Hey guys, I am brand new on this site, and not a tech person in the least, to my detriment. Ok, here is my story: yesterday after work, I was on my Note II talking to my wife. When I hung up, I went in to my local Sprint store because I noticed that my 3-year old phone was having some issues, including (1) an error message popping up whenever I clicked on google that said "unfortunately google search has stopped - that had occurred for a couple days before yesterday; (2) a message that would pop up whenever I re-booted my phone that said something like "UID Partitions Inconsistent" with a message underneath of "I'm feeling lucky," which I had to click on as it was the only way to get to my home screen - that had occurred over the weekend; and (3) the 90 some voice mails I had in my voice mail all disappeared yesterday morning, replaced by 3 or 4 "welcome to Voicemail" voice mails, as if I had just bought the phone.
So, I go in to the Sprint store, I click the side button so I can get to the shut down or restart screen, and I hit restart. From that moment forward, my phone has gone completely dark and dead. The Sprint techs couldn't get it to turn on, they tried every combination of pressing buttons, and they tried turning it on with the USB cable - there was and is absolutely no activity on my phone. The battery had been newly charged, so it has about 90% juice. I have done some google research and it looks like a hard bricked phone? The thing is, I never rooted my phone (quite frankly, I don't even know what that means), I didn't "flash" ROM on it (whatever that means too - I am only now familiar with those terms based on my brief research), or do anything else differently with it than I have for the past three years. I am stressed out because I had about 400 pics on there that were not backed up. I just want to get it restored, if only temporarily, to get my pics back, or even just a portion of them.
Is there any remedy whatsoever, or am I screwed?? Please help! Thanks!
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I was running MightyRom for almost a year, no problems. Suddenly about a month ago my screen alignment was occasionally wacked, by a 1/4 inch or so.
But the alignment screen function no longer worked, I had to restart the phone to exit the application.
Yesterday I flashed back to the stock Sprint ROM and removed the SIM card, I'm giving the phone to my kid so I wanted to reset it to factory specs.
So the 'startup for the first time' sequence begins and the align screen application simply will not 'align'. The crosshairs just prompt me to keep pressing for alignment but I cannot get past this to get to the Home screen.
I hard reset the phone several times from the bootloader screen, even tried to re-flash the Sprint ROM again, but no avail.
Any suggestions? I've been all over google looking for solutions.
I should also mention that it's a brick since I can't make calls/text, etc.. I'm stuck on the 'align' screen.
I took it to the Sprint store, they confirm that it must be a hardware issue.
Rep ordered me a new one, says it will be in by Monday or Tuesday, just have to activate an old phone for the weekend.
0 deductible!!
I'm glad that I got that Sprint ROM back on it just in time.
Has anybody noticed occasional and pretty annoying lags with the phone? I have owned the phone from Saturday and haven't noticed any issues in the past couple of days. But this morning, noticed lag on several occasions, many for 10+ seconds.
Noticed lag:
- When trying to update gas price in the Gas buddy app: The whole phone froze and didn't come back up for 20+ seconds. Restarted the phone and everything went back to normal.
- When receiving a call when the phone was asleep: First, I couldn't swipe the 'answer' button. I tried the swipe action, but nothing was happening. After few tries, the answer button went to the right of the screen, but the call still didn't start. It was few seconds of agony before the call connected and I was able to talk.
- When trying to send a text message: Started typing the recipient's name, got list of names from the drop down and selected the recipient. The phone froze for 15 seconds at least. Tried to press the home button frantically did nothing for several seconds. Finally I was able to get to the home page.
- At this point, I killed all the apps and services from the task manager.
- Tried to send the text message and was able to reproduce the lag.
- Restarted the phone, no lags.
Earlier this morning, I enabled flash on a website for the first time and visited a flash intensive website. Not sure whether that has anything to do with the lags.
I tried evo 3d couple of times before giving up on it for good because of build issues in both the phones. I'm desperate to like this phone because I dread going back to TP2. Hope this is not a recurring issue.
ive never experienced ANY lag with this phone. And I consider myself a power user
I have experienced this on two occasions. I've had the phone since Friday. Once was before I rooted, the other after I rooted. I didn't have to reboot either time, just waited for about 30 seconds. Hasn't happened enough to see a pattern. But, the one after I rooted occurred while using Gas Buddy. Hmmm.
Hi all,
I purchase my Samsung Galaxy Nexus from 3 (Three) UK Store last Thursday. It has been faultless bar the odd hang which taking the battery out has resolved. Im using it on Orange.
However, this morning I picked up my phone and was notified I had the volume bix fix update.
I downloaded and installed the update and all was well for about 20 minutes.
Then my phone started going crazy!
I think its something to do with the screen as it keeps popping up the google search bar and flicking through some options, then the screen stops responding.
Sometimes the phone flicks between home screens partially and make them jiggle!
Locking and unlocking the phone gives me 5-30 seconds of normal use, then the phone goes crazy or just doesnt respond.
Ive turned the phone off and on, removed the battery and even reset it this evening.
It doesnt do it ALL the time, and whenever I try and do it on queue, it doesnt!
Luckily tonight I got video of the phone going crazy.
Can anyone help?
The phone is bog standard, ie no roms/roots etc.
Should I take it back or is there something I can do?
Also, since ive just reset the phone, ive had to set up my mail. Once the phone behaved I put in my account details and then it started popping up the menu button at the top of email, ie to change folders or accounts etc. Deffinately seems to be something with the top of screen.
Thanks
you tube.com/watch?v=x3Lf1IozPpw&hd=1
Please check the video out.
Maybe download the original shipping rom from Google and fastboot the image onto the phone and see if the behaviour continues.
braingravyuk said:
Maybe download the original shipping rom from Google and fastboot the image onto the phone and see if the behaviour continues.
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This.
There's links to the original roms with or without the volume fix in place which can be found on the development section. I used this to update my gun and its working just fine. I'm also on Three UK and the reason I did this is because even though the volume bug doesn't affect us three users I still like being 100% up to date.
Rik.
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my wife's s4 mini (completely stock) has developed a fault where when u press the screen it will press in several other places also.
the phone has a slight scratch on the screen, so this is what I thought the problem was. this morning however it froze so my wife restarted it, when I came back on it said there were 3 messages and there wasn't any when she checked.
it had also changed the time and date.
can anybody give their ideas on this please
I have had the smartwatch three for a few weeks now, and it worked fine.
I still get texts and other cards, but when I try and speak to google, the blue circle that used to spin for a few seconds then display the text I had just said, now just spins for a minute or two, then at the top of the screen it says " Disconnected" with a picture of a cloud with a cross on it. I have phoned Sony, and they want me to send it in for repair. I have done the obvious things, full reset on the watch, and restarted my phone.
Any advice welcome !
Sorted
It's ok, had a mess about, not sure what I have done, but it's working again