My wife is on vacation driving down to MS (from WV) and her phone died.
She was talking on it and co-pilot was running and then the phone shut off.
She couldn't reboot it, it would boot, then try and reboot and make a vibrate pattern like "beeeeeeppp beep beep" repeatedly and never boot. I told her (on the phone) that it might be that her battery was just dead.
So i had her turn the phone off and then put it on the charger.
Well, it's 10 hours later on a charge and the same thing is happening. She can't boot, she can't get into recovery, when she does the 3 finger salute the same thing happens....the vibration pattern.
She's been running aristodemos without problems up until now.
What do you think could be the problem? Battery? Charging port dead?
She said she's going to find an AT&T store while she's down there and tell them that her phone won't charge...could they charge her battery for her.
What do you think? Should we wait until she's back here and just put my battery in the phone? I ask because I don't want them to figure out that she's rooted and not help her.
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My wife is on vacation driving down to MS (from WV) and her phone died.
She was talking on it and co-pilot was running and then the phone shut off.
She couldn't reboot it, it would boot, then try and reboot and make a vibrate pattern like "beeeeeeppp beep beep" repeatedly and never boot. I told her (on the phone) that it might be that her battery was just dead.
So i had her turn the phone off and then put it on the charger.
Well, it's 10 hours later on a charge and the same thing is happening. She can't boot, she can't get into recovery, when she does the 3 finger salute the same thing happens....the vibration pattern.
She's been running aristodemos without problems up until now.
What do you think could be the problem? Battery? Charging port dead?
She said she's going to find an AT&T store while she's down there and tell them that her phone won't charge...could they charge her battery for her.
What do you think? Should we wait until she's back here and just put my battery in the phone? I ask because I don't want them to figure out that she's rooted and not help her.
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Sounds like what happened to my cousin's Note. I tried to root it and it did 3 beeps and boot loop. It might need recovery. If a nandroid is available on her phone then she needs to restore it if possible. If not, recovery via Kies is the next option. Unfortunately, Kies wipes everything.
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Sounds like what happened to my cousin's Note. I tried to root it and it did 3 beeps and boot loop. It might need recovery. If a nandroid is available on her phone then she needs to restore it if possible. If not, recovery via Kies is the next option. Unfortunately, Kies wipes everything.
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She can't get to recovery so how is she going to get to a nandroid backup?
How could she use kies if the phone won't even boot? Not understanding.
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She can't get to recovery so how is she going to get to a nandroid backup?
How could she use kies if the phone won't even boot? Not understanding.
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Sorry, I missed that somehow. A new battery might be worth a shot. Try yours when she gets back. AT&T will get another battery and see if it works.
It sounds more like a hardbrick. I hope it's not.
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Do you know if she can get into download mode?
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Do you know if she can get into download mode?
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I don't think so...I'm not sure why but when she tries, nothing happens. I'm coaching her remotely so It could be that she's just not doing it right or that the battery won't even get her to that point....i'm not sure why but at this point, she can't.
If she could...we'd be in good shape, I'd have her wipe the phone and start over.
I'm not sure whether I should tell her to hold off until she gets home to try my battery or go to the ATT store...I'd hate for them to put a new battery in and have it do something that shows that it's running a leaked rom and rooted....though I'm not sure what they'd do.
Would they just tell her to go away or would they note it on the account like we were somehow not entitled to warranty assistance even if we put it back to stock?
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I don't think so...I'm not sure why but when she tries, nothing happens. I'm coaching her remotely so It could be that she's just not doing it right or that the battery won't even get her to that point....i'm not sure why but at this point, she can't.
If she could...we'd be in good shape, I'd have her wipe the phone and start over.
I'm not sure whether I should tell her to hold off until she gets home to try my battery or go to the ATT store...I'd hate for them to put a new battery in and have it do something that shows that it's running a leaked rom and rooted....though I'm not sure what they'd do.
Would they just tell her to go away or would they note it on the account like we were somehow not entitled to warranty assistance even if we put it back to stock?
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They might report it, but when I had a hardbrick on my Atrix, I took it there. They didn't report it. If all else fails, report it lost and get another one. The best way to know is wait for her to get back.
Does the phone even turn on for a split second?
