Hello I am not knowledgeable on mobile devices, their hardware or software sadly. But I have a Metro PCS with that model that I somehow bricked? (is this a brick anyway?) by simply clicking on "upgrade" the android software :/
The cellphone doesnt have any weird things installed, just a flashlight and whatsapp. But it was handled years ago by a family member, who "upgraded" the OS, or so Im told (whatever they did, it couldnt have been advanced, but could have been dumb, system was stable however, and remained as such for years). The device must also have been locked by Metro.
The cellphone had an external SD card and videos on it, some downloaded from whatsapp, some recorded on the device itself. The only problem with the device was that it had a huge red bar 6gb+ on the storage report, assigned to System/others, and me being unable to delete whatever was in there. And unable to just move the programs to the huge SD card because all of them want core access or whatever.
Suddenly, from one day to the next, these videos whatsapp or natively recorded started showing a broken film icon and would not play from the gallery, whatsapp or the file browser. The gallery would show an error and only audio would play. Whatsapp would remain frozen at 00:00, and the file browser would display an error and not play.
I read that I had to uninstall an "Google" update that had broken videos, so I uninstalled an app called Google (not Chrome, and not Google something, it was a plain "Google" and had Googles search engine G logo), and things started working again.
The next day they were broken again, and this Google was not installed anymore, I stopped all of the cellphones running apps, nothing. Restarted, tried moving files to the core storage, back, nothing. I went to the OS settings and clicked on upgrade the OS, I remember it was at version 5 something. It didnt download anything and went straight to OS install showing an android green guy.
At about 30% in the green guy died with a red error, an error message and the progress bar disappeared. It remained frozen, I reset.
The system booted and showed "optimizing 1 out of 16" I knew this was weird since it had failed the update and I never saw a rollback. but let it run, it looped back to itself about three times.
I tried to learn those startup key inputs to load the bios or whatever, managed to load a screen to reset back to factory settings, did the reset. now it still loops, although it is 1 out of 3 optimizations.
Cant believe how this pos can get so messed up just by using the default buttons, google is happy to get all the information on users but cant keep videos working nor have a working installation...
Rants aside, did I actually mess up something?, shouldnt the installer do a full reboot before doing anything now that I think about it? how do I get this thing to work again?, clearly the factory reset is not a factory reset.
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AT&T Samsung Captivate with Froyo 2.2/Rooted
Yesterday I had a notification that said I had several app updates available in the Android Market. I went into the Android Market and started the updates but then the Android Market app itself started to update. I'm not sure what happened but the screen went black and it started to go through the SD card checks. I always wait for the SD card checks to finish before doing anything so when it was done I did the unlock code and tried to open up the Android Market, it won't open. I went through all my apps on my homepages and only two that are on the external SD card are working, Alchemy and Droid Phit. I thought maybe it was a OS glitch so I turned it off and restarted it. It sat at the Galaxy S screen for a good 10min before booting up. I went through all the apps again on the homepages and still the same two apps are only working. Settings will not open, the Application button will not open up to all the applications. The volume will not go up or down but I can power it on and off. I tried plugging it in to my computer and it's not recognizable. It does charge when plugged into a power outlet but not when it's plugged into the computer. I tried all the button combos, nothing. I tried all the steps for Odin3, nothing. I have been receiving notifications about text messages, missed calls, app updates, etc but I cannot check them either. I'm not seeing calls come up so I have no idea who is calling me either until I get a notification from Google Voice on my computer since I have all voicemails fwd to there.
I have no idea how to fix this. Any ideas? I'd take it to an AT&T store but the whole $125 replacement cost sucks and if they found out I root the phone they will make me pay the full price of it regardless of insurance.
Bumping.
I really need help. !!!!!!
did your internal storage get partitioned somehow that happened to my continuum on accedint and i couldnt install anything luckily we have a re partition file for odin i did that and ran the stock rom and it worked im not sure if it would work on the captivate though. real quick check and see if your internal storage says 0.00
I can't check anything. The settings won't open, nothing will open. It's a mystery to me on why this is happening.
Can you do a factory reset from Recovery, or the buttom combo that works with your device?
