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Should i get replacement G1, since my screen is loose and it cricks?

Hey guys. I am wondering if I should get a replacement for my G1. I payed $430 , i love the phone! I rooted it ,thanks to the awsome work of XDA developers!!!Thank you very much! I just got a free battery from T-Mobile , but the cricks from the screen and the loosiness is making me replace it. The only thing is that i won`t get a new phone since im using the 90 day warranty. It will be refurbished... What do you guys think? If I send my back , will the notice that i has been rooted, eventhough i`ll flash to normal rc33 Image ?

Don't do it. The creak can be fixed by trimming a simple piece of plastic. You'd better not risk getting an even more faulty phone. Search for the solution.

jojo_angelov said:
... I just got a free battery from T-Mobile ...
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How did you get a free new battery? I want one too.

But ther rep says that if its not working as i want, i can replace it again. I don`t want to do it my self... My friends phone is not like that, and he have had the phone for longer.. I dunno....grrr...
Btw i just called tmobile and told them that my batter sux, otherwise i love the phone. Told them that i tried everything , from turning gps off and stuff and i still get 3-4 hours which is true... so they said that im in the 90 days warranty so they will send me a new battery and i don`t have to send my old one back wow..

Just get a replacement. Why put up with the hassle of fixing it yourself if you can just get it replaced?

idk, i would say keep your phone, i have always had issues with refurbished replacements, when i was with AT&T and my tilt stopped working they ended up sending me 6 different replacements, all but one were faulty on arrival, the one that wasn't i ended up making faulty cause Hard-SPL wouldn't install. imo it would be better to deal with a minor inconvenience than to get a refurbished phone and be screwed repeatedly till you get one that works

i just say that the phone goes for 200$ refurbished on the net... I payed 430$ , no way doing that... if they were to give me a new one i would accept it

I changed my phone because of this problem, but the other phone ended up with this problem within a few weeks. Not worth the hassle and the noise can be fixed by cutting some plastic away, google for more info.

Random reboots - stock

My fiance is having problems with her phone randomly rebooting. I just updated it to the most recent firmware update, so that shouldn't be the problem, but something obviously is. She wasn't getting much out of her battery life either, usually only a couple hours or so.
What can I do about it to keep her from spending money we don't have on a new phone, other than root it? She won't let me root it and set it up like mine, mostly because she's stubborn.

tatonka_hero said:
My fiance is having problems with her phone randomly rebooting. I just updated it to the most recent firmware update, so that shouldn't be the problem, but something obviously is. She wasn't getting much out of her battery life either, usually only a couple hours or so.
What can I do about it to keep her from spending money we don't have on a new phone, other than root it? She won't let me root it and set it up like mine, mostly because she's stubborn.
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root it when shes asleep or explain the firmware update broke her phone blame it on the software and youre never at fault

JKILO said:
root it when shes asleep or explain the firmware update broke her phone blame it on the software and youre never at fault
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haha, i wish that would work.

Trade her phones tell her you unrooted your phone so she could have it and the root hers. Just an Idea

It looks like she's even got to pull the battery to get the thing to start back up when it shuts down. The charging port seems loose to me, but it charges the battery just fine so I'm not sure that's part of the problem.

tatonka_hero said:
It looks like she's even got to pull the battery to get the thing to start back up when it shuts down. The charging port seems loose to me, but it charges the battery just fine so I'm not sure that's part of the problem.
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Try a different micro usb cable.

VICODAN said:
Try a different micro usb cable.
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I did. It still felt loose even using my cable, which doesn't feel loose in my phone.
She won't want to go through the hassle of talking to tech support to get a new phone, and they'll try to make her take it to a repair center

I put her battery in my phone for the day, and it just shut down, so that was part of the problem.
She said her phone was still dead in like 4 hours today, and that was using my battery which I've had very good luck with.
I think she uses her phone a LOT for facebook and texting, but 4 hours still seems awfully short for battery life

tatonka_hero said:
I put her battery in my phone for the day, and it just shut down, so that was part of the problem.
She said her phone was still dead in like 4 hours today, and that was using my battery which I've had very good luck with.
I think she uses her phone a LOT for facebook and texting, but 4 hours still seems awfully short for battery life
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Buy these:
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VICODAN said:
Buy these:
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now she says she didn't use her phone at all this morning and it only got 4 hours (on my good battery). I think she's got a rogue app or something using a ton of battery, but it doesn't ever show up in the battery stats. there's no way she'd let me do a factory reset on it again lol.
I'll send her the link on the batteries, but she won't buy them I'm sure. She wants a new phone too badly now.

tatonka_hero said:
now she says she didn't use her phone at all this morning and it only got 4 hours (on my good battery). I think she's got a rogue app or something using a ton of battery, but it doesn't ever show up in the battery stats. there's no way she'd let me do a factory reset on it again lol.
I'll send her the link on the batteries, but she won't buy them I'm sure. She wants a new phone too badly now.
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Possibly, or your batteries might be a year old and starting to go.
Trust me buy those batteries. They're great. And only $7.

