I work at a major electronics store as a 2nd job and the majority of people there own EVO's so I end up rooting multiple per week. Its become so often that Ive downloaded all the tools, guides, roms, add-ons, and themes on my laptop to make life easier on me. So far every one of them has gone flawlessly, until last night.
All drivers are loaded and all cables etc work fine. I loaded a coworkers last night and for some reason ADB refuses to see his EVO. Typing "adb devices" returns an empty result and no commands work stating "no devices found". I checked his software version and its the 3.29.651.5 version that Ive rooted dozens of times before. I load my phone on my system and it shows up fine, I loaded another unrooted evo on my system and again it shows up fine. His is the only one that wont load. USB debugging is on and its set to charge only. The only difference with his phone is it was set to htc sync by default when plugged into a pc but I manually selected charge only.
Has anyone seen this before or know how to resolve it?
And before anyone asks, no I dont charge anyone anything to do this. I do it to show people what you guys here are capable of doing. 2 nights ago I rooted a sprint sales rep from my local store after he saw mine when my wife got her new phone. He called me yesterday begging me to not do anyone elses there because the whole store was going nuts over his phone wanting to know how the hell he did it and he was loving rubbing it in.
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I'm pretty sure that the USB port on my phone has gone bad, but in a strange way. When plugged in, Windows device manager shows an Unknown Device. Looking around the Internet, this or similar problems seem to have happened to quite a few people, but none of the suggested solutions have worked for me. I have tried 2 different cables on 3 different PCs, even one with a fresh install of Windows. I have tried my default ROM of CM7 RC2 and nightly 21 as well as warm 2.2. Even in recovery or fastboot, it still is not recognized. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the newest HTC sync for USB drivers. Even when I manually pick the drivers in device manager, Windows tells me the drivers are not appropriate for my device. ADB devices does not show anything because the phone is not recognized, and the phone itself does not give me any connection options when plugged in, though it will charge. This seems to have have started happening when I used some compressed air in the HDMI port to clean it out for HDMwIn. Maybe something got knocked loose in the usb port.
What do you guys think? Did I kill it/is it dead? If so, will Sprint likely help me if I revert to stock and take it in?
If so, will Sprint likely help me if I revert to stock and take it in?
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Absolutely. Unroot, flash a stock rom, then take it to a sprint repair center. Your phone has a one year warranty for things just like this
My phone used to do the same thing. Actually... I've had 3 different EVOs do it, but only on my Windows 7 laptop. It works fine for other computers. It started working randomly one day & now it's fine.
Were all three of those computers Windows 7?
Unfortunately no. Two were 7, one was a totally clean install of XP. Either way, totally stock now with s-on. Back to Sprint I go after work.
So I use Talk all of the time... on my current phone, my last phone, my tablet, and my computer. I noticed something odd a few weeks back that is still occurring.
I was signed into Talk on my phone (like I always am), and my computer (like I always am). I left my room and sent a message from my phone to a friend and noticed that a guy I hadn't talked to in ages was online. I figured I'd say something to him when I sat back down at my PC. So two minutes later when I got back into my room, my PC showed that he was offline. My phone however still said that he was online.
He has shown as being online and active (green) on my phone 24/7 ever since, though he does not show as online on my home PC, work PC, or tablet.
I've cleared the data in Talk and the problem persists. I've even full wiped system, cache, and data and installed new ROMs and re-flashed GApps (I like to try pretty much every ROM), and the problem occurs in every ROM that I use.
I even restored to stock yesterday (for something different) and checked Talk. Sure as ****, he showed as online, and I know that this problem first appeared after I had moved off of a Stock ROM to the various AOSP ROMs.
I even signed out of Talk on all of my devices, then signed back in... same issue. My phone is convinced that this guy is online 24/7, while all other computers / devices properly see that he is not online.
Talk functions perfectly other than this issue. Its annoying, so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance!
Hey there XDA, ive been having an issue with my GSII T989 that i hope you can help me with.
I originally got the phone off ebay used as a replacement for my T499 that had a broken loudspeaker (couldnt hear calls or use alarm)
It came with the stock TMO version of 4.1.2. Im on the monthly 4G plan with TMO and my old phone didnt have any way to stop tethering so i was able to use it freely. I still do not feel it necessary that i should have to give TMO an extra $15 per month to use this feature, so naturally i avoided it as much as possible. in 4.1.2 the "tethering provision" app was disable-able, so i Initially planned to keep that on the phone, however the phone kept getting the update to the newest software pushed to it and i couldnt get the notification to go away. rather than upgrade to another rom that would inhibit tethering, i decided to put a custom rom on it.
After looking over a few, i decided to go with AOKP. at this point the phone was fully functional. I was able to copy all the related files to the phone over USB. I initially loaded the CWRM 4.0.4.3 and that went smoothly
of course when i attempted to load AOKP i hit a roadblock as i had not updated the Radio. i got the radio and copied the file over to the phone while it was in recovery mode, and then loaded the rom up. everything seemed to be great, until a few days later.
