Hi,
I'm looking to get this phone in the near future, but one thing concerns me is the non-removable battery, and my question is is there a way to reboot or reset the phone if it freezes or crashes?
This will greatly help me to decide whether to get this phone or not.
Thanks
Im sure there will be a way (like holding the power button for 10 secs like on the S2 or something like that). Remember...the most popular phone in the world has a non removable battery so its not necessarily a bad design.
This is actually a fantastic question-- I've had my androids hard freeze to the point where the only thing I could do was remove battery. Then again, I was flashing kernels & ROMs at the time
There is probably a hard-reset combination involving the buttons that tech support knows about and hasn't been released yet-- but it's gotta be either vol-up+power or vol-down+power.
That would be great if the phone has a way to reset when it crashes as you guys above mentioned, but i'd like to hear from people who has actually done it to confirm this. Otherwise i'm not taking any chances, Lol. Maybe i need to go to one of the retailer to find out myself? But what can i do to make the phone crashes or freezes? :laugh: Lol
I have the phone in my hands and will try a few things a little later when I get home. The startup sound is too loud for work.
hammysink said:
I have the phone in my hands and will try a few things a little later when I get home. The startup sound is too loud for work.
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GREAT!!! Please keep me posted, thanks.
My One was acting weirdly after I installed Circle Battery Widget Reborn. I couldn't get past the lock screen.
I held down the power button expecting power down or reboot options, but i ended up getting a message with a countdown telling me to continue holding until it hard boots.
I guess it was an endless loop and my phone was actually frozen.
The HTC One S and One X from last year also did not have a removable battery, and this would be the same way how you hard boot those phones as well. Only difference is that instead of a countdown message, the phone's lights/led's would flash 5x or so until it hard booted.
I assume its the same as my DNA was. Hold the power button for ~5 seconds and it would hard reboot. And it worked, no matter the state of the phone.
louiscoolboy said:
Hi,
I'm looking to get this phone in the near future, but one thing concerns me is the non-removable battery, and my question is is there a way to reboot or reset the phone if it freezes or crashes?
This will greatly help me to decide whether to get this phone or not.
Thanks
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Hold the power button for approximately ten seconds and it will force a hard restart. I had to do it while unlocking and flashing CWM.
What :thumbup: he said. Actually with this phone now it's more like 5 - 7 seconds. I had to do this when I was unlocking the bootloader and getting root
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Finally got my new Transformer Prime from Best buy!
Sad news is all I can do is turn it on and watch the android tell me to start.
The touchscreen is completely unresponsive. I am on hold with Best Buy phone support right now (the lady has no idea what a transformer prime is).
I have tried cold boot by holding power and volume down for 5 secs...
Tried while charging and on batteries. I do not have a dock or a stylus.
Do you guys have any other ideas I can try before I punt this POS back to BB?
Thank you
Let the battery discharge all the way until it shuts off, charge it up for a half hour or so and try it out again. It seems to have worked for some people in a thread around here somewhere who had their touchscreen stop working after an update.
I let the battery discharge all the way until it shut off. This was not an easy task. Had to stay up to keep the screen on. When I restarted I had the same issue.
Unless there are any other ideas I may just have to return this thing.
Another question... Is it worth exchanging? Should I wait for the Tegra 3 Lenovo with 2 gigs ram? I am a very sad Panda
Man, its stuff like this that should clue manufacturers in to allowing users to pull a battery. I have had funky issues with my Nexus One and not sure what I would do if I could not pull the battery in that puppy.
I hate to think of spending 6-8 hours trying to discharge the battery on the Prime for something like this.
I would call ASUS and see if they have any tricks you can try. If not then return through BestBuy. Not sure what the turn around time would be or how that relates to other T3 releases.
You could also try holding down the power button until you get the Eee Pad boot screen. I think that works like a warm boot.
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Man, its stuff like this that should clue manufacturers in to allowing users to pull a battery. I have had funky issues with my Nexus One and not sure what I would do if I could not pull the battery in that puppy.
I hate to think of spending 6-8 hours trying to discharge the battery on the Prime for something like this.
I would call ASUS and see if they have any tricks you can try. If not then return through BestBuy. Not sure what the turn around time would be or how that relates to other T3 releases.
You could also try holding down the power button until you get the Eee Pad boot screen. I think that works like a warm boot.
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The reset button should disconnect the battery for a short period of time, so that would be kinda the same isn't it?
Where is the "Reset button" I already tried cold boot.
