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So still running a froyo based Rom and whenever I make a phone call it always defaults with speaker phone on. Just started doing this a couple days ago. Tried rebooting, cleared cache and still the same. Any suggestions?
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If its caused by the car dock mode I think I found a fix.
I turned my phone off, cleaned out the USB port on my phone and bridged all the connections in the charging port with a piece of aluminum foil then removed the aluminum foil and rebooted it.
It happened after buying a charger from five and below. I'm thinking its caused by poor insulation allowing static charges on pins that aren't supposed to have a charge on them, however, I am not sure what causes it...
Either way, cleaning didn't work but the crumbled up piece of aluminum foil did the trick. Give it a try and let me know if it helps so I can chalk it up to actual fix or random chance.
Action B said:
If its caused by the car dock mode I think I found a fix.
I turned my phone off, cleaned out the USB port on my phone and bridged all the connections in the charging port with a piece of aluminum foil then removed the aluminum foil and rebooted it.
It happened after buying a charger from five and below. I'm thinking its caused by poor insulation allowing static charges on pins that aren't supposed to have a charge on them, however, I am not sure what causes it...
Either way, cleaning didn't work but the crumbled up piece of aluminum foil did the trick. Give it a try and let me know if it helps so I can chalk it up to actual fix or random chance.
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Well the car panel app starts up when I reboot the phone so I unchecked the automatic start and the app don't open anymore. So I basically just take the foil and shove up in the port then plug the charger in?
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I had the same problem just a few days ago. I took my phone in after having putting it back to stock (Stock Rom and S-ON). They ran the diagnostics and then replaced my phone for $35 under the 1yr warranty. Their first suspicion is water damage but if your water markers are in perfect condition and your phone looks like its in good shape then they might replace it. My 1yr launch day phone looked like the day i got it so they replaced it without any questions. Good Luck!
==My Original Thread about this same issue==
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14400365
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Well the car panel app starts up when I reboot the phone so I unchecked the automatic start and the app don't open anymore. So I basically just take the foil and shove up in the port then plug the charger in?
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Ok, let me post very clear instructions on what I did. If your car dock comes on when you turn the phone on , this is the exact same problem I had.
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, I DO NOT GUARANTEE THIS WILL WORK AND I AM NO RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DAMAGE YOUR PHONE. Below is exactly how my phone was fixed once and for all.
Here are very specific instructions on how I fixed mine:
1. Power off phone
2. Remove battery entirely
3. Get toothpick, CAREFULLY and GENTLY clean all debris in the port, I pulled out a ton of dust.
4. If you have compressed air, use it and clean it out with that as well
5. Take a piece of aluminum foil, crumple it up a bit and carefully stick it in your charging port and bridge all the tiny pins together, BE GENTLE but kinda move it around and make sure all the pins get touched by the aluminum foil at the same time.
6. Remove aluminum foil from charging port and discard.
7. Put battery back into phone
8. Power on and hope your phone doesn't have its speaker on next time you make a call.
Good luck.
Well apparently my phone must be f'd up. Tried the fix posted above a few times with no luck tried 3 different chargers with no luck. So I guess maybe I should unroot and maybe get the 3d. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Thanks for this post, I was about to post the same thing. Ended up doing the tin foil trick (took some from the hat I wear on my head). No more answering on speaker phone
So the strangest thing happened. Made a call before lunch and phone went straight to speaker as usual..went to lunch and left phone in the car, car was hot when I came back went to make another call and no speaker lol. Plugged in headphones and was able to control volume. And so far made couple more calls and all is good. Seems it took a week for it to work itself out idk.
Its def the charging port causing the issue. Had the same thing happen to mine last week on my Launch Day evo (Hardware 0002).
The link to that thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14397719#post14397719
-If you dont feel like reading that thread then ill give the short version.
I tried cleaning it out with electronics cleaner and it didnt help. Heck, i used a bit to much on my last attempt (of 4) and it got under the screen. The phone still worked like a champ but i hated that water look. So i claimed Ins on it and paid the 100 on it.
