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I just bricked my rooted T989. Nothing happens when I hit power (no display) and my PC does not show the drives when I connect via USB. I have tried vol buttons + power (with battery and [no battery + cable]). Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should try next? Is TMO likely to replace/repair my phone even though it had been rooted?
Have you tried getting into download mode? And what caused the brick?
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I was flashing a new ROM and it bricked when it finished flashing. It just never rebooted. I can't get into download mode.
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I was flashing a new ROM and it bricked when it finished flashing. It just never rebooted. I can't get into download mode.
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What rom did you flash?
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This is really embarassing but I somehow stumbled up WickedRom, which is for the I9100, somehow thought it was for T989, and tried to flash it. Obviously a major league screw up. I have requested a replacement from TMO. I just hope they don't hit me with a major financial penalty if Samsung notices that it has been rooted (it was rooted when I tried flashing WickedRom).
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This is really embarassing but I somehow stumbled up WickedRom, which is for the I9100, somehow thought it was for T989, and tried to flash it. Obviously a major league screw up. I have requested a replacement from TMO. I just hope they don't hit me with a major financial penalty if Samsung notices that it has been rooted (it was rooted when I tried flashing WickedRom).
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Same thing happened here... I was odining back to stock and the power in my office at work went out... total fail. All Black, no power button, battery pull or Jig will make the phone do anything... anyone find a work around for this... I did this to my VIB before and was able to get it to work again but this just feels bad. Any help is appreciated. Los Angeles area dev's feel free to come play with it.
hey i know im new here but i got the answer... u need 2 odin back 2 stock 4 download mode pull battery plug usb into computer then 2 phone hold vol up and trackpad then insert battery and u will be in download mode also if using CWM dont fix permissions and also dont forget 2 place unzipped recovery file in /system/bin folder and overwrite it over existing file also make sure that cache, data, sdcard ,and system are all unmounted in mounts option of recovery took me 3 days of flashin back 2 stock with odin and soft bricking my phone 2 figure this out hope it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358401
perhaps people should have shown a bit more support?
Your fault !
Damn that sounds bad, big mistake on your part though, differentiating between i9100 and T-989 is key, among the other models too.
Mine did the same thing after doing a backup. I'm in the 30 day grace period and I'm gonna try to take it back in.. Hopefully I get away with it unless I find a way to fix it
blakemoo said:
Same thing happened here... I was odining back to stock and the power in my office at work went out... total fail. All Black, no power button, battery pull or Jig will make the phone do anything... anyone find a work around for this... I did this to my VIB before and was able to get it to work again but this just feels bad. Any help is appreciated. Los Angeles area dev's feel free to come play with it.
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The power going out Iz the biggest fail ever....definitely my biggest fear and always in back of my head while using odin
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TomSilverSpring said:
This is really embarassing but I somehow stumbled up WickedRom, which is for the I9100, somehow thought it was for T989, and tried to flash it. Obviously a major league screw up. I have requested a replacement from TMO. I just hope they don't hit me with a major financial penalty if Samsung notices that it has been rooted (it was rooted when I tried flashing WickedRom).
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my brother did this exact same thing to our neighbors phone, flashed a I9100 rom into a T989 phone and now it wont turn on at all. unfortunately dont have warranty or insurance. whats the fix to this? will the jig work? or is the phone an expensive paper weight? thanks for any help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7le4GmxZs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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h0use gr00ves said:
my brother did this exact same thing to our neighbors phone, flashed a I9100 rom into a T989 phone and now it wont turn on at all. unfortunately dont have warranty or insurance. whats the fix to this? will the jig work? or is the phone an expensive paper weight? thanks for any help.
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Only way is to send it to Samsung or get it JTAG. JTAG will probably be cheaper.
I recently bought a new note 2, and everything was good and I love it!
But yesterday I was on the phone to a friend and initially I tried putting him on speaker phone, but the screen wouldn't turn on, only the soft touch keys at the bottom lit up. I thought nothing of it and continued my phone call.
It wasn't until he hung up I noticed i still coudn't the damn thing on. So i removed the battery and re inserted it. Here's where things get interesting though, now whenever i try to power it up, i get a little red light in my proximity sensor (i think) that flashes for about half a second.
