I came home from grabbing a bite to eat. About 30 minutes had passed and I was wondering why I havent heard my phone in a few. Checked and the notification light was blinking. Tried to press the power button to turn it on and nothing. Pulled the S Pen out because that would make it come on and still nothing. Pulled the battery and now all i get is the "Samsung Galaxy Note 2" screen. If i leave it there, after about 2 hours it will make the T-Mobile jingle and go into a boot loop. The boot loop lasts until i pull the battery again.
My phone was not rooted, no ROMs or anything. Only apps I had that did not come preinstalled on the phone were, Facebook, Tweetcaster, Instagram, Hill Climb Racing, Subway Surfer and my banking app.
My Galaxy 2 did something similar but i blamed it on the ROM I was using and figured I had bricked it some way. My faith in Samsung products is declining....
Are you able to connect it to a pc and is it recognized through ADB?
If so, I would try using ODIN and dumping the stock firmware and start from fresh.
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Are you able to connect it to a pc and is it recognized through ADB?
If so, I would try using ODIN and dumping the stock firmware and start from fresh.
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Yeah i tried that after i talked to TMobile and my replacement phone was on the way. It is recognized in ODIN but it takes about 45 minutes to complete the process and then it fails.
Weird. Had the same problem about a couple of hrs ago. Also I tried hitting the middle button. And turn on button and nothing. Turned it off. Took the battery off and waited about 30 secs. But it back in. And it worked. Never had happen to me...
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Weird. Had the same problem about a couple of hrs ago. Also I tried hitting the middle button. And turn on button and nothing. Turned it off. Took the battery off and waited about 30 secs. But it back in. And it worked. Never had happen to me...
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Similar scenario/solution except never a bootloop.. just went from 6% battery to completely dead.
I didnt try to turn it on, but pressed (tapped power button) and the phone wouldnt do anything. It also didnt respond to a charge, plugged it in to several wall outlets in various rooms, until I pulled the battery for, like ive been trained through older droids, 30 seconds...
Replaced the battery, plugged it in and got it charging, waited til 20-30% before turning on phone to verify, and yes everything was working fine!!
No issues since
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Well thats good but yeah it has been weird lol. I had never had that on my s2. So I got scared D: LOL.
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I had the same problem, I had tjot my phone died but I know I had at leas y 80% of battery left. I tried using my phone nothing, plugged it up nothing. So I pulled the battery and it finally came on. This wad the 1st time it occured, the next time was like yours only the notification light was fladhing the power button and nor the home button worked. I removed apps that I tjought wad causing it. I had called Samsung and tmobile snd they never heard of such problem. They only suggested I do a hard reset. It hasn't happened in a while now but if it does I want a replacement, since I now know im not crazy, and you guys have had the same problem
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I had the same problem, I had tjot my phone died but I know I had at leas y 80% of battery left. I tried using my phone nothing, plugged it up nothing. So I pulled the battery and it finally came on. This wad the 1st time it occured, the next time was like yours only the notification light was fladhing the power button and nor the home button worked. I removed apps that I tjought wad causing it. I had called Samsung and tmobile snd they never heard of such problem. They only suggested I do a hard reset. It hasn't happened in a while now but if it does I want a replacement, since I now know im not crazy, and you guys have had the same problem
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Well at least you all's phone started back working, mine didn't. I. Got my replacement today.
same thing here
yesterday my phone was up with blue light then when i try hit the power button get black screen took out the battery and now the phone didnt even charge or show any signal i will apreciate any help thanks
Dont know if thats SDS (don't know symptoms) but did you ever check to see if your phone is safe?
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can u explain what u mean by safe.....
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Certain SGIII and GNII chips are vulnerable to SDS... I meant, by chance did he download eMMC Brickbug to verify what type of chip he has and if it chip was "vulnerable"?
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My chip is good but one time my phone died from 6% and wouldnt start charging through any wall plug, so I then pulled the battery, waited 30 seconds, and it started charging.
20-30% later I turned on the phone, and it hasnt had an issue since (even through rom/kernal flashes)
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Where do you get the program to verify?
It happen again to me. But I was at 100% charge. Weird...
