In need of advice... - Epic 4G General

Hello all. I am hoping I can get some advice as to what to do about my wife's phone(epic 4g). Her phone is completely stock and has never had any custom rom or anything flashed to it. Over the last three months, the phone has semi-bricked itself 3 times. The phone will just power off by itself and when it is rebooted, it gets stuck at the "samsung" screen. The only way I can get the phone back to normal is by flashing DI18 with Odin v1.85 (no other versions work). Anyway, my wife obviously does not want an unreliable phone. I should also note that about 8 months ago, my 2 year old son took my wife's phone and threw it in the toilet. After taking the phone apart and drying it, the phone worked perfectly for the following 5 months. For that reason, I do not think it is a good idea to have sprint look at it because the water damge indicators will be colored. I have seen a thread here that talked about calling sprint and complaining about the epic and in turn getting a new nexus s. I am not sure what to do. I cannot afford another phone. my wife uses her phone as the house phone as well. The phone bricked itself yesterday so I flashed the stock DI18 rom. I then tried to flash EC05 and it bricks itself again. Even the OTA update bricks the phone when ran. I really appreciate any help/suggestions the community can provide.
Thank you
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Interesting problem you have there. I barely remember Di18.
I would use Odin to flash the EC05 stock rom. QBKing77 has an awesome video showing exactly how to do that. That would not brick your phone unless you are using the stock cable. Get a new one. First boot will take a little bit. Here is the link, the description includes all necessary downloads. I would fresh download everything even if you think you already have it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU
There is no reason it will Odin to DI18 and not EC05. Water damage doesn't force the phone to like one rom over another. If the others are "not working" as you said, then you are doing something wrong. Follow the video to a T and it will work.
If you want more I would the one click root it with CMW 3101 and remove all of the sprint bloat. Not necessary, but will help the phone a bit.

If the water indicator has already changed, what is stopping you from using a custom rom that is more stable? You might not have as many issues.

Thank you both for your replies. I am using the stock cable, so I will try a different cable. It may be possible that I am doing something wrong as far as flashing roms. It has been a while since I have flashed anything to my phone. Again, thank you very much for the help!
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I am just so confused as to why the phone semi-bricks itself every so often. My wife doesn't do anything out of the norm with her phone. I guess the only likely possibility is that the water slightly damaged something.
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Arion02 said:
I am just so confused as to why the phone semi-bricks itself every so often. My wife doesn't do anything out of the norm with her phone. I guess the only likely possibility is that the water slightly damaged something.
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Like I said, water damage will not cause your phone to only be flashed to DI18. Now the random reboots may have something to do with the water damage, without more info as to what is happening when it reboots I have no idea. Maybe a custom stable ROM with voltage control set correctly would help with that?

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Updating MYNS and BRICKED my phone in the process. Anyone else?

I was installing the new Myn's Warm lastnight upgrading from the previous version. It did not install properly and COMPLETELY BRICKED my phone. It won't turn on, can't connect to computer via USB, nothing at all! Anyone else have this problem? OR any solutions other than taking to Sprint?
I doubt that your phone is bricked. Hopefully you DO have a rooted EVO though. I would plug it in and let it charge. Then take out the battery and put it back in and turn it on while holding down power and volume down keys to boot into recovery. Also hopefully you made a nandroid backup so restore that and go from there. I had no problems with flashing RLS5 at all. Hopefully this helps. Otherwise maybe someone with a little more knowledge can help you...
Sprint is DEFINITELY not the answer...
do a battery pull and try to get it to hboot. then try and run the RUU. if not you may have to take it to sprint.
The phone won't charge, won't turn on, can't hboot. I do have backups if I could get it to turn on I could restore it. Had no problems before. I will attempt to charge it as you have suggested but I even put a different fully charged battery in and the phone does not even make at attempt to turn on. I agree I doubt that Sprint is the answer
did you flash any radio updates? any prls, I've never heard of flashing a rom making a phone brick, but definitely heard of radio updates bricking devices.
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i really doing think his update bricked your phone
This means that while installing Warm you bricked your phone. Don't give his ROM a bad name.
I would recommend trying to charge it and maybe try a different battery, but then just run the RUU and go from that. I had the same problem with RLS 4.
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If you used the package to update the pri, radio, etc then that may be the problem, hopefully you aren't bricked.
