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Phone keeps asking me to activate, but it's activated already

I've had my triumph about 2 months and it worked great til now. But last night I turned my triumph off and back on, and as soon as it booted up, it asked me to activate again. But I was still able to make phone calls out. I checked with virginmobile and they said my phone is fully activated and gave me the procedure to edit my activation to get it activated again. I went through that procedure and the phone rebooted, but it still asks me to activate. When I click activate on the phone it says "searching for network 1 2 3" then says error and asks me to call virginmobile. I'm still able to use the internet and make phone calls out so I think it's a problem with the phone, not my virginmobile service. Anyone know how to fix this problem?

My Dad has the same problem with his. Try a factory reset.

Factory restore totally worked! here's the instructions I used https://motorola-global-portal.cust...a-triumph---master-reset-/-factory-data-reset

if you leave for few minutes it disappears by itself. no need to go thru activation process.

it lasted over 24 hours for me

Mine started doing this after I used Titanium Backup to remove some of the stock bloatware apps. I left the Activation app alone. As soon as I rebooted, and now every time I boot the phone, it asks me to activate. I just hit 'Home' and then clear the notifcations. It doesn't come back again until I reboot.

Mine started doing this today. I wonder if they did some kind of update. I have not installed any apps in a few weeks. I also reboot every am due to a bad memory drain.
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Samsung Galaxy S III I535 (VZW) Dead or fixable?

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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Pixel only wakes after 10 - 30 secs, audio not working

Since a week or so I have a few problems with my Pixel.
I wanted to listen to music via headphones but it didn't work. I thought my headphones were broken, so I connected them to another device but they weren't. I rebooted my Pixel and didn't think of it anymore.
Later that day my phone would only wake up after 10 - 30 seconds after I pressed the power button. Unlock via fingerprint didn't work. I found out that rebooting solved this issue for some time (1 or 2 hours) but after that time I got it again.
I contacted Google Support and they proposed a few different solutions. One of them was safe mode but after a few attempts I got the issue even in safe mode. Another solution was (obviously) to wipe and re-install the firmware (I am on stock). So... This didn't work as well. Got the same issues which are:
no audio output (neither via jack nor speakers) --> so I can't use the telephone, I can't send voice messages, I can't record video and so on...
phone sometimes only wakes up after a short waiting time
I will try one more re-install and if that doesn't solve the issues I will try to get a new one...
Any ideas about that?

elementzero23 said:
Since a week or so I have a few problems with my Pixel.
I wanted to listen to music via headphones but it didn't work. I thought my headphones were broken, so I connected them to another device but they weren't. I rebooted my Pixel and didn't think of it anymore.
Later that day my phone would only wake up after 10 - 30 seconds after I pressed the power button. Unlock via fingerprint didn't work. I found out that rebooting solved this issue for some time (1 or 2 hours) but after that time I got it again.
I contacted Google Support and they proposed a few different solutions. One of them was safe mode but after a few attempts I got the issue even in safe mode. Another solution was (obviously) to wipe and re-install the firmware (I am on stock). So... This didn't work as well. Got the same issues which are:
no audio output (neither via jack nor speakers) --> so I can't use the telephone, I can't send voice messages, I can't record video and so on...
phone sometimes only wakes up after a short waiting time
I will try one more re-install and if that doesn't solve the issues I will try to get a new one...
Any ideas about that?
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Do you restore from backup after resetting/wiping the phone?

Charkatak said:
Do you restore from backup after resetting/wiping the phone?
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I restored apps and settings and everything else that is saved there via my Google account.

OK, I did another re-install following the official instructions. Audio (and everything connected with it: calling, video camera, YouTube, etc) is still not working. Haven't had the issue with the lock-screen though.
Anyway, tomorrow I will try to get my phone exchanged. I believe it's an issue with the hardware...

elementzero23 said:
I restored apps and settings and everything else that is saved there via my Google account.
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What if when you reset the phone, but this time try not to restore the phone and instead set it up as new. Just to see...

You've rebooted, booted into safe mode and done a clean install. There's not much more you can do so I'd send it back.

So guys, I got my phone exchanged for a new one. I think the key word was "audio/mic problems". Thank you for your replies.

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elementzero23 said:
So guys, I got my phone exchanged for a new one. I think the key word was "audio/mic problems". Thank you for your replies.
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Its a know problem with the first batches of the Pixels.
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Downloads in play store pending

Got an unlocked pixel 2 xl from Google running on Sprint, for some reason nothing from the play store downloads. I've deleted the Google account, and signed in again, and with multiple accounts, cleared cache and data and rolled back updates for the play store, and I've switched data connections, different WiFi at different people's houses. I restart the phone randomly with apps pending download and out of nowhere one will download, then it stops and the rest are still pending. What the hell could this be?

Dude I have the same problem!
Clear cache and data didn't work. restarting the phone didn't work. Toggling wifi didn't work. Uninstall update from Play Store didn't work!
After doing all that **** it became even worse.
What a **** phone

I've had this issue with lots of phones/roms. I even contacted support about it when I got my Pixel 2.
Support was worthless.
My issue seemed to stem from my having multiple google accounts. When i factory reset I opted not to put in my password for my 2nd google account, then everything synced and downloaded fine. Once all that was done I manually added my 2nd google account and it worked as normal.

