No internet yet in the new house I moved into, so I'm trying to use wired tether (wireless has always had that stupid No Internet Access with the caution triangle symbol).
Less than a week ago I tried using Easy Tether and it seemed to work fine, tried it again a day or two later and it took a little bit longer but my computer still recognized it. Next day my connection suddenly becomes extremely faulty, literally connecting and dropping about every 5-10 seconds.
Yesterday I tried connecting it and it took about 10 minutes until my computer recognized me Evo. Today I have left it in for about a half hour and received nothing, the hell is going on? I tried different USB ports, all pretty much resulting in the same thing. My cables fine because my little LED light on my phone lights up and charges, but the computer never recognizes nor does it even make the notification noise
I tried checking Device Manager just today and never before so I don't really know what my phone is supposed to show up as. Regardless I don't think it's there.
Any ideas?
Update: yesterday my evo was sort of recognized after being connected to my computer for nearly 45 minutes, my phone brought up the option of choosing between charge, disk mount, tethering, etc, but my computer gave an error message about device drivers not being installed, i tried to search device manager to uninstall the drivers but it wasnt listed, seems like a paradox..
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Is it charging ok? Kinda sounds like your USB port may be borked.
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Yea, charging fine, tried on my friends laptop and it wasnt recognized as well
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I get that from time to time aswell.. and I've also noticed everytime I take my phone out of sleep mode while its charging via computer, it asks me if I want to Charge/Sync/Disk Drive/USB Tethering.. is that normal?
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Spent a little time trying to figure this out but it's so random it's hard to tell what is exactly happening.
Basically when plugging in my evo everything acts normal, I get the prompt, power light comes on, and sd card folder auto runs. I can connect and move files as I wish.
The issue is it disconnects at random times, some times during file transfers, other times it's just charging. Screen on, Screen off, etc etc, it doesn't seem to matter. The odd thing is it actually stops charging also. Doesn't matter what setting i have for the evo to connect, and I have defualted it to charge only and it does the same thing.
I've checked all my evo settings, deleted driver, let evo reconnect. I've tried it on the laptop I have and it seems to work just fine, no disconnects so far.
It has to be the pc.(Windows 7). But where to start?
Anybody have any ideas?
I think this might be a problem with your micro usb cable/port. I've gone through a few cables, all of which got their pins flattened so it couldn't hold a steady connection. I ended up melting the grooves together so the pins couldn't be flattened
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you are correct sir, thanks.
I was using the front usbs, i'm assuming either the wire connecting them was not enough to handle the charge current or their is something faulty with them. I' would go with the first because everything else works on those ports besides the evo.
I used the back ports and everything is dandy.
Whenever I plug my phone into my computer now all it does it show the little charging light in the top left corner of the EVO, and not the notification asking to turn on usb storage in the pull down menu, or give any errors, and nothing pops up on the computer.
Recently, I started to have usb problems where the notification on the phone was flashing on and off and the usb connected sound on the computer kept going off (like the phone was connecting and disconnecting to the usb port on the computer every second), but I thought this was a cable problem and since I didn't need usb at that moment, I brushed it off.
I'm pretty sure my phone still charges fine because the light goes on. No, It isn't a problem with the cables or the computers because i've tried multiple cables and computers. I don't understand what the problem is because my charging still works fine and I don't get error messages, it's just that usb won't connect at all anymore
Try this > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
If that doesn't work, you may have a hardware defect, and it'd be best to unroot and take it to sprint.
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Try this > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
If that doesn't work, you may have a hardware defect, and it'd be best to unroot and take it to sprint.
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Tried this and it didn't work, going to sprint soon
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic Touch for Virgin Mobile I'm selling to a friend of mine. It's been working great for me for about the last year on VM. It was rooted and running Liquid Smooth and then CM 10.1 (both using CWM). When I called VM to transfer the phone to my friends account we ran into a road block because CM doesn't respond to the keypad phone codes VM uses to update the phone, or have the VM hands free activation apps.
