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so i bought a second hand slide for my wife maybe a month ago. it was supposedly brand new (i believe it was). i've rooted it and have cyan's latest running on it. today, however, several of the buttons quit working. home is okay and so is the genius button. but the menu, back, and touchpad have all stopped responding. is this something that's occuring with this phone with frequency? i haven't called tmobile yet as i'm currently restoring her app's from a fresh wipe but i'd thought i'd see if this has happened to anyone else.

damngood98 said:
so i bought a second hand slide for my wife maybe a month ago. it was supposedly brand new (i believe it was). i've rooted it and have cyan's latest running on it. today, however, several of the buttons quit working. home is okay and so is the genius button. but the menu, back, and touchpad have all stopped responding. is this something that's occuring with this phone with frequency? i haven't called tmobile yet as i'm currently restoring her app's from a fresh wipe but i'd thought i'd see if this has happened to anyone else.
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No, never happened to me, did you say you already tried doing a full wipe/reflash? If that didn't work try flashing a different ROM like cr_mod or 3rd sense and see if the buttons work in those. Could be a corrupted ROM, redownload and reflash it. If you haven't already, update to 6.1.1.

next day the touch screen stopped working next. can't even answer a phone call. phone is fried. that was after upgrading. beginning to doubt htc as a phone maker. went through several g1's. my nexus has screen issues, now this. not a fan of motorola's phones. and samsung sucks too. well, she's due for an upgrade, just at a loss as to what she's going to get now. thanks for trying to offer help though

damngood98 said:
next day the touch screen stopped working next. can't even answer a phone call. phone is fried. that was after upgrading. beginning to doubt htc as a phone maker. went through several g1's. my nexus has screen issues, now this. not a fan of motorola's phones. and samsung sucks too. well, she's due for an upgrade, just at a loss as to what she's going to get now. thanks for trying to offer help though
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What kind of torcher you putting your phones through? Lol
Seriously though, never heard of someone going through phones the way you describe. I have yet to have even 1 issue with an HTC phone. Same with any other HTC users i know.
Might i recommened the motorola defy to you lol
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guitarist5122 said:
What kind of torcher you putting your phones through? Lol
Seriously though, never heard of someone going through phones the way you describe. I have yet to have even 1 issue with an HTC phone. Same with any other HTC users i know.
Might i recommened the motorola defy to you lol
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Haha, same here. I received a used g1 from a friend, I was its fifth owner I think, it had no issues, I ended up accidentally breaking it because I fell asleep on a recliner chair and it fell out of my pocket into the recliner mechanism and got its chin crushed. Poor thing. I took it apart and wiggled the bent connector a little bit, and it actually worked for a few more months, although fragile. Now it won't turn on anymore though, totally done. It lived a long life though.
Now I'm using the same friend's old slide, which he spilled a full glass of lemonade on. It didn't work for a week, then randomly started booting, so he gave it to me since he had already gotten a vibrant. The only thing that doesn't work on it is the camera, which I couldn't care less about.
HTC phones have been great for me, you must be treating your phones like they are $40 dumbphones made by nokia.

lol! no, that would be my son who treats his g1 like a hacky sack. it's my wife who's having all the bad luck. i may try taking it apart and seeing what i can do but believe me she pretty much uses her phone as a phone and to facebook. otherwise it sits in her purse. although she has gotten into angry birds lately and i do see her getting frustrated more & more.....

You bought a second hand phone that is now failing and you're blaming the manufacturer? It sounds like to me the previous owner may not have foreclosed some previous "incident" happening to the phone.

damngood98 said:
next day the touch screen stopped working next. can't even answer a phone call. phone is fried. that was after upgrading. beginning to doubt htc as a phone maker. went through several g1's. my nexus has screen issues, now this. not a fan of motorola's phones. and samsung sucks too. well, she's due for an upgrade, just at a loss as to what she's going to get now. thanks for trying to offer help though
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I realize I'm arriving a little late to this conversation but Im wondering if you ever figured anything out with this? My phone did the exact same thing this last weekend and after completely tearing it apart and cleaning all the connections I could, with not fix, I finally gave up and bought a G2. If you do have any ideas it would be awesome!

