Hello all, today my power button has gone out totally unresponsive not sure if it was CM7 or just its time to go...however of course Sprint won't replace it until I uproot it. Please tell me there is a way this can be done via desktop or some way while avoiding having to use the power button. Please help! Thanks in advance
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toya10 said:
Hello all, today my power button has gone out totally unresponsive not sure if it was CM7 or just its time to go...however of course Sprint won't replace it until I uproot it. Please tell me there is a way this can be done via desktop or some way while avoiding having to use the power button. Please help! Thanks in advance
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First off it wasn't CM7 people blame roms for hardware issues not right. Your phone power button is spanked. You could either break your volume button to and they won't get it to turn on they will just swap it out . Don't blame a rom for the issue like people claim roms break cameras not true.
I'm not blaming the Rom simply saying that's what im on and not sure what caused it to go out. But any ideas on how to uproot without the power button that's my main thing. I love cm but my concern isn't the Rom but getting a working phone.
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Easy way to reboot without your power button & without using adb, is to just download rom manager. Once in rom manager select reboot recovery. Once you are in recovery you can use the volume buttons and select reboot system. Hold down the down volume keys immediately after this and it should bring you into the HBOOT screen.
Put this PC36IMG.zip on your sd card and run it. http://bit.ly/FroyoRUU
Note if you flashed thru unrevoked method please run the S-ON tool first
Go into recovery and flash the S-On zip first before running the PC36IMG
link for s-on here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
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Easy way to reboot without your power button & without using adb, is to just download rom manager. Once in rom manager select reboot recovery. Once you are in recovery you can use the volume buttons and select reboot system. Hold down the down volume keys immediately after this and it should bring you into the HBOOT screen.
Put this PC36IMG.zip on your sd card and run it. http://bit.ly/FroyoRUU
Note if you flashed thru unrevoked method please run the S-ON tool first
Go into recovery and flash the S-On zip first before running the PC36IMG
link for s-on here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
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He's going to need to power button the navigate to use recovery.
Buy a power button replacemnt should b cheap nw google it
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Ahh I had totally forgot about that. Well only option I can think of is to just run an RUU, but my question is why don't you just pull the battery, if sprint can't turn the phone back on then it shouldn't matter right?
toya10 said:
I'm not blaming the Rom simply saying that's what im on and not sure what caused it to go out. But any ideas on how to uproot without the power button that's my main thing. I love cm but my concern isn't the Rom but getting a working phone.
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Well u said I don't know if it was cm or the power buttons time to go. Its a hardware issue sprint will try to fix it but will end up giving u a refurbished unit. Lol just saying its not the rom.
reaper24 said:
Well u said I don't know if it was cm or the power buttons time to go. Its a hardware issue sprint will try to fix it but will end up giving u a refurbished unit. Lol just saying its not the rom.
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ok my apologies didn't realize I would be taken so literally. I was not trying to offend I simply don't know why it stopped. Its not just the power button the plastic piece. You can do a battery pull but when you put the battery back in of course it powers up..its just when the phone has powered up and goes to sleep the only way to wake it up is to call it. I can hear the notifications etc coming in but the power button is unresponsive. I took my phone to the Sprint I always go to those guys are cool. He said it was something that went out in the circuitry of the power button and I need a new phone he said get it unrooted bring it back and Ill replace it. That's all I am simply trying to do. Blaming a ROM was not my attention, didn't know it would be taken so defensively. I thought about those things you guys said I even fast booted into recovery and got stuck because of course I couldn't hit the power but to enter so thus another battery pull. What if I get the HTC Andrioid Rom utility update cant i do that using HTC Sync then it should recognize its rooted, unroot it and put it back on 2.1 which I will then have to update to 2.2? Im trying to figure any work around out I can to make this happen. Thanks for you guys input...
It's all good man just some people blame roms for there problems just making sure you know some of the older evos had power button issues.
I know the problem your talking about is common on the HTC touch pro 2 I have one of those and it has the SOD problem phone will not wake .
Unless you call it or pull battery it doesn't hang all the time. Called screen of death phone won't wake up.
I really don't know how you will be able to unroot did u use unrevoked 3 or another program some of the unroot programs have a exe you can run if you can get into bootloader . get the latest radio and Ruu bundle and try that read up on it.
Really depends on what you used to root it tho.
If all else fails go through asurion you could break it beyond repair and pay 100 to get another one if your lucky you might get a new one.
