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I searched as best I could so please bare with me..
Brand new e971, less than a week old and I managed to drop it in the toilet bending over to tuck in a shoelace after I took a leak. Fell out of my sweater pocket, and right in the bowl.. that'll teach me to put the seat down.
Anyway, I was out somewhere and obviously didnt have the sim key or any tools to crack the back and pop the battery..I 'windmilled' to get what I could out.. but that was the best I could do. I held the power button down hoping itd shut off and it eventually did, flashed something on the screen and that was it.
When I was able to I opened it up and popped the battery and dried whatever water was inside, whcih there was some.. took the mainboard out, blew it off with compressed air (it was actually dry, all the covers worked well). Put it back together sans battery and put it in rice for 36~ hours or so (would have waited longer, but I was confident I got the majority of the water out in the first place).
Phone won't power on though. The best I can do is get it to start download mode by pressed vol up+down and inserting the USB. Plugging in the USB on its own sees the charge indicator flash red intermittently, in a very long slow frequency - im thinking the battery is fried, maybe the power button too. The LG logo comes on the screen for a second and disapears for about 5, and repeats this cycle.
I've never rooted or messed with anything like this before but someone said I may be able to reflash the phone and have it work.. but I really have no clue. Any advice would be appreciated.. like I said this is brand new :/
How to "Unbrick": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010624
That reflashes new stuff.
If you hold down Volume Down + Power Key you should get into factory reset, can you see if that works or you might have fried the storage or something.
If you somehow get it to work but need battery you have here:
http://www.etradesupply.com/lg/optimus/lg-optimus-g-e975.html
Which ships World wide I think and pretty decent price.
Hope it works and please come back and tell us how it went.
wargreymon89 said:
How to "Unbrick": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010624
That reflashes new stuff.
If you hold down Volume Down + Power Key you should get into factory reset, can you see if that works or you might have fried the storage or something.
If you somehow get it to work but need battery you have here:
http://www.etradesupply.com/lg/optimus/lg-optimus-g-e975.html
Which ships World wide I think and pretty decent price.
Hope it works and please come back and tell us how it went.
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Thanks for the response
vol down + power key has no response
Im tempted to think the power switch is broken and the battery shorted and is dead, but I am no expert
If I plug it into USB all it does is flash the LG logo, no lights nothing.
if I hold the vol down button down, when the LG logo flashes the back/home/search buttons illuminate for a second, and occasionally the red light will come on for a second, but thats it, other than being able to get into download mode the phone is a total brick. I'll check out your link when I get home. I have insurance but there is still a replacement fee and I can't afford it right now.. and the fact that I opened the phone I think they may try to **** me over with that even though its clearly water damage (indicators are all purple/pink)
thanks again
Dudley Do-Right said:
Thanks for the response
vol down + power key has no response
Im tempted to think the power switch is broken and the battery shorted and is dead, but I am no expert
If I plug it into USB all it does is flash the LG logo, no lights nothing.
if I hold the vol down button down, when the LG logo flashes the back/home/search buttons illuminate for a second, and occasionally the red light will come on for a second, but thats it, other than being able to get into download mode the phone is a total brick. I'll check out your link when I get home. I have insurance but there is still a replacement fee and I can't afford it right now.. and the fact that I opened the phone I think they may try to **** me over with that even though its clearly water damage (indicators are all purple/pink)
thanks again
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If the red light flash, it's usually because the power button is hold down. I think your power button might be stuck. Also try to plug it in wall and no on computer USB.
chadouming said:
If the red light flash, it's usually because the power button is hold down. I think your power button might be stuck. Also try to plug it in wall and no on computer USB.
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I was at work with the phone (dropped it out somewhere and took it apart and left there) so I had not tried plugging into a regular wall charger
Plugged it into a charger, backlight came on and the LG logo flashed, went away and flashed again, but a lot faster this time, and then I got a message "battery too low to power on!! I assume its charging, or trying to?!?! The red light goes bright, and then dims to nothing, and then goes bright again. Pressing the power button turns the screen on to the "too low to power on" screen again, and pressing again turns it off as per normal!
