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[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
Today my USB port went crazy. I tell you my story:

I started to learn Java development a while ago. So I flashed stock FROYO 2.2 XXJPS to be on some "official" ROM to test my apps with (+ test my apps on my Galaxy S CM10.1).

Today I tried to run my app on the Galaxy S, ran fine, PC recognized it, adb working fine. No problems.

Then, I connected my Galaxy 3 to make sure my app has good backward-comatibility :p and it started charging because it was off. I clicked to run my app, then the phone turned on itself and there goes the craziness. Galaxy 3 shows only AC charger mode instead of USB when the cable is connected, no ADB acess and I have no way to flash new things via DOWNLOAD MODE, because my comp won't recognize it. :rolleyes:

I have drivers for it, as I flashed ROMs without problems. I tried connecting the phone to other PCs too, without success.

So, I tried several things - factory reset. No succes. Tried flashing some different kernel, too... oops, cannot get my phone connected to PC in DOWNLOAD MODE (entering it and recovery works fine though). So, I'm out of ideas. I'm out of warranty, too. Uh-oh... I guess I'm in the same position as Chainfire, if I'll mess up some system files, guess what. BRICK. I don't want to say bye to this phone...

EDIT 13/5/2013

- OK, as I mentioned in the posts, some user fixed this problem by flashing ICS. OK I thought how about that? I asked in this thread how safe is going to ICS through recovery, nobody replied (I'm OK with that, not your fault :D). So I thought there comes a challenge. I want to fix it. But looks like you cannot go from CM7 to CM9 directly via CWM (I told you CWM is buggy) and then wiped data factory reset and reboot. FAIL. Screen turning fast on/off cycle. Looks like boot.img flashed wrong, so now COMPLETELY NO RECOVERY. And, what's worse, my USB connection fail problems forced me to once more reinstall drivers, switch PCs, but NO DOWNLOAD MODE recognition. So here it is guys, complete BRICK (because of the USB). No way to recover phone that doesn't communicate via USB port and has no recovery.

EDIT 22/5/2013

- Good day G3 community! I'm back with my "partially unbricked" G3 :D It has Android 2.2 XXJPS fully up and running. No crazy things like AC charging, but I cannot say for sure, as I need to do some more testing. Looks like the screen is waking/turning off like before (that's why "partially unbricked" LOL), just the USB connection seems more stable. Maybe it had something to do with battery voltages? Anyway, I left my phone laying on the table for a week, thought battery will discharge a bit (sit down a bit, if you know what i mean) and some days ago I reinstalled my PC. I hated the fact that my G3 is bricked and connected to the PC to give it another go. WOOPS! Drivers installed, ODIN MODE ACTIVATED! :D I have my phone connected to PC, ADB working, ODIN working, no ROOT as of now, just want to let it fully charge. That's it, I hope it will get better and better. For now no flashing, who knows what might happen... Still testing...
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shadowcareful:
had that problem too!

I just flashed via cmw a cmw flashable rom like experimental cm x

by marcellusbe and everthing worked again.

---------- Post added at 08:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:56 AM ----------

or you could try mobile odin app by chainfire!

but i'm not sure if our device is supported

link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro&hl=de
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
Thanks, I thought about that too, but Im on stock ROM and also stock recovery. So that wont work. Anyways this is weird, yesterday evening I left my phone turned on on the table. Suddenly it turned the screen on and off. I thought what the... And USB worked right then :) But now it does the screen on/off sometimes. Will play with it a bit and see how it goes. Strange... I definitely have to get rid of stock recovery...
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
Oh no... It loked like it's fixed, but now it goes crazy again. Still cannot get USB to work properly. Still AC mode and no way to make the phone recognized in download mode. Still trying to recover it though... I'm still with stock recovery, flashing anything through it won't work I guess...

