My first day with the Droid bionic... it's my first non-Samsung Android phone, so I'm not sure what to think.
In the midst of trying to figure it out and get it all setup (rooted, Titanium Backup restore, apps only), and my data drops out. Apparently for good.
I had solid 4G data when I first opened up the phone this afternoon. I ran some speed tests and switched to WiFi. I left the house a bit later and realized I couldn't open a webpage. I noticed the WiFi was still on, so I shut it off, but the cellular data never came back.
Tried putting it in airplane mode and back, rebooted (several times), tried the data toggle on the power control widget, I even forced the phone into CDMA only mode (and back).
I'm stumped. Has anyone else seen this? Is there any kind of possibility that restoring apps or rooting could have anything to do with it? I have not seen this problem over many a ROM on the Vibrant, and then the Droid Charge. I even loaded a GB ROM on the Charge and restored all my apps without issue.
Any help would be appreciated. I'd really not like to have to wipe the phone and start over.
I had something similar happen although I'm not rooted yet. For 3 days I was golden. Then I installed switchpro widget to see how the 3G/4G toggle worked with the Bionic and it made my mobile connectivity wonky. I uninstalled it. It still is wonky today.
LTE is there then goes away a reboot corrects it until it goes away. 3G is exactly the same. Turn on WIFI and the LTE disappears. It's supposed to stay up just turn white like it did for 3 days prior to installing then uninstalling switchpro. It could just be coincidence with the switchpro thing idk. I'm not all that knowledgeable with APN's, but after some research somehow I believe mine got mixed up via switchpro. Getting a new Bionic tomorrow.
Well, no data at all. If I'm outof wifi area, I have no data access. Only phone calls and text.
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Well, no data at all. If I'm outof wifi area, I have no data access. Only phone calls and text.
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I'd get another one then. Or if you don't want to do that get a different brand
I think I'll just try a hard reset. I'm sure it was something I did with Titanium backup... I'll just have to figure out what.
Or you could try a factory reset to see if that solves it
EDIT: I see you thought of that 1st
Something similar happened to me. The only way I could fix it was by restarting the phone until the data crashed again. I solved this problem (or I think I did, still testing it) by removing all my widgets. I have a strong suspicion it was a widget doing this (specifically the AIX weather widget, but I am not sure yet).
So, I suggest that you remove all of your widgets and restart your phone and see what happens.
The hard reset did the trick. I think maybe it was me restoring the [SMS/.../APN] setting (can't remember the middle setting) in TB. I didn't do it this time and all seems well. It was green, so I thought 'why not'.
I'll see how it goes from here on out.
I'm thinking its got to be something related to wifi. every time I disconnect from wifi I can't connect to data unless I reset my phone.
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The hard reset did the trick. I think maybe it was me restoring the [SMS/.../APN] setting (can't remember the middle setting) in TB. I didn't do it this time and all seems well. It was green, so I thought 'why not'.
I'll see how it goes from here on out.
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Glad to hear that. Factory reset did not fix it for me. Will have a new tomorrow
I am also having this problem. If Motorola still used vanilla android this wouldn't be an issue. I hate when manufacturers feel it necessary to fix something that isn't broke. I am sad to see how many people are experiencing this problem because if it was isolated to my phone and a few others then a warranty replacement would do the trick. I now feel like I wasted 380 on phone and accessories. I placed a call to Verizon tech support and their as clueless as usual. I hope an update is released soon that fixes this issue (or a custom rom). I remain hopeful that we start seeing good things on our Motorola devices now that google owns moto.
NOTE: I wish people would start reading through existing threads before starting new ones. I started a thread to this effect back on day 3. Several others have started threads to this effect as well. I think there are now 4 or 5 on this very same subject.
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Hey,
My AT&T rooted nexus one is still randomly rebooting if I use 3g data. I am in Costa Rica and the 3g is on the 850 band. I also have to add the apn "kolbi3g".
So basically I can use the phone for anything and it works great, but if I add the apn and start using the 3g heavily I will get a reboot, sometimes it will reboot vibrate 7 times and I have to pull the battery. I have tried 2.1 and 2.2 rooted and not also cyanogen 6 all the same problem.
If I do *#*#4636#*#* and select the wcdma only it runs the 3g better but reboots way more, sometimes the instant I place load on the connection. However if I select wcdma "unkown" the 3g works much better I can use it sometimes 30min at a time without a problem.
