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[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolreconlol:
Just ordered a used Fascinate from Cowboom, and I've had nothing but trouble. It didn't come with the standard oem cable, so I've been trying to use old BB cables, to no avail! When I try to access mass storage, I hit enable on my phone, but the computer says USB not recognizes, or something along those lines. It charges fine with the cable, but can't access mass storage. How do I fix this?

Edit- tried with windows 7, 32/64.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ice.candi:
I'm having the same prob with my husband fascinate (the pc recognizes mine with no prob)...I'm thinking there's something wrong with the micro port in the phone (it also got soaked in water overnight) but are you sure you have all of the right Samsung drivers installed on the PC? I know you can get them on droidstyles guide to rooting...that would be the easy solution...if you've tried that you may want to try different cables...although none of this worked for me it may for you...I'm now onto trying to replace the plug on the phone itself being i can see the corrosion in it...
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvmacd:
Get this Samsung cord for $1.67: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001XXUOQI/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

Then use that cord and tell us if it works. [Or you can try another micro USB that you have]

If it still doesn't work, and if it was originally purchased less than a year ago, Samsung will RMA it for free. Mine I got 11 months old, and would only charge, and not connect to the PC.

I had it sent back, they "fixed" it but it kept freezing every morning when I woke up [after sitting for a long time] so I sent it in again and they replaced the BGA or something and also the main board, and after that it worked fine.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] TheDarkTemptation:
Hi everybody!

I'm actually running the MiniCM7 from nAa (version 2.2.1 with nAa kernel v.11) and I can't connect my phone to my PC anymore! Any PC displays the ''USB Slot not recognized'' and my phone won't display the ''Connect to your PC'' message in the notification bar. Any help please? Thanks a lot

TheDarkTemptation
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] ponext:
1st make sure which one is the problem, is it from the phone or from the pc. have u try to put the cable in other usb port on your pc?

Try to re-flash your rom once again. If that is not working too, reboot your phone in cwm. make sure the cable is connected between your phone and the pc, then select mount and usb in cwm. select mount usb. see if this working for you.

<-----If i helped u
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] TheDarkTemptation:
Thanks for your answer but I've already tried all those options... I'm deseperate now. :/
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] belgianguy:
Does it charge when the USB cable is plugged in? E.g. does the phone state that it is recharging?

If in Windows, check if the device manager (Start Button > Right-click on Computer > Properties > Device Manager) still detects 'something' on the USB port, if you see a yellow exclamation mark, perhaps reinstall the drivers for your phone. (Flashtool comes with drivers IIRC). In any case, it might be worth a try to run SEUS with the phone disconnected, then it'll offer a 'repair' option, after which you must select your type of phone and connect it, hopefully the tool does not rely on the same driver. This would flash stock rom and stock kernel to your phone.

Should this fail, if your battery and WiFi still work, perhaps you can engineer a solution that downloads a new ROM over WiFi. You could upload it to your Google drive and download through the app or just use the internet browser. Then use a file manager like Root Explorer to move the files to the correct location on the SD-Card. Boot it into CWM and flash the new ROM and see if it helps.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] fjosuear:
Is the stock SE cable???, have you tried with another cable???

I have the same problem with the SE cable, my phone don't connect correctly with my PC, it disconnects automatically or never work...

Actually I'm using a Samsung cable for use the phone with my PC and works perfectly.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] ponext:
Actually u can try to take out the memory card and used card reader to other ROM beside that u used one. Then flash it. see how it going.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] samavedam_vijay:
Problem mounting usb on cm9 3.0.3

I have a similar issue with CM9....Everything was working fine untill 2 days ago the USB no longer mounts!! I can charge my phone but can mount the sd card..Tried reflashing the kernel,the rom and stuff its not working...Any help would be appreciated!!

:crying:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] TheDarkTemptation:
Thanks for all those answers but it doesn't work at all... I even buyed an official version of windows and a new usb cable, downloaded a new rom (XPM V.13) and tried to mount via CWM but that doesn't work! And I think I'll have to wait till November to get a new phone. FML.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] speedsys:
Tried through a different computer?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] TheDarkTemptation:
Already tried... 6 times.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] x10man:
Only some cables. Work on the MP. Samsung for sure. It might be the USB port, not the cable so you may be a Tad screwed. Sorry

X10man
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] TheDarkTemptation:
Thanks X10man, I've checked the inside of my X10 MP and the USB port is ****ed up. Gotta wait till november for a Xperia S Or a HTC. FML Again.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bpearson1018:
Okay guys, I'm only 14 and this really confused me.

I was running the Rom Glorious Overdose V2 and everything was as smooth as butter for several of weeks. All of a sudden everything started force closing and everything became unusable. So I wanted to restore the backup I made with the red Voodoo recovery. I watched all of the logs run and say I had a successful recovery from the backup. When I rebooted the phone, I was stuck at the Sidekick boot screen.

