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I HAVE VERZON S6 EDGE 64GB UNLOCKED AND MY PHONE IS RESTARTING VERY OFTEN
I HAVE LATEST FIRMWARE INSTALLED AND NOT ROOTED.
ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS ISSUE? :good:
eManuka said:
I HAVE VERZON S6 EDGE 64GB UNLOCKED AND MY PHONE IS RESTARTING VERY OFTEN
I HAVE LATEST FIRMWARE INSTALLED AND NOT ROOTED.
ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS ISSUE? :good:
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Sounds like you are describing a soft brick.
The only way I was able to recover from such thing is by performing a hard factory data reset,
yet this is usually only used as a last resort.
Hope my tip of the day (or night) helps.
I had this issue since 1st day I use this phone, I have used all 3 different firmware released by Verizon. Before I update to latest firmware. I performed factory reset and wiped all data. then install the firmware by Odin.
still phone is restating randomly, even few minutes ago.
eManuka said:
I had this issue since 1st day I use this phone, I have used all 3 different firmware released by Verizon. Before I update to latest firmware. I performed factory reset and wiped all data. then install the firmware by Odin.
still phone is restating randomly, even few minutes ago.
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Since you have always had this issue, I am thinking it is just an annoying bug.
I remember having a similar issue with The Droid Ultra. Nothing I did would fix it.
I brought it to Verizon and they replaced the phone no questions asked.
I suggest you do the same.
Thanks for the reply! I bought this phone off the ebay and it is UNLOCKED and I'm using UltraMobile right now.
Do you think Verizon will give me a replacement?
eManuka said:
Thanks for the reply! I bought this phone off the ebay and it is UNLOCKED and I'm using UltraMobile right now.
Do you think Verizon will give me a replacement?
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Ten months after I bought the Droid Ultra from Verizon the phone bricked. I brought it to one of Verizons corporate stores and they replaced it no questions asked. Eight months later it happened to me again; they replaced it no questions asked. Since your phone is still under warranty I believe they will do the same for you (especially if you let them know how upset you are).
If it's unlocked you can try, but it would depend if the ESN originated from Verizon I would imagine. They aren't obligated to warranty a phone you didn't buy from them or from a partner store on their network. Your next course of action, I would imagine, would be to send it to Samsung and be out of a phone until it's repaired (if Verizon doesn't work out for you).
Thanks for the reply from both of you! I already contact the Verizon and they said they will NOT provide support since this was purchased from a Third Party.
They suggest me to Trade the phone and get a new one. I bought it for $600 and Trade value is $510.
eManuka said:
Thanks for the reply from both of you! I already contact the Verizon and they said they will NOT provide support since this was purchased from a Third Party.
They suggest me to Trade the phone and get a new one. I bought it for $600 and Trade value is $510.
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Sucks that they only want to do a trade-in. I am rather surprised. Losing 90 bucks through a trade-in sounds better than using a phone that doesn't work. It also sounds cheaper than paying a guy to repair any hardware or software issue.
I agree, $90 isn't a bad loss at all. I'd go for it right away before the possibility of a value drop. Best of luck and keep us posted!
So, I just purchased this because I couldn't wait a year to get a new phone to get the Consumer Version.
I got a good deal on it, however.
My questions are pretty simple, but I am having a difficult time searching for white/black answers, so I'm hoping you fine people here at XDA can help..
What are the differences between the Innovator Edition & the Consumer Edition?
The other question I have is, what are the software limitations for the version I have for my Note 4 and the new version for the Note 5? Will I have everything in the app store that they will, etc? Or am I going to be missing a bunch of stuff?
Really mainly concerned about the software aspect of things.. My phone is not rooted and I don't plan to, but will if necessary.
Any info at all would be appreciated to get me prepared while I wait for it to arrive at my house next week
Thanks!
-Pxthology
hey, so i just got this recently aswell for my note 4. i cant see myself upgrading to a new phone anytime soon, loving the note 4, so i decided to get one. i had some of the same questions as you, so i found this which kind of helped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDkj3SrQFXE
and from what im seeing, we have access to all the same apps from samsung and oculus.
my phone is rooted, and im figuring out how to use the google cardboard stuff with our gear vrs. need to disable some permissions and then turn them back on when not using google cardboard. not sure if you need root for that, maybe do. rooting gives u more options to play around and, knock on wood, ive never ran into any issues where i needed to unroot and send back to the manufacturer.
