Hi,
I am on my computer alot, and to top that over i am also a mobile freak. I must have it with me, and because my battery life isn't that good, i always keep a USB cable connected between my phone and computer. I find it practical if i want to remove some files that take alot of space but nor permanently remove and sync stuff etc. But recently when the cable is plugged in with my computer, i randomly hear the sound (which you hear wen your computer gets connected with the device or disconnected) and it shows that my computer doesn't recognize my phone. After i move the cable a li'l bit it recognizes my phone again, then also stops recognizing. This happens very often and because i do copy files to computer for safe keeping very often it's gotten really annoying. It's like a never ending torturous cycle.
The weird thing is that it at beginning was working flawlessly and now i hear the "ta-ta" sound so often, it's getting on my nerve. This happened on my first USB cable so i got a new which worked good, but it too has started to do this. (recognize --> unrecognize ---> recognize and vice versa)
What am i doing wrong, i don't recall that i have bent them too much or put too much pressure to any crucial parts at any time. This just seems to happen after a certain time.
I am now on my third which i luckily found lying around in the house. And big surprise, now this one also starts to act weird.
Please help, i can't keep bying new USB cables. And certainly can't stop syncing data between the comp and my SGS2 (complicated story, also irrelevant)
Thank you for your time and extra thanks to replies
I apologize if it all seems to have just been written in haste and isn't quite understandable, but as said, i really need to sync some crucial stuff between my phone and computer and that's why im panicked abit
And let's not forget about the flashing of ROMs and Kernels etc. which i wont be able to do if my cables are behaving this way.
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Read on... before you just see the post and start flaming.
Been having a helluva trouble with my Galaxy Note II since a month now.
It all started a day in April when I was on a weekend break and my charger just stopped working. Not the charger, but the charger port. I even tried a few other chargers and none of them worked, whereas my charger worked on other phones.
So after the weekend without a phone I come back home and read some posts on XDA about moisture in the USB port. I blow dry the port with the hair dryer and things start working again. After a couple of days of flawless working, again the problem comes up. But it is nothing that a few 'frustrating' 20 minutes of fidgeting will not solve and so goes life.
There have been a few days where it has gotten so annoying that the phone simply wont charge no matter what I do and which angle I place the phone (yoga for phones, anyone?). The phone has even switched off completely at times. Yesterday was one of those days when it simply wouldn't charge.
So again I spend a lot of time on XDA and Google and what makes consensus is that there is moisture in the USB port, or there is something wrong (loose connection) with the USB port and it needs repair.
Few facts before we get to that, and my point about this being a software problem.
1. The charger, when it works, works flawlessly irrespective of whether it is on the table or hanging by the charger from the power outlet. I expect that in case there is a loose connection, the position becomes very delicate.
2. The charger, when it works after moving the wire around for a while, keeps disconnecting occasionally even though it has been placed on a stable table surface and no one is disturbing the table. After some seconds, it connects back automatically and begins charging.
2. The phone works without any problem whatsoever when I plug it into the Samsung car charger - never once do I remember it not working
Now here are my findings from yesterday after I almost broke the phone in frustration.
1. On a whim, I decided to do a factory reset of my device. After fidgeting with the phone for 4-5 hours and it not charging, it magically started charging after the factory reset.
2. After the reset and a 1 hour charge, I updated all the default software on the phone - including 1 samsung update, 1 allshare update, and 1 push service update. Within a few minutes of this update, the charger started showing the 'loose connection' problems again. I also noticed that at times the phone screen would switch on for no reason - for only 2-3 seconds.
3. Again I reset the phone, and force stopped some samsung services and disabled as many samsung services as I could and I could notice consistent charging.
I subsequently installed some apps (not going full out as I want to observe the behaviour) and occasionally the charging stops. I then go into the application manager and shut down some samsung services and more often than not the charging starts working.
After all this circus, I believe there is something wrong with the Samsung services, the phone device drivers, or the MTP service. It does something when it detects a cable being inserted and causes a malfunction of the phone. This is what it looks like to me.
In fact the same problem happens when I plug in the phone to the PC too. The connection keeps breaking and the phone is just not usable from the PC. However the interesting thing is that when the USB / MTP breaks, the charge is still working and the orange light is glowing.
