Hi,
I am fill utterly helpless.
My OPO was normal this morning. Went to my morning ride with the phone in my pocket.
When I got back, It was asking the initialization question of "What language would you like ?"
It took me few minutes to understand that it is like fully formatted and ALL my data is gone. It was only partially backup up (did not back up videos... damn) .
I was running the official CM12.1 , and it was also fully encrypted !!!!
Does anyone have any understanding of what could be the cause ?
Thanks,
SK.
shahark said:
Hi,
I am fill utterly helpless.
My OPO was normal this morning. Went to my morning ride with the phone in my pocket.
When I got back, It was asking the initialization question of "What language would you like ?"
It took me few minutes to understand that it is like fully formatted and ALL my data is gone. It was only partially backup up (did not back up videos... damn) .
I was running the official CM12.1 , and it was also fully encrypted !!!!
Does anyone have any understanding of what could be the cause ?
Thanks,
SK.
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I'm experiencing the same thing.
It's happened to me a total of 3 times. Every time it's been during a hot day. Every time it's been with me walking around for an extended distance.
1) Walking through a downtown, trying to meet up with friends while in Grand Rapids, MI
2) Traveling through East Africa <-this one was a whole lot of fun :-/
3) Walking through Grand Rapids, MI again. Same downtown area, about the same heat as before.
Each time my phone has been in my pocket and it's been around mid-day. Each time the battery is charged.
Additional fun, the first time this happened, not only did I lose everything on the phone, but it also rebooted, and set itself up in ~SPANISH~.
Best of luck, I haven't seen anything in response to a resolution.
EDIT: I should also add that these happened over the course of 3 years. The most recent time was 2 weeks ago on 6.0, stock rom, nothing has been changed on the phone.
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Hey guys..
Tried to find same question here if it's posted.. but not.. so here goes.. A bit of a long type.. but please do bear with me.
I bought xoom wifi while i was in Japan from Au KDDI. But now I am posted in a different country. (we are talking about almost 5 hours of GMT) difference . And in this country, they don't even have a Motorola official dealer. So professional tech support is WAY WAY out of the question and a luxury hard to come by.
Here's the problem... I am sure this must have been asked somewhere else.. nevertheless.
I have been having the Xoom wifi for over a year now and it's been working darn perfectly. It has gone with me through desserts to snow capped mountains and literally been to both Hell and Heaven and worked Solidly without a wisp of a problem. Always have been rough hardy and like a thoroughbred horse which never had let me down when I needed the most. I just love this device so darn much.
Last night., i took some pictures and was using an app to "hide" them. (well., not of the obvious type you are thinking) but more related to medical evidence. There were some 300 odd pics so it was taking time. I left the xoom to finish it..... when i picked it up later.. the work was finished but now my entire gallery was showing as "no images / videos".. also all the MP3 were shown as missing but actual files were there in the folders.
I searched the web and it said that I have to "force stop" the "Image gallery" service in the settings > applications> all menu (name could be wrong as I can't remember it now) and allow the xoom to rebuild it's gallery references.
Did so.. and...nothing happened.. still the Gallery shows as "no images / videos"
So... did the next obvious thing of shutting down the device and tried to restart it.
well .. that was it
Xoom doesn't restart... no logo is showing ... nothing.. complete dead. I am sure i have more than 75% of the battery.
Tried all the key combinations of up, down , power keys... numerous times and in duration.. nothing. I charged the battery till the green light comes up..then tried some more variations..
Then suddenly, i heard my email notification sounds.... and the skype chat sounds.... when I checked the wifi router.. it shows that the xoom is connected. So basically the device is switched on and working perfectly it seems without display.
I really have no way of getting professional tech help at least for another 6-7 months. Can't ship it out as it would be cheaper for me to buy a new one. and to top it all, my warranty is over last June.
the device is as it's bought .. no modifications, rootings or flashing done to it. Just the usual updates rolled out only.
If the device had a slow death.. i would accept it and even would give it a proper farewell with a bouquet of flowers as it had been through a lot with me. But this sudden drop dead act is something I cannot accept.