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Are you sure that you didn't flash the radio? I flashed Myn's rom last night and I didn't run into any issues, in fact I've never heard of a rom bricking a phone, that usually happens when a radio flash goes terribly wrong. Anyhow, you can take it back to Sprint since it's still under warranty and they will replace it for $35.
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i really doing think his update bricked your phone
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ive heard several people say it has in fact jacked their phones up. hence why i have not upgraded to it yet.
I'm not trying to give his ROM a bad name. I've tried many of them and like his the best by far. I'm simply asking if anyone else ran into the same problem. From what some others are posting it may have been the radio update which I did also attempt to install, it was included in the package. So please don't overreact to the post. However my phone is completely bricked unless someone can figure out how to get it to boot up or even charge.
the radio update isn't included with the rom.
it's also been highly advised in the warm thread itself to flash just the radio, then just the wimax, then perhaps the nv/pri, because so many people have been having trouble with the pri update.
the radio combo pack isn't bundled with anything else and, right now, many think it should be avoided for reasons just like this.
not a solution, just clarification and friendly advice for anyone else who's curious about possible trouble with the upgrades.
I updated my radio/pri/wimax and all that jazz before the last Fresh update, so I had no need to this go around. I simply wiped data/dalvik/cache and flashed the RLS 5, with no problems. I did run into issues after I tried restoring my apps + data, but that was a Titanium Backup issue
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I'm not trying to give his ROM a bad name. I've tried many of them and like his the best by far. I'm simply asking if anyone else ran into the same problem. From what some others are posting it may have been the radio update which I did also attempt to install, it was included in the package. So please don't overreact to the post. However my phone is completely bricked unless someone can figure out how to get it to boot up or even charge.
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Just my 2 cent.. often times we flash before reading the thread and then complain about a kernel,ROM or theme.
After reading what you said I can only come to the conclusion that you and all the others complaining about the radio update are obviously impatience. All who have had problem with the update on the radio all stated their phone sat on the white screen and they did a battery pull.
Yet the radio update thread says it will/can take up to 30 min to flash. The best way to check your phone would be to use another battery. I have never heard a bricked phone that doesn't cut on. That's a battery issue.
What kernel were you using before flashing?
What ROM?
What's your hboot?
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I'm not complaining on here. I am simply looking for a solution in which I've tried changing batteries and that doesn't do it either. If anything this is a post where others can learn not to make a possible mistake which has caused my phone not to work. I would think probably think the same thing if I were sitting back in your shoes. In hindsight yes I should have flashed everything seperately.
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I'm not complaining on here. I am simply looking for a solution in which I've tried changing batteries and that doesn't do it either. If anything this is a post where others can learn not to make a possible mistake which has caused my phone not to work. I would think probably think the same thing if I were sitting back in your shoes. In hindsight yes I should have flashed everything seperately.
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Does the phone attempt to charge when you plug it in?
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I can confirm brick.
I had a rev 4 EVO, and planned on updating from myn's RLS 4 to 5 today...and experienced the "no power on" brick.
Here's what I did.
Update Rom Manager to current (as of 1/8/11)
reboot
Update Clockwork Mod Recovery to current (as of 1/8/11)
reboot
clear/format cache, wiped dalvik cache
Applied calkulin's Radio/Wimax combo linked directly of Myn's RLS5 thread - the one hosted on mediafire
applied Myn's RLS 5 .zip
rebooted
hung at screen where the little android guy is standing next to a box with an arrow...i've seen this before in playing with roms, but can't remember what it actually is
pulled battery, reinserted, tried to power on with no avail
attempted every combination of button and long button pressing, with and without adapters, and could not get phone to light up at all or even resemble a working device in any way shape or form
I took to the store, claimed ignorance, they swapped me out with little hassle to an exchanged Rev 3 EVO. I figured if the tech could get it booted to the point where they even saw s-off, then they could give the phone back to me and i could take it from there.
Nope the phone will not even charge. I've changed batteries and chargers. I am assuming I am one person who has just had extremely bad luck with a random flash. I was running Myn release and did a backup and wipe then phone would not reboot and completely shut down. I got the android guy with the arrow and then it went completely dead and won't turn back on.
dth4310 said:
I had a rev 4 EVO, and planned on updating from myn's RLS 4 to 5 today...and experienced the "no power on" brick.
