Hello all,
I woke this morning to find my Samsung Epic with a very strange problem I can't explain the cause of, other than to wonder if Sprint did some kind of update to the phone during the 6 hours or so it was inactive. Namely, my prior wallpaper setting was lost and another image shown, the home and search buttons are inoperative, the password lock was disabled and seemingly cannot be restablished (by pattern or PIN), and when I power off the phone, the menu presented shows only the power off option (no airplane mode, silent, etc.). Apart from that, the phone seems to work OK and all apps are in place per a quick review of the apps drawer.
I updated this phone to DK28 prior to Christmas, had an issue with GPS, then again installed DK28 as a full install after resetting to an earlier image...DK17, DC17?...I don't recall the name now, but know my first upgrade effort was from a later firmware version that I'm pretty certain came on the phone. In any case, DK28 has worked great other than an odd problem that uniquely when in my Contacts, I cannot exit via the return button but rahter must use the home button. With the phone in its current state, accessing Contacts is a big mistake, as I cannot leave the Contacts without the home button functionality. Oh, and as you might also guess, the home button also cannot held down to activate the task manager.
This seems to me to be screaming for a solution of a Hard Reset, which I'll try after work tonight, but I just wanted to throw this group of problems out to see if anyone has ever heard of such an odd combination of issues arising with no action.
Here is some info on the phone, noting that it does report Firmware 2.2.1 which I don't recall installing and may well have been an automatic update at some point, unless that was part of the DK28 installation. I apologize for the lack of more specific details on that installation, but I don't have them available at the moment.
Model: SPH-D700
Firmward: 2.2.1
Baseband Version: S.D700.0.55.DK28
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9
Build number: FROYO.DK28
Hardware version: D700.0.5
Thanks for any insight,
Ambress
UPDATE: A hard reset seems to have established all buttons in proper working fashion, now I just need to reinstall everything, hoping most of that can be recovered via Ti Backup.
I woke this morning to find my Samsung Epic with a very strange problem I can't explain the cause of, other than to wonder if Sprint did some kind of update to the phone during the 6 hours or so it was inactive. Namely, my prior wallpaper setting was lost and another image shown, the home and search buttons are inoperative, the password lock was disabled and seemingly cannot be restablished (by pattern or PIN), and when I power off the phone, the menu presented shows only the power off option (no airplane mode, silent, etc.). Apart from that, the phone seems to work OK and all apps are in place per a quick review of the apps drawer.
I updated this phone to DK28 prior to Christmas, had an issue with GPS, then again installed DK28 as a full install after resetting to an earlier image...DK17, DC17?...I don't recall the name now, but know my first upgrade effort was from a later firmware version that I'm pretty certain came on the phone. In any case, DK28 has worked great other than an odd problem that uniquely when in my Contacts, I cannot exit via the return button but rahter must use the home button. With the phone in its current state, accessing Contacts is a big mistake, as I cannot leave the Contacts without the home button functionality. Oh, and as you might also guess, the home button also cannot held down to activate the task manager.
This seems to me to be screaming for a solution of a Hard Reset, which I'll try after work tonight, but I just wanted to throw this group of problems out to see if anyone has ever heard of such an odd combination of issues arising with no action.
Here is some info on the phone, noting that it does report Firmware 2.2.1 which I don't recall installing and may well have been an automatic update at some point, unless that was part of the DK28 installation. I apologize for the lack of more specific details on that installation, but I don't have them available at the moment.
Model: SPH-D700
Firmward: 2.2.1
Baseband Version: S.D700.0.55.DK28
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9
Build number: FROYO.DK28
Hardware version: D700.0.5
Thanks for any insight,
Ambress
UPDATE: A hard reset seems to have established all buttons in proper working fashion, now I just need to reinstall everything, hoping most of that can be recovered via Ti Backup.