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[Q] S3 wont turn on?

Guys im having an issue with my week old s3...my battery power hit 0 percent and phone turned off and now when i plug it in it wont turn on. It will give me the little battery icon for less than a second before shutting off. I am getting no response from the phone and dont know what to do. I tried volume+ up and volume +down to no avail. Im pretty irritated at this point and need some insight. Have tried diffrent chargers and they all give me battery icon before shutting of.

What room are you on?
Have you tried just letting it charge and sit there
When my s3 but zero I plugged it in
Didn't lead power till like 5 min afterwards and it worked fine
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gtuansdiamm said:
What room are you on?
Have you tried just letting it charge and sit there
When my s3 but zero I plugged it in
Didn't lead power till like 5 min afterwards and it worked fine
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Im on freegs3 latest.... It wont charge or anything...its 4am here and this just happened after i was in the middle of making some random homescreen edits. Hit 0 and when i plugged it in it would just be unresponsive. I dont even know if its charging but its been plugged it for well over 5 minutes i believe. Could undervolting have anything to do? I just dont have the time to go to the sprint store and need phone for work.
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Having the exact same problem on my phone as well running FreeGS3 v3.0 and Ktoonz kernel.

This is how I fixed mine.
Plug it in and get it to show the empty battery with a circle in it. Once you see that plug it in and leave it alone for a while at least five minutes, yes the battery sign should only stay for a second. It should just go black screen no charging light.*After five minutes or so unplug it, pull the battery, and put it back in leave the phone unplugged and hold the power button a while. Some times they act weird when they dieThis is how I fixed mine.

mcluvin1065 said:
Guys im having an issue with my week old s3...my battery power hit 0 percent and phone turned off and now when i plug it in it wont turn on. It will give me the little battery icon for less than a second before shutting off. I am getting no response from the phone and dont know what to do. I tried volume+ up and volume +down to no avail. Im pretty irritated at this point and need some insight. Have tried diffrent chargers and they all give me battery icon before shutting of.
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When you plug it in, and see the icon, let it go for on charge for about 10s, unplug the usb, then hold the power button and see if it turns on then.

Mine will be in my pocket and won't respond like it is off. I have to hold the power button for 10seconds and it will come back on This is only happening shortly after a full charge. FreeGS3 Rom.

So is this a rom issue?
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G3noobie said:
This is how I fixed mine.
Plug it in and get it to show the empty battery with a circle in it. Once you see that plug it in and leave it alone for a while at least five minutes, yes the battery sign should only stay for a second. It should just go black screen no charging light.*After five minutes or so unplug it, pull the battery, and put it back in leave the phone unplugged and hold the power button a while. Some times they act weird when they dieThis is how I fixed mine.
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And i can confirm this fix worked for me. Thanks a ton friend. I appreciate everyone's help on this little weird issue.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35987091#post35987091
I made a thread because I was having the exact same problem. Click on the link I attached in my first post. It's from the T-Mobile GS3 because they are having the same issue. The last post said flashing back to stock fixed the problem.

Just ran into this issue yesterday. I threw the battery into a standalone Anker charger for a while to get some juice back, and the phone powered up and charged fine from there.
I'm also on FreeGS3/ktoonsez.
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Borrow a friends battery and switch roms
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Also had this issue with ktoonz's kernel and freegs3. Went back to stock kernel and it's fine. I ended up using a friend's phone to get battery to charge.

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I just loaded a file on my LGOG then I turned it off. It had 80% battery. Now it wont boot. It wont even go to recovery. I cant get into twrp or do anything. When I power it on the LG logo displays then the screen goes black. I tried powering it back off and waiting a few minutes before trying again but nothing is happening. What should I do? I really don't want to take it back because I can't remember if I still have a warranty and it has been voided anyways. I got the phone i January. I was running CM10.1 and I just loaded a large file into the root of the storage and turned the phone off.

