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Help 2 dead inspires within 2 weeks!!

Okay I bought my first Inspire in march for 6 months it was great.. No problems at all... Then 3 weeks ago it died on me.. I plugged it up and no lights or anything came on.. So I did a battery pull.. When I put the battery back in it made 5 or 6 vibrating pulses but that was it... So I called ATT they said battery as bad and sent me a new one.. I got it 3 days later and put it in.. I got the same 5 or 6 pulses.. So now after being without a phone for 4 days I was pissed.. So I drove to ATT they tried diffrent batteries and chargers with no success so they had the warranty dept send me a new one.. I got it 2 weeks ago and now it died just like my first one.. except I left it took apart for 2 days nd now when I plug it up the red LED actually lights up but still all it will do is vibrate..
Also Ive tried doing a hard reset by holding volume down and power for 10 seconds but still dont get any response.. Is there any hope oth than going through warranty again??
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Little update: Actually I just unplugged it and the LED stays solid red even while not on charge

Have you installed a new app lately that was recent right b4 you get the error. Sounds like your boot sector is becoming corrupt. Or you have insanely bad luck. Unless someone has a better idea
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No I honestly dont use the market alot the last app I installed was like 2 weeks before the first one died.. The app was netflix BTW.. And I did not reinstall it to the new device..
Im calling ATT today to have them send me a new one I guess..

It's possible you received a bad phone. Are you rooting your phone or no? My stepdads just did that and I know its none of the above I set up all his stuff and didn't root him. Just running through possible issues before you have to deal with them more
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Nope neither were ever rooted.. And yeah im kinda worried its going to do it again.. I went 6 months with no problems then all of a sudden 2 die the same way?? I just dont get it

Not saying both phones were bad because it happens sometimes. But usually when it does happen you have to look at the common factors. Since you already tried different batteries and chargers, what about the sd card or sim card? Have you tried to boot phone without either inserted?
I also see you mentoned the netflix app. Is it possible you may have over heated your phone playing videos?

Agoattamer said:
I also see you mentoned the netflix app. Is it possible you may have over heated your phone playing videos?
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but he didn't install netflix on the second one, so that can't be the common denominator
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Do you have anything setup to run at bootup that could be causing issues.
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Agoattamer said:
Not saying both phones were bad because it happens sometimes. But usually when it does happen you have to look at the common factors. Since you already tried different batteries and chargers, what about the sd card or sim card? Have you tried to boot phone without either inserted?
I also see you mentoned the netflix app. Is it possible you may have over heated your phone playing videos?
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Well like Capt Nero said I never put netflix on the second phone.. I only had it for 2 weeks so I didnt really get any of my old apps installed..
And I have tried booting with no sim and no SD card but it still wont do anything..
Captain_Nero said:
Do you have anything setup to run at bootup that could be causing issues.
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I never set anything up run at boot.. the only thing I could think might have done that would be lookout security but again that never made it to the second phone..
I really dont think I just got 2 bad phones.. Im almost positive it has to be somthing on my end but I just cant figure it out..

Lookout security is known to cause problems with phones on at&t my friend had 4 phones go out with it. Stopped using it no problems on her current phone.
Edit/addition: lookout could be what killed first phone. And then you just got a bum replacement. Or you could have a virus running rampant on your SD card that is killing your boot sector and phone.
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Hiyabuz said:
Lookout security is known to cause problems with phones on at&t my friend had 4 phones go out with it. Stopped using it no problems on her current phone.
Edit/addition: lookout could be what killed first phone. And then you just got a bum replacement. Or you could have a virus running rampant on your SD card that is killing your boot sector and phone.
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Never had any issues w/ Lookout.

I es just speaking out of experience of going and arguing with the warranty counter with my friend 4 times. And tx aren't you rooted. Your kernel and Rom could not have any issues like the ota and ATT Rom can have with it.
sent from my Inspire 4G running ClearDroid 1.1.51

Okay well I got my 3rd Inspire in the mail today.. I noticed 2 things.. 1 this one is a different color.. Not the red one but its a darker grey.. Second the red notifaction LED I said the second one had is NOT the regular amber charging LED.. I didnt even notice untill I plugged the new one up..
Ill try to get the light to come back on and take a pic.. Anyone know anything about this second LED???
Oh and im going to format my SD before putting it in the new phone and also not installing lookout.. I cant keep going without a phone

Data speed icon?? Gone?? Invalid Sim sometimes??

