Help! My tilt freezes up suddenly and then reacts extremely slow to any inputs. I will push a button on the touch screen and it takes the phone about 3-4 seconds to react to the input. Any ideas on what may be wrong and how to go about fixing them? Also, the phone has problems every month or so about going into the 4 color screen when booting up and not starting properly (not sure if this has anything to do with it...very annoying!!). Usually happens though when the battery is drained. Any help would be excellent!
if by USB you mean the computer's USB port, is ActiveSync syncing when the tilt slows down? because I believe that's normal when ActiveSync is actively working in the background...
USB meaning plugged into my laptop...
...and active sync is not even recognizing my device. Everything i do on my phone is delayed a couple of seconds. When i unplug it from the computer through the USB cable everything runs at normal speed.
Another Problem
I tried a hard reset through clear storage (copied all of my contacts to the sim card since my phone was not syncing) and when the phone booted back up it started in the infamous 4 color screen (anyone know what the actual name for this screen is?) and won't turn back on properly!
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Help! My tilt freezes up suddenly and then reacts extremely slow to any inputs. I will push a button on the touch screen and it takes the phone about 3-4 seconds to react to the input. Any ideas on what may be wrong and how to go about fixing them? Also, the phone has problems every month or so about going into the 4 color screen when booting up and not starting properly (not sure if this has anything to do with it...very annoying!!). Usually happens though when the battery is drained. Any help would be excellent!
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I got a similar issue with my Kaiser. Pluged it via sync cable to my laptop/PC, and it would freeze both sides (PC and Kaiser). It is definitely a mini-usb issue, a pin is bend, creating a bad contact. If I slightly move the plug in the mini usb, it will eventually come to life. If the cable moves to the right again, it will freeze again. This isn't happening with a wall/car charger however.
Could be you're facing the same problem. Did you recently damage the mini-usb (by inserting the stylus inside instatd of the soft-reset button, like most of the people lol).
Thanx!
Now that i examine it, the USB is slightly damaged on the inside..will try a different one...
Will try when phone actually boots up properly.....
Still Freezing
Got my phone to finally boot up (after numerous attempts) and I used a brand new USB cable and it still is going reaalllllllyyy sloooooooowwww. It also won't sink with my computer. Anyone, please HELP!
jmelgdogs said:
Got my phone to finally boot up (after numerous attempts) and I used a brand new USB cable and it still is going reaalllllllyyy sloooooooowwww. It also won't sink with my computer. Anyone, please HELP!
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Actually, I didn't mean that the cable was damaged, but the mini-usb plug from the Tilt itself. Have you tried holding the cable while pluged right or left and see if tht Tilt reacts normally ?
That didn't seem to make any difference either. When I plug it into a regular charger it works normally.
New Discovery!
My headphones now do not work either. To recap, connect phone through USB to my computer, the phone moves as fast as my grandmother but though it still charges the battery. My regular phone charger works fine and the phone moves as fast as Micheal Phelps. Though my head phones perform sexually like my grandfather, they don't work at all.
I don't get it!
This may be the most unreliable phone I have ever experienced in my entire life. Now the head phones work after I put them in very slowly but when I take them back out of the mini USB port the regular speakers do not play and sound. When I plug the head phones back in I hear the sound through the ear buds. On a more disturbing note, I guess my grandfather is taking cialis. My mini USB port is just messed up!
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I have a familiar problem we've all read about but my instance seems to be a bit different than anything i've found when searching the forums. Heres the Details.
I have a Tilt, I'm running Dutty's WM6.1. I've been running it for weeks and all is great. recently bought a usb car adapter. plugged it in and the phone lit the red light of doom and shut down. i soft reset...same problem. so I left it alone. Now my TILT turns on fine, operates fine. boots in a timely fashion but will not recognize any USB cord i've plugged in. I've tried many. However it WILL charge when the power is turned off. the red light is lit while charging but it charges.
and in case it helps anyone...the bootloader does say SERIAL and no usb.
I've seen lots of different instances of this issue on the forum search but they all were a little different from my situation or an answer was never given in the thread. Thank you to any one who knows the secret to this or has a solution that works.
Seems you fryed some part of your USB port. You should send it in to AT&T if you're under warrenty. If not, best thing is to replace it by solderng a new USB port.
