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Galaxy Gear Touch Screen No Longer Working! HELP

Hi I am not sure what happened but I found someone locally selling a Galaxy Gear for $200.00. I thought that was a pretty good deal so I met up with the person today and got the watch. He showed me it working on his Note 3. He breezed through the screens with his finger. I called him...he took the call on the watch...I mean everything looked fine. Now I must mention I already bought a Galaxy Gear and love it. Been side loading apps and really having fun with it. I thought for this price I could play around with rooting and try some things that I did not want to on my existing gear because I am happy with the way it is working. Figured if I sold it on Ebay eventually I would still make possibly $50.00 when it was all said and done. So the first thing I did was charge up the new Gear ..it was at 87% already but thought it could not hurt. I was trying to figure out how to link TWO gears to my Note 3 and you pretty much just add a new gear and unpair or disconnect the other. So far so good...so I get the option to restore my data....I'm like sweet! Goes through the entire process including with even watch styler. I push a recently configured watch face to the gear. And that's as far as I got. I tried to swipe left and right with no luck. no up or down either. Ok, I figure maybe the buggy watch styler hung up the gear. Hold the power button down on the side and I get the reboot or shutdown...go to hit shutdown and the screen does not sense I am touching it. I tried it over and over and still nothing. Finally my only option was to hold the side power button in....says rebooting...actually comes up shows the time but I still cannot swipe in any direction. I even went as far as to go into the system menu by pushing the side button over and over after the reboot and I did a reset in there but still no touch response. Now If I had not actually seen it working I would have thought the dude pulled a fast one on me and who knows maybe he still did but it WAS working. Out of desperation I called Samsung and gave them my serial number and they told me it is eligible for warranty return...but watch them find it was previously wet or dropped somehow. I do not know if it has been but that would just suck. So much for my good deal. Do any of you extremely smart folks know what I can try or do you think it and I are hosed? I did try USB to see if that made a difference and if I go into the download mode I could launch ODIN and it shows it is detected. I am trying not to totally reset my other gear by uninstalling anything on the phone but I trust you guys so what do think I should do?

Re flash with Odin. ..can't hurt...
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gtxaspec said:
Re flash with Odin. ..can't hurt...
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I thought about that but if I do that and it does not work would I not be able to mail it back for warranty repair? I have already called samsung and gave them the S/N and they sent me a pre paid label to print off and mail the watch back. If I re-flash I might be screwed for that option. I might already be not knowing what the previous owner did.
Thanks for the response though

retropug said:
I thought about that but if I do that and it does not work would I not be able to mail it back for warranty repair? I have already called samsung and gave them the S/N and they sent me a pre paid label to print off and mail the watch back. If I re-flash I might be screwed for that option. I might already be not knowing what the previous owner did.
Thanks for the response though
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Well at least you might get a new one back from Samsung.
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Galaxy Gear "3" coming in few months?

About two weeks ago my city in Netherlands has opened it's Samsung store. Today I went to see what are they offering, and except for Gear Neo and S5 + accessories I found nothing, but I had a short chat with one of the employees, and he noticed that my Gear is running custom software. After chatting a bit about it, I've been told that Samsung is working on another Smartwatch, and this time it's going to be based on Android again. I can't back this up with any proof, but this is what I heard from them and I was wondering if anyone heard anything similar? I'm going to skip this generation due to Tizen, but if they are working on Android device again then they got my attention...

hurdlejade said:
About two weeks ago my city in Netherlands has opened it's Samsung store. Today I went to see what are they offering, and except for Gear Neo and S5 + accessories I found nothing, but I had a short chat with one of the employees, and he noticed that my Gear is running custom software. After chatting a bit about it, I've been told that Samsung is working on another Smartwatch, and this time it's going to be based on Android again. I can't back this up with any proof, but this is what I heard from them and I was wondering if anyone heard anything similar? I'm going to skip this generation due to Tizen, but if they are working on Android device again then they got my attention...
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Can u install android on galaxy gear 2?

Djamog said:
Can u install android on galaxy gear 2?
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no you can not.

DEFECTIVE?!? Please help! I need your advise.

I bought a brand new Note 4 from my local T-Mobile store. I rooted it, and only added Wanam Xposed.
I used Wanam to hide my root status so that I could use T-Mobiles softcard payment app.
I wanted to sleep for an hour, and I shut off my phone. When I woke up, I turned on my phone, and it got stuck on the white T-Mobile screen.
I could not get by it. I pulled the battery, etc, and it only would boot to the white t-mobile screen,
I was able to restore the phone to original with Samsungs online restoration program.
Here is my concern. Do I have a defective phone? I think I can still return it. (They may charge me $50.00)
The phone works now, but im just worried that I might have a bad one? Could it be defective? or did I cause the freeze by installing Wanam? or something else I did?
I would appreciate your comments and advise since there are many people on xda with much more experience and technical knowledge about this than I have.
Thanks in advance!

