[Q] Can pulling the battery cause a brick? - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

I was playing around with my phone and pulled the battery. Tried to reboot and nothing happens. When I plug it into the computer I hear the connected usb sound but nothing happens? Any suggestions? Bricked?

TheTechNiq said:
I was playing around with my phone and pulled the battery. Tried to reboot and nothing happens. When I plug it into the computer I hear the connected usb sound but nothing happens? Any suggestions? Bricked?
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what were you doing when you pulled the battery?.. if you were just using your phone normally, and pulled the battery then i seriously doubt your phone is bricked because of it.. I pull my battery all the time..

This in no way shape or form cause your phone to brick. I believe that either your phone is about to die or it simply froze. Try taking the battery out, leave it out for 15 seconds insert it back in and let it turn on. If your using a custom rom, that might be the problem. That means there is a defect with the rom.

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This in no way shape or form cause your phone to brick. I believe that either your phone is about to die or it simply froze. Try taking the battery out, leave it out for 15 seconds insert it back in and let it turn on. If your using a custom rom, that might be the problem. That means there is a defect with the rom.
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probably not a good thing to do in the middle of a flash though..

Must've been a defect in a custom rom. I flashed it and it was up and running for 15 min. Decided to pull battery and boom. What would be wrong in the custom rom for it to boot succesfully. Let me play around and then not start up again?

TheTechNiq said:
Must've been a defect in a custom rom. I flashed it and it was up and running for 15 min. Decided to pull battery and boom. What would be wrong in the custom rom for it to boot succesfully. Let me play around and then not start up again?
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Well if the phone was working, chances are that your phone is recoverable... But there are those times when phones just died.... But not from a battery pull... Just died and not turning on type of deal. Oh and you should just leave your battery out for like 5 minutes as opposed to 15 seconds. I know that worked for me when i had the amaze.
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Umm ive done that more than five times and got the same trouble but just do the button combination to get to cwm.. i did that and i always got in it... not sire if it was luck or nor but try it and if u get to it just factory reset dalvik cache bla bla... again... it worked for me somehow
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Bricked?

Pretty sure it is. From a battery pull, phone will not power up. After pressing the power button the phone will vibrate once after a few seconds, but nothing else. Attempting to boot into the bootloader (power+volume down) does absolutely nothing. Any suggestions?
Pull the battery then plug it into the charger and let it charge for about an hour then try to turn it on.
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james873 said:
Pull the battery then plug it into the charger and let it charge for about an hour then try to turn it on.
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It's not due to a drained/dead battery. I should have mentioned I already ruled that out. I did just that, plus tested with a spare battery. No change.
misery in motion said:
It's not due to a drained/dead battery. I should have mentioned I already ruled that out. I did just that, plus tested with a spare battery. No change.
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Dang sorry to hear it misery. What exactly did you do to brick it, if you dont mind me asking.
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I'm happy to report I've successfully unbricked my phone. For those curious about the actions I took, continue reading.
First off, what caused my phone to behave the way it did is beyond me. I had a hunch the phone was powering up and booting though as it was giving me that vibrate.
Here's what I did. Pulled the battery and let it sit for 5 min. Reinserted the battery and connected the phone to my computer. It gave me the charge indicator LED. I pressed the power button and let sit for about another 5 minutes. No indication from the phone that anything was happening mind you.
I ran a RUU to see if it saw the phone. Low and behold it did. The phone still appeared dead. I let the RUU run and do it's thing. After completion my phone successfully rebooted and loaded up just fine.
Although I do not know what caused the anomaly, I suspect firmware corruption/malfunction.
Anyway, all seems to be well now.
*phew*

[Q] What the hell just happened??

