Hi guys,
I updated to JB on my rooted S3 when it first came out a couple months ago. Everything was fine until a few days ago, when all of a sudden it turned off on its own. Since then the phone won't power on, it seems to always restart itself at the Samsung boot screen. I tried to do a factory reset, but the phone still restarts itself. Tried to put into download mode, no go either. Any idea on what I could do to fix it?
Thanks!
So I'm trying to mess with the phone again. I insert the battery and press the on button. The Samsung logo briefly flashes then the Samsung Galaxy SIII screen shows up. Then no response after that. The blue/purple Samsung logo used to show up and freeze, but now it doesn't even get to that point. As I try to power up again, there's no response until I take out/put in the battery again
If you are getting to a boot screen, it is only a soft brick. Do you know how to put your phone back onto stock rom?
To get into download mode
1. pull the battery, put it back.
2.hold power volume down and home key at the same time.
3.when your phone vibrates, let go of the power button.
4.when a screen comes up, let go of all buttons.
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Deoxlar said:
If you are getting to a boot screen, it is only a soft brick. Do you know how to put your phone back onto stock rom?
To get into download mode
1. pull the battery, put it back.
2.hold power volume down and home key at the same time.
3.when your phone vibrates, let go of the power button.
4.when a screen comes up, let go of all buttons.
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I tried that. But the phone just restarts itself as soon as the screen come up
Press the up botton to get into the download screen. You are holding the home and down too long. Release it right before you see the screen and press volume up to get to download mode.
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If you still have a screen, it means you will be able to get to dl mode. Look it up to make sure you are doing it properly.
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Something strange happened yesterday. Went to power on my phone so I held the power button. Then I pressed the power button one more time before it booted and next thing u know I'm looking at safemode. Looked just like stock rom except for the words safe mode in the bottom corner. I had no idea we had a safemode lol
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Is this with the Stock ROM?
Yeah stock and rooted
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I did some searching and found that you can get Android into safe mode by holding the menu button while turning on the phone. Safe mode appears to prevent anything from starting so you can uninstall a bad program.
Warning, it reset my widgets when I turned off the phone and started in normal mode again.
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One thing to add, I had to use the menu button on the physical keyboard. I couldn't get the soft button to work. It seems like you have to hold it until the main lock screen shows and you will see safe mode on the bottom left.
I recently bought a used Samsung Galaxy S2X and it was already rooted running DarkSide's ROM. I didn't see this when i bought it but I can't seem to turn the phone off or boot into recovery mode. Whenever i hold the power button, the power menu comes up, i press power off, and then it says your phone will shut down, i press okay, the samsung galaxy boot image comes up and then the screen turns black and the soft keys stay lit...After that i can't do anything, the only thing i can do is take the battery out and put it back in to turn the phone off again.
I thought this was a ROM problem, but i can't even boot into recovery :S it does the same thing. If anyone knows what's going on, please help me out. I'm sort of panicking.
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Never mind, i fixed it after playing around with it. Thanks, the mods can now close this thread
darkside cache wipe if on cwm 5
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My phone won't turn off. At first it would get stuck at the lg screen but it goes past it and stays at a black screen. If I try turning it off it turns right back on. I can't LGNSPT with my phone on so plz help. I also tried booting into to fastboot. Iy was a no go.
Cjay1518 said:
My phone won't turn off. At first it would get stuck at the lg screen but it goes past it and stays at a black screen. If I try turning it off it turns right back on. I can't LGNSPT with my phone on so plz help. I also tried booting into to fastboot. Iy was a no go.
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try this.
to get into download mode,
leave your phone on and connect to pc
press and hold both volume buttons
press and hold power button till OG's screen goes black black (don't let go volume buttons yet)
release power button (still hold volume buttons)
your OG should turn back on by itself in my experience.
and see if you can get into download mode.
This method took me to download mode when I soft bricked my OG.
Good luck!
P.s. same way for fast boot except it uses only volume down button.
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Still didn't work for me
drancid said:
try this.
to get into download mode,
leave your phone on and connect to pc
press and hold both volume buttons
press and hold power button till OG's screen goes black black (don't let go volume buttons yet)
release power button (still hold volume buttons)
your OG should turn back on by itself in my experience.
and see if you can get into download mode.
This method took me to download mode when I soft bricked my OG.
Good luck!
P.s. same way for fast boot except it uses only volume down button.
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Thanks, I appreicate the help, but I can't get it to fasboot like how you said. Also when I do the fastboot method the bottom buttons flash.
Remove d battery
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Thanks, I appreicate the help, but I can't get it to fasboot like how you said. Also when I do the fastboot method the bottom buttons flash.
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what about download mode?
if you can get into download mode, flash ZVB stock via LGNPST.
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Got a problem. My S3 won't boot up. I'm running AOKP, not sure which version.
When I pull the battery and put it back in, the Samsung logo flashes once, like it's trying to boot, without me ever touching the power button, then it goes black. I went to the cell phone store and tried with another battery. Same result.
I've been having problems with the power button sticking internally recently. No evidence of sticking from the outside, but the power menu randomly appears, and the phone would randomly shut off. I don't have a lock on my phone, so I overused the power button a lot.
Is it supposed to turn on like that after you pop in a fully working battery, or does that mean the power button is being held in place? Could someone confirm what happens if the power button on the S3 is held down continuously after you turn it on?
Also might be a software or flash problem from too many random reboots.
Hopefully the motherboard is not toast.
It's likely that you are just having a stuck power button. Normally if you just hold it down, first the power menu will appear and if you continue to hold it down, the phone will go black and try to restart.
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shortydoggg said:
It's likely that you are just having a stuck power button. Normally if you just hold it down, first the power menu will appear and if you continue to hold it down, the phone will go black and try to restart.
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How can I fix this?
So I rooted my Lg G2 just fine, I've done jailbreaks and such in the past and consider myself tech savvy. However after trying to install a custom ROM on my phone, I got these white lines to where I couldn't see my screen. I found a fix for it and tried to conquer that myself as well. As I proceeded to flash a jdi kernel onto my G2 to get rid of the white lines and lack of display, I got an error and put myself into a boot problem. When I turn my phone on, I get a secure booting error everytime and my screen goes black. I have tried countless times to use the hard reset feature but I cannot get the it to come up with pressing with volume down and power buttons. I can't get into download mode either. My screen goes black within seconds and just sits there. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
Please.
I really need any sort of help or direction. I've tried everything I can think of.
How did you try to go into download mode?
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RodJeremy said:
So I rooted my Lg G2 just fine, I've done jailbreaks and such in the past and consider myself tech savvy. However after trying to install a custom ROM on my phone, I got these white lines to where I couldn't see my screen. I found a fix for it and tried to conquer that myself as well. As I proceeded to flash a jdi kernel onto my G2 to get rid of the white lines and lack of display, I got an error and put myself into a boot problem. When I turn my phone on, I get a secure booting error everytime and my screen goes black. I have tried countless times to use the hard reset feature but I cannot get the it to come up with pressing with volume down and power buttons. I can't get into download mode either. My screen goes black within seconds and just sits there. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
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Greetings, here's what I did, I booted my phone into download mode by pressing and holding the volume up button, and quickly plugging the usb cable into my phone(make sure it's connected to the computer), wait until the device is charged at 100%(you will know it's fully charged when you see something like this "B100", turn off your phone and hold the power button and volume down button at the same time until you see the LG Logo, once you've seen the LG Logo, QUICKLY press and hold the power button and the volume down button at the same time adain, and you should boot into recovery mode.[emoji4]
If you made a backup of your previous Rom, you can now restore it.[emoji106]
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