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Hi there,
I've been diging a lot through forum, found some great informations here, but i'm afraid my problem isn't solved yet.
"Someone calls, you pick up the phone and hear nothing. Pure sound of silence..."
I know, i know - search forum: the only thing I found is UnidirectonalPatch (switching one audio library file AFAIR).
Well... not working. A friend of mine says, that what he does is: not turning off BT, after every Wi-Fi usage soft reset. Stupid, isn't it? But I guess it's the only way to do that.
Has anyone solved that problem?
I'm not sure if you are having the same problem as people in UK do.
In the UK, when your phone contract is nearing the end, the phone company (or 3rd party sales person) are trying to do business with you and hence the call. I've did a research on it, and it seems that, there are such call centers, where there is a computer, which (somehow) get hold of all the phone numbers with contract that is nearing the end. The computers will start dialing to all these numbers. However, there might not be that many workers (sales person) around handling these calls. And hence, you will get a silent phone call. It usually come from a few specific numbers.
If your phone contract is nearing the end, probably that's the problem.
hanmin said:
I'm not sure if you are having the same problem as people in UK do.
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Nope, it's not the same thing....
In the end, I think I'll try to disable BT at all, as written in some posts year ago or removing BT profiles.... crap, that's annoying thing.
hi. when your batt is lower than 20\15% do you have connecting issues? It attach to GPRS and connect, but the Internet Explorer can't open pages, or i cannot send mails, or even the MSN cannot login.
But once we plug the charger it start working nicely and fast.
Is this normal on BA?
AND NO, THIS ISN'T IN THE WIKI, AS I DON'T HAVE ONE USERBOOK BECAUSE I BOUGHT THIS PDA USED!
it is that difficult to someone grab his pda and test to open one web page using gprs when the power is around 20% or lower?
is that so difficult for someone to try and see if the same happens?
or you just help when it interest you?
Hey, guess what!
I asked one old business woman that have one PDA, and went to my work to speak with one chief (i am a Security) and i asked her if she had similar issue.
SHE SAID YES!
SHE, ONE PERSON I JUST SAW THAT DAY, IN LESS THAN 1 MINUTE ASKED MY QUESTION, AND WHILE ALL OF YOU, 'MASTERS' OF PDA'S NEVER REPLIED ME!
YOU GUYS SUCK REGARDING SIMPLE SH*T!
YOU GUYS DON'T HELP SH*T
Wow, woooww
Calm down my friend. I do not think that we are "'MASTERS' OF PDA'S". But we have our own live and are not all the time in this forum answering questions.
When the battery is low the SO begin to stop services like, Card reader, wiereless, bluetooth, and so on.
Regards.
Connection problem when battery is low
I do have the connection problem when batterry goes below 40%. I dont understand how to correct this problem
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Some of you may have read elsewhere that there is a problem hard-resetting the Samsung i780. I bought mine 3 days ago in NYC. All seemed fine (nice device, well specd) until I ran a regular WM6 app which by chance locked up the device (how unusual for a WM6 device). Normally i would hard reset using a combination of buttons, but couldnt find out how to do it as its not in the manual. i checked online and turns out there are numerous complaints from people with the same problem and no solution. I finally called Samsung UK who told me that there is a special number for dealing with this device, and specifically this problem. I called this number and they told me that:
(a) There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO DO A MANUAL HARD RESET ON THIS DEVICE and the capability cannot be added!
(b) To get it fixed, Samsung will send me a prepaid envelope, I have to send the i780 to them, they reset it and send it back!! only takes 2-5 days (and what am i supposed to do then?)!!! But this is a WM device. it WILL lock up every so often, they ALL do. I asked 'am I supposed to send it to you every week?'. Of course, he said this is the only option. And they wont give me my money back.
(c) The best part: They have known about this problem for OVER A MONTH - which is before they started selling them!
Guys, we have been conned!
I spoke to the retailer. he claims it is not his problem. he also wont give me my money back. So im stuck with a bricked device that if I get fixed will go wrong again, and no one seems to take responsibility. Clearly its faulty design: how could they miss this?
I smell a class action suit coming...
So for all of you out there with this device, know that our model cannot be hard reset and take real care. For all of you thinking to buy this device, I wouls suggest you think long and hard about buying a device that you cannot hard reset.
Anyone with any ideas??
strange, really.. but some quy on modaco wrote:
Anyone tried this (as posted in the XDA forum)?
