Hello all!
I have a problem with the galaxy Gio of my wife. I discussed this issue on a dutch android forum but we didn't find the solution, so I want to try it on xda.
The problem:
The phone is extremely slow after unlocking (not all the time but randomly). It costs about 30(?) seconds to call someone, when typing a message the letters from the first word appear when she is typing the 4th word etc.
When I wait for a while then everything works fine. Its only the first minute (?) after unlocking.
The phone:
Everything is original (launcher, Rom etc) except the simlock, that is removed. Android version is 2.2.6, phone is 3months old.
What did I already tried:
Factory reset
Place all apps (there are just a few apps, I think 10) on internal memory
Formatted sdcard
Install fast reboot to reboot on every unlock, but that was really bad.
Kill all tasks every half hour by advanced taskkiller
Now before using the phone my wife clicks on "kill al apps" from "advanced task killer" and then it works fine.
I have a Gio myself also and works much faster then my wife's Gio. But I rooted, have no space left on internal memory , have a costum launcher and also simlock removed. So it would be more logical when my Gio is slower...
Who can help us please? Cause my wife wants to throw the phone through the window
It exists always, but not as long. All you can do is overclock wife's phone and change rom. Then it should exist shorter and rarely
I don't think overclocking will help.that much. If I overclock the cpu with 10% (that will be the maximum I think) then will it take 27seconds to call someone instead of 30seconds.... If you need the emergency number it will be far to late
I have never had that problem on my Gio, it's much faster then my wife's.
It is absolute not normal, is there something I can check?
You should try and take it to service. They might fix it for free.
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Jyrx said:
You should try and take it to service. They might fix it for free.
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It's software problem. They would just change the rom from stock to stock... In my opinion, change her rom to CM7 for expample, and overclock CPU. It might help
I don't think they will repair it for free, because I removed the simlock. And it will costs weeks before I receive the phone back
Why is it a softwareproblem when I go back to factorysettings? When everthing is original everyone should have the problem I think?
No...
Believe me, you cant fix this yourself
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But you think there would be no problem for service because of removing simlock?
Is there no other Gio known with the same problem?
They might not even see that..
Just dont tell them
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But what WHEN they see? I have to pay?
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But what WHEN they see? I have to pay?
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you shouldn't tell them you did this yourself, cuz then they will think thats the reason..
just dont tell anything about it.
if they need to repair the motherboard they wont see a sim unlock
Oké, thanks remco. I bought it online @kijkshop so I need to figure out how to give it for service. Direct to Samsung or to kijkshop.
Has anyone experience what time they need to repair? (because my wife needs her phone)
Hmm..
You can go to the "kijkshop" but they arent really specialists on this, so they might even give your bricked phone back without sending it to samsung..
But its the shop were you bought it, so...
Cant you see samsung service centers on samsung.com ?
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I'll have to look. But I think I must bring it to kijkshop because I bought it there
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I'll have to look. But I think I must bring it to kijkshop because I bought it there
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I would agree that this is a hardware issue and the phone needs to be replaced or serviced.
did you buy the phone outright, or was it with a phone plan?
if bought with a phone plan (never heard of the shop your talking about) then it should be replaced no problem...
just don't mention the sim unlock....will most likely not ever be noticed.
If indeed you have a 2.2.x. You might want to update.
Install the PC software Kies and update to the latest
Do not lose your warranty
I bought the phone without a plan.
Kijkshop is a dutch company of stores and can be translated as "lookshop". All products in the store are behind windows. You can look at the products and write down the productnumber on a card and give it to the man behind the desk. He will pick it up from behind the store. They sell almost everything you want. But there are working only 1or 2 people behind the desk (but don't ask them for product information )
The phone is updated by kies.