(my question lies offset below, incase the reader wants to skip my paragraph and use it as reference. I had to type it all to give background to where I am now)
I have a DROID2 from Verizon Wireless running Android 2.2.3 Froyo, and have owned it for ~a year. One Day in early 2011 things started going wrong, like vibrate wouldn't work on messages (sms and email, using GoSms), my stock battery manager that told me % usage since last charge would crash when clicked, gmail and calendar wouldn't sync. I talked to a friend, backed up my phone, and reset to factory settings. then, he said that rooting was amazing, so I broke down, rooted my phone, backed it up with Droid X bootstrap recovery, and thought it was great. then my phone started to continually boot in recovery mode, even after I removed root and bootstrap. it also ran strangely sometimes and would be slow, but I figured that was my impatience. so i decided one day to root my phone (using z4root), use a root explorer, search my system files for ANYTHING with "recovery" that to me looked like that stupid bootstrap placed (because i read somewhere it made a file and it stayed in my system) and deleted those files. now, I have new problems:
apps that I had a few days ago (8-16-2011) and have NOT updated won't work on my phone from the market. the market app does not give me the ability to download, and online it says its not compatible with my phone, which is bull crap because I downloaded AND used the apps the day before, but deleted and wanted them back. some apps include: facebook, Heywire (2.6.1), and Adobe Flash 10.3. I reset my phone to factory TWICE yesterday in attempt to fix. when the phone first loads, the OLD market is installed, which I used to download Heywire before the new update came, which then said the SAME VERSION of Heywire is not compatible. there are also a few minor errors I have, the stock email app picture doesn't show in status bar, it is very slow, etc. I am currently NOT rooted and NEVER flashed a Rom. My friend said that I could just replace some files and it should be fine. Also, I have issues when powering on my phone. when I turn it off, to turn it back on I must 1. turn on 2. wait for Motorola "M" screen to dim 3. remove battery 4. turn on and wait for boot up My question is:
1. How do I figure out all the files I need?
2. Where can I get these files?
3. Is there a way I can get root access and just copy paste ALL system files back to the phone as if it is fresh out of the box?
Hello, hoping someone here can help me. I have the galaxy player 5 (yp-g70cwy/xaa). When I first got it ran a software program that only allowed it to do one thing which was rate tv programs that I watched. I did a factory reset, wiped the cache and the davlik cache as well...after that the phone would only open as far as the samsung logo.
I recently started tinkering with it again and I rooted the phone, flashed the rom, used .pit files, with odin and superoneclick. I recently used android commander and I finally saw life! The only problem is that I will either get the message the setup wizard is not working and it will leave me on a blank screen that only shows the time, battery, and whether or not the usb is connected. I can connect the usb to the computer and drag and drop stuff into the ext sd card. The internal memory and internal sd card do not read. My computer shows the yp-g70 in devices but it will not show it under removable devices.
When I connect it to android commander I can see all the files on the device and I was finally able to get the phone to the play store. I logged on using my gmail account and I was able to download apps (that all worked fine). I used some third party apps to do what the phone could not do which was open up the settings, camera, etc. The home screen is completely blank. The lock screen shows the wallpaper I downloaded but not the home screen. After awhile the phone turned off with a full battery and it will only work if I reset to factory defaults but then I have to register with google all over again. Does not save anything!
Can anyone please tell me how to fix this device. I have been working on it for a week already and no improvement.
Update
I now have the phone to where it can download items from the play store. I can use the device like normal But I had to download an app for the start key because I cannot get to the options without it. When i downloaded and rebooted the recovery it still gets stuck at the samsung logo. I have to type something into the search bar in the android commander and the phone boots to the play store. It randomly turns off and I have to recover the files all over again...I dont know. It seems like an improvement but yet I know that there is a file in this phone that is bad. I downloaded anti virus but it is still not picking up anything.
any luck on this?
I have the same one and just started looking to see how I can tinker with it .. .
I own a dell inspiron 15 with windows 8 officially installed on it. I purchased it four months ago.
For about a month or two now, the metro apps that came with the installation won't open. Some start loading and the screen turns white and stays that way. Others start loading and the loading ring and the app icon later gets disorganized. The apps in question keeps sending notifications but not accessible.
I really need help with that.
Also, I stopped using the microsoft login sometime back because always entering the long password became annoying. Now for some reason, it keeps telling me there is a network problem whenever i try switch to my microsoft account although i have a working internet connection.