"with the i780 completely off, press SEND (green) + END (red) + Power ON - it will show up the hard reset confirmation."
many times... didnt work.
ekerbuddyeker said:
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Some of you may have read elsewhere that there is a problem hard-resetting the Samsung i780. I bought mine 3 days ago in NYC. All seemed fine (nice device, well specd) until I ran a regular WM6 app which by chance locked up the device (how unusual for a WM6 device). Normally i would hard reset using a combination of buttons, but couldnt find out how to do it as its not in the manual. i checked online and turns out there are numerous complaints from people with the same problem and no solution. I finally called Samsung UK who told me that there is a special number for dealing with this device, and specifically this problem. I called this number and they told me that:
(a) There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO DO A MANUAL HARD RESET ON THIS DEVICE and the capability cannot be added!
(b) To get it fixed, Samsung will send me a prepaid envelope, I have to send the i780 to them, they reset it and send it back!! only takes 2-5 days (and what am i supposed to do then?)!!! But this is a WM device. it WILL lock up every so often, they ALL do. I asked 'am I supposed to send it to you every week?'. Of course, he said this is the only option. And they wont give me my money back.
(c) The best part: They have known about this problem for OVER A MONTH - which is before they started selling them!
Guys, we have been conned!
I spoke to the retailer. he claims it is not his problem. he also wont give me my money back. So im stuck with a bricked device that if I get fixed will go wrong again, and no one seems to take responsibility. Clearly its faulty design: how could they miss this?
I smell a class action suit coming...
So for all of you out there with this device, know that our model cannot be hard reset and take real care. For all of you thinking to buy this device, I wouls suggest you think long and hard about buying a device that you cannot hard reset.
Anyone with any ideas??
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Funny haha, how similar is your case to mine (98%? the only diff here is locations)
Well, yes, we already made a few post about it, I am gonna start up a page for the i780 hard reset issue soon!!
Let all "Bricked club" member join!! and Sansung, you heard us, do something..
Or else....... (We will do it our own way, haha)
see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=380723
this is the equivalent of a hard reset
i have a i780 , dead, because flashing with drain battery, how to put mode boot ,
Go after them!
This is ridiculous! If there is a class actions suit, count me in!! I am appalled by Samsung. I switched from being a long time Palm user (who have been very supportive if the device has been faulty) to the i780 because finally I thought here is the all-in-one device I have been looking for that had all the Treo 750 lacked.
They need to recall without questions, and provide everyone with new versions. I am so pissed off right now as the device is only 2 days old ... I will spend a lot(!) of time and effort to go after Samsung.
Calm down people They have fixed the hardreset issue in an updated rom released in Asia. So the green and red button works for making a hard reset. I am sure that Samsung in Europe soon will put this in an updated roms for us Europeans. I talked to Swedish Samsung today and an update to WM 6.1 is coming late summer.
Hey everyone, I'm looking to see if there's a better alternative to wavesecure. I was robbed last night at gun point and among my DSLR cam and wallet, my phone went along with them.
That is when I realized how useless Wavesecure is. I don't know who's paying for it since I got in on the free lifetime membership but what a waste of money.
They completely ignore what happens in a robbery.
First, phone gets stolen and turned off by thief (if they're smart or been doing it for a while).
Second, Victim tries to lock or track the phone through the Wavesecure site but with the phone off..nothing will get through. Sure, you may say, "as soon as they turn it on...." but how long will you wait? The only way this will work is if you can get the wipe command in soon enough. Otherwise, if you lock it and they see it...off it goes.
Third, after the police report.. you start calling the bank.. and eventually sprint to restrict service. But if you restrict it then the command will really never get through unless they're on wifi.
After you restrict it, it's time to say good bye and Wavesecure has done nothing.
The best security measure, is to have a weapon of your own, haha. Or maybe lifting the ghettos out of the ghetto so crimerate lowers, :O.
Seriously, the thing I appreciate most about the phone is that I had it pattern locked. So if it's off, then next time they turn it on, service or not, they'll be greeted with it. So, no access to my data, which is the biggest loss for me. The only thing vulnerable is my microsd card...which is why wavesecure let me down. They will never connect to wifi because they can't unlock it and sd card will never be wiped.
I'm glad I'm on a CDMA carrier, esn blocked. Nothing like that on GSM that I know of.
Is there a solution that will wipe your phone AND sd card after a set number of failed pin/password/pattern unlock attempts? Say 20?
Funny info: they only used my credit card once. $2.20 at a McDonald's.
