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Application Lockout - Zune, Xbox Live

There seems to be a problem with some applications on my HD7, specifically the Zune and Xbox Live. Sometimes when I try to start them there is a short delay and then I'm dumped back to the Start menu. It happens several times a day and the only cure is to restart the phone.
Today things moved on a bit, as my bought apps fail to start and tell me I have an invalid license before uninstalling.
Can't say that I'm overly impressed with the software reliability thus far... shame really as I'm blown away by pretty much everything else about the HD7...
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I have the same .
1 random phone crash
2 apps kicking back to start nenu
3 the screen that is flickering (looks like the phone is beyond repair)
I hope we don't have to wait till and of January for some bug fixes , because this phone is actually not usable for every day for me .

Things went from bad to worse yesterday after I'd posted - I lost access to my purchased apps, couldn't download or re-download anything and my Windows Live ID was no longer recognised. Eventually a hard reset cleared all the problems and also seems to have put a stop to the problems I was having with applications failing to start... Fingers crossed its a permanent fix.
Was quite impressed with the responsiveness of the @WinPhoneSupport twitter account... got to give Microsoft credit for that...

I've just had a similar experience. Phone seemed to completely hang, none of the buttons worked, so took the battery out, replaced it and booted up. All was good, but now every single 3rd party app claims to have no license.
I really don't want to have to reset the phone - it's taken me weeks to get to this point. Has anything changed in the last couple of weeks, making it fixable without losing all my data?

elbowz said:
Things went from bad to worse yesterday after I'd posted - I lost access to my purchased apps, couldn't download or re-download anything and my Windows Live ID was no longer recognised. Eventually a hard reset cleared all the problems and also seems to have put a stop to the problems I was having with applications failing to start... Fingers crossed its a permanent fix.
Was quite impressed with the responsiveness of the @WinPhoneSupport twitter account... got to give Microsoft credit for that...
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let me know how the Hard Reset goes for you. Many apps keep putting me back to the home screen. The Harvest being the worst of the bunch. This is extremely frustrating as I have had nothing but high hopes for WP7, I've been thinking about cancelling my contract with Sprint for my EVO. If this continues it'll be back to my Nexsus One.
I'm really feeling let down by Microsoft.

fnordelus said:
let me know how the Hard Reset goes for you. Many apps keep putting me back to the home screen. The Harvest being the worst of the bunch. This is extremely frustrating as I have had nothing but high hopes for WP7, I've been thinking about cancelling my contract with Sprint for my EVO. If this continues it'll be back to my Nexsus One.
I'm really feeling let down by Microsoft.
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I've had the problem with the harvest but had read about it on here and was hoping for an update. Other than that, my phone has been really smooth.

[Q] Captivate with TONS of problems, want to replace the phone (less than a year old)

Ok. Posted a couple months back about having a lot of problems such as GPS being completely not functional. I got a great response with many people claiming that a custom ROM should help with many of my issues. I took the time to research here on XDA and learned a lot. I flashed my phone with Serendipity and it really improved my speed.
HOWEVER, I still experience many issues that make me really want to get away from this phone.
- GPS still is completely broken. AT&T told me the problem is not in their hands, but Samsung's, and that they cannot do honor my warranty if it's a GPS problem.
- About once a day, my phone decides that it can't play any of my audio or video files (internal memory; I have no SD card for my device). It gives me an error about how the media player (I've tried stock and many others) cannot play this file type, even if it's an .mp3. When this happens, YouTube videos also refuse to begin playing, saying there was an error and to tap the screen to retry, although that never works. In addition, when this is happening, I cannot record videos. It says "Recording failed" when I tap the record button. I can take photos however. To fix all of these issues, rebooting the phone temporarily solves it but it will appear again in a matter of hours.
- Sometimes the phone will simply go black and refuse to come back on. I can only sit and wait, as the power button is useless in making the screen light up. 30-45 seconds later, it'll light back up.
- Battery life is awful. My phone will sometimes be almost completely dead in about half a day of moderate use. When I wake up and unplug my phone, the battery immediately goes to 97%. Then it's at 90% by the time I leave my house for class 30 minutes later. I always keep brightness on minimum and all GPS/wi-fi/bluetooth/sync disabled. I use no task killers. I had worse battery life and speed using those.
- Apps often hang and force-close.
- Calls drop very often even in good service areas, such as while sitting in a chair in my home with 3+ bars.
- Often takes several attempts to make a call. I press "call" and it simply hangs for a few seconds and returns me to the home screen.
This phone is really driving me up the wall. I got it in January and have not had much fun with it since. Also note that I am extremely careful with my electronics. This phone has been in a hard shell case since day one and has been dropped VERY few times.
The only thing that Serendipity helped me with (for the most part) is the general speed of my device, which it REALLY beefed up. The phone is still quite fast most of the time, but I just hate constantly dealing with these above issues all the time.
Any input is appreciated. Tips on fixing any of these problems or tips on how to get AT&T to replace my phone with something else.