I may have used unrevoked but to be honest Im not sure I rooted back in August or sept
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My power button has failed too. I am not worried about taking it in with the phone rooted because this is a hardware failure and has nothing to do with the software. The button seems to be stuck on because even after taking out the battery, the phone turns back on as soon as it is put back in.
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My power button has failed too. I am not worried about taking it in with the phone rooted because this is a hardware failure and has nothing to do with the software. The button seems to be stuck on because even after taking out the battery, the phone turns back on as soon as it is put back in.
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My sentiments exactly however, when I took it in and they put the battery back in they wouldnt exchange it because of the root. The tech said I cant send this phone in and its clearly rooted something in the root could have shorted out the button...I gave him the dude really look, but although its a hardware issue they wouldn't do it
toya10 said:
My sentiments exactly however, when I took it in and they put the battery back in they wouldnt exchange it because of the root. The tech said I cant send this phone in and its clearly rooted something in the root could have shorted out the button...I gave him the dude really look, but although its a hardware issue they wouldn't do it
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That's why I keep telling people to unroot when they take a device in for servicing...
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That's why I keep telling people to unroot when they take a device in for servicing...
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Well that is what I have been attempting to do...every one is soooooo tech saavy but I seemed to have baffled everyone with the non use of the power button to unroot.
By chance do you know how to unroot without the power button. I am on CM so not a sense based rom therefore I cannot go through HTC Sync to try and unroot that way. If you know how please please I beg of you enlighten me.
Interesting. I'll let you know how it turns out.
toya10 said:
Well that is what I have been attempting to do...every one is soooooo tech saavy but I seemed to have baffled everyone with the non use of the power button to unroot.
By chance do you know how to unroot without the power button. I am on CM so not a sense based rom therefore I cannot go through HTC Sync to try and unroot that way. If you know how please please I beg of you enlighten me.
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Well without the power button, you may not get s-on, because you need the power button to select. By any chance do you have like a jeweler's flat tip screw driver? Something small that you may be able to press on the button harder than your finger normally would, since then it may register?
But unrooting, yes, it can be done by removing the sdcard from the phone, mounting to a pc via card adapter, placing the PC36IMG of the 3.70 RUU on the phone, and booting into the bootloader. But again, you'd need the power button to make the selection...so a small flat tip item may be your savior here.
Ok...just got home. The rep asked me if the phone was rooted, and I told him it was. He then told me that rooting the phone voids the warranty. I said I can take it home and unroot it, but he asked me to hold on while he talked to the tech. The tech agreed to look at it. Three hours later, I returned and the tech said he tried a few things (compressed air, motherboard connection) but was unable to fix it. Replacement phone ordered.
Ok here is my update. No screw driver would work for the power button it wasnt the plastic piece it was the wiring or whatever going to the main board of the phone that was no longer functioning. Sprint still was like nope this isnt good enough I said screw it. Got a friends phone went to be Best Buy expecting a fight but NOPE those guys were great. He looked at my phone he tried the power button did my work around. He said yup hardware issue. He then said your rooted huh? I hesitantly said yes...but...he interrupted its cool just needed to know so we can can handle it and get it back to where it needs to be before we send it out. He then purused my phone after asking did I mind. He said hmmmm cm7 gb you like it? He said sweet boot screen where did you get that was it flashed normally? I was like uhh yeah he then whipped out his phone I believe he was on MIUI he said he was planning on flashing CM7 well after all the geek talk we exchanged my EVO is order and I should have a new one by Thursday! SO HA Sprint on you! YAY I'm so excited! They were also impressed with my geek talk probably because im a girl but whatever. So I guess two happy endings! Thank God
toya10 said:
Ok here is my update. No screw driver would work for the power button it wasnt the plastic piece it was the wiring or whatever going to the main board of the phone that was no longer functioning. Sprint still was like nope this isnt good enough I said screw it. Got a friends phone went to be Best Buy expecting a fight but NOPE those guys were great. He looked at my phone he tried the power button did my work around. He said yup hardware issue. He then said your rooted huh? I hesitantly said yes...but...he interrupted its cool just needed to know so we can can handle it and get it back to where it needs to be before we send it out. He then purused my phone after asking did I mind. He said hmmmm cm7 gb you like it? He said sweet boot screen where did you get that was it flashed normally? I was like uhh yeah he then whipped out his phone I believe he was on MIUI he said he was planning on flashing CM7 well after all the geek talk we exchanged my EVO is order and I should have a new one by Thursday! SO HA Sprint on you! YAY I'm so excited! They were also impressed with my geek talk probably because im a girl but whatever. So I guess two happy endings! Thank God
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Hahaha I love this
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i tried updating my radio to the newest one...so i clicked it...looked away and i had a gray screen then the phone turned off....now it wont power back on at all...not even in recovery...and when plugged into a/c power i dont even get the amber light...what the hell should i do....thanks
What do you mean, you clicked it? Which of the two radio versions? Were you in recovery, ROM Manager, etc..? More detail!