Yes: There's an app called "autowipe" which allows you to wipe both the phone's memory and SD card if one of the following conditions is met:
1) Phone receives a text with a password in it.
2) User-defined number of lockscreen password failures.
3) SIM card is changed (doesn't apply to us, but nice feature).
Best of all, it's FREE.
The number one thing is that you are ok, these fools out here will shoot even if you cooperate with them. I ran into a similar situation with my phone (not robbed) but my phone was stolen and I had mobile defense. Only way to track the phone is if it was on which the thief turned off, so the only option was to wait for them to turn on the phone, which I did attempt for a few days but lost hope and had sprint stop service to the phone. The only option I had left was if they turned on the phone and connected to wifi which had not happened to this date so I had to buy another Evo which was equally painful as the first one being stolen. Like I said though, glad you are ok because a phone can be replaced, not a person.
Autowipe, darn. I hadn't heard of it before. I never really thought out the situation. Noone ever expects to be in it.. First thing installed when I get my phone from asurion.
Jfree, no insurance? Buying one full price is the worst, to top it all off. I was skeptical about needing insurance. I had never lost a phone before..but stolen never seemed like a real possibility. Always a surprise.
Autowipe seems like the app i was looking for. Definitely a must have, especially to protect all your valuable data.
That sucks, Los Angeles really does suck... thankfully I am in the northern half of Cali
Sucks.
Sent while sitting on the toilet.
So you do not like wavesecure because it doesn't work with the phone off?
Find out what McDonald's they went to and get the police to pull the videotape at the time of the sale. Have the LAPD do something for a change.
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So you do not like wavesecure because it doesn't work with the phone off?
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I didn't say I didn't like it. I'm saying that in the situation for which it is intended to be used, it is useless. Autowipe and a pattern/pin/password lock would be a better alternative. Especially since you have to pay for wavesecure.
P_Dub_S said:
Find out what McDonald's they went to and get the police to pull the videotape at the time of the sale. Have the LAPD do something for a change.
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Wow, I is noob. I'm going to call them asap, hadn't thought of that.! I want my cam back...or reimbursement. Thanks! This whole thing has me in a zoned out mode kind of..
overthinkingme said:
I didn't say I didn't like it. I'm saying that in the situation for which it is intended to be used, it is useless. Autowipe and a pattern/pin/password lock would be a better alternative. Especially since you have to pay for wavesecure.
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Why would it work with the phone off? It has no power source. No power source =/= signal. Now, once they turn the phone on you are good..but no matter what you do to your phone (short of planting an actual gps chip on it) it will not work if the phone is on.
Wow, I is noob. I'm going to call them asap, hadn't thought of that.! I want my cam back...or reimbursement. Thanks! This whole thing has me in a zoned out mode kind of..
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You will only get a reimbursement if you carry insurance (home owners) on them..
jigglywiggly said:
That sucks, Los Angeles really does suck... thankfully I am in the northern half of Cali
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Yeah because we all know there's no crime in northern Cali. People just do not get robbed there .....ass
P_Dub_S said:
Find out what McDonald's they went to and get the police to pull the videotape at the time of the sale. Have the LAPD do something for a change.
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Unless they shot someone I doubt the lapd will do this.
backdown said:
Why would it work with the phone off? It has no power source. No power source =/= signal. Now, once they turn the phone on you are good..but no matter what you do to your phone (short of planting an actual gps chip on it) it will not work if the phone is on.
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Not once did I say that I expected it to work while off.
Did you not read? My argument is that by the time they turn it back on, non-predictable, the phone will have already been restricted by you..but at that point you already don't expect to get it back..
I'm originally from S.F., but I moved to LA for the crime.
i am sorry for your loss sir.
Thats why I believe every person that does not have a criminal record should be allowed to have a concealed weapons permit with training...if these punk ass lowlife pieces of **** were afraid they would be killed when they rob or attack somebody maybe they would think twice...i guarantee crime rates would drop practically overnight! But the damn yuppies and politicians only want the criminals to have guns..
Sorry man....that sucks. One of our employees just had his stolen out of his car which was parked in his garage. Had Lookout on it and I was able to track it for just a few minutes while they had it on but couldn't pinpoint the location before the phone was turned off. After that, called Sprint and shut phone off. Bye Bye phone.
Looking back on what could have been done......
First thing, set an unlock pattern for your phone so, unless they know how to bypass, not going to get into it.
