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Hey guys,
For some reason, I can't mount USB unless I'm in debugging mode.
I plug the cable into my phone. The phone will bleep. I'll see the little USB logo and in the pulldown, under ONGOING, I can see it there, but usually there is two lines of text, but I only see one. When I click on it to be presented with the mount option, I hear the bleep when I click it, but nothing comes up.
Or maybe my PC isn't recognizing it unless in debugging mode? I have all the drivers installed. I'm positive I do, because it was the only way to get the super one click root. I've never had problems mounting.
On a side note, maybe it is relevant, my wifi connectivity has gotten really bad the last few days. My connection has stayed the same, and I've check all the usual PC settings, power cycle, etc. I can't check my Twitter, I can't send emails with attachments. Uninstalling and reinstalling the Samsung drivers didn't work. When in debugging mode, and I plug in, I did notice in the device manager, there would be something "ADB" popup. That's what's not showing itself in non debugging mode.
I'm not sure what I could have done. Any ideas? Thanks!
Go in to settings, usb settings and choose mass storage, if it's set to ask on connection it sometimes doesn't bring up the mount option in the notification bar, you'd think it would mount auto magically but it doesn't.
Edit; sorry didn't read the whole post, sounds like a driver issue..
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Dani897 said:
sounds like a driver issue..
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I figured that much. The combination of things I've attempted so far regarding the drivers has not been successful.
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Hey there I've noticed the same problem until I actually pulled down the top menu bar at the top where the USB symbol is. You pull that down and look for the USB settings icon tap that and choose MOUNT and or UNMOUNT.
Hope this helps....I only noticed this on Eclair 2.1 and not on Froyo where it actually brings up a dialogue box.
Just a word of advise, when you unlcok it with the unlock software from here beware you might end up with a generic or false IMEI number as I did.
I get the drop down, and I see the USB option, but clicking on it does nothing. The PC won't recognize it.
For those who are having this issue, the only way I've manage to fix this is:
1. Uninstall Samsung drivers and delete extras manually.
2. Restart PC.
3. Reinstall driver.
4. Restart PC.
5. Plug in device and give it a few minutes.
I'm on Windows 7 64bit. I've had to do this twice so far, and it worked both times. Hope it helps.
I had this problem also and after looking around I found several people that suggest switching to a USB port right off the mobo. After doing this it connects every time.
Edit: It looks like this is a hardware issue and I'll likely try to get it replaced via insurance since I cannot revert to stock using Odin. It is impossible to revert without using Odin right? Thanks to all who read!
To start, I just want to state that I've searched and searched for answers/information on this (not just on XDA forums either) and I haven't found a similar issue - my sincere apologies if I missed it.
Quick "this post is way too long to read" Summary:
1. Phone will not charge
2. Phone will recognize PC connection via USB but with no functionality
3. PC will not recognize phone
4. All details on what I've done so far below
Friday 3/4/11 - I used a USB car charger (link below) to charge my Captivate with a USB cable known to be working (had worked on my Captivate before, works on my brother's Captivate). If you're asking why I used that charger... well I got it for free with my E-71. I'll never use it again. Anyway later that night I tried to charge my phone on my official AT&T A/C charger but nothing happened - the phone acted like no USB was inserted.
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Sorry for the bootleg link, this certainly isn't spam but I'm not allowed to post links yet.
Since that date, my Captivate won't charge via AC power cord. My PC won't recognize it either, but here's the weird part - my phone recognizes when it's connected to the PC via USB. For example, I can connect the phone to the PC and it will state "USB connected" on the Android pull-down (top) menu. Since I have mass storage chosen as the default, it will give me the option to send or receive files from the PC from the same menu. However, if I attempt to actually take that option, the pop-up menu which allows you to mount your memory cards does not come up. In addition, if I have the phone in USB debugging mode and I connect to my PC, the phone recognizes that as well. The PC does not recognize the phone in any capacity, at any time. No matter what I've done so far it will not charge via A/C.