So.... HELP... greatly appreciated.
nash_node said:
Hey guys..
Tried to find same question here if it's posted.. but not.. so here goes.. A bit of a long type.. but please do bear with me.
I bought xoom wifi while i was in Japan from Au KDDI. But now I am posted in a different country. (we are talking about almost 5 hours of GMT) difference . And in this country, they don't even have a Motorola official dealer. So professional tech support is WAY WAY out of the question and a luxury hard to come by.
Here's the problem... I am sure this must have been asked somewhere else.. nevertheless.
I have been having the Xoom wifi for over a year now and it's been working darn perfectly. It has gone with me through desserts to snow capped mountains and literally been to both Hell and Heaven and worked Solidly without a wisp of a problem. Always have been rough hardy and like a thoroughbred horse which never had let me down when I needed the most. I just love this device so darn much.
Last night., i took some pictures and was using an app to "hide" them. (well., not of the obvious type you are thinking) but more related to medical evidence. There were some 300 odd pics so it was taking time. I left the xoom to finish it..... when i picked it up later.. the work was finished but now my entire gallery was showing as "no images / videos".. also all the MP3 were shown as missing but actual files were there in the folders.
I searched the web and it said that I have to "force stop" the "Image gallery" service in the settings > applications> all menu (name could be wrong as I can't remember it now) and allow the xoom to rebuild it's gallery references.
Did so.. and...nothing happened.. still the Gallery shows as "no images / videos"
So... did the next obvious thing of shutting down the device and tried to restart it.
well .. that was it
Xoom doesn't restart... no logo is showing ... nothing.. complete dead. I am sure i have more than 75% of the battery.
Tried all the key combinations of up, down , power keys... numerous times and in duration.. nothing. I charged the battery till the green light comes up..then tried some more variations..
Then suddenly, i heard my email notification sounds.... and the skype chat sounds.... when I checked the wifi router.. it shows that the xoom is connected. So basically the device is switched on and working perfectly it seems without display.
I really have no way of getting professional tech help at least for another 6-7 months. Can't ship it out as it would be cheaper for me to buy a new one. and to top it all, my warranty is over last June.
the device is as it's bought .. no modifications, rootings or flashing done to it. Just the usual updates rolled out only.
If the device had a slow death.. i would accept it and even would give it a proper farewell with a bouquet of flowers as it had been through a lot with me. But this sudden drop dead act is something I cannot accept.
So.... HELP... greatly appreciated.
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HDMI Oout to a TV. IF the option isn't enabled let me know if your screen still responds to touch, just doesnt put anything out. If it responds to touch then you're good to enable HDMI OUT
zvonkorp said:
HDMI Oout to a TV. IF the option isn't enabled let me know if your screen still responds to touch, just doesnt put anything out. If it responds to touch then you're good to enable HDMI OUT
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Problem solved.
Let me jot down the process here for future reference if anyone else come up with the same problem
My problem = Xoom working ( i can hear the notifications, chat sounds etc)... but no display. No display what so ever at all... Nothing.. zip.. zero..
Tried and Failed = soft reset, volume up down combo buttons, holding them down for varies duration of times... cursing colourfully, threatening with abandonment and death, shaking it violently and blasphemy against the all mighty with a "Y u No work xoom" face !! ... non of that worked.
Solution = I narrowed it down to three problems.
1. Battery gone kaput !
2. The power button had worn or broken off
3. Display cables are at a fault
So..i figured that I have to rip it open to get a look at these and thanks to ifixit... got the guide.... and burrowed a set of tools from a friend
1. Took the cover off... and the top cover off as well.. so left with a half naked xoom
2. Checked the power button carefully... to see if there were any faults... NOP .. it was working fine
3. Moved on the to next .. battery ... seems ok (actually there was no way of checking it.. but it looked fine and the connectors were ok) so I figured that its ok and best not to fiddle with it.