Hay guys,
Edited: on 07/07/2016: Problems First; My AT&T Galaxy S6, reboots randomly, dies instantly and some times freezes, doesn't matter what app i am on. The full story is here if interested, please read below;
I bought a used AT&T Galaxy S 6, 64 GB Black sapphire, Now running 6.0.1 (i sideloaded it) and it has a problem which you guys call it deep sleep problem (I call it, dying phone with no reason) when i bought it, it was running 5.1.1 then (probably BOJ7), and the second day i noticed that it was dead, (i remember i was taking some selfies, pictures, i locked it and after more or less 15 or 20 minutes i wanted to take some more pics, i saw it was not waking up). And to my surprise, I have checked it, when i call the number which is in that phone, the call goes and i can listen on my other phone that the bill is ringing but actually my device doesn't ring at all (while dead) (I have also seen once that the notification LED was blinking Blue, yet the phone was off, itself)
So, story short when i saw the device was unexpectedly off i tried to switch it on by the following methods;
i pressed all the button many times but it didn't respond until, i pressed and kept holding recovery boot combination i.e. volume down + volume up + Power buttons and it booted.
Later on it was good, after two days, it did it again.
Now my concern was rising about Galaxy S6's sudden deaths, (I still don't know whether i should call it a deep sleep and awake problem or it is something related to hardware) so, i thought lets find a way and upgrade it to MM. I searched the xda and found this
Updating to Android 6.0.1 G920AUCU3CPD6 Step by Step {http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s6/general/updating-to-android-6-0-1-g920aucu3cpd6-t3371884}
I upgraded my phone and thought it's fine now, but to my surprise, the phone went off while it was in my pocket with almost 70% battery charged. I was shocked, yet started it with the buttons combo, and yesterday when i left it charging while the battery was about 87% charged, I thought let it go to 100% but when i picked it up after 15 minutes and pushed the home button to see the status the phone was dead again with a RED LED light on while the screen was off, when i pressed the home OR power button the screen showed a big green battery with 100 % Charge (which was indicating as i powered it off and kept charging)
Now my question is that " What the hell is going on?"
If it was a rooting problem? Then, I did an odin flash of BOJ7 with all four files AP, CP, CSC and his child. which should have removed the rooting, and to confirm it whether my device is rooted or the KNOX tripped or not, i have checked the knox it is 00000 which means the KNOX is not tripped.
Please help me guys, this was my dream phone, i can't buy a new one with warranty, and i can't loose it or live it with this problem, my days suck.
please help me,
And today I've seen a new thing may be it's the real problem but I really got it today. I was surfing the net and twitter my AT&T Galaxy S6 suddenly went off and I had to force start it.
Hay guys, i need your help, am i missing you all?
Hay guys, Talvigi back,
As far as no body is interested in my post and may be no one has faced such problem before, so, i am back with some updated information;
Day before Last night, I was very much worried about my phone's behaviour, even i was thinking to show it's way out. But when i was a bit asleep yet awaken i thought way not try to factory reset the device from recovery, formate system devlock and cache partitions?
And i did it while i was half asleep and let the device update it's builtin softwares and WOLLA, it's second day my beloved AT&T specific Galaxy S6 hadn't misbehaved yet, (till now, may be it will make me lying just now)
Edit: (Third Day):
Third Day guys its third day and still my phone has not misbehaved after the above mentioned factory reset, and i hope this will continue to work like that.
Edit: Fifth day:
Sorry Sammy boy but you are a sucking OEM, after two good days my AT&T Galaxy S6 is again misbehaving with me, it again deep slept, just after seconds when i was surfing the facebook and i got lock my device for some seconds. As soon as i wanted to unlock it again i saw that the device was once again not waking up hence i had to push both volume and power buttons to start it.
And it did the same thing while it was kept on my table for a couple of hours.
It's now making me crazy to sell it again and go for a galaxy S5, it least i haven't seen this problem, i actually haven't listened this kinda problem in them from any where.