Here's what I did.
Update Rom Manager to current (as of 1/8/11)
reboot
Update Clockwork Mod Recovery to current (as of 1/8/11)
reboot
clear/format cache, wiped dalvik cache
Applied calkulin's Radio/Wimax combo linked directly of Myn's RLS5 thread - the one hosted on mediafire
applied Myn's RLS 5 .zip
rebooted
hung at screen where the little android guy is standing next to a box with an arrow...i've seen this before in playing with roms, but can't remember what it actually is
pulled battery, reinserted, tried to power on with no avail
attempted every combination of button and long button pressing, with and without adapters, and could not get phone to light up at all or even resemble a working device in any way shape or form
I took to the store, claimed ignorance, they swapped me out with little hassle to an exchanged Rev 3 EVO. I figured if the tech could get it booted to the point where they even saw s-off, then they could give the phone back to me and i could take it from there.
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That is almost exactly what happened to me. I considered doing the same thing but don't really want to chance getting busted for a rooted phone
i've never flashed a radio update, i'm too chicken lol.
the quickest way to brick any phone is a f'ed up radio flash. or pulling the battery while flashing a radio.
i would take it to sprint and tell them you accepted a over-the-air update and then your phone shut off and this is what happened.

[Q] Is there a fix I can't find?

I have just switched over to verizon from AT&T a couple of days ago. It was an impulse decision as I was only in the Verizon store with my girlfriend to get a her a new phone. I was showing the sales guy my pimped out Samsung Captivate and explaining to him him how easily these things can be manipulated and how much I loved my Cappy. Thats the last thing I remember. I woke up to find I had switched my service (3 lines) over to Verizon and I was now the owner of a Droid X.
I loved my Captivate and had no thoughts of ever switching but they had a promotion going on that blew my AT&T plan out of the water so financially it was a good decision. But I am beginning to wonder if I haven't made a mistake.
Out of the box, the DX is rebooting pretty often. I had planned on getting on here when I got home to find the latest and greatest ROM anyway so I didn't worry about it too much.
I am currently running Liberty 1.0 as my first flash. That is of course after flashing .340 which I read may or may not fix the rebooting issue. I am liking the ROM but the random reboots still persist. Its beginning to get too much to bare as I have yet to have one phone conversation that isn't interrupted by the phone powering down by itself.
I have searched for any word of a fix for this but I haven't found any definitive answers other than to do a factory reset. I have done that several times, as well as reflashing .340 and Liberty to no avail.
Before I take 3 phones back to Verizon and crawl back to AT&T and beg for forgiveness does anyone have a definitive solution for this?
Its worth mentioning that I bought my daughter a DX as well to replace her Cappy (she is NOT happy BTW), and it does the same thing. It is still stock out of the box.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
I have a Dx and haven't had this reboot issue, however, my sister traded in her iPhone for an x on my advice and now she's having the same issue you are. I was going to have her flash to liberty and do a system restore but obviously that hasn't worked for you. Hopefully someone will have an answer to this problem
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Send the phones back to Verizon, that is not normal.
In my opinion, not to say you don't know what you are doing which I am sure you are, I know you are well aware of the risks of flashing roms.
I hear more people having issues with Droid Xs that have been re-ROMed, flashed, themed, etc, then I do people with stock DXs that are rooted and cleaned up of bloat.
While my DX might not be clean out the box, it's still in prestine shape, rooted and even flashed to Cricket. I have never had a single issue with it unless I am bricking it or messing with it myself.
A lot of times, people mistake the phone as the issue. These were $600 phones when released, still are (give and take a few bucks lol). I doubt the issue is hardware. Send it back to VZW or try the Full SBF 320 using RSD Lite. It's been the talk of the town.
Could be that there's a bad batch of DXs going around that have just been released? None the less, VZW can get you replacement DXs over night practially.
Sbf to stock and reflash liberty. Or take it back a get a new phone.
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In my opinion, not to say you don't know what you are doing which I am sure you are, I know you are well aware of the risks of flashing roms.
I hear more people having issues with Droid Xs that have been re-ROMed, flashed, themed, etc, then I do people with stock DXs that are rooted and cleaned up of bloat.
While my DX might not be clean out the box, it's still in prestine shape, rooted and even flashed to Cricket. I have never had a single issue with it unless I am bricking it or messing with it myself.