Mr_JacobClutch said:
I just loaded a file on my LGOG then I turned it off. It had 80% battery. Now it wont boot. It wont even go to recovery. I cant get into twrp or do anything. When I power it on the LG logo displays then the screen goes black. I tried powering it back off and waiting a few minutes before trying again but nothing is happening. What should I do? I really don't want to take it back because I can't remember if I still have a warranty and it has been voided anyways. I got the phone i January. I was running CM10.1 and I just loaded a large file into the root of the storage and turned the phone off.
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with it turned off hold volume up and press power, should put you in fastboot i think thats what they call it, then press volume down twice slowly, then power should put you in recovery
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Mr_JacobClutch said:
I just loaded a file on my LGOG then I turned it off. It had 80% battery. Now it wont boot. It wont even go to recovery. I cant get into twrp or do anything. When I power it on the LG logo displays then the screen goes black. I tried powering it back off and waiting a few minutes before trying again but nothing is happening. What should I do? I really don't want to take it back because I can't remember if I still have a warranty and it has been voided anyways. I got the phone i January. I was running CM10.1 and I just loaded a large file into the root of the storage and turned the phone off.
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The exact same thing happened to me just the other day. I was flipping. I gave up and decided to go into town to file for a replacement. So I got ready. took a shower and all that fum stuff and as a last resort I tried again. And nothing. So I plugged it in. It finally went to the charge screen. Powered it on from there and it actually turned on!! I was so happy! But when it booted back up it only had 1% charge. But when it ****ed up on me it had at least 50%.. After I charged all the way to 100% then rebooted to recovery it told me it had only 40%.. Something messed up somewhere. Wasn't reading battery stats right.. Wiped battery stats and all was good...
Anyway. Wait awhile for you phone to settle. Then try plugging it in to get a charge. Then turn it on. Worked for me. But was completely random. I tried that several times before my shower and it wouldnt charge when I plugged in. Just went to the black screen after the logo.
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I think what's happening is the phone thinks its dead so of course it won't boot past the logo. That's what it actually does when its actually dead. Just flashes the logo. And it stays black because it does actually have a charge. Just had to wait for my phone (while completely off) to try again. But could only get it to come on while on the charger
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spleef said:
with it turned off hold volume up and press power, should put you in fastboot i think thats what they call it, then press volume down twice slowly, then power should put you in recovery
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I tried that and i didn't get to recovery. The fastboot screen doesn't even display.

You soft bricked, you just got to Lgnpst. Look for the teeny bin thread in the development section. It'll explain everything there
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tsdeaton said:
The exact same thing happened to me just the other day. I was flipping. I gave up and decided to go into town to file for a replacement. So I got ready. took a shower and all that fum stuff and as a last resort I tried again. And nothing. So I plugged it in. It finally went to the charge screen. Powered it on from there and it actually turned on!! I was so happy! But when it booted back up it only had 1% charge. But when it ****ed up on me it had at least 50%.. After I charged all the way to 100% then rebooted to recovery it told me it had only 40%.. Something messed up somewhere. Wasn't reading battery stats right.. Wiped battery stats and all was good...
Anyway. Wait awhile for you phone to settle. Then try plugging it in to get a charge. Then turn it on. Worked for me. But was completely random. I tried that several times before my shower and it wouldnt charge when I plugged in. Just went to the black screen after the logo.
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I think what's happening is the phone thinks its dead so of course it won't boot past the logo. That's what it actually does when its actually dead. Just flashes the logo. And it stays black because it does actually have a charge. Just had to wait for my phone (while completely off) to try again. But could only get it to come on while on the charger
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Should I turn it on and let the battery die out completely or should I let it sit for a couple of hours and try again? I tried charging it but the screen was still black. I tried to plug it into my computer but it didn't detect it. I'll leave it for now and try charging it later. It shouldn't be out of battery since i barely used my phone today.

I don't know what the hell happened but it booted this time. I can get to recovery and fastboot. Thanks for showing concern for me though. I checked out teeny bin and i will use that next time something else happens.
Thank You for your responses

Mr_JacobClutch said:
I don't know what the hell happened but it booted this time. I can get to recovery and fastboot. Thanks for showing concern for me though. I checked out teeny bin and i will use that next time something else happens.
Thank You for your responses
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Now i can test my new sense port. That was the reason I needed to go to recovery.

Yea same thing with mine. Completely random right lol
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It just happened again. Same thing. Maybe it is because I turn my phone off too soon after a file transfer. This never used to happen. It just started today. I let my phone sit for 20 min then everything went ok. This is really weird.

