Alright guys.
I must admit,, I was ready to give up on this phone. After owning several very high spec phones, for their years , I found myself having to get a "budget " one.
This phone was the worst I had used. Constant slow down to the point of waiting 20 seconds for an app to even bring up keyboard, battery useless, all after the 8.1 update. However not the case now. How? Well . .
My phone went into a bootloop of just showing "no command". I sent it to Nokia repair, in Hungary, via DHL. for a 5 day turn around repair. I got back the same exact phone. They had put on 7.1.2, as the factory restore image I guess. I debated about updating to 8.1 then took the plunge and did so - a big 1.8GB update. Then, to my amazement, it installed - one after the other - all security updates up to November 1 2018. I previous hadn't had any since May. Took quite a while. Reboot for each one, etc. After November went on I rebooted, and then did a reset to factory via recovery.
This phone has a new lease of life. Seriously no slowdown, multiple apps, vastly increased battery life (granted it's only been 2 days, but still you can tell it will be), the speed is vastly, vastly improved and is something that I was not expecting.
So, maybe we should all get our phones a bit cranky (get them in a boot loop), make sure it's in warranty and send it for repair. One thing I have noticed is that they put on the default stock WW rom (which was not the case previously). That, I assume, is what has resulted in a new lease of life - and updates - for the phone.
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It worked for me, expect that i didn't brought my phone to Nokia service.
I did noticed that the phone was really really slow even just on opening apps, it's a nightmare that considering there are phones cheaper than this and just works fine with apps.
They said that the updating to oreo will make it slow in some cases, i can't tell due to when i bought the phone, i immediately updated to Oreo
So i stopped the security updates from July cause i wanted root so bad that i was even planning to downgrade the thing, reasons are both i want the old speed back to this phone and root access.
But after i saw this post, i was curious... So i updated the phone to the latest security patch. And now it works great!
I can even play PUBG really smooth (which I can't back then)
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Here's a new one, at least for me...when I hit my system update check button in about phone, my Bionic is spitting out
"check for update is not available
at this time.
Try again later,"
Has anyone else ever seen this message? It looks like its happening on 4G or wifi, haven't forced 3g and tried yet.
Usually I expect the "Your phone is up to date" message, but this one's new to me.
I'm bone stock, btw...no rooting yet.
I got that a few times yesterday and then tried again 10min later and it ran the check successfully but didn't find an update. When I ran the check for updates this morning it found the update and downloaded/installed successfully.
Well, that's encouraging I suppose...every time I think I really like this phone, something like this pops up...ugh, I want bionic speed and HP, but with my OG droid and droid X's "it just works" reliability.
I think the only reason you're seeing this error is because the servers are under a very heavy load pushing out the updates. I never saw this error before yesterday. But I'm with you on the frustration factor. I'm on my 4th Bionic now, if I continue to get the black screen of death, random reboots, or data connection issues, I'm going to do whatever I can to get a different phone. I've never had to return a phone to Vz before this model, nor I have ever spent so much on a phone. I certainly don't feel like I'm getting what I paid for. How this phone made it thru user testing with these issues blows my mind.
I had been getting that message ever since I replaced my SIM a couple months ago. I figured it wouldnt interfere with me getting any OTA's, but last night I decided to do a factory reset to see if that cleared it up. Low and behold i hit system updates and it said my system was up to date. An hour or so later I did it again and I got the update!
Good to know. I read a thread somewhere, I think it pertained to battery issues, and someone suggested that when you first take the phone out of the box the first thing you should do is a factory reset b/c it helps with overall performance. I don't know if there's any truth to that but that's what I've done on all of my replacement Bionics and I do perceive there to be some improvement. I don't know if it was necessary but I ran the reset after receiving the OTA today too just to rule that out if I have issues going forward - that's the first thing tech support makes you do when you have problems from my experience anyway.
I've been getting that message a lot too when checking for the update. I got the update today and it installed fine. Still have the data drops though. VERY frustrating.
One think I HAVE noticed with this update is that the battery stats are completely reversed. It used to be the display was down in the 3-5% region, as well as the Android OS. Now, those 2 are at the top, and my phone has just been laying on my desk most of the day.