Same thing happened to me, I have a thread in the general section, I'm on my fifth slide
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One of the Cyanogen Mod nightlies was very unresponsive on touch and a few other things.
You can try a more stable cyanogen rom, and see if that makes a difference.

Its not that. The slide isnt just unresponsive, its not working at all. I wiped it all to start over and try a stable but now I cant get past the start up screen where you have to tap the android haha. I bought a G2 so if I fix it, it would just be to sell or as a backup. Anyone know anyone that wants to buy it?

Lost DINC, need HELP!

Ok, so I lost my phone 2 days ago. No idea where. It is still on (not for long, battery is going to die soon)
No one hasd made any calls/texts, so I think it may be literally lost somewhere.
is it possible to somehow track it online using the built in GPS function
ANY IDEAS? Please im DESPERATE!

The battery is probably dead now. So you can't track by GPS. I hope you had insurance because you may be out of luck. Sorry.
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On your new phone install lookout mobile security, you can track it from their website
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It's not dead I just called it and it rings still, and I am more concerned with finding this one than what to install on my new one, lol.
Does insurance cover lost phones?

Just spent the $89 and Asurion is overnighting me a replacement, not bad!

DroidHam said:
It's not dead I just called it and it rings still, and I am more concerned with finding this one than what to install on my new one, lol.
Does insurance cover lost phones?
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Just because your hear a ringing sound on your speaker when you call doesn't necessarily mean the phone is actually ringing. Sorry.
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If a phone is off it goes straight to voicemail.

DroidHam said:
If a phone is off it goes straight to voicemail.
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the phone can still ring when off. try it

ACD168 said:
the phone can still ring when off. try it
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my phone doesn't ring while off
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Popping, clicking noise on phone calls

I was wondering if anyone else has this issue:
I notice that my phone sometimes makes loud pop noises when phone connects during phone calls.
It does not happen when dialing sprint voicemail , *2 or google voice mail .
It appears to happen when dialing certain landline numbers and certain verizon cell phone numbers.
I have read that some people who have the original epic 4g had experienced clicking and popping noises on phone calls.
However, I have not read anything of anyone who has the epic 4g touch having these issues.
Your input is Greatly Appreciated.
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Fyi ...here is a link to this issue on the original epic 4g ..
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/sprint-epic-4g/140584-epic-4g-weird-popping-noise.html
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I have this problem too.
I mostly dial Verizon cellphones and I do believe that is when I have this problem most often.
I'll start to take more notice of the types of calls I am placing when this happens to me.
Not sure if its a phone problem, or a Sprint problem?
Could it be the default voice encoder? Default is EVRC. I just changed mine to 13K and I'll see if it makes a difference in the next few days. Then I'll try 4GV as well. (unless someone wants to let me know this is a waste of time testing?)
EDIT: the popping noise we had on the Epic 4G was the actual speaker. It physically made popping/clicking noises. I had that as well. But here, I am having popping/line cracking in the audio of the telephone while dialing/call connecting. Which problem are you having with Epic Touch?

Im hearing a popping , clicking noise coming from earpiece speaker upon connecting on some phone calls that I initiate . It doesn't happen on all phone calls though. It has happened when calling Verizon Wireless phones and some Landline phone numbers.
It has been happening in different locations ( about a 60 mile radius) throughout Chicago ,Illinois metropolitan area. I guess I can rule out a bad tower being the cause.
My phone is stock and not rooted.
Thank You very much for your input. I really appreciate it.
I am glad someone else has experienced this issue. I hope that the cause can be pinpointed and that a fix can be made for it.
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Having this issue right now as I talk to my fiance on her VZN cell phone. Never really noticed it till this time.