EDIT: It looks again like it's fixed, don't know for how long though untill it goes crazy again... I hope it won't go crazy again! Testing how it goes...
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m1trand1r:
hm...ma8....did you tear ur g3 apart already and checked if usb port has bad soldering contact ?

or maybe sth is in there that messes up things....

Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 5 OFFICIAL << :D powered with DorimanX kernel v. >>9.16<<
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
I think no hardware stuff needed, I found some users in galaxy s forum who has the same issue. He fixed it by flashing cm9 and it worked. But cm9 is not yet done. And we don't have 3.x kernel yet. That wouldn't be much of a solution. Now the problem is, if I turn off the phone, it turns on itself automatically after plugged into some power source. And if I leave the usb plugged in for a while, phone doesn't recognize it, won't charge, then if I unplug it and leave it untouched, it starts the screen to wake, then screen off. Wake again and Screen off again. And it continues like that. Phone is going crazy.

Now I'm stuck at CM7 (it has the power-off state battery drain bug). Don't know what to do.

Anyway I'll probably look into the phone and see... Thanks m8!
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V!KR@M:
i remember that you can root your stock rom using a .zip which is flashable via stock recovery. And after rooting, you can try to replace the recovery files with cwm recovery files. Then flash another rom via cwm.

Edit:- Ok i think that .zip was for eclair. Any other way to root it?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
I already mentioned I'm on cm7 alpha 9. Still the same problem. Flashing other ROM won't probably help. Tomorrow it'll be weekend so I'll do some hardware teardown, just worried about messing it up. :)

Will let you all know then.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m1trand1r:
don't worry....I ripped apart my s2....:D....bricked amoled:o....lol....it's quite easy to disassemble it:D

Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 5 OFFICIAL << :D powered with DorimanX kernel v. >>9.16<<
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
Cool... Never knew how this phone looks like after teardown :)

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Looks like no problems here with the usb... Neither any dust :) So software is going weird...

The good thing is, it boots up again.

But I guess my galaxy 3 gave up?

EDIT: Now looks like SD-card is giving problems too, after removing SD-card and reinserting it, it says USB connected dialog even when not connected LOL. And when connected, the dialog does nothing after clicking connect button. Really weird. Also doesn't charge at all via USB now. I'm 55% on battery, hope I'll be able to charge it again (without the crazy loop I posted before at least via AC)!

Any advice now? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arjav23:
Try a factory reset or installing a custom cm7 based rom
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
As mentioned earlier, all of this didn't work. I could try to flash ICS based rom as some SGS user recovered from this earlier using ics rom, but even by reinstalling drivers my phone doesn't get recognized in any way (including recovery and download mode). I know, I have recovery to flash with, but it can easilly go wrong and for me it worked only to flash rom based on the same os version. If someone can try going from GB to ICS succesfully via CWM, let me know if it goes well, because I used to flash ICS only via odin, as CWM is sometimes buggy I mean: failed to mount /system, /data, /cache partitions and so no way to flash anything through CWM again. Only ODIN can recover from that. And I have no way to get my phone recognized in download mode. So no ODIN.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m1trand1r:
ma8 ....can you make a logcat while all this weird things are happening?Maybe logcat will show what might to pinpoint the cause of your issue....if you can get log please post it....and...you're rooted...or....i'm :confused: I don't know which rom are you running atm....:o

Sent fom my S-II running >>SlimBean build 5 OFFICIAL << :D powered with DorimanX kernel v. >>9.16<<
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
OK, here are some details:

ROM: CM7 alpha 9

Kernel: the one that comes with alpha 9

Rooted: yes, obviously with CM7

No way to flash via ODIN. No way that phone gets recognized in recovery and in Android either.

No ADB.

Removing micro-SD card causes the system to display USB Connected dialog. What the...?

For short, NO USB CONNECTIVITY. Except charging via wall adapter (even this is kinda buggy).

