This was just the other night. I was at the gym doing my thing when my phone starts acting up. Freezing, dropping wifi connection and the apps were behaving oddly.
I contributed all of this to the lollipop that I decided to ignorantly update to my phone.
Anyway as just the other night I begin searching and piecing it all together to downgrade it back to kitkat. I was tired woke up at 4am and took me 7 hours to figure it out.
Once I finally did though I backed up my pictures, video and thought I was in the clear. Well during the flash process I made 1st mistake and put the file that was for nexus 5 kitkat not nexus 4. So it never booted up. I reflashed again to kitkat. It booted. And by this time I thought I was in the clear and all is well.
Come to find I being the stupid dumb animal I was forgot to backup my text messages.
I can't describe the loss. I am SO pissed at myself being I literally held them all in my hand not even a day ago. And it is burning me up to lose SOOO much so quick. On top of that feeling I have no control to get them back. I had the files all on my pc sitting there and I picked and choosed. I should of just moved it all over. Then maybe maybe I would have a chance. Ugh.
Now I prolly am screwed but I literally will do most anything to get these back. I am desperate. As I had many conversations going with a lot of my friends and others in fitness industry and now I have to start from scratch again.... I would rather most definitely not.
I contacted a forensic team to discuss possibility and they said less than 1% chance..... I have heard of developers being able to freeze phones, steal data, and everything else under the sun. Please is there anyone out there who can help me? A google developer who knows something he never was meant to share. Im looking for anything. I tried different recovery softwares and they found nothing. I really don't want to give up hope.
I am so sad and pissed to lose so much. It like someone took a nuclear digital bomb and blew up my world. My digital ecosystem. It never crossed my mind that they would be gone
Please if anyone out there can help and if they know something I haven't tried I would be indebted and most grateful if you would be willing to help me. If someone can will you help me please?
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Whats wrong with this thing?
help i cant do this or that?
how do i?
text wont input right?
new software is laggy?
how come it wont?
how does this or that work?
tried this but still wont work?
stuck in boot?
ths wont play?
that wont tether?
will they replace this?
gps wont?
howcome everytime?
search, search, search where is info on this or that? (did you do a search?) YES, I have wasted 3 hours searching and that damn thing still wont work!!!!!!!!! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
and so many many many many many more.............
everyone could add items to this and we would al waste years of out lives doing just that cause it will never end..............
No wonder we are all so strung out frustrated and at our wits end and sometimes acting like as*es in our posts, we type how much we love these devices, then after we click submit thread and pick up our pda we go fu*k what the he*l is wrong with this thing now????????
Well i guess just keep soft resetting and flashing roms and installing, uninstalling, hard resetting, and backing up and restoring and and and and and and and and............... ;()
am i coming? am i going? what day is it? what time is it? what what what what????????
When i came from a standard cell phone to a pda I have since said there is no way i would go back, ssssssooooooooooo I guess just rip out my hair, smoke like a chimeny make another pot of coffee and spend more time F'en this thing than actually enjoying it....
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I find that having a girlfriend can help alleviate the phone problem thing. Or you could always just sell it and go back to a feature phone. Been a whole lot of whining lately, people with phones doing things it shouldn't, not doing things it should, or just plain not doing anything at all. Getting near christmas, all sorts of things start to go awry this time of year. Maybe a company sonspiracy to get people to buy new devices? heh.
About 10 minutes ago, my HD2 froze up. If you pushed the standby button, the hardware buttons would light up then go out as soon as you released the standby button. The screen would not do anything and just stayed black.
I did a battery pull and when I put it back in, the phone attempted to start up thenfroze and restarted on It's own. I was then greeted by a FRESH install screen as if I had just flashed a new ROM and all my settings are gone. Has anyone ever had this happen before?
Happened to me about two weeks ago...just another one of the oddities of this phone.
That's it?
That's really a HUGE slap in the face from both HTC and T-Mobile to know I laid down some cash for this piece of hardware, not to mention we rack our brains tweaking and fine tuning EVERYTHING about these phones and now the phone can whipe itself at any given moment.
We all laid down money on this phone. If you people haven't already, I suggest you get a good back-up program and back-up often. I've had to hard reset twice after my HD2 refused to accept my password. First time I didn't have a back-up. Second time it was a minor 20 minute fix.
T-Mobile and HTC are working on a ROM update so give it time.
best news i heard all weeek
dkb218 said:
We all laid down money on this phone. If you people haven't already, I suggest you get a good back-up program and back-up often. I've had to hard reset twice after my HD2 refused to accept my password. First time I didn't have a back-up. Second time it was a minor 20 minute fix.
T-Mobile and HTC are working on a ROM update so give it time.
