I recently got a new (refurb) GSIII from best buy because my old one turned into a paperweight (randomly from what I told them...I certainly didn't do anything to it! What's a rom? ). Since I got it the vibrate hasn't been working. I don't really care enough about it to swap it for a new one but I recently installed Slim 4.3 b2 on it and noticed that under Advanced options > Device > Haptic the vibration strength is greyed out.
GPS seems to be borked on every rom I try as well...could be something with the PCB or other internals. I may end up swapping it back out.
Does anyone have any experience playing with the vibration unit in these? I'm comfortable cracking it open if it might be something easy but off the top of my head I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Relentless D said:
I recently got a new (refurb) GSIII from best buy because my old one turned into a paperweight (randomly from what I told them...I certainly didn't do anything to it! What's a rom? ). Since I got it the vibrate hasn't been working. I don't really care enough about it to swap it for a new one but I recently installed Slim 4.3 b2 on it and noticed that under Advanced options > Device > Haptic the vibration strength is greyed out.
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I think it's greyed out by default cuz my vibrate is fine however that same Haptic setting is greyed out for me on beta 2.
GPS seems to be borked on every rom I try as well...could be something with the PCB or other internals. I may end up swapping it back out.
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This happen only on 4.3 roms or TW too? Tried tightening the screws on the back of the device? How about resetting the AGPS using an app like GPS Test or GPS Status?
Does anyone have any experience playing with the vibration unit in these? I'm comfortable cracking it open if it might be something easy but off the top of my head I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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No personal experience but maybe looking at an ifixit teardown will reveal the location of the vibration motor.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
This happen only on 4.3 roms or TW too? Tried tightening the screws on the back of the device? How about resetting the AGPS using an app like GPS Test or GPS Status?
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I should have clarified, I have tightened all the screws and tried resetting AGPS. I have NOT reset back to TW. That's a derp worthy fail on my part. I'll give that a shot.
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No personal experience but maybe looking at an ifixit teardown will reveal the location of the vibration motor.
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Forgot about iFixit. I'll check them out in a bit.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Stock rom worked like a champ and I had been running BMS since I switched to 4.3. Reflashed slim with the stock kernel and the GPS worked like a champ.
Vibrate is still a no go but I'll live with it
Relentless D said:
Stock rom worked like a champ and I had been running BMS since I switched to 4.3. Reflashed slim with the stock kernel and the GPS worked like a champ.
Vibrate is still a no go but I'll live with it
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Hmm, good stuff! Do you think BMS was the reason your GPS was failing?
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Hmm, good stuff! Do you think BMS was the reason your GPS was failing?
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That's the best I can think of. I don't know why else it wasn't working and now it is. It would also explain why I had the issue on slim and CM before that. That being said, it may just be the combo of my phone and that kernel because as far as I know GPS isn't borked for everyone using BMS.
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That's the best I can think of. I don't know why else it wasn't working and now it is. It would also explain why I had the issue on slim and CM before that. That being said, it may just be the combo of my phone and that kernel because as far as I know GPS isn't borked for everyone using BMS.
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Fair enough. I noticed GPS issues as well, actually posted it on BMS thread. Oddly enough, reflashing the gapps resolved my GPS issues which kinda surprised me. Maybe try that if you do decide to run BMS again. All's well that ends well, glad you have almost everything resolved!
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Hey,
i know this has been discussed in many threads..just want to have some answers.
i bought my Nexus S a few months ago, it's the I9020 not I9023, from UK.
i really love the phone itself, it's just awesome. had a htc hero before.
but i hate those random reboots, happens to me ~1 time per day. the screen wents really dark and a never ending bootloop happens. have to pull out battery to get it back to work, most times i don't even notice this and the phone is dead after a while of bootlooping... no fix yet right? anyway i "can" live with this but hope to get a fix soon...
GPS and Compass were unuseable since i have it. even my hero has a faster and especially safer GPS-Fix, GPS on Nexus S just loose fix every few seconds and compass does not jump around 50-100°. THIS really sucks! I have already searched around on google and XDA and wherever if this is a hardware or software issue and if there is a possible fix for it but i haven't found a real answer yet and this is what i want to know now.
is this hardware or software related?
is there a fix possible?
like i said, love the phone itself but these issues would make me resell it...
hope i'll get some answers and don't be rude, my english issn't the best.
