Hi all this is driving me mad. My son done an update on this and ever since the back and home buttons have gone plus we cannot log into the plays tore as it always comes up failed to connect, the connection problem is not a WiFi problem in the house as other stuff running on it.
We need to get these functions back on because we want to sell it and upgrade.
Thanks
Factory reset.
Fails flash stock rom via Odin.
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i have a samsung galaxy s captivate rooted and running cyanogen mod & miui. i've had whats app installed on it since july. i change my simcard to another phone (htc) for work coz i dont want my samsung to get damaged. it also has whats app installed so when i put it in i have to reverify.
likewise when i get home from work and put the sime back in my cappy i have to reverify whatsapp again on it.
i do this mon-fri and have for the past 2 months.
today i went to work with the simcard in htc and was propted to reverify whatsapp. fine. come home and put sim back in cappy. it propmted me to verify went through the process got sent a code text then it said "Initializing" for ages and i keep getting message "failure. sorry unable to complete initialisation"
i've tried rebooting the phone, i've also tried unistalling and reinstalling the app itself.
any ideas whats caused this and how to fix it?
I AM FULLY CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET (WIFI)
it seems there is a problem at their end
sync contacts dosent work thats a problem
if u have backup restore it which i did able to send msg but not able to refresh contacts
lets us hope they fix it soon
so there is an ongoing problem with the actuall app just now?
it said something about previous msgs detected do i want to restore then i clicked yes but again it wont get past the initialization.
Yes ongoing probs
now it seems solved my contacts is up but status msg is shown as error
Restore the whole app if you had backed up with titanium backup or similar apps
WhatsApp status functionality is currently not available. We are working on resolving it soon-ish...
(https://twitter.com/wa_status/status/273697196988309505)
They are working soon will be alright
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 through Verizon. I had no issues at all with this devic before the software update to Lollipop. I loved this phone, my favorite of all I have ever had. Now everything is jacked up. Music stops constantly, contacts stop, the floating links on lock screen don't work, scrolling menu down to access notifications doesnt work,ETC, ETC, ETC. I have been in contact with Samsung support and everything they told me to do was useless. Now they say I need to go to Best Buy Samsung store. I live in a rural area and the closest Best Buy is out of my way. I'd rather not waste a trip if they are as stupid as the Samsung support. I've deleted cache, data, wiped the partion, started in safemode, you name it. The problem is Lollipop not anything on my phone. I have reached the point I am thinking about doing a factory reset to try to go back to kitkat. Any suggestions before I go that far?
Try Odin back to kitkat
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A factory reset won't revert it to Kitkat. It's a good idea to try though, just back everything up first. If that doesn't make Lollipop work better, use Odin to flash an older version, as suggested.
So I have had my phone for about 4 years. Over the years I have done allot to it. It has been rooted and working fine up until two nights ago when it started randomly rebooting itself. Then it stopped all of a sudden and returned to normal. The next night I was getting ready for work and I turned on my phone as I was leaving the house and it made it to the Samsung logo then after 15 seconds or so tried entering recovery mode. It then failed the bootloader authentication and said I had an unauthorized third party program I stalled that wasn't supported. After many attempts at following the forum suggestions of trying to recover through Odin it finally gave me something. It went to a window that said the partition was currupted and wanted to restore to factory settings. I hit this button and it just hangs there and doesn't even attempt to restore it to factory. The button seems unresponsive.
My main concern is that I lost all my contacts because I already had to go buy a new phone. My question... is there any hope to restore the bootloader to try to get it to boot up normally? I don't care if it is restored to factory settings. I hear there are still ways to recover contacts and deleted data after a factory reset. But my main concern is recovering my contacts which I can't do until my phone is working. Any input?
The phone is fixable. The contacts are probably gone tho. It's always a good idea to store your contacts to google instead of just the device. That way you always have them no matter what phone/device you are using.
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If you had your google account there and sync was on so probably all your contacts are saved at google account.
Login with your google account and try opening this link and see https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/
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I'm so mad that i've got flames shooting out my ears. Why? A few reasons. First, Snapchat doesn't let you log in on a rooted phone so I wanted to go back to stock for 5 minutes to log in then root again. Sounds simple, right?
I was already on 7.0, it was installed from an OTA update a couple weeks ago when I found out it was being pushed. I rolled from rooted stock MM to unrooted stock MM via ODIN. Downloaded and installed the OTA without a hitch. Forgot to log into snapchat on that day, instead I jumped straight to rooting. Tether is a necessity in my business.
