Okay so ive been running jmt v8 for about a week on my phone and everything was running great. Then yesterday morning my phone became very slow and unusable. Then i started getting the error message acore system has stopped working and the phone would randomly restart and then it would start vibrating then stop then vibrate again and so on. So i insalled a new rom and i stopped getting the core system has stopped error but i am still getting the random reboots. And the screen also wakes up by itself. Please any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
Justananomaly said:
I just had this fixed. There's something wrong with the power sensor, especially if it tries to boot the second you put the battery in without touching the power button.
Unfortunately you've been rooted now and because of the issues, you can't flash stock and reset the root count. So you can't sent to your carrier.
Fortunately, http://www.mobiletechvideos.com fixes EXACTLY this for $35 minus shipping it to them. I got my phone back today and it's just the way it was ROM wise and all my files are there and the issue is fixed.
This is a pretty common T989 issue.
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That's exactly my problem but are you sure this company is reliable?
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And can you also give me the link to the exact thing you ordered because i couldn't find it on their site, thanks !
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http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-power-button-repair/
And yes, I was sceptical too. Josh, the owner, is reachable by email and answers pretty quickly and did an amazing job repairing my phone.
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
Dennisalex said:
You Can Boot into Recovery? Darkside Wipes, Flash another Rom, Dalvik Cache wipe,Format System,Fix Permissions.
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I can boot into recovery but its tricky because I have to press the buttons perfect or it'll just reboot. I believe the problem is with the power button and ill probably get it replaced.
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I have same problem last month, send the rooted phone to Samsung. After 15 days .I get back my phone for free.
I hope this can help you.
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For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
playya said:
For anyone with key issues and need to get into recovery or download mode there are adb commands that do this. We get too comfortable with apps and forget about the manual way of achieving a lot of the same tasks that apps provide for us.
From a command prompt:
adb reboot recovery
adb reboot download
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Thanks I will be trying this out.
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hey guys. after the ics update my phone started to lock up and its not rooted. now all of a sudden when i put the battery in it it vibrates once then starts to load and gets about half way and stops. then it turns off and just vibrates a few seconds and vibrates but the screen never shows anything. tryed using just a usb with the battery out and it skips the load screen and automatically starts vibrate looping. the power button seems stuck but i dont think i can fix it any ideas?
Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
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Hey everyone! I have a similar (but not quite the same) problem. Every now and then my phone "tells" me to restart it for maximum performance. Every time I restart or just turn on my phone it goes through the boot cycle, including a message that says "android is upgrading" (I got the ICS upgrade from Kies prior to rooting my phone). Then, all of a sudden, the phone doesn't work, and it starts the boot cycle all over again. This happens several times in a row, which for me is a safety issue because I'm not able to call Big Jon (my husband) to get me from the train late at night. Any fixes for that? Thanks.
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Warranty exchange it. Known problem
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Same problem
And the vest part is that i can't replace it cause i live in India
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Damn! Just found this thread...sounds like what my phone started doing today!!
I was clicking around on gmail, then back to home screen, the camera FLASHED all by itself without me doing anything, then started the boot loop thing. Clicking the power button only made it worse. Finally was able to get into recovery via TWRP...but that was weird too. I did a factory reset/wipe and was going to reinstall The Sith ROM that I was running, but it just rebooted and loaded up The Sith anyway and it should have been cleared. I then tried to restore back to Beastmade ROM, restore was very quick and said successful but it booted back to Sith.
Now the power button is hyper sensitive! All I have to do is brush the power button and it will light up the screen. Touch it too long and it will bring up the boot menu. I'm afraid to actually CLICK the button as it might go haywire again.
WTF is going on!? This all seems really odd that it's going down with some of these new ROMs being released. I wasn't even touching the power button when all this started. The weird clicks and flashes didn't sound good when it was all going on.
Has anyone tried flashing back to and OLD rom to see if it will fix it?