Edit; Now after a lot of days of sudden deaths and instant restarts, it has started to freeze now, I have not seen this before. I mean when I am using facebook it freezes but doesn't restart as far as I have seen it twice with freeze problem. Now I can say that it is indeed a software problem may be we can suggest it to be a kernel related problem.
So is it because I might have used a 32 GB specific ROM on a 64 GB device?
Is there a real difference between 64 GB and 32 GB ROM.
Hell with the AT&T Galaxy S6.
talvigi said:
Hay guys, Talvigi back,
As far as no body is interested in my post and may be no one has faced such problem before, so, i am back with some updated information;
Day before Last night, I was very much worried about my phone's behaviour, even i was thinking to show it's way out. But when i was a bit asleep yet awaken i thought way not try to factory reset the device from recovery, formate system devlock and cache partitions?
And i did it while i was half asleep and let the device update it's builtin softwares and WOLLA, it's second day my beloved AT&T specific Galaxy S6 hadn't misbehaved yet, (till now, may be it will make me lying just now)
Edit: (Third Day):
Third Day guys its third day and still my phone has not misbehaved after the above mentioned factory reset, and i hope this will continue to work like that.
Edit: Fifth day:
Sorry Sammy boy but you are a sucking OEM, after two good days my AT&T Galaxy S6 is again misbehaving with me, it again deep slept, just after seconds when i was surfing the facebook and i got lock my device for some seconds. As soon as i wanted to unlock it again i saw that the device was once again not waking up hence i had to push both volume and power buttons to start it.
And it did the same thing while it was kept on my table for a couple of hours.
It's now making me crazy to sell it again and go for a galaxy S5, it least i haven't seen this problem, i actually haven't listened this kinda problem in them from any where.
Hell with the AT&T Galaxy S6.
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May I ask, Why am I tagged in this?
hyelton said:
May I ask, Why am I tagged in this?
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Sorry man, @hyelton: but you are the great hero for me,
You have been so much helpful to me as well as to many others i have seen,
And to tell the truth, i didn't tag you to help me specifically on this problem,
but i knew you will be the only one to notice me in this crap.
And i believe you have read my problem and have at least thought once, about my situation, haven't you?
And i also know you can off course guide me, or lead me a way through.
Please don't be rude, i beg your kind honour to please suggest me a way out there, any way out! :crying::fingers-crossed::crying::fingers-crossed:
Because there are many people in this forum but you can see no one, no one even noticed my problem.
Hello, I was tagged in your threads and received the notification while I was sleeping. First of all my Galaxy S6 was bought by me on May 6 2015 at an Official AT&T Store, the same Store were, nine years ago, I open a contract account for mobile service. Before Android phones I was a Blackberry user. Never root a phone, never side loaded a Google Platform Upgrade, never bought a used phone. The only time I bought a phone outside an Official AT&T Store was when I bought a brand NEW Google Nexus 5 at Amazon and God knows that my former Nexus 5 was the best phone I ever owned. I always owned the top of the line Blackberry, the Bold series. And all my formers Android phones bought at AT&T were Flagships phones at the moment I bought them. OK now, I read all your threads and when you applied a Factory Data Reset you do, in my humble opinion, the right thing . Unfortunately the problem at your phone is beyond a Factory Data Reset. My advise is that you must go to an AT&T Official Store and ask for a new Nano Sim Card. If that's not work go to an Official Samsung Repair Store or Center. If that's not work, then my friend, take out the Nano Sim Card of your Galaxy S6 and bought a NEW Google Nexus 6p directly from Google or Amazon and push the Nano Sim Card in. You are going to have peace on earth running a Google Nexus phone at AT&T. Remember my fried, NEVER AGAIN buy an used phone and by the way don't side loaded Google Platform Upgrade. Just wait for the OTA regarding Platform Upgrade. I'm really sorry for the bad experience with your Galaxy S6.
