Wow, the optimus v is sold out everywhere

[ceejay83]

i currently have the optimus v but i'd like to return it because it restarts on me all the time. i bought it from radioshack but no stores have it in stock. also tried best buy, target, and wal mart. all sold out. this is ridiculous

 

[whyaphoenix]

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[Desmock]

Why does it restart? Did you root it and flash it with a custom rom? If so, did you attempt to overclock it? Or did you flash the correct rom in the first place? Also, you didn't try installing any system apps, did you?

 

[ceejay83]

as far as i know target and walmarts around me dont carry it.

a sprint store will help you out they HAVE to keep a lot on hand. radioshacks are limited to small amounts per store.

an optimus bought from a sprint store will work on the virgin plan? it'll be an optimus s?

 

[ceejay83]

Why does it restart? Did you root it and flash it with a custom rom? If so, did you attempt to overclock it? Or did you flash the correct rom in the first place? Also, you didn't try installing any system apps, did you?

i have no clue why it restarts. i rooted and flashed. i first used the xionia+stock, then i wiped the phone and flashed rodimus. still restarts. i did use setcpu but i turned it off because of the restarts. install systems apps like what? i only installed programs from the market, no google apps unless they were updates

 

[Desmock]

Pardon me, that was a typo on my end... I meant UNinstalling. Anyhow, what I really mean is...

1. Did it do these restarts when you first bought it?
2. If so, when did they start occuring?
3. If not, after which point in time did they begin?
4. Have you tried reverting it back to stock?
5. Have you tried uninstalling all apps BESIDES system apps?

 

[ceejay83]

Pardon me, that was a typo on my end... I meant UNinstalling. Anyhow, what I really mean is...

1. Did it do these restarts when you first bought it?
2. If so, when did they start occuring?
3. If not, after which point in time did they begin?
4. Have you tried reverting it back to stock?
5. Have you tried uninstalling all apps BESIDES system apps?

1. i didn't have enough time with the stock rom, flashed it when i got the phone.
2. i've had the phone for a month now, can't recall the first time
3. happens randomly. restarts when i'm using the phone, and when it's idle
4. & 5. i don't see what's the point of having this phone if i leave it stock without any apps. majority of people on here are running custom roms and overclocking, and their phones are working fine.

 

[denshigomi]

4. & 5. i don't see what's the point of having this phone if i leave it stock without any apps. majority of people on here are running custom roms and overclocking, and their phones are working fine.

Those are troubleshooting techniques. Desmock isn't suggesting that you should leave your phone that way forever.

 

[Desmock]

Well here's the thing. The reason I asked 4 and 5 was because, if your phone is NOT doing these random reboots on stock, there was a problem flashing the phone. Also, if it DOES do these random reboots on stock but with the apps installed, how would you know whether or not an app is causing these random reboots?

It's called trial and error... you have to revert back to full stock, no extra apps installed and test it from there. If it doesn't reboot, then you know it either had to be the custom rom or roms that you had tried out, or it was one of the different non stock apps that was causing your phone grief.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have any of these, my point is, uninstall everything and revert to stock, then test the phone out. If it doesn't reboot, you know one of those 2 things was the problem. Then simply flash a new ROM, test it out some more and see if it acts up again, and if it doesn't then you know it had to be an app that you had.

After that, it's simply the process of installing and testing out each app you have had previously, and seeing if the phone will reboot after the installation and use of any of those apps.

To find out the cause of a problem, you have to back track, it's the only realistic way to fix something. You can't just always try to return a defective product like this for the problem it's giving you, because in your case, you flashed a custom rom and hence voided the warranty and even if you DID return it, you would STILL have to revert it back to stock anyways.

 

[ceejay83]

i flashed the phone twice with two different roms. i doubt it's the rom. i don't have a big amount of apps either. i'm using the most popular apps that pretty much everyone uses. i think i just have a defective phone

 

[TekOne]

Talk to Target electronic rep and toll they will have on next week. So wait for two more days.

 

[Desmock]

Alright then, Ceejay, if you are insistent that you have a defective phone rather than troubleshooting, that is your call. I will advise you, however, that you WILL WILL WILL have to return the phone to stock regardless of whether or not you want to troubleshoot it.

Radio Shack, Target, Best Buy, or whoever else you might think of will simply LAUGH at you if you try to hand them a rooted and flashed phone, because it's out of warranty and therefor not their problem, do you understand?

Also don't think that they wont try to see what's wrong with it before taking it back and handing you another, because they wont, because if any customer rep did and it was found out later that it was NOT the phone's fault but YOURS, then that customer rep would be fired, so I doubt any customer rep is going to be careless in that regard.

I'm just telling you this for future reference, I am only trying to help and I figure you wouldn't want to have a $150 paperweight with no new phone replacement, simply because you didn't want to remedy what you might have very well caused in the first place.

I guess what I'm really saying is... never jump to a conclusion until you have weighed out all the other objectionable possibilities... You say your phone is defective, in your beginning hands it might very well be... but in a more advanced user's hands... maybe not. Don't be lazy just because you have your cake and want to eat it too.

 

[ceejay83]

i've read where people have returned rooted phones. you think the guys at radioshack are trained to figure out if a phone is rooted or not?

 

[ceejay83]

thanks for the help though desmock. radioshack has a 30 day return policy and i have until tuesday to return it. i'm not going to have enough time to test the phone on a stock rom.

 

[Eollie]

i've read where people have returned rooted phones. you think the guys at radioshack are trained to figure out if a phone is rooted or not?

This is why so many carriers are locking down the bootloader..

Ya know that brand new HTC Thunderbolt that is all the rave amongst the hardcover devs? Locked bootloader. Because of n00bs like you. These phones have to be repaired and when they get them into the repair facilities and see the reason it stopped working is because somebody borked it trying to be uberl33t and install a rom. When they had no business doing it in the first place they pass that info along to the people that make the decisions on allowing the phones to be locked or not.

You have a whole weekend to fart with the phone. I would forgo partying and whatnot and being a honest person and try to fix the phone first. It truly sounds like you have borked something.

 

[ceejay83]

how did i "bork" something? i followed all the instructions to root and flash from this forum. didn't have any problems, and everything went smooth. still had restart problems. i wiped/flashed TWICE to see if it was a corrupted flash or something. i had these problems since the first week or so and i've owned this phone for a month trying to fix it. i don't want the hastle of returning the phone but i have to since nothing has worked.

 

[Desmock]

At least flash it back to stock. That way no one is none the wiser.

 

[Eollie]

You stated you have never really run the stock rom. You rooted and flashed right after you purchased it.

That tells most people you missed a step or something. I would got back to total stock. Dont root and install the apps your using that you can. If it doenst randomly reboot then it was the rooting and flashing that was borked.

Desmock explained the trial and error method. That is what I would do. Reflashing two seperate roms doesnt equate to troubleshooting it.

To answer the other question, unless you goto a radio shack where you know somebody that will just take the phone. More than likely they will start it up and test it a bit. Returning these phones isnt as simple as just saying it dont work gimmie new one pl0x.

 

[whyaphoenix]

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[ceejay83]

Umm sprint stores actually have a srction for virgin mobile. The optimus s and v are both sold there

called a few sprint stores, they don't carry the v