Mr_JacobClutch said:
It just happened again. Same thing. Maybe it is because I turn my phone off too soon after a file transfer. This never used to happen. It just started today. I let my phone sit for 20 min then everything went ok. This is really weird.
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It might be a faulty battery or connection. When boot back up is the charge low? Not in recovery but in the ROM.
Mine happened while I was trying to do a backup in recovery. Too many variables lol
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tsdeaton said:
It might be a faulty battery or connection. When boot back up is the charge low? Not in recovery but in the ROM.
Mine happened while I was trying to do a backup in recovery. Too many variables lol
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battery was at 70% in recovery and ROM.
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[Q] Galaxy Nexus Damage

Hello,
A couple of days ago I was out in the rain and my phone got a little wet. I checked the water damage indicators on the battery and underneath the battery but they didn't change colors and the phone was functioning fine so I thought I'd be okay.
Well, that morning I woke up to my phone constantly rebooting. I took out the battery and put the phone in some rice hoping it wouldn't be too late. I waited about 2 days and took it out, opened up the phone to look for some corrosion. I didn't see anything, but it would have to very obvious in order for me to recognize it...Here's a picture of the inside (it might be hard to see because of the flash, but the bottom water damage indicator close to the USB port turned pink):
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I plugged the phone back in but it would not come on or display anything.
I'm not sure what my next step should be. Should I try replacing the charging port? Or is this phone most likely shot?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Well I cleaned the phone and can get the charging indicator to come up when it's plugged in..however, it doesn't seem to be charging. I hold the power button in and it won't turn on. I hold the power button and volume up button in and it won't turn on. I took out the battery and left it plugged in and the screen doesn't display anything.
Anyone know what else I can try?
Thanks

It's kind of tough to say for sure which component or components failed.... I mean, if it were me I'd shell out for a new phone, be it a GalNex or a newer phone.
If the battery isn't charging but the phone responds to a charger being plugged in....and it rebooted a lot when it did work... It's probably the main board...
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jimmyco2008 said:
It's kind of tough to say for sure which component or components failed.... I mean, if it were me I'd shell out for a new phone, be it a GalNex or a newer phone.
If the battery isn't charging but the phone responds to a charger being plugged in....and it rebooted a lot when it did work... It's probably the main board...
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I actually got it to boot up now. It just keeps rebooting though. I did a factory restore through bootloader mode but it still isn't working. I can't get through the initial setup without the phone rebooting..

try flashing to stock.. Odin flash.. or flash an image
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paarthdesai said:
try flashing to stock.. Odin flash.. or flash an image
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He just did that...
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I guess you could try alcohol on a cotton ball over all the circuitry... But it really sounds like you're toast. Try it though, you never know.
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paarthdesai said:
try flashing to stock.. Odin flash.. or flash an image
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Wouldn't that be done when I restored it through recovery mode?

means? what did you restored? nandroid?
umm try a google image or if tht doesnt work odin flash

Bootloop every 7 seconds!!! NO fastboot poosibly!!

Hi guys,
my phone just restarts today without any special hint of why it happened. Now it is in a bootloop with a restart every 7 seconds. I also cant get into fasboot because the phone automatically reboots in a too short period I used the CM10.2 unofficial now for 3 days without any problems.
Is there any way to get out of the loop? My phone was fully charged an hour ago so should last for the next 12 hours sad that i cant pull out the battery to turn it off.

rcfreak07 said:
Hi guys,
my phone just restarts today without any special hint of why it happened. Now it is in a bootloop with a restart every 7 seconds. I also cant get into fasboot because the phone automatically reboots in a too short period I used the CM10.2 unofficial now for 3 days without any problems.
Is there any way to get out of the loop? My phone was fully charged an hour ago so should last for the next 12 hours sad that i cant pull out the battery to turn it off.
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Try to hold down the Power button for long time 10-15 sec.

Thant said:
Try to hold down the Power button for long time 10-15 sec.
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No difference. What should happen then?

Thats no work. A friend of me has the same Problem with his One x. I think the battery is damaged.
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Its a Hardware Problem. I think. You have the Problem after your battery was empty?! Right?
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MaximN97 said:
Thats no work. A friend of me has the same Problem with his One x. I think the battery is damaged.
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Well that makes no sense I think. There were no problems before with the battery. Im also unable to navigate through bootloader with the volume keys. It seems it automatically pushes the power button all the time.
No I charged it to 100% this morning. No problems at all with battery life.
Is there really no way to turn the phone off? Well, bad bad HTC

rcfreak07 said:
Well that makes no sense I think. There were no problems before with the battery. Im also unable to navigate through bootloader with the volume keys. It seems it automatically pushes the power button all the time.
No I charged it to 100% this morning. No problems at all with battery life.
Is there really no way to turn the phone off? Well, bad bad HTC
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Is the power button physically damaged and being depressed constantly? You may have to open the phone to take a look, or try GENTLY tapping the top-right corner off a hard surface.
All else failing...if you cannot reach bootloader or do anything practical with the phone, you will have no choice but to seek repair.

