[Q] Frustrated with constant vibrations - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

My friend rooted my phone for me. Tonight I had to restore it as several apps stopped working after three weeks including Gmail. They all kept crashing. The phone is restored and about every 10 seconds I get a vibration pattern that is like " da da da duuuuuh" It is killing the battery. I have no idea what ROM he installed and I cannot get to him right now. I am contemplating going back to the T-Mobile stock but cannot find it and the backup he made seems to be missing. Any help would be appreciated.

Are you running an aosp rom? If you're experiencing crashes from your Google apps then your friend probably flashed the wrong gapps for your ROM or at least something relating to that. If you want to go back to stock you can find all your stock tar files here
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
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kaseywoods said:
My friend rooted my phone for me. Tonight I had to restore it as several apps stopped working after three weeks including Gmail. They all kept crashing. The phone is restored and about every 10 seconds I get a vibration pattern that is like " da da da duuuuuh" It is killing the battery. I have no idea what ROM he installed and I cannot get to him right now. I am contemplating going back to the T-Mobile stock but cannot find it and the backup he made seems to be missing. Any help would be appreciated.
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"da da da duuuuuh" LOL if you need to go back to stock check out the odin thread and follow the instructions & you should be be good to go. Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687

That's cause your friend was mistaken when he thought he knew what he was doing. The vibrations are cause you have a system app failing and causing a soft boot. You can just factory reset within settings but I'd go the Odin route and start from scratch if I were you, and learn to do things your self. Always better in the long run.

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[Q] GNx bricked? Screen not unlockable, constant softreboots

Hi all,
this is the 3rd time this is happening to me with different ROMs. The problem is:
The phone boots up normal, I can swipe to unlock, enter my PIN, but after pressing OK it won't unlock the SIM. If I lock the screen it won't come back on. It stays black whatever I do. After some time the phone reboots (soft reboot) and everything starts from the beginning.
The first time this happened I was using Modacos Ir9. I had the phone switched off over night and switched it on. Only thing that seemed to help was completely unrooting the phone and rerooting it again.
The second time I was using codeworkx CM9 Builds and tried to update. I restored my nandroid, but it kept happening. Flashing the XXKK1 Radio did the trick here.
Now it is happening again. This time I installed dropbox and the phone froze on the setup wizard...
I don't want to unroot the phone, it takes forever to restore the SD card.
Any advice on this one?
Update:
- Flashed the following radio images without any success: XXKL1, KRKL1, UGKL1 and XXKK1
- Used my older nandroids from CM9 and Modaco Ir10. NOT WORKING
- Wiped every nandroid. NOT WORKING AT ALL
- Reflashed CM9 and Ir10. Still NOT WORKING
I'm so lost I'm going to revert to stock and unroot... and try how far I can throw an 1 month old GNx from the fourth story.
I don't know much on the development part so I don't know why its doing that I can only suggest using odin and going back to stock.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
I had similar problems with mine once. Only thing that helped me out wasn't unrooting though. A complete factory reset was enough to make me go on again.
I posted a thread here then to ask people if anyone experianced the same but got no reaction what so ever zo I guess "we" are a dark minority.
I don't know what it caused it or what the solution might be but a Factory reset did it for me.
Good Luck!
C-4Nati said:
I don't know much on the development part so I don't know why its doing that I can only suggest using odin and going back to stock.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Last time it was working again after reverting to stock. But I bought it to use Custom Roms
I would say go back to stock w/ odin, Wipe everything and start again.
Diger36 said:
I had similar problems with mine once. Only thing that helped me out wasn't unrooting though. A complete factory reset was enough to make me go on again.
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Factory Reset wasn't helping unfortunatly.
Flashed the original factory image through fastboot. Now everything is working again. I'm restoring my SD backup now and will try to get CM9 working again.
If it would keep failing in stock I could return the phone. Now I'm left with "hopefully it isn't happening a fourth time" and "My phone doesn't work I need 4 hours to get ich working"
the_alien said:
Factory Reset wasn't helping unfortunatly.
