I recently purchased my OPO probably 2 weeks ago and I am experiencing just 1 issue. My GPS will be hit or miss. Some days it locks on immediately and works great, others I have to reboot the phone, factory reset it or just give up. I have factory reset my phone probably 5 times now and I am dying to use my phone at its full potential. I understand by rooting my phone I can use FasterGPS, or install a different gps file all together. I really don't know if its in my best interest to root the phone or not. I keep reading these forums on how to do it (I've failed at all of them). I simply don't place the files correctly it seems. Can you please help me figure out what I should do. Thanks!
Have you read my guide? It's pretty straight forward.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2839471
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Hi. This is my first time posting. I apologize in advance, im going to come across as a noob.
I got tired of waiting for google to get 2.3 to the N1 users. I decided it was time to unlock and root my phone, after all thats what it was designed for. Up until this point the phone was stock with all updates. I thought one touch root no longer worked. I dont know why i thought this. I used a guide to work through it. I cannot post links otherwise i would. ilikemygooglephone . com is where it came from
Everything worked according to this guide until I completed it and powered my phone on for the first time. I thought I was going to see a stock wiped nexus one...Instead I got shafted.
The phone reboots randomly. It happens quickly and unpredictably.
Notification bar will never slide down. If i try to the phone lags but never shows notifications.
No 3g
No wifi
The phone says I have no service (selected network tmobile unavailable) although I can still make and receive calls.
The sd card will not mount. I cannot access it on the phone. When pluggen into my laptop the phone will charge but wont give me the option to access the sd card.
At times the graphics are buggy and dont operate properly
There are probably other problems that i am forgetting but I think this says enough. Since i cannot access the SDcard I really dont know what to do.
Im sorry if this thread is in the wrong place or happens to be a previously answered question. I just really like my phone and I hope its not wasted. Can someone tell me what I did wrong or how i can get this right.
YEAH i noobed it.
I freaked out on the above issue for about 5 hours. Now I believe i have everything back to normal. My problem was i didnt load the proper superboot. Once i found the FRG83 one and redid the process using that instead it worked fine. Either i was using the wrong superboot or i had a corrupted download somehow.
Feels good to figure it out on my own though....i feel...less noob.....NAH
Last week I rooted my primary phone, a Samsung Admire with Gingerbread 2.3.4. This was done only after successfully rooting my older LG Optimus T running Fryo. I had no trouble with either phone during the process. However, as of 2 days ago the Admire has had some troubles, namely that the phone function crashes when I press the send key. I get the error message stating “Sorry! The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.” It will receive incoming calls but they cannot be answered and when I try, it crashes
I’ve spent much of the time since researching the problem to find the cause and it’s fix. In doing d\so I have read of multiple causes from screen resolution changes to attempted over clocking, which I have played with. I’ve read that there might be problems with the phones attempting to switch from 2g to 3g too rapidly, something this phone cannot do I believe.
I came to the conclusion, probably erroneously, that I needed to reset it back to factory and then reinstall apps and data out of the backup I made using Titanium Backup prior to the phones troubles. So I did so, doing the three button cocktail I’ve read about here on XDA Forums. After doing this, the problem persists. I’ve read some more becoming more baffled as I went along. So I tried to reroot the phone using one click root, and that was unsuccessful as well, no root. I then read that all I needed to do was to install Superuser from the Market. In attempting this I found my device was no longer recognized by Market and after going through their troubleshooting process it’s still unrecognized, Next I decided, also most likely erroneously to reset the phone again using the three button combo as before. This time I noticed at the bottom of the screen written in yellow, E: File is written: not updated
Also as a side note my phone currently says that there are 133MB available and after the reset(s) my bloat ware has not returned,
So that’s it. I seem to have deleted something that kills the phone app and prevents me from rooting. Other than those two things the phone is working well. However as it sits it’s merely a small Internet tablet with no phone capability. Can anyone help me out with this? And yes, I have read and read and read about it but clearly this is beyond my ability to fix on my own.
Thanks,
Zeke
Hey, my skill level ranges between beginner and intermediate, but honestly in a situation like that I would odin back to stock. I have an epic 4g, so I have no idea what your download mode is or if you have one or if you have to use quick boot or fast boot? Its one of those. If **** ever hits the fan on me (Thank god it hasn't yet) I would odin to an old stock rom and root it and install a recovery and wipe and flash a ROM. Good luck I hope I helped and didn't sound like too much of a scrub.
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Hey, my skill level ranges between beginner and intermediate, but honestly in a situation like that I would odin back to stock. I have an epic 4g, so I have no idea what your download mode is or if you have one or if you have to use quick boot or fast boot? Its one of those. If **** ever hits the fan on me (Thank god it hasn't yet) I would odin to an old stock rom and root it and install a recovery and wipe and flash a ROM. Good luck I hope I helped and didn't sound like too much of a scrub.
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I will research this Odin you mention as I have no clue as to what it is. Thanks, anyone else care to chime in?
Zeke
Hi, This is my first time posting so please forgive me for any czar-like posting rules I may have violated. I think that I have found a resolution for hd2 on android rebooting/restarting problems that many of us face or have faced. Before you jump on blaming motherboard like Dear HTC Repair ppl did in my case, please try these steps.
