Hi,
I got my SGS T999 right after release. It's been running fine up until recently when a number of things started failing progressively right after the Jelly Bean update, and now it's hardbricked. This is a non-rooted phone. No apps installed from sources other than Play Store and Amazon.
Just prior to the Jelly Bean OTA:
1. All the sensors stopped working - gyro, proximity, etc. They all stopped working. They wouldn't come back on a restart either. I was getting ready to try a factory reset when the Jelly Bean OTA came.
2. Updated to Jelly Bean, sensors started working again, but the phone would randomly restart, in my pocket, just sitting there on the table...
3. On Saturday I used the phone a little, just like normal. About 45 minutes after making a call and not using the phone again, I noticed that the phone was dead. I plugged it in thinking something had drained the battery.
4. When trying to power it up, it would vibrate once, sometimes twice but the screen stayed black.
5. I tried taking the battery out for a while, replaced it and turned it on - it started booting up, but before fully initializing, rebooted again and then went black.
6. Once i got a charging screen when i plugged it in, but could never replicate.
7. Became totally hardbricked. Can't get into download mode, can't factory reset, nothing at all. No vibrate, nothing. I fully charged the battery to make sure, and nothing. It's totally dead and unresponsive.
Is there anything I can do besides request a warranty replacement? What could have happened?
Thanks.
With all those issues you were having prior to updating it sounds like a malicious app... which can be installed from the play store there are plenty (porn apps and fart apps, many many more) yes issue for a replacement.
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mt3g said:
With all those issues you were having prior to updating it sounds like a malicious app... which can be installed from the play store there are plenty
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I hadn't installed anything that was sketchy though...
Probably a bad phone.
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Meant malicious app or broken sensors. Wither way return it.
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mt3g said:
With all those issues you were having prior to updating it sounds like a malicious app... which can be installed from the play store there are plenty (porn apps and fart apps, many many more) yes issue for a replacement.
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Gotta love those fart apps..lol
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Can you get it in download mode?
Volume down + home + power
If so just Odin the stock rom again.
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ThC23 said:
Can you get it in download mode?
Volume down + home + power
If so just Odin the stock rom again.
Powered by the SGSIII
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Nope, no response of any kind to anything at all anymore.
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Nope, no response of any kind to anything at all anymore.
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Sounds alot like an hardware failure warranty exchange is the way to go..
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I would definitely take it in to get it replaced. Your still under manufacturer warranty if tmobile will put up a fight.
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Thanks for the confirmation. I've requested a replacement under warranty, hoping it's a new one and not a refurb.
Thanks!
For informational purposes, here's the conclusion (so far):
On receiving the warranty replacement SG3, I tried turning on the original once more, as a test. To my surprise, after several days of being powered off, it came back up and seemed to be working fine. It ran normally for a day and a half, at which point it then began to reboot, after turning on the GPS for the first time (whether that's actually related or not is unknown, just a note). It would either reboot immediately on the first screen unlock, or it would reboot while booting up.
Fortunately, this did give me an opportunity to factory reset. For anyone suspecting it had something to do with a rogue app, the phone would reboot on the very first initialization screen, where you enter your gmail account info.
So I restored to the warranty phone, which seems to be working fine except for the hands-free speaker which has some constant background static.
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Okay so ive been running jmt v8 for about a week on my phone and everything was running great. Then yesterday morning my phone became very slow and unusable. Then i started getting the error message acore system has stopped working and the phone would randomly restart and then it would start vibrating then stop then vibrate again and so on. So i insalled a new rom and i stopped getting the core system has stopped error but i am still getting the random reboots. And the screen also wakes up by itself. Please any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
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I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
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That's exactly my problem but are you sure this company is reliable?
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And can you also give me the link to the exact thing you ordered because i couldn't find it on their site, thanks !
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http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-power-button-repair/
And yes, I was sceptical too. Josh, the owner, is reachable by email and answers pretty quickly and did an amazing job repairing my phone.
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
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You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
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I can boot into recovery but its tricky because I have to press the buttons perfect or it'll just reboot. I believe the problem is with the power button and ill probably get it replaced.
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I have same problem last month, send the rooted phone to Samsung. After 15 days .I get back my phone for free.
I hope this can help you.
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For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
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For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
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Thanks I will be trying this out.
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hey guys. after the ics update my phone started to lock up and its not rooted. now all of a sudden when i put the battery in it it vibrates once then starts to load and gets about half way and stops. then it turns off and just vibrates a few seconds and vibrates but the screen never shows anything. tryed using just a usb with the battery out and it skips the load screen and automatically starts vibrate looping. the power button seems stuck but i dont think i can fix it any ideas?
Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
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Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
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You may have to run fix permissions in recovery are you rooted
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Warranty exchange it. Known problem
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Same problem
And the vest part is that i can't replace it cause i live in India
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Damn! Just found this thread...sounds like what my phone started doing today!!
I was clicking around on gmail, then back to home screen, the camera FLASHED all by itself without me doing anything, then started the boot loop thing. Clicking the power button only made it worse. Finally was able to get into recovery via TWRP...but that was weird too. I did a factory reset/wipe and was going to reinstall The Sith ROM that I was running, but it just rebooted and loaded up The Sith anyway and it should have been cleared. I then tried to restore back to Beastmade ROM, restore was very quick and said successful but it booted back to Sith.
Now the power button is hyper sensitive! All I have to do is brush the power button and it will light up the screen. Touch it too long and it will bring up the boot menu. I'm afraid to actually CLICK the button as it might go haywire again.
WTF is going on!? This all seems really odd that it's going down with some of these new ROMs being released. I wasn't even touching the power button when all this started. The weird clicks and flashes didn't sound good when it was all going on.
Has anyone tried flashing back to and OLD rom to see if it will fix it?
change settings to interactive/deadline
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CM9 alpha 6
Yesterday my phone just started rebooting randomly in a loop, it would get to the launcher and boot up completely but would just automatically reboot, as soon as i would the put the battery in the phone would turn on without even touching the power button, i was able to get into recovery and wipe/reflash my rom and that seemed to fix it but then my power button stopped working and the rebooting issue returned, i wiped and reflashed etc and did this twice and now i'm stable but i'm afraid the issue will return.
What is the issue?
What/how should i update to a new rom?
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Check for defect in your power button
Using A5
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how do i even check for defect? i saw the other thread where some guy posted a picture but i couldn't even tell what he had done
Only way I could see you trouble shooting that is by taking it apart. If you do be careful with the screen
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Keep in mind that this is a hardware issue and changing roms is unlikely to fix it. Unfortunately, if you can't fix it yourself you're going to have to shell out $35 on a repair or just have to deal with it.
who does the repairs? regular sprint stores?
I've had they Hercules for just over a year now but have only been using it for the past four months. I have only downloaded educational apps. However, yesterday i was not using it and came back to find it vibrating every 2-3 seconds. I removed the battery and left it out for an hour. When i replaced the battery, the phone began to reload but stopped during the boot,made a noise I've never heard before and began to vibrate as if going into recovery/download mode. I have been running ics for the past 4 months. The phone does not boot at all and is very frustrating . I have also tried charging it with no luck. Can anyone assist me with this problem??
sounds like you have the dreadful power button fail it gets a little jammed up try sticking a toothpick or something skinny in there and wiggle it a bit see if that works for you if not check if your still under warranty are you rooted or stock ICS?
u have a bad power button. try unsticking it.
Agreed. A friend had a similar issue and his power button was stuck.
I'm rooted and the warranty is up
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did u try fixing the button? if not you'll have to pay to get it repaired
So it appears that it's something wrong with the chipset...
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Samz1 said:
So it appears that it's something wrong with the chipset...
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Literally your power button is stuck.
Samz1 said:
So it appears that it's something wrong with the chipset...
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Strange enough this just happened to me 10 minutes ago. I did manage to get the phone to boot after slapping the hell out if my power button which gave me the only means to get into recovery so now I can comment from experience. Ive been running pac for 3 weeks. Just yesterday my phone started doing really weird ****, dont know if it's just coincidence, calls would go through to random people, every time I clicked gallery I got a random reboot, I couldnt call voicemail, and trying to change wallpapers gave a reboot. Today I was changing a wallpaper and boom random reboot then began the loop and vibrating. A few things I noticed while this was happening, if I attempted to go into recovery the samsung splash screen appeared followed by the stock kernel splash( samsung and the blue bar at the bottom) which made me believe it wasnt the power button but indeed rom or kernel problem, also my led flashed once while going through the vibrate loop and I know the power button has nothing to do with that. I did manage to get pac to boot about 4 times by slapping the hell out of my power button but it went back to the loop after a few seconds so the next time I managed to get it to boot I held the power button and booted to recovery. Once I was able to get in to recovery I restored a liquid smooth back up. Ive powered the phone off and on with no problem. Now I'm just waiting to see what happens through out the day. I was running pac with cerux when this happened. I truly believe this is not a hardware problem at all until I get it again with another set up. If you need help I getting your phone to boot I could possibly be of assistance so pm me unless you want to keep getting responses from people who haven't experienced this at all. This was the single most scariest experience Ive had since I ve been flashing, even worse than my brick because I knew I bricked immediately.