Flashed the original factory image through fastboot. Now everything is working again. I'm restoring my SD backup now and will try to get CM9 working again.
If it would keep failing in stock I could return the phone. Now I'm left with "hopefully it isn't happening a fourth time" and "My phone doesn't work I need 4 hours to get ich working"
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Fastboot flash stock google images. And your phone isn't bricked. Stop using the term wrong. It's most likely a software issue or you're doing the rom flash procedure incorrectly.
A bricked phone is a phone that is unaw to go into bootloader and recovery mode and cannot start android.
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zephiK said:
Fastboot flash stock google images. And your phone isn't bricked. Stop using the term wrong. It's most likely a software issue or you're doing the rom flash procedure incorrectly.
A bricked phone is a phone that is unaw to go into bootloader and recovery mode and cannot start android.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Sorry for using the term wrong, I thought it just referes to broken phones.
The ROM flash is correct and it runs for some time and the problem occours after a few days... the only thing that helped was reverting to factory images and after that restore the nandroid from the "broken" Rom.
So the Rom works... than keeps crashing, I do a nandroid backup and only a factory image stops the crashes. But the Rom keeps working after I restore it.
I can't see why this could be a hardware issue. And I can't see how I should explain it to the store "Yes, it is working but not with custom roms, and I bought the Nexus because of custom roms..."
the_alien said:
Sorry for using the term wrong, I thought it just referes to broken phones.
The ROM flash is correct and it runs for some time and the problem occours after a few days... the only thing that helped was reverting to factory images and after that restore the nandroid from the "broken" Rom.
So the Rom works... than keeps crashing, I do a nandroid backup and only a factory image stops the crashes. But the Rom keeps working after I restore it.
I can't see why this could be a hardware issue. And I can't see how I should explain it to the store "Yes, it is working but not with custom roms, and I bought the Nexus because of custom roms..."
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I'm willing to bet an app is causing it.
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One of my colleagues had this issue with an early CM9 build on his Nexus S - turned out it was an app that is incompatible with ICS. Every time it tried to launch a notification, poof. So I would have to side with Josh in the post above mine.
A way for you to verify / discredit this theory would be : When you say it works with the stock ROM, are you re-installing everything you have when you are on stock? My understanding from what you've written above is that you're only getting your full suite of apps back when you restore your (presumably custom ROM) nandroid backup...
Potterified said:
One of my colleagues had this issue with an early CM9 build on his Nexus S - turned out it was an app that is incompatible with ICS. Every time it tried to launch a notification, poof. So I would have to side with Josh in the post above mine.
A way for you to verify / discredit this theory would be : When you say it works with the stock ROM, are you re-installing everything you have when you are on stock? My understanding from what you've written above is that you're only getting your full suite of apps back when you restore your (presumably custom ROM) nandroid backup...
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It can't be any app or ROM because IF it happens, it happens on all ROMs, regardless of wipe or not.
It just happened again and i wiped everything and tried using AOKP MS 3. Wasn't working... So I tried using the phone without the SIM card, because the hell only breaks loose after entering my PIN. And it worked. I could use the phone...
I put it back in and it worked...
I'm restoring my CM9 nandroid right now. I'm hoping it works...
edit: Nope, ripping out the SIM doesn't work. I'm reverting to stock and wait what happens. If it crashes again I'm trying to return it.

[Q] wfs going really sluggish

had my wildfire s about 4 months been rooted with stock rom for around a month.
past few days while texting it seems to be running really slow, like 3 words behind my typing.
tried slowing my text speeding but still seems to crash then wake up and type on its own.
cleared space from 22.5mb to 61mb of rom but still slow.
move apps to sd card, and ran a memory clearer in settings
no background, no fancy apps running, just Lookout security.
any help or info will be thanked?
emokid09 said:
had my wildfire s about 4 months been rooted with stock rom for around a month.
past few days while texting it seems to be running really slow, like 3 words behind my typing.
tried slowing my text speeding but still seems to crash then wake up and type on its own.
cleared space from 22.5mb to 61mb of rom but still slow.
move apps to sd card, and ran a memory clearer in settings
no background, no fancy apps running, just Lookout security.
any help or info will be thanked?