Now my wife don't wants to bring it back to service because she can't mis her phone (or exactly facebook on her phone )
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Hey guy today I was planning on updating my gio to ics via galaxyics.com but before I did that I tried to backup my rom via rom manager and it went all wrong. After I hit the OK button my phone turned off and would not turn on via power button or charging (even removed the battery for 15minutes) I can't get it on at all. So if my knowledge is correct is this not hard bricking and how could I fix it. I no it won't be easy but what if I flashed my phones internal memory somehow and reloaded android to it. Would that work? Other options please help. If nothing works btw how much do you think i could get for it on eBay or something (maybe as parts)?
Take it to service center, they will fix it for free as long as you say you didn't root it. Sorry man, but this is the same hard brick i got a couple of months ago
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If you own a Gio, don't install ROM Manager on it - you have a better chance bricking your phone than doing anything useful with it.
iok1 said:
Take it to service center, they will fix it for free as long as you say you didn't root it. Sorry man, but this is the same hard brick i got a couple of months ago
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What do you mean by service center I bought my phone off of kijiji so its not under warranty or anything to that effect?
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What do you mean by service center I bought my phone off of kijiji so its not under warranty or anything to that effect?
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Then, try to get into download mode. If you are not able to, you have to pay in service
Na szczęście jest TapaTalk
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Then, try to get into download mode. If you are not able to, you have to pay in service
Na szczęście jest TapaTalk
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Ya I'm gonna try to get it into download again when I get home but I wasn't having any luck prior but what would they do if I sent it away in comparison to what I can do at home.
Last time i used rom manager nothing worked, downloadmode, recovery, booting. Give up this thing needs to be repaired there is nothing you can do.
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Alpacino: they would in all likelihood change the motherboard.
If you're in the Montreal area there is an authorized Samsung service centre near the 40 and Cavendish, it's called Service Absolut. I would suggest you take your phone there. You might even be able to wait while they repair it.
As per my experience and this thread you will need some proof of purchase though to get warranty service.
Good luck,
Darkshado
Got the same brick. It worked only after they've changed its motherboard!
Darkshado said:
Alpacino: they would in all likelihood change the motherboard.
If you're in the Montreal area there is an authorized Samsung service centre near the 40 and Cavendish, it's called Service Absolut. I would suggest you take your phone there. You might even be able to wait while they repair it.
As per my experience and this thread you will need some proof of purchase though to get warranty service.
Good luck,
Darkshado
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Unfortunately I'm about 12 hours from Quebec but on the up side I found full schematics for tthe phone last night. Now I am curious to why you say the mother board as I assumed the boot pprocedures where stored on the internal memory of the phone hence why they got damaged not in the bios of the motherboard.How much you think a new board will run me?
Nothing with a bit of luck
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The thread I linked to also has a Samsung phone number worth trying to get a shipping label for the service center (be it the one in Montreal or another, they have a few). And they shouldn't really care who your carrier is as long as you have a proof of purchase (even something with the original seller's name on it and note of some sort might work).
JimBadger said:
Hi,
I'm genuinely sorry if this is an often repeated thread, but I couldn't find anyone here suffering from exactly the same symptons as me.
I've had my One X for a couple of months, it's completely unrooted and has nothing on it you can't get from Google's app market. I'm with Orange, in the UK, so the phone's running all their default stuff.
My phone's been running quite hot ever since I got it, but, today, I had it in my pocket while I drove to work (20) minutes, and it must have overheated and turned itself off.
I couldn't turn it on, and, in my panic, I held the power button for ten seconds, and saw the buttons at the bottom flash. Since then, nothing at all, no charging light (from USB or mains). I've tried all combinations of power/volume button presses and absolutely nothing has happened at all. Nothing at all since the first button flashes on the first long power button press (10 seconds). Now, it's been like that for about 8 hours and has been on and off charge all day, to no avail. (no LED at all, at any point, red nor green).
I've just got back from holiday and have a tonne of pictures and vids I have probably lost, but want to try to recover. I'd be really, really grateful for the assistance of the experienced people here. I'm, as you may have picked up, a hopeless newb.