I'm kind of excited now, it may just be the battery after all.
Now, either the water shorted it and ruined it (and ill be checking the phone closely to see the lipo doesnt blow up on me..), or somehow the battery fully discharged? The battery was pretty full around the time of the toilet incident, but stranger things have happened right?
Dudley Do-Right said:
I was at work with the phone (dropped it out somewhere and took it apart and left there) so I had not tried plugging into a regular wall charger
Plugged it into a charger, backlight came on and the LG logo flashed, went away and flashed again, but a lot faster this time, and then I got a message "battery too low to power on!! I assume its charging, or trying to?!?! The red light goes bright, and then dims to nothing, and then goes bright again. Pressing the power button turns the screen on to the "too low to power on" screen again, and pressing again turns it off as per normal!
I'm kind of excited now, it may just be the battery after all.
Now, either the water shorted it and ruined it (and ill be checking the phone closely to see the lipo doesnt blow up on me..), or somehow the battery fully discharged? The battery was pretty full around the time of the toilet incident, but stranger things have happened right?
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The indicator going from dim to bright during charging is pretty normal. It also means your battery is charging. Give it a full charge and see how it goes. And do try keeping your phone in your trouser pockets. It's safer that way.
MarcSinger said:
The indicator going from dim to bright during charging is pretty normal. It also means your battery is charging. Give it a full charge and see how it goes. And do try keeping your phone in your trouser pockets. It's safer that way.
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I left it on the wall charger for a little over an hour but the phone appeared to make no progress so I unplugged it deeming the battery dead, that and I didnt want to run the risk of anything bad happening charging a dead battery (im a little leery with these lipo's due to my RC experience with them..). Maybe I'll try again for a while this evening.. but since the battery had a full charge prior to toileting, I can't imagine it totally discharging; is this possible? The other not so nice reality is that maybe the power circuit on the mainboard fried and its not reading the battery properly?
Yes.. will definitely have to keep phones in my trousers and put all seats down from now on..
So I'll try charging again for a longer time period to see what happens, otherwise I'll be ordering a battery on Monday and waiting about a week to two weeks for it
I'll keep the thread updated as much as I can without double posting
Thanks for the response
Well.. you'll never believe this but.. it works. Flawlessly as if the toilet never happened..
I tried the insurance route being that a battery shipped to me would cost half the price of a claimed replacement and it would have been a gamble.. so I went that route. Was told they denied my claim because my insurance was not activated because I need to make an outgoing phone call.. I only ever text and had not made one..
So down in the dumps and considering spending $25 shipping on a $30 battery, I went home and decided to try the phone one more time by reseating the battery..
I plugged it into the charger and got a blue battery charging.. I pressed the power on button and the phone came to life..
Not sure what the hell happened, maybe the battery needed to dry out inside or it wasnt seated just right the last time I tried but everything is working flawlessly.. wow. I am in shock.
Now I guess its time to root it
Thanks everyone for the advice and tips, but it seems all I needed was some time and luck!
So I woke up this morning and my phone was A-OK. Charged to 100% overnight, and I left it plugged in while getting ready for work. I came back to it 20 minutes later and it was really warm/borderline hot to the touch (through a case). The battery was down to 85% yet still plugged in. I then drove to the train station 5 minutes away and it went down to near 50%, still really warm/hot.
Streamed some music and watched some Netflix on the 90 minute ride, and the battery was down to 35%. At this point I turned the phone off because it was still hot.
Plugged it in to charge at the office, and got a blinking red light for about 10 seconds. It then went solid red and stayed that way until I unplugged it 4 hours later. The phone was still quite warm, but no longer hot. Hold down the power button... nothing. Plug it back in, same red light pattern. I got nervous at this point and hit up good old El Goog to see what could be wrong.
Found a lot of threads pointing to the One X suffering this fate, along with a few One's. Followed the advise of holding VolUp + VolDown + Power for 2 minutes. The phone got hot again. Unplugged the phone, removed the SIM, and held the buttons again. The phone had cooled off dramatically while doing this, to the point that it is now cold to the touch. Reinserted the SIM, and plugged it in again... no light at all this time.