Eventually I was able to ODIN back to the stock Rom but I'm still very confused as to why restoring a backup bricked the phone.

Does anyone know or have ideas why it happened?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] senrai180:
Sounds like a permission thing, could've ran a fix. Also mightve been a certain change from your point, to the point in time where you made a backup.

P.S. I'm 12.

Sent from my rooted gift from God 4G running a Gloriously Overdosed ROM using the expensive XDA app
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orange808:
You also can run into problems trying to roll back to the stock kernel and file system.

It's a known issue if you read around the forum a little bit.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] specter16:
Hello every one.

Can I ask if i can use samsung 5V 0.7A charger with my HD2 ?

ThanX
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shanman-2:
Probably won't be too good for the battery, DON'T LET IT GET TOO HOT :eek:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ph03n!x:
Yes. For that matter any charger with output of 1amp or less is fine. Just make sure out is a good quality charger- Samsung is just fine.

Swyped from my HTC HD2 using XDA app
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
I have this rule when it comes to charging phones: If it fits, I charge. :D

Which is not completely safe, but hey, YOLO. :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Drowzz:
Exactly! I think also in that way xd Your device only live once (YDOLO)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] specter16:
one of my family member is an excelent multi device reparator " every thing which works with electricity "

he told me that if the phone power is 5V 1A, then all chargers that are less than 1A will make the battery HOT

and all chargers that are more than 1A it's fine to use them because the phone will use only 1A so the charger will gives him only 1A

(i tries this on other devices)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ammar.3a:
i used my phone with a Sony Ericsson charger and it worked as if a ghost is using my phone (touchscreen is working randomly by itself) then i used a samsung charger and its good. But still i guess using the original charger from htc is the best. I have to buy one myself :/
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ph03n!x:
The stock HTC charger is 1A. The stock USB charging voltage is 0.5A... My phone does not get all that hot with my stock charger or while charging through USB. And my car charger is 0.5A too, does not heat up the phone even while using GPS. The way it gets warm in all three charging scenarios is the same.

So- what I posted is from experience, that too with 2 HD2 phones that I have and use for close to 3 years. And yes, I have my multimeter and soldering rod handy too!

Swyped from my HTC HD2 using XDA app
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stanburn:
It won't be enough if you're the type that uses the phone while plugged in. IF on the other hand you don't use your phone while charging, it will be enough.

If you still have your original HD2 data cable, though, you can leave it plugged in your PC and it will charge up fine as though it were using the original wall charger. Which is what I do most of the time. I only use my wall charger for emergencies, or when I don't have a PC to plug into.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dave Trouser:
It will be fine. The phone/battery controls the charging current, NOT the charger. You could safely use a 2A charger, and it will still be fine - because it won't charge at 2A - that's just the maximum the charger is capable of.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ph03n!x:
While a charger rated at higher amp wont theoretically hurt the phone or the battery, I had a sour experience with my $1000 SE P900's charging circuit going for a toss after plugging it in to such a charger- this was in 2004/5. I have stuck to lower-or-equal amp chargers ever since.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] specter16:
i think that chargers and power sources which are bigger than or equals to 1A (like original charger and PC's USB port) are the ideal for charging ouer HD2 (specially when using android NAND)

i think thet chargers which are less than 1A are like someone who wanna take more than 5 persons on his small 5 places car !!!

no ???
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shanman-2:
Yes but there is the problem of when the charger knows when to stop charging
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Funnydwarf:
No, less Ampere = less current flow in a given amount of time, so by analogy you have 40 persons and you must carry them to point A to point B: if you use a car (5 seats) you need to make at least 8 rides to complete the task while with a 10 seats Van 4 rides are enough. Or you can do it with a 52 seats Bus (1 ride) but the extra 12 seats are'nt making you going faster.

Now, the car is a 0,3 A charger, the Van is 0,6A and the bus is 1,2A.

Is'nt the perfect example and the value aren't at correct ratio but, oh well...

the charger don't know anything at all, i'ts the phone (and the control chip located in the battery) that do all the work and decides when to stop charging.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] specter16:
hhhhhhhh..... good examle i think that's the exacte jobe
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] specter16:
confirmed...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] DINLONG:
As the title says: anybody tried qcell batteries before? I found them earlier on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/QCell-Univers...id=1342222580&sr=8-2&keywords=Qcell+galaxy+s3

They appear to have good reviews and the price is right. They also have nfc antennas in the batteries, not that I see myself using nfc for anything.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Alex2x3:
Definitely interested with this too. I ordered these today.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] brickbeats:
Please report back how they are after a week of use. Thanks
[Galaxy S III Accessories] devil_82:
i place my order.....guess it will arrive at my place end of next week. will share more when i get it. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kronium:
From all the reviews I've read, they're supposed to be same as OEM at half the price.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Alex2x3:
The reviews from amazon seem a bit fishy, all raving 5 star reviews and all the reviewers are brand new accounts with just one review. I'll have them by tomorrow and will post my results.