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Where do you get the program to verify?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check
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It says no. Sane chip?
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Its not whether it says sane or not... what matteres is the chip you have... screenshot please
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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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Best I can say to you both is get a stronger cable if your not already using one and if you do have a cable other than the oem one then try leaving the battery out of the phone and hold the power button for about a minute to let the capacitors discharge then let it sit with the battery still out for about an hour :/ if you don't mind me asking, what happened to the phone before the issue started?
Try to Odin with the battery out.
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Try to Odin with the battery out.
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And with sd card out too
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Its possible to odin without the battery in? How does it populate the com and do you put it in download mode first then pull battery or just plug it and let it fly?
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Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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Ok so I just tried to flash with odin with battery out I did put it in dowload mode after plugging it up....I removed the sd card as well. Now it boots to the samsung screen but the difference is that now the red led stays lit and the capacitive keys on the bottom row do as well. Any suggestions?
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I am stuck while odin right now with battery in... Suppose I will pull battery and try without next...
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Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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In that case, I would make sure every last bit of moisture is out of the casing by leaving it covered by rice over night.... it might be short circuiting :/
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Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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That's just odd :/ I honestly haven't a clue as to what may be going wrong.... at least you made some progress with the capacitive buttons lighting up and your notification led is lighting, usually that's a sign it'll boot
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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I guess you are the phone whisperer lol
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Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Has anyone been able to boot into safe mode(hold power button and capacitive menu button) after the phone not booting normally?
im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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You can try a reflash, restore your previous nand backup and try again, or Odin in a prerooted ROM and start from there. But if it goes more than a minute on SAMSUNG you are done. After flashing the S will take a few minutes (or whatever boot screen the ROM has) while it rewrites Dalvik cache.
My epic is doing the same thing. It was stuck in recovery menu when I pulled it out of my pocket. Rebooted and stuck on sanding screen.
I figured out what I did. I installed wrong kernal... noob for me lol
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So I was playing around with different kernels and whatnot but it froze while I was flashing back to stock. I pulled the battery and tried to reboot the phone but only the blue LED came out. Anyone know how to solve this issue or am I screwed?
I tried getting back into download mode but only the blue LED notification light turns on.
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So I was playing around with different kernels and whatnot but it froze while I was flashing back to stock. I pulled the battery and tried to reboot the phone but only the blue LED came out. Anyone know how to solve this issue or am I screwed?
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As a last resort try a USB jig. I wouldn't mod a Samsung without one.
There are several OG Epic tricks you can try. Try removing battery and SD card and plug phone in to PC and see if it powers to download mode.
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There are several OG Epic tricks you can try. Try removing battery and SD card and plug phone in to PC and see if it powers to download mode.
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This didn't work. I think I might be screwed.
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This didn't work. I think I might be screwed.
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I was building something and screwed up my phone. I had to send mine in for firmware repair. I'm no noob so I tried EVERYTHING.
Either take it back to sprint and play dumb or get it fixed from the guys at mobiletechvideos.com
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This didn't work. I think I might be screwed.
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You can try saying you got some random message that an OTA update showed on your phone and you accepted it and it screwed your phone up. Just a thought coming out of left field
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I had the EXACT some problem last week. I went to the repair center, said the phone was plugged in at work, we had a power surge, and afterwords the phone wouldn't turn on. An hour later...BOOM, new phone
I then went on amazon and purchased a usb jig and kept my phone stock until it came. lol
Every rooted owner should spend the 2 bucks on a USB jig. It's not the holy grail, but it's one more tool in your belt to potentially get out of a frustrating and time consuming situation.
I bought mine from here and got it pretty quickly considering where it came from ...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...ccessories&hash=item3cbb7b1e8c#ht_2451wt_1163
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Every rooted owner should spend the 2 bucks on a USB jig. It's not the holy grail, but it's one more tool in your belt to potentially get out of a frustrating and time consuming situation.
I bought mine from here and got it pretty quickly considering where it came from ...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...ccessories&hash=item3cbb7b1e8c#ht_2451wt_1163
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I agree. I spent a little more on mine because I wanted it asap but we should all have one of these just in case.