This is your chance everyone, before I send back to Best Buy. Any ideas. I don't care if it bricks it as I will prob send back.
Is there any special order to the drain power and restart. I tried restarting with the device plugged in. Should I take the time to try again to drain the power and try powering on with the device not plugged in?
Update: Found the reset button. Did not work
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Update: Found the reset button. Did not work
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If you have hit the reset, cold booted it and ran the battery down, I am not sure what it left to try if you cannot navigate through the device. Maybe if you had the keyboard you could get in and install a touchscreen tester or something, but not sure how much I would trust your device if it still does not register touch after all that. Probably better to just return it and get another.
Honestly, I love the tablet and haven't had any serious issues with it. Sounds like you just got a dud.
I am starting to agree with you. If they had some in stock I wouldn't give it a second thought. Now I get to wait for Who knows how long to get another one.
I have put in an Esupport ticket with ASUS. I will update you on what they say.
FYI when it starts it only shows the home buttons for a split second. It pops up a small back box that says English. Is this normal behavior?
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FYI when it starts it only shows the home buttons for a split second. It pops up a small back box that says English. Is this normal behavior?
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It runs through the Google Device setup when you first launch it. I do not remember the exact order, but language would probably be the first option.
I assume this looks like a drop box where you would have the option of other languages, but of course you would not be able to test without being able to tap.
Those all come up, drop down menu is there and says English as well. What i'm talking about is a small black box appears over the android guy that says English and disappears. This happens in unison with the home buttons on the bottom that also disappear.
I will post a Youtube Video soon so you all can see.
Thank you for all your responses thus far!
UPDATE: I am not gonna post a video as my video camera is not yet working with ICS custom ROM.. I don't feel like putting an old Rom on. Sorry.
Truth is I give up. I am taking the prime back to Best Buy on lunch break for full refund. Think I'll go buy a Go Kart.
Thanks again for all the help!
UPDATE2: I really really want a Transformer prime... I decided to once again order from Best Buy.
This morning 2 hours after I ordered my 3rd Prime, Best Buy canceled the order.
Best Buy support said it was cause I changed the shipping address to my UPS store.
So they just Canceled the order.. I am now taking the large hint the universe is giving me.
I am not meant to have a Prime
Is off twice this day and I had to send the report to htc.
Does anyone has passed this, I just want advice?
Troyman said:
Is off twice this day and I had to send the report to htc.
Does anyone has passed this, I just want advice?
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I have had no shutdowns or restarts myself. Maybe a rogue app causing your issues?
I've had about 4 random reboots since I received my phone early Thursday ... While in my belt clip and case. Get phone off blt and it's rebooting. Not rooted yet, so that's not it. Just installing all the apps I had on my 3d.
If I can't figure it out and still happening by Sunday I'm requesting a replacement.
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Same here...
Same here. except my issue seems much worse. Whenever i receive a text message, or actually send one, toggle the volume in either direction, try to play any music file, play youtube videos, or take pictures. She freezes up, then reboots. internet works fine, browser runs fine, can navigate menus fine. phone calls only mess up like every third call or so. lock screen is fine too.
the only apps i have downloaded are GO SMS Pro, Netflix (which played a show just fine) and Zedge.
I've done 2 Factory resets and still no luck.
Took it up to sprint earlier and they werent able to help because they dont have any EVO LTEs in the store yet. Since they couldnt help, i'm contemplating rooting to see if it'll do anything different. Doesnt make sense to me cuz I cant install a custom ROM, but neither does the phone acting up like it is while its purely stock.
Oh well, I'll keep checking and keep you all posted on what happens.
I've had some restarts myself. I believe it is the seidio surface case and holster doing it. This phone will do a restart from the lock screen if you hold the power button down for 5 seconds. That starts a 3 countdown to restart. I just took the plastic piece over the pwr btn off.... hope that works.
Their has to be a way to turn that power option off! Not sure if I should get a new case or if my power button is to sensitive.
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I've had some restarts myself. I believe it is the seidio surface case and holster doing it. This phone will do a restart from the lock screen if you hold the power button down for 5 seconds. That starts a 3 countdown to restart. I just took the plastic piece over the pwr btn off.... hope that works.
Their has to be a way to turn that power option off! Not sure if I should get a new case or if my power button is to sensitive.
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The reason being that this does that is because of the non-removable battery. They had to make a fail-safe because you can't do a battery pull like before
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I've had about 4 random reboots since I received my phone early Thursday ... While in my belt clip and case. Get phone off blt and it's rebooting. Not rooted yet, so that's not it. Just installing all the apps I had on my 3d.