I attached logcat, it's kinda messy, because I recorded that with terminal emulator and then used the microsd adapter to get this to the PC. Cannot get logcat for the sdcard unmounting, as was recording logcat here. notice the line "UMS Mount failed, media unmounted" line in the logcat. What the...?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arjav23:
Does your sgs work perfectly with adb and odin?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
As said in OP, yes. Perfectly.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
Check OP for progress. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abhijeetsinghvsf:
Sorry if someone already mentioned, but

Following steps might help.

A. Re install Samsung drivers.

B. Go to force upload mode by vol up + home button + power

C. Flash Zero fill.tar and do not reboot, let odin show pass.

D. Reboot by button combo in force upload mode again and flash data fixer.tar

E. Flash any rom.

I am an excessive flasher and at some point of time have experienced similar problems.

Hopefully that will help.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zygis10:
So no more layout fixes and other good things made by you on our g3 :crying: :( . Good luck to you in your further theming on other devices and thanks for all good things you have made there :thumbup:
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twinky444:
Unfortunately I'm stuck on point 2. My phone doesn't get recognized by ODIN in any way - swapping cables, PCs, didn't work. Reinstalling drivers worked once, but then it broke to the state when it just doesn't work AT ALL. Just reinstalled again to check... Still nothing.

Thanks for the kind words, I still hope I can get it fixed, but there's not much chance I suppose as I'm out of ideas. The main problem here is the USB connection between ODIN, as this is the only way to get this phone recovered now. I recovered from this bootloader loop/missing kernel situation before, but that was when my USB was working perfect... It's not lost yet... But I think also the battery is a problem, I bricked it when it was 50% on charge and when I connect the phone now when it's off, it doesn't display the charging animation, because the kernel is missing. UH-OH... Does the phone charge when it's in download mode? (<- LOL sounds weird :D)
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] keith904:
Hi there,

I have tried to upgrade the radio stack on my XDA. This seems to have fried the machine so it will no longer get past the inital load screen.

I have a spare XDA that I want to try and get the Radio Stack ROM image off of (onto SD) and boot the broken XDA with this SD in and get it ot reload the radio stack.

Firstly is this possible?

Secondly, when I go to the bootloader on the working XDA and select GSM -> SD it tells me to insert serial cable and run PC Monitor. Now I have a serial cable but I have no software called PC Monitor. Anyone know where I get this and how it works.

I have seen various articles about Radio Roms but most seem to refer to the 1% problem, which I dont have.

Can anyone help please? I need some clear concise instructions on how to go from here :)

Many thanks

Keith
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] Biso007:
no known way to get the RSU on SD through boot loader options ... you better send your device to repair
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mominn8266:
Hey guys, im running the viperxl latest 3.2.8 and in the aroma installer i choose to completely remove sense because it saves a lot of RAM. Before without running any apps the ram would be about 850mb/1GB Free. After de-sensing the rom i get 600/1gb free. Im using NOVA Launcher to replace the sense dock.

Everything is perfect except for not having any shortcuts on lockscreen. Is there any fix/workaround? i really like the 4 icons on lockscreen where you can pull the ring to the icon.

If not, is there a way to install ONLY the sense lockscreen without install the whole sense system?

Also, ive tried downloading some music from my dropbox and i move the mp3 files to the "Music" folder on the sdcard. When i open the music app i see the songs but i get an error when i try to play them saying "unable to play this type of audio file"

Thanks for the help!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] exad:
You can enable the AOSP lockscreen in venom tweaks but I am pretty sure you don't need to in order get the lockscreen shortcuts..

I am almost certain you just need to set the lockscreen shortcuts in venom tweaks. I think they are unset by default.