Thank you very much for your input!
That now makes 3 of us having this issue. I wonder if it is only happening to a few of us or if it is more of a widespread issue.
I wish we could identify the cause of the popping noise. I never had a phone that did that. It is strange.
I would really like to fix this if at all possible.
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Had the same exact issue with my Epic touch that i purchased on launch day, took it over to sprint and the representative also heard it. he did a reset apparently thinking it would fix it. the first couple of calls after the reset did make the popping noise go away so i left the store satisfied. getting into the car i made a call and the noise was back. went back in talk to the sales person again and he exchanged the phone for a new one (this is a week after having the phone). with the new one i havent ran into any noise what so ever so im guessing it was just a defect in that unit. just telling my experience.

Mu5ic92 said:
Had the same exact issue with my Epic touch that i purchased on launch day, took it over to sprint and the representative also heard it. he did a reset apparently thinking it would fix it. the first couple of calls after the reset did make the popping noise go away so i left the store satisfied. getting into the car i made a call and the noise was back. went back in talk to the sales person again and he exchanged the phone for a new one (this is a week after having the phone). with the new one i havent ran into any noise what so ever so im guessing it was just a defect in that unit. just telling my experience.
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I too bought mine on launch day.
I hope mine isn't a defective unit.
I will have the phone checked out at Service Center to see if it is defective or not.

OK, I have not been having these problems for the past 2 days.
First, I did a "Data Reset": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289475
Second: Changed my default Encoder to "13K" under the Advanced menu for "##3282#"
SO, my signal, data speeds, all seem better. I haven't noticed a difference in audio call quality, but I havent noticed any problems. Disclaimer: I do not know if it actually fixed anything. I will try going back to the system default of "EVRC" encoder to see if my problems reappear.
Does anyone know if "Data Reset" can actually fix these types of problems?

OK So I got a call from the finace today while I was at school. She was on her last break at work and I was just out of class for the day (and we just got off the phone she went out for dinner with family) and this problem did not come up on either of the 2 calls (there were more in between that also did not have them)
While she is on VZN I'm kinda wondering so far today not once have I heard the issue and it's loud enough and weird enough that I would notice it on any call but as I said not once today has it happened. BTW this is a none rooted device and I've done NO tweaks at all to it everything is flat out stock on this phone right now. so *shrug*

Thanks for all your help Chip! , Mu5ic92 and Cidica !! I Appreciate it!
I have noticed that the popping noise is intermittent. It has only happened 1 time out of 5 phone calls I made throughout the day.
I am going to try the data reset and also changing to the 13k voice to see if it helps.
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Intermittent signal

Alright, I've had my phone for just over a year and this problem has been getting worse and worse... (I've been rooted and flashed different roms throughout the time - and no difference)
Most of the time I get great reception with the phone. However there are a few areas (aka my house) that it's a lower signal and it creates this problem.
People on the other end can hear me (for the most part), but I get extreme clipping (think the drivethrough speaker, but worse!)
I've tried different modems and prls, and nothing really changes. I've called up sprint and they have no suggestions. Once they did a provisioning, and that helped for a week or so.
Today I tried something new. Before I made a call, I toggled Airplane mode off/on. When I made the call right after, it was fine. But try doing that when your getting an incoming call!
My wife also has an epic (rooted and with a few different roms), but she does not have this problem. I really don't want to return it to Best Buy, because I'm afraid that I'll get a refurb.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Seems like you have a bad radio someone had a similar problem not quite as bad but go to sprint and ask if they'll test the radio on the cell and it should fail and they'll fix it for you.
Sent From My Cyan Samurai

Also I have terrible signal in my house but clear as day voice so your radio may be limited with low signal and bad.
Sent From My Cyan Samurai

Biggoron said:
Also I have terrible signal in my house but clear as day voice so your radio may be limited with low signal and bad.
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bigg is right. plus, a refurbished phone is not always bad. a refurbished phone actually goes through more quality tests than new ones, especially to make sure the bugs are worked out.