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AMEN!! they should def make it a little more user friendly and not sooo loaded with junk/useless apps, it wont let me log into market place i just want to get some things like trapster and netflix ie things the fone should of came with, who still goes to blockbuster??!!!
they should def offer a "stripped" version of what ever they decide to release
jiggahj said:
AMEN!! they should def make it a little more user friendly and not sooo loaded with junk/useless apps, it wont let me log into market place i just want to get some things like trapster and netflix ie things the fone should of came with, who still goes to blockbuster??!!!
they should def offer a "stripped" version of what ever they decide to release
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While I agree it is wise to regularly create backups, I think this is a poor solution for these sorts of issues.
People with a device of this calibur should not have them in the first place. Same story as verizon and the BB storm. Everyone is so hurry to get the latest and greatest on the market they put quantity before quality.
Well looks like it happened to me again. Just 30 min ago...as much as I love the phone...it freaking pisses me off that this sh!t keeps happening. One more time and I'm contacting TMo customer service for a new handset (doubt that would help though).
mine did it. wtf!
Owned the Euro and the TMOUS, and it never happened to either of them.
My wife's HD2 formatted the SD card without any input from her. Weird.
Lesson learned, back your **** up on a regular basis and have a back up of that back up somewhere else just in case. People rely way to much and electronics and think they will never break. I don't care how expensive or nice you think something is, it will break eventually. I deal with these types of people all the time who have super important info that they cannot loose but yet they don't back it up anywhere and freak out when they loose it.
HD2 Reset
This happend to me not more than a week ago. I love this phone to death and put some major tweaks into it to suit me and everything was gone. APPs that I have paid for are now requiring that I repurchase them or provide serial numbers for full versions of them. Man what a slap in the face this was.... then two nights ago I was in town and it pulled up some home screens I have never seen before, I have been through this phone thoroughly and still have yet to discover where these screens came from or how. I cannot get them to come up again but I was very impressed with the lay out and definition of them........
My hopes are that these ROM updates will come out soon and fix these issues, they are major killers for this amazing piece of technology!!!
flash problem
sorry my mistake
This happened to me right now too
I cannot believe this! Google threw this post as first result for my search. I did not notice any kind of strange behaviour in the past 2,5 years. (bought in Oct 2009) Only thing was (after about 1,5 years) that the internal battery have lost the set time and date, but that was not disturbing as I havent restarted the phone so often. Today Ive decided to restart it, and after the reboot ALL of my Sense settings are gone, the phone says that Co0kies Home Tab is not installed on my phone, so I do not have any proper home screen now. Although the memory card is recognized (photos and other data are not missing) and the internal memory of the phone is intact too (phone numbers, messages are available). I cannot believe that something like that could happen with a phone, for which I have spent a huge amount of money... This is REALLY sad, HTC! There is no ROM or any sw upgrade for the phone since about 1,5 years, and in the meantime HTC released at least 20-30 brand new phone models... This is where the profit has higher priority as to serve customers, and (I hope) that this will lead to a massive loss of trust against HTC from all of the customers. This has already happened to me...
So ok a bit of a story but maybe someone can help me out here.
So I gave my girlfriend a vibrant, and unlocked it for ATT and threw Bionix on there for her.
Well, I then got it back from her after a long fight over how it was her birthday present and after our 5 years together she had the nerve not to even pick up her birthday card or other presents I had gotten her... I had gotten her the phone a few weeks early mind you just to make her happy because things were going fine.
Well, i'm almost certain she's been talking to someone else, but before she gave me the phone back she was smart enough to wipe the phone and put it back to the way stock Bionix is. I'm not sure how she wiped it or what she did but is there anyway I might be able to restore the phone so I could do some snooping?
I'd like to know honestly if i'm being lied to... so if anyone could help, i'd appreciate it.
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So ok a bit of a story but maybe someone can help me out here.
So I gave my girlfriend a vibrant, and unlocked it for ATT and threw Bionix on there for her.
Well, I then got it back from her after a long fight over how it was her birthday present and after our 5 years together she had the nerve not to even pick up her birthday card or other presents I had gotten her... I had gotten her the phone a few weeks early mind you just to make her happy because things were going fine.
Well, i'm almost certain she's been talking to someone else, but before she gave me the phone back she was smart enough to wipe the phone and put it back to the way stock Bionix is. I'm not sure how she wiped it or what she did but is there anyway I might be able to restore the phone so I could do some snooping?
I'd like to know honestly if i'm being lied to... so if anyone could help, i'd appreciate it.
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Lol... This made my morning. BTW.... No.
Hey it was worth a shot, and it's better to have proof then to be lied to constantly. Like I said 5 years, so it's not like this is some whatever girl, and i'm just curious to know if she's doing something behind my back... But she was smart enough to delete anything she could get her hands on it seems, pictures, everything
Daamm! Sorry total bummer
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Girls are COLD BLOODED MAMMALS.
