I dont usually visit the ouya forum so sorry if this is a common issue but google wasnt very conclusive.
My son's ouya just wont power on. He complained before and it was one of those things where i pushed the button & it turned on. (Though i did notice the input jack was a bit flimsy, not flush.)
Now i cant get it to work. I opened it up. Its remarkably simple in there!--one piece. I tried plugging it straight into the board . Theres a faint, sort of higher pitched hum but no light. Im wondering if this is common? Seems like a bad power supply but this is less than 3 months old.
Still under warranty but just hoping to get some info. Thanks!
Try a different power supply. Most 12V supplies will fit the jack. The one it comes with always seemed kinda lame. If that doesn't work contact the OUYA people, they were pretty cool and sent me a replacement when I bricked mine.
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Two point five questions here I guess but I've tried everything and I don't know what else to do. Rooted phone, got it back in july not long after the launch. For the last week or two, maybe more, I was using MIUI with tiamat 0.7. Most recent version of both. For a while Car Home kept popping up always and being super freaking annoying. Eventually I had to freeze it with Titanium backup.
Another very bothering thing is that the audio output for media is incredibly loud. Like if I plug in some five dollar headphones and keep media on lowest, I can hear it about ten feet from the buds. Not even cupping to bounce sound, just sitting on a surface. I don't know what caused this but it may have been fault, I'm not sure if doing what I did, did this; I had a pair of broken headphones so I whittled and scraped them down just to the plain bare jack and use it as a soundkiller while I'm at work. I've done this before with no problem but this time I scraped down so some metal is exposed while the jack is in and I'm sure I touched it when I removed it. I did this for a few days and suspected it might be the issue causing the sound so I stopped.
I also wiped very thoroughly the phone and SD card and went to the latest nightly of CM7. Same issues, including car home so I'm not sure what the hell is wrong with that damn app. Also now my phone is ALWAYS rotating anything even when I tell it not to and keeps making itself silent as far as ringing and notes go. What can I do?
Tl;DR: Car home always popping up, Media sound is incredibly loud, CM7 is ALWAYS rotating.
I realized this was due to a loose connector in the headphone or usb port and the phone always thinks it is in a car docked or does whenever this is loose. I found an app called NoDock in the market, it requires root but it works on the OS level disabling the feature all the time when I want to meaning I can still use it. There is a trial that claims to work for 7 days however I've been using it for the day after I posted this until now. Another person posted in the market a bad review because his trial lasted only 30 minutes so it is a formula or something. Normally it is 3 USD so it isn't too bad.
The choices I had were using this with this app or getting a replacement through sprint officially as a damaged hardware. The replacement would be a brand new model that couldn't be rooted as of yet so I figured I'll deal with this. The evo is over a year old now and I can't be sure people will keep trying to do new things to root it so I'll keep my beloved.
I'm posting this so in case someone has the same issue and searches 3 years from now and sees this they will know what i did.
Car home is caused by pins getting crossed within the USB jack. Check for a few things:
1. Does it happen only when the phone is plugged in?
2. Is there any debris or the like inside of the USB jack that is crossing the pins?
3. Does the same thing happen when you plug another USB cable into it?
Mine did the same thing and it turned out to that my charger was screwed up and making the phone think that it was docked. So I bought a samsung charger off of Ebay for like $3 and it's worked flawlessly ever since. If there is junk inside of the phone's jack get a toothpick, or something similar, to clean it out and see if that helps. If the jack is clean and the phone still launches car home while NOT plugged in then your USB jack may be screwed up.
Has anyone else noticed that Rosie sence goes really Laggy n some times in responsive wen charging or isit just my HOX
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mine does it sometimes when charging, some people say using a different charger will fix it, but it hasn't for me..
saying that, i think its my 'dirty' power supply in my house, its an old house and electrics have a lot of interference, the problem doesn't happen to my phone whilst charging at work for instance.
I've experience this and these are my thoughts on this, although this wasn't specifically for the oneX:
Incompatible charger
-using a different branded charger, class A replicate.
Power supply/plug:
-I can't be sure of this I'm pretty sure every other gadget should have blown up if this is the case
Generally you lose control of your screen I'm thinking this would be hardware faults or just incompatible voltages.
I'd advice you to take your device and charger to the place where you bought it and test it there, or find an electeician friend
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I think ill take my charger (the one that came with the phone, but presents the problem when home) to work, and see what happens.
