No flash will turn on or download mode, I hold Vol Up +Down button and nothing. Tried taking of battery and nothing....I was using CWM recovery to flash a overclock kernal. But installation aborted so i reinstalled the kernal i had before. After that i rebooted system and from there it stayed off :with 90% battery life. Any Idea on how to fix?
That's a bummer...have you googled unbricking the sgs3? Maybe try making a jig..super easy to do and saved my arse a few times! Good luck
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So the phone won't turn on at all? Not even a short vibrate?
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Remove the battery. Reinsert the battery and immediately hold down home, volume up, and power. As soon as it vibrates let go of power while still holding down home and volume up. Should get you to recovery mode.
gonna echo try using a jig.
Try volume up (or down, I forget) + power + home button all the same time. If it doesn't work by itself, try plugging the phone into your computer at the same time.
Worked for me when I flashed the euro mods when sgs3 first came out
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knifepartysas said:
No flash will turn on or download mode, I hold Vol Up +Down button and nothing. Tried taking of battery and nothing....I was using CWM recovery to flash a overclock kernal. But installation aborted so i reinstalled the kernal i had before. After that i rebooted system and from there it stayed off :with 90% battery life. Any Idea on how to fix?
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its alrite its a hard brick if it wont even turn on samsung will have no clue of noticing you had a custom os. i had a hardbrick before too its free cuz its still in warranty for the next 2 yrs give samsung a try just call em up and say the new samsung software update ****ed up your phone cuz i said the same thing and they fixed it
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Hi All
After successfully rooting I though I would go the next stage and install CWM , in my haste I must of done something wrong and after resetting the phone it wont turn on. I have tried a factory reset, wont turn on, tried pulling battery etc no luck. When I plug it into the computer I get a searching for QHSUSB_DOWN driver which never succeeds and running the LG update utility just says phone not connected...ANY help would be sincerely appreciated...!!!
Can you get into download mode by pulling the battery out, then put it back, press and hold volume up button and press power button.
If download mode works, then follow the unbricking solution.
Thanks for the quick response and nope no luck!
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Can you get into download mode by pulling the battery out, then put it back, press and hold volume up button and press power button.
If download mode works, then follow the unbricking solution.
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You can't get into download mode like that (just tried it to verify). You have to power off the device, hold volume up then plug in usb to get into download mode.
either way have had no luck, seems it is going back to warranty....
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Strange thing I don't even need hold the power button, just hold vol up after battery is in and press once power button...go figure, this is one f.up phone...
i had to put phone back to stock and now i cant get the phone to go into donwload mode by pressing 1 and power button. is there another way to get into download mode?
Thanks in advance,
Pull out battery, press power button with battery out, hold it for a few secs. Put battery back in and download mode should work again.
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Leave the battery out hook it up to the computer and use the pc as the power source and try going into dlmode
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i tried that and still nothing , it just boots up like normal. no download mode.
is there another way to get to the download mode?
tried to use computer as power source on laptop and desktop but no luck any other suggestion/
Are you pressing and holding the 1 key on the keyboard and THEN add pressing and holding the power button? Order is important.
Does your 1 key work?
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1 button seem to work fine when trying to make a call . im lost
You didn't comment on my advice, did you give it a shot? I've semi-bricked my epic and that was what worked for me.
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@Shinydude100 sorry about that yes i tried your way and still nothing. im still lost.
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@Shinydude100 sorry about that yes i tried your way and still nothing. im still lost.
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When you say stock, do you mean el30? And is it rooted at least? Or does it have cwm? Maybe just maybe, but I think some custom roms had the option to go into download mode when you shut it off, if its rooted, perhaps you could install cwm from rom manager, boot up cwm, install a rom that has download mode from reboot, I think cwm from acs might even have reboot to download mode? Not sure on this one, just trying to go out on a limb and help if I can.
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They phone can't reboot with out the battery..
take the battery off...and keep it off for about 10 mins, and then put the battery back in, and try it... i do know this worked for me when i semi-bricked my phone. don't have it plugged in, into anything.
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They phone can't reboot with out the battery..
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Hold 1 (with the phone off)
Keep holding and start holding power
Bam
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Hey guys, I'm not sure if my phone is dead. It was running fine this morning, Task & Ktoonsez' AOKP with Ktoonsez kernel. However, I tried to unlock it a little while ago and it wouldn't go on. It boots to the splash screen, both normally and going into recovery, but it doesn't last long enough to go into recovery or boot normally. I try to boot into download mode and it boots, but the phone turns off after a few seconds.