Kraize
Since you can still turn it on and all seems relatively normal why not back up your data and try a Hard Reset ?
You may not have bricked it...may I ask which USB car charger you bought so I can avoid it ?
I doubt the physical USB jack is damaged, anythings possible but it's more likely worse than that IF it is not software/rom related.
Hope you solve it cheaply !
are you trying to charge it with the one that came with the kaiser?
Hello,
Leaving for school tomorrow and of course something has to happen to the phone...
Basically, i am running Sleuth 3.0 on my Tilt, been working wonderfully or around 3 weeks so far.
I resently reset my computer and my Active Sync for the Tilt was not installed. Upon Plugging the tilt into the laptop, it shut down after the computer scanned the hardware.
After shutting down, now, it will only boot up until around right when the main screen appears, and then immediately after states that the battery is at a critical level and needs to be either charged or replaced.
I plugged the phone in and charged it for around an hour, and when reseting it, "soft reset" nothing changed.
I then attempted again, and then attempted a hard reset with the soft keys and reset button.. nothing
I have noticed that the main screen touch function is not working either when it loads, only the keys work.. also, when i reset the phone while plugged in, "smart mobility" loads, and then freezes..
Attempted to plug into car charger as well and nothing worked.
anyone know what can be done?
Thanks,
Tiler
doean anyone know?!
It seems to me that your only problem is with the power of the phone. Do you have the original chargers? or a generic one that is good for many phones? I found that many mini-usb chargers only work if the phone has some power left. Once I was completely out of power, those chargers would no longer give my phone any power.
Ill try that out and see what it does. I have it plugged into the computer usb and hopefully after an hour or so of charging ill notice it working.
Alright my phone has randomly stopped charging and its very annoying. I thought it was a bug in JF's 1.5 so I reflashed back to RC29 and rerooted and got back to cupcake with apps2sd and everything. It still stops charging. Here's where it gets weird though, it only stops charging if I hold my phone in landscape view, otherwise in portrait it charges. And it also continues to not charge if my phone is completely off, but in landscape. Does anyone know how to fix this or will I have to get a new G1?
Could be a loose charging port. If you have an extra charger try that. There is really no other reason why is would do that. The firmware your running shouldn't effect it at all.
I had some weird problems similar. First question are you using USB charge cable from a PC or AC adapter. I've burned through 2 USB HTC cables connected via usb off my pc, but charges fine from an AC, USB car charger, and non HTC mini USB cable from an External HDD.
problem solved
Alright thanks for all your guys' suggestions, but it turns out I was blaming the phone when the real problem was my charger. I was only testing this problem on my stock G1 charger, but I used my old blackberry one and it worked fine. So I guess I'm just going to have to use a blackberry charger till I get my new phone. Thank you!
Same thing happened to me, except i ended up taking it to tmobile, waited in line, cute girl line, got up to her, told her whats wrong, she takes my g1, and plugs in a new charger, it works, i just stood there looking dumbfounded, and she had that "what are you an idiot" look on her face, haha
yeah, chargers go out all the time
Hey everyone,
My galaxy S ran out of battery, I plugged it into my car charger and it went into download mode? Got home, it completely died. Plugged it into my charger and the screen wont even turn on.
Can someone help?
Anyone? Ideas? It's completely dead.
Tried removing the battery, wait for say, 2 minutes, and putting it back on?
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Tried removing the battery, wait for say, 2 minutes, and putting it back on?
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Yeah, I've tried this. Won't work.
This may sound stupid, but could it be that the charger / wall socket is the one broken? Try plugging it into a computer's powered USB socket.
If you're on a laptop, this is usually all ports except one that doubles as an e-sata port, and for desktops, this means all ports. You might need to plug the laptop into a wall socket though. Don't connect it to a USB hub.
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This may sound stupid, but could it be that the charger / wall socket is the one broken? Try plugging it into a computer's powered USB socket.
If you're on a laptop, this is usually all ports except one that doubles as an e-sata port, and for desktops, this means all ports. You might need to plug the laptop into a wall socket though. Don't connect it to a USB hub.