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Hello, I was tagged in your threads and received the notification while I was sleeping. First of all my Galaxy S6 was bought by me on May 6 2015 at an Official AT&T Store, the same Store were, nine years ago, I open a contract account for mobile service. Before Android phones I was a Blackberry user. Never root a phone, never side loaded a Google Platform Upgrade, never bought a used phone. The only time I bought a phone outside an Official AT&T Store was when I bought a brand NEW Google Nexus 5 at Amazon and God knows that my former Nexus 5 was the best phone I ever owned. I always owned the top of the line Blackberry, the Bold series. And all my formers Android phones bought at AT&T were Flagships phones at the moment I bought them. OK now, I read all your threads and when you applied a Factory Data Reset you do, in my humble opinion, the right thing . Unfortunately the problem at your phone is beyond a Factory Data Reset. My advise is that you must go to an AT&T Official Store and ask for a new Nano Sim Card. If that's not work go to an Official Samsung Repair Store or Center. If that's not work, then my friend, take out the Nano Sim Card of your Galaxy S6 and bought a NEW Google Nexus 6p directly from Google or Amazon and push the Nano Sim Card in. You are going to have peace on earth running a Google Nexus phone at AT&T. Remember my fried, NEVER AGAIN buy an used phone and by the way don't side loaded Google Platform Upgrade. Just wait for the OTA regarding Platform Upgrade. I'm really sorry for the bad experience with your Galaxy S6.
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Thank You sir for such a detailed reply, my bad luck with S6 is that I love it so much but when it comes to your life you will better lose your eyes. I think I will somehow sell it back and will not buy any second hand phone again.
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talvigi said:
Thank You sir for such a detailed reply, my bad luck with S6 is that I love it so much but when it comes to your life you will better lose your eyes. I think I will somehow sell it back and will not buy any second hand phone again.
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My friend please don't lose your eye and work hard so you can buy a brand new Samsung Flagship, Galaxy S7 or a Note 6. Don't forget, far beyond the Manufacturers Flagships, far beyond your worst nightmare is the Google Nexus Phone .
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Well thanks for the suggestion but do you know, I will have to work 8 hours a day for five month and save 50% of that earnings, if I want to buy a brand new Galaxy S7, and for you my dear, that would be not more then 15 days half earning or 8 days full. So, to buy a flagship, in my dreams! Yet I will try to manage on a Huawei X5 or oppo F1
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My friend please don't lose your eye and work hard so you can buy a brand new Samsung Flagship, Galaxy S7 or a Note 6. Don't forget, far beyond the Manufacturers Flagships, far beyond your worst nightmare is the Google Nexus Phone .
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well thanks for the sugg estion but do you know I will have to work 8 hours a day for five month and save 50% of that earnings, if I want to buy a brand new Galaxy S7, and for you my dear that would be not more then 15 days half earning or 8 days full. So, to buy a flagship, in my dreams! Yet I will try to manage on a Huawei X5 or oppo F1
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talvigi said:
Well thanks for the suggestion but do you know, I will have to work 8 hours a day for five month and save 50% of that earnings, if I want to buy a brand new Galaxy S7, and for you my dear, that would be not more then 15 days half earning or 8 days full. So, to buy a flagship, in my dreams! Yet I will try to manage on a Huawei X5 or oppo F1
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My dear friend at 16 years old I left my parents house and work hard and studied hard. Now I'm 60 years old and still work hard. That's the way life goes, don't fight it. You are a good person , work hard and enjoy your life and all the Android phones you are going to have.
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Somebody, help me, please. My system is really unsustainable and doesn't tell me when to stop working and when to restart.
Edit; Now after a lot of days of sudden deaths and instant restarts, it has started to freeze now, I have not seen this before. I mean when I am using facebook it freezes but doesn't restart as far as I have seen it twice with freeze problem. Now I can say that it is indeed a software problem may be we can suggest it to be a kernel related problem.
So is it because I might have used a 32 GB specific ROM on a 64 GB device?
Is there a real difference between 64 GB and 32 GB ROM.
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Well, guys i somehow have been able to maintain my device to keep away from all those misbehavings which it had to do all the time. But i don't want to exaggeratedly lie that they are gone now, they are here, and they also sometimes show there faces but rarely, very rarely indeed. It all could happen after a couple of factory resets and keeping the device away from auto updates mostly from googleplaystore.
Well I have ODIN back and now i'm back on 5.1.1 BOJ7. And surprisingly the reboots are still here, I think, will have to kill my wish of being on Galaxy S6 for some more months and I will have to go back to the market and buy a LG G4 or Galaxy S5 may be?
People say their experience with Marshmallow has not been good but i would mine was the worst with S 6.