So I'm watching tv, and I plug in my phone to charge it a bit because the GPS had gotten stuck on this morning and I burned my battery down to 40%. All of a sudden I hear it buzzing over and over again...like a reboot loop.
So I pull it out of the charger, pull the battery and let it try to boot. Gives the samsung screen for a moment, then flickers, and again to the reboot loop. Holding down power for 10 sec makes it do the same thing, I can't force it into recovery or DL mode without it bootlooping either! At one point I was able to get to the download mode screen, but just 3 seconds and the screen goes black, and back to bootlooping.
I literally did nothing to it. Only thing I did different today was the GPS got stuck (which it has done before), I rebooted the phone, then when it booted again I went ahead and just shut off the GPS. But this was like 20 minutes before this started happening.
So what can I do? Right now its plugged into my computer charging while off, seems to be the only thing it can do without bootlooping.
Running CM9.1 Nightly 9/3 with included kernel and LC8 radio (I think)
zander21510 said:
So I'm watching tv, and I plug in my phone to charge it a bit because the GPS had gotten stuck on this morning and I burned my battery down to 40%. All of a sudden I hear it buzzing over and over again...like a reboot loop.
So I pull it out of the charger, pull the battery and let it try to boot. Gives the samsung screen for a moment, then flickers, and again to the reboot loop. Holding down power for 10 sec makes it do the same thing, I can't force it into recovery or DL mode without it bootlooping either! At one point I was able to get to the download mode screen, but just 3 seconds and the screen goes black, and back to bootlooping.
I literally did nothing to it. Only thing I did different today was the GPS got stuck (which it has done before), I rebooted the phone, then when it booted again I went ahead and just shut off the GPS. But this was like 20 minutes before this started happening.
So what can I do? Right now its plugged into my computer charging while off, seems to be the only thing it can do without bootlooping.
Running CM9.1 Nightly 9/3 with included kernel and LC8 radio (I think)
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My first guess is your battery is shot. i was gonna recommend the power button failure but if its staying off it might not be that. but id let it charge fully then try to boot up.
Thanks, oddly after a bit of messing around finally got it to boot up. Immediately backed up in CWM....seems to be acting OK now. Idk what happened...
i'll guess, the USB connector got short-circuited when you plugged in, and it caused a cascade failure that fried the SD card or something else inside the phone
there was a factory defect back then with the old SGS 1 (i9000m) model, they fixed that after the 3rd batch, everyone with an old phone from 1st and 2nd release batches, were able to exchange i for a new one.
however in your case, that's not a factory defect, but you plugged it wrong (my guess)
because it has happened to me before when i plugged it in, but the battery was still not charging even after several minutes, yet the phone was getting really really hot
then i unplug, and plug it back in and got the sound feedback "tuu tuud" and then it was actually charging after a few minutes
the first time around even though the charging icon changed, there was no feed back sound, and that was the key, it was not plugged in properly.
so after that time, i always made sure to verify to make sure the phone was plugged in properly and not just relay on he visual icon.
check back after a few minutes, to make sure the phone doesn't get very hot, and it actually increased 1%
It happened again today! After a full charge overnight and no problems for the day up to a little while ago, I opened my email app, it froze, then proceeded to start boot looping. I'm in class so I don't have my computer to try to bring it out of it...so yeah that sucks...
I do remember when I got it to charge yesterday it showed it was charging for 20-30 minutes, but after I "revived" it, I found it hadn't charged at all.
I have been using a Nokia USB cable to charge my phone since I got it, because it was longer than the cheapie Samsung cable that came with it...but it hasn't ever caused problems before. And it charged just fine last night.
How long is the warranty on these things thru tmobile? I may just swap it out while I still can.
Also on an unrelated note, I upgraded to the LG3 radio because I was meaning to anyways...
I pulled it out of it again! This time I held the power button while putting the battery in, when it vibrated I let go, it vibrated again, showed the Samsung logo, and then booted like normal
May I ask what rom are you currently on?
datrapstar said:
May I ask what rom are you currently on?
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CM9.1 nightly 9/3 with included kernel
It did it a third time during class while it was in my pocket, the power button trick didn't work this time, I had to pull the battery after the samsung logo, plugging it back in to get it to boot...but...
near the end of the CM9 boot animation, when it vibrates and the auto brightness kicks in, it started it again! I have yet to revive it...
This is a bit upsetting because I had just got CM9 the way I liked it and I don't exactly have the time right now to mess with warranty and a new phone...I would like to fix it.
There are about 20 different threads on here on how to revert to stock...let me as a last ditch try to revert to stock and see if it keeps doing it...unless somebody has any ideas...
I was working in recovery mode, i super-wiped my phone to see if installing a ROM from scratch would help, and my phone even does it in recovery mode. Warranty time.
So whats the fastest way to restore to stock? Who knows how long I will have after reviving it before it breaks again.
zander21510 said:
I was working in recovery mode, i super-wiped my phone to see if installing a ROM from scratch would help, and my phone even does it in recovery mode. Warranty time.
So whats the fastest way to restore to stock? Who knows how long I will have after reviving it before it breaks again.
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Here you go!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30832325
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Well, finished playing stupid for T-Mobile, in two weeks I will have my replacement T989. Now all that's left is returning this thing to stock before it starts acting up again.
And my temporary replacement phone?
HTC Dream, aka the G1, the first Android phone! Lol what a difference...GB feels like a dinosaur...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash. Could try the last 3 pages on this thread. That will help you go back to stock without an issue. Hell might make you wanna keep your phone if you can get it to work again.. good luck
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datrapstar said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash. Could try the last 3 pages on this thread. That will help you go back to stock without an issue. Hell might make you wanna keep your phone if you can get it to work again.. good luck
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Thanks! got it all done, back to ugly, ugly stock lol...and just when I thought maybe I would have to brick it myself it did the reboot thing again...so pulled the battery and there it sits factory reset.