I was on fb with my SGH - T999, the whole day the phone kept freezing, and turning off.
The last time, i was on fb and opened my gallery the phone just froze, shut down and refused to turn back on.
I tried charging, no light, no vibration. Tried power,home volume up nothing came up,
With the battery in i get no light
however when i take battery out, and put charger in i get a red light as if its charging
I still cant turn it on tho...
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When i plug into computer, i hear a sound, but the comp says device not recognized. Please tell me this can be fixed
Also i have no warranty anymore...
Sounds like it could be bricked. Can you get it into download mode manually.
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Sounds like it could be bricked. Can you get it into download mode manually.
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How do i do that, I tried the volume up,home and power, and i also tried volume down.
I didn't do anything in terms of flashing roms...so it cant be bricked can it?
Yes it can technically speaking I guess. Brick is meant a device that has no worth to it besides holding things down such as a brick would be used for. CPUs fail all the time this happens unfortunately on the s3 and other handsets as well.
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legendzj said:
I was on fb with my SGH - T999, the whole day the phone kept freezing, and turning off.
The last time, i was on fb and opened my gallery the phone just froze, shut down and refused to turn back on.
I tried charging, no light, no vibration. Tried power,home volume up nothing came up,
With the battery in i get no light
however when i take battery out, and put charger in i get a red light as if its charging
I still cant turn it on tho...
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When i plug into computer, i hear a sound, but the comp says device not recognized. Please tell me this can be fixed
Also i have no warranty anymore...
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Are you using a custom ROM, or are you on stock?
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Are you using a custom ROM, or are you on stock?
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I was on original firmware
legendzj said:
I was on original firmware
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See if you can download Odin 3.07 (you may need to install Samsung drivers as well). Once you get Odin running, plug in your phone. It should say COM# (where # is a number).
You say you were on original firmware. Did you make any changes? Flash anything? Or was it only using fb?
EDIT: The other possibility is to restart the phone in recovery (volume up + home + power) and do a factory reset. Unfortunately, that means losing all of your data, but it should hopefully get your phone running again.
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See if you can download Odin 3.07 (you may need to install Samsung drivers as well). Once you get Odin running, plug in your phone. It should say COM# (where # is a number).
You say you were on original firmware. Did you make any changes? Flash anything? Or was it only using fb?
EDIT: The other possibility is to restart the phone in recovery (volume up + home + power) and do a factory reset. Unfortunately, that means losing all of your data, but it should hopefully get your phone running again.
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I think there is a problem with the motherboard. This problem is called "sudden death syndrome"
Anyone know where i can get a SGH-T999 motherboard replaced cheap in Toronto,Ontario?
Sudden death syndrome is referring to an issue in the original firmware on the I9300. The T999 isn't plagued by this at all and the firmware isn't the culprit. The device is, however, over a year old, and hardware can, and does, fail sometimes.
Check google and ebay for your part.
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Sudden death syndrome is referring to an issue in the original firmware on the I9300. The T999 isn't plagued by this at all and the firmware isn't the culprit. The device is, however, over a year old, and hardware can, and does, fail sometimes.
Check google and ebay for your part.
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Could it be hardbricked then: I wasn't flashing any firmware at all. I only rooted the phone to install some apps, but that was months ago, and i left the phone on 4.1.1
If it is hardbricked can i then just JTAG it back to life and not have to buy a new motherboard?
It sounds like it is a hardware failure, unfortunately.
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Try this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367
Since today in the morning I have been having several reboots when using the phone normally. I was using sedirom, never had any issues, just freezes, none other than that. How can I verify if my power button is f#+$%d up? Any ideas? Just flashed from odin the stock ics, and happened once... just touching the screen nothing else
Switched to cm11 4.4 ... so far so good, had a couple of reboots, haven't used the power button since, haven't had any random reboots since. I'm afraid my power button just screwed up I will have to look into a replacement soon. What a shame, ive been really comfortable with my glide. I guess its time to move on. The device itself is doing great except for the power button. Installed link2sd which has a widget for reboot options. Ill go from there.