I've tried soft rest, which does the same thing ( makes the proximity sensor light up for half a second)
Hard reset which does the same thing.
I haven't rooted the phone or anything. Luckily its still under manufacture warranty and I'll get samsung to have a look at it, but any thoughts on what it could be?
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I recently bought a new note 2, and everything was good and I love it!
But yesterday I was on the phone to a friend and initially I tried putting him on speaker phone, but the screen wouldn't turn on, only the soft touch keys at the bottom lit up. I thought nothing of it and continued my phone call.
It wasn't until he hung up I noticed i still coudn't the damn thing on. So i removed the battery and re inserted it. Here's where things get interesting though, now whenever i try to power it up, i get a little red light in my proximity sensor (i think) that flashes for about half a second.
I've tried soft rest, which does the same thing ( makes the proximity sensor light up for half a second)
Hard reset which does the same thing.
I haven't rooted the phone or anything. Luckily its still under manufacture warranty and I'll get samsung to have a look at it, but any thoughts on what it could be?
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Well, I can tell the that the red light is normal, I get that too and its just because its booting up, when you turn your phone on, what happens exactly?
Thanks for the reply. When I press the power button, around a second later the red light blips for half a second and turns off, but the OS doesn't boot up and nothing happens.
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Thanks for the reply. When I press the power button, around a second later the red light blips for half a second and turns off, but the OS doesn't boot up and nothing happens.
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Hmmm, This is the first time I heard of a situation like this... Try searching on the site or probably wait for someone to reply....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065626
Maybe you too.... Sorry that sucks.
This PSA was sent Flow style from my Note 2 N-7100
Now i am really getting worriyng about this, does note2 has started SDS ?
atleast 3-4 cases are reported with same symptoms.
Anyway can you tell
You were on which ROM when this happened?
Are you getting to reboot in recovery/download mod?
@dingokevin I had a read over the thread you linked, and I fear the worst has happened to my note 2. This seems like a serious issue and even a flaw with the motherboard perhaps? Thank the lord it is still under warranty. R.I.P old friend.
@dr.ketan Im not sure what SDS stands for... Yeah I was running stock touchwiz 4.1.1 I think. No modifications and no root what so ever, and nope :/ I tried holding down volume down key + home button + power but no cigar, just the proximity light flashes briefly.
SDS - sudden death syndrome
And if you are unable to get into download/recovery mode then nothing can be done except send it to service station. it highly suggests sudden death which is very known issue for SGS3.
Replying to your query at other thread, you will get motherboard replacement if it is under warranty.
Ahh thats probably whats happened then. Thanks guys, I'll send it off to samsung and have a word or two with them to see why this is happening to many people!
If possible share outcome here too.
Regards
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If possible share outcome here too.
Regards
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Yeah defiantly will do. (Y) cheers
Same thing happened to my friends note 2 and some other people. Is sds happening to the note 2 also now ?? I am very worried
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Or could be that screen was damaged somehow.
Sds bug generally happened due to long time in sleep mode.
It happened to him during call
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UtkarshGupta said:
Or could be that screen was damaged somehow.
Sds bug generally happened due to long time in sleep mode.
It happened to him during call
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I was just reading up on some possible causes here on XDA with peoples S3's and someone suggested corrupted NAND memory.. I think this maybe the case because before the phone call I had installed Gangster Rio (which i honestly did purchase off the play store, hand on heart) and after playing it for a while decided to un install it and get a refund. Could me doing this have caused the NAND memory to corrupt? The game is a pretty large file...
No imao no
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UtkarshGupta said:
No imao no
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I highly doubt it was screen damage, imho. I only received the phone last friday and have been cradling it like a fragile little baby, Its never been out of my sight lool.
Maybe i just got really unlucky and ended up with a faulty device.
If screen fault then in such case usually you can hear boot up sound. It seems your case very well fits to sds category only.
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dr.ketan said:
If screen fault then in such case usually you can hear boot up sound. It seems your case very well fits to sds category only.
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Thank you good Dr. =P
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Hi Guys,
Got up this morning having left my Note 2 turned on and on charge overnight to discover this same fault -
slow flashing Red light and phone totally dead.
Unable to do anything to rectify the situation.