Background: I've had my phone for a little over 6 months now, I've been running Cognition 2.1.6 since about 3 weeks after I got it - before this problem I haven't done any modifications whatsoever since the first load of Cognition. My PC is Windows 7 Ultimate 64. To rule out a bunch of other things, I've tried to use multiple USB cords that are known to work with a different Captivate and my Captivate prior to this problem (3 to be exact), I've uninstalled and reinstalled all Samsung's drivers on Windows, and I actually reinstalled Cognition using the three button recovery mode. To further rule out external problems, I just put Serendipity on my brother's Captivate using the same USB cord and PC that I'm attempting to use with my phone. He had been using the exact same version of Cognition I was.
I of course tried to revert the phone to stock using ODIN in order to fix the problem. I attempted to use the two button method (hold volume keys and insert data cable from PC with Odin running) but of course since the USB is not working properly that didn't work. It's worth noting that the described method worked perfectly for my brother's Captivate to revert to stock in preparation for installing Serendipity. I attempted to manually unmount and remount my memory cards several times, change USB modes between mass storage, Kies, modem, etc - nothing seems to work. The phone seems to be completely normal except for this USB issue. One last thing that's strange is if the phone is powered off and I have the USB A/C charger plugged into it, I cannot turn it on. When I hold the power button a relatively small spinning circle comes up after a second or two near the top of the screen. It disappears when I release power. If I remove the USB cable and hit power again it powers up completely normally.
Because of all of the above, I'm 99% certain that the issue is with my phone (not from any other external source). My only uncertainty is whether this is a USB hardware issue or a software issue where the phone is trapped in some sort of limbo due to being in a quasi-data mode which is causing it not to charge via A/C power and causing the PC not to recognize it. Has anyone had an issue remotely like this? I've come to terms with the sinking feeling that this is a hardware issue and that the only option I'm going to have is for my phone to be accidentally run over by a car (in order to pay my $125 and get a "new" phone under AT&T insurance). If anyone has any suggestions I'll be more than happy to try, maybe we can get this thing fixed!
If you made it this far I'll just say thanks for reading my wall of text and thanks in advance for any advice you have.
Were you able to get this issue resolved? It just started happening to my Captivate earlier today, and I was hoping that a solution had been found.
I haven't been able to get it resolved, I actually just sort of gave up on it and went back to my old phone for now. I have insurance so I'm not totally screwed, but it's not that cool obviously.
Were you able to get anything resolved on your end? If so I'd love to hear how. The one good solution would be a package to restore to stock that you could run through update.zip on a memory card, that isn't available yet is it?
i have this issue as well. I flashed Cognition 4.4 and it ran just fine for a couple weeks and then it began not even recognizing the micro plugged into any power source or the samsung dock! debugging on or off, battery saver apps removed, all that. multiple reboots. nothing. it takes a spell of, if i'm lucky, recognizing it after i eff with it for a few minutes and flukes a decent charge but at night, it usually has a loop cycle charging effect. I can hear the "boop beep" charger plugged in sound over and over throughout the night.
i use the phone in my cars and everywhere with the same problem.
no resolution! HELP!!!
I came across the same problem with USB on ARMANI I9010 after installing Cognition5. The most unpleasant is that i have bought it abroad and there is no possibility to return it
Does any body found the solution?
My Verizon Wireless Droid 3 stopped booting normally on Tuesday evening. It has not been rooted or anything like that. When I boot it now, once the boot sequence has finished instead of displaying the home screen it stays stuck on the red animated boot screen for a little while and then goes completely blank. I cannot do anything with the phone - none of the buttons work. I can hear some audio notifications however so it seems to be booted completely, but locked to any user input. I get the same behavior when booting it in safe mode. If I call my cell phone from a landline, it receives the call, displays the incoming call on the screen, and I can accept or reject it using the normal screen swipe motions. When the call is answered, I can talk/hear as well as use the in-call dial pad. I cannot, however, use any of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the phone or access the notification bar at the top of the screen. As soon as the call ends, the screen becomes unusable/blank again.