I am not rooted. I've been getting that message since I got the phone in October. It only happens when I am on 3G. I haven't checked it on 4G (don't live near one) and it says "...up to date" when I am on WiFi.
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I am getting frustrated... I have been getting the same error for three days now. I am rooted, but am on 5.5.886 and everything still the same. My partner is still original stock, and he's getting the same errors as well. Perhaps this is a regional thing? Anyone in the DC area get the update rolled out to them?
Additionally, can I just flash the update file that is posted here on the forums to upgrade manually? Or should I just wait?
Works!
I was getting the same "check for updates not available at this time" message, however I rebooted (used Quickboot, battery pull is not necessary). After the reboot went back to "Check for upgrade" and it worked; BUT just like the previous upgrade the process checks your file system and if you removed/altered any bloatware then it will fail and reboot. After the first time, I decided instead to create a folder "bloatware" in the system direction and move all bloatware apps to that folder. So this time around all I had to do was move all the bloatware back to the "app" folder in one shot. Very easy and straight forward (I also wrote down the bloatware apk filenames so I didn't forget that I moved over last time). Tried the update again, installed just fine, and phone is up and running.
AND....root is INTACT!
Btw...I had no idea there was a new update available until my friend who just got a new Bionic said he's having problems rooting on software v5.9.902
Hello giuys
Here I am again, getting every day more and more dissapointed in this phone
Two weeks ago (or when the update was released) I updated to 32.2.A.0.224 hoping to get a better batterylife because previous build was giving me 2h SoT and a lot of bugs like random reboots and overheat all the time
I downloaded an algerian version from XPerifirm (one of the first to was released) and everything was fine (actually there was no much improvement of wich I was looking for, but it was a little better) but one day I can't connect to home wifi, cheking some things neither bluethoot, I had to reboot several times to make it work. Last weekend I downloaded another version from xperifirm (an SA version) and flashed again w/o problem, but the issue persist (started today), actually is worst because today I can't connect at all nor wifi or bluethoot .... I tried Hotspot but can't turn it on too... The screenshots below shows what happens when try to turn on wifi, bt and hotspot
Any ideas how to fix this? I was thinking on simply root and get a custom rom, but almost every custom rom is rooted and there are some games I play a lot and can't be played with root (and root cloack and every tool doesn't work), so is not an option, I'm so frustrated with this phone, hope one of u guys can help me
thanks in advance
I guess you got the wrong modem on that rom, may be you wasn't supposed to flash it.
So, you are frustated with this phone because you flashed a version that was not supposed to be installed on your phone? You mixed up your phone, not the phone itself. You are complaining about SOT and overheating without mentioning how you use your phone. Well, i guess, if you can flass another version rom in your phone, i think you have done more than this..!
Anyway, i hope someone expert can help you. But you have to admit that maybe it is your fault and not accuse the phone
It just was an expression, but as a note, the phone is unusable since the beginning, every update mess one more thing, is the crapiest phone I ever had xD, two months later I bought a real flagship phone, but need this phone working for a not advanced user (that doesn't know or have the time to flash and install all apps over and over again), and every rom installed brings problems that make the phone useless as your post[\s], sometimes battery of 5h in standby, sometimes overheat all the time, sometimes random reboots...
Also genius, actually this phone came with the first customization I flashed, but if u didn't know, all customizations are the same, just came with some apps and market restrictions (plus carrier apps/ settings in carrier specifics) so there's no "version that was not supposed to be installed in your phone" (u can even flash between variants in the same model as long as is a single-sim variant), go home and learn something before u comment so useless things, I understand why there are so low population lately in xda, remember when ppl actually came to help QQ
Anyways, this issue was there since before in some devices (Z3+ obviously) in old updates, I was trying to get some info with that ppl to see if there's a way to solve it, but due limitations at not rooted phones I think there's no way...
Another thing, in the second last update, there's a thread about some issues bootloader/security-related if u updated via OTA, there's a problem if I try to flash am older version after that OTA was installed? because I think the phone was a little more stable before that
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Hi, I recently bought this phone and found out the cell reception has some issue and due to that phone keeps on searching network and draining my battery.
