Screen is all black and keeps vibrating, unable to enter recovery
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Suriyan72 said:
Screen is all black and keeps vibrating, unable to enter recovery
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They say you can't help those people who doesnt want to be helped themselves.. you sound like one of those. You spent 20 seconds of your life writing this on the wrong forum.
How about more details on how it got to that state? What did you do?
Didn't do anything phone just rebooted and won't boot up and continues to vibrate
What was the last thing you were doing? We can't help you unless you tell us what you were doing.
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unable to enter download manager or recovery
I second the others. DETAILS MAN. DETAILS. are you rooted? What rom are you on? Gb or ics? Do you have a stock kernel or a custom kernel?
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What was the last thing you were doing? We can't help you unless you tell us what you were doing.
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the last thing I did was play words with friends
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rfail1988 said:
And just to be clear... Are you saying your phone wont boot, or just wont enter recovery mode?
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rooted on darkside ucle beta 7 and it wont boot up or enter recovery. i take the battery out and put it in and the samsung logo shows up and then screen turns black and starts to vibrate
You might be hard bricked unfortunately :-/ someone posted here recently how to unsoftbrick yourself although i didnt read it. It might be your saving grace. Otherwise... See if odin can flash you back to stock. If that doesnt save you then pray that the T mobile gods have mercy on your soul...
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Try going to T-Mobile. I'm sure the retail stores can't check if you're rooted if the phones doesn't boot. Maybe they'll exchange for refurbished.
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Try going to T-Mobile. I'm sure the ratail stores can't check if you're rooted if the phones doesn't boot. Maybe they'll exchange for refurbished.
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cant it shows the darkside boot animation for a little before it goes black and vibrates
Then you might be in luck... If you ge to thr boot animation then try flashing stock recovery then stock rom via odin. I have faith itll work...
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rfail1988 said:
Then you might be in luck... If you ge to thr boot animation then try flashing stock recovery then stock rom via odin. I have faith itll work...
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it wont go into recovery and odin recognizes the phone for about 5 seconds before it reboots and vibrates again.
What procedure are you using to get into download mode?
Odin will work you just have to get to download mode. Unless you really messed up something you should still be able to gert into download mode. The phone should not reboot once in download mode. Try pulling the battery then reinserting it but do not turn on the phone then plug the usb wire into the pc then hold both vol buttons and power and insert the usb right away hold until you see it enter download mode then follow the instuctions on the screen. You press vol up to continue into download mode or vol down to cancel and reboot.
Make sure its not completly dead. If it is then plug it up and dont touch it for about 10-15 minutes.. It will reboot and you should be fine
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mojorisin7178 said:
What procedure are you using to get into download mode?
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pulling out the battery, plugging the usb in, then putting in the battery and holding the volume and power button down, its shows the download screen then reboots
Fly2Deaf said:
Make sure its not completly dead. If it is then plug it up and dont touch it for about 10-15 minutes.. It will reboot and you should be fine
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my phone has been vibrating forever now, probably wont stop until the battery dies out
May sound dumb, but pull out battery and hold power button for 15 seconds? Lol
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i had to put phone back to stock and now i cant get the phone to go into donwload mode by pressing 1 and power button. is there another way to get into download mode?
Thanks in advance,
Pull out battery, press power button with battery out, hold it for a few secs. Put battery back in and download mode should work again.
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Leave the battery out hook it up to the computer and use the pc as the power source and try going into dlmode
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i tried that and still nothing , it just boots up like normal. no download mode.
is there another way to get to the download mode?
tried to use computer as power source on laptop and desktop but no luck any other suggestion/
Are you pressing and holding the 1 key on the keyboard and THEN add pressing and holding the power button? Order is important.
Does your 1 key work?
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1 button seem to work fine when trying to make a call . im lost
You didn't comment on my advice, did you give it a shot? I've semi-bricked my epic and that was what worked for me.
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@Shinydude100 sorry about that yes i tried your way and still nothing. im still lost.
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@Shinydude100 sorry about that yes i tried your way and still nothing. im still lost.
