I have an unrooted stock Epic 2.2.1 with many UPDATE issues, but this issue started weeks after OTA came through, (for which I have done 2 hard resets that only brought out more issues.)
I have been having an issue with the sensor making a popping sound continously when using the touch screen and the tech replaced the chip card which helped for about 3 or 4 days.
Point of fact: the video camera had gone out too and he said they were on the same card. The new card fixed the camera permenantly.
I am searching for examples of similar issues on reputable sites like XDA to show his head tech who had never heard of it and thinks he knows everything. Has anyone else had this problem? My phone is less than 2 months old. And I do not want a refurbished replacement from using my insurance!!!
So do we think this is strictly hardware since I am on my 2nd chip, or do we think this could be update related? Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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Hi all,
I recently sent my GN (Running 4.0.2 stock, yakju build) back to be repaired because my phones wifi stopped working. what happens is that the phone's wifi seems be stuck "turning on", but never actually does. No wifi icon or anything appears. wifi hotspot doesnt work either. I had my GN from about a week after it was released (I'm in australia so that was about the 22nd December), and around the 15th January is stopped working. This issue cannot be fixed with a reboot, a hard reset, flashing stock roms, toggling airplane mode or anything trivial like that, as I (and others) have tried.
Now i have searched a while on google while i have been without my phone and I'm finding this problem is surfacing for other people too. From what i have seen there seems to be a correlation between 4.0.2 and this issue. Also, it seems to happen some time into the phones life; they do not have this issue when first purchased. I am concerned that this may be a recurring issue which surfaces over time, due to a design flaw or some sort of software issue. If so, this problem will start affecting a lot more people. If anyone who reads this has the same problem, could you please post when it started occuring and what rom, build etc (and anything else which may be helpful) you are running so we can shed a little light on this issue. which many more users i am sure will experience. cheers in advance
just incase anyone actually reads this Galaxy Nexus was sent back, and it was found that the printed ciruit board (PCB) needed replacing. More forums have surfaced since i last checked up on this problem so numbers are slowly rising. Once again, post here if you get the issue, we need numbers
Hi same issue i have butni solve i am living in turkey and i use habertürk news and i saw this application make notification wifi turning om.i reset my phone i load factory firmware but nothing happen ...always say wifi turning on...you need to change your system language another still write wifi turning on on screen in eglish and a application cause to this like my haberturk app
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same problem
Hi,
i had the same problem, wifi mac info was not showing anymore on the Nexus. Reboot and factory reset didn't help. Wifi wouldn't come on anymore.
Ask for a replacement, that's the only thing you can do
Can i ask what version of android you guys had? I'm wondering if this is going to be a recurring problem with hardware due to software issues or if it is purely a design flaw (PCB burning out, etc..) Cheers!
I have the same problem which happened last Saturday and it frustrated the hell out of me, i flashed to different versions of OS....didnt help...
restored to factory firmware and didnt backup the pictures and stuff on the phone!! (FML)
and brought it in to Fido on monday to have it serviced....
talking about bad luck...sigh....
they told me the turn around time is 10-15 business days... (N)
will report back once i hear from them
Before the issue happened, did your phone have any other issues? Say heating up while charging or running the WiFi?
I received a device in for repair with this issue and the customer reported it got really hot before the issue started happening. Everything looked fine on the motherboard - the WiFi antennas were intact. Reloading the software did nothing which means it's a hardware issue..
So very strange. I wonder what's causing this.
i remember when my wifi stopped working i was running 4.0.2. I was actually on holidays in Japan at the time and i was wifi hopping quite a lot around the airport (i was walking around and the wifi would go out of range, latch on again... etc) not sure if that had anything to do with it. Hopped on the plane home and i remember i was on airplane mode using an app called colornote. the phone hung pretty hard and i had to pull the battery. rebooted and tried again and after 10 mins, phone crashed again doing the same thing. Got home and the wifi wasnt working. Not sure if any of this had anything to do with it, but maybe. Didnt notice any overheating, but then again i was around snow haha
hi mrmiklepower
just wondering if your phone has been good since you got it back from repair?
i noticed the phone would reboot itself over and over again after i flashed it back to the stock rom. I just called the third party repair shop that my carrier sent the phone to, they told me its still being fixed.
Oh i hope they will return me my phone soon.
My phone is actually still being repaired also. It's been a total of 2 months since i sent if back! they contacted me and all i know so far is that the phones PCD needed replacing. when my phone arrives i will update as soon as i can. should receive it sometime this week, but its not certain. the majority of my ownership of this phone has been me waiting for its return
Holy mother of lord...
I actually called the third party repair shop that my carrier uses to check on the status of the repair. And they told me its actually In quality control which means the problem was fixed and they're just testing it before they send it back to the store where I brought the phone too. Hoping they'll send it in on Monday so I can either pick it up on the day of or the next day.....keeping my fingers crossed.
Will keep you posted on the status of it too.
Sigh
Ok I got my phone back today.
on the reference sheet I got from the repair shop
it states REPLACED PBA, BGA Failure
I looked it up online and PBA means Printed Board Assembly
which probably means the motherboard was defective and had to be replaced.
and now the phone is working fine. So i guess when this phone was made, there were some flaws with the motherboard on it, thus causing this problem.
Anyways, I hope this information helps with others who experience the same problem
Thanks for letting us know! O got mine back today with the same thing. So looks like there is no way of fixing besides sending it back. Good luck to anyone else who gets this problem
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So it seems there's no fix for this?
I've been doing some research and it doesn't seem anyone can fix this.. I tried reflashing, wiping every possible thing, etc.. even flashing the stock software via odin. Still no luck.. It seems that we are indeed stuck with sending it back in for a supposedly defective part which seriously blows.
My other question is.. you guys who already received your phones back, did anyone end up with the problem again?
