I had a small hardware shop unlock a Rogers Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-930W8) and many things have straight-up stopped working. Keyboard, back and recent apps vibration feedback is always weaker than usual. I have already factory reset this phone 5 times out of frustration now, and have tried to also back up a phone from Smart Switch, but all Smart Switch is giving me is a "Failed to connect to device, the connection to this device has timed out." Another difference from before and after is Knox giving me a Security notice, details are "Unauthorized actions have been detected." When I tap the notification, it brings me to the Device security part of Settings, and says that there is a Threat found and I have to restart the phone to undo any unauthorized changes, upon restarting the same error appears in the notification pane everytime I try this process. I have also noticed unexplained slowdowns while launching apps and hitting back and the phone actually doing something. Yet another thing I have noticed is that the phone does not seem to remember any WiFi connections that I connect to and takes excessively long to turn on WiFi and excessively long to connect to any WiFi connection. Another different thing that happens is whenever I reboot the phone, a process called "LoggingService" always crashes. There are still several issues I have noticed, and it's only been 3 hours since unlocking the phone. The device is not rooted.
My dad has been unable to unlock his S7, despite trying to do so directly with Rogers. Did you unlock the phone yourself? Were you able to figure out what went wrong after the unlocking?
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Hi All,
Firstly, I love this site have gotten alot of great upgrades from all of you so thank you. Now to the question, I have the HTC Touch Cruise and have been temporarily kicked off the cell network for reasons of a large phone bill. However, trying to turn on my phone has become a massive hassle now. I have two options of turning on my phone now that I have been suspended pending payment:
#1 - I can turn on my phone and enter in my sim card password:
In which case I will constalty get a warning that creates a window each time that says
"WARNING - There is a problem connecting the GPRS service in your registerd home network."
I can not stop this warning it seems, i can click the x but another window with the same warning will open because my sim car is still trying to connect to the network. I will also get a remnet.exe warning as well, but becuase of the previous warning box, (that will not go away no matter how many times you close it) i can not read what the remnet.exe warning says.
It is most importantly to point out, that this constant error, and constantly trying to connect to the network does not allow me to press anything else, it is as if these errors override everything, it is so bad that I can not even turn my phone off, as the error message will pop up in front of the power off option menu.
#2 - or I can turn on my phone and bypass the sim card option.
In this case I also get a frustrating warning that will not disappear, in this case though the warning comes from the top bar on the main screen, and it goes like this:
"CANNOT CONNECT - Dialed - The answering modem has disconnected. To check your connection settings and change them if needed, tap settings."
This warning, just as in option 1, seems to override all other options i have in the phone. I cannot even get to the comm manager to at least put it in flight mode, which essentially turns off all connections. However when bypassing my sim car, the phone still tries to connect to the cell network.
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So these are my two options that I know of. Unfortunately in both options its a losing battle. I was hoping to hear if anyone knows or have experienced this problem and has found a work around to disable these warnings and error messages, so that when you know you dont have the network you can still play with your phone, even use the tom tom gps which does not use the cell network. This I also can not do because of these warnings that pops up.
I would give you more details of the phone, but I cant access it so I am not for sure which specific one is. I have only modified htc today screen, so its still main OS is windows mobile 6 and the last that I had checked windows could not find any updates.
Hi Guys,
I've been an owner of a Three-branded HTC Touch Pro in Australia for over a year now, with no major issues with it except for the multitude of WM bugs and lagginess I've grown to accept.
A year ago I loaded SPB Mobile Shell and I have a couple of other apps but not many that I use frequently. The phone is mainly used for calls, messaging, syncing with my Outlook calendar and contacts, and browsing the internet
A day ago the phone began behaving very strangely, with no rational explanation as to the trigger or cause.
The phone has begun randomly and frequently soft resetting itself. This can occur when I'm in the middle of writing a text message, on a call, or browsing the internet (or whilst doing anything else, really). The phone will go blank, the vibrator will vibrate once, then the 'Touch Pro' logo welcome logo will be displayed as it reboots.
The phone will then either:
(A) wait for me to enter my PIN
or
(B) go straight past the PIN screen through to the home screen
If I do not enter my PIN after this (either at the PIN screen or by invoking the PIN screen by selecting the Phone app), the soft-resetting issue doesn't occur. However, this leaves me with a useless brick, unconnected to any networks.
So I have to enter my PIN and then wait for the device to mysteriously and randomly soft reset itself at some point soon. Extremely frustrating.
Interestingly, I've found that the soft resetting issue doesn't occur when the device is plugged into the mains power or to a computer.
Today I upgraded the ROM to the latest available on the 3 website, and then installed the latest version of Mobile Shell 3.5. However the issue still persists...
I've now managed to disable the PIN request so that when the soft resetting occurs, the phone is automatically reconnected to the network but I'm not sure what sort of never ending loop of resetting this will create!!
Any clues???
So as a follow-up to this issue, my phone appears to have mysteriously fixed itself.
It is no longer resetting itself... or at least I haven't witnessed it reset itself.
Could anyone provide a potential analysis of what's going on??
randommonth said:
So as a follow-up to this issue, my phone appears to have mysteriously fixed itself.
It is no longer resetting itself... or at least I haven't witnessed it reset itself.
Could anyone provide a potential analysis of what's going on??