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I tried searching, but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me and I don't know what to do.. I'm kind of freaking out. The last update I installed was darkside beta02, and I was really liking it minus a few connection and call issues. Anyways, I was in my car earlier today and picked out a song on play music. The phone instantly turned off, and it appeared that it was about to reboot so I didn't think much about it. Nope. When it starts to turn on it rarely makes it past the samsung screens that pops up right when you start the phone, but it has made it as far as the swirling samsung s splash screen thing. It just acts like it is rebooting from that part and it's like a never ending cycle until I remove the battery. I can get the phone into download mode by plugging it into the computer, but it only stays on for a few seconds and then goes back to it's never ending reboot. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, I really can't afford to have bricked this phone
UPDATE: I managed to restore the phone to stock, and I proceeded to root and put darkside beta 7.1 on it. Everything was running fine... For a few hours. It began to do the same rebooting described above, but now instead of looking like it's going to boot normally it goes straight to a screen that says "Firmware encountered an issue. Please sleect recovery mode in Kies and try again." with the phone model, "Custom Binary Download: No" and "Current Binary: Samsung Official" up top. It only stays at this screen for a few seconds before it starts back into it endless half-reboot. Any suggestions? This is frustrating me A LOT.
uh, have you tried charging it? Honestly at first blush it sounds like a dead battery.
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uh, have you tried charging it? Honestly at first blush it sounds like a dead battery.
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Yes I've charged it overnight... And it does the same thing when it's on the charger without the battery in.
Can you get into recovery? My wife's phone did something similar out of no where. I had to restore a nandroid.
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bobby3306 said:
Can you get into recovery? My wife's phone did something similar out of no where. I had to restore a nandroid.
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No luck with recovery Forgot to include that in the original post.
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No luck with recovery Forgot to include that in the original post.
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So did you take the battery out put it in and then flash into recovery using touch method?
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So did you take the battery out put it in and then flash into recovery using touch method?
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What exactly is the touch method?
Go to recovery and clear cache and restore factory settings
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Go to recovery and clear cache and restore factory settings
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He said he can't get into recovery.
Do you have insurance? Might want to take it to a store.
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Oops sorry about that. I would reset your flash counts and try and take it back to the store if possible... seems like your only option if you can't get into recovery. Or reflash stock. Then root again then clear cache and then factory defaults
If you can get it to stay on long enough-- in Odin
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He said he can't get into recovery.
Do you have insurance? Might want to take it to a store.
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Wouldn't they just tell me I'm out of luck because my phone is clearly rooted and whatnot?
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Oops sorry about that. I would reset your flash counts and try and take it back to the store if possible... seems like your only option if you can't get into recovery. Or reflash stock. Then root again then clear cache and then factory defaults
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The problem is that I can't do anything but watch the phone start up for about 10 seconds, or be in download mode for about 10 seconds. Not much time to do anything.
That is why you reset flash counts before you go in... Google is your friend and try to unroot somehow--
You are quick! Lol I edited my post just after you replied to it
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I tried searching, but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me and I don't know what to do.. I'm kind of freaking out. The last update I installed was darkside beta02, and I was really liking it minus a few connection and call issues. Anyways, I was in my car earlier today and picked out a song on play music. The phone instantly turned off, and it appeared that it was about to reboot so I didn't think much about it. Nope. When it starts to turn on it rarely makes it past the samsung screens that pops up right when you start the phone, but it has made it as far as the swirling samsung s splash screen thing. It just acts like it is rebooting from that part and it's like a never ending cycle until I remove the battery. I can get the phone into download mode by plugging it into the computer, but it only stays on for a few seconds and then goes back to it's never ending reboot. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, I really can't afford to have bricked this phone
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I had this exact thing happen to me today!! For the last week or so, I would get a random reboot up to four times a day. This started happening after I flashed Whitehawkx UVLDE zip. What I did was left the battery in the phone let the constant reboot run until the battery died. Then I would try to get into download mode, but then it would reboot before Odin recognized it. I left the usb plug in the phone and took the battery out, the phone would still do the rebooting vibration. I just stayed with trying to get the phone to stay on long enough to get recognized by Odin. Leave the drained battery out of the phone for a while (your choice of how long, I left it for about forty minutes) and replace it, hopefully it stays on long enough to get recognized. Finally it stayed on long enough and I re-flashed ULKL1. Now I'm back to running TDJ's DARKSIDE. EVOLUTION.2 [BETA 3] and I haven't had any reboots where as before it would reboot within fifteen minutes.