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They might report it, but when I had a hardbrick on my Atrix, I took it there. They didn't report it. If all else fails, report it lost and get another one. The best way to know is wait for her to get back.
Does the phone even turn on for a split second?
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It turns on but tries to boot....black screen and vibrations is all that happens. When that has happened to my phone I just recovered it so I'm not sure why hers isn't recoverable...operator error or it's just bricked.
I guess I'll just tell her to wait until she gets back unless someone has a better idea.
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It turns on but tries to boot....black screen and vibrations is all that happens. When that has happened to my phone I just recovered it so I'm not sure why hers isn't recoverable...operator error or it's just bricked.
I guess I'll just tell her to wait until she gets back unless someone has a better idea.
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If it turns on even for a second there might be a good chance to save it. Best thing to do is to wait. You can probably recover it using odin. My cousin's Note did that too, but he got lucky. I managed to fix it using Kies. I hope it works out.
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I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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You can get 2 batteries and charger for $24. It's on Amazon
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I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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Are you saying that your phone won't charge now? You have to take the battery out? Or are you saying that once you got it above 0v then you were back to normal?
OK.....situation solved!
Here is what happened:
She was using Co-Pilot and talking on the phone with the phone plugged into the charging jack in the car. It wasn't charging fast enough to keep up with usage, so it went dead dead dead.
So after she hooked it up to the charger...it still didnt' charge fast enough to get enough charge in the phone to enter recovery.
She got to the motel, plugged it in and left it overnight. Rebooted into recovery this morning and did a factory wipe and all is well.
Thanks for the help guys.
The phone was unable to charge it. The stand alone battery charger could. I just dont let it go zero anymore
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OK.....situation solved!
Here is what happened:
She was using Co-Pilot and talking on the phone with the phone plugged into the charging jack in the car. It wasn't charging fast enough to keep up with usage, so it went dead dead dead.
So after she hooked it up to the charger...it still didnt' charge fast enough to get enough charge in the phone to enter recovery.
She got to the motel, plugged it in and left it overnight. Rebooted into recovery this morning and did a factory wipe and all is well.
Thanks for the help guys.
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Good to hear. Keep a spare battery as back up I guess.
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My T-989 has never been able to stay shut down if the charger is plugged in. I shut it off and don't plug in the charger it stays off. I shut it down and plug in, or plug in and shut down, either way, and it immediately it turns itself on. I knew the that this would be a problem somehow when I noticed it but, no one (no one as in thread replies to similar problem) seemed to think it was a problem. Well, I was using my phone as a hot spot for my laptop as I do pretty often and this time I ran the battery down to about 7% before I realized just how low it was. I had to finish what I was doing on the laptop before disconnecting the phone. As I finished and started to go into settings to turn off the hotspot option the phone shut itself off. I then plugged in the charger and the phone did it's little trick and turned itself on instantly. Being that it has no charge left in the battery, it shut itself down. And because it doesn't stay turned off when plugged in, it turns itself back on. So the cycle begins. It won't charge up because it keeps cycling. And it keeps cycling because it doesn't allow itself to sleep while plugged in. I need to somehow charge the battery outside of the phone I guess. But what about a fix for the never sleep bug? Do other Roms allow sleep while charging? How can I charge the battery other than the obvious of using another SII or wiring the battery contacts directly to a charger with the mini usb cut off? Will a charged battery solve the problem ? Or is it a soft brick and I need to Odin and flash a new Rom? How come nobody could foresee this "dog chasing its tail" scenario when the phones don't sleep when plugged in? I need to resolve this asap. And as I always do say, Thanks in advance for your help everyone on XDA.
Maybe hotpot app issue or bug. Do you think you could reflash without the app. Personally I've never have heard of anything like this but thats why this site is for. To help one another get the most out of our device.
I'm no dev not computer genius, and pls understand that what I'm giving is "my" opinion. I could be wrong or even maybe a chance to be right.