Best Buy Black Tie Insurance gives you new phones. I have gotten 2 on my account so far.

kennyglass123 said:
Best Buy Black Tie Insurance gives you new phones. I have gotten 2 on my account so far.
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Well I guess I'm glad I have the insurance after all. How recent was your latest replacement?
Also, how was the process? I mean, for something that's obviously not physical damage like a cracked screen or something, do they just give u a new phone right then and there? Or do you have to wait for them to send it away for service/testing...?
I guess you did a factory reset beforehand - right?

altimuh said:
Well I guess I'm glad I have the insurance after all. How recent was your latest replacement?
Also, how was the process? I mean, for something that's obviously not physical damage like a cracked screen or something, do they just give u a new phone right then and there? Or do you have to wait for them to send it away for service/testing...?
I guess you did a factory reset beforehand - right?
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It was my 2nd phone on the account, my GFs and each time I go to Best Buy they don't even question it. Even if PRL won't update. They have Rapid Exchange, just did one 4 weeks ago. They take the bad phone and either loan you a Blackberry or bring in a phone you might still have, then 2 days later the new phone arrives and they swap it back.

4th nexus same issue

As of now I'm on my 4th Gnexus and once again I'm being plagued with the same issue I have since my first one back on launch day. Loss of voice during a call, high pitch noises, (think scratching on a chalk board) loss of sound on all key press as well as numbers when dialing.
I have called about this issue. First time around Verizon said take it back get a new one. So I did that and so on happened 2 more times same issue same results. Now on my 4th one its starting again. So verizon said it was Samsung and Samsung said Verizon.
So I was hoping for some input on what direction I should go now.
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After so many replacements, I can only imagine that this is happening because of your location?
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My wife has the same phone and she has not had any of these issues. On the other had she doesn't use her phone as much as I do! I'm pretty much on mine all day and she maybe looks at it once a day.
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srh21 said:
My wife has the same phone and she has not had any of these issues. On the other had she doesn't use her phone as much as I do! I'm pretty much on mine all day and she maybe looks at it once a day.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.

srh21 said:
As of now I'm on my 4th Gnexus and once again I'm being plagued with the same issue I have since my first one back on launch day. Loss of voice during a call, high pitch noises, (think scratching on a chalk board) loss of sound on all key press as well as numbers when dialing.
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when you said high pitch noises, do you mean that during a call you can hear a buzzing sort of noise when people speak? I get that on my nexus too, it's slightly irritating but I'll live with it, better than spending time to unroot it, go back to stock and then waste a whole week in the service centre.

akira02rex said:
This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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It's obviously not user error.. If you read a bit you'd see there is a very lengthy thread about this very issue.. It's called microphone cutting out during call or something like that.. You can replace your phone as much as you want, it's not going to change it. the cause is unknown but I believe they have at least determined it not to be hardware..
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Powell730 said:
It's obviously not user error.. If you read a bit you'd see there is a very lengthy thread about this very issue.. It's called microphone cutting out during call or something like that.. You can replace your phone as much as you want, it's not going to change it. the cause is unknown but I believe they have at least determined it not to be hardware..
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That is correct. Audio outbound gets garbled and then lost completely. This is the worst bug of this phone. I can't count how many phone calls where I'd have to hang up and redial because the other person couldn't hear me anymore.
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I'd blame the carrier, as i'm on Orange UK, and I use T-Mobile UK as well, and call quality both ends, is excellent