Still under warranty of course, phone only released in October 2012.
Is this a fault with the phone which necessitates replacement or just a battery problem?
Would be grateful for any advice / guidance / help.
Thanks,
Mike Longley.
MJLONGLEY said:
Hi Guys,
Got up this morning having left my Note 2 turned on and on charge overnight to discover this same fault -
slow flashing Red light and phone totally dead.
Unable to do anything to rectify the situation.
Still under warranty of course, phone only released in October 2012.
Is this a fault with the phone which necessitates replacement or just a battery problem?
Would be grateful for any advice / guidance / help.
Thanks,
Mike Longley.
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It seems also like SDS send it to Repair AFAIK is a chip problem, not battery so you can't do anything to repair it. If it is under warranty and with counter at 0 send it. They must repair it.
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hey
my phone has been acting weird for a while now.
the phone crashes a lot, some times it freezes while scrolling, some times it shuts down, some times it restarts on its own....
i tried to root the phone and flashed it with wanam, but it didn't stop crashing, then i flashed with omega v12, but the problem still continued...
shall i rule out that this might be a software issue?
what hardware part might be causing such behavior
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hey
my phone has been acting weird for a while now.
the phone crashes a lot, some times it freezes while scrolling, some times it shuts down, some times it restarts on its own....
i tried to root the phone and flashed it with wanam, but it didn't stop crashing, then i flashed with omega v12, but the problem still continued...
shall i rule out that this might be a software issue?
what hardware part might be causing such behavior
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That doesn't sound good...
IMO it's most likely a hardware issue.
It's hard to say which part is causing this. Maybe the storage?
I hope this aren't SDS symptoms.
That would mean that SDS would be still possible with 4.1.2
muena90 said:
That doesn't sound good...
IMO it's most likely a hardware issue.
It's hard to say which part is causing this. Maybe the storage?
I hope this aren't SDS symptoms.
That would mean that SDS would be still possible with 4.1.2
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i have no clue what that would be
i have the insane chip, but i do not know if this is sds or not
the phone hadent been stable since the 4.1.2 upgrade....
ashrafezz said:
i have no clue what that would be
i have the insane chip, but i do not know if this is sds or not
the phone hadent been stable since the 4.1.2 upgrade....
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AFAIK if you had the SDS symptoms before the update, it is possible that you experience SDS after the 4.1.2 update.
I would backup all data, restore stock kernel/rom, unroot and return the phone for warranty.
ashrafezz said:
i have no clue what that would be
i have the insane chip, but i do not know if this is sds or not
the phone hadent been stable since the 4.1.2 upgrade....
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use eMMC Brickbug to check using the memory test. In theory if it fails it is affected by SDS and your phone will die someday. If not it could be another problem. But as I said it is just "in theory", nothing 100% sure.
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aka_sirok said:
use eMMC Brickbug to check using the memory test. In theory if it fails it is affected by SDS and your phone will die someday. If not it could be another problem. But as I said it is just "in theory", nothing 100% sure.
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done that.
it passed the memory test although it has the insane chip.
i have no clue what this is, i bought it from the grey market so i just have a shop warranty.
am sending it in tomorrow for them to check it.
if nothing happens, i will have to send it to the official Samsung service.
appreciate your kind reply
ashrafezz said:
done that.
it passed the memory test although it has the insane chip.
i have no clue what this is, i bought it from the grey market so i just have a shop warranty.
am sending it in tomorrow for them to check it.
if nothing happens, i will have to send it to the official Samsung service.
appreciate your kind reply
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Don't jump to conclusion so fast, do you use any custom kernel? I suspected it's due to wrong configuration
Try to recall what the last stable status of your phone would be help a lots...
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sklchan said:
Don't jump to conclusion so fast, do you use any custom kernel? I suspected it's due to wrong configuration
Try to recall what the last stable status of your phone would be help a lots...
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As he wrote in his first post, he rooted the phone because of the issues.
So it happened with stock system too.
Well new start from full wipe did it for me except I restored all apps with titanium Backup.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Well new start from full wipe did it for me except I restored all apps with titanium Backup.
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Same here
had some reboots(1/day), but after factory reset and update to DMC 3 no reboots since ~12 days.