When I connect via laptop to USB, the computer (Windows 7) detects an APX device, whatever that is, but the automated driver installation fails. Nothing shows up in Windows explorer.
Is there anything I/You/We can do?
My last resort is to send it back to Orange, and ask if they can retrieve data, but I expect they'll just send a new phone and wipe/refurbish my old one for someone else.
Is it possible to send phones back to HTC for repair, without losing data?
And finally, although I've not seen anything on the screen at all, no bootloaders, no recovery screen, nothing, might some combinatin of my button-mashing have already wiped the phone?
On a scale of One to OH DEAR...how screwed am I?
Please help me, XDA!
Edit: Ah, I can see it as a device, actually. Shows up as an "APX Device", but I can't do anything with it.
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I had the exact same issue as the above user, only change is that my phone has been rooted... is it still worth sending off to retrieve data on the SD card or will they refuse to fix it as it is rooted?
OneX94 said:
I had the exact same issue as the above user, only change is that my phone has been rooted... is it still worth sending off to retrieve data on the SD card or will they refuse to fix it as it is rooted?
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HTC would fix ur device provided u pretend not to have rooted it ... but they wouldn't retrieve the data for you, though.
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HTC would fix ur device provided u pretend not to have rooted it ... but they wouldn't retrieve the data for you, though.
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There is absolutely no chance of data being retrieved, even if requested? And sure I can pretend I didn't root it but will they not find that it has been rooted? It was still on the stock rom but not stock recovery
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There is absolutely no chance of data being retrieved, even if requested? And sure I can pretend I didn't root it but will they not find that it has been rooted? It was still on the stock rom but not stock recovery
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Sorry, but no chance at all, the Htc service technician would directly replace a new board on your phone and discard the old one, meaning they wouldn't even bother try repairing the old board, and all you data would be on the old board.
and since the phone doesn't turn on, as i told u previously they wouldn't take the pain of repairing the old board and finding out if ur phone was rooted or not, they would directly replace the entire board. (at-least that's what they did to me, when i tried it :laugh: )
out of curiosity, didnt u use the auto-upload dropbox feature ?
u pics would be on dropbox.com if u did. u could log in with ur id and pass
Let me know what happens :good:
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Sorry, but no chance at all, the Htc service technician would directly replace a new board on your phone and discard the old one, meaning they wouldn't even bother try repairing the old board, and all you data would be on the old board.
and since the phone doesn't turn on, as i told u previously they wouldn't take the pain of repairing the old board and finding out if ur phone was rooted or not, they would directly replace the entire board. (at-least that's what they did to me, when i tried it :laugh: )
out of curiosity, didnt u use the auto-upload dropbox feature ?
u pics would be on dropbox.com if u did. u could log in with ur id and pass
Let me know what happens :good:
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Aah well what's gone is gone...
Yes I had but there was other personal data that I would've really have like to have kept :/
Edit: Will do, Thank you
http://www.modaco.com/topic/335416-nvflash-setup-instructions-drivers-links-active/
This isn't an answer but might be of interest for research. No idea if similar recovery exists for hox. If you could get back to Cwm at least you could mount sd and get your data...
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Sorry, but no chance at all, the Htc service technician would directly replace a new board on your phone and discard the old one, meaning they wouldn't even bother try repairing the old board, and all you data would be on the old board.
and since the phone doesn't turn on, as i told u previously they wouldn't take the pain of repairing the old board and finding out if ur phone was rooted or not, they would directly replace the entire board. (at-least that's what they did to me, when i tried it :laugh: )
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I'm not sure if your information is just from personal experience but the reason why any official repair center won't retrieve data is because of the action of doing so is tangled up in many privacy laws and it's not worth the hassle.
As far as I am aware HTC will repair anything that's within their skill set which is pretty much anything, but the cost of their labour is high and given the HTC One X is currently a £350 phone, it may not be worthwhile.