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Did you try a factory reset?
Sometimes when you flash a new ROM (usually when battery is low) it can be sluggish, a factory reset usually sorts it out....
Failing that, sounds like the dreaded lockscreen bug that plagued 2.3.3
there is a solution here somewhere, if I can find it I will link it.....
Found it, if the factory reset does not work, try this, worked for me :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436314
Ko_Ka said:
Did you try a factory reset?
Sometimes when you flash a new ROM (usually when battery is low) it can be sluggish, a factory reset usually sorts it out....
Failing that, sounds like the dreaded lockscreen bug that plagued 2.3.3
there is a solution here somewhere, if I can find it I will link it.....
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i did download an app called No lockscreen.
it was fine before.
factory reset will loose root will it not?
guess il have to back-up my contacts and give it ago.
fed up with the phone to be honest, should of got a nokia 6230, nothing ever went wrong with them bad boys lol
and thanks for the link, will save it to desktop just incase i need it
emokid09 said:
i did download an app called No lockscreen.
it was fine before.
factory reset will loose root will it not?
guess il have to back-up my contacts and give it ago.
fed up with the phone to be honest, should of got a nokia 6230, nothing ever went wrong with them bad boys lol
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What ROM you using?
Shouldnt lose ROOT if it is pre-baked in the stock rom....
Ko_Ka said:
What ROM you using?
Shouldnt lose ROOT if it is pre-baked in the stock rom....
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just stock rom, have been tempted to put custom rom on but darnt do it. just going to back up my contacts now then do a restore
hmm wfs cant find htc sync on my pc, even though its all open and on, just a guess but i think i have a virus/malware on it.
must be a dodgy app.
time to factory reset and get it back up and running i think.
will post back if it works. thanks
Ko_Ka said:
What ROM you using?
Shouldnt lose ROOT if it is pre-baked in the stock rom....
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ok, ive factory reset, at the moment all seems fine, still rooted too which saves me a good amount of time i will reply later along the weeks if it ever does it again. thank you

Note 2 constant freezing issue

Hi everyone,
I've searched everywhere for a solution so please help!
Basically i've had my note 2 for around 3 months and it keeps freezing (so frustrating).
Surprisingly this happend on stock before i even rooted or anything like that.
I remember installing some game from the app store that started the freezing but i re flashed it on stock and this was ages ago. I went to samsung and they flashed it but they said that they dont know what it is. Without sending my baby away i'd love to get this fixed.
I've tried rooting, unrooting, different roms, clearing all the cashes.. apps to reduce lagg (incase it was something inducing it).
Im really clueless where to go with it..
(Freezes up to 5 times a day)
(On 4.1.2 because of custom rom)
(On Stock rom now trying to fix but still on 4.1.2)
Thanks for all your help in advance!
legendberry said:
Hi everyone,
I've searched everywhere for a solution so please help!
Basically i've had my note 2 for around 3 months and it keeps freezing (so frustrating).
Surprisingly this happend on stock before i even rooted or anything like that.
I remember installing some game from the app store that started the freezing but i re flashed it on stock and this was ages ago. I went to samsung and they flashed it but they said that they dont know what it is. Without sending my baby away i'd love to get this fixed.
I've tried rooting, unrooting, different roms, clearing all the cashes.. apps to reduce lagg (incase it was something inducing it).
Im really clueless where to go with it..
(Freezes up to 5 times a day)
(On 4.1.2 because of custom rom)
(On Stock rom now trying to fix but still on 4.1.2)
Thanks for all your help in advance!
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try flashing latest stock rom and dont install any apps and play around with it, if it still freezes they you may have a fauilty unit
do you notice the phone heating up at all if so try removing any cases/pouch you may have
brockyneo said:
try flashing latest stock rom and dont install any apps and play around with it, if it still freezes they you may have a fauilty unit
do you notice the phone heating up at all if so try removing any cases/pouch you may have
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Hi Broky
Its on stock at the moment and i've taken my case of because i thought it might be that before....
