The title says it all.
The phone sometimes will boot but then it will freeze and crash to a black screen. Have tried using a hot air dryer, replacing the battery (worked for a while) and even attempting to reset (turned off before reset could start)
Can't reflash ROM. PC won't detect the phone.
Anyone with this or a similar problem? I need a fix ASAP. And no, replacing the battery again does not help.
EDIT: New update: the device keeps on reconnecting from PC when I was able to get it started for 5mins. Was trying to root from PC so as to disable the 4 big cores but the reconnecting rendered it unrootable.
H959 unrooted
Stock v20a
Out of warranty (no LG service centre options)
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Ok, so I have been having a very annoying issue(s) recently with my SGH-I997R, ( Firmware version 2.3.3, Baseband version I997RUXKG3, Kernel Ver: 2.6.32.7-I997RUXKG3-CL366622)
This all started out of the blue about a month ago, I used to connect my phone to my PC all the time for transferring items via Mass Storage, and then on day when I went to connect it to my same PC, I got " USB Device Not Recognized". It will charge the phone but will not connect or show any option on the phone to connect. I have tried 2 Samsung cables and a generic Micro USB cable, No change. I tried connecting to my laptop, same issue. I re-downloaded the drivers from Samsung onto both my usual PC and Laptop, no change. Very very frustrating.
Other issues, I don't know if their related in any way but they all started at the same time.
a) if I place my phone in airplane mode i cannot get it out of that mode without rebooting my phone
b) if i shut my phone down (doesn't matter if battery shows 100% or 25%) I cannot get the phone to turn on without plugging in the USB cable.
c) When I leave my phone charging overnight and look at it in the morning, battery shows 100% but also shows "NO SERVICE" , I reboot the phone with the cable still connected, service restored.
IF anyone has had these issues Especially the connecting to PC issue, Please PLEASE help. I am going nuts. And of course this all happened 3 months after the warranty expired, so both Rogers and Samsung will not help without $$$$$.
have you tried to back up your data, take out any micro sd card and perform a factory reset under /settings/privacy/reset ?
or open it up and look inside for any problems like corrosion?
qkster said:
have you tried to back up your data, take out any micro sd card and perform a factory reset under /settings/privacy/reset ?
or open it up and look inside for any problems like corrosion?
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I have done a factory reset numerous times from both the /settings/privacy/reset, and from booting it up holding the volume keys and doing a reset that way.
And I have had my phone since day one in a Ballistic Hard Core Series case, I take it out once a week to ensure its clean and free of dust/moisture (I work in construction so I try to keep it a clean as possible.) and my phone still looks like its brand new.
Thanks for the response though,
Update:
So just as an update for anyone out there who may be able to assist me with this very annoying issue, the Phone is still doing the same things, and since the last post i've also replaced the battery to see if for some strange reason it might help.
But to no avail.
As well I dont think i mentioned that this phone is rooted. I want to try unrooting it to see if that will correct the issue, but with not being able to connect the phone via usb to the computer, I have NO IDEA on how I can accomplish this. Any help???
Started with a VS980, flashed a TMOB ROM and (here's the error) flashed a D801 kernel. All hell has broken loose. The phone loads as TMOB, which is great but it power cycles a little bit after reaching the home screen. The keyboard does not work, and there is a panel mid-screen saying "ERROR". TWRP is gone, and factory resets don't help. Tried flashing KDZ and TOT but neither have worked, LGMobile Support Tool encounters an error partway through and the FlashTool claims the versions are wrong and to check the DLL (have tried VZW and TMOB).
I keep getting kicked into the Flash to Stock threads but I can't reach that stage, and I can only get partway through ADB (when the computer recognises it, which is only part of the time) before the phone power cycles. I can get into software download mode, but that doesn't seem to help. I have been told that since I can reach the home screen and muck with settings (I have USB Debgging enabled and Developer options now) that it's not a bootloop, I just don't know where to go from here. Need a phone ASAP for business calls, have been out for almost a week and the job is pissed at me.
What do? It registers as a D801 though the computer recognises a VS980. Software/IMEI/all that good stuff is "UNKNOWN" in the About Phone section.
OS version of the phone was Android 2.3.4.
I inserted CWM (985hPaKicK's Edition for Optimus One), rooted the phone(by installing zip from the recovery), and then got it to overclock a bit by flashing a custom kernel with AnTuTu CPU Master. Finally, I replaced wireless.ko file to get the WiFi working.
The phone was working great for a while since then, even though it would reboot quite often. Soon I found that the problem causing the reboots was the overclock being too high, and there seemed to be no problem at all since I changed the CPU clock to about 690Mhz.