Fast forward to last night. I wanted to roll from 7.0 rooted back to 7.0 stock, log into snapchat, then reroot. Couldn't find the simple tar.md5 of 7.0 that you drop into the AP slot in ODIN. I found a 7.0 that used all 4 slots in ODIN but I didn't like that it was different than what I was used to, so I tried to roll back to 6.0.1 using ODIN. It flashed fine but when it booted, the screen resolution was set to such a large dimension that the sprint splash screen, which normally only consumed the middle 1/3rd of the screen, was taking up the whole screen and bleeding off the edge. I tried a few times to get it to run but all the system apps would just repeatedly force close so that flash was a dud. Art this point i'm a but annoyed because a simple flash, boot, log in, flash, boot, done is turning into a longer process.
So, last resort (in my mind) I decided to go through with flashing that 7.0 that I'd found. I read through the thread, didn't see any current issues to stop me. I downloaded it, which took freaking forever because apparently the site hosting it throttles downloads to 12mbps. Finally got it downloaded, check md5, unzip, throw the 4 parts into the slots in ODIN, and flash. EVerything was successful.
Reboot into system, let it do its thing, log into snapchat, then throw her back into download mode and flash recovery then finish up and go to bed. Seems easy enough. Riiiight??
I unplug the phone, reboot it. Samsung splash screen appears, then an odd screen. A teal screen. With the word Erasing... at the bottom left. "Hmm, strange" I thought. I set the phone down and waited.
A few minutes later I start hearing a voice saying something. I realize its my phone. Behaving oddly. As if I just bought it and turned it on for the first time. I look at the screen in absolute horror.
The damn flash I's just performed deleted every freaking thing on my phone. all apps. all app data. all files. all contacta. all texts. everything. GONE. WTF.
Nowhere in that stupid thread did it say it wiped the phone. Nowhere, not anywhere, ever, did I see that this damn flash would've wiped my phone. Now I am livid. All this just so I can log into some stupid app, because my wife wanted me to use it with her. Everything. Gone.
I set up my account details, logged into my samsung account, did all the restore options, then went to bed because it was taking an awfully long time to restore, so I figured I had a fighting chance.
Woke up this morning to the phone still stuck trying to restore. It had made no progress since last night. So I decided to reboot it. It refused to finish the restore process, so I did a factory reset and tried again. Everything restored this time, all of my apps, contacts, texts, home screen etc. Except, none of the data that my apps had produced, restored. Game progress for a game I play: gone. 6 years of data produced by an app to log vehicle expenses: gone.
SO I tried a third time to restore everything to no avail.
It's almost time for me to leave home (I'm a truck driver, home on weekends), so I decide I will jsut re-root the phone since I am pretty sure I can try to restore the apps form my samsung account again, sometime this week. Re-rooting went fine, I made sure tether worked and then I hit the road.
Turned on my bluetooth headset so I could talk to my wife. The damn thing won't pair to my phone. No matter what I try, the headset won't pair.
I try again to hit the restore option from my samsung account. it wnts me to log in again because my session expired. I enter my password, it logs in then instantly expires my session, demanding login again. Endless cycle. I cannot log into my samsung account. I boot into recovery and clear cache and dalvik in hopes that it fixes it. Reboot, only to find the same problem exists. I do some research and find out that since I am rooted (as I've always been!) I can no longer log into my samsung account on my samsung phone that I OWN! WTF!! Since I rooted, my data is now being held hostage.
All of this crap, because everybody in the whole freaking universe is against people rooting their damn phones. This is ridiculous, pathetic, and unacceptable.
I now know that Google does not sync/backup any data, nor any app, other than its own. And I now know that Samsung backs up... god only knows what the hell they backup from your phone... then they'll hold your own data hostage form you if you choose to root your phone for whatever reason.
BIG THANKS to the person who uploaded the 4-part 7.0, called it an update, and did not disclaim that it is guaranteed to wipe everything you ever had, right off your phone.
All I wish I could recover is the 6 year old cumulative data from one app. But nope that's gone too. This has me the most distraught.
yes I know I should've made a nandroid. it wouldve avoided this whole thing. noob idiot dumbass mistake. I also know that I cnnot trust tht just because it doesn't specifically say itll wipe everything, doesnt mean it wont.
the end.
FML.
Ded. Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha. Noob shizz....