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i tried updating my radio to the newest one...so i clicked it...looked away and i had a gray screen then the phone turned off....now it wont power back on at all...not even in recovery...and when plugged into a/c power i dont even get the amber light...what the hell should i do....thanks
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are you rooted or stock? this happened to me once, but it seems that i had a bad rom install. i was able to boot into recovery mode and just restore my nandroid backup of the previous rom. hope this helps.
if you're not even getting the charging light, you're most probably bricked. sorry man.
RIP to your Evo.
i downloaded the newest radio like 7.28,,,then was in rom manager and selected the radio to install from sd card,,,clicked ok...i looked away for maybe 10 seconds and then i saw an all gray screen...then it powered off...now i cant get it to turn on...yes i was rooted...
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i downloaded the newest radio like 7.28,,,then was in rom manager and selected the radio to install from sd card,,,clicked ok...i looked away for maybe 10 seconds and then i saw an all gray screen...then it powered off...now i cant get it to turn on...yes i was rooted...
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I know may sound stupid but remove battery for a minute or so and try again... was your batt low when u started the update? May just have to wait for a bit of charge b4 it will turn back on...not sure if this will help but hopefully it will. Best luck to ya.
no...battery was nearly fully charged...and battery has been out for about 20 minutes...im thinking its bricked...anyone got any ideas? also...what do can i say when i take it into sprint..
I Think its bricked :/
But about your phone if it is bricked, i would say i lost it and keep the battery and sd and pay insurance to get a new one.
its hundred bucks for a new one...i was installing a htc radio,,,thinking its covered under manufactured warranty,,,also got 2 batteries for 8 dollars so not a great deal lol
My friend who is a manager at a store said that now that its legal to root a phone its still covered under warranty so is try takin it in
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My friend who is a manager at a store said that now that its legal to root a phone its still covered under warranty so is try takin it in
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soo...the manufacture warranty isnt void?
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My friend who is a manager at a store said that now that its legal to root a phone its still covered under warranty so is try takin it in
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Yea its legal and your friend is probably a cool dude and don't care and will warranty them but unfortunately they don't have to honor the warranty if user changes / modifies software that was not ota or provided by HTC or Sprint. Use at your own risk.
I would'nt tell them you tried messing with the software. I would just say you woke up this morning tried to turn on the phone and it would not turn on. Tell them you turn your phone off every night when you go to bed, keep it simple.
It's void if they know about it. That's what they said on g4 atots when they did the special on jailbreaking and rooting. But will they know if it don't turn on? I assume they (htc) would just flash new software on it and give it out as refurbished.
alright thanks guys...but it was the htc software lol...new radio update...idk,,maybe that dont count since someone had to extract it.,..but thanks guys
Its a long shot but wait a couple days for the update to come out and tell them you tried to update and it did that......
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Yes, it is legal via an exemption to the DMCA to root/jailbreak a phone - HOWEVER, if you break the phone by doing this, it isn't going to be covered under the warranty. The warranty still only covers normal use, and hacking, however legal, isn't normal use. Sorry dude. Magnusson Moss Warranty Act, look it up. Warranty doesn't cover when you break the thing yourself, only when a manufacturer / latent defect causes a failure.
It really depends on which sprint store you go to. I always go to a 3rd party Sprint repair shop near my house. I had a rooted hero to 2.1; when the evo came out i bought one and took the hero to the sprint shop to update to the official 2.1 version to give to my dad. When they tried updating it, the phone would never fully boot so they gave us a brand new one. yes they new it was rooted and had a custom rom, i had talked to them that day and before about it and they didnt care.
anyway, best of luck in this situation. If you dont have a cool sprints guys than i would take sprink's advice and say you woke up and it wouldnt turn on. if there is no damage, what can they do?