When i was in the samsung store it was flashed to the stock and i opened skype after the flash and it froze....
Dont know if this is much help?
Thanks!
Try super wipe script by zoot.
Then flash stock rom.
Don't tell it samsung or google account.
Play around with it like browse or do anything. If it still freezes then I am sorry then brockyneo is correct.
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Could be a faulty ram chip. Or flash chip. I don't think check disk works on flash drives. But if it was a hard drive that's be the fix.
Sent from my GN2 using XDA app.
ya it shouldnt freeze if its been flashed back to stock rom,especially through odin as it near bullet proof
maybe try what UtkarshGupta with the superwipe and try again with a stock rom
if not then you maybe looking at a faulty unit :crying:
brockyneo said:
ya it shouldnt freeze if its been flashed back to stock rom,especially through odin as it near bullet proof
maybe try what UtkarshGupta with the superwipe and try again with a stock rom
if not then you maybe looking at a faulty unit :crying:
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Thanks a lot...
Is this quite a rare case? Im un able to re flash it at the moment but if it wasn't a faulty unit... what else could be the issue?
Thanks again for the help!
legendberry said:
Thanks a lot...
Is this quite a rare case? Im un able to re flash it at the moment but if it wasn't a faulty unit... what else could be the issue?
Thanks again for the help!
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What firmware do you have? 4.1.1 or 4.1.2? If you are on a safe kernel (latest 4.1.2 for example) you could try "Dummy File Generator" from Playstore. (there are many reports with succesfull fixes on freezes.) Or, better, take a look at this thread, everything you want to know is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2133401
zetlorf said:
What firmware do you have? 4.1.1 or 4.1.2? If you are on a safe kernel (latest 4.1.2 for example) you could try "Dummy File Generator" from Playstore. (there are many reports with succesfull fixes on freezes.) Or, better, take a look at this thread, everything you want to know is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2133401
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Hi,
thanks for responding! Im on 4.1.2 at the moment and il try the dummy file generator.... How does that exactly work?
Thanks again,
legendberry said:
Hi,
thanks for responding! Im on 4.1.2 at the moment and il try the dummy file generator.... How does that exactly work?
Thanks again,
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Hey legendberry! Did you fix your problem? I'm having the same issue on a stock rom. Resetting and wiping didn't help so I sent mine for repair but it got sent back to me unrepaired and the issue is still there
I have stock note 2, running 2.1 worked flawless since day 1 (was first release in France). Last 2 days been freezing. Have freed up space in internal and external sd. Still happens. Removed some apps, still happens. Reboot, sometimes it works for while then locks up. Very frustrsting as this is business phone.
......
I am in the same situation, because my Note 2 in the last few days has been freezing with maxed out cpu (as reported by the Cool Tool app).
I am now in the process of wiping everything and restoring in the feeble hope to overcome the problem.
Edit: i have wiped everything by formatting with Odin and reloading firmware, then restoring nandroid backup. So far so good, almost 24h without freezing.
Edit2: 2nd day, started freezing again 0
Same problem here, since 2 days my Note 2 freezes all the time, sometimes with 100% cpu load. Sometimes I can use it for a couple of hours, sometimes after reboot it freezes instantly. :S
I did a factory reset (stock 4.1.2), wiped everything but still the same issue...
Very, very frustrating!
To users above: When did you get your Note 2? I've had mine since Oct 10, 2012.
R: Note 2 constant freezing issue
Me too, phone bought in October 2012.
Today I flashed latest Italian firmware, MB2, and started over. No freezes. Even filling sdcard with dummy file generator, which in previous firmware (French MB2) gave several freezes.
Ok.
Then restored nandroid, data partition only, and wiped cache and dalvik. Lots of freezes again, device almost unusable.
So I thought what's the difference? When freshly flashed phone had Touchwiz, while after restore had Go Launcher.
Uninstalled Go Launcher. Bingo.
No freezes anymore so far.
Weird, uh?
I'll report how it behaves in next hours.
Edit: it was go launcher indeed. It's been updated for a reported crashes reboots problem. Now my device is rock steady.