c0ncept said:
Ok. Posted a couple months back about having a lot of problems such as GPS being completely not functional. I got a great response with many people claiming that a custom ROM should help with many of my issues. I took the time to research here on XDA and learned a lot. I flashed my phone with Serendipity and it really improved my speed.
HOWEVER, I still experience many issues that make me really want to get away from this phone.
- GPS still is completely broken. AT&T told me the problem is not in their hands, but Samsung's, and that they cannot do honor my warranty if it's a GPS problem.
- About once a day, my phone decides that it can't play any of my audio or video files (internal memory; I have no SD card for my device). It gives me an error about how the media player (I've tried stock and many others) cannot play this file type, even if it's an .mp3. When this happens, YouTube videos also refuse to begin playing, saying there was an error and to tap the screen to retry, although that never works. In addition, when this is happening, I cannot record videos. It says "Recording failed" when I tap the record button. I can take photos however. To fix all of these issues, rebooting the phone temporarily solves it but it will appear again in a matter of hours.
- Sometimes the phone will simply go black and refuse to come back on. I can only sit and wait, as the power button is useless in making the screen light up. 30-45 seconds later, it'll light back up.
- Battery life is awful. My phone will sometimes be almost completely dead in about half a day of moderate use. When I wake up and unplug my phone, the battery immediately goes to 97%. Then it's at 90% by the time I leave my house for class 30 minutes later. I always keep brightness on minimum and all GPS/wi-fi/bluetooth/sync disabled. I use no task killers. I had worse battery life and speed using those.
- Apps often hang and force-close.
- Calls drop very often even in good service areas, such as while sitting in a chair in my home with 3+ bars.
- Often takes several attempts to make a call. I press "call" and it simply hangs for a few seconds and returns me to the home screen.
This phone is really driving me up the wall. I got it in January and have not had much fun with it since. Also note that I am extremely careful with my electronics. This phone has been in a hard shell case since day one and has been dropped VERY few times.
The only thing that Serendipity helped me with (for the most part) is the general speed of my device, which it REALLY beefed up. The phone is still quite fast most of the time, but I just hate constantly dealing with these above issues all the time.
Any input is appreciated. Tips on fixing any of these problems or tips on how to get AT&T to replace my phone with something else.
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Best thing you can do is return it to stock and do a master clear (Gets rid of just about everything on the phone). Then go to your local store, tell them all your "problems" that you have been having and they should replace the phone and GPS is their problem, if they refuse then contact Samsung and get them to replace the phone for the faulty GPS.
BTW: be careful if your phone had 2.2 on it, you might want to avoid going to 2.1

I had no problem replacing my phone with at&t. do you have a warranty center near by? got to your local at&t store, and ask them where a warranty center is. Mine is close 10 minutes away.
I drove there, told them my gps is whacked, walked out with new phone plus that phone has at least 90 days on warranty. If you less than 90 days on original warranty, this will extend it up to 90 days.
i just did it again, and have another 90 days on warranty. I was actually past the 90 day warranty by 2 days and they still let me swap it! so after all is said and done, i will have extended my warranty by 6 months! This time I bricked the phone trying to flash something. I told them the phone said I had an update and it failed. I actually did this twice on the same day. I told them the new phone said I had an update too, they bought it. ROFL
Anyways, dont try calling at&t unless you have no warrant center around.
Good luck

Tell At&t you have the random shutdowns issue. Its well documented enough.

Sorry for the delayed response. I appreciate the replies. I do have 2.2 on this phone. Would returning it to stock and doing the master clear revert me to 2.1 or just a fresh install of 2.2? I don't want to do anything to reduce my chances of getting a replacement.
Unfortunately, after checking on the AT&T store locator, there aren't any Warranty Centers within 50 miles.
I supposed I'll just call about it (again), but I hate dealing with phone reps.

[Q] Captivate loop soft reboot???

