My Vivid does all sorts of crazy stuff. Sometimes when you flick the screen one way, it will flick 4 screen the other way. Sometimes when you press an icon on the home screen it will select the icon to the right. Some times when returning to the home screen i will get black bars along the sides of the home screen. Is anyone else seeing things like this with their vivd?
It also seems that as soon as you run an app like Pandora the phone slows a lot. No more smooth transition back to home screen.Instead I get a second of the black screen instead of that nice fade back to home. Its like the phone goes stupid as soon as you a running something. Is this phone really not that powerful?
By the way, I returned a phone for this already. This is the second phone running in the same way.
Not so cool.
You seem to be alone. Take that one back too. Inconvenient but you deserve better.
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This is my 3rd phone.... i dont think they will take it back again ..
this is my first android phone from an iphone and to me it seems a little buggy, but my problems are in android and they dont happen often.
i clicked on the messaging app once and it opened my browser
2 apps randomly got deleted when i rebooted
dropbox app was there but the app wasnt, so i had to uninstall it and reinstall it
it froze on my once the second day i got it
this might be normal for android, but its frustrating coming from an iphone. the problems might be user error clicking the wrong thing, but in my book that still falls on android for making a hard os to follow for noobs. maybe now that im learning more of android im able to stop problems or prevent them but your problems sound weird seeing as its your third phone
randrewm97 said:
this is my first android phone from an iphone and to me it seems a little buggy, but my problems are in android and they dont happen often.
i clicked on the messaging app once and it opened my browser
2 apps randomly got deleted when i rebooted
dropbox app was there but the app wasnt, so i had to uninstall it and reinstall it
it froze on my once the second day i got it
this might be normal for android, but its frustrating coming from an iphone. the problems might be user error clicking the wrong thing, but in my book that still falls on android for making a hard os to follow for noobs. maybe now that im learning more of android im able to stop problems or prevent them but your problems sound weird seeing as its your third phone
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The problems you are having are not very typical either. My main suggestion would be to check your Micro SD Card for the app thing. Sounds like the card is glitching out to me or you got a phone that has a Micro SD Card reader flaw.
Regardless though to the OP sounds like where ever you are getting the phone from got a Bad Batch of phones shipped to them. As for return even if it is your third one if you are still having issues and still withing 30 days keep returning until you get a fully functional phone I would say.
randrewm97 said:
this is my first android phone from an iphone and to me it seems a little buggy, but my problems are in android and they dont happen often.
i clicked on the messaging app once and it opened my browser
2 apps randomly got deleted when i rebooted
dropbox app was there but the app wasnt, so i had to uninstall it and reinstall it
it froze on my once the second day i got it
this might be normal for android, but its frustrating coming from an iphone. the problems might be user error clicking the wrong thing, but in my book that still falls on android for making a hard os to follow for noobs. maybe now that im learning more of android im able to stop problems or prevent them but your problems sound weird seeing as its your third phone
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I experienced a few issue with reboots and jittery transistion the first few days I had the phone, but after that it is smooth sailing. I've been with android since I installed it on my HTC HD2 and was with WINMO before that. I can understand there would be a bit of learning curve coming from iOS. I actually flirted with the idea of getting the iPhone 4s, but settled on HTC Vivid instead, better media managment and couldn't get over the small screen size of the 4s, espcially when my proir phone was the 4.3-inch HTC Inspire.
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92hatchattack said:
My Vivid does all sorts of crazy stuff. Sometimes when you flick the screen one way, it will flick 4 screen the other way. Sometimes when you press an icon on the home screen it will select the icon to the right. Some times when returning to the home screen i will get black bars along the sides of the home screen. Is anyone else seeing things like this with their vivd?
It also seems that as soon as you run an app like Pandora the phone slows a lot. No more smooth transition back to home screen.Instead I get a second of the black screen instead of that nice fade back to home. Its like the phone goes stupid as soon as you a running something. Is this phone really not that powerful?
By the way, I returned a phone for this already. This is the second phone running in the same way.
Not so cool.
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As malickie suggested in his post, there may be a bad batch of phones delivered to stores in your area. I would return it and by it online, as I assume those may be delivered from a central warehouse or distrubtion center.