@OneX94 I can completely sympathise with you – such a ball ache to lose em after a holiday!
Can I ask about some of the more particular details of your phone? You said it was rooted – did you have a custom rom and CPU frequency adjustment apps etc?
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I'm not sure if your information is just from personal experience but the reason why any official repair center won't retrieve data is because of the action of doing so is tangled up in many privacy laws and it's not worth the hassle.
As far as I am aware HTC will repair anything that's within their skill set which is pretty much anything, but the cost of their labour is high and given the HTC One X is currently a £350 phone, it may not be worthwhile.
@OneX94 I can completely sympathise with you – such a ball ache to lose em after a holiday!
Can I ask about some of the more particular details of your phone? You said it was rooted – did you have a custom rom and CPU frequency adjustment apps etc?
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Stock rom, set cpu installed and was allocated high levels of cpu frequency as i had almost full battery... why ask?
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This isn't an answer but might be of interest for research. No idea if similar recovery exists for hox. If you could get back to Cwm at least you could mount sd and get your data...
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I have cwm as my custom recovery but the phone won't start, go into hboot or anything :S
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Stock rom, set cpu installed and was allocated high levels of cpu frequency as i had almost full battery... why ask?
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I was wondering in case you have overclocked it etc.
You insured by chance?
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Hmmmmm the mysterious APX mode a lot of developers are trying to go to..........
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XxVcVxX said:
Hmmmmm the mysterious APX mode a lot of developers are trying to go to..........
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I haven't read back through the thread, but APX means write-off. Its dead, an ex-phone, not coming back to life. Ever.
Claim under statutory rights or HTC warranty.
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I was wondering in case you have overclocked it etc.
You insured by chance?
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not insured, and i may have overclocked a tad.... :S The courier came to pick the phone up to take to HTC this morning, have i just made a huge mistake in doing that?...
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I haven't read back through the thread, but APX means write-off. Its dead, an ex-phone, not coming back to life. Ever.
Claim under statutory rights or HTC warranty.
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Yeah, its most probably dead.
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Hi everybody,
since September 2012 i own a Xperia S. At the beginning it actually worked very well but now its a complete catastrophy. The phone is extremely slow even without any apps, sometimes it just crashes and i have to force a reboot, the walkman app just freezes a few seconds and the music doesnt play in that time, the homescreen with both new and old xperia home is extremely slow and some apps just wont open even after the third click on them and only work if i restart my phone. A few little bugs are ok but when i buy a phone for 400€ i think it should at least work fluently. I meant it was Sony's flagship for Gods sake. The back cover is etremelyscratched and is not matte anymore EVEN THOUGH i used cases from the begining. The S would be such a nice device IF everything would work. I contacted Amazon(where i bought it) earlier and they said they could try to repair it. do you think that could actually help? In addition i must say my phone was rooted and even with custom Roms like xzx it was really slo. I repaired it already using the PC Companion, SUS and even by whiping everything and reflashing the STock firmware, still nothing. What do you think i can/should do? as im still a student i really dont have a lot of money but paying 400€ for that phone and then not being able tu use ist normally is just horrbile.
I would really appreciate your help:
PS: Selling would of course be an option but i would only get 250€ and thats not really a lot and enough to buy a nother Smartphone,,,
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Hi everybody,
since September 2012 i own a Xperia S. At the beginning it actually worked very well but now its a complete catastrophy. The phone is extremely slow even without any apps, sometimes it just crashes and i have to force a reboot, the walkman app just freezes a few seconds and the music doesnt play in that time, the homescreen with both new and old xperia home is extremely slow and some apps just wont open even after the third click on them and only work if i restart my phone. A few little bugs are ok but when i buy a phone for 400€ i think it should at least work fluently. I meant it was Sony's flagship for Gods sake. The back cover is etremelyscratched and is not matte anymore EVEN THOUGH i used cases from the begining. The S would be such a nice device IF everything would work. I contacted Amazon(where i bought it) earlier and they said they could try to repair it. do you think that could actually help? In addition i must say my phone was rooted and even with custom Roms like xzx it was really slo. I repaired it already using the PC Companion, SUS and even by whiping everything and reflashing the STock firmware, still nothing. What do you think i can/should do? as im still a student i really dont have a lot of money but paying 400€ for that phone and then not being able tu use ist normally is just horrbile.