I should have been smart and had unrooted and taken it to the sprint store and paid 35 for the warranty.
Live n learn.
Sonjiin said:
Its def the charging port causing the issue. Had the same thing happen to mine last week on my Launch Day evo (Hardware 0002).
The link to that thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14397719#post14397719
-If you dont feel like reading that thread then ill give the short version.
I tried cleaning it out with electronics cleaner and it didnt help. Heck, i used a bit to much on my last attempt (of 4) and it got under the screen. The phone still worked like a champ but i hated that water look. So i claimed Ins on it and paid the 100 on it.
I should have been smart and had unrooted and taken it to the sprint store and paid 35 for the warranty.
Live n learn.
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Thanks for the info..I spoke to soon yesterday as the problem returned. So I guess I unroot and get the EVO 3d on the 24th.
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Hard reset worked for me
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had same issue, will try tinfoil trick.
In the mean time i found the app NoDock, loads a kernel module to disable dock entirely--works to stop dock and speakerphone nonsense.
Read more here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15199350&postcount=18
slackard said:
had same issue, will try tinfoil trick.
In the mean time i found the app NoDock, loads a kernel module to disable dock entirely--works to stop dock and speakerphone nonsense.
Read more here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15199350&postcount=18
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I'll second the NoDock. I bought the paid app and it was the only one of a few I found that worked reliably. No issues for me anymore. I'm not bothering with replacing my phone at Sprint as I plan to leave them as soon as Galaxy S2 comes out anyway.
This was a bug caused apparently by Skype for me, in fact almost all the bugs on my EVO 3D are coming from Skype.
No Skype running or logged out, no problem.
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I'll second the NoDock. I bought the paid app and it was the only one of a few I found that worked reliably.
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ThanK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ThanK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That app worked for me, But its caused by a broken charging port, I unrooted my phone and s-on took it sprint showed them the car dock problem and the speaker on straight into calls and they replaced my evo.
My S3 took one of those unfortunate, unexpected dips in a porcelain pool. It was buzzing and crackling before I could get the battery out. Let it dry out and everything was working except for the external speaker. No ringtones, speakerphone, music, etc. So I ordered a replacement for the external speaker module, dissected my phone and cleaned the couple spots that showed traces of water, and put it back together... and the speaker still doesn't work. So assuming there is nothing wrong with the replacement, there is probably nothing wrong with the original... and now I have no clue what to do.
I'm not generally real adventurous with my phone. It's not modded; still running the original OS that came on it from Sprint, but it's not under any kind of warranty or service agreement (and the indicator is now purple anyway.)
The internal speaker works and it vibrates. Microphone and camera are okay. Any suggestions? Please?? "I didn't answer my phone because I didn't hear it ring" is already getting to cause me problems.
There's a good chance that when your device took a swim something else may have been damaged. Did you make sure to check that all the connections were carefully placed, before connecting the new speaker ? Also you said that there were signs of water still in the device when you opened it. How did you dry the device ? Did you use Rice ? Or descant ? Most times just air drying the device does not do the job.
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There's a good chance that when your device took a swim something else may have been damaged. Did you make sure to check that all the connections were carefully placed, before connecting the new speaker ? Also you said that there were signs of water still in the device when you opened it. How did you dry the device ? Did you use Rice ? Or descant ? Most times just air drying the device does not do the job.
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I did just air dry it. When I opened it up there was no actual water remaining, but there was a white residue around what I am guessing is the internal speaker. I used rubbing alcohol on that to remove it. All the ribbon cables are securely in place and while I'm not adept at circuit boards I don't see anything on the motherboard that would appear to be loose or damaged. I can put it in rice if you think it would make any difference at this point.