Best regards and happy easter
Flo
edit: im using latest CM7 with latest Netarchy-Kernel with no additions.
The boot loop/reboot problem is definitely a CM7 issue. None of the other ROMS have this problem.
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Vandam500 said:
The boot loop/reboot problem is definitely a CM7 issue. None of the other ROMS have this problem.
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Thanks! so they will probably fix it soon
but whats with the GPS/Compass issues?
that really really sucks! can't use it at all...
floomat said:
Hey, i know this has been discussed in many threads..just want to have some answers.
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You could still have bumped an older thread, though. Like mine: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035005.
I think if all the people with GPS problems could get together in one thread (needn't be mine, of course, there's lots), this issue would get more exposure and eventually be fixed.
floomat said:
is this hardware or software related? is there a fix possible?
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No idea, but since the Nexus One and the Galaxy S with 2.3.3 have similar issues, I'm still hoping it's software. There is no known fix at this time.
fallenguru said:
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I think if all the people with GPS problems could get together in one thread (needn't be mine, of course, there's lots), this issue would get more exposure and eventually be fixed...
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i guess you are right, and im doing my share here. i have at least 2, 3 random reboots everyday, even if its a clean install, everything wiped. there's something buggy in every cm7 based rom
I guess its the radio problem, for the gps,
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EDIT:: check out this post for a working Rogers Port :: EDIT
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567817
ckck543 said:
Im flashing now jsee how it goes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566811
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nothing works on it dude
It boots but like he said nothing works. No data nothing. So you can swipe screens. I also thought by flashing that and then flashing the At&t zip after that it might work. Hells Nope! Us canadians are shafted
There is a working rogers cwm flashable ics, though. a few of us have it, but im on att and cant say what all works and what doesnt. They have told me most stuff is working, though
xcrazydx said:
There is a working rogers cwm flashable ics, though. a few of us have it, but im on att and cant say what all works and what doesnt. They have told me most stuff is working, though
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Do you have a link?
Yaaaa I tried it nadda
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pixelens said:
Do you have a link?
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Here it is
http://www.4shared.com/zip/6lRlUQuy/file.html?'
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Here it is
http://www.4shared.com/zip/6lRlUQuy/file.html?'
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Is there a thread that goes with this? Or where did this one come about? Assuming this isn't RaverX3X's T989 rom?
ckck543 said:
Yaaaa I tried it nadda
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So... I'm really confused now.
Multiple searches, and reading tons of this forum on a daily basis for several months now had led me to the conclusion that the i727 and i727R are identical hardware... how is it possible that this isn't working on Rogers? Could it be something as silly as an environment variable set differently somewhere?
Looking forward to seeing a post that somebody cracks this puzzler soon. As far as I can tell all of the ATT and Rogers ROMS up to now were interchangable...
Have I misunderstood, or are these phones not physically (chipset, hardware...) identical?
Jamie
robinsonj said:
So... I'm really confused now.
Multiple searches, and reading tons of this forum on a daily basis for several months now had led me to the conclusion that the i727 and i727R are identical hardware... how is it possible that this isn't working on Rogers? Could it be something as silly as an environment variable set differently somewhere?
Looking forward to seeing a post that somebody cracks this puzzler soon. As far as I can tell all of the ATT and Rogers ROMS up to now were interchangable...
Have I misunderstood, or are these phones not physically (chipset, hardware...) identical?
Jamie
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same phone same hw but that leak was built with an ics baseband that rogers lacks in short rogers users are missing a piece of software
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robinsonj said:
So... I'm really confused now.
Multiple searches, and reading tons of this forum on a daily basis for several months now had led me to the conclusion that the i727 and i727R are identical hardware... how is it possible that this isn't working on Rogers? Could it be something as silly as an environment variable set differently somewhere?
Looking forward to seeing a post that somebody cracks this puzzler soon. As far as I can tell all of the ATT and Rogers ROMS up to now were interchangable...
Have I misunderstood, or are these phones not physically (chipset, hardware...) identical?
Jamie
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They are as identical as two phone with different branding can be. The software is different and that leak is very AT&T specific. So there's something in there that screws up the R. If you take it south and run an AT&T SIM I'll bet it works just fine. The good news is that it is software so someone will find it and make a more generic version. Besides, I'm here to *not* run a stock ROM so I'm staying far away until it settles down and the devs have dived in.