I figured I might as well flash back to stock ROM anyway. I downloaded the ROM from here.
Odin got about 75% of the way through the flash and then failed. The phone won't turn off but instead keeps up a persistent splash screen asking me to connect the phone to Kies to do a system recovery (Which I did try and Kies can't seem to complete the connection. It sees the phone but can't connect to it, even after ensuring all drivers are up to date. But then I've never had much success with Kies).
I can still get into Odin on my phone so I tried downloading the .exe ROM instead of the md5 this time, but by the time the ROM downloaded Odin tells me the battery is too low to flash anything (which I believe). Problem is I can turn the phone off to let it charge properly (it pops up with the Kies message whenever I plug the phone in).
I've left the phone plugged into the wall hoping that maybe it is in fact charging, but the indicator light only flashes for a second when I plug it in. I'm working a double shift today so I left the phone at home hoping it will charge so that I can try flashing again, but does anybody have any experience with this sort of problem, or know if the phone will in fact charge?
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic Touch for Virgin Mobile I'm selling to a friend of mine. It's been working great for me for about the last year on VM. It was rooted and running Liquid Smooth and then CM 10.1 (both using CWM). When I called VM to transfer the phone to my friends account we ran into a road block because CM doesn't respond to the keypad phone codes VM uses to update the phone, or have the VM hands free activation apps.
I figured I might as well flash back to stock ROM anyway. I downloaded the ROM from here.
Odin got about 75% of the way through the flash and then failed. The phone won't turn off but instead keeps up a persistent splash screen asking me to connect the phone to Kies to do a system recovery (Which I did try and Kies can't seem to complete the connection. It sees the phone but can't connect to it, even after ensuring all drivers are up to date. But then I've never had much success with Kies).
I can still get into Odin on my phone so I tried downloading the .exe ROM instead of the md5 this time, but by the time the ROM downloaded Odin tells me the battery is too low to flash anything (which I believe). Problem is I can turn the phone off to let it charge properly (it pops up with the Kies message whenever I plug the phone in).
I've left the phone plugged into the wall hoping that maybe it is in fact charging, but the indicator light only flashes for a second when I plug it in. I'm working a double shift today so I left the phone at home hoping it will charge so that I can try flashing again, but does anybody have any experience with this sort of problem, or know if the phone will in fact charge?
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The easy options are to borrow a battery from a friend with a s2 phone, or get a charger off ebay, or buy a new battery from the store which will probably come with a partial charge.
Sounds like your usb port may have died. That happens sometimes.
I was thinking of borrowing a battery. I have a friend with the same phone, so that's possible.
If the USB charger failed, however, would the blue charging light still flicker on when first plugged in? Because that's what it does. It doesn't charge, but it does seem to acknowledge that it's been plugged in. Also, when plugged into the computer it will still flash the plug me into Kies screen, but now my computer doesn't seem to even recognize that anything is plugged in.
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I was thinking of borrowing a battery. I have a friend with the same phone, so that's possible.
If the USB charger failed, however, would the blue charging light still flicker on when first plugged in? Because that's what it does. It doesn't charge, but it does seem to acknowledge that it's been plugged in. Also, when plugged into the computer it will still flash the plug me into Kies screen, but now my computer doesn't seem to even recognize that anything is plugged in.
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It is possible. I had a phone that the data burnt out on, but would still charge. Just one pin needs to be bad to cause some issues, but not break everything.
Could just be the battery is totally empty too. Getting a known good battery with a charge is the first step to troubleshoot this.
I have encountered this problem a time or two before when testing some of my many attempted multiwindow mods, the device will in fact charge, but it is going to take forever. After a double shift I would imagine you'd have enough charge to flash properly, so try it again afterwards. Also have you attempted to return to recovery? If Odin only partially completed, your custom recovery may still be there and you might be able to use the power off option from recovery, while the device is plugged in, and possibly tricking it into not powering on to the error screen.
