2x's the same day at the same tmobile store.
His g2x rebooted while the rep was setting us up, and the rep said its probably just because its new (lol?) After taking our new phones home, his g2x rebooted 7 more times within 2 hours. Long story short he exchanged 3 times and finally had a fairly stable g2x.
Over the past month his g2x started getting random reboots like the previous ones, but he wanted to see if the gingerbread update would help. He didn't want to use the LG update tool out of the fear something would go wrong.
He received the ota yesterday and while it was upgrading, his phone "rebooted into a bootloop" and by that I mean it turned off,then back on, and the screen started flipping out! It was rebooting about 2-3 times per second! (Extreme bootloop?) It got extremely hot (I'm talking about 200°F+, it BURNED my hand, really, my skin is still peeling off) and after a battery pull and burned fingers, it is now bricked. It wont turn on at all and his entire SD card was corrupted so he lost all of his pictures and files (from the extreme heat?)
We were flipping out and tossing the phone to eachother like a hot patato! It would have made a great video to post on the LG forums/here lol if only someone had recorded us
So we took it back in to the T-Mobile store, the reps were laughing and then told us we could either mail it to LG or "Upgrade" to a G2 for $50 since they don't have any in stock. I was laughing with them because I thought they were joking! Turns out they were serious...
(Love you T-Mobile! <3)
We are going back this afternoon since the manager will be there today, hopefully he isn't as stupid... *Fingers crossed*
Just thought I'd add another story for you guys to laugh at lol
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Hello all, i am having a couple of problems with my sensation,firstly its a refurb supplied by an insurance company and they only gave it a 30 day returns policy which expire over a month ago,i had already sent one back where the microphone didn't work.
The first problem is that i have a green flickering that appears on just over half of the screen (see attached video) it comes and goes but is there most of the time now,if it gets really bad in the area where the screen flickers the graphics within that area goes corrupt almost as if someone has brushed the graphics down the screen with a paint brush.
It is worse than the video shows but only have an old phone to take the video with.
Could this be hardware malfunction? It was there before i upgraded to 4.0.4 and there afterwards.
The second problem is since upgrading to 4.0.4 i have terrible battery life 8-9hrs max the phone keeps turning it self off, on nearly every re-boot "upgrading applications 0-32" comes up runs through the upgrading and then turns off again. these re-boots also suck the life out of the battery.
I haven't yet tried flashing a new custom rom to it as it has not been rooted etc yet.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
I am 99% sure the screen flickering is hardware related. For battery life, firstly check for battery draining apps running in the background. The android is upgrading message happens when android is building the dalvik cache and seems to happen only when dalvik cache and cache are wiped on deodexed systems, however it seems to happen on every boot on odexed systems but either way, its normal and nothing to worry about
oh well time to phone the insurance company AGAIN then,just as you get all your progs/games on your phone you want on there, somethings screws it up.
was gonna flash a custom rom to see if that worked out the screen probs but, i shall wait until i know what the insurance people say.
Thanks for the response
Now what to do for the best????
Ok so i contacted my insurance company and they agreed to take the phone and fix it for free,they have dispatched a special delivery envelope to me.
I have wiped my phone and got a little annoyed because i have got 29gb worth of programs installed and its such a pain in the arse to reinstall everything!
So the phone is now reset to factory settings and guess what......Thats right the fault has gone!
What to do still send it off with no visible fault?
Or keep it?
I cant see it being a program thats did it as i hadnt s-offed the phone or rooted it so there shouldnt be any software that can interfer with the phones screen can there?
I have had a few "huh humm" trial versions of games and apps on it,could there be mal or spyware that has done it or possibly where something may or may not have been [email protected]?
What to do.....
back a little bit...Damn phone
Well after the factory reset the battery life is a lot better.
The screen flicker has come back but very very intermittently so hoping that the tech guys at either the insurance company or more likely HTC as the insurance people quoted this "you should within 17 days you will get your phone back" will be able to see it.
All this trouble aside this is definitely one of the best phones i have ever owned and i love it,never did i think back in the days when i owned a titan II and a jade did i think i would ever see graphics like i do today,the game, application programmers/designers and the phone makers just keep on astounding me with what they produce.
I sent my LG G2 back to LG some months ago as the top of the screen was unresponsive and the screen was starting to get unglued. It was right before my warranty ended. When I got it back, as my warranty was already expired I decided to root the phone (using stump), but I kept the stock rom. Actually the only reason I rooted my phone was to install jishnu's camera mod as I wanted better quality pics and 4k video (and that never happened as I never got to see the lg g2 version of it).