So any ideas what I could try? Is there a kernel that will up the volt's a bit just help stability? Or anything else I could try? Data roaming is off, I have tried both off and on, no difference that I can tell.
Thanks a lot this is driving me crazy! Just got this phone Sunday too sick to my stomach of the thought I spend $600 on this phone if I can't get 3g to work
How about radio image???
It is currently on baseband 4.06.00.12_7. Is there a more current radio?
I came across this multiple reboot issue on a (locked) Vodafone UK Nexus.
It booted into the OS (lockscreen) and as soon as data connected it looped back to the last couple seconds of the animated Nexus logo.... and again.... and again.
I powered down the unit (battery pull), booted into bootloader (voldown+power) and selected clear storage (voldown,voldown,power) then (volup) to confirm.
This deletes the user data and you have to sign in and set up the phone again but it certainly fixed the issue. My only guess is some user data became corrupt and the kernel panicked and forced a partial reboot.
Give it a try and lemme know.
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I came across this multiple reboot issue on a (locked) Vodafone UK Nexus.
It booted into the OS (lockscreen) and as soon as data connected it looped back to the last couple seconds of the animated Nexus logo.... and again.... and again.
I powered down the unit (battery pull), booted into bootloader (voldown+power) and selected clear storage (voldown,voldown,power) then (volup) to confirm.
This deletes the user data and you have to sign in and set up the phone again but it certainly fixed the issue. My only guess is some user data became corrupt and the kernel panicked and forced a partial reboot.
Give it a try and lemme know.
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Just did that (had the phone plugged into wall charger), and the second I got to the home screen it rebooted then vibrated like 6 or seven times. Seems to do it worse when it is plugged in. And now it won't even boot up even after pulling the battery, it vibrates 6-7 times.
I am really worried about this, any other ideas??? I will try anything! Thanks for the help
Update! Now the phone just reboot when I do anything period with it plugged in. Just like posted in another thread on this section!
Please any ideas I am very desperate and very sick to my stomach!
Hmmm very strange.
I'm aware from what you were saying on the other thread that you've got an unlocked bootloader and you're wondering what to do on the warranty front.
If you've really tried different combinations of stock and custom firmware and having the same issue I'm tempted to say its a hardware issue.
Many people have returned their unlocked phones with no comeback from HTC some have reported that they have noticed the unlocked bootloader and have issued a motherboard repair as part of the fix because of this.
Although im unsure of the additional cost (if any) i would definitely recommend going through the warranty repair route with HTC. They won't say no and send you back the same broken phone. And who knows, if its a confirmed hardware issue they may just replace it as a goodwill gesture.
Other than that I don't have any more ideas.
A nexus support thread has a popular answer referring to the clear storage fix.
http://www.google.de/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=40f52d29e9c4177e&hl=en
Just make sure you are definitely clearing the storage FROM THE BOOTLOADER before calling HTC. It is the first thing they will make you do before accepting a return anyway.
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Other than that I don't have any more ideas.
A nexus support thread has a popular answer referring to the clear storage fix.
http://www.google.de/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=40f52d29e9c4177e&hl=en
Just make sure you are definitely clearing the storage FROM THE BOOTLOADER before calling HTC. It is the first thing they will make you do before accepting a return anyway.
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Ok thank you so much sir. I am so glad to hear that I may still have a chance at getting it replaced! It was very fullish of me to unlock it, I know, it is just that I figured it was software and could be fixed by unlocking. It is going to cost me $$$ to get this to the States, but that is life. If I still can't get it to work I will call htc and let you know what they say
Little update here. I cleared storage again and just simply disabled data, I have been using the phone for a couple of hours on work without any problems. Next thong I am going yo yty is another friends 3g similar card and see if it still reboots on that sim, if it does then I am calling HTC.
Also still open to any other ideas you guys may have.
I complained about this issue originally in the MavRom thread but was advised this isn’t a known issue with the ROM, so after more troubleshooting, here I am. This is the chain of events:
- Bought the Droid 3 unlocked so I could use it on Rogers
- Instantly flashed CM9, lived with the various issues hoping they’d be resolved soon
- They weren’t, so I started looking for a permanent GB rom. Tried MavRom
- Noticed a day or two later the following issue:
Wifi will just randomly encounter an error and turn off. It typically happens without me noticing, and then I’ll be at home and notice I’m on data when I should be on wi-fi. If I try to turn it on using the power widget it will briefly light up as though it’s trying to turn on, but eventually give up. If I try to turn it on through settings, where it normally would say “wifi is on” or “wifi is off”, it just says error. I used to reboot the phone to fix it, but just realized a few weeks ago that I just need to turn airplane mode on and off, then turn wifi back on.
