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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] articoceanic:
i've tried everything on the net, it still keeps continuously looping. It would initially go the home screen and start doing the memory scan and i'd have access to the screen and then all of a sudden restart.

then i did a factory reset by going into the recovery mode, now it loads up and asks me to fill in my details like a new phone, when it reboots again.

what else is left to try, i cant even access my data on the internal sd card as the stupid thing wont stay on long enough to copy my data over through usb. As it keeps booting within 10seconds of loading the home screen.

i can access recovery mode and download mode.

please help

P.S. is this problem with just the galaxy s or all android phones, as it frankly is ******** me off to the point i'm thinking of going back to my candy bar Nokia phones, instead of dealing with this pile of **** every few months.

P.P.S. i am on android gingerbread with voodoo kernal, both of which have been fine for the last few months.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TIGER 123:
what rom r u on

---------- Post added at 03:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:26 AM ----------

this might help you go to darkyrom forum,flash 10,2 re,

this saved me a couple of times,you have to do it through odin theres a guide on the forum or checkout puggeruk on youtube"ref unbrick my sgs" hope it helps
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valinorian:
If you have important data on your internal card:

goto recovery mode, then mounts and storage,

connect your usb cable, choose mount usb storage in the recovery (dont choose the unmount usbcard!!).

Now you can access your internal storage.

Also you can try to flash the semaphore kernel from the development section.

After that do a wipe data/factory reset from the recovery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roasteddragon:
go to recovery>mount option> mount usb option and get your data ..

As fas as rom is concerned try to flash a stock de-odexed rom using odin . Might help :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadey3:
having tried flashing 2.1 (eclair) rom? with pit files

hope this works

cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buttwad:
Have you tried recovery/backup and restore and made a backup? Then I would remove external sd and simcard, back to recovery/storage and format the sd card. (this will wipe the internal card AND the external if it is in!!) Then remove battery, boot to download and flash a stock rom using odin, boot the phone, remove batt flash a kernel then flash your custom rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] articoceanic:
thanks guys, didn't know about the mount usb storage thing in recovery mode, at least my stuff is safe.

Did 4-5 factory resets and every time it would stay on for longer before falling into the boot loop. as of last dozen hours or so it is working fine. (hope its not a hardware failure, but merely software, phones nearly out of warranty)

But if it keeps happening again, will take your advice, mount my phone, copy my stuff over and install another ROM.

:) happy and relieved chap for the moment.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] articoceanic:
well the boot loop is back, but some more info, this time it seems that whenever i try to turn on wifi or use wifi the boot loop starts. So long as wifi is disabled its fine.

From what i've read it seems to be specific to the three network rom.

anyone know of a stable rom, preferably the most stablest rom without any problems out there, that they can recommend?

or even better, if better the stock default unbranded goodle rom for this phone without any network changes, that wont give me any problems?

:( all i wanted was a simple fast phone without any problems, might be forced to go to the dark side and buy an apple if this continues.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] snoopy1e11:
How do you manually program the epic touch with ## features I mean what's the ## code to manually program
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Drumrocker:
There is a whole ton of ## codes..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1069015
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nevell:
If you mean the MSL code then you have to call Sprint for that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] snoopy1e11:
Naw I mean the code u put in to get to the msl
[HTC Amaze 4G] IsThatBbq:
Hey guys, I just flashed my phone to the latest version of BeastMod last night and used it until my battery went dry. I charged it overnight, and this morning it went from 100% battery to 56% in around 2 hours while it was mostly on stand by! It was completely dead in around 4 to 5 hours and I barely used it for anything but a few phone calls and light web surfing.

Also, when I installed BeastMod, it didn't come with the Gallery app OR the web browser. Is this supposed to happen? I ended up installing Dolphin Browser, and some other gallery app, but now I can't send pictures over MMS. Has anybody else encountered these problems before, and can anybody give me some advice on how to fix it?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
If you looked in the thread where you downloaded the mod, there is also a patch and a warning from Xboarder to disable the facebook app sync.
[HTC Amaze 4G] IsThatBbq:
Do I download the .zip file and install it with CWM?

And does the patch fix all the problems up there, or just the power drain?
[HTC Amaze 4G] adslee:
The patch restores the gallery and browser apps, while disabling Facebook sync prevents the battery drain. If you're still getting battery drain after a couple of charge cycles, recalibrate the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bmolloy:
I am planning a trip to England this summer and possibly France as well. One of the main reasons I purchased the GSM Galaxy Nexus was the pentaband radio and it's ability to work everywhere.

What I would like to know is what plans are you guys (and I think I have seen one lady here as well) who are in Europe are using. I will be looking for a plan that would be good for up to 2 weeks, I don't really care about having too many minutes or text messages but Data is a must. I estimate 2GB of data use when traveling, knowing I will be able to use a lot of hot spots too. Not living there I do not know what the regional carriers reputations are, who has the fastest network etc.