Okay I have been having the t-mobile "invalid sim card" issue and the phone currently is running with the t-mobile carrier logo. I was able to make calls, and connect via WiFi. I am not able to access the web2go page when I select data in the "wireless & network settings" page with a check. I used to be able to at least access this page with wifi turned off and it would show a little 4g icon on the top? I will post some screenshots. I downloaded GeRIL just to see what it said? I think my phone is rooted? I ran superuser and said the phone was not but the last action I did before getting the t-mobile to show up was a zip restore with CWM so I assume it's rooted? Might be just a flash? One other thing is that I have the WiFi and GPS on and it does not appear to get my location for weather in the weather app?? I can open Google maps and GPS is within 60 meters of my location. I want to reboot the phone but am afraid it won't be back to normal and I will get the error "Invalid Sim Card" again? Is there anything or tests to run while the phone is on the t-mobile network I should check first before rebooting? Or files I should try to use or flash? Or any service menu codes to run diagnostics? Thanks in advance. I forgot to mention that I will be getting a replacement from t-mobile in a week, I did the online chat and they said they will send a replacement under warranty. The box has a date of 7/29/2011 so the phone is about 3-4 months old? The phone is unlocked and has been rooted before, but the issue happened days before I modded this G2x. Basically, today it could connect and tomorrow it might not...or If I reboot It usually goes to the "Invalid Sim Card" I have read other posts with issues of the same type from other users but found no solutions?? Baseband, RIL, Sim ect...all points to a bad phone(using t-mobile) because If I use any other carrier card in the phone it works without errors. That makes me think it's a firmware with t-mobile issue but I could be wrong? Hopefully if the replacement goes thru the same ICS 4.0 will be out and make this phone a beast again?

This might work or it might not: rename your APN manually (Settings/Wireless/Mobile networks/Access Point Names/edit) you can either edit or restore to default to restore mobile data connectivity. Try restoring to default.

I just accidentally hit Airplane mode and it killed it!!! Now it's back to the Invalid Sim Card error again...bummer!!!!

Wait a minute...I waited and read a few posts and clicked the Airplane mode off and on again and it came back to the t-mobile carrier..??? I still have not rebooted the phone though? Hmmm...should I?

Did you get a new sim card when you got the phone? I remember when I got this phone they told me not to use my 5 year old sim card from my previous phone. I say try a new sim card, if that doesn't work try to reset the apn with the instructions I posted last, and if that doesn't work it might just be a bad sim card reader.

I think more on the lines of a bad sim card reader...I have a new sim card...about a 3 days old, got it from t-mobile cause i had the older sim with the larger gold contact patch. The phone is already on order...they said 7 business days..

Same issues here
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This is a tricky subject to cover. I have been involved in a few discussions about this. I am unable at this time to post links to threads.(I am at work) if you pull up my profile on here and look at topic I have posted on should help you in the rite direction. Every thing you have listed in your open is covered in a discustion some where....it most likely is all barrier deep. if you need further help post back here. I will help as much as possible.

Can't you just do a hard-reboot? Hold down Power + Volume Up
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FatalityBoyZahy said:
Can't you just do a hard-reboot? Hold down Power + Volume Up
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Yes some times that will work. Other times might take 2 reboots. Also sometimes toggleing airplane mode can bring back apn. After a few sim cards and all my problem went away. When I had the issue I was cm7 rom. Stock Rome didn't really seam to have this issue.