Yes. I would still suggest putting it in rice for a few days. Even at this point. Electronics and water don't mix well. Especially smartphones. I've seen devices still have some moisture trapped in them, even after three days of Air Drying. Although the rice may not solve the issue. It's worth a try. If that doesn't resolve anything. ODIN the Stock Tar. If that still doesn't resolve the issue, well then it's time to take it in, and have a repair center look at it.
Hello, i only have my smart phone (my first one ever) since yesterday.
Managed to set some things up but i can already tell these devices consume a lot of time to do be set up and working right.
One of the first things i did was upgrade it to the latest Android version (7).
Today i took it to the pool to test it's water resistance - it is water resistant, that's the good news, but the bad news is that every time i held the phone under water it would stop recording the video after just a few seconds being submerged, and this with both, front and rear camera - it always showed some note saying something like "in this mode it can not zoom in and zoom out"!! Huh, i did not try to zoom in or out at all and have no clue why it would do this, anyone having an idea??
Next problem ... yesterday (with the original Android version it came with still on) i could connected the USB cord to the laptop and get my pictures out of the device .. today every attempt (except 1) gave me a Windows error message saying something like Windows can not recognize this USB device!! I tried everything, plug te cord into the USB2 port instead of the USB 3 port, same problem, i rebooted te laptop, same problem, i rebooted the phone several times same problem, what on earth is this and how can i fix it??
Hello, are you sure you have the android 7.0? Thanks
You should do factory reset, its highly recommended after android upradge. Be sure to back up everything important, as it will erase internal storage.
7.0 !!!
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Today i took it to the pool to test it's water resistance - it is water resistant, that's the good news, but the bad news is that every time i held the phone under water it would stop recording the video after just a few seconds being submerged, and this with both, front and rear camera - it always showed some note saying something like "in this mode it can not zoom in and zoom out"!! Huh, i did not try to zoom in or out at all and have no clue why it would do this, anyone having an idea??
Next problem ... yesterday (with the original Android version it came with still on) i could connected the USB cord to the laptop and get my pictures out of the device .. today every attempt (except 1) gave me a Windows error message saying something like Windows can not recognize this USB device!!
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The phone being water resistant as far as I understand does not mean that it can operate normally under water. It means that being submerged in water (hopefully) will not destroy it. Your particular problem might have to do with the touch screen. Capacitive touch screens can wrongly detect humidity as touch - even if you use them with wet hands. So maybe the display just detects user input while under water?
For the other issue I am afraid I cannot help. Windows can have the most bizarre USB issues. Just make sure that if you ever you did submerge your phone, you do not plug it to the PC (or anything else) before you are absolutely 100% positive that there is no residual humidity in the USB port.
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The phone being water resistant as far as I understand does not mean that it can operate normally under water. It means that being submerged in water (hopefully) will not destroy it. Your particular problem might have to do with the touch screen. Capacitive touch screens can wrongly detect humidity as touch - even if you use them with wet hands. So maybe the display just detects user input while under water?
For the other issue I am afraid I cannot help. Windows can have the most bizarre USB issues. Just make sure that if you ever you did submerge your phone, you do not plug it to the PC (or anything else) before you are absolutely 100% positive that there is no residual humidity in the USB port.
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Thanks for the useful reply, i can actually by now answer the issue with Windows not recognizing the USB port of the smart phone, and hopefully this will help others that i have noticed have come across this same issue in great numbers .... I noticed first that also quick charging only did slow charging, using the same port as needed to connect the device to a pc (USB port) than i also noticed that the speakers had no sound .... so i dawned on me ... there is HUMIDITY from the lengthy under water testing in these two "cavities"!! I mean, no water went into the device as such, but some humidity remained in there even though the rest of the phone was completely dried up and everything else was working just fine. Did what i learned online somewhere ... blow it out with the mouth as good as possible and than drop it into a bowl of rice (the rice sucks up moisture like a sponge or even greater). After an hour or so the USB worked just fine again, sound was not yet back in the speaker only in the headset, but after another 'rice hour" also that came back to live!!