^ Good luck with that...legal or not, he screwed the phone up. Not a warranty issue...
Just seen this thread they might be able to help you out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735686
Same thing happened to me...
I tried to restart my Evo today and the same thing happened. I took it to the Sprint store and the tech there said that the power button actually failed, and that they had to ship me a replacement. From what he was saying this has happened on a few of the Evos.
Ouch brick. Bring it back play stupid. I bet the issue was using rom manager to flash a radio. A radio isnt a ROM its the MOST IMPORTANT piece of code the phone has and a sure fire way to brick it if you mess it up. I wouldnt use rom manager other than to boot into recovery
This is probably completely a result of my stupidity but I rooted my phone a while ago. I had a nandroid back up set before i flashed to any custom roms just in case anything happened. Then i flashed to the back up again and wasn't running any custom roms. it was just still rooted because i never got a chance to unroot it. I then installed an update not thinking about it at all and im pretty sure bricked my phone. When it first happened it had two green arrows in a circle around another green arrow pointing down at a picture of a phone. I pulled the battery and drove home all day. I just got home and tried to turn it on and nothing is working. The charge light is not coming on when it is plugged in, vol up+ power and vol down+power button doesnt work. it seems like nothing i can do can turn this phone on. any ideas on how i can fix this?
ps. i have also checked and made sure the battery works and everything
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This is probably completely a result of my stupidity but I rooted my phone a while ago. I had a nandroid back up set before i flashed to any custom roms just in case anything happened. Then i flashed to the back up again and wasn't running any custom roms. it was just still rooted because i never got a chance to unroot it. I then installed an update not thinking about it at all and im pretty sure bricked my phone. When it first happened it had two green arrows in a circle around another green arrow pointing down at a picture of a phone. I pulled the battery and drove home all day. I just got home and tried to turn it on and nothing is working. The charge light is not coming on when it is plugged in, vol up+ power and vol down+power button doesnt work. it seems like nothing i can do can turn this phone on. any ideas on how i can fix this?
ps. i have also checked and made sure the battery works and everything
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seems like you bricked it, your not support to pull out during any installation radios,updates..etc. keep it on the charger for a while and then try to boot up or try to go into hboot again
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seems like you bricked it, your not support to pull out during any installation radios,updates..etc. keep it on the charger for a while and then try to boot up or try to go into hboot again
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i didnt pull during the installation. i let it download and install and it rebooted by itself. so it seems like everything was installed properly it just bricked afterwards any idea? thanks for the help though
If you pulled the battery during the arrow pointing at the phone stage, you're bricked. That was most likely a radio update, and pulling the battery during that will give you a phone that'll never turn on again.
When exactly did you pull the battery?
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yeah, you can't pull the bettery with that logo on, sometimes after an update the phone will go into that mode where it seems unresponsive but it always pulls through. If you pulled it out during that time then the previous posters are correct and you likely have a very handy paper weight (hope you have insurance, or have a clean phone that has no damage so you can claim a warranty issue). If you didn't pull the battery during this time and it just died or powered off on you then you could have a battery issue, while unlikely it doesn't mean that it isn't possible. I would take the advice and let it sit on the charger overnight, if that doesn't wory then I would just take it to sprint and play dumb. If it's bricked and won't turn on then they won't be able to tell that it was rooted, just say you plugged it in at night and woke up and it was dead. Not that i'm an advocate of screwing sprint, but we put up with ****ty wimax so whatcha gonna do....
yep, if you got insurance just go to sprint and tell them you updated to 2.3 and then it just shut off
damn, i didnt realize that it was still updating. thanks for the heads up, it's definitely bricked lol but i have insurance thankfully. best way to go about getting a new phone? is there a specific excuse i should use or just play dumb? but thanks for all the help. i really do appreciate it
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damn, i didnt realize that it was still updating. thanks for the heads up, it's definitely bricked lol but i have insurance thankfully. best way to go about getting a new phone? is there a specific excuse i should use or just play dumb? but thanks for all the help. i really do appreciate it
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As others before me have stated, just tell sprint that you ran the "new update" and it restarted your phone and now it does not work.
Make sure you don't mention anything about being rooted or pulling out the battery....
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As others before me have stated, just tell sprint that you ran the "new update" and it restarted your phone and now it does not work.
Make sure you don't mention anything about being rooted or pulling out the battery....
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okay thanks again!
Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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So insurance premium raising never has to do with wanting higher profits? And this whole time I thought insurance companies were blood suckers.
All jokes aside, insurance fraud is not cool.
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So insurance premium raising never has to do with wanting higher profits? And this whole time I thought insurance companies were blood suckers.
All jokes aside, insurance fraud is not cool.
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insurance companies deserve to pay. Especially auto insurance. ****ing highway robbery.
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Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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It wasn't root that bricked his phone, it was HTC and Sprint pushing an update without instructing users properly. He pulled the battery thinking it was stuck. It was an accident. Just like dropping or losing your phone. That's what insurance is for.
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possibly bricked evo 4g's
i just received 2 evo 4g's from a friend that couldn't get them to start up and was wondering if there was a procedure beside power and down volume buttons...i have tried holding them down for about 5 mins and also just holding down the power button by itself to no avail.....any help would be greatly appreciated.....
ps they were plugged in all night and also made sure the battery was working by putting it on another evo and they also work....just wanted to see if anything else comes to mind.....btw they are out of contract so no insurance..
Is anyone else having trouble with the power button not responding? I tried to reboot and it still wont turn the screen on or off the only way I can get the screen to come on is if I connect it to a charger or usb port to the computer. If i hold the button down it will not bring up the option to power off the phone. I downloaded quickboot to reboot the phone in recovery and the power button wont allow me to select any options in recovery. Now when I do a battery pull the phone boots me back to recovery. Does anyone know a solution to this?
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Is anyone else having trouble with the power button not responding? I tried to reboot and it still wont turn the screen on or off the only way I can get the screen to come on is if I connect it to a charger or usb port to the computer. If i hold the button down it will not bring up the option to power off the phone. I downloaded quickboot to reboot the phone in recovery and the power button wont allow me to select any options in recovery. Now when I do a battery pull the phone boots me back to recovery. Does anyone know a solution to this?
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Im going to try to get back to stock/unroot and take it in to sprint and have them deal with it.
yeah sounds like you might have a hardware problem.. id take it back and get it exchanged. And those tards at sprint usually have no clue that your rooted
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yeah sounds like you might have a hardware problem.. id take it back and get it exchanged. And those tards at sprint usually have no clue that your rooted
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Yeah I flashed to stock and it still did it so I went and got a new one. They know I root my phones but they dont care hah since I had their screen protector on my old one the tech tried to find some to give me for the new phone but he couldnt so he gave me an extra battery for it. Too bad this phone gets good battery life so its pretty much no use lol.
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Yeah I flashed to stock and it still did it so I went and got a new one. They know I root my phones but they dont care hah since I had their screen protector on my old one the tech tried to find some to give me for the new phone but he couldnt so he gave me an extra battery for it. Too bad this phone gets good battery life so its pretty much no use lol.
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Want to sell the extra battery? I'm waiting on them to become available but if you have one and would rather have some money, let me know...
Ok, so heres the deal. The s2 is my sisters phone, and she comes home and told me the phone wont turn on, that its stuck on the boot screen and it just keeps turning off and doing it again. So I started looking into it (Im an iPhone user, so I'm not too familiar with android devices. BUT I do know a bit about computers, cell phones and just technology in general). I ended up finding out that its stuck in a soft brick. So I started youtubing how to fix it. Found a great method using Odin3 and Samsung Kies. AND IT WORKED. I turned the phone back on, got past the lock screen and everything was all good.
After about 30 seconds, THE PHONE BRICKED AGAIN. And it went right back into the boot loop, I cant get it into download mode because it just keeps restarting after a couple of seconds. With that happening, I cant get the computer to recognize it so I can do a recovery fix with Samsung Kies. I legit cannot find any solution to it.
The thing that baffles me and is causing me a huge headache is the fact that THE PHONE IS NOT ROOTED. nothing has been done to it, its completely stock. So if there is no solution to it, can somebody at least tell me what might have been able to cause this?
Thanks to all,
Dariel
Probably bad sticky/stuck/sucky power button. That usually is the case when you can get into download mode but then it restarts.
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Teo032 said:
Probably bad sticky/stuck/sucky power button. That usually is the case when you can get into download mode but then it restarts.