If I can't figure it out and still happening by Sunday I'm requesting a replacement.
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whenever you install apps from an old device, make sure you dont restore data. It has been know to cause conflicts in different devices
So I was chilling at a local restaurant and tried to use my phone by pressing the power button. Screen came on but it froze and than it began to reboot on its own. It kept transitioning between Sprint 4GLTE screen and HTC quietly brilliant screen back and forth. That went on for about two hours and I could feel my phone getting hotter and hotter. When I came home, I searched the XDA forum for similar issue and was able to factory reset my phone by pressing power + volume down button.
My phone has never been rooted, I don't know how to since it is my first android phone. I have apps, but I am very picky about what I download in my phone. So my question is, what happened? Is this a known issue that happens or is this a sign of something bad happening with my phone? It is working so far, since factory reset, but I am a little uneasy since it happened without any reason.
Probably just didn't agree with the food... Bada cshh..
Wouldn't worry too much, sometimes those things happen out of nowhere. If it keeps happening take it into get an exchange. Doesn't happen to me. I've had 3 EVO LTE's and no boot loops like that at all.
Had a slightly simular issue when I first got my phone and had it in a TPU case. Noticed that for whatever reason my power button would stick. After 5 months, I think the power button is nice and used so it doesn't have the tendency to stick nearly as much.
Not 100% this is your issue but this is what my experience was early on.
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I just registered for this site. I watched the video explaining to me that I'm a noob, and appreciated it. It put me in my place.
I have a Samsung Galaxy s II (for at&t; SGH-i777)
It is about a year and a half old.
I have not rooted it, everything on it is as if it were out of the box. Nothing is changed from the default settings.
I have upgraded to 4.0.4 though.
About a couple days ago, the power button stopped responding completely. I took out the battery and reinserted it which caused the phone to restart but did nothing for my problem. I have called Samsung (they told me to send it in for repairs: costing $70) I would love to get it repaired without sending it in or parying that amount. I have seen options of getting it rooted, downloading an app to transfer the powere button function over to the Volume down button function, but I don't really know how to go about that.
Therefore, I ask you, O'people of XDAdevelopers, do I have any other options? I did search the site for a problem similar to mine, but everyone else has their phone rooted. I am also unfamiliar to any technical terms. I am a noob to the fullest. I don't know how to root the device or even what things would be neccessary to root it.
Any help would be much appreciated it. I am willing to do anything.
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Hello
I just registered for this site. I watched the video explaining to me that I'm a noob, and appreciated it. It put me in my place.
I have a Samsung Galaxy s II (for at&t; SGH-i777)
It is about a year and a half old.
I have not rooted it, everything on it is as if it were out of the box. Nothing is changed from the default settings.
I have upgraded to 4.0.4 though.
About a couple days ago, the power button stopped responding completely. I took out the battery and reinserted it which caused the phone to restart but did nothing for my problem. I have called Samsung (they told me to send it in for repairs: costing $70) I would love to get it repaired without sending it in or parying that amount. I have seen options of getting it rooted, downloading an app to transfer the powere button function over to the Volume down button function, but I don't really know how to go about that.
Therefore, I ask you, O'people of XDAdevelopers, do I have any other options? I did search the site for a problem similar to mine, but everyone else has their phone rooted. I am also unfamiliar to any technical terms. I am a noob to the fullest. I don't know how to root the device or even what things would be neccessary to root it.
Any help would be much appreciated it. I am willing to do anything.
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As far as rooting and finding software workarounds, you can easily find all of that info by searching and looking at the stickies.
From a hardware perspective, I would recommend taking apart the back shell of the phone, and try to see if the power button responds by pressing it without its plastic cover piece.
If you have any soldering ability you can replace the part yourself for under 10 dollars. Search eBay for it
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=380500208422
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dsmboost said:
As far as rooting and finding software workarounds, you can easily find all of that info by searching and looking at the stickies.
From a hardware perspective, I would recommend taking apart the back shell of the phone, and try to see if the power button responds by pressing it without its plastic cover piece.
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Hey man thanks for the help. I didn't get a chance to try out your method. A couple days ago, I woke up and the problem was completely gone. The power button was fully-functional and my phone was working perfectly.