My phone acts that when when I'm using it with it plugged in to a wall charger. Strange...
i've found that my phone sketches out on me when plugged in to an AC power source. things like random screen activity and button presses because of the power supply. doesn't matter what combo of cords and adapters i use, it still wigs out on me. when it's plugged in to USB it works flawlessly. i noticed i had the same problem with my old iPhone 4 and 4s. same deal as now, works perfectly on USB charge. i think it has to do with some power circuits in older houses because it doesn't happen in some places, and in other places the intensity isn't as bad.
are these issues happening when your device is plugged in?
if not, then it is certainly a device problem because it shouldn't go bonkers at the slightest touch. regardless of how many times it happens, i would keep returning it. if they keep giving you defective equipment, then the onus is upon your cell company to provide you with working equipment. i can personally vouch for the power and functionality of the Raider (here in Canada) so i think you may have gotten the bad luck of being stuck in the middle of a bad batch of stock. try going to a different store and see if one from there makes a difference.
This may sund dumb, but any chance a certain wallpaper would be glitchy? I changed the wallpaper today to a more demanding live walpaper, and opened up every app i could find with pandora streaming and gps navi going and the phone was running very smooth still.
I wonder....... ill report back in a few days to see how it goes.
It's entirely possible you e been using one that has bugs, so if it fixed it then that may be the culprit.
See if the issue repeats without the LWP and go from there
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92hatchattack said:
My Vivid does all sorts of crazy stuff.
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OP, i think i was able to duplicate your problem... I used a cheap micro usb cable last night to charge my vivid, while it was plugged in it started doing crazy stuff, the touch was way off etc... i tried a different cheap micro usb charger and was able to duplicate the problem. I then tried the OEM charger as well as a motorola micro usb charger and had no problems. So i would check the charger you are using..
interesting.. i will be keeping a better eye on when i have problems. Allthough with this new wallpapers once in a while its not super duper smooth going back to homescreen, i have not seen any of these crazier glitches in the past 24 hours...
Yes
See my separate thread on the HTC Sense and Location Service problems.
Patience is wearing thin, and I'm getting ready to return it before the 30 return period expires.
Mine has done it twice while I've been trying to unlock the screen with the power button on top. I press it and nothing, then press again, and again, then the phone would reboot. I also sent the logs to HTC.
dirt_squirrel said:
i've found that my phone sketches out on me when plugged in to an AC power source. things like random screen activity and button presses because of the power supply. doesn't matter what combo of cords and adapters i use, it still wigs out on me. when it's plugged in to USB it works flawlessly. i noticed i had the same problem with my old iPhone 4 and 4s. same deal as now, works perfectly on USB charge. i think it has to do with some power circuits in older houses because it doesn't happen in some places, and in other places the intensity isn't as bad.
are these issues happening when your device is plugged in?
if not, then it is certainly a device problem because it shouldn't go bonkers at the slightest touch. regardless of how many times it happens, i would keep returning it. if they keep giving you defective equipment, then the onus is upon your cell company to provide you with working equipment. i can personally vouch for the power and functionality of the Raider (here in Canada) so i think you may have gotten the bad luck of being stuck in the middle of a bad batch of stock. try going to a different store and see if one from there makes a difference.
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shogunmark said:
OP, i think i was able to duplicate your problem... I used a cheap micro usb cable last night to charge my vivid, while it was plugged in it started doing crazy stuff, the touch was way off etc... i tried a different cheap micro usb charger and was able to duplicate the problem. I then tried the OEM charger as well as a motorola micro usb charger and had no problems. So i would check the charger you are using..
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I've had similar results under different charging circumstances as well.
In two of my cars I have power inverters that plug into the cigarette lighter sockets. With both of my OEM HTC chargers, as well as two different Samsung chargers, the phone goes haywire. Touch is sometimes completely off - if it even registers - and there's noticeable lag. However, the same chargers plugged into any other normal household outlet do not seem to affect the phone at all. What I took particular note of was that how when the engine is running, the phone acts up. But when it's off and the inverter is pulling straight from the battery, all is well.. perhaps the phone does not like running off of alternating current, although the current a car's alternator produces is still rectified into DC. Weird.
Me too
ninethree said:
Mine has done it twice while I've been trying to unlock the screen with the power button on top. I press it and nothing, then press again, and again, then the phone would reboot. I also sent the logs to HTC.
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Man, I thought I was the only one. It's kinda annoying.