This isn’t the worst thing in the world but it should not happen. There is also no pattern to it, or any apparent triggering event. It can happen half an hour after the last time, or it can go a whole day without happening. My phone is in essentially the same state all night while I am sleeping, so the same thing should happen every time. But sometimes I wake up and the error has occurred, other times it hasn’t.
So as I said, I complained in the MavRom thread, they insisted it wasn’t related to Maverick. So I flashed Eclipse to try it out. Right away I realized that this error was happening in Eclipse too. So, somewhere in all the clearing data and cache and flashing of ROMs, etc, I managed to wreck the wifi in a way that reflashing doesn’t appear to fix.
Realizing this, I tried to go all the way back to stock to see if that would work. I used the .906 to .890 patch (since it’s the only way to go back to .890 or at least mostly), then had to use quick unbrick to fix it when it wouldn’t start up. Everything was fine; it was a stock motobloat Droid 3 again. After a few hours of usage I was pretty convinced that the wifi error was gone.
So I installed Eclipse again. For most of the day everything seemed fine but the same problem reared its ugly head last night just like it used to. It sounds like I need to somehow update the part of the Gingerbread OS specifically related to wifi but I have no idea where to go from here. Has anyone else seen a problem like this before? Any troubleshooting advice?
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I complained about this issue originally in the MavRom thread but was advised this isn’t a known issue with the ROM, so after more troubleshooting, here I am. This is the chain of events:
- Bought the Droid 3 unlocked so I could use it on Rogers
- Instantly flashed CM9, lived with the various issues hoping they’d be resolved soon
- They weren’t, so I started looking for a permanent GB rom. Tried MavRom
- Noticed a day or two later the following issue:
Wifi will just randomly encounter an error and turn off. It typically happens without me noticing, and then I’ll be at home and notice I’m on data when I should be on wi-fi. If I try to turn it on using the power widget it will briefly light up as though it’s trying to turn on, but eventually give up. If I try to turn it on through settings, where it normally would say “wifi is on” or “wifi is off”, it just says error. I used to reboot the phone to fix it, but just realized a few weeks ago that I just need to turn airplane mode on and off, then turn wifi back on.
This isn’t the worst thing in the world but it should not happen. There is also no pattern to it, or any apparent triggering event. It can happen half an hour after the last time, or it can go a whole day without happening. My phone is in essentially the same state all night while I am sleeping, so the same thing should happen every time. But sometimes I wake up and the error has occurred, other times it hasn’t.
So as I said, I complained in the MavRom thread, they insisted it wasn’t related to Maverick. So I flashed Eclipse to try it out. Right away I realized that this error was happening in Eclipse too. So, somewhere in all the clearing data and cache and flashing of ROMs, etc, I managed to wreck the wifi in a way that reflashing doesn’t appear to fix.
Realizing this, I tried to go all the way back to stock to see if that would work. I used the .906 to .890 patch (since it’s the only way to go back to .890 or at least mostly), then had to use quick unbrick to fix it when it wouldn’t start up. Everything was fine; it was a stock motobloat Droid 3 again. After a few hours of usage I was pretty convinced that the wifi error was gone.
So I installed Eclipse again. For most of the day everything seemed fine but the same problem reared its ugly head last night just like it used to. It sounds like I need to somehow update the part of the Gingerbread OS specifically related to wifi but I have no idea where to go from here. Has anyone else seen a problem like this before? Any troubleshooting advice?
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I would sbf and stay on stock, if it reappears, bring it to verizon. Im afraid I've never heard of this problem before. Since it happened with 2 separate roms, it seems more like hardware. Otherwise the sbf should have fixed it.
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Odd. I know that this was a problem on most ICS roms. Haven't heard of it happening on a GB rom. This happens to me on Gummy 1.2. Same symptopms: wifi kills with no cause and no pattern. I toggle airplane and keep browsing as I only turn on wifi when I am actively using it.
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I have a galaxy s captivate sgh-i897 at&t phone on t-mobile and upgraded to gingerbread 2.3.5 and like most others who have done this my phone now reboots whenever it feels like it. I found instruction on how I might fix this however I have been everywhere looking for an app called Android
sync manager wifi agent. I have it installed on my Pc but cannot find the phone app. everything is for the Pc.