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Currently having the same issue. What i had done is cleanwipe and restore to factory setting (4.1.2).
Just the moment i finished setting up, the problem occured.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Problem

Hello everyone,
I really need your help with my wife's Metro PCS Samsung GS4 M919N.
The thing is, we are now living outside the US so I had to unlock her phone. After ordering the unlock codes, I decided to root the phone and use a custom ROM while waiting for the codes.
That is why I found this guide here: androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/790899-metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root-guide.html
So while reading the guide, I aimed to have the following accomplished at the end:
Recovery: TWRP
Custom ROM: CyanogenMod 10.2.1
I then started doing the guide for the TWRP recovery by using Odin. I got the message saying that the flashing passed and went ahead to restart to recovery to install CM 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. The thing is that I keep on restarting to the stock recovery not TWRP. So I went to YouTube and found a video showing how to flash TWRP using GooManager. After following that guide, I went to restart to recovery and I successfully got into TWRP.
Now, to achieve my goal, all that's left to do is to flash CyanogenMod 10.2.1 (jfltetmo).
Before doing that, I decided to make a backup. After using TWRP to do a backup, I proceeded to installing the custom ROM + gapps (wiped with the default settings). Everything was working I think (I handed the phone to my wife so she was he one testing it). After some time, she decided she wants the stock ROM instead so I decided to download the androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/783769-rom-recovery-flash-able-stock-m919nuvuamf2-rooted-deodexed-rom.html ROM.
I flashed the newly downloaded ROM + gapps (same file). This time, I couldn't get the gapps to work probably because it was meant for another version. So I decided to just restore from the backup I created earlier.
So, the usual stuff. Wipe. Restore. Restart.
Seems to be going smoothly because my wife was happy to see the old ROM she was used to.
Until the phone started to restart on it's own. (It's pretty much downhill from here on out).
At first I thought it was just a random thing that probably would never happen again. I was wrong as it became more frequent as days went by.
Recently I can't just restart the phone, I would have to remove the battery and then restart it. Now, it's getting really hard to restart the phone. Please help me fix this. I prefer to leave the phone rooted, but if the fix unroots the phone then so be it, anyway my wife prefers the stock ROM so only the unlocking was necessary.
Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy S4 M919N
Recovery:
TWRP 2.6.3.1
ROMs:
Stock Metro PCS
CyanogenMod 10.2.1
Let me know if you need more information from me. Hopefully I can restart the phone so I can give you some version numbers.
Thanks everyone!
I didn't read everything but just wanted to say
VERY GOOD THREAD!
this is how threads should be done. Very descriptive, organized, told us everything you did and asked for help! Good job man! Only negative is it prolly should have gone in Q&A section but irregardless very good thread!
About your issue, I recommend flashing stock Odin tar file to everything back to stock and reroot and start over. Flashing stock will not lock it again it will remain unlocked. But should get you back up and fresh. Just be aware it will erase all your data and all of the internal SD card.
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dokgu said:
Hello everyone,
I really need your help with my wife's Metro PCS Samsung GS4 M919N.
The thing is, we are now living outside the US so I had to unlock her phone. After ordering the unlock codes, I decided to root the phone and use a custom ROM while waiting for the codes.
That is why I found this guide here: androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/790899-metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root-guide.html
So while reading the guide, I aimed to have the following accomplished at the end:
Recovery: TWRP
Custom ROM: CyanogenMod 10.2.1
I then started doing the guide for the TWRP recovery by using Odin. I got the message saying that the flashing passed and went ahead to restart to recovery to install CM 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. The thing is that I keep on restarting to the stock recovery not TWRP. So I went to YouTube and found a video showing how to flash TWRP using GooManager. After following that guide, I went to restart to recovery and I successfully got into TWRP.
Now, to achieve my goal, all that's left to do is to flash CyanogenMod 10.2.1 (jfltetmo).