Now i only have to find out if under water video taking is simply impossible .. but than again, i saw plenty of such under water videos taken by people in pools, so it should actually be possible, just how??
Yes, touch functions do not react well anymore when the hands are completely wet and this is something don't get, for photos we can use the volume rocker, but for videos not, but it would make a lot of sense to have the option as well for video when the device or the hands are very wet.
Rudme said:
Thanks for the useful reply, i can actually by now answer the issue with Windows not recognizing the USB port of the smart phone, and hopefully this will help others that i have noticed have come across this same issue in great numbers .... I noticed first that also quick charging only did slow charging, using the same port as needed to connect the device to a pc (USB port) than i also noticed that the speakers had no sound .... so i dawned on me ... there is HUMIDITY from the lengthy under water testing in these two "cavities"!! I mean, no water went into the device as such, but some humidity remained in there even though the rest of the phone was completely dried up and everything else was working just fine. Did what i learned online somewhere ... blow it out with the mouth as good as possible and than drop it into a bowl of rice (the rice sucks up moisture like a sponge or even greater). After an hour or so the USB worked just fine again, sound was not yet back in the speaker only in the headset, but after another 'rice hour" also that came back to live!!
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I am not an expert, but to me it seems you were lucky the use of the USB connector containing residual water did not damage the phone (or perhaps even the PC). No matter how waterproof the device itself is, due to the open design of our devices' ports, water can collect in them. If you plug a USB cable or headphones, a current will flow. Water in a connection like that can cause a short-circuit. For that reason my old Xperia had little port-doors that sealed the USB port. Unfortunately, those are prone to break off - and simply a pain in the back side to open and close for every charge.
My A5 got wet once, and there even was a message along the lines of "Moisture detected. Please do not plug anything until 100% dry again." And I think that advice should be heeded.
Nope, it still says 6.0.1
Pandotaz said:
Hello, are you sure you have the android 7.0? Thanks
You should do factory reset, its highly recommended after android upradge. Be sure to back up everything important, as it will erase internal storage.
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Hmm, i thought the update (pretty heavy one) was to Nougat and not just an updated version of Marshmallow .... bummer
I find it absolutely crazy that you tested your device by submerging it in water for an extended length of time.
Water resistant does not mean waterproof.
I highly doubt that Samsung actually intend the phone to be used under water. Moreover it's protection against accidently dropping the device in to water and gives a level of protection where the device won't be instantly ruined.
They don't make specific underwater cameras for nothing.
Secondly the error regarding the malfunction isn't surprising either. The focusing system probably isnt designed to cope with the refraction effect of the water.
It may work in fixed mode, I don't know. However I don't think it's actually intended to be used that way.
Let alone the damaging effect of electrolysis by passing a current through a water soiled port.
Fixed mode??
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I find it absolutely crazy that you tested your device by submerging it in water for an extended length of time.
Water resistant does not mean waterproof.
I highly doubt that Samsung actually intend the phone to be used under water. Moreover it's protection against accidently dropping the device in to water and gives a level of protection where the device won't be instantly ruined.
They don't make specific underwater cameras for nothing.
Secondly the error regarding the malfunction isn't surprising either. The focusing system probably isnt designed to cope with the refraction effect of the water.
It may work in fixed mode, I don't know. However I don't think it's actually intended to be used that way.
Let alone the damaging effect of electrolysis by passing a current through a water soiled port.
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Thanks for your answer ashyx.
I did not submerge the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) without due prior research!
Meaning .... if you check on Youtube for under water videos taken with this particular smart phone you find a bunch that all seemed to have great fun with it for extended periods of time in the pool, so i assumed if it works for them it should also work for me .... but, of course, your point was also of concern to me, none of these videos tell me what happened to their phones afterwards etc.