Mr Global said:
I bought a brand new Note 4 from my local T-Mobile store. I rooted it, and only added Wanam Xposed.
I used Wanam to hide my root status so that I could use T-Mobiles softcard payment app.
I wanted to sleep for an hour, and I shut off my phone. When I woke up, I turned on my phone, and it got stuck on the white T-Mobile screen.
I could not get by it. I pulled the battery, etc, and it only would boot to the white t-mobile screen,
I was able to restore the phone to original with Samsungs online restoration program.
Here is my concern. Do I have a defective phone? I think I can still return it. (They may charge me $50.00)
The phone works now, but im just worried that I might have a bad one? Could it be defective? or did I cause the freeze by installing Wanam? or something else I did?
I would appreciate your comments and advise since there are many people on xda with much more experience and technical knowledge about this than I have.
Thanks in advance!
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No need to return the phone, as you were able to restore it. The freeze was likely caused by something you installed that didn't play nicely with another app/program. Fresh install and make sure to pay close attention to what you're putting on your phone, and what settings w/i Wanam may or may not bork something else. Enjoy!

Mr Global said:
I bought a brand new Note 4 from my local T-Mobile store. I rooted it, and only added Wanam Xposed.
I used Wanam to hide my root status so that I could use T-Mobiles softcard payment app.
I wanted to sleep for an hour, and I shut off my phone. When I woke up, I turned on my phone, and it got stuck on the white T-Mobile screen.
I could not get by it. I pulled the battery, etc, and it only would boot to the white t-mobile screen,
I was able to restore the phone to original with Samsungs online restoration program.
Here is my concern. Do I have a defective phone? I think I can still return it. (They may charge me $50.00)
The phone works now, but im just worried that I might have a bad one? Could it be defective? or did I cause the freeze by installing Wanam? or something else I did?
I would appreciate your comments and advise since there are many people on xda with much more experience and technical knowledge about this than I have.
Thanks in advance!
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You have a defective xposed. No need to return it.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S

BACARDILIMON said:
You have a defective xposed. No need to return it.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S
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Milagro you aren't telling people to just go return it

nano303 said:
Milagro you aren't telling people to just go return it
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I only say that when people to stupid to take the advise given to them. Arguing that it can't possibly be the dirty flash they just did. They post to cry not for advice. So I give them what they wanna hear lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S

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I only say that when people to stupid to take the advise given to them. Arguing that it can't possibly be the dirty flash they just did. They post to cry not for advice. So I give them what they wanna hear lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S
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People can be stupid man I agree lol. Do you think it's worth rooting my phone now? Was waiting for lollipop but my new laptop came in and I'm ready to root! Been waiting for 5.0 for a while

nano303 said:
People can be stupid man I agree lol. Do you think it's worth rooting my phone now? Was waiting for lollipop but my new laptop came in and I'm ready to root! Been waiting for 5.0 for a while
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See this I would say depends. I have had the best battery life ever with stock. I rooted to remove bloat but it broke a lot. They tied everything together. So went back to stock and haven't moved. Gonna stay till official deodex 5.0 drops lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S

BACARDILIMON said:
See this I would say depends. I have had the best battery life ever with stock. I rooted to remove bloat but it broke a lot. They tied everything together. So went back to stock and haven't moved. Gonna stay till official deodex 5.0 drops lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S
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Lol Wanam is now updated to work with 5.0. so really, what's a couple more weeks to wait. Don't want to go thru the hassle of downloading the whole update and Odin back to stock. Rather just let it drop via OTA. Honestly my first phone since the Evo I have not rooted yet. It's crazy because once I do. I know it'll be like having a new phone. Can't wait bud!

AT&T Note 4 - connecting to the VR does nothing...

I checked to see if I could uninstall the apps from my downloaded apps but that's not an option either. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

Me too. Just bought one off eBay. Connected Gear vr and nothing happens. Factory reset my Note 4. Manually installed gear vr and still nothing. Thinking of rolling back to kitkat to see if it works.

Yeah I don't want to have to do all that. Seems silly that there would be any issues with this
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Found out you won't be able to use Gear vr on Kitkat. It forces you to upgrade to lollipop in order to use the Oculus app.

Ah OK. I just spoke with at&t and they were of no help. Samsung's support page says call carrier if it isn't working. Bs. Can't find any info online about it either besides that people were having issues on Verizon last year and needed an update. I'm just going to return the thing this weekend if I can't figure it out
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I may have to do the same thing if I can't figure anything out. And buy a decent pair of goggles that work with Google cardboard. At least I could use that pair with any handset.

Yeah that was my origjnal plan and then convinced myself to get this. It's a bummer really
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This is going to sound silly but I got it working. Even though I thought the phone was fully connected it wasn't. Be sure to push it till you can't see the connector.
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Woo. I think I got it. All I did was pushed it down firmly in and it worked.

Hah yeah
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Question Constant app/system crashes on Galaxy S21 Ultra

My Galaxy s21 has been crashing constantly for about a day now. I thought maybe it was just an app or something causing the issue so I factory reset my device but nothing changed its still crashes at least once every 5 minutes. At this point I am thinking its a hardware issue. Any help would be appreciated.