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I had this exact thing happen to me today!! For the last week or so, I would get a random reboot up to four times a day. This started happening after I flashed Whitehawkx UVLDE zip. What I did was left the battery in the phone let the constant reboot run until the battery died. Then I would try to get into download mode, but then it would reboot before Odin recognized it. I left the usb plug in the phone and took the battery out, the phone would still do the rebooting vibration. I just stayed with trying to get the phone to stay on long enough to get recognized by Odin. Leave the drained battery out of the phone for a while (your choice of how long, I left it for about forty minutes) and replace it, hopefully it stays on long enough to get recognized. Finally it stayed on long enough and I re-flashed ULKL1. Now I'm back to running TDJ's DARKSIDE. EVOLUTION.2 [BETA 3] and I haven't had any reboots where as before it would reboot within fifteen minutes.
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Thank you! And when you say replace the battery, do you mean get a whole new one or put in the dead one?
Just put the dead one in.
My advice is similar to his, but without killing the battery. Open odin on your computer, and input what your going to input into pda and have everything ready to go, so all you have to do is press start and its off. Now, start with the phone turned off, hold both volume buttons and plug in the usb cable from the computer quickly! Have your hand ready on the mouse and ready to click start. Soon as odin recognizes click that start button! Hopefully everything happened so quick, that the phone will take the flash. However, if it doesn't, then I'm afraid the only answer you would have left is to use a jig to reset the counter and take it in to be replaced.
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My advice is similar to his, but without killing the battery. Open odin on your computer, and input what your going to input into pda and have everything ready to go, so all you have to do is press start and its off. Now, start with the phone turned off, hold both volume buttons and plug in the usb cable from the computer quickly! Have your hand ready on the mouse and ready to click start. Soon as odin recognizes click that start button! Hopefully everything happened so quick, that the phone will take the flash. However, if it doesn't, then I'm afraid the only answer you would have left is to use a jig to reset the counter and take it in to be replaced.
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I've tried this, but I didn't even have time to get it started. It's beginning to look like I'm out of luck
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I've tried this, but I didn't even have time to get it started. It's beginning to look like I'm out of luck
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If you cant get it to Odin, and if you cant get it to download mode, and if you cant get it to turn on, neither can TMo. Take it in.
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If you cant get it to Odin, and if you cant get it to download mode, and if you cant get it to turn on, neither can TMo. Take it in.
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The thing is, it starts to start up, and you can clearly see that it's rooted. I feel like they won't honor my warranty.
I've had they Hercules for just over a year now but have only been using it for the past four months. I have only downloaded educational apps. However, yesterday i was not using it and came back to find it vibrating every 2-3 seconds. I removed the battery and left it out for an hour. When i replaced the battery, the phone began to reload but stopped during the boot,made a noise I've never heard before and began to vibrate as if going into recovery/download mode. I have been running ics for the past 4 months. The phone does not boot at all and is very frustrating . I have also tried charging it with no luck. Can anyone assist me with this problem??
sounds like you have the dreadful power button fail it gets a little jammed up try sticking a toothpick or something skinny in there and wiggle it a bit see if that works for you if not check if your still under warranty are you rooted or stock ICS?
u have a bad power button. try unsticking it.
Agreed. A friend had a similar issue and his power button was stuck.