[Fixed]

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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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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Phone died?

Hello everyone.
I have been using Tasks ROM for a while now. Last night my phone had a random reboot and other than that, no troubles.
Well about 20 minutes ago, my phone just turned off and will NOT come back on at all. I have done nothing different, cant get in to get a logcat or lastkmsg. It will not even boot up to the samsung screen.
It will vibrate when I plug it in or take out the battery and reput it in.
The only response I am getting is taking everything out (batter/sim/sd) and plugging it into my comp. The response is a Red light in the notification LED and a short vibrate, then nothing.
I get a Samsung logo if I just pull battery and reinsert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
So you can't get into CWM or TWRP? And what Galaxy S3 Variant are you using?
axel4401 said:
Hello everyone.
I have been using Tasks ROM for a while now. Last night my phone had a random reboot and other than that, no troubles.
Well about 20 minutes ago, my phone just turned off and will NOT come back on at all. I have done nothing different, cant get in to get a logcat or lastkmsg. It will not even boot up to the samsung screen.
It will vibrate when I plug it in or take out the battery and reput it in.
The only response I am getting is taking everything out (batter/sim/sd) and plugging it into my comp. The response is a Red light in the notification LED and a short vibrate, then nothing.
I get a Samsung logo if I just pull battery and reinsert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ii it possible you may have a bad battery? How new is it?(not that age of it matters) Also, do you have a case on the phone? Check to make sure the power button is not stuck. If you can get to boot logo, then its not dead-dead. If you've had your phone for awhile, double check the battery terminals are not oxidized. Unlikley, but worth checking and maybe check battery wih voltage meter if you have access to one. Then charge it overnight and check it again. One last thing to try is plug it in with the battery out and see if that does anything. Have you flashed anything lately? Modem? Scripts?
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I have taken the battery out and plugged the phone straight into the computer and all that i get is a red light where the notification light is and then it disappears.
As for age, its a little over a year old.
I wasnt doing any flashing at the time, it just went kaput right after a phone call.
I had a mophie case on it, but not right now. I guess ill take it a part when i can and throw som alcohol on the battery button to see if it loosens it up. But other than that, I'm at a loss.
Not trying to pay $80 for a craigslister either.
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axel4401 said:
Hello everyone.
I have been using Tasks ROM for a while now. Last night my phone had a random reboot and other than that, no troubles.
Well about 20 minutes ago, my phone just turned off and will NOT come back on at all. I have done nothing different, cant get in to get a logcat or lastkmsg. It will not even boot up to the samsung screen.
It will vibrate when I plug it in or take out the battery and reput it in.
The only response I am getting is taking everything out (batter/sim/sd) and plugging it into my comp. The response is a Red light in the notification LED and a short vibrate, then nothing.
I get a Samsung logo if I just pull battery and reinsert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ii it possible you may have a bad battery? How new is it?(not that age of it matters) Also, do you have a case on the phone? Check to make sure the power button is not stuck. If you can get to boot logo, then its not dead-dead. If you've had your phone for awhile, double check the battery terminals are not oxidized. Unlikley, but worth checking and maybe check battery wih voltage meter if you have access to one. Then charge it overnight and check it again. One last thing to try is plug it in with the battery out and see if that does anything. Have you flashed anything lately? Modem? Scripts?
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Man, I don't know. Sounded like a charging issue at first, but looking I'm not so sure now. Anything stuck in your power slot? Maybe try leaving battery out overnight and see if it clears anything. If it starts to boot I would go right to recovery and try flashing something. I would be concernedabout going straight to download mode and using oOdin cause of it does during the flash that is really bad...
Can you get into download mode? Pull battery plug in USB and hold volume down and home buttons I think... when you plug USB in to computer does Odin recognize it at all?
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I just started having the same issue. I have a an ATT S3 running the newest Hyperdrive. Mine wasnt doing a random reset, but it seemed like it has been turning itself off. Totally intermittent, i couldnt pinpoint the cause.
Then just today when i went to see if i had any messages and the phone was off again (i had about a 60-75% charge) I hit the power button a few times and now i am getting the symptoms described above.