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Here it is
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Alright, beautiful. this works on my Rogers i727R. Just I have the home button issue. I'll look over the phone to see what else is working and not working over the next few hours while I'm in class.
Thanks!
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1) Receiving errors when trying to download apps on the market.
2) Trying to fix the home button. It works on start up on the homescreen, but once an app opens it stops working.
both known issues with fixes. (the main at&t threads talk about his)
Factory reset until home issue goes away
clear data/force stop to download apps.
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Here's how I fixed that. I ran dark side super wipe before install then install, run wipe data factory/ reset, wipe dalvik, fix permissions. (Overkill but hey just in case). After, when first boot comes up and the AT&T setup shows, click cancel then next. RIGHT when that's done pull the battery, before any apps install. Start back up and was fine, no home button issue but still no working reboot menu.
Anyways might work for others.
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I'm going to try that. Any idea about Market error -101?
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That did it. Thanks.
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I'm going to try that. Any idea about Market error -101?
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I had that same error on my skyrocket but it fixed after i did a factory reset and the market updated to the play store.
I figured that was the problem, but my market won't update. Anything I can do to force it to update to Play Store?
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I figured that was the problem, but my market won't update. Anything I can do to force it to update to Play Store?
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a while back i had the problem where it wouldn't update so i just had my girlfriend send the Play Store apk to me from her skyrocket with an app sharer and that caused it to work
eventually it will. automatically maybe try clearing data as previously mentioned but then do a soft reset?
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eventually it will. automatically maybe try clearing data as previously mentioned but then do a soft reset?
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Yup. It eventually did randomly.
Last problem I'm encountering is I seem to be stuck on 4G and unable to get LTE, unless the icon at the top is having trouble.
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Alright, beautiful. this works on my Rogers i727R. Just I have the home button issue. I'll look over the phone to see what else is working and not working over the next few hours while I'm in class.
Thanks!
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1) Receiving errors when trying to download apps on the market.
2) Trying to fix the home button. It works on start up on the homescreen, but once an app opens it stops working.
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Nice! Does this update the modem & baseband as well? Can you post a screen of your About Phone settings?
Everytime I am on the phone & can't figure out why it's doing it... Anyone else ever had same or similar issue's ??
Speaker or earpiece or both? If one, does it still do it when you switch to the other?
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Nexism said:
Speaker or earpiece or both? If one, does it still do it when you switch to the other?
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Earpiece,Bluetooth & Speaker phone... It worked fine then I flashed a JB rom and it went kaput
Hmmm I was gonna say blown speaker but...now I'm not sure. How long has this been going on? Could it be network related (I know kind of a coincidence) if it were me I would try a clean install or new ROM. Maybe downgrade to last OS temporarily to rule out a hardware or network issue. Hope somebody has more info for you.
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Nexism said:
Hmmm I was gonna say blown speaker but...now I'm not sure. How long has this been going on? Could it be network related (I know kind of a coincidence) if it were me I would try a clean install or new ROM. Maybe downgrade to last OS temporarily to rule out a hardware or network issue. Hope somebody has more info for you.
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Im with this issue
Nexism said:
Hmmm I was gonna say blown speaker but...now I'm not sure. How long has this been going on? Could it be network related (I know kind of a coincidence) if it were me I would try a clean install or new ROM. Maybe downgrade to last OS temporarily to rule out a hardware or network issue. Hope somebody has more info for you.
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Thanks for the input I will try to downgrade to ICS and see if it works
Hi all I have a Galaxy Blaze 4G on the t-mobile network.
I flashed CM 10 cm-10.0.0-t769.zip and the gapps from this thread.
Every thing seems to work very well but when the phone screen times out and goes black or I hit the power button to turn off the screen the hardware buttons ( Menu Home Back Search ) will flash on and off in 2 second intervals.
Any ideas? have I just not found a setting?
Thanks for reading.
Settings / display / notification light. It is probably flashing because of a notification that needs answering.
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Settings / display / notification light. It is probably flashing because of a notification that needs answering.
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Thank you for the reply. Yes it was an e-mail doing it.
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Thank you for the reply. Yes it was an e-mail doing it.
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You need to flash the newest nightly, the stable isn't stable check the date. 3-10-13 is the latest. Plus the stable is missing a few things like the kill all apps button at the top of the recent apps switch.
