I flashed my LG Optimus P500 with the Oxygen 2.3.2 rom yesterday, and it had been working great. I spent a few hours customizing settings and getting acquainted with the layouts and everything. I'm pretty sure I rebooted it at some point.
But then, about 6 hours after flashing it, I held down the power button and pressed reboot (after opening a bunch of apps that I didn't want to bother closing. Once it shut off, it didn't come back on automatically, so I tried to manually power it on. It didn't come on. So I plugged it in to charge. The battery level was at 7 or 8% when I did this. Then when I tried to power it on, it just showed the battery charging that typically comes up when it's off. I held the power button for a few seconds and it booted up as usual, but when I spent a few seconds on the home screen, it went back to the Oxygen logo for about 10 seconds and came back to the screen lock. Since then, it keeps power cycling on its own. I can't keep it on for more than a few seconds. Sometimes, it gets stuck at the screen lock and I can't even press anything on the touch screen or the power button, and I have to do a hard reset.
I tried booting with no SD card and the same thing still happens. Should I reflash it? Any help would be appreciated.
I went to bed with about 50% power left in my KF but got woken up by a ping in the morning. Pressed the power button and I see a notice saying power is down to 12%. Do all ICS ROM currently function like this which the power button only turns off the screen but not the device? I never had an issue with CM7 and Modoco ROM. Should I just turn off WIFI before soft power off to save battery? Seem kind of silly to sit there and wait for the device to reboot into recovery and shutdown from there.
The shutoff on the ISC Roms was fixed I thought... its worth a try. D
Hello everyone, thank you for your time.
TL;DR: Phone boots into download mode up until "Downloading...", recovery mode until "RECOVERY BOOTING," and can only boot right when I put the battery in. The battery is fully charged, and I can boot up until my home screen only once so far. Will a jig fix the issue, or should I try to get the phone replaced by TMobile warranty as I have before?
I have a Galaxy S3 from TMobile, and have been running CyanogenMod for about a year now. 2 days ago I flashed a nightly release, which I assume was unstable. Yesterday, my screen was on and then my phone turned off (low battery, but 99% sure it was a crash rather than a power off), and did not boot up again. After attempting to pull the battery out, charge for hours, turn on and plug in (in different combinations), the furthest I could get was a couple of seconds of the CyanogenMod Galaxy S3 logo initial boot screen (not the rotating splash screen).
I took my phone to TMobile today and was about to get it replaced until I realized I didn't mask the flashes.
The last time I was in an exact same situation with the same phone model, and my flash counter was still showing custom firmware, yet I did manage to get it replaced effortlessly, but I didn't want to risk what was a possible fluke again.
I get home, and here's my current situation.
The only way the phone boots up in any manner is when I take the battery out and the charger is not plugged in. Here are the scenarios I run into:
1. Boots into download mode, can press VOL + to get to the "Downloading..." screen, then shuts off 2 seconds after.
2. Boots into recovery mode, only up until "RECOVERY BOOTING", then shuts off.
3. Boot by pressing power button, plug charger in, shows grey battery icon.
3. Boots into download mode, can press VOL -, either shuts off, OR
3b) Only after tons of tries, it booted up all the way up until my actual home screen, then shut off.
I can't have the charger plugged in while booting (pc or wall), and I can only boot right after I put the battery in.
Are there any suggestions as to what I should do? I was thinking of buying a jig from Amazon, but I don't know if it is hard bricked or not. Should I just attempt to get it replaced under warranty once again, even though it shows the flash count?
Thank you very much!
FIX: STUCK POWER BUTTON PROBLEM
So, one thing I didn't check. Take the battery out of the phone, wait about a minute. If it buzzes as if its powering on, that means that your power button (either the actual button itself or the switch on the mainboard) is stuck.
Solution: Smack the power button with your battery until your battery has a (small) dent. If it doesn't work, smack it a couple more times. Took me 2 tries, second try, phone didn't buzz when I put battery in. I press the power button, works like new. Absolutely....ridiculous
I have a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 with a slimkat rom, its been working normally for a long time until recently. At first it would shut off by itself randomly when I was on the go with battery power still available. Now it wont even get past the boot screen. Its not bootlooping software wise, but more hardware wise, as in I turn it on, the samsung logo comes on, then when it shows slimkat it just dies. I cant even get into recovery mode, and when i get into download mode it does the same thing, is the the faulty power button issue? I cant test if its the battery because I dont have a spare but I do notice when I remove the battery and plug it into an outlet/PC and test it out it still doesnt power on, even with a battery in too, so I dont think it has anything to do with the power source. Any suggestions or guesses what it could be? Anything else you guys would like me to troubleshoot?
It could be a power button issue. You could remove the outer plastic button (this requires disaasembling the phone) and then try to boot.
Hi,
Really need some help with my LG G3 phone.
Bit of background
My phone network is O2, my kid was watching a you tube video and all he did was hit skip ad and my phone shut down. My phone at the time of shut had around 95% battery.
The phone does not switch on now, when I insert the charger no lights appear stating it charging nor does the screen come on. The phone has not been rooted or anything like that.
When I remove the battery and put the phone on charge the screen displays an image which states no battery is included but when I insert the battery back in the phone displays just goes dead again and nothing occurs
What I have done
I have bought a new battery and still no joy with that
I have held Volume Button down and Power button and no joy
When no battery is in and the above process is followed the screen flickers after around 13-15 seconds but then still shows that no battery is present
Last night the phone did show a little sign of life. I left it all day by itself and then just switched pressed the power button for 3 seconds or so and the LG boot up screen kicked in but then after 10 seconds it switched off. It has not replicated this again though.
Does anyone have any ideas of what i could try next?