Before doing that, I decided to make a backup. After using TWRP to do a backup, I proceeded to installing the custom ROM + gapps (wiped with the default settings). Everything was working I think (I handed the phone to my wife so she was he one testing it). After some time, she decided she wants the stock ROM instead so I decided to download the androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/783769-rom-recovery-flash-able-stock-m919nuvuamf2-rooted-deodexed-rom.html ROM.
I flashed the newly downloaded ROM + gapps (same file). This time, I couldn't get the gapps to work probably because it was meant for another version. So I decided to just restore from the backup I created earlier.
So, the usual stuff. Wipe. Restore. Restart.
Seems to be going smoothly because my wife was happy to see the old ROM she was used to.
Until the phone started to restart on it's own. (It's pretty much downhill from here on out).
At first I thought it was just a random thing that probably would never happen again. I was wrong as it became more frequent as days went by.
Recently I can't just restart the phone, I would have to remove the battery and then restart it. Now, it's getting really hard to restart the phone. Please help me fix this. I prefer to leave the phone rooted, but if the fix unroots the phone then so be it, anyway my wife prefers the stock ROM so only the unlocking was necessary.
Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy S4 M919N
Recovery:
TWRP 2.6.3.1
ROMs:
Stock Metro PCS
CyanogenMod 10.2.1
Let me know if you need more information from me. Hopefully I can restart the phone so I can give you some version numbers.
Thanks everyone!
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I agree with Elesbb. If the goal is jus tto get back to stock, just do an odin flash of the stock ROM. Be advised if you flash the latest Kit Kay update you will nto be able to go back to Jelly Bean. From your post it seems like you are partial to Jelly Bean. So if that's what you want, but sure you use the stock 4.3 ROM. You can find it around here on XDA somewhere with a quick search to make sure you have the right one.
As Elesbb said, you won't loose the 'sim unlock'. But you will lose root. However you can root the stock ROM just fine.
You might also consider one of the myriad of TouchWiz based custom ROMs. They are look just like TouchWiz that your wife wants, but have a lot of optimizations and options in them. Those should flash just like any ROM. If you still get the reboot issue then do the Odin back to stock, reroot, then flash the custom TW roms.
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Thread cleaned.
Rather than bashing a ROM or user let's keep on topic and help the OP resolved the problems he's having. Arguing over the virtues of a ROM doesn't help anyone.
Thank you,
Rwilco12
Before posting this thread I sent the aforementioned guide's poster (arocker). He sent me a reply saying not to use gapps as the stock ROM for Metro PCS already comes with Google apps. I'll try his suggestion first and see if the phone still reboots a lot.
If the problem persists, I will try the solutions mentioned here. Thanks a lot!
elesbb said:
I didn't read everything but just wanted to say
VERY GOOD THREAD!
this is how threads should be done. Very descriptive, organized, told us everything you did and asked for help! Good job man! Only negative is it prolly should have gone in Q&A section but irregardless very good thread!
About your issue, I recommend flashing stock Odin tar file to everything back to stock and reroot and start over. Flashing stock will not lock it again it will remain unlocked. But should get you back up and fresh. Just be aware it will erase all your data and all of the internal SD card.
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After trying arocker's suggestion to not flash gapps, the phone still reboots. So now, I am going to try your solution guys.
But before I do, I want to make sure that I am on the correct paths/links.
Here's what I found for the following:
ODIN
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/themes-apps/27-08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
I've had a couple of chances to use ODIN but only using specific functions like flashing a recovery file while the phone is in download mode. I don't however have any experience using ODIN to put the phone back to stock where the phone gets unrooted. Having the phone unrooted is fine by me as I only needed to have the phone unlocked.
Any step-by-step guides for using ODIN for this specific purpose guys? I don't want to mess this up again.
Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
dokgu said:
After trying arocker's suggestion to not flash gapps, the phone still reboots. So now, I am going to try your solution guys.
But before I do, I want to make sure that I am on the correct paths/links.
Here's what I found for the following:
ODIN
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/themes-apps/27-08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
I've had a couple of chances to use ODIN but only using specific functions like flashing a recovery file while the phone is in download mode. I don't however have any experience using ODIN to put the phone back to stock where the phone gets unrooted. Having the phone unrooted is fine by me as I only needed to have the phone unlocked.
Any step-by-step guides for using ODIN for this specific purpose guys? I don't want to mess this up again.
Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
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No trouble at all, check out the stickies in the beginning of threads.
Look for guides similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Pp. Good luck.
sent from my bluetooth controlled toaster.
PanchoPlanet said:
No trouble at all, check out the stickies in the beginning of threads.
Look for guides similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Pp. Good luck.
sent from my bluetooth controlled toaster.
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Hello PanchoPlanet,
Thanks for the link. I went ahead and tried to unroot without Windows (Mobile Odin) as per the instructions on the link. I downloaded everything and went ahead to install the Mobile Odin APK. When I ran it to install the Flash Kernel, the app told me that the device is not supported.
To my understanding the guide is for M919 devices but should work for my wife's device as well (M919N - Metro PCS). I would like to try the guide for using Windows but I'm not really expecting for it to work or I might mess it up more. I'll try to search some more and provide the links where this forum will lead me to. But if you have any ideas, please let me know asap. Thanks!
PanchoPlanet said:
No trouble at all, check out the stickies in the beginning of threads.
Look for guides similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Pp. Good luck.
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Ok, here's what I found:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446497
It seems like the perfect thread for what I am trying to achieve. Will let you guys know if it is successful. But it will have to wait for tomorrow. Gonna catch some sleep.
Okay, I'm running out of options. I was able to flash the stock ROM using Odin 3.07. The recovery looks like it came back to the stock recovery as I no longer have TWRP installed. When I install Root Checker, I see that I am no longer rooted. That's good.
But my original problem is still here. The phone reboots a lot. The phone is so unstable that it is barely usable.
I am now going to try one more thing.
I have a Galaxy S4 (I337M) from Rogers Canada (my wife has Metro PCS M919N). Mine got rooted and has CyanogenMod 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. My phone is working perfectly while hers reboots a lot. I was thinking it was because of a faulty battery. So I am doing an experiment by swapping the batteries. So far no reboots have occurred, but I will continue to monitor this.
Any ideas why the battery is kinda messed up?
This thread talks about battery stuff and reboots:
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/530338/20131216/samsung-galaxy-s4-problems.htm
Batteries can go bad a lot of ways. Extreme temperature, factory defect, phone drops, moisture, etc.
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Android_Monsters said:
This thread talks about battery stuff and reboots:
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/530338/20131216/samsung-galaxy-s4-problems.htm
Batteries can go bad a lot of ways. Extreme temperature, factory defect, phone drops, moisture, etc.
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And 100% of the time, they eventually just get old.
dokgu said:
Okay, I'm running out of options. I was able to flash the stock ROM using Odin 3.07. The recovery looks like it came back to the stock recovery as I no longer have TWRP installed. When I install Root Checker, I see that I am no longer rooted. That's good.
But my original problem is still here. The phone reboots a lot. The phone is so unstable that it is barely usable.
I am now going to try one more thing.
I have a Galaxy S4 (I337M) from Rogers Canada (my wife has Metro PCS M919N). Mine got rooted and has CyanogenMod 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. My phone is working perfectly while hers reboots a lot. I was thinking it was because of a faulty battery. So I am doing an experiment by swapping the batteries. So far no reboots have occurred, but I will continue to monitor this.
Any ideas why the battery is kinda messed up?
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That's a wierd situation, by swapping batteries you basically performed a battery pull, which acts as a reset, that in it self may have cleared your issue.
Now if battery is bad that could be an unusual problem. Maybe just replacing the battery will be the end of your mystery.
Pp.
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The battery should be brand new as the phone was just recently purchased this April.
Anyways, so far no reboots have happened and any instability has not been shown at all. Everything looks ok, yet.
Anyone know if it is safe to swap batteries? Our phones have different S4 models. I'm not sure what the implications would be. Also what is this battery pull which acts as a reset? We've been pulling the battery a lot of times but the reboot still happens but not when we swapped batteries.
The batteries are all the same. Don't worry about that.