What I really want is a way to backup the entire phone must the same way I used to backup my pocket pc. This way when I reset the phone I can restore everything & not loose anything.
Isn't there a backup I can use vis USB. This shouldn't be so hard. :silly:
Not sure about backup via usb, but i've always used Titanium Backup Pro app. That along with my Google acct. sync has always been sufficient. Also i would make a copy from my phone to pc of my external sdcard...just in case it got erased or went bad etc. But that's all i've done for several yrs.
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Not sure about backup via usb, but i've always used Titanium Backup Pro app. That along with my Google acct. sync has always been sufficient. Also i would make a copy from my phone to pc of my external sdcard...just in case it got erased or went bad etc. But that's all i've done for several yrs.
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by google account do you mean a gmail address because thats all i have
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by google account do you mean a gmail address because thats all i have
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Yes your gmail account is what you need. It should be asking you for it during the initial setup. Once you link it to your phone you can let it back up and restore automatically for you.
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Yes your gmail account is what you need. It should be asking you for it during the initial setup. Once you link it to your phone you can let it back up and restore automatically for you.
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I can't believe I missed that. i'm doing it now. this is a little different than an entire backup though. As I stated before my pocket pc would backup the entire system & if it ever got corrupted your backup would restore the entire device.
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I can't believe I missed that. i'm doing it now. this is a little different than an entire backup though. As I stated before my pocket pc would backup the entire system & if it ever got corrupted your backup would restore the entire device.
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A nandroid backup along with copying the contents of the sdcard to your pc is probably the closest thing to this. Titanium backup can save time too but it can all be a bit tricky at first.
All I can say is I hope you like to read There is so much info buried in these forums that the search feature is your friend for sure.
A lot can be done to/with this old phone as far as mods and upgrades, and it can be really fun once you get the hang of it, just don't depend on the GPS!...It doesn't work too bad on some of these cappys but others (dare I say most) it is horrible.
Welcome and good luck!!
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A nandroid backup along with copying the contents of the sdcard to your pc is probably the closest thing to this. Titanium backup can save time too but it can all be a bit tricky at first.
All I can say is I hope you like to read There is so much info buried in these forums that the search feature is your friend for sure.
A lot can be done to/with this old phone as far as mods and upgrades, and it can be really fun once you get the hang of it, just don't depend on the GPS!...It doesn't work too bad on some of these cappys but others (dare I say most) it is horrible.
Welcome and good luck!!
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Don't laugh too hard but I like my palm pixi+ a 1000x more than this galaxy s. I'd still be using it if it weren't for the digitizer making the touch screen inoperable. its the right size & did everything i wanted. I don't really use phones for the web so that wasn't an issue & it never restarted out of nowhere like this thing does........& just did now.i hate it. its unfixable.
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Don't laugh too hard but I like my palm pixi+ a 1000x more than this galaxy s. I'd still be using it if it weren't for the digitizer making the touch screen inoperable. its the right size & did everything i wanted. I don't really use phones for the web so that wasn't an issue & it never restarted out of nowhere like this thing does........& just did now.i hate it. its unfixable.
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Is it rebooting or shutting down? While in use or sleeping? wifi on or off?.....There is actually a few things that can cause reboots or shutdowns and there are fixes for some. A bad battery (most of the originals are 4 or 5 years old now), a bad flash/upgrade, a weird wifi issue with some routers, an app behaving badly and more I'm sure. Narrowing it down and fixing it is possible.
I have 4 of these total between family and one set up as a media device. All are running custom JB roms and kernels overclocked to 1440Mhz and none of them have an issue other than the time all 4 started randomly shutting off while sleeping only when on a particular router. Switched routers and it stopped...
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Is it rebooting or shutting down? While in use or sleeping? wifi on or off?.....There is actually a few things that can cause reboots or shutdowns and there are fixes for some. A bad battery (most of the originals are 4 or 5 years old now), a bad flash/upgrade, a weird wifi issue with some routers, an app behaving badly and more I'm sure. Narrowing it down and fixing it is possible.
I have 4 of these total between family and one set up as a media device. All are running custom JB roms and kernels overclocked to 1440Mhz and none of them have an issue other than the time all 4 started randomly shutting off while sleeping only when on a particular router. Switched routers and it stopped...