VICODAN said:
Possibly, or your batteries might be a year old and starting to go.
Trust me buy those batteries. They're great. And only $7.
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I figured out what I think was wrong with her other battery. The contacts were set too deep inside the battery casing, so any bump at the wrong angle caused them to lose connection. That's why I don't trust second hand batteries, no matter how good other people say they are.
Both her original battery and my original battery work perfectly fine in my phone, both give me a day and a half. So I know it's not the batteries, it's something wrong with her phone.
Heck, I even offered to switch phones with her, and she said she didn't want mine even though it's exactly the same phone and even newer.
women, just can't please them.

Try
Backup
Factory reset
Take the newest update.
My wife has a stock shift huge battery improvement
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tatonka_hero said:
women, just can't please them.
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I know all too well. Take it in to a sprint repair center and have it repaired, if they cannot repair it they will order you a replacement phone.
Make sure you have TEP on your plan before you go in.

VICODAN said:
I know all too well. Take it in to a sprint repair center and have it repaired, if they cannot repair it they will order you a replacement phone.
Make sure you have TEP on your plan before you go in.
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She's a sprint employee so she's got somewhat different rules on that mess. I'd rather they just send her a new phone since we're too far from a repair center, or so I told Sprint the last 4 times I had to replace my Shift lol.

tatonka_hero said:
She's a sprint employee so she's got somewhat different rules on that mess. I'd rather they just send her a new phone since we're too far from a repair center, or so I told Sprint the last 4 times I had to replace my Shift lol.
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If she's a sprint employee she should get the benefits of the Sprint wireless advantage club and so should you.
Details here:
http://www.sprint.com/landings/advantage_club/?ECID=vanity:advantageclub

VICODAN said:
If she's a sprint employee she should get the benefits of the Sprint wireless advantage club and so should you.
Details here:
http://www.sprint.com/landings/advantage_club/?ECID=vanity:advantageclub
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yeah, I know. Doesn't change much when it comes to problem phones other than the fact that you absolutely have to go to a Sprint owned repair center and not a store run by another company. That's where the distance factor comes in and the working with tech support to convince them it's too far to drive lol

Phone heated and now won't turn on

So today I was sitting and I felt my pocket was hot. It was my phone, and it was ridiculously hot! I quickly shut it down via system, and let it cool down. I tried to turn it on but it won't. and I also tried charging it as well. I called HTC and they told me to re calibrate the battery, but that didn't do anything. the repair is $120 dollars and probably a few weeks without a phone. What should I do?

aloy1455 said:
So today I was sitting and I felt my pocket was hot. It was my phone, and it was ridiculously hot! I quickly shut it down via system, and let it cool down. I tried to turn it on but it won't. and I also tried charging it as well. I called HTC and they told me to re calibrate the battery, but that didn't do anything. the repair is $120 dollars and probably a few weeks without a phone. What should I do?
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That's tough luck.
This thread has people replacing batteries
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888741
I see some batteries on Amazon that these guys seem to be using for about 20 bucks.
Don't know about the price of tools
I definitely wouldn't send it back in for $120, that's just me. I would buy a new phone.
$130
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Edit: I just clicked the link and a popup appeared that offered a %15 discount to sign up for HSN newsletter for first time buyers
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tivofool said:
That's tough luck.
This thread has people replacing batteries
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888741
I see some batteries on Amazon that these guys seem to be using for about 20 bucks.
Don't know about the price of tools
I definitely wouldn't send it back in for $120, that's just me. I would buy a new phone.
$130
Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G No-Contract Android Smartphone - T-Mobile
http://www.hsn.com/products/samsung..._--IoPcDVWEeOOLKJZfPawKgage5_EhIk3_IQP_0_0-NA
Edit: I just clicked the link and a popup appeared that offered a %15 discount to sign up for HSN newsletter for first time buyers
$160
New HTC Windows Phone 8S A620e Black White Unlocked for Any GSM Carrier
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-HTC-Win...l_Phones&hash=item1e79ad57a2&afepn=5337259887
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do you think it will turn on again when I replace the battery?

aloy1455 said:
do you think it will turn on again when I replace the battery?
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I have no idea if it will turn on. Sorry. (my gut says probably)
I guess it depends on how hot the battery actually got and if it affected the other components.

aloy1455 said:
So today I was sitting and I felt my pocket was hot. It was my phone, and it was ridiculously hot! I quickly shut it down via system, and let it cool down. I tried to turn it on but it won't. and I also tried charging it as well. I called HTC and they told me to re calibrate the battery, but that didn't do anything. the repair is $120 dollars and probably a few weeks without a phone. What should I do?
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I would repare it and buy a cheap Nokia-Phone for 20 bucks for the time you dont have your One S. I paid more than 160$ for a new display for my HTC Wildfire wich has actually the worst display on the market.
If you wont let it repair by HTC you can buy a battery but it maybe wont work out because there has to be sth. that made the battery getting so hot. Maybe it was the Mainboard that's a bit broken which let the battery getting so hot. Just my considerations.

