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Only left two on screen buttons show when booting up!?

Not sure if this just my phone? When I boot up the first two on screen buttons (centre and left) show while only after a few seconds does the right button pop up.

Is that a problem?
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Chris95X8 said:
Is that a problem?
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kinda, would be nice if they would all apear at the same time!

It's really not a big deal as long as they all show up.. mine shows up maybe two seconds after the left side.
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I was under the impression they only show up when needed such as the 3 dots for the menu button, when you boot up no programs are running so it could be a possibility that it doesn't show up because the is no need for that button.

Chris95X8 said:
Is that a problem?
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If that's the problem, just wait till major issues show up, such as bad battery life etc..
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I have had the phone since launch in the UK, and apart from the volume bug, have no issues at all. In fact I find the battery life great, lasts all day for me, which is all I need! The fact that the buttons don`t come on at the same time is not a big problem, just would be a nice finishing touch to a fantastic phone.

[Q] Note 2 just wont turn on

I recently bought a new note 2, and everything was good and I love it!
But yesterday I was on the phone to a friend and initially I tried putting him on speaker phone, but the screen wouldn't turn on, only the soft touch keys at the bottom lit up. I thought nothing of it and continued my phone call.
It wasn't until he hung up I noticed i still coudn't the damn thing on. So i removed the battery and re inserted it. Here's where things get interesting though, now whenever i try to power it up, i get a little red light in my proximity sensor (i think) that flashes for about half a second.
I've tried soft rest, which does the same thing ( makes the proximity sensor light up for half a second)
Hard reset which does the same thing.
I haven't rooted the phone or anything. Luckily its still under manufacture warranty and I'll get samsung to have a look at it, but any thoughts on what it could be?

soljakid said:
I recently bought a new note 2, and everything was good and I love it!
But yesterday I was on the phone to a friend and initially I tried putting him on speaker phone, but the screen wouldn't turn on, only the soft touch keys at the bottom lit up. I thought nothing of it and continued my phone call.
It wasn't until he hung up I noticed i still coudn't the damn thing on. So i removed the battery and re inserted it. Here's where things get interesting though, now whenever i try to power it up, i get a little red light in my proximity sensor (i think) that flashes for about half a second.
I've tried soft rest, which does the same thing ( makes the proximity sensor light up for half a second)
Hard reset which does the same thing.
I haven't rooted the phone or anything. Luckily its still under manufacture warranty and I'll get samsung to have a look at it, but any thoughts on what it could be?
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Well, I can tell the that the red light is normal, I get that too and its just because its booting up, when you turn your phone on, what happens exactly?

Thanks for the reply. When I press the power button, around a second later the red light blips for half a second and turns off, but the OS doesn't boot up and nothing happens.

soljakid said:
Thanks for the reply. When I press the power button, around a second later the red light blips for half a second and turns off, but the OS doesn't boot up and nothing happens.
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Hmmm, This is the first time I heard of a situation like this... Try searching on the site or probably wait for someone to reply....

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065626
Maybe you too.... Sorry that sucks.
This PSA was sent Flow style from my Note 2 N-7100

Now i am really getting worriyng about this, does note2 has started SDS ?
atleast 3-4 cases are reported with same symptoms.
Anyway can you tell
You were on which ROM when this happened?
Are you getting to reboot in recovery/download mod?

@dingokevin I had a read over the thread you linked, and I fear the worst has happened to my note 2. This seems like a serious issue and even a flaw with the motherboard perhaps? Thank the lord it is still under warranty. R.I.P old friend.
@dr.ketan Im not sure what SDS stands for... Yeah I was running stock touchwiz 4.1.1 I think. No modifications and no root what so ever, and nope :/ I tried holding down volume down key + home button + power but no cigar, just the proximity light flashes briefly.

SDS - sudden death syndrome
And if you are unable to get into download/recovery mode then nothing can be done except send it to service station. it highly suggests sudden death which is very known issue for SGS3.
Replying to your query at other thread, you will get motherboard replacement if it is under warranty.