4. well.. the connector cable seemed fine... but unlike what they have it in ifixit.. mine were separate cables attached (not as a ribbon) .. and i felt that it might be the cause of the problems as it seems have got a little rusty and seems to have moisture on it.
5. "Hey.. babe... where's your nail polish remover?? " .. with that question.. got it for "free" and carefully dabbed it and started cleaning the cables.
6. Half way through and ... "THERE WAS LIGHT" ... the screen just lit up
7. Have a smug on your face for actually "fixing" something without breaking it more beyond repair....take away all the death threats...thank the lord and make a deal with him to forget the things you said as you didn't mean it... check if all your data is till there without being mucked up.....walk like a boss showing people or spouse "see I bloody fixed it.. who da man now eh???"
Thanks a load to all who have put in their two cents trying to help out... love ya all
Hey,
I was on my way back home, on a train at night. I did not get a birth and had to share a seat with someone at midnight. I did not feel like sleeping anyway and had friends online on whatsapp anyway. Later when everybody else went to sleep, I thought of hearing some music. I connected the earphone and after a while, noticed my previously sleeping co passengers staring at me. Suddenly I realized that I had been playing music through the phone speakers at the full volume. I yriend to decrease the volume and it didn't work. I immediately restarted the phone and it was alright after that.
Today evening I noticed that I coyldiby attend calls. Firstly, iy won't ring. And if I try to answer, I can't speak or hear anything. I confirmed that my experience in the train is also recurring.
I don't know what is happening. I think it will be fine after the restart. Buy how do I keep it from recirring ?
I have a new lenovo phone, less than 1 month old with android 4.2 installed. I did a scan with AVG free and it doesnot report any virus. Any more techonical details can be provided when asked. Please help me.
Well I wouldn't say it had a virus. Perhaps the device is having issues internally. If you have warranty. I suggest you send it back for repair or a replacement of it. If not. You can always try and factory resetting it. If that doesn't work. Install a firmware from their site or use a custom Rom (if your device had any, not sure.).
Hello,
i'm new here i was trying to find answers on my problem but i wasn't able to find anything so i'm creating this new topic.
Last month i accidentally dropped my phone. I wasn't able to do anything (touch screen didn't respond) so i reseted it through the battery and it worked...but since then it's overheating anytime i use it (even usual works like phone calls makes it overheated) therefore the battery die out really quickly...charging took ages and it's also overheating during it. My camera is not working and internet connection does not work too...but if i remove battery and sim card it's working again...and for a while it's not overheating...but after 1 hour or so it's happening again..... any hints pleeeease ?
Most probably it's a hardware issue since you dropped your phone. You can get it repaired by the service centre or any other shops
And there's a seperate section to post queries/questions/problems. Use that next instead of posting so that somebody easily finds you
Hit the thanks button if it helped!
All right. Let me start by saying I've had this phone since it first came out and until very recently it's been a great device for me. Yes I have the T-Mobile US version with a locked bootloader, which sucks as far as ROMS etc. go. Yes its GPS can be less than reliable occasionally thanks to issues with Lollipop, which we're stuck with. But everything else it did just great. The battery life was one of my favorite things about it- if I started a day with 60% it would be just fine.
Until about a month ago. About a month ago, the phone developed this <sarcasm>neat trick</sarcasm> where it would get really hot and burn through about ten percent of its battery or more in ten minutes or less.
My initial thought is that I'd have to wipe the phone and start from scratch (followed closely by rooting and loading up an Android Nougat ROM, but we all know how that's worked out for the D6616 ). But I'd really like to avoid wiping if at all possible.
Here are my working theories, let me know what you think I should do to further diagnose:
Some New App is Responsible- The obvious candidate. I installed GSam Battery Monitor to look into this, hoping to find an obvious culprit to delete. Sadly the only apps using more than 2% are whatever app I've been actively using with the screen on, Android System, Kernel (Android OS), and Google Services. I uninstalled a bunch of unneccesary apps anyway, but it didn't improve things very much.