[Q] LG G2 will not power on, seemingly no reason

Here is what happened exactly:
So the phone is sitting on my windowsill so i can get service and receive texts messages. i get a text so i walk over, pick up my phone, unlock it, and i pressed on the textbox to start typing my reply message. as soon as i press the text box my phone freezes, and thinking its no big deal i hold down the power button to turn off my phone (took about 10 seconds to power off). Now my G2 will not do anything at all, wont power on, wont charge, the red light doesn't even come on with the charger plugged in.
Things I've tried:
holding power/power+down/power+up for 2 minutes+
disconnecting the battery for 5 minutes and trying ^ again
disconnecting every component and reconnecting then trying ^^ again.
disconnecting battery, plugging in charger
disconnecting battery, plugging in charger, then reconnecting battery with charger still attached
charging with lg charger for 12 hours
additional details that may be useful:
at&t D800
rooted
cwm recovery
optimus g3 custom ROM
literally never have had an issue with this phone before
a new battery is on its way in case that is the issue

blacklight215 said:
additional details that may be useful:
a new battery is on its way in case that is the issue
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Scratch that, i actually canceled the purchase of the new battery because i think i may need a new mobo instead. I'm not gonna buy anything until i get a second opinion at least.

sorry about the 3rd post in a row
I've ordered a new motherboard that has arrived today in the mail. after i get that in my old phone ill update the thread again.
I have to say though, i am extremely surprised and irritated by the absolute lack of support I've received from this site. i would always come here to find answers in other threads and the community seemed pretty awesome, so its pretty unfortunate that i haven't gotten even a single reply. i guess people only want to help others when they already no the answer...

blacklight215 said:
I've ordered a new motherboard that has arrived today in the mail. after i get that in my old phone ill update the thread again.
I have to say though, i am extremely surprised and irritated by the absolute lack of support I've received from this site. i would always come here to find answers in other threads and the community seemed pretty awesome, so its pretty unfortunate that i haven't gotten even a single reply. i guess people only want to help others when they already no the answer...
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Have you found a solution to this? My phone did the exact same thing yours did last Friday. I tried several button combos and the only thing that gave me some hope was resetting (power + vol. down). I was able to get the LG splash, then the ATT splash and jingle with the LED lights changing colors, but that was it, went back to dead. I'm debating ordering a battery and some tools to try and get this working again.

thestrangebrew said:
Have you found a solution to this? My phone did the exact same thing yours did last Friday. I tried several button combos and the only thing that gave me some hope was resetting (power + vol. down). I was able to get the LG splash, then the ATT splash and jingle with the LED lights changing colors, but that was it, went back to dead. I'm debating ordering a battery and some tools to try and get this working again.
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Yeah, so i got the mobo in my phone and it turned on and everything was working again! however the mobo i bought had a broken battery connection so i could only use it if it was on the charger so i had to send it back. but replacing my motherboard will fix my issue.
as for yours i have no idea, if it wont turn on even with the charger plugged in then replacing your mobo may be a solution.
i still think its pathetic that no one with real experience has replied to this thread, i guess you cant believe what your told about this place unless your question is easy to answer.

blacklight215 said:
Yeah, so i got the mobo in my phone and it turned on and everything was working again! however the mobo i bought had a broken battery connection so i could only use it if it was on the charger so i had to send it back. but replacing my motherboard will fix my issue.
as for yours i have no idea, if it wont turn on even with the charger plugged in then replacing your mobo may be a solution.
i still think its pathetic that no one with real experience has replied to this thread, i guess you cant believe what your told about this place unless your question is easy to answer.
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Where and how much was your mobo? Did you have to solder anything?

thestrangebrew said:
Where and how much was your mobo? Did you have to solder anything?
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i got it on eBay, the original price was like $120 but i put in an offer of $75 and they took it. when you buy it make sure you compare the pictures on the posting to your actual Mobo.
All that you will need for the switch is a credit card, a knife, an extremely tiny screw driver, and some double sided tape(the tape is optional).
as you can see in my picture, the board i bought is on the right and the old one is on the left. you have to watch for stuff like that when buying a part like this.
i think I'm about to buy a D800 G2 with a busted screen for $40 in the next hour, if i get it ill let you know how it goes.

