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So I won a bid on ebay about an almost new inc 2 with some problem
The car mode can not be turned off and when there is incoming call, the speaker is always on and under normal conditions apps won't have sound
After a search online, it seems to be a common problem about the usb dock connector, so I ordered a flex connector with usb dock online and replaced the one in my phone and the issues seems gone
Apps can have sound, incoming calls don't turn speakers on by themselves, and the phone doesn't goes to dock mode from time to time.
however, the steering wheel is still on the screen and I cannot get rid off this thing, any thoughts or suggestions? are there any indications the phone is still in dock mode? I've attached a pic about the strange icon. Your input is appreciated.
Another noob question is about the rom. I'm planning to flash this thing to pageplus prepaid, is it still able to get the possible ICS update from verizon? I've browsed the dev section and seems there are few ics or jb roms running on the device perfectly. Or after the phone is flashed to PPC, can I still install third-party roms without problem? I really want a rom that's stock android, i.e, not customized with bloatwares, like the stock rom in nexus phone.
Once again, thanks for your help.
Steering wheel icon - LMAO! I have to thank you for this post because I almost pooped myself reading this.
That's the location icon. You can get rid of it by flashing a ROM, assuming you have root. You do realize your phone is in airplane mode as well?
Jizzylax said:
Steering wheel icon - LMAO! I have to thank you for this post because I almost pooped myself reading this.
That's the location icon. You can get rid of it by flashing a ROM, assuming you have root. You do realize your phone is in airplane mode as well?
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Ahh, my first turns out to be a stupid one. Then all my worries are solved.
I have optimus t, first gen galaxy tab, and xoom tab now, but never seen this icon that's why
what's the location for? it looked exactly like a steering wheel, if not the one in a car, then the one in a ship.
michael3770 said:
Ahh, my first turns out to be a stupid one. Then all my worries are solved.
I have optimus t, first gen galaxy tab, and xoom tab now, but never seen this icon that's why
what's the location for? it looked exactly like a steering wheel, if not the one in a car, then the one in a ship.
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What's it for? Hell if I know. If you have the location services turned on in settings, it pops up. It is an annoyance. Most ROMs you will flash have the icon removed or the ability to remove the icon through tweaks or a patch.
I do agree - it does look a bit like a steering wheel.
Jizzylax said:
Steering wheel icon - LMAO! I have to thank you for this post because I almost pooped myself reading this.
That's the location icon. You can get rid of it by flashing a ROM, assuming you have root. You do realize your phone is in airplane mode as well?
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What's it for? Hell if I know. If you have the location services turned on in settings, it pops up. It is an annoyance. Most ROMs you will flash have the icon removed or the ability to remove the icon through tweaks or a patch.
I do agree - it does look a bit like a steering wheel.
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I can not turn off the icon, the E911 in location services can not be turned off
michael3770 said:
So I won a bid on ebay about an almost new inc 2 with some problem
The car mode can not be turned off and when there is incoming call, the speaker is always on and under normal conditions apps won't have sound
After a search online, it seems to be a common problem about the usb dock connector, so I ordered a flex connector with usb dock online and replaced the one in my phone and the issues seems gone
Apps can have sound, incoming calls don't turn speakers on by themselves, and the phone doesn't goes to dock mode from time to time.
however, the steering wheel is still on the screen and I cannot get rid off this thing, any thoughts or suggestions? are there any indications the phone is still in dock mode? I've attached a pic about the strange icon. Your input is appreciated.
Another noob question is about the rom. I'm planning to flash this thing to pageplus prepaid, is it still able to get the possible ICS update from verizon? I've browsed the dev section and seems there are few ics or jb roms running on the device perfectly. Or after the phone is flashed to PPC, can I still install third-party roms without problem? I really want a rom that's stock android, i.e, not customized with bloatwares, like the stock rom in nexus phone.
Once again, thanks for your help.
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Someone or me can root the stock rom then you can flash it, don't know about that mobile service but as long as the bands are compatible you should be able to do it. If you want rom without sense Aero has unofficial cm9 and condemned has one based on AOKP both are more pure android with no sense
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You shouldn't need to flash the phone for it to work on pageplus. As long as it's a Verizon phone that was not originally sold as a prepaid device it should work as is.
Just out of curiousity, how did you screenshot with a stock rom
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JehC said:
Just out of curiousity, how did you screenshot with a stock rom
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home+power button
Dermen said:
You shouldn't need to flash the phone for it to work on pageplus. As long as it's a Verizon phone that was not originally sold as a prepaid device it should work as is.