I tried to flash back to stock in Odin, but the phone doesn't stay in download mode long enough for the flash to finish.
I'm not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Pretty sure if it was bricked it wouldn't boot into download mode at all. It sounds like it is losing power or something. The only thing I can think of is maybe your battery is bad. Download mode can run off of USB power if you remove the battery after booting into it. Maybe plug your phone in and boot into download mode, then take your battery out before it shuts off and see if it stays on.
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Pretty sure if it was bricked it wouldn't boot into download mode at all. It sounds like it is losing power or something. The only thing I can think of is maybe your battery is bad. Download mode can run off of USB power if you remove the battery after booting into it. Maybe plug your phone in and boot into download mode, then take your battery out before it shuts off and see if it stays on.
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No dice. It just did the same thing it's been doing. I went into download, popped the battery, it stayed in download for a few seconds, and then powered off.
Could it be a faulty power button? The phone is constantly vibrating by itself and if the power button was messed up it could be causing the phone to leave download mode.
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No dice. It just did the same thing it's been doing. I went into download, popped the battery, it stayed in download for a few seconds, and then powered off.
Could it be a faulty power button? The phone is constantly vibrating by itself and if the power button was messed up it could be causing the phone to leave download mode.
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As far as I can tell pressing or holding the power button in download mode will only restart it, but won't shut it off. Also it takes about 10 seconds. I don't think it's your power button.
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As far as I can tell pressing or holding the power button in download mode will only restart it, but won't shut it off. Also it takes about 10 seconds. I don't think it's your power button.
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Ah, okay.
In that case, though, I have no clue what's causing the problem here. At this point the only thing I can do is enter download mode for a few seconds, but I can't get it to be enough time to flash a ROM in Odin.
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Hey guys, I'm not sure if my phone is dead. It was running fine this morning, Task & Ktoonsez' AOKP with Ktoonsez kernel. However, I tried to unlock it a little while ago and it wouldn't go on. It boots to the splash screen, both normally and going into recovery, but it doesn't last long enough to go into recovery or boot normally. I try to boot into download mode and it boots, but the phone turns off after a few seconds.
I tried to flash back to stock in Odin, but the phone doesn't stay in download mode long enough for the flash to finish.
I'm not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
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Might be a dumb question... Is your battery charged? I'd plug it in for a while off and see if the battery logo comes up and than try putting it in recovery or download.
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Might be a dumb question... Is your battery charged? I'd plug it in for a while off and see if the battery logo comes up and than try putting it in recovery or download.
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I tried that too. It's been plugged in for a while and the same thing happens. It just stays in download mode for a few seconds and then turns off. Also, I tried flashing back to stock in Odin but it failed because the phone turned off before the flash could finish. Now the phone says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select Recovery mode in Kies and try again."
So it's basically stuck in download mode cause of a corrupted flash. If I could get the phone to stay in download mode, I could flash it back to stock with Odin, but it's not giving me enough time at this point.
I'm running into the same problem currently, I was wondering if you were able to find a solution. Same ROM same Kernel. I've been using my current version of the ROM since October and haven't flashed anything recently, It just died on me last nigth and now I'm experiencing what you are as well. I was able to turn on the phone somehow last night but it stayed on for couple of mins and turned off again. At the time I had 60% charge.
Thanks
Unfortunately not. Sent my phone back to AT&T and they honored the warranty (despite it being very clear that I was rooted and on custom software).
@fly3rr
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Unfortunately not. Sent my phone back to AT&T and they honored the warranty (despite it being very clear that I was rooted and on custom software).
@fly3rr
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Thanks. I got the phone when it launched so it's been over a year hence I'm well over the one year manufacturer warranty. Doubt they'll honor it for me =/.
Bad news, It's not about software, it's a hardware issue.
I had that issue with a Sprint S3,
The power button switch is stuck pressed all the time, you can try to hit it a little and maybe it pops out but the issue is gonna still there.
If you remove and insert the battery does it vibrates and tries to turn on without pressing the power button?
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Bad news, It's not about software, it's a hardware issue.
I had that issue with a Sprint S3,
The power button switch is stuck pressed all the time, you can try to hit it a little and maybe it pops out but the issue is gonna still there.
If you remove and insert the battery does it vibrates and tries to turn on without pressing the power button?
