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Ok, maybe I'll give that a shot although the phone is not rebooting for the past three days so I don't know if I will brake it. Of course now that I mentioned this it will reboot first thing tomorrow morning, lol. The thing that worries me the most is that I have another zte awe unopened that is a Christmas present for my son and I don't want him to have the same issues. A coworker bought the same phone on Amazon after I told him he wouldn't loose his grandfathered plan and he tells me every day that he doesn't have the rebooting problem, he is running the phone with stock apps and no root.
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Well, you know the saying "'if it ain't broken..."
If you do wish to return to stock and your phone has the CWM v6.0.3.7 recovery, please read:
http://androidforums.com/awe-all-things-root/808228-how-return-awe-back-stock.html
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Well, you know the saying "'if it ain't broken..."
If you do wish to return to stock and your phone has the CWM v6.0.3.7 recovery, please read:
http://androidforums.com/awe-all-things-root/808228-how-return-awe-back-stock.html
Oh wait, I need to have CWM v6.0.3.7 to be able to go back to stock? I rebooted the phone and press the low volume key and it look that has some sort of stock recovery, will this work? Thanks.
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Both my husband and daughter have this model of phone. Neither one of them is having issues with constant rebooting.
I would probably call VM and ask them for a replacement, you may have a bad unit.
I would probably call VM and ask them for a replacement, you may have a bad unit.
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You're good-to-go with the stock recovery. The 'update.zip' file can only be flash with the stock recovery. Thus, if you have CWM v6.0.3.7, it won't work, and requires additional steps in order to return to stock.
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Thank you very much for the answer. The phone is rooted, will this put it back to stock, I mean unroot the phone? I don't know if my question makes sense. lol
Thanks again.
EDIT: Nevermind, I just finished flashing and I'm back to stock. I downloaded the Virgin Mobile update, turned off some of the google apps, uninstalled some bloatware. At this point I'm ready to root, install titanium backup, uninstall completely some of the google apps and bloatware, install link2sd and hopefully be up and running again. When I got the phone for first time I rooted it right away before doing all the updates so maybe that was the issue.
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Update: I haven't experience another reboot since I re installed the phone. I did pretty much the same mods as before, like I rooted it and uninstalled a bunch of google stuff and so far it has been great. Thanks everyone for the help and Happy Holidays!!!
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Yes I did apply the update but I spoke too soon, after a week of happiness my phone is rebooting right now for the 6th time in a row. I guess I'm going to have to learn to live with that. What it upsets me is that it is so random.
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Update: My son got his brand new Awe for Christmas and while I wanted to root it with him right away I decided not to, or at least for a while. He has been using it a lot and especially playing games for the last three days and so far he didn't experience a reboot yet. Is it possible that the problem could be the rooting of the phone?
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Mine just rebooted again after opening Eufloria HD app the first time. It didn't boot loop but got stuck on the green alien droid picture. I took out the battery and booted the phone up and tried Eufloria HD again and it ran fine.
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Absolutely mind boggling.
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Absolutely mind boggling.
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With my old phone the phone would reboot when the ram was full. Rebooting before playing would stop it. I don't think that is the issue everyone is having but it could be part of some peoples problem.
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I haven't rooted mine yet, but it did have the rebooting issue for awhile before doing a factory reset. I think the ram filling up is probably a good place to start.
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Replied to a similar topic in the root forum, but reposting here in case it's of help to anyone:
My brother, my girlfriend, and I all bought this phone and all use it similarly and live in the same area
Of our 3 phones, only my girlfriend's exhibits this reboot issue. It's pretty random when it happens, but at least twice happened when we were hitting device storage writes hard (downloading music via google music), and once the phone entered a boot loop when picking up a call.
We exchanged the rebooting phone and now all 3 phones are fine.
This is all circumstantial, but it does seem like this is a hardware issue that requires an exchange.
My brother, my girlfriend, and I all bought this phone and all use it similarly and live in the same area
Of our 3 phones, only my girlfriend's exhibits this reboot issue. It's pretty random when it happens, but at least twice happened when we were hitting device storage writes hard (downloading music via google music), and once the phone entered a boot loop when picking up a call.
We exchanged the rebooting phone and now all 3 phones are fine.
This is all circumstantial, but it does seem like this is a hardware issue that requires an exchange.
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Did you root the phones? My son's phone is not rooted yet and it doesn't have the issue.
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Girlfriend's phone was not rooted and had the reboot issue. She was doing basic stuff on it only. Google music, checking facebook, etc.
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How did you exchange it? I bought the phone at Target and I was planing on flashing it to its original state and exchange it. Can I do that and then go home and swap the phone online in the Virgin Mobile website or do I need to have both phones in hand to be able to do that? Do you guys think I will loose my grandfathered plan?
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We did exactly as you described and it worked fine. Did not need both phones at the same time. Didn't lose grandfathered plan either.
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Has anyone made any progress on this issue?
I've been putting up with it; until today it would not quit the reboot cycle for hours! even with removing the battery!
It was rooted; I just did the wipe to factory reset with the update.zip file; let it do it's downloads, and now I'm getting constant launcher has stopped working & google play services has stopped; and still rebooting (just not as frequent!)
SD, no SD card, Root, no Root, unplugging from the charger, unlocking, opening an app (any app), it's getting more than frustrating now!
Update; so after 2 days of increased randomness & boot loops I was ready to throw it against a wall!
I even did custom rom upgrades, still having issues. I did check the battery, it seemed snug; but I put a paper shim in anyway, that was 6hrs ago, haven't had a reboot since then....
fingers crossed!
Update 2: 1 random reboot in that past 36hours after putting in the shim.
I've been putting up with it; until today it would not quit the reboot cycle for hours! even with removing the battery!
It was rooted; I just did the wipe to factory reset with the update.zip file; let it do it's downloads, and now I'm getting constant launcher has stopped working & google play services has stopped; and still rebooting (just not as frequent!)
SD, no SD card, Root, no Root, unplugging from the charger, unlocking, opening an app (any app), it's getting more than frustrating now!
Update; so after 2 days of increased randomness & boot loops I was ready to throw it against a wall!
I even did custom rom upgrades, still having issues. I did check the battery, it seemed snug; but I put a paper shim in anyway, that was 6hrs ago, haven't had a reboot since then....
fingers crossed!
Update 2: 1 random reboot in that past 36hours after putting in the shim.
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