A lot of times, people mistake the phone as the issue. These were $600 phones when released, still are (give and take a few bucks lol). I doubt the issue is hardware. Send it back to VZW or try the Full SBF 320 using RSD Lite. It's been the talk of the town.
Could be that there's a bad batch of DXs going around that have just been released? None the less, VZW can get you replacement DXs over night practially.
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Ben you are right about people messing up phones by flashing. But generally taking them back to stock will fix any issues that have risen from tinkering.
My issue is that mine did it out of the box. My daughters did as well.
Funny thing is just this morning I updated my daughters with the .340 update and it seems to have stopped. Its been quiet now for about the last 30 minutes. I reflashed .340 on mine at the same time and it has rebooted about 4 times while I type this message. Maybe my daughters is fixed, but mine is definitely not right.
Thanks for the comments.
My sisters phone is also doing this bone stock. It doesn't always reboot sometimes it locks up and she has to pull the battery. She's taken it into the Verizon store and they reset it to stock (not sure exactly what they did). That didn't fix it so she took it back to exchange it and they told her " that's normal, sometimes you have to pull the battery." So they wouldn't exchange it.
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Sadly this is has been a small issue with the DX, it's been posted many times. Mine did it when I first got it back in August and at first I was blaming Handcent on the reboots. Then for some reason it just stopped and I have never seen it reboot on it's own. Was it the update to 2.2 or removing Handcent? I've reinstall Handcent since so I honestly I don't know. Side note I still blame Handcent on the phones lag because when I uninstall it the screen redraws and the lag goes away.
Anyway there is a great big long thread on this at the Moto DX forums and Matt's (forum admin) advice was to return the phone for a new one. I would arm myself with a printed copy of the thread in case Verizon wants to throw a fit.
For the record I just dig this phone. I'm stock, rooted with just bloat frozen. It's been a great phone after the teething problems were solved.
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Help!!! Phone wont power up!

all i did was install CM7 nightly 41 after a full wipe, all went well. then installed titanium backup, restored all apps, then went to recovery and installed gapps, powered back up, and it tried to sync and it froze up, so after a while i pulled battery and pow no power!!! uh oh? any ideas?
Does it light up when you charge it?
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nope. i think its a total brick.
when i plugged it into computer the computer did attempt to install software (bubble on lower right of screen near clock that pops up saying new hardware found) but failed to install properly
holy crap tmo takes up to 7 days for an exchange to be shipped!!!! wtf???
verizon gives free 2 day exchange via fedex. tmo does it for 20 bucks for 3-5 days!! unreal. im starting to hate tmo more and more
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holy crap tmo takes up to 7 days for an exchange to be shipped!!!! wtf???
verizon gives free 2 day exchange via fedex. tmo does it for 20 bucks for 3-5 days!! unreal. im starting to hate tmo more and more
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Yea.. I hate that too. It doesnt really take that long though. You should get it in 5 days the latest.
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yea i bought a nokia prepaid X2 as a spare so i can at least get email. my old spare isnt great its a nokia 6310i lol. it works great as a phone but nothing more.
according to ups ground, its 4 days from texas to me, so tuesday i should see my refurb crap again lol.
just irritating, they wanna charge 20 bucks for 3 day shipping....verizon charged 10 for overnight and free for 2 day. unreal. i just dont understand how it failed like that. i did nothing different when changing roms! my phone was running like crap after i wiped and installed virtuous sense on it, so i wiped again and flashed CM back on, and it just bugged the hell out! any idea why it would brick like that?
Holding power+volume down doesn't work?
This may sound silly. But have you tried a battery pull?
You seem kind of stupid, you supposedly brick your phone and before anyone can try to help you call tmobile and tell them to replace it, then complain about how long it takes them to replace your screw up.
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ionic7 said:
You seem kind of stupid, you supposedly brick your phone and before anyone can try to help you call tmobile and tell them to replace it, then complain about how long it takes them to replace your screw up.