So, finally the XDA relevant question. Can you guys help me find out if it really is a software problem or just some strange co-incidence? Are there any traces that I can pull out to see which app/service is causing the problem? There are many apps/services that I would like to disable, but they are greyed out - is there anything that I can do about them?
Mind you that my phone is not rooted - so all the usually available apps might not work for me. I use the phone as a corporate device and I can't violate rules by rooting the phone.
Any tips, suggestions, ideas, flames?
Hi I'm having the exact same symptoms as you I wondering if you got to the bottom of the problem? Many thanks
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My wife has same problem with her note 2 since yesterday. I'll test and share the result.
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Are you sure it's not the cable? Because many stock cables tend to be crappy, just try another one if you haven't. It doesn't have to be just loose connection.
Works here fine without issues, so doubt it's software. I rooted mine almost immediately, so can't say much about that though.
Ive tried 3 different cables and every time I plug one in s voice launches lol
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Could be a problem with newer Samsung phones and their construction. I have a friend who has a Galaxy S3 (not Note 2) who's gone through FOUR phones so far -- all of them with the same problem of the charging port dying after a while. T-Mobile's insurance company is starting to give him dirty looks, poor guy ...
He gets intermittent charging before the phone stops charging completely. Now his phone is hooked up to the charger constantly while he's at home because of battery issues, so it's possible he's putting excessive strain on the charging port. My thinking is that it's a hardware issue rather than software, but who knows with these things.
mudge
my friend's note 2 having quite similar problem, every time plug in the cable, the phone start charging after some minutes. not the problem of cable, i tested the cable and charger with my phone. Plan to send it to service center.
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Exact same problem for N7100 (international version)
I have been facing the exact problem described above. The service center has blamed water logging to be the issue. But seriously doubt it since the port seems to be working fine when it really functions. Also i noticed that when i restart my phone few times it starts to work fine(without me touching the charger cable or the charger itself). I guess its a lot to do with the software than the hardware
note 2 Gt-n7105 bootloops, with charger doesnt boot loop
Hi,
My note 2 seems to work perfectly fine when i connect my charger. But when I disconnect the charger when its full charge it turns off.
When I turn the phone on without the charger it comes on the screen where it shows the "samsung galaxy note 2 gt-n7105" its begins to boot loop.
Can someone please give me some solutions.
Has anyone ever solve this? I have the same on my S4....
I too have the exact problem of phone getting connected and then disconnected automatically in few minutes.
I fixed mine with the same issue
Power usage
Hi,
I first saw this when I was using my sat nav app in the car, I turned off the Performance optimised when plugged in option in favour of a lower power option and the problem went away. As I get more applications on my phone I see this more and more.
Could this be the power usage of the phone? The charge will supply 500ma, if the phone is already using a good portion of that the battery will not charge, so the phone shows the charge intermittently as the phone uses slightly more and slightly less power when the cpu, etc wakes and sleeps. More apps running uses more time on the cpu so more power. And of course as the battery gets older this would display itself more.
Just an idea based on what I've seen...
My Note 5 just started doing this, and only on the car charger using the Adaptive Fast Charge port. Charges for 2 seconds, off for 2 seconds, charges for 2 seconds. Using the normal port it charges fine, just slower. I have the Adaptive Fast Charge adapter at home and in the car, it works fine at home.
usb A3 usb issues
for mine it is intermittently not being recognised in file manager and also charging and then not charging round and round making beeping noises. This started when I dropped it partially in a bowl of oxtail soup. At the time it wouldn't recognise any cable at all. After I cleaned it with a cotton wool bud it was working again for ages but every now and then it wouldn't be explorable in windows. Now its acting up again, very difficult to get it to detect in windows, it starts charging when I plug in the cable but not in file explorer.
It's a real pain because its a samsung a3 which is difficult to open. I think really I will have to get it repaired - opened up and cleaned inside properly or have the usb port replaced.
I've watched many videos about mtp drivers and cleaning and bending the usb port a bit etc etc for many of you I think cleaning the port and/or bending the usb tab a bit would help, good luck.
