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[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noahvt:
Hello,

Today my phone hit the water and the phone was covered with water up to the camera button

I left the phone to dry and it is working fine, everything works but the reset button is acting up :( my phone randomly turns off and vibrates 3 times and cannot be turned on, pressing the power button makes the phone vibrate 3 times again!, I have to pop off the back cover and physically rub over the reset button on the motherboard! After that it fires up straight away! However, it will happen again randomly.

Any tips?,

Thanks,

Noahvrt
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Araib93:
If I were you I would leave the phone to dry a bit longer, and possibly in rice etc, so that all the water is removed. One thing I am curious about is how long was it in water?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdlegy:
Turn off the phone and you will have to disassemble it and clean it with alcohol
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Smith2001:
has anyone come across the problem that when you move to say 3g from gsm or back or you loose signal as your in a bad signal area and then get it back, the phone actually looses the radio says "operation failed" and relocks on to the signal?

mine will sometimes loose the signal need restarting and on the boot screen will show NOGSM when its clearly installed as it worked 20seconds ago. i have tried many types of radio rangeing from 1.07 to 1.41 and all their varients. i am at a loss why my phone just looses it and then forgets it has actually lost it untill i try to make a call or send an sms. no calls or sms's can be received by me whilst the phones done this and it does it a hell of a lot.

sometimes it also just looses the radio half way through a call or data call.

anyone got any ideas?

i have a m3100

IPL 1.04

bootloader 2.10oli

and the XDA live OS installed. however it does it on any OS i have tried so far. and thats alot of them.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Larrys:
Same for me.

Same problem for me.

Often I get the message "operation failed" or "the phone is not ready, wait 15 seconds and try again". Thought it was a problem with the new 1.38 radio, but it seems to be something different.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Smith2001:
i also get all those error msg's. i have no idea how to fix it either and no 1 here seems to have a clue either :-(
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] torrentulla:
i Had the same problem with mine it due to hardware i guess. Your phone might have fell down or something then this kind of problem starts I fixed mine by opening my phone up and fixed the arial part properly
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Smith2001:
torrentulla

is there a guide you follow for that or can you give me any tips to do it myself?

thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] bvdorsten:
I fixed my phone almost the same way as Torrentulla did. I'm my case it seems that something was damaged when I dropped my phone a few weeks back. I discovered that when I pushed at a spot right below the flashlight that the radio kept coming up all the time.

These are the steps I took to repair:

Remove all 4 screws (very small torx) at the back of your hermes

Remove back

Put a little piece of paper on the "pressure" spot

Put your phone back together

Turn it on and enjoy!

I hope you'll manage to fix yours aswell!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] invictive:
Phone sometimes shows No GSM, fails to ring

Hey guys, I posted this in the dead hermes thread, but decided to post it here as it's not really bricked. I think it may be a faulty component or something.

My phone was working fine this morning, then in the afternoon I noticed I would have to try to make a call 3 or 4 times before it would go through, it kept on giving me the error (Can't connect, or something along those lines).

Then, I checked my voicemail and found that I had 10 messages from people who had been trying to get in touch with me, but my phone hadn't been ringing.

The kicker came when I soft reset my phone and all of a sudden No GSM popped up! I soft reset it again, and it was gone, and worked fine for a couple of hours. Now its back to not ringing again.

I flashed radio 1.41.00.10 about a week ago, and have been running fine with no problems since. I haven't flashed any rom's in the past week, and this problem just started yesterday. No new software has been installed (except Pimp my black v0.1).

I don't know a lot about the radio, but I didn't think it could become corrupted during regular use, I thought you could only mess it up when you were flashing the phone. I wonder if there is something wrong with the radio? Could the hardware be faulty? This phone is about 8 months old and hasn't had any problems up to this date.

I'm going to flash radio 1.40.10.0 again and see if that makes a difference, but I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas as to what could be causing this.

Sorry this post was so long,

Thanks

-Kai
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Smith2001:
it seems i don't have a pressure point on mine as the radio is working as and when it likes. which is not alot

gotta sort it out somehow, will take it apart and see if theres anything obvious.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] invictive:
I have the same problem too, phone sometimes shows NO GSM on startup and sometimes it works. Here's where I posted : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=306073

Now its not even showing NO GSM it just says: NONE, NONE

Also, I noticed that it will only last about 6 hours on a full charge before the battery is absolutely dead.

I'm beginning to think that it may be my radio 1.41.00.10

It seems strange that all of these people are suddenly having this problem now.

Whats the warranty like on these devices? Is it a 1 years parts and defects warranty? Or is it some ****ty 90 day warranty?

As it is my phone is a piece of garbage, not worth using at all, I am very disapointed in it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Larrys:
It's a hardware problem.