From this point on, the various threads disagree on the next steps. Plugging it in to the computer yields no light, just like an wall charger. I don't have the HTC cord with me at work. I've tried a Nokia micro USB cable and a Sony wall charger. Other suggestions call for leaving the phone off (like I have a choice on that part) and unplugged for several hours. Others say to mash the Power button for 10-20 times and that may cause it to power on.
Any suggestions on how I should proceed with this? My phone is unlocked, so I'd love to avoid replacing it.
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So I woke up this morning and my phone was A-OK. Charged to 100% overnight, and I left it plugged in while getting ready for work. I came back to it 20 minutes later and it was really warm/borderline hot to the touch (through a case). The battery was down to 85% yet still plugged in. I then drove to the train station 5 minutes away and it went down to near 50%, still really warm/hot.
Streamed some music and watched some Netflix on the 90 minute ride, and the battery was down to 35%. At this point I turned the phone off because it was still hot.
Plugged it in to charge at the office, and got a blinking red light for about 10 seconds. It then went solid red and stayed that way until I unplugged it 4 hours later. The phone was still quite warm, but no longer hot. Hold down the power button... nothing. Plug it back in, same red light pattern. I got nervous at this point and hit up good old El Goog to see what could be wrong.
Found a lot of threads pointing to the One X suffering this fate, along with a few One's. Followed the advise of holding VolUp + VolDown + Power for 2 minutes. The phone got hot again. Unplugged the phone, removed the SIM, and held the buttons again. The phone had cooled off dramatically while doing this, to the point that it is now cold to the touch. Reinserted the SIM, and plugged it in again... no light at all this time.
From this point on, the various threads disagree on the next steps. Plugging it in to the computer yields no light, just like an wall charger. I don't have the HTC cord with me at work. I've tried a Nokia micro USB cable and a Sony wall charger. Other suggestions call for leaving the phone off (like I have a choice on that part) and unplugged for several hours. Others say to mash the Power button for 10-20 times and that may cause it to power on.
Any suggestions on how I should proceed with this? My phone is unlocked, so I'd love to avoid replacing it.
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Have you tried the bright light trick? Hold the phone under a bright light (really bright light, the brighter the better) and hold down the volume button + power for 15-20 seconds. That should get you into your bootloader. This will tell you whether or not its rom based, or phone based.
If you cant even get into your bootloader, it sounds like a hardware problem. If you can get into your bootloader but it will not boot to your rom, then its software.
Thats all I got for now. Sorry.
Seriously sounds like a battery/charging issue, gives all signs of a discharging battery. That would explain the heat build-up.
Was you using the charger that came with it? Or are you using a different charger? I once used my motorola cord to charge my phone and it felt like it was going to burst in to flames. I then got the HTC cord that came with the phone and it cooled down.
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No luck on the bright light trick. I tried holding just power, power + down, power + up, and power + both underneath a fairly bright fluorescent light.
Dark Jedi said:
Was you using the charger that came with it? Or are you using a different charger? I once used my motorola cord to charge my phone and it felt like it was going to burst in to flames. I then got the HTC cord that came with the phone and it cooled down.
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I don't have the OEM charger here, but I was using it at home to charge it. I'm hoping leaving it alone for another 4 hours will bring it back to life on the HTC cable.
NotATreoFan said:
No luck on the bright light trick. I tried holding just power, power + down, power + up, and power + both underneath a fairly bright fluorescent light.
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Lets hope that it didnt turn on because the battery died. Hopefully the OEM HTC cable/charger will fix your issue.
If your battery is truly completely drained, it may take a few seconds for the light to finally come on... so dont freak out in the first 10 seconds.
Your battery could of went bad. Does your phone look like it has swelled anywhere from the battery expanding ?
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Lets hope that it didnt turn on because the battery died. Hopefully the OEM HTC cable/charger will fix your issue.
If your battery is truly completely drained, it may take a few seconds for the light to finally come on... so dont freak out in the first 10 seconds.