Rather than it being too high a voltage from the plug etc, I think its the interference/noise on the power lines, my speakers (in the same room) have this buzzing sound when using an analog cable, I need to use optical to eliminate the sound. Problem never happened until I moved here, turns out the speakers should be shielded against this (they are z5500) but its on the net that others have the problem also.
All the opinions lead to interference on the power supplys in the building.
Another example in the same house I'm in:
Couldn't run a long 20 meter ish phone cable up the stairs, as the speed of internet deteriorated from 20mbit to about 2mbit. It was fine at my old house with speeds.
I ran an Ethernet cable upstairs instead, just the standard utp, its the twisted pair that stops crosstalk, which I was hoping would eliminate the interference from the power. It worked
Anyway..
This leads me to think its another problem with this phone, as charging any other phone with the same charger, in the same house, same socket even, doesnt present the problem. Hopefully something software is able to fix.
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Good job mate!
Just try the same phone/charger on different places.
It doesn't bother me to do that I always have my charger with me
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It looks like I finally got burned buying a phone from kijiji. I'll save you the gory details. It seemed fine when I met the guy but once I got it home there were issues.
My computer won't recognize the phone. When I plug it in, nothing. No errors, just nothing. It doesn't show up in Device Manager. This is my fourth Gnex and I have the Android SDK installed and the Google drivers. I reinstalled them just in case but no luck. Upon further playing with the phone there are other issues. When I plug in headphones, the speaker stays on and there is no sound in the headphones. The volume up rocker doesn't work and the 2 batteries I've tried drain like crazy.
So is it a lost cause? Unfortunately, I'm in Canada and can't get a cheap one from the Play Store and now I'm a little gun shy about buying used. On the bright side, I'm back using my Nexus One.
Any help, ideas, sympathy would be appreciated. Thanks!
As long as it has a good working screen it's probably repairable. Sometimes the USB port pins get bent and don't connect, or short to ground. You can try bending them back into place, or just replace the whole USB port if necessary. Not that big a deal. The audio out jack might also have a loose or broken connection. The battery drain is the most troublesome. I would just take it apart and reseat all the connectors and check for bent or broken ports, which can be replaced.
Check out ifixit.com for disassembly guide.
Hello!
So I've been an idiot. I tried to replace the broken USB charging circuit - which went fine. Until I discovered the volume buttons' connectors just dangling there. To my horror I forgot the volume key having no connector, but actually being soldered onto the motherboard.
I thought I could re-solder, but I managed to rip off clean the connectors, much like in this picture: http://imgur.com/Hg1in1Z.
Note the two on the right. All three came off clean like that.
Can I fix it?
I can change the volume using the software fine, but this seriously will make going into recovery a LOT harder.
Is it possible to boot straight into recovery from the device being off but charging via USB?
Is it still safe to let CM11 handle the updating process for which it boots into recovery itself, installs and then reboots?
I feel stupid for forgetting the only thing I could actually permanently damage, since everything else is a connector.
RainbowSwag said:
Hello!
So I've been an idiot. I tried to replace the broken USB charging circuit - which went fine. Until I discovered the volume buttons' connectors just dangling there. To my horror I forgot the volume key having no connector, but actually being soldered onto the motherboard.
I thought I could re-solder, but I managed to rip off clean the connectors, much like in this picture: http://imgur.com/Hg1in1Z.
Note the two on the right. All three came off clean like that.
Can I fix it?
I can change the volume using the software fine, but this seriously will make going into recovery a LOT harder.
Is it possible to boot straight into recovery from the device being off but charging via USB?
Is it still safe to let CM11 handle the updating process for which it boots into recovery itself, installs and then reboots?
I feel stupid for forgetting the only thing I could actually permanently damage, since everything else is a connector.
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If that is the picture of your circuit board then it appears that you may be in for some bad news. What you have actually pulled off is the pads that make connection to the circuits. Without those pads intact you will not be able to get a connection and therefore will not be able to salvage your volume buttons. I am not an expert however I have a few years experience soldering small electronics for an automotive supplier and we would scrap any board that had the pads pulled off. Oh and don't beat yourself up too bad, those pads are very easy to pull off, it just sucks that it happened on your GN.