just to close this thread I already received my replacement phone from tmobile. I am no longer trying to track down the issue. Thanks for all of the replied and comments. every one who contributed will get a thanks from me.
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FatalityBoyZahy said:
Can't you just do a hard-reboot? Hold down Power + Volume Up
This is what I did to fix it whenever I was having this problem.
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Yes doing a hard reboot will reset the Apn/data loss problem. (Also toggling airplane mode would some times reset it.) This is only a tempory solution as it could happen again. On cm7 rc1 it would happen to me at least once a day. As well as many others. Off of the top of my head it was something wrong in a radio file.(? Not sure what file) shortly after the release cm7 stable 7.1.0.1 was posted. I believe that had the patch for the data loss issue. It is possible that some cm7 based Rome may still have a data issue loss as they might not have the updated patch. At the time stock based Roms did not have the issue and as far as know. Some people faced with this issue could have had a faulty sim or phone. The other thing that was happening during the life of this issue was how many people running cm7 based roms didn't have the issue. I no longer have this issue. I followed the bug report that was submitted and sealed out the sim card twice. (I think it was cm7 issue on my device) OP- I hope that this swap works for you. If it don't, I will be more that happy to help. also thank you for your service.
I have posted what I know and can remember here in hopes that it can help some one else out in the future.
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When I had the phone I installed CM7, and the daily's...ect..It WAS a phone issue (hardware) I now have had the replacement phone for 1 week and no issues what so ever. That's not to say that the issue will arise again? I have rooted and am running no ROMs at the time but am thinking of going back to the FROYO 2.2 just to get the camera like it was in the older version. I hate the camera in GB 2.3.3. No zoom....c'mon LG..where did you guys lay down to sleep during this process if the development? One other feature that has nothing to do with the camera that I would like to see happen is to be able to enable a bluetooth mouse. I tried my Targus mouse and no luck. I think you can use a bluetooth keyboard but have none to test. I was thinking of shelling out the 160 smackers for the infared keyboard..small and can fit in your shirt pocket, and it's bluetooth.

[Q] Is my Skyrocket defective? :(

Had it for about a little over a month now and rooted it with Doomlord's method about 2 weeks ago.
Experiencing the following two issues:
-Sim card notification pops up and says something along the lines of 'Sim card not inserted'. End up rebooting my phone and it works again. This has happened twice and I can't find any threads involving the Skyrocket and this.
-No data connection. Happened about three times now. Wifi works, but can't get packet connection (yes it is on). Again, have to reboot phone and then it will work. The weird thing is that when I first turn it on, everything is fine, but then I checked my phone a few hours later, and I found that my e-mail not reloading.
Anyone know what's going on? I don't have many apps installed either. Just Titanium Backup (not even Pro because I wanted to see what was up with my phone before I bought it), JuiceDefender, one game and GVoice. If this was a one time occurrence, I don't think I would mind, but the fact that it's happened two times is making me a little nervous.
Thanks for reading through all this!

If you are rooted try installing cmw and flashing a new rom see if you still have the issue mine has done what you are talking about. But just thought it was a bad flash of something. Haven't had it happen since I did stock recovery and flashed the rom i'm on now.
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CaptainAmerica247 said:
Had it for about a little over a month now and rooted it with Doomlord's method about 2 weeks ago.
Experiencing the following two issues:
-Sim card notification pops up and says something along the lines of 'Sim card not inserted'. End up rebooting my phone and it works again. This has happened twice and I can't find any threads involving the Skyrocket and this.
-No data connection. Happened about three times now. Wifi works, but can't get packet connection (yes it is on). Again, have to reboot phone and then it will work. The weird thing is that when I first turn it on, everything is fine, but then I checked my phone a few hours later, and I found that my e-mail not reloading.
Anyone know what's going on? I don't have many apps installed either. Just Titanium Backup (not even Pro because I wanted to see what was up with my phone before I bought it), JuiceDefender, one game and GVoice. If this was a one time occurrence, I don't think I would mind, but the fact that it's happened two times is making me a little nervous.
Thanks for reading through all this!
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Go back to stock. If you have the same problem, call in the warranty. If you don't have the same problems then get another ROM.
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Sounds like Sim card acting up. I had problems when I first got my phone with bad Sim card keep loosing data.
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Sounds like u either froze or removed sim toolkit. U need this apk. Also juice defender can cause a lot of problems if not configured exactly right. Try uninstalling it