Any special app or way I should test them with? Or just a few full charge cycles to see?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mb27:
I am almost 100% certain that those reviews are fraudulent. Look at their other batteries. The ones with only 5-7 reviews are pretty much the same. 5 stars, only review... it's really not hard to game Amazon like this. Verified purchase doesn't mean much either when you can give money to your friends/family/employees/strangers to buy them and give them 5 stars.

Then the rest are 1 star reviews from people who bought them and realized they are crap.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] pvcdroid:
I ordered two and they work fine. NFC works as well and tested from my phone to my wife's S3. When I ordered they didn't have the two battery and separate charger available so was only able to get the batteries at $8.99 each shipped. Definitely stay away from Anker and Hyperion since it is confirmed they do not support NFC. The 2300mah QCell's are as good if not better than the Samsung original in terms of battery life.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] firetruck41:
Just received my Qcell batteries and charger a few minutes ago. Have the first battery charging now, will update when I have used them a time or two. It is not hard for me to believe the batteries would have similar characteristics to the OEM, it isn't rocket science... but time will tell.

---------- Post added at 12:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:24 AM ----------

OK, the Qcell battery is charged, I put it in my S3, and it fits like normal, powers up as normal, I can confirm NFC works the same as the OEM battery for me. I will comment on battery life, when I have used it a bit. Is there a good battery diagnostic app that mught be useful?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jgrimberg1979:
I have had the qcell batteries and charger for about a week now and I am definitely happy. After charging it fully and completely discharging it three times, I would have to say that it lasts noticiably longer than the standard 2100ml battery. Plus they are dirt cheal
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jlczl:
I have this as well. Got the two batteries and charger. The batteries are holding up nicely but the charger only charges them up to 90%. Anybody else see that?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] DINLONG:
eI keep hearing the aftermarket chargers don't fully charge any of these batteries. Has anyone found a charger that will fully charge?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] r1_2fast4u:
Ordered mine today should be here Tuesday. I will report my findings
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kronium:
Yeah I bought some ebay cheapies, 2 batteries and a charger for $10, and the charger only goes to 88%. Weird. The batteries give roughly 75% of originals. Not bad for the price.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] firetruck41:
Mine charges to 100% but it takes a loooong time. About 8 hours or so, starting from 15%. It seems to slow down for the last 10% too. This should be better for the battery, than a fast charger. The charger LED is purple while charging, and will turn blue when finished.

Try leaving it on the charger and see what happens. I thought the same as you guys the first day, but finally figured it out after some testing, using a volt meter, and then finally just leaving it on the charger for what felt like forever.

Only had the batteries a few days but battery life seems comparable to OEM.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] DarkManX4lf:
Be careful with the chargers. I had a similar one with my evo 3d. After about a few months of use the charger contacts shorted and the charger basically fried up. Basically not a good idea to put a battery in it while it's plugged into the wall :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jgrimberg1979:
I haven't had that issue. My charges 100%
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jlczl:
Even after 24 hours it only charges the battery to 90%.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] firetruck41:
I would contact the seller. Mine is slow but like I said, about 8-10 hours for a charge. Does the light ever change on the charger?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jlczl:
I might do that.

Yes. It turns blue.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] claysims:
One works. One DOA

One of the QCell batteries I received worked like a charm. Charged overnight, light turned blue, put in my GS3, awesome battery life, cover fit perfectly, and at this point I was applauding my thrifty purchase and feeling satisfied with my purchase though not being entirely devoid of skepticism.

After I charged the first battery and slapped in my GS3, I merrily put the second one in the charger ready for the elation of going "Oh, I need to charge my phone. Where's a plug....Wait a second! I've got a battery siting on the charger, just waiting to be used!"

I plug the second battery in, placing the first back in the charger, then into my GS3.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand nothing happened. Phone wouldn't power on. I tried putting the phone on the charger with the qcell battery in there. No dice. Just kept trying to load that charging animation over and over and over.

I agree with whoever, I can't remember who, that said the battery was great and the charger was ****. In the picture on Amazon there were two prongs that attached to the battery, mine only has one mysteriously. I don't know if I may have knocked it off in handling this fragile, cheaply made charger or what.

The charger sucks. The one battery that worked was great. But now I have a paperweight that looks remarkably like that first battery.

AND a crap charger that won't charge the OEM battery either (I don't know if this was expected or not) to my chagrin.

Also (and this is a small gripe) the plastic wrapper on the battery with that snazzy QCell logo feels cheap and has started to tear where I pull the battery out of the phone already after removing it twice. I don't know what the battery looks under there, but I'm too chicken to find out. I'll leave that for braver souls than I.