I don't use venom, otherwise I'd check for you.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mominn8266:
Yeah i saw the settings in venom tweaks and i changed the settings also in custom lockscreen shortcuts, however the screen still stays empty without any shortcut icons. I was browsing through xda trying to find a solution and i saw a post saying that NOVA launcher restricts the use of sense lockscreen?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] area51avenger:
Correct. You need sense to use the sense lockscreen

Sent from my VENOMized HoxL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] exad:
ah then aosp lockscreen it is.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] s1l3nt:
weird. Lockscreen shortcuts with sense lockscreen work for me and i desensed it in aroma too and chose nova launcher. Try going into personalize and see if lockscreen shortcuts is checked. Maybe you unchecked it by accident or something
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] boss1019:
GO Locker

Use a third party lockscreen on the play store like go locker. Then you can get up to 6 icons and customize which does what and what the lock screen looks like
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mominn8266:
Duh!

Its always the simplest things that fix everything :rolleyes: THANKS!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TehAce24:
I'am worried that if I send in my one to get repairs they'll notice that it's rooted and won't be able to fix it.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Yep
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shree.bhagwat:
Hi

Greetings,

Yes rooting avoids the warranty

But it does not end their

You can make your phone complete stock again and return to HTC care centre

Basicaly you can root and unroot again
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
that's not correct, they will see that you've unlocked the bootloader... anyway if you root the phone it MAY void your warranty... hardware problems should be still covered by warranty
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giorgoxxi:
This has been asked many times. As a safe answer, yes rooting voids your warranty. But its not as simple as that, and it all depends on local consumer laws. In the UK HTC would have to prove that rooting caused the fault in order to reject a warranty repair. In theory only if you brick your device HTC should have the right to deny a repair. In practice they can come up with any excuse for any fault (e.g. your screen doesn't work anymore because you rooted, change to a ROM that modified parameters that caused the screen to fail etc.). And no, if you root and unroot, your bootloader status will be RE-LOCKED instead of LOCKED, so they will know if you previously rooted the device and could still deny a repair.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
that's right
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shree.bhagwat:
Hi

Greetings

I do agree about the bootloader thing but

As per my knowledge if you flash a ruu

Or relock the bootloader . Warrant remains am I rite? or I will have to update my knowledge
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
once you unlock your warranty MAY be void :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shree.bhagwat:
Thanks ill keep this in my mind
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Dude if you mess with your phone with rooting or flashing other roms be prepared to have your warranty voided. That's the risk you take. Unrooting isn't magically going to bring the warranty back.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
i think you said that because you have an s-offed htc sensation :) i had one too and for that device if you flash a RUU they won't see that you have unlocked the device :) but here we do not have s-off and we can't do that trick
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shree.bhagwat:
Hi

Greetings,

Yes your rite and I came to know we still do not have s-off for HTC one

Neways thanks for clearing my mind
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
glad to help mate ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] au1akh:
actually my htc one , ,overheats , i rooted it but then locked it back and have a htc rom , , one that comes along, , , ,can i access its warranty regarding overheating????? i am here in canada
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcrazydx:
What does that mean in English?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vizzy:
I believe he means, he 're-locked the bootlloader and either put stock back on through an RUU or he just installed a stock looking Rom.

If you unlocked your boot loader through revone odds are your warranty is fine! If you used the HTC website then your warranty MAY be void.

Best thing to do, is just run a RUU, and send it in. Some people have sent in their devices S-off and Unlocked.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] au1akh:
I will give it a try then . . Thanks #proz
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveO2013:
Hello,

I dont want to open new topic. I am on the latest 4.3 version with One and I want to make root, just root, no custom roms, just root for some apps. Can you please tell me the easiest, fastest and safest way to do that ? And also what should I do in order to make warranty in the future valid, like backup of stock rom or something.

Thanks a lot
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
how to root:

http://xdaforums.com/htc-one#root

About warranty: LOL read last 2 pages of this topic, its clear.

or from HTCdev.com:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveO2013:
Tnx but I am reading that there is some Revone way of unlocking bootloader and then I dont get re-locked in case of warranty, is that way harder to make ? I was hoping for some SuperOneClickRoot possibility :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
You can use revone to lock and unlock bootloader if you are s-off. if you are s-on, you need HTCDEV to unlock bootloader and root.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteveO2013:
And what is S-off and how can I check that ? Is it user friendly and easy to unlock with revone ? I dont like or know to write those commands, just want to have some GUI solution if possible.