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I'm trying to remain calm until I get home. I haven't gotten a light in 30+ minutes of being connected to the Sony charger, but I'm chocking that up to it not being the HTC original.
Dark Jedi said:
Your battery could of went bad. Does your phone look like it has swelled anywhere from the battery expanding ?
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It's tough to properly gauge it with my eyes, but nothing looks off. If I press down on the center of the phone at the top, the it does not lift off the table. If that push from the center at the bottom, it does lift off ever so slightly. But I don't know if this is because of the camera location or what.
Called up Verizon just to make sure there's no other method that I didn't try, and they advised me to get a replacement. I've got a few days to try and get this thing working before I'll have to send it back and say goodbye to root.
Interestingly enough, they were sure to warn me about physical damage and being subject to a $299 charge if there is any damage. But they didn't make any mention about if the device is found to be unlocked.
Well the cooling down certainly could have been the battery finally being completely dead. Maybe stop in a Verizon store to try another battery? No chance a bad SIM card could cause this right?
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Well the cooling down certainly could have been the battery finally being completely dead. Maybe stop in a Verizon store to try another battery? No chance a bad SIM card could cause this right?
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Try another battery? You mean just pop off the back cover, take out the old battery and try a new one? You're one sick troll.
Red5 said:
Try another battery? You mean just pop off the back cover, take out the old battery and try a new one? You're one sick troll.
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Yes..very devious!!! I don't know what I was thinking :silly:
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Well the cooling down certainly could have been the battery finally being completely dead. Maybe stop in a Verizon store to try another battery? No chance a bad SIM card could cause this right?
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I did remove the SIM before doing some of the steps as there were reports that a missing one will cause the phone to pop into recovery. I really hope I can get this one back to life so I don't have to wait for an S-Off exploit to root again.
Got home, plugged it in for several hours, no light. Looks to be quite dead.
Really sorry to hear this man.
I would keep it off 12-24 hours.
try it out.
also I have sent back MANY HTC Dev unlocked phones, they just flash the new software re-setting it back to S-ON, and stock. I don't think they really give a ****, esp if it's not an issue from say, S-OFF.
That's a pisser. My One has been rock solid. Sounds like a really weird issue. I doubt it's recoverable. I'd just go for the replacement. Generally even if it's unlocked they won't have any issue replacing it. In fact, here is Australia, retailers aren't allowed tor efuse warranty claims even if the device has been unlocked, rooted etc...
Perhaps put it into a bag and into the freezer for a few hours. That can sometimes resolve battery issues.
Did I read it correct that you were not able to go into the bootloader? (full Power off > vol down + power)?
If that's the case then you should head for a replacement.. if it is dead they probably wont be able to fire it up to check if its locked or not anyway
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Did I read it correct that you were not able to go into the bootloader? (full Power off > vol down + power)?
If that's the case then you should head for a replacement.. if it is dead they probably wont be able to fire it up to check if its locked or not anyway
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Very good point, and by the time they do, the guys at the repair center can't physically go and find every rooted phone, then bring it to corporates attention, they get the phones, reflash the software fix the problems listed and out goes another returd. I mean refub, sorry.
Hi,
I bought the moto 360 in about a month and a half ago.
Yesterday I charged my watch to 100% and wear it on me(as I do every day) suddenly my phone alerts that the watch is disconnected I'm looking at the watch and it turned off! I was trying to recharge it and turn it on but with no success!
Does someone knows what to do?
by the way, I have never used my moto near water, it never got hit and basically it's in new condition.
thanks!
Happened to me as well
it refuses to come on no matter how long i hold the power button .. please help
ohis009 said:
it refuses to come on no matter how long i hold the power button .. please help
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Try and put on charge and at the same time hold down the power button until it vibrates keep trying..
Similar thing happened with me today. I have been using the watch since Oct and today it was almost fully charged in the morning and then randomly a few hours later the battery had drained and was at 8%. This is the first time this has ever happened. Usually the battery uses between 4-6% per hour.
WHATS GOING ON??
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Try and put on charge and at the same time hold down the power button until it vibrates keep trying..
