Ok, so I fixed my Touch screen problem.. And then after a full recharge the thing on the on top of the screen turned bright Red... And it won't allow me to go into the bootloader or anything.. All I did was fully charge my ishh
Are you talking about the lead light by the speeker went red?
Sounds like you need a new battery. Your phone is not bricked.
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The notification LED (Red when charging, red blinking on notification, blue when fully charging) is always ON in RED. Regardless if the phone is on or off. It will obviously turn off if I pull the battery, however as soon as a put the battery back in, it turns on and stays on. Doesnt effect anything on the phone that I can notice, but its just always on.
Any ideas?
Possible water damage. Are you using a rom other than Stock? When did this problem start? Try and think back to when the problem started.you may have an App causing you Led to stay lit.
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I bought it used. So water damage is a possibility, although the stickers that turn pink when they get wet are still white and the phone is like brand new, not a scratch on it.
Its running the Sony XPLOD rom from the ROM section here. It was doing it back when it was stock though. I assumed it was a possible rom issue, so I rooted/CWM'd/installed a diff rom.
Same deal tho, RED light is still on. Turns purple when fully charged tho! (Blue comes on while red is already on)
I know you said it was "stock" when purchased but did you do a full wipe prior to or after flashing your current ROM? Worth a shot if not.
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Sounds like it could be water damage to me. You can buy new stickers, so those don't mean anything. I think there are also stickers inside the unit.
Sounds like the red light is stuck in an ON position. If this happens with all roms, its a hardware issue.
Does it come on as soon as you power on the device? If not, than I would think software.
I'd use one click Odin return to compete stock ek02 flash, run it for awhile and see if the problem happens again.
I say hardware problem same thing happens to mine aswell. I cant code but if we can get someone to develop a script or something that can disable the light that would be great because im sure it causes battery drain
i fell asleep and forgot to plug my phone in the charger and i woke up to a dead phone and i figured the battery just died ,
so i plugged it in and nothing happend so i set it down and went to work , when i got home it was still dead and no sign of life so i plugged it in over night and when i woke up it now had a really dim blue light pulsing in the top right hand corner but wouldn't respond to anything ,
it wont boot normally , download mode or into recover mode and my PC wont read it at all but it will make that blue light pules when plugged in like it does when its plugged into the charger .
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this myself WITHOUT going to sprint ?
Or is this a total brick ?
Any suggestions will help ...
Sounds like a battery thats been drained too bad. It doesn't sound bricked. I would get another battery from sprint or amazon. Flashing blue is battery drained beyond repair(in most cases, some have brought the battery back using an external charger as well as just letting it charge). Solid blue no flashing is a brick. :beer:
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i have one replacement batter i got off eBay that got the phone to fully boot and act normal then it did the same thing in a matter of hours , i don't know if the phone is doing this to the battery's or i just got a bad battery off eBay
this happens to me from time to time when i forget to charge it.messing with it n removing the battery a few times gets it back to normal for me though. maybe this is just a symptom of a bug that isnt well known yet
I bought an OEM battery for my Dinc2 from eBay. It didn't look like it was charging, but I left it in there for a few hours. The phone never turned on with the new battery. So I took it out and put the old battery back in (which had a 100% charge)...and now the phone goes to the htc white screen and then goes to black. When I try to turn it back on, nothing. I take the battery back out, and I can turn it on again, but again it only goes to the htc screen and then goes to black.
I can hold power + power down to get into the boot screen. Recovery goes to htc, then black. Factory reset goes to htc, then black.
Is it possible that a bum battery killed my phone?
sjwoo said:
I bought an OEM battery for my Dinc2 from eBay. It didn't look like it was charging, but I left it in there for a few hours. The phone never turned on with the new battery. So I took it out and put the old battery back in (which had a 100% charge)...and now the phone goes to the htc white screen and then goes to black. When I try to turn it back on, nothing. I take the battery back out, and I can turn it on again, but again it only goes to the htc screen and then goes to black.
I can hold power + power down to get into the boot screen. Recovery goes to htc, then black. Factory reset goes to htc, then black.
Is it possible that a bum battery killed my phone?
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Sounds like your charging port is broken in my professional opinion. Even if the indicator shows the red light on the top, it does not mean the device is charging. The reason why it turns on and goes black in my opinion is, that it gave you a false charge on the battery when you charged it and won't turn on properly. You're able to go to the Boot menu because it hardly takes any battery life. I'm a cell phone technician, but that's just a guess from what you've told me. It could be a totally different reason. It's a very easy fix if that's the case. The charging port is on a flex cable and you can purchase it for about $5. As long as you know how to open the device properly, you'll be fine. If not seek a professional.
