Not sure this is a known issue or just me. But often if I power down the phone will not power back on unless I take the battery out for like a min, then put it back in. I've noticed this running both stock and custom roms.
I've noticed this too, but it never requires a battery pull. I will power down my phone and try to power it on but it does nothing. I have to wait a minute or so to power on. Unrooted. Who knows
When it does this, hold the volume up for 30 seconds, let go, then press the power button and release. Works every time for me... but I haven't had this problem lately *knock on wood*
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When it does this, hold the volume up for 30 seconds, let go, then press the power button and release. Works every time for me... but I haven't had this problem lately *knock on wood*
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Interesting, will give it a shot.
That happens to mine quite a bit too, but if i let it sit for about 30 seconds or so it will reboot. I'm talking about when i shut the phone off then immediately try to reboot it, so i think it boils down to the phone completely shutting down for a little bit after the screen turns off. Maybe i'm misunderstanding what you're saying here, but i don't think it's just your phone.
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So A few days ago my phone started to turn off and turn back on randomly, Its hit or miss, Just starting to get annoying. Has anyone ran into this? Pretty much when my phone is off and I hit the power button it will go to the screen as if I'm holding the power button to do a screen shot. I'm pretty sure it's not my power button sticking. I think there is just something else going on.
Also when it does it when my charger is hooked up it will keep starting up and turning off till I unplug it.
I wasn't sure if it was a app I had downloaded so I deleted the last few apps I had downloaded, But still will turn on and off.
Anyone had anything?
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So A few days ago my phone started to turn off and turn back on randomly, Its hit or miss, Just starting to get annoying. Has anyone ran into this? Pretty much when my phone is off and I hit the power button it will go to the screen as if I'm holding the power button to do a screen shot. I'm pretty sure it's not my power button sticking. I think there is just something else going on.
Also when it does it when my charger is hooked up it will keep starting up and turning off till I unplug it.
I wasn't sure if it was a app I had downloaded so I deleted the last few apps I had downloaded, But still will turn on and off.
Anyone had anything?
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I was having the same thing happening with cm9. I went ahead and tried out BLUKUBAN rom..very sweet one at that. better battery life. Try it out.
Well I updated to alpha 4. Still have the the random power off like I'm holding the power button down. So I'm thinking its something internal.
Guess ill unroot and take it back to sprint. Dang it!
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I'm having the exact same issues. It started 2 days ago. I'm watching my phone turn off and on, on its own right now while plugged in.
Are you sure its not a bad power button? I found that even if i barely tap the power button without fully pressing it in, it will trigger a button press action, or a button hold action.
Please update if you resolve.
MY galaxy s2 has problems with powering off every now and then. it was really bad at one point where all it was doing is turning on and rebooting right after. i had a custom rom for months and never had problems until yesterday. i couldnt go on recovery mode because it would always restart every five seconds. Now it seems to less frequent because i realized that it always reboots when i touch the power button once. Sometimes when i push the power button to take it off sleep mode, the power options pops up (recovery, restart, power off etc) so thats when i thought the power button might be the problem
Any guesses on what could be the problem?? If its software problems or power button issue.
P.S. reset my phone, re rooted it, and put a new rom darkside. It literally stays on until i push the power button. then it restarts five seconds later.
the power buttons seems to stick....I have the same problem, the phone is acting as if the power button is being pressed without being let go. When the power button is held indefinitely it just keeps rebooting over and over again. It occurs sporadically, but once it sticks..it sticks. I seem to be able to unstick it by slapping it against my hand but eventually it turns off. Its definitely a hardware issue and I will open up the phone right now to investigate. Ill write if I find anything useful.
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MY galaxy s2 has problems with powering off every now and then. it was really bad at one point where all it was doing is turning on and rebooting right after. i had a custom rom for months and never had problems until yesterday. i couldnt go on recovery mode because it would always restart every five seconds. Now it seems to less frequent because i realized that it always reboots when i touch the power button once. Sometimes when i push the power button to take it off sleep mode, the power options pops up (recovery, restart, power off etc) so thats when i thought the power button might be the problem
Any guesses on what could be the problem?? If its software problems or power button issue.
P.S. reset my phone, re rooted it, and put a new rom darkside. It literally stays on until i push the power button. then it restarts five seconds later.
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So i know people are saying these new roms can cause RR. Ive tried multiple roms, and these "rr"s are way to frequent to be called Random Reboots. I mean they happen back to back, within seconds/minutes. They also only happen when i press my power button, which is starting to make me think that my power button is getting stuck or jammed which is causing it to reboot so many time and almost all the time. Like i can press the power button to unlock or lock the phone and bam it reboots my phone. I hold the power button down to start it back up and it does a RR once again. Is it my phone just being messed up or is this really random reboots? Thanks in advance.
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So i know people are saying these new roms can cause RR. Ive tried multiple roms, and these "rr"s are way to frequent to be called Random Reboots. I mean they happen back to back, within seconds/minutes. They also only happen when i press my power button, which is starting to make me think that my power button is getting stuck or jammed which is causing it to reboot so many time and almost all the time. Like i can press the power button to unlock or lock the phone and bam it reboots my phone. I hold the power button down to start it back up and it does a RR once again. Is it my phone just being messed up or is this really random reboots? Thanks in advance.
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RR the vast majority of the time, happen on JB ROMS. But,the way you describe them is not how they happen. Happening back to back sounds more like a faulty power button. Try seeing if it has dirt. If not, time for a warranty exchange, issuance claim. or a power button repair. Mobiletech offers that service.