My vivid has been screwing up bad all day. I was in the middle of trying to perma-root when it rebooted itself... Loaded up to the ATT beginning message and instantly shot to black screen, buttons didn't work. I pulled out the battery and booted it up again and when it got to the att screen a message came up saying it couldn't load the OS. I pulled the battery and the sim out and let it sit for about 10 mins. Booted it up for the third time and finally it loaded the home page. But now the status bar has been failing and my data drops in and out all the time. I think I might have to install a new OS
Dawakat said:
My vivid has been screwing up bad all day. I was in the middle of trying to perma-root when it rebooted itself... Loaded up to the ATT beginning message and instantly shot to black screen, buttons didn't work. I pulled out the battery and booted it up again and when it got to the att screen a message came up saying it couldn't load the OS. I pulled the battery and the sim out and let it sit for about 10 mins. Booted it up for the third time and finally it loaded the home page. But now the status bar has been failing and my data drops in and out all the time. I think I might have to install a new OS
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It's not the phone, it's you. On a serious note, I don't think the bootloader is unlocked yet, so how will you install a "new OS"? /rom
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It's not the phone, it's you. On a serious note, I don't think the bootloader is unlocked yet, so how will you install a "new OS"? /rom
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Sorry I didn't know what it was called, I'm extremely green on HTC lol. As far as the phone goes it had a random reboot during the temp root loading and wouldn't turn on.
You should feel glad though cause I was gonna call it iOS at first =p
Dawakat said:
My vivid has been screwing up bad all day. I was in the middle of trying to perma-root when it rebooted itself... Loaded up to the ATT beginning message and instantly shot to black screen, buttons didn't work. I pulled out the battery and booted it up again and when it got to the att screen a message came up saying it couldn't load the OS. I pulled the battery and the sim out and let it sit for about 10 mins. Booted it up for the third time and finally it loaded the home page. But now the status bar has been failing and my data drops in and out all the time. I think I might have to install a new OS
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My first attempts at rooting gave me the same status bar error. Hold off on rooting for a few and restart the phone a couple of times, letting it boot completely and then properly using the restart option in the power menu. Then try again.. it took me seven tries before the status bar errors and glitchiness went away, and it finally rooted.
Ok so tonight on my way home from the movie theater while riding the Harley i run into a down pour, now the hero is in the saddle bag which i was hoping would keep it safe, dry and happy, unfortunately that wasn't to be.
i get home and after getting the phone i go to look to see if i have any missed messages and find that it seems to have turned off, upon attempting to boot it goes to fastboot mode.
i currently have it sitting in a bowl of rice to try to dry it out, but does the fact that it still attempts to boot at all mean there is hope for my little hero?! I <3 that phone it's been so loyal! Even though i'm currently considering upgrading i'd like to get a backup of some stuff i haven't backed up recently before changing phones.
ok so it boots up now, my only problem is that the screen won't unlock now, i've tried changing out the glass touch screen to one i know works and that's not doing it, so does this mean i'm SoL? that something on the motherboard has gone wrong?
even though i'm not getting any responses going to update, couldn't find a way to unlock the screen with the touch screen not working, now that being said, i did find a command to pull my mms/sms database through ADB, now when i get a new phone will i be able to paste this database file in and it compile automatically, once i get root access that is?
Yes. Transferring the messages shouldn't be a problem.
What phone did you get?
OK so i noticed over the course of about 6 days my phones screen would glitch, when i say glitch i mean crazy colors and sometimes just go dark. a reboot would sometimes fix it other times it would take a few reboots. Now the screen doesnt come on at all. I have tried everything. Removing the built in battery for some time, charging, connecting to PC, wiggling the LCD etc etc.
I have about 4 years of pictures and videos on this phone with unfortunately no backups anywhere!!!!
I have got to get them off this phone one way or another.
Is there anyway i can work around a dead screen to copy files from the phones internal memory.
I have ADB, Fastboot, CentOS, Kubuntu, Kali, Winders 7,XP, and 8 to work with here so whatever it might take im down to try anything if anyone has any good ideas. Heck ill even take bad ideas at this point!!! ANYTHING would be better than what i got now.
(i should give a few details. when the phone boots up i hear the "DROID" boot animation sound the soft keys used to light up, the keyboard backlight comes on after sliding the screen out. All with no luck!!!
Please let me know if there is anything i can try here!!
Thanks
Evan Calo
Just 2 options quickly:
1) After the phone boots up, just plug it on a Windows PC through USB. If it recognizes the phone in mass storage mode, you should see the internal and external storage, then you're golden.
2) If that doesn't work, try to plug it on a TV or monitor through HDMI. You can use screen mirroring or webtop to reach the phone interface (if you are on stock ROM). Even if the LCD is bad, the digitizer should work so it recognizes the touch, helps you navigate.
I hope that helps.
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EvanCalo said:
Please let me know if there is anything i can try here!!
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Hi Evan, you might want to give this thread a read, it contains the same problem and how I recovered my data from my phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552978