If it's returnable, get a cash refund. This phone is sounding more like a dog (no offense to K-9s intended) more each passing day. Multiply defects.
It may be a bad firmware load but who cares(?) if you can get your money back or at least a new replacement.
Sammy's done nothing but drop the ball this year...

turnert said:
My Galaxy s21 has been crashing constantly for about a day now. I thought maybe it was just an app or something causing the issue so I factory reset my device but nothing changed its still crashes at least once every 5 minutes. At this point I am thinking its a hardware issue. Any help would be appreciated.
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Have you tried booting into safe mode to see if the phone is stable then? That would help indicate if it's a rogue thrid party app.

The Twitter app crashes and slows down for me,it's been happening since I got the phone. Not sure if it's the app or a bug in the OS.

Batfink33 said:
The Twitter app crashes and slows down for me,it's been happening since I got the phone. Not sure if it's the app or a bug in the OS.
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Trash app. Ditch it.
FB, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram none of that crapware runs on my phone ever.

blackhawk said:
Trash app. Ditch it.
FB, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram none of that crapware runs on my phone ever.
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I'm on Twitter all the time though, used Flamingo before and that's good but I like the features on the official app. It runs like sh** though.

Batfink33 said:
I'm on Twitter all the time though, used Flamingo before and that's good but I like the features on the official app. It runs like sh** though.
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Having it running as an app is completely unacceptable.
Worse...
The platform itself is heavily censored. Like FB most of your information is best keep private. These platforms have ruined many lives and careers. They are purveyors is disinformation and are political in nature.
Known data miners and abusers.
No. Don't feed the beast.
You're far better off on smaller forums.

lywyn said:
Have you tried booting into safe mode to see if the phone is stable then? That would help indicate if it's a rogue thrid party app.
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I haven't tried safe mode yet but I would assume a factory reset would be almost as good. Oddly the problem seems to be gone now no clue why though. Hopefully it doesn't come back.

turnert said:
I haven't tried safe mode yet but I would assume a factory reset would be almost as good. Oddly the problem seems to be gone now no clue why though. Hopefully it doesn't come back.
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It most likely will reoccure. Always best to find the root cause.
Factory resets should be reserved for after firmware upgrades and malware infections that can't be eradicated.
Occasionally a poorly written apk will alter hidden setting values permanently on uninstalling it. Sometimes you can reinstall that app and correct those values otherwise... factory reset time.

Here's an update incase anyone is curious. Basically I contacted Samsung support and they told me I could bring it to a local repair shop to get it fixed. The first time I brought it they reflashed the firmware but that didn't work it was still constantly crashing. When I brought it back they replaced the motherboard. That worked but sadly cell service does not work. When I brought it back they Basically just said that I should get a replacement device but Samsung was "out of stock" so there was nothing they could do. Now I'm Basically stuck with a non functional galaxy s21.

turnert said:
Here's an update incase anyone is curious. Basically I contacted Samsung support and they told me I could bring it to a local repair shop to get it fixed. The first time I brought it they reflashed the firmware but that didn't work it was still constantly crashing. When I brought it back they replaced the motherboard. That worked but sadly cell service does not work. When I brought it back they Basically just said that I should get a replacement device but Samsung was "out of stock" so there was nothing they could do. Now I'm Basically stuck with a non functional galaxy s21.
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How loathsome of Samsung. *Grrrrrrr*
Ask for a full refund check.
That's what Samsung should have offered rather than have you babysitting a paperweight.
Lean on them. If purchased with a MC or Visa card file a claim. You will have to return the device for the bank to issue credit if they can.
Did they replace the C port PCB?

blackhawk said:
How loathsome of Samsung. *Grrrrrrr*
Ask for a full refund check.
That's what Samsung should have offered rather than have you babysitting a paperweight.
Lean on them. If purchased with a MC or Visa card file a claim. You will have to return the device for the bank to issue credit if they can.
Did they replace the C port PCB?
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Part of the problem is I bought it from t-mobile so its still being paid off and neither Samsung or t-mobile will replace/refund me for the device. And no the c port was not replaced.

turnert said:
Part of the problem is I bought it from t-mobile so its still being paid off and neither Samsung or t-mobile will replace/refund me for the device. And no the c port was not replaced.
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Also they gave me one option to send it in with Samsungs mail in repair. But that's going to take weeks and still probably won't do anything.

turnert said:
Part of the problem is I bought it from t-mobile so its still being paid off and neither Samsung or t-mobile will replace/refund me for the device. And no the c port was not replaced.
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A bad or mismatched C port PCB can kill the internet at least on the Note 10+
They may have used the wrong mobo variant.
Tech can be inept buffoons. Those little part numbers have to match exactly...
Lean on T-mobile, they are in breach of contract.
Contact their retainment dept, escalate the case, lean all over them like a cheap suit.
Contact your State Attorney General's office and the BBB. File complaints.
Completely unacceptable.

Final update: Just got my phone back from Samsung and after countless tech support calls and countless attempted repairs it's finally fixed! Everything seems to be good so far.