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So I don't have to update the PRL and so on?
I saw there are certain procedures to get message and 3g going
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home+power button
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Uh I think he meant stock, non-rooted ROM, in which case there is no native screenshot function such as home + power.
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Uh I think he meant stock, non-rooted ROM, in which case there is no native screenshot function such as home + power.
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I think mine is also stock 2.3
it works
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I think mine is also stock 2.3
it works
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Are you rooted?
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Jizzylax said:
Are you rooted?
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i don't think so
michael3770 said:
i don't think so
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Lol. OK.
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michael3770 said:
So I don't have to update the PRL and so on?
I saw there are certain procedures to get message and 3g going
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You will have to call *22890 to program the phone, but that is it.
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What's it for? Hell if I know. If you have the location services turned on in settings, it pops up. It is an annoyance. Most ROMs you will flash have the icon removed or the ability to remove the icon through tweaks or a patch.
I do agree - it does look a bit like a steering wheel.
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Strangely, it's gone by it self this morning, wired
Maybe it's time to go for an aftermarket rom
Or maybe you've evaded the location tracking service. You may be a ninja.
i'm on stock, unrooted, 4.0.4 (latest ota) and my alarm rarely sounds...
i have no idea what causes it to choose to sound or not, but I find that it becomes less likely to work when there's 2 alarms active.
this has been going on for a couple weeks now (used to work fine), and i woke up an hour late this morning because of it!
i've tried:
- force closing the app
- clearing data
- deleting/re-adding the alarms
- creating the alarm from within the clock app, not directly from the widget
- removing widget from the homescreen (as you can see, i'm getting pretty desperate with this one!)
anyone else experiencing this issue?
edit: could it have anything whatsoever to do with nova launcher? i think this started after switching to nova (i've since switched back to stock touchwiz). the widget didn't come up properly on nova, and I created alarms from the widget. maybe im just being stupid but I NEED this to work again.. looking for suggestions for replacement (free) alarm apps in the meantime.
thanks
no one? this issue hasn't gone away, and apparently i'm not the only one experiencing this. could it possibly be a hardware issue? other people have reported it on cm10 as well.
ejatds said:
no one? this issue hasn't gone away, and apparently i'm not the only one experiencing this. could it possibly be a hardware issue? other people have reported it on cm10 as well.
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yea only time alarm failed was on P.AKANG which is basically cm10 and aokp and pa. so basically yes a cm10 problem
ur on stock no clue why the **** your gettin any problems hm... factory reset if it really bugs u? or just join in the flashaholics and root xD
I'm on cm10,my alarm works, and I didn't play around with any settings. All I did was tell Google now to set alarm to w/e time I want.
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Deoxlar said:
I'm on cm10,my alarm works, and I didn't play around with any settings. All I did was tell Google now to set alarm to w/e time I want.
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Alarm works it just vibrates and has no ring!
Can you set ringtones from settings? Maybe it's a media storage issue..? Idk
You could install a 3rd party alarm app.
DarthDerron said:
You could install a 3rd party alarm app.
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That didn't work for me
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Check all three sound menus and if that doesn't work try restarting the phone
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Had same problem - solved
I had exactly the same problem. Turned out my daughter had turned BLOCKING MODE ON!
When you turn this on, by default it will NOT let you hear the alarm.
I turned if off again and alarm works fine!
Hope this helps
Just got my Note II, yesterday. No real issues besides not experiencing the spectacular battery life everyone else in the world has been talking about, and another minor, yet very irritating annoyance: I am using the stock clock/weather widget that comes on the Note II. I guess it's a jelly bean widget. I have ALL of the location features enabled in 'settings,' and I also have set the weather to update every hour.
What I've noticed is that the weather rarely updates when I'm at home, but it will update when I travel around town from city to city. And when I try to manually force an update while at home by hitting the refresh icon, the icon will just continuously spin for a ridiculously long time, before timing out without updating. This happens over WiFi or if I'm using AT&T LTE.
Is anyone else having these issues, and if so, is there so setting I have/don't have enabled, that's making it so the weather will not manually update??
Mine acted funny the first day or two but is fine now. Did you try rebooting? Not sure why mine cleared up. I did go in and disabld a lot of the bloat ware through app manager. Haven't rooted yet.