WARNING! Everything in blue is simply conjecture and has not been proven to work, it is simply a working theory. If it does not work don't say I didn't warn you.
So my phone is no longer being recognized as a USB device by my computer. Whenever I plug my phone in, I don't see the USB storage option on the top of my phone, nor will my computer even acknowledge that it's been plugged in. This issue has never happened to me before, and it only started acting up just last night. It isn't an issue with the computer OR the cable; I've tried with many different PCs and cables, both third party and official, and I'm getting the same problem. I don't think it's an issue with a broken microusb port, either, since it still charges. Interestingly enough,the computer WILL notice that something has been inserted when I plug it in... if the phone is off. However, the phone only shows up as an unknown device. Also, when I check the battery status, it almost always says that I'm charging via AC even though I'm using USB.
After exploring the forum, I've discovered and tried using *#7284#, but the code refuses to work. (I also tried other codes just to see HOW they work, and none of them will register on my phone.)
I'm currently running CM 7.1, and my phone is rooted. I haven't changed the ROM ever since I started using it, which was about a good year or so ago, and I seldom do any sort of flashing, so I highly doubt it's related to that.
Any suggestions? I thought it might be a dirty microusb port, since I've also been getting the random Car Mode popups as of late, but after cleaning it out, nothing seems to have changed.
I am running the latest Android 13 QPR beta release. Ever since I updated, I've been having a connection issue in every app. Every 2 minutes or so, my phone "loses connection", regardless of Wi-Fi or data, regardless of signal strength, any app will struggle to connect for a few seconds. My phone doesn't actually lose connection, it's weird. Most apps will just reconnect and go on about it's business after about 10-15 seconds of connection issue, but some refuse to "reconnect", so I have to close the app and reopen. After weeks of this, I decided to reformat my phone and go back to the stable android 13 release, by opting out of the beta and receiving the OTA to go back to stable. I did this with the intention of installing a custom ROM.
However, the OTA took an abnormally long 2 hours to complete. Upon completion of the update, my phone gave the the installation successful message with a restart. Upon restarting, I was greeted with the bootloader and the message "No operating system installing. Cannot boot". After a few minutes of restarting and fumbling around to no avail, eventually it booted back into my beta build. I breathed a sigh of relief. This was, however, not the end.
At this point, I thought "that was frightening. Best off just to try to install the factory image through ADB". So I go on to plug in my USB cable, and I see the notification that USB was connected. I try to click the notification to switch to file transfer mode, and then it disappears, and Windows loses connection to my phone. I'm now no longer able to get my P6P to recognize that it is plugged into a computer, and my computer refuses to detect my phone. It does however charge off the PC connection though. I've tried updating drivers, switching cords (including the factory cable, the usb-c to a cable that I usually use with this phone with success), USB 2 ports, USB 3 ports, restarted my computer, factory reset my phone, quadruple checked USB debugging was enabled, and nothing seems to work.
I'm stuck on the beta build. Cannot do anything with ADB. Cannot do anything with recovery mode, as apply update from SD just returns an error. I'm hoping I'm just missing something simple. Are there any other suggestions or ways to get around needing a computer for anything?
Thanks for reading!
This can be closed. After hours of frustration, I tried a cord that doesn't seem like it should work. It's a "universal" cord (one with a micro-USB connection and an adapter for USB-C and lightning). Never give up, you never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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This can be closed. After hours of frustration, I tried a cord that doesn't seem like it should work. It's a "universal" cord (one with a micro-USB connection and an adapter for USB-C and lightning). Never give up, you never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I always have mtp set as default. Better to be safe than sorry
I do, as well. Connection wasn't being detected on either side. I was also getting a pop-up on my computer saying something along the lines of "the last time this device was connected, it malfunctioned. Windows cannot recognize the device." That's why I initially thought drivers, and only tried a few cords. But I got desperate and reached deeper in the bin. Thanks for the pointer, though.