Unfortunately, today, my phone has started acting up again. It keeps restarting on its own. It shuts down while I'm using it and it restarts. Nothing seems different so I start using the phone again, and it happens again (it restarts). Its restarted today around 7 times. My power button is functional at the moment, but I remember this exact sequence of events leading up to my initial problem where the phone's power button stopped responding.
What do you recommend?
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If you have any soldering ability you can replace the part yourself for under 10 dollars. Search eBay for it
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Thanks for the help.
I have no such ability. I could follow instructions but I myself am not good with that type of stuff. Fortunately though, this wasn't necessary. The power button started working on its own again without me having to do anything. Everything was fine until today, my phone has started acting up again. It keeps restarting on its own. It shuts down while I'm using it and it restarts. Nothing seems different so I start using the phone again, and it happens again (it restarts). Its restarted today around 7 times. My power button is functional at the moment, but I remember this exact sequence of events leading up to my initial problem where the phone's power button stopped responding.
What do you recommend?
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Thanks for the help.
I have no such ability. I could follow instructions but I myself am not good with that type of stuff. Fortunately though, this wasn't necessary. The power button started working on its own again without me having to do anything. Everything was fine until today, my phone has started acting up again. It keeps restarting on its own. It shuts down while I'm using it and it restarts. Nothing seems different so I start using the phone again, and it happens again (it restarts). Its restarted today around 7 times. My power button is functional at the moment, but I remember this exact sequence of events leading up to my initial problem where the phone's power button stopped responding.
What do you recommend?
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Get it fixed. Complete failure is eminent at this point. I'm on my second I777 because of it
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Get it fixed. Complete failure is eminent at this point. I'm on my second I777 because of it
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Wait.. so even though the phone is working fine today, there's still the possibility that its going to completely fail? It stopped restarting on its own once I took the cover off. I had the Otterbox cover for SGH-i777 on it, but once I removed the cover, the phone has been working fine. Do you think there's a connection between the cover and the restarts? (I would post the link for the otterbox cover to show you, but I can't post links since I'm still a newcomer)
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Wait.. so even though the phone is working fine today, there's still the possibility that its going to completely fail? It stopped restarting on its own once I took the cover off. I had the Otterbox cover for SGH-i777 on it, but once I removed the cover, the phone has been working fine. Do you think there's a connection between the cover and the restarts? (I would post the link for the otterbox cover to show you, but I can't post links since I'm still a newcomer)
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I believe there is a connection between cases and the power button failure
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I believe there is a connection between cases and the power button failure
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Once again, thanks for the help. So you think I'm fine now? No need to change the button or get the phone repaired? I should be fine now?
Phone Oblivious said:
Once again, thanks for the help. So you think I'm fine now? No need to change the button or get the phone repaired? I should be fine now?
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Possibly. I was experiencing reboots months ago with a trident case. I'm now using no case and haven't had any issues.
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Phone Oblivious said:
Fortunately though, this wasn't necessary. The power button started working on its own again without me having to do anything. Everything was fine until today, my phone has started acting up again. It keeps restarting on its own. It shuts down while I'm using it and it restarts. Nothing seems different so I start using the phone again, and it happens again (it restarts). Its restarted today around 7 times. My power button is functional at the moment, but I remember this exact sequence of events leading up to my initial problem where the phone's power button stopped responding.
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First off, have you checked to see if there’s another update? There were two 4.0.4 updates released for this phone. There was one back in January, I believe, that introduced the sleep of death problem, as well as causing a lot or seemingly random reboots. Some of the problems you describe definitely sound like these. They released another update around March that was supposed to fix these problems. That update is also 4.0.4, but should be UCLL6.
The power button issue is also a well known problem. When mine starts acting up, the first thing that happens is I’ll press the power button and the power menu will come up as if I’m holding the button down. Then a few seconds later, the phone will reboot and usually the power button doesn’t work after. It’s likely a design defect and will fail eventually, but there is a solution, if only temporary, that has worked for me and several others. If it starts happening again, pull your battery and press the power button repeatedly. Some people have gone so far as to press it several hundred times. I usually only press it a couple dozen times, but the problem does comes back for me eventually and I have to do it again. Interestingly, most of the people I've seen reporting this power button problem have had it start in the last couple months, around the year and a half mark. Not trying to say anything, but very awkward it started happening right as the Galaxy S4 was announced
I had this problem and tried all the workarounds but they didn't seem to work or was buggy. I ended up having to send it in to Samsung for them to fix it (luckily it was still under warranty). It ended up being a hardware issue so you may need to send it in to repair if you cannot fix it yourself with the methods in this post.