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Dr. Evo said:
Just got my Note II, yesterday. No real issues besides not experiencing the spectacular battery life everyone else in the world has been talking about, and another minor, yet very irritating annoyance: I am using the stock clock/weather widget that comes on the Note II. I guess it's a jelly bean widget. I have ALL of the location features enabled in 'settings,' and I also have set the weather to update every hour.
What I've noticed is that the weather rarely updates when I'm at home, but it will update when I travel around town from city to city. And when I try to manually force an update while at home by hitting the refresh icon, the icon will just continuously spin for a ridiculously long time, before timing out without updating. This happens over WiFi or if I'm using AT&T LTE.
Is anyone else having these issues, and if so, is there so setting I have/don't have enabled, that's making it so the weather will not manually update??
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Did you turn off GPS? It won't work if you enabled "Enable Current Location" in the widget configuration and the GPS is turned off.
Mines did the same thing until I flashed CleanROM Lite Edition v1. Im using HD widgets btw.
Mad383Max said:
Mine acted funny the first day or two but is fine now. Did you try rebooting? Not sure why mine cleared up. I did go in and disabld a lot of the bloat ware through app manager. Haven't rooted yet.
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Just rebooted and it seemed to have done the trick... for now. Hope this is the problem solver. Thanks!
Sword Fish said:
Did you turn off GPS? It won't work if you enabled "Enable Current Location" in the widget configuration and the GPS is turned off.
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As I stated, everything relevant to GPS and location are enabled. Thanks for the advice, anyway.
SysAdmNj said:
Mines did the same thing until I flashed CleanROM Lite Edition v1. Im using HD widgets btw.
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I love HD widgets but I really like the stock Jelly Bean clock/weather widget. Maybe I'll try HD widgets in the near future, but happy with stock. The one thing about HD widgets that is supremely superior, is the weather options and information.
Dr. Evo said:
Just got my Note II, yesterday. No real issues besides not experiencing the spectacular battery life everyone else in the world has been talking about, and another minor, yet very irritating annoyance: I am using the stock clock/weather widget that comes on the Note II. I guess it's a jelly bean widget. I have ALL of the location features enabled in 'settings,' and I also have set the weather to update every hour.
What I've noticed is that the weather rarely updates when I'm at home, but it will update when I travel around town from city to city. And when I try to manually force an update while at home by hitting the refresh icon, the icon will just continuously spin for a ridiculously long time, before timing out without updating. This happens over WiFi or if I'm using AT&T LTE.
Is anyone else having these issues, and if so, is there so setting I have/don't have enabled, that's making it so the weather will not manually update??
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The same thing is happening to me when I try to manually update (clocks forever). I'm about ready to trash the widget.
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JLHumbert said:
The same thing is happening to me when I try to manually update (clocks forever). I'm about ready to trash the widget.
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I'm not sure what's happened, but ever since I did a restart after the person I quoted suggested it, I haven't had anymore issues. It updates manually, now. Try a restart and update immediately afterwards to see what happens.
This is driving me insane. I'm running stock 4.2, and my phone keeps randomly rebooting in my pocket. I've never used a different ROM, only rooted. Only thing I could say is that I tried to use SuperUser to keep my root after the OTA upgrade, and it did not keep it successfully (is that actually possible yet, btw? I know the GNex Toolkit doesn't seem to support it).
No ideas here. I know I can reset, and I probably will at this point, but.. any causes?
I had the same problem and I find out that hd widget app is making my phone to reboot. After I uninstalled the app I don't have the rebooting problems. If you have the same app try to uninstall it and see if the revolting stops.
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darko.baruh said:
I had the same problem and I find out that hd widget app is making my phone to reboot. After I uninstalled the app I don't have the rebooting problems. If you have the same app try to uninstall it and see if the revolting stops.
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I do have that app, and the thought crossed my mind - I was wracking my brain to remember whether or not the rebooting began before or after that install a few days ago.. I will uninstall it and see what happens. Thank you!
Shoot, because I hate the stock lockscreen clock on 4.2
EDIT: Went to uninstall, and my phone soft-rebooted. Guess that answers that..
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I do have that app, and the thought crossed my mind - I was wracking my brain to remember whether or not the rebooting began before or after that install a few days ago.. I will uninstall it and see what happens. Thank you!
Shoot, because I hate the stock lockscreen clock on 4.2
EDIT: Went to uninstall, and my phone soft-rebooted. Guess that answers that..
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Pretty sure the reboots are location service related and a bug in 4.2. Hard for me to tell, because I am on AOSP which is a bit different in that regard.
adrynalyne said:
Pretty sure the reboots are location service related and a bug in 4.2. Hard for me to tell, because I am on AOSP which is a bit different in that regard.