Once booted in this state, after a couple of minutes it sort of resets, in that it sounds/displays the "Droid" message, followed by the red animated boot screen. However, if connected to my computer when this happens, the two external drives do not disappear, which seems to indicate that the phone is still at least semi-booted during this time? If left alone, that cycle repeats and repeats (every few minutes it sounds/displays "Droid" then the red animated boot screen).
When I connect a USB cable to my computer while the phone is up in this state, it displays two empty external drives.
Through research on this forum and others I have downloaded/installed adb and the Android SDK. I cannot get adb to recognize the phone, presumably because I'm quite sure USB Debugging was not enabled on my phone before it started acting up.
When booting via FastBoot and connecting via USB it recognizes a "Android ADB Interface" device in device manager, however adb itself still does not recognize the device.
Doing a factory reset is not an option at this point due to encrypted files/photos on the phone/sd card. I had to turn encryption on in order to use my corporate e-mail on the phone.
The boot menu gives me these options:
Normal Powerup
Recovery
AP Fastboot
BP SBF Flash
BP Only
BP HW Diag & Boot AP
BP Tools
Can anyone give me some advice on gaining access to the phone via adb or anything else? I've seen mention of Early USB Enumeration on some other androids, but am not seeing this option on my phone anywhere.
Forgot to mention that I also tried wiping the phone's cache via the recovery menu, but to no avail.
jessman1128 said:
My Verizon Wireless Droid 3 stopped booting normally on Tuesday evening. It has not been rooted or anything like that. When I boot it now, once the boot sequence has finished instead of displaying the home screen it stays stuck on the red animated boot screen for a little while and then goes completely blank. I cannot do anything with the phone - none of the buttons work. I can hear some audio notifications however so it seems to be booted completely, but locked to any user input. I get the same behavior when booting it in safe mode. If I call my cell phone from a landline, it receives the call, displays the incoming call on the screen, and I can accept or reject it using the normal screen swipe motions. When the call is answered, I can talk/hear as well as use the in-call dial pad. I cannot, however, use any of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the phone or access the notification bar at the top of the screen. As soon as the call ends, the screen becomes unusable/blank again.
Once booted in this state, after a couple of minutes it sort of resets, in that it sounds/displays the "Droid" message, followed by the red animated boot screen. However, if connected to my computer when this happens, the two external drives do not disappear, which seems to indicate that the phone is still at least semi-booted during this time? If left alone, that cycle repeats and repeats (every few minutes it sounds/displays "Droid" then the red animated boot screen).
When I connect a USB cable to my computer while the phone is up in this state, it displays two empty external drives.
Through research on this forum and others I have downloaded/installed adb and the Android SDK. I cannot get adb to recognize the phone, presumably because I'm quite sure USB Debugging was not enabled on my phone before it started acting up.
When booting via FastBoot and connecting via USB it recognizes a "Android ADB Interface" device in device manager, however adb itself still does not recognize the device.
Doing a factory reset is not an option at this point due to encrypted files/photos on the phone/sd card. I had to turn encryption on in order to use my corporate e-mail on the phone.
The boot menu gives me these options:
Normal Powerup
Recovery
AP Fastboot
BP SBF Flash
BP Only
BP HW Diag & Boot AP
BP Tools
Can anyone give me some advice on gaining access to the phone via adb or anything else? I've seen mention of Early USB Enumeration on some other androids, but am not seeing this option on my phone anywhere.
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Since you said you can receive calls, during a call, place in speakerphone mode and hit the HOME button. It should background the call to the notification bar and unlock sliding down the notification bar and take you to the home screen. (using AT&T I can do this to stay in call and browse/do whatever on data while in a call).
Have someone (or you) call the phone, press home, then hit Menu > Settings > Applications > debugging and enable USB debugging. This should get you ADB, do NOT hang up during this just in case.