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Sounds like your charging port is broken in my professional opinion. Even if the indicator shows the red light on the top, it does not mean the device is charging. The reason why it turns on and goes black in my opinion is, that it gave you a false charge on the battery when you charged it and won't turn on properly. You're able to go to the Boot menu because it hardly takes any battery life. I'm a cell phone technician, but that's just a guess from what you've told me. It could be a totally different reason. It's a very easy fix if that's the case. The charging port is on a flex cable and you can purchase it for about $5. As long as you know how to open the device properly, you'll be fine. If not seek a professional.
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Thanks for your assessment. I guess what I don't understand is how the charging port could break with a discharged/faulty battery? When I first plugged the battery in, it made the orange light blink a few times, which I know is a signal that the battery is really low.
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Thanks for your assessment. I guess what I don't understand is how the charging port could break with a discharged/faulty battery? When I first plugged the battery in, it made the orange light blink a few times, which I know is a signal that the battery is really low.
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The charging port is really fragile, not much holding it down, especially since its on a flex. I'm not sure if this is against the forum rules or not, you can send it to me if you would like, and I'll be more than happy to fix it for you. Just pay shipping, part and labor. Part and labor $20 and you can use whatever shipping method you would like. Just give me labels to get here and back. You can take it to any repair center near you and they will probably charge you about $50-70. That would decrease the amount of time from the shipping, but it's totally up to you.
I have this Xperia M, used it for about a year and I love it a lot. I bricked it somehow, wonder what is damaged.
Few weeks back it fell on the floor from about 15 inches. I saw some gray lines on display and than it istantly went off. I coulndt figure out if I bricked it for good or if its just screen, especially because LED acted wierd, it was blue even if I pulled the battery out.
Today I grabbed my loved Nicki, connected it to a charger, turned it on. No wierd behavior. Heard the vibration, than LED turned yellow - it was charging. I pressed volume rockers and I heard volume setting beeps! Now the LED is green, so I guess everything works well, only the screen is black dead, and oc no backlight at all.
I used CM12 on it and I assume flashing any custom rom or stock ftf wont work. Am I right? Is graphics chip dead?
Thnx for your help
If it was going haywire before, it's probably your motherboard, the best thing you can do is send it to service.
Hello all. I recently made this thread where I described the phone, the LG G3 d851 t-mobile variant. randomly rebooting and not turning on without pulling the battery. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/d851-randomly-shuts-off-wont-power-t3424458). I deduced it to the replacement battery (supposedly genuine) that I purchased from a seller on ebay. I put my old battery in and everything is fine again, and the seller shipped me another replacement battery (big mistake, i know).
I put in the replacement battery, and a day later the phone shuts down again in the same manner as stated in the previous thread. I pull out the battery and put it back in and.. nothing happens on screen. The LEDS just flash green and blue. I tried plugging it into a charger, just a red LED, no display. If I plug in the phone to a charger without the battery inserted, the backlight activates but nothing whatsoever appears on the screen. I cannot get into the recovery either.
If I let the phone sit for a while, and try to power it on, I see the LG boot screen appear for about 5 seconds. Then the image flickers and fades away to black, and the LED just flashes blue/green.
Am I screwed or is there any way to salvage this phone? I'm desperate for any assistance and I'm totally open to any component level repair you guys recommend (I'm pretty broke :/)
Thanks all!
Current behavior:
Attempt to turn phone on: Blank display, no backlight, blue/green LEDs
Plug phone in with battery in: Blank display, no backlight, red LED
Plug phone without battery in: Blank display, backlight active, red LED
Do any of the above after leaving phone off for a while with battery unplugged: display begins to display the expected image for 5 seconds, then the screen flickers and the image fades until the screen turns black.
I tried the old (working) battery, and no luck either.
[edit] Hopefully solved. please read my latest post for my idiotic but somehow functional solution
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Hello all. I recently made this thread where I described the phone randomly rebooting and not turning on without pulling the battery. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/d851-randomly-shuts-off-wont-power-t3424458). I deduced it to the replacement battery (supposedly genuine) that I purchased from a seller on ebay. I put my old battery in and everything is fine again, and the seller shipped me another replacement battery (big mistake, i know).
I put in the replacement battery, and a day later the phone shuts down again in the same manner as stated in the previous thread. I pull out the battery and put it back in and.. nothing happens on screen. The LEDS just flash green and blue. I tried plugging it into a charger, just a red LED, no display. If I plug in the phone to a charger without the battery inserted, the backlight activates but nothing whatsoever appears on the screen.
I tried the old (working) battery, and no luck either.
If I let the phone sit for a while, and try to power it on, I see the LG boot screen appear for about 5 seconds. Then the image flickers and fades away to black, and the LED just flashes blue/green.