On mine the headset, for instance, still works for sound, but the volume and mute buttons on the headset are currently no longer reacting and the speaker is off and on still .... on the other hand, the water resistance clearly points out "can be submerged in water for up to 30 minutes and i am not sure if it says a debt of 1.50 or only 0.5 meters, and i never put it further down than maybe 10 or 20 cm's and for less than 5 minutes each time, so, it this IP68 or whatever it is called is of any real life truth and value the device should have zero problems with being under water for a video of 2 minutes at 15 cm or so dept.
Your thought of the water interfering with the focus metering i can agree with, was also my thought, but in all the YouTube videos i did not see this type of problem , so i am not sure if this was a case that these people all new how to set the camera into some FIXED MODE - can you please let me know how to do this, i did not find any settings for this???
Won't the message about moisture warning appear not allowing you to charge?
It will - but will you see it??
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Won't the message about moisture warning appear not allowing you to charge?
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Absolutely Pandotaz, but this message appears on the login screen and i have no login pwd or the like established, so it disappears quickly .. not to mention the small and hard to read print, in other words, easy to over look, exactly what happened to me, but that's what happens to not-so-smart- smart phone beginners who are already a bit older than average :crying:
At this point i would like to repeat my question in last reply, how do i set a smart phone camera to "FIXED MODE " anyone??
Hi Team,
I love my phone and am not looking to change it,I was in a meeting with my client and my phone dropped in water while doing so, but I had immediately pulled it out and cleaned and switched it off without any further damage.
Just to let you know that I had a back cover for this also which would have protected it to a good shot, however i am more concerned about the front panel and bottom side of charging port speaker, mic and headphone jack.
I could not open it from back else i would have done that and just put that in the rice bag for about 36 hours or more. then i put it under the morning sunlight for about 20 minutes.
Due to the sun I believe that the back panel now near o the bottom side appears to be pulled out a bit.
I have not swtiched it on yet even once, however, I have again put it back in the rice bag.
Any helps here, what should I do and when do i need to turn it on to see any damages.
I do want to go to service center for experts to get it cleaned it inside. However due to lock down i can't do it.
Can anybody guide me what and how to do from here.
I am really not in a mood to get a new phone. There are a lot of stuff saved on the phone that I even don't even have the backup for.
Please help me with this ASAP!
Definitely something shorted in your phone, unfortunately we can't just guessing which part is shorted, usually some diodes, but it can also be an IC.
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Definitely something shorted in your phone, unfortunately we can't just guessing which part is shorted, usually some diodes, but it can also be an IC.
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Hi arif, I have just tried working on my phone yesterday and seems like it is working fine for now. It's juts that it s lagging a bit.
everything is functional. I guess I'll have to wait until something strange starts to happen.
Hopefully then lockdown is over and we can get it fixed permanently.
Hi all,I am unable to charge my phone cause it detects that i have moisture in my port. My phone wasnt exposed to any water in the last week to 2 weeks.
I have tried to reset my phone. I have cleared the cache if the usb setting thing. I have taken a piece of toilet paper and cleaned it..
Its been stuck on this since 4 am this morning
Does anyone know how to fix it ?
Try gently cleaning it with an old toothbrush and a little anhydrous isopropyl alcohol. Allow to dry completely. Try a different cable.
Could be firmware corruption (SEU) or a port pcb failure, but probably not.
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Try gently cleaning it with an old toothbrush and a little anhydrous isopropyl alcohol. Allow to dry completely. Try a different cable.
Could be firmware corruption (SEU) or a port pcb failure, but probably not.
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Well thanks yeah that seems like that did it.. What i did was took some hand sanitizer (the one I have has like 90% alocohol in) with an old toothbrush and scrubbed the inside. After that took a hair dryer to blow it dry. after that it still showed the moisture icon.. so I gave it water. then dried it again. Restarted my phone a bunch of times with the cable plugged in and then the error cleared...
Costed a whole reset as well... which is fine..
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Well thanks yeah that seems like that did it.. What i did was took some hand sanitizer (the one I have has like 90% alocohol in) with an old toothbrush and scrubbed the inside. After that took a hair dryer to blow it dry. after that it still showed the moisture icon.. so I gave it water. then dried it again. Restarted my phone a bunch of times with the cable plugged in and then the error cleared...