Those with power button issues, try this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree
Works great, and the Dev has a thread for it on XDA.
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About a couple days ago, the power button stopped responding completely.
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I had almost the exact same problem with my Sprint Galaxy S II (Epic Touch). (Random reboots every couple of days, which got progrssively worse. Eventually, I noticed that just brushing the power button would cause the phone to reboot ~10sec later.) It ended up being a bad power button, and replacing it resolved the issue.
How handy are you with a soldering iron? If you're pretty good, you can buy the AT&T i777 S2 switch for about ten bucks and replace it yourself. (You can also try cleaning it for free - several tutorials here at XDA. The Samsung "Captivate" and "Epic 4G Touch" have similar switches and and the same problems. Search both forums.)
Several eBay sellers have the switch you'll need. (They don't provide the skills needed to solder it in place - but your AT&T phone will be easier than the I897 Captivate or D710 Epic Touch. Your switch is similar, but a larger size.)
UPDATE: Several eBay sellers now offer mail-in repair services! (If you don't have mad soldering skills, you can still get your phone fixed:
$40 (switch, repair & return shipping): http://www.ebay.com/itm/Galaxy-S2-POWER-SWITCH-REPAIR-SERVICE-SGH-I777-Samsung-SII/161040773617
$45 (switch, repair & return shipping): http://www.ebay.com/itm/Power-Butto...-S-Galaxy-S-II-Galaxy-NOTE-MORE-/320910836052
I've having that problem on mine it's still on Gingerbread. The power button seems to be clicking normally, it doesn't seem stuck. Yet anytime I stick my battery in it automatically cuts on and the screen seems to shut off without responding to the power button. I cannot reboot the device. I cannot turn the screen off/on without plugging it in or unplugging it from charger.
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I've having that problem on mine it's still on Gingerbread. The power button seems to be clicking normally, it doesn't seem stuck. Yet anytime I stick my battery in it automatically cuts on and the screen seems to shut off without responding to the power button. I cannot reboot the device. I cannot turn the screen off/on without plugging it in or unplugging it from charger.
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You could remove the power button entirely and rely on the Gravity Screen On/Off app I linked above. I have never tested it on GB but it should work, as It relies on the sensor. Removing the power button shouldn't be difficult at all, as you can access it by removing the battery and there are several tutorials on how to do that (i9100 tutorials will work just as good).
Perhaps some of these ideas will work for you?
My current phone has a failed power button. I didn't bother removing the power button, as it is unnecessary. I use Gravity Screen, and an app called Power Menu to replace the power button long press menu. I just pull the battery to turn the phone off, and for rebooting. Works acceptably well.
Of course the other option is to have the power button replaced, which is about $40 plus shipping, but this phone is so old it is hardly worth it.
Anyone have anything to report yet?
Not a major issue yet!
I got a bad pixel, the I am waiting on to return for. No root, rom, or lollipop..... other than all that, so far so good.
Sent from my ghost white Z3!
Seems a little slow with cellular data at times.
Just random force reboots. I'm sure it's all because of the bloatware and hopefully Lollipop will fix it.
Some times mms message get stuck at unable to download, have to reboot to resolve
Not a single issue, forced reboot, glitch, or lag since day one for me.
Few problems
Stamina mode causing texts to send late or freeze, SMS and MMS.
On stock messaging notification mark as read button doesn't respond, must be tapped twice.
With Hangouts dialer installed and u choose to call from Maps or other apps the default choice doesn't stick, it asks which dialer every time over and over, had to uninstall hangouts dialer very annoying that your choice isn't saved.
Battery takes forever to charge, from 0-100 it took 3 1/2 to 4 hours. That's horrible.
1 freeze where the screen stayed black and could not reboot, had to remove Sim card to fix.
Slow on data at times, not as good signal as Samsung or Motorola.
On YouTube no option for 1080p, 720p is highest, Z2 had 1080 option. If you disagree and before you comment try these out yourself and tell me if you're having the same problems.
I'm a little disappointed in the charging rate as well. I had read a handful of spec sheets that listed this as having something similar to quick charge. Having had the droid turbo and Note 4 I loved this setup. I know I didn't have the same feature verbatim but it did have some kind of fast charge feature mentioned. I thought it might be due to not having the correct cord similar issue with the one M8 but, a msg pops up at 90% on my wifes note 4 charger telling me its incompatible with that charger.
flacco40 said:
1 freeze where the screen stayed black and could not reboot, had to remove Sim card to fix.