Ahh thats probably whats happened then. Thanks guys, I'll send it off to samsung and have a word or two with them to see why this is happening to many people!

If possible share outcome here too.
Regards

dr.ketan said:
If possible share outcome here too.
Regards
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Yeah defiantly will do. (Y) cheers

Same thing happened to my friends note 2 and some other people. Is sds happening to the note 2 also now ?? I am very worried
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Or could be that screen was damaged somehow.
Sds bug generally happened due to long time in sleep mode.
It happened to him during call
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UtkarshGupta said:
Or could be that screen was damaged somehow.
Sds bug generally happened due to long time in sleep mode.
It happened to him during call
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I was just reading up on some possible causes here on XDA with peoples S3's and someone suggested corrupted NAND memory.. I think this maybe the case because before the phone call I had installed Gangster Rio (which i honestly did purchase off the play store, hand on heart) and after playing it for a while decided to un install it and get a refund. Could me doing this have caused the NAND memory to corrupt? The game is a pretty large file...

No imao no
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UtkarshGupta said:
No imao no
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I highly doubt it was screen damage, imho. I only received the phone last friday and have been cradling it like a fragile little baby, Its never been out of my sight lool.
Maybe i just got really unlucky and ended up with a faulty device.

If screen fault then in such case usually you can hear boot up sound. It seems your case very well fits to sds category only.
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dr.ketan said:
If screen fault then in such case usually you can hear boot up sound. It seems your case very well fits to sds category only.
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Thank you good Dr. =P

dr.ketan said:
If possible share outcome here too.
Regards
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Hi Guys,
Got up this morning having left my Note 2 turned on and on charge overnight to discover this same fault -
slow flashing Red light and phone totally dead.
Unable to do anything to rectify the situation.
Still under warranty of course, phone only released in October 2012.
Is this a fault with the phone which necessitates replacement or just a battery problem?
Would be grateful for any advice / guidance / help.
Thanks,
Mike Longley.

MJLONGLEY said:
Hi Guys,
Got up this morning having left my Note 2 turned on and on charge overnight to discover this same fault -
slow flashing Red light and phone totally dead.
Unable to do anything to rectify the situation.
Still under warranty of course, phone only released in October 2012.
Is this a fault with the phone which necessitates replacement or just a battery problem?
Would be grateful for any advice / guidance / help.
Thanks,
Mike Longley.
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It seems also like SDS send it to Repair AFAIK is a chip problem, not battery so you can't do anything to repair it. If it is under warranty and with counter at 0 send it. They must repair it.
Enviat des del meu GT-N7100

black screen but phone boots...

so bought a galaxy note II off ebay and it had a cracked screen wich is no biggy.
$20 later i got a new screen and it arrived in the mail today and by some coincidence
my phone also stopped working...well it still boots and i can still even ring the phone but
the screen doesnt load...the led at the top of the phone flashes red if i hold the power button
in and i cant load recovery or reset on the phone either...the screen just does not load at
all now...iv been using this phone for several weeks now and had no problems until now :S
please exuse the grammer/spelling mistakes as im not the greatest at english :S

gregpfister said:
so bought a galaxy note II off ebay and it had a cracked screen wich is no biggy.
$20 later i got a new screen and it arrived in the mail today and by some coincidence
my phone also stopped working...well it still boots and i can still even ring the phone but
the screen doesnt load...the led at the top of the phone flashes red if i hold the power button
in and i cant load recovery or reset on the phone either...the screen just does not load at
all now...iv been using this phone for several weeks now and had no problems until now :S
please exuse the grammer/spelling mistakes as im not the greatest at english :S
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Its SDS for sure or at least 99% check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2093599
However, there's no much to do, you have to send it to samsung repair centre (with warranty and without the flash counter raised more than 0 the repair is free)
hope I helped you,
bests
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aka_sirok said:
Its SDS for sure or at least 99% check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2093599
However, there's no much to do, you have to send it to samsung repair centre (with warranty and without the flash counter raised more than 0 the repair is free)
hope I helped you,
bests
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dang i was hoping there was a way to just reflash it or something...i dnt have warrenty for it and i had
done a custom rom on it :S
anyone know how much it would cost without warrenty?