If you cannot make her feel secure, she'll let you go easier than you can ever imagine.
lol thanks for the words of wisdom there. She may not be lying but just recent events have led me to believe there is something going on on the side lines, and honestly if thats the case i'd rather just know and be on my way.
But I also don't want to accuse and then ruin what is left of what we still have haha.
This is a ****ty situation sir, but unless there was a backup made, then there is now way you can restore it. You might check to see if there is a backup. If she was smart enough to delete it, she may have been smart enough to make a backup just in case the phone messed up for some reason.
I thought it would be fun to share some stories about phone fails! whether that be development that went wrong or accidents or embarrassing stories involving your phone. I'll start...
I used to be in the Army and one day while on exercise in Scotland, I was running and tripped. I slid for about 10 metres on my front with everyone laughing at me. I didnt realise until i got back to my room that my phone had been in my chest pocket and was now smashed to smithereens .. That weekend i went to buy a new phone, i needed one because i was going on exercise again for 3 days. I decided on the old Sony with the sliding shutter on the back (i forget the model number). it was a great little phone. I spent the whole night in my trench watching videos on my new phone, so happy. The next day we were going back to camp so we packed our stuff, filled in our trenches again and headed off. It was only when I was unpacking my kit back at camp that I realised my phone had fallen out of my pocket in my trench, I had buried it under six feet of dirt and the next day i was shopping for a phone (for the second time in a week!) epic fail
i think it would be great if others could share their experiences here! i'd love to know im not the only idiot in the G3 forum!
Oh no.
I remember the times when I was extremelly adicted to xda (not that i am not). I used to download each and every rom and would flash it just too see something new.
I remember the time when i flashed some stock rom. I left the computer while the odin fladh thing was completeing. When i came back, i saw my little brother had disconnected the usb eventhough the flash process wasnt complete.
I was SO scared cause it had a bootloader and if you interrupt the flash you brick your phone. It hadn't been a month since i had the phone and i imagined what would be my father's reaction
Moreover it would be hard to explain him what had really happened as he doesnt know anything of this.
I secretly went to samsung centre and those idiots said my mother board had a problem. I hardly beileved this so i came back to xda.
Finally i found an unbricking program which worked flawlessly.
But yeah, lesson learnt. Now i always stay near the phone until i see the "pass"screen.
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I think the name of the sony phone is K850i
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That sounds familiar! You are probably right
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Had the trustworthy Nokia 6233 before this awesome G3!
Anyways once had gone for a picnic to a nearby beach. We hadn't planned on getting into the water; just have a good lunch, play a little and head back home. But well the obvious happened and we did get into the water. I handed my 6233 to a friend of mine who was just sitting on a rock nearby (not in the water though) Had a lot of fun, with absolutely no concern for the world! That's when my sister pointed out that the friend who I'd given my mobile to, was also in the water!!
Oh, shattered, completely. Took the phone, opened it up, removed the battery and kept it for drying for 2 days. Alas it didn't boot ever again
But as they say everything happens for a reason. Went out and got G3 and like they say the rest is history
richiesajan said:
But as they say everything happens for a reason. Went out and got G3 and like they say the rest is history
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Well we are glad to have you in the community so buy your friend a beer!
I want to help my grandpa fix his color nook. It had your software on it, but now it's not working. Where do I go to start fixing it? He used to come here until he became ill. He had a couple of strokes and has some problems. My mom said it is ok for me to help, but I would have to learn how myself. What do I need to do?
1) your software doesn't say much you need to tell if it's custom Rom or has custom recovery etc..
2)not working doesn't define the problem tell if it boots up or charges etc..
3) no one can help you if u can't help them telling whats the problem
Are you GrandPaBear's grandson?
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Yeah I think that was his name. He's staying with my aunt Laura tonight so I can't ask him. But I think that is what he said. The nook starts to start up. The little robot zooms to the screen and an arrow goes around the robot. It stops and just stays there. Grampa had me take a little card out and turn on the Nook. It turned on and worked as a Nook. But when I put the card back in, it doesn't. So How do i fix the card so it works?
Here is his original thread. I'm sure the info you require is in there somewhere. Wish I could help, but I know absolutely nothing about dual booting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26730007
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I'm sorry I couldn't write back, I had to go to soccer camp for 2 weeks. I talked to grampa this morning, he was grandpa bear. grampa has me reading about the android. Told me to ask here if I have a question. I can do the stuff that grampa can't do for him, someone just has to tell me or show me what to do . He doesn't talk very well and his hands shake pretty bad sometimes, but he can use the nook if it is flat on a table. He had me order a new card for him. When it gets here we are going to fix the nook. right now he uses my moms ipad, but doesn't like using it. He said he was afraid of breaking it. He said to tell everyone thanks for the help. We are going to his farm to check on his goats and stay for a week so we won't do anything to the nook until we get back.