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Same exact issue happened to me, put it on the charger and now it won't turn on. Tried holding the button to turn it on, left it on the charger overnight and still nothing
Try leaving it alone...
It must be on a deep sleep mode or something, leave it alone until the battery dies for like, a day or two.
Try recharging it then.
i need replacement screen
Hi, i went under the shower by accident with my moto 360 on , and now the screen is f*cked up.
the watch boots up, but the screen is just dead.
If you cant get a replacement or repair it yourself, could you please send me a message, than you can send your watch to me, and i can give u some money for the effort,
if you are intrested please leave me a message:fingers-crossed:
Purchased as a Christmas gift a couple of weeks ago and worked great out of the box. It was put on the charger at the end of the day to charge. Next day come back to the tablet only to find it will not power on.
Tablet gives no indication that is plugged into the original charger. Pressing and holding the power and volume up to try and access the bootloader provided no response.
Calling this one bricked unless anyone else has thoughts or suggestions. Have seen this with other Android devices in the past but where going on 3 years old. This guy is only a couple weeks old. 1 day powered on even.
Can you try a different charger? How much battery was left when you put it on the charger?
Couldn't say what the battery percentage was at, it wasn't dead though. I was given the tablet back to try and troubleshoot and only have as much info as I was given.
As for the charger, this is my one and only USB Type C device and only have the original charger it came with. I was told however that a type c cable was used from a laptop to see if anything worked. No response I am told.
Have a few days to wait until I can RMA it. I will see if I can source another power adapter.
there are many [upwards of 20 or so] reports that it takes between 15 and 20 seconds of holding power button down to power up the device. i have had it happen twice. the largest thread for this issue i have read is on reddit.
I've had it happened to me twice on my first unit and twice on my RMA'd one now. Every time it happened it was after leaving the tablet unattended for several (12+) hours, regardless of battery % (anywhere between 10 and 60%). I never turn it off to make sure I don't get the touchscreen issues again as these come back everytime I reboot the tablet but when this happens there isin't much I can do as it turns off by itself. I can confirm that a very long push of the power button (agree with the 15-20 seconds mentionned above) also does the trick for me. Same pattern on my first unit and my 2nd one.
I'm realllllly hoping Google will have a software fix for all of this (touchscreen issues, awful Wi-Fi download speeds/range on 2.4 Ghz and this (tablet going dead without any apparent reason and being hard to reboot)) as I want to love the tablet but it's a mess right now.
Thanks for the reports.
I held down the power button till my finger went numb. Still don't know if the tablet has a charge and if the charger even works.
Same thing happened with my GPe htc one. Charged, freaked out, rebooted and then bricked never to come back to life.
Would have been nice to have found reports of issues before. Every search brings up reviews however. Hopefully this thread gets indexed.
Don't know if this is related: I've had the tablet for about two weeks and have twice had it not turn on (or respond at all) when I pressed the power button (short press, long press--although possibly not >15s). Even though I thought there was well over 50% battery left and even though though tapping under the cute LEDs showed four greens, I plugged it in and just left it for hours. Then when I came back, everything was fine--it turned on immediately.
I know this is old thread, but though this might help someone: my pixel c won't charge unless I
1) with the device plugged in
2) hold power-vol up-vol dn all at the same time
3) un plug the cable
Can be hard to do with only two hands. "Charging" will pop up on the screen immediately for just a second when you pull the cable if you did it right. I often need to do it more than once. Thanks Google!
support .google. com/pixel/answer/6328598?hl=en (sorry, guess I can't post links)
I have recently purchased the A50 and love it. However, this morning I woke up late for work as my phone had switched off during its overnight charge. There was no way to turn it back on until at least 10 minutes after taking it off charge and frantically running to work. Once the phone was on, it had 100% battery.
Does anyone have any idea why this happened? Could it be an overheating issue?
This has never happened to any other phone I've owned.
I have been charging with the cable the A50 comes with but with the S7 plug. Could that be the culprit?
If that's the case I will just use the A50 plug itself.
I have looked everywhere for an answer. This only happened today and may never happen again but I would like to know other people's opinions.