After a couple months, my phone started rebooting with no apparent reason. After a week of this shenanigans, I woke up one morning to a bootloop. I was able to get it in download mode, so I tried flashing the original stock to undo the rom using the LG flash tool method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663369), but It didn't go through because it said it was a different version of the phone. I even try with the alternative dll provided in the post with no luck.
Two days later, after fighting tirelessly with the phone, I was able to get into recovery (twrp). At this point, I installed a Rom (slimkat) and that seemed to fix the problem. Then, a couple days later my phone started doing the same stuff again. Most of the time, the reboots were quick and it only bootlooped every now and then, and finally going into android. It get's really hot around the camera though.
Today it's absolutely stuck in a boot loop and won't go into recovery. I was able to pull the logs a couple days ago right after a reboot.
I would really appreciate if anyone could look into them and tell me what's wrong and if it's possible to fix. My biggest fear is it is hardware related (which would suck because it basically just came back from being serviced).
Except for these last episodes, it's the best phone I ever had. I love the quality of the pics, the size, the screen and I was hoping not having to upgrade for a couple years.
Thanks in advance.
(I removed the Logs because even though I scrubbed personal data from them, I still got 16 downloads and not a single reply related to them, and just to be safe, I will minimize the chances of anything going sour)
Have the same issue. It just started going in bootlops. Sometime I can get a few hours of use if I am lucky but no matter what I do (diff roms,baseband, lg flash tool to original firmware) bootloop will not go away.
Seems like something many people are experiencing after a year.
Let me know if you figure it out
So today after speaking with a lg rep they told me they are aware of the problem and I was told not to update my phone and that would give me less chance of problems for now as a temporary measure, I called because my phone froze and restarted and it made me nervous lol
Mine restarts randomly or freezes to where I need to pull the battery. This is my favorite phone due to the front camera! I'd hate to have to get a different phone.
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It's my favorite considering how well rounded it is for the price, how long has yours been freezing? Curious if it's the start of a issue or just a flouke
Had the same issue back in july i believe after an update it did go away. I dont know what
The i initial cause was i kept assuming it was a sim or network issue
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The v10 is a nice phone, but I'm having so many issues with it, I think I'll be bailing soon. I think my hardware is OK, no random reboots or bootloops, but software-wise something always isn't working. If it's not one thing then It's another. Fixed the issue? Well, great, here's another problem. I'm used to dealing with Android issues, but this phone is pushing my sanity. I'm about ready to throw it in the trash and go buy a new Note 4 on Amazon.
Samsung has it's fair share of problems, and battery life wasn't always so great with the Note 4, but overall it was a much better experience. And it can run AOSP/CM quite nicely while retaining full functionality, the v10 cant, not without sacrificing hardware features like the camera and 2nd screen. I much prefer AOSP(ish) over stock because there is little or no bloat.
The v10 is my first LG and almost certainly my last, they have in all likelihood lost a potentially long term customer. I bought an LG to see what was out there other than Samsung, now I sometimes wish I hadn't left.
Which Driver To Flash From Boot?
Mine froze and upon restart it either gets stuck on the LG splash screen or it shows the splash screen and turns off but never fully booted again.
I tried to use the LG Bridge PC App but because it doesn't fully boot Android, it doesn't detect it. Also if I connect the USB upon booting, I get an "unknown driver" error.
I was hoping there is a way to flash the device from boot via another tool? And which driver would I have to install for it?
Anyone here knows?
Went to update my v10 (I'm not unlocked or rooted) Never turned on again after that. Screen was blank. Swapped it out at Tmobile for 5 bucks.
I moved over to the V10 from a galaxay s5 whihc replaced my HTC m8. THe camera is cool, but the battery management is terrible for this phone. I'm a medium user and am getting 5 hours maybe 6, I can make that work. But the random reboots and freezes are a turn off. I'll put up with it till HTC releases something new or the pixel comes to t-mo. LG did not impress me. And Samsung is only good rooted...maybe i'll see what Huwei is up to.
I got the bootloop last night, just out of the blue. I tried everything to fix it but it seemed bricked. I'm sending it in even tho it might be out of warranty by 1 month. Hopefully they'll just take care of me..
This just happened to me last Thursday. Random freezing then it wouldn't boot. Pulled the battery and was able to get it to boot again. Then I was driving home and it completely died, had to take it in for warranty replacement, just got my new one today. The T-Mobile rep said that they have fixed the issue, so we will see.