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And in the process make the cell phones and rate plans cost more for everyone else cause yet another a-hole wants there warranty honored when they knowingly VOIDED the warranty. Getting so tired of this. Between people bypassing paying for tethering and OVERLY taking advantage, and bull**** like returning phones that you KNOWINGLY VOIDED THE WARRANTY WHEN YOU ROOTED AND INSTALLED THAT CUSTOM ROM on it, it is ZERO wonder why they all want to sign the god dam bootloader anymore. These may be evil corporations were dealing with, but there is still a difference between right and wrong. These few on xda will ultimately be our downfall. This thread is all kinda fail.
Edit: sorry for sounding so harsh but you could have waited for at least a LITTLE bit of help first. it sounds like something not that out of our league to have fixed.
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battery pull yes, vol down and pwr nothing. charged it overnight, and led didnt even power up, tried 2 different batteries, etc. nothing.
i dont know why it bricked, i did nothing different than what was done before to it. any time i ever did have problems was with the bootanimation screen would stay on and device would never boot, but i was still able to fix that with a full wipe and fresh reinstall. this was maybe a hardware failure of some sort? ive done all the same stuff to my mt4g (went from iced glacier to CM7, been on CM7 since nightly 6 or 8 with that one), and for a longer amount of time now and no issues at all. funny thing is i dont even flash nightly, or weekly...usually about 10-14 days ill flash an updated newer rom. now i know some of you people here are major fanatics about flashing nightly, changing radios constantly, kernels, amongst other things...i do half of that stuff and at probably a tenth of the rate that some of you hardcore folks do. so before you wanna pass judgement, i have been doing this same stuff since november on 3 different phones and never had a problem since yesterday at random. so i dont know why some of you get pissed when people have defective equipment. id guess if my hinge broke you would be telling me it was because of flashing roms too??? my rom was already flashed, working, and then when email was syncing it locked up, did a battery pull and nothing worked since. get a grip folks, crap happens. its not like i improperly flashed a non sense rom direct over a sense rom then back again with no wiping, clearing cache, data, etc etc etc then flash 3 incorrect kernels and bad themes and so on. if my device at least would power up, i wouldnt have decided to have it exchanged under warranty because i probably would have been able to fix it somehow since there are write ups about semi bricked devices. even plugging it into the computer does nothing now.
We have been looking into this issue on IRC for the past week or so. ANYONE WHO IS HAVING THIS ISSUE NEEDS TO STOP BY THE IRC CHANNEL.
We need to get some more info, right now we only have 2 cases to go on.
irc.freenode.net
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battery pull yes, vol down and pwr nothing. charged it overnight, and led didnt even power up, tried 2 different batteries, etc. nothing.
i dont know why it bricked, i did nothing different than what was done before to it. any time i ever did have problems was with the bootanimation screen would stay on and device would never boot, but i was still able to fix that with a full wipe and fresh reinstall. this was maybe a hardware failure of some sort? ive done all the same stuff to my mt4g (went from iced glacier to CM7, been on CM7 since nightly 6 or 8 with that one), and for a longer amount of time now and no issues at all. funny thing is i dont even flash nightly, or weekly...usually about 10-14 days ill flash an updated newer rom. now i know some of you people here are major fanatics about flashing nightly, changing radios constantly, kernels, amongst other things...i do half of that stuff and at probably a tenth of the rate that some of you hardcore folks do. so before you wanna pass judgement, i have been doing this same stuff since november on 3 different phones and never had a problem since yesterday at random. so i dont know why some of you get pissed when people have defective equipment. id guess if my hinge broke you would be telling me it was because of flashing roms too??? my rom was already flashed, working, and then when email was syncing it locked up, did a battery pull and nothing worked since. get a grip folks, crap happens. its not like i improperly flashed a non sense rom direct over a sense rom then back again with no wiping, clearing cache, data, etc etc etc then flash 3 incorrect kernels and bad themes and so on. if my device at least would power up, i wouldnt have decided to have it exchanged under warranty because i probably would have been able to fix it somehow since there are write ups about semi bricked devices. even plugging it into the computer does nothing now.
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What is considered a defect on this phone?

I still have my phone under the manufacturer warranty and it has been acting wonky lately. I want a new vibrant and I am just wondering what is considered a defect? Im thinking about flashing back to stock and saying my GPS doesn't work, and also I have light leakage from LED buttons. Thanks.
what is "wonky" about it?
Maybe we can fix it... I don't like the idea of helping get a new phone, just for the sake of getting a new phone.
This (and other reasons) are why phone costs so dang much.
Smh...