With that said, why not try to get the phone on cmw and do a darkside
Cache wipe and maybe that could help ur permissions. And maybe even fix ur prob, another idea was to wipe ur battery stats. Also on advance mode in cmw. It could be endless factors that have caused this issue. I know its not a lot of help but hopefully I'm pointing at he right road for u to fix your device
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Thanks datrapstar. I first have to get the battery charged somehow. And even then the only thing I can do is USB jig into download. It stays in download when I remove the jig, but as soon as I connect a cable to it from the laptop or charger it starts the on off loop. So,????
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And your doing the 3button combo? It should automatic start booting into download mode. I don't know exactly how to do the jig. You may wanna pm "all gamer" being that he's the one I seen posting about it, and ask him if he can give u a lil guidance.
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Also, are u capable of going into a retail tmo?, maybe they can let u charge up there on one of their display devices. Its at no cost to them. And sometimes u find one of the cool sales reps that is willing to go above and beyond. Its the best I good bro, sorry
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efforts that aren't in vain.
I'll start by letting you (datrapstar) know I appreciate your input. It is certainly welcomed . The jig I'm talking about is a plug - in (mini USB) device that jumps, or crosses two of the circuits of the female USB plug on your phone. It instantly puts your phone into download mode. Rather than the two or three button method, which in some instances won't work, the jig always ,99% of the time,works even if you have a unresponsive, almost bricked device. All that power for $10 plus shipping from MobileTechVideo,the guys who can modify your phone with the famous Unbrickable Modification. Okay, back to the issues at hand, my hand, to be exact.
I do have access to a TMo store, being that I live in " Lower Beverly Hills " we even have a valet parking lot across the way. I'm just fu##ing with ya Bro. But yeah, I may do just that to charge the battery. And I have a girl that works at one of the TMo retails that I use who has already gone above and beyond the call of duty for me that I may have to pay a visit to. I didn't have time to do anything today about my SGII, and fortunately I have my Captivate that I use as my business phone to keep me connected to everyone during this time of phone aggravation. I will keep posting with my progress toward a resolution, and I will gladly accept anymore input sent my way that might steer me towards a final solution. Oh, and sorry for the long, and wordy posts. (Not really) I like to write, and don't practice "textphonics" abbreviations or acronyms. Later Bro.
No doubt then ,hope it all works out for the best for u. I'll keep checking in on the tread and see how ur making out. And I'll also try doing a lil more research in any resolutions of the matter. Good luck:thumbup:
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Cool. Talk again later.
Got it working
I got it working Thursday. The phone finally decided that it was gonna stay shut down and the battery recharged. I knew I could get it running after that. I probably did a few things that didn't need to be done but, I'm still new to this. I wiped everything (almost), Dalvick, Data, Battery, Cache, Factory Wipe and Reset. I probably forgot some. I Odin the .tar/md5 file and then rebooted. I just want to know how to fix the phone from not shutting off and staying off if the charger is plugged in, and which custom ROM I should try now ? I'm back to rooted, stock, Gingerbread 2.3.6 UVKL1, Baseband version UVLE1. Any ideas?
I'm on infamous 2.8 right now and I can't complain about it at all. 27+hrs battle life and thats with light use. As for the other issues the only thing I can think off it was just a bad download.
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My phone will not turn on, only for 3 seconds then reboot, and then just vibrate every 3 seconds,cannot enter dl mode or recovery, running cm9.1 with twrp, any ideas?
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stephen31686 said:
My phone will not turn on, only for 3 seconds then reboot, and then just vibrate every 3 seconds,cannot enter dl mode or recovery, running cm9.1 with twrp, any ideas?
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What did you do before it happened? Flash twrp?
I was browsing web, then put it on the charger. Happened as soon as I put on charger, have had twrp for at least a month. I have feeling its a hardware issue, because I was able to boot once restore a back up and use again, until it happened again, have been unable to boot since the second occurance.
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My old SE X10 did the same.
Turn your phone off. Get the battery out and put the phone and the battery in the fridge (not in the icebox).
Wait 10 min.
Test it again. If the Phone works a few hours (or minutes), so you have certainly a hardware defect.
You can test some "stresstest" apps.
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My old SE X10 did the same.
Turn your phone off. Get the battery out and put the phone and the battery in the fridge (not in the icebox).
Wait 10 min.
Test it again. If the Phone works a few hours (or minutes), so you have certainly a hardware defect.
You can test some "stresstest" apps.