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What is a USB jig used for?
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daniel4653 said:
What is a USB jig used for?
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It will potentially force your phone into download mode from an "off" state when you otherwise can't so you can connect to Odin and get your phone's system restored.
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It will potentially force your phone into download mode from an "off" state when you otherwise can't so you can connect to Odin and get your phone's system restored.
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...and reset the Odin flash counter if you have to take your phone in for service
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Also try this of epic trick. Sounds funny but worked. Pull the battery and sdcard and let it sit for at least an hour. Put back together and try download mode.
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Also try this of epic trick. Sounds funny but worked. Pull the battery and sdcard and let it sit for at least an hour. Put back together and try download mode.
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I forgot to mention letting it sit when I mentioned this to someone else (or was it here?) about pulling battery and SD card. Also repeatedly press or hold power button with those out to purge any remaining juice in the phone. This stuff sounds crazy but ask any former OG Epic owner.. some of these tricks have brought phones back from the dead. There isn't a pinhole under the battery cover below the camera is there?
That last part was an OG Epic inside joke but the rest is worth trying
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THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY ME, AND JOKERSAX HAS TOLD ME ABOUT TWO OTHER DEVS WHO HAVE HAD SIMILAR RESULTS
This is a public service announcement saying that if you leave recovery (I left TWRP on overnight while restoring a nandroid) on too long, under certain circumstances not yet completely determined may lead your device to a hard brick. This has happened to 3 people so far, and want to avoid anymore issues with this.
For more details on what happened I was flashing a V5 test build of my rom im working on adding aroma too where I got another syntax error to fix. It was about 11:30 at night, so I just started restoring from a nandroid, threw the phone upside down, and knocked out. When I woke up the next morning I checked the device and it was off in recharge mode- nothing too big. I then tried to boot and it ended up flashing the notification light and softkeys repeatedly, and did nothing else. I was able to get it into download mode, but LGNPST kept timing out. Then after trying several times with it timing out it wouldnt get into download mode. I then tried to just get anything to light up, and left it on the charger for several hours, and then gave up that my device was hard bricked. No data remained. I had to go to best buy and wait about an hour and a half for them to get me a new device. I hope everyone can avoid this happening to their device. It is a slow, but sure death reported by a few people.
And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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If youre phone boots it will be fine. I left it for about 8 hours or so.
You should make this a sticky
Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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This must be what happened to my first LGOG, I feel asleep running a backup. When I woke up it wouldn't boot. Thank goodness for Geek Squad coverage.
Does anyone know if this problem exists with clockwork too? I already fried a phone just making a simple backup using TWRP.
I'm using CWM now and made a backup and flashed a rom and my phone survived.
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Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Any time I boot to recovery my phone heats up =p
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My phone also gets really got while in recovery mine also overheated exactly like the OP but mine came back to life I left it alone for a few hours then put it on the charger and finally got into download mode then recovery and restore. We definitely need to do something like timeout where after 10 minute the phone shuts off or something. Not sure it is possible but I like ranting lol
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We need to fix recovery
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Thanks for the info! I used to leave backups running overnight all the time with my previous devices. Good thing I haven't with this one.
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Only thing that could heat up the phone like that is the cpu core running at max.or spiking to max very very rapidly. Basically the soc with all the chipsests are not going into a sleep mode. I can see why all the data was gone and or damaged. I've seen something like this with other electronics.
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I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.
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I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.
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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.
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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.
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I have heat up while playing games or streaming music, or leaving it at the lockscreen too long. Maybe undervolting it can fix it? IDR if joker's test kernel added it or not.
Happened to me to. But mine was adb push file to sdcard and lost power due to usb low charge and recovery turning phone into a glass top stove
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Mine overheats after playing Beach Buggy Blitz for five minutes, in recovery. Too often really :/
These are reasons I always finish what I'm working on before I sleep! It drives my girlfriend nuts ha ha. But yes, the phone does get hot rapidly in recovery hotter than I have ever gotten it running any game or app
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well TWRP 4.2 is out now, maybe itll fix our little problem.