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s15274n said:
what is "wonky" about it?
Maybe we can fix it... I don't like the idea of helping get a new phone, just for the sake of getting a new phone.
This (and other reasons) are why phone costs so dang much.
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Exactly, if it is indeed defective then by all means get an exchange. But if it just running slow then it can prolly get fixed with a flash. I process so many warranty exchanges that in all honesty there was nothing physically wrong with it. A simply odin to stock fixes them.
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Exactly, if it is indeed defective then by all means get an exchange. But if it just running slow then it can prolly get fixed with a flash. I process so many warranty exchanges that in all honesty there was nothing physically wrong with it. A simply odin to stock fixes them.
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And if you are willing to try, check my signature for going back to stock... files and a guide for you.
Random restarts, GPS still doesnt work at all, light leakage on buttons and screen. Ive tried numerous ROMs and I am still having issues with GPS. Ive went to stock and while it fixed my problems with restarts, stock was just to laggy so I went back to custom ROMs, GPS still doesn't work.
I am also having signal problems. Me and my friend bought a vibrant the same day and we have tested in the same room that his gets better reception. In a room where he has H, I am only on Edge. This isn't a problem with the ROM because we are both running Bionix.
If there is any way to fix my GPS/Signal issues then by all means tell me and I wont send my phone in for a replacement.
EDIT: Thank you guys for the help. Could ROMs effect signal/GPS? Like I said above when I compared with my friends phone under the same conditions (same room, same ROM) i was only on Edge and he had H. I've tried Trigger, MIUI, and CM7 and still don't have 3G or H in places my friend does.
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Smh...
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Thank you for the input I'm glad you gave me some good information as to fixing my phone/getting a replacement.
ROMs COULD be a reason since they have different modems... but if you guys were on the same rom and didnt change the modem, then no....
I have best luck on KB1.
I would ODIN to JFD, root, Flash Trigger and see how your signal/gps goes... if not great, flash the KB1 modem over it (dev section) and see if any better.
If you look in my tips/tricks (first link in signature) there is a fix I do for GPS. Sometimes on a new ROM when it DOES NOT work, I have to do that to make it work. Other roms, it works right after flashing... no real rhyme or reason.
If you want a new phone, i am certain you could get one based off what you said already..... but I would not be surprised if you could make it 100% right.
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If you want a new phone, i am certain you could get one based off what you said already..... but I would not be surprised if you could make it 100% right.
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not to mention the refurb you get could have the same problems or worse.
Refurbished is what you will get, there are no more "new" Vibrants.
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For gps try this http://www.intomobile.com/2010/07/21/t-mobile-samsung-vibrant-galaxy-s-gps-issues-fix-tutorial/
I am using stock KB5, it helped me get a lock in 15-30 sec.
edit: I did mess with gps.conf from hd2 forum, dont know if that helped too.

Hate this POS phone..

I really do hate this phone. No matter what I do I have nothing nut problems. I've tried stock and that sucks. Freezing and restarting all the damn time. I tried rooting. Same bullsh*t but it takes me 4+ hours to get my phone running . I spent from 9pm last night until 3am and then 1-4 this afternoon to get my phone running. I couldn't get Liberty to run right. 3g wouldn't work. Went back to prerooted gb and got my internet working again. Went to take a video and my phone freezes. Had to do a battery pull and lost the video which I can't get back. I don't care what anyone says but F*CK android! I've never had so many headaches and frustration in my life! I seriously want to throw this POS on the ground and go back to a regular dinosaur phone. If I do get another smartphone it will be an iphone. My gf has a iphone 3g and she doesn't have HALF of the problems I have. I seriously want to walk onto the Verizon store and smash this phone across the face of the person that sold it to me. $200 for something that I ha e nothing but issues with plus over $100 to use it. I'd be better off flushing that money down the damn toilet!
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Cool story bro. Do so. We don't care, as you are your own person.
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I had 3 defective iPhones when I used those pieces of garbage. It's called call Verizon and get a new phone.
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Lol I found this rant amusing. Any way obviously you have a defective phone. Get it replaced. Quit complaining. Ha ha.
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KJBlackbird said:
Lol I found this rant amusing. Any way obviously you have a defective phone. Get it replaced. Quit complaining. Ha ha.
