USB Connected - Notifier stuck

[Skyeclad]

For some reason, when I disconnect my usb cable from my phone the notifier that says USB connected remains stuck as if it were still connected. The last time it took 2 battery pulls to clear this but it came back when I plugged in again. Does anyone know why this happens?

Edit: now I have a problem restarting my phone because the phone thinks I'm connected to USB and shows the battery indicator but it isn't charging. When I plugged the USB cable back in to my phone I was then shown the green battery charging indicator and it allows me to boot the phone up again. I took a look at my USB port because I'm wondering if this isn't a mechanical problem. I thought I saw what looks to be green oxidation on one of the leads? I could be wrong because I'm not exactly sure the maybe this is the cause of this issue. If this turns out to be a hardware problem I guess I'm going to have to remove the lag fix as well as clockwork mod and root before returning. Any suggestions?

 

[DroidDev]

Remove the battery for a few minutes. Then put it back in and try again. Also just so you know This happened to me when I had CWM and the Voodoo Lag fix installed. It messed up how the phone sees the battery and the charger. I had to flash my recovery image. When you installed CWM the first thing you should have done was create a nandroid back up. did you?

 

[Skyeclad]

Remove the battery for a few minutes. Then put it back in and try again. Also just so you know This happened to me when I had CWM and the Voodoo Lag fix installed. It messed up how the phone sees the battery and the charger. I had to flash my recovery image. When you installed CWM the first thing you should have done was create a nandroid back up. did you?

Well, I'm glad misery has company, I couldn't find anyone else with this problem. It sounds like we have the same issue. Unfortunately, even if I could live with the USB showing up in my notifications every 3 seconds, I can't resort to pulling the battery for every reboot. That would be a major PITA.

>Remove the battery for a few minutes. Then put it back in and try again.

So far I've only removed it for a few seconds. Let me try this.

Edit: I tried but as soon as I put back the battery and press the power button, the screen flashes the battery image with the swirling wait animation and then shuts down again. I can't boot up without a powered usb charger now... : (

>it messed up how the phone sees the battery and the charger. I had to flash my recovery image. When you installed CWM the first thing you should have done was create a nandroid back up. did you?

I made a backup via the CWM recovery mode just before I flashed the new Voodoo kernel. Is that what you mean when you say full nandroid backup? If so, then yes, I have one.

If the battery pull thing doesn't work. Should I uninstall voodoo, restore my backup and then leave everything alone or should I install voodoo again?

 

[DroidDev]

Yeah thats what I was talking about!

I would uninstall Voodoo first then reboot to see if it fixes your problem.

If not then do the restore but do not re install the Voodoo lag fix. See if that helps.

If it helps then you can try to re install the Voodoo Lag fix. If it happens again repeat the process and do not re install the Voodoo Lag Fix.

I would tread carefully here so one thing at a time.

 

[Skyeclad]

Crap, I'm not having any luck today. The uninstall process wiped the data partition! Now, I'm downloading Odin and hoping to restore my system and kernel. Hopefully I'll be back up to restore via CWM soon. : (

Edit:Sucks, I can't fix the phone at work, my laptop is locked down and I can't detect the phone with my user privileges. Guess I have to wait until I get home tonight to get this thing booting again. I was going to follow these instructions per XDA:

Follow these instructions:
-Pull battery, hold voldown and plug phone into USB to get the big yellow triangle.
-Flash the PIT & System first
-Flash the Kernel second
info can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782204

Once done, get into CWM (hold both vol up and vol down and power phone on). This will get you into stock recovery (blue text). Just go to update zip, and it will bring you into CWM.
-Go to Mounts and storage
-Format System
-Format Data
-Format Cache
-Go Back
-Wipe Data
-Wipe Cache
-Reboot

Go back into stock recovery (blue text)
-Wipe Data
-Wipe Cache

Reboot, and go back into CWM and get into adb shell. Type the following commands without the quotes:
-"mount -t rfs -o nosuid,nodev,check=no /dev/block/stl10 /dbdata"
-"ls /dbdata"
-"rm -f /dbdata/*.*"

Reboot your phone, and you should be good to go.

 

[DroidDev]

Wow my phone didnt delete my data partition...

But after I had the problem with Voodoo and the battery issue. I didnt even bother re installing Voodoo. Its not worth it in my opinion.

That Odin restore at XDA is great by the way.

 

[Skyeclad]

Wow my phone didnt delete my data partition...

But after I had the problem with Voodoo and the battery issue. I didnt even bother re installing Voodoo. Its not worth it in my opinion.

That Odin restore at XDA is great by the way.

I don't know why it did this. I made the "disable lagfix" folder and rebooted. However, it still thought the USB cable was plugged so I get the battery screen and it starts counting down the steps. At the last step is says data partition is wiped and hangs on the Verizon boot screen, then go black.

I was able to reboot back in CWM and restore my image which allows me to boot but I'm getting tons of FC's. It looks like I'm going to have to flash back to stock like the directions say.

Update: Weird, I just deleted the disable lagfix folder, not realizing that it would install Voodoo again! Well it did and I'm not getting FC's anymore. Have to see if the USB issue is still there.

 

[DroidDev]

Keep us posted.

 

[Skyeclad]

Keep us posted.

My update:

Here's my chain of events:

1) 3 days after loading voodoo, USB notifier either stays on after pulling USB cable or pops up on/off every 1-2 seconds. Rebooting phone impossible without a powered USB cable in place!

2) Planning to restore Nandroid backup, I disable voodoo but the disable process ends up wiping the data partition(maybe due to the issue with USB cable needing to be in place?)

3) Phone stuck at Verizon Logo.

4) Reboot into recovery...load CWM...restore Nandroid....boot up....lots of FC's. USB issue still remains!

6) Remove Disable Lagfix folder not realizing that it will initiate Voodoo again.

7) Reboot...Voodoo completes again....phone boots up and no more FC issues although apps are disconnected from market and I have to reload a bunch.

8) Suspiciously no more USB issues....YET...voodoo still intact....Quadrant scores still high.

I'm not thinking I'm completely out of the woods but so far, I'm not having USB issues. If I do, I'm going to completely remove Voodoo and revert back to stock....at home....with more time to deal with it.

 

[Skyeclad]

OK well after an adventure in removing voodoo and flashing back to stock, I've discovered that this may not have been voodoo related after all! For several days now I've been okay with the usb notifier working fine. Then this afternoon I pull my usb cable out and the notifier still indicates that the usb is connected. As before when I restart the phone it won't unless I plug in a powered usb cable or pull the battery out. Does anyone think this is a software problem or a hardware problem?

 

[Mustake]

I'm having the exact same problem on a completely stock phone. I'm thinking of heading to Verizon and having them get me a new.

 

[packerbacker]

Remove the battery for a few minutes. Then put it back in and try again. Also just so you know This happened to me when I had CWM and the Voodoo Lag fix installed. It messed up how the phone sees the battery and the charger. I had to flash my recovery image. When you installed CWM the first thing you should have done was create a nandroid back up. did you?

Do you remember if I told you if I ran CWM BEFORE I started renaming the apk files or after? I know you advised me to do it this way, I just hope I listened to you :[