I'm rooted and the warranty is up
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did u try fixing the button? if not you'll have to pay to get it repaired
So it appears that it's something wrong with the chipset...
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Samz1 said:
So it appears that it's something wrong with the chipset...
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Literally your power button is stuck.
Samz1 said:
So it appears that it's something wrong with the chipset...
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Strange enough this just happened to me 10 minutes ago. I did manage to get the phone to boot after slapping the hell out if my power button which gave me the only means to get into recovery so now I can comment from experience. Ive been running pac for 3 weeks. Just yesterday my phone started doing really weird ****, dont know if it's just coincidence, calls would go through to random people, every time I clicked gallery I got a random reboot, I couldnt call voicemail, and trying to change wallpapers gave a reboot. Today I was changing a wallpaper and boom random reboot then began the loop and vibrating. A few things I noticed while this was happening, if I attempted to go into recovery the samsung splash screen appeared followed by the stock kernel splash( samsung and the blue bar at the bottom) which made me believe it wasnt the power button but indeed rom or kernel problem, also my led flashed once while going through the vibrate loop and I know the power button has nothing to do with that. I did manage to get pac to boot about 4 times by slapping the hell out of my power button but it went back to the loop after a few seconds so the next time I managed to get it to boot I held the power button and booted to recovery. Once I was able to get in to recovery I restored a liquid smooth back up. Ive powered the phone off and on with no problem. Now I'm just waiting to see what happens through out the day. I was running pac with cerux when this happened. I truly believe this is not a hardware problem at all until I get it again with another set up. If you need help I getting your phone to boot I could possibly be of assistance so pm me unless you want to keep getting responses from people who haven't experienced this at all. This was the single most scariest experience Ive had since I ve been flashing, even worse than my brick because I knew I bricked immediately.
Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
Its a sticky power button.
There has been plenty of threads about this. Search and ull find me and my suggestions on several of them.
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bzlik88 said:
Its a sticky power button.
There has been plenty of threads about this. Search and ull find me and my suggestions on several of them.
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Cant be because it does not restart in recovery mode or download mode. I actually did a full wipe system and it fixed the issue. But now i realize when i start downloading my banking app, pandora, and other apps it starts crashing again. I dont know what to do. I guess I cant use any apps on my galaxy s2... lol this is sooooo stupid
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Cant be because it does not restart in recovery mode or download mode. I actually did a full wipe system and it fixed the issue. But now i realize when i start downloading my banking app, pandora, and other apps it starts crashing again. I dont know what to do. I guess I cant use any apps on my galaxy s2... lol this is sooooo stupid
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Hmmm interesting....
Would u mind going to a custom ROM? If not then I suggest u try slimstar 2.2 and see if everything works. I think its whatever ROM u downloaded....keep me posted
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rayoubi said:
Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
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i work reparing cellphones and t989 have 2 problems, one of them is power button problems and the other one is board problems.. that poblem come with most of gs2.. i mean isnt the first time i see it...
My t989 is having the same problem
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i work reparing cellphones and t989 have 2 problems, one of them is power button problems and the other one is board problems.. that poblem come with most of gs2.. i mean isnt the first time i see it...
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I took it to a repair shop, where I was told to send it to Samsung to do a heavy-duty root. The power button does need to be replaced because there is no spring when you push down on it. I have no idea if there's a root glitch. Has anyone sent their phone to Samsung? What happened? Are there alternatives?
Thank you!
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I took it to a repair shop, where I was told to send it to Samsung to do a heavy-duty root. The power button does need to be replaced because there is no spring when you push down on it. I have no idea if there's a root glitch. Has anyone sent their phone to Samsung? What happened? Are there alternatives?
Thank you!
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It was amazing, I had the same problem but all i did was open up the back up undoing all the tiny screws and then took a can on compressed air and sprayed out the power button and its been working for more than a month now with the problem completely gone! try that first before sending to sammy.