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I high moisture environment isn't recommended for a lithium-ion battery that goes into a 350 dollar piece of electronics. If you think its the battery, get a different one. If it's overheating, check the temperature and replace the unit.
Also check the micro-usb connection for debris. This has happened to me several times and its always some kind of crap in the connector. I have gotten it out with compressed air a couple times but once I had to use a toothpick to dislodge something that was particularly stubborn (and apparently conductive!).
You probably have a bad power button. Seen this a lot lately
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For testing odin to stock and reroot, see if your problem persists. In the event it does just warranty exchange it. Saves a lot of hassle plus if its hardware they should grant you the warranty without any hassle. On another note if its the battery giving you issue, Ebay has them for sale for a very decent price.
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You probably have a bad power button. Seen this a lot lately
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^^^^ +1 I would check into what this guys has just mentioned and I say that because this is not the first thread of its kind that I have seen in here and the results of those threads were the people had a bad power button. May or may not be your issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690759
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769183
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1679492
There were more but I figure if you take some time and read these threads maybe you would find a solution... Got to remember 99% of the problems we have we are usually not the first to have it..
Thanks guys, warranty replacement on the way, don't think its battery because plugged in charger wo batt and it vibrates, I only worry bc if you attempt to boot into recovery twrp flash screen shows for less than a second, I know I voided warranty but has got to be hw issue not caused by me, fingers crossed that samsung aknowledges that!
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This worked for me
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My phone will not turn on, only for 3 seconds then reboot, and then just vibrate every 3 seconds,cannot enter dl mode or recovery, running cm9.1 with twrp, any ideas?
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Same thing was happening to me. I found that i could only get it to boot up when it was connected to my computer via usb and had the battery installed. I was on ICS 4.0.4 and not rooted. As soon as i got it to boot up, i did a factory reset, and everything is working perfect now.
Alright guys so normally i'm pretty skilled in getting things to operate perfectly and have always been good at flashing roms but I have a massive issue with my Galaxy Note 2. The phone has NOT been flashed yet. I bought it new and for whatever reason the other night i plugged my phone in before i went to bed as usual. I woke up the next morning and the phone was not charging nor did it show it was plugged in/charged to 100%. It had about 87% battery life so it obviously did charge through the night to some degree. I pulled out the battery, put it back in and the phone booted up all by itself without me even touching the power button! It stays on the battery icon charging screen for about 5 seconds then reboots itself constantly. If you try to hold down the power button it will not boot up. I can get it into Download Mode as well as Recovery mode but none of which have helped it boot up. I am running on the most recent 4.1.2 firmware as well FYI. If you have any ideas please feel free to throw them my way. I don't really understand how this could have happened.. Thanks in advance
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Alright guys so normally i'm pretty skilled in getting things to operate perfectly and have always been good at flashing roms but I have a massive issue with my Galaxy Note 2. The phone has NOT been flashed yet. I bought it new and for whatever reason the other night i plugged my phone in before i went to bed as usual. I woke up the next morning and the phone was not charging nor did it show it was plugged in/charged to 100%. It had about 87% battery life so it obviously did charge through the night to some degree. I pulled out the battery, put it back in and the phone booted up all by itself without me even touching the power button! It stays on the battery icon charging screen for about 5 seconds then reboots itself constantly. If you try to hold down the power button it will not boot up. I can get it into Download Mode as well as Recovery mode but none of which have helped it boot up. I am running on the most recent 4.1.2 firmware as well FYI. If you have any ideas please feel free to throw them my way. I don't really understand how this could have happened.. Thanks in advance
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You mentioned that you accessed the recovery mode and download mode but did you try flashing the rom again?
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You mentioned that you accessed the recovery mode and download mode but did you try flashing the rom again?
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I actually downloaded the newest odin and flashed the stock official 4.1.2 firmware release i got online. I flashed it in download mode and it said success. However, after it auto rebooted it again went back to the rebooting battery icon screen immediately.
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You mentioned that you accessed the recovery mode and download mode but did you try flashing the rom again?
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Also, As-salam alaykum! I have been to UAE twice now and i absolutely love it. I have a friend who lives there and we are frequent visitors to Dubai Mall, Ferrari World, and Moreeb Dune..
