My power button is not responsive at all and my phone automatically boost when I insert the battery. It's as if the phone doesn't think there is power button at all. Also when i enter download mode by holding home+voldown and inserting battery volup does not continue, instead reboots.
The steps i've done to get to his point and to attempt to fix are as follows
note 2 toolkit allinone root with twrp
install team g*n miui rom
messed up roaming settings
attempted to fix using dialer codes
flash to stock using sph l900 ma7 stock restore exe file
##SCRTN# in dialer on stock. this fixed my issue, but i kept getting issues with it saying it was activating constantly
flashed to stock again
##RTN#, power button stopped working
allinone root again
triangle away
flash stock again
Am I doing something wrong? Did I completely bork my phone? I just want to put it completely back to stock which I thought was what I was doing? I hope its not hardware, but the battery part of it makes me think otherwise. Any help would be appreciated. I hope its just a tar file I need to flash or a dialer code. I don't wan to send it in.
xplus93 said:
My power button is not responsive at all and my phone automatically boost when I insert the battery. It's as if the phone doesn't think there is power button at all. Also when i enter download mode by holding home+voldown and inserting battery volup does not continue, instead reboots.
The steps i've done to get to his point and to attempt to fix are as follows
note 2 toolkit allinone root with twrp
install team g*n miui rom
messed up roaming settings
attempted to fix using dialer codes
flash to stock using sph l900 ma7 stock restore exe file
##SCRTN# in dialer on stock. this fixed my issue, but i kept getting issues with it saying it was activating constantly
flashed to stock again
##RTN#, power button stopped working
allinone root again
triangle away
flash stock again
Am I doing something wrong? Did I completely bork my phone? I just want to put it completely back to stock which I thought was what I was doing? I hope its not hardware, but the battery part of it makes me think otherwise. Any help would be appreciated. I hope its just a tar file I need to flash or a dialer code. I don't wan to send it in.
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Do you have stock recovery or custom? ??
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It should be stock, i'm running the stock restore again right now just to make sure everything is stock.
nope, did one more stock flash and still having same issue, its as if everything having to do with the buttons and power is messed up. It boost as soon as you insert battery, volume up will not continue in download mode, and the power button doesn't work at all. The only way i've been able to get into download mode is adb.
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So, I have an issue here.
I rooted my wifes phone awhile ago, and recently she has been complaining that she has bad battery life, phone freezing, etc , eyc.
So I figured I would change roms and update CWM.
I relashed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076967
and everything went fine.
Phone rebooted as if it was back at a default rom, but still rooted.
So I went through the phone setup and got it up and running.
I then put the updated ClockworkMod 3.1.0.1 PURPLE UPGRADE RFS/EXT4 file on my sd card and turned the phone off.
I tried booting the phone into recovery by using the 3 button method and now I am stuck on the black Samsung screen.
I pulled the battery numerous times and I cant get this thing to boot at all.
Someone please help as I am lost here.
Thank you.
Just odin back to stock ec05 and start fresh with one click root + cwm3.1.0.1......
Edit: unless you haven't made a band backup yet then you should try your best to boot up regularly and make a titanium backup
theduce102 said:
Just odin back to stock ec05 and start fresh with one click root + cwm3.1.0.1......
Edit: unless you haven't made a band backup yet then you should try your best to boot up regularly and make a titanium backup
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Thanks....... Found a thread about using odin, and now have the phone back to default.
I guess I will go ahead and try this all over again.
Thanks for your help.
So, I ran the one click root method found here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076967
Everything went smooth.
Did all system updates, etc.
Phone was running just fine.
Now when I go to use the 3 button recovery method the phone stays put on the black samsung screen once again!
Cant even boot the phone normally now.
Why is the phone doing this?
This makes no sense at all.
Hmm..... try to flash a pre-rooted rom (like chris41g's ec05 plus rom) and then try to use the 3button method...... if this persists then you should probably stick to using quickboot to get into the recovery.....
Here's the link to the rom ---- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061912
qbking77 knows what he's talking about..... check out his awesome vids on youtube if you ever need a visual aid when flashing =D
JuggZaPoppiN said:
So, I ran the one click root method found here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076967
Everything went smooth.
