Hello, I have a samsung epic. I can not get to the settings. Is there any way to hard reset the phone without going into the settings? there is nothing on the phone that I mind losing. I just need to reset it or get to the settings.
What settings do you need access too? What ROM are you on? What carrier?
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I figured it out. It is a stock rom on sprint. If anyone needs to know you hold down the photo button, the volume down and the power all at the same time to get to the boot page and then from there you can do a factory reset.
pabobert said:
I figured it out. It is a stock rom on sprint. If anyone needs to know you hold down the photo button, the volume down and the power all at the same time to get to the boot page and then from there you can do a factory reset.
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Lol.
That's how you get into recovery. You should have first tried to use the fix permissions option, rather than a full reset.
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How do you do that so that I know for next time?
pabobert said:
How do you do that so that I know for next time?
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Available on CWM & TWRP recoveries. Been so long that I've seen stock recovery that I forget if it's even an option. Doubt it is though.
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What's the difference between hard reset (hold vol down while powering on) or soft reset just erasing data on phone in the SD and phone storage menu?
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Gilly11277 said:
What's the difference between hard reset (hold vol down while powering on) or soft reset just erasing data on phone in the SD and phone storage menu?
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Volume down and power button while turning on will turn the phone on into bootloader and doesn't erase any user data. If you use the factory reset in the phone storage menu, it resets your phone completely back to stock. Like, fresh out of the box stock.
Gilly11277 said:
What's the difference between hard reset (hold vol down while powering on) or soft reset just erasing data...
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The hard reset you are referring to is the bootloader which allows you to enter recovery if rooted. Some people prefer to go into recovery this way instead of rom manager. From recovery, you can nand and wipe your phone. Are you rooted? And, are you trying to do something? I'm just curious about the line of questions.
Also, +1 on what absolut said
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Gilly11277 said:
Can't ever get the answer I want.
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OK, but:
Did you get what you needed?
Lol I know that volume down pours you in boot loader but is there any difference between the two? And as far as me being rooted not yet I'll root today but that brings another question...so I hear all this hype about CM7, give me a brief explanation of what it is and if its flashable.
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Gilly11277 said:
Lol I know that volume down pours you in boot loader but is there any difference between the two? And as far as me being rooted not yet I'll root today but that brings another question...so I hear all this hype about CM7, give me a brief explanation of what it is and if its flashable.
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It's the same thing. The hard reset is just an alternative for when you can't access the phone's menus for whatever reason.
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Thnx! thats what i wanted to make sure lol.
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...so I hear all this hype about CM7, give me a brief explanation of what it is..
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You might want to poke around here:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/
and here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=956187
and watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBh7vDifLh4
good luck and make sure you read, research, read, research, and read and research again and again. That way, the odds of screwing something up is significantly decreased.
I got it yesterday and I like it a lot! But I can't wait for a solid release that's too legit to quit....well like a here ya go everything works rom.
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I believe that once you've done your first hard reboot on this phone the UI becomes permanently jumpy/choppy/laggy. Anyone?
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every HTC / Samsung phone after restart, it takes them at least a good 1~2 minute to settle down
AllGamer said:
every HTC / Samsung phone after restart, it takes them at least a good 1~2 minute to settle down
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You've missed the "permanently" part.
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i'll test that as soon as mine arrives next week, until then i can't verify much
No lag here after 2 reboots. One of which was pulling the battery after turning the phone off to get the serial number.
mziol said:
No lag here after 2 reboots. One of which was pulling the battery after turning the phone off to get the serial number.
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yeah, i remember you did that for the other guy, that was looking for the battery part number
By hard reboot I mean VolUp+Power. I'm not talking about powering off the phone.
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that's technically a factory / ROM reset back to default
Exactly my point. It should be stutter free by default, right?
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Why would you do that anyways??
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Dude, I just spent the last two days getting the phone setup the way I want it...
When we get root and I can create a nandroid backup I'll try a factory reset
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Have you tried doing it again?
I have hard reset and factory reset my device at least 6 times without issue really. I had to do it the first time since I tried to port over 26000 texts it didn't seem to like that too much =)
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Dude, I just spent the last two days getting the phone setup the way I want it...
When we get root and I can create a nandroid backup I'll try a factory reset
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Dude, it's different from Factory Data Reset. It doesn't erase affect your setup. Ok. How about a simple reboot - just by holding power button. Can you do that and tell me what happens?