Even if its a new battery if could have just been bad. A manufacturing defect perhaps.
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
dokgu said:
The battery should be brand new as the phone was just recently purchased this April.
Anyways, so far no reboots have happened and any instability has not been shown at all. Everything looks ok, yet.
Anyone know if it is safe to swap batteries? Our phones have different S4 models. I'm not sure what the implications would be. Also what is this battery pull which acts as a reset? We've been pulling the battery a lot of times but the reboot still happens but not when we swapped batteries.
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This battery thing is wacky, anyway swapping batteries should not be a problem, it's just an energy storage container. Pulling the battery isn't like powering down the phone or resetting/rebooting ,sometimes devs request a battery pull to get the proper wipe effect that reboots can't provide.
You inadvertently solved your problem by accident. That's a good thing.
Pp.
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PanchoPlanet said:
You inadvertently solved your problem by accident. That's a good thing.
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I have quite literally solved the vast majority of my problems this way.
Its a preferred method.
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
Sometimes it's that "total disconnect "of power that kind of gets all the ducks lined up in a row and everything flows in the dynaflow.
Good.
Pp.
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its very important topics and it might seen for every galaxy s4 users.just wonderful topics.
This exact same thing happened on my mother's 6-month old S3. If you're still wondering, you could try putting the old battery and running a CPU stress test app. It should increase the current draw and trigger a shutdown.
EDIT: whoops, sorry to kind of zombie. Didn't check the date.
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I installed Hyperdrive 16 ROM for my phone about 6 months ago. I did it through the installer that comes with the rom. This is probably the only reason I didn't brick. Anyway I have messed with it so much and dl'd so many different root programs and so on and TRIED to install different roms that even when I do go back to my Tit backup and restart in Recovery... The only .zip file I can start up is my RLS16 ROM. I cannot revert back to stock cuz I installed it without backing up properly. It seems like people that do have Hd rom actually enjoy it. I don't really know how to use it but learning. I get error messages from Google... like when I open Google search from home screen it will force close and freeze... Every time. I get a Sec. And a couple other errors msgs after reboot. My play store crashes and so does my contacts and my sms app wouldn't work to the point I've had to reinstall Hyperdrive from recovery mode 3x in 4 days. I am so annoyed. I know I messed up and I like to twerk options and the way things look lol I just wanted a new rom. Any suggestions or...? Oh and I have a mac book that is why I don't do anything from the computer cuz idk of any actual working android to mac programs without paying $40. Idk what I'm saying lol I messed up. What can I do? Thanks guys...
sent from Sprint Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 running 4.1.2 on Hyperdrive RLS16 ROM.
Ryan Emerson said:
I installed Hyperdrive 16 ROM for my phone about 6 months ago. I did it through the installer that comes with the rom. This is probably the only reason I didn't brick. Anyway I have messed with it so much and dl'd so many different root programs and so on and TRIED to install different roms that even when I do go back to my Tit backup and restart in Recovery... The only .zip file I can start up is my RLS16 ROM. I cannot revert back to stock cuz I installed it without backing up properly. It seems like people that do have Hd rom actually enjoy it. I don't really know how to use it but learning. I get error messages from Google... like when I open Google search from home screen it will force close and freeze... Every time. I get a Sec. And a couple other errors msgs after reboot. My play store crashes and so does my contacts and my sms app wouldn't work to the point I've had to reinstall Hyperdrive from recovery mode 3x in 4 days. I am so annoyed. I know I messed up and I like to twerk options and the way things look lol I just wanted a new rom. Any suggestions or...? Oh and I have a mac book that is why I don't do anything from the computer cuz idk of any actual working android to mac programs without paying $40. Idk what I'm saying lol I messed up. What can I do? Thanks guys...
sent from Sprint Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 running 4.1.2 on Hyperdrive RLS16 ROM.
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so you want to put your sprint SPH-L710 back to stock 4.4.2?
Check out "jodin"... It is Odin for Mac.
My ROM: WICKED X
Also try Philz Recovery, it is the best in my opinion
My ROM: WICKED X

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