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yup I just realized it was the power button issue. I managed to fix the problem[kind of], i kept trying to get into download mode while connected to AC Adapter with official charging cables. And it stayed in download mode long enough for me to go back to stock ROM. I'm just trying to avoid hitting the power button as much as possible because every time I do something goes crazy and phone turns off.
I'm gonna try and go to AT&T store tomorrow to see if they can do anything about this.
Thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it.
You're welcome. Good luck dude :thumbup:
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I have the same problem. I've tried to install quickly the twrp. But is not time enough
My problem was the battery. After charge a lot, all thing works fine.
Hello guys, so today I decided to update my i747 ATT S3 to the latest Task650 Rom, I did as always with the exception that this time I needed to flash a file trough PDA in odin since there was a baseband update back in may. Everything was successful at this point, phone rebooted and went in to the current version of the Task650 ROM i had installed, everything worked great with the exception of my power button that once pressed instead of locking the phone would completely turn it off/trigget the power panel (shutdown,reboot...) so I booted again and powered it off. Tried to get into recovery to flash the latest build of the Task650 ROM without luck, the phone just powers off once trying to boot into recovery, tried the same thing with download mode. At first it went in and stayed in download mode successfully but then I tried to go into recovery again and the same story, went back into download mode and this time it would shut down after 3 or so seconds, sometimes lasts more but no matter what I do it shuts down and the battery has to be pulled in order for it to go into either mode.
At this point to me it looks like a sticked power button but I could be wrong. Any suggestions in order to attend this issue?
[Update] So apparently it really is my power button, wiggled with it for a bit and managed to make the phone boot into the ROM successfully...
Any suggestions on how to permanently fix this issue?
Oscar
Hey man,
If you were able to "wiggle" the power button to work then its definitely the power button. If you have had the phone for a year or less I'd Odin back to stock/ flash counter fix the device and return it to at&t. Back in my captivate days that was a sure sign that the power button was about to malfunction completely. If you are unable to take in for warranty then I'd suggest using the XDA search feature to find the "home remedy power button fixes" or maybe just googling fixes. Mobile tech videos does good work but I won't link to his website because I'm pretty sure its against XDA rules. Or, for even more fun; you could fix it yourself.
Anyways,
Goodluck.
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SOLVED, got phone back from repair shop where power button was successfully replaced
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SOLVED, got phone back from repair shop where power button was successfully replaced
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Good to hear man
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It all started last night. So I tried to flash the vanir 4.4.2 ROM and the Carbon rom, but none of them worked. I had CWM recovery and it kept giving me a status 7 error. I was soft bricked, so I wasn't really scared. (Yes i used the correct rom, d2spr). I then used Odin and flashed the twrp custom recovery. Still, failed ROM. I then proceeded to just unroot the whole phone, so I went to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
put it on my 32GB sdcard and plugged it in my 16GB s3. I downloaded the new 16GB with md4 count reset yada yada yada. So it flashed smoothly, and it said succesful. But before it rebooted, twrp asked to flash supersu. I said no and it just turned off. It didn't turn back on. Took out the batter, charged it, did everything. It isn't turning on. Any ideas? I flashed ALL correct ROMs yet this happens.
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Put the latest Philz zip on your sdcard and flash that in twrp, reboot recovery....
Try it with Philz and see if it makes a difference as twrp can be wonky
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Yea, I think I know what happened. I, idiotically, flashed 4.3 update. So that unroot .zip file just hardbricked my phone. Am waiting for a 4.3 debrick image. But thanks for trying to help anyway.
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Okay this may seem redundant but plug your phone into your wall charger and in 4 hours minimum grab your phone and hold the power button for 30 seconds and then unplug your phone.
-Now hold volume down and home button, while holding them plug your phone in and keep holding them until the screen pops up. You should have life again.
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Wait so this is the sequence?
-Plug phone into wall charger for 4 hours
-Hold power button for 30 seconds while phone is still plugged
-Let go of power button and unplug phone
-Hold volume down and home button and plug phone in (do I also hold power button too?)
-keep holding until (download mode?) pops up.
Sorry if I'm being detailed, but I need exact instructions so I know I didn't mess up.
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When you're holding volume down and the home button press power for about 5 seconds or however long until the Samsung logo pops up
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If the logo does not appear within ten seconds while holding vol down and the home button let me know if you get any response at all
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Holy ****, this worked. I'm in download mode and Odin recognizes my phone. Thanks jess.