Ok I am in the same boat. My device does not boot up, it will get to Samsung logo and restart half the time and the other half just vibrates every 2 seconds. I removed the battery while plugged in and it still vibrates. I took it apart and blew the power button with compressed air and nothing. Here is the funny thing if I bang the hell out of it, it almost boots up. Is there something that I can do less than sending it to Sammy ? If not I will sell it on craigslist for parts.
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Ok I am in the same boat. My device does not boot up, it will get to Samsung logo and restart half the time and the other half just vibrates every 2 seconds. I removed the battery while plugged in and it still vibrates. I took it apart and blew the power button with compressed air and nothing. Here is the funny thing if I bang the hell out of it, it almost boots up. Is there something that I can do less than sending it to Sammy ? If not I will sell it on craigslist for parts.
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Same thing here. Only way to get it to power on is by hitting it, the harder the better it seems. After it turns on, touching the power button will make it go in to the restart loop 90% of the time. This sucks!
For me this started after I dropped my phone...with the case on and on carpet. I have also opened it up and sprayed with compressed air to no avail.
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Same thing here. Only way to get it to power on is by hitting it, the harder the better it seems. After it turns on, touching the power button will make it go in to the restart loop 90% of the time. This sucks!
For me this started after I dropped my phone...with the case on and on carpet. I have also opened it up and sprayed with compressed air to no avail.
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Hi my problem is the same as I opened it and verify that the power button is fine (I think so) but still do not like someone comes up with a solution?????
Solution in my case !
rayoubi said:
Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
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Hi Folks,
I had the same problem, the problem started when I dropped my fone on carpeted floor, here are symptoms
Fone restarts on its own, start the boot, inbetween the boot starts again, then, keeps vibrating every two seconds, you have to pull the battery out to stop it,
As soon as you put the battery back in, it restarts, again getting stuck, and then vibrating every two secods,
Here is what i did
- Cursed Samsung for making a sh***y phone - Didnt work
- Smacked my phone with whatever I could fine - Didnt work
- Opened all the screws up, took apart phone, pulled out the power button module (pcb), noticed power button was loose,put some glue into it, dried it, put it back, & ITS BEEN WORKING SINCE THEN ! It was a hardware fault, its not software !
Just my two cents, it worked in my case, I cannot guarantee if it will in your case too, try at your own risk !!
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It was amazing, I had the same problem but all i did was open up the back up undoing all the tiny screws and then took a can on compressed air and sprayed out the power button and its been working for more than a month now with the problem completely gone! try that first before sending to sammy.
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Heh, I can't believe this... but it worked for me... powered on my air compressor, took logic board out, and Air Air Air in to the power button area, worked ! Thank you for this tip jctusa7
SAME
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Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
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I need this fixed
Tyler Tigner said:
I need this fixed
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Watch this video, it's how I fixed mine a few months ago: youtube.com/watch?v=pqBgbN8NLjI
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Watch this video, it's how I fixed mine a few months ago: youtube.com/watch?v=pqBgbN8NLjI
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Same issue with SGH-M919. I was rooted and the rom I tried to use wouldn't work because the kernel caused some issues so I figured I would go back to stock. The device wouldn't go into recovery mode, so I flashed the stock rom via Odin. After the ROM loaded, the phone reset and I saw the Samsung screen then it rebooted and so on each time. It's not the power button as it works, has the spring feel to it and the phone would come one by itself if it was broken. So what can I do or am I in trouble?
Also, the phone will vibrate every 2 seconds
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Same issue with SGH-M919. I was rooted and the rom I tried to use wouldn't work because the kernel caused some issues so I figured I would go back to stock. The device wouldn't go into recovery mode, so I flashed the stock rom via Odin. After the ROM loaded, the phone reset and I saw the Samsung screen then it rebooted and so on each time. It's not the power button as it works, has the spring feel to it and the phone would come one by itself if it was broken. So what can I do or am I in trouble?