I have been doing a little research and it looks like most carriers offer good prepaid sim only plans, I could just use some local knowledge for this.

Thanks in advance...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Danny80y:
I'm from Texas and just moved to the UK... I'm sure you will find many great pay&go sim cards..... I prefer o2.... just go to the web site or shop and get a sim... you can bolt on as much data as you need and the calling/sms start around 15 pounds.....;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aindow:
I would recommend Three whilst in the UK if you need lots of data. Their coverage is excellent in most places for 3g/HSPA+ I get 5-7meg in most places I go. Other UK networks aren't that great for data speed.

Go to https://www.three.co.uk/Support/Free_SIM/Order for a free pay and go SIM.

A £15 add on gets you UNLIMITED DATA, 300mins to UK landlines and any UK mobile network, and 3000 texts for 30 days.

They have other add ons too(make sure to select pay as you go phone). http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Get_better_value_with_an_Add_on

It's free to receive incoming calls on any UK mobile network by the way. If you go to France you would be best off finding a SIM card for a french network too as it will cost you to receive calls to a UK SIM card whilst outside the UK.

Hope this helps.

Rik.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] djmcnz:
My €0.02...

It also depends on where you're going... 'Europe' is a mish-mash of different countries with different carriers, plans and systems.

If you're travelling to multiple European countries on your visit, and especially if you don't want to change your phone number all of the time, it may just make sense to get a Vodafone pre paid SIM.

Whilst Vodafone aren't the least expensive, they are the most expansive across Europe. Dealing with one company can often just be simpler.

If you get a Vodafone pre paid SIM and load on the "Passport" service you can then buy a data bundle that will work pretty much across Europe at a lower rate (but still somewhat expensive - expect around €10 for 25MB). Casual roaming data rates can be as high as €10 per *single* MB.

I don't think you'll get this flexibility on another carrier but I could be wrong.

Finally... price also depends on where you get your SIM card from in the first instance. With this approach you only buy one SIM and the country where you buy it establishes the price you pay across Europe. If you purchase in Turkey or Greece (for example), you will pay less than if you purchase in the UK or Netherlands (per min and per MB typically).

Edit: Here's an old article... http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/cheaper-data-roaming-with-vodafone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bmolloy:
Thanks for the replies. It is surprisingly overwhelming looking at how many prepaid options there actually are in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. In the States prepaid sims are almost non existant, and when you do find some service that offers it Data is super expensive.

Here is another question. I saw that the 3 Mobile prepaid sims do not allow for tethering. Has anyone with a GN been able to get this to work, or will I have to pay for hotel wifi the whole time? I haven't seen if O2 blocks this, I will have to look into that as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aindow:
Most don't seem to allow tethering on pre pay but they don't disable the option on your phone either(they just stick it in their terms). I think you'll be OK. The worst they can probably do is take off pre paid credit if they found out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bnto:
Hi bmolloy, how was your trip?

like u, im planing a trip cross european, basicly france, london, budapest and barcelona; so i have de same cuestion, what is de best option for me?

here in mexico i have an option to contract traveler plan but the cost is huge, is 20MB for 52USD, if i cant find an option y will buy this one.

i will loking into the vodafone options and i imagine i will have to buy that there in europe.

tnks for all guys
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
so sprint just announced there first lte network area, and i just happen to live smack dab in the middle :p

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/28/sprint-caps-year-of-network-vision-milestones-with-first-lte-clu/

so other than huge jumping jacks being done by me, how likely is it that our/my phone will be able to be the new baddest MoPho on the planet?

**edit** wrong link
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Photon doesn't have an LTE radio so its not like you'll get to use it *jealousy shrug* lol. LTE sprint phones should make an appearance on sprint's line up some time next year. I'm thinking after the summer or Q4.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
i thought i read somewhere that the photon had a dual wimax/lte chip?
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Nope lol. Just wimax, cdma 1x evdo, and the gsm bands. I don't think there's a single phone on the market that has both wimax and lte if it is I bet you won't find in the US.

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_photon_4g_mb855-3987.php
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheChronicDroid:
Theres been rumors it does and that motorola has been hiding it..