Stop posting your damn problems so some one can answer it. Jesus look at the posts and see if there is an answer.l cuz you asking makes no difference because u have to scroll to the bottom to see an answer any ways. So just w8. Also ya it's software thing.... Samsung kinda sucks but what the hay I love them anyway even tho thay, including the expencive ones, are crap
Hi there,
I apologize if there is already another thread for this kind of issue but I really have no idea where else to post this. I am a complete newbie when it comes to phones but would like to know if there is anyway to help me solve my problem:
My phone is a galaxy nexus with I believe 4.2.2 JB. I've always had problems with my phone randomly resetting/crashing and wasn't able to find any solution to this problem. However, today when I was out shoveling snow on my driveway, I realized my phone was a little wet as I forgot to zip up my pocket and so my phone reset (remained on the Google) screen and would not boot up (It happens quite frequently that I thought it was just like any other reset). So I was a little impatient and took out the battery. When I tried to turn the phone back on, the power button was completely unresponsive. I thought I'd give it a second, take out the battery and sim card and reboot it but to my surprise nothing happened. I ended up looking through the forums for some solution to my problem but I don't know where to begin and what to do.
I have tried the method of plugging in the USB cable into the phone (without battery) and putting it back in. The phone is still unresponsive and to add insult to injury when the phone is plugged in the USB cable to the PC, the PC does not recognize the phone and keeps beeping (the kind that lets you know its disconnected or just cannot read the device). Right now the phone is in a bag with rice just to make sure that the phone had not suffer any water damage, but even when it was in my pocket it wasn't extremely wet..
I believe it may be the device but am not sure what actions I can do on my behalf to solve the problem. Is my phone completely gone or is it still able to be saved? Would I need to bring it into a specalist to see if they can help me out or can I do this myself? Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you for taking the time to read!
Cheers!
Edit:
Also just received an OMAP4440 while phone was plugged in... Does that mean my phone is done?
Any help?
thebeatlesdcp said:
Hi there,
I apologize if there is already another thread for this kind of issue but I really have no idea where else to post this. I am a complete newbie when it comes to phones but would like to know if there is anyway to help me solve my problem:
My phone is a galaxy nexus with I believe 4.2.2 JB. I've always had problems with my phone randomly resetting/crashing and wasn't able to find any solution to this problem. However, today when I was out shoveling snow on my driveway, I realized my phone was a little wet as I forgot to zip up my pocket and so my phone reset (remained on the Google) screen and would not boot up (It happens quite frequently that I thought it was just like any other reset). So I was a little impatient and took out the battery. When I tried to turn the phone back on, the power button was completely unresponsive. I thought I'd give it a second, take out the battery and sim card and reboot it but to my surprise nothing happened. I ended up looking through the forums for some solution to my problem but I don't know where to begin and what to do.
I have tried the method of plugging in the USB cable into the phone (without battery) and putting it back in. The phone is still unresponsive and to add insult to injury when the phone is plugged in the USB cable to the PC, the PC does not recognize the phone and keeps beeping (the kind that lets you know its disconnected or just cannot read the device). Right now the phone is in a bag with rice just to make sure that the phone had not suffer any water damage, but even when it was in my pocket it wasn't extremely wet..
I believe it may be the device but am not sure what actions I can do on my behalf to solve the problem. Is my phone completely gone or is it still able to be saved? Would I need to bring it into a specalist to see if they can help me out or can I do this myself? Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you for taking the time to read!
Cheers!
Edit:
Also just received an OMAP4440 while phone was plugged in... Does that mean my phone is done?
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The same consequences, came to my gnex, when I cleaned it, with too much liquid... Now the most unprotected parts from water of the phone are the usb port, of course, and the power and volume button. To solve, you have to open the phone (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Nexus+Teardown/7182) and clean the contacts of the power button, for the usb port, you have to replace all the part for a few $ on ebay... (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item2c66d9064b)
Use at you own risk:
A friend of mine was kayaking and had his Samsung galaxy s3 dunked in the water for a while. it was totally wet and the screen wouldn't run on at all.
He baked t in the oven at 200 F for a couple of hours and things went back to nornal. he also stated that he has done that before and it worked every time.
Think of this as a last resort if you are unable to change the usb ribbon as stated above. Also make sure you google this solution extensively to get the right temp and the right amount.