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I actually downloaded the newest odin and flashed the stock official 4.1.2 firmware release i got online. I flashed it in download mode and it said success. However, after it auto rebooted it again went back to the rebooting battery icon screen immediately.
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I think theres a way to fully format the internal memory before flashing the rom through odin. I dont know much about odin except the flashing bit and rooting. You should check on that.
My guess is that without formatting the phone youre only upgrading the os leaving corrupt files present in the phone that causeing the start up issue.
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Also, As-salam alaykum! I have been to UAE twice now and i absolutely love it. I have a friend who lives there and we are frequent visitors to Dubai Mall, Ferrari World, and Moreeb Dune..
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Hey Salam to you too. Im not really from here although ive lived here for sometime now. And I honestly dont like to go to those places mentioned as I find it too gimiky. But yea there are other places worth visiting aswell here in Dubai.
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I think theres a way to fully format the internal memory before flashing the rom through odin. I dont know much about odin except the flashing bit and rooting. You should check on that.
My guess is that without formatting the phone youre only upgrading the os leaving corrupt files present in the phone that causeing the start up issue.
Hey Salam to you too. Im not really from here although ive lived here for sometime now. And I honestly dont like to go to those places mentioned as I find it too gimiky. But yea there are other places worth visiting aswell here in Dubai.
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I'll look into the reformatting.. The weird thing is that last night after letting it sit for like 8+ hours i somehow got it to boot up after putting the battery back in and powering it on really fast the first try. However, now when i plug in the charger it wont recognize the charger being plugged in! This phone is like possessed. When it wont boot up at all and stays on that charging icon screen and then i plug it in, it says it charging and the icon turns green. This makes less than zero sense..
Turn it off. Hold volume up plus home button plus power. Now you're in recovery mode. Select wipe and restore. It should work after, I had the same issue one.
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This really looks like short circuit case.
Have you got your phone wet?
It looks like some water or humidity got in and power button is making a shirt circuit.
Maybe it is better to take it to certified service center just to make sure.
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Is your phone N7100 or LTE N7105. Which rom did you flash.
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Turn it off. Hold volume up plus home button plus power. Now you're in recovery mode. Select wipe and restore. It should work after, I had the same issue one.
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I already had tried that.
mariosraptor said:
This really looks like short circuit case.
Have you got your phone wet?
It looks like some water or humidity got in and power button is making a shirt circuit.
Maybe it is better to take it to certified service center just to make sure.
I was able to fix it!
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Is your phone N7100 or LTE N7105. Which rom did you flash.
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It is an N7100 no LTE..
Basically i was able to fix the problem by fiddling with the charging port on the phone. I took a tac and cleaned out the inside what seemed like was junk/loose stuff inside of it behind the gold connectors and further in towards the inside of the phones port. I put the battery in and it only booted up when i turned the phone on and it recognizes the phone being plugged in every time i've tried to make it crap out. Everytime i restart the phone it boots up like it should no problem. Seems as though that was the problem! Thanks again for the help
So, my LGOG is soft-bricked with a dead battery (happened during a twrp backup, although i swear it was at least 60% when i started). I can get to fastboot by holding vol up and power, and then plugging it in (i lgnpst'd teenybin), but when i try to load recovery it shows a black screen that says google and has an unlocked padlock at the bottom for an instant, then dies.
Everyone on IRC has been very helpful, especially autoprime. When i plug it in, the cap button lights and the red led flash. I plugged it the wall in for about 30 minutes, no heat, nothing. So I am just going to leave it unplugged for the night in hopes something will reset or die enough that the battery charges next time i plug it in. Otherwise I will try a battery pull, and go from there.
If anyone has any insight on getting my battery charged via another method, it is certainly welcome and appreciated.
Did it charge? I'm curios if you fixed it.
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Did it charge? I'm curios if you fixed it.
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No, but I have not done the battery pull yet.
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No, but I have not done the battery pull yet.
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It may have just been my luck, but when this happened to me, I put the phone into download mode by plugging into a USB port while holding volume up and volume down. After that, I unplugged and powered off, then plugged back in to normal ac charger, and it began to charge, as it showed the battery icon. Left it for a bit, then booted it up no problem. Might be worth a try before opening the phone.