First l left ereything untouched and added step by step every 4 days root, frameworkmod, my core Apps (via titanium backup)
As I've said, lots of these crashing are due toto conflicting setting...
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UtkarshGupta said:
Well new start from full wipe did it for me except I restored all apps with titanium Backup.
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tried to restart, and factory reset, and wiped the cash and made a full restore....
nothing worked
even the custom roms didn't do much
i sent it out to service to c what they have to say
ashrafezz said:
tried to restart, and factory reset, and wiped the cash and made a full restore....
nothing worked
even the custom roms didn't do much
i sent it out to service to c what they have to say
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Please don't forget to tell us what the problem was, when you get your phone back.
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Please don't forget to tell us what the problem was, when you get your phone back.
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Yup same here, would like to know the culprit of the error as well...
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Run stress test.
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so, i got my phone back from the shop.( it is not the official Samsung retailer, just the shop that sold me the phone).
the guys said that they re-installed software and tried several kernels.
after a week of trials of reinstalling with no success, the guy called and said the phone is ready and working fine.
i got the phone and it worked fine for 5 min, then started acting crazy again.
i decided to root to see if i could get it going,
after several trials of rooting and un-rooting, and finally out of frustration, i knocked on the phone's back where the Mother board is located and re-rooted the phone.
suddenly the phone worked without freezing for the 5 days so far....
i am still monitoring the phone, but it seems that banging on the mother board had an effect on it (as weird and silly as it might seem)
i know that my phone fell a lot and that my son dropped it like a zillion times before it went acting crazy.....
i thought maybe something moved inside, and well, it seems i was correct (so far at least)...
ashrafezz said:
so, i got my phone back from the shop.( it is not the official Samsung retailer, just the shop that sold me the phone).
the guys said that they re-installed software and tried several kernels.
after a week of trials of reinstalling with no success, the guy called and said the phone is ready and working fine.
i got the phone and it worked fine for 5 min, then started acting crazy again.
i decided to root to see if i could get it going,
after several trials of rooting and un-rooting, and finally out of frustration, i knocked on the phone's back where the Mother board is located and re-rooted the phone.
suddenly the phone worked without freezing for the 5 days so far....
i am still monitoring the phone, but it seems that banging on the mother board had an effect on it (as weird and silly as it might seem)
i know that my phone fell a lot and that my son dropped it like a zillion times before it went acting crazy.....
i thought maybe something moved inside, and well, it seems i was correct (so far at least)...
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Do you fancy hitting mine too?
Ive had this issue the past month, I have the insane chip aswell. Sent it off to Samsung as one day, it literally just made the screen go funny (multi colours, as if you pulled a cartridge out of the n64 or a Gameboy).
Samsung then took my warranty off, as they deemed it down to a small crack in my top right glass bit, which doesn't affect the phones use at all, as it was there for 3 months. They attempted to charge me £290 for a replacement logic board, and a new glass panel for the front, whish I think isn't fair as it wasn't the screen crack that caused the SDS on my phone.
Got mine back today, and the first thing I did was download all of the tools necessary to flash the ROM, only to find that I get a FAIL message in Odin, due to a missing PIT partition or something.
I now own a fancy paperweight, as I can only put this all down to a properly franked memory chip.
Hey everybody,
I rooted my phone a couple weeks ago and one day it just pooped out. I researched a bunch on google etc and found some things to try but so far no solutions.
Model: SGH-T999 T-mobile s3 (Used CF-Auto-Root and Odin for rooting)
Problem: After the phone pooped out, I was unable to enter recovery mode. I could enter dl mode however it crashes at variable intervals. So I bought a jig figuring maybe that would help but it still crashes in dl about 5 seconds later. Any suggestions?
Everything that I have found on the internet has been were people can usually get it into dl mode and keep it there or they cant get there at all even with a jig. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
If you were running stock it's probably a hardware problem. If not what Rom are you on? What/when/how was your most recent flashes?
Have you tried kAsp3rd's brick fix in dev section?
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DocHoliday77 said:
If you were running stock it's probably a hardware problem. If not what Rom are you on? What/when/how was your most recent flashes?
Have you tried kAsp3rd's brick fix in dev section?
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I just tried the kasperd brick fix and it didnt work. It still crashes at variable times and I cannot get it into download mode long enough to do anything. I tried a jig and it also still crashes. Any help would be great. Thanks!
Does it turn off? Reboot? Freeze?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Does it turn off? Reboot? Freeze?
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It starts and then crashes. After awhile it might make it to the animation with the blue wave forming around the words samsung, but usually it crashes on the Samsung Galaxy SIII logo in the beginning. Also when I put it into download mode it crashes anywhere from 1-5 seconds after. When I try to get into recovery mode it crashes almost right away when the blue words are at the top left of the screen.
Also when I put the battery in it tries to boot on its own without me pressing power button, and sometimes it tries to reboot after it crashes and turns off without me pressing anything. Also after it crashes I usually cannot just press the power button to try and power it up again so I have to take the battery out and put it back in.
When I was doing the Kasperd brick fix I used the T999 debrick image. How do I know if I have a different variant of the T999. I saw that some people had T999v and T999N. What are those?
Look under the battery for your model. Sounds like a power button issue. All I can say is try fiddling with it a bit. May have to open to see if it is physically always in contact, or it could be a deeper issue on the board. Hard to say.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Look under the battery for your model. Sounds like a power button issue. All I can say is try fiddling with it a bit. May have to open to see if it is physically always in contact, or it could be a deeper issue on the board. Hard to say.
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Ok I just see T999 on the label.
How can it be a hardware issue when I never dropped the phone or anything. I was just thinking it was because I rooted the phone because it happened about a week after I rooted it. It was working one minute and then a couple hours later when I took it out of my pocket it was off and I tried turning it on and all that stuff started happening. I will definitely check the power button though. Thanks for the help.
Also another piece of info to add. When I plug it in to charge both the battery charging symbol and red light will sometimes turn on and then it crashes/goes black similar to what happens when trying to power up the phone. Not sure if that helps at all. Thanks!
If my phone was hard bricked I wouldnt be able to turn it on at all correct? Im trying to figure out if I will need to get this thing jtagged or something in order to get it working again.
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How can it be a hardware issue when I never dropped the phone or anything.
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Physical damage is not a prerequisite of hardware failure. Ever have a hard drive go bad? Did you drop it first?
Aerowinder said:
Physical damage is not a prerequisite of hardware failure. Ever have a hard drive go bad? Did you drop it first?
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True, however I just find it odd that I rooted the phone and a week later it happened. That is why I am leading towards an issue involving that and not hardware damage.
If it was a problem with rooting, it would have gone south right away. Many people are having these button issues recently. And you don't have to drop it, like aerowinder said, but you do use the button right? Moving parts wear out. Hardware fails. That's really all there is to it. While I could be wrong in my diagnosis, I don't think that will prove to be the case here.
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It does most certainly sound like a hardware issue in the power button. I read another thread very similar to this same thing on the T999.
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It does most certainly sound like a hardware issue in the power button. I read another thread very similar to this same thing on the T999.
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Any suggestions on what to do from here? I dont think the phone is under warranty anymore.
I took the back casing off to see if the button is getting stuck or anything, but all the mechanics look normal.
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Any suggestions on what to do from here? I dont think the phone is under warranty anymore.
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I would recommend searching around for others who have had the same issue and seeing what their resolutions were. I've not seen many on here but google turned up quite a few.
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I would recommend searching around for others who have had the same issue and seeing what their resolutions were. I've not seen many on here but google turned up quite a few.
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Thanks guys! I found a good thread on here about the S3 sudden death thread. Im going to read up on that and see what I can do. It was just tough to find since I was thinking it was bricked but the descriptions for this power button sudden death thing sound spot on. Hopefully I will be able to get everything back in working order.
Hi guys, I have a weird problem and I need your advice.
My brand new galaxy Note 3 Sm-N900T is having screen blackouts....
Its like after the screen timeout the screen goes off and then when I press the power button it doesn't go back on again.
Or if I turn the screen off it doesn't go back on again... the buttons are working the sounds are on, I can answer calls and everything but the screen is black.
If I play with it (pressing power or home buttons) for a while it comes back on. Sometimes the phone restarts (rarely, I think because i press power button).
I have tried everything from playing with settings to wiping the cache and resetting the phone few times.