If its sds so your phones motherboard needs to be replaced. It costs approximately 270-300$ .
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T511 said:
If its sds so your phones motherboard needs to be replaced. It costs approximately 270-300$ .
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False. ~$150 at mobiletechvideo.com. there is a thread about SDS repair somewhere where a bunch of peeps are getting their phone fixed.
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It shouldnt be sds
Because in sds u can see the samsung logo and you can access the download mode
If you turn on the phone and u r hearing the boot sound then congratulation its not sds its a screen problem for sure
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thats what i was thinking...the phone loads and i can hear the boot
and i can even ring the phone and it rings even recieves txt msgs still...
but the screen stays blank...doesnt even light up...i had a look at the sds
posts and other forums i think i might have to replace the screen...
looking on ebay i found a couple for around $300 with the digitizer and
only $15 for the glass screen covers and bezel...
does anyone know where else i could possible get these parts from?
considering the hassles im also thinking i might just post the phone on
ebay...

Screen does not recognize S-Pen

Dear All,
Lately I'm experiencing a strange issue with my mobile. The S-Pen just stopped working. I thought at the beginning that the S-Pend is defected, but after trying it in a different Note 2 devices it worked fine. Now, the problem is in the screen, it does not recognize this Spend and neither other pens I tried on it. I have a screen protector, but the S-Pen was working fine on it before. What do you this is the reason behind this strange action??
Thanks a lot

try a hard reset.

Does the phone still detect when the s pen is taken out of/placed into the phone?
If not, it could be an issue of that coupled with s-pen battery saving being enabled.
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Are you rooted are you on custom rom
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aukhan said:
Are you rooted are you on custom rom
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Excellent question! Try rebooting your device. If no go there back up your needed things and factory reset/restore the device. If that fails and you are on a custom rom go back to stock and test.

Thanks a lot .. I was on an original ROM with Root enabled. I did a factory rest multiple times. i even installed the CM10.1 ROM to test it but with no luck!
And the phone recognize that the pen is pulled out when I pull out the S-Pen ..
What is meant by Hard Reset??
Thanks a ton for your support and for the fast response.

Might sound basic, but are u using magnets around it? My pen doesnt work when i have the case on, because it has a magnet on it. It may be that. Try it without the case on.
Hard reset = losing ALL of your internal storage (game data, etc), and starting afresh, like you did when u first took it out of the box. Sometimes called a factory restore/reset.

Thanks a lot for the follow up. Yes I had a case with magnet. I now removed this magnet from the case. I'm now without the magnet for almost 5 days with no luck. Does the magnet may corrupt the screen?

Its tym for you to unroot and take it to service center .
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Hmmmm... I'm not an expert, but I'm quite sure that magnets don't 'corrupt ' or permanently damage the screen. As above, by aukhan, service center, I think.
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its the case!
I'm not going to let my galaxy note 8.0 be with a defect because a part of the screen cannot be detected by the s-pen. After reading this thread I noticed that the part of the screen that does not work with the s-pen is where the magnet is on my case. After I removed the case, the s-pen worked perfectly.
Thanks to this thread it has spared me from lining up at the Samsung service center though I'm now off to get me a new case.

yellowcurve said:
I'm not going to let my galaxy note 8.0 be with a defect because a part of the screen cannot be detected by the s-pen. After reading this thread I noticed that the part of the screen that does not work with the s-pen is where the magnet is on my case. After I removed the case, the s-pen worked perfectly.
Thanks to this thread it has spared me from lining up at the Samsung service center though I'm now off to get me a new case.
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The same thing happened to me. Thanks for making this thread:good:
Sorry about your problem thread starter, hope you get it fixed.