However, a problem broke out unexpectedly.
As I was using the phone without a SIM card at first, I set the clock manually. However, then, I inserted a SIM card. The phone recognized it and connected from its first boot with the card, but it couldn't connect to 3G network. There was animated 3G indicator on the top bar, saying "H", which is HSDPA from what I assume, and the indicator would turn green from time to time, meaning the phone had meaningful connection with the network; but when I launched apps requiring internet, they just didn't work.
I found that the time was going about 3 minutes slower than normal, so I assumed it was problem with time configuration and set time configuration to Network Sync. Then the phone rebooted.
And it just got stuck on the LG Logo screen.
Whenever I try to boot the phone, while it boots okay until the LG logo animation, after that the phone just gets stuck there.
And here are the situations right now:
-If I don't turn the phone on and just plug it to the charger, battery animation gets displayed normally.
-Pressing any of known button combinations won't boot the phone into recovery or emergency mode.
-When I plug the phone to the PC, The LG mobile support tool recognizes it correctly; I have tried running "Upgrade error fix" from there, which seemed to be getting the phone into download mode and flashing original ROM. The tool said it was successful, but it didn't save the phone either.
-Whenever I plug the phone to the PC, while the device manager often recognizes the phone as "LGE Android USB Composite", ADB does not recognize it.
-The phone gets hot when it is left in the LG logo screen for a while, so there definitely is some kind of activity.
If anyone can tell me how to unbrick the phone, or even how to get it into recovery mode, it would be really appreciated.
Hi
Please post in the Optimus One Q/A for support.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/optimus-one/help
Good day !
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I was watching a video on my phone when all my apps made a pop-up saying "Unfortunately *app* has stopped working". This happened for every app, I tried to factory reset from recovery mode because I couldn't access Settings, but when I did the factory reset nothing changed and the problem persisted. I decided to just leave the phone and the next day it wouldn't turn on at all no matter what and when I tried to charge it and left it for two hours it seemed as if it wasn't charging because the temperature of the phone or the charger didn't change so I came to the conclusion that my phone is bricked. When I plug the phone in by USB to a computer, the computer makes the connected sound.
-Huawei Y320-U151 [Rooted]
-No Custom Recovery
beanz_v7 said:
I was watching a video on my phone when all my apps made a pop-up saying "Unfortunately *app* has stopped working". This happened for every app, I tried to factory reset from recovery mode because I couldn't access Settings, but when I did the factory reset nothing changed and the problem persisted. I decided to just leave the phone and the next day it wouldn't turn on at all no matter what and when I tried to charge it and left it for two hours it seemed as if it wasn't charging because the temperature of the phone or the charger didn't change so I came to the conclusion that my phone is bricked. When I plug the phone in by USB to a computer, the computer makes the connected sound.
-Huawei Y320-U151 [Rooted]
-No Custom Recovery
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Any Updates on what happened with your phone?
Hello. Your phone uses MTK Cpu? (You can see in gsmarena and if ur cpu for example is MTxxxx)
If yes then install VCOM drivers for your phone on pc (works well on windows xp) after that see if pc finds your device or not (in device manager u can see that) if the pc finds it and there are no problems u can flash it with SP-Flashtool .
and if no, it means there is an hardwere problem (it happens when phone falls on ground and etc...)
You can find a guid on internet for flashing your phone
Sorry i didnt explaind everything and sorry for my bad english
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Last night, I was trying to play a 1080p, 60 fps video while connected to data (HSPA), and suddenly my phone died (with 80% battery) and entered into a neverending bootloop.
After I came home, I tried Normal Flash via the LG Flash Tool, and I successfully got it to boot into the OS, only to have it bootloop again after unlocking the phone. Next I tried to CSE Flash which removes literally everything, and it bootlooped the first instance, after restarting again, it somehow managed to enter the login screen and I was able to navigate for a little bit.
After that, I deduced that the coast was clear and that it was safe to rebuild my apps and all, but after I tried to reconnect to our WiFi (I had sim and SD card out), it bootlooped again!
Now I'm on my 2nd CSE Flash to have it forget our WiFi network, and try to see if I can still use the phone functionality. If it can connect to a network and let me make calls/texts it's fine. However, has anyone experienced this before? How did you fix it? What was the problem? My initial deduction was that an application or something was causing the bootlooping, but after a fresh CSE Flash, I don't think that's the case. I also doubt it could be a battery problem, since this phone is barely over a year old (around 4 months over a year) and has not suffered any kind of heavy/extreme damage.
Right now I'm trying to revert it back to Lollipop, if that doesn't work, then I'll try KitKat and see what I get.
Literally, just started facing this issue. Did reverting to lollipop work.