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It may have just been my luck, but when this happened to me, I put the phone into download mode by plugging into a USB port while holding volume up and volume down. After that, I unplugged and powered off, then plugged back in to normal ac charger, and it began to charge, as it showed the battery icon. Left it for a bit, then booted it up no problem. Might be worth a try before opening the phone.
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Well, when i unplug mine from download mode, it dies immediately, so i don't think I am getting an opportunity to power it off to reset, but I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion!
UPDATE: I tried, but with no avail, it just goes back to flashing alternately between the cap lights and the red led. I am going to try flashing zv9 stock in lgnpst, to see if maybe i can get into stock recovery.
maybe try charging from download mode? only thing i can think of
Battery pull LGOG worked
Well, battery pull worked! As soon as I flipped that battery bracket back down, the phone powered up and booted fine.
Now here is the interesting part... my phone powered back up and the battery was at 69%. It was not by any means dead. I even left it off the charger for a while to confirm. So, something happened during my TWRP backup that tripped a fault. Could allowing the screen to timeout in TWRP have caused this?
Either way, I want to thank autoprime again for helping me get to this point. My LGOG is back!
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Well, battery pull worked! As soon as I flipped that battery bracket back down, the phone powered up and booted fine.
Now here is the interesting part... my phone powered back up and the battery was at 69%. It was not by any means dead. I even left it off the charger for a while to confirm. So, something happened during my TWRP backup that tripped a fault. Could allowing the screen to timeout in TWRP have caused this?
Either way, I want to thank autoprime again for helping me get to this point. My LGOG is back!
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Sounds like a corrupt restore!
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Sounds like a corrupt restore!
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Well since I LGNPSTd back when jelly bean leaked and I flashed the update, I have not done anything but root. In fact, I had just installed FreeGee and installed TWRP 2.5 and was doing my first backup. So, something must have gotten corrupt during the backup; possibly because I was on the flashed update vs the OTA, idk...
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
85gslse said:
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
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Happened to my wife's phone, i had enough charge to where I could get into the bootloader and do a reboot and plugged the charger back in and it booted up and charged. It almost happened again tonight, the screen was dark when she plugged it into the charge then 5 mins later the charging indicator on the screen popped up. You can def get it to work again just try to get into your bootloader and do a reboot. Just make sure you have the charge plugged in because the first time i encountered this it booted up but turned off and soft bricked again.
85gslse said:
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
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Lgnpst is the easiest fix. Can also force it to turn off by holding power, then put in fast boot mode.
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Lgnpst worked after about everything that could have gone wrong did and then some what a headache, definitely not worth the root. Anyone wanna buy a lgog? I need a more dev friendly phone
85gslse said:
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
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I've had mine die a few times with no problems. At least three instances on zvb and once on EOS. Just my two cents.
I believe what you need next time is to use the sbl unlock in free gee next time. That fixed this issue for me.
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xboxfanj said:
I believe what you need next time is to use the sbl unlock in free gee next time. That fixed this issue for me.
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I used the that unlock method, I had been rooted with ZERO issues for a month and my phone had died at least 3 times before that, i was really baffled that it bricked, I am back to stock for now, might build the courage to do it all over again, pissed me off though i lost so much stuff. :crying:
i had the same issue, all i did was just plug into the charger let it sit then hit the power button. when the phone shut off it showed the charging icon on the screen. i ended up waiting it out and the device fired up with 2% battery then i put the phone to sleep and charged the rest of the way.
I have this issue every time my phone dies. It doesn't brick.
If I plug the phone in the screen will just light up but won't charge properly. I have to let it charge up enough. Then go into the bootloader and reboot from there. Let it turn on. Then charge it while it is on.
Try it. I'm pretty sure you aren't soft bricked.
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eyeisdasteve said:
I have this issue every time my phone dies. It doesn't brick.
If I plug the phone in the screen will just light up but won't charge properly. I have to let it charge up enough. Then go into the bootloader and reboot from there. Let it turn on. Then charge it while it is on.
Try it. I'm pretty sure you aren't soft bricked.
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The nexus sbls are really helping me.
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