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Yep, loops to heat up the CPU, in combination with fast charge to make it hot quicker.
CPU loses contact with the board or something like that making it not able to read modem, efs, and whatever is the responsible to transmit data through the USB port (charging works normally, even fast charge), it needs a reflow or reballing to fix this for good, but technicians nearby are... Simply put, thieves lmao.
So I'd rather keep doing this until the phone dies (the workaround makes it work for an undefined amount of time, which can be hours, days or almost a week) or change the motherboard myself.
I got the idea along with ChatGPT when a user in telegram told me that he got USB data transfers working again (in order to escape from MIUI once again) by heating up the SOC with a hairdryer, yes, that worked for me too to fix all above, thus I decided to create a software solution in the meantime ๐
I hope you already got all your data off the device. While this might work in the short term, this will very likely fail very soon.
I have been like this for a month with this workaround, and yeah, I backup with Google backups and rooted Swiftbackup nightly ๐๐ป
That's longer than I'd expect something like that to work.
Me too, sometimes I feel it is a software issue, but if that was it wouldn't happen in all the ROMs I tried, on top of that a restore of efs and modem partitions should be enough (at least for IMEI and Wifi), but sadly it isn't.
On some devices pretty much all custom roms are built on the same kernel published by the device manufacturer. So if there's a bug in that (e.g. with power saving options) that could actually lead to symptoms like yours.
Yeah, but it happens with different kernels as well, it happened to me in the stock ROM actually, moved to a custom ROM and it didn't fix it (I needed to heat it up first in order to flash it with adb sideload ๐).
Also, not everyone who shares these newer A15 ROMs suffer from this, this is a very documented hardware issue I am afraid, but I am totally with you that this workaround shouldn't make it last for something more than a mere hours perhaps.
Yeah, I'm just baffled that it lasts this long, tbh.
I wonder if it may be some otger hardware issue, e.g. some clock generator degrading and only working at a certain temperature or something like that.