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having the same problem... phone worked great for a while the with darkside evolution..ICS.. my phone began randomly restarting on a daily basis... but now it just in a boot loop.. it makes it to the darkside evolution screen and then will eventually power off and reboot.. sometime it just vibrates and never boots.... once in a while it will boot all the way and when it loads the power off mode pops up and i try to hit recovery but i ussually will just reboot...... absolutely frustarting.... took it to a phone repair guy ,said he took the power button off and it did the same thing to him... he said it was a corrupt operating system.... not sure he is right.. think its a bad power button..... dont know what to do.. cant send it to warramnty with it rooted with a custom rom..
IF ANY ONYONE CAN HELP,PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But if thats the case, then how would I be able to fix it?
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having the same problem... phone worked great for a while the with darkside evolution..ICS.. my phone began randomly restarting on a daily basis... but now it just in a boot loop.. it makes it to the darkside evolution screen and then will eventually power off and reboot.. sometime it just vibrates and never boots.... once in a while it will boot all the way and when it loads the power off mode pops up and i try to hit recovery but i ussually will just reboot...... absolutely frustarting.... took it to a phone repair guy ,said he took the power button off and it did the same thing to him... he said it was a corrupt operating system.... not sure he is right.. think its a bad power button..... dont know what to do.. cant send it to warramnty with it rooted with a custom rom..
IF ANY ONYONE CAN HELP,PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I doubt its a corrupt OS, because like I said in my original post; my sisters phone is completely stock. No custom rom, no root. Nothing. So I'm leaning more towards the bad power button situation.
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I doubt its a corrupt OS, because like I said in my original post; my sisters phone is completely stock. No custom rom, no root. Nothing. So I'm leaning more towards the bad power button situation.
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i agree.... just dropped off the phone to another cell phone repair shop.. hes gonna try to flash it to stock so i can send it in for warranty... should know about an hour... hopefully he can get it done.... i will post back when i know something......
mikie86 said:
i agree.... just dropped off the phone to another cell phone repair shop.. hes gonna try to flash it to stock so i can send it in for warranty... should know about an hour... hopefully he can get it done.... i will post back when i know something......
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Alright. Keep me posted. Im waiting for my dads friend to show up because his cousin or something owns a cell phone repair shop around my city. I'll post back up once I find anything else out. Godspeed. Lol.
darielwho said:
Alright. Keep me posted. Im waiting for my dads friend to show up because his cousin or something owns a cell phone repair shop around my city. I'll post back up once I find anything else out. Godspeed. Lol.
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still waiting to hear back... ask your dads cousin/uncle/friend/nephew if he knows a way to fry the operating sytem if my guy cant fix it.... think that may the only way to get it warrantied LOL..... maybe a tazer or a paper clip in the light socket?????
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still waiting to hear back... ask your dads cousin/uncle/friend/nephew if he knows a way to fry the operating sytem if my guy cant fix it.... think that may the only way to get it warrantied LOL..... maybe a tazer or a paper clip in the light socket?????
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Im still waiting too -_-. Nothing yet. Im gonna keep looking into it and see if theres anything else that might have caused it
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Im still waiting too -_-. Nothing yet. Im gonna keep looking into it and see if theres anything else that might have caused it
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just heard back from my guy and he said he couldnt do anything either.... DAMMITT... he also said 3 other people showed up at his shop,after i left with the exact same issue as you.... stock roms and keeps rebooting... ordered the usb jig today... maybe that might help
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just heard back from my guy and he said he couldnt do anything either.... DAMMITT... he also said 3 other people showed up at his shop,after i left with the exact same issue as you.... stock roms and keeps rebooting... ordered the usb jig today... maybe that might help
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As far as I read, with this problem, Jigs dont help because the phone turns off regardless if they're in download mode or not. goodluck tho.
I'm curious, did you all have the phone for a while, or did you recently get these phones? Sounds like a bad batch
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i had same prob on galaxy note and i found out that it was power key problem, it was moistored and phone was thinking that power button was allwayes pushed. JIG wont help it will go in download mode for 3 seconds.
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I'm curious, did you all have the phone for a while, or did you recently get these phones? Sounds like a bad batch
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well I just came back from the phone repair spot. they took the phone apart and said that the motherboard is completely fried. Theres nothing that can be done for the phone. I guess its time to just move on a get a new phone. Thanks for the help regardless guys. Good luck to yous that still have this problem, hope the outcome is different. Live and learn.
wow
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cach wipe it
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cach wipe it
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i only had th phone for about 2 months.... think you might be right...
it sounds like a bad power button
Like its been posted before, it sounds like you have a bad (or stuck) power button. OK try this (it might or might not work) take off the battery, and with your finger start rubbing the power button from side to side (take in consideration not to do it too hard, you don't want to hulk rub the phone to death). while you rub the button make sure to hear the click click every time you go over it. after that connect the battery and see if it boots. it worked for me. granted sometimes the problem comes back, so in all honesty this AINT a fix, its more of a workaround. but who knows it might work for you as well. Best of luck.