Also, the phone will vibrate every 2 seconds
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Sure, the power button will "work", but if it's constantly vibrating and rebooting, it's probably an issue with the power button. Do what it shows in the video I posted, and if you do it right it'll probably fix it. I gad to attempt it twice as it didn't fix it the first time, but it's been like 4 months and I haven't had an issue since.
Thank you but it was the kernel causing problems. Somehow, the new ROM messed up the partitions and subsequently required a full wipe including all data then I flashed the stock ROM back via Odin and it was fine. I rooted it again and flashed Bliss Pop 1.8 and I love that ROM. No issues at all. Thanks for the help. I'm slowly learning about ROMs and Linux etc.. I appreciate the help. Does anyone have any advice as to how I can learn more??? Where do I post to get past this 10 posts rule???
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Wow I just realized that post was from a week ago and that was for my girls S4. We got rid of it anyway. My response was regarding my Sprint LG G3 which I am slowly mastering.
Same thing here but here i have a Lenovo …idk what to do
Hi all, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I'm not sure if the phone is hard bricked as it starts up after a battery pull but shuts down immediately after no matter what mode I try to boot up in. On a normal start up it gets to the splash screen then shuts off and is unresponsive without another battery pull which triggers an automatic reboot. Trying to boot into recovery never works as I never get to the 2nd splash screen before the phone shuts back down and going into download it shuts off as soon as I get andy on the screen. Also in addition when I connect it to my computer it's usually off since I can't start it up and my computer won't recognize it regardless even if I manage to get it to turn on when connected. Any ideas? I haven't flashed anything today and it was working fine, a random reboot in walmart and it was dying then it just died and nothing is working even swapping in the battery from the gfs s3. Help me pls if it helps I was on the tw s4 dream rom and kt 5-31 kernel and used team kernelizers mod build props and all. Help pls guys
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Hi all, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I'm not sure if the phone is hard bricked as it starts up after a battery pull but shuts down immediately after no matter what mode I try to boot up in. On a normal start up it gets to the splash screen then shuts off and is unresponsive without another battery pull which triggers an automatic reboot. Trying to boot into recovery never works as I never get to the 2nd splash screen before the phone shuts back down and going into download it shuts off as soon as I get andy on the screen. Also in addition when I connect it to my computer it's usually off since I can't start it up and my computer won't recognize it regardless even if I manage to get it to turn on when connected. Any ideas? I haven't flashed anything today and it was working fine, a random reboot in walmart and it was dying then it just died and nothing is working even swapping in the battery from the gfs s3. Help me pls if it helps I was on the tw s4 dream rom and kt 5-31 kernel and used team kernelizers mod build props and all. Help pls guys
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Hey man,
Not hard bricked.
Did you try to over clock your device? Did you mess with the kernel settings at all?
When you place the battery in your device does it automatically turn on or do you still have to hold down the power button?
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ryankgrant said:
Hey man,
Not hard bricked.
Did you try to over clock your device? Did you mess with the kernel settings at all?
When you place the battery in your device does it automatically turn on or do you still have to hold down the power button?
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Thank you god tell me you know how to fix it too lol.
Yea I have I use KT's kernel and use presets from team kernelizers, personally I think I know what the issue is I just didn't want to go around tossing blame. I don't think my phone likes the build prop mods included in there tk mod package. It started acting funny after I flashed them, but I figured the phone would settle down after a few cycles. I was actually about to revert them once the phone booted but it never happened. Sorry for long winding it and it turns on autmoatically. Nothing happens when I press the power button, it also shuts off within 2-3 seconds regardless of what mode I try to boot into. Pls help me if you can, I'm hoping I can fix this in the comfort of my home and not take it out for jtag repair.
Shels said:
Thank you god tell me you know how to fix it too lol.