I think this device has a factory fault, but as far as i have bought it in used condition and the device is an AT&T device, that too out of the US, so samsung would surely won't help me, neither i have any warranty here.
I hat you Samsung/AT&T for making such a piece of crap.
Any body in this world has the same kind of problem with the Galaxy S6 AT&T 64 GB, or I am alone?
Called a bunch of stores within an hour of me before I found one that still had a brand new one in stock. Manufactured in April 2016 so hopefully no bootloop issues (fingers crossed). For the price... impossible to beat value wise. $4/mo more than one of the "mid level" offerings like the Galaxy J7 and annihilates those in all categories. Have a Diztronic TPU case and a PNY 128GB card arriving tomorrow for it, so far its been great. Was going to see about leaving it unrooted with all the bloat disabled/uninstalled but after having a rooted G2 for over 2 years and no ads... can't deal with the spam so I'll unlock/root it and go from there.
Also very cool to see so much support out there still for this thing. Hoping it lasts me as long as my G2 did. I did have a G3 briefly on VZW before I switched to T-Mo and that one was great too. Kind worried with the direction the G5 is going but anyway... Very happy.
Also the store that had this new G4 still had a new G3 as well... go figure. If they had a current price vs $400 not updated since 2015... I dunno lol. I paid $349 for this G4 which is a damn steal for what you get. I'll pass on the $700-$800 "flagships" because I don't need to render video for Pixar while playing Pokemon Go and telling someone they are wrong on facebook...
scottyd035ntknow said:
Called a bunch of stores within an hour of me before I found one that still had a brand new one in stock. Manufactured in April 2016 so hopefully no bootloop issues (fingers crossed). For the price... impossible to beat value wise. $4/mo more than one of the "mid level" offerings like the Galaxy J7 and annihilates those in all categories. Have a Diztronic TPU case and a PNY 128GB card arriving tomorrow for it, so far its been great. Was going to see about leaving it unrooted with all the bloat disabled/uninstalled but after having a rooted G2 for over 2 years and no ads... can't deal with the spam so I'll unlock/root it and go from there.
Also very cool to see so much support out there still for this thing. Hoping it lasts me as long as my G2 did. I did have a G3 briefly on VZW before I switched to T-Mo and that one was great too. Kind worried with the direction the G5 is going but anyway... Very happy.
Also the store that had this new G4 still had a new G3 as well... go figure. If they had a current price vs $400 not updated since 2015... I dunno lol. I paid $349 for this G4 which is a damn steal for what you get. I'll pass on the $700-$800 "flagships" because I don't need to render video for Pixar while playing Pokemon Go and telling someone they are wrong on facebook...
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Glad you got one. It's a great phone. Next time, stop by swappa.com/buy/lg-g4-tmobile. You can get a like new device for a greatly cheaper price. And if you have the replacement insurance through T-Mo like I do, 3rd party sold phones like these are covered 100%. Been doing this for the past 3 years now.
Will def check that site out thanks. But... After having used phones I'll do the new thing when I can. I have half a mind to pick that new G3 up as a spare or a gift or something.
But this is easily the best phone I have had except for maybe my Vzw G2 before someone walked off with it... No idea but that phone FLEW...
Got the Tpu case in just now (Diztronic like always) and the PNY card. Time to root and load up the music etc... Also ordered a Qi charging sticker for charging. Really really really hoping this thing stays solid and does not suffer from bootloops...
Edit... Rofl they do indeed want $400 for that G3... I paid $349 for this G4...
Great phone
Love this phone, got it two months ago for $250 brand new after haggling with customer care. Came from the Samsung S5 and it's quite a step up, I'm rooted using latest version of Turbo's Enterprise rom and it's night and day from stock.
Congrats on the purchase.
Yeah I just rooted tonight without incident. Still deciding if I want to go with a rom or not. Phone is fast as hell as is, I've got ads blocked, bloat disabled/uninstalled and I get 7GB a month of tethering for free from T-Mo already... Mainly rooted to get rid of the ads.
scottyd035ntknow said:
Yeah I just rooted tonight without incident. Still deciding if I want to go with a rom or not. Phone is fast as hell as is, I've got ads blocked, bloat disabled/uninstalled and I get 7GB a month of tethering for free from T-Mo already... Mainly rooted to get rid of the ads.
