I recently bought this phone used off a fella. During the deal there was no mention of whether or not the phone would connect normally to a PC. I plugged it into the charger, it started charging, not IMEI blacklisted, thought "hey, yay!".
I went home with a real excited grin on my face, ready to crack this baby open by unlocking the bootloader, rooting it, installing custom recovery, ROMs, the whole nine-yards. I plug it in to my extremely-reliable, many-a-fastboot'd-devices desktop computer, and nothing. No chime, no popup, no device manager caution triangle (where's the driver?) message, nothing. So I was like "okay, bad cord, NEXT"...... I went through five different cords, 7 different ports (including a dedicated USB2.0 port off the motherboard itself and a USB3.0 hub, just for giggles). I used a Linux laptop, thinking it was a "Windows Issue", nope. Tried my girlfriends desktop, nope. I said "let's try random accessories". Went through a bunch of USB drives with different adapters, a bunch of USB-C headphones, tried connecting to a bunch of other USB-C phones I have. NOTHING!
So, I spent the last two days as a Googling madman. I searched high and low and never found anything about anything that could help my issue. The port is perfectly spotless (one of the things I always look at before buying ANY phone), and the connections are naturally looking copper-like with no pins missing. I tried safe mode, factory reset galore, (recovery and rescue are useless)... even thought about adb over WiFi, but you need a physical connection before making that work. I tried letting the phone die (and when I say die, I mean le ded) and recharging it to 100, in hopes that defuggled it, iunno, somehow... nothing.
Here I am, at the mercy of you folk here. I'm sure some of you have enough experience to bury me - so please, give me anything, anything at all, as insignificant as it seems, it may help.
Currently, my next idea is to opt-in to the Android 11 beta to see if that miraculously fixes it. (good luck, amirite?)
EDIT 01: Android 11 did not change anything from bootloader to OS in terms of USB connectivity. Only change is the addition of WiFi ADB. (yay...right?)
I went home with a real excited grin on my face, ready to crack this baby open by unlocking the bootloader, rooting it, installing custom recovery, ROMs, the whole nine-yards. I plug it in to my extremely-reliable, many-a-fastboot'd-devices desktop computer, and nothing. No chime, no popup, no device manager caution triangle (where's the driver?) message, nothing. So I was like "okay, bad cord, NEXT"...... I went through five different cords, 7 different ports (including a dedicated USB2.0 port off the motherboard itself and a USB3.0 hub, just for giggles). I used a Linux laptop, thinking it was a "Windows Issue", nope. Tried my girlfriends desktop, nope. I said "let's try random accessories". Went through a bunch of USB drives with different adapters, a bunch of USB-C headphones, tried connecting to a bunch of other USB-C phones I have. NOTHING!
So, I spent the last two days as a Googling madman. I searched high and low and never found anything about anything that could help my issue. The port is perfectly spotless (one of the things I always look at before buying ANY phone), and the connections are naturally looking copper-like with no pins missing. I tried safe mode, factory reset galore, (recovery and rescue are useless)... even thought about adb over WiFi, but you need a physical connection before making that work. I tried letting the phone die (and when I say die, I mean le ded) and recharging it to 100, in hopes that defuggled it, iunno, somehow... nothing.
Here I am, at the mercy of you folk here. I'm sure some of you have enough experience to bury me - so please, give me anything, anything at all, as insignificant as it seems, it may help.
Currently, my next idea is to opt-in to the Android 11 beta to see if that miraculously fixes it. (good luck, amirite?)
EDIT 01: Android 11 did not change anything from bootloader to OS in terms of USB connectivity. Only change is the addition of WiFi ADB. (yay...right?)
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