Costed a whole reset as well... which is fine..
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Yay! Water, the universal solvent but always use RO or distilled water.
Buy some anhydrous isopropyl alcohol. Details matter. I would have used a blower bulb or very low pressure compressed air; you don't want to damage or breached the weather seal on the port.
Factory resets are rarely needed or advisable; find the root cause and correct it.
Factory reset for malware that can't be removed or the damage it caused. If it takes more than an hour or two to remove the malware, nuke it.
Boot loops.
Setting changes caused by 3rd party apps (or you) that you can't reverse. Most times they can be fixed but it can be a pain.
After a major firmware upgrade (which I never do).
A Single Event Upset, very rare but they can happen
Always try clearing the system cache before resorting to a factory reset for minor glitches.
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Well its back again. So I will send in my phone to Samsung to fix the issue. If they can't imma take it up with the telecomms company i got it on contract with.
I have reseted my phone... and there is litterally no apps on it so yea...
I have queried it with Samsung. They said the solution would be to take it to a authorised dealer for repairs..
I mean the phone is litterally 2 months old.
I also noticed the last like 3 weeks it doesnt fast charge at all anymore.. I have a fast wireless charger that works on my step brothers s20 Ultra and on my phone its just normal wireless charging. So I wonder if the pcb got hurt or something. Cause I did fly to my mom.
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Well its back again. So I will send in my phone to Samsung to fix the issue. If they can't imma take it up with the telecomms company i got it on contract with.
I have reseted my phone... and there is litterally no apps on it so yea...
I have queried it with Samsung. They said the solution would be to take it to a authorised dealer for repairs..
I mean the phone is litterally 2 months old.
I also noticed the last like 3 weeks it doesnt fast charge at all anymore.. I have a fast wireless charger that works on my step brothers s20 Ultra and on my phone its just normal wireless charging. So I wonder if the pcb got hurt or something. Cause I did fly to my mom.
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Might be a C port PCB failure. You did the right thing by sending it in. It's too new for this kind on nonsense.
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Might be a C port PCB failure. You did the right thing by sending it in. It's too new for this kind on nonsense.
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Well i am going to... this lovely country of mine is a mess.. so yeahh.. i will see when i can do it.. for now Im foing the wireless charge
in my older LG G7 it was by bad cable.... Did u try different cable?
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in my older LG G7 it was by bad cable.... Did u try different cable?
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I have 5 different cables with 3 different chargers.
I tried even my Stepbrothers S20 Ultra's charger same issue...
So received the June Security patch.. Seems like it fixed the issue..
See attachments (I haven't let ampere run for a while if it is charging at a fastcharge)
Billabomb75 said:
So received the June Security patch.. Seems like it fixed the issue..
See attachments (I haven't let ampere run for a while if it is charging at a fastcharge)
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But i did notice it only does cable charging and fast charging when it wants to... so there should be an issue on the pcb
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Might be a C port PCB failure. You did the right thing by sending it in. It's too new for this kind on nonsense.
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Finally sent my phone in for repairs. Will hear what they have to say. They said its gonna take 2 - 3 working days for assesment.
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Might be a C port PCB failure. You did the right thing by sending it in. It's too new for this kind on nonsense.
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Got my phone back 2 weeks ago. Sorry forgot to update.
Yup the charging block plus the cable between the charger block and motherboard got replaced.
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Got my phone back 2 weeks ago. Sorry forgot to update.
Yup the charging block plus the cable between the charger block and motherboard got replaced.
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The mobo was bad?
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The mobo was bad?
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It seemed like it yeahh... so they replaced it. So I'm happy
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It seemed like it yeahh... so they replaced it. So I'm happy
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Wow. Good it happened while under warranty.
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Wow. Good it happened while under warranty.
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Yuupp.. i agree didnt cost me a cent so its fine