The power button is ok. I open the hox and i see no damage.
When you diconnect charger the hox turn off and dont Boot again. Right?
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MaximN97 said:
The power button is ok. I open the hox and i see no damage.
When you diconnect charger the hox turn off and dont Boot again. Right?
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Now the HOX is empty. When I plug back in the charger the phone automatically starts bootlooping again.
The HOX does bootlooping ALL the time no matters if there is sth. plugged in.
The power button is not damaged. I dont want to open the case cause its glued and there is a risk to brake the display.

rcfreak07 said:
Now the HOX is empty. When I plug back in the charger the phone automatically starts bootlooping again.
The HOX does bootlooping ALL the time no matters if there is sth. plugged in.
The power button is not damaged. I dont want to open the case cause its glued and there is a risk to brake the display.
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To quote myself previously...
"if you cannot reach bootloader or do anything practical with the phone, you will have no choice but to seek repair. "

Tigerlight said:
To quote myself previously...
"if you cannot reach bootloader or do anything practical with the phone, you will have no choice but to seek repair. "
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Yep I think so, too. So wainting until monday and sending it in for repairs -.-

Have you tried getting into fastboot by
Adb reboot fastboot
While it was bootlooping? It may pick it up and actually boot into bootloader. I'm not sure if you need acces to fastboot for this its worth a try
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It is the power button that is constantly pressed. The circuit is disorted by water or something. I had the same thing.
If you open your HOX, wait till the white boot screen shows up, and then disconnect the power button flex cable, it boots normally. You can buy a replacement part for only a few dollars on eBay.
Cheers :thumbup::thumbup:
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I fixed it with smashing the phone a little harder with the power button onto my table seems that this was the problem Phone is now running fine again Although Thanks for your help

Loooool!!
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rcfreak07 said:
I fixed it with smashing the phone a little harder with the power button onto my table seems that this was the problem Phone is now running fine again Although Thanks for your help
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Russian method worked

Gezas said:
Russian method worked
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Well it seems to be the last method I can personally do befrore giving it to the repairs I saw that bootloader changed automatically sites so i thought that the power button is constantly pushed... Some litte paaam paaam paaam on the button on the table and phones started good its no iphone otherwise the display would have been broken
Greets from Germany btw

So the problem was solved. have taken a different charger. and now comes the hox again.
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Try an another charger.
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[Q] HTC ONE (M8) is not starting... :(

Hi,
My uncle gave htc one m8 as a gift to me. He had bought it from Dubai. I have Started the mobile and filled all the personnel information to set up software. After that software update had come and it is downloading the update it is downloading slowly so i went outside i came back to home and checked my phone it was off i thought the charging is over and kept the charging but red led notification is not blinking after that i switched on the phone but phone doesn't start. The next day i went to the HTC authorized service centre and we have expalined the problem to them they said its a major problem but they are not saying the exact problem to us. and also we cannot send to service because it is dubai's model pls help me what do now...... Please help.............

First step would be to try another charger and cable.
If it still won't charge, it's likely the mini USB port or some other hardware issue.

try hard restart by holding the volume up until it restarts (maybe it will work)
do you feel the heat from your device or be in totally dark place do you see your screen bright?

Iloudsan said:
try hard restart by holding the volume up until it restarts (maybe it will work)
do you feel the heat from your device or be in totally dark place do you see your screen bright?
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i kept charging for 1 hour the red light is blinking some times the red light is being constant by device is heating up back but wont turn i tried with different cables. when i wnt to the service centre they said charge the phone using laptop i tried same thing is reapting

Pls help me guys....

Iloudsan said:
try hard restart by holding the volume up until it restarts (maybe it will work)
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You need to hold vol up and power for this to work, not just vol up.
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jayanth.aanala said:
i kept charging for 1 hour the red light is blinking some times the red light is being constant by device is heating up back but wont turn i tried with different cables. when i wnt to the service centre they said charge the phone using laptop i tried same thing is reapting
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I would suggest keeping it on the wall charger (not connected to PC) for several hours. Then try to power on again, or the button combo I gave above, as well as power+vol down.

redpoint73 said:
You need to hold vol up and power for this to work, not just vol up.
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I would suggest keeping it on the wall charger (not connected to PC) for several hours. Then try to power on again, or the button combo I gave above, as well as power+vol down.
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I forgot to mention the power I swallowed it