Did all system updates, etc.
Phone was running just fine.
Now when I go to use the 3 button recovery method the phone stays put on the black samsung screen once again!
Cant even boot the phone normally now.
Why is the phone doing this?
This makes no sense at all.
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Yep happens to me as well..... Odin back to stock EC05 again and try a different cable.
If after Odin to stock and rooting you still have problems maybe it is the order you are pushing the buttons. Press and hold camera button first, then add pressing and holding volume down, then add pressing and holding power button, holding all three until the recovery menu comes up.
Hmm..... try to flash a pre-rooted rom (like chris41g's ec05 plus rom) and then try to use the 3button method...... if this persists then you should probably stick to using quickboot to get into the recovery.....
Here's the link to the rom ---- http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1061912
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Is quickboot the answer though.
Because if the phones battery dies, then I might be stuck again seeing it wont boot at all after I power it down.
I did odin it back to default as of now.
Yep happens to me as well..... Odin back to stock EC05 again and try a different cable.
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Tried with a different cable, and still does the same thing.
If after Odin to stock and rooting you still have problems maybe it is the order you are pushing the buttons. Press and hold camera button first, then add pressing and holding volume down, then add pressing and holding power button, holding all three until the recovery menu comes up.
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I thought maybe that was the issue as well, but I tried that over and over again with no luck at all.
Do you guys think maybe its related to the latest one click cwm method?
Hey guys,
My power button has been acting erratically lately. I am pretty sure it's a hardware problem, because it persists in cwm recovery. Basically, the power button is 'held down' by some imaginary force and the phone sleeps/wakes/restarts by itself. This presents quite the problem, as I'm scared to flash the stock rom onto it in fear that the power button problem will stall the recovery and brick my phone. The problem has stalled several nandroid backups (took me a while to actually get my phone to finish one without it rebooting itself).
What should I do in this situation? I want to flash to stock using the Samsung GS3 Toolkit, and I'm not worried about my flash counter because it's already at zero (currently running AOKP rom). Also, flashing back to stock with ODIN won't trip the flash counter, will it?
Thanks to you all in advance.
cys920622 said:
Hey guys,
My power button has been acting erratically lately. I am pretty sure it's a hardware problem, because it persists in cwm recovery. Basically, the power button is 'held down' by some imaginary force and the phone sleeps/wakes/restarts by itself. This presents quite the problem, as I'm scared to flash the stock rom onto it in fear that the power button problem will stall the recovery and brick my phone. The problem has stalled several nandroid backups (took me a while to actually get my phone to finish one without it rebooting itself).
What should I do in this situation? I want to flash to stock using the Samsung GS3 Toolkit, and I'm not worried about my flash counter because it's already at zero (currently running AOKP rom). Also, flashing back to stock with ODIN won't trip the flash counter, will it?
Thanks to you all in advance.
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Have you tried flashing back to stock via Odin? That requires download mode which I don't think anyway will be affected by your power button issue.
Flashing a stock ROM wont change the counter
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
If it's a hardware defect, and I'm understanding the problem correctly, the power button would "hold" I'm download mode during the flash, bricking the phone. I would open the inside and temporarily remove the power button so that the flash can be completed successfully, then I would RMA.
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I have this exact same issue with my s3. My friend had the same issue too and he sent the phone in for repairs and they concluded it was a problem with the circuitry on the board communicating with the power button. Unfortunately I cannot send my phone in since I cracked the screen and warranty is void..
Anyways, you just got to hope it doesn't reboot when rooting and flashing a rom. That's what i did. After you flash it you should be fine. Install a 4.2 ROM and in the quick toggles menu add the "go to sleep" feature. This along with your hardware home button will now act as your off/on button.
If you want to switch back to Stock, just follow the same procedure. I have heard that whether the phone is running a custom rom or not, it doesnt matter, because samsung simply resets everything.
Sent from my Galaxy S3 on CM10.1 using XDA App
So a friend of mine was updating ClockWorkMod and within about two reboots his phone would only flash the Samsung logo that pops up when the phone first turns on then nothing would happen (black screen). He reflashed the last version of CM stable (CM 10.1.2 for d2att) and nothing changed.