I'm having the same issue.
I've been trying to download a 16mb app for the last 4hrs. Just says downloading...
Pixel 2 XL. 8.1 Oreo. It's so frustrating. The only thing that has worked for me temporarily. Is a factory reset. N days after it's back to square one... I also tried google support. They just piss me off, they all just sound like broken records.
I don't have a clue what to do. N I'm not factory resetting again. They need to fix this.

KillaSirrom said:
I'm having the same issue.
I've been trying to download a 16mb app for the last 4hrs. Just says downloading...
Pixel 2 XL. 8.1 Oreo. It's so frustrating. The only thing that has worked for me temporarily. Is a factory reset. N days after it's back to square one... I also tried google support. They just piss me off, they all just sound like broken records.
I don't have a clue what to do. N I'm not factory resetting again. They need to fix this.
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I have a better solution now than factory reset. Just go into "settings"/"apps & notifications"/"show all apps"/ and then on the right side top "reset apps settings".
But it will only fix it for a while and then this ****ty bug comes back again. I don't know if it's only with Pixel 2 since this is my first android phone, but this isn't what I expected when I came from iphone to Android.
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KillaSirrom said:
I'm having the same issue.
I've been trying to download a 16mb app for the last 4hrs. Just says downloading...
Pixel 2 XL. 8.1 Oreo. It's so frustrating. The only thing that has worked for me temporarily. Is a factory reset. N days after it's back to square one... I also tried google support. They just piss me off, they all just sound like broken records.
I don't have a clue what to do. N I'm not factory resetting again. They need to fix this.
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Reset App preferences and then its back to normal, but it will only temporary help. The bug will come again.
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Chaz1026 said:
Got an unlocked pixel 2 xl from Google running on Sprint, for some reason nothing from the play store downloads. I've deleted the Google account, and signed in again, and with multiple accounts, cleared cache and data and rolled back updates for the play store, and I've switched data connections, different WiFi at different people's houses. I restart the phone randomly with apps pending download and out of nowhere one will download, then it stops and the rest are still pending. What the hell could this be?
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reset App preferences in settings. It's only a temporary solution because the bug will come back again somehow.

I had the same issue, and phone support told me to do a hard reset, shame as it was brand new out of box and a hard reset was needed

This is happening to me as well... I factory reset a few days ago, it was working fine. But now the problem came back again... However, at night when it was on standby, it seem to have updated the apps. But when I try to download anything manually, it will just be stuck on download. I don't wanna factory reset again... Hope there will be a solution soon...

Happening to me too now. Brand New Pixel 2. Any solutions out there?

I had this happen when I first tried setting up my new pixel 2. I restored from an online backup. None of my apps would download. They would just sit there in Pending forever and not download.
I reset the phone and this time, set up as new. Then I tried to download app. Still got stuck in pending.
So I reset AGAIN. And set up as new again, but this time I did the "Trick" to install all those google apps that they recommend (in the setup) and this seemed to work. I could now go into the play store and everything downloaded and I have had no problems since.

Having this issue on my pixel 2 xl. I'll restore a TWRP backup and that sometimes fixes it, but it always comes back. It's wasted so much of my time already. Never had the issue on Pixel XL with nougat. Is there any known fix? (I've tried everything in this thread, nothing worked).

It's not a phone issue, it's not technically a Play Store "issue" - there appears to be a limit to about 2 simultaneous downloads from the Play Store, so if 2 apps are updating and you try to install something, it will stay on "pending" until what you want gets to the head of the queue. (Try not updating for a few weeks, then turn updating on and watch the phone update for hours and hours.) Evidently, Google doesn't want us crashing their servers by trying to download 30 apps at once. I wonder why. (I know why, I was being facetious.) Just keep your eye on the charge (according to all I've been reading recently, 80% is about the most we should charge lithiums to for longest life) and plug the charger in if it gets much below 40%. (And unplug it if it gets to 81%.) Eventually everything will download. (If there's enough, you may want to turn the phone off and go to sleep and continue the next morning. But this is the way it's going to be until someone buys Google a few hundred more servers.)

Question P7Pro loosing Features after some time?

Sup folks,
so something very annoying is happening on my Pixel 7 Pro.
I first noticed it yesterday when i couldnt get any ,,Press Yes to Sign in,, Prompts on my Pixel 7 anymore.
I then reinstalled the whole phone and everything worked as before.
To explain ,,working as before,,:
- Google One Backup has its grpahical backup with the Loading bar etc
- I can get Sign In Prompts
So this worked up until about 4-2 Hours ago.
I reset cache and Data on Google, Playstore and Google Play Services with Airplane Mode and restarted my Device because i had them on the Zygisk List.
Now its the same as before. I cant get any SignIns and my Google One wont backup and or will just show its bareones UI when pressing backup and even refusing to backup at all.
Oh yeah and going into Settings and Google then pressing on Devices to get the Devicelist just unlimited Loads me.
Im also not able to link my Chromebook at all.
EDIT:
I wanna metion that it now after like waiting some time, did a full backup.
It also showed me the prompt of signin but said it was ,,smth smth expired,, and linked me to my Devices.
The phone shows up all fine in Find my Device too!
But still no Sign In Prompt and chromebook working.... NOR the device tab
Anyone else or just me?

Seems like the Module from @Displax caused this.
Once removed Chromebook worked like a charm.
But it takes some time to break, which is weird.