Hey guys I am a brand new T-Mobile customer as of yesterday (coming from US Cellular) and I got the G2x phone. Previously I had the Mesmerize (Galaxy S).
I've got just a couple questions that are probably simple enough. First of all, as soon as I got the phone last night, I downloaded the LG Update Tool from the LG website and updated the phone to Gingerbread. Now today it appears the update is OTA. Is the update I got last night the same as the OTA update, so I don't need to update again?
For whatever reason, when I go into the settings to check for updates, it keeps saying there was an authentication error rather than just saying there are no updates. Is that normal? My build number is GRI40 and Android version is 2.3.3.
Second, on my old phone, in the pull down menu, at the top there were buttons to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and silent mode. On this phone, there is nothing there, just big letters that say T-Mobile. Is there a way to get the toggle switches? I found them pretty useful.
And lastly, in the pull down menu, it constantly says I have a new voice mail and to dial some weird number, with no way to clear it. I've already set up my voice mail box and I don't have any messages. What is this notification that won't go away? Thanks for any help!
PS:
Any easy way to root this phone?
New to T-Mobile, just got the G2X.....read the threads.
The update is the same. In your phone settings under about it should say Android Version 2.3.3 and v21e. The pull down menu toggles are available with Cyanogenmod and some other custom ROM's. As far as your notification that won't go away, not really sure whats up with that. On a personal note, I would take that phone right back to the store and exchange it for a Sensation. I've been an Android user since the G1 and I can say without doubt this is the worst phone I've ever owned. It is plagued with bugs.
userno69 said:
Hey guys I am a brand new T-Mobile customer as of yesterday (coming from US Cellular) and I got the G2x phone. Previously I had the Mesmerize (Galaxy S).
I've got just a couple questions that are probably simple enough. First of all, as soon as I got the phone last night, I downloaded the LG Update Tool from the LG website and updated the phone to Gingerbread. Now today it appears the update is OTA. Is the update I got last night the same as the OTA update, so I don't need to update again? I've heard they are the same.
For whatever reason, when I go into the settings to check for updates, it keeps saying there was an authentication error rather than just saying there are no updates. Is that normal? My build number is GRI40 and Android version is 2.3.3. People are having issues with the update.
Second, on my old phone, in the pull down menu, at the top there were buttons to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and silent mode. On this phone, there is nothing there, just big letters that say T-Mobile. Is there a way to get the toggle switches? I found them pretty useful. You could download my favorite app- Anycut and it will allow you to make a toggle And lastly, in the pull down menu, it constantly says I have a new voice mail and to dial some weird number, with no way to clear it. I've already set up my voice mail box and I don't have any messages. What is this notification that won't go away? Thanks for any help! The strange number is the number to your voicemail. I added it to my contacts for a quick dial to my messages and thatr message disappeared.PS:
Any easy way to root this phone?
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There is a way, I'm nor familiar with it I guess you flash the rooted update to the phone?
Hope this helps
userno69 said:
Hey guys I am a brand new T-Mobile customer as of yesterday (coming from US Cellular) and I got the G2x phone. Previously I had the Mesmerize (Galaxy S).
I've got just a couple questions that are probably simple enough. First of all, as soon as I got the phone last night, I downloaded the LG Update Tool from the LG website and updated the phone to Gingerbread. Now today it appears the update is OTA. Is the update I got last night the same as the OTA update, so I don't need to update again?
For whatever reason, when I go into the settings to check for updates, it keeps saying there was an authentication error rather than just saying there are no updates. Is that normal? My build number is GRI40 and Android version is 2.3.3.
Second, on my old phone, in the pull down menu, at the top there were buttons to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and silent mode. On this phone, there is nothing there, just big letters that say T-Mobile. Is there a way to get the toggle switches? I found them pretty useful.
And lastly, in the pull down menu, it constantly says I have a new voice mail and to dial some weird number, with no way to clear it. I've already set up my voice mail box and I don't have any messages. What is this notification that won't go away? Thanks for any help!
PS:
Any easy way to root this phone?
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Welcome to the G2x!! In the next few hours you will either be flamed for buying a crappy phone, or welcomed for buying a Great phone. I personally think its a great phone.
Your questions:
1. The LG update and the TMO OTA are almost the same. Same basebands and builds. Looks like the OTA does change some icon colors. Stay tuned here for how to get both.
2. There is NO in the top bar tool for that. But there is a widget called power control that does the same thing. Check it out.
3. I really don't know about the voice mail and will leave that to someone else.
As far as rooting, there are several good how to root and how to 1 step root threads located on this forum. Its quick and easy. Make sure you look at the Recovery threads too for the easy 1 step recovery options. You'll find these located in the General sub forum
And remember, use the search feature for any questions....many have already been answered. Check out the search feature in the general sub forum and type, How to root your g2x, or how to mod your g2x. You will get some good hits.