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If you guys only went through what I've been going through, it wouldn't be so funny. I've seriously had enough of dealing with problems all the time. I can't just get a new phone because I've had this phone since November. Unless I do an insurance claim. You've all had freezes and restarts before, but you just put up with it like I did until I finally had enough..
lmao. 500k activations per day android and xda dont need u. i have iphone4 and dx. i hate the iphone. some people the iphone suits them better. usually they cant figure out android
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Woah, woah! Calm down dude. I have a HTC Wildfire with a development ROM on it which isn't even finished! And I use it daily without any problems. Try more Custom ROMs, sometimes the manufacturer rushes the ROM to hit deadlines, but developers (usually) don't.
But if you REALLY hate your Droid X, get an iPhone or a cheap old phone.
Galaxy80 said:
If you guys only went through what I've been going through, it wouldn't be so funny. I've seriously had enough of dealing with problems all the time. I can't just get a new phone because I've had this phone since November. Unless I do an insurance claim. You've all had freezes and restarts before, but you just put up with it like I did until I finally had enough..
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First, have you tried a factory reset? Second, if you've only had the phone since Nov and it's truly defective, take it to VZW and swap it out. Your warranty is a year
My brother had the same issue with his droid x, he just called Verizon I they sent him a replacement phone, he was still under warranty. They actually sent him 3 phones cuz every time they sent him one it was defective. The last phone he got is so far working well. I told my brother when he gets a new phone maybe he should get a htc or samsung.
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I've done more factory resets than I can count. I've been having problems with Liberty it's not funny. I'm trying to wait until CM7 is a little more stable. Right now, I'm running prerooted GB because I couldn't get 3g internet working on Liberty v.08 or v.09. The 3g would be there, but it wouldn't connect. When I flashed the prerooted GB .zip, my 3g started working immediately. Then, I tried to email and Twitter jrummy16 to try to get help with the issue, and he hasn't responded. I understand he's a busy man, but you should really deal with issues with your own apps and roms. I wasn't disrespectful or angry in these messages. In fact, I begged him for help. In Liberty toolbox, when you go to update and it tells you after you download the rom that it's going to restart in recovery and flash it, my phone just restarts normally. I did this 10 times with no luck. I had to use bootstrap to do it, and the damn 3g didn't work. I just want a phone that works. It will work for about a month after I flash something and then the problems start. My gf has an iphone 3gs and she hasn't had hardly any problems at all with her phone. The only problems she's had are with some apps not working. Before I got this phone, I went through 4 wildfires because those kept crashing multiple times a day, and 2 Motorola Milestone XT720s for the same reason..
Hater...
I was just wondering if you still breast feed. That may just explain your temper tantrum. If it took you 4+ hours just to root your DX then stop messing with your phone. Only operate your phone based on what the manual says. Enjoy!
johntsuei said:
I was just wondering if you still breast feed. That may just explain your temper tantrum. If it took you 4+ hours just to root your DX then stop messing with your phone. Only operate your phone based on what the manual says. Enjoy!
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I ran my phone stock until the GB OTA. When I had all kinds of problems, I finally rooted and ran Liberty 2.0.1 Froyo. It didn't take me that long to just root it. It took me hours to get it runnig right because of issues with Liberty. It's not my fault Liberty Toolbox has a bug in it and won't restart into recovery. The first time I tried to upgrade from 2.0.1 to GB, my phone locked up at the M logo. I pulled the battery, restarted into recovery, cleared the memory and cache 5 times each, and it still didn't work, so I had to SBF back to froyo, root, then download the prerooted GB file from another source because the one I had was corrupted, flash that, then when I had to manually flash Liberty v.08 THEN v.09, my 3g wouldn't work. I spent about an hour on the phone with customer service just to make sure there wasn't a 3g issue in my area, then I flashed back to GB prerooted, data wipe/clear cache 5 times each time, and I'm still having issues.. There comes a point where after going through all of that bull****, you finally have had enough. When I ran my phone completely stock, I had freezing/reboot issues. When I root, I have issues. No matter what I do, I have issues. You can all clown and I really don't care. Until you go through what I've been through, you won't understand...
Aww didums. Grow up and get some cheese.
Seriously if it was that bad, why didn't you just exchange it? And don't bother giving crap excuses, you are just a dumb ass.
Tits or GTFO!
My invention: The Idiot Meter.