Good luck.
A few days ago, my phone started charging very slowly. Fast charging wouldn't work. When I went into settings/battery, it says "charging via USB" instead of "charging via AC". I also have no fast charging, regardless of whether I play with the settings. I also have no OTG and my computer won't recognize my phone. I've scoured forums and found no credible answers. I have replaced my cables and brick, and I have tried it with my S6 and they work fine. I'm going to try a factory reset. Is anyone else experiencing this? And any suggestions?
abdullaha said:
A few days ago, my phone started charging very slowly. Fast charging wouldn't work. When I went into settings/battery, it says "charging via USB" instead of "charging via AC". I also have no fast charging, regardless of whether I play with the settings. I also have no OTG and my computer won't recognize my phone. I've scoured forums and found no credible answers. I have replaced my cables and brick, and I have tried it with my S6 and they work fine. I'm going to try a factory reset. Is anyone else experiencing this? And any suggestions?
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Why don't you clean your devices USB port before you got to factory reset, bcz phones get a lot of dust and even mud in these ports mostly when people put them in their pockets filled with unclean things. And I have myself seen that my phone get mud like things in it after every couple of months and actually I clean it very rarely. So I think take a little bit of stick or tooth pick kinda thing and digg it around inside the USB port trying to clean the connectors and see what happens.
abdullaha said:
A few days ago, my phone started charging very slowly. Fast charging wouldn't work. When I went into settings/battery, it says "charging via USB" instead of "charging via AC". I also have no fast charging, regardless of whether I play with the settings. I also have no OTG and my computer won't recognize my phone. I've scoured forums and found no credible answers. I have replaced my cables and brick, and I have tried it with my S6 and they work fine. I'm going to try a factory reset. Is anyone else experiencing this? And any suggestions?
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Why don't you clean your devices USB port before you got to factory reset, bcz phones get a lot of dust and even mud in these ports mostly when people put them in their pockets filled with unclean things. And I have myself seen that my phone get mud like things in it after every couple of months and actually I clean it very rarely. So I think take a little bit of stick
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talvigi said:
Why don't you clean your devices USB port before you got to factory reset, bcz phones get a lot of dust and even mud in these ports mostly when people put them in their pockets filled with unclean things. And I have myself seen that my phone get mud like things in it after every couple of months and actually I clean it very rarely. So I think take a little bit of stick or tooth pick kinda thing and digg it around inside the USB port trying to clean the connectors and see what happens.
Why don't you clean your devices USB port before you got to factory reset, bcz phones get a lot of dust and even mud in these ports mostly when people put them in their pockets filled with unclean things. And I have myself seen that my phone get mud like things in it after every couple of months and actually I clean it very rarely. So I think take a little bit of stick
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So, I did that, and yes, it worked. But now, it stops charging randomly. It charges and says charging via AC but then randomly stops
abdullaha said:
So, I did that, and yes, it worked. But now, it stops charging randomly. It charges and says charging via AC but then randomly stops
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Than my friend I'm sorry to say that now may be either your phone needs to be repair to the extant of USB port or you have not clean it that much a paper pin cleaning the connectors heads may work if it indeed is so much dirty but things sometimes go far beyond our thoughts and they need to be done the way they want it.
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So I have a 2012 era KFHD (I think TATE is the model?) that I had been running Beanstalk 6.0 for the last couple of years or so. It was fun until recently I noticed it would bootloop when the screen isn't on. That is, if I let the device go to sleep, it would reboot, and keep doing that until I either shut down or kept the screen on.
I thought maybe it was a software issue so I decided to wipe everything and start over. I got a little overzealous in my wiping everything from TWRP, and accidentally wiped the system partition too. Now there is no OS.
So I guess the next thing to do would be to install another ROM. So I have a zip to flash, but I can't get it onto my device. If I mount storage in TWRP and plug the USB cable in, it isn't recognized by the computer. Nothing, not even that "dun dun" sound windows makes when an unrecognized device is connected. Its like it isn't there. But the Kindle charges (TWRP shows the percentage going up). I'm wondering if my problem is hardware related, perhaps the USB port is the cause of the problem and therefore it won't let connect?