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Since you said you can receive calls, during a call, place in speakerphone mode and hit the HOME button. It should background the call to the notification bar and unlock sliding down the notification bar and take you to the home screen. (using AT&T I can do this to stay in call and browse/do whatever on data while in a call).
Have someone (or you) call the phone, press home, then hit Menu > Settings > Applications > debugging and enable USB debugging. This should get you ADB, do NOT hang up during this just in case.
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I can place the call in speaker mode, but the home button (plus the other 3) still do not work, nor does the notification bar (although I can see the notification bar). At some point it did delegate the call to the notification bar (although not immediately after placing it in speaker mode), but at that point the rest of the screen went black and only the notification bar was visible (but not accessible). I did receive a message this time, right before answering the call, that process Home Screen was stuck or something and it prompted me to either force close or wait. I told it to wait. And now it just initiated a partial reboot, even though I was still in-call.
Also, in case it's relevant, I am using LauncherPro as my home screen.
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Also, in case it's relevant, I am using LauncherPro as my home screen.
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Sounds like something may have happened to LauncherPro, and since it's your default launcher, the home button isn't going back to regular motorola home. Try booting the phone and (hoping) if it has a data connection, on your PC go to https://play.google.com/apps login, it should display your devices, click on your Droid 3, find LauncherPro, and uninstall remotely. It should be the small trash-can next to where it says 'installed'
OR you can try installing another launcher, such as ADW, Go Launcher, etc. and remotely installing it, then hitting home, which SHOULD reprompt for default launcher/home.
Maybe do a combination of the two, just to insure you're not stuck without a launcher at all, though not rooting, MotorolaHome shouldn't have been affected.
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Sounds like something may have happened to LauncherPro, and since it's your default launcher, the home button isn't going back to regular motorola home. Try booting the phone and (hoping) if it has a data connection, on your PC go to [] login, it should display your devices, click on your Droid 3, find LauncherPro, and uninstall remotely. It should be the small trash-can next to where it says 'installed'
OR you can try installing another launcher, such as ADW, Go Launcher, etc. and remotely installing it, then hitting home, which SHOULD reprompt for default launcher/home.
Maybe do a combination of the two, just to insure you're not stuck without a launcher at all, though not rooting, MotorolaHome shouldn't have been affected.
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You are a lifesaver. You rock. You are awesome. I'd click Thanks on your post one thousand times if it would let me. I have my phone back!
I followed both suggestions - I loaded the Play store on my computer and installed ADW as well as removed Launcher Pro plus a few other apps. It took I think 3 boot cycles before it finished making all of those changes on my phone (because it would only stay up for 1-2 minutes each time), but once it was done I had my phone back.
I could access my pics on my phone then, but not on my computer. Due to them being encrypted you have to connect in PC Mode for it to decrypt them properly when copying to the computer, but in PC Mode it wasn't registering the right drivers. Took me awhile to track down the proper ones online (I was looking at Verizon when it was actually Motorola drivers I needed), but I finally found them and installed them and just finished copying over all my pics to my computer - and verified they decrypted properly.
In recent weeks I've been kicking around the idea of rooting my phone and installing a custom rom. Thinking this might be a good time to try it now that I have everything copied off of my phone now. I don't know much about custom roms though. Do you happen to know if any of the available ones for D3 will support corporate e-mail?
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I could access my pics on my phone then, but not on my computer. Due to them being encrypted you have to connect in PC Mode for it to decrypt them properly when copying to the computer, but in PC Mode it wasn't registering the right drivers. Took me awhile to track down the proper ones online (I was looking at Verizon when it was actually Motorola drivers I needed), but I finally found them and installed them and just finished copying over all my pics to my computer - and verified they decrypted properly.
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Good news. But, do yourself a favor - try activating a service that automatically uploads all photos, such as Google+ or Dropbox or Sugrasync. That way if you ever get to a point where you need to factory reset you'll have copies of your photos somewhere else.