Its weird cause my phone will be good for a whole week straight, and bam for a couple days straight **** is just acting up. Like these past few days, the reboots is unrealistic. I barely get to use the phone i feel like. It turns off and vibrates until i hold the power button to turn it back on, and sometime when it says samsung and then goes to the next boot animation, it will do a whole spazzim and just vibrate again until i hold the power button again. I dont understand.
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Its weird cause my phone will be good for a whole week straight, and bam for a couple days straight **** is just acting up. Like these past few days, the reboots is unrealistic. I barely get to use the phone i feel like. It turns off and vibrates until i hold the power button to turn it back on, and sometime when it says samsung and then goes to the next boot animation, it will do a whole spazzim and just vibrate again until i hold the power button again. I dont understand.
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Willing to bet the farm its a faulty power button. Ive read to many posts like this. Makes me worry about my phone!
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So i know people are saying these new roms can cause RR. Ive tried multiple roms, and these "rr"s are way to frequent to be called Random Reboots. I mean they happen back to back, within seconds/minutes. They also only happen when i press my power button, which is starting to make me think that my power button is getting stuck or jammed which is causing it to reboot so many time and almost all the time. Like i can press the power button to unlock or lock the phone and bam it reboots my phone. I hold the power button down to start it back up and it does a RR once again. Is it my phone just being messed up or is this really random reboots? Thanks in advance.
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Your problem sounds like a hardware problem.
I've had the normal random crashing infrequently, but as of yesterday my Nexus seems to have bricked itself.
I placed it on the table after reading a chapter, and finished my lunch.
I picked it back up, and it was surprisingly dead, what with it's 3/4th battery and all.
I've tried plugging it in, mashing every button combo possible, one minute long press on the power button, holding every button in combination for minutes at a time, and every combo of charging/connector possible.
The only thing I've managed to get out of plugging it into a computer is QH_USBLOAD as the device identification, but, oddly enough, if I hold the power button down on the device while it's plugged in, the computer gives me a noise that would indicate that a driverless device was actually being restarted/removed/replugged, meaning it's actually doing something even if the device isn't indicating it.
Got any tips? I'm about to get a replacement, I think it's bricked itself.
Hold the power button down for 60 seconds.
If you do too many button combinations, it sometimes goes into the Qualcomm bootloader.
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Hold the power button down for 60 seconds.
If you do too many button combinations, it sometimes goes into the Qualcomm bootloader.
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That was one of my first tries.
Nothing.
I've seen it on units a couple of times. Between holding the Power for 60 seconds and holding Power+VolDown for 30 seconds, eventually it comes back.
Plug in the charger and let it sit for 30min also.
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I've seen it on units a couple of times. Between holding the Power for 60 seconds and holding Power+VolDown for 30 seconds, eventually it comes back.
Plug in the charger and let it sit for 30min also.
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That was one of the first things that I tried.
I think she's dead, Jim.
Okay I will try to sum this up. My S3 was working fine and everything randomly I noticed issues with battery calibration It would be 100% then I would calibrate it and then unplug and then I'd instantly drop to 85%. Thought It was a battery issue and made a point to get a new one later. Then it kept working for another month or so then It started really screwing up the shutdown menu would randomly pop up and I'd back out of it.
Then randomly 3 seconds later the phone reboots. And it would keep doing that randomly I thought it might be a power button issue. Then as time goes on it got really bad to where it would simply reboot and not make it past the bootloader, It would not "reboot" more like a complete shutdown then I'd have to power it again and have it do the same thing. Seeing how I could not even make it past the bootloader I got a new battery, waited a week for it and then I put it in and the same issue happened. It would not get past the bootloader.
So I kept trying and trying and trying and it finally booted past that. And it stayed on for a whole night. I did everything on it I normally would and it was working great. Then the battery was getting low so I plug it in and was going to calibrate it after it was charged, I go back to it and it's dead again won't get past the bootloader once again. I'm completely out of ideas on how to fix this I pop'd off the button and blew in there and the button seems fine and everything still no change. I also can not get into recovery. It trys and loads but then shuts off. Anyway if anyone has any ideas on what this is or how to fix please help! I need my phone back! Thank you.
I'm running MOAR Lite version.
UPDATE: Took the phone apart and took a close look at the button it looks 100% fine...I saw a video on youtube that requires you to complete tear the button off and it works. But I don't know if the button is my main cause of this issue or if it will actually work. Some says it works, some says it does nothing...Please let me know thanks...
UPDATE 2: It will show that battery with spinning circle in it for like 1 second then turn off again. (When it is plugged in)
That's odd. But when it comes to the power button, dismantling and what not 90% of the time will show 0 issues. It will look perfectly fine when it's not. You playing with the power button I assume were pressing hard and normally to try testing it. It's a common issues on this version of the S3 to have faulty power button and you would need to get it repaired. Odly even slightly atmospheric changes can cause it to act different at different points. Some days it works fine, other days a very slight brushing over can cause it to screw up and trigger a manual shut down (holding for like 10 or 15 seconds).
Assuming that it is the power button, or to try, just do a variation of things to the power button itself. Use your finger nail to jiggle it around with different pressures. During boot if it shuts off, it could be the power button internally stuck, just jiggle it around.
This is all I can think of unless you bring it in to get repaired.
I was encountering the exact same problem. I would try to get into download mode and it would sit at the "Downloading" screen for about 5-7 seconds then the display would go blank. It won't make it into recovery either. Based on the above recommendation I took the whole phone apart and sprayed a lot of compressed air directly on the power button mechanism and the plastic case pressing the button in. I didn't see anything broken with the button when I did that.
It seems to be working now, I can boot into my Rom. Don't know how long this fix will last.