When i try to go into TWRP, i get the blue text at the top left of the screen, sometimes i make it to the first hyperdrive screen, then it goes black.
When I go to download I can get to the hit up or down screen, i hit up to go into download, i get to the next screen then it goes black again.
I did leave the battery out for about 15minutes and no dice. I even tried to leave it on the charger thinking i lost all charge or something.
I am just a mere user, but i have always been able to tinker around enough not to bother the devs and get my way out of these situations, but I think i am stuck. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
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I just started having the same issue. I have a an ATT S3 running the newest Hyperdrive. Mine wasnt doing a random reset, but it seemed like it has been turning itself off. Totally intermittent, i couldnt pinpoint the cause.
Then just today when i went to see if i had any messages and the phone was off again (i had about a 60-75% charge) I hit the power button a few times and now i am getting the symptoms described above.
When i try to go into TWRP, i get the blue text at the top left of the screen, sometimes i make it to the first hyperdrive screen, then it goes black.
When I go to download I can get to the hit up or down screen, i hit up to go into download, i get to the next screen then it goes black again.
I did leave the battery out for about 15minutes and no dice. I even tried to leave it on the charger thinking i lost all charge or something.
I am just a mere user, but i have always been able to tinker around enough not to bother the devs and get my way out of these situations, but I think i am stuck. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
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Maybe a stuck power button? Try cleaning it out a little. .. sounds like it's rebooting itself.
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Maybe a stuck power button? Try cleaning it out a little. .. sounds like it's rebooting itself.
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I am trying that, it doesn't seem like there is anything in there, but you never know.
If the power button was stuck on, wouldn't the phone keep trying to restart? Or no?
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I am trying that, it doesn't seem like there is anything in there, but you never know.
If the power button was stuck on, wouldn't the phone keep trying to restart? Or no?
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I believe so, unless you pull the battery. In fact pull battery plug into usb and go into down load mode and see if it restarts. Or go into recovery without holding power button, and if you can then that means the power button is stuck on.
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I believe so, unless you pull the battery. In fact pull battery plug into usb and go into down load mode and see if it restarts. Or go into recovery without holding power button, and if you can then that means the power button is stuck on.
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I have tried that as well. Whenever it goes into download mode the screen goes black after a couple of seconds. And it doesn't boot into recovery as well since it seems to go dead too quick.
I mainly just want to recover my pictures at this point. I am leaving the battery out of the phone for the day and see if that makes a difference this evening.
I am out of ideas, lol
nightwulfss said:
I have tried that as well. Whenever it goes into download mode the screen goes black after a couple of seconds. And it doesn't boot into recovery as well since it seems to go dead too quick.
I mainly just want to recover my pictures at this point. I am leaving the battery out of the phone for the day and see if that makes a difference this evening.
I am out of ideas, lol
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Take the six acres it and open her up, Take out button off and clean it and where it goes.
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Take the six acres it and open her up, Take out button off and clean it and where it goes.
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Pretty sure the flex cable on you're power button is not working as intended, could be a short from a rain drop or just everyday wear and tear another issue could be that the battery is fried and can't hold a charge, but this seems unlikely given you're circumstance.
I always tell people to utilize pie controls to save you're everyday use from wearing out our precious hardware buttons, My power and home only get pressed to wake the device, everything else is pie control via LMT launcher
That happened to me a few months ago. I was at work when it happened. The phone would just continually restart, vibrate, restart, back and forth. I ended up taking the battery out so it wouldn't get drained. Had it out for about four hours. Once I got home, I put it back in and never had any more problems. It was just a random thing, so try keeping the battery out for a while.
I'll keep my fingers crossed. I took the phone apart last night to clean it out and it was pretty spotless. But It keeps shutting off after trying to boot after a few seconds. I just hope I can get to a point where I can get my pictures off of it now.