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having the same problem... phone worked great for a while the with darkside evolution..ICS.. my phone began randomly restarting on a daily basis... but now it just in a boot loop.. it makes it to the darkside evolution screen and then will eventually power off and reboot.. sometime it just vibrates and never boots.... once in a while it will boot all the way and when it loads the power off mode pops up and i try to hit recovery but i ussually will just reboot...... absolutely frustarting.... took it to a phone repair guy ,said he took the power button off and it did the same thing to him... he said it was a corrupt operating system.... not sure he is right.. think its a bad power button..... dont know what to do.. cant send it to warramnty with it rooted with a custom rom..
IF ANY ONYONE CAN HELP,PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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so i think these issues are different from OP. Though i can say, i did have the same issues you were describing.. im now happily on CM10 nightlies.. much faster and stable than the Darkside ICS rom!
Well I can verify that removing the power button from the mobo works brilliantly. No more boot loop on the t989 and nexus s. Only the middle and left or right side of the contacts need to be jumped to power it on. Remember it takes 10 seconds of holding a jumper there. Now where to find replacement buttons?
Hopes this helps guys.:good:
Alex K.
UbreakIfix technician.....
I think its a power button assembly problem. At first it would happen intermittently and it would go away till, no matter what I did, the phone would behave as if the power button was being pressed and not let go. It would happen more often when the phone would get moist due to rainy or humid conditions. So I opened up the phone, took the motherboard out and used a blow dryer on the power button area for about a minute, let it cool down and then reassemble (also blew some air in there just in case dust was causing the problem as well). The phone did not boot/reloop for a week. Then it started again, and I thought that maybe my case (d30 case) pushing on the power button really tightly all the time wasn't helping so, I cut away the are near the power button on my case and the problem has not come back in two weeks.
To Sum up....
Possible causes
-Tight cases pressing on the power buttons (Get a case that doesnt fit so tight on the phone, dont use one, or cut the power button area away from the case)
-Power button too sensitive to humidity and dust ( (disassemble , clean and heat the area up)
goood luck, my friend had the same problem before he traded it in to get an s3
So just now my Pixel 3 XL just suddenly shutdown and won't restart
No matter what button combo I push -- nothing !
No matter how long I push the buttons -- nothing !!
Any suggestions??
I'm assuming hardware but I wasn't doing anything -- just walking through the grocery store -- came out -- dead !
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So just now my Pixel 3 XL just suddenly shutdown and won't restart
No matter what button combo I push -- nothing !
No matter how long I push the buttons -- nothing !!
Any suggestions??
I'm assuming hardware but I wasn't doing anything -- just walking through the grocery store -- came out -- dead !
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I am having the same issue with my XL as well. Will only reboot if you boot into recovery ( vol down and power ) then reboot and continue where you left off. No fix yet.
xmattisi said:
I am having the same issue with my XL as well. Will only reboot if you boot into recovery ( vol down and power ) then reboot and continue where you left off. No fix yet.
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Unfortunately mine won't even boot into recovery
jcrompton said:
Unfortunately mine won't even boot into recovery
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I am sorry to hear that.
jcrompton said:
Unfortunately mine won't even boot into recovery
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That definitely sucks! RMA...RMA...RMA! :good:
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That definitely sucks! RMA...RMA...RMA! :good:
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I went through the RMA process. Due to the fact I did not buy my phone from the Google Store they will only have me send in my phone for the process which can take 10-12 business days. Unacceptable. They did say if I bought it from them they would mail me a replacement and I could mail the bad one in but since I bought it from BestBuy I am not allowed.. GGnoRE google. To be honest, after that I am done. I am probably going to replace this phone and not buy another Google phone again.
Thank you for your support and help.
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I went through the RMA process. Due to the fact I did not buy my phone from the Google Store they will only have me send in my phone for the process which can take 10-12 business days. Unacceptable. They did say if I bought it from them they would mail me a replacement and I could mail the bad one in but since I bought it from BestBuy I am not allowed.. GGnoRE google. To be honest, after that I am done. I am probably going to replace this phone and not buy another Google phone again.