My bluetooth and sd card slot ain't working properly but i believe all these are linked to one problem.
I have tried all the solutions posted online;
*Troubleshoot
*Activate windows
*Use Proxy
*Clear store cache
*Re-registry store
*Resolution change
and all but non worked. I can't update the OS because i cant open store in the first place.My last resort is to format the laptop but i dont want to do that now. I havent backed up most of my data and i dont know whether that'll fix the problem.
Neither can i take it to a dell or Microsoft shop because painfully there ain't one here. So i have to rely on my own understanding.
It seems it ain't enough so am desperately in need of help. *_*
Hi all, my mom has an Motorola Moto G3 phone. Have noticed many weird things happening on the phone since yesterday.
The notification panel won't slide down. Also, no notifications are displayed in the notification bar, even when there are notifications, like receiving sms or messages on Whatsapp.
The phone has a swipe lock screen. But, the lock screen won't work, even though it shows in Security settings, that there is one.
Calls are being made from the phone, but no calls are being received. For example, if I call the phone, it says that the person is busy and the connection ends. My brother had also tried calling... same thing.
No apps can be downloaded or updated from the Play Store.
I tried to connect the phone to the PC, but, since I cannot slide down the notification panel, there is no way to change the connection mode to transfer data.
I should mention that the storage on the phone was getting close to being filled, and the phone was showing the warning that storage was less and that some of the functions might stop working. So, are these things because of that?
But, I did delete a lot of photos and videos and uninstalled apps, and now there is sufficient storage for the phone to run properly, but it still doesnt work, and these weird stuff are happening.
I suspect from the weird behavior that there might be a virus. Is that so?
What do I do? How will the phone return to sanity? How do I backup the data... if the solution is to factory reset the phone. There are important photos and videos and whatsapp data which I would like to save before performing a reset.
Any help will be appreciated.
A lot to cover there.
First Long press the power button whilst the phone is on.This will reboot to Safemode.See if you can now use a USB Data cable to backup what you need to your PC/Laptop/Tablet.
Note:Some USB cables are,"Charge Only" so check the USB cable is Data transfer capable.
Then if you have a Google account and are connected via Phone data or WiFi go Settings/Accounts/Google and untick and re-tick all sync options to make sure all your Google stuff is updated.
Then do a,"Hard Reset/Factory Restore.
Just put Moto G3 into youtube with the words Hard Reset,
https://www.youtube.com
Although a Hard reset seems like a big move I do one at least a couple of times a year as a kind of 10,000 mile service for my Android phones even if they are running well and it clears out all the junk I tend to accumulate and keeps them slick,fast and problem free.
HTH
Thanks a lot for your reply. Your post comes as a lifesaver.
I took a backup of the data by transferring stuff on to the SD card and then transferring the data from there to the computer.
I had booted in safe mode, but there too the phone showed same behavior. I also noticed that the home button, or the task manager button were not working too.
After taking the backup, I also changed the password for the Gmail account for security, in case the mobile was somehow compromised.
Then I wanted to do a factory reset, but the button seems to be greyed out, and there seems to be no way to perform a soft factory reset. So, your post comes at the nick of time to save me, as I was thinking what to do now. Thanks a ton!
Performed a hard reset of the phone, and the phone is working fine now. Everything is normal.
What might be the reason for such behavior though?
Not being able to lock the phone, install/update apps, factory reset... all this makes me think if it was some kind of malware.
Another reason I can think of is that the storage got full, and so these strange stuff started, but it should go back to normal when stuff was deleted and sufficient storage became available. Still, doesnt explain why lock wouldn't remain.... and other stuff. Really weird.
Modern,"Smart Phones" are very complex computers.With so many apps on them that get updated some updates don't always play nice and mess up the phones.You could spend hours tracking down a single app that might be a cause of a problem.
As you say as well the the storage on the phones might well have got clogged up with old Temporary data that has not been cleared out as it should.
For future reference another trick is to wipe the Cache partition from Recovery mode.I would have suggested this first but as you said space was running out it's best to have a clean start
Yes, it was good to have a clean start with the phone.
Thank you for that trick to wipe the cache partition from Recovery mode. Will keep that in mind.
Thanks a lot again.