Hi guys,

I'm experiencing the same problems since two months and I've been struggling with all kind of OS, ROM, RADIO and bootloader, without even gettin close to solve them.

My phone randomly loads the RADIO (otherwise I get the "No Gsm" message), even when loaded, the connection is not suitable and my phone is often unreachable on the net. The battery life is very short because the phone always looses the signal and then seraches till he find it, before loosing it again.

So I disassembled my phone and did a lot of testing with hardware connections. I have found that the motherboard connection with the flash/scroll module isn't stable at all. You can easily move it and find that this affects the phone ability to load the RADIO. It seem strange but it's true. I can't solve the problem and I'm very upset with HTC because of their hardware components lack of quality. I would like to try to change the module to but I can't find a place where i can buy HTC hardware parts.

So I'm going to change my pda, I'll never buy HTC anymore.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] pelicantacos:
Any help?

Has anyone figured out the problem? If it is hardware, what "pressure" spot is it? I tried, but wondered if I'm not in the right place.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] bvdorsten:
In my case it was a spot right below the flash/scroll-part. As said earlier, i put a piece of paper on the spot and reassembled the phone. It still works excellent after a week!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] louiedafly:
My dopod can't connect to the mobile network as well, but only with the 3 network. It seems fine when being connected to an Optus network. Have you guys tried using a different network simcard?

I'm not sure if mine is a physical problem but maybe a setting which i need to configure so i can connect to a 3 network. Help anyone?

ROM version : Pro BLACK 3.0

ROM date : 01/04/07

Radio version : 1.41.00.10
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Smith2001:
mine also works just under the flash with the cover off, but if i hold it too hard then the screen goes all white and doesn't work, until i can get the case off its a hit and miss game at the moment.

thanks very much for the tips and help

Dan
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] Monty Burns:
I cannot agree with this more.

I am sick to death of this phone. I had one of the first in the country for normal sales and spent weeks arguing with HTC who flatly denied the screen alignment issue. EVENTUALLY I got them to fix this after referencing posts in this forum.

I continued to suffer the "coma" software issue - why is it so F*((&&^ dificult for a device to wake up when its auto-sleeped?

And finaly, to top it off, I have been suffering this problem. I cannot express how mad I am. Did I buy a cheap phone? NO. I have had nothing but problems with this phone and will NOT buy another HTC.

Oh and if anyone knows how to repair a failed Radio upgrade, please help me! I don't have any choice but to use it until the IMate Ultimates come out.

Due to seeing this radio problem I thought I would try downgrading the radio from 1.4.summint or other (the latest) to a slightly older version. This was of course before I saw this thread. During the downgrade the installer stopped at 15%. Now no matter what I do it sits at the IPL/SPL screen (3 colour bars+white). I have done the obvious i.e. follow the installers error procedure (remove the battery).

Device: HERM200

IPL-1.04

SPL-2.10.Olipro

Please help me be able to use this for another month or two at most - i hope! :(

Thanks guys

update:

OK Guys

thanks to this thread: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Unbrick

I now have it trying to boot the o/s. I get the message "No GSM" on the boot screen but when it boots up it asks me for my pin number and freezes. I guess its locking up because it has no "phone" part? According to the instructions in the other thread I am supposed to flash it again but I can't as the phone locks on boot.....

Any ideas?

*FINALY* got it back into pre-flash feck up situation. Sadly, this still leaves me with the hardware problem. HTC can go poke themselves until the cows come home. Im taking my money somewhere else.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aqua1ung:
Is there any hope for custom ROMs with Exynos chipsets? Or is it that that actually means the death of the custom ROM industry for Samsung phones?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FutureBSD:
There are some roms for the Note 4 Exynos. So don't give up the hope for the S6.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albe95:
Lol don't believe of what you read on other blog or forum written by users that absolute don't know the truth.

Exynos absolutely doesn't mean the end of custom ROM.

Give a look on S3 (it's exynos) forum. Only in first page there are about 20 Roms and this for 37 pages.

20x37= 740. And this without the original development section. Is that enough for you? :D

The disadvantage about using Exynos instead of Snapdragon about modding is only one: AOSP ROM (google stock based). This not mean you'll not see any google pure ROM on S6; but means that they will be more unstable and with more bug due to missing source of the CPU. No other. If devs are really "powerful" they could make a better Aosp rom for a Exynos than a Snapdragon device.And for me, buy an S6 to install

only

Cyanogen or a ROM like that it's a suicide.

A part of this there is no other problem.

Be happy and don't worry about modding ^^
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennonk:
My favorite Android phone was the Note 2 and it was Exynos powered and still has a ton of roms, aosp and stock.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohit25:
Yes it's dead end... If you goto Note4 original Dev section... Rayman is still trying to boot cm12....