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Things like this happen for a few reasons, A bad flash, Corrupt blocks in the memory, and even if the device gets too hot, if it happens again i suggest you use a tty program like mtty of putty to format your device before flashing a new rom
N5 purchased direct from Google in early spring, has been used as daily driver since then with little issue. In official hard silicon case since day 1.
stock 4.4.4, unlocked + root. Rather innocuous app list (TiBU, F-Droid / AdAway, etc)
Recently after a reset to attempt ridding of some minor issue (funky reception or something), upon finishing boot, phone didn't ask for SIM pin, as always prior.
Quickly revealed because phone does not even detect SIM. Different SIM from another carrier attempted. No difference. Original SIM also attempted in a different N5, still works. So problem appears to be with phone.
Nothing of note to precipitate this happening. Power menu shows Airplane mode is ON, but cannot be toggled. Quick Settings Airplane Mode can be toggled on and off and icon does change (so sometimes contrasting what power menu reports), but SIM never detected / activated / used, ZERO radio available. Attempts to make calls say "first disable Airplane mode". Many attempted combinations of SIM in / out, Airplane Mode in quicksettings toggled, resets, etc. No dice.
Everything else works with the phone, this came on suddenly.
Tried reflashing same radio. No dice. Tried flashing 4.4.3 radio. No dice. Tried factory reset and also re-flashing entire phone to 4.4.4. No dice.
After all that I am led to believe this must be a hardware issue, but I wanted to know if you guys had any suggestions before forced to send back in to Google.
Googling reveals some other instances of this happening to people, but no real solutions provided. Why would the hardware suddenly just die, and why would it present itself the way it does?
Side note, if it DOES go back to Google, does anyone know how to avoid getting refurb in return? That is all they are offering and will not budge. Yet less than a year ago I had to replace an N4, and received a new replacement, without even making a particular request for it.
Sounds like your radio hardware has gone bad you have done everything to troubleshoot software issues RMA it to google
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As the title implies, my issue is slightly different from the others reported; I don't have issues with the BT connectivity (that I can tell). The watch and phone see and connect to each other. I have no tested this extensively, but I was receiving notifications on both devices just fine after setting it up.
My issue is specifically with Samsung Pay on the Gear. When I first selected the "Connect to a new device", and it went through the reset process, Pay was completely gone on the watch. Couldn't see it in apps, couldn't see it from the Samsung Gear app on my phone either. I thought that was peculiar, and couldn't find a remedy, so I reset the watch completely. After the reset, Pay was back, but the watch failed to finish the restore of my data. I reset it again. This time, Pay was back AND all of my data was restored without a hitch. I happened to already have the need to call my bank to authorize my debit card for Android/Samsung Pay on my S8+, and asked if the agent would stay on the line to ensure I can set up Pay on my watch as well. The nice gentleman agreed to, and after 15 minutes of rinse/repeat with holding the back button, the watch would do the following:
Display "Check your phone"
Display - and stay stuck - "Keep device connected"
Nothing happens. On either device. It's obviously trying to push an internet prompt to the phone, and it's not sending/receiving successfully
If anyone has any pro tips or experience with this, please chime in! And I don't want to seem rude, but in the interest of saving time, please assume I have at least a moderate understanding of device maintenance. Such that I power-cycled devices, reset, etc. The issue is consistent, and my underlying question here is whether or not it might have anything to do with my phone being the unlocked US model. Not International, but still unlocked.
I have the same issue as outlined in this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/help/samsung-pay-gear-s3-unlocked-s8-t3620316
And in speaking with Samsung support, Samsung Pay only works with S3 paired with a carrier phone in the US, which is stupid.
Hi,
Yesterday I set a fingerprint lock on my S7. It prompted me to enter a backup password and some other password, both with different requirements (one only had to be 4 letters, one was longer and had a number) and the longer one had to be confirmed whereas the shorter one did not. I set this up and tested it a few times, everything seemed to work great. Later I let my phone idle and it turned the screen off on its own for the first time, ever since then the phone has not been able to recognize my fingerprint. It doesn't even say "No match", it just acts like I'm not even putting a finger on it at all.
Tried over and over and eventually tried the backup password, which for some reason is the shorter one without a number. I put in what I am absolutely sure I put in, and it wouldn't take it. Tried a couple more times, even got so desperate as to emulate potential typing errors I might have made (since no confirmation for that password) and nothing worked.
Eventually I hit the timed lockout and I had to stop trying things then. So I went online and searched and discovered Google's Android Device Manager. I heard that if you lock the phone with it you can unlock it through the same manager and the phone will be unlocked. First thing that was odd was that ADM didn't give me an option to enter a password, just a contact message and phone number. I still put in a message and hit lock, and... nothing changed on ADM at all.
Now my phone shows the stupid message every time I wake it up and every few seconds on the lock screen (I can still attempt to unlock the phone with the password and use phone/camera though), but ADM doesn't even give an option to unlock, just change the locked message. I can't even get rid of the damn lock by changing it to blank. I heard Samsung offers a similar service but I never made a Samsung account and apparently one is required to use it.
Beyond that the only solution I've found is wiping the phone (which I can easily do, because there's an option in ADM for it which presumably works), which I really don't want to do since I have a lot of pictures and data on the phone that aren't backed up that I would absolutely hate to lose.
To make things worse it appears that this issue is specific to my phone/the S7/Samsung phones/something, as I have my old Nexus 4 listed in ADM as well and going through the options for it I see it has the ability to define a password, but no such thing for the S7. I really have no clue where to go from here, tons of googling hasn't found me any method I haven't already tried or can't do.
I'd be so grateful if someone here would at the very least find a way for me to recover data before wiping it to get rid of the lock.