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I'll keep my fingers crossed. I took the phone apart last night to clean it out and it was pretty spotless. But It keeps shutting off after trying to boot after a few seconds. I just hope I can get to a point where I can get my pictures off of it now.
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Hello all, as an update, I did nothing to my S3 over the weekend haping something magical could happen.
Today I went through all the normal steps again, and still a dead soldier. Now it wont ever SHow the Samsung logo however - just a short vibrate then nothing..
Still get a red light and a short vibrate when plugging into the comp without battery in though.
I have NOT taken it apart yet, but I will tonight most likely.
Thanks for all the suggestions and Ill keep this updated.
axel4401 said:
Hello all, as an update, I did nothing to my S3 over the weekend haping something magical could happen.
Today I went through all the normal steps again, and still a dead soldier. Now it wont ever SHow the Samsung logo however - just a short vibrate then nothing..
Still get a red light and a short vibrate when plugging into the comp without battery in though.
I have NOT taken it apart yet, but I will tonight most likely.
Thanks for all the suggestions and Ill keep this updated.
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Hello again,
Some news, I am able to get it into download mode for about 1 second then the phone shuts off - just like the other person in this thread with the same issue.
I took the phone apart and used a Qtip with 91% isopropyl Alcohol to try and clean the power button (which looks surprisingly clean). Still the same thing happening.
I'm running out of ideas here, so please chime in if you have any.
Thanks
axel4401 said:
Hello again,
Some news, I am able to get it into download mode for about 1 second then the phone shuts off - just like the other person in this thread with the same issue.
I took the phone apart and used a Qtip with 91% isopropyl Alcohol to try and clean the power button (which looks surprisingly clean). Still the same thing happening.
I'm running out of ideas here, so please chime in if you have any.
Thanks
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I was going to try the alcohol tonight, but I am afraid that I will have same results. I am going to try a new battery from another s3 tomorrow. I will post the results.
nightwulfss said:
I was going to try the alcohol tonight, but I am afraid that I will have same results. I am going to try a new battery from another s3 tomorrow. I will post the results.
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Final update (hopefully)
I got the qtip and scrubbed anything to do with the battery, pressed the power button, got more alcohol in by the button (not a lot) scrubbed some more terminals, and the battery terminals, etc. waited about ten minutes and put the battery in...
Low and behold, something worked and now the phone comes on.
I dont know which part of the scrubbing actually did it, but something worked.
All in all I have no idea what actually fixed it, but the point is that it works.
Thank you for who those that insisted that it was a power button issue - you were most likely right.
So here are my results as of today, and what I have tried to get to this point:
After my S3 died and wouldn't boot up into recovery i tried cleaning all the internals with alcohol. I cleaned thoroughly, and focused on the charging port, the power switch and battery terminals. The phone acted exactly the same.
I then tried putting it in a bowl of rice for about 24 hours. I was thinking that it might have been caused by some condensation. No success.
I was thinking since the power would turn on whenever i plugged the battery in, that maybe the switch was stuck. I took it apart again and tested the switch with a multi-meter. The switch seemed fine. It was responding when i pushed it, so i figured that wasn't the problem.
I kept reading that apparently this is an issue with the mother board. I tried the broken PS3 method of heating up the motherboard with a heat gun in hopes to re-seat something that may be loose. This did not work either. After this, I figured i was SOL since I was out of ideas and out of warranty (which didn't really matter anyway since I am running Hyperdrive).
Earlier today I figured the best tool in your toolbox sometimes is a hammer. I started tapping the phone on the side of my table, especially around the power button, while trying to turn it on. It didn't seem like it was doing anything either. I then plugged the phone into the charger since i thought the battery was totally dead.
A few minutes after i walked away from the phone, I came back into room and the red charging light was on. I tried turning it on, and holy cow it works...wtf...
I have no idea what made this work. It could be a complete coincidence. But, this phone has not worked since last Saturday. I just kept messing with it and may have just gotten lucky. I don't think banging your phone will fix this, but if truly was a hardware issue, maybe something in the phones mother board is becoming loose from the extreme heat they endure at times. I know my S3 has gotten pretty hot when I use it to navigate and leave it in the case.
I don't know if any of this will help anyone, but this is my experience so far of my S3 having what I think is the sudden death failure. I will followup with any updates if it decides to act up again.