Tnx
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
s-off, root, bootloader go read this:

http://www.pocketables.com/2012/08/the-difference-between-root-s-offon-lockedunlocked-bootloader-in-the-htc-evo-series.html

boot your phone in bootloader mode and check if flagged s-on or s-off

http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-boot-android-devices-in-fastboot-download-bootloader-or-recovery-mode/

If you mean no reading and no learning about ''those commands'' the answer is NO

I highly recommends you to READ and LEARN the basics before messing with your phone. If you F*** something up and you don't understand how to go back, your nightmare just began.

Best way to root: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38933080&postcount=1

Yes its possible, but I not recommends you to do it. See the FAQ topic here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2228274 Question 2
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToffieBoi:
Hello guys

I have a related question so I didn't want to start a new topic.

I wonder if I root my phone, will I be able to have updates from HTC? Or I should install RUU version, update and unroot again.

As far as I remember, because of custom recovery, I can't update but I am not sure.

Thanks in advance
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fresco1119:
it will void my warranty.. ok.. but?

but if my phone is out of warranty and i am ready to pay the charges will they still deny to repair the software problems?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
They will repair the phone even if rooted. What software problem exactly? Most software problem can be repaired yourself without having to send the phone and paying for the repair.
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] taz44410:
If some one could help id like to mod my theme with trans icons but need help

Am asking for guide with all needed programs/aps listed so I can do it myself
[Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps] taz44410:
Like this but flasable for tw based roms
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] massih88:
hey guys just want to tell you guys my experience with both devices. I have both now for some time and compared them very deeply.

First of all: im not a fan boy of any device! Im neutral! Hope my experience helps deciding witch device.

HTC ONE AND GALAXY S4 (1.9 ghz Canadian model)

now that I used both devices for sometime I can tell you guys they are very different. No question that the ONE is better build and looks better.

The speakers in the front makes truly some big differences. For example if you are on speaker, its more clear and laud compared to the s4. Me my self I don't care that much for looks because I have to wear a case on it anyways because of my job. So if you do, then I can tell you the ONE feels better in the hand, looks better and sad to say it is really sexy;).The S4 on the other hand feels not to bad too, its light and a good size, but plastic and it feels cheap. The display on both are great high ppi and look great. I personally have to give this one to the ONE. It just looks more real compared to the S4 that looks more cartoonish. The Cameras on both are really great. The 4 ultra on the one and the 13 mp on the s4 are for sure both very good. In low light it goes to the one and in day light to the s4. There is not really much difference. Now I come to the UI and this made my decision up between these both devices! The S4 with touch wiz is not that much different than the UI on the S3. The crazy thing about it is that it takes almost freaking 8GB of the internal storage. But yes you can use a sd card. Sense 5 is something new to the htc its very simple and in my opinion a little bit too basic. So for me the most important thing is that a device runs fluent without lag and fast! Exactly that point wins clearly THE ONE! it is smoother and more fluent.The s4 runs great don't get me wrong but it just dosnt feel any faster scrolling around then the S3. I probably will get something else to hear from s4 users now BUT I have both devices and use both for quiet some time now!

Im up for any question please ask I have both devices in front of me!
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] ovoxo.:
Thanks for the write up. Only question I have is whether you find your apps constantly refreshing or is multitasking working well ?
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] massih88:
Works well on both. It's quicker to access on the one for me
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] colts187:
The biggest complaint for me in comparison to my s4 is that the One is so damn tall. The s4 is easier for me to operate one handed which is especially helpful if I'm driving. Good post
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] designgears:
Please drive off a cliff.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] gunnyman:
Comparison threads on XDA make babby jebus cry.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] colts187:
I'll be sure to do that thanks