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You are a lifesaver. You rock. You are awesome. I'd click Thanks on your post one thousand times if it would let me. I have my phone back!
I followed both suggestions - I loaded the Play store on my computer and installed ADW as well as removed Launcher Pro plus a few other apps. It took I think 3 boot cycles before it finished making all of those changes on my phone (because it would only stay up for 1-2 minutes each time), but once it was done I had my phone back.
I could access my pics on my phone then, but not on my computer. Due to them being encrypted you have to connect in PC Mode for it to decrypt them properly when copying to the computer, but in PC Mode it wasn't registering the right drivers. Took me awhile to track down the proper ones online (I was looking at Verizon when it was actually Motorola drivers I needed), but I finally found them and installed them and just finished copying over all my pics to my computer - and verified they decrypted properly.
In recent weeks I've been kicking around the idea of rooting my phone and installing a custom rom. Thinking this might be a good time to try it now that I have everything copied off of my phone now. I don't know much about custom roms though. Do you happen to know if any of the available ones for D3 will support corporate e-mail?
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Most likely any roms that are built on the D3 source will unless they stripped it. I use Maverick rom 4.0 myself, it is based on 906 with enhancements, debloat, themed, etc. There are still many bugs to work out on AOSP built roms (cyanogenmod, aokp, etc. Any ics/jb roms). I would suggest sticking with a stable gb rom if it is your business phone.
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Good news. But, do yourself a favor - try activating a service that automatically uploads all photos, such as Google+ or Dropbox or Sugrasync. That way if you ever get to a point where you need to factory reset you'll have copies of your photos somewhere else.
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That sounds like a good idea. I wonder, though, if those services would upload the encrypted or decrypted version of the photos. I'll have to test it and see.
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Most likely any roms that are built on the D3 source will unless they stripped it. I use Maverick rom 4.0 myself, it is based on 906 with enhancements, debloat, themed, etc. There are still many bugs to work out on AOSP built roms (cyanogenmod, aokp, etc. Any ics/jb roms). I would suggest sticking with a stable gb rom if it is your business phone.
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Hmm, ok. I'll have to give it some more thought then. It's my personal phone, but I do have my work e-mail setup on it and access it fairly regularly. I don't absolutely need to have my work e-mail on my phone, but it's certainly very helpful to have it setup there.
I've also been thinking about doing a factory reset, as the phone in general has gotten progressively slower as time goes on. Thinking the factory reset might help in that regard. I wonder if there's any way to remove some of the stock Verizon apps I never use when doing a factory reset. I'll have to look into that. I guess I should go search these forums again!
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That sounds like a good idea. I wonder, though, if those services would upload the encrypted or decrypted version of the photos. I'll have to test it and see.
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I setup FolderSync to upload my photos to Google Drive and it is successfully uploading them in decrypted form. Thank you for the suggestion!
Alright, I managed to break my phones screen by dropping it, yet the phone itself still seems to work. USB debugging is disabled and Samsung's MHL HDMI adapters dont work on the note 5. I can still interact with the screen using the pen but cant see what im doing. I am getting a replacement phone soon, but there are certain apps and messages etc that i need to respond to, which is why I wanted to use one of the remote access through USB programs. This however doesnt work as USB debugging is off.
I just read a thread stating
"for people who dont have adb enabled, i suggest you contact a kernel developer to automatically enable it in the default.prop and sideload the kernel in recovery!
i broke my S3 on stock so nothing was enabled.
i enabled adb via the default.prop and compiled the kernel and flashed in recovery(sideload).
now i have full control over the device.
thanks for the tool mate! i hope to see it cross compiled for linux soon aswell "
Does this mean there is a chance I could enable USB debugging remotely? or is thee any other way of seeing what is happening on my screen? I only need to see the screen as i can then guess where to press with the pen.
thank you
On a previous phone with shattered screen, I was able to cast my screen via chromecast.
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For that I would have to be able to see what i am doing on the screen to open the app and enable screensharing etc, wouldnt I?