We wont know until motorola releases the official full hardware specs of the phone this month (i think around mid this month) along with the phones kernel
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
There's no way they could hide it lol. The phone would have to be thicker to include a wimax and LTE radio. Again, there's no phone in the US that has this and I assure you the photon isn't going to be the one. There's been plenty of complete tear downs/videos and a wimax radio was alone. No LTE. I doubt they would "hide it" then reveal it. That doesn't really make sense to a marketing standpoint; if it had an LTE radio sprint would market the **** out of the photon to make money since the photon would be the only phone in the world with that combo.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
I've been told many times by Motorola & Sprint that it has LTE, and we will get it in a software update. I am going to wait and see. Who knows, we may be surprised, although I am not counting on it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheChronicDroid:
Then why else would they not release there specs till january around the same time sprint reveals a big suprise at ces the 10th and motorola be the first company around the same time as development of this phone talk with beceem to create a wiimax+lte chip anddd they could not release that info to sell sprints other phones for the time being then the people who have those phones but want lte when available would have to buy the photon?.. also like the guy said above me many sprint stores will tell you there will be an update for lte on our phones.. And the phone wouldnt be that much thicker at all if it was anyways its already a lil thick compared to samsung phones... The only tear downs ive seen couldnt get past the metal plating covering the radios.. If they did the lte+wiimax chip is a pretty simple looking chip so easily missed.. Not saying your wrong just saying I do believe there is a possibility and listed all the arguements ive heard stating why (ive also validated those arguements too) either way I love this phone!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
I guess I'll be one of the first to find out! It would be really cool if it is true, oh well if not.
[Motorola Photon 4G] craby1925:
Do you plan on doing a teardown and soldering off the metal plates? Because if so yoyu would settle a long time rumor and possibly make it to engadget or phandroid. Either way I'm excited.

Sent from the MY perspective EVO SHIFT 4G using xda premium
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
I meant ill find out if it does when they turn on the network and update the software on our phones.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
You willing to put a little wager on that? You're not getting an update because it doesn't have LTE in the phone lol.

Hey chronic you wanna bet? :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] wireless.praying.mantis:
I work for corporate Sprint and can say that the Motorola Photon 4G does not have a LTE chipset in it nor do any of the smartphones in current product line up have one either. Go into a Sprint S&R Center and have a TSR show you the MoBo of a MoPho and you'll see the chipset is a WiMax one. The Sprint market where LTE has been turned up is immaterial in the sense that they are not any devices currently available to take advantage of it. I would suggest people to tune into CES 2012 where we will make announcements pertaining to various technologies to be deployed as well as new products and services
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
I've been telling these dudes this lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
Oh well, I guess it was just another wet dream! :-P
[Motorola Photon 4G] chibucks:
Was told by Motorola this same thing... however, was told also that they're working on an LTE phone for Sprint... for some reason, Sprint & Motorola don't get along that well...
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
So if us cellular has a LTE network in select cities, could the electrify have the lte radio? Or do they have another 4G phone in the works?
[Motorola Photon 4G] craby1925:
Now would it be possible that they made the photon with the beacem 500 for the purpose of having a test phone for the network for when they were testing their lte network?

Sent from the MY perspective EVO SHIFT 4G using xda premium
[Motorola Photon 4G] roundeye1987:
From everything I've read from US Cellular, our phone wont do 4g. :( (this wont surprise some, but there were/are people holding out hope). Just read there announcement today that they have several new phones and a tablet in "R&D" for there new 4g network. Supposed to debut in select areas in June, if memory serves.

Sent from my CWM OC'd CM7 Electrify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] davisondan:
Sprint store reps don't know

I was due for a phone update and asked a rep in one of the Sprint corporate store about the LTE 4G that is coming out and does the current phones have the hardware to be able to use this and was told that all of the current top 4G phones (Galaxy II s, HTC Evo 3D, Motorola Photon, etc..) will be able to use the LTE 4G. Now that I have a Photon and will be stuck for 22 months should I return it and wait for a LTE 4G phone to upgrade to? I thought it was probably tgtbt that the current phones would be able to support the new LTE 4G. I probably should contact someone in Sprint about what customers are being told to make a sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
That rep was definitely an idiot....
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
LTE phones may not release until summer but we'll find out next week at CES 2012.

Edit: Quoted myself oops lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
I spoke to 3 sales reps, and 5 technical support agents today alone. They all say that the top 4G phones - HTC EVO 4G, PHOTON 4G... will support 4G LTE, and if they do not, the phone will be replaced with a 4G LTE device at no charge. I am 80% convinced. I have spoken to too many reps last year about this, they all say the SAME THING!!! THEY ALL EVEN SAY THAT THEY ARE READING THIS FROM AN INTERNAL 4G LTE DOCUMENT!

Now either Sprint is lying to the employees to get sales, or this is actually true! ONE OR THE OTHER, MAKE YOUR CHOICE ON WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Look, something fishy is up! Well, I don't know what to belive. I'll wait for CES 2012.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
^ Dude why are you always yelling?

Do you need a hug?
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
They are paid to say that lol. Only time will tell. I'm excited to see. I just don't get how they will support both wimax and LTE when all phones were torn down to reveal only wimax chipsets. Either sprint is lying about switching to LTE and they are just beefing up regular wimax or those reps are idiots. Maybe both!
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Lol, just ranting... I'm angry because someone is lying. Don't mean to take it out on you guys. I'm sorry.