I am a broadcast engineer and have been a Linux user for the last decade. So when Android hit it was only a matter of whose device. After a lot of research and waiting for 6 months for the initial “teething pains” to pass selected the Captivate for several reasons.
As a broadcast engineer 24/7 reliable cellular communication with data is a professional necessity not a convenience. For that reason my wife always has the same phone as I carry as a backup. If mine gets broken or unusable for any reason we switch SIMs and I am back to work. So we both received our initial “trade up” Captivates at the same time. About 25 days after receiving our phones mine started randomly shutting itself off. After three warranty replacements finally got one that stayed on. Six months later wife's was replaced due to no audio from the speaker. Later after my father past my mother merged into our family plan and choose Captivate as well.
So we have three Captivates in our family. Love the phones. Mine by my nature is loaded with “all the bells & whistles.” Lots of app, widgets and rooted. As soon as I am comfortable with my choice and feel prepared will take the plunge and try flash a custom ROM. More than likely several through ROM manager of some kind. I really like to looks of the four tap lock and other features only a custom ROM is going to get you. Besides I am a “power user,” which my wife thinks translates to “if it works, it doesn't have enough features.” My wife has a few widgets & apps as well as my mother to a lesser degree.
In the last 90 days we all three have been experiencing something that I describe as a “loop soft rebooting.” Started with my wife, she described it a “loop rebooting.” Every weekday from 10:00 to 10:20. Once I had a chance to observe I found it does not do a complete reboot. It does not show the shut down animation like a controlled shut down. Or the turn on animation like a power up after a complete shut down or OS crash. I would describe it as more like a “soft boot.” Almost like a launcher crash, but it also has to rescan the SD media. It vibrates once with the screen off or on, in use or out. then twice more, another 8 to 10 seconds another vibrator alert then the launcher appears and starts to load widgets, apps & scan media. Completely unresponsive to any key input until after the launcher reopens. The wife has never used anything but the AT&T/Samsung stock launcher. I did all the usual things. Backup, factory reset, restore. Still does it. Backup, Hard reset, restore, still doing it. Hard reset, rebuild from scratch, no restore, stayed completely vanilla, no apps or widgets at all. It still does it. Then mine started doing it. I was using ADW Launcher, switched to Launcher Pro, have even dropped down to using the original launcher since it acts like a launcher crash. No affect. Went through all the above same process with the same results. Mine does it's act between 5:00 & 5:20. About a week later my mother reported hers does the same thing between 4:00 & 4:20. Interesting side note, if we turn off the radio (airplane mode) it does NOT do it, completely stable in PDA mode. But when we turn the phone back on, it then starts the process and runs for 20 minutes and stops. I have been collecting logs off my wife and my own phone but work duties have not given me the opportunity to read through the thousands of lines of logs to find a “smoking gun.” Now in the last week we see the same activity more often and for longer periods. Because turning off the radio stops the activity there has to be a trigger from the network. It also uses lots of data during these periods. Maxed out my wife's data plan the last 3 months. We have Lookout Security installed on all three phones and it reports no Trojan's, viruses etc... Also the Hard reset should have killed anything like that. I have done hard resets three time on my wife and my own phone and rebuild from scratch now. We have left her phone completely factory fresh only adding back her contacts through Gmail. I have Titanium Backup and have tried “freezing” & unfreezing” everything I can think of. Nothing but turning off the radio seems to effect this issue.
Has anybody out there experienced anything like this???

Damn dude, can I get the cliff notes?

If you're thinking of taking the custom rom plunge, I would say to go for it. The reason I suggest this is that most custom roms will also flash a different modem, which might allow your phone to connect to the towers in a way that will prevent the hot reboots you're seeing. Just make sure to do the normal backups (Titanium backup) of stuff you want to save before flashing.

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sound74145,
yeah since ur rooted, i would suggest flashing a different modem (radio) if u don't want to flash a Dev Rom yet.
What is ur Baseband version now... i897uckb1 ?? If so try i897ucKH3.
Check the modem stickied thread. It should be attached behind the paperclip at the title of the thread.
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6055u unstable after update

I have a cricket alcatel idol 4 6055u that a few months ago, got a mandatory system update, and hasn't run right since. I've tried factory reset, updating, uninstalling everything, re-flashing/updating it with sugar, but nothing I've done so far has helped at all.
I'm randomly losing icons, messages, contacts, programs are randomly freezing, and crashing, some apps are so bad they're completely functionally unusable (pokemon go) any app using gps barely works, and I've not been able to attach a Bluetooth device since.
Before the update, the phone worked perfectly! All the apps ran quick and smoothly, no connectivity issues, it ran exactly how a phone should.
After, I'm going through daily hell, just keeping it usable. I contacted both cricket, and alcatel, and their final solution was 'send it back, and they'll fix it' (weeks later and I don't have a replacement phone to use in the mean time) and I refuse to pay twice as much as I paid for the phone to begin with, for an advance replacement (where they'll probably claim 'water damage' or some other BS excuse, and keep my 'deposit')
Help!
I liked the phone the way it was!

you could try downloading sugar_qct and reflashing the phone.
if that doesn't do it definitely do a warranty replacement
if it isn't water damaged or cracked they'll replace it, and it'll only take a couple days.