Your wife may not have the issue but are y'all talking on the same tower when the issue arises? I'm on Verizon as well and never had this problem. That said, I don't talk a lot, maybe 400 minutes a month - mostly to my boss that has an iPhone so half the time I can't hear crap anyway due to that fact.
I will say, as a recent T-Mobile transplant that has used Verizon off and on for several years with work phones, Verizon doesn't seem to have the same call quality in general terms. Maybe it's just my ear, but even back in the day I owned some Motorola claim shells that sounded pretty muddy.
Have you tried to replicate the problem on a completely stock phone with no 3rd party apps? I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere.

akira02rex said:
This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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Not sure how it could be user error as well. This isn't my first phone.

srh21 said:
Not sure how it could be user error as well. This isn't my first phone.
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Your wife may not have the issue but are y'all talking on the same tower when the issue arises? I'm on Verizon as well and never had this problem. That said, I don't talk a lot, maybe 400 minutes a month - mostly to my boss that has an iPhone so half the time I can't hear crap anyway due to that fact.
I will say, as a recent T-Mobile transplant that has used Verizon off and on for several years with work phones, Verizon doesn't seem to have the same call quality in general terms. Maybe it's just my ear, but even back in the day I owned some Motorola claim shells that sounded pretty muddy.
Have you tried to replicate the problem on a completely stock phone with no 3rd party apps? I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere.
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I pretty much tried everything. New sim cards, using it with nothing installed (stock) I'm super bummed I been waiting on a nexus device to hit Verizon for a while now. I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to put up with this.

What about rolling back onto 3G? Are you on the fringe of LTE connectivity at all?
I know a lot of people talk about call quality. Frankly, I haven't experienced any issues and no one has told me that it sounds like crap (and believe me, I have friends that would mention it, we're a HARSH bunch). I don't doubt they exist, and you certainly don't sound like 3/4ths of XDA that are overly dramatic whiners. Out of curiosity, roughly how many minutes a month do you talk? Any chance that it's just an issue where, well you know, the more you do something the more opportunity to experience something that goes wrong? I used to talk a ton for work, like 3000+ minutes a month. I had a lot more dropped calls then than now, know what I mean?
You know what I'd do, which Verizon would HATE but, hey, you are the customer. I'd take you and your wife's phone into Verizon, and have them flip the numbers around. Keep EVERYTHING else about the phones the same. Her apps stay, your apps stay, just swap the numbers around and try her phone with your regular use for maybe 3 or 4 days. If you can replicate the problem while she doesn't experience the issue at all on your phone, then you can probably narrow it down to either the tower your on, or maybe the phone really is just buggy after you've been on it for a while.
Every so often I'll have a long conversation and a call gets dropped, but I've never not been able to hear someone or them not be able to hear me. Like, they're the typical issues that you could assign to either being a tower pass off problem or the nature of LTE long before the phone (on either my end or the other person's end). But, like I said, that's a rare occurrence for me.

What version of ICS are you running? I had this same problem, specifically and most frequently the one where the audio cuts out of a call, sometimes it'd do it and force me to re-call my girlfriend as many as 3 or 4 times in an hour.
What fixed it was flashing ICS 4.0.4 released from Google themselves (if I waited for Verizon to do it I'd probably be single by now). This fixed it for me immediately right out of the gate. I've had the other issues you spoke of every so often but the audio cut out was constant. This fixed everything. Been running for a while without problems (month or so maybe?).

Eh...you didn't flash it straight from Google. At best, you flashed it straight from the Verizon/Google ota server the test ota is on

I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.

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I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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From here?
http://android.clients.google.com/p....signed-mysid-IMM30B-from-ICL53F.659e0a8f.zip

try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised

IINexusII said:
try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised
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What network do you suppose he would try?

Sounds like the phone is doing you a favor. If I had to talk to my girlfriend for an hour a day I'd want my phone to kill itself.

lblacklol said:
I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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Did not fix the microphone going out issue for me :-( I just flashed the 4.0.4 leak on Tuesday hoping it would alleviate this problem, but I had the mic go out about 15 mins into a call last night. Same story as with stock, had to hang up and re-dial to continue the conversation.