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If that is the picture of your circuit board then it appears that you may be in for some bad news. What you have actually pulled off is the pads that make connection to the circuits. Without those pads intact you will not be able to get a connection and therefore will not be able to salvage your volume buttons. I am not an expert however I have a few years experience soldering small electronics for an automotive supplier and we would scrap any board that had the pads pulled off. Oh and don't beat yourself up too bad, those pads are very easy to pull off, it just sucks that it happened on your GN.
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It's not my picture, but does represent the damage quite damn well. I tried finding ways to solder broken pads and there was only hope if leads were visible, which are not for this board (except for ground). I think I am out of luck this time.
Thanks for the fast reply!
I tried plugging in an aux cable last night, and I couldn't get it to go all the way in. If I pushed it hard enough, the sound would come through the speakers but as soon as I let go, it disconnected. I tried a few different pairs, and it seems there's something preventing the 3.5 mm jack from being inserted all the way. I tried it with and without my Rugged Armor case, too. Anyone else have this issue? Might have to take it in, but with the Pixel XL being in short supply I really don't want to go without a phone
Just rma it
I gave it quite a bit of pressure. I didn't wanna break it, lol. I shouldn't have to push it in that hard though, just wondering if this was a universal issue or is it an isolated incident
ChrisAC84 said:
I gave it quite a bit of pressure. I didn't wanna break it, lol. I shouldn't have to push it in that hard though, just wondering if this was a universal issue or is it an isolated incident
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Hi Chris,
It appears I am having the same, or nearly identical issue. I tried using my aux cord, as I normally do nearly every day, on Wednesday and it wasn't connecting properly, giving some weird feedback through the output (or no output at home) and thought it was an issue with the aux to cassette (very possible with the high use and mechanical failures).
At home I tried with headphones, and I could not get a full connection. The device stopped playback of the music as it always does when it detects some input, but there was no output, and at times google now would be activated or the volume down would be activated, but this headphone had no control on it whatsoever, so some sort of short/feedback was emulating a volume control.
Talking with project fi now about my options...still haven't sold my 6p yet so I could still use as a backup, but what a hassle...
I've never had this problem before. Could it be lint? I can't look inside and tell, and I don't have tweezers small enough to reach in.
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Hi Chris,
It appears I am having the same, or nearly identical issue. I tried using my aux cord, as I normally do nearly every day, on Wednesday and it wasn't connecting properly, giving some weird feedback through the output (or no output at home) and thought it was an issue with the aux to cassette (very possible with the high use and mechanical failures).
At home I tried with headphones, and I could not get a full connection. The device stopped playback of the music as it always does when it detects some input, but there was no output, and at times google now would be activated or the volume down would be activated, but this headphone had no control on it whatsoever, so some sort of short/feedback was emulating a volume control.
Talking with project fi now about my options...still haven't sold my 6p yet so I could still use as a backup, but what a hassle...
I've never had this problem before. Could it be lint? I can't look inside and tell, and I don't have tweezers small enough to reach in.
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If you take it into a bestbuy and go to the Samsung reps they'll take a look at it for you and tell you if there is lint or not and get it out for you I know that they're Samsung reps but they help with any Android device lol
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If you take it into a bestbuy and go to the Samsung reps they'll take a look at it for you and tell you if there is lint or not and get it out for you I know that they're Samsung reps but they help with any Android device lol
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No need, went to one of the phone service kiosks in the mall and they used tweezers to pull out a sh-t load of lint. Looked like a magic trick, neither of us could believe it.
Take a toothpick and press towards the bottom, if it's spongy, it's probably lint. Use a bright light to look inside.
A good sucking of the head jack should clear up any clogs..
I actually had the same problem (Pixel XL and I could not plug in my headphone jack all the way). I received the XL on 10/20, but had yet to use my headphones until this past weekend. It seems like this might be a common problem because when I called the Google Pixel Support, they immediately transferred me to Project Fi support and the girl I was speaking with immediately began the process of sending me a new phone (this was on Sunday 11/28). I received the new phone today (11/30) and everything works fine with the new phone and headphone jack.
I have this issue with the Google Pixel. I just got the device yesterday and when plugging it into aux cord in vehicle the sound was distorted. I tried the next time I got into car and it doesn't go in all the way. I went home and tried multiple pairs of headphones and they don't fit into headphone jack 100%. It goes in most of the way but stops at the top and doesn't hold in place. I called Google support and am waiting on a callback.
I had the exact same issue. A bit of canned air worked for me!