So I figure, we can just flash back to stock via ODIN but the device will only enter Download Mode for about a split second; it shows the green Android then flashes away to a black screen just like bootup. There was a video taken of the text in the corner, the flash counter was incremented and it said something like "QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLED"
To be clear, we can enter CWM recovery just fine with no hiccups but we can't enter Download Mode or boot the device. I've tried booting into each mode with the device plugged into a computer and ADB will only recognize it in recovery mode, not in Download or normal bootup.
Is this a hardware failure? I can't tell and I'm not sure how to proceed. Would a Jig help?
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: It has now been discovered and confirmed that a loose power button is the culprit here.
Do you have access to a USB jig to force the phone into download mode?
audit13 said:
Do you have access to a USB jig to force the phone into download mode?
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We don't but we're skeptical of it working; we fear that once it's in Download Mode and we unplug the Jig so we can plug the phone into the computer, it will turn off.
It does seem like our only option however; do you think we should go ahead and order one?
hakoda said:
We don't but we're skeptical of it working; we fear that once it's in Download Mode and we unplug the Jig so we can plug the phone into the computer, it will turn off.
It does seem like our only option however; do you think we should go ahead and order one?
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Since you can get into recovery mode, can you try flashing a stock file via recovery? You can use another device (another phone, SD card reader/writer, card adapter, camera etc) to copy the flashable zip to an SD card, then place the card in your phone and install via recovery. I'll suggest you use the MJ2 (modified 4.3 stock ROM) so you don't lock yourself into the 4.3 bootloader yet. Please check the instructions to see if you'll require the kernel and modem zips as well. If this doesn't work, then you have a hardware problem and not firmware.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23196940996968760
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Since you can get into recovery mode, can you try flashing a stock file via recovery? You can use another device (another phone, SD card reader/writer, card adapter, camera etc) to copy the flashable zip to an SD card, then place the card in your phone and install via recovery. I'll suggest you use the MJ2 (modified 4.3 stock ROM) so you don't lock yourself into the 4.3 bootloader yet. Please check the instructions to see if you'll require the kernel and modem zips as well. If this doesn't work, then you have a hardware problem and not firmware.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23196940996968760
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When I attempt to flash the ROM on CWM, it says something about "script aborted: status 7 (expected 5 arguments, got 3)". Sounds like the way CWM is formatting and mounting the partitions differently than stock recovery.
hakoda said:
When I attempt to flash the ROM on CWM, it says something about "script aborted: status 7 (expected 5 arguments, got 3)". Sounds like the way CWM is formatting and mounting the partitions differently than stock recovery.
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You should load an updated version of CWM. The status 7 error can occur if the ROM is too new for the recovery.
A jig may work but try updating recovery and flashing first.
audit13 said:
You should load an updated version of CWM. The status 7 error can occur if the ROM is too new for the recovery.
A jig may work but try updating recovery and flashing first.
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CWM was already updated to its latest; so a TWRP 2.7.0 flashable zip for d2att was executed to see if that would fix the flashing issue but now it won't enter recovery at all
Starting to think the power button is stuck
hakoda said:
CWM was already updated to its latest; so a TWRP 2.7.0 flashable zip for d2att was executed to see if that would fix the flashing issue but now it won't enter recovery at all
Starting to think the power button is stuck
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You could try and see what happens when you remove and replace the battery. Usually, with stuck power button, the phone tries to power on immediately the battery is inserted even when you don't press the power button. Unless, of course, something is broken or dislodged inside. It could indeed be you have a combo hardware/firmware problem. The firmware problem can be easily fixed by flashing a correct and working ROM but you need to be able to get the device into recovery/download first.
Larry2999 said:
You could try and see what happens when you remove and replace the battery. Usually, with stuck power button, the phone tries to power on immediately the battery is inserted even when you don't press the power button. Unless, of course, something is broken or dislodged inside. It could indeed be you have a combo hardware/firmware problem. The firmware problem can be easily fixed by flashing a correct and working ROM but you need to be able to get the device into recovery/download first.
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The insertion of the battery definitely turns on the phone; it's the only way we've been turning the device on and off.
Tapping the front/back of the phone near the power button also seems to randomly wake the device and frankly would explain a lot.