And me on nexus 5 can run any freaking thing... Had Ubuntu running without bugs a couple of week back.... So HTC one m9 it is
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jhonys:
As a galaxy s4 user (i9500 - Exynos powered) I can tell you that all AOSP roms are a mess. The devs need to work extra hard and there are still plenty of small (and until recently - big) bugs present.

About a few months after purchasing this device I strongly regretted it due to TW lags and inability to change to AOSP roms, and promised myself I will never buy another Exynos powered device.

Hope this answers your question.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sauron0101:
Pretty much this.

The Exynos will mean that custom ROMS are very hard to get done right on the S6. The sheer audience base though might make the developers try, but I don't think it's going to get any better than the previous Galaxy S phones.

The only way that is going to change is if Samsung opens up their information around the Exynos or if perhaps we get a Nexus version (kind of like the Nexus S and what it did for the Galaxy S i9000 variants).
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droydr:
Exynos = closed source

closed source = no developer interest

S6 = locked bootloader

Exynos + Locked Bootloader = double whammy

Exynos + Locked Bootloader + small non-removable battery = Disposable device with 2 year max lifespan & low re-sale value
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] allendj81:
Bugs on custom roms?? really?! thats the excuse? custom roms, specially aosp ones are full of bugs and random reboots here and there, they are by no means perfect. I'm sure the S6 will have dedicated developers just like the exynos S3 does. No worries
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrcol:
Then why you guys buying the S6 and not the snapdragon S5 901F?

This makes no sense, CM support the S4 exynos but not the 901F snapdragon? all because of userbase?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoonRaven:
I have a snapdragon powered S4 and I have no random reboots or any bugs with an AOSP rom. So yeah, it does help to have a snapdragon vs an exynos which is still giving developers problems with AOSP roms.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goldie:
Love how "custom rom" immediately = AOSP in most people's eyes.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoonRaven:
Well, it is more-or-less the holy grail for custom roms. If you get that working for a phone you can do a lot of customization done.

I want the latest android version whenever it is possible. Waiting for an OEM to release it can take a long time. Also I don't like the custom skin over android by a lot of OEM's. I hate touchwiz for example so I flashed AOSP and used another launcher.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00123:
I think if the chip is made by the phone's company, it is most likely to get a very low support. I mean, there is a load of ROMs for my Xperia P, but every single one which is not based on a stock ROM has some kind of bug (no BT working, no NFC, no FM radio, and that goes for all).
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiyagiSan:
It means the end (practically) of stable AOSP roms - roms based on the source code of Android released by Google.

That is a very significant drawback for many users.

These are generally modified or modded stock roms i.e. roms created by modifying the binary files that comprise the manufacturer's stock roms. At best, they are poor cousins of true AOSP custom roms due to lack of source files. Look up the FPBug and emmc brickbug fiascos to see how limited these modded roms are. One needs source-based roms to be able to effect real change.

It doesn't matter how "powerful" a developer is.....no developer(s) can create a stable, bug-free AOSP rom for Exynos platforms without technical information and assistance that Samsung is intentionally witholding (and has been since the Galaxy S2/Note2 days).

If you care about AOSP roms for your device, the general advice is to avoid the Exynos platform for now.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albe95:
This is exactly the main point! What I want to explain to other users is that AOSP ROMS =/ (not equals) ALL ROMS
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aqua1ung:
Why would anyone care for anything but AOSP ROMs? A real ROM is an AOSP-based one. All the others are just frills and laces. At best.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albe95:
Completely wrong. If a real ROM is only an Aosp then buy a Nexus. No need to but a Samsung to install only an empty ROM.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aqua1ung:
Believe you me, I would buy a Nexus today. Unfortunately, Nexus 5 is yesterday's news, and the next Nexus is expected in early fall at best. Not much choice for someone who needs a phone with good hardware before summer. Otherwise, if Samsung and the carriers guarantee the newest Android in no longer than one week from publication by Google, I'd be very much open to non-AOSP-supporting handsets. That, however, ain't gonna happen.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albe95:
And what is the point on having latest Android in one week more than google? I may understand only if you're a developer, that you need to develop on latest build everytime otherwhise there's no need on having immediately latest version of Android.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goldie:
That in my opinion is a ridiculous statement. There are custom stock based roms that do what AOSP based do without losing functionality that the device manufacturer supplied. To say that is frills and lace is absurd. Each have their place. But to argue that the only roms worth bothering about are AOSP based is shortsighted at best
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] force70:
This.