I didn't start cursing sony or this phone because I knew there is some issue with the radio and it needs to be replaced and I went to service center and they told me that motherboard needs to be changed.
It's been 1 week still I am waiting but with the new motherboard I think things will be fine.
So why don't you visit sony service center and try to fix things instead of blaming them.
mohitgalaxy3 said:
Hi, I recently bought this phone and found out the cell reception has some issue and due to that phone keeps on searching network and draining my battery.
I didn't start cursing sony or this phone because I knew there is some issue with the radio and it needs to be replaced and I went to service center and they told me that motherboard needs to be changed.
It's been 1 week still I am waiting but with the new motherboard I think things will be fine.
So why don't you visit sony service center and try to fix things instead of blaming them.
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Don't misunderstand me, I love Sony phones and used it since W300-SE years, this phone have issues, sad is, service center actually doesn't give service if u don't buy the phone with the carrier they are (it seems the carrier pay to have service of almost all brands), and they sell phones (specially flagships) overpriced (like 150usd more) so I don't buy with them, neither use that carrier, so is a little hard
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Anyone with VIE-AL10 device facing problem of apps closing down in background after the OTA update to B397 ?
I sent a query to customer service. They asked me to do a factory reset and im trying not to go that route.
No.. my device is working alot better. Battery is also lasting longer and camera update with the live/moving image is functioning pretty well. Overall function is spot on for me and my device. My issue seems to be the frame drops and other UI issues.
Never had to do a factory reset whilst by bootloader has been locked for the ota updates, but if your device is giving you problems it might be that time to bite the bullet and do a factory reset. I'm also going to be parting with my AL10, it has served me well but time to downgrade as I'm leaving the UK in the next 3 months or so...
About a week ago my wife's Note9 started acting laggy. When she was just using a single app it wasn't bad, but if we switched between a couple it wasn't as snappy as it should be. When doing a reboot it takes forever, these are through AT&T, and when it gets to their logo, it plays the audio but just sits and sits there. When it does finally boot up it isn't usable at all for a minute afterwards. I poked around on it the best I could, she isn't one to try a bunch of different apps and definitely not side-load so I am giving a bad app a low possibility. I did go into the bootloader and cleared the cache and no change. Did a factory reset, and no change. I didn't know if I got it hooked up to my pc and reflashed the firmware if that would help or if there is anything else to try.
I referenced slow internal storage speeds in the topic because I had a feeling there was a issue there, my Note9 with a disk benchmark test shows 126.23MB/s sequential writes, my wife's 5-7MB/s.
On a side note, Samsung is claiming that the warranty on it was activated back in 2018, even though we bought them from Best Buy in November of 2019 so we are having issues on that front as well in trying to get this taken care of through a warranty claim.
Did you purchase a refurbished or 2nd hand unit? If it was brand new, then the warranty should be activated on the date you purchase it.
Hi!,
I'm a long-time reader of this forum, but this is my first post. In the last few days, something happened (I wish I could pinpoint exactly what) where I ended up restarting my phone and it entered a continuous boot loop. The phone was receiving updates per normal and may have received an update not that long ago that required some kind of restart, but I'm not confident about that. Either way, the phone was restarted and it entered into a permanent boot loop.
Before restarting, I'm confident the "ear sensor" that turns the screen off when I'm on a call as functioning. I'm also confident the auto-rotate functionality of the phone was working perfectly.
After I tried to factory reset the phone from the power-volume reset options, I actually ran into a TON of trouble trying to get the phone to properly reset. It tooks me countless tries to eventually get the phone to start after resetting it over and over again. I was stuck trying to get the phone to actually move through the setup steps. SUPER frustrating. I actually went to sleep while the phone was somewhere in the middle of setting up and when I woke up the phone somehow eventually made it through some setup steps.
I'm now using the phone as I normally would, but it's very odd. The phone is a LOT more unstable. At least 3 of the sensors I had working have just completely stopped working.
The phone is in otherwise perfect condition. I'm genuinely confused about how I should go about trying to resetting this thing to a pure stock configuration and slowly installing apps again to make the experience what I'd want.