hi )
Could you solve your problem ? coz also now I have the same problem indeed :/
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MohElShafei said:
Dear All,
Lately I'm experiencing a strange issue with my mobile. The S-Pen just stopped working. I thought at the beginning that the S-Pend is defected, but after trying it in a different Note 2 devices it worked fine. Now, the problem is in the screen, it does not recognize this Spend and neither other pens I tried on it. I have a screen protector, but the S-Pen was working fine on it before. What do you this is the reason behind this strange action??
Thanks a lot
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Could you solve your problem ? coz also now I have the same problem indeed :/
tnx in advance.
Umut.
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MohElShafei said:
Dear All,
Lately I'm experiencing a strange issue with my mobile. The S-Pen just stopped working. I thought at the beginning that the S-Pend is defected, but after trying it in a different Note 2 devices it worked fine. Now, the problem is in the screen, it does not recognize this Spend and neither other pens I tried on it. I have a screen protector, but the S-Pen was working fine on it before. What do you this is the reason behind this strange action??
Thanks a lot
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Could you solve your problem ? coz also now I have the same problem indeed :/
tnx in advance,
Umut.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy Note2 screen freeze issue.

Hi everyone. Got samsung galaxy note 2 and i dont know whats happened but i am not able to turn on my device anymore. I just see white screen with grey lines. If trying to make hard restore holding volume up button+meniu+switch on button it doesnt work. I just see same frozen screen but if i hold volume down key+meniu+switch on button the phone goes to downloading mode. Is any ideas how can i fix my phone? Please help Thanks in advance.

Only thing I can say is go to your local Samsung Service Centre and get it checked.
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Phone: N7105 powered by Illusion ROM 2.6
Kernel: Plasma v2.02
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froggy28 said:
Hi everyone. Got samsung galaxy note 2 and i dont know whats happened but i am not able to turn on my device anymore. I just see white screen with grey lines. If trying to make hard restore holding volume up button+meniu+switch on button it doesnt work. I just see same frozen screen but if i hold volume down key+meniu+switch on button the phone goes to downloading mode. Is any ideas how can i fix my phone? Please help Thanks in advance.
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Is it still under warranty?

If your note 2 is not under warranty, I suggest you go to download mode and flash a stock ROM with Odin. If that's not the case you should probably send it back to Samsung, your carrier or whoever you send phones back to . ^^
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Yes, its still under warranty. I will bring my phone to phone repair shop tomorrow and see if somebody can fix it.
I just never flashed any type of ROM to my phone, so scared to make it even worse, but thanks for suggestion anyway

Hopefully you'll get it fixed under your warranty. It doesn't look like it's not the LCD's fault as it seems to be working when you get to download mode. So don't let them rip you off on a new LCD.
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Sudden Death Syndrome
Hi there
This is known as Sudden Death Syndrome, it's caused by a faulty memory chip. My Note2 just came back from repairs for this problem, they replaced the PC board and all seems to be well now.
It will have to go in for repairs.

Hello. How much did you pay for repair or it was under warranty and you had nothing to pay?
Thank you.
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froggy28 said:
Hello. How much did you pay for repair or it was under warranty and you had nothing to pay?
Thank you.
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Luckily it was under warranty so it didn't cost me anything :good:

having the same problems... going Samsung Service Center tomorrow.

i had the same problems, freezing and rebooting in download mode, i was sure i had to throw phone away, then i was almost ready to bring the phone to assistance, but first i decided to try to flash other roms just for fun like aosp, leaked etc and also i reflashed different versions of mj5 bootloader found on different posts many times (now i'm on revhd23)... and... surprise surprise the phone seems reborn... very fast smooth and no freeze, sorry i don't have any explanation for this!