A hug wouldn't hurt though, lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Yep, I see where you are comming from and right now, I have no idea what the f*** to believe. This is a friggin' conspiracy!
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
I don't know about that all your posts I see caps somewhere in there...it scares me :(

We won't have LTE maybe unless we get some sort of uber OTA

P.S. adding stars to curse words does not help that you are still cursing

I would rather you be up front about it most of us are adults

love, AJC nine ****in thousand
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
I'm Sorry :/ . I don't mean to upset you, look at more of my posts, I don't always use caps, unless I am trying to put emphisis on something.

I am not a scary person a all... Don't fear a good dead, or the screen, don't fear deedscreen.
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Okay, just don't want the mods to eat me alive. :P

- or deactive/suspend my account.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
I believe as long as you arent using the words of curse for hate towards someone or no one reports you, you are fine bub. I know you kids curse like sailors on the playground...I know I did ;)

You look at my history been here for 2 yrs just about and I use them every now and then. I have yet to be banned...until now hmmm
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
In my experience, there is always this one goodie-two-shoe, who has to report me for doing something bad, so I just want to keep it safe. I don't mind saying ****, hell, or damn, though. Just some people are highly offended by the F word, and I don't want to risk my account, so I try to play it safe. That's all.
[Motorola Photon 4G] KTT16:
Hey man, you're a part of ACS right? Have you written anything yet? Waiting on some good content..
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Yes I am... I am Jay Burke on the ACS Site, keep tuned to our site as we are getting some great improvements in 2012. I will be comming out with better articles this year, I have just done mostly basics, and a few detailed ones, but stay tuned on our site.

[To anyone who thinks this is spam, KTT16 asked a question and I answered it!]
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Don't forget to support my co-workers too, lol. We have some BIG things comming for us.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
ACS is awesome! Deedscreen is the man as well. If he was a woman I'd send him an autographed pic of my stache! :-p
[Motorola Photon 4G] pkomarnicki:
I'll believe that Sprint reps know what they're talking about when my new webOS phone comes out on their network.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
You just made my night. Thanks lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
Thanks man! You are pretty awesome too!
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
I Third That! My night was also made, lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
You forgot if he was a few years older too :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] kennypow3rs:
Hahahaha.

Make sure you go pick up the new cologne ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMm9ppmSmEQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Motorola Photon 4G] FrameCityJackal:
Ha ha I'll buy some hell yea
[Motorola Photon 4G] TheChronicDroid:
I want lte on photon :( *sniffs*
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Antenna Design:

The length of an antenna is critical to what frequencies it can receive. The higher the frequency the smaller the margin of error. So if Sprint LTE is going to sit on the 700MHz band, the Wimax antenna is useless. The only way for ANY Sprint phone to even pick up LTE is if LTE operates at the same frequency as wimax. This CANNOT be argued.

Chipset Design:

The ability to flash new firmware to have a radio accept a different network protocol is not impossible. It has been done in the past but has always been plagued with issues and end up where the radio has to be replaced. I have not seen any documentation from the phone manufacturers, chipset manufacturers, Sprint or the FCC to support that this will even be attempted. A change of this sort would require a submission to the FCC at a minimum.

Legal Issues:

In order to reassign the current wimax band to LTE would require that the current IEEE 802.16 standard be rewritten. Not only would this have to go through the FCC it would also have to be accepted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on a global scale. Any change of this sort is highly improbable as it would require that millions of devices worldwide currently on 802.16 to be replaced.
[Motorola Photon 4G] my2cents:
Loki,

So your sayin' there's a chance...... :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] deedscreen:
I can't stand these stupid liars, I can't stand Sprint now, I'm going to give them a call right now! Let's see how many agents stutter without an answer, I'll post back with what they say.

Look at this article:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/05/galaxy-nexus-sprint-rumor/

SPOKE TOO SOON!!! Okay, now I have spoken to wayyyy to many representatives about this, and now they are all saying that the update will be rolled out for the Motorola Photon 4G this Summer of 2012, also there will be an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update coming soon this year, (the date has been unconfirmed.) Lokifish is correct, they said that they are going to reprogram the phones with an update to roll out the LTE Network Compatibility Update to our devices. Also, they have told me that if the phone will not work with LTE, as long as it is in your area, it will be replaced at no charge. The only thing that I don't exactly believe is the free LTE phone replacement. Doubt that, but I am pretty sure that the phone will support LTE, if not, I have been warned, and oh well... By the way, the sprint rep said "What the heck is 4G LTE?" "Ohhhh, 4G LITE" yes, she actually said 4G Lite, like Light!!! LMAO!