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Tried 3 different computers :/
1 of 2 things
1- your battery is ****ed. and i think thats the case because u plugged it in a car charger
" why you people keep doing that "
2- your phone is fried " over power from the charger "
again
" why on earth you people keep charging from the car. even the official chargers are stupid . any your car might not have stable elctric current in it. #$#@ >_<
try different battery.
Did you connect your phone before starting the car?
Some chargers don't have a fuse, or the fuse is set for higher currents.
Some cars will run a peak-current (a high jolt of electricity) through the electrical systems when you start them, this might have fried your battery indeed.
Thanks for everyone's help. The car chargers fuse is blown. The battery isn't dead though, just went to a Samsung service center and he "shocked" the battery into starting. Phone went back into download mode so he is keeping it for more diagnostics.
No phone for about a week . The annoying this is, if this was an iPhone they'd replace it on the spot. I love Android, and I couldn't live without it's features, but Samsung really make it hard to love their warranty process.
Just an update for anyone with future problems similar to mine.
The memory had died, and Samsung replaced all the internals of my Galaxy S.
Also, one more thing. Since getting my phone back pressing the power button turns the screen off but doesn't lock my phone. When I press a button to wake my phone up it goes straight into whatever I was doing before, no lock screen.
How do I fix this?
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Also, one more thing. Since getting my phone back pressing the power button turns the screen off but doesn't lock my phone. When I press a button to wake my phone up it goes straight into whatever I was doing before, no lock screen.
How do I fix this?
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Do you by any chance have an app installed called no lock?
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Also, one more thing. Since getting my phone back pressing the power button turns the screen off but doesn't lock my phone. When I press a button to wake my phone up it goes straight into whatever I was doing before, no lock screen.
How do I fix this?
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I had that same issue when I swapped from an 8 GB UK to a 16 GB Australian model. I don't know the cause but it's just a bug, if you reboot it should go away. You can also try something like adding a screen unlock pattern. I still get the issue every now and again but I just fiddle around until it goes away.
Hi,
First off, I have a non rooted, stock Galaxy note. It's not modded in any way.
The problem started occurring yesterday, all was just fine before. Since then, it won't charge no matter what USB cable or charger I use.
1) Phone on
- I plug the charger to the phone : nothing. The phone doesn't register being connected to the OEM wall-charger.
- I connect the phone using the OEM USB cable to my computer (tryed 3 different computers) : Nothing.
I also tried another charger and several USB cables : no luck.
2) Phone off
- I plug the charger / I connect my phone to a computer using USB cable : the phone boot up and doesn't charge the battery.
Any thought ?
Thx in advance.
Try using some compressed air to clean out the usb port on the Galaxy Note. I had a similar issue with an iPhone once and there ended up being a piece of lint stuck on 1 of the contacts which made it unable to charge. Could be the case with your phone. Other than that contact Samsung and see what they can do for you.
Thx for the advice.
I'll try that out and call over Samsung.
Try factory reset if that could help..
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Update:
I tried a micro USB Host Cable (OTG Cable) and it's working fine : recognized and plugged in USB stick is working fine.
Also, I tried a factory reset after backuping my data. All went fine but sadly the problem is still there : no charging.
More update:
After two days, It started working again as if it never happened.
Still wondering what might have caused it
Might be the dust that settled on the battery pins and the contacts on your phone.. happens some times .. glad its back to work.. poor thing..
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More update:
After two days, It started working again as if it never happened.
Still wondering what might have caused it
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Happened to me too! It wouldn't charge until I turned off the phone. It worked after I cleaned the phone and usb cable's metal parts--sorry no correct jargon for this--with rubbing alcohol. Make sure there's no lint left from the cleaning.
Yup, had this. On charge with stock charger in the mains. Battery dropping fast, back (top) getting warm. I turned the screen off, left it for 5 mins. Looked again, it was 2% less!
Reboot fixed it.
There did not seem to be any rogue program using the CPU, but I now have a meter and a better logger to examine this if it occurs again. I assume the system got into a loop somewhere, although the phone was normally responsive.
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Happened to me too! It wouldn't charge until I turned off the phone. It worked after I cleaned the phone and usb cable's metal parts--sorry no correct jargon for this--with rubbing alcohol. Make sure there's no lint left from the cleaning.
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Happening to my phone as well right now. I was worried that the battery is dying so I got a spare online. But it doesn't make sense that its charging and know that it is on one state and not the other.