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Ok, here we go. its rebooting- randomly.While in use or sleeping-yes to both.wifi on or off-yes to both.my battery lasts all day. its been unplugged since 6-am & have been on the phone for aprox 1+hrs(less than 2) & have 52%. i have had issues with wifi. i had to unplug the router to get connected all the time until i went with a static ip setup.( i think it may be due to wpa-2. never had problems with my other equipment until i went from wpa to wpa-2) can't speak to the bad flash......have no way to verify one way or the other. i often have nothing running except the phone.
There you have it. :cyclops:
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Ok, here we go. its rebooting- randomly.While in use or sleeping-yes to both.wifi on or off-yes to both.my battery lasts all day. its been unplugged since 6-am & have been on the phone for aprox 1+hrs(less than 2) & have 52%. i have had issues with wifi. i had to unplug the router to get connected all the time until i went with a static ip setup.( i think it may be due to wpa-2. never had problems with my other equipment until i went from wpa to wpa-2) can't speak to the bad flash......have no way to verify one way or the other. i often have nothing running except the phone.
There you have it. :cyclops:
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I had an after market battery that would operate as well as all my others until it got around 50% then it would reboot the phone a few times and finally shut down, but not sure that's your issue.
If it didn't have the issue until you upgraded to GB, I would guess a bad flash or something other than hardware.
At your own risk..you could read up here and flash a stock or custom rom/kernel to try to fix the issue....or sell it really cheap on ebay. Be sure to shoot me a pm if you do though...
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I had an after market battery that would operate as well as all my others until it got around 50% then it would reboot the phone a few times and finally shut down, but not sure that's your issue.
If it didn't have the issue until you upgraded to GB, I would guess a bad flash or something other than hardware.
At your own risk..you could read up here and flash a stock or custom rom/kernel to try to fix the issue....or sell it really cheap on ebay. Be sure to shoot me a pm if you do though...
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Will Do. Thanks for all yr help.
Anybody else having these problems? 2nd day to have it and it would freeze up and bootloop. At one point it was off for 2-3 hours and I couldn't get to fastboot. Finally I got it to factory reset twice and its doing fine for now. Unfortunately I'm on shift for 24 hours or I'd make Verizon give me a new one.
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Anybody else having these problems? 2nd day to have it and it would freeze up and bootloop. At one point it was off for 2-3 hours and I couldn't get to fastboot. Finally I got it to factory reset twice and its doing fine for now. Unfortunately I'm on shift for 24 hours or I'd make Verizon give me a new one.
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Could it be some app that you installed? Haven't had any problems myself with it.
Have you switched from dalvik to art?
I've had zero issues with bootloops so far.
Haven't switched to art and I doubt any nonroot app would cause bootloops. Who knows.
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No issues so far here
none here
Had one this morning. Phone froze during a phone call, and then got stuck at the boot screen before the animation. Rebooted it by holding the volume and power button and it's worked since.
No problems here, have played games for several hours straight with no issues and have been playing with it all day.
Mine was solid for about 4 hours and its starting back up again. Maybe I have a lemon.
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sounds like a defective unit or something.
i'd do a wipe, dont install any apps, see if it works fine or not. if it does, probably an app issiue. if you are getting problems even after the reset, its the phone.
Same issue here. Kept randomly rebooting, but only occasionally. Did a few factory resets, installing only essential apps each time thinking it was one of my apps that didn't play nice with Turbo (even though they played just fine with my Razr Maxx and Galaxy S5) to no avail. Last night, did a factory reset, didn't install any apps (nor did I update any of the pre-installed ones) and this morning, endless bootloop. I can't get it to stop. I'm really starting to hate this startup sound. LOL!
My phone locks up occasionally. Always restarts itself. I'm not sure what has been causing my phone to lock up but I haven't been able to pinpoint an action that is specifically creating the issue.
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So I couldn't figure out a way to just power it down (all the usual button combinations just kept rebooting it, which then continued the bootloop) so I just figured I'd let it bootloop until the battery ran out. After about 3 hours of bootlooping, it just finally booted. I didn't touch anything. Weird. Maybe it's like a 4 year old temper tantrum, just let them get it out of their system and all will be better in a couple hours. Hahaha!
I have a phone that it's going this as well. I can get into recovery and reset but that didn't work. If I try to wipe cache the phone reboots and freezes which seems abnormal. I never had a phone reboot after wiping cache. I loaded the phone into fastboot and using RSD Lite I flashed the original software into the phone to no help. I did notice though that in the fastboot option that my baseband is blank. Might just be a bad device.? Does anyone know where I can find stock firmware 21.44 (that has the VoLTE option)?