I'd also really recommend flashing the updated radio located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171664
I was having some issues with not being able to answer/make calls but this seems to have fixed it. It's an updated radio from what you probably have.
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I'd also really recommend flashing the updated radio located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171664
I was having some issues with not being able to answer/make calls but this seems to have fixed it. It's an updated radio from what you probably have.
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I feel like a car salesman, been trying to tell you guys for a week now.lol
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I feel like a car salesman, been trying to tell you guys for a week now.lol
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Hah, now that's funny. Truth is I stopped checking on XDA for a while, and never even saw that radio update. That's because I felt like I didn't really have a reason to, CM10 seems to be everything I wanted.
So, that's a kudos, all around?
Hi Everyone,
I'm currently running Catacylsm Dec 12th, tried various kernels (bricked, the labdoDJ linaro kernel, franco's) with all of them I get this odd bug report popup intermittently. I don't seem to be having any issues, everything works flawlessly, but it vibrates and then pops up every so often (couple of hours or so). It only does it when I am using the phone.
I tried to read through it to find what was causing it, but i'm having trouble because I don't know what to look for.
If anyone could either point me to what I should be looking for, or if anyone has seen this happening/fixed it I would appreciate the response.
Thanks
Edit ** I have tried reflashing the rom clean( I don't dirty flash anyways) I do not use TiBu or any backup software. I'm using trickster mod to modify the kernel settings.
Bug report link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dtmcogu3w4z266v/bugreport-2014-02-07-22-24-22.txt
Do you have a case on your phone?
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I'm on AICP rom, & chaos kernel & the bug report popped up for me to, I looked through settings to see if something was checked, didn't see anything. Had phone for only 3 weeks & never seen that before, so maybe its a kernel thing as I only flashed chaos kernel only yesterday.
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I have been having the same issue on every ROM I use with the stock Kernel as well as Franco Kernel. I was even getting this issue on the completely stock system. Maybe it is an issue with 4.4.2? I'm not sure but I get the bug reports that pop up on occasion as well but I do not seem to be having any actual problems when the bug report occurs. They are annoying but I usually just dismiss them.
Yes i have a case. Is that relevant?
I am ok with just dismissing them tbh, i'm just curious as its kind of annoying to have them popup all the time. Anyone not getting these popups while using catacylsm?
wilkins502 said:
Yes i have a case. Is that relevant?
I am ok with just dismissing them tbh, i'm just curious as its kind of annoying to have them popup all the time. Anyone not getting these popups while using catacylsm?
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If I'm not mistaken, bug reports are generated when you press the power button and volume up simultaneously or something similar. So they aren't connected to kernel or anything.
Yes it is relevant if you have a case, because sometimes, the cases are a bit too tight and the buttons get pushed without you touching them, cases like the Spigen Neo Hybrid or something.
Don't worry. Cataclysm is pretty much a perfect ROM I have encountered 0 bugs so I like to say the "bug reports" are kind of useless
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If I'm not mistaken, bug reports are generated when you press the power button and volume up simultaneously or something similar. So they aren't connected to kernel or anything.
Yes it is relevant if you have a case, because sometimes, the cases are a bit too tight and the buttons get pushed without you touching them, cases like the Spigen Neo Hybrid or something.
Don't worry. Cataclysm is pretty much a perfect ROM I have encountered 0 bugs so I like to say the "bug reports" are kind of useless
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Oh ok. Fantastic reply. Thanks for the info. I'm gonna try taking the case off see if it stops.
*Update* - tested without the case - didn't give me a single bug report so far- i believe you have to touch all three of them (vol up+down+power) simultaneously.
072665995 you are exactly correct sir, thank you again.
Lol... I had the same problem with a case i had, hence me asking. Got a new case and problem solved. Lol
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Ben36 said:
Lol... I had the same problem with a case i had, hence me asking. Got a new case and problem solved. Lol
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Ordered already which case did you change To I got one with cutouts for the buttons. Very minimalist
Nope, i got an I-Blason Armorbox cus I need something rock solid as I'm an electrician so my phone gets knocked about every so often. Lol
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I like the look of that case. No bug reports with it? I might order it for when I'm out and about or at work.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00FUPVHPM?vs=1
Comes in 4 colours
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Looks good. I'll try to find one that ships to canada. Thanks for all the input. Much appreciated.