Success!!!
Alright so yesterday i did buy that busted G2 and when i met up with the kid i made sure everything worked before i bought it. i got back to work and made the switch(i was going slow and i was debating on swapping the charging component, took about 35 minutes).
I did not wanna put my Sim in the phone until after i had downloaded all my apps and configured all of my settings the way i like them, so about 6 hours later i get a chance to make the final switch over. when i did put in my SIM everything APPEARED to work fine, but when i left my home i realized that my data was not sending or receiving anything at all? i went to the grocery store and bought a glasses repair kit for the screwdriver inside and opened the phone back up, everything appeared to be connected properly.
I left and called AT&T customer support and this guy helped me fix the issue, apparently their system though i was still using the temp iPhone 4 i had. after he switched the old IMEI number to my new Mobo's IMEI, i restarted my phone and it worked perfectly! i highly recommend taking this route if you can get a new board for less than a new G2 costs.
The Mobo i got off the kid is legit too, i guess he bought it only a month or two ago because it has some features i did not have like the knock code. i also got it rooted and flashed TWRP, not sure if ill flash a G3 ROM or leave it like it is.

My Pixel Suddenly entered a bootloop, and it can't access Recovery. Am I screwed?

I've been using my Pixel like a normal person for a couple months now, but it suddenly froze and entered a bootloop this morning. I tried booting into TWRP, but it just gives up and reboots itself. I tried booting into TWRP with the fastboot boot command, which also did not work.
This is an original Pixel that is running Android 8.1.0 (April 2018 security patch).
Could this be a motherboard failure? I want to know what others think. Thanks in advance.

flash the full rom?

lafester said:
flash the full rom?
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Yeah that seems like my only option right now, but I have very low hopes for that to work. I didn't want to delete my data on the phone just in case some third party repair shop fixes it, but I'll still try reflashing the rom later today.

Update: reflashed the rom and wiped all data. Still stuck in a bootloop.

John256145 said:
Update: reflashed the rom and wiped all data. Still stuck in a bootloop.
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I had this on my pixel xl. Exact same symptoms. A new battery fixed it.

SnowFuhrer said:
I had this on my pixel xl. Exact same symptoms. A new battery fixed it.
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Interesting... I might try replacing the battery but honestly I don't know if I will soon. I might just end up paying some cell phone repair store to do it for me. But if that doesn't work, I will have spent anywhere from $50 to $100 for nothing.

John256145 said:
Interesting... I might try replacing the battery but honestly I don't know if I will soon. I might just end up paying some cell phone repair store to do it for me. But if that doesn't work, I will have spent anywhere from $50 to $100 for nothing.
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I know, that is the problem. I did mine myself but screwed the screen which is pretty expensive.

Why replace the battery?
John256145 said:
Interesting... I might try replacing the battery but honestly I don't know if I will soon. I might just end up paying some cell phone repair store to do it for me. But if that doesn't work, I will have spent anywhere from $50 to $100 for nothing.
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I had a used Pixel I bought off eBay to replace my HTC M9, got it cheap to test rooting/roms etc. Used it a couple months and liked it but the screen was scratched, and battery shot, AccuBattery showed it had 39% life left. I looked at replacing the battery but local shops didn't deal with Pixels, too hard I guess. I then figured I'd buy a "New" one off eBay, I got it for about $150 and AccuBattery shows ~95% life. I unlocked and rooted it right out of the box no issue. I have heard some stories about refurb phone being sold as new, but as long as they have a return policy I think it's worth a shot. Very happy with my new phone, now if I could just find ROM that was rock solid, but that's a different thread.
Verizon / Pixel Sailfish / 32GB / LineageOS 16

tst1212 said:
I had a used Pixel I bought off eBay to replace my HTC M9, got it cheap to test rooting/roms etc. Used it a couple months and liked it but the screen was scratched, and battery shot, AccuBattery showed it had 39% life left. I looked at replacing the battery but local shops didn't deal with Pixels, too hard I guess. I then figured I'd buy a "New" one off eBay, I got it for about $150 and AccuBattery shows ~95% life. I unlocked and rooted it right out of the box no issue. I have heard some stories about refurb phone being sold as new, but as long as they have a return policy I think it's worth a shot. Very happy with my new phone, now if I could just find ROM that was rock solid, but that's a different thread.
Verizon / Pixel Sailfish / 32GB / LineageOS 16
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I've never heard of AccuBattery before actually, but I'm definitely gonna try it out on some of my old phones just to see how much life their batteries have. I think I will eventually try replacing the battery, but only if I have some money to burn.
Edit: I have a Pixel 3a XL now, so there's no reason for me to go back to a Pixel anymore lol. However, I would love to bring my old Pixel back to life instead of buying another one off eBay.