Thanks for the help guys
hakoda said:
The insertion of the battery definitely turns on the phone; it's the only way we've been turning the device on and off.
Tapping the front/back of the phone near the power button also seems to randomly wake the device and frankly would explain a lot.
Thanks for the help guys
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Sounds like a stuck power button then. Thankfully, this can be routinely fixed at a tech shop or by yourself if you have the right tools and skills for this. Sometimes it doesn't even require replacement of the power button which can be bought cheaply on places like that online auction site.
Larry2999 said:
Sounds like a stuck power button then. Thankfully, this can be routinely fixed at a tech shop or by yourself if you have the right tools and skills for this. Sometimes it doesn't even require replacement of the power button which can be bought cheaply on places like that online auction site.
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Can confirm that it's a stuck power button; tapping it continuously with an end of a chapstick tube while the phone booted got us all the way into Cyanogenmod; we confirmed that TWRP flashed successfully as well. However, we as soon as we stop tapping it, it goes back to the previous behavior.
We're now looking for some guides online to fix it, seems mechanical if tapping it continuously will keep it unstuck for short amount of time.
Thanks again guys
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
Pull the battery to turn off the phone and put it back in. If you feel the phone power up by vibrating upon putting the battery in and not touching the power button and go into loop then you have a bad power button. Do you have this problem? If so, then your only options are repair or remove the power button (there is an alternate way to power the phone up). Let us know if it is a bad power button or not so that hardware issues can be accounted for and go from there.
NOTE: The S3 has been known for some time now to have power buttons that fail. Mine did, and I opt to remove mine as I could not justify paying for a repair when the S3 is my backup phone and test platform and I have a method to power up. I use widgets for controlling power off, restarts, and recovery once powered up.
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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That works. Glad you found a way to get through it.
n_alvarez2007 said:
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
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Bootloops have not been uncommon when reverting from LP to KK. Once you have flashed TWRP as others in the thread have suggested, you will probably need to wipe/ format the internal sdcard. The other remedy some have posted is to load a stock recovery and do a factory reset from within that stock recovery.
Not sure how to get into recovery without a power button.
Is the button loose or not functioning at all? You could try opening the phone and removing everything from the frame and see if the power button functions.
I haven't tried this with my SGS3, but on my Acer tablet I have booted into recovery using adb and fastboot. This requires connection to a computer, but not a power button. Unless you have a touch version of a custom recovery installed you still would not be able to select an item.
You may be able to flash a custom recovery using adb. I had broken my stock recovery on that tablet and used fastboot to reflash a working stock recovery.
Hi my coworker has a sprint galaxy note 2 stock and not rooted. His phone shut down and when he started it back up it was stuck in a bootloop. I tried to flash the stock tar file via Odin and it failed. I don't think usb debugging has been checked in developing options, is their a way to fix this?
Thanks.
Andre
Have you tried using the (incredibly awesome) instruction set and downloads from Billard's (in)famous MC2 build?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
No but I'm going to try it now, I'll keep you posted.
Thanks.
Andre
Now I can't boot into recovery, I flashed twrp and it worked for a while and now it doesn't. I tried to refresh twrp but no luck.
Almost sounds like this could be a hardware issue.
By chance, does he have an extra battery? Or maybe another person in your office (or wherever you are with this) who can let him try their battery as a test? Last summer, my battery ballooned when I took a trip to Colorado up in the mountains (stock Samsung battery) and caused bootloops and just plain crashed my phone. Got a new Duracell from Batteries Plus ($40) and immediately fixed the "problem". You might want to see if he can try another battery next before attempting another software fix.
However, if that doesn't work, have you tried to immediately boot into recovery/download mode after turning on the phone? Then use odin to root/flash ROM/whatever you need?
1) turn off your device (pull battery "just in case" for 10 seconds too)
2) press this button combination: volume up, power button and home button. hold until download mode shows up
3) press volume up to enter the download mode (or volume down to cancel and reboot the device)
I guess that could be the problem. I tried Ballard's MC2 build but it didn't work it put the phone in emergency mode and I had to use kies to get it out of that and now I'm back to a bootloop and stock recovery. I think I'm going to try Philz recovery and flash from there