I'm going to try the customer support route simply so I know just how much to bash QCell, but my prediction is I end up ordering the OEM one anyway.

UPDATE: Now it seems as if one of the prongs on the charger has snapped off and is now rattling around inside the charger. Now have two paperweights, one looking remarkably like the charger I ordered.

Clay M.F. Sims

AT&T Galaxy S III
[Galaxy S III Accessories] elosogrande7076:
The issue with batteries not charging until 100%, is that with the qcell batteries only, or does that happen if you use the qcell battery to charge the stock battery? Im thinking about getting this since for 26 i would have two new batteries with NFC along with a charger that I can use to charge all 3 (including stock) batteries
[Galaxy S III Accessories] claysims:
Mine didn't charge the stock battery. I don't know if its because the charger is jacked up or because it just won't charge the OEM battery.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jlczl:
The batteries will charge to 100% if charged with the phone. The phone charger doesn't charge up to 100% even if it's the stock battery.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] frypan:
You should email up qcell to see if they can help you. they helped me in the past and are pretty good and getting back
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Alex2x3:
I've had these batteries a little over two weeks now, and unfortunately they have disappointed me also.

At first I was very happy.

Both batteries held charges very well, the charger was pretty nice with the changing light and usb port.

My first problem was the batteries did not charge fully, one to 89 the other to 90. The rest had to be done with the phone.

I decided to live with it because of how convenient it was to have two spare batteries. I hate having to wire charge.

But today one of the charging pins seem to have snapped into the actual charger so now I can not charge the batteries at all.

Another smaller issue was that the charger did not charge the stock battery at all.

Now I am stuck with just charging the stock battery like a normal person and it suck.

Really disappointed because I was very happy with them.

Also they raised their price by 7 bucks on amazon already. :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jgrimberg1979:
It charges the stock battery fine for me at least. I did notice however that one of my prongs was loose so I had to open it up and glue the prong back on to the plastic just like the other prong. This fixed the lack of charging issue due to loose or faulty prongs. Other than that I am still very happy with the purchase. The charges both the stock battery and the qcell battery to 100%
[Galaxy S III Accessories] firetruck41:
I am still happy with mine. It charges the qcell batteries as well as the OEM battery to 100 percent, it's just slow, as I mentioned in a previous post. Battery life is still on par with OEM. I am careful with the charger as the charging contacts seem delicate. And as slow as it charges, I would not use the usb port to charge a phone while charging a spare battery. But so far, easily worth $25.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] drock212:
I got the qcell batteries and they work great. The charger charges my oem to 100%. Haven't tried charging a qcell battery on there yet but I'll see if that hits 100.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] claysims:
I haven't been able to find any sort of customer support number/email. I sent them a message through the Amazon "contact seller" system, but I couldn't find any contact info for the company.

Did yours come with instructions or anything? All I got was the charger and two batteries in plain white boxes.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tjpallares:
I bought the cell batteries that the OP linked to on amazon. I should receive them tomorrow and I'll let you guys know if I get any problems as well.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] deedscreen:
Have one for my Galaxy S2 and love it!!!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tjpallares:
So I received my batteries yesterday. Like others, it came in a cheap box that was pretty messed up when it got here.

However, my charger didn't have any problems. So I immediately started charging one in the external charger and one in my phone. I believe it had about 60% charge when I put it in.

I've only gone through one discharge one of the batteries so I won't post any times yet, and I just put in the second battery that was charging with the external. It charged it to 100% and its been at 100% for a few minutes now.

And now I have my OEM battery charging in the external and I'll see how that one charges.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] KING SKILLZ:
These batteries are very good, after 2 days of use it is hard to tell if i am using the Q-cell or Stock battery. I don't use the charger as it has low output numbers, I use a samsung spare battery charger that I bought when the Phone 1st came out. no issues.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nihal1983:
have been using them since 3-4 days and i feel they are pretty decent. same if not more battery usage as OEM battery. one thing is these things take a lot of time to charge if you use the provided charger
[Galaxy S III Accessories] pvcdroid:
These batteries have worked well for me. When I ordered from Amazon they didn't have the charger and ended up ordering the two batteries. A week later the charger and two batteries were available. I e-mailed info@qcellpower.com and asked them if I could buy the charger separately and they replied saying they would just send me one. It did take a few days for them to respond and the separate charger took a couple weeks to get here from hong kong. I can also verify that the charger does charge the QCell and Samsung S3 original batteries to 100%.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] MzGx09:
+1 .. good experience so far and ive charged both batteries and the stock samsung battery to 100%.. it does take many hours about 5-6 for me.. but battery on my phone lasts 5hrs screen on time so its all good :cool: