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My Cingular 8525 just went dead!!!!

OK!!!
I need some help here.
I was talking on my phone, and it all of a sudden went dead.
Thinking it was a battery problem, i immediately plugged in my wall charger and saw that the light indicator was not lite.
I then got another battery from my functioning 8525, and nothing.
But the functioning phone worked after battery switch. So i ruled out dead battery as a cause.
I only did a ROM upgrade two days ago, otherwise the phone functioned without any problems.
I'll try to keep the phone on wall charger to see maybe it'll help but i doubt it.
Anyone else have this type of problem.
I'm currently thinking that it's dead, but i don't understand what could have happened.

Have you tried a Hard Reset?

I did soft reset, and even attempted to do a hardreset. several times. nothing. I see purely a blank screen.
What worries me is that when i plug in the wall charger i do not see any of the green or orange lights turn on.
I'm trying to search if there is any way for me to have someone check the phone out?
If the cost of fixing the phone is any where near 200 dollars then i might as well just buy another phone. Something better.
But any advice i'm willing to try short of dropping it off a roof. caz i know then i'll for sure have a dead phone...

Aren't there ideas like taking battery out and plugging into computer, and stuff like that?
I think I read them somewhere on the xda wiki.

IMO.. you should call at&t tech. they will most likely replace it.. and since they cant turrn it on.. they wont know what you did. anyway its a warranty exchange.. but im not sure of the number for at&t's tech department. good luck and keep us posted

I had the same probs 2 months ago...
No lights when charger was connected, hard/soft reset didnt help at all.
After 5 days of trying and trying i brought it to my provider repair center.
After 1 month of waiting they said it was a level 3 problem (highest). In the first case i was ordered to pay 230 Euro but i didnt agree, 3 days later they agree with no cost and i got a new tytn.
I used XCPUScalar.2007.v3.01 and clocked till 500 mhz.. maybe it burned my cpu..
Well good luck!

kparikh82276 said:
OK!!!
I need some help here.
I was talking on my phone, and it all of a sudden went dead.
Thinking it was a battery problem, i immediately plugged in my wall charger and saw that the light indicator was not lite.
I then got another battery from my functioning 8525, and nothing.
But the functioning phone worked after battery switch. So i ruled out dead battery as a cause.
I only did a ROM upgrade two days ago, otherwise the phone functioned without any problems.
I'll try to keep the phone on wall charger to see maybe it'll help but i doubt it.
Anyone else have this type of problem.
I'm currently thinking that it's dead, but i don't understand what could have happened.
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Now I know why you're not successful at flashing your device with my ROM . Sorry that I misunderstood your message.
You have to send it back for repair.
Sorry, again.

How does that happen?
m0nkm0nk said:
I had the same probs 2 months ago...
No lights when charger was connected, hard/soft reset didnt help at all.
After 5 days of trying and trying i brought it to my provider repair center.
After 1 month of waiting they said it was a level 3 problem (highest). In the first case i was ordered to pay 230 Euro but i didnt agree, 3 days later they agree with no cost and i got a new tytn.
I used XCPUScalar.2007.v3.01 and clocked till 500 mhz.. maybe it burned my cpu..
Well good luck!
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So maybe i might have over clocked my cpu?
I don't know what could have happened.
I do know i installed Schap's 3.60a ROM but i installed it both of my 8525.
So i don't think it was the ROM upgrade that could have caused it.
In the mean time I'm looking into if HTC can help me here. I don't know how this would work.
I purchased this phone unlocked on ebay, i've asked the seller if he/she can get me the original invoice to prove that the phone is under manufacturers warranty.
I'll see.
As far as AT&T is concerned, i don't know how i should approach them.
But once i get the invoice information I'll be able to do more.

In your case contact HTC, forget about AT&T especially if the phone isn't on your account. You may need to be peristent with HTC as although they prefer to do things via the carriers, there's a direct route as well. They track the warranty status by S/N.
Good luck... that sucks.

Thanks for all the support
This morning, i tried to call up my carrier.
I explained to them what i observed and how the phone just went dead.
I did not mention anything about ROM upgrades (though i was asked if i did anything to the phone) nor did i drop it or dung it in water.
I was fortunate, that the lady was nice and understanding. I was surprised to know that they have all the information based on the IMEI number.
So as it turns out i made the purchase off the internet, in june. According to the lady since i made the purchase in june i was still under warrenty. They would ship out a replacement phone.
So far this is looking good.
I didn't expect it, but i guess AT&T isn't as bad as i proclaim it to be.
But customer service and phone service are two different things.
AT&T customer service has always been nice.
But their call service and internet sucks.
But got the contract so gotta stick w/ them.
ANd i like GSM, and Tmobile really sucks here in NJ and NYC.
So i gotta stick w/ AT&T
Will follow up once i get the replacement.
So far in doing business w/ At&T - they know, so don't try to kid them. Also need not give out more information then they ask. Just answer questions simple and to the point w/a bit of humor.

Need to call Verizon about warranty replacement. What version info should I give?

I need to call verizon about a possible warranty replacement for my phone. What info should I give them if they ask me to go to about phone?
Whats the most recent OTA stock rom, radio, etc?
I'll put it back to stock before I send it in, but I'm not ready to do that yet.
Thanks

qw3rty333 said:
I need to call verizon about a possible warranty replacement for my phone. What info should I give them if they ask me to go to about phone?
Whats the most recent OTA stock rom, radio, etc?
I'll put it back to stock before I send it in, but I'm not ready to do that yet.
Thanks
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I just recently got mine replaced by verizon due to my phone having charging issues. I went into the store, didn't call before hand.
I had flashed back to stock before i went in. Told the girl there that it wasnt charging right and i have multiple batteries and they all do the same. she went to look up on some database if others were reporting similar issues (there were none). after giving her my phone number and 5 minutes later she said a replacement is on the way and to mail my old one back in the same box (shipping was paid for)
I was very pleased by how quick and painless it all was. She never touched or looked at my phone at all and asked hardly any questions.
Anyways, not sure how a phone conversation would go, but i would just skip all that and go right to the store (after flashing back to stock of course ) good luck!
edit: my phone also had a chip in the screen (about 2 cm at the bottom right, no cracks though). it never even came up. they were very lenient imo. very happy

I'm having charging problems too. It always says its charging, whether its plugged in or not. Then lots of times wont charge when its plugged in, have to reboot it to get it to charge. Problem is my phones really beat up, and I lost the back cover. But I have 2 weeks left on the warranty so I'm gonna give it a shot. I've got insurance as a backup if they say its too beat up.

qw3rty333 said:
I'm having charging problems too. It always says its charging, whether its plugged in or not. Then lots of times wont charge when its plugged in, have to reboot it to get it to charge. Problem is my phones really beat up, and I lost the back cover. But I have 2 weeks left on the warranty so I'm gonna give it a shot. I've got insurance as a backup if they say its too beat up.
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I'm assuming you're on Verizon. I noticed they have a promotion on their website that through March 8th they are allowing you to add on their various insurances to your plan. If they send you away just add/upgrade to their best protection (which covers accidental damage) and go in once the Samsung warranty is up. That was my plan anyway, but I'm glad things went smoothly.

[Q] Charging problem

Hello people,
I got a GT-i9300 for about 7 months now and since yesterday i got problems charging it.
2 days ago i went to sleep and as always putted it on charge and i saw the charging notification. When i woke up ~8h later the phone was not charged at all and while connected it was not charging.
I tried reconnecting it a couple of times but nothing. I tried connecting it to a pc but nothing. Then i used the charger that came with S4 and after a couple of seconds it started charging, few minutes later it just stopped again. Reconnected it and it was charging, made it to 100% normally.
Today i tried connecting it again but now it won't charge, likewise i won't connect to pc the moment i connect it but after ~5m at least and it's only charging, the pc won't see the phone anywhere.
Also tried another S3 charger but nothing.
I only have official samsung chargers. 2 x s3 and a s4 one. None works on it at the moment while they work normally on my s4.
I tried it turning it off and removing battery but nothing, did a full wipe but still nothing.
The usb itself looks alright plus yesterday when i was charging it i moved the wire around a bit to check if it was the connection but it was not.
I was looking around the web but found nothing and the similar threads here ain't the same as my case.
Also the phone is on official firmware and not rooted.
Does anyone know anything about it ? I will most likely take it to service tomorrow but since i need the phone i would prefer not to have a ~5 days delay from them.

I have the same problem and the only thing that will charge it is a higher voltage playbook charger. I'm not too sure what the problem is but if you do get it serviced could you please post the cause of this issue?

BCSC said:
I have the same problem and the only thing that will charge it is a higher voltage playbook charger. I'm not too sure what the problem is but if you do get it serviced could you please post the cause of this issue?
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Sadly i don't have a higher voltage charger plus i don't think it's a good idea to use that, at least not all the time.
Will take it for service tomorrow unless i solve it somehow. Will report back with what they will tell me.

I had previously flashed official 4.2 on my s3 but i reverted to the carrier official version, about 2 months ago. Any chance i will have problems with warranty with the flash count being 3 ?
I read that you normally don't have a problem but i want to know if someone had first hand experience with that.

Esteriol said:
I had previously flashed official 4.2 on my s3 but i reverted to the carrier official version, about 2 months ago. Any chance i will have problems with warranty with the flash count being 3 ?
I read that you normally don't have a problem but i want to know if someone had first hand experience with that.
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This can very well be a problem. Your best option is to root and reset flash counter with triangle away. After reset, re install original firmware with Odin. If they do warranty fix it, it will be by replacing the motherboard, so if there is anything you need off of it, be sure to back it up on a computer. Also, flashing original with Odin can wipe the device so back up before then. If they look and see a custom flash counter of 3, your warranty will be void.

Alright, took it to service yesterday ( official samsung service ) and got it today. They changed the usb port and all is good, warranty had it covered.
I didn't reset counter before giving it but they either didn't check the counter or checked it and it was not an issue.

[Q] Major problem with my stock ATT E980

Okay, I originally got this phone as an upgrade over my HTC Inspire in July. It worked great, minus a few random reboots every once in a while (if I left it in my pocket for a long time or if it was really hot in my car it would do this, but that was it). Then, about a month or two ago, I rooted it and installed a custom ROM. I noticed that a bunch of my files were missing from my internal SD card, but I wasn't too worried about it. Then my phone started acting really weird and got stuck in a bootloop. I was able to boot into recovery, but I ended up using the LG Flash Tool and went back to bone stock. Still had the issue, except I noticed that my signal would drop, and then it'd get stuck in the bootloop. So, I contacted AT&T warranty and they sent me a replacement. Now the same thing is happening to this one. It gets warm, loses cell signal, then reboots, sometimes a bootloop. This phone hasn't been rooted at all, it's been left stock. So I contacted AT&T and the guy in warranty said he thinks it's the battery, but he didn't have any in stock so he couldn't send a replacement. So I was thinking it was the battery and called LG after it seemed to get worse. They told me that they could replace the battery free of charge if I send in the one I'm using first. Since this is my only way of communication, I contacted AT&T again, and they're sending me another replacement. (Said if this one screw up too, they'll give me a different phone all together). The guy had me download some AT&T remote support app and he looked at the battery health and said it's reading fine, and that because it's reading fine, he didn't think it was the battery. :|
Here's the weird thing, about two weeks ago, it went into a bootloop. I took out the battery for a minute an tried to put it back in. Nothing. I plugged the charger into it and it basically told me that it didn't have enough juice to power on. (battery was at ~40%). So I took the battery back out and tried again. This time it came on.
Then last friday, I was jammin out to music while I was working, it would reboot when I unlocked the phone. (battery was in upper 90%'s). I plugged the charger in while it did this and everything came up as it should. But after taking it off the charger and trying to do more work, it happened again and again.
Like I said, this phone is straight from AT&T and has not had anything flashed onto it by me, hell I never even disabled all the AT&T bloat this time. I've tried a hard reset, and it didn't help. Does anybody know what would be the cause of my problems? I really like this phone and really hope I can get this figured out.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the phone still has its IMEI number and it has the value pack update.

Got the second replacement in the mail today. It hasn't screwed up yet, but only time will tell.

-SeCra- said:
Got the second replacement in the mail today. It hasn't screwed up yet, but only time will tell.
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Wow hope this works for you. I just got 3 Optimus G Pro's on 12/30/13 and all 3 of them to date have not had any issues. 2 black and 1 white. 2 which are running stock. 1 stock which has had a bunch of the bloatware yanked (that we could get off of it). 1 stock which has had nothing pulled, everything left the way it is. And the 3rd one (which is the one I use) which I rooted to CyanFox 4.4.2 and later to CM11 4.4.2 Nightly and haven't had any issues like the ones you've explained.
Good luck though hopefully your issue is gone. Seems like a nice reliable phone (minus LG not wanting to support it furthermore ).

mattverg89 said:
Wow hope this works for you. I just got 3 Optimus G Pro's on 12/30/13 and all 3 of them to date have not had any issues. 2 black and 1 white. 2 which are running stock. 1 stock which has had a bunch of the bloatware yanked (that we could get off of it). 1 stock which has had nothing pulled, everything left the way it is. And the 3rd one (which is the one I use) which I rooted to CyanFox 4.4.2 and later to CM11 4.4.2 Nightly and haven't had any issues like the ones you've explained.
Good luck though hopefully your issue is gone. Seems like a nice reliable phone (minus LG not wanting to support it furthermore ).
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I really hope my issues with this phone are done too, I really love this phone. If I don't have any issues, it's going to get rooted and updated to KitKat. Otherwise, I'll try to get AT&T to give me a MotoX or a HTC One.

-SeCra- said:
I really hope my issues with this phone are done too, I really love this phone. If I don't have any issues, it's going to get rooted and updated to KitKat. Otherwise, I'll try to get AT&T to give me a MotoX or a HTC One.
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Yeah I like this phone with KitKat. Looks like a larger Nexus 5
Only problems i'm having with CM11:
1. ATT Visual Voicemail will install but upon playing voicemails program will freeze and crash
2. Tried Google Voice however you can only hear the voicemails through speakerphone, headsets, or bluetooth. Voicemails will no play through earpiece.
3. CM11 doesn't have Screen Recorder yet (Which CyanFox did although CM11 is still fairly fresh).
4. I would like to have the LG Camera app back! Dual video recording and some of those other features are gone with the android stock Camera app. Need to look into porting that back over to KitKat (if I can).
That's bout it though...

mattverg89 said:
Yeah I like this phone with KitKat. Looks like a larger Nexus 5
Only problems i'm having with CM11:
1. ATT Visual Voicemail will install but upon playing voicemails program will freeze and crash
2. Tried Google Voice however you can only hear the voicemails through speakerphone, headsets, or bluetooth. Voicemails will no play through earpiece.
3. CM11 doesn't have Screen Recorder yet (Which CyanFox did although CM11 is still fairly fresh).
4. I would like to have the LG Camera app back! Dual video recording and some of those other features are gone with the android stock Camera app. Need to look into porting that back over to KitKat (if I can).
That's bout it though...
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Haha yeah, this phone is beautiful with stock Android, I just end up missing certain touches that LG puts in their overlay.
BTW, this phone is doing the same thing as before. I strongly believe it's the battery b/c when it went into a bootloop, I took out the battery it was warm, so I put it in front of the AC for a minute to cool it down and it's been working fine since. So, I'm going to call AT&T and see if they will send me a battery, and if they can't, I'm going to have to send this one in to LG and be without a phone for a week...:'(
UPDATE: AT&T told me "since we have tried everything else-hard resets, replacement phones- and nothing worked, we will send you a battery since it's the only thing that has stayed persistent through this ordeal. We just got some in stock and are sending one your way. If the problem continues to persist, we will replace the phone again." IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!

Just curious, but what if I continue having this issue after I get my new battery? Should I try a similar mah zero lemon battery or just have att give me a different phone altogether?
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-SeCra- said:
Just curious, but what if I continue having this issue after I get my new battery? Should I try a similar mah zero lemon battery or just have att give me a different phone altogether?
Sent from my LG-E980 using xda app-developers app
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i think there is an issue with the battery and whatever cable you use to charge the phone.I had to Lge980 when I used a thin cable I have in my room sometimes it did not charged at all and or shut down itself even when the battery had half charge ,sometimes it showed full charged but if I plugged the phone to a thicker cable connected using the oem charger or a usb 3.0 port at my laptop it showed the real charge level at 1/4 charge.I myself could't do anything since I got the phone second hand but as long as I used thick cable connected to a oem charger usb 3.0 or eben 2.0 I had no had any issues.

how'd it go?
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Haha yeah, this phone is beautiful with stock Android, I just end up missing certain touches that LG puts in their overlay.
BTW, this phone is doing the same thing as before. I strongly believe it's the battery b/c when it went into a bootloop, I took out the battery it was warm, so I put it in front of the AC for a minute to cool it down and it's been working fine since. So, I'm going to call AT&T and see if they will send me a battery, and if they can't, I'm going to have to send this one in to LG and be without a phone for a week...:'(
UPDATE: AT&T told me "since we have tried everything else-hard resets, replacement phones- and nothing worked, we will send you a battery since it's the only thing that has stayed persistent through this ordeal. We just got some in stock and are sending one your way. If the problem continues to persist, we will replace the phone again." IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!
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I've had the exact same problem with my E980 and the refurb they sent me. Contemplating a battery replacement now. Did a new battery fix your boot loops?

-SeCra- said:
Okay, I originally got this phone as an upgrade over my HTC Inspire in July. It worked great, minus a few random reboots every once in a while (if I left it in my pocket for a long time or if it was really hot in my car it would do this, but that was it). Then, about a month or two ago, I rooted it and installed a custom ROM. I noticed that a bunch of my files were missing from my internal SD card, but I wasn't too worried about it. Then my phone started acting really weird and got stuck in a bootloop. I was able to boot into recovery, but I ended up using the LG Flash Tool and went back to bone stock. Still had the issue, except I noticed that my signal would drop, and then it'd get stuck in the bootloop. So, I contacted AT&T warranty and they sent me a replacement. Now the same thing is happening to this one. It gets warm, loses cell signal, then reboots, sometimes a bootloop. This phone hasn't been rooted at all, it's been left stock. So I contacted AT&T and the guy in warranty said he thinks it's the battery, but he didn't have any in stock so he couldn't send a replacement. So I was thinking it was the battery and called LG after it seemed to get worse. They told me that they could replace the battery free of charge if I send in the one I'm using first. Since this is my only way of communication, I contacted AT&T again, and they're sending me another replacement. (Said if this one screw up too, they'll give me a different phone all together). The guy had me download some AT&T remote support app and he looked at the battery health and said it's reading fine, and that because it's reading fine, he didn't think it was the battery. :|
Here's the weird thing, about two weeks ago, it went into a bootloop. I took out the battery for a minute an tried to put it back in. Nothing. I plugged the charger into it and it basically told me that it didn't have enough juice to power on. (battery was at ~40%). So I took the battery back out and tried again. This time it came on.
Then last friday, I was jammin out to music while I was working, it would reboot when I unlocked the phone. (battery was in upper 90%'s). I plugged the charger in while it did this and everything came up as it should. But after taking it off the charger and trying to do more work, it happened again and again.
Like I said, this phone is straight from AT&T and has not had anything flashed onto it by me, hell I never even disabled all the AT&T bloat this time. I've tried a hard reset, and it didn't help. Does anybody know what would be the cause of my problems? I really like this phone and really hope I can get this figured out.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the phone still has its IMEI number and it has the value pack update.
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If you want to stay on stock i recommend going to jellybean TOT 10k and rooting and installing a custom recovery back up the rom, and flash hkfriends kernel, and see what happens if you raise or lower your phones voltage, that might be the problem with it rebooting.

THE NEW BATTERY SOLVED THE ISSUE, BUT ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME. I upgraded to an HTC One M8 since, and haven't had hardly any problems with it, aside from the death star's BS

-SeCra- said:
THE NEW BATTERY SOLVED THE ISSUE, BUT ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME. I upgraded to an HTC One M8 since, and haven't had hardly any problems with it, aside from the death star's BS
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Thanks for the response. I talked to the techs at an AT&T direct service center and they told me it's a common problem with the Optimus Pro. I'm on my third one in 8 months now and this one started randomly powering off within 15 minutes of when I took it out of the box three days ago.

zhirrad said:
Thanks for the response. I talked to the techs at an AT&T direct service center and they told me it's a common problem with the Optimus Pro. I'm on my third one in 8 months now and this one started randomly powering off within 15 minutes of when I took it out of the box three days ago.
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Yeah. My issue was the battery for sure. Make them replace the battery and it should temp solve the issue

From what I read on the first e980 i had these phone tend to have a hardware problem where the power button is creating the same issues as OP. Some refurbished e980s have the hardware problem solved.

Pixel XL suddenly off, not charging nothing completely dead!

Using the phone as usual was on facebook and it just turned off battery was around 30%~, has happened once before which i just put on charge and it charged from 0% normally thinking back i should've prepared for the worst but i didn't.
Now it off tried 3 different chargers and nothing, doesn't turn on, no notification light, no vibration not a beep!
running the Resurrection Remix ROM the FEB build, EX Kernal march build, TWRP RC1 and supersu
Also last time it crashed while on facebook as well
PC not reading it and I don't think i can restore to factory now, which could effect my warranty, so any help could be greatly appreciated, tried holding the power button, volume down and power button and still nothing.
Send HELP!!

Call 1-800-Google for a replacement. If you can't turn it on then they can't either. Besides, they don't care if you have some weird rom on it. But since it's unlocked then they can get all your data if they get it running. Why oh why do people unlock their bootloaders? lol.. no flaming, just sayin'.

I knew one dev who somehow F'd up his CPU's while tinkering around with deep code stuff.
It was a Samsung and warranty was denied.
But flashing a ROM and kernel won't do this, so it's a straight hardware failure it sounds like.
Send it on back.
Don't mention anything about custom ROM.

Thanks for giving me hope guys, now just need to find my receipt

DeadDude said:
Thanks for giving me hope guys, now just need to find my receipt
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You probably won't need one. It's on record if you didn't get it second hand.
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Yeah I just went into JB Hi Fi an electronics store in australia where i bought the phone from and they blamed it on physical damage that was from when i first got the phone 5 months ago, so i contacted google and they tell me to send it in for a frame repair and then send it back to them to probably end up sending me a refurbished one, which to be honest sounds stupid as hell.
Going to call google tomorrow morning and see what can be done over the phone.