Phone a goner?

Hi guys, TMO Galaxy S III. I was running Cyanogenmod 10.2.
I was driving home from a road trip to the race track, used GPS on my phone as it was plugged in charging. Turned it off as soon as I got to a familiar place. Put the phone in my pocket after I got home. Pulled it out 30 minutes later and it's turned off.
Efforts to turn it on failed. I plugged it in (even though it had batter left before it died) and nothing happens. No LED, no battery charge graphic, no vibration.
I switched batteries. I switched plugs. Tired to reboot into recovery. Nothing. I can't get Kies to recognize it.
I didn't drop it. No water damage. Any ideas?
If after putting battery back in, and unplugged, you get zero response from pressing power, then yes it sounds like it's dead
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DocHoliday77 said:
If after putting battery back in, and unplugged, you get zero response from pressing power, then yes it sounds like it's dead
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Yup. Zero response. The only way I can get it to do anything, is to pull the battery, then plug in the phone w/ no battery. That gives me a red LED. Nothing else. That's the only sign of any life. No vibration or anything. Just the red LED.
Try a different battery, ?
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Yup. Zero response. The only way I can get it to do anything, is to pull the battery, then plug in the phone w/ no battery. That gives me a red LED. Nothing else. That's the only sign of any life. No vibration or anything. Just the red LED.
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That battery may have died from heat. Navigation while plugged in tends to heat up the phone.
It's unlikely enough that I would not recommend buying a new one just to test though. Maybe go to a T-Mobile store and swap with someone just to test.
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I mentioned in my first post I switched batteries. First tried my wife's battery and it didn't do anything. She tried my battery and her phone booted with 89% life.
Took it to a store and tired a new battery and it didn't work.
My wife just emailed me. Her phone was acting strange, turned itself off once. She booted it back up and it turned itself off again and won't turn back on. SHE AT LEAST gets the "Galaxy SIII" screen. She couldn't get it into recovery mode, but she could get it into download mode. I'll try and flash it tonight.
Samsung is garbage.
Sorry bout the battery thing. A few of us answer so many of these things it sometimes gets mixed up a bit and we will just add to someone else's information, not always rereading each thread...
There is a debrick thread stickied in development you may want to try. Can't guarantee anything of course, but you never know, it could end up fixing one or both of the devices.
On your wife's, take out the battery and then put back in. Wait a few to see if it attempts to turn itself on w/o pressing power.
If it does, then it's probably got a broken power button. This has become a common occurrence recently, but from what I hear is a relatively easy fix.
It may not be this though if she can get download mode to stay booted every time. But it's an easy test.
Also, when plugging into the computer, if it says something like QHSUSB in device manager, it's probably hard bricked. The debrick thread can probably help in this case.
Sorry you're having such issues with both devices. It's not the norm though. If it is a hardware failure, and you got both at the same time, it could be that one of the components may not have been completely up to par for the batch yours came from. That's just speculation though...
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sorry bout the battery thing. A few of us answer so many of these things it sometimes gets mixed up a bit and we will just add to someone else's information, not always rereading each thread...
There is a debrick thread stickied in development you may want to try. Can't guarantee anything of course, but you never know, it could end up fixing one or both of the devices.
On your wife's, take out the battery and then put back in. Wait a few to see if it attempts to turn itself on w/o pressing power.
If it does, then it's probably got a broken power button. This has become a common occurrence recently, but from what I hear is a relatively easy fix.