Yea I have I use KT's kernel and use presets from team kernelizers, personally I think I know what the issue is I just didn't want to go around tossing blame. I don't think my phone likes the build prop mods included in there tk mod package. It started acting funny after I flashed them, but I figured the phone would settle down after a few cycles. I was actually about to revert them once the phone booted but it never happened. Sorry for long winding it and it turns on autmoatically. Nothing happens when I press the power button, it also shuts off within 2-3 seconds regardless of what mode I try to boot into. Pls help me if you can, I'm hoping I can fix this in the comfort of my home and not take it out for jtag repair.
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I've had problems where I've tried to over clock my device and its sent me into a crazy boot loop but I was able to get into the device in between boots and change it back to stock(which obviously you Dont have the luxury of doing) so I'm kind of at a loss. If you put your battery in and the phone automatically boots without you pressing the power button then that might be your cause for the rapid reboots. I suggest you look into getting the power button repaired if that's the case. Or do it yourself. Shouldn't be too expensive. Hopefully someone in the community. Can shed some light on this matter better than I but from where I'm standing that seems to be your only option. I'm sorry I Dont have have a fix for you. Goodluck
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ryankgrant said:
I've had problems where I've tried to over clock my device and its sent me into a crazy boot loop but I was able to get into the device in between boots and change it back to stock(which obviously you Dont have the luxury of doing) so I'm kind of at a loss. If you put your battery in and the phone automatically boots without you pressing the power button then that might be your cause for the rapid reboots. I suggest you look into getting the power button repaired if that's the case. Or do it yourself. Shouldn't be too expensive. Hopefully someone in the community. Can shed some light on this matter better than I but from where I'm standing that seems to be your only option. I'm sorry I Dont have have a fix for you. Goodluck
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It's funny, nothing would work. I went up to the cottage for a week came back down started messing with it and I managed to get it to freeze on the splash screen, my computer would recognize it though so it was a start. I then connected it to the pc and tried to flash stock through odin(obviously wouldn't work because the phone wasn't in download mode) so I tried to boot into dl mode it took a couple tries but it finally stuck. I was then able to flash stock and it's been fine ever since. I just rooted it and installed twrp. I want to flash a rom but the links for the roms I want is down so I'll wait or flash an old version of the rom I got on my sd. Thanks for the response and I'm just glad I got it to work and didn't have to pay the $50 for jtag repair which is what I was about to do lol.
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It's funny, nothing would work. I went up to the cottage for a week came back down started messing with it and I managed to get it to freeze on the splash screen, my computer would recognize it though so it was a start. I then connected it to the pc and tried to flash stock through odin(obviously wouldn't work because the phone wasn't in download mode) so I tried to boot into dl mode it took a couple tries but it finally stuck. I was then able to flash stock and it's been fine ever since. I just rooted it and installed twrp. I want to flash a rom but the links for the roms I want is down so I'll wait or flash an old version of the rom I got on my sd. Thanks for the response and I'm just glad I got it to work and didn't have to pay the $50 for jtag repair which is what I was about to do lol.
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Dude!!, so glad you got it to get working again and no need to thank me just click that thanks button hahah. Cheers :beer:
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Hey all, I have a S3 i747 on rogers. I have had it for a couple years everything working fine and great, I rooted it after I bought it and it worked no problem. A week or two ago it suddenly shut itself off while I was using it. I didn't think much of it, then later that day again it turned itself off.
This time, it automatically tries to reboot but as soon as the logo appears it instantly turns itself back off again. It's not that it gets to a certain point, it's like there's a time limit on how far it can progress through the boot sequence, I estimate about 4-5 seconds. No matter what I try I cannot get it past this cut off time.
I have tried download mode, recovery mode, battery tricks (found on obscure sites), etc etc etc and still its stuck in this death loop. Im fine with buying a new phone, but I had not made a contact back-up for 6 months (no, I wasn't syncing with google) and have lost many, many new contacts as well as certain files and pictures that I wouldn't mind getting back.
Also, if I am very fast I can get the first page of recovery mode to pop up, but then the "time limit" hits and before any selections on the menu can be made it automatically reboots. If I leave the battery in, it will try every few minutes to boot repeatedly until the battery is completely zapped.