I have recently got my second hd2 and installed Android naturally and almost immediately after setting up the device, I noticed that the phone started to reboot itself. And this happened all day for at least 6-10 times everyday. At first I thought it was a new feature of the latest android roms to fix and upgrade or boost performance. But the rebooting never stopped for a day. Secondly I thought I must have installed it incorrectly and so followed all procedure again from task29 to CWR cautiously but NO LUCK! Then I did multiple searches on xda and other forums and followed every suggestions and possible problems like battery cable/pin straightening, task29....formatting changing microsd card...blah blah blah....no fix!!! Then I called HTC and they concluded that the motherboard gotta be replaced for only $175...yeah ok I got my phone for $150. Someone at HTC forgot to take math in HS.
Anways...long story short try what I did....if you face constant restart issues after installing android...and hope for the best. It won't hurt to try. I am not a developer nor a software/hardware engineer and I don't have any technical explanation for this with fancy acronyms. All I know that it worked on not just one phone but two phones as I bought another used phone on ebay after HTC tried to rob me off $175. And this one too gave the same reboot/restart problem after I installed android.
So, here is what I did and don't ask me why it worked not cuz I don't know....it just what I did and it worked in both phone and never restarted ever again
-DO NOT do task29 EVER...no offense to the developer. If you have done it already then just don't do it again.
-Install/reinstall fresh official stock tmobile WM6.5 rom only. DO NOT install custom rom. Reboot normally and do the minimal setup since you are about to install android on it anyway.
-DO NOT play with Radio versions. Stick to the one official tmobile rom has installed for you. Although I think even if you change the radio it will be ok.
-DO the steps for hspl, magldr113 etc as usual
-Now this is what I think is the crucial part...If you have partitioned or planning to partition your microsd card with cache then DO NOT use any CWR recovery partition with cache....totally avoid 150M-5m cache formats just use 150M...200M....250M etc without cache...again I don't know why but it worked for me.
-Now do a wipe data/system and install the android rom of your choice. It should never restart again. Mine did not!!! GOOD LUCK!
This is what I did when my both phones were starting all day and it worked on both. They never reboot by themselves ever. They both were restarting all day at least 6-10 times. On my first phone I thought the motherboard or may be the battery cable was gone, then went on to get a second phone. The problem was on the second phone as well after I installed android. I was sure that it would be too much of a coincidence that both phones have bad motherboards and therefore started playing with them in various combinations of rom installation procedure, sd card, battery...you name it..then came across this steps and it worked for me. I hope it works for you. Please note that if the problem is hardware then it can't be resolved by doing this.
I hope it works for you. I know how frustrating it is to have a phone that is constantly rebooting on its own all day.
To those who will question my solution...again refer to the previous notes. I did it and it worked on my two phones...and another advice for you.....Sometimes you don't have to know quantum physics to tie a secure knot that saves life
It would be much more helpful if you could post a link to a recovery without cache as you posted. I cannot find one thus far.
What instructions are you reading for installing the Android OS? I don't think I saw task29 anywhere on the instructions I saw. I have the FR0X7 version, and mine does this constantly & then drains the battery, so I am desperate for a solution.
Okay so I've been looking for a LONG TIME trying to find a solution to this problem, but have yet to find one, so if this thread is a duplicate issue, please move it to where it needs to be.
I have a Metro PCS Kyocera Hydro XTRM. I rooted the phone and it was fine. I will be the first one to tell you i am a major newbie when it comes to smartphone tweaking. I have been playing with electronics for years, and can pretty much build a desktop computer but newbie when it comes to android devices. So upon suggestion from a dev, I downloaded an app from the play store "BootUnlocker."
As Soon as I rebooted my phone, BAM! It gets stuck on the METRO PCS screen and stays there. I have pretty much tried everything I can think of. I have removed the battery a billion times and tried to hard reset the phone numerous times as well. And now, it won't even turn on but the LED power light on the front flashes when it's plugged in. I was thinking of trying Odin but when I plug the phone into the computer's USB port....it does absolutely nothing...doesn't read a thing.
I am hoping someone will be able to help with this soon as I would really like to know how to go about recovery on a phone that is completely Hard Bricked (as mine is now). If anyone has any suggestions, or has recovered a hard bricked xtrm, I would be so very thankful for your input.
Hi there! I'm afraid XDA doesn't have any information on that device that I can find. So....you can ask in our general Q&A section. I will ask a moderator to move your post there.
This is where it will go....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help?nocache=1&z=581026349682360
The only other suggestion I can give is to try searching the web for info on your device.
Hope you get it worked out!
never mind
So, about a month ago I decided to factory reset my phone. I got it to factory binary mode, that was what I wanted to do because the phone kept messing up, getting hot, etc. I figured I’d reset it, download my apps back that I used a lot and everything else would be erased so I could start fresh, rather than going through every single thing in my phone and deciding what to get rid of, and what to keep.
Of corse, I have a AT&T phone that apparently makes this complicated with the Samsung factory reset protection. I got this phone from someone I used to have a relationship type of connection with, and I did ask for the help from them, they couldn’t remember the login info for their old phone.
Basically what I’m asking here is when in factory binary mode, with FRP on, can I get back to the phones regular system? I’ve never done this before, and now I regret it more than anything. I didn’t backup my phone or anything, I’ve tried several times reading countless thin about flashing a phone and blah blah, so, does ANYONE know what I should do? I recently lost my job and buying anything isn’t an option, espicaly those websites that say you have to pay to get the FRP deleted.
Is there ANYTHING I can do a thing this point? I’ve heard with the FRP still on, that I can’t download the stock rom back or really do anything, is this true? Can anybody please help! This is my last resort, I’ve spent countless hours trying to google and read articles and this forum was the only place I saw people actually getting help and getting their problems resolved.
Thanks for your time, and the replies. Sorry if this is the wrong sub forum, I’m new here.
Bringing up my post, still no replies yet.