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Just so you know once you root you will have a hard time getting the phone sim unlocked if you need too.i have been going round and round with tmo the last 3 days trying to get mine sim unlocked.also they know every app on your phone as they told me i had to unistall one of the apps i had.
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Just so you know once you root you will have a hard time getting the phone sim unlocked if you need too.i have been going round and round with tmo the last 3 days trying to get mine sim unlocked.also they know every app on your phone as they told me i had to unistall one of the apps i had.
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Don't need it. Probably won't even Rom it.
what rooting method did you use?
Insurance
demoncamber said:
Glad you got one. It's a great phone. Next time, stop by swappa.com/buy/lg-g4-tmobile. You can get a like new device for a greatly cheaper price. And if you have the replacement insurance through T-Mo like I do, 3rd party sold phones like these are covered 100%. Been doing this for the past 3 years now.
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Hi Are you talking about JUMP? Because I didn't know that you can apply it to third-party phones. If it is not can you let me know, Thank you.
gillim74 said:
Just so you know once you root you will have a hard time getting the phone sim unlocked if you need too.i have been going round and round with tmo the last 3 days trying to get mine sim unlocked.also they know every app on your phone as they told me i had to unistall one of the apps i had.
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This is completely false. I've sim unlocked easily while bootloader unlocked and rooted. Just be stock based, not cm, and you'll be fine. I used the tmo sim unlock app right after I met the requirements and sim unlocked easily. I restored to cm immediately afterwards.
I recommend making a backup and flashing micro's stock zip build and trying the sim unlock app. If you're still having issues, check if you meet tmo's sim unlock requirements. (device paid off, device on the account long enough, enough payments have been made if prepaid.)
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bxmoney181 said:
This is completely false. I've sim unlocked easily while bootloader unlocked and rooted. Just be stock based, not cm, and you'll be fine. I used the tmo sim unlock app right after I met the requirements and sim unlocked easily. I restored to cm immediately afterwards.
I recommend making a backup and flashing micro's stock zip build and trying the sim unlock app. If you're still having issues, check if you meet tmo's sim unlock requirements. (device paid off, device on the account long enough, enough payments have been made if prepaid.)
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Mine wouldnt work and i got so fed up i sold the phone and switched carriers.tmobo lied to me over and over
This just hit me like a tank. I was clearing up some app permissions and access due to not having used several apps on months. I went into Twitter to see what was accessing my app... Imgur, Tweetcaster, Twitch, etc.
And there it was. Shows the Asus phone I have not owned for months with having recently accessed my Twitter account hours ago.
I'm logging the phone out of that account, and am now changing every password I have on every account on every online app. When it failed safetynet, I formatted the phone and retuned it. I have a Pixel 4XL now.
This was a phone that came to me via eBay, had a version of the OS that wouldn't update, so I got a refund.
Check your phones! If I find anything else, I'll post here. I don't remember much about the phone setup, but look at my previous posts and you'll see what versions and stuff it had.
You bought a Tencent Games Phone from eBay which was badly converted to WW.
Device Fingerprint was not changed from CN to WW - Hence you were not getting any updates.
Then while you sold it, You just did a factory reset (Maybe not) and sold it without revoking the device authorizations in the apps you used.
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You bought a Tencent Games Phone from eBay which was badly converted to WW.
Device Fingerprint was not changed from CN to WW - Hence you were not getting any updates.
Then while you sold it, You just did a factory reset (Maybe not) and sold it without revoking the device authorizations in the apps you used.
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I agree that it was a bad conversion. I wasn't willing to fix what they tried to do. They also acted astonished that they could receive an already converted phone without being told that it was converted before selling it to me. I didn't believe them.
I did perform the correct factory reset, and sent it back to the original seller. It came direct from China.
Twitter showed access by that phone and model 23 hours before I downloaded and logged into Twitter. Other phones tied to that account I have not used were LAST logged in several months to a couple of years ago. This one was actively logging in.
So, not compromised. Just user error.
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This just hit me like a tank. I was clearing up some app permissions and access due to not having used several apps on months. I went into Twitter to see what was accessing my app... Imgur, Tweetcaster, Twitch, etc.
And there it was. Shows the Asus phone I have not owned for months with having recently accessed my Twitter account hours ago.