icenight89 said:
Sounds like u either froze or removed sim toolkit. U need this apk. Also juice defender can cause a lot of problems if not configured exactly right. Try uninstalling it
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I still have sim toolkit. At least it says I do. I haven't frozen or uninstalled anything since I took it outta the box to be honest. Just deleted some stuff from the widgets screen.
Also, what do you mean by Juice defender configuration? Should I uninstall and re-install?
As for the other replies, I've started to keep a record of the errors. Knock on wood that I won't have more...but we'll see. Only time I get a break is in March so I may have to wait it out.
One other thing: If I want to unroot, is using Doomlord's unrooting method safe? I noticed that under the list of phones that work, there's only one...
thanks again

i have the same problem right now, Just got the skyrocket couple days ago, I upgraded it, under our daughters line, But im using it. I need to activate it with the new sim, for her, then after its all done, can take the new sim out and put it back into her phone, and put mine back into the skyrocket.
Its rooted and thats it.

I froze Sim toolkit and haven't noticed any problems...

what state or area are you in?
i have this same problem, on 2 different phones and 2 different sims. voice will work fine but no data will flow. no email, no browsing, no apps, nothing. it started the day i got the 1st phone (in the at&t store parking lot). eventually it will start working again - browser goes thru, emails deliver, etc.
i rooted and did sky rom on that phone and the problem followed. talked to support, no help. returned to stock and exchanged for a new skyrocket and sim, the problem still exists.
i think there is an issue with either the skyrocket or somewhere on at&ts network. if i pull my phone out at 10 random times during the day and attempt a data connection, it will fail 2 of those 10 times.
very frustrating with no obvious answer in front of me. i don't have lte in my area, and i am in my 30 day window with att, so im thinking of returning skyrocket and going with plan s2.
CaptainAmerica247 said:
-No data connection. Happened about three times now. Wifi works, but can't get packet connection (yes it is on). Again, have to reboot phone and then it will work. The weird thing is that when I first turn it on, everything is fine, but then I checked my phone a few hours later, and I found that my e-mail not reloading.
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i just found my problem, the skyrocket dont support the 200mb plan have to have atleast the 300mb. oh well lol.

Missing Calls?

I have noticed that some of my calls are not coming through. The past few days people have tried to call me, but said they got a busy signal. The phone never even rang. I also got an email today from a potential employer who said they called twice today... The phone was sitting on my desk right in front of me all day, and nothing. Is this happening to anyone else? What can be done to fix it? Im not in a place where im not getting service so I dont understand why its doing this?
Also, the other day I was having car issues and needed to call someone, when I went to call someone the phone showed the dialing screen, but never started to ring. I tried hanging up and redialing, but nothing worked. I had to shut down my phone and restart it. I can only imagine what would have happened if I really couldnt call out finally....
Really starting to hate this phone.

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I have noticed that some of my calls are not coming through. The past few days people have tried to call me, but said they got a busy signal. The phone never even rang. I also got an email today from a potential employer who said they called twice today... The phone was sitting on my desk right in front of me all day, and nothing. Is this happening to anyone else? What can be done to fix it? Im not in a place where im not getting service so I dont understand why its doing this?
Also, the other day I was having car issues and needed to call someone, when I went to call someone the phone showed the dialing screen, but never started to ring. I tried hanging up and redialing, but nothing worked. I had to shut down my phone and restart it. I can only imagine what would have happened if I really couldnt call out finally....
Really starting to hate this phone.
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It sounds like a reception. Do you have good signal? What about Wi-Fi calling?
I have never had that and have had nothing but the sweetest reception, I do get dropped calls but that's T-mobile for ya.

All day I have between 3-4 bars of service, so im not sure what the problem is

Im also having trouble calling out. Ill dial the number, and the phone will beep and disconnect the cal. I have 3 out of 4 service bars....

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Im also having trouble calling out. Ill dial the number, and the phone will beep and disconnect the cal. I have 3 out of 4 service bars....
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Try replacing your sim card? Or if you're on stock then call T-Mobile might be a hardware issue.
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erikmm said:
Try replacing your sim card? Or if you're on stock then call T-Mobile might be a hardware issue.
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Do you think switching to your rom might help? I want to try it but I'm waiting for the final version. I did have my sim replaced a few years ago by T-Mobile. I know they had to transfer all my stuff on to a new one. I have one laying around, is there anything I need to do to get it to work? Like switch my number to it?