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When you say stock, do you mean el30? And is it rooted at least? Or does it have cwm? Maybe just maybe, but I think some custom roms had the option to go into download mode when you shut it off, if its rooted, perhaps you could install cwm from rom manager, boot up cwm, install a rom that has download mode from reboot, I think cwm from acs might even have reboot to download mode? Not sure on this one, just trying to go out on a limb and help if I can.
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They phone can't reboot with out the battery..
take the battery off...and keep it off for about 10 mins, and then put the battery back in, and try it... i do know this worked for me when i semi-bricked my phone. don't have it plugged in, into anything.
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They phone can't reboot with out the battery..
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Hold 1 (with the phone off)
Keep holding and start holding power
Bam
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I flashed a superwipe on my phone and then i dropped the phone and battery fell out now phone just stays stuck loading old rom but does nothing else . is there a way to fix this or am i ****ed? plz help !!!
Can you get into recovery?
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no i cant
You can still get to ddownload mode. Hold power + volume up and down and plug in USB cable quick. Once you're in download mode use Odin and flash to stock
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how about download mode? Try to odin back to stock and start over.
i downloaded the stock files but cant figure out how to extract it and be able to get it on odin... sry im a newbie
i cant put it into download mode either
First put the files on the desktop so you can find it easily then open odin and go to PDA press it it will ask for a file go to the desktop and select the file. Next thing is shut your phone off take out the battery then replace it then plug the usb cable into the pc. After that then do as instructerd above hold down vol up and down and power and right away plug in the usb to the phone then follow the instructions on the screen. You should be in download mode. Once that is done your phone should register in odin you should see a yellow box with a com# then you are good to go. DO NOT CHECK ANYTHING IN ODIN ONLY WHAT I SAID ABOVE. make sure the file is there and press start let it do its thing it should take about 5 minutes or so depending on your pc. Good luck let me know how it goes
newtotheworld said:
I flashed a superwipe on my phone and then i dropped the phone and battery fell out now phone just stays stuck loading old rom but does nothing else . is there a way to fix this or am i ****ed? plz help !!!
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There you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
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I bet you don't know how to get into CWM.
pull battery
Hold volume up, down, and power at the same time
when samsung logo appears, release only the power button and stay holding the volume buttons until CWM appears
xcrazydx said:
I bet you don't know how to get into CWM.
pull battery
Hold volume up, down, and power at the same time
when samsung logo appears, release only the power button and stay holding the volume buttons until CWM appears
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I bet it will too! I've never not been able to get into CWM. This phone is very user friendly.
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thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
newtotheworld said:
thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
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congrats, much better than having an expensive paperweight.
newtotheworld said:
thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
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it would be helpful for future reference for others to share your solution. But i'm thinking that it was just that you didn't know how to put it into recovery properly lol
Questions go in the Q&A section
So I just flashed the stock image through Odin (used the USB cable that came with the phone) and it boots past the boot animation(the T-Mobile 4g one) and then just hangs on "SAMSUNG" and it's still glowing and so is the notification LED but it won't boot, it just stays there. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this thing going? Is this a brick? I don't know what is wrong with it.
I believe It is hanging on the kernel (panic.... not you, the phone). Have you tried booting into recovery and wiping cache? (volume up + home button during hard reset)
Edit: Also what are you flashing from (i.e. CM, AOKP, TW custom ROM)?
if you were on a custom rom prior to reverting to stock, you need to do a wipe in recovery
Serious_Beans said:
So I just flashed the stock image through Odin (used the USB cable that came with the phone) and it boots past the boot animation(the T-Mobile 4g one) and then just hangs on "SAMSUNG" and it's still glowing and so is the notification LED but it won't boot, it just stays there. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this thing going? Is this a brick? I don't know what is wrong with it.
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It took mine a very long time to boot after odin stock flash. But i dont think your screwed since it still powers on. Can you still get into download mode? Try to flash it again and see what happens.
Go into stock recovery and do a factory reset. Then reboot, that should do the trick.
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sswb27 said:
It took mine a very long time to boot after odin stock flash. But i dont think your screwed since it still powers on. Can you still get into download mode? Try to flash it again and see what happens.
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OK, I am sure I am going to get blasted for putting this on the wrong thread but I have search!
Ran the boot program through ODIN on the Sprint version SPH-L710 and phone will not reboot now and cannot power on
toolkit says waiting for device
get the battery, Samsung and download screen briefly then it dies,
Afraid that I bricked it!
Any help would be appreciated!
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OK, I am sure I am going to get blasted for putting this on the wrong thread but I have search!
Ran the boot program through ODIN on the Sprint version SPH-L710 and phone will not reboot now and cannot power on
toolkit says waiting for device
get the battery, Samsung and download screen briefly then it dies,
Afraid that I bricked it!
Any help would be appreciated!
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Take out battery, unplug from computer, press and hold volume keys, plug in cable and insert battery again.
See if it goes into download mode.
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ThC23 said:
Take out battery, unplug from computer, press and hold volume keys, plug in cable and insert battery again.
See if it goes into download mode.
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red light does come on in the left
then battery symbol flash for a minute and nothing else
I ran into this exact same issue. I tried flashing kernal and everything after I did odin. What I had to do in order for my phone to boot was boot into recovery and do a factory reset. Keep in mind this was stock recovery so everything on your sd card will be gone after the wipe.
crash822 said:
I ran into this exact same issue. I tried flashing kernal and everything after I did odin. What I had to do in order for my phone to boot was boot into recovery and do a factory reset. Keep in mind this was stock recovery so everything on your sd card will be gone after the wipe.
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Yes, wish I could boot into recovery but it will not even boot into recovery. Not sure if is a soft brick cannot load a screen regardless
Volume down + home screen + power button doesn't work for download mode? If you're screen is still powering on and showing the battery charging icon and samsung logo you haven't bricked your phone. I know on previous phones I have had that even though it showed nothing but a black screen odin still picked the phone up and was able to flash it.
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Volume down + home screen + power button doesn't work for download mode? If you're screen is still powering on and showing the battery charging icon and samsung logo you haven't bricked your phone. I know on previous phones I have had that even though it showed nothing but a black screen odin still picked the phone up and was able to flash it.
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No, Volume down+home screen+power button only produces the Samsung or the Battery symbol for about a second, goes away and nothing else after that but a black screen, ODIN does not see the phone as it is not powered on, hope that makes sense
Factory reset worked perfectly. Too bad T-Mobile already shipped the replacement.
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Johnny Blaze says ________?
I can't believe you called T-Mo for a replacement before performing a simple factory reset. Talk about a waste of money. As a future business owner this upsets me.
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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Serious_Beans said:
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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Well, if you're gonna play the system, might as well use your old phone to help us diagnose the imei lost problem and help the community. If you feel like helping us out, get ahold of lordmorphus or someone closely involved in this situation to have you run a few tests so we can figure this thing out. Ill be your bestest friend if you do
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Well, if you're gonna play the system, might as well use your old phone to help us diagnose the imei lost problem and help the community. If you feel like helping us out, get ahold of lordmorphus or someone closely involved in this situation to have you run a few tests so we can figure this thing out. Ill be your bestest friend if you do
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Sure I'll pm him and see what we can do.
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I pmed him. I'll see what we can do when he responds.
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Serious_Beans said:
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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I can care less about exchanging the phone, but you did get a reply here of what to do.
What was the point of asking if you weren't gonna bother listening??
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Oh, Sh*t, I think I just bricked my phone - same thing happened. It now won't even allow me to boot. I took the battery out, unplugged the USB. Plugged the USB in and then put the battery back in. The LED light comes on for about 30 seconds and then goes off and stays OFF. I've tried POWER+UP/DOWN volume and HOME...still no avail.
The computer does recognize [the phone] when I plug it in by making a thumping sound and then it makes a few thumping sounds and then that's it.
PLEASE HELP!