Second, even if the phone is off/locked they could pull the SD card and browse via PC. If sensitive information is on there they will have access. There is an app in the market which lets you set a password for any folders/files on the card you wish. This way, no access granted to those particular items.
If you want the app and can't find it repost and I will dig it up.
Also, Sprint will give some credit for the phone if stolen but with what they charge it will still be expensive. Might be better off buying on sale over the net for cheaper price. EVO was advertised on Amazon not too long ago @ 99.99.
Hi XDA ... I have been a long time lurker and only post when I feel I can contribute. This post is not to contribute but to either (1) entertain or hopefully (2) look for help. Yes I did search but all of the leads I have followed have been dead ends, and I have a time constraint .. if there is a sure fire way to find my phone please post it, because I haven't been able to nail it, and I will be eternally grateful!
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Writing this partially to vent, partially because writing it may help me think through this, and because I'm looking for ideas.
So I lost my cellphone today. It's a carrier-unlocked Google Galaxy Nexus ($350) with a Straight Talk AT&T MVNO Sim card in it, prepaid for 6 months ($250). If I knew it was lost for good, no big deal, I can move on. What's killing me though is the limbo of not being able to piece together a decent story, or enough information, that I could consider high-odds on what the hell happened. So I'm in missing-cell-phone purgatory at the moment.
Here's what happened. It's not exciting at all...
5:00 went to Nathan (8yo son)'s soccer practice
5:30ish Playing with phone, checking email, etc while sitting in a fold up chair at soccer. Occasionally put it in the chair cupholder when watching.
5:45ish Rachel (my 5yo daughter) sits on my lap for the last 15 min of practice. Not sure exactly where I put the phone, it was either in the cupholder or on the chair between my legs.
6:00 Practice over. Get up to leave, fold up chairs, pack backpack, walk straight to car (100yds) through grass, some mulch, some pinestraw
6:05 Put chairs and backpack in front trunk on the porsche, walk to driver's door, open and get in. Nothing in my hands but a key. Kids let themselves in the car.
6:10 Stop by pumpkin patch on the way home to buy a pumpkin, get out, and "Where's my phone? It should be in my pocket". It's not.
6:15 Assume I must have put it in the backpack while packing. Would check but I need to pee, so we jump in the car and go home
6:20 Pee
6:25 Check backpack, car, everything. Start calling it and listening for the ring. Nada
6:30-10:30 Drive back to the soccer par 3x, retracing my steps, shining bright flashlight, constantly calling my number from another phone, no luck.
So here's what I have done:
- Tried about 4 different "after the fact" phone locators via Play store including Plan B. All report installed correctly, but none give any indication that they work. I get some indication that none of these apps actually work on jellybean.
- Called about a million times. Seems to ring normally for a long time before going to voicemail. Not sure if this is an indication that the phone is actually on or not (or if the sim is still in it), but I assume it does mean it's ringing audibly.
- Sent several texts trying to activate the locators, they seem to go through with no error, but have no idea if that's an indication the phone is on and connected.
- Called Straight talk. They are useless. No location service, no way to ping the phone to see if it's active on the network
- Also called AT&T. They have no access to an MVNO phone/account
- Checked as many data trails as I can think of for access. No gmail usage, no play store access, no new charges on my credit cards, etc. I can't find any malicious usage.
- FYI phone had 100% charge when I left, and had great service at the park, both phone and data.
Here are the scenarios I'm working on in my mind. Problem is, I can't bring myself to believe any of them:
A. How I lost it
1. I left the phone in the chair cupholder, folded the chair, and while walking / swinging the chair, it fell out. I tested this scenario with another phone, and it's ain't gonna happen. The phone's in the way when folding the chair.
2. I left the phone sitting on the seat when folding the chair up, then it fell out while walking. Same problem ... first, it's obvious, and second, I tried it at home, the phone sits in the folded chair nice and secure.
3. I set the phone on the roof of the car when getting in. Nuh-uh. I don't put things on the car. Would have gone in my pocket first.
B. Where it ended up
1. Some 9 year old soccer kid in Cary found or stole my phone and pocketed it. Seems likely, but, seriously, what's the first thing a bad kid would do with a toy? Look for games. Most kids old enough to be devious would be smart enough to go to Play store and d/l some new stuff, but there is no new access. This would explain why it rings and rings, a kid would have turned the volume off so mom and dad don't hear it, but maybe not smart enough to realize how to yank the sim.