And for the guy who mentioned all the roms for the s3...lol...thats how many years now its been out?

sent from Canada via my Note 4, 3, 2 or S3
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thistimearound:
While I get your point, you can't be serious about having the latest Android version a week after Google. Unveiled in late June, available the beginning of November, it didn't even make the distribution charts until January, and is only at just above 3% in March. Samsung, HTC, and LG didn't update their most recent flagships until February. 3-3.5 months after release. That's literally over 25% of the year. Roughly a quarter into the development and release cycle of the next Nexus device. OnePlus and Sony have been a little better (to much smaller numbers of people) and Motorola and Nvidia were genuinely impressive. Outside of that you either have a GPE or Nexus device or you wait. For God knows how long. Final note: some people want custom roms to simply remove bloatware, add themes, and enhanced kernels to their device. Not everyone loves AOSP.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
Custom, by default, means any changes from stock - so yes, you're right.

But it's also true that there are limitations to stock ROM tweaks versus building from source, especially if doing via smali edits.

One of those limitations, for better or for worse, is being stuck on whatever version is available in stock.

Some people do want the latest and greatest and don't want to wait - which is the advantage AOSP builds offer.

As you said, to each their own. Neither are less or more important in the greater ecosystem; it's all still Android.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istperson:
For the Note 3 there's still no official Lollipop rom for my region. I've been using Lollipop on my phone since mid January.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goldie:
Indeed. In the same way that a lot of people want all the samsung things both hardware and software to work. It still confuses me personally why people buy samsung when they say they hate touchwiz. Seems a strange decision to spend all that money only to wipe out a lot of the stuff that defines it as Samsung bu installing AOSP based. May as well have bought a nexus.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freakingprime:
Using an AOSP will never use hardware as efficient as stock-based ROM. Look at the crappy camera app in those AOSP....

There are many useful functions the manufacturer implement to their phone: call blocking, ringtone for group contacts, sms spam filter, sms scheduler, blah blah blah that work out of the box. I don't see that on AOSP.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istperson:
Look at cyanogenmod, for instance. The only rom where you can allow or deny access to your privacy per application. And it's fast, has a great battery usage, and is totally customizable. I really don't want to use any other rom for a time now.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droydr:
False.

You must not be very familiar with most AOSP roms then, because I haven't used a single one that didn't have those features.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
So Samsung is doing the same mistake Sony did with its first Android phone?

No Roms = born-dead phone

Looks like HTC will win this year after all
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattman83:
I think you severely over estimate how many people use roms, and of those, how many only want aosp roms.

Sure there may be a few thousand, but that doesn't even register vs the 10-20 million phones they will sell.

M.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroBreadCreamJellyPie:
There's literally just a bunch of partial speculation, I want to buy this phone but I want some hard facts before I do, lol

1) If I buy this phone, what are the chances of us receiving root?

2) What are the chances of custom ROMS being built? (should we achieve root)

2a) I keep seeing talks of "unstable" roms, please be more specific, if a rom is built for the s6, what kind of instabilities are we talking here?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istperson:
1. There will be root pretty fast, but only the one that kills knox, and voids your warranty. For the knox friendly one it might take months or half a year. I remember it took quite a long time for the Note 3.

2. Custom rom means knox flag, only the stock roms can be flashed unpunished.

2a. And there won't be too many "built" roms, because they need would the source, and exynos' source is closed. That means onyl reverse engineered stuff will be available, and that's usally buggy. Other possible roms are, the modified stock roms, with some apps and graphics changed.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroBreadCreamJellyPie:
So, basically.. No Cyanogenmod support, period. Right?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] force70:
Not entirely...someone will try and build it more than likely but it will be buggy as hell .

sent from Canada via my Note 4, 3, 2 or S3
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legend221:
I've seen the speed of the S6 hands on an it's very impressive. Seeing as the M9 is also regarded as a speedy device wondering if we will also have the Snapdragon processor here in the United States.

Hopefully we get the Exynos processor as well as its faster than even Air2 tablet. No comparison to any other tablet or phone at the moment.

Most people don't care to optimize and max out the potential of the phone but even a stock Rom will make a considerable difference to enhance an already awesome device.

.: Sent from an optimized 'ANDROID til I die' device :.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matheus_sc:
Tw based roms be out, but aosp will be problem
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroBreadCreamJellyPie:
I think I understand now, there will be custom ROMS, they just will be TW based ROMS as AOSP ROMS are damn near impossible because of the processor.

All I know, is that when I buy a phone, I want to be able to root it, and modify/customize it. From what I'm hearing I'll be able to do both, just not how I usually do it.

This makes me happier.. I just wish T-Mobile would hurry up and open pre-orders. lol
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JoeFCaputo113:
This exactly answers the OP. Here is your answer OP! :good: