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Dash Randomly Shutting off

Semi-Random shut off
I've been experiencing some random shut off with my TMo Dash. What happens is when I'm just doing random things or whatever, the whole phone shuts off like I pulled out the battery. There seems to be some correlation to when I use the wifi too. The rom has been changed from the original TMo rom > 1.33 > Rogers > 6.1. Anyone think they can offer some insight as to what is wrong and how to fix it?

I flashed from TMo official 6.0 straight to Kavana's 6.1 0307. This rom is rock solid, much smoother operation and better signal. I guess your issue is a isolated case. Maybe you can try to flash to TMo 6.0, then to Kavana's 6.1?

I had those problem since the 1.33 upgrade.
I learned that this happens when power consumption is high, like when I'm downloadind e-mail, during wi-fi session.
It doesn't happen if the phone is connected to a power source.
May be the problem is the battery (hardware), or may be is the power management section.
I am waiting a new battery and I am trying in the mean time to have it fully charged (and discharged) for a couple of cycles with this (kavana's) new rom

yea i kinda noticed the whole high power consumption/wifi thing. Hopefully its "just" that or "just" a battery. If it turns out to be the phone thats bad, time to upgrade to a touch or an iphone or something.

quick update. I just downloaded 1.22 which is the latest rom available from Tmobile. Install went perfect. Working within it seemed fine. Got online found Google Maps Mobile, and was able to download it and install it. Went back online to try to get the surreal unlock and thats when it died again. Quite depressing this is as I do like this phone.

yea this is happening to me since i flashed my phone like a couple of times ago, i dont remember which version tho. it would b sweet if someone figured out what the problem is...

From what I am reading on board posts, and talking to people personally, it sounds like a bad battery issue. Something along the lines of overcharging. In anycase, a new battery off ebay or your favorite retailer for $10-20 bucks is a small price to pay to trouble shoot a $100-200 dollar phone.

The Stig said:
From what I am reading on board posts, and talking to people personally, it sounds like a bad battery issue. Something along the lines of overcharging. In anycase, a new battery off ebay or your favorite retailer for $10-20 bucks is a small price to pay to trouble shoot a $100-200 dollar phone.
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Thats what i found out last night, my friend also has an excalibur and i used his battery and i dont have any problems whatsoever with it. The most common occurrence of the phone randomly shutting off was when i was using EDGE, because i rarely use wifi but it did do it then as well...

The Stig said:
From what I am reading on board posts, and talking to people personally, it sounds like a bad battery issue. Something along the lines of overcharging. In anycase, a new battery off ebay or your favorite retailer for $10-20 bucks is a small price to pay to trouble shoot a $100-200 dollar phone.
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I think that's it. I had the same problem with my battery. I couldn't even answer myphone without it going off. I sent my phone in to T-Mobile and they sent me a new one and I was having the same problem. I paid $110 for no reason (they said my phone had water damage). Don't pay for it unless you have to. Go to a T-Mobile cooperate location and ask them if they can exchange your battery for you. They should bring you out a free one. If not then I guess you can order one for $30 through customer service. It's probably just a batter problem. If you can get a free one then take it. And you have to use a T-Mobile approved charger. None of that third party stuff Don't do anything new to your phone yet.

I had this issue also until I bit the bullet and upgraded the battery from a 750 mAh to a 2400 mAh from AccessoryOne.com (BTW that company was sketchy, made me wait 2 weeks before I got the battery; made me pretty nervous.)
The new battery came with a new back door for the phone bc it is 3x as thick.
Works like a charm, runs for days and days without a charge.

MulderFox said:
I had this issue also until I bit the bullet and upgraded the battery from a 750 mAh to a 2400 mAh from AccessoryOne.com (BTW that company was sketchy, made me wait 2 weeks before I got the battery; made me pretty nervous.)
The new battery came with a new back door for the phone bc it is 3x as thick.
Works like a charm, runs for days and days without a charge.
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...and we are back to the suck. Now it shuts down with what I know is a full charge doing all kinds of stuff. Checking email on the exchange server, surfing the web, checking voicemail, etc.
This is REALLY starting to piss me off.

MulderFox said:
...and we are back to the suck. Now it shuts down with what I know is a full charge doing all kinds of stuff. Checking email on the exchange server, surfing the web, checking voicemail, etc.
This is REALLY starting to piss me off.
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Glad it's not just me. I posted about this after the 1.33 update and everyone made me feel stupid, like I couldn't tell my battery life had been cripled recently. My symptoms are the same, phone shutting off randomly, especially on wifi. Its now at the point that my battery is not holding a charge more than 5 minutes after being plugged in all night. I have actually noticed a bulging of the battery and the back cover will not sit flush any longer. Today I went to a tmobile store and they replaced the battery with a brand new unit, but it still shuts off when wifi is powered on.
I really like this phone, help?

It's a battery issue.. I had Tmo send a replacement phone, I swapped my battery over and beat on the new one for 30 seconds with the Tmo ROM and it shuts off..
Theres someone on ebay selling OEM batteries for something like $0.99 + $5.60 shipping. I got one on the way now.

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Glad it's not just me. I posted about this after the 1.33 update and everyone made me feel stupid, like I couldn't tell my battery life had been cripled recently. My symptoms are the same, phone shutting off randomly, especially on wifi. Its now at the point that my battery is not holding a charge more than 5 minutes after being plugged in all night. I have actually noticed a bulging of the battery and the back cover will not sit flush any longer. Today I went to a tmobile store and they replaced the battery with a brand new unit, but it still shuts off when wifi is powered on.
I really like this phone, help?
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Tmo told me to eat s*** when I asked them to replace my battery and threw me off to HTC who also told me to pound sand because HTC doesn't have a contract with Tmo.

-RotorDemon- said:
Tmo told me to eat s*** when I asked them to replace my battery and threw me off to HTC who also told me to pound sand because HTC doesn't have a contract with Tmo.
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I went to an actual tmo store and showed them the obviously bulged battery, dude ran to the back and grabbed me another =)

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I went to an actual tmo store and showed them the obviously bulged battery, dude ran to the back and grabbed me another =)[/QUOTE
I really hope that works for you but I think I am done with this phone. It started after about a year with the old T-Mobile Windows 6 system. Wouldn't haold a charge anymore, shut off randomly. Thought it was the battery. Bought a new big fat battery 2400 mAh, changed to WM 6.1 Kavana and the issues are still there.
Sorry HTC, this is a piece of crap. With all the bells and whistles and internet crap it really doesn't matter much if I can't make a F**KING PHONE CALL!!!!
I am going back to Nokia and as long as it supports Exchange server so I can work I am good because first and foremost I need the PHONE to work so I can TALK to people!!!
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Just jumping on the battery bandwagon ... I had similar problems that were resolved by replacing the battery. A new battery + new 6.1 ROM = new phone!

I've had this issue. For me, I was draining the battery by checking for new emails every 15 minutes. Wi-Fi can also be a power hog.

Dash intermittent powers off??
Here's the situation, my original ROM was T-Mo wm 6.0. While using this ROM, the phone would occasionally lock up...I had to remove the battery to clear it up, but after that all was fine. Then I upgraded to wm 6.1 kavana...initially, all worked well, ran it for 3 months no issues. Lately it just powers off, when I power back on, it will look like it's regular bootup, but just as it registers to the t-mo network, it will power off again. Even after removing the battery for a few minutes, I might get the same results...eventually, it will work again. So I thought maybe all the apps I have running in the background could be causing this. So I upgraded to rickywyatt v21. Even without installing and running my normal set of apps ("Don't Forget", "Keylock") it still powers off intermittently and behaves the same way. What is causing this and what is a fix?

Battery or Omap Clock ?
If you are using the overclock (omap clock) feature of rickys rom first disable that and if the problem still occurs get a new battery. I had the same problem and doing that I now have no random shut down issues. Im pretty sure my battery was shot.

[Q] Overheating

So, for the past month and a half, I've been having some serious overheating issues with my E4GT, whether I have it rooted and a custom ROM flashed, or running stock. It has now gotten to the point where the phone smells..funky, near the camera on the back. Now, Sprint labels the battery as the culprit...twice now, they just give me a new battery saying the old was swollen, and that it is what was causing it to overheat. Completely ignoring that I state it smells like fried parts. Now, the batteries were all normal in appearance, mind you, not a bit swollen. No water damage either. It gets almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. ..Yet, battery life actually isn't terrible, go figure. This overheating happens whether I am using the crap out of my phone, or just leaving it sit idle.
Any ideas what to do from here? It makes it almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable, especially if it happens when I make a call. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. I've made a habit of unplugging it when it says it's at a 100% charge, too.
I'm sick of Sprint shoving me aside every time I go there, which is three times now. So, if there are any ideas as to how I can get them to just replace the damn thing without spending 100 through insurance..lay it on me. I've searched the forums for a solution to this particular issue, no avail. Hell, if it takes purposely bricking for them to pay attention, then I'll do it, but that's on the back burner. Far far back.
I have tried all sorts of things to keep it running smoothly, I guess my main question is how to get Sprint to just replace the dang thing.
Apologies for the novel, guys and gals.
**...somehow the title ended up being just one word. Not sure how it got deleted. I blame cats. "Major overheating issue, getting the good ol' Sprint run-around.." <--should have been that.

Go to a different sprint store....they're being dicks, never had that issue at any sprint store in my area. You have a fault phone and it needs to be replaced.
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I have been to two, but perhaps third one's the charm?

maruutah said:
So, for the past month and a half, I've been having some serious overheating issues with my E4GT, whether I have it rooted and a custom ROM flashed, or running stock. It has now gotten to the point where the phone smells..funky, near the camera on the back. Now, Sprint labels the battery as the culprit...twice now, they just give me a new battery saying the old was swollen, and that it is what was causing it to overheat. Completely ignoring that I state it smells like fried parts. Now, the batteries were all normal in appearance, mind you, not a bit swollen. No water damage either. It gets almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. ..Yet, battery life actually isn't terrible, go figure. This overheating happens whether I am using the crap out of my phone, or just leaving it sit idle.
Any ideas what to do from here? It makes it almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable, especially if it happens when I make a call. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. I've made a habit of unplugging it when it says it's at a 100% charge, too.
I'm sick of Sprint shoving me aside every time I go there, which is three times now. So, if there are any ideas as to how I can get them to just replace the damn thing without spending 100 through insurance..lay it on me. I've searched the forums for a solution to this particular issue, no avail. Hell, if it takes purposely bricking for them to pay attention, then I'll do it, but that's on the back burner. Far far back.
Apologies for the novel, guys and gals.
**...somehow the title ended up being just one word. Not sure how it got deleted. I blame cats. "Major overheating issue, getting the good ol' Sprint run-around.." <--should have been that.
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I had the same problem and so did my woman. Do yourself a favor and download Calkulins battery saver E4GT ROM. I don't know how but it keeps the phone cooler. Seriously. Haven't had any over heating issues since. EL29 stock kernel always causes mine to heat up. Hope this helps

I've used that as well, but the thing still smells pretty bad whenever I use..well..anything. :/ I have tried all sorts of things to keep it running smoothly, I guess my main question is how to get Sprint to just replace the dang thing. I should add that to the initial post...

maruutah said:
I've used that as well, but the thing still smells pretty bad whenever I use..well..anything. :/ I have tried all sorts of things to keep it running smoothly, I guess my main question is how to get Sprint to just replace the dang thing. I should add that to the initial post...
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Do you have insurance? You could always just brick it to the point where all ya get is the blue led of death and bring it in and tell them the thing just suddenly went off on ya and when you tried to turn it on this is what happened.
Do NOT try to damage it using water because they have these stickers inside the phone and on the battery that change colors when they come in contact with water so sprint will know, and laugh in your face.

my phone also gets very hot like in 120 range

You could send it to Samsung under warranty, and when u go to sprint make sure its a corporate service center and not a 3rd party "authorized service center". When you go in don't mention overheating at first start off with "my phone smells funny, like burning plastic and when I pick it up I notice the screen is very warm/hot to the touch and sometimes has issues with the touch responsiveness" this should get their attention away from the battery and more towards the internal issues, more than likely its the SOC that is overheating if it's hottest near the camera area of the phone
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[Q] Imported Galaxy Nexus hard brick

Hey all. I now have an imported Galaxy Nexus that won't turn on, here's what happened...
I bought the phone back in April and haven't had a single problem with it until now. On this past Monday I woke up, got ready for work and unplugged my fully charged GNex from my wall charger as I do every morning. On my way to work I popped my GNex into the Samsung car dock to listen to music as I do every morning. When I got to work I popped out my GNex from the dock and sat at my desk for a while. I went to check something on my phone and it felt kinda hot, I thought nothing of it and kept working. Maybe 10 minutes later I checked if it was still hot and it was, uncomfortably hot, and the battery was at like 40% (this was about 40 minutes after I took it out of the car dock).
This made me think that by some chance a program was running crazy in the background, so I restarted my phone. Booted back up, plugged it into a wall charger I have at my desk, and let it sit for about 10 minutes. I then picked it back up and it was still burning hot, now I shut it down again, unplugged it, and pulled the battery out until it cooled down (about another 10 minutes).
Now I popped the battery back in and booted it up. Starts to get hot again and now the battery is at 4%. At this point I think "WTF..." and turn the phone off and let it sit there with the battery in. Keep it in there until the battery completely discharges (the phone isn't hot anymore) thinking that maybe it's having trouble reading the battery stats idk no big deal right? Turns out no, very big deal.
Let it sit there for an hour with no battery in it, then plugged it in and tried to power it on. Nothing. Pulled the battery, popped it back in, and let it sit with the charger in it for 30 minutes. Nothing. The phone isn't getting hot at this point like it was. So I try all the button combinations with the volume buttons and power buttons and still nothing. Even when I plug the phone in the charging battery animation doesn't show up.
When I leave it plugged into the wall charger now, the phone gets a little warm as you'd expect when you charge your phone, not hot like before. I took the phone apart and saw nothing wrong with it, but then again I'm not a hardware guy so I took it to a phone repair shop. He took a look at it and couldn't find anything weird with it either (besides it doesn't work).
In this mess I tried to contact Samsung and take advantage of my "International" warranty but no dice as I'm sure most of you know (this is my $450 lesson). Samsung USA said they won't even fix it if I pay them, I have to do it through Samsung UK which is a nightmare.
The last kick to floor was seeing my credit card charged for the desk dock that I ordered a week before the day this happened. I've ordered a new battery on the off chance that maybe that's the problem, if not I'll be buying another GNex with a US Warranty from the Play Store.
Any bits of hope anyone has for me? Is it even worth my while to ship it off to another phone repair store that says they can "fix it no problem"? Sorry for the long post, everyone always says to post as much detail as possible so I did!! lol. Thanks for reading!!

In the same boat, my Nexus just died today. It is completely unresponsive. Plugging the phone into the computer with no battery will not display any OMAP hardware.

hmm I'm wondering now what is the reason? is it 4.0.4 update? my phone is getting warm after the update too, and the cpu consumes 30% power. but its not too hot, only one area, on the virtual SD card area.

where did you order your GN from? depending on which website... they may "fulfill" your warranty if you're within their warranty time frame.

zephiK said:
where did you order your GN from? depending on which website... they may "fulfill" your warranty if you're within their warranty time frame.
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Off an Amazon retailer, I already checked and they said no :-( I should be getting this battery soon, hopefully that fixes it. I highly doubt it though.

Good news, the website I got mine from(Dailysteals) is willing to do an exchange or refund for me. Surprisingly, I didn't even have to go through a lot of trouble for them to issue an RMA for me. I just had to explain my situation with them about Samsung USA/UK unwillingly to repair the phone.

tenchir said:
Good news, the website I got mine from(Dailysteals) is willing to do an exchange or refund for me. Surprisingly, I didn't even have to go through a lot of trouble for them to issue an RMA for me. I just had to explain my situation with them about Samsung USA/UK unwillingly to repair the phone.
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Nice! When did you buy it from them?

Mine just bit the dust today as well. Just contacted Handtec and hoping they'll warranty it. It was running just fine up until today and now ODIN won't write to NAND. The same thing that happened in this thread is what happened to my phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671044

kurczynski said:
Nice! When did you buy it from them?
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I bought it back in March when they had it for $465.

tenchir said:
I bought it back in March when they had it for $465.
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Damn you! lol. It specifically says on the site that I got it from that they don't offer any warranty.

dawgpound6985 said:
Mine just bit the dust today as well. Just contacted Handtec and hoping they'll warranty it. It was running just fine up until today and now ODIN won't write to NAND. The same thing that happened in this thread is what happened to my phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671044
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welcome to the club. why don't you just buy another one with a us warranty like i want to? oh ya that's right they're illegal to sell right now...

kurczynski said:
Damn you! lol. It specifically says on the site that I got it from that they don't offer any warranty.
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When I bought it, I remembered that it says 1 year warranty in the description. I mentioned this to them when I explain to them that I can't get it repaired by either Samsung USA/UK.

tenchir said:
When I bought it, I remembered that it says 1 year warranty in the description. I mentioned this to them when I explain to them that I can't get it repaired by either Samsung USA/UK.
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hmmmmm might be worth a shot

kurczynski said:
welcome to the club. why don't you just buy another one with a us warranty like i want to? oh ya that's right they're illegal to sell right now...
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I just hope Handtec covers it. I've never dealt with their warranty before and I've been trying to find if anyone had any experiences with it. I remember people saying they'd cover it for 24 months which is why I went with them in the first place.

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hmmmmm might be worth a shot
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Good luck, they probably updated the warranty thing after the March sale because of the confusion with the warranty status.

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great success!!!!!!!! My extended battery just came in the mail and that was indeed the problem. WTF!? Never had that happen to me with a phone before. Totally didn't think that was gonna help lol.

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YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great success!!!!!!!! My extended battery just came in the mail and that was indeed the problem. WTF!? Never had that happen to me with a phone before. Totally didn't think that was gonna help lol.
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Can you explain? You mean to say you replaced your battery with an extended battery and it started working again?

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Can you explain? You mean to say you replaced your battery with an extended battery and it started working again?
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Absolutely. I replaced the batter with the official Samsung extended 200mAh and it turned on, funny thing is though that the same thing is happening again...it still turns on but it's getting super hot and draining almost instantly. The phone shows that it's plugged into power but it says under the battery option that the device is not charging, weird. This is what it shows my battery stats as:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByadaWWGExhWMjRTUUhQOHdXZnc
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByadaWWGExhWbFNiR0NSTkJGcUE
The first death drop in charge is when this all started, the second one is what's happening now. It seems to be charging okay now via PC USB which doesn't make sense to me, cause I tried my wall charger and my car charger earlier and it got super hot and said it wasn't charging.
My phone is getting hot right around the area of the "Texas Instruments TWL6030 Fully Integrated Power Management with Switch Mode Charger" as seen here:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus-Teardown/7182/2
I'm gonna poke around with a couple things that I found on the net and hopefully resolve it, hopefully it can be fixed with software tweaks!!! Here's some stuff that I found:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22878
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/RahZtFg39DU

Try asking Google ( if you haven't already ). They maybe able to tell you a more detailed reason, and may help resolve it. Never know and Gl
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I see. So your phone is draining the battery and not charging at all. Have you considered doing a factory reset? Maybe invest in a battery charger for the time being until the phone starts to charge the phone properly.
Oh, just a follow up on my situation. My NAND is still broken beyond repair. Tried ODIN, OMAP flash, different USB cables, drivers and nothing will write to the NAND. I contacted Handtec and they told me to RMA it to them. So I'm gonna be doing that some time this week. They want original box and everything that came with the phone so I'm trying to gather all of that before I ship it to them. Hopefully the turn around will be quick cause this Galaxy S (which also had a NAND hardware failure and repaired once by Samsung then failed again) is getting old quick.

can i FIX a water damaged Incredible? (hardware?)

Hello, i had to jump in the pool because my son was struggling in the water. Forgot my phone was in my pocket.
I tried it out by taking the battery cover off, leaving it in rice for a day and a half, etc. I thought it was totally fine, because it powered up Monday around 7am, and it was fine. Well, it went through some boot loop stuff, but then I went to CWM recovery, reset phone from there, and it was good.
Then, around 4:30pm, after I had it plugged in charging for about 40 min, don't know if that's significant because I had charged it earlier the same day w/o problems.
Anyways, around 4:30pm, I went to silence my phone, and it just shut off. And wouldn't restart. Battery Pulls, nothing. Won't even charge.
AGH! what should I do?
I don't want to pay the $100 deductible through Verizon, especially since I am getting the gsIII next week. However, I wanted to keep this phone around, use it occasionally, let my kids game on it, etc.
Should I try opening it up? Like, get those fancy screw drivers and remove screws and open it up? What could have happened? is this repairable? I am wondering if there was water that hadn't quite disappeared in the phone, and it shorted out (insert technical term here) or something.
it's sitting in rice now...
Okay, let me know, thanks, guys!

funkpod said:
Hello, i had to jump in the pool because my son was struggling in the water. Forgot my phone was in my pocket.
I tried it out by taking the battery cover off, leaving it in rice for a day and a half, etc. I thought it was totally fine, because it powered up Monday around 7am, and it was fine. Well, it went through some boot loop stuff, but then I went to CWM recovery, reset phone from there, and it was good.
Then, around 4:30pm, after I had it plugged in charging for about 40 min, don't know if that's significant because I had charged it earlier the same day w/o problems.
Anyways, around 4:30pm, I went to silence my phone, and it just shut off. And wouldn't restart. Battery Pulls, nothing. Won't even charge.
AGH! what should I do?
I don't want to pay the $100 deductible through Verizon, especially since I am getting the gsIII next week. However, I wanted to keep this phone around, use it occasionally, let my kids game on it, etc.
Should I try opening it up? Like, get those fancy screw drivers and remove screws and open it up? What could have happened? is this repairable? I am wondering if there was water that hadn't quite disappeared in the phone, and it shorted out (insert technical term here) or something.
it's sitting in rice now...
Okay, let me know, thanks, guys!
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Well first question is.
Is your contract nearly up and would be be planning to get a new phone???
I think personally, u should go on eBay and just buy another Android Phone.(Nexus, Another Dinc, Etc)
Or just get the Dinc 4G LTE.
Trust me it's not worth fixing a water damaged device. The problem always returns in the future.

You may have damaged it, by turning it on and also charging it, while there was still water inside. You should have let it sit in rice for at least 3 days, preferably 5, before even attempting to turn it back on. But that is the past, and you can't go back (now you know for the future).
It might be worth trying to take it as apart as you can (maybe opening it if you can easily do it, if not just battery and cover) and puting it back in rice for a few days and then trying again. If something was damaged, it probably would be impossible or not worth it to repair.
You have to decide if you wanna pay the $100 to replace. $100 for a new, working phone is not that expensive. That way you got something to play the occasional game on, let your kids play with it, use it as an mp3 player or whatever, and even have a backup phone. If I were you I would replace it for the $100 (if i had the $100 to spare!) because it's always good to have a backup phone.

yes, in hindsight, i should have waited some more.
ugh. yeah, $100 in the end is not too too much... but i just spend $250 on the galaxy s III, but i don't know if spending $100 on my old phone is worth it.
i figure that it's kaput anyways, so there's no harm in removing the "void" sticker, right?

funkpod said:
yes, in hindsight, i should have waited some more.
ugh. yeah, $100 in the end is not too too much... but i just spend $250 on the galaxy s III, but i don't know if spending $100 on my old phone is worth it.
i figure that it's kaput anyways, so there's no harm in removing the "void" sticker, right?
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heh well warranty doesnt cover water damages right? as long as the water indicators are changed, probably fine doing it

It could be a bad battery

joeyz400 said:
It could be a bad battery
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thats what i was thinking

Shano56 said:
thats what i was thinking
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i wish, but i have tried several batteries, and none work. also, it won't even turn the indicator light on when plugged in.
thanks for the recommendation, i held off from opening it and just have let it sit in rice the past few days. i guess i'll try it out today, but i don't have much hope in it working. we'll see, though!~ there's a phone fix it store that has a machine that uses a liquid that removes most of the corrosion. only thing is that it's $100 to fix, if it doesn't work, it's like $50 for labor. and my deductible is $100.
maybe if it doesn't work... i can try and remove the corrosion by myself?
this may be a stupid question... but i know that wd-40 removes rust. bad idea to try and use small amounts on the corroded parts, if i can find them?

funkpod said:
i wish, but i have tried several batteries, and none work. also, it won't even turn the indicator light on when plugged in.
thanks for the recommendation, i held off from opening it and just have let it sit in rice the past few days. i guess i'll try it out today, but i don't have much hope in it working. we'll see, though!~ there's a phone fix it store that has a machine that uses a liquid that removes most of the corrosion. only thing is that it's $100 to fix, if it doesn't work, it's like $50 for labor. and my deductible is $100.
maybe if it doesn't work... i can try and remove the corrosion by myself?
this may be a stupid question... but i know that wd-40 removes rust. bad idea to try and use small amounts on the corroded parts, if i can find them?
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hmm dude i wouldn't expect to find much corrosion in there it's not like it's been waterlogged for weeks. What's more likely is some chip or circuit fried, which would either be unfixable or hard to replace.

Strange Charging Issues *Please help!*

I'm at a loss as to what's going on. A few months ago I was changing up my ROMs and went to charge my phone and left the room. When I came back I was smelling that dreaded burning circuit board type of smell. Now none of my stock USB cords work with my stock charger. In fact I have 50 or so USB's and the only one that will still work is an old one from my Samsung device.
Just today I got a quick charge 2.0 and plugged it in and to my surprise it worked! Then about 30 minutes later noticed it was not charging. Hold the phone up to my nose and sure enough I smell a slight burning smell again. Is my device no longer going to be able to charge normally? I can't think of anything else to do. Could it be kernel related? Any help or troubleshooting ideas would be wonderful. Thank you so much guys!

Seems like that is a problem with your phone components not with software.Tell me about your battery life.If you connect your phone to a PC did your phone charge?Did you tried changing your rom with the original one?

TheLegend88 said:
Seems like that is a problem with your phone components not with software.Tell me about your battery life.If you connect your phone to a PC did your phone charge?Did you tried changing your rom with the original one?
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Thanks for the reply. PC only would work if the cord being used was one of the 1 or 2 that actually work. I did have a little increased battery drain that seems to be decreasing my battery about 30% or so faster than before. I was going to investigate further, but it wasnt at an alarming rate as of yet. I honestly chalked that up to the ROM. I have Multiboot installed and CM6 is the same...100% hardware issue at this point...just not sure if the root of it started from the kernel or not.
I do have an update though...so it seems the part that burned last night was the final straw and now even the 1 charger that worked won't do anything...seems like I'm dead. Took it into Sprint (I have insurance) and they are going to replace it. Sadly looks like it won't be here until Tuesday. I tweeted Sprint about the issue and they'll be calling me shortly. If my insurance/warranty covers my issue and it's believed to be a defective phone I do not understand why I should be without a phone for 6 days. At the very least give me a loaner...but even that doesn't seem to be the best solution for an issue such as this. Good news is my phone won't take a charge so there's no need for me to try and make sure they can't tell I'm rooted.
Sprint used to be really good about customer service w/ having phones overnighted to your house or in store exchange. Those are distant memories now though.

Ig that helps you.My phone is in the repair store too and a guy from HTC told me that the repair for my phone will last for 40 working days ).So...6 days it's a WONDERFUL period.I am not so lucky as you.
P.S.They just have to change my camera module.