I tried plugging my phone into my PC to copy a photograph off of it to post online, and it wouldn't work. Initially i figured it might have been a problem with the cable i was using. Since it was used, the phone came with an off-brand cable. I tried my OE cable for my T499, still nothing.
eventually i went and enabled "USB debugging mode" in developer options, and then it worked! I thought that seemed really weird, but at least i could still get into it.
that was a few weeks ago. Now i have been thinking about trying another rom, and now i cannot get the USB media mode to work on my phone at all, on any of my PCs, whether in normal, USB Debug, or in recovery mode. I even tried converting to the touch version of CWRM to see if something was wrong with that, and it still wont connect. The PC detects the phone but it refuses to show the storage. when i Enable USB debugging mode, it connects and shows the media device, but promptly disconnects again a few seconds later for no apparent reason. It even did this with Kies running. Everything else on the phone works as it should and it has no trouble charging from a wall jack or from the usb cable.
If you guys could help that would be great
T-Mobile SGH-T989
AOKP 4.3, CWRM 4.0.4.3
32GB SDHC
I hope you've meant 6.0.4.3 CWM instead of 4.0.4.3. That's old-old-old-old-old, and 99% likely to not work with today's ROMs and etc. What I would do is try to setup ADB on your computer and use that to push/pull files from your phone for in cases like this where the phone or computer doesn't like MTP. I highly recommend using this guide to setup ADB if you're going that route.
Edit: Spelling and wording to make more relevant (Skimmed through and missed the point of the last paragraph).
Hello everyone.
I have been using my phone for almost 3 years with no issues but recently found out it has the insane chip. After that my phone started going mental with all the reboots and freezes but the worst of all is that suddenly it changed into ''modified'' even though I never rooted. And at the same time with that I got a ''no service''.
I can not call or message or use 4g, only wifi works.
I tried manually entering APN, didnt work
I tried bunch of video instructions on youtube, didnt work
I have no experience in things like rooting or flashing or roms but I went ahead and tried rooting with some automatic program called
Kingoroot. Then I used bunch of different programs like gs2 repair and busybox to see if its about my imei being blocked or something.
Still didnt work.
Weird thing is, my sim card works on other phones but other sim cards still dont work on my phone so I'm guessing its completely on the phone.
Are there any solutions to this because I dont want to buy a new phone while this one is still working? Also since I have no idea about what roms are and all, would be awesome if you told it more detailed.
Thanks in advance
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Just rolled back to no root but weird thing is, even after unrooting it still shows modified.
Some of the solutions I've heard require me to do some software update and delete cache but cant because of the modified state.
Anyway I'm really looking for some solutions
Hello everyone!
So every month when Google releases their security updates, I usually flash-all with the "-w" intact. I just like to get a fresh start once a month and don't mind setting a few things up again.
One strange thing I noticed is USB file transfer doesn't work as intended once I flash-all and get back into the OS.
When I connect my Pixel 2 XL to my iMac, the connection is constantly disconnecting and reconnecting every second.
I use an app called "Handshaker" for file transfers, and my device in this app shows up and disappears every second. Transfer speeds are also about half the speed they normally are as well.
Thinking it could be the third-party app Handshaker itself, I went into Terminal and typed "adb devices" to see if my device shows up. One second it will, another it won't. "adb push" will also fail halfway. My USB debugging notification also appears and disappears every second or so as well, so that tells me it isn't the Handshaker file transfer app.
Sometimes it will stay connected for a couple of minutes and then will disconnect. This is extremely frustrating as I'm basically praying files transfer before the device disconnects lol.
I am aware USB cables and the Pixel 2 XL don't get along very well, and I have tried a couple different ones with no luck.
The strange part is, after a day or so, (maybe once the OS "settles in"?) File transfer is back to being rock solid, and transfer speeds go back to being blazing fast again.
Apart from trying different cables, I've tried this on a couple different monthly updates (as the issue has been ongoing for some time now). I've also tried custom kernels and ROMs to see if that helps, with no luck.
The only "fix" is just to wait a day or two and try again (which always works). It's only when I try transferring files immediately after flashing-all.
Simply waiting, although, is technically a fix, it's still very strange and doesn't seem normal. I'd like to hear from anyone else who's experienced this and can explain what's going on.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation but I like to be thorough so it helps you guys help me better
Thanks in advance!
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Many people are reporting various USB issues everywhere with the Pixel 2 XL. Mine isn't even recognized by Windows anymore, and ADB now doesn't work at all...
One day it works, the next day it doesn't anymore
On mine ADB works fine but when I switch the usb settings over to file transfer my laptop doesn't recognize the phone. Drivers are installed properly, tried many usb cables, usb ports, but file transfer doesn't work. Thank God I have good internet connection, so I have a full backup of the whole device on my Google drive. ?? However I didn't need to reflash the phone just yet. I'm still new in the game with this phone. ? No mistakes have been made... Well, not yet... ?
Interesting, seems like (from what I know) I'm the only person who has USB issues right after flashing factory images and no issues otherwise.
That's the part that has me scratching my head the most, because I don't make any changes, I just wait it out and everything starts working perfectly fine again :/