Depends. I enabled ok Google from any screen so I told it to open chromecast. I had another android so I can see approximately where the menu and options were. Took a few tries but I got it. By few tries, it was a lot and took 30 minutes or so to nail it lol
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Problem is I have around 5 pages of apps and no idea which one the chromecast one is and I havent set it up with this Wi-Fi yet, as I recently moved so I have no hopes for that.
Which is why I was hoping to find a solution along the lines of loading a custom recovery which enables usb debugging, as that should work but i just have no idea how to do it.
Hello everyone,
My wifes not 4 recently went to crap and will not connect to the pc in order to ODIN back to stock.. ive tried everything that I know including Samsung drivers reinstalled.. Uninstaller drivers in device manager and reply the phone in. It will not connect. . The computer makes a noise when you plug it in as it normall would, but comes up with an error on screen saying "device has malfunctioned , could not connect please Disconnect and reconnect the device if the problem persists there might be a problem with the device. "
Any advice would sincerely be appreciated, please help..
Sincerely VeRiFiEdSuB
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Hello everyone,
My wifes not 4 recently went to crap and will not connect to the pc in order to ODIN back to stock.. ive tried everything that I know including Samsung drivers reinstalled.. Uninstaller drivers in device manager and reply the phone in. It will not connect. . The computer makes a noise when you plug it in as it normall would, but comes up with an error on screen saying "device has malfunctioned , could not connect please Disconnect and reconnect the device if the problem persists there might be a problem with the device. "
Any advice would sincerely be appreciated, please help..
Sincerely VeRiFiEdSuB
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MTP mode vs camera mode?
Does kies recognize it?
Also as strange as it sounds, you may toggle developer options and usb debugging on and off. I did this on a family members ASUS tablet that displayed the same issue and then the PC recognized it. I was just trying everything I could think of.
Edit: I just realized you said Odin and not just connecting as a normally powered on device. Do you have it in download mode when connecting to the PC with Odin running?
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MTP mode vs camera mode?
Does kies recognize it?
Also as strange as it sounds, you may toggle developer options and usb debugging on and off. I did this on a family members ASUS tablet that displayed the same issue and then the PC recognized it. I was just trying everything I could think of.
Edit: I just realized you said Odin and not just connecting as a normally powered on device. Do you have it in download mode when connecting to the PC with Odin running?
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unfortunately i cannot get the phone to bootup as to get into the hidden menu and turn on the MTP that way and yes if i am trying to connect to the phone to use odin i am in download mode when i try to connect.. the phone does not want to connect to the computer no matter what i do ive finally managed to get it to download mode and now am going to try and flash a different custom rom in the hopes it will boot up.. if it will do that i ill try and get mobile odin.. but even that hasnt been working. when i install a new rom and click on reboot the phone just shuts off. the phone wont turn back on after that unless i leave the battery out for several minutes then put the battery back in and press the power button. upon doing that the phone instantly boots to recovery.
This happened to me.
I even replaced the USB Port (Then dropped the phone while it didn't have the frame on and cracked the LCD)
The phone's USB port still didn't work and I had to replace the phone.
it is a very, very odd bug with this phone that multiple people have been experiencing but no one knows the cause of it.
It may just be faulty phone. Several people recently have had this bug.
my phone was made in Korea, Region: USA-Revision Q8R2.
N910T (UD)
So. Sadly, the only way as of right now to fix this is to get a new phone.
I tried a lot of things with my phone before I broke it to attempt to fix the USB port.
And the issue also lead to slow charging (220mA) and when I plugged it into the wall it would say USB Charger not AC Connected
Are you using the oem cord that came with the phone. I've experienced issues using non oem cords.
Yes sir I've tried multiple OEM and non OEM cords still won't recognize the phone
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Did you try ask the different USB outlets? Did you try a different computer? For me USB 2 works, but not 3. Also I've had trouble with those on the front of the case. I always use the ones on the back. Just throwing a few things out there. It's possible you have a bad USB port on the device.
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