It may not be this though if she can get download mode to stay booted every time. But it's an easy test.
Also, when plugging into the computer, if it says something like QHSUSB in device manager, it's probably hard bricked. The debrick thread can probably help in this case.
Sorry you're having such issues with both devices. It's not the norm though. If it is a hardware failure, and you got both at the same time, it could be that one of the components may not have been completely up to par for the batch yours came from. That's just speculation though...
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For sure, I know how many times the question comes up. No worries on the battery thing.
Ok, so I was able to get my wife's phone into recovery and wiped dalvik/factory restore. It turned itself off twice over the next 30 min. But at least it boots every time.
Would you guys suggest I use Kies to factory restore? Or if it keeps restarting after factory restore via recovery, is it not going to do any good?
My wife said it's turned itself off 7 times today (over 5 hours). Ohhhh Sammy....
illegal machine said:
For sure, I know how many times the question comes up. No worries on the battery thing.
Ok, so I was able to get my wife's phone into recovery and wiped dalvik/factory restore. It turned itself off twice over the next 30 min. But at least it boots every time.
Would you guys suggest I use Kies to factory restore? Or if it keeps restarting after factory restore via recovery, is it not going to do any good?
My wife said it's turned itself off 7 times today (over 5 hours). Ohhhh Sammy....
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I'd try the Kies to Factory Restore. You've got not much to loose that way. Keep an eye on it afterwards to see if the reboots go away.
But before you do that, can you let me know if wife's phone has its own battery or your phone's battery ? If its was your Battery that was in there when she experienced the reboots then put her own battery and check.
Perseus71 said:
I'd try the Kies to Factory Restore. You've got not much to loose that way. Keep an eye on it afterwards to see if the reboots go away.
But before you do that, can you let me know if wife's phone has its own battery or your phone's battery ? If its was your Battery that was in there when she experienced the reboots then put her own battery and check.
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Soooo on Sunday her phone completely shut off again. It would only boot to the swirling galaxy S circle, the turn itself off (in mid animation). I can boot it into recovery and download mode, but it only stays booted for 3 seconds or so, before turning off. Not long enough for Kies/Odin/factory restore via recovery.
SO we fixed the problem permanently. I got an HTC One and she got a Nexus 5.
Samsung can die in a fire. Never again are they getting my money.
illegal machine said:
Soooo on Sunday her phone completely shut off again. It would only boot to the swirling galaxy S circle, the turn itself off (in mid animation). I can boot it into recovery and download mode, but it only stays booted for 3 seconds or so, before turning off. Not long enough for Kies/Odin/factory restore via recovery.
SO we fixed the problem permanently. I got an HTC One and she got a Nexus 5.
Samsung can die in a fire. Never again are they getting my money.
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You may consider donating the devices to some developer on here. The community will benefit from better code.
illegal machine said:
For sure, I know how many times the question comes up. No worries on the battery thing.
Ok, so I was able to get my wife's phone into recovery and wiped dalvik/factory restore. It turned itself off twice over the next 30 min. But at least it boots every time.
Would you guys suggest I use Kies to factory restore? Or if it keeps restarting after factory restore via recovery, is it not going to do any good?
My wife said it's turned itself off 7 times today (over 5 hours). Ohhhh Sammy....
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Well, I'm glad you solved the issue to your satisfaction. Sorry we weren't able to help in getting it fixed w/o needing to spend your money.
Good luck to the future and your new toys!

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