I would really appreciate your help:
PS: Selling would of course be an option but i would only get 250€ and thats not really a lot and enough to buy a nother Smartphone,,,
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That's definitely not normal. You probably have a faulty unit.
AW: [Q] [XS] Slugishness problems and major problems
You think? Do you think it would change amything if i send it in?
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You think? Do you think it would change amything if i send it in?
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Usually, a fresh repair will solve all those slowness. But you said that after tons of repairs, the phone is still sluggish. It is definitely not normal. Best solution is to send it in for warranty or demand for a replacement unit. Best of luck.
i really hope that will work.. else im just going to sell it and buy a nexus
Post questions in Q/A from next time please. Not in General.
And yes it looks like u have faulty unit. Cause XS is not that sluggish as you are experiencing it.
ok sry didnt see that i will do so from nowon yes amazon is looking at the problem and will tell me tomorrow if i can send it in
Owner of international Note 2.
This morning I found my phone dead. I cannot start it either through power button or other combination of buttons. I took out the battery and back in. Through ADB no luck it doesn't even register that I plugged in the phone.
From time to time the first led on the right of the camera blinks (I think it's one of the sensors).
Can anyone through an idea what I can do to recover my phone?
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Owner of international Note 2.
This morning I found my phone dead. I cannot start it either through power button or other combination of buttons. I took out the battery and back in. Through ADB no luck it doesn't even register that I plugged in the phone.
From time to time the first led on the right of the camera blinks (I think it's one of the sensors).
Can anyone through an idea what I can do to recover my phone?
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have you rooted your phone ? .. can you go to recovery ? download mode ?
My phone was rooted. I had MIUI on it. I was on the same ROM for 2 weeks, so it can't be the ROM. I cannot access the phone in any way possible
Unfortunately looks like its SDS ( sudden death syndrome ) . Was your phone on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware? Its supposed that 4.1.2 has sds fix. Anyway if its sds so only option is to replace motherboard.
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T511 said:
Unfortunately looks like its SDS ( sudden death syndrome ) . Was your phone on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware? Its supposed that 4.1.2 has sds fix. Anyway if its sds so only option is to replace motherboard.
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Agree with T511.. One of my frns S3 also had SDS n like he mentioned, motherboard had to be changed... if you have warranty n bill they will do it free.. doesnt matter if its rooted.. they cant check either..
It seems so. I've read for the last hour about it. What i don't know is: if i go to service, will they detect i was rooted and on custom rom? If so... can they refuse my service completely (After all SDS is not ROM related) or at least they can service me but with charges (which i presume it will be allot, but after all less then a new phone)?
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It seems so. I've read for the last hour about it. What i don't know is: if i go to service, will they detect i was rooted and on custom rom? If so... can they refuse my service completely (After all SDS is not ROM related) or at least they can service me but with charges (which i presume it will be allot, but after all less then a new phone)?
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Even they cant access it pal.. so they wont come to know.. just take it to service.. they will surely do it free if its under warranty..
but your data cant be revived.. hope you had a backup of contacts and msgs.. (5 mins'm waiting to post this .. as i've just started postin after a decent learning)
I had everything on my card. Titanium Backup few days ago....so i won't lose anything important. I just hope that the service will do it without arguing. I am under contract to Vodafone since november 2012. But in my country service or service period are words which are still foreign to distributors or sellers in general
It seems I'm having issues with my 6506 ZL and I don't know if it's related to the Battery bug issue, and/or something else - so I've come to my brothers and sisters here to help :good:
1. The phone will not boot unless it's plugged in (either through USB or the wall charger) as once it hits the Sony logo (or animation) it will turn off.