I'm logging the phone out of that account, and am now changing every password I have on every account on every online app. When it failed safetynet, I formatted the phone and retuned it. I have a Pixel 4XL now.
This was a phone that came to me via eBay, had a version of the OS that wouldn't update, so I got a refund.
Check your phones! If I find anything else, I'll post here. I don't remember much about the phone setup, but look at my previous posts and you'll see what versions and stuff it had.
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Bro, honestly, you just freaked out. Nothing wrong there. Just a mistake.
BTW, bar photography & screen, there is not a single department the pixel 4XL trounces ROG 2. And I believe no one interested in a great camera goes for ROG 2. That means initial reason may have been battery, power, uniqueness, gaming (air-triggers), accessories, great audio etc.
So, IMHO, you met a problem which got you worried - rightfully but then you knee-jerked into a rash and wrong decision which made you settle for less.
zayidhs said:
Bro, honestly, you just freaked out. Nothing wrong there. Just a mistake.
BTW, bar photography & screen, there is not a single department the pixel 4XL trounces ROG 2. And I believe no one interested in a great camera goes for ROG 2. That means initial reason may have been battery, power, uniqueness, gaming (air-triggers), accessories, great audio etc.
So, IMHO, you met a problem which got you worried - rightfully but then you knee-jerked into a rash and wrong decision which made you settle for less.
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Settle for less? I loved the RP2! I rolled back to my Moto Z force after getting rid of the Rog. I got the 4XL about 2 months ago for 75 bucks from TMo bc they screwed something up on my account, and now pay $64 a month for 3 lines. Dafuq does my 4XL have anything to do with the RP2 showing that it logged into my Twitter account a day B4 I downloaded Twitter and logged in? I don't brag that the Pixel is better. It's a mediocre mid range with a good camera. RP2 was hands down the hw winner! The video, audio, the battery, etc.
I would trade this 4XL over to a band equivalent RP2 in a second, and still give a couple bills on top of it. But it's coverage in Dayton was sub par, hence the need for a band equivalent.
Do whatever y'all want. Call it knee jerk, call it whatever. Comment away. I thought that I was doing the appropriate thing by coming back and telling y'all since y'all were so helpful in helping me better understand my RP2 in the first place. Nothing should have shown that it logged in sans my tablet and current phone.
Night y'all
Merry Christmas
Sheesh
standupdad said:
Settle for less? I loved the RP2! I rolled back to my Moto Z force after getting rid of the Rog. I got the 4XL about 2 months ago for 75 bucks from TMo bc they screwed something up on my account, and now pay $64 a month for 3 lines. Dafuq does my 4XL have anything to do with the RP2 showing that it logged into my Twitter account a day B4 I downloaded Twitter and logged in? I don't brag that the Pixel is better. It's a mediocre mid range with a good camera. RP2 was hands down the hw winner! The video, audio, the battery, etc.
I would trade this 4XL over to a band equivalent RP2 in a second, and still give a couple bills on top of it. But it's coverage in Dayton was sub par, hence the need for a band equivalent.
Do whatever y'all want. Call it knee jerk, call it whatever. Comment away. I thought that I was doing the appropriate thing by coming back and telling y'all since y'all were so helpful in helping me better understand my RP2 in the first place. Nothing should have shown that it logged in sans my tablet and current phone.
Night y'all
Merry Christmas
Sheesh
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Lol, take it easy bro.
First of all, it makes no difference what I think. So if you prefer Pixel 2, then there's no option out there like the Pixel 2. I'm not shooting down your choice or decision, I was giving a subjective view.
Furthermore, I can assure you that a log glitch/mistake tied to time or zone difference caused that log but there's no way they would log into your twitter account. Even so, with a phone you bought from them a day before it gets to you.
Not forgetting the fact that it was flashed with a WW ROM over there in China and shipped to you.
And I'm sure it did not take a day to get to you. Also, it did not arrive with twitter installed.
In that case, then the delivery service (UPS, FEDEX, DHL, Singapore Post etc) may have been the ones who logged in just before dropping it off at your doorstep - which is next to impossible.
Either way, it's just an error in log.
BTW, your fears are justified and it's better to be safe than sorry.
Cheers mate.