First of all, I apologize if this has been asked before, I've been searching for info on this but I haven't found anything regarding to exactly what happened to my phone. Anyways I had my phone charging in my bed today for a while and when I look at it, it had the Samsung logo in the display, I waited a bit to see what it would do and it did nothing. I decided to take the battery off and back on, and it rebooted normally but again would stay at the Samsung logo screen, did this a couple of times and then tried to get it into recovery mode but with no luck. The phone brought up the Team Win logo when I did this since my note is rooted but then rebooted into the same process and stayed in the Samsung logo again; gave it another try and this time it did the same thing with the Team Win logo but now it just turned itself off. Now the phone won't boot at all and I have no idea what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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First of all, I apologize if this has been asked before, I've been searching for info on this but I haven't found anything regarding to exactly what happened to my phone. Anyways I had my phone charging in my bed today for a while and when I look at it, it had the Samsung logo in the display, I waited a bit to see what it would do and it did nothing. I decided to take the battery off and back on, and it rebooted normally but again would stay at the Samsung logo screen, did this a couple of times and then tried to get it into recovery mode but with no luck. The phone brought up the Team Win logo when I did this since my note is rooted but then rebooted into the same process and stayed in the Samsung logo again; gave it another try and this time it did the same thing with the Team Win logo but now it just turned itself off. Now the phone won't boot at all and I have no idea what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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If you can't boot to recovery try rebooting your device to download mode and flash rom via Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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jon3sh said:
If you can't boot to recovery try rebooting your device to download mode and flash rom via Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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How do I do this exactly? The phone doesn't turn on at all.
To get Ino download mode pull the battery and put it back in, then hold volume down + home + power buttons and that should take you to download.
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To get Ino download mode pull the battery and put it back in, then hold volume down + home + power buttons and that should take you to download.
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Ok, thanks for the reply. I'll try it and see if I manage to do something.
Be careful...and read every step...
You can get into trouble very quickly with Odin and file flashing...g
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Ok so I tried putting the phone into downloading mode but it did nothing. The phone doesn't turn on at all, it behaves like if I tried flashing the ROM and it went wrong. I'm guessing what's wrong is the bootloader for some reason, the phone blinks a red light whenever I try to power it, any other suggestions?
I was running the 08/20 nightly of CM10.2 and I was typing a SMS in the CM 10.2 default app, then the screen went black. I left it there for sometime (~25 min) then tried to turn the screen on before doing a battery pull, didn't work, so I pulled the battery and then rebooted but it goes to the samsung screen then goes black. I can't boot a ROM, I can't go into recovery, and I can't go into download mode. Hard bricked? What are my choices.
EDIT: the battery is charged because I was able to boot my step dad's VZW sIII using my battery.
Sounds like a hard brick. I think a USB jig might work.
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Sounds like a hard brick. I think a USB jig might work.
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Do you mean "USB jig" or JTAG? To my understanding USB jigs only worked on the sII, but that's just my understanding, which could be wrong.
Did you try this method?-click here
@jamcar If your phone turns on and you get Samsung screen it is NOT BRICKED.
A bricked device does not even turn on.
Hook your phone up to a computer and use odin to flash it back to stock. Or if you can boot into recovery just wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset and reflash the rom you are on.
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edfunkycold said:
@jamcar If your phone turns on and you get Samsung screen it is NOT BRICKED.
A bricked device does not even turn on.
Hook your phone up to a computer and use odin to flash it back to stock. Or if you can boot into recovery just wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset and reflash the rom you are on.
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I can't get past the first screen that says: SAMSUNG. I can't get into recovery, I can't get into download mode (which means I can't flash a new ROM and can't use ODIN), and can't boot my ROM.
jamcar said:
Do you mean "USB jig" or JTAG? To my understanding USB jigs only worked on the sII, but that's just my understanding, which could be wrong.
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I thought I saw some people
using them on the s3 to get into Download mode. I heard some had worked.
edfunkycold said:
@jamcar If your phone turns on and you get Samsung screen it is NOT BRICKED.
A bricked device does not even turn on.
Hook your phone up to a computer and use odin to flash it back to stock. Or if you can boot into recovery just wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset and reflash the rom you are on.
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He said he couldn't get into recovery. Sounds like somehow his system and recovery got corrupted.
Edit: ALTHOUGH he did say hook it up to a computer then try booting it up!
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Ed is right, I done this for a friend who recently thought he bricked his phone.
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Did you try this method?-click here
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I have not, I'll start working on that now.
@joeyhdownsouth so far it is a no go.
But I also don't have a class 10 SD card, so I'll try again when I can get one, hopefully tomorrow. Anyone know why this happened?
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I have not, I'll start working on that now.
@joeyhdownsouth so far it is a no go.
But I also don't have a class 10 SD card, so I'll try again when I can get one, hopefully tomorrow. Anyone know why this happened?
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I've had plenty of Samsung phones in some pretty bad states (including several hard bricks). Some very similar to your current situation. This includes the s2, s3, note 2, stellar and that's just naming a few. I've never had a phone that booted in any way shape or form and couldn't reach download mode. So if you're situation is as you describe then I'm pretty sure it's a first. Unless it's some sort of corruption (similar to the emmc brickbug that plauged the s2). Maybe even a less severe case of SDS. Just throwing some ideas out there but I bet this ends in needing a warranty repair from Samsung.
@jamcar How are you trying to boot into recovery the 3 finger method? Again I stand solidly on if the phone powers on and you see Samsung it's not bricked. You have other things going on but going through deBricker method is not the answer.
If your phone is powering on and you see Samsung logo then it goes black like it shut off you could be also experiencing the 'sudden death syndrome' which is a power button failure.
Try blowing some compressed air and paying with the power button. It is a known defect on the S3 and Sprint does replace the phone for this issue.
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@jamcar How are you trying to boot into recovery the 3 finger method? Again I stand solidly on if the phone powers on and you see Samsung it's not bricked. You have other things going on but going through deBricker method is not the answer.
If your phone is powering on and you see Samsung logo then it goes black like it shut off you could be also experiencing the 'sudden death syndrome' which is a power button failure.
Try blowing some compressed air and paying with the power button. It is a known defect on the S3 and Sprint does replace the phone for this issue.
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I'm trying to boot into recovery by holding down power+vol up+home then in the corner I see "RECOVERY BOOTING..." then the screen goes black and nothing else happens. I try to go into download mode by holding power+vol down+home, I then get the custom OS warning sign, then if I push vol up the screen goes black, if I push vol down the screen goes black. This is with and without deBricker's SD card mod. (It has no affect).
EDIT: I have been looking into SDS for the sIII and most, if not all, threads are for the international sIII and most people say they fixed it by going through Samsung.
EDIT: if they [Samsung] some how get it into download mode, are they going to care that it looks modified? Custom download count (around 5), modified system status, etc.
If it works at all its not a hard brick. A hard brick needs a JTAG to recovery. Put it in Odin mode and flash from there
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IDontKnowMang said:
If it works at all its not a hard brick. A hard brick needs a JTAG to recovery. Put it in Odin mode and flash from there
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ODIN mode is really called download mode, and if you read the post above yours and the OP then you'll see I can't get into download mode only the Custom OS Warning screen, which isn't download mode
You can't continue from the custom OS warning screen? That leads you to download mode doesn't it?
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You can't continue from the custom OS warning screen? That leads you to download mode doesn't it?
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Usually but no matter what button I hit (vol up to continue into download mode---vol down to reboot) I just get a black screen. Every once in awhile (it has happened twice and I've tried many many times [~50+]) the Green android comes and it say "downloading..." but then the screen goes black and it is never seen by my computer / ODIN.
EDIT: the android comes up a for a spit second
Correct that's because his device is shutting down. The power button is bad. SDS... I sent you a reply to your PM. Worth a shot.
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Okay I'll try Sprint then Samsung.
That explains why. You should definitely follow edfunkycold's suggestions.
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Correct that's because his device is shutting down. The power button is bad. SDS... I sent you a reply to your PM. Worth a shot.
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You say it is the power button other people say it is the eMMC. Which is it? I'm only trying to understand this SDS problem better.