When walking into a phone store, someone should hand you a tablet with a solid test to test your phone/smartphone knowledge, user accessibility and the ability to know how to perform simple self diagnostics/troubleshoot on your device.
Based on your score, you'll get the device that meets your tested IQ, or in most cases and certainly the OPs case, a swift kick in the ass out of the store with a 20% coupon to the nearest Walmart for a self service prepaid Tracphone.
Boy I tell ya, that sure would cut out 1/3 of idiot threads I read on XDA and potentially increase my life expectancy an extra 10 years from not having to deal with idiot customers! ( yes, I work for a major carrier on the sale front lines lol )
With that said, I am at peace lol.
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It's sad that you're all resorting to name calling. I worked for Cingular for about 3 years as well doing customer service in a call center. I'm a CNC machinist and program them to cut parts. The last thing I am is an idiot. I'm done defending myself against people who just want to call names and act elitist. Thanks for nothing...
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I'm done defending myself against people who just want to call names and act elitist. Thanks for nothing...
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You aren't helping yourself at all. Honestly, you sound as though you're trolling for attention. If you're having 3G connectivity problems (amongst others) where there were none before, then you might have a hardware issue. If you're truly having this many problems with your particular device, exchange the phone. If you aren't willing to do that for whatever reason, you might want to stop posting.
And FWIW, CM7 is solid and is easily the smoothest and most stable ROM that I've had on my DX...including stock. Once you exchange your phone, give it a shot.
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It's sad that you're all resorting to name calling. I worked for Cingular for about 3 years as well doing customer service in a call center. I'm a CNC machinist and program them to cut parts. The last thing I am is an idiot. I'm done defending myself against people who just want to call names and act elitist. Thanks for nothing...
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Maybe you should just stick with g codes then.
But no really your phone might just be the issue. Try a fresh sbf and then load on cm7. CM7 is more stable then most of the roms out there for dx. If you still have issue sbf back to stock and ask to have it replaced. Claim it reboots every so often for no reason. They will exchange it on that issue alone.
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You aren't helping yourself at all. Honestly, you sound as though you're trolling for attention. If you're having 3G connectivity problems (amongst others) where there were none before, then you might have a hardware issue. If you're truly having this many problems with your particular device, exchange the phone. If you aren't willing to do that for whatever reason, you might want to stop posting.
And FWIW, CM7 is solid and is easily the smoothest and most stable ROM that I've had on my DX...including stock. Once you exchange your phone, give it a shot.
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Honestly, I don't need attention from anyone. I was just pissed off and needed to vent. The connectivity problems were Liberty, because once I flashed back to prerooted GB, I was able to connect again. The 3g symbol was up on the screen, but the upload and download arrows weren't flashing at all. Like I said, I can deal with a lot of bull**** before the frustration becomes too much. I've dealt with issues in the past and didn't say anything about it. My phone will work great for about a month or two and then the issues start. Thank you for letting me know that CM7 is now stable enough to use. I wanted to switch over to it because of all of the great things I've heard about the rom, but saw that at the beginning there were a lot of issues with it, so I decided to wait until they worked out the kinks. I think I will start looking for the file and see about flashing over to try it out.. Thanks again..
tombug said:
Maybe you should just stick with g codes then.
But no really you phone might just be the issue. Try a fresh sbf and then load on cm7. CM7 is more stable then most of the roms out there for dx. If you still have issue sbf back to stock and ask to have it replace. Claim it reboots every so often for no reason. They will exchange it on that issue alone.
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Thanks. I'm still learning G-code, but I'm proficient in Mazatrol. I ran Mazak lathes for about 4 years, but recently started working at a shop running Haas machines. G-code isn't too hard to leran coming from Mazak. I think I will take your advice and SBF back to Froyo, install the prerooted GB, then flash CM7. I just did all of this night before last, but I guess a fresh sbf after going from Liberty back to GB wouldn't be a bad idea. Some of the problems I've had is with bugs in the files. I've dealt with corrupted files a few times in the past, and it's really frustrating to get that far only to have to sbf and start all over again. Every time I flash or sbf, I always wipe data/cache 4-5 times before booting up normally..
I could exchange the phone, but I would probably end up with a refurbished phone, only to have the same issues again. Can any of you honestly tell me that your phone never freezes or reboots???

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