Found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-U-Q_NdOo I honestly dont think that would work but ill give it a shot. yesterday i cleaned the power button by opening the phone and removing the motherboard. It worked fine, but its happened like 3 times so far today. Has anybody here had the issue with the power button? What do I do? :s :crying:
Well my development Glide has the same issue. Sometimes it works flewless and sometimes it takes 3 or 4 times to even reach TWRP cause it powers off an on again. But I'm uncertain if it is the power button what makes you sure that it is not another defect inside?
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Well my development Glide has the same issue. Sometimes it works flewless and sometimes it takes 3 or 4 times to even reach TWRP cause it powers off an on again. But I'm uncertain if it is the power button what makes you sure that it is not another defect inside?
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Ive made several tests, even having a certain app to lock my screen and unlock it by opening the keyboard work great with no issues. When using the power button (sometimes), it turns off, reboots, and goes on a loop until I press it several times or hit the phone against my knee like pushing out the button, if you know what i mean. Yesterday I opened the phone, took out the motherboard, cleaned around the power button, and it actually worked fine, until like 10 hours after it happened again. And if i press the power button in a certain way like from the corner for example, it will screw up. Well i really could not explain it really well, thing is im 99% sure it is the power button
Any news about that? You said that you have opened the glide is it possible to replace the power button ?
Hm or we need to buy a e.g. screen broken glide and replace the whole motherboard? Would that be possible?
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Any news about that? You said that you have opened the glide is it possible to replace the power button ?
Hm or we need to buy a e.g. screen broken glide and replace the whole motherboard? Would that be possible?
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Turns out replacing the battery was the solution... wtf right???! I mean, I was using one I bought from Amazon, it was working great. Till the issue with random reboots came out. I did open the phone, cleaned the motherboard, and as far as Ive seen, yes you could replace the power button, however, after cleaning it, the issue came back afterwards. Just out of curiosity, I placed my old stock battery back on the phone, and never had the issue again. Power button is working fine, and never got stuck in a boot loop again... While I was investigating the issue, I came out with a dude on a video where he ¨cleaned¨out the battery contacts and it worked for him, thats why I used my old battery. And it actually worked. My phone has been good ever since I replaced the old battery. Not even one single random reboot again. Thanks for asking though.
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Turns out replacing the battery was the solution... wtf right???! I mean, I was using one I bought from Amazon, it was working great. Till the issue with random reboots came out. I did open the phone, cleaned the motherboard, and as far as Ive seen, yes you could replace the power button, however, after cleaning it, the issue came back afterwards. Just out of curiosity, I placed my old stock battery back on the phone, and never had the issue again. Power button is working fine, and never got stuck in a boot loop again... While I was investigating the issue, I came out with a dude on a video where he ¨cleaned¨out the battery contacts and it worked for him, thats why I used my old battery. And it actually worked. My phone has been good ever since I replaced the old battery. Not even one single random reboot again. Thanks for asking though.
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Wtf.... Wow that is... Yeah it could make sense... I will test this asap!! many many thanks for your report! I will let you know the result
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Wtf.... Wow that is... Yeah it could make sense... I will test this asap!! many many thanks for your report! I will let you know the result
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Well let me tell you, it worked out for some time, but it is back. Got a couple of reboots today, I know is the power button since the shut down options came out after I tried to unlock the phone... This sucks. I cannot assure if it is the power button... It seems it is fine, but presumptuously most samsung branded phones have that same issue at some point. And the power button appears to be ok... sigh... Guess Ill have to start thinking which will be my replacement phone...
Today Ive made a hard decision. Im moving on from my old cappy. It had a good run, but the power button issues really got to my nerve. I believe I will go tomorrow to get a Sony Xperia L. Its been a pleasure guys, great device. Rolled me up for a good time. See you around:good:
I use my glide only to play and music and had the same problem, some random reboots at day, It could be a software problem?...sorry for my English
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I use my glide only to play and music and had the same problem, some random reboots at day, It could be a software problem?...sorry for my English
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I don't believe so. It occurs with several Roms and in several android versions. And it happens within recovery mode too sometimes
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No prob Androide3, not even using it with stock ics worked[emoji20] i am afraid it is a hardware related issue. Not really sure though
I found this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37976063
Anyone know anything about it?
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Well I know have a new Sony Xperia L, pretty cool phone btw, and in regards to my glide, what I did was open that little bastard, remove the motherboard, completely remove the idiotic tiny power button from the motherboard. Tore it apart LOL. Place everything back, to the phone. Works! Then next step go to the play store download an app called: ProximityScreenOff-Lite, it uses the motion sensor to lock/unlock the phone, pretty much like a function found in CRdroid ROM. And if I need to reboot I have the Link2SD widget that allows me to reboot, quick reboot, or recovery