PLEASE if anyone knows how to fix this.. chime in!!!
I had an issue similar to that with my transformer and to fix it I just flash a new kernel im not sure itwill fix the problem for you but it's worth a try
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Since getting my phone back the problem has not occurred again. I don't think there is anything that can be done as a component needed to be changed apparently. Good luck :/
Zeon45 said:
I had an issue similar to that with my transformer and to fix it I just flash a new kernel im not sure itwill fix the problem for you but it's worth a try
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Thanks, when returning to stock it flashes a new kernel. Also tried it again for the hell of it with faux's kernel, still no luck .
This sucks! This very same thing happened to me yesterday! I Odined back to stock.. no luck! Now after finding this thread, it looks like a hardware issue! That blows! I'll have to give Sprint a call tomorrow!
Hmm sucks to hear it's still cropping up around the place, I heard someone say this issue entered quality control. But anyway, if it helps I've had my phone back for about a month and a bit and its still going strong. hopefully it doesn't happen again though. good luck, hopefully it won't take too long for your phone to come back!
Hi,
I'm with Telus in Canada and had the exact same problem and had my GN repaired. It took only 2 weeks and I just got my unit back. I had already read a lot online about this issue so I asked the Telus rep to tell me what the issue was. She told me that the report states that the board was replaced. This is definitely a hardware problem. I'm hoping that the new board doesn't have this problem and my phone won't need to be repaired again,
I run 4.0.1 on my phone. Telus hasn't released an update yet. I was going to update mine by switching to yakju, but that's when I noticed that the wifi is not working and I thought it's not a good idea to change the stock ROM.
Just recently discovered that power button very sensitive barely touch it and is constantly rebooting. Any sprint techs around. Is this common issue. I do have tep will they replace phone.
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Is it still clicking, or do you think there may be some crud stuck in the button?
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Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
Still clicking. I did find app in playstore works good with prox sensor and don't have to use the power button. I did try a thing tool to try and clean it out no gunk. But app will work for the time being until I can afford to get repaired
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went to sprint did theyre tests did find any major issues but still having problem with power button. ordered me new battery if that dosent work will have to replace with a referb
This seems to be an issue with these devices. I have one that just started after switching to FF11. I don't think it is rom related as I have seen people with EL29 start to have the same issue. From search it seems that this issue is something to do with a faulty power switch. Your button will physically still click but you have to fiddle with it at times for it to work at all. It causes the phone to randomly reboot as well as the phone come on immediately after removing the battery. Sprint will think it's a software issue due to the screen sometimes flickering but it's a faulty switch.
I wonder how many more of these devices will have this issue. These devices are still under the manufacturer 1 year warranty so if you go through Samsung I think they will have no problem fixing it or pay sprint for a replacement.
I believe this is hardware failure of the power button as I have switched between roms and nothing has worked.
ssconceptz said:
This seems to be an issue with these devices. I have one that just started after switching to FF11. I don't think it is rom related as I have seen people with EL29 start to have the same issue. From search it seems that this issue is something to do with a faulty power switch. Your button will physically still click but you have to fiddle with it at times for it to work at all. It causes the phone to randomly reboot as well as the phone come on immediately after removing the battery. Sprint will think it's a software issue due to the screen sometimes flickering but it's a faulty switch.
I wonder how many more of these devices will have this issue. These devices are still under the manufacturer 1 year warranty so if you go through Samsung I think they will have no problem fixing it or pay sprint for a replacement.
I believe this is hardware failure of the power button as I have switched between roms and nothing has worked.
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Welcome back awesome theme god!
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I think mine has the same problem. Sometimes it will just turn itself off.
I had the same problem a few months ago and then i jigged it and then it came back just today. Maybe i have been delaying the inevitable and just go get it serviced.
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Still clicking. I did find app in playstore works good with prox sensor and don't have to use the power button. I did try a thing tool to try and clean it out no gunk. But app will work for the time being until I can afford to get repaired
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same issue. which app did you use?
Hey Everyone, not sure where to put this, but here goes, My Inc 2 Has always worked perfectly, however since i flashed CM 7.2 3 weeks ago, i have had a dead spot.
It was spotty at first but is now ever persistent. It really sucks because on sense roms i cant use the number row on the KB in portrait mode, or some text in landscape (all roms)
Phone has never been dropped or exposed to water of any sort.
The location of this dead spot is across the whole width of the screen, is 1/2" tall and is centered at Where the word Interface is on settings menu of CM9/CM10, or about 2/5s the way up from the bottom.
I Have replaced the digitizer, and even disassembled my gf's DINC2 and used her screen assembly on my board, but still i have a dead spot, my question to you all is, is there any way software caused this, or is it a hardware issue, and if it is hardware, any ideas on a fix?
My warranty ran out long ago so im more then willing to dig in.
Thanks Beforehand to anyone who may can help.
SF
Possibly an issue with the screen itself, if different ROMs still have the problem it's probably hardware, but if you want to cover all the bases, check if it's there in recovery and try flashing an RUU.
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You wiped your phone right?
But its probably hardware.
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It is there in recovery, evn un rooted and istalled stock vzw with latest radio. Still having the problem. Must be a chip in the phone...
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Hi all,
Not sure if anyone is having the same issue I'm having. When I hit the back capacitive button once, 30% of the time it'll register 2 backs with 2 vibrations. It gets kinda annoying cause sometimes it'll get you out of an app if you it back twice. I called Samsung tech support and they told me it's a software issue and they can fix it out I pay$49.99. Their tech will remote access my phone and fix it on the spot. I just don't understand why I have to pay since my phone is still under warranty. I had this issue since my phone was brand new and stock but didn't complain cause I didn't think it would bother me but now it's getting annoying. Anyone had this same issue, and knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance!
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