FYI. Clear App Data on Samsung Account using Titanium Back Up and you'll be able to sign in to your Samsung account.
Still laughing.
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sinisin said:
Ded. Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha. Noob shizz....
FYI. Clear App Data on Samsung Account using Titanium Back Up and you'll be able to sign in to your Samsung account.
Still laughing.
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Your tip worked. Thanks.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that 2 backup services, Google and Samsung, BOTH did not back up app data from the one app I needed the data from, the most. Samsung actually backed up 40 some apps, Google was only 14. Backups are current, less than 5 days old. This is 2017, and services are still shoddy at best. Back when I had my Hero, I looked upon these current years as potentially amazing ones... Other than the phone manufacturer technology, I'm not too thrilled... Oh well, it's whatever I guess.
I don't mean to laugh at you too much. But that rant was epic. I'd check all the back up settings on Google and Samsung. Make sure they're set to back up everything.
If this app and it's data were that important to you, you shouldn't have left it's fate to assumption. I'd suggest looking in to a service that will regularly back it up to a cloud. There are a million or so options.
I run apps that rely on years worth of data too, and they've been backing up data to an encrypted cloud account since forever.
Anyway man, I'm sorry that you lost important stuff. But it was entertaining at the same time. Good luck man!
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Oh I've been there. Learned the hard way to back the data to my computer or even dropbox if I'm not near a computer. You live and you learn my friend.
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Hi friends,
MHA-L29 8.0.0.374(C185) (UAE OTA UPDATE)
IAM using above version firmware in my device. Unfortunately from yesterday onwards wifi stopped working. Sometimes wifi turns ON & automatically turns off. Sometimes while in this loop phone will automatically restarts (without any Huawei boot sound).
I've tried uninstalling Google play services & reinstalling. Tried wipe cache of Google play services & phones main cache.
Tried downloading stock firmware, but I didn't get original firmware from anywhere.
I don't know what to do next & I'm stuck. ... Any suggestions are most welcome.
Hate to say it, but if you don't find an answer and can't fix it , back up everything and do a factory reset...
I have a similar issue, when I try to turn the wifi on the slider instantly changes to the off position. I've tried uninstalling google play services, booting into safe mode, and a factory reset with no change.
I've tried updating through firmware finder but get an error at the installation stage saying it failed to check the update file. Not sure if it's relevant but I've tried booting into recovery and get an error message there too.
Running MHA-L09 8.0.0.363 C432
WsirhC said:
I have a similar issue, when I try to turn the wifi on the slider instantly changes to the off position. I've tried uninstalling google play services, booting into safe mode, and a factory reset with no change.
I've tried updating through firmware finder but get an error at the installation stage saying it failed to check the update file. Not sure if it's relevant but I've tried booting into recovery and get an error message there too.
Running MHA-L09 8.0.0.363 C432
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Hate to say it, but if you don't find an answer and can't fix it , back up everything and do a factory reset...
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Huawei team also suggested resetting. But I hate that process.
It's a lengthy process & not sure everything will be back as it was. Especially these WhatsApp msgs
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ckshahzad said:
Huawei team also suggested resetting. But I hate that process.
It's a lengthy process & not sure everything will be back as it was. Especially these WhatsApp msgs
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Back up whatsapp messages to your Google Drive.
As for the Wi-Fi issue, I'm afraid you'll have to send it in for repairs.
I face wifi issue recently. during some period of time, this phone unable to search for 2.4G wifi.
Do not have problem with 5G wifi.
Reset the modem, power cycle the modem does not help.
Want to back up my phone but now pc cannot detect it.
Anyone facing same problem with me?
WiFi circuits are sensitive to ambient moisture and to changes in temperature. My wife often cooks meals for the weekend. Even relatively small amounts of steam cause various WiFi devices in the house to go nuts. Actually, our mobiles seem relatively stable, but the two modem routers and the two tablets are affected. They usually come back after we dry the air.
So for you mobile, you can follow the classical advice: keep it "submerged" in a bowl of dry rice for a couple of hours.
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WiFi circuits are sensitive to ambient moisture and to changes in temperature. My wife often cooks meals for the weekend. Even relatively small amounts of steam cause various WiFi devices in the house to go nuts. Actually, our mobiles seem relatively stable, but the two modem routers and the two tablets are affected. They usually come back after we dry the air.
So for you mobile, you can follow the classical advice: keep it "submerged" in a bowl of dry rice for a couple of hours.