2. Once I manage to get in, I'm able to use the phone with no issues
3. ..and when I unplug the phone again, if I leave it alone, I'm able to do basic things like use the unlock screen go to different homepages, and open the app drawer
4. If I select a widget, app, or go into settings, the phone turns off.
Since an update wasn't available via the PCC or SUS, I flashed the most recent firmware 10.3.1.A.0.244 myself, and it doesn't seem to help the issue so I'm led to believe it's a problem with the hardware itself - maybe a sensor or something that reads the battery as dead?
Does anyone have any ideas as to what else I can try doing, or am I SOL and need to send it to Sony repair (and potentially have to pay to fix it)? Any help or input would be greatly appreciated
Did u tried to contact Sony? They can replace your phone for free.
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They don't seem to be much help - they're trying to pawn it off to my carrier to repair
Hung Wei Lo said:
They don't seem to be much help - they're trying to pawn it off to my carrier to repair
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In what country you are? Did you bought the phone from the carrier?
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maclancer said:
In what country you are? Did you bought the phone from the carrier?
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I'm in Canada. I bought the phone second hand, through kijiji.ca - it was locked to one carrier (Bell) and I'm with Rogers, so I had to get it unlocked. The rep kept insisting that I have to send it through Bell since it's "their" phone
Hung Wei Lo said:
I'm in Canada. I bought the phone second hand, through kijiji.ca - it was locked to one carrier (Bell) and I'm with Rogers, so I had to get it unlocked. The rep kept insisting that I have to send it through Bell since it's "their" phone
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There are ROMs available that allow you to unlock it and install any SIM card. I bought mine from Amazon unlocked.
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There are ROMs available that allow you to unlock it and install any SIM card. I bought mine from Amazon unlocked.
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Thanks for the info - I'll keep that in mind for the future, now that I'm semi-comfortable flashing roms :/ Judging by the way he was grilling me, I don't think Sony would accept a modified phone anyway to repair.
But based on my issue, I'm lead to believe it's a hardware issue. Should I try flashing another rom to see if it improves (though I still need to figure out this business about kernels)
Update:
Sony is going to send me a coffin so I can ship my phone to them to get repaired. I have a feeling that they're going to ask for a proof of purchase, however, this phone was given to me as a gift, and the guy who gave it to me is only here 6 months out of the year...am I SOL? any kind soul out there have a bill I could "borrow"?
Sony Xperia ZL C6505 woes
I know this is a bit late (as the post is dated), but it is a hardware issue.
I had the exact same issue, and I managed to figure out the pattern to get past the "boot loop". I do believe it is a board issue, where there has to be some controller that lets the phone know when the battery is dead or not. And I'm 95% sure, its the heat generated by the phone that has ruined that component. Sony makes very excellent products (I've had a number of them- PSP, PS Vita, 2 Sony Vaio laptops), but sometimes when they make silly mistakes- like failing to properly dissipate heat from a handheld device running a quad-core processor. Never had any heat issues with the pSP or PS Vita, but definitely with the two VAIO laptops.
In this instance, I at first thought it was the phone battery, but i ran CPU-z utility on the phone, and it found the battery life to be good. I then took it to a place to change the battery (believing it was a false reading), but they confirmed the battery was good. The phone was experiencing a board issue.
So definitely no firmware flash or Android OS update is going to fix that. It may fix the issue in the future if it prevents some Android OS/Google system component from running the system hot. My phone is on Android OS 4.1.2, and when the battery level fell below 40%, it would start to get hot (roughly 65-70 Celsius); sometimes apps to help cool the phone would drop temperature to 42 Celsius.