Don't know why this happened,bug somewhere,software update,don't know,but do you really need to leave the phone on an overnight charge,
The treakle charge at 100% is known to cause heating issues, and I hear the a50 is not the most durable phone,.
Strange that it would just turn the phone off completely
manus31 said:
Don't know why this happened,bug somewhere,software update,don't know,but do you really need to leave the phone on an overnight charge,
The treakle charge at 100% is known to cause heating issues, and I hear the a50 is not the most durable phone,.
Strange that it would just turn the phone off completely
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To be honest, it could have been as simple as electric fluctuation. I have no idea.
I didn't charge last night as I as slightly reluctant to do so.
So far, the phone is working flawlessly and hasn't restarted or shut off on its own. I will eventually charge it once the power drops to almost 0.
Will update so as to let everyone know in case there are similar issues out there.
daveydoo said:
To be honest, it could have been as simple as electric fluctuation. I have no idea.
I didn't charge last night as I as slightly reluctant to do so.
So far, the phone is working flawlessly and hasn't restarted or shut off on its own. I will eventually charge it once the power drops to almost 0.
Will update so as to let everyone know in case there are similar issues out there.
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sounds like a bad battery in the phone, you should return it. i left it for overnight charging(forgot to remove it) and nothing happened.
kkarakk said:
sounds like a bad battery in the phone, you should return it. i left it for overnight charging(forgot to remove it) and nothing happened.
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When it happened to me it was the second time I had charged over night, the first time was fine.
I haven't done it since and so far the phone has been fine.
During Update my phone A50, I just press Power button+Vol down button together. After that my phone was off and can not on till now. I tried to press vol up + power button together but it did not work. Can you please Help.
My Samsung A50 just went off by itself after power went off and has refused to come up. Truth is i have charged it several times using this same power and i can tell power is almost stable except that i am using a different charger head to charge for some time now. Wont sill come up, any help or suggestion?
We have several of these A50's and up to now we had 3 of them with this problem.
At the moment that it refuses to turn back on i noticed that the back of the phone is warm , between the top of the phone and the word SAMSUNG . The rest of the phone is cold.
I left the phone alone for about 4 hours without power cable plugged in , after those 4 hours i plugged it in and after a minute it started charging with a indicator of 0% .
You can also try a forced reboot ( hold volume up and down + power button for 5 sec )
Did anyone manage to solve this issue? My girlfriend's A50 has shut down twice overnight now, and the only way to turn it on is by pressing power and volume down for 10 seconds. She has the May update.
Same issue here, i reset my phone to factory settings then install all of my applications and since do that, the issue doesn't occurs any more till now (1 week)
Same here!
Same situation here!
It turned off during the night 3 times now!!
I was late to work The first time, now I have to activate the alarm on my wife's phone, because I don't trust this one anymore.
To turn it back on, you don't need to wait 4 hours, you just have to press power and volume down.
Samsung has to do something about this!
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Did anyone manage to solve this issue? My girlfriend's A50 has shut down twice overnight now, and the only way to turn it on is by pressing power and volume down for 10 seconds. She has the May update.
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That doesn't sound like it's actually turning off. More like it gets stuck with screen off and you're making a forced reboot with the button combination.
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That doesn't sound like it's actually turning off. More like it gets stuck with screen off and you're making a forced reboot with the button combination.
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Yeah that might actually be the case, and it's completely hung since alarms won't go off. Apparently it does not seem like an isolated case so I guess we'll see what the store says.
Same situation at my A50 to. No notifications,no reaction, no alarm, no reacttion after simple power button press,only black display. It get alive only with described buttons combination-power+vol up .
The problem occure only after night charging time, in the morning.
I was advised not to leave on charge overnight. I have just got this phone and was asking live chat about something else and she mentioned new smart phones did not require full overnight charges and unplug as soon as it’s finished charging.. also that fully discharging battery to 0% is not recommended either and should be charged around 20% to increase the life of the battery. I think I will try that advice. Always had Samsung phones and been happy with my S5 for many years..but it’s very outdated and decided on upgrade but can’t justify the price of S10 lol.