It looks like its a software issue to me, or maybe sensor.. but i think that when power button is pressed the screen should turn on regardless of sensors.
I do have the custom S-Case but I had the issue even before I got that.
Now.. I have few choices :
1. Go to t-Mobile and get a replacement.. probably refurbished, not a fact that the problem will away because I heard of lots of people having this issue ...
I of course do not want to do that.. I have this phone for less than a month.
2. Wait for KitKat....
3. install some kind of custom rom and see if problem goes away.
If anyone can help, Id really appreciate it.
I would do an exchange.. you paid good money for it and a defect is a defect, I wouldn't depend on a 3rd party patch for this
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go to the store for change this defective note.
This may be jelly bean bug... Lots and lots of people report the same problem...
If I replace my piece I will probably get a refurbished one with a great chance of having this or some kind of another problem......
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This may be jelly bean bug... Lots and lots of people report the same problem...
If I replace my piece I will probably get a refurbished one with a great chance of having this or some kind of another problem......
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sucks man.
I know on my htc onei have the purple camera problem but everything else was fine. they had to send me 2 replacements because the first one had a yellow screen and worse camera then mines.
Tmobile doesnt even check there replacement. Most of the time there phones that people traded in. And all they do with those is a power on check.
Now if you just got the phone and within the 14 exchange you can take it to the store and get a brand new one.
Had it for more than 2 weeks now.. since i was always playing with it i did not notice the problem .. (the screen was always on).
I called Samsung and Tmobile. I told tmobile that samsung said i have a defective phone. so Tmobile is sending me a "Like new" phone meaning that someone returned it within 14 days. I get to check it and if i dont like it i will just send them their phone back. and suddenly mine doesnt do the problem for 30 minutes lol.. maybe it got scared. Personally i think that KitKat would fix it.
Any force closes? I had this problem too untill I stopped using the crapy My Magazine bloatware, which was also sometimes force closing...
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No, no force closes, but one time it was funny, a little bit of status bar appeared from the bottom and on top it was a little bit cutoff.... like someone slid the screen up few pixels.
And whatever was cut just came from the bottom. Its weird... for $700 phone it should be flawless... I hope they dont send me crap phone and i hope they dont send my phone to someone else.
How can i get rid of it to see if that was the problem?
My phone works perfect and I had if since the first week they came out. .. It's not a jellybean thing you phone has a problem. ..
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djtheraven said:
My phone works perfect and I had if since the first week they came out. .. It's not a jellybean thing you phone has a problem. ..
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I figured id try to reflash (not data reset, but reflash via Kies) so far so good no problem.
The whole thing looks like soft prob, not hard.
If it comes back Ill let you know. This could be a nice fix if works.
I'm in nyc, and my local store called the warrenty center and got me a brand new SGS2 one time. It still had all the blue plastic in the sim card and sd card slots, and plastic on the screen. So I'm know they can request it, just depends on your store if they are willing.
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Keda_P said:
I figured id try to reflash (not data reset, but reflash via Kies) so far so good no problem.
The whole thing looks like soft prob, not hard.
If it comes back Ill let you know. This could be a nice fix if works.
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My sgs2 had problems out of the box. After I installed custom ROM they went away. It does happen. Restored stock via Odin, still no problems. Sometimes the software doesn't flash correctly from the manufacturer.
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noobtoob said:
My sgs2 had problems out of the box. After I installed custom ROM they went away. It does happen. Restored stock via Odin, still no problems. Sometimes the software doesn't flash correctly from the manufacturer.
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Well, I dont know what to think anymore... Looks like the problem persists but happens so rare that without the past I wouldnt notice it.
This makes me believe that with KitKat it will probably disappear. If soft changes cause this to go away or be less it means (to me) that the phone is not defective. New phone is still on the way, to bad I did not purchase it at local store... I did it online, so there is no one to yell at.
It will arrive on Feb 6th so I have plenty of time to test my phone, with some luck KitKat will roll out during this time and then I will be able to definitely see. And if new phone is cool I have the option of exchange anyway .
Thank you all for your help, keep posting, its an interesting issue.
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Phone went worse and worse everyday ... now the S-Pen "Air Command" doesnt pop up, several weird disfunctions...
Waiting for the replacement.