You might want to try cleaning the metal contacts of your sim card with a pink eraser.

itsLYNDZ said:
Do you think switching to your rom might help? I want to try it but I'm waiting for the final version. I did have my sim replaced a few years ago by T-Mobile. I know they had to transfer all my stuff on to a new one. I have one laying around, is there anything I need to do to get it to work? Like switch my number to it?
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If you're on stock I think your best bet is to either get sim replaced before flashing cus if its a hardware issue then you will have to get it replaced.
As for the sim card if it's new then just call them and they'll activate it if it's used before then it won't work anymore and you'll have to buy one
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I called Tmobile a few weeks ago and had them activate a new sim card I had. Didnt have this issue until just today when I tried to make a call and got "call ended" everytime I tried to call out. What else could the problem be? Im running your rom now also...

Is anyone else having this issue? Its getting really annoying! I had to dial my friend 5 times before it actually went through.
Found this thread where it describes perfectly whats going on with my phone.. http://forum.xda-developers.chttp:/...editpost&p=29453252om/showthread.php?t=630652 Seems like Gingerbread phones are experiencing this more...

Never had this issue. As suggested you may have to replace the phone as it could be faulty hardware.
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Never had this issue. As suggested you may have to replace the phone as it could be faulty hardware.
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I was worried about that, but I dont know how to get rid of the custom rom I have an unroot.

Well, might suggest this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
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Yeah, I just didnt want to do the "call tmobile and sit on the phone with them for an hour to troubleshoot" crap... Ugh...

Called Tmobile and they ended up screwing my phone up even more with their "troubleshooting" Told me to do a factory reset, but since I have a custom ROM, it just screwed more up. Now I cant even swipe past the unlock screen and there is no reaction to my touch. At least its finally screwed up enough to get them to send out a replacement. Now im trying to revert back to complete stock so I can send this one back to them when my new one arrives. So I guess problem solved in a way..

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Well, might suggest this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
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Does this remove root? Just want to make sure I have everything In order to do to clean up my old phone for when my new phone arrives.

Yes. The thread is appropriately titled and returns to stock.
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[Q] G2x not working with tmobile sim

So I recently sold my g2x to a friend,he went and got a new sim from tmobile,and he says it wont work. He said it just says insert sim. Is this a known issue with the G2x? I never had any problems with my tmobile sim in the phone. Any help would be much appreciated

warhammer1966 said:
So I recently sold my g2x to a friend,he went and got a new sim from tmobile,and he says it wont work. He said it just says insert sim. Is this a known issue with the G2x? I never had any problems with my tmobile sim in the phone. Any help would be much appreciated
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Check to see if the connectors under the SIM card are ok. That is a known issue.
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i've had 2 bad SIMS which caused problems that went away when they were replaced.

Most likely cause is the Sim being inserted upside down or backward. Its easy to do.
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There is no physical problems with my g2x, but I've had issues where I've slid in until fully seated and had same error.
i gently and slightly backed the sim away from fully seated, and it started working. Ive had this issue several times, different sims. Sometimes I think it's a design flaw, or during the manufacturing phase, that slot was pushed out being made at what the factory deemed a safe manufacturing error fault tolerance.
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justjackyl said:
There is no physical problems with my g2x, but I've had issues where I've slid in until fully seated and had same error.
i gently and slightly backed the sim away from fully seated, and it started working. Ive had this issue several times, different sims. Sometimes I think it's a design flaw, or during the manufacturing phase, that slot was pushed out being made at what the factory deemed a safe manufacturing error fault tolerance.
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Yes, that could be the reason. Maybe slipping a piece of paper in on top of the SIM when it is installed will take up the slack if there is any.

Core Memory said:
Yes, that could be the reason. Maybe slipping a piece of paper in on top of the SIM when it is installed will take up the slack if there is any.
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ya know, i never thought of that. getting it in there is prob gonna be a hassle. I'll try it next time I cycle my spare batteries. Running kernel battery test this cycle. lol
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edit: now i do remember the first time i bought and used this phone i had this issue and was livid and going to return it, but than "adjusted " the sim card.