Since December I've been running CM10 on my GS-III with little to no issues. I flash CM 10.1 mid January and even though it was an unstable nightly it was very stable.
Flashing the nightlies as they became available with no issues at all.
Then today my phone starts slowing down and froze up.
Keep in mind that I hadn't flashed a nightly in like a day or 2 do I had been using the past nightly as a daily driver.
When my phone decided to freeze I rebooted it and it booted just fine.
About 2 minutes in the screen goes black. Holding the power button it's unresponsive.
Now my phone is completely unresponsive to all button presses. I've tried the 3 button combos for recovery and download mode with no luck. I've even held the buttons for a full minute but nothing is working.
Is my phone dead or is there a possibility of resurrecting it?
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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No you're not insulting by asking that. I use to record music and when something wasn't wasn't working that's the first thing we asked and re asked.
Unfortunately I do believe I checked that out. When I plug in a charger it doesn't even show me a battery charging logo.
I have noticed that when I pull out the battery and connect the charger the led turns red.
I'll see if i can't swap batteries with one of my friends and see if that helps.
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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I'm checking that right now
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Well unfortunately there's no response from adb or phone.
However the computer does make a usb device connected sound.
Not sure if that's just a standard sound from the computer or if the phone is triggering it.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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A usb jig should do it most of the time it do work and if it doesn't oh well you could sell it out for parts i guess ?
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You would probably make most of your back if you sold it for spare parts and may only have to pay $50 for a replacement. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand how a jig is going to help him when the phone won't turn on.
I would try another battery first. You said you were going to try this but I don't see where you confirmed that it wasn't the issue.
Hmm you could have ran into that now infamous mb crash and burn error although I'm not sure how since you were running aosp. Anyone else want to chime in?
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If the battery truly died plugging it in won't be any help
Try another battery, I'm betting that's the issue. T-Mobile will have one or two on hand in store so you can try
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a spare battery to test this with as soon as I'm off work.
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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shahkam said:
Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Well unfortunately the spare battery i used on my phone was no good in getting the phone to respond.
Now my next step is to attempt to hope that the jig will do something for my phone.
If not i guess that i will have a nice paper weight of luxury lol
Either that or i can sell it to someone.
So far those are the only options that i think i have at the moment.
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
Shayd93 said:
Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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He cannot flash anything his phone doesn't answer to anything i don't see how he could do that..
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The phone is dead. My friend's gs3 died suddenly one day while I just happen to be using it. I plugged in an otg plug and few minutes later the screen just went black. I was sure it was dead when I plug in a charger and there was no sign of life from the phone.
I don't know if you have to pay a deductible but Samsung is supposedly replacing galaxy s3 for free because there is a known defect which cause the motherboard to go bad. My friend's was a Verizon model and they just replaced it free.
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I am not new to rooting, but I have a pretty serious problem it seems. No matter what mode I boot into (download, recovery, OS), the phone just shuts off after about 10 seconds. Obviously this makes restoring anything impossible.
This is my brothers phone, and at first I thought it might be the battery, so I tried mine (i have the same phone), but it does the same thing. Also does it if plugged in. The phone is rooted, on a recent CM10.1.2 build, but this just happened out of the blue, not after a flash or anything.
Any ideas? Or is the phone toast?
Could it be the power button getting stuck down? A Few others have had that happen.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Could it be the power button getting stuck down? A Few others have had that happen.
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I'm not 100% sure that's what it was, but slamming in on the table a few times seemed to fix it (at least temporarily). Also, it was turning itself on after a battery pull and reinsert, so that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks a ton for your help!
Lol! I've fixed VCRs, CD players and all sorts of things with that method! Glad it worked for you!
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I have the same exact problem for my galaxy s3. I opened up mine and took the button out and it is still doing the 10 second shutdown. I think it's the power switch on the motherboard. Does that sound correct anyone ?????
yuseff14 said:
I have the same exact problem for my galaxy s3. I opened up mine and took the button out and it is still doing the 10 second shutdown. I think it's the power switch on the motherboard. Does that sound correct anyone ?????
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Could be...
I think s good test for this is to remove/replace the battery and if it turns on on its own after putting the battery back in, its likely a power button related issue.
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