And no, I'm not a super power user. I am a strong engineer happy to do crazy things like flashing bootloaders and whatnot, but I'm honestly confused about where to start. I understand other versions of this device may have had corrupted persist partitions during updates -- those problems seem like my problems -- but I don't know how I should go about simply flashing my phone at the lowest level into something stock that I can try to build back from.
And obviously when talking to google support their suggsetion is that I mail them the device and wait 10 days without a phone. I'm confused about how that could EVER be a reasonable way to get a phone repaired, sigh -- phones are not toys, they're pretty critical to the day-to-day work of so many people including myself. I'm pretty disappointing with that approach from Google and I had always considered them much better than that before this experience.
Anyway, I'm really lost and I'd love to understand how to repair the software on my phone.
(You all kick ass!)
aliljet said:
Hi!,
I'm a long-time reader of this forum, but this is my first post. In the last few days, something happened (I wish I could pinpoint exactly what) where I ended up restarting my phone and it entered a continuous boot loop. The phone was receiving updates per normal and may have received an update not that long ago that required some kind of restart, but I'm not confident about that. Either way, the phone was restarted and it entered into a permanent boot loop.
Before restarting, I'm confident the "ear sensor" that turns the screen off when I'm on a call as functioning. I'm also confident the auto-rotate functionality of the phone was working perfectly.
After I tried to factory reset the phone from the power-volume reset options, I actually ran into a TON of trouble trying to get the phone to properly reset. It tooks me countless tries to eventually get the phone to start after resetting it over and over again. I was stuck trying to get the phone to actually move through the setup steps. SUPER frustrating. I actually went to sleep while the phone was somewhere in the middle of setting up and when I woke up the phone somehow eventually made it through some setup steps.
I'm now using the phone as I normally would, but it's very odd. The phone is a LOT more unstable. At least 3 of the sensors I had working have just completely stopped working.
The phone is in otherwise perfect condition. I'm genuinely confused about how I should go about trying to resetting this thing to a pure stock configuration and slowly installing apps again to make the experience what I'd want.
And no, I'm not a super power user. I am a strong engineer happy to do crazy things like flashing bootloaders and whatnot, but I'm honestly confused about where to start. I understand other versions of this device may have had corrupted persist partitions during updates -- those problems seem like my problems -- but I don't know how I should go about simply flashing my phone at the lowest level into something stock that I can try to build back from.
And obviously when talking to google support their suggsetion is that I mail them the device and wait 10 days without a phone. I'm confused about how that could EVER be a reasonable way to get a phone repaired, sigh -- phones are not toys, they're pretty critical to the day-to-day work of so many people including myself. I'm pretty disappointing with that approach from Google and I had always considered them much better than that before this experience.
Anyway, I'm really lost and I'd love to understand how to repair the software on my phone.
(You all kick ass!)
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I would try flashing the latest factory image via fastboot.
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aliljet said:
Hi!,
I'm a long-time reader of this forum, but this is my first post. In the last few days, something happened (I wish I could pinpoint exactly what) where I ended up restarting my phone and it entered a continuous boot loop. The phone was receiving updates per normal and may have received an update not that long ago that required some kind of restart, but I'm not confident about that. Either way, the phone was restarted and it entered into a permanent boot loop.
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You did not provide the most important information we need- whether your phone is bootloader unlocked. Probably not, otherwise you would have already flashed it with a full Google image, which returns the phone to "out of the box" condition. You need to determine whether you can unlock your bootloader. If you cannot unlock (allow oem unlock is off and or greyed out in Dev options) then you will not be able to fastboot flash ANYTHING. If that is your case, the next best thing is flashing a full OTA image (sometimes called a rescue OTA) from recovery mode using the OTA via ADB option. This means you need fastboot/adb installed and working on your PC. Instructions on how are on the same Google dev page for OTA's.
So, my phone's bootloader is not unlocked. But I have an update for the crowd that may one day find this. I know your frustration and I can report that my phone is once again fixed.
A day (or two) after I sent this, a set of updates came down to my phone. And WebView was updated. That restored all of my sensors and also restored most of my crashing applications. It was an incredibly odd experience.
My phone once again functions. And the nightmare of owning a Google phone and talking to Google support has ended.