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Hey all, I have a S3 i747 on rogers. I have had it for a couple years everything working fine and great, I rooted it after I bought it and it worked no problem. A week or two ago it suddenly shut itself off while I was using it. I didn't think much of it, then later that day again it turned itself off.
This time, it automatically tries to reboot but as soon as the logo appears it instantly turns itself back off again. It's not that it gets to a certain point, it's like there's a time limit on how far it can progress through the boot sequence, I estimate about 4-5 seconds. No matter what I try I cannot get it past this cut off time.
I have tried download mode, recovery mode, battery tricks (found on obscure sites), etc etc etc and still its stuck in this death loop. Im fine with buying a new phone, but I had not made a contact back-up for 6 months (no, I wasn't syncing with google) and have lost many, many new contacts as well as certain files and pictures that I wouldn't mind getting back.
Also, if I am very fast I can get the first page of recovery mode to pop up, but then the "time limit" hits and before any selections on the menu can be made it automatically reboots. If I leave the battery in, it will try every few minutes to boot repeatedly until the battery is completely zapped.
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Does it still keep rebooting even in download mode? If not then try reflashing your stock rom.
Or maybe try booting up without an sd and without a sim card.
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Also make sure to not hold the volume and home keys too long when going into download mode, once the phone vibrates you should be able to let go. I made the same mistake on my phone and then noticed i had been pressing the volume and power keys while download mode was starting, causing it to select cancel. If not though you are probably looking at some sort of internal hardware issue that may be causing the reset to trip or causing the phone to believe it should be shutting itself off at that moment. This is all purely speculation, but hope it helps.
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Does it still keep rebooting even in download mode? If not then try reflashing your stock rom.
Or maybe try booting up without an sd and without a sim card.
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Also make sure to not hold the volume and home keys too long when going into download mode, once the phone vibrates you should be able to let go. I made the same mistake on my phone and then noticed i had been pressing the volume and power keys while download mode was starting, causing it to select cancel. If not though you are probably looking at some sort of internal hardware issue that may be causing the reset to trip or causing the phone to believe it should be shutting itself off at that moment. This is all purely speculation, but hope it helps.
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I can't even make it into download mode, or recovery mode. Like I said, its as if the phone has a built in time-limit for how long it is going to load, the absolute farthest I can get is the first page of recovery mode and then boom it instantly resets before I can even make one selection, and I did this like 100 times in a row so I got very fast at getting into recovery mode. As per 2nd quote, yes I am releasing the buttons as I am supposed to to get into the appropriate mode, but the "time limit" hits and just reboots no matter what.
I've tried booting up without sim and sd card, but it still doesn't make it any further.
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Fix a fix for it? I have the same problem.
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I can't even make it into download mode, or recovery mode. Like I said, its as if the phone has a built in time-limit for how long it is going to load, the absolute farthest I can get is the first page of recovery mode and then boom it instantly resets before I can even make one selection, and I did this like 100 times in a row so I got very fast at getting into recovery mode. As per 2nd quote, yes I am releasing the buttons as I am supposed to to get into the appropriate mode, but the "time limit" hits and just reboots no matter what.
I've tried booting up without sim and sd card, but it still doesn't make it any further.
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I would put my money on a bad power switch/button.
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Yes, it acts like a stuck power button, a common problem with galaxy s phones.
If it auto starts when you insert the battery, that's a sure sign the power on circuit is active.
When my Captivate did this, I opened the back & carefully tapped it on a table edge to try dislodging any debris.
I then followed teardown instructions, inspected the switch assembly & blew it out with forced air.
The problem ended & never returned. I honestly don't think there was a physical defect in my phone's switch; more likely a residual charge on the mainboard.
Root causes vary as do solutions for the problem. Inexpensive switch replacement is a good one too.
Since then I have used a couple of apps to reduce the need for the gs3 power button.
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