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[Q] I need help with phone start and shut down loop

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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[Q] GS3 won't charge and boot loop...need help fast.

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.

rpavich said:
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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Apocalypse487 said:
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.

rpavich said:
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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rail205 said:
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?

rpavich said:
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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Apocalypse487 said:
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.

rpavich said:
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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escocrx said:
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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escocrx said:
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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rpavich said:
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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[Request] How to prevent screen from waking up while pluging charger?

Hi all. My Gnex have really annoying problem. It keeps charging even while charger is unplugged and screen keeps turning on and off all the time while it is unplugged from the charger. So my question is like in a title. Any one can help?
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AW: [Request] How to prevent screen from waking up while pluging charger?
it is a hardware problem, do a little research about it.. if you are lucky everything will be fine if you push the tounge in the usb port a little to the middle
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Odp: [Request] How to prevent screen from waking up while pluging charger?
I know that is a hardware problem but I need to disable screen wakening while it's "charging"
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Ewuetebe said:
Hi all. My Gnex have really annoying problem. It keeps charging even while charger is unplugged and screen keeps turning on and off all the time while it is unplugged from the charger. So my question is like in a title. Any one can help?
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if the phone shows that it is still charging while the phone is unplugged it sounds like your charging port could be going bad. as far as disabling the screen wake, try doing a google search for an app that can do it, i know the newer versions of the sourcery rom have an option to disable the screen wake on plug/unplug.

I have had the this problem as well and looked into this as possible way to deal with the problem but it really does not help the battery draining issue you are having with the screen wake while unplugging as the apps stop the full wakelock but then you will still get the partial wakelock so you get almost no deep sleep while the phone is on.
The best thing to do is just buy a new usb port and replace it, plus if you are having this issue you probably have lost usb data connectivity as well well i did when this happened. This gnex are super easy to tear down (took me about 10min to replace) and the usb port is like 4-6 dollars plus shipping, not really to much. This happens quite often on the gnex so i just bought 3 when i did it and it was all of like 14 dollars with shipping. But anyway like i said if you are thinking that just stopping the screen from waking is going to stop the massive battery drain that this causes it will not, or well it did not in my case.
Just my two cents on this wonderful usb port they have given us

[Q] Phone shuts down when taking a flash pic through camera

I was using s4 mini for more than a year.Now phone got a big problem.It shuts down when i take a pic with flash on.It happens only when battery is below 40%.Battery drops down to 15-20% sometimes 0% when restarts.I also did same thing with new battery but it was still happening.Is it a software issue as this thing happened in both stock and cm11 rom. Please somebody help me out urgently.I made a phone deal with my acquintances but he will never buy my phone in this buggy condition.I also tried factory reset several times but the same thing happens every time.

Please somebody find a way to solve this issue
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Test with other battery. My guess is that your battery is damaged.
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Gnex automatically turn off when unplugged with battery remaining

This issue is somehow weird. When I do something with my phone for a while, my phone just turns off suddenly. It doesn't really power down, it is just off. Then I remove the battery and put it back, turn on the phone. Sometimes it boots successfully, sometimes it doesn't. The phone is bootable and works reliably when it is plugged in. I've tried flashing some ROMs but the issue still occurs. I don't know whether there is something wrong with battery or mainboard. I accidentally increased voltage for my Gnex via Trickster mod some days ago. I think this is the reason causing this problem.
Could you please give me some advice? Thanks.

Try to use another battery. I had the exact same problem for a while after the phone started to heat around the camera part. Try to get an app that says ur cpu temperature. If it shuts down when you do more serious thing on it like watching youtube or browsing the internet, then its 100% a battery problem.
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AdmiralulNipples said:
Try to use another battery. I had the exact same problem for a while after the phone started to heat around the camera part. Try to get an app that says ur cpu temperature. If it shuts down when you do more serious thing on it like watching youtube or browsing the internet, then its 100% a battery problem.
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Thanks for your suggestion. I'll find another battery to check. Hope this is caused by battery only

Yea I was worried too that it might be another part in my phone, but I had one friend with a Samsung Galaxy S3 and he was having the exact same problem and he tols me I should change my battery becausr he did and the problem was fixex. I did so and here I have my GNex working and running 5.1 like a baws
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