Thank you for your support and help.
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Don't blame you a bit my friend. Problem is, what to buy that doesn't have it's problems as well? I wish you well in your search :good:
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I went through the RMA process. Due to the fact I did not buy my phone from the Google Store they will only have me send in my phone for the process which can take 10-12 business days. Unacceptable. They did say if I bought it from them they would mail me a replacement and I could mail the bad one in but since I bought it from BestBuy I am not allowed.. GGnoRE google. To be honest, after that I am done. I am probably going to replace this phone and not buy another Google phone again.
Thank you for your support and help.
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Why don't you take it back to bestbuy?
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Why don't you take it back to bestbuy?
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BestBuy only has a 14 day return policy. Even when they do run the return if its not covered under a protection plan which is for physical damages ( $200 deducible to get the replacement ). On top of that they also have a restocking fee lol. When you try the return under the manufacturer warranty it tells me to Call Google.
I haven't even fully remembered what I lost but this has confirmed one of my concerns about a device that doesn't have an SD card .... Basically either Pixel I've lost everything that doesn't get backed up to the cloud
So I gotta get better at backup routine or get a device with an SD card
I believe titanium might be the way to go. https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html
Well for sure TiBu would be helpful for your apps and some of the app says if you were doing backups online
I'm mainly taking about the scores of files that were accumulated in out device that may not get backed up ..... Where on a device with an SD card, I use the card mainly to store things.
Dont know if this is related, but i did a restore of a nandroid and when it finished the phone turned off all on its own. When i went to power it back on nothing would happen. Even trying to boot to recovery or fastboot did nothing. When i plugged it in no charging indicator, and it wasnt recognized by a pc. I thought it was bricked for sure. So sure i did a warranty claim. Well while boxing it up to send in i hit the power button and noticed a little white battery icon flash for a second then disapear. This was the most i got it to do since it shut it self off. So i went through the whole process again of trying to power it on again with no luck. Then i got an idea from back in the day i think it was with the droid incredible maby, to hold vol down and power while plugging it in. When i did this i again saw the little white battery icon flash on the screen. So i kept holding vol down and power while plugging and unplugging the power cord over and over again. About the sixth time plugging it in, it booted to fastboot. I screamed and jumped around like a little school girl i was so happy lol. Anyways i flashed the feb ota and it booted right up like it was brand new. Hopefully this may help someone else who thinks their phone is bricked.
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Dont know if this is related, but i did a restore of a nandroid and when it finished the phone turned off all on its own. When i went to power it back on nothing would happen. Even trying to boot to recovery or fastboot did nothing. When i plugged it in no charging indicator, and it wasnt recognized by a pc. I thought it was bricked for sure. So sure i did a warranty claim. Well while boxing it up to send in i hit the power button and noticed a little white battery icon flash for a second then disapear. This was the most i got it to do since it shut it self off. So i went through the whole process again of trying to power it on again with no luck. Then i got an idea from back in the day i think it was with the droid incredible maby, to hold vol down and power while plugging it in. When i did this i again saw the little white battery icon flash on the screen. So i kept holding vol down and power while plugging and unplugging the power cord over and over again. About the sixth time plugging it in, it booted to fastboot. I screamed and jumped around like a little school girl i was so happy lol. Anyways i flashed the feb ota and it booted right up like it was brand new. Hopefully this may help someone else who thinks their phone is bricked.
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Absolute unbelievable!!!
Now I'm thankful but maybe even more frustrated
This worked!!!!!
After an hour on the phone with Google support (I obviously knew more than they did) ..... Worse yet with an RMA device in hand ...... My phone is back up and running!!
Now... Should I send the reburbed RMA back or the original phone back? Lol
Awesome glad it worked. Im not sure if this is some sort of issue with the hardware that will eventually happen again, or just a weird software fluke thats over with for good. Its been about a week so far and all is well. I cancled the return and kept it.
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Awesome glad it worked. Im not sure if this is some sort of issue with the hardware that will eventually happen again, or just a weird software fluke thats over with for good. Its been about a week so far and all is well. I cancled the return and kept it.
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The DINC! What a great device and learning tool that was! :good::good:
Thread cleaned. Keep it civil.
The lack of respect needs to stop. All users know there will be risks when doing anything to a phone post bootloader unlock.