SM-N910F resurrection following eMMC issues

tldr; the thing with the oven appears to have worked, although you'd have to be stupid, desperate, or both to try it.
Much loved Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910F started to fail with freezes, reboots and so on. Looks like a phone dying of eMMC failure, according to the bulk of articles on the specific symptoms.
Happily, I'd replaced it (with a Note 10 - lovely phone, but not as revolutionary-lovely as the Note 4 was when it was new), and had had six years of happy use out of the thing. I could bin it with my head held high.
Might have a go at recovering it, though.
Attempts to factory reset failed, resulting in boot to download mode "Firmware Update Encountered An Issue" scary screen... I see. This could be a fun challenge before I bin it then!
Odin flash of Stock ROM fell over repeatedly with various fails - often with 'mmc read' and 'could not do normal boot' scary screens
Various versions and vintages of Odin all produced similar results
Un-brick seemed to work, in as much as I could then flash TWRP (https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/samsung-galaxy-note4-sm-n910f-unbrick-t3552826)
TWRP flashing of any rom seemed to fail and fall over - generally 5-10% (guess) into the process.
Now getting bolder, tried re-partitioning, various PIT files, NAND erase, and all the forbidden things. The errors kept coming, and my 'unbrick' microSD was earning its keep.
The thing is, I really liked this phone - and I wanted it to try newer ROMs on and so forth, so I resisted the urge to chuck it in the bin. That, and finding things like using TWRP terminal mode to re-format /system and /data in different partition types, and then back to ext4, seemed to improve matters - if only temporarily - all suggested that there might be life in the old girl yet.
A couple of my searches came across articles like this and this, that suggested that the issue might have to do with failing solder joints rather than the eMMC itself and ... well then they talked about putting your phone in the oven, and I dismissed them as madness.
I mean, if putting your phone in the oven would 'reflow' dodgy solder, it would re-flow ALL the solder in the phone, right? Makes no sense. Bloody stupid.
Not going to fall for some obvious troll hoax.
So I put my phone in a 100 deg C oven for 5 mins. Took it out, and let it cool to room temperature slowly over a couple of hours.
Now
Odin can flash a whole stock ROM with success
TWRP can flash a whole non-stock ROM with success
Odin can re-flash a whole stoc... oh. Failed at around 80%. Poo.
TWRP managed a reflash, though!
Odin managed a whole stock reflash, again!
Setting up the flashed phone, though, results in freezes and boot loops. Damnit.
Another day of frustrated mucking about, hovering the thing over the bin.
OK, one more go. This time 120 deg C for 6 minutes.
This time
First and every subsequent re-flash, in Odin and TWRP, works fine.
Odin'd it back to stock, then wipe and factory reset. All fine.
Reconfig process passes without incident.
Google Play updating itself and ALL THE APPS works fine.
Setting up accounts, streaming Youtube for hours, playing games... all fine. Much more stable than it'd been in a while.
It's been a week, now, without incident.
So I thought I'd mention it.
But I still think you'd need to be an idiot to bake your phone in the hope that it'd do *anything* other than make things much worse, right?

charleshking said:
But I still think you'd need to be an idiot to bake your phone in the hope that it'd do *anything* other than make things much worse, right?
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Maybe.
There's an app called Wake Lock - PowerManager - I've installed on my son's 910F since a month or so and the phone still works.
It'll slightly take it's toll on battery, but hey you save some $ for the next phone.

@charleshking: Reflowing def does work, I know a guy that had to do it 3 times within 6 months to fix his gaming laptop. But it's only meant to be a temp fix, sooner or later the oven thing won't work (failed on him after the 4th try).
The Wake Lock manager app just holds open a wake lock so the phone never enters deep sleep/doze mode, which in the case of an EMMC failing phone can cause it to not wake up.
Last year I had a Note 4 T-Mobile N910T which had a failing EMMC, it had most of the issues you mentioned. But eventually it died, it caught on fire while I was charging it. I now have an N910T which is working with no issues, bought new on eBay almost a year ago.