2. An adult found it, then went into the school and dropped it off with a janitor or staff and it's sitting on someone's desk. I really hope this is the case. But I find it hard to imagine that when passing through the hands of TWO adults, that no one would have hit the power button and seen the lockscreen message that says "EMERGENCY CONTACT 919-XXX-XXXX" (my wife's phone). Hard to believe.
3. I did put it on the roof and went screaming around some corners on the way to the pumpkin patch. Nope, I don't put stuff on the car, and during the 4 hours I spent looking for it, I also went ditch digging around the 2 corners and walked the entire way with a flashlight looking
4. An adult found it and pocketed it. If so, an adult would have been smart enough to yank the sim and wipe the phone. But google's still in contact with the phone, and it appears to ring. So it obviously is just sitting somewhere.
So, I don't really believe any of the scenarios. I hope at least for closure that I get to find out what the hell happened. Not ever knowing will absolutely be torture for me... Whew. I doubt anyone is still reading this. I think I feel better, or I will after another beer.
Any ideas? How to hack into my own phone and figure out it's location? If all is well I hope to have another 12-24 hrs of battery life, and I'm closely monitoring accounts to detect malicious use, but I don't want to nuke my accounts while there is still the slim chance of detection using access.
Not entirely familiar with your situation, but there are some apps that allow you to detect the location of a phone after registering it. By any chance, did you manage to install Lookout Mobile Security or Avast on your phone? These apps allow you to detect a phone's location.
Try plan b. Go to play store and read manual how to use it
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The OP says he has tried Plan B
How about logging into your google account then clicking on this link https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0 This is where google thinks your phone is.
Crisis over! FOUND MY PHONE!
I didn't think about "Where is my phone #5": Kid finds phone on the ground, then runs half way across the park to show his parents, who tell him to leave it on a park bench. Now, I thought I looked at every bench and picnic table in the park in the dark last night, but must have missed that one. And how I never managed to hear it ring while wandering around, I'll never know. Got a call this morning from a nice lady who was out there blowing leaves this morning. Whew!
Re: locating software. DO IT! Learn from my narrowly avoided situation! Especially if you are on an MVNO with no customer service. I now have Plan B, Missing Droid Locator, Android Lost Free, and Where's my Droid installed on the phone. Note that none of them worked when installed after-the-fact. I'm going to play around with them and others over the next few days and I will try to come back here to post my recommendations.
Re: google maps. I did try some version of maps/latitude/history, but not that link. Looks interesting and will keep that around in the future.
Thanks everyone for listening and posting advice... Back to normal life for me
i had the same situation, sorta. someone stole my phone from my fraking house while i was on deployment. they didnt wipe the phone, but swapped sims.
this is what i did. phone was logged into my account, on a different sim.
installed this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlost
installed this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlost.jumpstart
then i installed any app. does not matter which one, as jumpstart monitors this and will fireup android lost.
Android lost will then report in to the AL server, and allow you to control it via the site.
If you are running jellybean, i do recall him saying there are some issues with android lost jumpstart working right, so that could have been your issue. Anyhow, it worked for me. i pulled GPS coordinates, did a password recovery vis sms, pulled SMS and got a name on the account. got the police involved and got my phone back. ****ing kids.
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Crisis over! FOUND MY PHONE!
I didn't think about "Where is my phone #5": Kid finds phone on the ground, then runs half way across the park to show his parents, who tell him to leave it on a park bench. Now, I thought I looked at every bench and picnic table in the park in the dark last night, but must have missed that one. And how I never managed to hear it ring while wandering around, I'll never know. Got a call this morning from a nice lady who was out there blowing leaves this morning. Whew!
Re: locating software. DO IT! Learn from my narrowly avoided situation! Especially if you are on an MVNO with no customer service. I now have Plan B, Missing Droid Locator, Android Lost Free, and Where's my Droid installed on the phone. Note that none of them worked when installed after-the-fact. I'm going to play around with them and others over the next few days and I will try to come back here to post my recommendations.
Re: google maps. I did try some version of maps/latitude/history, but not that link. Looks interesting and will keep that around in the future.
Thanks everyone for listening and posting advice... Back to normal life for me
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Use Avast! - it's free, and you remote lock, sound alarms, and even wipe via web browser or texting from another phone using the PIN you setup. Also comes with malware and virus scanners (which I disable due to extra load on the system/battery). You can also set it to lock the device if the SIM is switched. Fortunately I haven't had to use it real world yet.
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