I panicked so I replaced Rocket Rom with Cassie's. It's still doing this.
Have you guys checked if there is a weird smell from your battery? I thought that was something to look at but dont all batteries smell like that?
galaxy note is experiencing the same hardware problems as galaxy s2 phones. I am very pissed off at samsung. I bought a new galaxy note in dominican republic and after one month of delicate use the phone developed charging problems. Drive mode would start automatically or the phone would shut off all by itself and a battery removal reset would turn the phone on again. then finally, the phone would stay in charging mode even after the usb charge cable is removed. the phone would discharge quickly and then would not turn on. I finally gave the phone to repair dept at claro phone company. they would not fix it and are just showing me a middle finger. Now I guess, I would have to learn to change the charging port myself. After seeing galaxy s2 videos, I see many ribbon contacts would get corroded and need to be cleaned frequently. Many phones were just less than 2 months old and had so much corrosion on the contacts. this is bad design and I think the high current draw for a dual core phone of that huge screen size is causing all kinds of electrical corrosion on the contacts inside the phone. this sucks majorly as I loved the phone when I had it working fine. Now I think I have bought a problem with my saved cash. I will try to repair my own phone soon as I get it back from the repair dept.
My Galaxy Note is doing a similar thing. Not all the same symptoms, but a few similarities.
The other night, when the charger was plugged in the phone kept changing it's mind whether it was plugged in or not - probably every few seconds I was getting the chime it makes when you plug the phone in. I eventually managed to charge the phone by turning it off, removing the battery, replacing it, plugging the charger in, waiting for it to start charging, then turning it on.
Today my phone was trying to tell me it was charging when it wasn't even plugged in to anything!
As with the above post, my phone has been getting hot occasionally and the drive mode has started by itself a few times.
I've used three chargers and four cables.
I'll be taking it along to where I bought it from later on today.
Battery not charging
G Note Battery is not charging .. same problem as of 1st post.
Changed usb cables, chargers, thru PC, laptop, direct wall, cleaning etc
Every thing fails. one month old set ?
OMG, glad to know I'm not the only one. Bought a Galaxy Note from a brazilian network provider (VIVO) and after 1 week of usage I'm experiencing the same problems as you guys.
My phone will only charge when it is powered off and USB connection does not work anymore (even in download mode). Before the problem onset, I noticed some MTP connection and SD Card rescanning without connecting to the PC.
Did a factory reset and got no results. Downloaded Odin Mobile and flashed stock rom and the problem persists.
Has anyone found a fix or the cause for this?
Thanks!
Missing my old Galaxy S...
Strange! After a full night charge, now I can unplug and plug the battery and continue charging from where I stop without turning it off.
I can now get beeps when connecting to PC. It show MTP-Inicialization in the Note screen but I have no access to to Note partitions in Windoes Explorer.
Update: One more strange thing just happened now.
Went to college and left it charging. When I came back at night, tried to connect the Note to the PC and everything is working ok now.
What?!?! Now I'm confused. How can I send it to warranty now? I think I'll have to wait a couple more days.
issue as well
That is my 3rd galaxy note, first one screen cracked, second dont ask me why it was not modified at all but it was so sluggish and froxze all the time, my 3rd one it is rooted device and i have similar issue...I am thinking is it because i was charging it from my wife's htc one phone? I thought they would have the same pins...anyway it is doomed, i tried so many chargers and problem not solved
ok i can comfirm to everyone that i have fixed the problem by buying contact cleaner spray and sprayed inside the usb and beautiful all back to normal!
Nooo..
Have a charging problem as well :/ It detects the charging cable and shows the battery icon with the circle about to charge. But it just turns off before it starts charging, turns on shows the icon again, turns off, turns on, shows the battery icon and so on. I have tried with two different chargers. For me i looks like the voltage is too low? Maybe the battery needs a jumpstart? I'll just leave it in the charger and see what happens. Suggestions welcome
Edit: It's just two weeks old, damn it. Last night I used it untill the battery was empty. That is why I think the voltage is so low it doesnt accept charge.
Edit2: Fixed! Puh! I was right. Battery needed a higher mah to start the charging. Leaving the post as it is for future reference.
same problem here, however it charges from my laptop... how strange?