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efenili said:
Have you tried doing it again?
I have hard reset and factory reset my device at least 6 times without issue really. I had to do it the first time since I tried to port over 26000 texts it didn't seem to like that too much =)
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My routine to make it relatively smooth: Power Off / Power on while holding VolUp+Power and waiting for it to vibrate a couple of times / Turn off display animations / Turn off wallpaper scrolling.
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My routine to make it relatively smooth: Power Off / Power on while holding VolUp+Power and waiting for it to vibrate a couple of times / Turn off display animations / Turn off wallpaper scrolling.
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When you hard reboot it actually factory resets the data the reason its lagging cause its reinstalling all the Bloatware Tmobile put on it. So you need at least 5-7 minutes.
Ive already done a hard reset on my phone after receiving it and the reason was i had a issue with music on my sd card. I dont see the lag you speak of. If its persistent then get it replaced. I have no issues as of yet with the phone and its running great. My only slight issue is battery but that is most likely due to bloat.
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Dude, it's different from Factory Data Reset. It doesn't erase affect your setup. Ok. How about a simple reboot - just by holding power button. Can you do that and tell me what happens?
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Have done plenty of normal reboots via the power button (power off then power on) and pulling the battery. Mine is still quite a bit more snappy than the Vibrant it replaced.
Can somebody smash their phone for me and let me know if its damaged after? It seems all phones are damaged after they're smashed.
Seriously op, if you know it messes up the phone, why ask others to do it? Why would anybody do that anyways? Seems pointless.
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Lol
10 char
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The_Biz said:
Can somebody smash their phone for me and let me know if its damaged after? It seems all phones are damaged after they're smashed.
Seriously op, if you know it messes up the phone, why ask others to do it? Why would anybody do that anyways? Seems pointless.
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I've smashed mine several times, one of which was even a sledgehammer dropped from a 3-story building right onto the glass. no damage here, it's actually less damaged than my MT4G was fresh out of the box
Sorry, just had to post the other side of things too lol
Anyone ever get this problem. I noticed after rooting that my screen buttons are freezing every now and again I pretty much have to take my battery out to restart it. My volume and power buttons pneumonia the side still work though. Any thoughts?
Thanks
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Make sure you are properly rooted.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qb2V5a3JpbS5yb290Y2hlY2siXQ..
If you are, try flashing another rom, or doing a complete system wipe.
That just told me i was rooted, not that my root might be corrupt? Idk. Thanks tho
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cam1john said:
That just told me i was rooted, not that my root might be corrupt? Idk. Thanks tho
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My dad had this problem with his SGH-T989. Boot into recovery and wipe Dalvik/Cache. That fixed it with his.
This is in regard to the Sprint s2.hopefully this is correct forum. I'm posting this on behalf of my dad, it's his phone. His phone is fully stock and just received the ics update from Sprint. Once he did that, his phone is practically unusable.
First his email would constantly fc. Then GPS went down... though would work in random occurrences. Now just popped up the most bizarre issue. He is suddenly getting errors stating the voltage is too high for charging. The phone is not plugged in. Tried pulling the battery, once back in, the phone goes into off state charging mode and won't power back on without going into recovery. Again, the phone isn't even plugged in, and this is happening with two different batteries.
If it were my phone I'd be calling Sprint getting a new one, but this is his work phone and he's got a lot set up on it. Any ideas?
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He will need to call sprint and get a replacement or do a factory reset
Remove your SD card. This done by removing the back of the phone case and pressing the SD card into it’s socket. When you release pressure on the SD card it will pop out and you can remove it.
Hold down the Volume Up and Power buttons simultaneously.
Continue holding the Volume Up and Power buttons until the Samsung Galaxy S II logo screen is displayed.
When the Galaxy S II logo screen is displayed, release the Power button but continue holding the Volume Up button until the Android System Recovery menu is displayed.
Once you are on the Android System Recovery menu, select the wipe data/factory reset option. Moving the selection up and down is done with the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons. Once you have the wipe data/factory reset option highlighted, you select it by touching the Home button.
Once you have chosen the factory reset option, you will see a confirmation screen. Highlight the Yes — delete all user data option and touch the Home button to select it.