Welcome.
Search sucks, isn't always that easy.
But I can definately recommend you read the stickies here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049154
They are very very helpful.
Thanks guys... I fixed the voice mail notification by sending myself a voicemail from another phone and then deleting it from mine.
So does anybody else get a authentication error when they use the phone to check for a software update after having used the LG Updater to install Gingerbread? In my phone the build is listed as GRI40, but on the LG Update Tool it reads the phone's build as V21E.
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And I was seriously considering the Sensation. But in the end, the only advantage seemed to be the extra 128MB of RAM, which doesn't seem to help in benchmarks or usage. At first I thought qHD was going to be an advantage, but the screen just didn't pop and seemed washed out... unlike the G2X which looked much nicer, and I believe is IPS. Also from all the reviews I've seen the Tegra 2 seems faster than the dual core Snapdragon and Adreno 220 in the Sensation. Plus the Sensation having 1GB of internal storage is kind of lame, where as the G2X has 8GB!
With regard to the feature toggle widgets, I use a tool from the market called Elixir. It lets you set up your own widgets, among other cool things. For example, I have a widget on my home screen that has seven (not four) widgets across: silent/vibrate/normal ringer; wifi; GPS; Bluetooth; wifi hotspot; battery status; and day/date.
I got g2x and sensation. Only thing good on sensation is camera, and sense sucks. Screen like you say is washed out
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There is a serious problem! whenever I flash a new ROM in my LG Optimus G F180L (In About it is displaying itself as LS970) there is no sound and no WIFI. To be more precise, The music player does no play sound, neither does any other app. I mean like there no voice coming out of my phone. Next, WIFI problem, well I go to settings, tap on the wifi ON/OFF slider but the damn WIFI just does not connect neither does it shows the nearby connection. There no hardware problem, I am sure of it because when I bought the phone the hardware were functioning just fine. I have already download like 10 ROMs and I am sick and tired of doing it again and again. Please somebody has to help me.
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Can you post in
Optimus G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
so that the right experts can help ? When you do, please make sure to include specific details such as Recovery and Bootloader as well as the steps taken to flash.
Hi,
Since a few days, I'm having a strange wifi issue on my Xperia SP (Android 4.3 from Sony).
When I switch on my mobile phone screen, the wifi start, I can see the icon. When I unlock my phone, a few seconds after, the wifi goes off.
I have to manually switch off and on wifi if I want to use it.
I have posted a video explaining what I see, but I'm new to xda, so I can't post the link.
youtu.be/B6mnKKjOnoE
I have done a soft reset, remove many unused apps, and delete some app stored data.
How can I find which application is accessing wifi in order to solve this issue?
Maybe someone had any idea to help me.
Thanks guys.
Edit: Things went back to normal, I haven't done anything more to solve this issue. Probably some magics... Please close this question. Thanks
Thread closed.
So I've had this refurb 1st gen Moto G CDMA from TextNow for around 6 months now.
This morning I went to check my texts and notices that the screen was sitting at the blue motorola pearl.
It would occasionally restart and halt at a black screen after the blue pearl, or restart and the boot animation would be severely corrupted. Sometimes it would make it to Android but it would be incredibly unstable with random services and apps crashing for no apparent reason. I have never tried to root it, flash a custom ROM to it, or anything of the sort.
However, did come with an unlocked bootloader.
The only app I've ever installed to it was Facebook Messenger.
Figuring that the phone was bricked and after reading plenty of tutorials from this forum I decided to flash Cyanogenmod 11 to it (12.1 would not work because the bootloader was an incompatible version) using TWRP.
It worked, well mostly anyway. Upon start up I noticed that it would not connect to my carrier. WiFi works fine, it just won't connect to 3G for anything.
I've read that updating Profile and PRL will fix this but I can't find the option or it doesn't exist.
I feel like I may have missed something or messed up a file somewhere on my phone.
On top of that, com.android.systemui keeps crashing if I let the screen go to sleep.
Does anyone have any idea on how to restore 3G service to a TextNow device and stop systemui from crashing?
Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist Kindly post here Moto G Help and Troubleshooting so that experts using your device can help in better way
Good Luck!
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I just got a brand new Motorola Moto Z in the mail from Amazon and for some reason when I tap the wifi icon it says there are no networks detected. When I go into the settings and enable wifi I see a loading bar at the top that never stops loading and the list of networks never populates. I've never had this issue before with a new phone and I'd like to know how to fix it so that I could connect to wifi. Thanks!
Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I would greatly appreciate the help. I'm waiting for someone to reply.
Thread closed - This is a duplicate of this one: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/help/how-to-connect-to-wifi-brand-motorola-t3875646
Please continue in the thread linked above (which has been moved to the Moto Z Q&A section)
Thanks.
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