I've had 4 turbos, latest one with almost no apps, and been waiting on Motorola for near 3 weeks for another device... Just about to sell the next turbo they send out... I've also had the same issues plus WiFi drops BT drops freezing lagging, and lately unable to receive voice calls and voice mail
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I've had 4 turbos, latest one with almost no apps, and been waiting on Motorola for near 3 weeks for another device... Just about to sell the next turbo they send out... I've also had the same issues plus WiFi drops BT drops freezing lagging, and lately unable to receive voice calls and voice mail
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With four turbos there seems to be more of a user error than system. you either disabled a needed apk, installed an apk that doesn't play nice, or you took an ota and havent completed an FDR. Its recommended and has been posted on here multiple times throughout this site/forum that always, always do a FDR with an update.
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With four turbos there seems to be more of a user error than system. you either disabled a needed apk, installed an apk that doesn't play nice, or you took an ota and havent completed an FDR. Its recommended and has been posted on here multiple times throughout this site/forum that always, always do a FDR with an update.
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I'm not running any additional apks at this point and haven't since the second replacement device. Apparently, I just have good luck with this phone, that I now despise, and wish I could get rid of. I followed all the disable guides for what was safe, and I'm not sure what an FDR is, but if you tell me I'll give it a shot. Last replacement came updated as well. At this point this current model doesn't even receive phone calls, because it just doesn't work correctly.
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I'm not running any additional apks at this point and haven't since the second replacement device. Apparently, I just have good luck with this phone, that I now despise, and wish I could get rid of. I followed all the disable guides for what was safe, and I'm not sure what an FDR is, but if you tell me I'll give it a shot. Last replacement came updated as well. At this point this current model doesn't even receive phone calls, because it just doesn't work correctly.
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Factory Data Reset.
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With four turbos there seems to be more of a user error than system. you either disabled a needed apk, installed an apk that doesn't play nice, or you took an ota and havent completed an FDR. Its recommended and has been posted on here multiple times throughout this site/forum that always, always do a FDR with an update.
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Factory Data Reset.
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OK, so I have done that with each of the devices. Unfortunately, I just have horrible issues/luck with this phone.
Love the device, but this one is going in for an exchange. Not sure if it will resolve the issues I had, but my phone was behaving badly. I unlocked and rooted it about 10 minutes after I got it, using the Chainfire method here..
1) WiFi reception is awesome, except it drops the connection constantly! I have an entry level commercial AP (Unifi) and the thing is awesome. All kinds of devices connected to it, but this Moto can't stay connected. From the logs on the controller, it appears to be switching channels constantly. Wifi goes from all bars to bars with x to off.
2) Reboot results in bootloop. On more than one occasion, I had to reset the device multiple times to get it to boot. This morning, I could not get it to complete a boot at all. I've since reflashed the Tmo stock ROM.
3) Lookout randomly comes back! Froze it with TiBu, stop and disable in app manager... nothing kills it! Reason 1 for root!
The WiFi issue is a killer. Again, I am going to take this one in and exchange it for another and hopefully the WiFi issue is gone. I think I'll need to restrain myself from rooting until I pass the exchange date.
I had similar issues what i did was flash the stock boot img then do a factory reset and reroot and everything is good now
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I had similar issues what i did was flash the stock boot img then do a factory reset and reroot and everything is good now
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Thanks! I will give that a shot before I take it in.
I've been back on stock with unlocked bootloader for a day and change, and I still get WiFi drops. It seems to happen more with BT on, but they certainly haven't gone away. I've changed a bunch of things on my AP to try and eliminate them too, but it hasn't helped much. I may try disabling the A/C radio (which fixes it for some), but that's hardly an answer. I am starting to think that this is a Nougat or a Qualcomm issue.
Seems like a hardware issue. If it was a software issue then it would affect more than just you. So far you are the only person on various forms I go to having issues.
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Tidbits said:
Seems like a hardware issue. If it was a software issue then it would affect more than just you. So far you are the only person on various forms I go to having issues.
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Well, it seems I'm not the only one.
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z...terprise-type-5Ghz-band-802-11AC/td-p/3816198
I actually have this issue with another device too , so I think it's either an Android, AP or a Qualcomm thing. Some have said turning off the A/C/N radio helps, but that's not a "solution."