The procees of wiping the phone should only take a few seconds and when it is finished, you will be returned to the Android System Recovery menu.
Highlight and select the reboot system now option
You phone will reboot back into normal operating mode (this first boot will take a little longer than usual)
Reinsert your SD and put the back cover in place.
WARNING THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA
From my understanding of the Samsung ics kernel, that's how people have be hard bricking their phones. Because the eMMC wipe option is still in the code. Its caused by doing a massive wipe in the stock android recovery.
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Doing a factory reset could cause a hard brick on these phones? Just to be clear I have a bit of knowledge on the phones, I'm running cm9 on my note, just trying to help him out.
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Doing a factory reset could cause a hard brick on these phones? Just to be clear I have a bit of knowledge on the phones, I'm running cm9 on my note, just trying to help him out.
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use shubs 1 click odin back to EL29 and then ODIN rooted FF18, be sure to backup and wipe data, wiping data is important, using the factory reset option COULD potentially brick it, as the code that causes emmc bricks is still in the kernel of the OTA
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Doing a factory reset could cause a hard brick on these phones? Just to be clear I have a bit of knowledge on the phones, I'm running cm9 on my note, just trying to help him out.
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I wasn't saying you didn't know about the brick. I was saying that the ota kernel still has the brick code in it. All good bro
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I wasn't saying you didn't know about the brick. I was saying that the ota kernel still has the brick code in it. All good bro
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Whoops, no, I should've separated those two statements. I would've never guessed a factory reset could brick. I was just saying I know a bit about phones since my note is similar and I've messed with mine a lot.
He does not want to reset since he has to much saved info, and if I rooted him then he's kinda stuck as well since he doesn't have the time to mess with that stuff. Was hoping there was potentially a simple solution but maybe he'll just have to take it to a store.
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A store would probably be best. They will probably just do a factory reset so backup what you can now.
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A store would probably be best. They will probably just do a factory reset so backup what you can now.
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How to backup? I would use cwm nandroid but if un rooted ?
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Is there any chance the phone got wet. Voltage/Micro plug issues in some cases are caused by moisture. If you take it to a corp store rest assured they will tear it down and look at the litmus paper.
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Is there any chance the phone got wet. Voltage/Micro plug issues in some cases are caused by moisture. If you take it to a corp store rest assured they will tear it down and look at the litmus paper.
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Red or white is wet? I forget.
And still wondering about how to back up in rooted
Thanks
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I have a S3 I747 the heres my problem is the phone most of the time will not go into sleep mode and not time out the screen and lock up and some times the phone will just lock up while using it. I have to hit the power button to turn the screen off and hit it again to get things to work at times I got to reset the phone to get going like some apps my just not load so resetting the phone is the only option and the app works fine any advise.
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I have a S3 I747 the heres my problem is the phone most of the time will not go into sleep mode and not time out the screen and lock up and some times the phone will just lock up while using it. I have to hit the power button to turn the screen off and hit it again to get things to work at times I got to reset the phone to get going like some apps my just not load so resetting the phone is the only option and the app works fine any advise.
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Happened to me one time on stock. I just ended up full wiping. Happened again on a rooted tw rom, i full wiped and the problem was gone...
^basically try wiping bro.
lokster_1000 said:
I have a S3 I747 the heres my problem is the phone most of the time will not go into sleep mode and not time out the screen and lock up and some times the phone will just lock up while using it. I have to hit the power button to turn the screen off and hit it again to get things to work at times I got to reset the phone to get going like some apps my just not load so resetting the phone is the only option and the app works fine any advise.
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Are you on stock ? If so then just do as stated above. If you are rooted, we might need more info.
I installed several roms full wipe and still same thing some roms worst then others but over all same thing
Tried using different scheduler/governor?
Also, are you doing anything specific when it locks up? Any app being used?
Try kernel C on intergalactic ROM thread
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diablo009 said:
Try kernel C on intergalactic ROM thread
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The phone locks up to where I won't get calls or txt messages or even make a call till I re-boot it
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The phone locks up to where I won't get calls or txt messages or even make a call till I re-boot it
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Are you on kernel C?
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Are you on kernel C?
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I've Looked theres no reference to a kernel c in the forum
Not in forums. Look in intergalactic ROM thread.
My phone didn't like the latest 3.4 kernel.
Edit: Check your PM.
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