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If it freezes again just push the small button in the SIM card area, just bellow the SIM card, will reboot.
When in navigation GPS Icon clogs notification area...Why Verizon why? All other variants put it next to 4g signal and not as a notification. Verizon sure knows how to mess up a good phone, there's no compatibility to Sony PC companion either...Verizon's doing...
Having an issue with a boot loop since Verizon update
I got the update from Verizon, it threw my phone into a boot loop. I let it run for like a half hour with no luck. During my entire ordeal, it would usually only make it to the Sony wave screen. It would make it to the Verizon screen on occasion, but would always loop back to the beginning. I would get two vibrations followed by a red notification light. I figured out the button combination for recovery mode. I tried to boot into Safe Mode. It once again went into a boot loop. I put it back into recovery mode and did a factory reset. It did the reset and went directly into a boot loop again. I ended up doing three factory resets in a row to see if it was an issue with the factory reset process. After three resets and a half hour boot loop, it did fully boot up. I went through the entire setup process, emails, wifi, bt, widgets, apps. During that process, it did a force reboot and went back into a boot loop. I went through the entire process listed above again. Safe Mode and three Factory Resets. I have once again gone through the setup process once again with no force reboot...yet. This could happen at any point any this is getting pretty aggravating. Any suggestions?
Bad unit
I think I had bad hardware on mine. I was experienceing randon screen freezes, that forced reboot. Got it replaced and new one is flawless so far.
Urgent: Stuck
Looks like I'm currently experiencing a problem. I was playing Asphalt 8, and as I was exiting the game, the phone froze. I hold the power button, and it just rings my text message ringtone. I hold the camera shutter, it plays the camera sound, but same screen. I call it, it will play my ringtone but I can't answer it.
With a day's worth of battery life, I can't just wait for it to die. What do I do??
EDIT: So what I had to do with a last resort is access my phone with Google Android Device Manager and erase my phone and factory reset. I hope to never experience this again. If only this was a Samsung, removing the battery and putting it back is the easiest hard reset to do. :\
I believe that there is a button inside the sim compartment that simulates a battery pull.
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Looks like I'm currently experiencing a problem. I was playing Asphalt 8, and as I was exiting the game, the phone froze. I hold the power button, and it just rings my text message ringtone. I hold the camera shutter, it plays the camera sound, but same screen. I call it, it will play my ringtone but I can't answer it.
With a day's worth of battery life, I can't just wait for it to die. What do I do??
EDIT: So what I had to do with a last resort is access my phone with Google Android Device Manager and erase my phone and factory reset. I hope to never experience this again. If only this was a Samsung, removing the battery and putting it back is the easiest hard reset to do. :\
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If you would have hit the reset button you probably wouldn't be complaining right now. Learn you device before comparing it to Samsung crap.
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I believe that there is a button inside the sim compartment that simulates a battery pull.
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thegrants82 said:
If you would have hit the reset button you probably wouldn't be complaining right now. Learn you device before comparing it to Samsung crap.
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Ha, hilarious. We both know what our phones are capable of, but I've never ever knew there was such a handy device.
Ah well, you live and you learn.
JediDru said:
I'm a little disappointed in the charging rate as well. I had read a handful of spec sheets that listed this as having something similar to quick charge. Having had the droid turbo and Note 4 I loved this setup. I know I didn't have the same feature verbatim but it did have some kind of fast charge feature mentioned. I thought it might be due to not having the correct cord similar issue with the one M8 but, a msg pops up at 90% on my wifes note 4 charger telling me its incompatible with that charger.
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Yeah that's my only gripe with this phone. I have no issues. I came from a nexus 5 on ATT. Didn't get ATT in my new house. Glad I made the jump. I charge this phone with my old nexus wireless charger and the thing takes forever to charge.
You're complaining about a limitation of qi charging,not this phone. Compare the output limits of a qi charger and the power block to your phone. If you want the phone to charge faster, it will always be faster with a wire than wireless.
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You're complaining about a limitation of qi charging,not this phone. Compare the output limits of a qi charger and the power block to your phone. If you want the phone to charge faster, it will always be faster with a wire than wireless.
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Trust me I knew that already. My nexus 5 did the same thing. I just like the wireless charger in my room. Just easier to grab when you grab the phone in mid sleep. Lol
I do agree with the convenience of qi charging. I just didn't want someone to think that qi would do rapid charging of some sort.