Am I screwed or is there any way to salvage this phone? I'm desperate for any assistance and I'm totally open to any component level repair you guys recommend (I'm pretty broke :/)
Thanks all!
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It would help if you would say what variant you have (at&t, verizon, sprint). Can you boot into TWRP? If your able to get into bootloader kdz or tot back to stock.
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It would help if you would say what variant you have (at&t, verizon, sprint). Can you boot into TWRP? If your able to get into bootloader kdz or tot back to stock.
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Sorry! I am using the d851 T-mobile model. I can't boot into recovery or anything. the LED just flashes some color but nothing appears on the screen.
Behavior:
Attempt to turn phone on: Blank display, no backlight, blue/green LEDs
Plug phone in with battery in: Blank display, no backlight, red LED
Plug phone without battery in: Blank display, backlight active, red LED
Do any of the above after leaving phone off for a while with battery unplugged: display begins to display the expected image for 5 seconds, then the screen flickers and the image fades until the screen turns black.
Will update the OP
Thank you for the reply.
amaskedman said:
Sorry! I am using the d851 T-mobile model. I can't boot into recovery or anything. the LED just flashes some color but nothing appears on the screen.
Behavior:
Attempt to turn phone on: Blank display, no backlight, blue/green LEDs
Plug phone in with battery in: Blank display, no backlight, red LED
Plug phone without battery in: Blank display, backlight active, red LED
Do any of the above after leaving phone off for a while with battery unplugged: display begins to display the expected image for 5 seconds, then the screen flickers and the image fades until the screen turns black.
Will update the OP
Thank you for the reply.
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Possibly bricked plug it into your computer and see what it comes up as.
So strangely enough, I tried heating my phone using the most idiotic method possible by letting it heat in my blanket (I don't have immediate access to a heat gun). The screen began displaying some funky artifacts when attempting to boot with the LG logo but would otherwise revert to the behavior described in the OP (only LED working, no LCD display.).
I let the phone cool for a few hours and I'm actually able to get as far as the dialog box where it asks you whether or not you really want to format, in other words the factory data reset dialog box (when holding vol down + power to get into the recovery) with minimal to no hardware artififacts., and only when I confirm that I do does it crap out and revert to the previously described behavior. But it actually lets me use the vol keys to select an option, so I'm getting a lot further than before.
So this absolutely seems to be a hardware problem. Anywhere you guys suggest I examine before I take a heat gun to the motherboard? Any specific component I should look at?
Thank you guys so much
Take it to certified technician he will fix ur device these phones are dirt cheap nowadays so u will not be charged heavily no more than 50$ worthl
So,
after reading into this more and suspecting loose solder joints (see the various threads about screen flickering problem), I decided to pursue this route and continue trying to heat the logic board.
I'm completely broke and don't have access to a heat gun, and with no other working phone I decided to take some desperate measures. For those of you having a similar problem and reading this, PLEASE DON'T ATTEMPT WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DESCRIBE. THIS IS A HORRIBLE IDEA.
I turned on the phone to get the blue/green LEDs , plugged it into the wall, and wrapped the phone with blankets. I let the phone cook itself for 2 hours.
Yes, just like the infamous xbox 360 "towel trick".
When I went to remove the phone from my makeshift blanket oven, the phone was brutally hot and felt like a stovetop (was painful to touch for the first 30 seconds). The screen was filled with artifacts due to the intense heat.
I carefully removed the battery, let the heat dissipate slowly for a couple minutes, let the phone cool on an AC unit for a another few minutes and turned the phone on.
It worked. Phone boots and haven't had a single problem for over a day.
I guess the problem was cold solder joints after all, and the intense heat was enough to reflow the solder and form a stable enough connection to allow the display to function again.
Even ran a stress test program for an hour with no issues.
Hoping this fix lasts (knock on wood), will report back if I have any issues.
Again, anyone having a similar problem, please don't emulate me. I shouldn't even have to say why this is a bad idea. Get a heat gun, remove the motherboard and heat it that way.
I'm sure applying the proper repair procedure described in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/screen-flickering-fix-successful-t3397411 would have fixed my problem as well.
So, why did this problem happen in the first place? I'm guessing it has to do with the overheating issues this model of phone has (at least my particular unit). I've been playing a lot of pokemon go, so the phone is running a lot hotter than it used to. The constant high temps (reading upwards of 75c frequently from my cpu) were enough to weaken the solder joints. I also recall dropping the phone a couple times while playing the game, and I guess this was enough to knock the joints out of wack.
I'm currently capping the CPU at 1500mhz and the GPU at 300mhz and the phone is running a lot cooler now. I'm probably going to set the resolution to 1080p, cap the framerate and possibly undervolt, though this might not be necessary.
Thanks for reading and hope this helps someone in the future.