I'm out of ideas at this point. Any suggestions are welcome, otherwise perhaps time to toss this thing?
Check your usb cable is NOT a "charge only" type, some of the early cheap cables packed with cellphones only supported the charging pins, hence not being recognized or data
Hope this helps
Appreciate the attempt, but no- I know this is a working USB cable. I leave it attached to my computer for transferring data to/from devices. Just a couple of weeks ago I used it to update TWRP on one of my phones and a few days ago used it to transfer nearly 1000 photos from a vacation. So, I know it isn't the cable.
I'm pretty sure its the USB port, as that's the only thing that would explain why it also shuts off suddenly if I plug it in during certain power states. I think whatever chip is used to regulate power from the power got fried, and it effected the USB's functionality in general. I replaced it with an HD8, but I do miss this little powerhouse. In some ways I think I still liked it better for casual reading / watching / etc than the newer 8" model. And I definitely liked the vanilla Android I could install on it better than Fire OS, which I'm stuck with on the 8" currently, and the HDMI out port was handy on vacations (hotel room TV).
But for now, I'm giving up- Can't bring myself to throw it out so its sitting in a closet until I probably decide it really has no value and chuck it.
I recently bought this phone used off a fella. During the deal there was no mention of whether or not the phone would connect normally to a PC. I plugged it into the charger, it started charging, not IMEI blacklisted, thought "hey, yay!".
I went home with a real excited grin on my face, ready to crack this baby open by unlocking the bootloader, rooting it, installing custom recovery, ROMs, the whole nine-yards. I plug it in to my extremely-reliable, many-a-fastboot'd-devices desktop computer, and nothing. No chime, no popup, no device manager caution triangle (where's the driver?) message, nothing. So I was like "okay, bad cord, NEXT"...... I went through five different cords, 7 different ports (including a dedicated USB2.0 port off the motherboard itself and a USB3.0 hub, just for giggles). I used a Linux laptop, thinking it was a "Windows Issue", nope. Tried my girlfriends desktop, nope. I said "let's try random accessories". Went through a bunch of USB drives with different adapters, a bunch of USB-C headphones, tried connecting to a bunch of other USB-C phones I have. NOTHING!
So, I spent the last two days as a Googling madman. I searched high and low and never found anything about anything that could help my issue. The port is perfectly spotless (one of the things I always look at before buying ANY phone), and the connections are naturally looking copper-like with no pins missing. I tried safe mode, factory reset galore, (recovery and rescue are useless)... even thought about adb over WiFi, but you need a physical connection before making that work. I tried letting the phone die (and when I say die, I mean le ded) and recharging it to 100, in hopes that defuggled it, iunno, somehow... nothing.
Here I am, at the mercy of you folk here. I'm sure some of you have enough experience to bury me - so please, give me anything, anything at all, as insignificant as it seems, it may help.
Currently, my next idea is to opt-in to the Android 11 beta to see if that miraculously fixes it. (good luck, amirite?)
EDIT 01: Android 11 did not change anything from bootloader to OS in terms of USB connectivity. Only change is the addition of WiFi ADB. (yay...right?)
Bump. I'd like to add some additional research below:
Tonight I had the January 5th update pop up on my device. I checked the baseband version on Google and turns out my device is previously a Verizon variant that must have been unlocked. It works with my Canadian Koodo SIM without any issues.
I also noticed that when I boot into recovery and factory reset, that I get a line in the log that says "Wiping Titan M", and when I look into what that is, it's seems to be Google's way of adding a level of hardware fingerprinting through public security keys. That's cool stuff, but what does it mean for me?
An additional point I must add: for some reason, the phone will drain it's battery while it's turned off. When I charge it (while it's off) from 0 to 100 with a USB charge monitor, it added 3708 mAh. The capacity is only 3430 mAh, so what the hell? I figure there must be something physically wrong with the USB port itself (is there a short that's causing enough resistance to act as a drain?) or the phone is not actually powered off and somehow some part of it is using power... and I don't know how likely that is.
With all of this in mind, I see on many other posts on the internet about people who had their USB-C ports replaced and it fixes nothing. So I'm very hesitant to spend money to get that replaced.