The New York Subway System - Stay with me here, it's not entirely a joke. I live in New York City and recently all of the stations had cell service and wifi activated on underground platforms, but not between stations. So when I ride the train (a significant chunk of my day as I freelance work in clients' homes) I'm going in and out of service constantly. And things do tend to improve when I turn on airplane mode when I get on a train. But not a lot. And the overheating and battery sucking behavior does happen sometimes when I'm aboveground.
The Battery Itself- This is the one I'm most worried about because the fix just sucks. The phone is now over three years old, and I do use it pretty much every day, only turning it off at night or when I'm traveling abroad. That's a long time for a lithium battery. My understanding is that near the end of their lives, they do overheat and lose charge quickly after a while. Since this is a waterproof phone and I'm in the US, I'd have to ship it to Sony for 2-3 weeks a repair if I want to keep it's waterproofing abilites (I do). I'm betting that's not cheap. My real hesistation with this one though, is that my phone is about as old as most other people's on here, so if this were the case, I'd expect a ton of users here or on T-Mobile's forum to be complaining about the same problems. I haven't looked closely but I haven't seen many people with this problem.
So that's where I am. Any ideas? Things I should try out to get more info? I'd really like to solve this, and I'd bet figuring out on here would help others in a similar position. Thanks!
Managed to get some relief by wiping the phone. Didn't restore it to the good old days of 60%-in-the-morning-no-problem-all-day, but was decent. But now it's come up again. I can and will wipe the phone again if I have to but if there's a more elegant solution someone has found over the past 10 months or so, I'd love to hear about it.
Thought I'd solved it when the sd card died and I wiped/replaced that. But then it started having the same problems a few weeks later on a new card. I wiped the phone and the SD next and I'm still having issues. Heck, I've even had it heat up while in TWRP recovery mode, so I'm pretty sure we're looking at a hardware issue.
My first instinct would be the battery but according to the internal temp sensors, the battery isn't that hot (39 or so C). The CPU on the other hand is getting very, very hot (spikes to 72 degrees C). This tallies with what I feel on the phone looking at diagrams of the innards: the hot part is about a third of the way down from the top of the phone, where the CPU is.
Any idea what bit would have to be replaced to fix this?
Hi there,
Have something that botheres me for a while.
My daughter's S7 started overheating not long ago and it seems to get worse every day.
Random reboots every few hours. I was next to her whrn watching a live stream and the video stopped and the audio glitched (buzzzzzzz) just before the phone restarted again. Is this the end or a software reboot can fix that? Or probably a new battery?
Still using the original software version. There has never been unlocked or installed a custom build. Of course its out of warranty long time ago.
Thanks for your help in advance.
cyberdejy said:
Hi there,
Have something that botheres me for a while.
My daughter's S7 started overheating not long ago and it seems to get worse every day.
Random reboots every few hours. I was next to her whrn watching a live stream and the video stopped and the audio glitched (buzzzzzzz) just before the phone restarted again. Is this the end or a software reboot can fix that? Or probably a new battery?
Still using the original software version. There has never been unlocked or installed a custom build. Of course its out of warranty long time ago.
Thanks for your help in advance.
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I wouldn't worry, it'll probably explode while you're asleep taking the whole neighbourhood with it.
So the answer is, as device firmware is updated so are the apps you use, which demand ever more CPU resource and battery power. This will be the primary cause of the excessive battery drain and hence extra heat on an older model. Of course there's the fact that eventually a rechargable battery will start behaving crazy the older it gets. They are only supposed to function correctly for 500 recharge cycles, after that all manner of craziness happens.
A temp fix would be to check the firmware is the lastest version which goes someway to correct these issues, but eventually nothing will remove the need for a battery change or new phone i'm afraid. Like most electronics they simply arent build to last.
You could also flash a custom ROM and only have the apps you want but that's a different conversation.
Thanks for the reply ?.
I guess you're right. Its like trying to run a compatible game on an old PC while using the video and cpu on their maximum capacity all the time.
I'll look for a light custom rom. Done that many times to some of my older phones so I think I'll manage to install one. Thanks again for the above