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That's what I hear. Which I don't get because I don't use the weather widget, only the clock (unless you're talking time zones or something). Or unless you mean I don't have GPS enabled and it's trying to use it?
I also heard it's from a bug with Google on the 3rd party lockscreen widgets in general.
I notice whenever I reboot my phone, the Developer Options always disables itself, meaning I must turn it back ON and tick "keep screen awake" and adjust any other features there as well such as window animation speed, etc.
Does this happen for anyone else and how can I fix it?
Also, sometimes the chosen font won't apply it to everything. I'll have to change the font and back again in order for icons and SMS to have it again.
Another thing is when I freshly boot my phone, I'll have somewhere around over 1000-1200 MB of memory available. Over the course of my phone being on, it keeps lowering to near 600. Even if I close running applications and other stuff running in the background. Why does this happen?
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
Are you on stock or custom ROM?
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Memory loss over time is a typical memory leak situation. Comes from bad coding, or more precisely, code that isn't gced.
Hayzie said:
I notice whenever I reboot my phone, the Developer Options always disables itself, meaning I must turn it back ON and tick "keep screen awake" and adjust any other features there as well such as window animation speed, etc.
Does this happen for anyone else and how can I fix it?
Also, sometimes the chosen font won't apply it to everything. I'll have to change the font and back again in order for icons and SMS to have it again.
Another thing is when I freshly boot my phone, I'll have somewhere around over 1000-1200 MB of memory available. Over the course of my phone being on, it keeps lowering to near 600. Even if I close running applications and other stuff running in the background. Why does this happen?
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
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I don't have this problem... either on stock or CM10.1
Hayzie said:
I notice whenever I reboot my phone, the Developer Options always disables itself, meaning I must turn it back ON and tick "keep screen awake" and adjust any other features there as well such as window animation speed, etc.
Does this happen for anyone else and how can I fix it?
Also, sometimes the chosen font won't apply it to everything. I'll have to change the font and back again in order for icons and SMS to have it again.
Another thing is when I freshly boot my phone, I'll have somewhere around over 1000-1200 MB of memory available. Over the course of my phone being on, it keeps lowering to near 600. Even if I close running applications and other stuff running in the background. Why does this happen?
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
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Around 600MB free RAM is typical for GS3 touchwiz. Did you try to clear the recent apps (holding down the Home button then hit the trash can icon on the lower right corner), that will free up some memory as well.
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Also you really shouldn't be micro managing what you have running all the time, even when you have about 600 to 800 mb free chances are you won't be using probably 1/3 of that. Android always been good with multitasking especially this 2gb ram phone.
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HajmeR said:
Are you on stock or custom ROM?
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As far as the fonts go, it happened on stock, but rooted stock. Also happened on a few custom roms. I don't think it seems to be doing it anymore, though... probably a few reboots cleared that up. But the Developer Options thing still happens.
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Around 600MB free RAM is typical for GS3 touchwiz. Did you try to clear the recent apps (holding down the Home button then hit the trash can icon on the lower right corner), that will free up some memory as well.
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Yep. Probably a memory leak like mentioned, but it's still weird. Probably because it's a custom rom with a dev's own coding, huh?
These problems aren't a huge deal, but they do happen. Everything little bit fixing would be nice. I'm really liking this phone!
Thanks everyone for the replies.
Has anyone else had problems with an intermittent screen flicker when opening the keyboard? I remember the problem when using custom roms, but I never thought it would happen on stock unrooted...
Well, the last rebooting didn't turn off Developer Options, nor the Windows animation scale/speed. But the Stay Awake was still unchecked.
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Has anyone else had problems with an intermittent screen flicker when opening the keyboard? I remember the problem when using custom roms, but I never thought it would happen on stock unrooted...
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Yes, I do. It's a quick flicker, but it's noticeable.
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Has anyone else had problems with an intermittent screen flicker when opening the keyboard? I remember the problem when using custom roms, but I never thought it would happen on stock unrooted...
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Had this problem when I was unrooted and stock as soon as I updated to jelly bean ota, rooted now and on aokp and is fine.
edit: didn't answer op's question, I have not been having these problems
NaviJ95 said:
Had this problem when I was unrooted and stock as soon as I updated to jelly bean ota, rooted now and on aokp and is fine.
edit: didn't answer op's question, I have not been having these problems
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